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Gwaihir's avatar

The loneliest place in the world for me is to be in a crowd of people who have World A brains. I might as well be on Mars. I can pretend for awhile, but I always feel disoriented when I return to my World B solitude. It reminds me of something I read once about a man who attended an early Hitler rally, and as he looked around at the cheering crowd, he thought to himself “They are all together, and I am alone.”

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Hello Todd: We have come from different paths to the same path. My struggle is a little more practical than yours, although I enjoyed the warm breeze of your words. I embrace the new world but want to remain in love with a handful of people who will not be able to cross over at all or completely. Consequently, I find myself allowing a temporary vacation into the other place so as to remain connected with these people. I am talking about my wife, my children, and a few other significant people. I have no interest in maintaining relationships with people in the next concentric circle. My intimate connections are enough for me. When I do cross I get anxious because I experience a lack of integrity, so I do this world-jumping in short intervals. At the same time I try to red-pill others carefully, going just beyond their awareness because I understand that is how people learn things.

As an example I gave up following all professional American sports two years ago because I see that enterprise as part of the consumer, anti-cultural circus that keeps people in the matrix. But, I listened to my elderly dad for a few minutes yesterday talking about my former favorite football and basketball teams. Later he asked me if I would share some of my dissident COVID sources with him because he wants to learn. I sent him Kirsch, Berenson, 2nd Smartest Man, and a few others. I will send this article today.

I remember several years ago questioning my working class brother in law about why he was still imbibing Budweiser, that corn-enhanced, watered-down corporate swill, when there were amazing real ales and lagers out there and available now. All of his brothers and his dad drink it and it is America's beer. I get it.

Thank you for a meaningful and helpful article.

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