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Why do some people support tyranny while others defy it?
Last night while
standing in line at the supermarket folks were talking about the rapid rise in
costs. I blamed that on Biden’s stupid policies, especially fuel
price hikes due to his shutting down of the pipeline and other actions. The woman behind us, middle aged, proudly
stated she was a Democrat and fully supports Biden…
My wife looked at her and asked “you support
inflation, the invasion of our border and the screwed up exit plan in
Afghanistan?” The woman insistent these
were all policies she supports. I bit my
tongue.
[My late mother always said 'the masses are asses & they prove it every day].
There is a fundamental question that haunts the pages of history,
and it is one that has never been addressed in a satisfactory
manner. There are many schools of thought on why and how tyranny
rises in any given society and all of them miss the mark in terms of
explanations, primarily because they all allow their biases to rule their
conclusions and blind them to the deeper aspects of power and
conspiracy. In other words, they are willing to go down the rabbit
hole only so far, and then they deny that the rabbit hole even exists.
The common assumption when it comes to autocracy or oligarchy is
that people are "stupid" and easily manipulated into following
compelling personalities that make promises they never intend to keep. This is
a foolish oversimplification of reality. In truth, the level of manipulation
needed to lure a majority of people into dictatorship is so complex that it
requires an advanced understanding of human psychology.
In our modern era, people cannot merely be ordered to submit at
gunpoint, at least not right away. They must be tricked into
conforming, and not only that, they must be made to think that it was their idea all
along. Without this dynamic of self-censorship and self-enslavement,
the population will eventually rebel no matter how oppressive the
regime. A thousand-year tyranny cannot exist unless the people are
conned into supporting it.
And this is where we find the true key to totalitarianism. It only
thrives because there is an inherent portion of any given society that secretly
loves it and wants it to exist. We might call these people useful idiots, but
it is more than that. They are not completely unaware of what they are doing;
they understand to some extent that they are helping in the destruction of
other people's freedoms, and they revel in it. Sure, there are elitists and
globalists that levy root conspiracies and seek out more and more control, but
they could not accomplish much of anything without the aid of an army of
sociopathic aberrations that live among us.
This strange and destructive characteristic is ever visible today
in light of the COVID lockdowns and the push for forced vaccinations. It is
clear that there are some people out there that are overly concerned with the
personal health decisions of everyone else. They have become a cult that
ignores all science and logic and demands fealty to their fraudulent narrative.
They do not care about the facts, they only care that we comply.
Well, as I have said time and time again: We Will Not
Comply!
And so begins the epic conflict; a tale as old as civilization
itself. There are two types of people in this world: Those that want to
control others, and those that want to be left alone. But what motivates the
control freaks? Why are they the way they are? Let’s examine some
of the causes...
The fear engine
There are people that are driven by success, by merit, by hope, by
prosperity, by faith, by optimism, by love and by honor. And then, there are
people driven by fear. There are hundreds of various fears, but only a few ways
to react to any of them. Infiltrators respond to fear with a desperate need to
micromanage their environment; they believe that if they can dictate people and
events to a certain degree, they can eliminate unexpected outcomes and be free
of fear. But life does not work this way and it never will.
The level of influence these people seek is so far beyond them
that it can never be attained. That is to say, they will never be satisfied
until they get more. Their fears will always haunt them because fears cannot be
dealt with from without, they can only be dealt with from within.
Furthermore, the things they fear often revolve around their own
narcissism and are of their own making. They fear failure, but they rarely work
hard enough to succeed. They fear exposure, but only because they constantly
lie. They fear conflict, but only because they are weak in body and character.
They fear death because they believe in nothing greater than themselves. They
clamor for dominance of their surroundings because they wrongly believe that
they can cheat fate and the consequences of their own terrible choices.
The safety of the mob
The issue of fear extends into the common mindset of the
totalitarian and how they find safety. The idea of standing on their own two feet
and standing by their principles in the face of opposition is completely
foreign to them. They avoid these situations at any cost and the notion of risk
is abhorrent to them. So, they instead look for a mob to blend into. This makes
them feel safe in obscurity while also wielding force through collectivist
action. They can feel powerful while at the same time being pitiful and weak.
These people almost always operate through large single-minded
groups that punish any dissension in the ranks, usually with gatekeepers that
moderate the motivations of the hive.
The mob itself is a weapon, its only purpose beyond the comfort of
its adherents is to destroy those people that do not hold the same beliefs or
values as the controllers. There is no defensive purpose to the mob; it is an
assassin's tool; it is a nuclear bomb. And, as we have seen in every modern
dictatorship from the Bolsheviks in Russia to the Fascists in Germany to the
communists in Mao's China, the totalitarian mob is capable of murdering more people
than any nuclear weapon in existence, all in the name of "the greater good
of the greater number."
False piety in place of self-worth
All tyrants believe themselves to be righteous in their cause,
even when they know that their actions are morally abhorrent. I have seen this
dynamic on bold display during the COVID mandates and the vaccine passports
initiatives. Consider for a moment that 99.7 percent of the population is under
no legitimate threat from the COVID virus; they will not die from it, and in
the vast majority of cases they will recover quickly from it. Yet the COVID
cult consistently argues that people who refuse the mandates, the lockdowns and
the vaccines are putting others at risk, which is why we need to be
"forced" to submit.
Most of them know according to the data that COVID is not a
threat, but the narrative gives them an opportunity to apply power through
"moral judgment," and so they lie, and they continue to lie about the
data until they think the lie will be accepted as reality. This is a common
aspect of most cults and of fundamentalist religions that have gone astray. The
habit of adherents to value lies over facts and evidence not because they are
trying to protect their faith, but because it affords them the chance to feel
pious and superior to everyone else.
Those who disagree are labeled heretics, the lowest of the low,
the unwashed terrorists. The anti-mandate crowd is thus stripped of its
humanity and is painted as demonic. The people who want to remain free become
monsters, and the totalitarian monsters become heroes out to save the world. As
the author Robert Anton Wilson once said:
"The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather
than cowardly."
The love of a cage
I feel as though I understand this philosophy to an extent, but it
never fails to shock me the way in which people who scratch and scrape for
power over others also seem to love being slaves to the system. I'm not so sure
that it is ironic, as authoritarianism does fulfill some of its promises of "security"
as long as the people involved are willing to trade away any impulses of
liberty. If you do as your told at all times and serve the system without fail,
then there is a good chance you will be able to hold on to the meager
necessities of survival. You will live a life, though probably not a happy one.
For those that go above and beyond and cast aside all personal
principle in order to further the goals of the system, they might even enjoy a
modicum of wealth beyond their peers. You see, in a despotic society, the
people who are most without honor are the people that get ahead. They don't
need merit, or accomplishment or skills or even brains; all they have to do is
sell their souls and do whatever it takes to catch the eye of the oligarchy.
They don't have to be good at anything, all they have to do is be evil and for
some people that's easy.
In this way, the system becomes a comfortable blanket that people
can be swaddled in. They wrap themselves in it and luxuriate in its warmth.
They are not concerned with freedom because freedom feels cold to them. Freedom
can be isolating, and the existence of choice is terrifying. When all your
choices are made for you, there is never any doubt or internal stress. All that
is required is that you wake up each day and obey.
For weak and ignorant people, subservience is a gift instead of a
curse. They believe that a cage is meant to be gilded, not escaped from, and
anyone that seeks escape must be crazy or dangerous. If free people exist then
the slaves are forced to question their own condition and their own compliance,
so everyone must be enslaved to remove any and all doubt from society. The hive
mind is placed above all else.
The defiant and free
The little tyrants that infiltrate humanity probably look at
liberty advocates as some kind of alien creatures from far beyond the bounds of
their universe. They just can't fathom how it is possible for someone to defy
the system, to stand against the mob or the collective, even when they are
outnumbered or when the risk is so high. They assume that it is a form of
madness or a lack of intelligence; for how could anyone smart think they have a
chance of fighting back against the dictatorship?
Liberty people are individualists by nature, but we also care
about the freedoms of others. There is a common propaganda argument that
individualists are "selfish," but this is not the case at all. It is
not enough for us alone to escape slavery; we will not stand by and watch
others be forced into bondage either. We are willing to sacrifice our lives not
just to save ourselves but to save future generations from autocracy.
As the vaccine passports and mandates continue to escalate the
totalitarians will find themselves even more bewildered, because each new
mechanism of control will result in even greater impetus for rebellion, and
frankly at this point, it is going to be us, or them. They will not stop their
pursuit of dominion and we will not comply, so we are at an impasse. Our two
tribes cannot coexist on the same continent, maybe not even the same planet.
The truth is that if voluntarism was a valued ideal then this
whole fight could be avoided. If the collectivist cult was willing to accept
the notion that they can choose to live in a highly micromanaged environment
while others can choose to live independently, then there would be no conflict.
We could easily go our separate ways. But this is not how totalitarians
think: To them, all people are chattel, we are property to be staked down
and reeducated until we see the light. And if we don't see the light, we are to
be done away with and erased.
This is why they are utterly to blame for the war that is coming.
They cannot stop themselves from grasping for our throats and our minds. They
are addicted to supremacy. They are living in a fever dream and the only drug
that cools their veins is total oppression of everyone around them. I see what
is coming next and it is not pretty for either side, but it will be especially
gruesome for the collectivists because they cannot imagine a scenario in which
they lose. They are so certain of their preeminence and the safety of their
self-imposed prisons that they will see failure as a phantom, a ghost that
cannot touch them. They will implode when they find out otherwise.
To truth and knowledge,
Brandon Smith
SIDEBAR
We haven’t had an extended
bout of painful inflation like this since the days of the Carter
administration, and our leaders in Washington have decided that the best way
forward is to rapidly create even more inflation. They keep using words
like “transitory” to describe the current inflation crisis, but then they turn
right around and talk about the need to create, borrow and spend even more
money. It is utter madness…
Federal data released on
Wednesday showed that for the 12 months through July, the consumer price index
rose 5.4 percent, unchanged from June and at the highest level since the Great
Recession in 2008.
John Williams of shadowstats.com has done just that.
According to Williams, if inflation was still calculated the same way it was
back in 1990, we would be at about 9
percent at
this moment.
And if inflation was still calculated the same way it was back in
1980, we would be way into
double digits right now.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) announced Wednesday that,
according to their calculations, year-over-year for the month of July,
inflation isn’t rising as rapidly as before.
They are claiming this by reporting that year-over-year “rents”
are up just 2.8%.
Perhaps this is true on another planet. But not on planet Earth.
The same day the BLS claimed this, CNBC reported that for the
month of July, rents rose 7% year-over-year for one-bedroom apartments and 8.7%
for two-bedroom apartments.
So, in the real world, rents are up 7-8.7% year-over-year. But
in the made-up fantasy land of government bean counters, rents are up less than
3%
Ingraham:
Biden's Afghan crisis continues Democrats' 'great unraveling' of America
In her “Ingraham Angle” monologue on
Monday, host Laura Ingraham described how President Biden's Afghan crisis is
the latest example of the Democrats' wholesale “unraveling” of America.
Former UK Commander in Afghanistan
on Joe Biden’s “Surrender” and “Humiliation” of US Armed Forces: “He shouldn’t
be impeached…he should be court-martialed” [VIDEO]
Border Patrol agents
say they aren’t allowed to do their job, feel ‘downtrodden, almost dead inside’
There were
212,672 people apprehended at the United States southern border in July, the
highest number in 21 years and...
Read More »
Is It Possible For The
Biden Presidency To Last Much Longer?
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More »
The
Taliban's release of prisoners throughout Afghanistan poses a security threat
on the U.S.-Mexico border, according to senior Department of Homeland Security
officials and national security experts. [READ MORE]
RESOURCES
If the grid goes down, the ability to defend oneself will be
invaluable. In fact, the importance of self-defense will be right up there
with food and water.
Of course, a firearm is the most effective way to defend
yourself from an attacker, but that might not always be possible. For example,
if you find yourself in a place where firearms aren't allowed.
The purpose of this article is to teach you about the many other
types of weapons you can use to defend yourself. You can carry most of these
anywhere without drawing any unwanted attention, yet they're effective enough
to take down almost anyone...
9 Dangerous Mistakes That New Gun Owners Make
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