(Sorry, but this ain't a video - you'll have to read it!:) – CL)
I wish it were not so, but most human beings seem incapable of critical thought regarding how history follows a cyclical path due to human nature retaining its flaws, weaknesses, vulnerabilities and fortes throughout history. We believe we have advanced because our inventions, discoveries, and technology, but the desire for wealth, power and control over others still consumes a sociopathic portion of mankind who tend to rise to the top through any means necessary.
As Huxley lamented in the
1950’s, technological progress has actually propelled mankind backwards in
terms of its humanity and relationship with nature and other human beings. The
very technology we glorify as an example of our advancement is now being used
by the totalitarians to imprison us. It has happened slowly and methodically
over decades as generation after generation have entered the government
indoctrination centers (public schools) to be taught ignorance and obedience to
the state. This indoctrination has been reinforced by ceaseless propaganda
injected into their brains by media conglomerates doing the bidding of the
state.
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“The next Fourth Turning is due to begin shortly after
the new millennium, midway through the Oh-Oh decade. Around the year 2005, a
sudden spark will catalyze a Crisis mood. Remnants of the old social order will
disintegrate. Political and economic trust will implode. Real hardship will
beset the land, with severe distress that could involve questions of class,
race, nation and empire. The very survival of the nation will feel at stake.
Sometime before the year 2025, America will pass through a great gate in
history, commensurate with the American Revolution, Civil War, and twin
emergencies of the Great Depression and World War II.” – Strauss & Howe –
The Fourth Turning
How a contested election could send the U.S. into a
constitutional crisis - MarketWatch It's not the chairman of the Joint Chiefs'
job to remove Trump from office if he won't leave.
“There is no darkness but ignorance. The devil can cite
Scripture for his purpose.” William Shakespeare
I read The Fourth Turning in 2006, after seeing it
described in John Mauldin and Doug Casey’s newsletters as an uncannily accurate
assessment of American history based upon generational configurations which
recur on eighty-year cycles, a long human life. Strauss and Howe wrote the book
in 1997 and used their generational theory to predict the Crisis that would
begin in the mid-2000’s and come to an indeterminate climax in the mid-2020’s.
As a student of history, the theory spoke to me. I have
been writing articles since 2009, using the Fourth Turning as a guide to
interpreting what has been happening and what might happen as this crisis
period accelerates towards its violent culmination. The quotes above perfectly
capture exactly what has happened since this crisis began in September 2008,
with the Fed/Wall Street created financial collapse. The existing social order
is disintegrating, but they are willing to destroy the country rather than
relinquish their wealth, power and control.
Strauss & Howe identified the core elements of this
Crisis as debt, civic decay, and global disorder. No one can argue the severe
distress engulfing the nation and the world traces its origins to these core
elements, with the catalyst for this Crisis being the 2008 central banker
manufactured financial collapse. Nothing has been normal since 2008. And 2008’s
epic implosion was driven by the disastrous financial, political and military
decisions implemented by the puppets of the Deep State from 2000 onward, with
the Federal Reserve obligingly creating bubble after bubble as the “solution”
to the previous bubble.
And now we are here again, in the midst of the greatest
bubble in the history of mankind. A bubble of willful ignorance. The
obliviousness of most Americans to the danger awaiting them is akin to the day
before Fort Sumpter was bombed, the day before Pearl Harbor was attacked, or
the dinosaurs unaware of a giant meteor rushing towards the planet and about to
transform their future in a challenging way.
Real hardship has beset the land, for those not in the
.1% or Deep State lackeys being rewarded for propagating mistruths, outright
lies, fear, and propaganda on behalf of their oligarch benefactors. These
apparatchiks mainly consist of corrupt politicians, central bank lackeys,
mainstream media hacks, neocon warmongers, surveillance state traitors, and big
pharma captured health “experts”. The severe distress does involve class, race,
nation and empire, but most of the distress has been artificially created by
those pulling the strings – Bernays’ invisible government manipulating the
masses.
As the looming election advances like a deadly avalanche
crashing down a mountainside towards an unsuspecting village below, a battle
wages between an evil ingrained establishment and a few dedicated patriots of
truth. If you don’t feel the very survival of the nation hangs in the balance,
then you are either delusional, willfully ignorant, or unwilling to recognize
your own cognitive dissonance. The next five to ten years will alter the course
of history in a profound way. Whether the outcome is positive for average American
citizens is very much in doubt.
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“Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for
taking things for granted. That men do not learn very much from the lessons of
history is the most important of all the lessons of history.” – Aldous Huxley
I wish it were not so, but most human beings seem
incapable of critical thought regarding how history follows a cyclical path due
to human nature retaining its flaws, weaknesses, vulnerabilities and fortes throughout
history. We believe we have advanced because our inventions, discoveries, and
technology, but the desire for wealth, power and control over others still
consumes a sociopathic portion of mankind who tend to rise to the top through
any means necessary.
As Huxley lamented in the 1950’s, technological progress
has actually propelled mankind backwards in terms of its humanity and
relationship with nature and other human beings. The very technology we glorify
as an example of our advancement is now being used by the totalitarians to
imprison us. It has happened slowly and methodically over decades as generation
after generation have entered the government indoctrination centers (public
schools) to be taught ignorance and obedience to the state. This indoctrination
has been reinforced by ceaseless propaganda injected into their brains by media
conglomerates doing the bidding of the state.
The dystopian use of disinformation, false narratives,
blatant lies and propaganda by the totalitarians constituting the Deep State,
as their never-ending coup attempt against a duly elected president attests,
will be the catalyst for the next vicious phase of this Fourth Turning. For the
last four years the Russiagate coup has dogged Trump, as Obama, Clinton, Brennan,
Clapper, Comey, Mueller and a myriad of lesser co-conspirators have propagated
the Big Lie to cover-up their traitorous actions of trying to overthrow Trump.
An honest truth-seeking press with unbiased journalists
would have uncovered this conspiracy and revealed the truthful facts to a
concerned public. Instead, a completely captured corporate media has turned a
blind eye to the truth as they have acted as accomplices of the coup culprits.
Just as evil is the suppression of truth through censorship and keeping silent
regarding the truth. Huxley understood how totalitarian propagandists operated
decades before the current batch of Silicon Valley authoritarians initiated
their national truth repression scheme.
The Children of Silicon Valley | by Robert Pogue Harrison
| The New York Review of Books
“Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical
point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain
subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more
effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.” – Aldous
Huxley
A perfect example of this is my local ABC news affiliate
doing an hour long broadcast last night with absolutely no mention of the
Hunter Biden – Joe Biden pay for play scandal. The truth dies in silence. The
left-wing media dominated by six mega-corporations and social media billionaire
titans (Bezos, Zuckerberg, Dorsey) have colluded with other left wing
billionaires (Soros, Bloomberg) and the traitorous Deep Staters (Comey,
Brennan, Clapper, Clinton) to bring down a sitting president and now to memory
hole proof of Joe Biden corruption and his son’s illegal dealings with foreign
enemies.
These anti-rational propagandists are enemies of freedom,
as they systematically pervert reality and knowingly manipulate the minds of
the masses towards how they require them to think, feel and act. After years of
socialist indoctrination in government schools and universities, the masses
have been taught to feel rather than think. Victimhood is celebrated, while
personal responsibility is scorned.
The truth has been revealed, to those capable of critical
thinking since the onset of this engineered pandemic fear exercise in March
2020. We have segued from the soft tyranny of Huxley’s Brave New World towards
the harsh tyranny of Orwell’s 1984. As the leftist oligarchs have unleashed
their ANTIFA and BLM terrorists in cities across America in “mostly peaceful
protests”, as proclaimed by the Big Brother media, ignorance is strength rings
true across our dystopian landscape.
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is
strength-George Orwell (850x650) | 1984 quotes, Orwell quotes, Orwell
I’m amazed by the extreme level of ignorance exhibited by
a vast swath of our population, as they glory in believing comforting mistruths
which confirm their preordained belief structure. They don’t know because they
don’t want to know. They are intoxicated by the endless stream of idiocy
emanating from their iGadgets, as they willfully choose ignorance over
awareness, servitude over freedom, and captivity over liberty.
As Huxley predicted, the controlling oligarchy has used
technology to convince people to love their servitude, while unthinkingly
believing what they are told by their government and media mouthpieces, doing
the bidding of the government and oligarchs who control the government. The
goal of the ruling class is to keep people from thinking, and most willingly
oblige because thinking is hard and the uncomfortable truths are too much to
bear for the satiated masses.
But there is a minority who want the truth and are
willing and able to deal with the consequences. They realize facts don’t cease to
exist because we ignore them. Facts don’t care about your beliefs or feelings.
Facts lead you to the truth. And the immense coverup of facts over the last ten
months as we approach this historically important election boggles the mind of
every critical thinking person on the planet.
This clearly coordinated effort to mislead the public
regarding our dire financial plight, the truth about this overblown flu, the
true facts about the Russiagate coup attempt against Trump, and now the massive
Joe Biden/Hunter Biden corruption scandal coverup, has taken on a new level of
malevolence and deceitfulness. The duplicitous nature of the measures taken by
the social media tyrants to control the narrative and dictate what the people
must believe will climax in a violent response by those unwilling to accept
their plot to overthrow the government and shredding of the U.S. Constitution.
We are now living in a world where so called “experts”
declare the science is settled regarding the spread of Covid, the efficacy of masks,
the need for lockdowns to slow the spread, the requirement for a vaccine to
cure Covid, the danger of HCQ, the fallacy of herd immunity and the fact we
will never return to normal again. If anyone dares to question the approved
Covid narrative, they will be attacked by MSM talking heads, de-platformed by
Twitter and Facebook, called a murderer by the thousands of Karens patrolling
social media, and possibly lose their jobs. When straight talking brilliant
doctors, like Dr. Scott Atlas, use facts to blow up the approved narrative, he
is attacked by the MSM and social media hyenas. Facts don’t matter when fear is
the preferred method of herding a nation of sheep.
KUOW - True or false: Can you spot the infodemic in our
midst?
Even though 99.7% of those who contract Covid will not
die, with most not even knowing they had it, the pandemic promoters (Gates, Big
Pharma, Trump haters, Democrats, Left-wing media) continue to exaggerate the
threat and scare a country into a Depression. This coordinated charade has been
instituted as a cash grab by the ruling oligarchy, a coverup for the Fed
rescuing a collapsing financial system, and an effort to dispose of Trump after
the failed impeachment coup.
Even though, prior to this engineered pandemic, CDC
documentation unequivocally declared masks useless in stopping the spread of
viruses and numerous other studies by respected institutions confirmed this
conclusion (you know – science), masks (muzzles) are now required to conform to
state dictate under penalty of arrest. Even though thousands of scientists and
doctors have said lockdowns don’t work, politicians continue to destroy the
lives of their citizens by tyrannically closing down their cities and states.
For what true purpose?
lemmings off cliff something not right for common good
Even though Hydroxychloroquine plus zinc has proven to
drastically reduce the effects of Covid if taken early in the illness, costs
only a few dollars per dose, has been used safely for decades in dealing with
malaria, and has the support of thousands of doctors, it was declared unsafe by
the health agencies controlled by Big Pharma and politically motivated health
care hack bureaucrats who care more about defeating Trump than saving lives.
Why support a drug that only costs a few bucks when Big Pharma can roll out
treatments that cost a few thousand dollars and don’t provide better outcomes
than HCQ and zinc? There are profits to be made and stock prices to support.
That’s the real science going on here.
The hit job stories from the NYT, Washington Post and
other left-wing media about how Sweden would suffer death on a grand scale by
not requiring masks, not locking down their country, and not closing schools
were being written at a torrential pace in the Spring and Summer. They continue
today as they attempt to discredit Dr. Scott Atlas because he is taking a
realistic balanced approach to the virus.
Sweden’s death rate was in the middle of the pack in
Europe and they achieved herd immunity by the Fall. Their cases are minuscule
and deaths virtually nil. Meanwhile, the European lockdown countries are now
experiencing a surge of new cases and locking down again. Sweden was right, but
the compliant captured press maintains silence about their success, because
silence about the truth maintains their Big Lie. If they can convince everyone
to believe the lie, it becomes the truth.
My Spiritual Journey — 15 — Where Lies the Truth… | by
Marma | Medium
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes
and ears. It was their final, most essential command. And if all others
accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then
the lie passed into history and became truth.” – George Orwell, 1984
So, we are less than two weeks out from the election and
the outcome, no matter who wins, will likely ignite a raging firestorm that
will make the California wildfires look like a flickering matchstick. As we
have supposedly made tremendous advancements in science and technology, reality
proves we have merely achieved a more efficient means of going backwards.
The intoxication from earlier successes of science and
technology have devolved into a gruesome morning after hangover of deteriorated
outcomes, now threatening to imprison masked Americans in an electronic gulag
of forced vaccinations and digital currency. The social media billionaire
moguls, in conjunction with the Wall Street owned Federal Reserve, and
sociopathic political operatives will mandate compliance regarding medical,
financial and political decrees or you will be demonetized and cut-off from the
ability to transact – essentially living in an electronic prison camp.
Based on the Fourth Turning generational theory, there is
no doubt Donald Trump is the prophet generation Grey Champion. The term Grey
Champion does not mean they are a great, noble, humane person. Ben Franklin,
Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt were not nice guys. They did
whatever they thought necessary to achieve their means during our previous
three Fourth Turnings. Millions of Americans hated Lincoln and Roosevelt, just
as tens of millions hate Trump.
The Grey Champion’s appearance marks the
arrival of a moment of “darkness, and adversity, and peril,” as the violent
turmoil climax of the Fourth Turning approaches. Trump and Pence are from the
Prophet (Boomer) Generation, while Biden is from the Silent Generation and
Harris is Generation X. At this stage of the Fourth Turning a transfer of power
to a Silent generation leader would not make sense. Trump is the lightning rod
for a clash that must take place to sweep away the existing corrupted social
order and replace it with something new.
Neil Howe: Is Trump America's 'Gray Champion' Like Lincoln
or FDR? [No way do I think Trump is the champion, the next potus will be,
becau… | Fdr, Champion, America
Every four years we hear the same pablum about this being
the most important election of our lifetime. No matter who wins this election,
the Deep State, Military Industrial Complex, Wall Street controlled Federal
Reserve, Big Business, Big Pharma, Big Media, Silicon Valley Titans, and
Billionaires like Soros, Bloomberg and Gates will still be running the show.
One man has extraordinarily little chance of confronting these wealthy
power-hungry sociopaths and winning.
It remains to be seen whether the Grey Champion can
ignite a civil uprising against the powerful forces of totalitarianism
engulfing the country and the world. They will not be stopped through the
ballot box. They had successfully convinced a willfully ignorant populace to
love their servitude and acquiesce to allowing them unfettered control over
their lives. But, the tyrannical lockdowns, martial law like mandates from
bureaucrats, compulsory masking as a requirement to be accepted in society, and
the dehumanizing of our daily lives has created a Resistance, peaceful thus
far, who are enraged by what is happening.
These are the critical thinkers, non-maskers,
no-lockdowners, no vacciners, unwilling to kneel before the altar of Fauci,
Gates, WHO, CDC, MSM and tyrannical sociopathic politicians like Cuomo, Newsome
and Whitmer. These dissidents and doubters are most certainly a minority, but
it was only a minority who carried the load during the American Revolution.
They are heavily armed, but it will require stealth,
guile and intelligence to defeat the entrenched establishment. The weakness of
these sociopaths is their arrogance and hubris. When they make mistakes during
the coming conflict, they must be made to pay heavily. Those with their eyes
wide open know what is happening. But, as Huxley asked over sixty years ago, do
enough people think it is worth the fight to stop our drift towards
totalitarian control?
Governor Cuomo calls latest CDC guidance political
“Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge? Does a
majority of the population think it worthwhile to take a good deal of trouble,
in order to halt and, if possible, reverse the current drift toward
totalitarian control of everything?” – Aldous Huxley
The last week of MSM hyperbolic vitriol towards Trump;
censorship of all dissenters about the Covid narrative by the social media
tyrants; the purposeful increase in testing to all-time highs in order to
generate more cases; ignoring the plunge in Covid related deaths; seeing
“neutral” journalists question Trump like he is on trial at Nuremberg while
lobbing underhanded softballs to Biden like he’s a four year old (his dementia
riddled brain tells him he is four years old); and seeing the MSM tout polls
showing a Biden landslide just as they did in 2016, leads me to believe Trump
is going to win re-election in November.
It may take weeks, there will be rampant fraud in trying
to swing the vote to Biden, and it could end up in the Supreme Court, but I
believe Trump will win. The deplorables are seething with an inner rage which
will be released on November 3. While the election is being contested,
shockingly, ANTIFA and BLM will again begin burning down cities. It was
fascinating how it had all stopped when polls showed the riots having a
negative impact on Biden and his Democrat cohorts. The time frame between
November 3 and January 20, when the president is supposed to be sworn in,
guarantees to be tumultuous, dangerous, and fraught with potential peril.
Vision 2020: What happens if the US election is
contested? - ABC News
I do not believe either side will accept the outcome of
the election and will treat the victor as illegitimate. Once that mindset gains
control, only violent conflict can result. The myriad of potential outcomes is
too vast to comprehend. What we do know is Fourth Turnings always accelerate
and intensify towards a bloody finale, with clear winners and losers.
Unconditional surrender will be demanded by those
maintaining the upper hand. Whether this coming conflict remains domestic or
spreads internationally, the “advancements” in the technology of destruction
will endanger every human being on the planet. You cannot escape the impact of
Fourth Turnings, only survive and/or do your part in helping achieve a positive
outcome. There is no predetermined ending.
The Fourth Turning Is Accelerating Towards Climax | NC
Renegades
“The risk of catastrophe will be very high. The nation
could erupt into insurrection or civil violence, crack up geographically, or
succumb to authoritarian rule. If there is a war, it is likely to be one of
maximum risk and effort – in other words, a total war. Every Fourth Turning has
registered an upward ratchet in the technology of destruction, and in mankind’s
willingness to use it.” – Strauss & Howe – The Fourth Turning
When pondering the possible outcomes of this Fourth
Turning, we tend to be drawn towards the negative, because a positive outcome
seems so unlikely given the current animosity roiling the country. If you step
back and realize all the hate and conflict is being engineered and coordinated
by a ruling class of powerful rich men, then average Americans could organize a
new paradigm that honors the original intent of the U.S. Constitution, allowing
citizens the liberty and freedom to create voluntary associations based upon
common interests at a local level.
The ruling oligarchs find this unacceptable, so this
freedom must be wrested away from them by any means necessary. There is a civil
war already underway, but only one side is fighting – the billionaire class who
not only don’t want to relinquish some power, but want total control over every
aspect of our lives. I believe this election will turn this one-sided silent
war into a hot war.
Rather than wallowing in doom and the worst-case
scenarios, we should be trying to figure out how to reorganize our nation going
forward, after the billionaire oligarchs are defeated. As I was trying to go
back in time to see when I wrote my first Fourth Turning article, I came across
an article I wrote in 2010 – Brave New World 2010.
At the end of the article I noted the wisdom and practicality
of Aldous Huxley’s advice on how to restructure our society, from his 1958 book
Brave New World Revisited. This should be a template for restructuring our way
of life if we want a sustainable future. I am not optimistic we have the
fortitude, wisdom, courage and will to choose Huxley’s suggested path:
As recent history has repeatedly shown, the right to
vote, by itself, is no guarantee of liberty. Therefore, if you wish to avoid
dictatorship by referendum, break up modern society’s merely functional
collectives into self-governing, voluntarily cooperating groups, capable of
functioning outside the bureaucratic systems of Big Business and Big Government.
If you wish to avoid the spiritual impoverishment of
individuals and whole societies, leave the metropolis and revive the small
country community, or alternately humanize the metropolis by creating within
its network of mechanical organization the urban equivalents of small country
communities, in which individuals can meet and cooperate as complete persons,
not as the mere embodiments of specialized functions.
Huxley’s prescription of re-humanizing our country and
voluntarily choosing where we want to live and who we want to associate with in
small enclaves is how many rural communities already function. We can either
willingly choose this path peacefully, or we will be left with this as our only
option after our modern world self-destructs during the violent cataclysm,
following the crashing of our Ponzi scheme debt saturated economic system.
The American Empire is clearly in rapid decline and may
not survive the trials and tribulations over the coming decade. The Fourth
Turning is not a prophecy, but should be taken as a warning and call to action.
Sitting this out and hoping for the best will not help achieve a positive
outcome. Tragedy or triumph – the choices we make will matter. The climax of
this Fourth Turning may be a few years off, but the battle for the soul of
America begins on November 3.
A radical theory says major crises remake America every
80 years, with future war likely - Big Think
“History offers no guarantees. Obviously, things could go
horribly wrong – the possibilities ranging from a nuclear exchange to incurable
plagues, from terrorist anarchy to high-tech dictatorship. We should not assume
that Providence will always exempt our nation from the irreversible tragedies
that have overtaken so many others: not just temporary hardship, but debasement
and total ruin. Losing in the next Fourth Turning could mean something
incomparably worse. It could mean a lasting defeat from which our national
innocence – perhaps even our nation – might never recover.” – Strauss &
Howe – The Fourth Turning
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