"The ultimate tyranny in a society is not control by martial law. It is control by the psychological manipulation of consciousness, through which reality is defined so that those who exist within it do not even realize that they are in prison."
This is so good Josh!!!!! Can I cross post it on my Substack? (if I figure out how to accomplish that). I want everyone I know to read and understand this. And also everyone else in the country. And the world. Wishful thinking, I know. But a girl can dream.
Thank you Debbie. Your praise means the world to me - that said, usually I manage to write at least one thing to get you to show me how I'm wrong. Haha.
As for reposting, I think there's a button for that :-)
The Iran thing looks to just bring up fear of war and to excuse the rise in prices etc for both sides of the conflict while the parasite class profits on both sides.
Remember, the East went along with COVID lockdowns and shots. BRICS allowed for Brazil to single handedly block Venezuela's entry.
The east did nothing to stop the west from looting Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and now Syria.
We have had a new world order for decades and have been living in a mashup of 1984 and Idiocracy.
It feels like the end though as they expect us to fight each other but they can't provoke it as well as they did in the past. That's why they use so many undercover agents provocateur in order to discredit protests. January 6 was full of them and the same applies to left protests.
Only a fool would stand up for civil rights only for their side while enabling the authoritarian unconstitutional responses on their enemies. That's fascist hypocrisy.
It's a bit more complicated than that. I currently live in SG... the initial policies were not that of the west, but then I guess some calls were made and the political elites fell inline. However, the control was not absolute, as even though the SG govt paid $$$ for RunDeathIsNear, the local hospitals didn't administer that as standard protocol and doctors quietly advised against it to their patients, hence the death rate were near negligible - until they started enforcing / pushing the shots. The point is that the west controls the situation by having the local politicial elite bend to their will... like how independant-minded politicians in Japan somehow get suicided all the time, or even Aussie/NZ politicians who spoke out lost power or their lives quickly. They do not play around when they recognize that someone is threatening their hold on the vassal states.
Another example in the last couple of years - SG is generally still quite a conservative, but extremely pragmatic society. There was some anti-gay law on the books from colonial times, so over centuries old, but it has NEVER been prosecuted or exercised... yet as the LGBT fervour in the west ramped up, the local elites just overturned the law out of the blue (there was no real local pressure for it). The local religious heads, who are supposedly against such an overturn, just mutter and went along - showing that they were also fully compromised - which is just an extension of how they acted during the scamdemic, when they disallowed worshippers to visit their churches/temples if they were unvexed at the peak of the restrictions.
Does that mean that we give up against a seemingly overwhelming authoritarian system? No.. heck no. But as the main article is arguing - stop letting the official narratives shape your understanding, only then will you see the obvious cracks in the system that you can exploit or zig zag through. Playing by their rules, means misdirected outrage and wasted energies. A dying empire is still dangerous, just like a cornered animal can still do a crazy amount of damage. Kudos to the adults in the room (Russian, China, Iranian leaders) who have been showing restraint, in order not to let the dying hegemon lash out with serious consequences for the whole world. See which of our fellow men are awake (unfortunately not many), and we keep building up the capabilities of our parallel society - we have to assume that it won't be allowed to reach a nuclear conclusion as then nothing we do will have much effect. What's interesting is that during the 2nd major altercation which Israel started against Iran a short while ago, there was a plane which left Israel with supposedly a nuclear present... and somehow the plane was intercepted or shot down. The resistance was quiet about it... Israel pretended it never happened... so for sure there are serious folks tracking what the Israelis are doing with the nuclear bombs.
Is it civic engagement or is it brand engagement? Always a good question.
Same question: are you navigating your own ship, taking in and processing new information as you go? Or did you let someone else anchor you into their little harbor (and send you below deck)?
Brilliant metaphor. And the scary part? Most people below deck think they're steering. The illusion of agency while being completely directed. Thanks for reading.
Over the years, I've always built up a list of sources that I trust to curate or synthesize the news/data, the whole covid period has been extremely useful in showing who actually has critical independant thinking, and who can be easily cowed inline with fear and propaganda on an industrial scale. Right now, that list is very short... and funny enough, on YT, the sources that I found reliable, would then 2 or 3 years in reveal that they chose not to take the clotshot. That has been the ultimate litmus test.
However, that is not the end all and be all. We are human after all, and we all make mistakes. If someone gave in to the pressure / took the easy way out, and took the shots, that's just 1 failure. What they do after that is another major test... do they start detoxing, and examine how they fell for it... or just ignore that elephant in the room and pretend they are ok until they keel over suddenly? That's all on them. If people keep relying on 'officially approved' sources, they will never wake up. That does mean they're making a conscious choice.
WAIT SO ORANGE MAN IS GOOD?! OR BAD?! ISRAEL IS GOOD?! OR BAD?!
You must pick a side so I can put you into a box and know if you are like the “good” ME or the “bad” OTHERS! (Just kidding!) 😂
The past year it feels like I drove off the main highway of division consciousness onto greener pastures and your work has been invaluable in this shift. Thank you!
The separation of left right parties / war sides is the same as the schism within the brain hemispheres and it’s really fascinating to realize a schism in culture reflects a schism in the brain and consciousness itself (which has been the goal).
I notice how they always time PSYOPS (and weather modification) for specific Full Moons as it harnesses the most fear energy.
Once I began to see this over and over I realized that the story lines and timing are regurgitated over and over ; it really is like they lack any originality (Creativity/God Intelligence) - and in a way, this is the equivalent of AI/anti creation energy.
And yet these systems of manufactured chaos exist because they serve a purpose of helping one to dissociate!
Most people tune into the news as a way to avoid feeling deep feelings of pain they are running from.
Endless consumption of outrage info keeps people successfully distracted from dealing with the root of helplessness and rage they may be harboring towards negligent parents etc. Yelling at the TV because it’s safer than yelling at their abusive parents where they felt like victims.
Until people are willing to look at the inner rage, they will take the parasitic worm bait of believing and energizing PSYOPS. It’s another form of distraction and those who wish to keep running from self will run right into outrage, division, disembodiment and the fake digital spiderweb of transhumanism.
The ops are designed to (a) humiliate us, (b) divide us, and (c) harvest our energy. And yes - they work because people would rather rage at the screens than face what's really hurting them. We can rise above it but only if we allow ourselves to.
During the past several years, I’ve learned, to my horror and disappointment, how gullible and susceptible to propaganda folks really are. Myself included…until a few years ago. It is indeed scary. It seems as if only a tiny percentage of the population knows how to think for themselves. Whoever is doing this (controlling and manipulating things from behind a curtain) is having tremendous success.
24/7/365 PSYOP against everyone is on the Menu for some time now, unlikely to change, expect increase in the levels of panic making and otherwise distractions. Everything BUT the real problem will be highlighted. The real problem being the bankruptcy of the total economical model and with it also all the academic, think tank and otherwise establishment outlets and sources. Hence, there will be even more smoke and mirrors in the months and years ahead.
I’ll just be the one talking about music as it is not so divisive. Thankfully, I have knowledge of a lot of genres to discuss. “Did you hear the news today (oh boy)?” Well, yes, a new Tower of Power song, “What Is Hip”, was dropped by the cover band Leonid and Friends. That’s about as much “news” as I can handle.
Speaking as one Bar Mitzvahed, it seems to me calling someone "a dangerous leftist Jew who hates Israel" and who is "breeding antisemitism" hardly seems to be a coherent argument, unless one posits self-hatred as the motivation for not jumping to conclusions. But what else might one expect in an era of moral degeneracy during an information war? The temptation to find scapegoats is powerful, and has been historically, suggesting that the need for scapegoating lies deep within the human psyche. The challenge we have as flawed humans is not just how to not jump to conclusions, while looking for scraps of evidence that we are being manipulated, but to quell the scapegoating propensity that inhabits our souls. This is something that seems to warrant a deeper dive. I would posit that othering reflects a fundamental dysfunction between the self and the universal, between the self and the spiritual world. When one is more at peace with oneself and one's spiritual path, othering becomes unnecessary. This dovetails well with Mattias Desmet's notion of alienation, loneliness and spiritual vacuousness are the breeding grounds for totalitarianism.
The scapegoating is absolutely deeper than just political manipulation. You're right - when people are spiritually disconnected and alienated, they become easy targets for manufactured division. The othering fills a void that should be filled by genuine connection and purpose. I've been reading a lot about the culture of victimhood which plays a big role in all this too.
“That's the cost of identity-based programming. It turns neighbors into enemies, disagreement into heresy, and war into a loyalty test. When belief becomes a badge, you'll defend anything just to keep wearing it.”
These 3 sentences are doing a lot of good work. Crystalline writing, as usual.
This nails it. thank you Joshua - you have brought it all into focus in one succinct piece. now how to spread this crucial perspective nationwide, nay, worldwide. floundering humanity (all of us) badly need these understandings.
Teachings from the Pleiadians
"The ultimate tyranny in a society is not control by martial law. It is control by the psychological manipulation of consciousness, through which reality is defined so that those who exist within it do not even realize that they are in prison."
Barbara Marciniak
This is so good Josh!!!!! Can I cross post it on my Substack? (if I figure out how to accomplish that). I want everyone I know to read and understand this. And also everyone else in the country. And the world. Wishful thinking, I know. But a girl can dream.
Thank you Debbie. Your praise means the world to me - that said, usually I manage to write at least one thing to get you to show me how I'm wrong. Haha.
As for reposting, I think there's a button for that :-)
The Iran thing looks to just bring up fear of war and to excuse the rise in prices etc for both sides of the conflict while the parasite class profits on both sides.
https://slavlandchronicles.substack.com/p/the-iranian-government-is-as-toothless
Remember, the East went along with COVID lockdowns and shots. BRICS allowed for Brazil to single handedly block Venezuela's entry.
The east did nothing to stop the west from looting Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and now Syria.
We have had a new world order for decades and have been living in a mashup of 1984 and Idiocracy.
It feels like the end though as they expect us to fight each other but they can't provoke it as well as they did in the past. That's why they use so many undercover agents provocateur in order to discredit protests. January 6 was full of them and the same applies to left protests.
Only a fool would stand up for civil rights only for their side while enabling the authoritarian unconstitutional responses on their enemies. That's fascist hypocrisy.
your last line - key.
It's a bit more complicated than that. I currently live in SG... the initial policies were not that of the west, but then I guess some calls were made and the political elites fell inline. However, the control was not absolute, as even though the SG govt paid $$$ for RunDeathIsNear, the local hospitals didn't administer that as standard protocol and doctors quietly advised against it to their patients, hence the death rate were near negligible - until they started enforcing / pushing the shots. The point is that the west controls the situation by having the local politicial elite bend to their will... like how independant-minded politicians in Japan somehow get suicided all the time, or even Aussie/NZ politicians who spoke out lost power or their lives quickly. They do not play around when they recognize that someone is threatening their hold on the vassal states.
Another example in the last couple of years - SG is generally still quite a conservative, but extremely pragmatic society. There was some anti-gay law on the books from colonial times, so over centuries old, but it has NEVER been prosecuted or exercised... yet as the LGBT fervour in the west ramped up, the local elites just overturned the law out of the blue (there was no real local pressure for it). The local religious heads, who are supposedly against such an overturn, just mutter and went along - showing that they were also fully compromised - which is just an extension of how they acted during the scamdemic, when they disallowed worshippers to visit their churches/temples if they were unvexed at the peak of the restrictions.
Does that mean that we give up against a seemingly overwhelming authoritarian system? No.. heck no. But as the main article is arguing - stop letting the official narratives shape your understanding, only then will you see the obvious cracks in the system that you can exploit or zig zag through. Playing by their rules, means misdirected outrage and wasted energies. A dying empire is still dangerous, just like a cornered animal can still do a crazy amount of damage. Kudos to the adults in the room (Russian, China, Iranian leaders) who have been showing restraint, in order not to let the dying hegemon lash out with serious consequences for the whole world. See which of our fellow men are awake (unfortunately not many), and we keep building up the capabilities of our parallel society - we have to assume that it won't be allowed to reach a nuclear conclusion as then nothing we do will have much effect. What's interesting is that during the 2nd major altercation which Israel started against Iran a short while ago, there was a plane which left Israel with supposedly a nuclear present... and somehow the plane was intercepted or shot down. The resistance was quiet about it... Israel pretended it never happened... so for sure there are serious folks tracking what the Israelis are doing with the nuclear bombs.
https://www.who.int/about/accountability/results/who-results-report-2020-mtr/country-story/2021/iran
Is it civic engagement or is it brand engagement? Always a good question.
Same question: are you navigating your own ship, taking in and processing new information as you go? Or did you let someone else anchor you into their little harbor (and send you below deck)?
Thanks for a thought-provoking essay.
Brilliant metaphor. And the scary part? Most people below deck think they're steering. The illusion of agency while being completely directed. Thanks for reading.
Over the years, I've always built up a list of sources that I trust to curate or synthesize the news/data, the whole covid period has been extremely useful in showing who actually has critical independant thinking, and who can be easily cowed inline with fear and propaganda on an industrial scale. Right now, that list is very short... and funny enough, on YT, the sources that I found reliable, would then 2 or 3 years in reveal that they chose not to take the clotshot. That has been the ultimate litmus test.
However, that is not the end all and be all. We are human after all, and we all make mistakes. If someone gave in to the pressure / took the easy way out, and took the shots, that's just 1 failure. What they do after that is another major test... do they start detoxing, and examine how they fell for it... or just ignore that elephant in the room and pretend they are ok until they keel over suddenly? That's all on them. If people keep relying on 'officially approved' sources, they will never wake up. That does mean they're making a conscious choice.
Thank you!
WAIT SO ORANGE MAN IS GOOD?! OR BAD?! ISRAEL IS GOOD?! OR BAD?!
You must pick a side so I can put you into a box and know if you are like the “good” ME or the “bad” OTHERS! (Just kidding!) 😂
The past year it feels like I drove off the main highway of division consciousness onto greener pastures and your work has been invaluable in this shift. Thank you!
The separation of left right parties / war sides is the same as the schism within the brain hemispheres and it’s really fascinating to realize a schism in culture reflects a schism in the brain and consciousness itself (which has been the goal).
I notice how they always time PSYOPS (and weather modification) for specific Full Moons as it harnesses the most fear energy.
Once I began to see this over and over I realized that the story lines and timing are regurgitated over and over ; it really is like they lack any originality (Creativity/God Intelligence) - and in a way, this is the equivalent of AI/anti creation energy.
And yet these systems of manufactured chaos exist because they serve a purpose of helping one to dissociate!
Most people tune into the news as a way to avoid feeling deep feelings of pain they are running from.
Endless consumption of outrage info keeps people successfully distracted from dealing with the root of helplessness and rage they may be harboring towards negligent parents etc. Yelling at the TV because it’s safer than yelling at their abusive parents where they felt like victims.
Until people are willing to look at the inner rage, they will take the parasitic worm bait of believing and energizing PSYOPS. It’s another form of distraction and those who wish to keep running from self will run right into outrage, division, disembodiment and the fake digital spiderweb of transhumanism.
Bingo, Carlen.
The ops are designed to (a) humiliate us, (b) divide us, and (c) harvest our energy. And yes - they work because people would rather rage at the screens than face what's really hurting them. We can rise above it but only if we allow ourselves to.
During the past several years, I’ve learned, to my horror and disappointment, how gullible and susceptible to propaganda folks really are. Myself included…until a few years ago. It is indeed scary. It seems as if only a tiny percentage of the population knows how to think for themselves. Whoever is doing this (controlling and manipulating things from behind a curtain) is having tremendous success.
Ah yes. Compromised relationship with our own rage makes us more susceptible to manipulation in my opinion.
Totally!
Excellent observation.
Thank you! Josh’s writing always inspires me deeply!
Aw shucks. You're pretty damn based yourself.
Thank you Josh!!! The Based in me recognizes the Based in you 🫡 😂 🌞
24/7/365 PSYOP against everyone is on the Menu for some time now, unlikely to change, expect increase in the levels of panic making and otherwise distractions. Everything BUT the real problem will be highlighted. The real problem being the bankruptcy of the total economical model and with it also all the academic, think tank and otherwise establishment outlets and sources. Hence, there will be even more smoke and mirrors in the months and years ahead.
Truly an excellent post.
I’ll just be the one talking about music as it is not so divisive. Thankfully, I have knowledge of a lot of genres to discuss. “Did you hear the news today (oh boy)?” Well, yes, a new Tower of Power song, “What Is Hip”, was dropped by the cover band Leonid and Friends. That’s about as much “news” as I can handle.
One of your best articles Josh !
You're sweet, thank you Pamela.
spot on. the "other" isn't our enemy but fellow prisoner.
Speaking as one Bar Mitzvahed, it seems to me calling someone "a dangerous leftist Jew who hates Israel" and who is "breeding antisemitism" hardly seems to be a coherent argument, unless one posits self-hatred as the motivation for not jumping to conclusions. But what else might one expect in an era of moral degeneracy during an information war? The temptation to find scapegoats is powerful, and has been historically, suggesting that the need for scapegoating lies deep within the human psyche. The challenge we have as flawed humans is not just how to not jump to conclusions, while looking for scraps of evidence that we are being manipulated, but to quell the scapegoating propensity that inhabits our souls. This is something that seems to warrant a deeper dive. I would posit that othering reflects a fundamental dysfunction between the self and the universal, between the self and the spiritual world. When one is more at peace with oneself and one's spiritual path, othering becomes unnecessary. This dovetails well with Mattias Desmet's notion of alienation, loneliness and spiritual vacuousness are the breeding grounds for totalitarianism.
The scapegoating is absolutely deeper than just political manipulation. You're right - when people are spiritually disconnected and alienated, they become easy targets for manufactured division. The othering fills a void that should be filled by genuine connection and purpose. I've been reading a lot about the culture of victimhood which plays a big role in all this too.
Thanks for the thoughtful comment, Mark.
https://www.stevestewartwilliams.com/p/12-things-everyone-should-know-about-a31
“That's the cost of identity-based programming. It turns neighbors into enemies, disagreement into heresy, and war into a loyalty test. When belief becomes a badge, you'll defend anything just to keep wearing it.”
These 3 sentences are doing a lot of good work. Crystalline writing, as usual.
This nails it. thank you Joshua - you have brought it all into focus in one succinct piece. now how to spread this crucial perspective nationwide, nay, worldwide. floundering humanity (all of us) badly need these understandings.
yantra - hear, hear!
You are a powerful writer, Sir. With a fine brain.
Well said!
Great article, Joshua - thank you. Thought provoking and insightful.
BTW. Currently on the ground in MN. Has all the same staging vibes as J6.
BTW? Please clarify