Very nice article, thanks for writing. It arrived by way of Frontnieuws.com in the Netherlands, nicely translated in Dutch.
I believe these people you write about are not "sheep." They are simply heartless and cold, devoid of a connection to the Source, and there are millions of them. Instead of showing a tiny bit of interest in the heartfelt and valid concerns of a humble fellow human, they act worse than stupid sheep. They intellectualize the reality of the dire state of affairs with their selfrighteous stalemate negations of it and expect you to follow suit, on top of it. This response, in and of itself, is testimony to their own callous and predatory nature, like the oppressors', but it satisfies their vanity for a sense of superiority over others, and that is what matters to them - to feel superior. In the end, though, they too are mere prey to the predators they revere, without ever realizing it. Human self-extermination at work. But I would not want to sit at the same table with these heartless cretins that actively endorse predation without question, so why bother, only to get clobbered and disappointed by these people each time? If only they were stupid sheep, you could at least feel sorry for them, and some of them you can actually reach... but vain and heartless people will never see the light and they will never appreciate your efforts to shine the light to prevent detriment to the fabric of our society and our human integrity. But please keep writing about this topic! It's very important that you keep planting this seed again and again, especially when it gets glyphosated by the heartless all the time. Much respect for your stamina!
Very well put, and I admire you "telling it like it is"...I have had more experience with this arrogant, righteous, nastiness than with innocence and victimhood due to weakness...most have been quite mean.
Why do you continue to tolerate it, Todd? I mean continuing to put yourself in situations where you either can’t speak at all or are humiliated when you do?
‘Tis why David Icke calls it the “totalitarian tiptoe”. I don’t plan on sitting around in ignorant bliss only to realize that, suddenly, the world has changed.
Neither do you, by the sound of it.
We can only do what we can do and hope they catch on…preferably sooner rather than later.
The ‘subtleties’ you write of exist, but so much more is not subtle.
I can only speak to what I’ve witnessed in Canada— and have ‘receipts’ to prove of these non-subtleties:
-inflation across the board: food, services, utilities, and fuel
-an affordability crisis for housing and lodging
-interest rates climbing on loans of any kind
-record profits for banks and their associated insurance companies
-a general deterioration of peoples’ health—both physical and mental—since the Covid-19 era began
-money-laundering operations involving the ‘battle’ against Covid-19
-a strange fixation with and normalization of online gambling
-companies/governments across the nation being legally allowed to downsize their workforce and terminate employees with no repercussions based on Covid-19 injection status
-science being ‘weaponized’ against the public to create fear, division, and tax revenue streams ( e.g. ‘Climate change’, wildfires, drought are all the fault of our citizens— and you will pay for it—-literally and figuratively)
-Canadians being divided further by race, gender, and class to meet DEI and ESG goals and funding for governments and corporations
March 2020 was the beginning of a type of coup—economic and societal—-targeting the middle-class of the West, and probably having effects across the world making millions impoverished—-and our media will never report it. The rich got richer, and the poor poorer across the planet.
The ‘sheep’ will not change. Their world-view of the West cannot be shattered.
Life as they know it will be too difficult to live if they see some truths which have been illuminated since March of 2020.
Oh yes, most of it is not at all subtle. But again, the masses do not see it as a problem...only a "that's just the way it is" sort of issue...and a "it's always been a problem"...
Mark Twain...summed it up ages ago " its far easier to fool people..than to convince them that they have been Fooled" The Intellectual-ego' (which starts building early in life) will almost never allow even a brick to be removed from... " this is the World I know is out there Wall " which they truly Accept and BELIEVE...! keep up the good work amigo,aloha
Successful head girls, male and female, presume that they will alway know what to say or do to be on the side of the strongest. They always did, and they always won.
"you won’t ever fall out of line, will you? You have nothing to worry about."
Exactly.
They would NEVER be the sort of deplorable person who ends up publishing on Substack instead of the New Yorker.
They might have married one but you know... it's just a hobby... he/she doesn't really meant it... he/she will come around.
And yes.
It's that easy making sheep believe there were always that many cardiac problems in relatively young people.
Wolves in sheep clothing. ! When I say anything against the narrative, I am not so politely considered an Outlier and am done with, and assumed wrong no matter the evidence. Things will not continue as normal as most of the population is now physically compromised and brain washed to boot. Look out fellow "Wheezy"!
When this sort of thing takes place in a society, you can pretty much write it off. It is one thing to ignore a single person of dubious nature standing on the street corner proclaiming the end is nigh, but when you ignore hundreds of thousands of people, scientists, doctors, etc. that something is clearly amiss....there is something very rotten at the core.
When I dare to engage with “sheep” (Norms & Karen's as I refer to them as…apologies to all Norm’s & Karen's who are not sheep) to help prove my case I address easily proven most pressing issues such as
1 > the undeniable systematic censorship.. especially online shadow banning
2 > bring up Humanitarian Names like Assange, Snowden, Manning, Kiriakou, Swartz +++ it's an extensive ever growing list which sadly far too many are unable to accurately recite the narratives behind each Case…heck, as far as Norm's & Karen's go…they're hard pressed to even say they've heard of ANY of these brave Souls, Swartz of course transitioned years ago
3 > then I close with undeniable, irrefutable science which remains heavily censored > Nobel deserving Science presenting isolation that was released gratis into Public Domain 25 years ago > Carnicom Institute Research proves beyond doubt there is an ongoing attack on the DNA of ALL Life > Transhumanist based endocrine disruptors & neurotoxins continue showing up in blood samples of the unjabbed > not only Carnicom with these findings but now over the last few years since the mystery virus Psyop We see several other well qualified Scientists & Drs release similar findings > ask the Norm's & Karen's in your life to research & consider the 3 narratives cited above & get back to You with their take on these most concerning Issues.
The vaccine issue for my 2 shekels is 1 of numerous distractions > exactly what the White Collar Criminal's who're running the Transhumanist show want you arguing over…voluntary exposure > whereas the systematic attack on DNA is involuntary & appears to be biowarfare based.
Perhaps when the Masses begin to focus on these Issues more so, truly meaningful & effective progress will become reality > until then, stay strong and keep spreading the seeds of awareness, especially to those who remain clueless to the plight of Humanity.
My grandfather lived his whole life in anticipation of the next Great Depression. It never came, even though he prepared himself by reading books by Harry Browne and stock piling gold bullion. A lot of people have lived as preppers for decades waiting for the event to justify their excessive food and gun storage. There have been terrible events over the years, but not the big one. Will it happen? Probably. Can we predict when? Probably not. I like to live by keeping my eyes and mind open, but living as if everything is okay. Because it is. Today.
This is an example of the primary argument against shrews today...that what we are "predicting" has always been predicted and has simply never happened. There is some truth to this position. Will the age of "1984" come to be as Orwell laid out? It is hard to say. But Covid was a game changer. Never before has such a massive lie been so thoroughly carried out.
In essence what has been predicted for decades is actually happening on a very large scale. It is to the agenda's advantage to keep the wool over our eyes as long as possible. They can do this, and keep us "happy" (ala "Brave New World") as they eliminate excess population (in 50 years we will probably be at half the global population and no one will be the wiser as to how that happened, people will be hypnotized by the latest technology, AI, virtual gaming, drugs, etc. No one will care.)
My father was the same - lived his whole life in fear and anticipation of another war (he survived the 2nd World War) and managed to terrorize all 3 of his children. It didn't happen in his lifetime, what a waste! But now I wonder if I am repeating his 'programming'. I don't believe I am. I am not 'looking' for trouble, but I am 'seeing' as Todd so perfectly expresses it, but that's exactly what my father thought.... it's so difficult to attempt to be sane in an insane world, it really is hard work, (with pretty much every thought), isn't it?
Although it is certainly still possible to have another great war (but if that happens it is certain to wipe us ALL out) the "warfare" of today is not as obvious. This is what all of us are seeing...and it is very real.
Remember the "neutron bomb"...whatever happened to that thing? A bomb with the kill rate of a nuclear warhead but only kills people and leaves all structures intact. The world has been hit with one of those...but the kill effect takes time...lots of time.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." Shrews see the sickness and that is why we don't adjust to it. We just pretend to sometimes to be the gray man, so we don't get our heads chopped off. It does take incredible strength of mind to stay sane, but I refuse to be defeated by the insane. It's like they carry a distortion field around them, and whenever you interact with them, you feel the craziness. Certain contemplative types like poets, mystics, sages and shrews see the long view. It is a gift. Although it sometimes feels like the stupid and gullible are happier, I would never trade knowing for not knowing.
You asking me? I am too old to really worry about it. If it gets to the point where I need guns, tons of gold stashed away, barrels of beans buried in the back yard, I am not so sure I would want to survive that. If I were younger it would be kind of an adventure and I would find a like minded community where I could be of help for the survival of a group of people. I also have the problem that my wife is not on board, and I am first dedicated to her, at my own demise if it calls for that.
I do have a few things in place as long as it doesn't get too bad. For one thing I am taking gun lessons! Not sure what good that would do (particularly in Canada, I am taking the lessons in Virginia). But I think if things turned a certain way maybe that skill will have some use...or maybe I just like the idea and false comfort I am doing "something" to prepare...
I was a girl guide, so yes, I live by the Be Prepared motto. Cash on hand is a good idea because if the grid goes down, ATM's don't work. A survival guide from the 1970's called the Alpha Strategy suggests buying in bulk the things you will use for years. At the very least, you save money by avoiding future inflation.
Yes, this makes sense. I think it is important to take the attitude that if things went south even a little bit, it would be better to be prepared. It is not an "all or nothing" proposition. I don't think the supply chain or the internet (grid) will just stop and stay that way forever. So if you can get through the down times you will be better off.
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. It is real, and it would be easier if we didn’t know.
But we do know, and we can’t pretend we don’t.
I remember in the late 70’s, a high school boy died in football practice of an undiagnosed heart condition. (They started football practice in August before school started and it was California hot) Someone involved with the school told me. That’s the only one I’ve ever heard of
Yes, of course isolated incidents like that have always happened. But to excuse a rash of school yard deaths, hundreds, if not thousands, because back in 1975 some poor kid had a congenital heart condition and died on the playing field at 17, is just plain stupid. And that is what it seems people are doing.
I experienced one friend death in high school...a car accident. His fault. And he took out three other innocent people as a result of his reckless, probably drunk, driving. Ironically I was supposed to be with him, but he never showed up to pick me up. Maybe I could have prevented it, or maybe I would have died with him. The mysteries of life.
Up until 2021, that was the only one I ever heard of. Kids don’t just die. These kids are being murdered.
What gets me is the confusion sheep express about why all of this is happening. Like they have no idea that something completely weird is going on and maybe they should wonder about it.
The powers that be have kept society moving along, seemingly "normal", while they work on the Pandemic Agreement, NOT a treaty which needs to be ratified by our legislature. An Agreement just requires the president's signature. When that happens, the mask comes off, we lose our sovereignty to the WHO/UN as they will be able to declare "pandemics" with no proof, forced vaccinations on the world populations, lockdowns, etc. My guess is that many of the so-called "migrants" are actually UN troops, ready to enforce the WHO agenda. Then it will turn into a mass depopulation agenda, which is the globalists dream. Perhaps our legislators think they will not have to go along, but they are viewed the same as the rest of the population, expendable. Time to wake them up!!!!
The point of the agenda is to centralize government, centralize control. It is just easier for them that way. And what better method of getting the billions of earth's inhabitants to go along with that agenda than telling them they have to centralize control in order to better protect people from the unseen viruses soon to invade the world. It is a brilliant method, although a little shocking it is that easy to pull off. But the ease the people succumb to all this is a result of decades of careful conditioning...
I know what you mean. I just keep my mouth shut unless someone ask me a question about the whole mess. Like, why didn't you get vaccinated, wear a mask, etc.
But for the most part they don’t ask, do they? That’s my experience anyway. And the folks I did talk to in the very beginning who I know are vaxed, they don’t bring it up, it’s like they deliberately avoid any mention of Covid, the vax, masking, social distancing, etc. It’s very strange indeed
I have no close friends locally who are shrews. I am living a somewhat strange life…similar to Todd, in that everything seems “normal”….day to to day. All of my friends here are in the sheep category…I hate to label them in that way because they are similar to Todd’s people…they are educated, well spoken, aware of current events, etc. At the beginning of the “pandemic” I voiced my views and they considered these views as totally “wrong.” But they were respectful in disagreeing with me (unlike my former older and best friend of 50 years who no longer speaks to me).However, they never questioned why I had these certain views…what or who were my resources. So from that moment on…because I am not one of the most courageous of shrews, I never brought those subjects up again. If someone does say something blatantly untrue from all I have studied, I will counter with a remark. But strangely, as Todd has mentioned in previous articles, no one asks why did I say that particular thing. So I meander on…the folks I just mentioned are good friends…dependable friends. I know if I kept bringing up certain truths that perhaps they would no longer be friends. And they are all vaccinated so that limits me in what I might say now. Of course, I certainly do not feel as connected to them as years ago. I have my in-depth conversations with out of town shrew buddies.
Yes, very well said. And from the stories you have told me, you have been pretty brave and have never been a push over when it mattered.
I do not have friends who are sheep...I have very friends as it is since I moved away from my huge friend base in LA...never re-created a friend base here in Canada. And by the time I was here long enough to really start doing that Covid hit. I lost all my friends in LA (most of them) so I don't really interface with sheep...other than my wife and a few other close people in my life that I will not abandon. I have learned a TON from my wife, I NEVER discuss any of this with her, but I see her reaction to things through the sheep eye....
Same situation here -- not one person has EVER asked me why I didn't go along or what I had read or seen that they hadn't read or seen. For "smart" people they have been incredibly incurious. Is it merely laziness or fear of being cast out of the "in" group? I listened to two podcasts this weekend with two of my favourite public intellectuals -- Gad Saad and Peter Boghossian -- and both said basically the same thing about what surprises them most about humans. It's the inability to adjust one's beliefs in light of new evidence. Sheep are impervious to evidence that disrupts their worldview and lack what Boghossian calls epistemic humility. If you don't have the time or inclination to study and do the work, you ought to be far less wedded to your beliefs. The sheep have zero epistemic humility. I have always been careful, when asked for my view on a subject, to be honest about the degree to which my opinion is informed. When the Russia/Ukraine war started I had no opinion because I knew I was ignorant of the history that led up to it. I did some basic reading and listened to people I respect and formed an opinion, but I have never held on to it for dear life and have always been open to changing my opinion in light of new information.
I no longer refer to these "educated" sheep as smart. The blue collar guys I had do some work around the house a few years ago were not educated but were far smarter, more curious, and aware than all of my friends and family with degrees.
Don't say you're not courageous because you keep quiet around your sheep friends! It's a fool's errand because they have no epistemic humility and are not open to evidence that disrupts their narrative. You were courageous for not going along with it all and we'll be courageous again if need be.
Yes, no epistemic humility...that is something that was drummed into us in dissertation class. We must always remain open to ALL contrary ideas, to at least visit them and consider them. I have tried to live by the adage, "consider everything, believe nothing"...there are definitely some things I truly believe, but not much.
"not one person has EVER asked me why I didn't go along or what I had read or seen that they hadn't read or seen. For "smart" people they have been incredibly incurious."
This has been my experience as well, and I just can't accept the simple reasons such as people just not willing to shatter their "safe" worldview and belief system. It just seems more complicated than that...
I’ve been unable to stay in contact with brainwashed friends. I don’t respect them and I feel their compliance makes the nonsense possible. Most are PhD scientists in the biological sciences. They have the training to see every lie. And yet seem to be hypnotized to nonsense.
Somehow I feel I should keep in contact with my friends. Even though we are so completely on different sides of the fence, a connection with them seems like anything is possible. Let me quickly say, I don’t have any innocent expectation of them changing their minds…but I still think staying within that circle is important.
It depends on how close you were when the axe fell. It is relatively easy to stay with sheep friends as long as you keep your mouth shut when conversation drifts to vaccines, run away cancer, other friends who have died, masks, etc.
I have resumed relationships with friends who ghosted us but it's not the same. I can't ever trust them again but we can still enjoy each other's company -- so long as we don't "go there" which is easy because everyone knows the ground rules. You're right about not having expectations of them changing, and so if you can accept them as they are there's nothing wrong with keeping them in your life. I honestly didn't think I could breath the same air as some of these people again, but time can blunt some wounds (I'm by no means healed!). I'll never forget and I'm under no illusions that most would go along with the next thing, so there will always be wariness.
You hit that on the head squarely! The next plague that comes along will have them criticizing/ridiculing/badgering/attacking us who will not comply. They cannot be trusted
YOU said this so beautifully. There is such a loss. These are my same friends from before 2019, but our relationships are definitely not the same. There is a somewhat shallow level of friendship. Normally I think with any relationship there are things one avoids with each individual friend. However, in the present day situation it is so huge an area of differences…it is like an empty place that one walks around carefully.
Certainly. No judgement. If my friends weren’t scientists maybe I’d feel differently. But I feel I’m losing everything I care about in the next few years and they’re apparently on board for all of it …
There are many people out there I know that I often feel very intense anger toward...a particular scientist I know very well. And in general I feel much anger toward the mass of sheep...who I find arrogant and belligerent, and fully responsible for the horrific death of humanity.
"To live in this process is absolutely not to be able to notice it-please try to believe me-unless one has a much greater degree of political awareness, acuity, than most of us had ever had occasion to develop."
"The dictatorship, and the whole process of its coming into being, was above all diverting. It provided an excuse not to think for people who did not want to think anyway. I do not speak of your 'little men,' your baker and so on; I speak of my colleagues and myself, learned men, mind you. Most of us did not want to think about fundamental things and never had. There was no need to. Nazism gave us some dreadful, fundamental things to think about-we were decent people-and kept us so busy with continuous changes and 'crises' and so fascinated, yes, fascinated, by the machinations of the 'national enemies,' without and within, that we had no time to think about these dreadful things that were growing, little by little, all around us. Unconsciously, I suppose, we were grateful. Who wants to think?
"To live in this process is absolutely not to be able to notice it-please try to believe me-unless one has a much greater degree of political awareness, acuity, than most of us had ever had occasion to develop. Each step was so small, so inconsequential, so well explained or, on occasion, 'regretted,' that, unless one were detached from the whole process from the beginning, unless one understood what the whole thing was in principle, what all these 'little measures' that no 'patriotic German' could resent must some day lead to, one no more saw it developing from day to day than a farmer in his field sees the corn growing. One day it is over his head.
"How is this to be avoided, among ordinary men, even highly educated ordinary men? Frankly, I do not know. I do not see, even now. Many, many times since it all happened I have pondered that pair of great maxims, Principiis obsta and Finem respice-'Resist the beginnings' and 'Consider the end.' But one must foresee the end in order to resist, or even see, the beginnings. One must foresee the end clearly and certainly and how is this to be done, by ordinary men or even by extraordinary men? Things might have. And everyone counts on that might."
Thank you for posting these...I believe it was you who turned me onto this book...it is an absolutely chilling narrative, one everyone should read. People just can't see that we are walking blindly into the lion's den.
I think many of us have a similar "point of awareness"...a book or other information that made us aware of the signs...I have studied Nazi Germany as well as Russian history since I was in my '20s. It was easy for me to see...
Another instructive series of books out of Nazi Germany that help us see what is happening in real time (applicable to many of the minds around us that see something isn't right, but can't imagine they'll ever be targeted, they can just comply their way through it all) were written by Victor Klemperer. An imperfect and unsympathetic character in many ways, lots of "woe's me" that he was targeted along with Jews, who he had tried to distance himself from. He had converted from Judaism to Christianity and his wife wasn't a Jew. And he was well-connected and held status at the onset. But it came for him anyways.
One book he wrote, "I Will Bear Witness," describes how he had to face hardships when he was forced to do menial and soul-crushing work and was ostracized. Being told "Buck up, it'll be ok when we get through this" by well-meaning but unwilling-to-challenge-the-system strangers and neighbors who saw his plight. An overview of the book:
Another VERY important book he's probably best known for is "Language of the Third Reich" or LTI. It describes how controlling language was such a powerful weapon used by Nazi's to change public perceptions and thought. Manipulating language that was really an assault on the public mind. A more granular, real-time, nonfictional presentation of what George Orwell described as "Newspeak" in his fictional "1984." If we see 1984 as a theoretical, LTI describes the actual practice of the theory that preceded Orwell's book.
This book helps us even more clearly see what is happening in real time:
This is happening here, now. I find it interesting to note that one of the most influential Marxist icons who inspired and taught multiple generations of aspiring Marxists, Noam Chomsky, is a professor of linguistics. That's not an accident for a revolutionary. He who controls language controls thought. And then controls the world.
A good write up by Christopher Hitchens on Victor Klemperer's literary legacy chronicling the fascist regime's ascension and defeat.
Another interesting tidbit about Victor Klemperer is his cousin, Werner Klemperer. Probably best known as Col. Klink in Hogan's Heros. But Werner also costarred in the movie, Judgement at Nuremberg, about one of the Subsequent Trials, of judges who aided and abetted the Third Reich's crimes against humanity. Sort of like many criminals in black robes in the US today. Most of the worst found in DC and NY courts.
The full movie, free, no commercials. Cast included: Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Werner Klemperer, Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, William Shatner:
""You see,” my colleague went on, “one doesn’t see exactly where or how to move. Believe me, this is true. Each act, each occasion, is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join with you in resisting somehow. You don’t want to act, or even talk, alone; you don’t want to ‘go out of your way to make trouble.’ Why not?—Well, you are not in the habit of doing it. And it is not just fear, fear of standing alone, that restrains you; it is also genuine uncertainty.
“Uncertainty is a very important factor, and, instead of decreasing as time goes on, it grows. Outside, in the streets, in the general community, ‘everyone’ is happy. One hears no protest, and certainly sees none. . . . you speak privately to your colleagues, some of whom certainly feel as you do; but what do they say? They say, ‘It’s not so bad’ or ‘You’re seeing things” or “You’re an alarmist.”
“And you are an alarmist. You are saying that this must lead to this, and you can’t prove it. These are the beginnings, yes; but how do you know for sure when you don’t know the end, and how do you know, or even surmise, the end? On the one hand, your enemies, the law, the regime, the Party, intimidate you. On the other, your colleagues pooh-pooh you as pessimistic or even neurotic. You are left with your close friends, who are, naturally, people who have always thought as you have”"
The irony surrounding all of this is that it has happened throughout human history so many times...it even happens in little microcosms like the work place, in the school yard, in the community, in the family. It is clear it is happening, but no one really pays much attention to it. Then Mr. Toad's Wild Ride ensues, and there is nothing you can do about it except scratch your way out of the rubble when the world ends and the bombing stops (literally or metaphorically)
“It is clearer all the time that, if you are going to do anything, you must make an occasion to do it, and then you are obviously a troublemaker. So you wait, and you wait. But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That’s the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked—if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in ’43 had come immediately after the ‘German Firm’ stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in ’33. But of course this isn’t the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next.
“And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you. The burden of self-deception has grown too heavy, and some minor incident, in my case my little boy, hardly more than a baby, saying ‘Jew swine,’ collapses it all at once, and you see that everything, everything, has changed and changed completely under your nose. The world you live in—your nation, your people—is not the world you were born in at all. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves; when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed. Now you live in a system which rules without responsibility even to God.”
“You have gone almost all the way yourself. Life is a continuing process, a flow, not a succession of acts and events at all. It has flowed to a new level, carrying you with it, without any effort on your part. On this new level you live, you have been living more comfortably every day, with new morals, new principles. You have accepted things you would not have accepted five years ago, a year ago, things that your father, even in Germany, could not have imagined. Suddenly it all comes down, all at once. You see what you are, what you have done, or, more accurately, what you haven’t done (for that was all that was required of most of us: that we do nothing). You remember those early meetings of your department in the university when, if one had stood, others would have stood, perhaps, but no one stood. A small matter, a matter of hiring this man or that, and you hired this one rather than that. You remember everything now, and your heart breaks. Too late. You are compromised beyond repair.”
“What then? You must then shoot yourself. A few did. Or ‘adjust’ your principles. Many tried, and some, I suppose, succeeded; not I, however. Or learn to live the rest of your life with your shame. This last is the nearest there is, under the circumstances, to heroism: shame. Many Germans became this poor kind of hero, many more, I think, than the world knows or cares to know”
There is nothing new in the evolution of 'God's' plan. We've been here before and we'll be here again when we don't evolve ourselves. I guess mankind is not ready yet for true evolution. Many 'awake' shout for revolution, not understanding it's only pushing us towards a new cycle which will be the same as before. People who are 'more awake' understand there's nothing we can do. Nothing we can do for others, since they have to do 'it' themselves. And they are somehow not ready for awakening, not yet. So 'we' have to watch the show and be busy with our own further awakening. There's much to do in that. For instance finding love in ourselves and towards others and the world as a whole. Not hating or judging the sheep is not easy for me, but I try. Sometimes I think the world will be better off when most of them just die due to their own stupidity. And this is not love. I'm not enough awake yet. Much to do.
Maybe this is like alcoholism, the culture has to hit rock bottom before it is willing to do what it needs to do to heal. Rock bottom may be the utter destruction of all we know.
In Genesis the separation began, and later also that of man into man and woman.
Matthew 10:34-36 describes the separation: “Do not think that I have come to send peace on earth. I have not come to send peace, but a sword. I have come to separate the son from his son. father and the daughter of her mothers, and the bride of his mother-in-law;
Are enemies.”
Let us not go along with the infiltration of the ignorant who are now raging so fiercely in the end times to sow even more division because they miss the connection with Christ in you and you in Christ!
Not a future I want. I'll say it again "I'm glad I am old."
Yep, same here.
Very nice article, thanks for writing. It arrived by way of Frontnieuws.com in the Netherlands, nicely translated in Dutch.
I believe these people you write about are not "sheep." They are simply heartless and cold, devoid of a connection to the Source, and there are millions of them. Instead of showing a tiny bit of interest in the heartfelt and valid concerns of a humble fellow human, they act worse than stupid sheep. They intellectualize the reality of the dire state of affairs with their selfrighteous stalemate negations of it and expect you to follow suit, on top of it. This response, in and of itself, is testimony to their own callous and predatory nature, like the oppressors', but it satisfies their vanity for a sense of superiority over others, and that is what matters to them - to feel superior. In the end, though, they too are mere prey to the predators they revere, without ever realizing it. Human self-extermination at work. But I would not want to sit at the same table with these heartless cretins that actively endorse predation without question, so why bother, only to get clobbered and disappointed by these people each time? If only they were stupid sheep, you could at least feel sorry for them, and some of them you can actually reach... but vain and heartless people will never see the light and they will never appreciate your efforts to shine the light to prevent detriment to the fabric of our society and our human integrity. But please keep writing about this topic! It's very important that you keep planting this seed again and again, especially when it gets glyphosated by the heartless all the time. Much respect for your stamina!
Great comment, makes more sense, thank you!
Very well put, and I admire you "telling it like it is"...I have had more experience with this arrogant, righteous, nastiness than with innocence and victimhood due to weakness...most have been quite mean.
Why do you continue to tolerate it, Todd? I mean continuing to put yourself in situations where you either can’t speak at all or are humiliated when you do?
‘Tis why David Icke calls it the “totalitarian tiptoe”. I don’t plan on sitting around in ignorant bliss only to realize that, suddenly, the world has changed.
Neither do you, by the sound of it.
We can only do what we can do and hope they catch on…preferably sooner rather than later.
Love Icke! He was my first to open the door on what was really going on in the world
Yes! Him and the Alexes (Collier and Jones). I was fortunate to have found the mouthpieces of all the bad going on but also the good side.
And then we dug deeper…🤓
Yes, I also do not intend to stick my head in the sand just to "get along"...the cat's out of the bag...
The ‘subtleties’ you write of exist, but so much more is not subtle.
I can only speak to what I’ve witnessed in Canada— and have ‘receipts’ to prove of these non-subtleties:
-inflation across the board: food, services, utilities, and fuel
-an affordability crisis for housing and lodging
-interest rates climbing on loans of any kind
-record profits for banks and their associated insurance companies
-a general deterioration of peoples’ health—both physical and mental—since the Covid-19 era began
-money-laundering operations involving the ‘battle’ against Covid-19
-a strange fixation with and normalization of online gambling
-companies/governments across the nation being legally allowed to downsize their workforce and terminate employees with no repercussions based on Covid-19 injection status
-science being ‘weaponized’ against the public to create fear, division, and tax revenue streams ( e.g. ‘Climate change’, wildfires, drought are all the fault of our citizens— and you will pay for it—-literally and figuratively)
-Canadians being divided further by race, gender, and class to meet DEI and ESG goals and funding for governments and corporations
March 2020 was the beginning of a type of coup—economic and societal—-targeting the middle-class of the West, and probably having effects across the world making millions impoverished—-and our media will never report it. The rich got richer, and the poor poorer across the planet.
The ‘sheep’ will not change. Their world-view of the West cannot be shattered.
Life as they know it will be too difficult to live if they see some truths which have been illuminated since March of 2020.
Oh yes, most of it is not at all subtle. But again, the masses do not see it as a problem...only a "that's just the way it is" sort of issue...and a "it's always been a problem"...
Mark Twain...summed it up ages ago " its far easier to fool people..than to convince them that they have been Fooled" The Intellectual-ego' (which starts building early in life) will almost never allow even a brick to be removed from... " this is the World I know is out there Wall " which they truly Accept and BELIEVE...! keep up the good work amigo,aloha
Thank you...I'm trying...appreciate the encouragement!
Successful head girls, male and female, presume that they will alway know what to say or do to be on the side of the strongest. They always did, and they always won.
"you won’t ever fall out of line, will you? You have nothing to worry about."
Exactly.
They would NEVER be the sort of deplorable person who ends up publishing on Substack instead of the New Yorker.
They might have married one but you know... it's just a hobby... he/she doesn't really meant it... he/she will come around.
And yes.
It's that easy making sheep believe there were always that many cardiac problems in relatively young people.
Just print it in the New Yorker.
"Memory Hole" ala 1984.
Wolves in sheep clothing. ! When I say anything against the narrative, I am not so politely considered an Outlier and am done with, and assumed wrong no matter the evidence. Things will not continue as normal as most of the population is now physically compromised and brain washed to boot. Look out fellow "Wheezy"!
When this sort of thing takes place in a society, you can pretty much write it off. It is one thing to ignore a single person of dubious nature standing on the street corner proclaiming the end is nigh, but when you ignore hundreds of thousands of people, scientists, doctors, etc. that something is clearly amiss....there is something very rotten at the core.
When I dare to engage with “sheep” (Norms & Karen's as I refer to them as…apologies to all Norm’s & Karen's who are not sheep) to help prove my case I address easily proven most pressing issues such as
1 > the undeniable systematic censorship.. especially online shadow banning
2 > bring up Humanitarian Names like Assange, Snowden, Manning, Kiriakou, Swartz +++ it's an extensive ever growing list which sadly far too many are unable to accurately recite the narratives behind each Case…heck, as far as Norm's & Karen's go…they're hard pressed to even say they've heard of ANY of these brave Souls, Swartz of course transitioned years ago
3 > then I close with undeniable, irrefutable science which remains heavily censored > Nobel deserving Science presenting isolation that was released gratis into Public Domain 25 years ago > Carnicom Institute Research proves beyond doubt there is an ongoing attack on the DNA of ALL Life > Transhumanist based endocrine disruptors & neurotoxins continue showing up in blood samples of the unjabbed > not only Carnicom with these findings but now over the last few years since the mystery virus Psyop We see several other well qualified Scientists & Drs release similar findings > ask the Norm's & Karen's in your life to research & consider the 3 narratives cited above & get back to You with their take on these most concerning Issues.
The vaccine issue for my 2 shekels is 1 of numerous distractions > exactly what the White Collar Criminal's who're running the Transhumanist show want you arguing over…voluntary exposure > whereas the systematic attack on DNA is involuntary & appears to be biowarfare based.
Perhaps when the Masses begin to focus on these Issues more so, truly meaningful & effective progress will become reality > until then, stay strong and keep spreading the seeds of awareness, especially to those who remain clueless to the plight of Humanity.
My grandfather lived his whole life in anticipation of the next Great Depression. It never came, even though he prepared himself by reading books by Harry Browne and stock piling gold bullion. A lot of people have lived as preppers for decades waiting for the event to justify their excessive food and gun storage. There have been terrible events over the years, but not the big one. Will it happen? Probably. Can we predict when? Probably not. I like to live by keeping my eyes and mind open, but living as if everything is okay. Because it is. Today.
This is an example of the primary argument against shrews today...that what we are "predicting" has always been predicted and has simply never happened. There is some truth to this position. Will the age of "1984" come to be as Orwell laid out? It is hard to say. But Covid was a game changer. Never before has such a massive lie been so thoroughly carried out.
In essence what has been predicted for decades is actually happening on a very large scale. It is to the agenda's advantage to keep the wool over our eyes as long as possible. They can do this, and keep us "happy" (ala "Brave New World") as they eliminate excess population (in 50 years we will probably be at half the global population and no one will be the wiser as to how that happened, people will be hypnotized by the latest technology, AI, virtual gaming, drugs, etc. No one will care.)
My father was the same - lived his whole life in fear and anticipation of another war (he survived the 2nd World War) and managed to terrorize all 3 of his children. It didn't happen in his lifetime, what a waste! But now I wonder if I am repeating his 'programming'. I don't believe I am. I am not 'looking' for trouble, but I am 'seeing' as Todd so perfectly expresses it, but that's exactly what my father thought.... it's so difficult to attempt to be sane in an insane world, it really is hard work, (with pretty much every thought), isn't it?
Although it is certainly still possible to have another great war (but if that happens it is certain to wipe us ALL out) the "warfare" of today is not as obvious. This is what all of us are seeing...and it is very real.
Remember the "neutron bomb"...whatever happened to that thing? A bomb with the kill rate of a nuclear warhead but only kills people and leaves all structures intact. The world has been hit with one of those...but the kill effect takes time...lots of time.
I like this quote by Krishnamurti:
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." Shrews see the sickness and that is why we don't adjust to it. We just pretend to sometimes to be the gray man, so we don't get our heads chopped off. It does take incredible strength of mind to stay sane, but I refuse to be defeated by the insane. It's like they carry a distortion field around them, and whenever you interact with them, you feel the craziness. Certain contemplative types like poets, mystics, sages and shrews see the long view. It is a gift. Although it sometimes feels like the stupid and gullible are happier, I would never trade knowing for not knowing.
Wow…exactly!
This is so well put...yes, yes, yes!
Have you made any preparations at all? Just curious
You asking me? I am too old to really worry about it. If it gets to the point where I need guns, tons of gold stashed away, barrels of beans buried in the back yard, I am not so sure I would want to survive that. If I were younger it would be kind of an adventure and I would find a like minded community where I could be of help for the survival of a group of people. I also have the problem that my wife is not on board, and I am first dedicated to her, at my own demise if it calls for that.
I do have a few things in place as long as it doesn't get too bad. For one thing I am taking gun lessons! Not sure what good that would do (particularly in Canada, I am taking the lessons in Virginia). But I think if things turned a certain way maybe that skill will have some use...or maybe I just like the idea and false comfort I am doing "something" to prepare...
I was a girl guide, so yes, I live by the Be Prepared motto. Cash on hand is a good idea because if the grid goes down, ATM's don't work. A survival guide from the 1970's called the Alpha Strategy suggests buying in bulk the things you will use for years. At the very least, you save money by avoiding future inflation.
Yes, this makes sense. I think it is important to take the attitude that if things went south even a little bit, it would be better to be prepared. It is not an "all or nothing" proposition. I don't think the supply chain or the internet (grid) will just stop and stay that way forever. So if you can get through the down times you will be better off.
My husband grew up in a semi rural area and has always stockpiled everything so we’re on the same page with preparedness. 👍👍👍
Smart.
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. It is real, and it would be easier if we didn’t know.
But we do know, and we can’t pretend we don’t.
I remember in the late 70’s, a high school boy died in football practice of an undiagnosed heart condition. (They started football practice in August before school started and it was California hot) Someone involved with the school told me. That’s the only one I’ve ever heard of
Yes, of course isolated incidents like that have always happened. But to excuse a rash of school yard deaths, hundreds, if not thousands, because back in 1975 some poor kid had a congenital heart condition and died on the playing field at 17, is just plain stupid. And that is what it seems people are doing.
I experienced one friend death in high school...a car accident. His fault. And he took out three other innocent people as a result of his reckless, probably drunk, driving. Ironically I was supposed to be with him, but he never showed up to pick me up. Maybe I could have prevented it, or maybe I would have died with him. The mysteries of life.
I’m agreeing with you Lol
Up until 2021, that was the only one I ever heard of. Kids don’t just die. These kids are being murdered.
What gets me is the confusion sheep express about why all of this is happening. Like they have no idea that something completely weird is going on and maybe they should wonder about it.
The powers that be have kept society moving along, seemingly "normal", while they work on the Pandemic Agreement, NOT a treaty which needs to be ratified by our legislature. An Agreement just requires the president's signature. When that happens, the mask comes off, we lose our sovereignty to the WHO/UN as they will be able to declare "pandemics" with no proof, forced vaccinations on the world populations, lockdowns, etc. My guess is that many of the so-called "migrants" are actually UN troops, ready to enforce the WHO agenda. Then it will turn into a mass depopulation agenda, which is the globalists dream. Perhaps our legislators think they will not have to go along, but they are viewed the same as the rest of the population, expendable. Time to wake them up!!!!
The point of the agenda is to centralize government, centralize control. It is just easier for them that way. And what better method of getting the billions of earth's inhabitants to go along with that agenda than telling them they have to centralize control in order to better protect people from the unseen viruses soon to invade the world. It is a brilliant method, although a little shocking it is that easy to pull off. But the ease the people succumb to all this is a result of decades of careful conditioning...
I know what you mean. I just keep my mouth shut unless someone ask me a question about the whole mess. Like, why didn't you get vaccinated, wear a mask, etc.
But for the most part they don’t ask, do they? That’s my experience anyway. And the folks I did talk to in the very beginning who I know are vaxed, they don’t bring it up, it’s like they deliberately avoid any mention of Covid, the vax, masking, social distancing, etc. It’s very strange indeed
Yes they do not ask. The easy reason for this is that they don't want their bubble of denial burst...but I think it is more complicated than that.
You're right. For the most part they don't ask.
I forgot to say…Todd…this article is beautifully written and describes this situation perfectly. Thank you!
Thank you so much!
I have no close friends locally who are shrews. I am living a somewhat strange life…similar to Todd, in that everything seems “normal”….day to to day. All of my friends here are in the sheep category…I hate to label them in that way because they are similar to Todd’s people…they are educated, well spoken, aware of current events, etc. At the beginning of the “pandemic” I voiced my views and they considered these views as totally “wrong.” But they were respectful in disagreeing with me (unlike my former older and best friend of 50 years who no longer speaks to me).However, they never questioned why I had these certain views…what or who were my resources. So from that moment on…because I am not one of the most courageous of shrews, I never brought those subjects up again. If someone does say something blatantly untrue from all I have studied, I will counter with a remark. But strangely, as Todd has mentioned in previous articles, no one asks why did I say that particular thing. So I meander on…the folks I just mentioned are good friends…dependable friends. I know if I kept bringing up certain truths that perhaps they would no longer be friends. And they are all vaccinated so that limits me in what I might say now. Of course, I certainly do not feel as connected to them as years ago. I have my in-depth conversations with out of town shrew buddies.
Yes, very well said. And from the stories you have told me, you have been pretty brave and have never been a push over when it mattered.
I do not have friends who are sheep...I have very friends as it is since I moved away from my huge friend base in LA...never re-created a friend base here in Canada. And by the time I was here long enough to really start doing that Covid hit. I lost all my friends in LA (most of them) so I don't really interface with sheep...other than my wife and a few other close people in my life that I will not abandon. I have learned a TON from my wife, I NEVER discuss any of this with her, but I see her reaction to things through the sheep eye....
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I couldn't have said this any better. All of it. Thank you.
Oh gosh, Thank YOU
Same situation here -- not one person has EVER asked me why I didn't go along or what I had read or seen that they hadn't read or seen. For "smart" people they have been incredibly incurious. Is it merely laziness or fear of being cast out of the "in" group? I listened to two podcasts this weekend with two of my favourite public intellectuals -- Gad Saad and Peter Boghossian -- and both said basically the same thing about what surprises them most about humans. It's the inability to adjust one's beliefs in light of new evidence. Sheep are impervious to evidence that disrupts their worldview and lack what Boghossian calls epistemic humility. If you don't have the time or inclination to study and do the work, you ought to be far less wedded to your beliefs. The sheep have zero epistemic humility. I have always been careful, when asked for my view on a subject, to be honest about the degree to which my opinion is informed. When the Russia/Ukraine war started I had no opinion because I knew I was ignorant of the history that led up to it. I did some basic reading and listened to people I respect and formed an opinion, but I have never held on to it for dear life and have always been open to changing my opinion in light of new information.
I no longer refer to these "educated" sheep as smart. The blue collar guys I had do some work around the house a few years ago were not educated but were far smarter, more curious, and aware than all of my friends and family with degrees.
Don't say you're not courageous because you keep quiet around your sheep friends! It's a fool's errand because they have no epistemic humility and are not open to evidence that disrupts their narrative. You were courageous for not going along with it all and we'll be courageous again if need be.
Yes, no epistemic humility...that is something that was drummed into us in dissertation class. We must always remain open to ALL contrary ideas, to at least visit them and consider them. I have tried to live by the adage, "consider everything, believe nothing"...there are definitely some things I truly believe, but not much.
"not one person has EVER asked me why I didn't go along or what I had read or seen that they hadn't read or seen. For "smart" people they have been incredibly incurious."
This has been my experience as well, and I just can't accept the simple reasons such as people just not willing to shatter their "safe" worldview and belief system. It just seems more complicated than that...
I just reread your comment above…so beautifully said…
Thank you…
I’ve been unable to stay in contact with brainwashed friends. I don’t respect them and I feel their compliance makes the nonsense possible. Most are PhD scientists in the biological sciences. They have the training to see every lie. And yet seem to be hypnotized to nonsense.
Frustrating.
They have been trained inside the box .
Somehow I feel I should keep in contact with my friends. Even though we are so completely on different sides of the fence, a connection with them seems like anything is possible. Let me quickly say, I don’t have any innocent expectation of them changing their minds…but I still think staying within that circle is important.
It depends on how close you were when the axe fell. It is relatively easy to stay with sheep friends as long as you keep your mouth shut when conversation drifts to vaccines, run away cancer, other friends who have died, masks, etc.
I have resumed relationships with friends who ghosted us but it's not the same. I can't ever trust them again but we can still enjoy each other's company -- so long as we don't "go there" which is easy because everyone knows the ground rules. You're right about not having expectations of them changing, and so if you can accept them as they are there's nothing wrong with keeping them in your life. I honestly didn't think I could breath the same air as some of these people again, but time can blunt some wounds (I'm by no means healed!). I'll never forget and I'm under no illusions that most would go along with the next thing, so there will always be wariness.
You hit that on the head squarely! The next plague that comes along will have them criticizing/ridiculing/badgering/attacking us who will not comply. They cannot be trusted
Love, forgiveness, and trust...I guess two out of three isn't too bad.
YOU said this so beautifully. There is such a loss. These are my same friends from before 2019, but our relationships are definitely not the same. There is a somewhat shallow level of friendship. Normally I think with any relationship there are things one avoids with each individual friend. However, in the present day situation it is so huge an area of differences…it is like an empty place that one walks around carefully.
The agenda wants the world to remain very shallow.
To thine own self be true…
Certainly. No judgement. If my friends weren’t scientists maybe I’d feel differently. But I feel I’m losing everything I care about in the next few years and they’re apparently on board for all of it …
There are many people out there I know that I often feel very intense anger toward...a particular scientist I know very well. And in general I feel much anger toward the mass of sheep...who I find arrogant and belligerent, and fully responsible for the horrific death of humanity.
"To live in this process is absolutely not to be able to notice it-please try to believe me-unless one has a much greater degree of political awareness, acuity, than most of us had ever had occasion to develop."
Excerpted from:
"They Thought They Were Free"
The Germans 1933-45
by Milton Mayer, 1955
https://press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/511928.html
More with that excerpt:
"The dictatorship, and the whole process of its coming into being, was above all diverting. It provided an excuse not to think for people who did not want to think anyway. I do not speak of your 'little men,' your baker and so on; I speak of my colleagues and myself, learned men, mind you. Most of us did not want to think about fundamental things and never had. There was no need to. Nazism gave us some dreadful, fundamental things to think about-we were decent people-and kept us so busy with continuous changes and 'crises' and so fascinated, yes, fascinated, by the machinations of the 'national enemies,' without and within, that we had no time to think about these dreadful things that were growing, little by little, all around us. Unconsciously, I suppose, we were grateful. Who wants to think?
"To live in this process is absolutely not to be able to notice it-please try to believe me-unless one has a much greater degree of political awareness, acuity, than most of us had ever had occasion to develop. Each step was so small, so inconsequential, so well explained or, on occasion, 'regretted,' that, unless one were detached from the whole process from the beginning, unless one understood what the whole thing was in principle, what all these 'little measures' that no 'patriotic German' could resent must some day lead to, one no more saw it developing from day to day than a farmer in his field sees the corn growing. One day it is over his head.
"How is this to be avoided, among ordinary men, even highly educated ordinary men? Frankly, I do not know. I do not see, even now. Many, many times since it all happened I have pondered that pair of great maxims, Principiis obsta and Finem respice-'Resist the beginnings' and 'Consider the end.' But one must foresee the end in order to resist, or even see, the beginnings. One must foresee the end clearly and certainly and how is this to be done, by ordinary men or even by extraordinary men? Things might have. And everyone counts on that might."
Thank you for posting these...I believe it was you who turned me onto this book...it is an absolutely chilling narrative, one everyone should read. People just can't see that we are walking blindly into the lion's den.
I read that book 6 years ago, it’s part of the reason I saw clearly what was happening in real time in 2020-22
I think many of us have a similar "point of awareness"...a book or other information that made us aware of the signs...I have studied Nazi Germany as well as Russian history since I was in my '20s. It was easy for me to see...
Another instructive series of books out of Nazi Germany that help us see what is happening in real time (applicable to many of the minds around us that see something isn't right, but can't imagine they'll ever be targeted, they can just comply their way through it all) were written by Victor Klemperer. An imperfect and unsympathetic character in many ways, lots of "woe's me" that he was targeted along with Jews, who he had tried to distance himself from. He had converted from Judaism to Christianity and his wife wasn't a Jew. And he was well-connected and held status at the onset. But it came for him anyways.
One book he wrote, "I Will Bear Witness," describes how he had to face hardships when he was forced to do menial and soul-crushing work and was ostracized. Being told "Buck up, it'll be ok when we get through this" by well-meaning but unwilling-to-challenge-the-system strangers and neighbors who saw his plight. An overview of the book:
https://www.commentary.org/articles/daniel-johnson/what-victor-klemperer-saw/
The book, which is a presentation of the diaries he kept was broken into two volumes:
1933-1941
https://archive.org/details/KlempererVictorIWillBearWitness19421945ADiaryOfTheNaziYears/Klemperer%2C%20Victor%20-%20I%20Will%20Bear%20Witness%20%20A%20Diary%20of%20the%20Nazi%20Years%2C%201933-1941/
1942-1945
https://archive.org/details/KlempererVictorIWillBearWitness19421945ADiaryOfTheNaziYears/Klemperer%2C%20Victor%20-%20I%20Will%20Bear%20Witness%201942-1945%20%20A%20Diary%20of%20the%20Nazi%20Years/
Another VERY important book he's probably best known for is "Language of the Third Reich" or LTI. It describes how controlling language was such a powerful weapon used by Nazi's to change public perceptions and thought. Manipulating language that was really an assault on the public mind. A more granular, real-time, nonfictional presentation of what George Orwell described as "Newspeak" in his fictional "1984." If we see 1984 as a theoretical, LTI describes the actual practice of the theory that preceded Orwell's book.
This book helps us even more clearly see what is happening in real time:
https://www.academia.edu/42705102/Viktor_Klemperer_and_LTI_Language_of_the_Third_Reich_
This is happening here, now. I find it interesting to note that one of the most influential Marxist icons who inspired and taught multiple generations of aspiring Marxists, Noam Chomsky, is a professor of linguistics. That's not an accident for a revolutionary. He who controls language controls thought. And then controls the world.
A good write up by Christopher Hitchens on Victor Klemperer's literary legacy chronicling the fascist regime's ascension and defeat.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2004/12/survivor/303614/
Another interesting tidbit about Victor Klemperer is his cousin, Werner Klemperer. Probably best known as Col. Klink in Hogan's Heros. But Werner also costarred in the movie, Judgement at Nuremberg, about one of the Subsequent Trials, of judges who aided and abetted the Third Reich's crimes against humanity. Sort of like many criminals in black robes in the US today. Most of the worst found in DC and NY courts.
The full movie, free, no commercials. Cast included: Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Werner Klemperer, Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, William Shatner:
https://archive.org/details/movie-judgment-at-nuremberg-1961
More applicable excerpts:
""You see,” my colleague went on, “one doesn’t see exactly where or how to move. Believe me, this is true. Each act, each occasion, is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join with you in resisting somehow. You don’t want to act, or even talk, alone; you don’t want to ‘go out of your way to make trouble.’ Why not?—Well, you are not in the habit of doing it. And it is not just fear, fear of standing alone, that restrains you; it is also genuine uncertainty.
“Uncertainty is a very important factor, and, instead of decreasing as time goes on, it grows. Outside, in the streets, in the general community, ‘everyone’ is happy. One hears no protest, and certainly sees none. . . . you speak privately to your colleagues, some of whom certainly feel as you do; but what do they say? They say, ‘It’s not so bad’ or ‘You’re seeing things” or “You’re an alarmist.”
“And you are an alarmist. You are saying that this must lead to this, and you can’t prove it. These are the beginnings, yes; but how do you know for sure when you don’t know the end, and how do you know, or even surmise, the end? On the one hand, your enemies, the law, the regime, the Party, intimidate you. On the other, your colleagues pooh-pooh you as pessimistic or even neurotic. You are left with your close friends, who are, naturally, people who have always thought as you have”"
The irony surrounding all of this is that it has happened throughout human history so many times...it even happens in little microcosms like the work place, in the school yard, in the community, in the family. It is clear it is happening, but no one really pays much attention to it. Then Mr. Toad's Wild Ride ensues, and there is nothing you can do about it except scratch your way out of the rubble when the world ends and the bombing stops (literally or metaphorically)
And more:
“It is clearer all the time that, if you are going to do anything, you must make an occasion to do it, and then you are obviously a troublemaker. So you wait, and you wait. But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That’s the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked—if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in ’43 had come immediately after the ‘German Firm’ stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in ’33. But of course this isn’t the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next.
“And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you. The burden of self-deception has grown too heavy, and some minor incident, in my case my little boy, hardly more than a baby, saying ‘Jew swine,’ collapses it all at once, and you see that everything, everything, has changed and changed completely under your nose. The world you live in—your nation, your people—is not the world you were born in at all. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves; when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed. Now you live in a system which rules without responsibility even to God.”
“You have gone almost all the way yourself. Life is a continuing process, a flow, not a succession of acts and events at all. It has flowed to a new level, carrying you with it, without any effort on your part. On this new level you live, you have been living more comfortably every day, with new morals, new principles. You have accepted things you would not have accepted five years ago, a year ago, things that your father, even in Germany, could not have imagined. Suddenly it all comes down, all at once. You see what you are, what you have done, or, more accurately, what you haven’t done (for that was all that was required of most of us: that we do nothing). You remember those early meetings of your department in the university when, if one had stood, others would have stood, perhaps, but no one stood. A small matter, a matter of hiring this man or that, and you hired this one rather than that. You remember everything now, and your heart breaks. Too late. You are compromised beyond repair.”
“What then? You must then shoot yourself. A few did. Or ‘adjust’ your principles. Many tried, and some, I suppose, succeeded; not I, however. Or learn to live the rest of your life with your shame. This last is the nearest there is, under the circumstances, to heroism: shame. Many Germans became this poor kind of hero, many more, I think, than the world knows or cares to know”
Thank you for this incredible, chilling excerpt. I think I need to find the courage to speak up.
This piece in Brownstone Institute is a good read that expands on the book:
https://brownstone.org/articles/they-thought-they-were-free/
And if you set up a free account on Archive.org you can read the entire book:
https://archive.org/details/theythoughttheyw00maye
Chilling, indeed. When you see so many similarities glaring in our faces.
Thank you!
There is nothing new in the evolution of 'God's' plan. We've been here before and we'll be here again when we don't evolve ourselves. I guess mankind is not ready yet for true evolution. Many 'awake' shout for revolution, not understanding it's only pushing us towards a new cycle which will be the same as before. People who are 'more awake' understand there's nothing we can do. Nothing we can do for others, since they have to do 'it' themselves. And they are somehow not ready for awakening, not yet. So 'we' have to watch the show and be busy with our own further awakening. There's much to do in that. For instance finding love in ourselves and towards others and the world as a whole. Not hating or judging the sheep is not easy for me, but I try. Sometimes I think the world will be better off when most of them just die due to their own stupidity. And this is not love. I'm not enough awake yet. Much to do.
I think the same thing...
Maybe this is like alcoholism, the culture has to hit rock bottom before it is willing to do what it needs to do to heal. Rock bottom may be the utter destruction of all we know.
Very well put. Thank you
So well said.
In Genesis the separation began, and later also that of man into man and woman.
Matthew 10:34-36 describes the separation: “Do not think that I have come to send peace on earth. I have not come to send peace, but a sword. I have come to separate the son from his son. father and the daughter of her mothers, and the bride of his mother-in-law;
Are enemies.”
Let us not go along with the infiltration of the ignorant who are now raging so fiercely in the end times to sow even more division because they miss the connection with Christ in you and you in Christ!