Sovereignty is not something you 'find' – like lost keys or a misplaced book. Sovereignty is what you ARE... what you were born as... what you never lose unless you give it away yourself. And even then, you can reclaim it as you can never truly give it away. Sovereignty is as much as you as the nose on your face – even more so since your nose will look differently as the years pass but your Sovereignty cannot age. It is timeless.
The question then becomes – so why do people give their Sovereignty away? The short answer is that we don’t know any better. Perhaps no one ever told us what Sovereignty actually is and means. Sovereignty is not the phony Sovereignty of some kind of government structure defending itself inside phony borders that do not exist in reality. Sovereignty is not choosing between Coke or Pepsi. Sovereignty is choosing not to drink either of them at all... or drinking them down until you’re sick as a dog.
Sovereignty means the Power of One’s Own Self. Not some kind of ‘Authority’ from outside yourself ‘granting’ some kind of limited autonomy – because They don’t have that right to grant that and never did.
Sovereignty means you are always the Master over your own Life. And with that kind of power comes great responsibility to make wise choices and to honor and respect the Sovereignty of others – including those whom you might have serious disagreements with.
Sovereignty is a reflection of our natural and divine state of freedom. Again, true and real freedom and not some phony characterization of it as living lives of curated ‘freedom' within an Overton Window of carefully chosen and curated ‘freedoms’ (serving the Hidden Ones), but the freedom to be and do and think and believe and choose anything and everything that you choose. But you make these choices in full knowledge that you will bear the cosmic and karmic consequences of the choices you make and the way you execute your freedoms. You make your Choices – and then you fully own them. Such is the terror and the joy of being a Free Human Being with the agency and freedom of Divinity itself.
You can believe someone else or you can learn and discern and believe the best of what you choose to believe. You can have and retain your power or you can give or squander it away to somebody else. You can value your innate divine freedom or you can ignore and dismiss it. Why? Because you have the power to. It’s always yours and always there.
You could not give away your true ability for Sovereignty if you tried. It is part of your consciousness and your character. You can ignore the exist of the Sun if you choose to... but the Sun will keep on burning and shining anyway. So this is with Sovereignty. You can ignore it... deny it... try to give it away... and you can’t. It is stuck to you like glue. Why? Because Sovereignty is Who You Are.
People today waste too much time listening to and believing – idiots. Persons who are either deluded... mentally ill... bought-and-paid-for... confused... on-the-take... or just dangerously innocent without knowing any better. Whatever the source of Their state of conscious maladjustment... you just don’t listen to or pay any attention to them. They have no authority over you. They have neither the wisdom of the right to have put any faith or trust in them. They are to be universally ignored. And prayed for, if that is in your heart.
Those why try to claim Sovereignty over us do serve a purpose. They exist as examples of how NEVER to be... not how to live... not how to treat others. These Sovereignty-Stealing-Wannabees serve to help us harden our boundaries of safety around Them and to rejoice in our knowledge that They can’t do a damn thing to us unless we let them – and then it is really you doing this to yourself.
If you are waiting for some Hero out there to order your life or give it meaning and purpose, don’t. He or she is here. He has always been here. It is You. It always was you and it will always be you. You don't need permission from anyone.
And you don’t need any kind of colored pill to help you find your way. Just remember Who the
Ah, thanks for connecting the dots so elegantly with our divine / spiritual nature (I find this direly missing in so many redpilled endeavours); also the connection with responsibility and ensuing terror. We have been conditioned for so many generations to believe in the necessity of a governing class that, even though Sovereignty is our Primordial State, we DO need to "find" it by peeling away all the bullshit we and our ancestors have been fed for so long. I actually have come to enjoy this journey or unlearning and reclaiming, taking others along on the ride (I teach adults how to grow up).
Thank you for writing this. I find that at a certain point in our pursuit of truth, we're told we've gone too far. There's a threshold along the growth curve that we're not to cross. And yes, it feels like the Second Matrix you've written about. Each time I ask a question that's met with gaslight instead of answers, I feel this.
Thanks, Ann. You've captured something essential - that invisible threshold where legitimate questions become 'too far.' It's the moment we're told to stop coloring outside the lines. When gaslighting replaces answers, it's actually confirmation you're asking the right questions. The Second Matrix relies on self-censorship, but I'm getting this nagging feeling that our willingness to push past those boundaries is exactly how sovereignty begins.
Totally, thank you for so much clarity and precision. Yes, rebuilding, yes, lucidity, yes community of liked minded folks (fewer and fewer of us, the MAGA/MAHA blind faith movement has swallowed many used-to-be allies). The ravine is growing wider and deeper; even my life partner and I don't quite agree on the first matrix, which precludes any deeper and more refined explorations of second matrix, black pilling (I weaned myself off of black pills 2 yrs ago), intellectual and all manners of sovereignty. Again, deep bow 🙏.
Everyone's looking for a savior instead of looking in the mirror. No one is coming to our rescue...except ourselves. We are the ones we've been waiting for.
"No one is coming to our rescue...except ourselves. We are the ones we've been waiting for."
There's the problem. It can't be effectively fought because the vast majority of people are not aware of reality because, in most cases, they have a huge attention deficit when it comes to politics and often choose to remain blissfully ignorant of the incredible, long standing, intertwined, international Gordian Knot of corruption created by the forever quest for money and power provided by trillions of dollars of taxpayer money and new debt created on their tab. Also, so many lack the learned skill of critical thought and analysis making them so easily propagandized.
We're back to the 80:20 rule? Wrestling change when a vast majority appear to accept their fate is indeed a 'problem'. Constructing an alternative society depends upon the tolerance of tyranny, which is usually vanishingly small. We exist in their thrall and their self-interested indulgence.
BUT....
The proverbial 'keys to the kingdom' were handed to the New Zealand populace from NZ Ministry of Health own future pandemic plan (2022/2024), akin to what's on offer in Singapore. The National Ethics Advisory Committee advised the Ministry of Health that aside from getting past several laws enshrining ethics, they would have to consider their 'social license' and the willingness of people to submit to governance (local political proxies echoing globalist tyranny) to pull off what they articulated as their sociopathic 'pandemic plan'.
A survey conducted by the National Ethics Advisory Committee in New Zealand in 2023 showed the New Zealand Ministry of Health that 80% of Kiwis adhered to established ethics, in stark contrast to the mangled ethics of 2020 and no jab / no job policies implemented by politicians and health bureaucrats and a legion of medical jabsters, pharmacists and nurses enthusiastically raking in coin.
The populace thus stand in diametric counter point to the position of 'officialdom', politicians, orthodox medical practice and mores, and the WHOcentric actions of the NZ Medical Council that continues to promote mRNA synthetic polynucleotide / LNP shots with religious fervour not witnessed since the height of the Spanish Inquisition.
Surely, it is but a few very steps by millions to up-end this nascent tyranny, to crack the blatant fragility demonstrated by censorious dependence, propaganda reliance, and endless gaslighting, to burn the worthless fiat paper currencies and shatter the carapace of several thousand demented ideologues and parasites?
Josh, in all seriousness, ask your friend how someone like myself would feel? I have vaccines redacted from my medical record and am severely "inexplicably sick", but "definitely not service connected". I risked my life and almost died multiple times for this country. Some of my friends and men I served with died for lies and corporate profits. Now the ones who are still alive can't get healthcare and are treated like a burden when we try, while simultaneously watching illegals come over and be handed everything in three months. It took me 18 years of puking and shitting my guts out every day before the VA gave me my disability. Chronic pain in half my body, sick to my stomach 24/7, PTSD (half from the VA), and most people in America think they/we support the troops. This country has never taken care of it veterans, and if they won't take care of their troops, they don't give a fuck about anyone, so what is it we are all working for and towards? Appreciate you taking the time to write this, as always.
And I think my point is, my story is one of many, failed by this system. Whether it's the education system, child and family services, the judicial system, or the military, some peoples' lives have been so permanently affected that there is no moving forward without 100% justice, and until then, anything else is empty and meaningless. My despair is a perfectly natural human reaction 😅
I honestly don't know how to comment because my POV diverges so radically from the viewpoints presented surrounding this "black pill" mythology.
I do not disagree one iota with what Josh wrote: I'm simply unaffected because my path has been long established toward sovereignty. My basic tendency as an individual is that I care very little what others think. Many people mimic this sentiment; few live it. Perhaps, for this reason, once some semblance of truth cracked my skull (the chemtrails' raison d'etre), I had little difficulty in trusting and expanding that crack.
Younger generations are bitten by the bug when they get their phone. I could never, for example, understand why anyone would care about receiving a "like" or "dislike." Of course, I was far older.
I wondered...why would anyone participate in a system predicated upon this dynamic? It's so obviously overt conditioning and training. Some platforms offer the added candy of financial reward for increasing followers and "views." "Bring me business, young buddy, and I'll make you successful."
Suddenly, the whole "like" and "dislike" Universe becomes a candy-coated treat people must now have much as the child throwing a temper tantrum because mom won't let them have another cookie or the addict ready to slit someone's throat because they need money for the next fix. I note this characteristic from the diatribes when money through such sources diminishes or ceases altogether. Whoops!! There goes the candy.
The reaction stems from allowing their sovereignty to be subverted. You're, to use today's parlance, their bitch. Goodness knows. How I hate the frequent use of that word which was a word simply unused in my youth. One would use the word only in the most heated of moments and was heavily censured for doing so.
I’m reminded of my college years (’67-71). The annual yearbook carried lavish pictures of the social groups at the time. Huge pictures of sororities and fraternities spread across pages. I was in a group the yearbook staff called "Independents." There must have been a grand total of about 10 people standing in solitary poses. I suppose perhaps more Independents existed but failed to show up for the picture. Socialization, running with the herd, is hard to break. Sometimes only a solitary path is available, and like the Stoics of old, we must accept our fate and continue forward.
Joshua, you are far more generous toward that article and author than I was after reading it.
After a lifetime of programming to believe in a fake reality so that I could be manipulated by those in the know, and then being gaslit, ostracized, demeaned, and in the case of Jan 6 prisoners, jailed without trial, by those sob's who did it, I have to tell you, I do not feel community with anyone who refuses to pursue the truth.
Mass change happens with mass awareness. A journalists job is to expose the truth, not preach at people for being pissed off about it. I already get that from everyone around me.
Right now, in front of our very eyes, Jake Tapper has written a book blaming politicians for having deceived everyone on Biden. He is being criticized by everyone for his hupocrisy, when in fact that entire class of people are hypocrites. We all knew in 2020 Biden was compos non mentis and for four yrs, in spite of the most ridiculous behavior at public events, not one person said, "The emperor has no brain."
The deeper reality of this situation, which nobody dares mention: Tapper's book is nothing more than a limited hangout, almost certainly meant to cover up the 2020 election theft and the horrible abuse of the Jan 6ers.
There isnt a journalist in the country, including your friend, with the stones to stand up and pose that simple and supportable thesis.
Call me hopelessly black pilled if you like, but a society in which truth cannot be spoken by those with a voice, out of fear for their livelihoods or lives is an entirely worthless society with no hope of self-improvement.
My disgust for elites and "leaders" is bottomless. The world is apparently a dog eat dog evolutionary swamp where these creatures prey on whatever meat they can find. The brief respite that Christianity brought to the world has ended. My only respite now is the simple honesty of grandchildren.
Nobody expects men to be perfect or not to be self interested, but perpetrating fake reality upon reasonable people, on the scale of today and in service of nothing, is just too craven.
Having vented all that bile, I would end in saying your essays are invaluable and I do spread them like the gospel, though with an impact not a lot different from that afforded a Jehova's Witness.
THIS. I'm right there with you. The things I've had to experience first hand. The things that happened to my family. The words don't even exist for me.
I was just reading Martin Geddes' column today. He has an extremely interesting concept concerning fighting any battle today which also includes how individual autonomy might be established or re-established.
His substack article is entitled "Metawarfare: the civilian doctrine of AI-assisted sovereignty."
In other words, "Metawarfare is the highest form of fifth-generation warfare. It is not merely about narrative control, or procedural resistance, or evidentiary rebuttal. It is about controlling the means by which the battle is fought. It is the fight over how fights are framed. It is the weaponization of the weapon-making process itself."
Excellent as usual... always learn and agree with all except... the ability to:
"start building alternatives from the ground up."
"building parallel structures"
One can readily work on individual sovereignty such as in health, financial matters (out of debt, fiat and casino speculation), it may be possible to expand to micro communities; but expansion beyond that to significant groups in society is highly doubtful.
Sometimes I wish I could live in a community with all the people I've found such resonance with on Substack as it would make life so much easier! But I guess we all need to be scattered around the planet being nodes connected together through who we are and how we see things, there for others as they catch up. It's a little lonely but definitely character building!
"When Toby Rogers plainly states, “Covid shots are a criminal enterprise. Anyone in a position of authority to pull the Covid shots from the market who fails to do so is engaged in a crime,” many mainstream voices dismiss this as alarmism rather than addressing his specific concerns. I've seen it when people on "our team" have challenged decisions (or non-decisions) within the medical freedom movement."
After more than 5 years of Covid-19 lies and gaslighting, I have noticed 2 main topics that both the mainstream media and controlled opposition refuse to address. The first, as Toby Rogers stated is that the Covid shots are a criminal enterprise because they contain nanotechnology biosensors for surveillance under the skin via the Internet of Bio-Nano Things and the WBAN. These are crimes of warrantless search and seizure contrary to sections 184(1) and 430(5) of the Criminal Code of Canada.
The second is any mention of the nanotechnology biosensors embedded in masks, tests and mRNA GENE THERAPY jabs for surveillance under the skin via the Internet of Bio-Nano Things and the WBAN as you wrote about in your outstanding article, "Node Without Consent".
Thank you Josh - couldn't have said it better myself!
"But the instant labeling of these inquiries as "black-pilled" short-circuits necessary conversations. Less tribalism doesn't mean taking the black pill—it means holding truth to power no matter who is in charge."
I'm especially saddened when people who were called radical Nazi right wing extremists for questioning lockdowns or vaccines now use the "black pilled" label exactly the same way: as an ad hominem attack, so they don't have to address the actual challenges to authority that we raise.
I am a very proud black pilled Debbie Downer myself.
Submerged passage through troubled seas... one will have to continue and increase one's abilities to be low profile in these times that are ahead. And no, there is nobody coming to rescue anyone.
“Finding Sovereignty in an Age of Capture”
Sovereignty is not something you 'find' – like lost keys or a misplaced book. Sovereignty is what you ARE... what you were born as... what you never lose unless you give it away yourself. And even then, you can reclaim it as you can never truly give it away. Sovereignty is as much as you as the nose on your face – even more so since your nose will look differently as the years pass but your Sovereignty cannot age. It is timeless.
The question then becomes – so why do people give their Sovereignty away? The short answer is that we don’t know any better. Perhaps no one ever told us what Sovereignty actually is and means. Sovereignty is not the phony Sovereignty of some kind of government structure defending itself inside phony borders that do not exist in reality. Sovereignty is not choosing between Coke or Pepsi. Sovereignty is choosing not to drink either of them at all... or drinking them down until you’re sick as a dog.
Sovereignty means the Power of One’s Own Self. Not some kind of ‘Authority’ from outside yourself ‘granting’ some kind of limited autonomy – because They don’t have that right to grant that and never did.
Sovereignty means you are always the Master over your own Life. And with that kind of power comes great responsibility to make wise choices and to honor and respect the Sovereignty of others – including those whom you might have serious disagreements with.
Sovereignty is a reflection of our natural and divine state of freedom. Again, true and real freedom and not some phony characterization of it as living lives of curated ‘freedom' within an Overton Window of carefully chosen and curated ‘freedoms’ (serving the Hidden Ones), but the freedom to be and do and think and believe and choose anything and everything that you choose. But you make these choices in full knowledge that you will bear the cosmic and karmic consequences of the choices you make and the way you execute your freedoms. You make your Choices – and then you fully own them. Such is the terror and the joy of being a Free Human Being with the agency and freedom of Divinity itself.
You can believe someone else or you can learn and discern and believe the best of what you choose to believe. You can have and retain your power or you can give or squander it away to somebody else. You can value your innate divine freedom or you can ignore and dismiss it. Why? Because you have the power to. It’s always yours and always there.
You could not give away your true ability for Sovereignty if you tried. It is part of your consciousness and your character. You can ignore the exist of the Sun if you choose to... but the Sun will keep on burning and shining anyway. So this is with Sovereignty. You can ignore it... deny it... try to give it away... and you can’t. It is stuck to you like glue. Why? Because Sovereignty is Who You Are.
People today waste too much time listening to and believing – idiots. Persons who are either deluded... mentally ill... bought-and-paid-for... confused... on-the-take... or just dangerously innocent without knowing any better. Whatever the source of Their state of conscious maladjustment... you just don’t listen to or pay any attention to them. They have no authority over you. They have neither the wisdom of the right to have put any faith or trust in them. They are to be universally ignored. And prayed for, if that is in your heart.
Those why try to claim Sovereignty over us do serve a purpose. They exist as examples of how NEVER to be... not how to live... not how to treat others. These Sovereignty-Stealing-Wannabees serve to help us harden our boundaries of safety around Them and to rejoice in our knowledge that They can’t do a damn thing to us unless we let them – and then it is really you doing this to yourself.
If you are waiting for some Hero out there to order your life or give it meaning and purpose, don’t. He or she is here. He has always been here. It is You. It always was you and it will always be you. You don't need permission from anyone.
And you don’t need any kind of colored pill to help you find your way. Just remember Who the
Sovereign is – and Who and What it will never be.
️🔥
This should be a post in its own right!
It's like a slam, i want to learn it by heart!
Ah, thanks for connecting the dots so elegantly with our divine / spiritual nature (I find this direly missing in so many redpilled endeavours); also the connection with responsibility and ensuing terror. We have been conditioned for so many generations to believe in the necessity of a governing class that, even though Sovereignty is our Primordial State, we DO need to "find" it by peeling away all the bullshit we and our ancestors have been fed for so long. I actually have come to enjoy this journey or unlearning and reclaiming, taking others along on the ride (I teach adults how to grow up).
Thank you for writing this. I find that at a certain point in our pursuit of truth, we're told we've gone too far. There's a threshold along the growth curve that we're not to cross. And yes, it feels like the Second Matrix you've written about. Each time I ask a question that's met with gaslight instead of answers, I feel this.
Thanks, Ann. You've captured something essential - that invisible threshold where legitimate questions become 'too far.' It's the moment we're told to stop coloring outside the lines. When gaslighting replaces answers, it's actually confirmation you're asking the right questions. The Second Matrix relies on self-censorship, but I'm getting this nagging feeling that our willingness to push past those boundaries is exactly how sovereignty begins.
Totally, thank you for so much clarity and precision. Yes, rebuilding, yes, lucidity, yes community of liked minded folks (fewer and fewer of us, the MAGA/MAHA blind faith movement has swallowed many used-to-be allies). The ravine is growing wider and deeper; even my life partner and I don't quite agree on the first matrix, which precludes any deeper and more refined explorations of second matrix, black pilling (I weaned myself off of black pills 2 yrs ago), intellectual and all manners of sovereignty. Again, deep bow 🙏.
You got it.
Dissection of the problem with a lot of solutions (many crowdsourced) here: https://tritorch.substack.com/p/united-we-stand-divided-we-fall
Everyone's looking for a savior instead of looking in the mirror. No one is coming to our rescue...except ourselves. We are the ones we've been waiting for.
"No one is coming to our rescue...except ourselves. We are the ones we've been waiting for."
There's the problem. It can't be effectively fought because the vast majority of people are not aware of reality because, in most cases, they have a huge attention deficit when it comes to politics and often choose to remain blissfully ignorant of the incredible, long standing, intertwined, international Gordian Knot of corruption created by the forever quest for money and power provided by trillions of dollars of taxpayer money and new debt created on their tab. Also, so many lack the learned skill of critical thought and analysis making them so easily propagandized.
We're back to the 80:20 rule? Wrestling change when a vast majority appear to accept their fate is indeed a 'problem'. Constructing an alternative society depends upon the tolerance of tyranny, which is usually vanishingly small. We exist in their thrall and their self-interested indulgence.
BUT....
The proverbial 'keys to the kingdom' were handed to the New Zealand populace from NZ Ministry of Health own future pandemic plan (2022/2024), akin to what's on offer in Singapore. The National Ethics Advisory Committee advised the Ministry of Health that aside from getting past several laws enshrining ethics, they would have to consider their 'social license' and the willingness of people to submit to governance (local political proxies echoing globalist tyranny) to pull off what they articulated as their sociopathic 'pandemic plan'.
A survey conducted by the National Ethics Advisory Committee in New Zealand in 2023 showed the New Zealand Ministry of Health that 80% of Kiwis adhered to established ethics, in stark contrast to the mangled ethics of 2020 and no jab / no job policies implemented by politicians and health bureaucrats and a legion of medical jabsters, pharmacists and nurses enthusiastically raking in coin.
The populace thus stand in diametric counter point to the position of 'officialdom', politicians, orthodox medical practice and mores, and the WHOcentric actions of the NZ Medical Council that continues to promote mRNA synthetic polynucleotide / LNP shots with religious fervour not witnessed since the height of the Spanish Inquisition.
Surely, it is but a few very steps by millions to up-end this nascent tyranny, to crack the blatant fragility demonstrated by censorious dependence, propaganda reliance, and endless gaslighting, to burn the worthless fiat paper currencies and shatter the carapace of several thousand demented ideologues and parasites?
Josh, in all seriousness, ask your friend how someone like myself would feel? I have vaccines redacted from my medical record and am severely "inexplicably sick", but "definitely not service connected". I risked my life and almost died multiple times for this country. Some of my friends and men I served with died for lies and corporate profits. Now the ones who are still alive can't get healthcare and are treated like a burden when we try, while simultaneously watching illegals come over and be handed everything in three months. It took me 18 years of puking and shitting my guts out every day before the VA gave me my disability. Chronic pain in half my body, sick to my stomach 24/7, PTSD (half from the VA), and most people in America think they/we support the troops. This country has never taken care of it veterans, and if they won't take care of their troops, they don't give a fuck about anyone, so what is it we are all working for and towards? Appreciate you taking the time to write this, as always.
And I think my point is, my story is one of many, failed by this system. Whether it's the education system, child and family services, the judicial system, or the military, some peoples' lives have been so permanently affected that there is no moving forward without 100% justice, and until then, anything else is empty and meaningless. My despair is a perfectly natural human reaction 😅
I honestly don't know how to comment because my POV diverges so radically from the viewpoints presented surrounding this "black pill" mythology.
I do not disagree one iota with what Josh wrote: I'm simply unaffected because my path has been long established toward sovereignty. My basic tendency as an individual is that I care very little what others think. Many people mimic this sentiment; few live it. Perhaps, for this reason, once some semblance of truth cracked my skull (the chemtrails' raison d'etre), I had little difficulty in trusting and expanding that crack.
Younger generations are bitten by the bug when they get their phone. I could never, for example, understand why anyone would care about receiving a "like" or "dislike." Of course, I was far older.
I wondered...why would anyone participate in a system predicated upon this dynamic? It's so obviously overt conditioning and training. Some platforms offer the added candy of financial reward for increasing followers and "views." "Bring me business, young buddy, and I'll make you successful."
Suddenly, the whole "like" and "dislike" Universe becomes a candy-coated treat people must now have much as the child throwing a temper tantrum because mom won't let them have another cookie or the addict ready to slit someone's throat because they need money for the next fix. I note this characteristic from the diatribes when money through such sources diminishes or ceases altogether. Whoops!! There goes the candy.
The reaction stems from allowing their sovereignty to be subverted. You're, to use today's parlance, their bitch. Goodness knows. How I hate the frequent use of that word which was a word simply unused in my youth. One would use the word only in the most heated of moments and was heavily censured for doing so.
I’m reminded of my college years (’67-71). The annual yearbook carried lavish pictures of the social groups at the time. Huge pictures of sororities and fraternities spread across pages. I was in a group the yearbook staff called "Independents." There must have been a grand total of about 10 people standing in solitary poses. I suppose perhaps more Independents existed but failed to show up for the picture. Socialization, running with the herd, is hard to break. Sometimes only a solitary path is available, and like the Stoics of old, we must accept our fate and continue forward.
Damn that's a smart essay! 🙌
Aw shucks... that means a lot from you, Toby.
Joshua, you are far more generous toward that article and author than I was after reading it.
After a lifetime of programming to believe in a fake reality so that I could be manipulated by those in the know, and then being gaslit, ostracized, demeaned, and in the case of Jan 6 prisoners, jailed without trial, by those sob's who did it, I have to tell you, I do not feel community with anyone who refuses to pursue the truth.
Mass change happens with mass awareness. A journalists job is to expose the truth, not preach at people for being pissed off about it. I already get that from everyone around me.
Right now, in front of our very eyes, Jake Tapper has written a book blaming politicians for having deceived everyone on Biden. He is being criticized by everyone for his hupocrisy, when in fact that entire class of people are hypocrites. We all knew in 2020 Biden was compos non mentis and for four yrs, in spite of the most ridiculous behavior at public events, not one person said, "The emperor has no brain."
The deeper reality of this situation, which nobody dares mention: Tapper's book is nothing more than a limited hangout, almost certainly meant to cover up the 2020 election theft and the horrible abuse of the Jan 6ers.
There isnt a journalist in the country, including your friend, with the stones to stand up and pose that simple and supportable thesis.
Call me hopelessly black pilled if you like, but a society in which truth cannot be spoken by those with a voice, out of fear for their livelihoods or lives is an entirely worthless society with no hope of self-improvement.
My disgust for elites and "leaders" is bottomless. The world is apparently a dog eat dog evolutionary swamp where these creatures prey on whatever meat they can find. The brief respite that Christianity brought to the world has ended. My only respite now is the simple honesty of grandchildren.
Nobody expects men to be perfect or not to be self interested, but perpetrating fake reality upon reasonable people, on the scale of today and in service of nothing, is just too craven.
Having vented all that bile, I would end in saying your essays are invaluable and I do spread them like the gospel, though with an impact not a lot different from that afforded a Jehova's Witness.
THIS. I'm right there with you. The things I've had to experience first hand. The things that happened to my family. The words don't even exist for me.
When do we start fighting back? (And by fighting back, I mean defending ourselves with violence)
Oh. I see. Apparently we'll just let them keep killing us, then. At least we'll have read a shitload of articulate articles about it, though.
No offense sir but we're not going to write, talk, vote, or think our way out of this mess. I think you know it too. I think we all do.
Facts
I was just reading Martin Geddes' column today. He has an extremely interesting concept concerning fighting any battle today which also includes how individual autonomy might be established or re-established.
His substack article is entitled "Metawarfare: the civilian doctrine of AI-assisted sovereignty."
In other words, "Metawarfare is the highest form of fifth-generation warfare. It is not merely about narrative control, or procedural resistance, or evidentiary rebuttal. It is about controlling the means by which the battle is fought. It is the fight over how fights are framed. It is the weaponization of the weapon-making process itself."
https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/metawarfare-the-civilian-doctrine?publication_id=457557&post_id=162378758&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&r=2of35e&triedRedirect=true
Excellent as usual... always learn and agree with all except... the ability to:
"start building alternatives from the ground up."
"building parallel structures"
One can readily work on individual sovereignty such as in health, financial matters (out of debt, fiat and casino speculation), it may be possible to expand to micro communities; but expansion beyond that to significant groups in society is highly doubtful.
"Black Pilled" is simply yet another thought terminating cliché.
Great piece Joshua!
Sometimes I wish I could live in a community with all the people I've found such resonance with on Substack as it would make life so much easier! But I guess we all need to be scattered around the planet being nodes connected together through who we are and how we see things, there for others as they catch up. It's a little lonely but definitely character building!
"When Toby Rogers plainly states, “Covid shots are a criminal enterprise. Anyone in a position of authority to pull the Covid shots from the market who fails to do so is engaged in a crime,” many mainstream voices dismiss this as alarmism rather than addressing his specific concerns. I've seen it when people on "our team" have challenged decisions (or non-decisions) within the medical freedom movement."
After more than 5 years of Covid-19 lies and gaslighting, I have noticed 2 main topics that both the mainstream media and controlled opposition refuse to address. The first, as Toby Rogers stated is that the Covid shots are a criminal enterprise because they contain nanotechnology biosensors for surveillance under the skin via the Internet of Bio-Nano Things and the WBAN. These are crimes of warrantless search and seizure contrary to sections 184(1) and 430(5) of the Criminal Code of Canada.
The second is any mention of the nanotechnology biosensors embedded in masks, tests and mRNA GENE THERAPY jabs for surveillance under the skin via the Internet of Bio-Nano Things and the WBAN as you wrote about in your outstanding article, "Node Without Consent".
The questions must be asked...
What about the IEEE and the WBAN?
http://pervasivecomputinginfo.blogspot.com/2018/10/ieee-802156-standard.html
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/349881372_Effect_of_Coronavirus_Worldwide_through_Misusing_of_Wireless_Sensor_Networks
https://x.com/Byrdturd86/status/1914123929905500352
https://engineering.purdue.edu/ECE/News/2021/purdue-engineering-launches-worlds-first-center-for-internet-of-bodies
https://rumble.com/v6ishsj-394359571.html
https://rumble.com/v6thepv-412318147.html
What about the Red Pill?
Thank you Josh - couldn't have said it better myself!
"But the instant labeling of these inquiries as "black-pilled" short-circuits necessary conversations. Less tribalism doesn't mean taking the black pill—it means holding truth to power no matter who is in charge."
I'm especially saddened when people who were called radical Nazi right wing extremists for questioning lockdowns or vaccines now use the "black pilled" label exactly the same way: as an ad hominem attack, so they don't have to address the actual challenges to authority that we raise.
I am a very proud black pilled Debbie Downer myself.
Submerged passage through troubled seas... one will have to continue and increase one's abilities to be low profile in these times that are ahead. And no, there is nobody coming to rescue anyone.