We Should Know Better
Todd Hayen
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How unnatural does it need to be before we humans realize this environment is not one in which a human animal will do well in, yet alone even survive? It seems that we should, by now, be very aware of this, but few people seem to be.
And even if we are aware that our environment is slowly killing us, what can we do about it? We can’t very well up and move to Mars (no matter what Elon Musk might say), nor would that solve it.
I have had many clients over the years who are trying to raise children in this mess. Often, they ponder the option of taking their kids out of the toxicity they see every day and moving them out to the prairie, to a little house on it.
That might work to a degree, and maybe in the long run that might be the best thing to do. But how do you even do that? Moving off the grid seems like a good idea on paper, but will your kids really warm up to such a thing? Being pulled out of school, losing touch with their social media, their phone, and their corrupted friends.
How would that work?
I had one couple as clients who tried to do all this while still living in the city (Toronto). They did not have computers in their house, certainly no televisions, they lived like the Amish (and I am not knocking the Amish!)
Needless to say, it didn’t last long. Their kids were still exposed to the toxic world through school, and their neighbourhood friends—still living in the “environment” they were trying so hard to escape.
Is this possible to do?
First of all, you have to “know better,” i.e., you have to be aware that your environment is toxic to begin with. As I am stating, I think very few people are aware of that fact—or at least not before it is too late.
And I am not just talking about the obvious toxicities, like pollutants in the air, food and water, 5G, EMFs, chemtrails hovering overhead, vaccines and bogus medical treatments around every corner. As well as other rather obvious ones (that not everyone agrees are as toxic as they are) such as cell phones, social media, incessant video gaming, the internet, pornography—mostly toxic to males, and then goes through the males to relationships with females (and other sexual orientations, the toxicity not exclusive to heterosexuals).
I am also talking about the psychological toxins, which of course are carried to humans by some of the above examples (cell phones, social media, porn). The psychological toxins mostly appear in the form of media, film and television, lies from government, social pathologies such as the erosion of family values, needless sexual complexities, loss of nature, loss of human connection, the secularization of sex, loss of values, loss of community, loss of the workplace, on and on and on.
My point here is how did all of this sneak up on us so effectively?
It didn’t all just hit us at once like a ton of bricks. We really have no excuse, like we would if we were smashed instantly by a five-ton load. No, all of these things came in little doses, all of them came in such a way that we may have had more control over them as they snuck into our awareness and ultimately took us over like some sort of flesh-eating bacteria. Once it got a hold, it was over. Nothing now can be done except for extreme measures, like moving to Mars.
So, what did it look like when it first came along and why was it just brushed off like a small fly that lands on our salad during a summer picnic? Because that really was like it was—a small pesky fly. And our brush-off took the form of these comments: “What can you do?” “It’s what all the kids are doing,” “How can you stop progress or technology?”
Maybe all that is true, maybe there really wasn’t anything we could do, except see the writing on the wall and start packing for your interplanetary trip. Take cell phones for example. How could we have stopped that onslaught of toxicity? Did we even know how dangerous it could become? Maybe not, but I think once it started to take hold, we could have stemmed the tide a bit.
Should we have done this with stricter rules for our children? More severe punishments for breaking the rules? I doubt if that would have worked, but maybe. It seems that if everyone was a bit more cautious about allowing their kids to have cellphones, just as they were in my time allowing kids to have cars, or excessive makeup, or BB guns, or short skirts—maybe.
I am still fascinated by how easy it was for all of this to just get passed under the bridge without much thought about what was coming down the road as a consequence (I am not pointing any fingers here, I am just as guilty as the next person). Being within a culture and community that “allows” all of this toxic crap is of course a big part of the problem. It is very difficult to move outside of the crowd’s influence.
Take the aforementioned Amish for an example. What makes that culture able to stay within the confines of their own definition of decency, and “how to be a human being?” Is it largely religious? Respect for authority within the community?
Probably a bit of both of these things. We certainly have little of either one of those influencing factors in our current mass culture. When I say “authority within the community” I primarily mean respect for the authority of parents—at least that is the most important authority for kids to pay attention to.
Religion and spiritual character are all but dead in our “mass culture” these days. No one seems to give much homage to universal truths such as what can be found in the Bible’s Ten Commandments.
Although limited in nuance, the 10 “rules for life” certainly are still a good place to start. What is “good character” anyway? I am sure most of you have a pretty good idea of how to answer that question. Some say, as does Dennis Prager, that we all have a “moral bank account” into which we make deposits and withdrawals.
I note this because it brings home a point that is often lost on most people — religious or secular, conservative or liberal — that human beings all have what I call moral bank accounts. Just like a real bank account into which we make monetary deposits and from which we make monetary withdrawals, we make moral deposits into and moral withdrawals from our moral bank accounts based on the actions we engage in during our lifetime.”
So, what does this have to do with toxic things sneaking up on us and what we can do about them once they have consumed us and our children? Well, once it is here, there isn’t much to do but try to get as far away as possible—as previously described. To avoid them overtaking us, I think it is a matter of prevention rather than treatment.
This comment isn’t going to help anyone who is already sick from a toxic environment, but it may slow the toxic flow a bit. Focus on character.
As Prager suggests, be aware of the moral bank account you and your children are depositing and withdrawing from daily. Walk the righteous path, be kind, know and administer love, and find purpose and meaning in your life. Be aware of and be one with Source. And if we really should know better, then know better.
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Mine’s an unpopular opinion, perhaps, but I think your article is more or less right.
People talk a lot about “freedom”, but freedom has moral underpinnings. Take those away and one has not liberty but licence, with the citizenry proclaiming themselves to be “free” while in truth being slaves to their own worst instincts.
And looking at modern society, that’s where we are now.
“Secularization of sex”? Does that mean abandoning the Missionary Position?
Let’s be very careful how we attribute anything good to the religious impulse – especially as it involves the Bible. Arguably the most religious people in the world are Israeli settlers – they follow the dictates of the Bible religiously. Do unto Palestinians as God demanded be done unto Amaleks – and do it ten times over: one for each Commandment.
Getting rid of a toxic environment is the simplest thing in the world: just get rid of humans.
Barring that, let us follow the wisest people on Earth: the Luddites. Down with technology. And let’s carry it a step further: down with money.
Toxicity is so intrinsic in human nature that simply pointing fingers and saying “They’re the ones, not us!” misses the point entirely. The very notion that “I’m right and everyone who can’t see that is wrong!” is the most toxic substance that ever existed.
The 10 commandments? Really, Todd?
Read my username….. it says:
LOL
https://edition.cnn.com/2014/10/26/world/meast/oklahoma-ten-commandments-smashed/index.html
Your time to get off grid is quickly running out as Germans and Israelis are rapidly buying every available property and driving prices up…
No doubt many shitholes under control of the WEF will be removing the possibility to go off grid quite soon. Greece has been showing the way from the start, with a law prohibiting private off-grid use of solar panels already in place for years now…
Well they made the law, now lets see them enforce it.
They do enforce it if they see an off-grid installation, because they can get nice juicy fines out of people and probably legally steal their equipment.
We Should Know Better: We have no Government, we have the Crown. We have no Monarch, we have the crown. Parliament and our King give illusions of democracy and respectability to the Crown. The Crown is the Bankers The wolves wrapped in sheep’s clothing. By way of their monetary system and money creation, they own us all. We are debt slaves. The crown dictates policy, news, and agendas. They are behind all war, coups, terror, slavery, and the manipulation of health policy and wokery. They are destroying society, family, and masculinity to create a dystopian future for us all.
I just listened to Steven Jardin BBC Scotland radio, this puppet has sold his soul for a few hours at the BEEB. Today he reported females being attacked by men on trains, his first guest stated that being asked to go to a party on a bus should be a sexual offence, of course, many of his guests were men haters or suffered anxiety disorder but never mind Jardin was on board.
Its that simple:
The Whole Duty of Man:: 13 When all has been heard, the conclusion of the matter is this: Fear God and keep His 10 commandments, because this is the whole duty of man.
Fear is Slavery
Slavery to the false god of the Jws is the greatest tragedy in the history of humanity.
Re: “We Should Know Better”
The real issue or question is WHY don’t we?
A coherent answer has been provided — it’s because “advanced” humans have an “invisible” fatal chronic disease … an Emotional Flatlinerism Spectrum Disorder
“Hiding behind goofy blog names, pontificating the same talking points as others is not activism. The “glue” of tribalism or a movement is long gone. Sovereign, free thinking behavior is long gone for the most part. Lost in belief of mythical heroes or saviors coming to set things right is foolishness.” — E.J. Doyle, songwriter
“Despite the extensive documentation, most mainstream doctors and media dangerously continue to ignore my findings and refuse to speak about the self assembly nanotechnology that is in every human being now. The blood contamination is greatly accelerating in the amount of nanotechnology seen due to C19 bioweapon shedding, geoengineering and food contamination, to name a few sources.” —Ana Maria Mihalcea, M.D., Ph.D., Oct 2023 (https://archive.ph/GbMtm)
Blood banks contaminated, as predicted in 2020.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/researchers-call-urgent-action-address-mass-contamination-blood-supply/5858209
My reply pending from Aug 14, 2024 6:04 AM
This is just psy-ops attaching the same living, breeding parasite-like attributes to the “bioweapon” as pharma does to “the virus”. There are no effective bioweapons or nuclear weapons !
YOU ARE ADDICTED TO FEAR- WAKE UP
I’ve just seen a MSM headline (online): more evil from the WHO. The headline in question being “WHO adds Black Death plague, bird flu and mpox [sic] to new pandemic watchlist”.
I’m sure all the gullible, brainwashed masses (who lack critical thinking skills) will lap it all up.
I have been avoiding commenting on this post but I think I should really. I did the thing, no telly, living half indoors and half outdoors, moving to a rural community and adamantly not letting the state educate my children. I chose a steiner school because many of the other families had no telly and made their own candles, clothes, veggies etc etc. I needed that support of other people who wouldn’t burden me by pointing up my weirdness as it is already a pretty full on life to choose anyway. All medicine was done by myself or other non NHS practitioners where possible. It ate all my time and the tiny amount of money I was able to earn and made me make choices that took me further and further away from so called normal life.
It was the best choice I ever made and I will not ever regret that which placed me on a trajectory away from the straight world of media and news and I don’t know what else anymore. I am still on that trajectory and I am not even slightly alone. We come to our big NO in many different ways, as I see here in this comment panel. Once found there aint no going back.
The Steiner schools in Northern NSW insisted that staff be jabbed.
At least 15% left.
Liberals are infesting everything and everywhere.
In my area Conservative have become young environmental gay green clima supporters……………………LOL.
Yes they did.
Waldorf School in my city did too. Rudolf Steiner would be/is rolling over in his grave.
I once had the misfortune to be momentarily present at a Krishnamurti school camp and I think it is safe to say ol’ Krishnamurti would be doing some rolling-in-the-grave himself. 😥
Getting rid of the TV remains an essential first step. It’s just inviting the oligarchy into your home to hypnotise and brainwash you.
Spot on!!
the TV moved online to blogs and twitter.
Most articles now seem to use the chemtrails (which they’ve only recently started to mention) 5G gmos as toxins which is true.
However the family unit when growing up where thee most toxic people I have ever meet.
Covid prove it even more.
My bestie sister is now divorcing her hubby and the 11 year they got will suffer and covid 1000000% was the reason for the break up.
You do remember that visiting family friends abroad meant that if you tested for covid they would charge you up to 2k to stay in a hotel concentration camp so you wouldnt infect others. YOU do remember they was doing that.
Family’s where quite happy shoving instruments up there children or elderly noses to make sure they did not have covid or the 10 different variants
family stopped talking or cuddling or asking certain unvaccinated people around due to them being the reason the lockdowns where being extended!!
the toxins coming of some of theses people especially family or work colleagues is beyond a bad vibe.
chemtrails is nothing compared to the evil coming of theses people.
I agree.
A relative went abroad for a bereavement, after a horrendous delay. He was detained in such a place for 2 weeks at his own cost. At the end of the period, his wife who had been with him in the same room was declared positive and subjected to further 2 weeks of detention. On returning home, the same thing happened, i.e., she (alone) was found positive again. Believe it or not.
Location, town and country? We need just a little evidence to check if this was true.
“Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I AM come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household,” Matthew 10:34-36.
Graud article written by “former UDF soldier”:
“The Hamas attack on 7 October came as a tremendous shock to Israeli society, one from which it has not begun to recover. It was the first time Israel has lost control of part of its territory for an extended period of time, with the IDF unable to prevent the massacre of …..”
Oh fuck off!
The thing is that I get the feeling this article takes a sceptical view of Israel. But note how it sneaks in the above bollocks.
Like the Southport stabbings, the original event is endlessly recycled… whilst never being questioned.
What article are you referring to?
OffG has told me I can’t link directly since that seems to involve money going to the Graud. Seemingly there is some kinda wayback machine that circumvents this but I don’t know how to do that.
If you google “the guardian former idf”, you’ll find it.
It comes under the heading “The long dead”. It is written by one Omer Bartov and starts thus:
The full text of the passage I singled out is this:
The IDF are of course the world’s most peaceful army and frequently unable to prevent the atrocities that etc. etc. etc.
https://archive.is/f0jkN
Yeah that’s the one. I reckon every single mainstream article on Israel/Gaza exists purely to “remind” you of how horrifically horrible the paragliding baby beheaded microwave mutilated raping of Israel pin up models was.
Thanks, if you use this link it will enable you to find the archived version of most of what is on big sites at least, Especially good for scaling paywalls but would also work if you didn’t want to post a Guardian link as in this case.
Just paste the url at the top and they will show you the saved version if there is one..(thanks to James Corbett, I think I found this in his scaling paywalls video but definitely in one of his)
https://archive.is/
I sincerely hope you are presenting this former IDF soldier’s complaint as satire. There would be little hope for anyone who would take it as anything other than propaganda.
O/T, but it’s vital that I provide the following link to you, Howard.
A few days ago you sent me a comment which was full of so very many total misrepresentations of me and my reading matter/attitude to books.
I replied to it the next day (having not seen it until the following morning), and, because I thus don’t know whether you’ve seen and read it, I sincerely hope that you will read it from the link below. I just cannot allow you to make so very many horrific misrepresentations/wrong assumptions about me; it was HORRIFIC to read, I of course knowing that what you wrote was so VERY wide of the mark, about me. You couldn’t have got me more wrong if you tried… your words were, in a way, a form of ‘libel’ of me.
Here’s the link:
https://off-guardian.org/2024/08/09/watch-read-a-book-solutionswatch/#comment-682193
N.B., I mistyped a word in the second sentence in the post above. I’d intended to write the word ‘misrepresenting’, but accidentally typed the word ‘misinterpreting’.
Christine, I did read your comment and did mean to reply. But I get so blankety-blank tired of having every single comment or reply I make put into Pending that sometimes I just don’t bother. My apologies to you.
What I intended to say was that my criticism of your approach to reading was prompted by one thing only – something from a reply of yours to another commenter (Johnny perhaps?). You specifically said that you did not care for fiction and “donated” (your exact word) all your fictional books to somewhere or someone else.
I’ve had to discard a few of my books (99% of which are paperback) because one apartment where I lived had mice and the books got peed on, causing the pages to stick together. Otherwise, it is absolutely unthinkable to me to part with any book (fiction or non-fiction). Two of my all-time favorite books are “The White Nile” and “The Blue Nile” – both non-fiction by Alan Moorehead; were anything to happen to either, I would pay hundreds of dollars if I had to to get copies.
BTW, don’t expect to read this reply till it winds its way out of Pending.
The only mention I made re. donating some books was the following: I mentioned (in a comment to you, a few days ago) that, in the early 1980s, I’d had a set of approx. 40′ ‘classics’ novels (all bound in green material [faux leather, I discovered, when the commenter George Mc said that my ‘sets in green and red’ sounded like the Heron publications] & an accompanying set (bound in red) of all of the Agatha Christie novels. I read all those approx. 40 ‘classics’ in the 1980s, ditto all the Agatha Christie novels. But at the time I didn’t want to keep those 2 sets of books, so chose to donate them (can’t recall to whom I donated them. I was about to move home at that time, in the 1980s, when I was still in London). My personal library contains 1400+ books (99.9% of which are non-fiction, covering a multitude of subjects, but with about 400 being on my passion for History, and another 400+ on my passion for the survival of ‘death’ truth and the many associated spiritual truths of existence. I am a bibliophile, and hence very rarely donate a book (to a charity shop). However, I do, on rare occasion, do that, when I’ve bought a book, read it, but decide that its contents make me not want to retain it in my personal library. I was angry with your post to me a few days ago because you were OH so wrongly insulting me in it – insulting my reading ability (suggesting that, because I told you that, on reading it 2-3 years ago, I found War and Peace to be ‘boring’). You suggested (OH so wrongly and insultingly) that I “might not have been ready to read it”. Well, of course I was… Read more »
Christine, when I suggest not “being ready” to read something, what I mean is that a novel – more so than any other type of literature – is best appreciated when one is in the right frame of mind to accept it on its own terms. As I pointed out, I am not “ready” yet to read James Joyce’s “Ulysses” – even though reading it is de rigueur among those interested in fine literature.
I do not consider not being “ready” for a given book to be an insult but, rather, an acknowledgement of the ability to discriminate various stages of one’s life. I’m reminded of the Orson Welles ad for Paul Masson wine: “We will sell on wine before its time.” So it is with reading a work of fiction.
I just tried to reply to your post to me, but it (no prizes for guessing!) was put into ‘pending’. I sent a note to Admin. about it, at the top of this screen, but it, too, went into pending. So I sent them a short email about it. Hopefully my reply to you will be printed soon.
I enjoy the interaction on here and elsewhere with interesting strangers via the tech we have available.
I love my induction hob and microwave.
I like people entertaining me on the radio and, to a lesser extent, TV.
Sure, we can look back to our childhoods and the long summer days spent innocently climbing trees but we were kids, we’d have enjoyed any diversion.
The kids today are living a different, maybe worse in our eyes, childhood to us, but then that’s what our parents thought about us.
Nostalgia ain’t what it used to be.
Child development requires creative and unstructured play, especially with peers. Just because monsters want to take over every playground or piece of the commons does not change that.
Liked the advice about listening to yer bodies needs by Captain Spock, the other day,
Using microwave ovens to cook food is an extremely dangerous practice. Microwaves adversely affect the chemical composition of foods. There’s plenty of info. available on this.
(My family members and friends trot out “We cooked that in the microwave…” etc, without batting an eyelid [due to their lack of knowledge re. the dangers of those ovens]. When I provide them with the relevant information, they don’t like it. And therefore they shoot the messenger… me)
You may be correct Christine.
I also like roast potatoes and Fiercly cooked steak and barbecued meat.
The seared crust being a recognised carcinogen.
Yikes !!
I didn’t downvote you on this comment; but I do have an observation. It’s that what today’s kids do to while away the time usually involves the single most sinister thing on the planet: the smart phone, which not only poisons them with emf radiation but also conditions them without their even knowing it. No one can doubt any longer that the cell phone bombards its daily users with neurological “subliminal” messages which cannot be detected. Otherwise, how explain the millions of people who wander around looking down at their phone?
I DID upvote you.
Can we put the genie back in the bottle ?
I wish we could !
No it isn’t (nostalgia) cos it’s different this time around..a system so complex the designers don’t even know what they’ve let themselves in for.
..I fear that there will be no place for nostalgia in future generations..true internal reflection will be erased for the majority, apart from within those who have the nous to reject elements of the artificial perceptual environment they are engulfed by.
“Civilization is totalitarian.” … (anon) …
As you’ll soon find out if you try to leave !!
I left the normal world years ago to live off grid. But it hasnt been easy. I still have to work to earn and drive a pick up to my ponies. But with all the chaos in people’s lives lately a result, and no doubt a reflection of how and where they have chosen to live, I can draw direct comparisons between my life and that of others. I realise that of all the people in the world, I might just be the luckiest. Certainly I am the most free, I cannot think of anyone more free than me. The air is sweet, the sound of the river loud as it races through green moss covered rocks. Everywhere else is silence. Nothing bothers me. I could sit here for months unmolested, and barely a soul would pass by. I fall asleep to silence, and wake to silence. So to reflect upon the world, and how my own country is unable to settle, how easily provoked. None of it touches me. It’s not my war as its not my world. The same with covid. It made no difference in my life at all. Not a single day changed from its usual pattern. Just endless silence. Green tunnels and arching branches. And the ever flowing river. That’s all there is here. Yet I am tapping on my phone. And days ago letting my thoughts wander to the extremes. Corrupting my mind and world with distant problems. So I haven’t really escaped the lure. I guess its loneliness, and elsewhere the distraction. From my perspective here in the woods, the rest of the world seems to be going through a mass psychosis. A complete break down where problems are manifested by the collective whole. Nothing seems real anymore, and apocalypse looms, at least… Read more »
We lived on the land (the Aussie bush) for twenty two years.
It is hard work.
Trying to grow veggies and fruit while dealing with birds, wallabies, wombats, roos, bush rats, bugs, droughts and fires. (Especially as one ages).
We are all looking back on history.
And there it is, just about the only truth there is. Life gos on, the apocalypse is always like the proverbial football, kicked down the road. And our in the wilderness everything is happening, quietly. But is only from this perspective that reality bites. Human affairs become the microcosm of what they really are.
You need family to live out there. Many hands, grandpa, grandma, little sister, uncle, nephew, your big brother, and everything is much easier and funnier.
Ideally, you need a tribe. Humans evolved in smallish groups (30-40 people), often under the control of a matriarch, or so I have read. You had to get along with the others or you’d be expelled; by the same token, they had to get along with you. The invention of systematic agriculture did away with all that. A fixed population can be controlled in a way that a small, nomadic tribe cannot, for if the leader turns out to be wrong ‘un he or she can be expelled too.
Agriculture allowed for the development of a priestly class and, well, here we are. The only solution is to go back to the hunter-gatherer way of life, and that’s no solution at all. First of all, the necessary skills, learned over millennia, have vanished. Secondly there are too many of us, and thirdly the environment is so degraded that such a life in most places will be impossible.
Others in this thread commend detaching oneself from the madness, e.g. by ditching the TV and spending time in nature. That’s just about all one can reasonably do.
Don’t let life creep up on you like a thief in the nite.
The Buddha spoke of ‘non attachment’.
Jesus said: ‘l am in the world, but not OF IT’.
In other words, we are Earthlings, not ‘Worldthings’.
So, as Ramana Marharshi said: ‘Be as you are’
I think when madness consumes, those unaffected become the new guru’s.
But not through their own making.
Yes!! But it isn’t actualy madness. It is a cynical nasty dirty rotten WEF bunch who are not mad but BAD
Have a cousin who is a Mennonite minister… she was recently telling me how totally f789ed up the more extreme sects of that religion are… Amish similarly.
None of this happenstance… the fact that the font of poison – the TEE VEE… spews soft porn scenes… and profanity is now acceptable… (it amuses me when parents get pissed off when somebody swears… yet it happens all the time on Tee Vee… and those same kids are watching group sex on their phones… duh)…
It ain’t by accident that Tranny Freaks are in classrooms flashing ball sacks while parents and kids sing and dance along…
It’s all about Mass Demoralization… how many times have I heard people say ‘this is not a world I want to live in’
Yep. That’s the whole point of this comprehensive campaign of Mass Demoralization.
Make the herd of cockroaches welcome extermination … cuz that is what is coming
https://fasteddynz.substack.com/p/the-ultimate-extinction-plan-uep
Mass Demoralization…agreed.
Have you seen Amish people lately? If you’re in the Mid-Atlantic region, take a trip to Longwood Gardens. For some reason it’s very popular with the Amish. What never ceases to amaze me is how much alike all the young men look. This is of course what happens when the gene pool is restricted. In time, whatever the value of their way of life, they will die out.
“they lived like the Amish (and I am not knocking the Amish!)”
Haven’t the Amish died out because they wouldn’t take the vax?
Africans died out for the same reason.
Good is bad, right is wrong.
We live in an inverted world now full of gullible sheep and satanic rulers…
We need a spiritual revolution.
‘Good’ is a very subjective thing. You might say ‘someone working hard to better themselves is good’, but do you look too closely as to who they bully, who they act dishonorably toward, in order to achieve their goal at the expense of others?
I have met plenty of hard workers who are thugs and psychopaths to people they wish to steal from. Those people are usually destroyed by their decency, their lack of appreciation of how human evil manifests itself. Because they simply aren’t ever evil to other people in places of work, they have no defences toward those that do.
So are the thugs who succeed ‘good’ or are the decent people who are smashed to pieces ‘acceptable collateral damage’??
When people actually start to think beyond simplicities, they realise that everything is a shade of gray and that the absolutes of ‘good’ and ‘evil’ are 95% a measure of their own emotional immaturity/maturity level. It’s really only at the level of cold blooded killing of harmless people that absolute evil exists. Everything else has context……
No it’s very easy, just some people try to be smarter than they really are.
Guess it’s an underlying defect of character. Perhaps low self esteem.
Your experience has been very different to mine over the years.
The hard working and those good at their job tended to avoid office or workplace politics. Their performance and work ethic spoke for itself. The workshy, incompetent or just lazy spent more time politicking, brown-nosing and arse covering than actually producing. Had they invested that time in their role, they would have been more successful at it
Unfortunately, the gratitude received by those with a positive work ethic often resulted in them being dumped on further, including inheriting the workload of the others.
In work environments with performance related pay (eg bonuses) – depending how structured – generally mean the workshy find it harder to ‘hide’.
To paraphrase the Pereto principle and the 80/20 rule – 80% of the work is usually down by 20% of the people.
Hence the need in Woke culture to create BS jobs, and to promote such invertebrates soon to mid-level management or oversight (fault-finding).
Bad has always been good, wrong always right – as the US Congress will prove when it declares war on Iran – which is coming – and the media will present it as a “good” thing to do. Bad things have ALWAYS enriched far more people than good things. So bad will ALWAYS look mighty good to most people.
I suspect that quite a few people outside our alternative bubbles can see at least some of what’s going on but do not know how to escape and are too exhausted from their slave jobs at the end of the day to lift a finger to make their escape from this vortex of doom.
All of society is based on mafia-style exploitation by default and, for most, without an income from our jobs we can’t survive with any degree of human dignity. I know of people who were adamant they would not get injected … but when the mandates came around there was no Plan B for them. They got injected, having been threatened with the loss of their jobs.
Moving to the countryside sounds like an idyllic option to escape the synthetic Neuralink, Meta et al madness. I do believe the rural folks are more switched on to the deceit and vacuousness of the mainstream everything. They are also much more resourceful than us city or suburban drones. But there’s no infrastructure there, no adequate housing to accommodate those escaping, and many do not have the extra funds to create their new world out there. It would have to be an organised Ubuntu world where everyone contributes to each other for it to work.
We are far removed as yet from such a give and take mindset. We’d get too annoyed at the lazy ones amongst us who take and take without giving back enough. The irony is that we have for ever slavishly worked for and obeyed the self-appointed elite without a murmur of protest. Most seem to bet on them being spared when the trap finally snaps shut. I think they are deluded. How’s that warning? – First they came for the ….
Spot on Veri Tas.
Astute insight.
Excellent article, Todd. I sometimes steel myself listen to the news (Propaganda) on radio; yesterday, they played a clip from the funeral of the 9-year old child stabbed in Southport, UK: it included a recoding of said child announcing she was putting on her make-up (for her dance class?). Clearly a beautiful child, one can only wonder at the parent who allows their 9-year old child to wear make-up and announce it on her social media. The rush to emulate pop-stars and celebrities is perhaps symptomatic of a loss in spiritual family values. Let children be children (and I’m talking to you, Disney).
Little girls with make up is a sad reflection of a warped, lost culture.
10 Is there a case where one can say, “Look, this is new”?
It has already existed in the ages before us.
11 There is no remembrance of those who came before,
and those yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow after.
9 What has been will be again, and what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.
I agree. Parents should know better, eh? They should.
“our environment is slowly killing us”?? How about a little more precision: The defilement of our physical environment and our culture by TPTB is ruining life on earth and killing many.
Precisely.
I also am dismayed by the onslaught of toxicity that we face, but I’m skeptical about nostalgia for an imagined Paradise Lost that we’ve somehow let slip away
what historical moment precisely should we be longing to return to? when was there ever a world in which people could be free from destructive cultural and environmental influences?
Nostalgia for an Age yet to come.
? We used to have freedom of speech!
This is a very good question. And in my writing, I have run across this dilemma more times than I can count. I do not know the answer, although I am guilty of suggesting “there was a time.” I DO think there was a time when the things that are destroying us now were not as prevalent, but then there were other things that caused a lot of suffering.
Of course, you would also have to indicate where and to what demographic were things “better”…I suppose for US white Christians things were pretty good, or at least APPEARED so, in the ’50s and ’60s…but there would be lots of things negative to say of that time!!
Also, the same forces we are complaining about today have been at work, in some way or another, for hundreds of years. Maybe the best time for humans was Cro-Magnon or Neanderthal times, but then we had to worry about sabre-toothed tigers and woolly mammoths…and the tribe next door.
Which historical moment? Eden. Reunited with God.
It was such a comfort to read this. There are no soultions apparently BUT it still helps to know that we are not mad. Funnily enough I had LOOKED into life in the Amish!!!! ( I don’t even have US citizenship!!!)..but it looked life there looked just as bad to me in a way . Infact they didn’t even really see truly cut off from the rest of the WEF world. Still as I say it’s great to know that so many others see what we see…and DEFINITELY it is the toxi PSYCHOLOGICAL environment that is worse than the physical one. It is the NONSENSE, it is th fac tthat there isn’t any news any more, there isn’t any kind of goivernment working in the interests of the common man. Thanks Todd!
Thank you so much for this vote of confidence for my writing approach…it is greatly appreciated. If you have not done so already, check out my substack at http://www.shrewviews.com
There are lots of like-minded people over there…
“The Way to Happiness” is a more modern version of precepts for common sense living, and it doesn’t interfere with a person’s religious beliefs or lack thereof. It just helps people make better decisions, and can be read or listened to for free online at: http://www.twth.org. It is very short, but powerful.
Every 12,000 years or so our world has gone through a major catharsis. The core samples and other evidence to substantiate that claim is out there for you to find. Now it may be a comet or meteor or more likely our sun having a major hiccup ie. massive solar flare-mircro-nova. I believe it’s the latter but that’s not the point the point is that they happen and also on a lesser scale every 6,000 years. Perhaps the Satanic Cabal has arcane knowledge of these events and has been preparing for the next major event. Meanwhile they have let the reigns slip an allowed our world to slip into the present global decay. And further to that perhaps their plan is to see as many people dead by this event as possible and in wanting that result they have created an even more toxic environment.
“Catharsis is where are arse is”-Gord Downey (paraphrasing here)
So we do what we can for ourselves first and then our loved ones. Make our environment as healthy as we are able to and enjoy the life we have.
Because “The present is a gift” from divine through you.
In solidarity with every one of you.
Heinrich and Dansgaard– Oeschger Events
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/sites/default/files/2021-11/2%20Heinrich%20and%20Dansgaard%E2%80%93Oeschger%20Events%20-%20Final-OCT%202021.pdf
US Clean Air Acts drastically removing sulfates from the atmosphere “passed in the 1970s [and 1990] have likely accelerated warming by diminishing the cooling effect of sulfates.”…4/8/2009, Houston Chronicle…https://blog.chron.com/sciguy/2009/04/half-of-recent-arctic-warming-may-not-be-due-to-greenhouse-gases/…
3/22/2009, “We conclude that decreasing concentrations of sulphate aerosols and increasing concentrations of black carbon have substantially contributed to rapid Arctic warming during the past three decades [1979-2009]” nature.com
Any nonsense they can come up with to avoid mentioning geoengineering (i.e., messing with the atmosphere to make it a better environment for satellites and other spyware).
We really do need to move on from endlessly chewing the SAM© problems, into the solutions phase of collective human self-sufficiency. From the obvious truth … (sample)…
… to a new joyous future, Humanity collectively designs for itself and planet Earth.
Collectively and individually. After all, the individual is the building block of the community.
After trying ‘everything’, maybe we should go back to the beginning – http://www.crushlimbraw.com – no, it ain’t nirvana, but it is the first step……..and it never ends, because discovering truth is a process, not an end state!
“Submitting” to Islam?!
“Religion and spiritual character are all but dead in our “mass culture” these days. No one seems to give much homage to universal truths such as what can be found in the Bible’s Ten Commandments.”
A Common Version of The Ten Commandments
Meanwhile, strangely absent from this supposed list of “universal truths”… among other things…
1 THOU SHALT NOT MOLEST, BELITTLE, TERRORIZE, EXPLOIT or otherwise HARM CHILDREN (Thine Own or Others)
2 THOU SHALT NOT PARTICIPATE IN THE VIOLENT OR SUBTLE OPPRESSION OF THE POOR OR WEAK
3 THOU SHALT NOT SPREAD LIES AS TRUTHS
4 THOU SHALT NOT PROFIT MATERIALLY FROM THE GRIEF, CONFUSION or HARM OF OTHERS
5 THOU SHALT NOT SHIT WHERE THE HELPLESS EAT
6 THOU SHALT NOT PROMOTE or COMMIT GENOCIDE
7 THOU SHALT NOT MAKE FALSE LAWS TO OPPRESS THE GOOD and STRENGHTHEN THE EVIL
8 THOU SHALT NOT MYSTIFY WHERE CLARIFICATION IS NECESSARY and POSSIBLE
9 THOU SHALT NOT TEACH or GLORIFY FALSEHOODS
10 THOU SHALT NOT TREAT KINGS and QUEENS AS MORE WORTHY OF LIFE THAN BEGGARS
…for starters…
Ever wonder why most would say murder is one of the top rules, but it’s the 6th commandment?
First is there’s no other god.
Second is don’t worship “false idols”
Kinda sounds like our current psychopathic narcissistic leadership.
Leonard Shlain Alphabet vs the Goddess
https://youtu.be/hdsCLf3D92Q
It all stems from the Divine Right of Kings. First you establish the primacy of the rulers and legitimize them, then you get involved in everyday stuff for people who don’t have the Divine Right of Anything.
Ultimately it comes down the notion expressed by Mao — “Political Power Grows Out of the Barrel of a Gun”, or alternatively “You and Whose Army?”.
“The process of globalisation which defined the world from the dissolution of the USSR to the mid-term elections of 2018 is now ended.”…Trump’s March 2019 transfer of Golan to Israel provoked “the de facto collapse of International Law.”…”Today, US sanctions concern at least twenty countries.“
Worshipping multiple gods and false idols was leading invariably to human sacrifice, hence the order of the Commandmants.
ALL gods are “false idols.” ALL gods, individually or collectively, lead “invariably to human sacrifice.” We slaughter millions but never refer to it as “human sacrifice.” We call it “freedom and democracy.”
Oh, look! Historical context. Let’s down-vote it!
It is anticipated you have free will. The Commandments are ADVICES good for you to follow in your stay down here.
NOT some RULES your Nanny government have issued to their small weak 30-50 year old crybabies.
By FREE WILL you are FREE to dismiss the Commandments and choose the Devil’s sweet singer song in your ears. Your choice!
Ohhhh you get angry again because our Lord anticipate you are an adult and refuse to be Nanny for a spoiled child above 18.