To clear up any misperceptions about what I wrote below: I mean no criticism of Western Rifle Shooters Association. Far from it. The site is a news aggregator, one of the best around. It doesn’t peddle fear porn, but it links to some people who do. As do I. We both think it’s important to link to all kinds of information, both alarming and reassuring.
My major beef is with sites that predict the occurrence of dire events within a specific time frame, then turn out to be wrong, and never have to account for their failure. Some sites that predicted hyperinflation no later than 2010 are still predicting it. It’s always going to happen within the next six months. When it eventually does happen, it won’t prove that they were right. You can wake up every morning and predict a major asteroid will strike the Earth tomorrow. Eventually there will come a day when a major asteroid does strike the Earth. But that won’t mean you were right.
And no, it’s not like a weather forecast. Weather forecasting is well understood to be an inexact science, subject to stochastic indeterminacy. Both the forecaster and the audience know that. But the doom-mongers who make specific predictions about dire events that will occur within a specific time frame make those predictions from a position of assumed inerrancy. And then, when they turn out to be wrong, they just move on to the next one, never revisiting their error or attempting to explain it.
On the other hand, I have no quarrel with writers who simply state what they think is most likely to occur. “I think X will probably occur, and here’s my reasoning. But it’s also possible that Y will happen; I just think it’s less likely, for these reasons.” And, if they’re wrong, they acknowledge it, and try to figure out where their logic went astray.
That’s the honest way to deal with the inherent stochastic nature of future events. But it doesn’t tend to generate as much eye-bulging fear in its audience, which makes it less profitable.
WRSA’s response is here.
A few weeks ago Vera, who is a long-time and regular commenter at Gates of Vienna, left this comment on the news feed:
I don’t know where to post this, WRSA now mostly posts stuff without discussions underneath, so I’ll post it here. They have been an amazing resource all these many months of madness. But lately, I am having a hard time following. They seem to have bought into the mainstream narrative of scaring the crap out of everybody, all the time. If there has been a day of late when some mushroom cloud did not feature, I haven’t noticed. And NC Renegade is the same. Endless stories of bloggers and others who have made a career out of screaming doom at all and sundry.
THIS is alternative media?!? If it bleeds, it leads? If it scares you, we’ll hit you over the head with it until kingdom come? I am revolted. MSM works hard to keep the panic going. Why are “our people” jumping on that bandwagon, have you asked yourselves?
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
I replied to her with this:
Yes, scaring people 24/7 seems to have become a major tactic used by the Empire. For that reason, I think it’s not a good idea to join in with all the hype about whatever the current doom might be.
Doom may indeed descend upon us. Who knows? But major alternative media sites have been predicting imminent doom since at least 2008, when hyperinflation and financial collapse were said to be imminent. They were all wrong back then by at least fifteen years. Why should we believe them now?
My advice: “Be patient and watch calmly.” Plus: “Keep Occam’s Razor close at hand.”
Since then I’ve thought a lot more about the issue.
For many years it’s been obvious that the populace is being professionally scared. By that I mean that the government, major corporations, and the media deliberately contrive to frighten the general public. Agents of the state act in collusion with private interests to gin up fear among the citizenry in order to serve their own purposes. It’s a well-established principle of authoritarian and totalitarian governance that frightened citizens are easier to control and manipulate.
In recent years we’ve been subjected to a barrage of fear porn on various topics, beginning with the “pandemic” in early 2020. The scary stuff is delivered serially, with each new frightening topic emerging in the media just as the previous panic begins to wane. First COVID, then when that started to fade, monkeypox. Then came the danger of nuclear war. And through it all was woven the perennial favorite, “climate change”, the fear of which is supposed to make us give up the internal combustion engine, live in “smart cities”, and eat the bugs.
The Powers That Be seem to be keeping their options open on various other scare stories, such as UFOs or new, improved pandemics. There’s obviously a need to hold a frightening new crisis in reserve, ready to be trotted out when needed.
There’s no denying that the legacy media are deliberately pounding their audience with fear porn, day after day. But Vera is right that the alternative media are doing the same thing, albeit with a different set of preferred scary topics. Hyperinflation, mandatory vaxing and/or chipping, transhumanism, and the abolition of cash are among the most popular frighteners. And the alt-media occasionally overlap the MSM on some fear-inducers, such as the possibility of nuclear war.
The media agents of fright, whether mainstream or alternative, rely on the short memories of their audience. I remember when the climate fright first got going, back in the early to mid 1970s. But before we were told to be scared about “global warming”, the fearmongers wanted us to lie awake nights worrying about a “new ice age”. They’re hoping we’ve forgotten all that, but the archival records are available for anyone who cares to look them up.
The PTB are also hoping we’ll forget the terrifying predictions which laughably failed to come true. The coming eco-dystopia in the 1980s, for instance — John Brunner was one of its most notable proponents in The Sheep Look Up — never materialized. Pollution didn’t kill all marine life in the 1990s. The world’s oil reserves weren’t exhausted before the year 2000. Lower Manhattan still isn’t underwater, thirty or forty years after the first alarming predictions were issued.
We’re not supposed to remember any of that stuff. And I’m pretty sure most people don’t remember it. But I do.
And I also remember the numerous failed predictions put out by the alternative media. I started paying close attention to such things back in the financial crisis of 2008-2009. Many alt-media outlets — Zero Hedge was among the most prominent — made alarming predictions about imminent hyperinflation in 2009, or 2010 at the latest. They were all wrong. They were off by at least thirteen years — so far.
None of them, as far as I know, has ever dealt with how wrong they were, or examined in depth the reasons for their mistakes. For my part, I still like to read most of those sites, but I consider their predictions worthless, based on their track record.
I made some foolish predictions myself back in those days, and have since regretted them. I’ve discussed these matters at length in previous posts. As a result of causing myself such embarrassment, I’ve resolved to make no more time-specific predictions. At some point hyperinflation or defaulting on sovereign debt — or both — will have to occur, but I have no idea when either will happen. The plates are still spinning fifteen years on — who’s to say they won’t stay aloft for another twenty years? Or a hundred?
So what’s the reason for this universal imperative to scare people?
The simplest explanation is the venal one: fear sells. A scary headline makes people more likely to buy the paper or click the link. After all, a comforting, reassuring news story is boring compared with one that describes a terrifying future that lurks just around the corner.
In the case of government entities, inducing fear is also a good way to increase control over the populace and enhance the power of the state. The “pandemic” hoax made this motivation obvious: politicians at the local, state, and national levels clearly relished their newfound totalitarian powers and wanted to extend them for as long as possible.
The latter explanation, however, has no relevance for the alternative media. Why do the deplorable sites indulge in their own fear porn? Is it simple clickbait, à la The Daily Mail?
One might posit an overarching conspiracy that induces both mainstream and alternative sites to merchandise fear, for unspecified nefarious purposes. But that would multiply entities needlessly, thereby making William of Ockham* scowl.
So I don’t know the reason for this widespread peddling of fear. All I can say is that it is universal, constant, pernicious, and shows no sign of abating.
A final note about failed predictions: In general, alt-media writers don’t acknowledge their failed predictions. They just continue with business as usual, as if they had never made the predictions, relying on their audience to forget them (which it usually does).
An exception is Sundance at the Conservative Tree House. He is generally right in his predictions, but when he fails, he acknowledges his error publicly and attempts to figure out where he made his mistake. The most recent example was Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which he predicted would never happen. When it did, he put up a post analyzing where he might have gone astray.
That shows great integrity, in my estimation. It’s one of the reasons why I read his posts every day.
| * | As a matter of coincidence, William of Ockham is commemorated today, April 10, on the calendar of the Church of England. |
As one who expects nuclear war any minute now – I have noticed that my “predictions” are sometimes met with accusations of “fear corn” and stuff, and those people often accuse me of “being fearful” myself – but the truth is that I am not fearful of those things, yet I continue to spill them out all the time. I had been predicting the death of the dollar at least since the year 2000 or thereabouts, and nuclear war – I have been predicting for a long time as well…
None of that happened – yet – but to that I can say two things:
1) “It only has to happen once!” – and if it does – in the twinkling of an eye all the people who “didn’t believe” will be proven wrong.
2) I don’t see anything wrong with spitting out many “fear provoking wrong predictions”. I stick to the rule – “expect the worst, hope for the best”. Just like one of my old bosses, who basically taught me “the trade”. He would constantly spell out the worst outcomes – when we’d be putting up an antenna system, he’d walk around and say: “It’s gonna fall down!”
In the beginning I kind of hated that about him for I thought he’s just hitting on my “pride”, but the truth is – none of our antennas have fallen down, yet he still comments our work as if it should break and fall, any time now.
So – I have learned that a constant supply of the “worst case scenario” predictions doesn’t really hurt anything, and may even be good, for it keeps us vigilant.
On the other hand – is not the “ruling elite” of the west guilty of the very opposite extreme to the “fear corn”? I mean – you never hear anything bad could happen from our fearless leaders and providers, everything is under control, there is nothing to worry about… -> Now that’s the kind of stuff that makes me worried, for I consider the absence of worst case scenario predictions to be an indicator of insufficient faith in the good outcome.
In may fields, including guerilla warfare, frightened ( terrorized) people are easily manipulated.
Terrorism, state or “freelance”, 1101.
typos!
If I stop to think about the art of marketing, isn’t it scaring someone into wanting/needing your product service.
Think about the most prolific commercials on TV.
Drugs to keep you from dying, going blind, or not being able to have sex (pun intended).
Insurance to protect you from loss. Car crashes. Falling trees. Flooded houses. Mr Mayhem.
Investments to keep you from living out your “golden years” in poverty.
Best laundry product to keep your fancy clothes from looking “drab”.
Most of the best ones play to ones ego. What’s most important to the ego?
Survival, preservation, the fear of loss of status.
Aren’t the Elite, Lamestream and other media all playing the egos of their audience just as the laundry/drug/insurance sales departments are doing?
And one more observation since I’m on a roll/rant.
Doesn’t nearly everyone like to be scared sometime?
Horror movies, rollercoasters, disaster movies. Haunted houses. I could go on!
I find the motives and morals of all these actors loathsome, but aren’t they all using the same human frailties in a similar manner?
I am not excusing any of them and frankly find the drug companies to be particularly loathsome. However, I have to remind myself that their tactics must be working, or they would redirect their efforts/tactics/funds to different methods.
Maybe the really sad folks are the ones who are so easily manipulated and don’t see/realize it.
We all really are own worst enemies.
A polite (and hopefully helpful) response:
https://westernrifleshooters.us/2023/04/10/gov-fear-itself/
CA: Good response, and good additional links. Any news can be good news, if said news results in a favorable, i.e., corrective, or survival-enhancing response.
I agree with Vera.
There is alot of DOOM!!! going on. Even on our side.
While there are great dangers lurking, we shouldnt be frozen by them or engage in DOOM!!! ourselves.
Because if we do, the other side can paint us as fanatics (OK, they already do this, but if we remain calm they have a smaller chance at convincing Joe and Jane Sixpack).
We must be seen als calm and collected.
This comment reminds me of Naomi Klein ´ s book : The Shock Strategy( if memory serves me well) ,published some 15 years ago.According to her findings, the scaremongering is a policy in action for decades now.And it was not designed by the Russians or the Chinese,at that.
” The Shock Doctrine “
Is it “fear” or “information that scares you” being peddled? How you react to what you read is your responsibility, not the author/poster’s. As is what you do with that information.
The world is a scary place, especially now with all that is going on. Looking through the lens of history we are able to see reoccurring patterns in how things are developing. History tells us how that worked out last time. Will this time be the same? None of us know. But, through information, we can decide what steps we need to take that are in our best interests going forward.
IMHO WRSA posts links to articles that, while some might be obscure sources, convey information about things going on locally (US) and world wide that may have an impact on you and yours.
Even the memes are posited to make you think.
These do appear to be darkening times. The RoL in the US appears dead. Evil and corruption are real and coming for you and your family. Even if you have no interest in these things, these things most assuredly have an interest in you. What you do to prepare is in your hands, as it should be. WRSA gives suggestive guidance but, again, it is up to you what to do with that information.
I do find the comparison between WRSA and the MSN particularly amusing.
WRSA is posting information through linkage/memes to have you think for yourself. MSN gives out information to shape your thinking to a narrative.
WRSA has never, to my knowledge, been a site that promotes truly “feel good” stories.
Sites like that are in abundance. Yes, fear does sell. But ask yourself “what does WRSA sell?” There are no ads. No clickbait links. No “head to these affiliates and by something” so they can dip their beak. The site is privately funded and to my knowledge has never, unlike other sites, asked for help with that funding.
I agree that TCTH is an outstanding resource, and what Sundance says can be (generally) taken to the bank. What predictions has WRSA made?
As I said above, the world is a scary place. It may get better. It may get worse.
Hoping for the best is not a plan.
I wasn’t criticizing WRSA, not in the slightest. It’s a clearinghouse, one of the best we have. It doesn’t peddle fear porn, but it links to people who do. As do I, truth to tell.
My general opinion is that someone who makes a dire prediction and turns out to be wrong should address his failure and attempt to figure out where his analysis went wrong. His readers should hold his feet to the fire if he doesn’t.
But this doesn’t usually happen. Why? I can only assume that a lot of people LIKE to be scared, and aren’t interested in looking at how they were fooled into believing some dire prediction that didn’t come true.
I wasn’t replying so much to you as I was to Vera, at least in part.
Enjoy what you provide, though I’m not prone to commenting.
By the same token, how often are the local weather prognosticators held liable for their predictions? There is the possibility, most likely slight, that those comments that call out the error are not published.
Halloween proves that people do indeed like to be scared. This very well could also apply to what they read.
“We got the bubble-headed-bleach-blond
Who comes on at five
She can tell you ’bout the plane crash with a gleam in her eye
It’s interesting when people die
Give us dirty laundry”
Regards
“Follow the money” I’d say is good rule of thumb too. In the before time, productive, contributing behavior was monetized, Eventually it was realized non-productive, self-destructive behavior was a cash cow waiting to be milked, hence its propagation, subsidization, encouragement, management
I wonder if its all one big psyop?
About eighteen months ago, when the Covid fear porn was still being pushed hard, I did a search (using Brave’s search engine, which builds its own index) for
“use of Fear in Public Health Education”.
Including the word “education” got the results I sought. All sorts of links, mainly to academic institutions and ‘scholarly’ articles on the Effectiveness (or not) and the Ethics of Fear Messaging to effect change in the public’s behaviour. (A great many of those articles dated from well before Covid.)
Being something of a cynical skeptic I can’t say I was surprised, but I was disgusted by the amoral and utilitarian approach taken by the ‘trainers of the trainers.’
We all know that fear is and has always been used to SELL … everything from insurance to toe-nail fungus remedies. We accept the ‘caveat emptor’ advice, when it comes to commercial transactions.
However when it comes to things like the existential importance of our health, a life and death matter, we naively assume that our ‘leaders’ will tell the truth. Why? Because we think it’s not a commercial transaction? Or do we assume our ‘leaders’ have higher ethical standards and genuinely care about us?
History suggests otherwise …
Accurate information is not “fear porn”. The choice to be scared is up to the reader. Rain with embedded thunderstorms and lightning expected today. One person says “good, my garden needs water and I’ll stay indoors if I see lightning “. The neighbor freaks and drools on their shoes hiding in the basement.
This is a choice we all make. Have any self-control? Better get some soon.
Exactly. Fear porn is lies mixed with truth designed to get a rise out of people. And that is what I am speaking against.
A Response:
https://ncrenegade.com/vera-may-be-correct/
If we look at the alternative—we should talk, communicate and predict more congruent with objective truth—we probably wouldn’t have survived the 300,000 long years of Homo sapiens existence. We needed to fear and combat the noises at night coming from around the hill as we slept. We needed to exaggerate the dangers of other hominids seizing our food, our children, our women, because erring in the other direction could have meant our extinction.
A Response:
https://ncrenegade.com/vera-may-be-correct/
Yes, got tired of passing on predictions of doom, lost respect of some friends, and myself. Started passing on the observations of people with actual knowledge, and not make “predictions”. Noticed trends, and saw inflation move from slow to moderate, to alarming. World and national events have followed the “script”, and steadily gotten worse. Pretty calm most of the time, just take what I believe to be good steps to mitigate or negate the doom that does approach. Gave up sounding the alarm, it wouldn’t be received even if it was right anyway. When all does appear lost, no one will care who shouted wolf, but just how to avoid getting eaten. While reading about the doom may put people off, it is good to keep up on the latest doom gossip, as there is always a tiny bit of truth to most of the rumors. “Every body knows” and sooner or later or tonight, “Every body sees” will be the norm, the only difference being that those who are prepared for it, MAY do better in dealing with it. A great many are wise to, and sick to death of hearing, “Wolf!” They might do well to remember that the wolves in sheep clothing are among us now, and well recognized. Action is needed now more than alarms.
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Be carefull!
The dangers are countless.
History’s Worst Software Errors
https://youtu.be/7ZSzh8EMDCI
The human brain is programmed instinctively for survival. Survival requires avoidance of potentially deadly threats, which are on a sliding scale. For example, one could be eaten by a lion (certain death), or, one could get a little scrape on the leg from a sharp thorn, which seems like nothing, but, under certain conditions (as in the jungle), could get infected, and, if the infection spreads, could lead to death.
Fear sells, because most people “want” to know about any possible threat that threatens survival, no matter how improbable or remote (in time, place, circumstances).
Articles and predictions about pleasant weather and taking a nice, restful nap tend not to generate much attention.
We are at a real inflation rate of about 15% based on the 1980’s US G’ovt calc method. See link for charts.
http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/inflation-charts
This is Jimmy Carter range failure on the economic front with trillions for our national debt in place of his paltry billions.
This is just one of several really bad things that are happening that appear to be part of a cascade of damage. When this happens to any system the possibility chaotic failure is greatly increased.
This is a major reason why old people die. What about countries?
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Inside the Hive: The Uselful Idiocy of Doom-Mongering
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An enlightening piece on GoV, in a timely manner, as usual.
Doom in the alt-media — what may be the causes:
Beyond the ones listed by the Baron of GoV, I can see three main causes:
(1) The hoi polloi realizing that there is a one-sided war going on, being waged by the global predatory overclass on humanity.
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The collective psychological reaction to that realization is going through — in waves — the phases of individual and collective mournig. I am talking about the Dr. Kübler-Ross model of grief. The five stages of grieving are:
Denial. Anger. Bargaining. Depression. Acceptance.
Grieving occurs when one PERCEIVES that one loses something essential.
Now, here comes the psychological trick of the PTB: they are declaring that OUR world is gonna change INEVITABLY. That is a subversive strategy that works as a self-fulfilling prophecy. That’s why they give names to it and advertise them: the Great Reset, Build Back Better, WW3, etc.
The few need the many to be able to subvert the old order. And we are doing it for them when we begin to form a relationship with their world-transforming plans. But when we relate to a perceived new world, we are subverting our own old world: therefore we are losing it. Hence the grief. But again, that grief is largely based on perception — that is a fantasy, influenced by our wannabe overlords.
Thus the question is how far ahead our overlords are with their world-changing plans VS reality? Not as far as they want us to believe. The EU (!) made a virtual dance-party in Meta a year ago and invited the tech-savy. The quality of the “virtual reality” was so poor that they became a laughing stock. Yet we, inhabitants of the alt-media handle virtual reality as an imminent danger.
But what else can we do when we want to warn our fellow citizens of the dangers? When you describe a phenomenon you create it — and it makes it look like as if it was imminent. But if you do not describe it vividly, the sheeple do not even notice its potential existence. It is very difficult to warn others about yet invisible dangers.
So, again: where are the “awake” in the alt media in the 5-phases process of grieving our old world? And I add one more in the beginning of the list: IGNORANCE (of the ongoing war on humanity):
Ignorance. Denial. Anger. Bargaining. Depression. Acceptance.
The answer is that different colectives are in different stages in different stages of grief and awareness. And here comes the trouble of complexity of the psy-war:
(2) Doom in the alt media: cause two. Clashes of levels of awareness within the society.
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Let us say those who are in the acceptance phase want to warn those who are in the ignorance phase. That will end in a clash with friendly fire. Both parties will denigrate each other, in order to retain their own belief of a consistent world-view, that is their sanity.
This results in an internal fight that makes our side divided in the face of the enemy. And, of course, that is one goal of the enemy: to divide us.
So, what are we doing when we are warning of the danger that the enemy has thrown into the arena: (a) we are subverting our own world (b) we are creating a division in our own world.
It is becoming an annoying game as well: those who can see (the reality of the [pseudo]-war) get fed up with those who cannot see it yet. Therefore the prescient start yelling lauder, which makes the ignorant even more deaf due to avoidance. A vicious circle that is hard to resolve. And in that vicious circle the warners are seen as warmongers. And since they are players in a psy-war they indeed become ones.
Because a psy-war is about creating pseudo-realities. And we are doing that for the enemy.
The irony of a psy war: what I am supposed to say to warn the unsuspecting ones? — “Hey, watch out, there is a pseudo-war goin’ on that is real.” The natural answer is: “are you crazy, dude?”
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(3) Doom in the alt media: cause three: Gradual hostile world-transformation, kept under threshold level(s).
This is a very tricky one, but obvious at the same time. The PTB are seemingly calibrating the hostile transformation(s) so that they maximize synergies and minimize resistance. This goes for both real-world transformations and propaganda that creates pseudo-worlds — but those two have now gotten intertwined.
When “they” ocassionally overplay their hands a bit (like in the rona psyop), we are winning a bit. And therefore we have the inclination to show that the enemy has overplayed its hands — which borders doom-mongering in the alt media.
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To wrap it up, that’s the phenomenon of the present psy-war and the deliberately gradual transformation in a nutshell, reflecting on doom-mongering.
I am not even attempting to map the possible solutions here, but self-reflections like the one GoV initiated in this above article are certainly the main part of them. But I’ll give a name to it:
The Uselful Idiocy of Doom-Mongering.
I am a doom-mongerer when I warn that doom-mongering is creating doom? Is it the doom-mongering of doom-mongering, or is it attenuating it?
To be able to answer that question, first we should admit that there is a whole new kind of war going on against Sheeplekind — against the Hive, if you like.
But that would be warmongering, wouldn’t it.
I guess the only major prediction I’ve made over the years is that Islam and its adherents will grow in the west, until at some stage they will become the majority. This however is depending on several factors, namely;
A) The various National governments won’t intervene.
B) The indigenous populations won’t intervene.
C) Islam and its followers will stop relocating to the west.
D) Muslims in the west will not be allowed to procreate.
E) A combination of all of the above scenarios, or some other type of event.
This demographic prediction is guaranteed to eventuate at some stage, unless some of the caveats listed above come into play. The only question is when, and that is impossible to predict with any degree of accuracy. There are however some factors that could speed up the process, and those are when the indigenous populations have absolutely nothing left to lose, i.e. doing nothing will be far worse than doing something.
There could be an event in a week’s time that would kickstart the process that would reverse this trend, or it could happen fifty years from now. Or it could never happen, and the west becomes a part of the Islamic world.
I wrote a piece about this subject back in 2008. That’s fifteen years ago, but no major event has occurred since that has halted this trend. And thus for the time being the Islamisation of the west is continuing at full speed.
https://gatesofvienna.net/2008/07/future-scenarios-for-europe/
Islamisation continues at full speed until it hits the rocks of extreme tribalism of the west, thrown in throw out all the rules and whala, instant Crusades on steroids with the added flavor of the Balkans thrown in for good measure.
And Fauci & Potato Head have both predicted the next plandemic over the past week.
I must be out of the loop — who is “Potato Head”?
Biden =Potato head, or the man who has mush for brains.
.Our leader who keeps telling Americans everything wrong with the world is either Trumps fault or Putin fault ,or rich people(who or what rich people not connected to the Biden family) fault. The dog ate my home work president! It was already broken when I got here President. What we have to fear most are those Maga people president.
A character in “Toy Story”?
Thanks Baron for the ongoing work & time.
You seem to strike a good balance.
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.
And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
I see that in a more experienced context;- to not become entrapped.
As it reminds me, we do what we can, & life is to be lived too, to cope with that fear, & retain hope & some reason. 🙂
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Just to lighten up, during 1 of our many battles. 🙂
I know this is suppressed through a “shadow ban”, as it will not come up if people just search for it.
It only comes up if you have the link.
Note the date of that recording, a bit over a year ago, and to think people, many people in many little ways, have been working at this.
Still a lot more to “Chip” away at in New Zealand. 🙂
Sit back & enjoy, you know the most of the words. 🙂
The Rise and Fall of a Globalist Puppet
https://youtu.be/rB0MdeE5hFE
5 mins 52 secs : Feb 25, 2022 : Satire King.
Bear in mind, Many a true word said in Jest.
Only fault is that many more verses can be done since then.
An easy history lesson for the kids to ponder & skip to.
Both WRSA and NC Renegades seem to think they have to prove their usefulness to me, simply because I made a small critique. Guys, that is silly. Those sites are fabulous! And fabulouser! So I won’t really go there.
Just wanted to say, how about showing some restraint with the fear porn? How about not amplifying half truths and rumors? And F the predictions of impending doom. Sick of it. Damn hysterics. Nobody knows the day nor the hour, not you, not your cat, not your canary.
The more we dwell on doom, the less energy we have on building something that can rise in the cracks between all the brutalist concrete of doom. Constant doom messaging immiserates people… exhausts us all. Thank you for listening.
WRSA — thank you for the links.
@ Vera
My take, as a long-time GoV regular, after looking around:
They are different brothers in the same family of the Resistance, Vera. They see the same dangers on the horizon but speak a somewhat different language. More nouns, less adjectives: the language of activity.
Good, smart, technical, PRACTICAL people over there. Jovial ones. Realists, responsible, down-to-earth. Soldiers, food producers, helpers, educators, real preppers — I suppose. Bold ones with clear understanding and solutions. They do community work, teach shooting, produce food, know how to fight. Doers.
Protectors.
Always in war since 1811. The corona onslaught is not new for them: not the first war and not the last one.
That’s their attitude. Which I appreciate.
Some more gloom an’ doom for them is not especially nerve-wrecking — it is like smelling POTENTIAL danger in the air while hunting in the forest and being always ready: “OK then, what more can we do to survive and be useful?”.
A bit more doom-mongering for such a “soldier” is just more preparation, nothing else: “Buy more bullets, plant more potatoes”. They are not war-mongerers, they ARE in war. Everyone is — but they know it and take it on, and have done so for ages.
The same words carry different implications over there — mostly with real-world consequences.
Independent ones: politely disengaging from friendly fire but standing their ground in the face of the enemy.
At least that’s my impression.
That said, your observations are of course relevant to the psyop aspect that’s apparently become very significant recently. Relevant FOR US.
I do things too. Prepare. For me, the doom mongering gets in the way. If I believed it, it would paralyze me.
And much of it is lies. I woke up to that years ago, in the peak oil community, when some folks started doom mongering that we are about to run out of phosphorus. Huh, I thought? So I looked into it. All living beings are made of phosphorus. There is no shortage and never will be. There is limited supply of mined rock phosphorus. Which is poorly absorbed by plants anyway. All we have to do is value manure and bones for the phosphorus they provide. There is no shortage and never will be!
Liberally mixing lies with truth is what “they” do to us. Why are we doing it to ourselves?!