Avoiding Trouble
Todd Hayen
I have to admit, although it seems like I am a real freedom fighter screaming from the mountaintop, “Give me liberty, or give me death,” I am actually quite a wimp. I don’t want trouble, and I am quite frightened of the power of authority to wreak havoc on my pitiful life.
I have never been a true rebel, flailing myself in front of the law with a “go ahead, try me” attitude. In fact, any time I have gotten close to authoritarian punishment I become paralyzed with fear. I have to say I don’t back down, I don’t squeal on my cohorts in order to be granted freedom, or anything truly wimpy like that, but the fear of punishment scares the piss out of me. At least it used to.
In my defence, however, I have always been a rabble-rouser of sorts. When I was in college, I headed up an ACLU inquiry (American Civil Liberties Union—back when they were decent) about “illegal search and seizure” in the campus dorms.
It was common practice to have your dorm room invaded by school officials (usually a group of students from an on-campus “service fraternity” headed by a staff residency official) looking for booze (yes, it was a dry “church” school) and drugs (I never had drugs in my room, but did have a rather complete bar hidden in a large cardboard box).
I remember being really ticked off by the audacity of such humiliation.
Wasn’t it a violation of our civil rights to have school officials raid a living space, unannounced, in order to find incriminating evidence? Evidence that would get you kicked out of school?
This university in question was a private school in the Methodist Church university system. The school itself was not religious in nature (it was a music conservatory—at least that is why I was there) but it had some draconian rules and regulations (this, too, was back in 1974). No drinking, no co-ed dorms, no girls in your room without signing in and out, and only during certain hours, etc. etc.
So, the no booze rule was one they were always looking to enforce (forget about drugs, that was such a no-no it was impossible for anyone with a drug habit to entertain their addiction at this place).
My roommate (who was also a rebel) and I, decided to contact the ACLU with a formal complaint. They wrote us a “we feel for you, but we can’t do anything” letter. Citing that our complaint was not addressable because it was a private school, and the school could do pretty much anything they wanted. The complaints my roommate and I engaged in (along with a rather large group of other rebellious students) reached the press, as well as the president of the school. My stepdad was a professor there and when word got out that I was making waves, shit started to hit the fan. Even my mother scolded me for stepping out of line and “embarrassing” her and my faculty step-dad.
I was really freaked out, and had visions of getting kicked out of school and dying in the streets a homeless wreck. I even called the president and apologized. What a wimp. Secretly, however, I still stuck to my convictions. But this experience goes to show when push came to shove I chickened out. Of course, that was 50 years ago. As I said, I wasn’t a snitch, and I did not back down privately from my convictions. It just seemed, at the time, that the whole point of the rebellion was lost. The ACLU backed out (damn liberals), so we really didn’t have any recourse.
How does this experience apply today?
Actually, I am not quite sure. I know I have changed a bit since then because I really do not care what authority does to me anymore (within reason). But if push came to shove today, I am hoping that I would not act like a wimp. I don’t like thinking that people are looking to get me in trouble.
I get those typical scams saying my computer has been hacked and everything I have stored on it will be exposed to the world. “I have nothing to hide,” as they say, but I do still value my privacy and would rather not have all my emails out there in public. These things do rattle me up. Wimp.
But that’s all pretty innocuous, what about going to prison for sedition? I have been sort of careful with what I write, but not that careful, considering they can get you for anything these days. The only reason I do not fret about all this is because I certainly am very small potatoes. But soon, I think, that will not matter. It would take no money or human resources to punish subversive behaviour these days. But prison? I hope not. That would be pretty scary.
There are so many times humans wonder what they would do if confronted with certain challenges. Would I really throw myself in front of a train to save a child? Would I really stand up to a hooligan who attacks my wife on a dark city street and risk losing my life in such a heroic act?
I honestly think I would.
From a rational conscious thinking point of view when not actually confronted, I know I would do anything to protect those I love. But I do wonder what I would do in the moment—during that split second when instincts take over. When I see someone doing something wrong, I typically get pissed, not scared. So, I think I can rely on anger propelling me into conflict engagement rather than fear pushing me to flee. I do think I can be brave. Even if I had time to think about the situation and not just rely on gut reaction.
I had many strange visions of police breaking into my house during the height of the scamdemic and chasing me around with a needle in their hand, ready to plunge it into me. I saw myself lying on the floor with a boot on my neck while the jab went in. This is a rather scary thought, but it doesn’t scare me as much as being arrested and carted away to some holding pen surrounded by violent criminals. Of course, being in prison with other shrews is a bit appealing, but I doubt if it would go down that way.
So, am I a potential hero or a potential wimp? Who knows. I do hope I am never in a situation where my true nature is revealed. I do believe I have committed to the possibility and embrace the risk. If I perish, I perish (I know I use this Esther phrase a lot, forgive me). I believe you reach a point in your life, sometimes early, sometimes late, when you know what you believe, and you are indeed willing to die for it.
“Give me liberty, or give me death,” as Patrick Henry stated. Words to live by. I believe I do.
Todd Hayen PhD is a registered psychotherapist practicing in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He holds a PhD in depth psychotherapy and an MA in Consciousness Studies. He specializes in Jungian, archetypal, psychology. Todd also writes for his own substack, which you can read here
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Mr Hayen it is daunting what we all face. Is ignorance bliss? Or is it a show of strength to still stare into the machines eyes knowing one might not win?
Isn’t the Spirit of defiance also an admission that one might still possess the ability to recognise right from wrong?
Many of us want instant coffee solutions. Unfortunately it doesn’t seem likely. So don’t be too hard on yourself but be proud that they haven’t extinguished something inside you that has enabled you to “see”..
It’s all about consent.
If the machine stopped it’s tricks then I would be scared. Defiance never compliance. Has to be any resistances mantra.
One could always get into trouble vandalising their local vaccination clinic, for example.
Nice
Self-honesty or transparency cannot be self-judgement.
In seeking to ‘validate or vindicate our ‘self’ we stand accused BY our defence.
The inner gaslighting or guilting manipulation runs AS IF to scape responsibility for thought to an ‘othered self’. Self-alienating dissociation is ‘normalised’ by mutual and social reinforcement. IE: Once everyone ‘learns to see’ the Emperor’s new robes, the operating system for the evasion of exposed illegitimacy runs tyrannous while truth of love is rendered ‘invisible’.
But what we learned under pain and fear can be unlearned under the guidance and support of a wholeness of being that reveals obstructions to healing as mis-taken belief and definitions that beget a false inheritance. Illusions given power have no more power than we give them – but never less.
Learning to leave the baiting lie of fear and division un-chosen, is a discernment of the spirit and not and achievement of an ego. Much that seems victory is defeat, and much judged defeat is a victory – in terms of growing willingness through which the spirit or purpose of truth aligns all things to an awareness of wholeness.
This is literally inconceivable to a broken, powerless and frail self-imaged control-boosting ‘defence-mindset’.
Yet within the movement of the integrality of being is a world of lies framed in terror inconceivable.
To ask ‘how did the impossible come about?’ seeks a past cause or external ’causes’ for a use of the mind persisting in the moment or situation at hand.
How and why do we perceive in different and conflicting lights, instead of knowing within one light?
Seeking to establish a claim of function within a gain of fiction?
But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked.
“Oh, you can’t help that,” said the Cat: “we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.”
“How do you know I’m mad?” said Alice.
“You must be,” said the Cat, “or you wouldn’t have come here.
~ Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
The ‘human world’ represents and reflects a focus of mutual, social & cultural agreements that run invisible and internalized as assumed and perceived reality.
The recognition that this is a result of ‘seeing through a lens darkly’ or via a shattered mirror, approaches the terror that guards the holding of the mind and focus FOR a ‘physical’ existence.
Indeed terror frames and equates the mind to the body – by which to act out ‘archetypal’ themes of Separation trauma as attempted ‘solutions’ to a Past set in fear, guilt, denial, conflicted hatred, treachery and betrayal.
To truly question any aspect of lies given power is to make way for truth to enter. That fear interjects to ‘reset’ the mind is a defense mechanism running ‘protection’ for the split mind of a wish for ego-autonomy of a private ‘creation’.
Mind is the creative level – yet when assigned to its own ‘shadow-projections’ results in an isolating and conflicting dissonance often interpreted as a self-violating attack and thus grievance. Such is the fruit of JUDGEMENT as a personal and private ‘claim of function’ by which victim and victimizer split from a Mind we do not create – but of which is All That Is.
Love of peace can only rise from truth. The assignment of ‘conditions’ as representing peace are at best symbolic links. But can shift from a living participation in felt relational exchange, to a mind-set of assumed knowledge, power or virtue – chained to a currency of conditional ‘meanings’ running as idols or ideals of symbolic ‘perfection’ by which life is rendered unworthy.
False light is ‘stolen’ & extended or withheld in frame of fear or pain of loss – for true light shines and shares freely on all as one.
‘Gaslighting’ or guilting manipulation always carries signature characteristics. Recognition of this patterning in our inner dialogue or thinking – offers a freedom to release it instead of ‘running its code’ as our output or ‘fruits’.
Those who look for trouble will find it – but see that seeking a target for hate as a basis for ‘joining in identity’ in hate will normalize trouble as ‘legitimized’ attack or countermeasured ‘solution’ as the overriding necessity of an ‘existential survival’.
An ‘attack on truth’ cannot approach or edit truth but only our awareness of truth.
To a captive mind set in derivative currencies of scarcity-driven dictates, this cannot communicate. But truth can and does communicate to all as one, and aligning in truth – if even an instant – will receive and share a light beneath all masking defenses as an invitation to align true – without coercion.
This is a signature of peace in truth – acceptance of what is – as it is – without asserting a guilting or manipulative coercion of post-processing reality adjustment.
‘Dont-know-mind’ is released of assuming to already know, as freedom to learn of life anew.
“Behold I make all things new!” is associated with the ‘moving of mountains – ie catastrophic apocalypse, but in truth each instant is a new Creation-regardless our experience of object-continuity. The Timeless is not ‘hidden’ within Time, but that we make time serve a linear series of terms and conditionality, as permissioned freedom to be.
Accepting the moment at hand as the instant of peace and freedom is not an attack on lies, a claim to virtue, masking defense or power set over against perceived evils. That is – it is not a mind usurping the Spirit in a personal claim or capacity to cast out demons, but simply true with-ness.
There is a field…. Rumi
And:
“In a field, I am the absence of field…” Mark Strand
Keeping things Whole
Sky tv in hospital waiting room showing their awful breakfast tv show. And the next feature was How Private Health Care Isn’t as As Expensive as You Might Think. Quite insidious.
What frightens me most about the last five years is public reaction. “No one seems to notice; no one seems to care” (George Carlin) when you point out the fakery.
why do you say that the ACLU is no longer a “decent” organization?
Well….that is just a flippant comment in an article…I’m sure they do SOME good…but a recent meme from their FB page says: “We’re suing the Trump administration for refusing to issue passports with accurate sex designations for transexual, nonbinary, and intersex people.”
I’m afraid I agree with Mr. Trump that there are two “sex designations”…
There are bigger fish to fry.
That kind of rot is an astoundingly efficient tactic for destroying effective opposition. The whole point about ‘M’ and ‘F’ on passports is just an old-school aid to recognition. Now you’re just a set of biometric parameters linked to a Federal Record Number** with your name and “sex designation” being somewhat irrelevant.
Like you said, they’ve got much iugger fist to fry.
Unfortunately they (the ACLU) were right about the private school.
(**The important bit of your “Real ID” driver’s license.)
As for me, I’ve become more fearful of the things that youthful bravado born of blissful ignorance egged me on to do as a dare back then.
On the other hand, I’ve become less fearful of authority mainly because I now know external authority is nearly always in the wrong and because I have some resources, both material and non-material (knowledge, resolve, funds), to evade corrupt and false authority, at least up to a point.
Self-defence training gave me in-depth insight into bully behaviour and into their weak spots, and I’ve had occasion to test this out with success. However, whether or not this will serve me when faced with a gang of authorised thugs knocking at my door or when the electronic spring trap snaps shut, I don’t know. I’d like to think that there will be a community of others who will refuse to comply and perhaps survival there will be possible.
You might enjoy “A Story of Days to Come”, as part of H.G. Wells’s “Tales of Space and Time”
There was a self-defense expert who saved a fallen life from otherwise certain death (aka Denton). Might resonate
I think it was Origen who used to watch the faces of Christian martyrs as they went to their deaths. And who, as far as I recall was never actually martyred himself, although he did wrote prolifically. I think it was Eusebius who recounted the tale in his ‘History of the Church’.
Anyway, we can always admire those of greater moral conviction than ourselves. Those willing to pay the final price regardless. Maybe the admiration for Saints greater than ourselves is a virtue in itself? It certainly does seem to be a form of humility
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origen
The essay suggests that Dr. Hayen has become braver as he got older. For me, it’s just the opposite;I was braver when I was younger than I am now. It’s not that I have more to lose now (I’m as poor now as I was then), or that my ideas have become watered down (if anything I’m more radical than when I was younger).
No, it’s simply that I’ve observed more and thought more about things. And, unfortunately, that makes you come face to face with the greatest harbinger of skittishness: the knowledge that any stand you take will change nothing. Because human nature will always be what it is. You can change events perhaps; but nothing can ever change human nature (and by and large it’s not pretty).
If I can’t enlighten people, then I see no point in placing my life on the line. As an extreme example, consider the late Aaron Bushnell, who set himself ablaze to protest the genocide in Gaza. Not one life was saved by his act; not one bomb fewer was sent to Israel by the US; and a year from now no one outside his immediate circle will even remember his name. His bravery could do nothing to change human nature.
Aaron Bushnell’s act of despair and desperation is not forgotten by yourself, those who frequent the pages of OffGuardian or similar publications, the community of anti-war/anti-genocide protesters, and humanitarians of good conscience. His act of self-immolation, though marginalized by the authoritarian-institutional press, most certainly caught the attention of some who were not paying attention to the campaign of ethnic cleansing sponsored by our government administrations and funded by our tax dollars – revealing these administrations for the criminal psychopaths they truly are.
Aaron Bushnell is you, me, and every dissident who views the genuinely malicious government, corporate, financial, and media institution who lord over our economy and pretend to represent our interest; we are the charred remains, ready to take the spark of rebellion.
Bushnell will not be forgotten, nor will the horrors inflicted upon Palestinians, Syrians, Afghans, Iraqis, Libyans, Yemenis, Somalians, Congolese, Rwandans, Vietnamese, Indonesians, and so many others terrorized, tortured, and murdered by our governments and the private financial interests that they represent.
#NotInMyName
Beautifully stated Munk.
Thank you.
Aaron’s courage was terrible and infinite.
Having an effect depends entirely on the circumstances surrounding the self-sacrifice. Thich Quang Duc will be remembered and honored in Vietnam for his sacrifice forever because that nation is largely Buddhist and (unless it’s been totally corrupted by the US) still considers individual sacrifice sacred. We in the US by and large consider self-sacrifice an act of psychological derangement.
Norman Morrison and Alice Herz remain virtually unknown in America. But they are still honored and remembered in Vietnam for their sacrifice of self-immolation in 1965.
But then America as a whole has never had much regard for acts of conscience.
interesting article; and one that, sadly, points to a reality that most are oblivious to, i.e., the continuing roll out of the open-air, digital, panoptic prison {i.e., 5/6/7G; satellite systems; AI/AGI; cybernetics; sensors; smart gadgets/homes/cities; precision medicine/food; blockchain; digital ID/wallets/currency; biometric systems; etc.} will enable the kakistocracy to superimpose a system of power and control that’s outside man’s sense of discernment, nay consciousness; and, consequently, as Huxley said back in the day, man will come to love his servitude for he will be totally oblivious to said scenario. That is all! RGB-Y5 out!!
EXACTLY!
What’s in a surname? ‘Huxley’ (Aldous). Notorious descendant of ‘Darwin’s bulldog’. Also H. G. Wells’s biological mentor (Thomas Huxley). Those 19th century deniers of Creation in favour of billions of years of random chance and hence insanity.
Which begs the question. Was it simply the primary interest of such types to paint future dystopia for future plebs, rather than ever seeking solutions to it?
Indeed can an atheist ever provide a solution to mankind’s ills? It seems not. Both “Brave New World” and “1984” stop short of any solutions
Just like me. (Ha ha). I offer no solutions…except to follow “the infinite way” and see if being decent human beings, given the free will to BE decent, will work for us rather than against us.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14367499/Ireland-Spain-Gaza-Israel-IDF.html
Those world nations’ (especially Arab’s) reluctance to take in Palestinian refugees does seem to expose basic hypocrisies.
Jordan could arguably claim some reluctance on historical precedence. Didn’t the PLO try to overthrow their government at one point? They of course, wouldn’t wish to see a repeat of such activities.
And Egypt? There does seem to be plenty of space in the Sinai Peninsula. Lack of water could be an issue, of course.
Regardless, shouldn’t Muslims of a feather, stick together?
Accepting or rejecting refugees is more nuanced than simply being of the same religion and therefore acceptance should be a slam dunk. Each nation has its own set of problems – Egypt, e.g., is always on the verge of a takeover by the Muslim Brotherhood (Sisi with the help of the US overthrew democratically elected President Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood). Egypt fears an influx of Palestinians, who align more closely with the Muslim Brotherhood than with the US allies, would make revolution inevitable.
similar for me, however this ” battle ” is not on the material plane.
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see evil, and say no to it without hate/anger.
. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YC50HXCYU5o&list=LL&index=9
also EXACTLY!
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Thank you. 😘
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Avoiding Trouble is a Ridiculous theory due to the mindcontrol of TV and films and now the TV films sports is intermingled with alternative media to give you this needing state government = high power god church protection.
This fear of wanting to be protected is the government creating disgusting films about rape, murder, assaults and story’s about Britain or Europe has fallen.
Black people or road rage people getting attacked.
You no who this bunch of shilling shills are.
The job is to do a ‘what they have done to Dr Tod” and implant the imagines in your head that you need big brother or else the evil, devil, migrants, commis (reds), virus, dangerous people with weapons 🍴 , bombs, nukes, are
COMING TO GET YOU.
they will come into your home and rape you and your animals and children and plants.
be really careful they will even eat your dogs and cats. dangerous SAVAgES! be scared.
WHY else is the Netflix MAIN budget over 38% spent on all real life crimes police imaginative horror storys that are supposedly real(means(bullshit) crime.
I am nearly 60 + and I have never ever in my life or friends life heard of a child going missing.
this bullshit lies to scare you into living this way of fear.
NO medical lot will kick your door in… to inject you.
this bullshit lies to scare you into living this way of fear (alt media)
Grow up Doctor you nearly 60, next your be doing UFC to protect your self from what alt media sells you as dangerous.
Some great points .. theres no doubt the existing Entertainment Media and that appears to be what the MSM has become too.. is deliberately demoralising people and scaring them out of their wits .elderly people are utterly transfixed by the Hype about crime increasing .. its a degrading spectacle , people are being Brainwashed which makes the Mass Media and Entertainment industry guilty of terrible crimes and Complicity in Mass Murder ( as we saw during Convid) they are Fucking with Peoples Minds Killing them and Driving people Insane … Making people hate One Another its Hideous .. Youll probably Call Matt Taibbi a schill ..His Book Hate inc is pertinent .. You Sure love that word Schill or is it shill … ? …
But my (uk) govt is not offering to protect me, nor is it even pretending to any more. It has made it clear that it despises English people and will slowly – and one day quickly – strip away all our wealth and quality of life then erase us from existence as a people by diluting us into a minority in our own country.
We can’t even say “all lives matter” in our defence.
So your theory certainly about govt creating fear so it can act as protector doesn’t apply. Govt IS the thing to fear.
I too am around 60. There are many things that were unheard of before the year 2000. Schoolkids stabbing each other to death. Acid attacks. “Modern slavery.” Ultra-violent attacks over the most trivial matters, leading to head stomping. These things
and more happen today, and being in London they happen near to me.
You can pretend things aren’t getting more dangerous if you wish. I will continue lifting weights and consider wearing my stab vest at times. (They are good body warmers, btw.)
And yes, if I had it in me I would be doing martial arts. (I don’t want to lose teeth in the pursuit of safety though.)
Oh, I’ll repeat an earlier comment. If you don’t believe in how savage some people are, just go to a gore website and see it with your own eyes on video.
You will be sickened. And you will notice patterns.
Except I know that deniers like you will refuse to look at the evidence.
Why would they even think you were guilty.. because they are?
If it’s ok for them to search your room at any moment then surely it’s ok for you (or anyone) to do the same to them. Nothing to hide eh!
A ‘room search’ is often not what it seems. When ‘Spooks’ raid a home they generally just throw things around and then depart, without actually taking anything (at least in my experience). The objective being just to freak you out. Thereby distinguishing themselves from common crooks.
After all, what what do you think that you possibly have that they haven’t got already?
I imagine humans living as hunter-gatherers had it relatively simple when it came to fight or flight in the face of trouble. But then ‘civilization’ came along with rulers and rules exercising power over people, and things got complicated, all the more so at this late stage when to be governed, as Proudhon depicted*, is so consuming one hardly can help always watching one’s step in perpetual doubt about what to do or not do, and what to make of oneself in such an alienating world.
It’s all very Kafkaesque. You could be breaking laws of which you have no idea or getting into all sorts of trouble for who knows what and then anonymous authorities subject you to never-ending bureaucratic mazes beyond your ability to comprehend, let alone alter. Fight or flight? As long as you keep trying to negotiate such a social system on its own terms, you’re damned if you do or don’t.**
The perfect system for the masters of humankind now coming after us is where there is no alternative, to recall TINA Thatcher, where the liberty to choose has been taken from us and we are born or rather programmed as biodigital conformists of the Borg. That there are fates worse than death can make things pretty simple again, though in a horrifying way. Still, it would seem before it’s too late to fight such fate the simple choice is to become ungovernable in unvanquishable number as Shelley said, and liberate ourselves from the anti-human history of the few ruling over the many. It’s revolution or extinction.
*To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. To be GOVERNED is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be placed under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, harassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality.
-Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
**There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one’s safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn’t, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn’t have to; but if he didn’t want to he was sane and had to. Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle.
“That’s some catch, that Catch-22,” he observed.
“It’s the best there is,” Doc Daneeka agreed.
-Joseph Heller
on a more hopeful note, Orr found an alternative, an “or” to this insidious Law of the Excluded Middle, and at the end of the novel escaped, in a rowboat, using an OAR
Every person laid low by government extortion, assault or detention – or made an invalid by dangerous work, poison foods or poison jabs – is another family neutralised. It becomes too busy surviving to take an interest in civic matters or politics.
Here’s a recipe for Trouble.
Vaccine trouble:
‘Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and caldron bubble.
Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the caldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt and toe of frog,
Wool of bat and tongue of dog,
Adder’s fork and blind-worm’s sting,
Lizard’s leg and howlet’s wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and caldron bubble.
Cool it with a baboon’s blood,
Then the charm is firm and good.’
Young Will always was ahead of the curve.
Juden-“judge” denies government access to its own data.
https://time.com/7214089/federal-judge-blocks-doge-accessing-sensitive-treasury-department-material/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_A._Engelmayer
I think what it’s going to come to is a kind of an indirect fight to the death for those that choose liberty. You can see it coming. In a way it started with cell phones, which have only been common since the 90’s, a little over 30 years. Remember, 30 years before that there were no personal computers and no video games. That’s all during my life, so far. I resisted them all the way up to a little over two years ago (other than a few temporary “flip” phone usages), when I moved from my long-time house with a landline and was more or less forced to get one (some hardliners might not agree about being “forced”). I only use it for calls and occasional texts, and don’t load aps or search the internet with it. I don’t even take photos or know how to use most options (because I don’t want to, or have to, yet). But that’s getting increasingly more difficult because of the QR code thing and all the aps for this and that. It’s become such that I can’t even order dinner at some places unless I have an ap and can show it to the restaurant when I show up to get it. I certainly can’t get most of the deals or whatever people can get with those aps, and its becoming increasingly more difficult to sign up for about anything without them. This year, I will not be able to board a jet unless I submit to getting the new digital driver’s license or ID card required in the US.
This all appears to be accelerating to the point where in another 10-20 years, nearly everyone is going to be completely tied into those things and technocracy, or you are going to have to live your life in a manner you may not have expected. Talk about liberty, it’s gone to hell already and getting worse. But hey, trannies can’t compete with women anymore, so hurray! Liberty now is knowing where your smart phone is. And that didn’t take long in the scheme of things.
On the tube in London there are no newspapers / books / magazines (ten years ago it was a usual means of disengagement) – people use their phone throughout their journey avoiding all eye-contact. I do the same, reading off-g or other sources of dissent to the compliant world. Of course we pick our battles. I want the algorithm to know what I’m reading but then to wonder about my suddenly discovered obsession with stolen history or hiking boots. And by the way, I play scrabble against AI at the hardest level and almost always win. Is it programmed to let me win? Probably. But I like to think my randomness is the one thing it can’t cope with. So maybe let’s all just start behaving less predictably while on or offline and screw up the system.
If Larry Ellisons has anything to say about it its going to accelerate a whole lot faster! https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/omnipresent-ai-cameras-will-ensure-good-behavior-says-larry-ellison/
Yes, right. The whole project “the opposing white protagonists”, among whom Donald and the brilliant Eastern star, Vladimir, who is warming up the him big conservative concert, is to accelerate the plan under the pretext that they are “put in difficult conditions by evil left-radical forces”. And then they “solve the problems that lefties have accumulated” by accelerating the plan.
As far as I know, you can still get a regular driver’s license, with the caveat that if you want to travel by airline you will need a passport to accompany the regular license or ID – even domestic flights.
They tell us we have to have the digital “Real” ID, but in actuality, I do not think that is the case.
Big comment from Big Al, thanks for it – you just nailed it in the center of the big question of today.
By the way, I’m still only with a landline (well, and I have this damn old laptop, after all, I’m inside the digital game because I’m stupid). If someone wants to contact me, they should either come to the place where I live, or look for me on the landline and hope that I will be at home, or by appointment, like in the pre-smartphone era. And here is the question, “Don’t have a smartphone?!”, why? Elderly people look at me strangely, why, for what reason do I deprive myself of this not just convenience, but a necessity for the all life? “What do you pretend to be, friend, vip?”.
And then we come to the question: what we designate as the broad NWO plan is a long-term plan.
We are now in the process of a long transition, which, in time, in 30, or 50, or more years, should lead to the full (or approximately planned) realization of the new world. Who is this world for then? For today’s younger people, for teenagers, above all for children and especially for the unborn, who will be born in the more advanced stages of building this new world, and especially for those who will be born in the new world already built.
Then look at the young people, for example, around the 30-year-olds, look at the 20-year-olds, look at the 15-year-olds and the 10-year-olds, then look at the 5-year-olds. The facts are unshakable:
A person has a nose, ears, eyes and a smartphone.
There is no person without a smartphone. There may have been – the funny old people seem to have been born and lived in such a primitive world, but it is not certain, the younger ones have not seen it firsthand – but it is no longer and in the future there will not be. A person without a smartphone is like being blind or crippled.
What, then, is the future of humanity?
What does it mean for young technophiles, especially teenagers and especially children, your anxiety and mistrust about digitalization and your struggle to preserve from the coming evil digital identification?
“What, so with fewer credentials my apps will work worse, my access to websites and social networks may be difficult or even impossible, part of my purchases will have to be made manually, imagine – MANUALLY, as a primitive person, given that I have this quick and easy option. It’s like the end of the world and not just an end, but a voluntary one under the pretext of some incomprehensible, completely imaginary “preservation of personal freedom” and other blah blah that are in no way part of my world and my mind, that do not exist outside of connection to the Internet. This is the voluntary end of what my life is, for some incomprehensible reason that is not mine!”
Absurdity. There is no such struggle. There is a temporary, in this short transition period, for those old people who will not be part of the future that is for the young. A smartphone, a computer, or any device that connects the souls of the blessed to their natural soul-dwelling is part of the physical, biological, energetic, mental, and whatever essence of the human being. It may not have been, but it is already and it will not just stay that way, but this is only the beginning – it will develop much more.
Mass embedding of devices in the body and brain? Biodigital convergence? Sure.
From the moment “biocompatibility, battery charging and safety issues are resolved” (as the narrative goes), and this gains traction through our favorite media, and some new features that increase human capabilities are shown, an extraordinary new way of communicating is shown not only through words, looking, touching between people, but also through “direct exchange of thoughts”, even of feelings (people will “really understand their feelings”, they will “feel” them), and so on satanic possibilities – consider the broadest biodigital convergence as a fact of life in the future, completely voluntary and with the greatest desire (in fact, the greatest punishment for the future person will be to be deprived of the opportunity to be microchipped; and the few remaining reasonable conservative parents who forbid their children to be microchipped, will be hated by them and after the children reach the required age – they will microchipped themselvs; it will be exactly the same as today’s young man, teenager, a child to be deprived of his smartphone, namely – the end of his normal life and world, The Horror..).
“I think that the attitude towards the technology itself will change radically in the next 10 years. Generations will be renewed, for new ones the Internet is not a miracle, and smartwatches are not a gadget. All this is already part of their lives, like a shirt. It doesn’t matter if it’s embedded in the body or in clothes. Let’s look at the history of mankind, it has always experimented. It is difficult to say how inevitable the cyborgization of man is, but his merging with technology is indeed inevitable.”
– 2021, Alexander Chulok, Candidate of Economic Sciences, Director of the HSE [Higher School of Economics, Moscow] Center for Scientific and Technological Forecasting
Only because he is a very busy person, he is distracted and “forgets” to say that he is part of those who change the attitude towards technology.
Perhaps we should be a lot more concerned about how we would perform in Milgram’s experiment in the role of “the teacher”.
Are we in that roughly 66%, that two-third majority or are we in the one-third minority ?
We will never know for dead cert until we are deep inside the set-up.
We know how we performed during the “pandemic” but is past performance a true gauge to guarantee how we will perform in the future ?
Milgram repeatedly broke the laid-down rules of his experiment and misrepresented the results by highlighting outlier cases as if they were typical. He set out to portray people as worse than they are.
The context was his obsession with the holocaust. Can you guess his religion?
Milgram and other experiments were deluded.
Check the first quote at the top of this article
https://robc137.substack.com/p/the-milgram-experiment-and-how-we
As I read the opening paragraph of this article in
Off Guardians Telegram Channel my first thought,
WITHOUT any ID of the AUTHOR,
WAS INSTANTLY…
Todd Hayen. 🤟🤣👍
I COULDN’T have BEEN
the ONLY ONE? 🤔
Trouble?
We ain’t seen nothin yet:
https://scheerpost.com/2025/02/08/chris-hedges-the-empire-self-destructs/
Hedges? his previous admittedly fine writing about the Blacks he taught in prison signal his oikophobic White virtue as a Protestant seminary dropout whenever he smears all White workingmen’s suffering as Christian fascism.
Hedges says now and again the the answer to the problems of the USA is socialism, I wonder what sort?
But this is a man who refuses like Chomsky to address the murders of JFK and RFK and MLK, let alone 9/11. At least Chomsky might have the excuse of ethnic loyalty, but Hedges is not part of the JQ.
Reminds me however of the Nina Burleigh incident of Jan. 2019: https://forward.com/fast-forward/417628/newsweek-reporter-nina-burleigh-calls-israel-mossad-chabad-american/
Finally, this extract from the linked article shows how far Hedges himself is from reality:
“They embrace bizarre conspiracy theories from the white replacement theory to a shadowy monster they call “the woke.” Suffice it to say, they are not grounded in a reality based universe.”
Inasmuch as there are enough politicians who have stated officially that Whites are being beneficially replaced without Hedges and his ilk ever objecting, provided that said politicians are not identified as Rightist in some way. And Hedges himself has on occasion criticised Wokeness.
I don’t agree with everything he says, and his Christian credentials certainly kick his credibility around, but when he rages against the oligarchs I’m with him 100%.
Oligarchs, which oligarchs? He mentions neither Rockefeller nor Rothschild. Now why?
As with his good mate Chomsky, but not as with e.g. Michael Parenti. it is all “corporations” only. Sounds like a limited hangout to ,me.
I don’t recall that Hedges ever wrote about the Sackler family of Purdue Chemicals, who launched oxycontin (Endone in Aust.) onto white working class patients in the USA in 1996. This killed hundreds of thousands due to overdoses.
Purdue has been fined heavily for this but no family member went to jail.
Instead, Sackler endowed a building at the med school in Tel Aviv. That is the JQ for you.
The Occupy Movement was stomped on hard, not because it bothered the Rothschilds or the Rockefellers, but because it highlighted and demonised the 1%.
The destroyers wear suits.
They live among us.
They worship at the altar of the 1%.
People , grow and Learn ..do We really want Ideological conformity ,No One has a purchase on absolute Truth , We are all wrong about something’s .. and just because Hedges gets somethings wrong that doesnt make him schill … Maga of which a very significant part of the so called Freedom Movement is , was comprised ,had great instincts about what was going on… About Government , Abuses of Power ,Identity Politics , Big Pharma … But they seem to have become ideologically ossified … And thus increasingly caricatural and Cult like … Unfortunately thats where Ideology leads ..it becomes grotesquely purifying , Hunting anyone who deviates from the script …eventually cannibalising itself , as History has shown … We need to avoid the pitfalls of ideological conformity . …the question then becomes How do We accept and respect each other enough to Oppose this monstrous looming Dystopia? …
Together!
To be fair to Hedges he co wrote a book with Joe Sacco ” days of revolt days of destruction” which is all about the de industrialisation of and abject poverty of largely White Working Class people who have been systematically stripped of Dignity by Neoliberalism over decades .. He rails against that injustice with heartfelt ferocity , ok a little smugness perhaps occasionally creeps in , and lets face it he is ideologically driven … Thats Socialism .. or any other Ism .. but to accuse him of smearing Poor disenfranchised Whites .. is False … That said I am not a Socialist , and by and large I disagree with Hedges about Many things .. and his Caricatures of Conspiracy theorists , Bristle .. He’s a Hedgehog who does a few things which are evidently heartfelt very Well . Oppose War and rail against , a Ruling Elite … Kudos to him for that …
Good onya Marb.
Perhaps Chris is just ‘hedging his bets’.
Diplomacy is a handy tool for avoiding trouble.
Physical confrontation with Folks who are inebriated, high on something, psychologically disturbed, or have an intellectual disability, can often be avoided by simply smiling and listening to their story or complaint. It’s worked for me many times.
Fate, on the other hand, is just a case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Karma?
Living, the day to day struggle we all have, is hard.
Life, the spark, the energy, the power we feel inside, is beautiful.
“Be still, and know that l (the being reading this) am god”.
(Every great spiritual teacher has said this, but their words are always twisted by priests and their ilk).
In some traditions–including the Judeo-Christian one, God is perfectly OK with defending righteousness in the most violent way, including war. Even in the Bible we inherited, “[Jesus] had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers’ money, and overthrew the tables.”
I wonder what would constitute a modern corollary.
Protest marches, the Occupy Movement, strikes etc.
And how far has that gotten us? In this regard, where would the Palistinians be if all they had was marches and strikes? No need to go any further than the American war of independence: if the only method the patriots employed had consisted in dumping British tea in the harbour!
Well, in Australia at least, most working class workers get a liveable wage, four weeks leave a year, three months long service leave after ten years, superannuation and free health cover.
Strikes work.
I never read that quote with that interpretation. Interesting. Thank you.
Considering the Lord of the Flies situation that obtains currently, don’t you think a little administrative discipline might be in order in you average college? In order to protect the innocent, non-Lord of the Flies-behaving students who actually are there to learn?
“No co-ed dorms, no girls in your room”. Hayen writes this was “draconian”, and back in 1974.
I leave aside the topic of sexual control in Islam and what this implies for Diverse Multicultural life in the EU or Minnesota for that matter, as the EU Muslim population from MENA countries rises.
Because as Slavoj Zizek once wrote, the West forces women into the meat market and Islam forces them out.
Now Jordan Peterson and Ayan Hirsi Ali, to name two, have just discovered Christianity, which has had its own rules of sexual behaviour these last 2 millennia. Hayen witnessed them at first hand in 1974: they did not accommodate the contraceptive pill invented ca. 15 years before by Djerassi. .
So do these New Christians and Hayen hope and believe they can rescue the practices of liberal atheist sexual conduct into some sort of new Christian social contract in the biodigital convergence, with the enemy however peddling all manner of self-gratifying sexual hedonism (think Brave New World. 1930) ?
It has been scientifically shown that taking a dose of arsenic gives
you full protection from ‘pandemics’.
‘Without corruption the capitalist economy will grind to a halt, Corruption
greases the wheels of capitalism… President Trump’s goner bugger the
US economy if he continues his campaign to root out corruption… He
should take notice of the problems besetting The Chinese Economy, the
likely result of Chairman Xi’s puritanical obsession with rooting out
corruption’…
At school in UK 1974, everyone hid behind the grassy knoll and smoked their Player’s No. 6.
The punishment, if caught, was two or more strokes of the cane delivered by one if the (always) Welsh masters.
One fine summer day there were 30 or 40 of us smoking when they launched a pincer attack.
Two teachers from both ends of the bank and they lined us all up and walked along making us exhale to smell the smoke.
I was judged to have been guilty and sent to the condemned portion.
“But Sir, I don’t smoke” I said.
OK. He said and sent me to the innocent group.
That was my defining moment.
If you ever get yourself into trouble, lie.
Working for governments for 2000 years.
Lying to liars is always ok.
It’s required if you want to succeed.
Todd Hayen PhD is a registered psychotherapist practicing in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He holds a PhD in depth psychotherapy and an MA in Consciousness Studies. He specializes in Jungian, archetypal, psychology.
Todd: “Lying to liars is always ok.”
🤟🤣😂🤣😂🤣👍
Breaking Lies BBC: WTC7 has collapsed 20 odd minutes ahead of Schedule & NOW…
** FOR THE WEATHER **
“A Force Multiplier” (D.o.D.exp.1997) will be applied to Tropical Topical Regions, like Burkina Faso: Ibrahim can expect floods, famine & 2B fuk’D’up daily by D.o.D. infrastructure all the way to the central Banks of the Rivers that divide, a micro-macron-enron-economic-Aladdin-Blackrock-Corporate model of Sovereignty, from All Humanity.
* A.B.C.* grown exponentially. From 1997 onwards,
Aladdin took control. High Frequency Trading in Human Futures, Tragically
Utilising Psychological Operations & Sovereign State’s Defence Technology
budgets, Fink.Blackrock’s.Aladdin Funked FEARFUL Frequencies in the Fogs of War on Terror: Bush,Blair&TheBBC pulled off A Putsch of a Psychological Operation.
The Hedge Cutters… destroyed WTC7: EVIDENCE ! !
The Backstabbers, today, what they do ?
They smile in your face, like Tony Funking Blair…
The truth of which remains untold… better invite Trouble for others, Todd.
KOWTOW ? one cannot: or we cannot teach children,
Morally,
Balky.
Dont we all occasionally Lie to ourselves Todd? Engage in Self deception , if what You say is correct , then its ok to do so .. rather cyclic isnt it?
Must have been another catholic school.
No. English state grammar school.
Existed until the 80’s
those who learn this lesson early, achieve great highs in politics.The best of them become governors and owners of the world.:)))
We have proof that western politics ruined the human race, so, be careful how high and for how long you associate with the political critters.
Wish I had thought of that!
But will lying to AI work?
I, on the other hand, had no unreasonable interference in my life from any authority in my early decades. (Except taxes ofc.) Good times.
But now my govt calls me a right-wing extremist if I say “all lives matter” and imprisons people who protest against child murders. “Assisted dying” is up next.
It’s been quite a jolt. I won’t submit to this tyranny, but you have to be smart. Using a VPN is a good start, but I suggest avoiding VPNs with Israeli ties!
noone knows what they will do unless they train for it
From Meditations on Violence by Rory Miller. (A more intellectual book than you might assume.)
Wimp or hero? That is secondary to the fact that you are willing to look at yourself honestly. Most sheep do not do this with themselves or the world at large. Keep going!
That is very nice of you to say. Thank you. I DO try to do that (look at myself honestly) but I am sure I could do better…
You might do better in amongst hardened criminals than you think because you seem kind and good. My former husband once had to wheel a cart full of sales demo equipment through a few blocks of NY to an appointment and the cart fell over right in the middle of a tough looking gang. Did they rob him? No. They helped him get everything back on his cart.
Was that a little psych. test he was conducting?
Self Reflection , to the point of untangling all those Mechanisms of Self Deception is a tough discipline , and almost everything about our culture , mitigates against it …, What We are facing is so immense its going to take enourmous courage .. i’m with Big Al , i think it will reach crisis point ..H.G wells Wrote a revealing book named New World Order in the late 40s early Fifties where he basically outlines the Necessity of a Scientific Global Dictatorship ,in the last chapters if Memory Serves he says outright that People who refuse to Participate will regretably have to be Killed.. the Book is certainly on Archive.org .. thanks for the thought provoking piece Todd !
Problem is:
Will they be able to build prisons fast enough to accommodate the dissenters?
They may simply execute dissenters , i know its hard to imagine in the comfort of ones cosey abundance… The paradigm shift from Soft Totalitarianism to hi Tech Barbarism is all too visible on the Horizon. Malthusians wont require much convincing to do away with the rabble . They may simply Debank people and make it impossible for Us to Help one another … We arent there yet and hopefully never will be ,I am convinced though that our psychopathic overlords view us contrarian refuseniks as entirely expendable…. The last 30 years has convinced Me of that….who knows hopefully if We can get past our superficial differences and the Top down division .. We might pull through what a Wonderful World this should Be….
Yeah, had Columbus found utopia instead of native timberland, the world would be a much different place right now, this is how one knows we have somehow not created a perfect world.
Here’s hoping Marb.
Perhaps as the Empire self destructs, the 1% will go down with the $hip, or at least some of them anyway.
I hope it doesnt come to that .. life can be Glorious the planet is beautiful , most other people are endlessly Fascinating … What to do eh … We have to drop all ideological preconceptions realising just how ephemeral those differences are and get together to stop this filthy Machine fromenslaving Us .. there is no other way bottom up revolt!
We can but try.
Isn’t the Trump government right now negotiating with Venezuela (I think, or some other south American country) to have US prisoners transferred to their prisons? Perhaps Middle Eastern/Israeli prisons will be next when the South American prisons are overcrowded with jab refuseniks in the West….
Not an overseas holiday I would look forward to Veri Tas.