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Jun 8, 2022Liked by John Carter

This explains a lot. I had noticed that so many of the covid skeptics were also statin skeptics, cholesterol skeptics and climate skeptics. That’s what makes Alex Berenson so frustrating—he’s only skeptical about covid and pot. Everything else he just goes for hook line and sinker.

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I was a left wing science Phd that has published in international journals and works in R&D/tech, now I get called a “dumb conspiracy theorist” by people that struggled to finish high school working minimum wage jobs. I guess my worldview has moved somewhat to the right (self reliance) or at least from socialism to anarchism (in the old sense; no one is worthy of too much power).

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Love it! I am in the hydra somewhere more or less in the "antivax" and organic sustainable farming space. I've been vegan at times in my life and my older daughter is vegetarian. I don't decry these things out of hand but I see fundamental square peg in round hole thinking with some of the movement: hundreds of miles of grasslands in the great plains are indeed much better suited to cattle than soybeans and most people, especially males with higher muscle mass, are in no way suited to a long term vegetarian diet. Every one of these movements seems to have adherents who want basic things like bodily integrity, scientific integrity and human right of self determination which the hive then tries to distort with a grotesque mirror image in the distorts and steers things in their desired direction...

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Jun 8, 2022Liked by John Carter

Hot damn! The whole article is fantastic, and that intro, this is one hell of a narrative. Is there going to be a part III, or do we just have to live through it?

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Loving this series John!

Fantastic optimism about the human condition that resists the insanity of WEF et al. I hope your optimism is correct, and even exceeded in the months and years to come. My adult son certainly has the same outlook, reassuring me that there is no way the Great Reset or anything resembling it can stand for any length of time. I hope that's the case. Most tyrannical systems don't last, but they can certainly kill a lot of people quickly at their height of power before their inevitable collapse.

Looking forward to part III

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In terms of both personal and public health, the American "normal" -- what is now considered "typical" or baseline and beyond criticism -- is pathological comorbidity. Likewise, far too many people for various reasons are living paycheck to the paycheck -- trapped in debt and wage-serfdom. Obviously, yes, we do have elites seeking to globalize both conditions: absolute dependency on Big State, Big Pharma, & MSM with Big Tech.

So the dissenters become anyone, any people, who value and take some responsibility for their own health and sanity, and who want control over their own lives. In the USA, not just the Paleo or Primal movements, for example, but also the "Your Money or Your Life" [Financial Independence ~ https://yourmoneyoryourlife.com/] & FIRE movements. As well at the "Off-Gridish" and more severe "Off-Grid" movements.

This to me goes well beyond the Alt-Right or the Ambivalent Right. It certainly includes both biological sexes. Although I certainly do both acknowledge and agree with you about the war against masculinity.

The labelling as anyone who dissents as belonging to the Right strikes me as coming to close to more marketing, more propaganda. Unless, as Ernst Jünger did, one understands Fascism as manifestation of the Left. Even then, I still don't get how a person is "fighting fascism" by surrendering control of their body and mind to the corporate state. To willing accept an externally imposed neo-feudal caste system in the name of equity and progress. Yet obviously, those in Portlandia (where I resided briefly) see it differently.

So I do agree that the hive mind is meeting with greater and greater resistance. But I also think we have a larger coalition of people and movements against the Great Reset and the Grand Narrative. I take that as good news. You're a powerful voice for one vital and growing contingent. But you have more allies in this war than you realize. That's the note I would close on.

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Jun 8, 2022Liked by John Carter

One long indeed.

I have had the idea the climate was stabilized the last 10 thousand years by the climax forests and the fascists who seek returns on money know this economic/social system they have installed is responsible for cut/burn/poisoning of most of these old climax forests for more efficient control of land production and people. They hide what is changing the climate pointing towards carbon burning as the only reason for the changes, a misdirection, carbon emissions which might have some small role in this process because the climax forests no longer exist on a planetary scale. Lots of carbon has been emitted over the eons, yet here we are cutting down what protects soil life which sequesters carbon back into Earth. These agricultural methods reverses the process.

The fascist system is going to fail, those dependent on it will fail along with the fascists, who have become weak in their dependency on money.

The best indeed was the mention of Permaculture (which sometimes gets highjacked by the socialists, but the ideas are not political - I've read Permaculture A Designers' Manual a few times and the ideas are about designing small systems not reliant on fascist inputs of any kind). Learning how to take care of oneself is the best advice for anyone interested in living through the coming bottleneck.

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Interesting essay. As for the impact of diet, in WW1 the well-fed British officer class stood a full five inches taller than the blokes taken from the mines, farms, and factories who were soon sent to charge German machine guns in Northern France.

That didn't turn out too well...for the blokes...and for Western Civilization.

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Excellent analogy once again. Will be linking tomorrow @ https://nothingnewunderthesun2016.com/

One of the best reads on what I call the "Big Picture" that I have read in awhile. You are doing a fine job here in getting information out albeit a little long winded at times. Not for me, but I am afraid some might not want to read the whole piece. Don't be offended because that is not my intent. I just want to make sure everyone is getting your point!!! Once again great work!!!

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Jul 19, 2022Liked by John Carter

CRACKING ARTICLE! Ayup 👏 Possibly the first Overview that offers me hope. I'm well fed with thoughts from Mercola, Rockwell, Wolfe, Casey & Shiff, Paul, Malone, Ron Paul etc. Sadly lacking in Aussie weight but my country is deeply,

tightly controlled. The knowledge that such DIFFERENCES are melded, conjoined in The Resistance, this is DEEPLY satisfying. That Julian ASSANGE 's Matyrdom MEANS SOMETHING. That WE, We are learning, becoming stronger, this is good. For I have a THIRST, a Thirst for JUSTICE. Personally I am not a devout man. I choose NOT to Turn The Other Cheek. Oh no. To quote my favourite Tarantino movie "...this shit is gonna get Medieval..." ✊

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Jun 8, 2022Liked by John Carter

The Truth Shall Set You Free!!!

I love you, part 2.

The Hydra. So good. Adapting, seeking, waking, connecting the damned...hot damn!

As if, the Hydra moto should be....

"Now, just wait a fucking minute...."

Or some skeptical centered band of specific cuss words, lined in unison, with other nouns, pronouns, verbs and other grammar I dispise... lol...speaking just the right truth...

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Jun 8, 2022·edited Jun 8, 2022Liked by John Carter

I'm glad I waited to comment on this series. The rhetoric of part one was both soaring and searing; a true masterwork in describing the spirit of the age, and particularly the mechanics of dissent.

Yes, we are a Greek devilfish; a body flooded with interoperable neurons, impervious to a single "heroic" blow. Yes, the enemy is also a tentacled cephalopod, but of an age that loosens its grip by the hour, and isn't long for the world. We are all minds, and chains of minds, contending in a temporary arena that will result -- at best -- in our individual deaths.

That is the point that leaves me to question, when I consider your (admittedly well reasoned) article here. We will (and must!) die. I would rather die in pursuit of truth -- and even *for* it, in the best case scenario -- rather than dwindling to an ember in the darkness of lies, scared of my own shadow. That's the most horrible outcome of all, but simultaneously the most likely one. Truth is more elusive than Bigfoot riding the Lochness Monster into a black hole wielding goddammed Excalibur. We're fucking blessed to perceive a droplet of it in a lifetime.

I can't convincingly argue amy of the points you've made here; I've argued many of them myself. But the beast that haunts me, and which I think haunts the hydra generally, is the racial disparity argument. It isn't without merit, in the data sense. But it is intellectually and spiritually destructive on multiple levels. The worst of these is that it gives succor to the enemy's base position: We are not individuals, who are animated by nature but divine in purpose and design. I cannot ever cede them that ground, no matter the numbers. If one person defies the odds, that person's dignity is more valuable to defend than multitudes of robotic slaves.

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Genius!

apparent typo:

Acknowledging biological differences between human groups was crucial to enabling the mass immigration

(shouldn't Acknowledging be Denying?)

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Jun 11, 2022Liked by John Carter

Awesome essay. I look forward to reading more of your writings.

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Jun 8, 2022Liked by John Carter

Very much enjoyed this !

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Very good. Those last few paragraphs are really great.

I don't so much agree with this sentence (or much of the paragraph it lies in, but this one in particular):

"The assumptions of liberalism could not be called into question because it is precisely the philosophical precepts of the Enlightenment that provide the necessary conceptual acid within which to dissolve society into an atomized solution of powerless individuals at the mercy of the universal state, whilst diffusing responsibility and power through a 'democratic' oligarchy in which the deep state becomes untouchable because it is unknowable."

I think you are making the mistake many Americans make in equating the "liberalism" of the USA's 20th century political talk with the liberalism of the Enlightenment. Liberalism, the very meaning of "liberal" was misappropriated by what we would call the left in the US, applied to those who were more properly described as illiberal. Much like how today "racist" is used to describe people who think individuals should be judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin. The leftists of the late 19th century were already catching on to the power of language over the human mind, and in a move akin to the naming of the Ministry of Love named themselves into the same group as Adam Smith and David Hume. You still see this linguistic gap today, where most of Europe would use the word "liberal" to describe what we might call "libertarian."

I would also add that before we toss too much shade on the Enlightenment, it might be worth considering what parts, or even what regional Enlightenments we are talking about. The Scottish Enlightenment and Anglo-American Enlightenments were definitely a net win for humanity. One could make an argument that the German and French versions were a little less so, but let's not throw out Voltaire with Rousseau. What the clowns call Enlightenment Thinking today is, again, the fun house mirror image of what it actually should be.

Perhaps more accurately, the left wears the tattered raiment and desiccated flesh of the Enlightenment thinkers as it capers about, claiming their earned approbation and nobility for itself.

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