Listen to a reading of this article: The media are lying to us, as evidenced by reality never matching with their stories. The politicians are lying to us, as evidenced by their never delivering on their promises. The capitalist class are lying to us, as evidenced by their getting richer while workers get poorer.
And there is the problem. The system cannot exist without the current media. The media needs to change before the system can.
Lets take Australia. Before Obombas "pivot to Asia" in 2018, China was viewed as a friendly country, and generally in a positive light. Fast forward with four years of intense propaganda and brainwashing, and now nearly half are ready to go to war against China (Yougov poll as per the Guardian article).
Compare this to Ukraine where Ukrainian and Russian relations were viewed as brotherly, and a very close kinship for centuries. Since 2014, the same indoctrination and propaganda has now turned a large portion of Ukraine in to a hysterical anti-Russian society. This bias was of course confirmed after the invasion - which was exactly what was intended. This included the use of some extreme ideology that was useful for this purpose. This in turned has created a self feeding system for generations.
Now eight years later, I see Ukrainians boiling severed Russian heads, and torturing them before killing them. All this after only 8 years!. I wonder what Australians will be willing to do after another 4 years....
It shows that we are still a very primitive species that can be manipulated so easily. And the media is to blame for pushing this agenda. It is not the source of the problem. I don't think we can change the actual source. It is however, our avenue for information, and can be changed.
With immense love for your words and truth and spirit, there are some for whom organized religion is good ... I'm not among them, but I remember a humbling experience with a podcaster who was interviewing Dr Meryl Nass .. I forgot her name, she had dual Canadian and American citizenship, blonde hair, seemed like a sweet lady. She was quoting the Bible and clearly Christianity was core in her life, also as a guiding light to understand and have strength to fight the sociopathic narrative control of current times. There was something so innocent and authentic to how she came across, and the contrast between the goodness I felt from her and the disdain my former tribe may have, instinctually, for someone who quotes the Bible (especially being counter to the official covid narrative) ... was sad to behold.
Jus sayin, there are many ways to interact with religion .. for some it's wasteful, hypocritical .. others focus on the judgemental things supposedly said in the books they take literally ... this podcast woman seemed to exist in a realness of love that for her was intertwined with religion.
>Humanity is abandoning religion as we discover that it's all just a bunch of unhelpful and unevidenced made-up beliefs.
As one of the few real journalists left, it is disappointing to see you dismiss religion like a used face mask. The foundation of all major religions are teachings derived from the lived wisdom of countless generations. The spiritual laws they teach elevate and inspire us. Religious institutions obviously have been corrupted and hijacked at all times, but don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. It is blindingly obvious that we are in a spiritual struggle, and the anti-human forces are clearly working to diminish or even eliminate our connection to divinity. I hope you revisit and reconsider this point.
The social and economic "returns" on technology are NEGATIVE and have been for a long time. Think a-social media to start with and then think of surveillance and control.
2) democracy of information is vitally important for far more than voting. There are things government is doing on a daily basis that the people know absolutely nothing about. I'm tempted to remind people that. even that fiend LBJ sought "maximum feasible public participation" in the day to day affairs of government. And of course, people can not effectively organize, mobilize and attack the behavior of an illegitimate government they know nothing about.
I wish I could share your optimism that humanity is abandoning religion, however, I'm not convinced that's happening. Even self-identified atheists in the US seem more credulous of myths and superstitions than religious people in, say, Europe.
Religions won't disappear unless the malicious powers that be recognize that it's no longer useful as a tool to manipulate the masses.
Education is the best defense against myths and superstitions but hoping education will step up to the plate in the US is sadly laughable.
In the context of 'technology', from medical, utilities, telecommunications (Verizon/T-Mobile/AT&T), banking, et al, many individuals are not aware of the manipulative algorithm deception, designed to profit the company. From my observation, many folks are also not aware of the intentional coding based on human prejudicial bias. https://hbr.org/2019/10/what-do-we-do-about-the-biases-in-ai
"I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion." Thomas Jefferson
Cait we have a really good innovation to lift people out of poverty, it is called nuclear power. But the Malthusians who control the narrative, apparently, have been very successful at rolling back its implementation. 
It is becoming increasingly evident to me that the big question has to be: How is it possible for all the evil work carried out by DaDeepState all over the world, even considering the financial incentives involved to the co-conspirators and their natural propensities for evil - all coordinated with seemingly amazing effectiveness for centuries?
Well, the Bible actually has the answer and I have posted this thread before - There are several factors.... beginning with this question: Are We Governed by Humans? - https://crushlimbraw.blogspot.com/2020/11/are-we-governed-by-humans.html?m=0 - and that reference is just the starting point for our research.
This is a hard thing for both secularists and churchians, but that is the gap which needs to be filled. There is a dimension to life which most folks never see, and I don't mean just non-believers, because Christianity of the Apostles has been changed to Churchianity - you can check that out at my library as well.
When Paul said 'we're not just dealing with flesh and blood, we're dealing with wicked spirits in high places' he wasn't talking about Halloween tricks.
caitlin, been reading and appreciating your essays for a while. thought you might be interested in this : www.movetoamend.org. be glad to correspond about it. below is what i just sent out to friends.
mike
_____________
Friends:
Move to Amend is the only grassroots citizens' organization that works to get corporations OUT of the constitution -- that means no more 1st Amendment, 4th Amendment, 5th Amendment, 14 Amendment etc. "rights" for corporations -- ONLY what people and their legislators choose to grant.
There's a constitutional amendment to do just that with 90+ sponsors in Congress so far. But most importantly, there is a dedicated, passionate, experienced movement pushing it. We'd do well to see how we can make this happen. I know these folks and Move to Amend is the real deal.
First of all i would like to thank you for your brave commitment to global citizenship awareness and free speech, its admirable! You know, while reading your essay this quote sounded my mind:
---
"Peace Speech" (JFK, 1963):
Professor Woodrow Wilson once said that every man sent out from a university should be a man of his nation as well as a man of his time, and I am confident that the men and women who carry the honor of graduating from this institution will continue to give from their lives, from their talents, a high measure of public service and public support.
“There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university,” wrote John Masefield, in his tribute to English universities—and his words are equally true today. He did not refer to spires and towers, to campus greens and ivied walls. He ad-mired the splendid beauty of the university, he said, because it was “a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.”
I have, therefore, chosen this time and this place to discuss a topic on which ignorance too often abounds and the truth is too rarely perceived—yet it is the most important topic on earth: peace
And there is the problem. The system cannot exist without the current media. The media needs to change before the system can.
Lets take Australia. Before Obombas "pivot to Asia" in 2018, China was viewed as a friendly country, and generally in a positive light. Fast forward with four years of intense propaganda and brainwashing, and now nearly half are ready to go to war against China (Yougov poll as per the Guardian article).
Compare this to Ukraine where Ukrainian and Russian relations were viewed as brotherly, and a very close kinship for centuries. Since 2014, the same indoctrination and propaganda has now turned a large portion of Ukraine in to a hysterical anti-Russian society. This bias was of course confirmed after the invasion - which was exactly what was intended. This included the use of some extreme ideology that was useful for this purpose. This in turned has created a self feeding system for generations.
Now eight years later, I see Ukrainians boiling severed Russian heads, and torturing them before killing them. All this after only 8 years!. I wonder what Australians will be willing to do after another 4 years....
It shows that we are still a very primitive species that can be manipulated so easily. And the media is to blame for pushing this agenda. It is not the source of the problem. I don't think we can change the actual source. It is however, our avenue for information, and can be changed.
With immense love for your words and truth and spirit, there are some for whom organized religion is good ... I'm not among them, but I remember a humbling experience with a podcaster who was interviewing Dr Meryl Nass .. I forgot her name, she had dual Canadian and American citizenship, blonde hair, seemed like a sweet lady. She was quoting the Bible and clearly Christianity was core in her life, also as a guiding light to understand and have strength to fight the sociopathic narrative control of current times. There was something so innocent and authentic to how she came across, and the contrast between the goodness I felt from her and the disdain my former tribe may have, instinctually, for someone who quotes the Bible (especially being counter to the official covid narrative) ... was sad to behold.
Jus sayin, there are many ways to interact with religion .. for some it's wasteful, hypocritical .. others focus on the judgemental things supposedly said in the books they take literally ... this podcast woman seemed to exist in a realness of love that for her was intertwined with religion.
>Humanity is abandoning religion as we discover that it's all just a bunch of unhelpful and unevidenced made-up beliefs.
As one of the few real journalists left, it is disappointing to see you dismiss religion like a used face mask. The foundation of all major religions are teachings derived from the lived wisdom of countless generations. The spiritual laws they teach elevate and inspire us. Religious institutions obviously have been corrupted and hijacked at all times, but don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. It is blindingly obvious that we are in a spiritual struggle, and the anti-human forces are clearly working to diminish or even eliminate our connection to divinity. I hope you revisit and reconsider this point.
"We're the giant."
We seem to forget this fact. It's time to flex our muscles and take out our oppressors.
Two quick points:
1) an usual disagreement with this:
"now those returns are functionally nil"
The social and economic "returns" on technology are NEGATIVE and have been for a long time. Think a-social media to start with and then think of surveillance and control.
2) democracy of information is vitally important for far more than voting. There are things government is doing on a daily basis that the people know absolutely nothing about. I'm tempted to remind people that. even that fiend LBJ sought "maximum feasible public participation" in the day to day affairs of government. And of course, people can not effectively organize, mobilize and attack the behavior of an illegitimate government they know nothing about.
I wish I could share your optimism that humanity is abandoning religion, however, I'm not convinced that's happening. Even self-identified atheists in the US seem more credulous of myths and superstitions than religious people in, say, Europe.
Religions won't disappear unless the malicious powers that be recognize that it's no longer useful as a tool to manipulate the masses.
Education is the best defense against myths and superstitions but hoping education will step up to the plate in the US is sadly laughable.
In the context of 'technology', from medical, utilities, telecommunications (Verizon/T-Mobile/AT&T), banking, et al, many individuals are not aware of the manipulative algorithm deception, designed to profit the company. From my observation, many folks are also not aware of the intentional coding based on human prejudicial bias. https://hbr.org/2019/10/what-do-we-do-about-the-biases-in-ai
thank you for your news letters
"I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion." Thomas Jefferson
Republicans are lucky because they get to just openly be Republicans. Democrats have to be Republicans in secret.
Brilliant (as always)
Cait we have a really good innovation to lift people out of poverty, it is called nuclear power. But the Malthusians who control the narrative, apparently, have been very successful at rolling back its implementation. 
The Gap In Understanding World Affairs -
It is becoming increasingly evident to me that the big question has to be: How is it possible for all the evil work carried out by DaDeepState all over the world, even considering the financial incentives involved to the co-conspirators and their natural propensities for evil - all coordinated with seemingly amazing effectiveness for centuries?
Well, the Bible actually has the answer and I have posted this thread before - There are several factors.... beginning with this question: Are We Governed by Humans? - https://crushlimbraw.blogspot.com/2020/11/are-we-governed-by-humans.html?m=0 - and that reference is just the starting point for our research.
This is a hard thing for both secularists and churchians, but that is the gap which needs to be filled. There is a dimension to life which most folks never see, and I don't mean just non-believers, because Christianity of the Apostles has been changed to Churchianity - you can check that out at my library as well.
When Paul said 'we're not just dealing with flesh and blood, we're dealing with wicked spirits in high places' he wasn't talking about Halloween tricks.
Happy Armistice Day! (11/11)
Thank you. FYI -- a new arrival -- Garland Nixon is truly outstanding:
• https://rumble.com/v1tk95q-freeze-this-conflict-or-escalate-wgarland-nixon-live.html
Freeze this conflict or escalate w/Garland Nixon (Live) – 1:13 hours (Ukraine focus)
• https://rokfin.com/stream/25253 -- Nov 9 – good – 1:15 hours
MIDTERM REVIEW - BOTH HOUSES STILL OPEN
• https://rokfin.com/stream/25205 -- Nov 8 -- Outstanding 1:09hours
MID TERMS 2020 - A REFERENDUM ON DARK BRANDON
caitlin, been reading and appreciating your essays for a while. thought you might be interested in this : www.movetoamend.org. be glad to correspond about it. below is what i just sent out to friends.
mike
_____________
Friends:
Move to Amend is the only grassroots citizens' organization that works to get corporations OUT of the constitution -- that means no more 1st Amendment, 4th Amendment, 5th Amendment, 14 Amendment etc. "rights" for corporations -- ONLY what people and their legislators choose to grant.
There's a constitutional amendment to do just that with 90+ sponsors in Congress so far. But most importantly, there is a dedicated, passionate, experienced movement pushing it. We'd do well to see how we can make this happen. I know these folks and Move to Amend is the real deal.
Tune in right here: https://www.movetoamend.org/midterm_implications_for_mta
mike
Hey Caitlin, silent follower here!
First of all i would like to thank you for your brave commitment to global citizenship awareness and free speech, its admirable! You know, while reading your essay this quote sounded my mind:
---
"Peace Speech" (JFK, 1963):
Professor Woodrow Wilson once said that every man sent out from a university should be a man of his nation as well as a man of his time, and I am confident that the men and women who carry the honor of graduating from this institution will continue to give from their lives, from their talents, a high measure of public service and public support.
“There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university,” wrote John Masefield, in his tribute to English universities—and his words are equally true today. He did not refer to spires and towers, to campus greens and ivied walls. He ad-mired the splendid beauty of the university, he said, because it was “a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.”
I have, therefore, chosen this time and this place to discuss a topic on which ignorance too often abounds and the truth is too rarely perceived—yet it is the most important topic on earth: peace