You killed it with this one, John. I mean, truly. Their 'antiseptic nightmare' they sell us as a fait accompli... that's the spell we have to break. It's NOT a fait accompli by any means. And it's our joy and happiness that terrifies them, especially that we can be happy without them. Theirs is an insecure need that belies their weakness. They need us far more than we need them. We don't need them at all!! Their very existence depends on us, on our obedience, even our desire to be domesticated into mindless oblivion. If it weren't for us, they'd have nothing to control in their own OCD nightmare lives.
Their aim is to take away our divinity, our natural born joy and happiness, our symbiotic interplay with the natural world we are inherently part of, the very soul of being alive. I'll say it again - they are terrified of us! They try and peddle their small-minded insidious fears and sadly, the addled majority buy them hook, line and sinker. For those of us with functioning brains, it becomes both horrific and laughable.
Your call is for not just joy but I think for love in its greatest sense, the fabric that joins us together they wish to unravel, which is by all accounts impossible. Love will prevail, always.
Nice job! And a good chaser to Nick Johnson's video of California these days. It is time to become the counter culture. We support life and children and taking time to smell the roses and live life.
Fantastic essay! I think the Right is beginning to articulate—or rediscover—new and interesting visions for the future, and even the normies are noticing. And I think that scares the shit out of the Great Reset types.
Yes, I think you're correct about that. Mere critique has gotten stale, and the energy is moving into vision. I don't see any one vision taking root, either - rather many different alternative paths are being articulated, all of them more attractive to sympathetic personality types than the one size fits all, tasteless oatmeal served up by the WEF. This is certainly a problem for them - an unruly plethora of pathways is intrinsically difficult to control.
"He received three doctorates, including one from the Ecole Polytechnique at age 29, and was a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University at age 21. He has given more than 440 lectures around the world in three languages, and his book Free Your Brain has been translated into Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Greek, Russian, Italian, Spanish, Hungarian, Dutch and Greek.
" Born in 1986 in Pithiviers (France).
Bidisciplinary doctorate in Cognitive Neuroscience and Knowledge Economy applied to management. Ecole Polytechnique University Paris Saclay (2016).
PhD in Mediterranean Studies and Comparative Literature. University of Strasbourg (2014).
PhD in Diplomacy and Noopolitics. Center for Diplomatic and Strategic Studies of Paris (accredited ASIC) CEDS (2013).
Scientific advisor of the SeaOrbiter mission (see SeaOrbiter website)
Ambassador of the Unesco-Unitwin Digital Campus of Complex Systems...."
As one can read, Idriss is a very bright mind, one of the brightest in France at that point. I don't always agree with him but he really is a good decent human being in addition from his rare intellectual abaility. As a Muslim, he frequently refers to Sufi teaching as being important to him.
He has been under severe attacks by the "fact checkers"(denying his impressive CV) but his warrior spirit had him exposed the whole fact checkers scam in France, working in tandem with the very excellent media, France Soir) linked, as revealed by Jacques baud, to a Brit psyop operation.
During the whole pandemic scam, he has been very vocal against the permanent lies spread by the MSM and in association with Maitre Di Vizio (prof Raoult's lawyer) he has decided to invest in educating and informing the population, empowering the youth with new ideas. Thus, his videos are always adapted so that the concepts can be understood by many. At that point, his youtube channel has 770 000 suscribers and his videos has millions of viewers.
The first video ("these XIXth century technologies will change the world") is about encouraging the people to think differently from the vampire squid corporates tech mindset, on how to solve the problems we are collectively facing. He goes back to what he calls the "Jules Verne" mindset in the XIXth century which saw many inventions not having been considered, abandonned during the XXth century and which should be reinvestigated.
He goes further in the second video in leading the people to think differently.
Whereas France is now stuck in a very big energy crisis dues to the absurd boycot of Russian Gas, he postulates that France could be autonomous and might even export gas. How come? The country has a very large sea facade which could be used to collect sea weeds. Then these could be used to produce gas.
Why hasn't that option being considered? Because of the monopole of the big corrupted oil and gas company and the dumbing down of our spiritual, intellectual abilities.
The third video is thus introduced:
"Somewhere between the 9th and 14th centuries A.D., the Arab world was the most technologically advanced on Earth. So how did we go from the superb Abbasid Baghdad where all the languages, sciences, philosophies and religions of the Silk Roads were mixed, to the spoiled projects that the executives of Riyadh and Cairo are presenting us today with the money of their own people? Let's take a look at the difference between Genius and Bling in this short video."
I guess you will understand that the NEOM project is considered a "non genius Bling one" and that the saoudi money could be used in much more effective way which he describes succintly.
He reminds us that there are very bright minds in the Arabic world and offers compelling proof of that fact, but that the local talents are neglected by the political powers.
If you were interested, I could make a translated transcript of these video, if you have some patience, of course...
He sounds like quite an interesting character. Returning to the 19th century mindset has much to recommend it - that was the last time we were really inventing things. Many indicators point to a steep decline in human intelligence since that time.
"But then you look around at the fat morons on the street, you sigh for the hundredth time at the fluoride stare you get from normies when you mention anything outside of their programming, and you despair. "
Amen Brother. I call them sheep eyes... perhaps they are fluoridated as well....
Sheep are friendly and warm blooded. Nothing like the Covid freaks who want that sweet boot to lick crushing their stupid, hateful faces down forever and ever. The nightmare dystopia of Mr. Global may be their dream come true. They sure don't deserve freedom, basic human rights or dignity. Not after they sneered at everyone else's.
No with a smile! Yes!, and no to the fear and the fear mongers. I can't stop smiling these days and the zombies follow me around like smiles are the new brains.
When the Left was still truly on the Left (that time long, long ago when the Left actually supported freedom of speech and expression and all that other horribly old fashioned stuff belonging to the dinosaurs, namely anyone now over the age of 45) the Left suffered from that same, seemingly perennial problem: how to motivate the masses to fight the status quo without just being negative. Eons ago, which could be any time before c. 2015, I remember reading articles about the negativity issues of the Left. The Left was always against something or other, critical of this or that, warning of everything, but never offered a - simple - solution. That comparison with the world of advertising, how to sell the idea/ideology, had been remarked on time and again by Old Leftists who were wondering why the masses were still placidly succumbing to the globalist dismantling of what in Old Europe at least passed for the welfare state (I know most readers here are US-based and hence sceptical of public healthcare etc, but I’m from the old continent and have recently been to France where I have watched with a glimmer of hope how the masses are resisting Macron’s assault on their pensions ...). The image problem described here so eloquently by Mr Carter has transcended the old definitions of Left/Right and seems to me at least become any dissident problem, regardless of political persuasion, where dissident agitation is up against The Machine.
It's an almost inevitable trap for any dissident community. Being a dissident in the first place involves being something of a curmudgeon - there's a personality type which is predisposed to be critical, and therefore tends to focus on critique, with solutions being an afterthought.
Spencer tells us that the ultimate meaning of Ethics consists in the correction of egoism.
Selfishness, which forged the class struggle and inspired the most fiery anathemas of materialism, is at the same time the ultimate subject of ethical procedure. It surely corresponds to an attitude before that closed disposition that produces the overestimation of one's own interests. The enunciation of such a thing in history corresponds to a bloody and hard evolution, the end of which we cannot say has not yet been reached.
If happiness is the ultimate goal, and its maximization one of the central aims of the general desire, it becomes clear that some have found the means and resources to obtain it, while others have never possessed it. The former have tried to retain indefinitely this privileged condition, and this has led to the unrest motivated by the not always peaceful of the less endowed.
Selfishness was destined, perhaps by providential design, to become the driving force of an agitated human age.
But selfishness is, before anything else, a value-denial, it is the absence of other values, it is like cold, which means nothing but the absence of all warmth.
Fighting selfishness does not imply an armed attitude in the face of vice, but rather a positive attitude aimed at strengthening virtues.To replace it with a broad and generous ethical vision.
Juan Domingo Peron. La Comunidad Organizada. Pg. 18-19
A resonating excerpt from David Foster Wallace’s This Is Water ↓↓ (aka iconic 2005 Kenyon commencement address)
🗨 This is not a matter of virtue. [ (* ] It's a matter of my choosing to do the work of somehow altering or getting free of my natural, hard-wired default setting which is to be deeply and literally self-centered and to see and interpret everything through this lens of self. People who can adjust their natural default setting this way are often described as being "well-adjusted", which I suggest to you is not an accidental term.
I think you misunderstood the focus of my comment, by quoting Juan Domingo Perón. Much of John Carter's article expresses just how Clown World is an obscene world, of individuals mutilated to take action because that very obscenity has been inserted into them, they have been programmed with it.
It's like he says, they are normies but not stupid and they understand that things are bad! That depression, that sadness leaves them in a deep pit of conformity mixed with fear.
It's a world devoid of virudes, heroism, etc.
Man needs to find a moment of joy and happiness if he wants to change the portion of reality he has to experience.
Then in the article he talks about -articulate coherent philosophies of governance and cultural organization-.
The Organized Community of Juan Domingo Peron is basically that. It proposes from philosophy a way of governing and organizing. And that's why I extracted the comment. The title of his little book should be quite obvious.
This is why I believe only Christianity can defeat the dystopia-mongers, because it IS a vision of joy, that comes with a deeply fulfilling lifestyle, rituals, and community, and origin story. However I could see Christians partnering with secular rejectistas who share pro-life, pro-human, pro-joy values, not to fight the resetters head on, but simply to do our own thing in defiance of them. In fact I already see that happening (e.g. bitcoin has the potential to be the currency of a Catholic distributist economic system).
Neo-hellenes believe the Abrahamic faiths to be false perversions of greek religion and philosophy... and that Zeus is their real skydaddy. I heard a zinger recently:
Zeus means the same as Deus, in the sense of having the same origin - Deus Pater, Sky Father, in the original Aryan tongue. Jupiter has the same origin.
Please consult the Skeptic's Annotated Guide to the bible online. Honestly, can you trust and follow people who wrote this drivel, tribal self-worship, irrelevant fables and genealogies, and sickness?
They have a skeptic's guide to "the" koran and the book of mormon too.,
Unfortunately for christians who are kind, rational, sensible and reasonble enough to condemn the vile atrocities commanded or commited by "God" in the "old testament", the OT is unavoidably an enormous foundational part of christianity.
Do you like the "gospel" of luke, where jesus vows that when he "returns", he will have everyone brought who does not wish to be ruled by him, and have them murdered in front of him? It's not only the "old testament" that has viciousf, needlessly cruel, unhinged drivel, sometimes attributed to the supposed saviour himself.
The amusing ingenious pitches to upgrade to paid are on par with op essay. Which in its own right is extraordinarily brilliant even by barsoomian standards (which sure says quite a byte) 🤩🤸
...as well as well-embedded within text fabric, with clear added value in that they reiterate the key takeaways 👌 Hope you won't be led down the straight path to considering VAT 🤭
As usual, a bit long and when I link it I always make note of that, as I want people to be aware of that and I want them to take the time to read it. Too many want one minute inspirations!!!
I think Substack is reacclimating people to longer, more thoughtful content. Give it a few years and it might reverse some of the brain damage done by Twitter.
Solid points, and a great example with the anti-Pinochet movement's marketing genius! I need to watch that movie and get inspired! Certainly, I can say for myself on a personal level, I've gotten too negative too often, and undermined myself in the process, without making the slightest dent in the enemy's control system. Working smarter is a must, when all the advantages seem to be on the other side, and you've outlined one way to do it. Thanks for that!
It’s a common trap. If you don’t like the current zeitgeist they insist you have a better one. But you don’t need to. You are allowed to stop at simply knowing that this current shit show is not right. It takes courage to say to say no and it takes wisdom and a little trust to know that everything will be fine. More than anything these days people fear discomfort but discomfort is no big deal and often leads to adventure! People also fear a lack of security but security breeds boredom. And they fear ostracism but who seriously wants to run with the current herd? When you manage to climb over these barriers and see the bright shining sun of possibility, you no longer fear much of anything and saying NO becomes a breeze.
It's an act of faith - trusting that things can be better without all ... THIS. And that we don't need a detailed five point plan to know that this is possible.
Whoa. What a magnificent essay thing. You pretty much nailed it. And I read this on Good Friday.
I was always a bit curious about that term. Humm.
Hats off. I will re-read this about fifteen times and send it to fellow travelers ten fold.
Hats off.
You killed it with this one, John. I mean, truly. Their 'antiseptic nightmare' they sell us as a fait accompli... that's the spell we have to break. It's NOT a fait accompli by any means. And it's our joy and happiness that terrifies them, especially that we can be happy without them. Theirs is an insecure need that belies their weakness. They need us far more than we need them. We don't need them at all!! Their very existence depends on us, on our obedience, even our desire to be domesticated into mindless oblivion. If it weren't for us, they'd have nothing to control in their own OCD nightmare lives.
Their aim is to take away our divinity, our natural born joy and happiness, our symbiotic interplay with the natural world we are inherently part of, the very soul of being alive. I'll say it again - they are terrified of us! They try and peddle their small-minded insidious fears and sadly, the addled majority buy them hook, line and sinker. For those of us with functioning brains, it becomes both horrific and laughable.
Your call is for not just joy but I think for love in its greatest sense, the fabric that joins us together they wish to unravel, which is by all accounts impossible. Love will prevail, always.
Nice job! And a good chaser to Nick Johnson's video of California these days. It is time to become the counter culture. We support life and children and taking time to smell the roses and live life.
You sound like an alt-right neo-nazi white supremacist neo-confederate islamophobic transphobic homophobic anti-semite mysogynist BIGOT
cis-hetero-patriarchal
Shit I missed one.
Oh fugg
Maybe a good story would help.
Fantastic essay! I think the Right is beginning to articulate—or rediscover—new and interesting visions for the future, and even the normies are noticing. And I think that scares the shit out of the Great Reset types.
Yes, I think you're correct about that. Mere critique has gotten stale, and the energy is moving into vision. I don't see any one vision taking root, either - rather many different alternative paths are being articulated, all of them more attractive to sympathetic personality types than the one size fits all, tasteless oatmeal served up by the WEF. This is certainly a problem for them - an unruly plethora of pathways is intrinsically difficult to control.
Very great article. In France people like Idriss Aberkane are also opening new horizon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlksTusfArc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW9ik4Ed6uE
As to the Arabic projects, he is very critical:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIPqdowN5DE
Keep on the good work John (i am thinking about suscribing)!
That seems interesting, but my French is a bit rusty. Would you be willing to offer a quick summary?
Hey,
Of course i can give you a brief summary.
First, who is Idriss Aberkane? https://idrissaberkane.org/cv/
"He received three doctorates, including one from the Ecole Polytechnique at age 29, and was a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University at age 21. He has given more than 440 lectures around the world in three languages, and his book Free Your Brain has been translated into Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Greek, Russian, Italian, Spanish, Hungarian, Dutch and Greek.
" Born in 1986 in Pithiviers (France).
Bidisciplinary doctorate in Cognitive Neuroscience and Knowledge Economy applied to management. Ecole Polytechnique University Paris Saclay (2016).
PhD in Mediterranean Studies and Comparative Literature. University of Strasbourg (2014).
PhD in Diplomacy and Noopolitics. Center for Diplomatic and Strategic Studies of Paris (accredited ASIC) CEDS (2013).
Scientific advisor of the SeaOrbiter mission (see SeaOrbiter website)
Ambassador of the Unesco-Unitwin Digital Campus of Complex Systems...."
As one can read, Idriss is a very bright mind, one of the brightest in France at that point. I don't always agree with him but he really is a good decent human being in addition from his rare intellectual abaility. As a Muslim, he frequently refers to Sufi teaching as being important to him.
He has been under severe attacks by the "fact checkers"(denying his impressive CV) but his warrior spirit had him exposed the whole fact checkers scam in France, working in tandem with the very excellent media, France Soir) linked, as revealed by Jacques baud, to a Brit psyop operation.
During the whole pandemic scam, he has been very vocal against the permanent lies spread by the MSM and in association with Maitre Di Vizio (prof Raoult's lawyer) he has decided to invest in educating and informing the population, empowering the youth with new ideas. Thus, his videos are always adapted so that the concepts can be understood by many. At that point, his youtube channel has 770 000 suscribers and his videos has millions of viewers.
The first video ("these XIXth century technologies will change the world") is about encouraging the people to think differently from the vampire squid corporates tech mindset, on how to solve the problems we are collectively facing. He goes back to what he calls the "Jules Verne" mindset in the XIXth century which saw many inventions not having been considered, abandonned during the XXth century and which should be reinvestigated.
He goes further in the second video in leading the people to think differently.
Whereas France is now stuck in a very big energy crisis dues to the absurd boycot of Russian Gas, he postulates that France could be autonomous and might even export gas. How come? The country has a very large sea facade which could be used to collect sea weeds. Then these could be used to produce gas.
Why hasn't that option being considered? Because of the monopole of the big corrupted oil and gas company and the dumbing down of our spiritual, intellectual abilities.
The third video is thus introduced:
"Somewhere between the 9th and 14th centuries A.D., the Arab world was the most technologically advanced on Earth. So how did we go from the superb Abbasid Baghdad where all the languages, sciences, philosophies and religions of the Silk Roads were mixed, to the spoiled projects that the executives of Riyadh and Cairo are presenting us today with the money of their own people? Let's take a look at the difference between Genius and Bling in this short video."
I guess you will understand that the NEOM project is considered a "non genius Bling one" and that the saoudi money could be used in much more effective way which he describes succintly.
He reminds us that there are very bright minds in the Arabic world and offers compelling proof of that fact, but that the local talents are neglected by the political powers.
If you were interested, I could make a translated transcript of these video, if you have some patience, of course...
He sounds like quite an interesting character. Returning to the 19th century mindset has much to recommend it - that was the last time we were really inventing things. Many indicators point to a steep decline in human intelligence since that time.
"But then you look around at the fat morons on the street, you sigh for the hundredth time at the fluoride stare you get from normies when you mention anything outside of their programming, and you despair. "
Amen Brother. I call them sheep eyes... perhaps they are fluoridated as well....
Sheep are friendly and warm blooded. Nothing like the Covid freaks who want that sweet boot to lick crushing their stupid, hateful faces down forever and ever. The nightmare dystopia of Mr. Global may be their dream come true. They sure don't deserve freedom, basic human rights or dignity. Not after they sneered at everyone else's.
To gaze upon the demiurgos is to know true despair
Hylics gun lick... their divine spark is spent. They belong to the material reality prison, little more than intelligent beasts.
No with a smile! Yes!, and no to the fear and the fear mongers. I can't stop smiling these days and the zombies follow me around like smiles are the new brains.
When the Left was still truly on the Left (that time long, long ago when the Left actually supported freedom of speech and expression and all that other horribly old fashioned stuff belonging to the dinosaurs, namely anyone now over the age of 45) the Left suffered from that same, seemingly perennial problem: how to motivate the masses to fight the status quo without just being negative. Eons ago, which could be any time before c. 2015, I remember reading articles about the negativity issues of the Left. The Left was always against something or other, critical of this or that, warning of everything, but never offered a - simple - solution. That comparison with the world of advertising, how to sell the idea/ideology, had been remarked on time and again by Old Leftists who were wondering why the masses were still placidly succumbing to the globalist dismantling of what in Old Europe at least passed for the welfare state (I know most readers here are US-based and hence sceptical of public healthcare etc, but I’m from the old continent and have recently been to France where I have watched with a glimmer of hope how the masses are resisting Macron’s assault on their pensions ...). The image problem described here so eloquently by Mr Carter has transcended the old definitions of Left/Right and seems to me at least become any dissident problem, regardless of political persuasion, where dissident agitation is up against The Machine.
It's an almost inevitable trap for any dissident community. Being a dissident in the first place involves being something of a curmudgeon - there's a personality type which is predisposed to be critical, and therefore tends to focus on critique, with solutions being an afterthought.
This is why people like Idriss aberkane are very important...
Spencer tells us that the ultimate meaning of Ethics consists in the correction of egoism.
Selfishness, which forged the class struggle and inspired the most fiery anathemas of materialism, is at the same time the ultimate subject of ethical procedure. It surely corresponds to an attitude before that closed disposition that produces the overestimation of one's own interests. The enunciation of such a thing in history corresponds to a bloody and hard evolution, the end of which we cannot say has not yet been reached.
If happiness is the ultimate goal, and its maximization one of the central aims of the general desire, it becomes clear that some have found the means and resources to obtain it, while others have never possessed it. The former have tried to retain indefinitely this privileged condition, and this has led to the unrest motivated by the not always peaceful of the less endowed.
Selfishness was destined, perhaps by providential design, to become the driving force of an agitated human age.
But selfishness is, before anything else, a value-denial, it is the absence of other values, it is like cold, which means nothing but the absence of all warmth.
Fighting selfishness does not imply an armed attitude in the face of vice, but rather a positive attitude aimed at strengthening virtues.To replace it with a broad and generous ethical vision.
Juan Domingo Peron. La Comunidad Organizada. Pg. 18-19
A resonating excerpt from David Foster Wallace’s This Is Water ↓↓ (aka iconic 2005 Kenyon commencement address)
🗨 This is not a matter of virtue. [ (* ] It's a matter of my choosing to do the work of somehow altering or getting free of my natural, hard-wired default setting which is to be deeply and literally self-centered and to see and interpret everything through this lens of self. People who can adjust their natural default setting this way are often described as being "well-adjusted", which I suggest to you is not an accidental term.
--
(* 😏😇
I think you misunderstood the focus of my comment, by quoting Juan Domingo Perón. Much of John Carter's article expresses just how Clown World is an obscene world, of individuals mutilated to take action because that very obscenity has been inserted into them, they have been programmed with it.
It's like he says, they are normies but not stupid and they understand that things are bad! That depression, that sadness leaves them in a deep pit of conformity mixed with fear.
It's a world devoid of virudes, heroism, etc.
Man needs to find a moment of joy and happiness if he wants to change the portion of reality he has to experience.
Then in the article he talks about -articulate coherent philosophies of governance and cultural organization-.
The Organized Community of Juan Domingo Peron is basically that. It proposes from philosophy a way of governing and organizing. And that's why I extracted the comment. The title of his little book should be quite obvious.
Thanks for providing that additional context (I wasn't quite sure about the connection tbh).
I think you must have misunderstood the focus of my emojis 😉
That's the reason why I don't use emojis, or try not to in public comments.
Great point. I often forget to bolster my argument with a chuckle.
Flies, vinegar, honey, etc. ;)
We'll make a Christian of you yet, John ;)
This is why I believe only Christianity can defeat the dystopia-mongers, because it IS a vision of joy, that comes with a deeply fulfilling lifestyle, rituals, and community, and origin story. However I could see Christians partnering with secular rejectistas who share pro-life, pro-human, pro-joy values, not to fight the resetters head on, but simply to do our own thing in defiance of them. In fact I already see that happening (e.g. bitcoin has the potential to be the currency of a Catholic distributist economic system).
I have a complicated relationship with Christianity. I like almost everything about it except for the Old Testament.
Neo-hellenes believe the Abrahamic faiths to be false perversions of greek religion and philosophy... and that Zeus is their real skydaddy. I heard a zinger recently:
Zeus > Deus
Zeus means the same as Deus, in the sense of having the same origin - Deus Pater, Sky Father, in the original Aryan tongue. Jupiter has the same origin.
They even call him skydaddy lmao... how did they get away with this for 1600 years? Hylicks are amazingly stupid
The torah is a jewish founding myth, not sure how that benefits us... suits the neocons tho.
Please consult the Skeptic's Annotated Guide to the bible online. Honestly, can you trust and follow people who wrote this drivel, tribal self-worship, irrelevant fables and genealogies, and sickness?
They have a skeptic's guide to "the" koran and the book of mormon too.,
Unfortunately for christians who are kind, rational, sensible and reasonble enough to condemn the vile atrocities commanded or commited by "God" in the "old testament", the OT is unavoidably an enormous foundational part of christianity.
Do you like the "gospel" of luke, where jesus vows that when he "returns", he will have everyone brought who does not wish to be ruled by him, and have them murdered in front of him? It's not only the "old testament" that has viciousf, needlessly cruel, unhinged drivel, sometimes attributed to the supposed saviour himself.
The amusing ingenious pitches to upgrade to paid are on par with op essay. Which in its own right is extraordinarily brilliant even by barsoomian standards (which sure says quite a byte) 🤩🤸
I feel vaguely unclean writing such pitches, because I know how annoying they can be, so the least I can do is make them amusing.
...as well as well-embedded within text fabric, with clear added value in that they reiterate the key takeaways 👌 Hope you won't be led down the straight path to considering VAT 🤭
Very good read, Mr. Carter and will be linking it tomorrow @https://nothingnewunderthesun2016.com/
As usual, a bit long and when I link it I always make note of that, as I want people to be aware of that and I want them to take the time to read it. Too many want one minute inspirations!!!
Thank you, as always.
I think Substack is reacclimating people to longer, more thoughtful content. Give it a few years and it might reverse some of the brain damage done by Twitter.
Solid points, and a great example with the anti-Pinochet movement's marketing genius! I need to watch that movie and get inspired! Certainly, I can say for myself on a personal level, I've gotten too negative too often, and undermined myself in the process, without making the slightest dent in the enemy's control system. Working smarter is a must, when all the advantages seem to be on the other side, and you've outlined one way to do it. Thanks for that!
"Say what you will about globalism, at least it’s an ethos." I see what you did there....
I was waiting for someone to pick up on that.
Mark it zero for everyone else.
It’s a common trap. If you don’t like the current zeitgeist they insist you have a better one. But you don’t need to. You are allowed to stop at simply knowing that this current shit show is not right. It takes courage to say to say no and it takes wisdom and a little trust to know that everything will be fine. More than anything these days people fear discomfort but discomfort is no big deal and often leads to adventure! People also fear a lack of security but security breeds boredom. And they fear ostracism but who seriously wants to run with the current herd? When you manage to climb over these barriers and see the bright shining sun of possibility, you no longer fear much of anything and saying NO becomes a breeze.
Well said.
It's an act of faith - trusting that things can be better without all ... THIS. And that we don't need a detailed five point plan to know that this is possible.