Perhaps it is not just this movement but movements in general - philosophies based on some version of what the truth is and what must be fought for - that are dying. Have you noticed that the latest outrages have attracted fewer and shriller followers and that more and more people are choosing to live their lives, to find joy in forests and moon rises and and gardens and community? That has been my perspective, though perhaps I am biased by my own seeming transformation over the past few years.
I am finding more resonant people - poets, farmers, authors, naturopaths - who are not out there with protest signs or proclaiming some version of the truth but are simply quietly living their own authenticity. And increasingly I believe that - if this is indeed a war - we will win it not by fighting and gathering a mass truth-based movement to overthrow the lies but simply by individually awakening and making choices in alignment with our own sovereignty. Perhaps it is less about doing and knowing and convincing and more about being, and as long as we are alive our being-ness cannot be contained.
That is such a great point, Markael! At the end of the day, it boils down to living our own lives well, and no "leader" is gonna save us, etc. The more people get into creating good energy in their own lives, having loving relationships, growing food, etc, the better for all of us and for the world. There is a reason why the metaphorical vampires invest so much into trying to isolate everybody emotionally so that people don't have communities to derive joy and sustenance from!
What a beautiful comment. I agree. Unfortunately, in my area where there are still good paying blue collar jobs and people are partying like it's 1999, the awakening is pretty much non-existent. But, I am finally noticing some people outside of the area who have had enough of "movements" and "sides". A great book I read called "The True Believer" by Eric Hoffer does an excellent job of laying out these movements, the friction they cause, etc. It is a very good (and short) book. After reading it, I realized that almost everything I had ever been involved with in my life had been some kind of "movement" or "group think". Needless to say, I no longer allow myself to become involved with any of these movements. I focus on my friends, family, and myself.
"I have had with my friend Wes Jackson a number of useful conversations about the necessity of getting out of movements—even movements that have seemed necessary and dear to us—when they have lapsed into self-righteousness and self-betrayal, as movements seem almost invariably to do. People in movements too readily learn to deny to others the rights and privileges they demand for themselves. They too easily become unable to mean their own language, as when a “peace movement” becomes violent. They often become too specialized, as if finally they cannot help taking refuge in the pinhole vision of the institutional intellectuals. They almost always fail to be radical enough, dealing finally in effects rather than causes. Or they deal with single issues or single solutions, as if to assure themselves that they will not be radical enough."
Glad you thought so Tessa. On another note - and while I have your attention - I left a link to this little ditty on another of your posts the other day. You may not have seen it. But I would go so far as to say you should have a conversation with this guy. He is an amazing prodigy pianist and unparalleled satirist. The song in question was this - I'm sure you'll find it tremendously hilarious.
Thank you Neo, great article, very well said from the beloved farmer-pholosopher.
“ We are involved now in a profound failure of imagination. … One way we could describe the task ahead of us is by saying that we need to enlarge the consciousness and the conscience of the economy. Our economy needs to know—and care—what it is doing. This is revolutionary, of course, if you have a taste for revolution, but it is also a matter of common sense. How could anybody seriously object to the possibility that the economy might eventually come to know what it is doing?”
I have been loving Wendell Berry for 40 years, ever since I read his essay “ A Good Scythe”, where he spoke of the virtues of using a handheld scythe compared to a gas-powered weedwhacker. I bought a scythe then, and still use it and love it now.
I also want to recommend Berry’s fiction writings, particularly ‘Fidelity’, a book of short stories. They are so heartfelt, revealing both the failures and the triumphs of the human heart, that I always cry when I read them.
Thank you Marcus, as a child in Greece we used scythes to cut the alpha-alpha, and α sickle to cut the wheat (that shows how old I am!). Now we have a lot of technological conveniences and very little essence.
The book sounds interesting - I will check it out! I have for sure been involved all my life with one kind of groupthink or another. Not that I knew that until the Covid times roared in. It's been quite a learning curve, these past 4 years...
hola, markael. yes! you have stated my own recent experiences that have filled me with optimism and hope completely independent of any movement. in twelve hours of recent travel i met 4 extraordinary people, 2 young 2 older. the older included an american doctor now driving taxi after quitting being a doctor because his successful jabless treatment protocols were shunned by his fellow doctors! a man who, with his mother, recently graduated from a 4 year german-based programme of epigenetic healing modalities. and a young mexican woman who has taken full responsibility for being powerful and choosing freedom through the expansion of consciousness.
clif high has observed that 2024 will be the year of hypernovelty, when all authority structures lose their 'authority'. and that includes the so-called mfm or alts who are falling apart because they have aligned themselves with the same energy of blame and complain that is being used by the so-called oligarchs. there has been some kind of shift, and that energy is no longer being supported and/or tolerated by life: it is falling apart, and that is one reason we have come into active craziness in the reset movements, imo; they intuitively know that they are no longer being supported by life and so are desperately bailing their leaking boats instead of noticing the lifelines hanging from the planes of consciousness above them.
all the best with what is changing — everything changes.
There are not enough “love” buttons for me to give this! I think you are spot on about movements—what we have known of that kind of action is playing their game on their playing field. The best way to build the world we want is to be fully human and love this earth. That’s just what the whole frantic effort, which in my opinion is definitely losing now, is trying to stop us from doing.
I think there is definitely a role for movements, and we need to unite around the total focus on spiritual clarity and refusal to throw other people under the bus even if their ancestry or opinions are different from ours. Some efforts require coordinated work! But our efforts require help from good spiritual forces, and that requires humility and prayer, and less focus on branding, IMO :)
They should never have invented (rolled out/ deployed) the fucking internet. It's making people crazy and dissociated and prickly and bristly. Besides, nobody knows how to grow a lowly potato anymore. My two shekels.
Thank you Tessa, a very touching article, I am with you in:
“At the end of the day, doesn’t matter who is correcter, we are all on a journey, we are all discovering something, learning something, learning how to be arrows of brave, meaningful love….”
I feel we are on this tiny school-planet to do just one thing: to learn how to love each other and all living beings.
As a social scientist, I'm concerned about how many of our Western leaders seem focused on undermining our civilization and harming their own countries and citizens.
I hear you. I think the real problem is that all those tendencies are baked into our civilization, so we are just seeing a logical development of the emotion on which our civilization of today has been founded. Steven Newcomb really nailed it in his work about the System of Domination. in my opinion it is one of the most precise philosophical frameworks to define what is going on.
hola, tl. this is a beautiful and powerful post about the falling apart of all authority structures. the so-called mfmers who are insisting on singular truths or solutions are themselves aligned with the very same energy structure they are ostensibly looking to defeat! yes, we have seen the enemy, it is them and we have the rightest and most righteous of truth — however defined — and everyone else's experiences are open to caustic castigation and/or the right to be killed. and so most of the mfmers within my limited purview are mostly making the exact same arguments about fixing the planet and its man-made problems as are those with the less-than-good intentions. incredible obtuseness arises when we arrogantly choose to live in our own houses and refuse to look at the mirrors life is providing us within them.
as i mentioned in the comment below to markael luterra, in a recent short trip within 12 hours i met four of the most incredible people it is possible to imagine. meeting any one of them within half a year would be memorable. at the end of 6 days that expanded to include a swiss psychologist who is close to retirement and who has in the last year begun her own wake up journey of personal responsibility and empowerment by seeing her own spelled enmeshment with narcissistic relationships. and then a young man on an airport shuttle bus who when asked what he did replied 'i'm a physicist'. with questioning, it turns out that he wasn't just a physicist, he worked at cern for 8 years. when i asked 'so, with that you likely know what the answer is to the question of the meaning of life?' he laughed. and then described that he has left cern and has spent the last 8 months walking in nature in south and latin america because he had lost all sight of who he was, what he liked, what was true for himself, etc. it was an extraordinary conversation. and then the next day by 'chance' i sat on a public bus next to a single mother who, with talking, has been discovering her personal power with yoga. so, in 7 days i experienced 7 extraordinary people, all changing the world with their own self-awareness journeys and none of them any where near even the smell of mfm.
I worry that the biggest problem is that people don't know how bad trauma can really be. I also worry that many people could read about Hell on Earth: the Holodomor, the Red Terror, the Holocaust, WW1 trenches, Comanche/Apache wars; and still focus on forcing the future they wish to see upon everyone instead of accepting or tolerating other human beings and compromising with them.
Wise, compassionate words & thoughts. It sure is a time of turmoil! Plenty of drama. Which is too exhausting to take part in. One has to just walk away from some relationships - or be walked away from. Well, both, in my own case. One has to ignore a great deal. And remain as calm & sensible & compassionate as possible. And just be our own best selves. I appreciate your words, as always, Tessa.
I think many people have lost focus of the things that are truly important in life and replaced them with toxic mind killers.
We are turning into a failing society if nothing will change soon. A lot of what I see and hear reminds me already of what I read about the fall of the Roman Empire and their failing society.
Great piece, Tessa! What you embody is a very sound, self-conscious reflective approach. I‘d like to suggest one addition, if I may: The „Tell me, Traitor“ is a trait of not so much a MFM (Medical Freedom Movement, which by definition would be a movement of equals, self-conscious individuals) but a MFF (Medical Freedom Force, which has adopted a hierarchical structure, in which the „Hail, Ceasar“ was sounded much earlier than the inquisitorial „Tell me, Traitor“.
In this respect, the MFM never was alive. It would have stayed clear of hailing Ceasars. Asking fellow movers to explain their actions is not treason. But false Ceasars have tried to make it appear as such.
Thank you, Uwe! I hear you. And I think the situation is even more nuanced and somewhat tragic. What really drives the situation is the underlying energy, and sadly, due to what I described in the article, a lot of the asking, as well as a lot of the answering, has come from acting on unresolved emotional trauma, on both sides of many arguments. And of course, in my observation, there is only very limited correlation between who gets the bad rep and who deserves it, while the impact of psychological manipulation on different sides of many rifts, has greatly exceeded what the participants themselves perceived. It is very sad. A lot of good people have been pulled into situations where their unresolved emotional conflicts made them act badly. There is no resolution to that besides soul-searching and uttermost inner honesty, on behalf of all. The infiltrators are going to do their thing, that's their job, whatever. But all of us "goof guys" have a duty to act intelligently and not like wounded kids, publicly at least!
Tessa: What a fine light you've shown on truth with this: “We are all on a journey to bring the love from heaven to earth, and not spill too much. If we knew who we really are, we would know that we are fearless, meaningful and very respected arrows of love.” As for the medical freedom movement, it has always (in the period since 2020) been steered by malign forces. There are many good people who have spoken out against the past four years of deadly criminality perpetrated by government/industry, which has actually been going on for more than a century. But there are many who may appear to be good, but really aren't, and serve as a distraction and a divisive force. I long ago stopped trusting public institutions, as you surely in your experience with the Soviet system (which, oddly enough the Democrats appear to want to emulate here. Bizarre.).
"This is existential. It’s happened to every movement that was born and died before our time. It is happening right now to us because the spiritual imbalance that had been set in motion centuries ago by the metaphorical vampires is still around, and shortcuts don’t really happen in the spiritual realm."
Sums up our human situation perfectly, girlfriend - good work! To wit:
“Most solution proposals for government, ecology, economy, equality, energy, infrastructure, society, etc., that may seem conceptually viable, require an inherently impossible consensus. Current world policy appears to be fueled by a wealthy, powerful, and unaccountable Ignorati who exhibit no awareness whatsoever of how life on Earth actually succeeds. ‘What could go wrong?’ Our predicament is unprecedented. Any successful solution that matches our plight in magnitude must surely lie beyond what is currently tangible.
The most important point to be made here is that as long as we remain egocentric beings, there shall always be sociopaths and psychopaths among us, who inevitably rise to authority driven by selfishness, greed, and apathy – who then capsize their entire sphere of influence despite the best intentions of all the rest of us. This perpetual cycle can only continue its descent until we undergo the spiritual and cultural transformation available by transmuting the egocentricity at its root.”
Spot on. Thank you Tessa. The unconscious coupling of tribalism/group-think dynamics along with unresolved trauma and egoic identification with one's thoughts & beliefs appears to be the perfect recipe for interpersonal reactionary dysfunction on a massive scale.
Tessa that's awful that you were betrayed. so was i, but ultimately it was my own fault because i didn't recognize that i was dealing with a psy-op. and maybe you were too. all this was planned out years in advance.
opportunists and grifters are always first in line to profiteer from any crisis. follow the money and you discover who's sincere and who's not.
i think that substack in particular siloes us into thinking that there is more division in the MFM than there really is. just as one example, the majority of US state governors have signed onto defending sovereignty over any diktat from the WHO. those politicians didn't do that because they're good guys, they did that because their election advisors are watching social media like a hawk and noticed how much fierce opposition to the great reset there is now.
sure, on substack and online in general there are more varieties of limited hangout than baskin-robbins but on the ground level, i see encouraging signs that point to the possibility of great unity. we can sort out all the ideological stuff later once we get rid of the cabal.
that's when the fireworks are really going to start! you think we have disagreements now? ;)
I agree, there are encouraging signs, and I think that is because of the strength of the human spirit!
I celebrate all battles won. I think the most important battle happens on the inside, and without a doubt the tyrants are gonna keep trying until they starve , which is when people refuse to generate the kind of energy that they eat.
I am not sure where the world is going but time will tell...
Movements grow when conditions are terrible. The only way to slow down movements is to improve conditions for ordinary people, as FDR and Stalin and Saddam did in different ways. There are other successful ways of improving conditions as well. A current article in Compact Mag describes those other ways fairly.
The author implies that "political freedom" necessarily decreases when a government forces capitalists to behave decently, but I don't think that's the real causation. When capitalists are ruthlessly constrained, people don't need or want "political freedom". It's a luxury.
Interesting, thank you for the link, Polistra! In the USSR, at least in its late stage, most people didn't care for political freedom, everybody to the best of my childhood memory was just living their lives, going to school, reading, falling in love, getting married, standing in lines every day to get something for their kids or for the home, etc.
Perhaps it is not just this movement but movements in general - philosophies based on some version of what the truth is and what must be fought for - that are dying. Have you noticed that the latest outrages have attracted fewer and shriller followers and that more and more people are choosing to live their lives, to find joy in forests and moon rises and and gardens and community? That has been my perspective, though perhaps I am biased by my own seeming transformation over the past few years.
I am finding more resonant people - poets, farmers, authors, naturopaths - who are not out there with protest signs or proclaiming some version of the truth but are simply quietly living their own authenticity. And increasingly I believe that - if this is indeed a war - we will win it not by fighting and gathering a mass truth-based movement to overthrow the lies but simply by individually awakening and making choices in alignment with our own sovereignty. Perhaps it is less about doing and knowing and convincing and more about being, and as long as we are alive our being-ness cannot be contained.
That is such a great point, Markael! At the end of the day, it boils down to living our own lives well, and no "leader" is gonna save us, etc. The more people get into creating good energy in their own lives, having loving relationships, growing food, etc, the better for all of us and for the world. There is a reason why the metaphorical vampires invest so much into trying to isolate everybody emotionally so that people don't have communities to derive joy and sustenance from!
What a beautiful comment. I agree. Unfortunately, in my area where there are still good paying blue collar jobs and people are partying like it's 1999, the awakening is pretty much non-existent. But, I am finally noticing some people outside of the area who have had enough of "movements" and "sides". A great book I read called "The True Believer" by Eric Hoffer does an excellent job of laying out these movements, the friction they cause, etc. It is a very good (and short) book. After reading it, I realized that almost everything I had ever been involved with in my life had been some kind of "movement" or "group think". Needless to say, I no longer allow myself to become involved with any of these movements. I focus on my friends, family, and myself.
Beautifully said, Rob!! Big hugs to you!
There is a great little essay you may consider reading called "In Distrust Of Movements" written a few decades ago by Wendell Berry.
Here is a link and the Intro paragraph to whet your appetite:
https://orionmagazine.org/article/in-distrust-of-movements/
"I have had with my friend Wes Jackson a number of useful conversations about the necessity of getting out of movements—even movements that have seemed necessary and dear to us—when they have lapsed into self-righteousness and self-betrayal, as movements seem almost invariably to do. People in movements too readily learn to deny to others the rights and privileges they demand for themselves. They too easily become unable to mean their own language, as when a “peace movement” becomes violent. They often become too specialized, as if finally they cannot help taking refuge in the pinhole vision of the institutional intellectuals. They almost always fail to be radical enough, dealing finally in effects rather than causes. Or they deal with single issues or single solutions, as if to assure themselves that they will not be radical enough."
Wow, this is brilliant! I've never heard of him. THANK YOU!
Glad you thought so Tessa. On another note - and while I have your attention - I left a link to this little ditty on another of your posts the other day. You may not have seen it. But I would go so far as to say you should have a conversation with this guy. He is an amazing prodigy pianist and unparalleled satirist. The song in question was this - I'm sure you'll find it tremendously hilarious.
The Parasite Pill 2.0
https://rumble.com/v4vuaqz-the-parasite-pill-2.0.html
But I can't help but add these as well.
mRNA (Speed of Science) - ORIGINAL SONG
https://rumble.com/v1o5oiu-mrna-speed-of-science-original-song.html
Anxious Axolotl Rag (2013)
https://rumble.com/v4de5ii-anxious-axolotl-rag-2013.html
Saw it now, thank you Neo! And thank you again for the essay link!
Thank you Neo, great article, very well said from the beloved farmer-pholosopher.
“ We are involved now in a profound failure of imagination. … One way we could describe the task ahead of us is by saying that we need to enlarge the consciousness and the conscience of the economy. Our economy needs to know—and care—what it is doing. This is revolutionary, of course, if you have a taste for revolution, but it is also a matter of common sense. How could anybody seriously object to the possibility that the economy might eventually come to know what it is doing?”
I have been loving Wendell Berry for 40 years, ever since I read his essay “ A Good Scythe”, where he spoke of the virtues of using a handheld scythe compared to a gas-powered weedwhacker. I bought a scythe then, and still use it and love it now.
I also want to recommend Berry’s fiction writings, particularly ‘Fidelity’, a book of short stories. They are so heartfelt, revealing both the failures and the triumphs of the human heart, that I always cry when I read them.
Thank you Marcus, as a child in Greece we used scythes to cut the alpha-alpha, and α sickle to cut the wheat (that shows how old I am!). Now we have a lot of technological conveniences and very little essence.
We (at least a significant portion of us) prefer NOT to know what we are doing, it would seem.
Thanks for reading. (There is nothing I like more than reading Berry from actual paper...like in a book).
Cheers!
I am a gardener and I almost worship him.
I honour you! Gardening is a fine avocation!
The book sounds interesting - I will check it out! I have for sure been involved all my life with one kind of groupthink or another. Not that I knew that until the Covid times roared in. It's been quite a learning curve, these past 4 years...
We've finally reached a point where personal = important, haven't we?
hola, markael. yes! you have stated my own recent experiences that have filled me with optimism and hope completely independent of any movement. in twelve hours of recent travel i met 4 extraordinary people, 2 young 2 older. the older included an american doctor now driving taxi after quitting being a doctor because his successful jabless treatment protocols were shunned by his fellow doctors! a man who, with his mother, recently graduated from a 4 year german-based programme of epigenetic healing modalities. and a young mexican woman who has taken full responsibility for being powerful and choosing freedom through the expansion of consciousness.
clif high has observed that 2024 will be the year of hypernovelty, when all authority structures lose their 'authority'. and that includes the so-called mfm or alts who are falling apart because they have aligned themselves with the same energy of blame and complain that is being used by the so-called oligarchs. there has been some kind of shift, and that energy is no longer being supported and/or tolerated by life: it is falling apart, and that is one reason we have come into active craziness in the reset movements, imo; they intuitively know that they are no longer being supported by life and so are desperately bailing their leaking boats instead of noticing the lifelines hanging from the planes of consciousness above them.
all the best with what is changing — everything changes.
Thank you again, Guy! Great stories from you as always, can't wait to hear your stories in more detail!
There are not enough “love” buttons for me to give this! I think you are spot on about movements—what we have known of that kind of action is playing their game on their playing field. The best way to build the world we want is to be fully human and love this earth. That’s just what the whole frantic effort, which in my opinion is definitely losing now, is trying to stop us from doing.
I think there is definitely a role for movements, and we need to unite around the total focus on spiritual clarity and refusal to throw other people under the bus even if their ancestry or opinions are different from ours. Some efforts require coordinated work! But our efforts require help from good spiritual forces, and that requires humility and prayer, and less focus on branding, IMO :)
They should never have invented (rolled out/ deployed) the fucking internet. It's making people crazy and dissociated and prickly and bristly. Besides, nobody knows how to grow a lowly potato anymore. My two shekels.
Yes!! I wrote about it for Dr. Mercola last year, the internet is working exactly as designed. Although it does help us to have this conversation :)
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2023/03/08/internet-surveillance-and-censorship.aspx
Thank you Tessa, a very touching article, I am with you in:
“At the end of the day, doesn’t matter who is correcter, we are all on a journey, we are all discovering something, learning something, learning how to be arrows of brave, meaningful love….”
I feel we are on this tiny school-planet to do just one thing: to learn how to love each other and all living beings.
Thank you, Vaios!!
As a social scientist, I'm concerned about how many of our Western leaders seem focused on undermining our civilization and harming their own countries and citizens.
I hear you. I think the real problem is that all those tendencies are baked into our civilization, so we are just seeing a logical development of the emotion on which our civilization of today has been founded. Steven Newcomb really nailed it in his work about the System of Domination. in my opinion it is one of the most precise philosophical frameworks to define what is going on.
I'll review the work of Stephen Newcomb.
His work is amazing!
start with this one https://makelanguagegreatagain.com/episodes/steven-newcomb-language-of-domination/
there's a second interview which is also worth hearing
I was about to ask. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you!!
hola, tl. this is a beautiful and powerful post about the falling apart of all authority structures. the so-called mfmers who are insisting on singular truths or solutions are themselves aligned with the very same energy structure they are ostensibly looking to defeat! yes, we have seen the enemy, it is them and we have the rightest and most righteous of truth — however defined — and everyone else's experiences are open to caustic castigation and/or the right to be killed. and so most of the mfmers within my limited purview are mostly making the exact same arguments about fixing the planet and its man-made problems as are those with the less-than-good intentions. incredible obtuseness arises when we arrogantly choose to live in our own houses and refuse to look at the mirrors life is providing us within them.
as i mentioned in the comment below to markael luterra, in a recent short trip within 12 hours i met four of the most incredible people it is possible to imagine. meeting any one of them within half a year would be memorable. at the end of 6 days that expanded to include a swiss psychologist who is close to retirement and who has in the last year begun her own wake up journey of personal responsibility and empowerment by seeing her own spelled enmeshment with narcissistic relationships. and then a young man on an airport shuttle bus who when asked what he did replied 'i'm a physicist'. with questioning, it turns out that he wasn't just a physicist, he worked at cern for 8 years. when i asked 'so, with that you likely know what the answer is to the question of the meaning of life?' he laughed. and then described that he has left cern and has spent the last 8 months walking in nature in south and latin america because he had lost all sight of who he was, what he liked, what was true for himself, etc. it was an extraordinary conversation. and then the next day by 'chance' i sat on a public bus next to a single mother who, with talking, has been discovering her personal power with yoga. so, in 7 days i experienced 7 extraordinary people, all changing the world with their own self-awareness journeys and none of them any where near even the smell of mfm.
I worry that the biggest problem is that people don't know how bad trauma can really be. I also worry that many people could read about Hell on Earth: the Holodomor, the Red Terror, the Holocaust, WW1 trenches, Comanche/Apache wars; and still focus on forcing the future they wish to see upon everyone instead of accepting or tolerating other human beings and compromising with them.
Wise, compassionate words & thoughts. It sure is a time of turmoil! Plenty of drama. Which is too exhausting to take part in. One has to just walk away from some relationships - or be walked away from. Well, both, in my own case. One has to ignore a great deal. And remain as calm & sensible & compassionate as possible. And just be our own best selves. I appreciate your words, as always, Tessa.
Thank you, Janet!!! xoxo
Tessa, I love your article, you are spot on.
I think many people have lost focus of the things that are truly important in life and replaced them with toxic mind killers.
We are turning into a failing society if nothing will change soon. A lot of what I see and hear reminds me already of what I read about the fall of the Roman Empire and their failing society.
Thank you, KD!! And yes, a declining empire feels like a declining empire, sadly!
Great piece, Tessa! What you embody is a very sound, self-conscious reflective approach. I‘d like to suggest one addition, if I may: The „Tell me, Traitor“ is a trait of not so much a MFM (Medical Freedom Movement, which by definition would be a movement of equals, self-conscious individuals) but a MFF (Medical Freedom Force, which has adopted a hierarchical structure, in which the „Hail, Ceasar“ was sounded much earlier than the inquisitorial „Tell me, Traitor“.
In this respect, the MFM never was alive. It would have stayed clear of hailing Ceasars. Asking fellow movers to explain their actions is not treason. But false Ceasars have tried to make it appear as such.
Thank you, Uwe! I hear you. And I think the situation is even more nuanced and somewhat tragic. What really drives the situation is the underlying energy, and sadly, due to what I described in the article, a lot of the asking, as well as a lot of the answering, has come from acting on unresolved emotional trauma, on both sides of many arguments. And of course, in my observation, there is only very limited correlation between who gets the bad rep and who deserves it, while the impact of psychological manipulation on different sides of many rifts, has greatly exceeded what the participants themselves perceived. It is very sad. A lot of good people have been pulled into situations where their unresolved emotional conflicts made them act badly. There is no resolution to that besides soul-searching and uttermost inner honesty, on behalf of all. The infiltrators are going to do their thing, that's their job, whatever. But all of us "goof guys" have a duty to act intelligently and not like wounded kids, publicly at least!
Brillant!
Thank you, Bugey!!
Tessa: What a fine light you've shown on truth with this: “We are all on a journey to bring the love from heaven to earth, and not spill too much. If we knew who we really are, we would know that we are fearless, meaningful and very respected arrows of love.” As for the medical freedom movement, it has always (in the period since 2020) been steered by malign forces. There are many good people who have spoken out against the past four years of deadly criminality perpetrated by government/industry, which has actually been going on for more than a century. But there are many who may appear to be good, but really aren't, and serve as a distraction and a divisive force. I long ago stopped trusting public institutions, as you surely in your experience with the Soviet system (which, oddly enough the Democrats appear to want to emulate here. Bizarre.).
"This is existential. It’s happened to every movement that was born and died before our time. It is happening right now to us because the spiritual imbalance that had been set in motion centuries ago by the metaphorical vampires is still around, and shortcuts don’t really happen in the spiritual realm."
Sums up our human situation perfectly, girlfriend - good work! To wit:
“Most solution proposals for government, ecology, economy, equality, energy, infrastructure, society, etc., that may seem conceptually viable, require an inherently impossible consensus. Current world policy appears to be fueled by a wealthy, powerful, and unaccountable Ignorati who exhibit no awareness whatsoever of how life on Earth actually succeeds. ‘What could go wrong?’ Our predicament is unprecedented. Any successful solution that matches our plight in magnitude must surely lie beyond what is currently tangible.
The most important point to be made here is that as long as we remain egocentric beings, there shall always be sociopaths and psychopaths among us, who inevitably rise to authority driven by selfishness, greed, and apathy – who then capsize their entire sphere of influence despite the best intentions of all the rest of us. This perpetual cycle can only continue its descent until we undergo the spiritual and cultural transformation available by transmuting the egocentricity at its root.”
https://bohobeau.net/2021/01/29/whole-world/
Spot on. Thank you Tessa. The unconscious coupling of tribalism/group-think dynamics along with unresolved trauma and egoic identification with one's thoughts & beliefs appears to be the perfect recipe for interpersonal reactionary dysfunction on a massive scale.
Thank you, Mark!
Tessa that's awful that you were betrayed. so was i, but ultimately it was my own fault because i didn't recognize that i was dealing with a psy-op. and maybe you were too. all this was planned out years in advance.
opportunists and grifters are always first in line to profiteer from any crisis. follow the money and you discover who's sincere and who's not.
i think that substack in particular siloes us into thinking that there is more division in the MFM than there really is. just as one example, the majority of US state governors have signed onto defending sovereignty over any diktat from the WHO. those politicians didn't do that because they're good guys, they did that because their election advisors are watching social media like a hawk and noticed how much fierce opposition to the great reset there is now.
sure, on substack and online in general there are more varieties of limited hangout than baskin-robbins but on the ground level, i see encouraging signs that point to the possibility of great unity. we can sort out all the ideological stuff later once we get rid of the cabal.
that's when the fireworks are really going to start! you think we have disagreements now? ;)
I agree, there are encouraging signs, and I think that is because of the strength of the human spirit!
I celebrate all battles won. I think the most important battle happens on the inside, and without a doubt the tyrants are gonna keep trying until they starve , which is when people refuse to generate the kind of energy that they eat.
I am not sure where the world is going but time will tell...
100%
the evil ones feed on our fear and our anger. if we stand back and chill out, they starve.
easier said than done - and i owe you for all the encouragement ;)
Thanks for the nuanced and honest take.
Movements grow when conditions are terrible. The only way to slow down movements is to improve conditions for ordinary people, as FDR and Stalin and Saddam did in different ways. There are other successful ways of improving conditions as well. A current article in Compact Mag describes those other ways fairly.
https://www.compactmag.com/article/when-states-sought-just-prices/
The author implies that "political freedom" necessarily decreases when a government forces capitalists to behave decently, but I don't think that's the real causation. When capitalists are ruthlessly constrained, people don't need or want "political freedom". It's a luxury.
Interesting, thank you for the link, Polistra! In the USSR, at least in its late stage, most people didn't care for political freedom, everybody to the best of my childhood memory was just living their lives, going to school, reading, falling in love, getting married, standing in lines every day to get something for their kids or for the home, etc.