thank you Caitlin, your writing and resolute clear-headedness has been a hugely affirmative thing to experience the past few years. especially re: that first paragraph...it does weigh pretty heavily sometimes just how insanely dysphoric people/things have felt for years, increasingly so. let's keep ourselves solid and fix what we can.
Well, YOUR voice most certainly makes a huge difference! Thank you for being a consistent voice of reason and sanity in the increasingly unstable world in which we live!
Increasingly unstable is right. All past and present empires, whether Soviet or Chinese or US or Russian or British or Persian… all of them… have their day and then sicken, weaken, and finally become only a memory. It’s a miracle that we humans have been able to survive this long.
Thank you for all the great work, Caitlin. You are a warrior for Beauty, Truth, and Goodness.
I think that one of the greatest weaknesses of the psy-ops magicians is that they really do believe in the power of their own “magic.” They think they can reframe and nudge everything and everyone right until the finish line. The fact that their “magic” has been effective for so long has instilled in them a hubris of biblical proportion, which is likely the thing that will lead to their own destruction. They are going against the universe and trying to pervert human nature at its most fundamental core, believing such a thing is possible.
There are millions of people who hope you are right, David.
The latest development....... makes one question if there can be a "big surprise".
When we see little Australia (population 25 million) this week acting like a tame puppet by allowing a fleet of US nuclear armed B-52 bombers to sit on it's northern shore from which they will see expansion after expansion, the normal routine in the over 800 bases subject to the dictates of the exceptional USA throughout the world, any degree of rational thinking for the Biden warmongers and his Neocons is a big ask. a very big ask indeed.
Personally, my observation would be that there will not be any change in their motivation for war. They have the politicians in their hands, the media doing their bidding and the people, unthreatened as think they are geographically, going about their daily lives totally isolated from danger.
You see, it is not just the normal funding of both the Democrats and the Republicans in the USA by the BlackRocks, State Streets and Vanguards that dictate the daily thinking in Washington, it is now the the greater majority of all politicians across both parties that sprout the tired old propaganda, day in and day out until their electorates start to join in the chorus. That's perhaps 150 million people who right at this moment if not mouthing support for a war, certainly do not appear to be doing anything to let their dislike of WWIII be evident to others, including their own electorates.
Now that is the real danger. If it is brainwashing that has created this climate, it has been most successful indeed.
We are all aware of the manipulation of all news in the USA by the major networks, but even allowing for that, where is the locally generated agitation for peace and against war?
I keep thinking about Australia - and its ‘friendship’ with the USA - as the former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said - “It may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal”.
Changing the world? Cat, please, these humans don't even live in the real world.
The West in general and its elites in particular, in and out of MSM, government and the military, live in a world increasingly consumed by symbol, spectacle and abstraction. Not only that, but they confuse wish-fulfillment with reality. Decide that you're going to identify as a different gender, race, ethnicity, hell, decide that you're a member of a different species and woe betide anyone who doesn't go along with the charade. They might even get themselves "cancelled".
Hell, even the consequences of their (symbolic) actions are themselves largely symbolic. Melvin didn't get to put on a TED talk because someone dug up an old Tweet of his and now he's "literal Hitler" for a while.
For that matter, the truly Great and Good rarely even face those kinds of consequences. They can cause institutions to fail everywhere they go - but as long as they parrot today's approved platitudes, they glide from internship to government sinecure to think tank to academia to to financial services to corporate board to to consulting gig to MSM Talking Head, sometimes more than one simultaneously. Most probably never having had a 9-5 job, much less done farm or factory work, in their lives. These days, they may never even physically show up to work, ever, but their bank accounts rarely seem to reflect this.
They can even engage in outright fraud, but a big enough fish will only pay a fine, a portion of his ill-gotten gains. Meanwhile, he remains as free as a bird, and probably doesn't even face social ostracism. Last I checked, Jon Corzine is not on the naughty list of the people who matter.
Since results don't matter and there are few consequences for losing, even for catastrophe, everything becomes a matter of spin. All problems can be solved with better P.R., and there is no greater triumph than when some newscaster recites that glib talking point you just coined or when your FB post went viral, your instagram noticed by the right kind of influencer. In other words, winning is a matter of successful symbol manipulation. Speaking of spin, virtue signaling is an obsession, even unto rank hypocrisy, and the Davos Set think nothing of flying a private jet to a conference where they can congratulate themselves on their commitment to stopping climate change. Again, if there are to be any consequences, then those are for the little people to deal with.
Even in their dwindling contact with the physical world, the elites live in a world of wish-fulfillment. Push a button and whatever food or whatever else you want is brought to your door by some peon, paid for seamlessly by some electrons exchanged between banks that may not even have a physical location within a thousand miles of your location, if they have locations at all. You can even get laid via internet, just swipe right on the lucky profile. Everything is taken care of in the background, your credit card billed and airline miles accumulated automatically and the food or the girl just show up. Somehow. By Uber, I guess. Mundane questions like "How do I feed the human kittens this week and pay for school supplies and still make the rent?" never come into the equation.
These are people who confuse their fantasies with reality to the point where they actually believe their own press releases. They give an order and it happens. They proclaim their puppets in Kabul to be wise and stable technocrats, their well-trained military striding from triumph to triumph and So Let It Be Done, So Let It Be Written. "So let it be written" - that's the word, that's all that need be done and the little people just somehow make it happen. For sheer lack of any kind of contact or reference with reality, these people make Louis XVI look like a medieval gong farmer or a pygmy tribesman by comparison.
Contrast the Taliban. Symbol, spectacle and abstraction mean very little to them. Doordash doesn't operate in their area and if a Talib wants a vegan option, he'll have to provide for it himself. It has probably never occurred to a Talib that he could cancel his enemies simply by digging up their old tweets that were innocuous at the time but are now politically incorrect, sent under a long discarded Twitter ID, and he doesn't have time for that, anyway. He lives in the world of concrete and material things, he thinks nothing of killing and in his world, there are bullets waiting to kill him quite literally dead and transport him to a very earthly and very earthy sort of paradise.
You can't wish those things away, your credit cards are no good and probably rifa, anyway, and the bullet flying towards him isn't concerned with word games, his upcoming struggle session to root out unconscious racism and cannot be reasoned with or convinced to bother someone less important.
The world of American elites collided with the world of the Taliban and got its ass kicked. Biden and his crew cannot deal with this, because that kind of reality does not select for success in symbol manipulation, any more than skill at football selects for an ability to do math problems.
The clownish Western response to the COVID is similar. The virus can't be negotiated with, can't be bought off, can't be distracted, and is unimpressed with you and how highly you may think of yourself.
As you may know, I've seen quite a lot of both worlds, I've lived in barns and crouched under the table in the room where the decisions were made, so I think I understand both mindsets pretty well. I prefer freedom to regular meals.
Speaking of, I got some mice to catch, or otherwise, I will surely be going hungry.
Ahh, mice! Rats are a Japanese delicacy, learned from the POW camps of WW2, and just this morning what must have been one of my old friends, followed me for at least ten blocks through the alleys of Chicago. I really love the animals in this town; they're so real with their love; even when they know that I don't have anything to give them they still come to say "hi".
Some people here are lile that, too; reminds me of, "the least will be the most, and the most will be the least".That was a great rant, thanks, now I feel great, because that was great company.
Because CJ is a dedicated denouncer of propaganda and disinformation, and because many of us subscribe to her writings for the purpose of gaining her insights on this subject, and especially because we are all bombarded with bullshit from multiple sources, including one another, I feel compelled to share something I just read...and will probably read again and again. I have been so provoked.
Circles of inspection. Here's an an article I have just published which uses both a previous article by CJ and that which you list as sources for it. The article is just a documentation of the Cognative Infrastructure. It plumbs some of the depths:
Here's how fake the empire is: on Nov. 2, 2022, Biden gave a speech saying that anyone who doesn't accept the upcoming election results is an enemy of democracy. But his party is expected to get shellacked.
Also, it may take "days" for results to be known. Never mind that in France and many other nations, results are quickly known.
So, what fraud does the lying, warmongering empire have planned this time??
You may not like the Republicans, but at least 65 representatives voted against funding the proxy bloodbath against Russia in Ukraine. And a few senators are consistently questioning this evil war.
Biden is the perfect representative of this empire: senile, lying, murderous, selfish, rigid, uncreative, tyrannical.
Ironically, last week Hillary Clinton said that the Republicans have plans to steal 2022 and 2024. The empire plays a sophisticated game where they land on both sides of the problem of fake elections, until they decide which way their supporters must blindly accept. And then YouTube and the rest will censor all dissenting points of view.
I would remind you that playing the “Dems are imperialists and Republicans are opposed to the war” game is a toxic sandbox. The two parties are corporate entities that answer to oligarchs, and most, if not all of the overt disagreements are staged to resemble an adversarial arrangement. There is no truth to be gleaned from the words and policies of either side. Of late, the DP has been feasting on the “We’re not Trump” argument, but this fixation on global domination is bringing elements of right and left and independent together in the interest of sane policies. Trump is no better than Biden. They have different agendas, but agree on leaving the voters to twist in the wind.
Note that India, a developing country which is not united by language, race, religion or much else, a country in which illiteracy has not been eradicated and in which infrastructure and communications are dire, India is able to hold contested nationwide elections, the results of which are agreed to by all parties.
Judging from 2016 and 2020, the United States is not able to reach the level of democracy demonstrated by India.
A voice in the wilderness is the only voice that speaks for truth these days when the loudest voices are incorporated. And thorns in the side of power make a difference, en masse. The cause for truth, peace and justice is the finest cause of all. We must never abandon it.
As I stated in multiple comments on your page; you keep going, I'll keep going.
If folks think the double speak, delusions and censorship is bad now, you ain't seen nothing yet.
As the empire of chaos spirals down into the abyss the airwaves will become more and more dystopian.
Question everything, be alert for "False Flags".
Empires are at their most dangerous as they collapse.
Empires charge when wounded...😬
But is it collapsing? They have much more for us.
I see much hope, much alarm
Caitlin helps me greatly in focusing on the hope side of the equation.
Very good. Must keep hope alive. Demoralization is key weapon of commies/nwo.
The USA is a reckless wreck.
thank you Caitlin, your writing and resolute clear-headedness has been a hugely affirmative thing to experience the past few years. especially re: that first paragraph...it does weigh pretty heavily sometimes just how insanely dysphoric people/things have felt for years, increasingly so. let's keep ourselves solid and fix what we can.
Well, YOUR voice most certainly makes a huge difference! Thank you for being a consistent voice of reason and sanity in the increasingly unstable world in which we live!
Increasingly unstable is right. All past and present empires, whether Soviet or Chinese or US or Russian or British or Persian… all of them… have their day and then sicken, weaken, and finally become only a memory. It’s a miracle that we humans have been able to survive this long.
Thank you for all the great work, Caitlin. You are a warrior for Beauty, Truth, and Goodness.
I think that one of the greatest weaknesses of the psy-ops magicians is that they really do believe in the power of their own “magic.” They think they can reframe and nudge everything and everyone right until the finish line. The fact that their “magic” has been effective for so long has instilled in them a hubris of biblical proportion, which is likely the thing that will lead to their own destruction. They are going against the universe and trying to pervert human nature at its most fundamental core, believing such a thing is possible.
I think they’re in for a big surprise.
There are millions of people who hope you are right, David.
The latest development....... makes one question if there can be a "big surprise".
When we see little Australia (population 25 million) this week acting like a tame puppet by allowing a fleet of US nuclear armed B-52 bombers to sit on it's northern shore from which they will see expansion after expansion, the normal routine in the over 800 bases subject to the dictates of the exceptional USA throughout the world, any degree of rational thinking for the Biden warmongers and his Neocons is a big ask. a very big ask indeed.
Personally, my observation would be that there will not be any change in their motivation for war. They have the politicians in their hands, the media doing their bidding and the people, unthreatened as think they are geographically, going about their daily lives totally isolated from danger.
You see, it is not just the normal funding of both the Democrats and the Republicans in the USA by the BlackRocks, State Streets and Vanguards that dictate the daily thinking in Washington, it is now the the greater majority of all politicians across both parties that sprout the tired old propaganda, day in and day out until their electorates start to join in the chorus. That's perhaps 150 million people who right at this moment if not mouthing support for a war, certainly do not appear to be doing anything to let their dislike of WWIII be evident to others, including their own electorates.
Now that is the real danger. If it is brainwashing that has created this climate, it has been most successful indeed.
We are all aware of the manipulation of all news in the USA by the major networks, but even allowing for that, where is the locally generated agitation for peace and against war?
Is it needed...everywhere.
I keep thinking about Australia - and its ‘friendship’ with the USA - as the former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said - “It may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal”.
From something I wrote after the Fall Of Kabul:
Feral Finster
May 12
Changing the world? Cat, please, these humans don't even live in the real world.
The West in general and its elites in particular, in and out of MSM, government and the military, live in a world increasingly consumed by symbol, spectacle and abstraction. Not only that, but they confuse wish-fulfillment with reality. Decide that you're going to identify as a different gender, race, ethnicity, hell, decide that you're a member of a different species and woe betide anyone who doesn't go along with the charade. They might even get themselves "cancelled".
Hell, even the consequences of their (symbolic) actions are themselves largely symbolic. Melvin didn't get to put on a TED talk because someone dug up an old Tweet of his and now he's "literal Hitler" for a while.
For that matter, the truly Great and Good rarely even face those kinds of consequences. They can cause institutions to fail everywhere they go - but as long as they parrot today's approved platitudes, they glide from internship to government sinecure to think tank to academia to to financial services to corporate board to to consulting gig to MSM Talking Head, sometimes more than one simultaneously. Most probably never having had a 9-5 job, much less done farm or factory work, in their lives. These days, they may never even physically show up to work, ever, but their bank accounts rarely seem to reflect this.
They can even engage in outright fraud, but a big enough fish will only pay a fine, a portion of his ill-gotten gains. Meanwhile, he remains as free as a bird, and probably doesn't even face social ostracism. Last I checked, Jon Corzine is not on the naughty list of the people who matter.
Since results don't matter and there are few consequences for losing, even for catastrophe, everything becomes a matter of spin. All problems can be solved with better P.R., and there is no greater triumph than when some newscaster recites that glib talking point you just coined or when your FB post went viral, your instagram noticed by the right kind of influencer. In other words, winning is a matter of successful symbol manipulation. Speaking of spin, virtue signaling is an obsession, even unto rank hypocrisy, and the Davos Set think nothing of flying a private jet to a conference where they can congratulate themselves on their commitment to stopping climate change. Again, if there are to be any consequences, then those are for the little people to deal with.
Even in their dwindling contact with the physical world, the elites live in a world of wish-fulfillment. Push a button and whatever food or whatever else you want is brought to your door by some peon, paid for seamlessly by some electrons exchanged between banks that may not even have a physical location within a thousand miles of your location, if they have locations at all. You can even get laid via internet, just swipe right on the lucky profile. Everything is taken care of in the background, your credit card billed and airline miles accumulated automatically and the food or the girl just show up. Somehow. By Uber, I guess. Mundane questions like "How do I feed the human kittens this week and pay for school supplies and still make the rent?" never come into the equation.
These are people who confuse their fantasies with reality to the point where they actually believe their own press releases. They give an order and it happens. They proclaim their puppets in Kabul to be wise and stable technocrats, their well-trained military striding from triumph to triumph and So Let It Be Done, So Let It Be Written. "So let it be written" - that's the word, that's all that need be done and the little people just somehow make it happen. For sheer lack of any kind of contact or reference with reality, these people make Louis XVI look like a medieval gong farmer or a pygmy tribesman by comparison.
Contrast the Taliban. Symbol, spectacle and abstraction mean very little to them. Doordash doesn't operate in their area and if a Talib wants a vegan option, he'll have to provide for it himself. It has probably never occurred to a Talib that he could cancel his enemies simply by digging up their old tweets that were innocuous at the time but are now politically incorrect, sent under a long discarded Twitter ID, and he doesn't have time for that, anyway. He lives in the world of concrete and material things, he thinks nothing of killing and in his world, there are bullets waiting to kill him quite literally dead and transport him to a very earthly and very earthy sort of paradise.
You can't wish those things away, your credit cards are no good and probably rifa, anyway, and the bullet flying towards him isn't concerned with word games, his upcoming struggle session to root out unconscious racism and cannot be reasoned with or convinced to bother someone less important.
The world of American elites collided with the world of the Taliban and got its ass kicked. Biden and his crew cannot deal with this, because that kind of reality does not select for success in symbol manipulation, any more than skill at football selects for an ability to do math problems.
The clownish Western response to the COVID is similar. The virus can't be negotiated with, can't be bought off, can't be distracted, and is unimpressed with you and how highly you may think of yourself.
As you may know, I've seen quite a lot of both worlds, I've lived in barns and crouched under the table in the room where the decisions were made, so I think I understand both mindsets pretty well. I prefer freedom to regular meals.
Speaking of, I got some mice to catch, or otherwise, I will surely be going hungry.
Ahh, mice! Rats are a Japanese delicacy, learned from the POW camps of WW2, and just this morning what must have been one of my old friends, followed me for at least ten blocks through the alleys of Chicago. I really love the animals in this town; they're so real with their love; even when they know that I don't have anything to give them they still come to say "hi".
Some people here are lile that, too; reminds me of, "the least will be the most, and the most will be the least".That was a great rant, thanks, now I feel great, because that was great company.
Because CJ is a dedicated denouncer of propaganda and disinformation, and because many of us subscribe to her writings for the purpose of gaining her insights on this subject, and especially because we are all bombarded with bullshit from multiple sources, including one another, I feel compelled to share something I just read...and will probably read again and again. I have been so provoked.
https://scheerpost.com/2022/11/01/patrick-lawrence-disinformation-absolutely/
Circles of inspection. Here's an an article I have just published which uses both a previous article by CJ and that which you list as sources for it. The article is just a documentation of the Cognative Infrastructure. It plumbs some of the depths:
https://yesxorno.substack.com/p/cognitive-infrastructure-the-plumbing
Thank you for the link!
Here's how fake the empire is: on Nov. 2, 2022, Biden gave a speech saying that anyone who doesn't accept the upcoming election results is an enemy of democracy. But his party is expected to get shellacked.
Also, it may take "days" for results to be known. Never mind that in France and many other nations, results are quickly known.
So, what fraud does the lying, warmongering empire have planned this time??
You may not like the Republicans, but at least 65 representatives voted against funding the proxy bloodbath against Russia in Ukraine. And a few senators are consistently questioning this evil war.
Biden is the perfect representative of this empire: senile, lying, murderous, selfish, rigid, uncreative, tyrannical.
Ironically, last week Hillary Clinton said that the Republicans have plans to steal 2022 and 2024. The empire plays a sophisticated game where they land on both sides of the problem of fake elections, until they decide which way their supporters must blindly accept. And then YouTube and the rest will censor all dissenting points of view.
I would remind you that playing the “Dems are imperialists and Republicans are opposed to the war” game is a toxic sandbox. The two parties are corporate entities that answer to oligarchs, and most, if not all of the overt disagreements are staged to resemble an adversarial arrangement. There is no truth to be gleaned from the words and policies of either side. Of late, the DP has been feasting on the “We’re not Trump” argument, but this fixation on global domination is bringing elements of right and left and independent together in the interest of sane policies. Trump is no better than Biden. They have different agendas, but agree on leaving the voters to twist in the wind.
Note that India, a developing country which is not united by language, race, religion or much else, a country in which illiteracy has not been eradicated and in which infrastructure and communications are dire, India is able to hold contested nationwide elections, the results of which are agreed to by all parties.
Judging from 2016 and 2020, the United States is not able to reach the level of democracy demonstrated by India.
💜 I'm in the fight until I die!
I'm passionate about it, I would love to see a better future for the children.
You're awesome and I love you.
Very well said. Thank you for your continued work, Caitlin. And thank you for never backing down. It means a lot.
A voice in the wilderness is the only voice that speaks for truth these days when the loudest voices are incorporated. And thorns in the side of power make a difference, en masse. The cause for truth, peace and justice is the finest cause of all. We must never abandon it.
Thanks for that Caitlin!
Noli illegitimi carborundum. You’re on the side of the angels.
Thank you Caitlin ❤️
100%...keep up!
Peace is worth fighting for. Principle strong is undeniable.