Josh, you have articulated this about as well as I can imagine. I don't know how many conversations I've had with others where I'm trying to tell them that what is being reported in the news is just kabuki theater - that we are watching marionettes being controlled by higher forces out of view. They call me a conspiracy theorist and call it "implausible". I have no answer. Now I have one: read Josh Stylman's article on Trauma and Scapegoats. Nice piece of work. Keep 'em coming.
If all wars are bankers' wars, then who sits at the head of the table? Why, the Rothschilds do. It's the same family mentioned 12,000 times in the Epstein files, who has a great deal of control over our monetary system. Why aren't they being investigated? The Rothschilds must be in front of a jury, and the "Federal Reserve" must be shut down. Many problems would be solved. It should never be about Israel, or Jews. This is just in my own words; I agree with Josh 100% - about to check out his MKULTRA series
The Rothschilds are dangerous to our species (and always have been, IMHO), however, I'm not so sure they're at the head of the table. They may just be the most visible layer we're allowed to see - supporting my thesis, btw.
Some links to a phenomenal account that I referenced in the piece. This person shows their work and makes a pretty compelling argument that the power center is based in Switzerland. So much for neutrality, I guess.
Cool, I’ll check them out Josh. I’m writing a few “generally speaking”-type articles that I hope are easier to navigate than my 500 pp TL:DR manuscript 🤣
The thought being it’s hard to do very much “fighting”, or resisting when it’s 10k+ bad guys
This is key: “I care a lot less about who the good guys and bad guys are than I do about understanding the game itself. The ideas matter to me regardless of who espouses them, with the full understanding that I may be being manipulated. Surety is one of the biggest weaknesses one can have in a perception war.”
The playbook is being used time and time again to divide and conquer the masses for the few in power and owners of the systems to prevail.
Barbell theory is spot on. About 80% or more of us are reasonable and want our friends and family to thrive - we are more alike than different and more powerful if we realize it. Hence why populist movements are such a threat to large institutions. Our leaders create false the sense of differences to try to “force us into cages” on the left or the right based on fear that the division is real.
Covid and post- Covid division campaign playbooks have been exposed as they are deployed in a whack a mole manner.
Staying sane and grounded requires refusing to hate and recognizing the theater for what it is. Love and empathy are required, but naivety is a real threat. The powers that be are becoming more sophisticated which requires us to live in the real world and offline.
Mr Stylman , an excellent article, it makes one see and feel what really is happening around us. Especially how we are all being used in one form or another for political gain as one example. It illustrates basic fundamentals that most people regardless of their cultural heritage want the same things a good life for themselves, family and their neighbours.
You have a wonderful way of bringing what is slogging around in the back of my mind to the forefront. It was a very necessary reminder to all of us. Thank you.
This is a keeper. Thanks for really good article. Let us be like water, not fire. Seeing each other as humans even when we disagree. " what unites the cage builders isn't heritage. It's shared interst in keeping the rest of us at each others throat while they consolidate power" Thanks for mentioning Derrick Broze Pyramid of Power. I have watched a few episodes.
It is extremely dangerous to dehumanize and to go with hate toward other human beings - it is us that gets open up for dying, injuring a/o ptsd. In truth, there is no enemy, we’re all one. Until we see brother/sister in every other being, it is still a night…
I should respond to your writing directly, but since brought me/us to you through a restack, I want to thank you both. Seeing who 'liked' your article, it's clear you've hit a huge (and I'd say necessary) topic and it's resonating widely.
I could read this article five times and there'd still be meat on the bone to chew on.
Chock full of content, systems (religion/power/military/banking/government), nuance, perspectives, addressing human nature/vulnerabilities, etc.
The genocide narrative is, I think, the most dominant educational narrative we have. In the US, where the entire educational establishment treats history as something that started in 1492 and only existed in North America and northern Europe (and occasionally Africa if convenient), and was exclusively perpetrated by European Christians, the most relentless stories told are the ones that teach children they are exclusively either executors, or victims, of genocide. Academia has dispensed completely, at this point, with even a veneer of generational removal, and there never was more than lip service for nuance.
Children indoctrinated into this framework are made constitutionally susceptible to perceiving proto-genocide everywhere, in a lose-lose scenario where they are shame-ridden and terrified no matter their perceived identity. This meta-structure is applied to every event and observation to activate submission to the "larger effort" at the "necessary" cost of individual rights, curiosity, or the messy pursuit of truth.
My own sons are unabashedly free-thinking in ways that often make me uncomfortable; I feel myself wanting to intervene and minimize their politically-incorrect observations and jokes, and it's MUCH harder to restrain that than it was to allow them a larger sphere of physical risk than is socially and psychically acceptable for children in our culture. That tells me a lot about the true drivers of human behavior. The rider is an individual but the elephant is part of an herd.
The truth of the matter is simple: All is Divinity. All persons and things. No exceptions. When we deliberately create 'An Enemy' we have just taken the first step that leads right into its own hell. Thus, the existential reality is that we in truth have no enemies. Your right arm cannot hate your left arm, or your big toe hate your small one. The whole picture is ridiculous. We are the Human Family born from Divinity and when we separate ourselves into something else we are not only being wrong but comically pathetic.
It is a mind/spirit virus distortion and corruptions of spiritual software that creates the base gross Earthly appearance of ‘Enemy’ and ‘Other’. This is a colossal failure to understand one’s true nature which causes immeasurable pain and suffering – and from outside point of view looks comically silly and a big waste
“I was blown away at the dissonance of my friends and neighbors...”
They have not had a personal awakening which is necessary to find truth and equanimity. For whatever reason, these people are unable or just unwilling to unwrap themselves from their painful (even for Them) delusions about Life and other people’s and cultures and beliefs. You cannot force them to awaken. It is only – and IF only – on their own time clock and the openness or closed-ness slavery within their minds.
“When my reply was that antisemitism wasn’t in the top 100 things I’m concerned about in the world today, I often got looks of amazement.”
Those who believe that God has ‘favorites’ and that They are ‘The Chosen’ have a big problem. In doing so, They have condemned everyone else into a subservient position of relative worthlessness. They have falsely separated out the human family into those who have value and those who don’t. And that is about the most fundamental blasphemy that anyone can commit. True Divinity does not have favorites – the whole concept is ridiculous.
ALL persons have equal value and fundamental worth. But those who separate themselves out as The Chosen have so incorporated this henous delusion into their doctrines, believes, theology, culture, and End Times vision that They could never in a million years separate Themselves from this wrong turn. They treat these theological and cultural beliefs as fundamental to their survival. All creatures have a powerful survival instinct and by this mis-marriage of self-promoting belief and Their instinctual sense of survival awakening and understanding is virtually impossible except for an enlightened few. And those enlightened Few quickly become outcasts and traitors in the minds of those who prefer to live within Their fundamental delusions.
Those who do wake up and are willing to be ‘Outcasts’ deserve our respect and admiration for the courage to pursue the right path regardless of the social and cultural hell that they will be subjected to.
“The Holocaust wasn’t just history for families like ours. It was the shadow that shaped dinnertime conversations, the reason certain discussions happened in whispers, the fear that lived behind our grandparents’ eyes.”
Enduring a Holocaust does not give someone the right to inflict a new Holocaust on someone else. That’s what The Holocaust Culture Industry does not seem to understand. And remember, there have been many holocausts on this Planet... from Native Americans to the Gaza and Iranian fields of death.
We have misery on this Planet because those who rule over us choose this to be so. But we as individuals can have the wisdom to not be lead into a hell that is not our choosing nor any place anyone sane would want to be.
When you always remember your Divine Nature – the Darkness can’t claim your body, mind, and Spirit. And ‘Hell’ is anywhere that one is separated from their own Divinity.
'Heaven' or 'Hel' are States of Mind. That's always our choice... isn't it?...
Being an astrologer, a Buddhist and a baby boomer who grew up in Jewish America, my perspective of the present zeitgeist has been cultivated. Humanity is moving into a new intellect, a new spiritual paradigm, and a new collective unity. There is a trans-personal seed forming within consciousness, which is guiding us toward seeing the bigger picture--we all know who the perpetrators are who want us angry, separate and fighting each other. We all know the Holocaust was one of the culminating points in history which Jews, gypsies, black people, mentally ill people, disabled people, gay people and old people suffered greatly. The Holocaust was tragic and brought attention to the plight of the Jews. But it was inflated into the archives of history to ignore everyone else who was a victim, and who suffered. Jews became the archetypal models of human suffering. And, all of the many conspiracies that have taken place since the end of WWII have captured us Jews and everyone else into a systemic plan disguised in such a way as to distance us further and further from our most basic values: 1, what it means to be human; 2, what it means to honor those values; and, 3, see that our responsibility in life is to acknowledge those same values in each human being, in other words, the 6th Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Kill. Thus our responsibility is to transcend the captured reality, to transcend the limits, the weaponized dangers and hidden agendas which define how we see ourselves and how we see each other. For those who know anything about astrology, the outer planets--Uranus, Neptune and Pluto--the planets of the collective unconscious, have changed signs, close to the same time. This is a very unusual phenomenon in astrology, to have the 3 slow moving outer planets changing signs around the same time. It is also auspicious that these planets are all in agreement with each other, in harmonious configurations, which--if you are intuitively open to the opportunity within you--can provide each us with a direct flight to a transcended future. Thank you Joshua. . . May the divine Light Bless each of us on planet earth with the courage to love ourselves and each other.
“How do we watch news clips from supposedly ‘competing’ outlets and hear anchors using identical phrases - not just covering the same story, but the exact same words, in the exact same order - and not ask how that happen”- this is a brilliant quote Josh and what you reference here is what caused me to become fully awakened to the nature of our reality. I was still reading left leaning news outlets until January 6th, 2021. After this event every damn site I went to all kept calling trumps claim of a rigged election “the Big Lie”. When you have “journalists” all using the same description, on many sites, it tells you that they are being told what to say in their reporting as a way of forcing a narrative into being. It also shows how important narrative management is to those in power, without a prevailing narrative in place their control of society weakens and fractures erupt. Can see this first hand with what’s going on in the Middle East, trump and company have lost control of the plot and are scrambling to get it back under their control.
"They work so hard to keep us looking at each other because they know the moment we look up, the whole game falls apart.' So true. When we look up, we see only Peace, Beauty and Oneness with God and His entire creation.
"The cage-builders don’t need us to be dumb. They just need us to be scared enough that our brains serve our fear rather than our freedom." Builders in the sense of designers, correct, but sadly we are the builders. We built the 5g towers, data centers, PCR tests, and so on. For a paycheck of course, and eventually, we will become enslaved by our handiwork.
As more or less an agnostic who has lived a largely secular life, I have been surprised by the reemergence of religion in the last few years as such a potent and divisive force.
The times are changing, welcome to the Dim Age! If you take a closer look at the secular world, you will see all of the patterns and systems of "religion". State has become their Church. Personally, I think Josh nailed it here -- this is a spiritual war, love thy neighbor, be the water.
Josh, you have articulated this about as well as I can imagine. I don't know how many conversations I've had with others where I'm trying to tell them that what is being reported in the news is just kabuki theater - that we are watching marionettes being controlled by higher forces out of view. They call me a conspiracy theorist and call it "implausible". I have no answer. Now I have one: read Josh Stylman's article on Trauma and Scapegoats. Nice piece of work. Keep 'em coming.
If all wars are bankers' wars, then who sits at the head of the table? Why, the Rothschilds do. It's the same family mentioned 12,000 times in the Epstein files, who has a great deal of control over our monetary system. Why aren't they being investigated? The Rothschilds must be in front of a jury, and the "Federal Reserve" must be shut down. Many problems would be solved. It should never be about Israel, or Jews. This is just in my own words; I agree with Josh 100% - about to check out his MKULTRA series
The Rothschilds are dangerous to our species (and always have been, IMHO), however, I'm not so sure they're at the head of the table. They may just be the most visible layer we're allowed to see - supporting my thesis, btw.
Some links to a phenomenal account that I referenced in the piece. This person shows their work and makes a pretty compelling argument that the power center is based in Switzerland. So much for neutrality, I guess.
https://x.com/Meowllian/status/2023594535343845603
https://x.com/Meowllian/status/2029566416051962306
https://x.com/Meowllian/status/2036446721283064285
https://x.com/Meowllian/status/2036488877242728556
Cool on the MKULTRA series. Feedback is welcome, always.
Cool, I’ll check them out Josh. I’m writing a few “generally speaking”-type articles that I hope are easier to navigate than my 500 pp TL:DR manuscript 🤣
The thought being it’s hard to do very much “fighting”, or resisting when it’s 10k+ bad guys
The actual bad guys, the shot callers, are a way smaller group than 10k.
See John Coleman's work, which checks out decades later.
https://www.cia.gov/library/abbottabad-compound/4A/4A92FD2FB4DAE3F773DB0B7742CF0F65_Coleman.-.CONSPIRATORS.HIERARCHY.-.THE.STORY.OF.THE.COMMITTEE.OF.300.R.pdf
I hit the wall before publishing last night, so these links will give me something else to add or consider 👍
I’ll say shuttering the Fed, pegging the dollar to gold, and terminating foreign wars may become the one thing US voters agree on❗️
Exactly my sentiments...
Looking forward to this one from one of the clearest writers and most comprehensive thinkers i’ve come across on Substack so far.
He really nails it. Our first impulse should never be to fight someone with a different, and oftentimes implanted, viewpoint. Be calm, be kind...
So brilliantly written. Thank you for always asking the hard questions.
This is key: “I care a lot less about who the good guys and bad guys are than I do about understanding the game itself. The ideas matter to me regardless of who espouses them, with the full understanding that I may be being manipulated. Surety is one of the biggest weaknesses one can have in a perception war.”
The playbook is being used time and time again to divide and conquer the masses for the few in power and owners of the systems to prevail.
Barbell theory is spot on. About 80% or more of us are reasonable and want our friends and family to thrive - we are more alike than different and more powerful if we realize it. Hence why populist movements are such a threat to large institutions. Our leaders create false the sense of differences to try to “force us into cages” on the left or the right based on fear that the division is real.
Covid and post- Covid division campaign playbooks have been exposed as they are deployed in a whack a mole manner.
Staying sane and grounded requires refusing to hate and recognizing the theater for what it is. Love and empathy are required, but naivety is a real threat. The powers that be are becoming more sophisticated which requires us to live in the real world and offline.
Thanks, Josh. I really appreciate your writing.
Mr Stylman , an excellent article, it makes one see and feel what really is happening around us. Especially how we are all being used in one form or another for political gain as one example. It illustrates basic fundamentals that most people regardless of their cultural heritage want the same things a good life for themselves, family and their neighbours.
You have a wonderful way of bringing what is slogging around in the back of my mind to the forefront. It was a very necessary reminder to all of us. Thank you.
This is a keeper. Thanks for really good article. Let us be like water, not fire. Seeing each other as humans even when we disagree. " what unites the cage builders isn't heritage. It's shared interst in keeping the rest of us at each others throat while they consolidate power" Thanks for mentioning Derrick Broze Pyramid of Power. I have watched a few episodes.
It is extremely dangerous to dehumanize and to go with hate toward other human beings - it is us that gets open up for dying, injuring a/o ptsd. In truth, there is no enemy, we’re all one. Until we see brother/sister in every other being, it is still a night…
This is BINGO, so well said. I identify with all of this.
You laid it out so well Joshua, thank you.
Thank you Joshua.
I should respond to your writing directly, but since brought me/us to you through a restack, I want to thank you both. Seeing who 'liked' your article, it's clear you've hit a huge (and I'd say necessary) topic and it's resonating widely.
I could read this article five times and there'd still be meat on the bone to chew on.
Chock full of content, systems (religion/power/military/banking/government), nuance, perspectives, addressing human nature/vulnerabilities, etc.
Wow!
"That’s not a bug, that’s the design" = AI
And that is very problematic.
The genocide narrative is, I think, the most dominant educational narrative we have. In the US, where the entire educational establishment treats history as something that started in 1492 and only existed in North America and northern Europe (and occasionally Africa if convenient), and was exclusively perpetrated by European Christians, the most relentless stories told are the ones that teach children they are exclusively either executors, or victims, of genocide. Academia has dispensed completely, at this point, with even a veneer of generational removal, and there never was more than lip service for nuance.
Children indoctrinated into this framework are made constitutionally susceptible to perceiving proto-genocide everywhere, in a lose-lose scenario where they are shame-ridden and terrified no matter their perceived identity. This meta-structure is applied to every event and observation to activate submission to the "larger effort" at the "necessary" cost of individual rights, curiosity, or the messy pursuit of truth.
My own sons are unabashedly free-thinking in ways that often make me uncomfortable; I feel myself wanting to intervene and minimize their politically-incorrect observations and jokes, and it's MUCH harder to restrain that than it was to allow them a larger sphere of physical risk than is socially and psychically acceptable for children in our culture. That tells me a lot about the true drivers of human behavior. The rider is an individual but the elephant is part of an herd.
“The Enemy Is Not Each Other”
The truth of the matter is simple: All is Divinity. All persons and things. No exceptions. When we deliberately create 'An Enemy' we have just taken the first step that leads right into its own hell. Thus, the existential reality is that we in truth have no enemies. Your right arm cannot hate your left arm, or your big toe hate your small one. The whole picture is ridiculous. We are the Human Family born from Divinity and when we separate ourselves into something else we are not only being wrong but comically pathetic.
It is a mind/spirit virus distortion and corruptions of spiritual software that creates the base gross Earthly appearance of ‘Enemy’ and ‘Other’. This is a colossal failure to understand one’s true nature which causes immeasurable pain and suffering – and from outside point of view looks comically silly and a big waste
“I was blown away at the dissonance of my friends and neighbors...”
They have not had a personal awakening which is necessary to find truth and equanimity. For whatever reason, these people are unable or just unwilling to unwrap themselves from their painful (even for Them) delusions about Life and other people’s and cultures and beliefs. You cannot force them to awaken. It is only – and IF only – on their own time clock and the openness or closed-ness slavery within their minds.
“When my reply was that antisemitism wasn’t in the top 100 things I’m concerned about in the world today, I often got looks of amazement.”
Those who believe that God has ‘favorites’ and that They are ‘The Chosen’ have a big problem. In doing so, They have condemned everyone else into a subservient position of relative worthlessness. They have falsely separated out the human family into those who have value and those who don’t. And that is about the most fundamental blasphemy that anyone can commit. True Divinity does not have favorites – the whole concept is ridiculous.
ALL persons have equal value and fundamental worth. But those who separate themselves out as The Chosen have so incorporated this henous delusion into their doctrines, believes, theology, culture, and End Times vision that They could never in a million years separate Themselves from this wrong turn. They treat these theological and cultural beliefs as fundamental to their survival. All creatures have a powerful survival instinct and by this mis-marriage of self-promoting belief and Their instinctual sense of survival awakening and understanding is virtually impossible except for an enlightened few. And those enlightened Few quickly become outcasts and traitors in the minds of those who prefer to live within Their fundamental delusions.
Those who do wake up and are willing to be ‘Outcasts’ deserve our respect and admiration for the courage to pursue the right path regardless of the social and cultural hell that they will be subjected to.
“The Holocaust wasn’t just history for families like ours. It was the shadow that shaped dinnertime conversations, the reason certain discussions happened in whispers, the fear that lived behind our grandparents’ eyes.”
Enduring a Holocaust does not give someone the right to inflict a new Holocaust on someone else. That’s what The Holocaust Culture Industry does not seem to understand. And remember, there have been many holocausts on this Planet... from Native Americans to the Gaza and Iranian fields of death.
We have misery on this Planet because those who rule over us choose this to be so. But we as individuals can have the wisdom to not be lead into a hell that is not our choosing nor any place anyone sane would want to be.
When you always remember your Divine Nature – the Darkness can’t claim your body, mind, and Spirit. And ‘Hell’ is anywhere that one is separated from their own Divinity.
'Heaven' or 'Hel' are States of Mind. That's always our choice... isn't it?...
Being an astrologer, a Buddhist and a baby boomer who grew up in Jewish America, my perspective of the present zeitgeist has been cultivated. Humanity is moving into a new intellect, a new spiritual paradigm, and a new collective unity. There is a trans-personal seed forming within consciousness, which is guiding us toward seeing the bigger picture--we all know who the perpetrators are who want us angry, separate and fighting each other. We all know the Holocaust was one of the culminating points in history which Jews, gypsies, black people, mentally ill people, disabled people, gay people and old people suffered greatly. The Holocaust was tragic and brought attention to the plight of the Jews. But it was inflated into the archives of history to ignore everyone else who was a victim, and who suffered. Jews became the archetypal models of human suffering. And, all of the many conspiracies that have taken place since the end of WWII have captured us Jews and everyone else into a systemic plan disguised in such a way as to distance us further and further from our most basic values: 1, what it means to be human; 2, what it means to honor those values; and, 3, see that our responsibility in life is to acknowledge those same values in each human being, in other words, the 6th Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Kill. Thus our responsibility is to transcend the captured reality, to transcend the limits, the weaponized dangers and hidden agendas which define how we see ourselves and how we see each other. For those who know anything about astrology, the outer planets--Uranus, Neptune and Pluto--the planets of the collective unconscious, have changed signs, close to the same time. This is a very unusual phenomenon in astrology, to have the 3 slow moving outer planets changing signs around the same time. It is also auspicious that these planets are all in agreement with each other, in harmonious configurations, which--if you are intuitively open to the opportunity within you--can provide each us with a direct flight to a transcended future. Thank you Joshua. . . May the divine Light Bless each of us on planet earth with the courage to love ourselves and each other.
🙏
“How do we watch news clips from supposedly ‘competing’ outlets and hear anchors using identical phrases - not just covering the same story, but the exact same words, in the exact same order - and not ask how that happen”- this is a brilliant quote Josh and what you reference here is what caused me to become fully awakened to the nature of our reality. I was still reading left leaning news outlets until January 6th, 2021. After this event every damn site I went to all kept calling trumps claim of a rigged election “the Big Lie”. When you have “journalists” all using the same description, on many sites, it tells you that they are being told what to say in their reporting as a way of forcing a narrative into being. It also shows how important narrative management is to those in power, without a prevailing narrative in place their control of society weakens and fractures erupt. Can see this first hand with what’s going on in the Middle East, trump and company have lost control of the plot and are scrambling to get it back under their control.
"They work so hard to keep us looking at each other because they know the moment we look up, the whole game falls apart.' So true. When we look up, we see only Peace, Beauty and Oneness with God and His entire creation.
Namaste
"The cage-builders don’t need us to be dumb. They just need us to be scared enough that our brains serve our fear rather than our freedom." Builders in the sense of designers, correct, but sadly we are the builders. We built the 5g towers, data centers, PCR tests, and so on. For a paycheck of course, and eventually, we will become enslaved by our handiwork.
As more or less an agnostic who has lived a largely secular life, I have been surprised by the reemergence of religion in the last few years as such a potent and divisive force.
The times are changing, welcome to the Dim Age! If you take a closer look at the secular world, you will see all of the patterns and systems of "religion". State has become their Church. Personally, I think Josh nailed it here -- this is a spiritual war, love thy neighbor, be the water.