The Queen is dead, long live the King. In another world I used to know, and can still access at will, I would be interested in such an event. I would be a bit sad and reverent; thinking of an amazing life lived, thinking of all of the people who loved her so much. In that other world I would binge watch
My wife and I are living in private in World B but in public we are living in World A. We live in a Neighborhood that is comprised of 55+ adults and at the beginning of the pandemic they all rushed out to get their shots. Then they dutifully got booster after booster. Many are on a Europe/Africa trip right now and they all went and got their bivalent boosters along with all the shots they needed for Africa. I want so badly to scream at them but yet I am silent. Despite being jabbed, boosted and reboosted many in the group have contracted Covid taken Paxlovid, gotten rebound infections, and still don’t see a problem. Maybe I am too far down the rabbit hole but I see glimpses of truth making its way out to the world. But how and when do we introduce the concept of World B? The problem is that there is no rational discussion or debate. People are dismissive and retreat into their own camp. No one considers even the possibility that they are being controlled and lied to. We have to find a way to get people thinking again.
I highly recommend a UK independent documentary film titled Safe and Effective a Second Opinion. It can be viewed for free at
If anyone is interested in going further down the rabbit hole, there is another documentary film that was produced in Spain. It is long, 2+ hours, and I ended up watching it in sections. Portions are in English and portions are in Spanish with subtitles. If you are up to it here is the link.
Sep 28, 2022·edited Sep 28, 2022Liked by Todd Hayen, PhD, RP
Yes, yes and yes.
Vanilla Sky is another great movie (with an incredible music director and song choices...including the Beach Boys' "Good Vibrations" at the denouement section) that describes this lovely false reality.
In answer to: "Why not ignore World B entirely...?" If more people had been awake to 9/11, Covid 19 *could not* have happened. Period. These atrocities continue to happen because sheep continue to ignore world B.
Let me suggest a World C. The lizard stuff is a red herring and strawman. Most of this is controlled narrative and part of a "clowning," strawman operation. Atrocity myths have always been a great tool for propagandists. This is one good reason to view the q-anon crowd with a skeptical eye (remember the "Hun" were "eating babies" in Belgium during WWI). However, it's also good to remember that the point of the clowning psyop is to coerce sheep into throwing the baby out with the bathwater. For example, a typical sheep view is, "I don't believe any of this conspiracy crap, because some people think the queen is a lizard." The end result is that people ignore *actual* horrible crimes against humanity. It's as though the clowning operation is a shield against *all* criticism. For 9/11 it was the "no plane" theory (that there were only plane-shaped holograms) and for Covid it's the "no-virus" theory (something that Steve Kirsch has commendably attacked recently). Clowning operations are a type of limited hangout (Hitler beat his dog!) but takes the accusation from 1 to 11, making *all* accusations look ridiculous. It might be more helpful to think of:
World A: sheepville
World B: Intelligence Agency Psyop-ville and lizard strawmen (strawlizards?)
World C: Truth about verified State Crimes Against Democracy. -ville :)
A great book on this topic is David Ray Griffin's *Cognitive Infiltration*. DRG did some fantastic research showing that Cass Sunstein knew exactly how these psyops work: infiltrate "conspiracy" websites with ridiculous claims, thereby degrading their credibility.
You've probably already seen "Legacy," but Bob Moran hit it out of the park, again:
Yes, this is very good. I like the way you courageously draw a nice clear line there...or is it clear? That is where I have a problem. Is the vaccine intended to kill a huge percentage of the population (that is not all that far fetched) or is it designed to kill only a small number, or just sterilize people...which is World B, which is World C...??
And...why did you assign Truth about verified State Crimes Against Democracy in World C and not World B? Seems like they would go like this: World A the illusory Truman Show reality, World B the truth, and World C the whacked "illusory" world to trick people into the throwing the baby (World B) out with the bathwater (World C)...
This is actually a very good distinction, because even us shrews feel badly when we reject world C (your World B) because we believe we are being disloyal to the shrew cause. I always refer to it as "way down the rabbit hole"....and I have to tell you, I seldom go that far down...down there everyone is a pedophile, there are microchips in the vaccines, the Queen was a lizard, the earth is flat...I do not say it is all untrue, but I seldom look down there...but where is that line separating "way down the hole" and "part way down the hole"? Did we land on the moon? Was everyone that went to Epstein's island a die hard pedophile? Is the intention with the vaccine to kill a large percentage of the world's population.....???
The line between B and C is not always clear, and the Sunsteins of the world continue to take advantage of that. However, the line between speculation and fact *is* clear. Contrary to postmodernist claims, 2+2 is 4. There is a mountain of incontrovertible evidence that all three towers were brought down by explosives, that JKF was shot at by more than one person, that the USS Liberty was attacked by Israel with Washington's approval, that RFK and MLKJ were not killed by lone gunmen acting on their own volition, that the Lusitania was intentionally carrying civilians and explosives, that the Fed was created on Christmas Eve to disallow debate, that Smedley Butler was courted by oligarchs to overthrow the government, and that hundreds of thousands of people were essentially murdered from withholding Ivermectin.
There is NOT a mountain of incontrovertible evidence that elites participate in cultish child sacrifice, that the covid vax was created specifically to kill billions of people, that we never landed on the moon, that the queen was not human, that humans have left climate untouched and that mass shootings are always staged with central casting.
Sheep living in world A outright reject both of these scenarios. Shrews will at least entertain events that hinge on speculation. For example, I once thought that Apollo 11 was etched in history as a fact etched in stone...until a friend of ours here in San Diego voiced his opinion on the matter. This friend, Dwain Deets, was the former Director for Research Engineering and Aerospace Projects at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, where his work earned him the NASA Exceptional Service Award and inclusion in "Who's Who in Science and Engineering." He questions the first moon landing and tends to believe "it did not happen." To blindly believe him is an appeal to authority, but I'll entertain his opinion.
With many of these speculative occurrences, the most we can do is, well, speculate. But when the former chief scientist at Pfizer says the vax might be a WMD, it's irresponsible to ignore him.
I want those answers too, but do I really.... anyone seen the Genetically Modified Mosquitos that can vaccinate humans successfully? Hoping that one doesn't come to fruition.
Although the mosquito thing seems implausible and out of some weird science fiction movie from the '50s, it fits very neatly, and very plausibly, in the evolutionary and linearly (most of the time) process of technology advancement. Therefore it is definitely happening as we speak (metaphorically since we are actually writing, not speaking.)
Since there is zero ethical consideration (since ethics are founded more on "soul morals" than science/materialism) things like a vaccinating mosquito force become reality...if you can do it, then what's stopping you.
If writers like Orwell, Huxley, even CS Lewis, had an awareness of the "skies the limit" reality of technological advancement, the books they wrote in the '30s, '40s and even earlier, would have been even more horrific. Their imaginations were supple enough to come up with rather extraordinary predictions, which I am continually astounded with.
Thanks for your comment...please keep 'em coming...stimulating conversation is what I love about this substack!!
My take is that the difference between W-A and W-B is of that between our inclinations/instincts toward collectivity/communality and individuality/integrity. Freedom for one and all arises in their genuine reconciliation - as if they could ever really be opposed. Primarily a partisan of W-B, I believe such reconciliation begins on the individual level as an inquiry into and conscious engagement with the loving intelligence, (aka the Truth) of which everything and everyone is an effortless expression. Therein may our individual efforts to express and conduct ourselves accordingly progress and redound for the sake of all.
Wow! This is exactly how I am feeling. Thankfully, my husband is in World B with me. I look back at my life prior to the last 2 years and wonder why I didn't see it before ... and what made me see it now?? I am thankful I did, but at the same time I wonder if it would have been better to have continued on in total oblivion; I am envious of all those who are blind but enjoy their lives. World B truly is a stressful, depressing place to be. Is there hope?
So many good points...count your blessings that your husband is too a shrew. I do not live that luxury and I cry often that the tension in my house is so strong between my wife and I. I do not understand why she is so deeply incensed that I follow this path...it is a path of love and care...yet we are all treated by the rest of the world like pariahs...it is very odd.
I was not fully woken until this...9-11 definitely woke me, but I wasn't a card carrying shrew until this...why now? This whole Covid situation has been so utterly extreme, it seems it should wake everyone up, obviously it didn't...and yes, ignorance definitely is bliss. Some of us (shrews) simply cannot live a life made up of lies...no matter how uncomfortable that might be...why? I have no idea...
Thanks you. :) I am very thankful that my husband is a shrew. It breaks my heart to hear that your home-life is so difficult. Home -- the place where we are supposed to be able to go for peace and tranquility in the midst of chaos. It is beyond my ability to comprehend how the sheep cannot see the obvious hypocrisy in everything we are being fed. I guess like Dr. Malone/ Mattais Desmet said -- "mass formation psychosis". The ringleaders of this circus obviously know what they are doing , they know how to manipulate the masses and when to push and when to ease up a bit. Like you -- I will not and cannot live a life made up of lies. I am a proud shrew!
Thanks Ronnie...yes, proud shrew indeed! Glad to be with you on this!
The homelife situation for me is worse than just a causal disagreement...it is monumental. About as bad as you can get...the only thing that would make it worse is if there were verbal argument about it. For some reason we typically avoid that. There have been a few flair ups, which were good because they made it clear there is no reason at all to be had there...it is the most perplexing thing I have ever experienced...
Sep 28, 2022·edited Sep 28, 2022Liked by Todd Hayen, PhD, RP
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.”
So so so true...I went to the mall the other day....amongst many mask wearers which to me mark people's basic sentiments...and I too felt incredibly lonely...I wrote an article called "The Invaders" that is coming up soon here you might be interested in...it addresses this uncomfortable feeling being always surrounded by "aliens." It will be on my substack later next month, but will actually be on Off-Guardian on Saturday...be on the lookout for it...
Todd, thank you. I found your essay particularly hard hitting. Like many of your readers, I live mostly in “B”, but straddle the gap towards “A” because of loved ones. And I work continuously to red-pill them. Your description of the two streams really highlights for me the sense of loss I sometimes allow myself to wallow in. It’s not just the tangible things (death, job losses, loss of freedoms, etc), but that sorrow for everything we used to hold dear - and have discovered that ‘twas but a sham. I rarely turn the tv on, celebrities are nothing to me, my eyes glaze over at commercialism. I’ve bought more books in the last 2 years than in the last 10. I’m outside (preferably in the woods) as often as possible, and spend time with people I love. The sorrow for the old world is fading, and perhaps the silver lining in all this lies in understanding the invisible handcuffs we’ve been unknowingly wearing, and realizing where true happiness lies.
Yes, it certainly is not just the tangible things...it is everything we hold dear...
I loved this comment..." I rarely turn the tv on, celebrities are nothing to me, my eyes glaze over at commercialism. I’ve bought more books in the last 2 years than in the last 10. I’m outside (preferably in the woods) as often as possible, and spend time with people I love."
Wow, you have described me to a "T"....thank you!!!!
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.
You put this all so very well. I resonated with your comment about how being in World A you experienced a lack of integrity...that is so true...also, that you have given up maintaining relationships with people in the "next concentric" circle...that is so true too.
Not sure what you mean about the two of us coming from different paths...and I am sure you are more pragmatic than I am!! Most people are. But I too make great effort to maintain relationships with people close to me "on that other side of the fence"...even though I am pretty certain they will come to this side...my wife and my sister and a handful of very close friends. I have another sister who is right on board with us shrews, but one of them is not, And I too "take vacations in World A"...
Yes.....couldn't be more thrilled to hear of the Queens passing. But, it's like celebrating the death of the rat you've been chasing in your home and not having an awareness of there being thousands connected to that one rat. When you mentioned the "Long Live the King", I am reminded of Poillievre's acceptance speech where he and his wife both said it.....at least I recall both of them saying it. This reinforced his associations and his loyalties to World A. And I must admit that I dip into world A for just a little break from world B!!!! Sometimes I just play pretend for a while - like going on a little vacation!!! I don't think about the crap for a day or 2 and fantasize that the world is good and "normal". But I think it's much harder to come back to world B when I do this.....the cost of temporary denial🫤. Thanks for the article Todd......always fun for personal reflection after reading!
My wife and I are living in private in World B but in public we are living in World A. We live in a Neighborhood that is comprised of 55+ adults and at the beginning of the pandemic they all rushed out to get their shots. Then they dutifully got booster after booster. Many are on a Europe/Africa trip right now and they all went and got their bivalent boosters along with all the shots they needed for Africa. I want so badly to scream at them but yet I am silent. Despite being jabbed, boosted and reboosted many in the group have contracted Covid taken Paxlovid, gotten rebound infections, and still don’t see a problem. Maybe I am too far down the rabbit hole but I see glimpses of truth making its way out to the world. But how and when do we introduce the concept of World B? The problem is that there is no rational discussion or debate. People are dismissive and retreat into their own camp. No one considers even the possibility that they are being controlled and lied to. We have to find a way to get people thinking again.
I highly recommend a UK independent documentary film titled Safe and Effective a Second Opinion. It can be viewed for free at
https://www.oraclefilms.com/safeandeffective
If anyone is interested in going further down the rabbit hole, there is another documentary film that was produced in Spain. It is long, 2+ hours, and I ended up watching it in sections. Portions are in English and portions are in Spanish with subtitles. If you are up to it here is the link.
https://odysee.com/$/embed/ENGLISH/bbfa236978482fab60f253acb9f249407f4fcff5?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Yes, yes and yes.
Vanilla Sky is another great movie (with an incredible music director and song choices...including the Beach Boys' "Good Vibrations" at the denouement section) that describes this lovely false reality.
In answer to: "Why not ignore World B entirely...?" If more people had been awake to 9/11, Covid 19 *could not* have happened. Period. These atrocities continue to happen because sheep continue to ignore world B.
Let me suggest a World C. The lizard stuff is a red herring and strawman. Most of this is controlled narrative and part of a "clowning," strawman operation. Atrocity myths have always been a great tool for propagandists. This is one good reason to view the q-anon crowd with a skeptical eye (remember the "Hun" were "eating babies" in Belgium during WWI). However, it's also good to remember that the point of the clowning psyop is to coerce sheep into throwing the baby out with the bathwater. For example, a typical sheep view is, "I don't believe any of this conspiracy crap, because some people think the queen is a lizard." The end result is that people ignore *actual* horrible crimes against humanity. It's as though the clowning operation is a shield against *all* criticism. For 9/11 it was the "no plane" theory (that there were only plane-shaped holograms) and for Covid it's the "no-virus" theory (something that Steve Kirsch has commendably attacked recently). Clowning operations are a type of limited hangout (Hitler beat his dog!) but takes the accusation from 1 to 11, making *all* accusations look ridiculous. It might be more helpful to think of:
World A: sheepville
World B: Intelligence Agency Psyop-ville and lizard strawmen (strawlizards?)
World C: Truth about verified State Crimes Against Democracy. -ville :)
A great book on this topic is David Ray Griffin's *Cognitive Infiltration*. DRG did some fantastic research showing that Cass Sunstein knew exactly how these psyops work: infiltrate "conspiracy" websites with ridiculous claims, thereby degrading their credibility.
You've probably already seen "Legacy," but Bob Moran hit it out of the park, again:
https://www.bobmoran.co.uk/other-work/legacy-original-artwork
Yes, this is very good. I like the way you courageously draw a nice clear line there...or is it clear? That is where I have a problem. Is the vaccine intended to kill a huge percentage of the population (that is not all that far fetched) or is it designed to kill only a small number, or just sterilize people...which is World B, which is World C...??
And...why did you assign Truth about verified State Crimes Against Democracy in World C and not World B? Seems like they would go like this: World A the illusory Truman Show reality, World B the truth, and World C the whacked "illusory" world to trick people into the throwing the baby (World B) out with the bathwater (World C)...
This is actually a very good distinction, because even us shrews feel badly when we reject world C (your World B) because we believe we are being disloyal to the shrew cause. I always refer to it as "way down the rabbit hole"....and I have to tell you, I seldom go that far down...down there everyone is a pedophile, there are microchips in the vaccines, the Queen was a lizard, the earth is flat...I do not say it is all untrue, but I seldom look down there...but where is that line separating "way down the hole" and "part way down the hole"? Did we land on the moon? Was everyone that went to Epstein's island a die hard pedophile? Is the intention with the vaccine to kill a large percentage of the world's population.....???
The line between B and C is not always clear, and the Sunsteins of the world continue to take advantage of that. However, the line between speculation and fact *is* clear. Contrary to postmodernist claims, 2+2 is 4. There is a mountain of incontrovertible evidence that all three towers were brought down by explosives, that JKF was shot at by more than one person, that the USS Liberty was attacked by Israel with Washington's approval, that RFK and MLKJ were not killed by lone gunmen acting on their own volition, that the Lusitania was intentionally carrying civilians and explosives, that the Fed was created on Christmas Eve to disallow debate, that Smedley Butler was courted by oligarchs to overthrow the government, and that hundreds of thousands of people were essentially murdered from withholding Ivermectin.
There is NOT a mountain of incontrovertible evidence that elites participate in cultish child sacrifice, that the covid vax was created specifically to kill billions of people, that we never landed on the moon, that the queen was not human, that humans have left climate untouched and that mass shootings are always staged with central casting.
Sheep living in world A outright reject both of these scenarios. Shrews will at least entertain events that hinge on speculation. For example, I once thought that Apollo 11 was etched in history as a fact etched in stone...until a friend of ours here in San Diego voiced his opinion on the matter. This friend, Dwain Deets, was the former Director for Research Engineering and Aerospace Projects at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, where his work earned him the NASA Exceptional Service Award and inclusion in "Who's Who in Science and Engineering." He questions the first moon landing and tends to believe "it did not happen." To blindly believe him is an appeal to authority, but I'll entertain his opinion.
With many of these speculative occurrences, the most we can do is, well, speculate. But when the former chief scientist at Pfizer says the vax might be a WMD, it's irresponsible to ignore him.
I want those answers too, but do I really.... anyone seen the Genetically Modified Mosquitos that can vaccinate humans successfully? Hoping that one doesn't come to fruition.
Although the mosquito thing seems implausible and out of some weird science fiction movie from the '50s, it fits very neatly, and very plausibly, in the evolutionary and linearly (most of the time) process of technology advancement. Therefore it is definitely happening as we speak (metaphorically since we are actually writing, not speaking.)
Since there is zero ethical consideration (since ethics are founded more on "soul morals" than science/materialism) things like a vaccinating mosquito force become reality...if you can do it, then what's stopping you.
If writers like Orwell, Huxley, even CS Lewis, had an awareness of the "skies the limit" reality of technological advancement, the books they wrote in the '30s, '40s and even earlier, would have been even more horrific. Their imaginations were supple enough to come up with rather extraordinary predictions, which I am continually astounded with.
Thanks for your comment...please keep 'em coming...stimulating conversation is what I love about this substack!!
My take is that the difference between W-A and W-B is of that between our inclinations/instincts toward collectivity/communality and individuality/integrity. Freedom for one and all arises in their genuine reconciliation - as if they could ever really be opposed. Primarily a partisan of W-B, I believe such reconciliation begins on the individual level as an inquiry into and conscious engagement with the loving intelligence, (aka the Truth) of which everything and everyone is an effortless expression. Therein may our individual efforts to express and conduct ourselves accordingly progress and redound for the sake of all.
Wow! This is exactly how I am feeling. Thankfully, my husband is in World B with me. I look back at my life prior to the last 2 years and wonder why I didn't see it before ... and what made me see it now?? I am thankful I did, but at the same time I wonder if it would have been better to have continued on in total oblivion; I am envious of all those who are blind but enjoy their lives. World B truly is a stressful, depressing place to be. Is there hope?
So many good points...count your blessings that your husband is too a shrew. I do not live that luxury and I cry often that the tension in my house is so strong between my wife and I. I do not understand why she is so deeply incensed that I follow this path...it is a path of love and care...yet we are all treated by the rest of the world like pariahs...it is very odd.
I was not fully woken until this...9-11 definitely woke me, but I wasn't a card carrying shrew until this...why now? This whole Covid situation has been so utterly extreme, it seems it should wake everyone up, obviously it didn't...and yes, ignorance definitely is bliss. Some of us (shrews) simply cannot live a life made up of lies...no matter how uncomfortable that might be...why? I have no idea...
Thanks you. :) I am very thankful that my husband is a shrew. It breaks my heart to hear that your home-life is so difficult. Home -- the place where we are supposed to be able to go for peace and tranquility in the midst of chaos. It is beyond my ability to comprehend how the sheep cannot see the obvious hypocrisy in everything we are being fed. I guess like Dr. Malone/ Mattais Desmet said -- "mass formation psychosis". The ringleaders of this circus obviously know what they are doing , they know how to manipulate the masses and when to push and when to ease up a bit. Like you -- I will not and cannot live a life made up of lies. I am a proud shrew!
Thanks Ronnie...yes, proud shrew indeed! Glad to be with you on this!
The homelife situation for me is worse than just a causal disagreement...it is monumental. About as bad as you can get...the only thing that would make it worse is if there were verbal argument about it. For some reason we typically avoid that. There have been a few flair ups, which were good because they made it clear there is no reason at all to be had there...it is the most perplexing thing I have ever experienced...
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.”
So so so true...I went to the mall the other day....amongst many mask wearers which to me mark people's basic sentiments...and I too felt incredibly lonely...I wrote an article called "The Invaders" that is coming up soon here you might be interested in...it addresses this uncomfortable feeling being always surrounded by "aliens." It will be on my substack later next month, but will actually be on Off-Guardian on Saturday...be on the lookout for it...
Todd, thank you. I found your essay particularly hard hitting. Like many of your readers, I live mostly in “B”, but straddle the gap towards “A” because of loved ones. And I work continuously to red-pill them. Your description of the two streams really highlights for me the sense of loss I sometimes allow myself to wallow in. It’s not just the tangible things (death, job losses, loss of freedoms, etc), but that sorrow for everything we used to hold dear - and have discovered that ‘twas but a sham. I rarely turn the tv on, celebrities are nothing to me, my eyes glaze over at commercialism. I’ve bought more books in the last 2 years than in the last 10. I’m outside (preferably in the woods) as often as possible, and spend time with people I love. The sorrow for the old world is fading, and perhaps the silver lining in all this lies in understanding the invisible handcuffs we’ve been unknowingly wearing, and realizing where true happiness lies.
Yes, it certainly is not just the tangible things...it is everything we hold dear...
I loved this comment..." I rarely turn the tv on, celebrities are nothing to me, my eyes glaze over at commercialism. I’ve bought more books in the last 2 years than in the last 10. I’m outside (preferably in the woods) as often as possible, and spend time with people I love."
Wow, you have described me to a "T"....thank you!!!!
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.
You put this all so very well. I resonated with your comment about how being in World A you experienced a lack of integrity...that is so true...also, that you have given up maintaining relationships with people in the "next concentric" circle...that is so true too.
Not sure what you mean about the two of us coming from different paths...and I am sure you are more pragmatic than I am!! Most people are. But I too make great effort to maintain relationships with people close to me "on that other side of the fence"...even though I am pretty certain they will come to this side...my wife and my sister and a handful of very close friends. I have another sister who is right on board with us shrews, but one of them is not, And I too "take vacations in World A"...
Yes.....couldn't be more thrilled to hear of the Queens passing. But, it's like celebrating the death of the rat you've been chasing in your home and not having an awareness of there being thousands connected to that one rat. When you mentioned the "Long Live the King", I am reminded of Poillievre's acceptance speech where he and his wife both said it.....at least I recall both of them saying it. This reinforced his associations and his loyalties to World A. And I must admit that I dip into world A for just a little break from world B!!!! Sometimes I just play pretend for a while - like going on a little vacation!!! I don't think about the crap for a day or 2 and fantasize that the world is good and "normal". But I think it's much harder to come back to world B when I do this.....the cost of temporary denial🫤. Thanks for the article Todd......always fun for personal reflection after reading!
Thanks Rebecca!! Yeah, World A is like the Caribbean...nice breather once in a while for sure.