The articles that appear on OG could have been written months ago. My deal with them is that I submit articles that have already been published here on Shrew Views ...so yes, often it can be months off. Sometimes it is closer to the original Shrew Views publication date...sometimes, if really timely, I will write something that gets published on OG first before on Shrew Views. And often the articles on OG have been edited if the article seems outdated or if there is new information on the topic.
I am out in the woods right now, so I will read your link later...but no, I don't think it is the parents and grandparents' fault their kids and grandkids don't think for themselves...in some cases, I do think the family environment has a lot to do with making it easier for the agenda to get to these kids' hearts and minds, but often the parents are very aware of what is going on and can't do a thing about it.
If you, or anyone, were a shrew when raising kids, I think you did the best you could do. And even if you were a shrew, the agenda is sneaky and slippery...you send them off to school every morning, and they are out of your hands...that's where most of the damage was done in the past...and it was subtle...I think the institutions (schools) and the people working in them were not even aware of what "bad" stuff was going on...and of course now it is primarily social media that is doing the dirty work...and the schools have for the most part been captured with the woke cancer....so who knows...it is a mess.
I have experienced this same phenomenon - it has deteriorated meaningfully in the last 20 years. If it wasn’t for Covid, I would still be clinging to my romantic view of average human behavior. It is the silver lining - the sheeple outed themselves is grand peacocking fashion. This is very helpful information.
There's a direct correlation between faith in God and CSF. The higher the faith in our Creator the higher the CSF. This is because our Creator endows each of us with the gift of discernment. Those of us who trust his infinite wisdom will rely on his greatest gift he endowed us with to protect us from a world of illusion and deceit. Those of us who don't end up placing our trust in "experts" or our own reasoning that is misinformed and easily duped by "experts."
We are witnessing, experiencing the diminished capacity of the population we live among to practice common sense. That directly correlates with the diminished population of those who have faith in God, and their own, innate discernment, that expresses itself as Common Sense.
I think you pretty much nailed it here. One of the agenda's first focuses was on destroying faith in God. If people have faith and a belief in God, it is much more difficult to control them...when that faith and belief is gone, as Carl Jung said, it will be transferred "somewhere"...so it gets transferred to authority, to science, to "experts"...it is quite fascinating when you think about it. Horrifying, but fascinating as well.
I love to quote this that Carl Jung said about God, which relates to your comment about "placing trust in experts and not in God."
"The idea of an all-powerful divine Being is present everywhere, unconsciously if not consciously, because it is an archetype. There is in the psyche some superior power, and if it is not consciously a god, it is the "belly" at least, in St. Paul's words. I therefore consider it wiser to acknowledge the idea of God consciously, for, if we do not, something else is made God, usually something quite inappropriate and stupid such as only an "enlightened" intellect could hatch forth."
The passage is from The Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 11: Psychology and Religion: West and East (paragraph 110, from the Terry Lectures, 1937).
Not only destroyed it culturally, with academia and entertainment dismissive and mocking of religion, destroying it legally with court rulings rewriting the Constitution's 'separation of religion' to 'separation from religion,' but ensuring their success by installing Atheists atop the major world's faiths with a religious hierarchy that is subservient, not separate and equal to the state.
The Catholic and Protestant Churches led by Atheists. Pope Francis = Atheist. King Charles = Atheist. Pope Leo = Atheist (not as glaringly Atheistic as his predecessor...yet...but common sense informs, he was chosen by the same Atheists in the church that supported the Atheist Francis.)
Religion destroyed from within and without. A prerequisite to sustain a centralized authoritarian state, world. Centralized authority cannot exist with a separate coequal authority. Is why communists banned religion. Before they decided people need their spiritual opiates, the traditions of religion without the precepts and tenets of religion that contradict state authority. CCP China allows the hollow shell of religion today. The same hollowing out of religion we see in the US and West today. Subservient to the state. The Plandemic demonstrated how subservient to the state they already are.
Wow...this is the first I am hearing the Catholic Popes are atheist...doesn't surprise me. Point in the direction of some literature, books, etc. about this...
And I'll go back to that Common Sense Factor. Pope Benedict's papacy was overthrown. A clerical coup d'etat. Unprecedented. Just so happened to be timed with Obama administration reelection. The Marxist revolutionary president...with strategic patience. Dropped time bombs everywhere in the government, coordination with state and local, corporate board governance infiltration, academia in lockstep. And then Francis deposed. Installed the long-time Latin American Che Guevara Marxist revolutionary in White Robe as Pope. Marxists are Atheists. Ergo, CSF says the Catholic Church is controlled by Atheists today.
We know Charles is, lots of hand-wringing in the UK press about how problematic his ascension to the throne would be just a few years before QE died. They overcame those problems by pretending he's not really an Atheist.
As for the Pope's, you won't find much press about it. I base my declaration on their deeds, not words. And note the many insults and injuries to the faith, core values, beliefs and traditions swept aside in the name of modernity. Many Catholic values have been completely contradicted and overturned, repugnant to Catholicism, not small things. The Church is captured by Marxist globalists. Who are skin-suiting it by adopting its outward appearance, its skin, while the insides are turned into a demonic, Satanic playground, adding insult to injury.
Many of the folks that I know and “ assumed “ had superior IQs were amongst the most “captured” during the great pandemic …..falling all over themselves to be in compliance with the “experts”. It was an eye opener for me to realize how moronic they actually were ! I continue to be astounded at how tone deaf they were and wonder to this day why I ever admired them ! No we are not safe but it will only be those who have common sense who will have a chance .
Typically, in our weird culture, high-IQ people tend to immerse themselves in the "ways of the culture" in order to put their smartness to good use...they become doctors, lawyers, CEOs, financial gurus, etc, by complying with the morés of the culture—socially, academically (when in school), nearly everything by the book—to get to the "best" universities, get the best jobs, etc. You can't be a renegade or a maverick or a free thinker and get the high spots the culture has to offer. Of course, there are some very notable exceptions to this...and in fact, probably the HIGHEST acheivers are exceptions...Musk, Gates, Bezos, etc...These exceptions may LOOK like they are conformists, but I bet they are not, they are at the top, and are part of the agenda!
Agree with most of the article. On the other hand, I am convinced that part of the problem with those who blindly follow "the agenda" is precisely that they are always in great fear of "the worst". The official agenda is that you have to follow their orders because otherwise, humankind will be doomed to "the worst". I am almost 72, and all my life I have been hearing predictions of "the worst": the planet was going to freeze, now the polar caps are going to melt and Florida will sink. The ozone layer was going to dissappear and everybody would die of skin cancer. Covid was the worst pandemic and everyone would die unless everyone got "vaccinated". Maybe "the worst" will happen after I die. In the meantime, I refuse to live in fear of "the worst".
What you describe is definitely an agenda practice...they have been using it for quite a while. But it is also part of human nature to think the boogeyman is always around the corner. Drama is always more interesting than good times.
I too assumed most people were pretty smart, and as a child I assumed you grew smarter as you aged. As a child I also assumed that the kids who were greedy, spiteful and mean bullies would gradually became honest, kind and decent adults. What a disappointment.
I think you nailed it with the "lack of curiosity" comment...I think I wrote an article about that a while back...maybe a couple of times. But I think that really is it...the lazy idea fits too...people are so overwhelmed with the "instant gratification" drive that anything that takes any effort is ignored.
150 IQ??? Wow!! You are damn smart!! When I was in grade 8, I think they did a standard IQ evaluation for all the students. I believe I was 145 or thereabouts (I could easily be wrong with this memory, because I can't imagine that I had that high an IQ; I am NOT that smart). I would say I am closer to average, MAYBE a tad higher). Anyway, I do recall my mother telling me that number; I had no idea what it meant, but it made a bit of a hoopla because my grades were so bad (I graduated HS with a 1.2 average!). The admin at the school couldn't figure it out; they called my mom in for a special consultation, totally perplexed why a kid with that high an IQ would be doing so poorly academically. Gee...I wonder why???
Wow, sounds so much like my story. Although I was lucky early on to find something I was passionate about...went from a 1.2 HS average to Magna Cum Laude graduate from conservatory...I was passionate about music. But didn't need that formal education in Hollywood...did that insanity for 30 years, then went back to school when my first wife died...at 48 yo...got my masters and PhD in psychology. Loved it all.
I think George Carlin spelled it out quite eloquently and succinctly, if a tad bluntly.
"I have certain rules I live by. My first rule: I don’t believe anything the government tells me. Sooner or later the people in this country are going to realize: the government does not give a fuck about them. The government doesn’t care about you, or your children, or your rights, or your welfare, or your safety. It simply doesn’t give a fuck about you. It’s interested in its own power. That’s the only thing, keeping it and expanding it wherever possible.”
Yes, when I was younger I hated Carlin's arrogance...now I think he was a genius. It is true that I never believed his "first rule" until now. And if you don't believe it, it is very hard to give any credence to what we are seeing. I always thought that government had good intentions...and if things went wrong, like CIA blunders, etc, it was always due to some rogue element in the government. Now I know better.
After reading your post Todd, maybe before covid you (we) weren't forced to see what was happening. Then the plandemic hit and the blinders fell from your (our) eyes because common sense forced an awakening. It is interesting that it's called common sense because from my viewpoint, it isn't that common by the looks of things.
Growing up, people developed their own conclusions because common sense was their 'survival meter'. Now people are so brainwashed by the public education system, the universities, and of course, mainstream media and all the public institutions (control grids). Therefore, thinking for oneself is a forgotten art. The Agenda = Control.
Totally agree. I think one big factor is that in the old days people depended more on their common sense to stay alive. The world was not as complicated then, and you couldn't just lean back and trust, or even expect, whether you "trusted" or not, for the community systems in place to take care of you.
If you experienced a snow storm that blocked you in, the city or town would not necessarily be sending a plow to shovel you out of danger. If you got sick, there wasn't necessarily a doctor within a day's travel to treat you...your utter survival was dependent on your knowledge, your common sense, sometimes your intuition, etc.
Now people assume most things, at least for survival, are "taken care of"...the grocery store shelves are always stocked, there is always water coming out of the tap, etc. So people don't "worry"...they have too many other things to occupy their brain cells...like who they are going to party with this weekend, what video game they are playing, what fancy car they can buy next, how much money they can make if they play their cards right...
I agree with all your points. I have said it many times, "In days ago, if a barn burned down, your community helped to rebuild". These days it is, "When is the government sending help?". So we have been conditioned to wait and want and then we wonder why many of the younger generation is often waiting to be saved. It is called indoctrination.
What a pity that something you wrote on the 16th of June only appears in Off-G on the 2nd of August. Please check my comment there Todd.
Many thanks as always for your astute observations and non-pugnacious attitude.
Owen.
The articles that appear on OG could have been written months ago. My deal with them is that I submit articles that have already been published here on Shrew Views ...so yes, often it can be months off. Sometimes it is closer to the original Shrew Views publication date...sometimes, if really timely, I will write something that gets published on OG first before on Shrew Views. And often the articles on OG have been edited if the article seems outdated or if there is new information on the topic.
Ah, I understand, thank you. I did see your response on OG. I will respond there appropriately tomorrow for completeness (It's late here in Ireland).
Many thanks, I love and appreciate how your essays prompt both reason and emotion in excellent balance.
A prayer your way Todd.
Wow, Owen...thank you for that...the compliment, and the prayer...Ireland...wow.
Still thinking about this. If our kids and grandkids don’t think for themselves, that’s our fault, right?
Or is it more personality?
And read this-
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/critical-mass-in-the-echo-chamber?
I am out in the woods right now, so I will read your link later...but no, I don't think it is the parents and grandparents' fault their kids and grandkids don't think for themselves...in some cases, I do think the family environment has a lot to do with making it easier for the agenda to get to these kids' hearts and minds, but often the parents are very aware of what is going on and can't do a thing about it.
If you, or anyone, were a shrew when raising kids, I think you did the best you could do. And even if you were a shrew, the agenda is sneaky and slippery...you send them off to school every morning, and they are out of your hands...that's where most of the damage was done in the past...and it was subtle...I think the institutions (schools) and the people working in them were not even aware of what "bad" stuff was going on...and of course now it is primarily social media that is doing the dirty work...and the schools have for the most part been captured with the woke cancer....so who knows...it is a mess.
Enjoy the earth beneath your feet and the sky overhead. Healing to the soul
Yes
I have experienced this same phenomenon - it has deteriorated meaningfully in the last 20 years. If it wasn’t for Covid, I would still be clinging to my romantic view of average human behavior. It is the silver lining - the sheeple outed themselves is grand peacocking fashion. This is very helpful information.
I feel exactly the same way...
There's a direct correlation between faith in God and CSF. The higher the faith in our Creator the higher the CSF. This is because our Creator endows each of us with the gift of discernment. Those of us who trust his infinite wisdom will rely on his greatest gift he endowed us with to protect us from a world of illusion and deceit. Those of us who don't end up placing our trust in "experts" or our own reasoning that is misinformed and easily duped by "experts."
We are witnessing, experiencing the diminished capacity of the population we live among to practice common sense. That directly correlates with the diminished population of those who have faith in God, and their own, innate discernment, that expresses itself as Common Sense.
I think you pretty much nailed it here. One of the agenda's first focuses was on destroying faith in God. If people have faith and a belief in God, it is much more difficult to control them...when that faith and belief is gone, as Carl Jung said, it will be transferred "somewhere"...so it gets transferred to authority, to science, to "experts"...it is quite fascinating when you think about it. Horrifying, but fascinating as well.
I love to quote this that Carl Jung said about God, which relates to your comment about "placing trust in experts and not in God."
"The idea of an all-powerful divine Being is present everywhere, unconsciously if not consciously, because it is an archetype. There is in the psyche some superior power, and if it is not consciously a god, it is the "belly" at least, in St. Paul's words. I therefore consider it wiser to acknowledge the idea of God consciously, for, if we do not, something else is made God, usually something quite inappropriate and stupid such as only an "enlightened" intellect could hatch forth."
The passage is from The Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 11: Psychology and Religion: West and East (paragraph 110, from the Terry Lectures, 1937).
Not only destroyed it culturally, with academia and entertainment dismissive and mocking of religion, destroying it legally with court rulings rewriting the Constitution's 'separation of religion' to 'separation from religion,' but ensuring their success by installing Atheists atop the major world's faiths with a religious hierarchy that is subservient, not separate and equal to the state.
The Catholic and Protestant Churches led by Atheists. Pope Francis = Atheist. King Charles = Atheist. Pope Leo = Atheist (not as glaringly Atheistic as his predecessor...yet...but common sense informs, he was chosen by the same Atheists in the church that supported the Atheist Francis.)
Religion destroyed from within and without. A prerequisite to sustain a centralized authoritarian state, world. Centralized authority cannot exist with a separate coequal authority. Is why communists banned religion. Before they decided people need their spiritual opiates, the traditions of religion without the precepts and tenets of religion that contradict state authority. CCP China allows the hollow shell of religion today. The same hollowing out of religion we see in the US and West today. Subservient to the state. The Plandemic demonstrated how subservient to the state they already are.
Wow...this is the first I am hearing the Catholic Popes are atheist...doesn't surprise me. Point in the direction of some literature, books, etc. about this...
And I'll go back to that Common Sense Factor. Pope Benedict's papacy was overthrown. A clerical coup d'etat. Unprecedented. Just so happened to be timed with Obama administration reelection. The Marxist revolutionary president...with strategic patience. Dropped time bombs everywhere in the government, coordination with state and local, corporate board governance infiltration, academia in lockstep. And then Francis deposed. Installed the long-time Latin American Che Guevara Marxist revolutionary in White Robe as Pope. Marxists are Atheists. Ergo, CSF says the Catholic Church is controlled by Atheists today.
Oops, meant Benedict, not Francis, edited correction.
We know Charles is, lots of hand-wringing in the UK press about how problematic his ascension to the throne would be just a few years before QE died. They overcame those problems by pretending he's not really an Atheist.
As for the Pope's, you won't find much press about it. I base my declaration on their deeds, not words. And note the many insults and injuries to the faith, core values, beliefs and traditions swept aside in the name of modernity. Many Catholic values have been completely contradicted and overturned, repugnant to Catholicism, not small things. The Church is captured by Marxist globalists. Who are skin-suiting it by adopting its outward appearance, its skin, while the insides are turned into a demonic, Satanic playground, adding insult to injury.
I think common sense went out the window a long time ago.
Yep
Many of the folks that I know and “ assumed “ had superior IQs were amongst the most “captured” during the great pandemic …..falling all over themselves to be in compliance with the “experts”. It was an eye opener for me to realize how moronic they actually were ! I continue to be astounded at how tone deaf they were and wonder to this day why I ever admired them ! No we are not safe but it will only be those who have common sense who will have a chance .
Typically, in our weird culture, high-IQ people tend to immerse themselves in the "ways of the culture" in order to put their smartness to good use...they become doctors, lawyers, CEOs, financial gurus, etc, by complying with the morés of the culture—socially, academically (when in school), nearly everything by the book—to get to the "best" universities, get the best jobs, etc. You can't be a renegade or a maverick or a free thinker and get the high spots the culture has to offer. Of course, there are some very notable exceptions to this...and in fact, probably the HIGHEST acheivers are exceptions...Musk, Gates, Bezos, etc...These exceptions may LOOK like they are conformists, but I bet they are not, they are at the top, and are part of the agenda!
Agree with most of the article. On the other hand, I am convinced that part of the problem with those who blindly follow "the agenda" is precisely that they are always in great fear of "the worst". The official agenda is that you have to follow their orders because otherwise, humankind will be doomed to "the worst". I am almost 72, and all my life I have been hearing predictions of "the worst": the planet was going to freeze, now the polar caps are going to melt and Florida will sink. The ozone layer was going to dissappear and everybody would die of skin cancer. Covid was the worst pandemic and everyone would die unless everyone got "vaccinated". Maybe "the worst" will happen after I die. In the meantime, I refuse to live in fear of "the worst".
What you describe is definitely an agenda practice...they have been using it for quite a while. But it is also part of human nature to think the boogeyman is always around the corner. Drama is always more interesting than good times.
I too assumed most people were pretty smart, and as a child I assumed you grew smarter as you aged. As a child I also assumed that the kids who were greedy, spiteful and mean bullies would gradually became honest, kind and decent adults. What a disappointment.
Yes, some definitely do not, but I have experienced a few who did mature with age...
Very true. Why do so many not hit pause when told there’s no need to figure things out for themselves?
When I was younger, I had an “IQ” of 150. Housewife and stay-at-home mom. We homeschooled most of our kids. Nothing unusual about me.
But I could see the lack of common sense in the population and wondered why.
I would ask my kids, “Does that make sense?”
The biggest problem that I can see is the lack of curiosity. So much of the population does not wonder why and does not ask—does that make sense.
Is it just laziness? Most empires fall apart when the people become satisfied and lazy
I think you nailed it with the "lack of curiosity" comment...I think I wrote an article about that a while back...maybe a couple of times. But I think that really is it...the lazy idea fits too...people are so overwhelmed with the "instant gratification" drive that anything that takes any effort is ignored.
150 IQ??? Wow!! You are damn smart!! When I was in grade 8, I think they did a standard IQ evaluation for all the students. I believe I was 145 or thereabouts (I could easily be wrong with this memory, because I can't imagine that I had that high an IQ; I am NOT that smart). I would say I am closer to average, MAYBE a tad higher). Anyway, I do recall my mother telling me that number; I had no idea what it meant, but it made a bit of a hoopla because my grades were so bad (I graduated HS with a 1.2 average!). The admin at the school couldn't figure it out; they called my mom in for a special consultation, totally perplexed why a kid with that high an IQ would be doing so poorly academically. Gee...I wonder why???
Yep. I struggled in high school also, and they called my mother in to express their frustration Lol
Poor Mom. She was so intelligent and couldn’t understand why I didn’t try harder. She knew I did well when I was interested.
Finally went to college in my early 50’s, after my kids were finished with school. Loved it. Maturity helps…
Wow, sounds so much like my story. Although I was lucky early on to find something I was passionate about...went from a 1.2 HS average to Magna Cum Laude graduate from conservatory...I was passionate about music. But didn't need that formal education in Hollywood...did that insanity for 30 years, then went back to school when my first wife died...at 48 yo...got my masters and PhD in psychology. Loved it all.
I think George Carlin spelled it out quite eloquently and succinctly, if a tad bluntly.
"I have certain rules I live by. My first rule: I don’t believe anything the government tells me. Sooner or later the people in this country are going to realize: the government does not give a fuck about them. The government doesn’t care about you, or your children, or your rights, or your welfare, or your safety. It simply doesn’t give a fuck about you. It’s interested in its own power. That’s the only thing, keeping it and expanding it wherever possible.”
Yes, when I was younger I hated Carlin's arrogance...now I think he was a genius. It is true that I never believed his "first rule" until now. And if you don't believe it, it is very hard to give any credence to what we are seeing. I always thought that government had good intentions...and if things went wrong, like CIA blunders, etc, it was always due to some rogue element in the government. Now I know better.
One must first believe in their own immortality and that there’s an ever present force with ill intentions
Sadly, or I should say, frighteningly, this is true.
After reading your post Todd, maybe before covid you (we) weren't forced to see what was happening. Then the plandemic hit and the blinders fell from your (our) eyes because common sense forced an awakening. It is interesting that it's called common sense because from my viewpoint, it isn't that common by the looks of things.
Growing up, people developed their own conclusions because common sense was their 'survival meter'. Now people are so brainwashed by the public education system, the universities, and of course, mainstream media and all the public institutions (control grids). Therefore, thinking for oneself is a forgotten art. The Agenda = Control.
Totally agree. I think one big factor is that in the old days people depended more on their common sense to stay alive. The world was not as complicated then, and you couldn't just lean back and trust, or even expect, whether you "trusted" or not, for the community systems in place to take care of you.
If you experienced a snow storm that blocked you in, the city or town would not necessarily be sending a plow to shovel you out of danger. If you got sick, there wasn't necessarily a doctor within a day's travel to treat you...your utter survival was dependent on your knowledge, your common sense, sometimes your intuition, etc.
Now people assume most things, at least for survival, are "taken care of"...the grocery store shelves are always stocked, there is always water coming out of the tap, etc. So people don't "worry"...they have too many other things to occupy their brain cells...like who they are going to party with this weekend, what video game they are playing, what fancy car they can buy next, how much money they can make if they play their cards right...
I agree with all your points. I have said it many times, "In days ago, if a barn burned down, your community helped to rebuild". These days it is, "When is the government sending help?". So we have been conditioned to wait and want and then we wonder why many of the younger generation is often waiting to be saved. It is called indoctrination.