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The Joy of Being Stupid

Todd Hayen

Yesterday I was engaged in my typical morning routine. Scanning the internet for interesting stories to read and news to soak in. Reading a few things here and there and watching a couple of videos. I settled in after a bit of this to write an article for my Substack “Shrew Views.”

The topic is unimportant—typically something to do with something that caught my fancy during my news scanning, or something someone said to me yesterday about whatever, all mixed in with my learned and experienced knowledge of archetypal psychology. Nothing earth-shattering, mind you, but hopefully an insight some people might find interesting, resonating with their own observations, maybe a bit funny, insightful, whatever. Who really cares.

I consider myself and my ideas interesting. Sometimes informative, sometimes insightful, and nearly always consciously honest and authentic. Not always “right,” mind you, that isn’t possible, of course, but always intended to be truthful. To be honest with you, I don’t really know why I write—at least I don’t know why I write publicly.

I just started doing it during the beginnings of the Covid koo-koo-fest, and it seemed a handful of people enjoyed (is that the right word?) what I was writing, so I kept doing it. I have written well over 500 articles as of today, and don’t plan to stop, although at times I have seriously considered it.

I am not a particularly smart guy (as I am sure many of you would agree). And at times I believe I am quite stupid. But I do think my heart is in the right place. And I do believe that counts for something. To say it again, I am not very smart—certainly not compared to so many people I have run across in this weird journey since 2020.

I am again and again blown away by the people out there who are chock full of pertinent information—many of them seem to know nearly everything there is out there to know about a particular subject. And not only do they know what they know, but they are incredibly skillful at putting that knowledge together in such a way that their opinions, insights, and intellectual conclusions are mind-numbingly relevant.

These are impressive people: I admire them and am in awe of them. I’m not one of them.

Maybe you, who are reading this, are one of these people. Maybe not. Maybe you are more like me. Just a human being living on this planet in this strange time, trying to make some sense of what you are experiencing. Maybe you are terrified, maybe you are not. Maybe you are very sad and depressed, or maybe you are able to find joy in your life regardless of what you are seeing. Maybe you don’t even see it. Maybe you are stupid like me, maybe you are not. Whatever, it doesn’t really matter. More than likely, you are being called to do whatever you are doing. Whatever that is, whether it is significant or insignificant, you are doing it. So, to you at least, it matters.

But maybe you don’t agree. Does it really matter to you? I see many people every day in my psychotherapy practice who tell me that what they are doing in their lives doesn’t matter to them. They wonder why they are here, and they wonder what they are doing.

They wonder if they matter at all. If I ask them what they think they are being called to do with their life, they just stare at me with a blank stare. “What? What do you mean by that?”

If you are being called, then who is calling you?

I do believe our calling can be effectively covered up, and if we don’t make an effort to uncover it, we may never see it. But even if covered, as long as it is not pathologically obliterated, we will tend to move toward it. Call it intuition, call it an archetypal pull to allow creativity to express, call it divine inspiration, whatever it is, it usually will push through the junk and move you.

From my personal observation, most people do their best to ignore that push. They pay more attention to the calls of the flesh, satisfying the senses. They pay more attention to protecting the body and being as safe as they can possibly be. They are more apt to listen to and trust external forces claiming they will protect them from harm. Their own inner calling is ignored.

So, what does all this have to do with the joy of being stupid? Being smart or being stupid has nothing to do with anything. What we are called to do, does. Being “stupid” in the eyes of the world may actually be one of the last refuges of the free soul.

The smart ones—the credentialed, the data-drenched, the ones who can rattle off every study and counter-study—often end up paralyzed by their own sophistication. They see every angle until they see nothing at all. Meanwhile, the simple-hearted keep moving because something inside them says this matters, even if they can’t cite a single peer-reviewed paper to prove it.

I’ve come to suspect that the real division in our time isn’t between the informed and the ignorant, but between those still listening to an inner voice and those who have traded it for the louder, shinier, externally validated one. The former may look stupid to the latter.

They write Substacks instead of bestsellers, speak truth at dinner tables instead of on TED stages, refuse the jab, the mask, the narrative—not because they have a 400-page dossier, but because something in their chest simply says no. That quiet refusal is, in its own way, luminous.

So, I keep writing. Not because I’m brilliant, but because I’m called. The words arrive awkward and imperfect, yet they arrive. And every time someone messages me saying “this is exactly what I’ve been feeling but couldn’t articulate,” I remember: authenticity has its own intelligence. It cuts through the noise where IQ alone never could.

Maybe the deepest joy of being stupid is discovering that love, courage, and a stubborn commitment to what feels true are smarter than we ever needed to be. In a world engineered to make us feel inadequate, showing up as your uncredentialed, occasionally bewildered self, is a quiet act of rebellion.

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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Republicofscotland
Republicofscotland
Jun 5, 2026 3:56 PM

As the late great George Carlin once said – “Its a big f*ckin club and you and I aint in it”

“More than half the donors to Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom just won over $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months.

Sixteen of these 27 donors were facing federal enforcement actions, antitrust reviews, labor cases, securities charges. Many of those cases have been quietly dropped or scaled back since Trump took office. You write a check, your legal problems disappear. That’s not a coincidence.”

The White House won’t even release the full donor list.”

Republicofscotland
Republicofscotland
Jun 4, 2026 4:35 PM

He’s a co-founder of DDGeopolitics – he’s also on the Ukrainian Neo-Nazi’s hit list.

“US journalist Christopher Helali has asked President Vladimir Putin for Russian citizenship and says he expects to receive it within months.

Helali, an investigative reporter and international secretary of the American Communist Party, told reporters at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum on Thursday that he had sent Putin a four-page letter making his case for citizenship.”

Chris Helali – Wikispooks

Hemlockfen
Hemlockfen
Jun 2, 2026 5:27 PM

Since you brought up the topic. You. I have always looked forward to reading. You. But I can’t seem to separate. You. From L. Ron. Hubbard. And I am sure you can relate. My father in law loved Hubbard’s book on Dianetics. Written by a science fiction writer. All of which evolved into, of course, Scientology. Yeah. Here you are. A Hollywood score writer/mental health therapist. I can’t past it. My take. Proof that everybody out there is nuts in some capacity. Whether they know it or not.

Todd Hayen
Todd Hayen
Jun 13, 2026 3:57 PM
Reply to  Hemlockfen

Maybe I AM L. Ron Hubbard, he disappeared, didn’t he?

Republicofscotland
Republicofscotland
Jun 2, 2026 5:19 PM

I don’t believe for one second they are being released to combat diseases – knowing Google I’d go as far as to say they will do far more harm than good.

“Google to Release 32 Million Specially Treated Mosquitoes in California & Florida”

Google is quietly moving forward with plans to release up to 32 million lab-engineered, bacteria-infested mosquitoes across parts of California and Florida.

These are “AI-bred” mosquitoes infected with Wolbachia bacteria, designed to spread through wild populations.

While supporters call it a breakthrough for fighting diseases like Dengue and Zika, critics are raising serious questions about Big Tech releasing millions of genetically modified insects into the environment with limited long-term oversight”

i woodie
i woodie
Jun 2, 2026 2:41 PM

wow, Todd are you observing the seagulls collecting on your platform of opinion?
you take the time to write a little “hello dear readers” and, the space fills up with birds all squauking about murder and mayhem, the normal daily stuff of truely stupid people perhaps?
bravo mate…my sisiter-in-law in India loves you…and she’s as straight as can be, so I reckon you just keep doing your sweetness and all will be well.
perhaps a little arse-nick in the seed can give the birds a day off and general levels of conversation will continue.
whatever…keep on dancing.
xx

Todd Hayen
Todd Hayen
Jun 13, 2026 3:57 PM
Reply to  i woodie

HA!!! Thanks…!!

Republicofscotland
Republicofscotland
Jun 2, 2026 2:18 PM

There’s definitely more to these data centres than meets the eye.

James Melville https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/svg/1f69c.svg (@JamesMelville): “Ireland https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/svg/1f1ee-1f1ea.svg Data centres used 22% of country’s electricity last year (more than all urban homes combined), pushing up household bills. The centres have drained €715m (£620m) from the Irish economy.” | nitter.poast.org

Armistice - another time
Armistice - another time
Jun 2, 2026 4:18 AM

My favorites in the text are three (1,2,4) of the opening 4 paragraphs, which explain a lot about the people’s vocations in the last at least 3 decades, especially in the last 6 years.

A typical morning routine in which you browse the internet for a stories, news and videos, and then sit down in frint of the your computer to write an article for publication on your internet blog.

Going through the third paragraph, at the end of which Mr. Hayen says that he does not really know why he is writting, at least in public (on his internet blog).

Continuing in the key fourth paragraph: he started writing (in the internet platform Substack) during the covid koo-koo fest, a handful of people (in the internet) liked this and he has continued to this day with over 500 articles, and he does not plan to stop, although he has sometimes seriously considered it.

Already further in the text, he says he does this because he feels called.

It is interesting to me only because of the very good picture that the above gives about the mass case, and not Todd himself.

And the picture raises the questions: pressed by the dire circumstances, including the widespread deadly mass media mega scam, how many people found their calling by starting to writing blogs about the truth, making videos, creating profiles on social networks, or simply participating in forums or comment boxes and continue to this day – on the Internet. (And how many new people with newly opened eyes got involved.)

Many (as well as me, as a small commentator on forums and cimment biards) were temped to join the greatest battle fir the truth.

In times of deadly deception, the Internet has become a vital, life-saving, the only territory of truth.

“Get involved, get involved, get involved,” a voice called us

Thus we resisted the attempts to impose digital ID on us and depopulate us with injections, their plandemic failed (and that why they started multipolar circus).

And all of this wouldn’t have happened if it weren’t for the opportunity that the Internet has given us (if anyone can imagine the reaction to the plandemic without the Internet, let’s them try, I can’t).

The Cabal screwed up hard by inadvertently giving us their Arpanet-weapon from Darpa in our hands years ago.
This us the right conclusion (but the battle continues, so let’s stay tuned, and online.)

Armistice - another time
Armistice - another time
Jun 4, 2026 3:52 AM

I hope it has been understood that the heavily ironic description is of an extremely successeful LARP at the level of Marvel, aimed at deepening the integration of those already involved and attracting more to the saving island of freedom of speech – in the InterNetwork, without which the new order cannot be.

The most important of that was to perceive the game of the second-by-second “revalation of the plan of the conspirators by the awkened opposition ended with a happy ending – the failure of the plan” for a reality that you observe and participate in it yourself.

The success story; the Internet is indispensable for almost everyone – critically thinking and non-critically thinking.

Some call it an anchor for integration, other call it something else.

40-50 years ago there was no computers, 36 years ago there was no Internet, then there was no laptops, 17 years ago there was no smartphones and tablets. And in all tens and hundreds of thousands of years before that there were none of them.

All the time there were sceptics who said – they can’t do it. When it turned out that they could, they said – it would be left only for military. When it was released to mass use, they said – it will not be widespread.

Now, that this connected digital environment is a natural part of them and their children or grandchildren are born (“with a tablet and a smartphone in the hand”) with it as the only reality, some, using computers and smartphones, still say on the internet that “AI is nothing, just a buble that will soon burst noisily”, while it is always everywhere and this is just the beginning (it is already enrolled in compulsory study and use at school, as a complement to the already highly digitalized environment).

Other, writing through a digital device in a digital evironment, no linger deny AI, but accept and study it, but neurotechnology (such as brain chips like as smartphones+) – enough, man, this can’t happen, too much, impossible.

To deny the development and implementation of transhumanism while you have already voluntarily transhumanized yourself is the achievement of the cabal for the people.

Todd Hayen
Todd Hayen
Jun 13, 2026 4:00 PM

I am a poet, and don’t even know it.

Republicofscotland
Republicofscotland
Jun 1, 2026 3:00 PM

Interesting stuff – as US owned film festival (Tribeca Festival – Tribeca Enterprises) has first fully AI generated movie aired at festival – its a 100% propaganda movie about how evil Iran is – and how the people of Iran long for Israel and the US to bomb Iran to free them from tyranny.

The AI movie is called Dreams of Violets.

“Tribeca Enterprises (formerly Tribeca Productions) is an American film and television production company co-founded in 1989 by actor Robert De Niro and producer Jane Rosenthal in the lower Manhattan neighborhood of Tribeca, which is where the company got its name”

Republicofscotland
Republicofscotland
Jun 1, 2026 2:15 PM

Someone online makes a very good point below.

“If the United States introduces a draft,

You could be forced to serve in the IDF.

Are you ready to fight for Israel?”

Well are YOU ready to fight for the genociders?

Republicofscotland
Republicofscotland
Jun 1, 2026 2:00 PM

“Israel is officially moving into the European maritime.

Sazan Island in the Albanian riviera would make a perfect location for submarine bases and military naval operations controlling the Adriatic Sea to the north – and the Ionian Sea to the south.

The sale was presented today as a “luxury eco- resort” project by Kushner’s investment firm and the Albanian PM.

“Negotiations about the sale were ‘kept secret’ from residents and parliamentarians, who weren’t aware of the $1.4 billion deal until it was reported in the media.”

And.

Americans will continue to pay through the nose to prop up the Zio-Squatters – and as the Zio-Squatters become more and more toxic to decent folk around the globe – US Congress will begin to hide the way they give them YOUR money – hiding it inside the like of US defence bills.

” Buried in the defense bill is a clause that would permanently fuse the Pentagon with the IDF, and nobody was supposed to notice.

Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski says the language was almost certainly written by AIPAC and handed to key congressional committee members, because that is how every major defense bill gets drafted.

“They’re not even members of NATO.

It’s all lobbies; there’s no legal precedent for integrating them with our military.””

Royston
Royston
Jun 1, 2026 10:48 AM

Thank you Todd. It’s good to have you back on off-guardian. My wife and I have missed you !

Christine
Christine
Jun 1, 2026 9:18 AM

 listening to an inner voice” therein lies ones deepest heart and soul, meaning, discernment and peace.

Sonny-Raye Hayes
Sonny-Raye Hayes
Jun 1, 2026 5:11 AM

“Stupid is as stupid does.”

melockoedi
melockoedi
May 31, 2026 11:49 PM

Can’t say I agree Todd I think you’re pretty smart

Lulu
Lulu
May 31, 2026 8:11 PM

That was simply lovely, Todd!
Do please keep writing your opinions,musings etc.

Ron Marr
Ron Marr
May 31, 2026 7:23 PM

Well said, Todd. Thank you. It seems education defers consciousness.

Vagabard
Vagabard
May 31, 2026 7:45 PM
Reply to  Ron Marr

It’s low brow ‘education’ in case you hadn’t yet noticed…?

Richard
Richard
May 31, 2026 6:23 PM

I learned more about “the workings of the world” in a very few sentences spoken at a family BBQ, between bites of a burger and sips of a beer, by my girlfriend’s uncle, a retired CSIS guy, than I ever had from pundits or professors. Astonishing. It’s dangerously simple and straightforward; and needs to be either dumbed down or overly complicated to “keep us safe”.

Skinnymouse
Skinnymouse
May 31, 2026 6:03 PM

Loved this article! I am stupid and I am proud!!!

Vagabard
Vagabard
May 31, 2026 7:19 PM
Reply to  Skinnymouse

We’re all ‘stooooid’. That’s the point

Erik Nielsen
Erik Nielsen
May 31, 2026 8:54 PM
Reply to  Skinnymouse

Come on man. Dont get holy because yr stupid.

Republicofscotland
Republicofscotland
May 31, 2026 5:28 PM

A bit of s conundrum below.

“Arsenal sacked its 22 year kit man for opposing genocide and took an Israeli sponsor


Arsenal is owned by Stan Kroenke.

PSG fans regularly hold Palestine flags and stand against genocide”

PSG is owned by UAE Investments – the UAE is aiding and abetting in the genocide – of course both arsenal and PSG have many fans who oppose the genocide in Gaza.

Republicofscotland
Republicofscotland
May 31, 2026 5:09 PM

Does this make the US just a s culpable as the Zionist entity known as Israel – when it comes to committing genocide?

” Former IDF Unit 8200 member Shaiel Ben-Ephraim confirms a terrifying plot. He reveals Israel is actively merging its AI warfare capabilities with the US military, making it completely impossible to disentangle.”

Vagabard
Vagabard
May 31, 2026 5:23 PM

Well the key here-is to questions one’s initial assumptions. Scottish education not being what it used to be.

A basic familiarity with religious texts and an understanding of what the word ‘Zion’ actually means, or meant historically of course an added bonus. Usually reserved for intellectuals of course that have at some point ventured South for a real education across the border.

Republicofscotland
Republicofscotland
May 31, 2026 6:21 PM
Reply to  Vagabard

Zionism is akin to Nazism its a form of racism, as for Scottish education you are correct its not what it used to be – education became compulsory in the 15th century via the Education Act of 1496.

Though children had been receiving education in the previous century.

Vagabard
Vagabard
May 31, 2026 7:03 PM

Zionism, as a concept, is essentially akin to a sense of homeland.

Nazism more akin to usurping the ‘aleph’ symbol towards the cause of ‘lebensrahm’. As in grabbing a piece of extra room for Germany,. aka Russia, the UK having far too little land to generally bother with

Republicofscotland
Republicofscotland
May 31, 2026 7:52 PM
Reply to  Vagabard

Oh right so what the Zio-Monsters are doing in Gaza, and the West Bank – is just akin feeling homesick for someone else’s lands.

I don’t know whose sicker, you for trying to defend Zionism – or them for committing genocide – I guess the Nazi’s had their brainwashed idiots as well.

Vagabard
Vagabard
Jun 1, 2026 10:54 AM

Gaza = ‘aza = Human strength (without reference to God) cf Goliath.
The ‘West Bank’ are the erstwhile ‘Samaritans’.

Understand the symbolism and you can start to grasp the bigger picture

Republicofscotland
Republicofscotland
Jun 1, 2026 2:39 PM
Reply to  Vagabard

FFS, excuse my French, but kids are being shot in the groan pregnant women are being murdered – men women and children are being raped in Zio-prisons, Palestinians in Gaza are being starved to death – bombed in tents while they sleep, etc and that’s just the tip of a very large iceberg of war crimes committed by the Zio-Monsters and all you can mumble on about it symbols.

MOOSE
MOOSE
Jun 1, 2026 12:32 AM

Of course the US is just as culpable or MORE so than Zionist Israel being Zionist US!

Vagabard
Vagabard
May 31, 2026 4:50 PM

Pending. Maybe the ‘s’ word?

Armistice - another time
Armistice - another time
May 31, 2026 5:13 PM
Reply to  Vagabard

Jews?

Vagabard
Vagabard
May 31, 2026 5:33 PM

Well ti was the comment just below (now appeared), so no ‘j’ word involved. Hence the conundrum. But yes, that’s the usual ‘culprit’

Armistice - another time
Armistice - another time
May 31, 2026 6:02 PM
Reply to  Vagabard

Because of this ‘stupid’?!? It sounds scandalous. I’ve been claiming for a long time that that thing Akismet is iut of control, but now it went too far. What next – in the pending arrest if you say ‘man’ or ‘woman’ without explicitly adding “which are one of the 38 genders”?
Scandalous thing, and we are still in the middle of 2026

Vagabard
Vagabard
May 31, 2026 4:47 PM

A bunch of farmers epitomizing the best of British talent (BGT)? Now that would represent something ‘stupid’.

Nevertheless, in the context of Humans vs AI (pre=recorded drone show, aka ‘Celestial’), not entirely unexpected that humans would ultimately win.

Yet the woman with the dog still seemed to have a point, as did the other contestants

Hornbach
Hornbach
May 31, 2026 4:44 PM

To whom is not a bot, one simple idea : just ignore the tom backsters, don’t even downvote them, it seems that they enjoy the attention. I don’t know if they are right or wrong (tldr) but if there is nothing good or nice to say then better don’t say anything. If you disagree and want to make that known then remain civil and polite when you do it.

Hornbach
Hornbach
May 31, 2026 4:29 PM

“Enjoyed” is the right word. Please keep doing it.
I know why I am here, I can still make a difference in my profession but my original motivation is gone. I don’t know if I am sad, depressed or just coping with what I see. I worked for many years in a small company, some niche technology at the time then after some years it happened what usually happens : we were sold to a corporation. In the old days I worked with passion because I could see the results, the team members were all very good and the organization was horizontal. Today the team members quality is very low, dilluted by the huge number of useless management positions in a deep vertical ierarchy. The diversity, inclusion, sustenability “training courses” and messages are driving me crazy but now I work to help the young colleagues who I see struggling (sometimes with issues related to a minimum, basic education). I didn’t see what I see now until the convid when everything was blatantly a lie, before that I was not very interested in what the governments (and whoever is behind them) do, it was probably the “frog boiling” technique which went undetected.

Republicofscotland
Republicofscotland
May 31, 2026 12:24 PM

Environmental destruction on a huge scale to harvest data – the functioning of these data centres, will be put before the welfare of the environment – and the welfare of the masses.

James Melville https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/svg/1f69c.svg (@JamesMelville): “Chile https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/svg/1f1e8-1f1f1.svg Chile’s push to become the regional tech hub now faces backlash as AI data centres have consumed of billions of litres of water – leaving their wetlands to run dry.” | nitter.poast.org

Erik Nielsen
Erik Nielsen
May 31, 2026 9:00 PM

Chile, Chile, Chile, how could you be so stupid? Need data for what? All data coming from AI data are ‘artificial’ data.

Rolling Rock
Rolling Rock
May 31, 2026 10:03 AM

This article reminds me of the Scamdemic statistics that showed that those most aware of the con and most likely to think for themselves were those at the bottom of the formal education ladder and those at the top.

So, those who never went to university and those who had PhDs were the most ‘vaccine hesistant’.

Those with Bachelor or Masters degrees were the most compliant and actually believed the narrative.  

Now, it is easy to understand how those who have avoided years of indoctrination by the education system were less affected by the propaganda, but less clear by those with PhDs, since they spent more time in the formal education system. Therefore, I think that in the case of PhDs it is because they need to think for themselves in formulating their own theses rather than parroting and referencing the works of others that Bachelors and Masters students do.

Being ‘stupid’ can be subjective, since one person’s idea of stupid could be another’s idea of brilliance.

If the shit were to hit the fan in a big way, I would rather be surrounded by people with common sense, street smarts, good physical health and a willingness and capacity for hard work – most likely physical work – then by those with a great formal education who lack the aforementioned skills and knowledge.

A farmer, plumber, electrician or a builder will be of far more use than someone with an MBA or Bachelors in a whole host of subjects that have little practical use.

Johnny
Johnny
May 31, 2026 10:14 AM
Reply to  Rolling Rock

RR gets a AAA 🙂

Armistice - another time
Armistice - another time
May 31, 2026 4:48 PM
Reply to  Rolling Rock

Hello Rolling, welcome back online. I wanted to ask you something that has been stuck in my head lately, on the occasion of one of your recent comments, in which you said that, due to a specific planetary arrangement, a mass rise of consciousness is coming, soon or has already begun, which will increasre the mindfulness and awareness among people, which is why in order to minimize (potencially dangerous for their supremacy) results, the controllers have started the large operations (scamdemic, multipolar). I paraphrase in memory (if there is the distoration – make necessary corrections), but I think this is exactly the point.

I don’t understand depth astrology, nor can I testify to a more serious increase in consciousness, but that’s my problem – maybe I’m not prepared and informed enough to see. I just have come across similar statements here and there in different versions.

So, to the question: do you think that the Internet (its emergence, development, use) is part of this change, the increase of consciousness, awareness? And: Is this possible without Internet? Was it possibe before the internet? Will the Internet will an (important, main, invariable?) part of the development and the future of this phenomenom?

(I think, interesting questions, talking about the reaction to the scamdemic, how people broke up, who listened to their intuition, showed interest from an alt point of view, and so on – which and the article talks about)

Rolling Rock
Rolling Rock
May 31, 2026 9:03 PM

Armistice, you have paraphrased pretty well that past comment of mine. I would add that I mentioned that the controllers are trying to front run this shift in consciousness by directing the individual and therefore the collective consciousness to their desired outcomes. They have co-opted and even created the New Age movement to direct and harness this energy.

Astrology is also about probabilities, so it is not a given that humanity will see through the deceptions and psyops in order to come out on top, although I currently think we will, despite the at times obvious frustration with the progress. I don’t see everyone waking up and nor will that matter, it will require perhaps 40-50 percent to shift the needle sufficiently. Currently, we are somewhere between 10-20 percent in the West but that figure is higher outside the West and the developed world. I still look to the Covid-1984 psyop as a source of hope – when everything seemed so bleak in late-2020 and 2021 the overlords still failed to seal the deal with that window of opportunity.

I believe that the controllers use their knowledge of astrology to time events eg psyops when the transits are most auspicious for success from their point of view. It would be like choosing to swim the English Channel on a calm, warm day rather than attempting it during a winter storm.

I think the next few years going into 2032 will be critical. It may also explain why the controllers seem obsessed with the 2030 date, although that may also be due to some major event outside their control. On a mundane (physical wordly) level, I see a major financial and economic crisis being one of these catalysts for a seismic shift in consciousness.

As to your question regarding the internet, I think it will make no difference to the outcome, since it is really a new development of the last twenty five years. Human consciousness has shifted at points in history due to the effects of astrology. Perhaps, the internet will speed the process up, although it is a double-edged sword that can also be used to propagandize and deceive.

Ultimately what would decide the battle were if enough people started listening to their own inner voice and ignoring the white noise and distractions. Such a change would really shift the balance of power. No amount of propaganda could overcome that.

This article talks about intuition and I personally believe it is the best tool we have, if only we know how to listen to it and use it correctly.

Armistice - another time
Armistice - another time
Jun 1, 2026 2:33 AM
Reply to  Rolling Rock

There is food for an anwer that I will write later/tomorow, due to fatigue, and yet I don’t think directly in the hateful, imperialist, unipolar, globalist language.
Da zdravstvuet mnogopoljarnoe mnogojazyichie!! Long live the multipolar multilingualism!!

This, about supposedly most of the awakened outside the West is quite supposedly, it is not certain that it is not sweetened multipolti agitprop (->see def.), as it sound in my sceptical and black-eyed ear. Because we, Off-Westerners, are massively like that, which does not always blossom into waking up, in many cases withers into annoying grumblers, who sometimes gather red thumbs in more optimistic Western forums. If there was Off-West-OffG, you would see the difference. (Of course, it is all the fault the Western imperialist eaters, who deter our pure soul and bright minds from good life and world fame.)

One example that I remembered a moment ago, while I quickly revewing technocracy dot news. Last year, before I went on my seven-months offline (off-net) vacantion I noticed a banner that had long been at the top of the face of this site, whose owner, Patrick, was already in full swing, posting article after article about the fraudster Trump, a Trojan horse of the technocrates.

I click on the banner (I don’t remembet exactly what it said) and find myself in a place where Donnie, despite the deadly attacks and assassination attempts of Dems Cabal, saves US, America and the entire Western Christian civilization all day, every day.. I check in “about us” is there is no mistake, and there: “our creator and leader (or chaiman ir something) – Patrick Wood”

And what do you think your friendly and well-intentioned off-western interlocutor did? He said himself “that is their bussiness, their choise”? I wrote them a few comments (and there were pending) like “what lies are you writing?! Your leader does not stop posting what a traitor Trump is, how he introducing a digital Gulag, an anti-human technoligies, a beast system, as a little obediend puppet of tbe Satanists.. He has just published a new article, I quote:… (+links)”

And after a few weeks, the banner-link dissapeared. Do you understand shat we are? People are building a community for the salvation of their civiluzation and some dumb eastern ass comes and instead of leaving, he starts undermining tbem morally, without purpkrse, just like tbay – for nothing. Because instead of optimism and a sense of commumity, he has only cynusm and nihilusm forget in communist oppresion and post-sicialist deception of the ‘democratic change’ of state security..

And who ti blame? You and only you, capitalist impsrialusts! Viva la multipolar! Come one, bye, to tomorrow, you western decadent oppressor 😀

Armistice - another time
Armistice - another time
Jun 1, 2026 2:57 AM
Reply to  Rolling Rock

Untill the last moment, I will claim that the last two paragraphs are in English colored with Tajik in glorification of the multipole, and not a bunch of mistakes. All Tajiks will understand, I guess.

Armistice - another time
Armistice - another time
Jun 5, 2026 5:07 AM
Reply to  Rolling Rock

I apologize for the delay. In short:

About:
Your opinion that the Internet, as a new development in the last quarter century, will not affect the awakening, but it may accelerate it, although it can also be used to propagandize and device
And
Plandemic as a source of hope, because when everythig seemed so bleak in late-2020 and 2021 the overloads still failed to seal the deal with that window of opportunity.

Imagine the reaction of people in the complete abscense of Internet. Clear enough. The thousands of evidences, millions articles and clips, their exchange among people on the other side of the world – none of this (and much more). All the non-stop communications in the alt circles is gone. There is only msm establishment propaganda and against – nothing of what was available trough internet. Clear enough?

Two completely different developments, as it from two parallel universes. (Do you think I’m exaggerating even a little?)

To get to the failure of the conspirators, i.e. our success – biggest ever. One thing: WORKING SOLUTION. This turned out to be the result of all these collective efforts – with the invaluable hslp of the internet. Bigger and more important than evetything; life-saving; and so on.

How do we know we won (temporarily)? Because they stop the ugly show through with they wanted to fulfill their dystopian plan. How do we know this? And here it gets too wild for me:

We know what the plan was because they said it many times in the massmedia, on forums, in think tanks, in UN charters and WEF roadmaps, etc – a global government of total control, social credit system, through digital IDs, carbon credits, etc.

And we know that they failed because the same influential persons announced it from the sane high tribunes: the pandemic failed to unite the world, despite having to do so.

For example, this is how the link ‘But it didn’t work’ explains in the recent article abou the Fake wars and higher prices, what multipolar new order realy means, chapter Why this, why now, which says that it is worth remembering that the multipolar spectacle was not pre-plandemic, but post-, in response to the (announce in the msm) failure of the (stated by the high tribunes) obvios plan.

Ok – that how they see it. But is that? And you’ve probably read what I think here and there recently. (Interestingly, if you are right about the upcomming increase in consciousness and controllers’ attemps to overtake/direct/control/prevent it, what would the internet trick mean, what role would it play.)

Skinnymouse
Skinnymouse
May 31, 2026 6:01 PM
Reply to  Rolling Rock

I worked for many years as a kindergarten teacher. I spent many an hour defending my practices. Administrators wanted the main kindergarten curriculum to be based on workbooks and route learning. I worked to provide an environment where children interacted with elements that challenged them to explore. Much harder for a teacher but so important to provide such a place for children to work and play in. They were taught to question and think…

Vagabard
Vagabard
May 31, 2026 7:35 PM
Reply to  Skinnymouse

Ok, so not actually ‘kindergarten cops’ as per the movie. Who’d have imagined such a sequence of thoughts? ‘Original’?

les online
les online
May 31, 2026 10:02 AM

Smart people wont admit they’ve been fooled
because they’re too smart to be fooled:
You cant fool stupid people because
they’re too stupid the be fooled…

Johnny
Johnny
May 31, 2026 9:40 AM
Taboo
Taboo
May 31, 2026 9:11 AM

Covid lockdowns as reprogramming:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3RVG8qNLdoY&pp=ygUzdHJ1dGhzdHJlYW0gbWVkaWEgY2hhcmFjdGVyaXN0aWNzIGluaXRpYXRpb24gcml0dWFs

Characteristics of an Initiation Ritual.

12 minutes

Antonym
Antonym
May 31, 2026 9:04 AM

The missery of being pathetic:
Tearful Oliynykova demands Shnaider face sanctions for ‘supporting war’

Jos
Jos
May 31, 2026 5:32 AM

Thanks Todd. Of course you’re not stupid and you know it. If the stupid condemn you for being stupid in not complying, that makes you smart. The mass-forgetting is what disturbs me most. The ‘that never happened’ or ‘why don’t you just let it go?’ kind of comment is driving the likes of the people on here to doubt themselves, but you have to resist that. In the UK news they’re agonising over the rise in youth unemployment and not one media source (including AI – so the intelligent bit is over-stated I’d say) has made any link to the rise in people being forced to work longer before retiring. Now that’s stupid!

Captain Birdheart
Captain Birdheart
May 31, 2026 1:41 AM

the joy of being elvira

Gezzah Potts
Gezzah Potts
May 30, 2026 11:10 PM

Thank you Todd, much appreciated reading this as I sit on a train on my way to work – selling a street magazine, of which the vast majority of my customers are what some would call normies, and what others would call asleep. I do occasionally meet fully awake people out there, and it’s such a pleasure and a validation to meet other people face to face who know what’s really going on, who know about Agenda 2030, and programmable digital currencies, and Smart Cities and the convid pysops and the jabs. I met 2 lovely people on Wednesday, a husband and wife, who were both sacked from their jobs because they refused to get the convid vaccine. There were a lot of people all around the world who listened to their inner voice, stood in their truth, and refused to wear a mask or get the jabs and who ignored the mandates, even when there was a personal cost involved in doing what was right. For me, the bottom line is you do not enable or comply with evil, even if there are consequences involved for not doing so.

MOOSE
MOOSE
Jun 1, 2026 12:37 AM
Reply to  Gezzah Potts

You are always spot on Gezzah Potts!

Veri Tas
Veri Tas
May 30, 2026 10:48 PM

I’m one of those who are simply called to do what I am doing – and I believe it is significant, vital even. Like warning others away from abusive and dangerous rituals. Like trying to convince even just one other human being to leave the cozy safe box of the System and learn to run free. So, who needs brilliance if brilliance is strongly linked to the System that’s keeping even the brilliant humans out there tethered to it, in order for their brilliance to be allowed to shine?

Speaking of my mission (at least one of them), here’s a newly published, free to share and free to read ebook that I believe is of great importance given the times we live in:

The Unvaccinated – What a Forbidden Comparison Reveals About the True Cost of Vaccination – Published this year by Unbekoming @ unbekoming.substack.com

Download

KiwiJoker
KiwiJoker
May 30, 2026 7:21 PM

Existential comparativism propagated by denying the antecedent whilst affirming the consequent, in the weasel worded syllogisms of the neuro-linguistic programmer, deliver a joyous sense of the argument from ignorance inherent in the duplicitous dialogue peppering the deceptive doctoring of ad hominem perceptions…

red lester
red lester
May 30, 2026 9:01 PM
Reply to  KiwiJoker

That’s easy for you to say.

Johnny
Johnny
May 31, 2026 9:04 AM
Reply to  red lester

Nah, I reckon he/she had the thesaurus nearby.

KiwiJoker
KiwiJoker
May 31, 2026 6:14 PM
Reply to  Johnny

Oh contraire… During the scam-demonic I educated myself on the ‘fallacious arguments’ and now have them at my eloquent disposal in order to clearly perceive the tricks of rhetoric that are implemented to confuse those who have yet to be conversant with the hidden mind-tricks of language used to influence and coerce people and populations…

Try it: learn them: easy to do…

Then you are free 🙂

Captain Birdheart
Captain Birdheart
May 31, 2026 1:32 AM
Reply to  KiwiJoker

I know, right,
cos the world is not a round space ball,
as you know

Vagabard
Vagabard
May 31, 2026 4:52 PM

Much like it isn’t 5786 years old

Erik Nielsen
Erik Nielsen
May 30, 2026 6:23 PM

Now I am constantly in red ‘depending’. But the comment usually arrive. This time a short but well placed bible ref comment disappeared completely??

Elvira - Admin
Admin
Elvira - Admin
May 30, 2026 7:00 PM
Reply to  Erik Nielsen

Can’t find a Bible comment made by you today. Sometimes they disappear into Akismet memory hole before we see them.

Erik Nielsen
Erik Nielsen
May 30, 2026 10:28 PM
Reply to  Elvira - Admin

Thanks for reply ;-).

Claus
Claus
May 30, 2026 4:10 PM

Thank you, Todd – yes, it seems to me (too) that it is hard to put something in words that is implicit rather than explicit. All the world today is explicit, turned outwards, enjoying [measurable] validation everywhere that you are “modern”, “going smart”, magnificent, etc. etc. Not to subscribe to this state of mind is “dumb”, “old fashioned”, “uncool” – because, you know, everything is possible today, can be “produced”, achieved! You just have to want it, just have to join in. And everybody following is so smart, so intelligent …

There are a lot of people around me who may be more intelligent than me – IQ-wise. And almost everybody plays along – goes to war [against any inner calling], to name it. Me, “the stupid one”, has some doubts … Is this a kind of rebellion already? I don’t know.

Rob
Rob
May 30, 2026 4:02 PM

Sometimes the inner voice is what keeps people mired in bullshit. And you’re not stupid, you’re average like most of us.
https://cosmiconion.substack.com/p/rabbit-hole-poison

Erik Nielsen
Erik Nielsen
May 31, 2026 4:36 PM
Reply to  Rob

You cannot avoid getting pessed on the government 24/7.
Everytime they mention all my pension will have to go to Datacentres to save America, but they have foodstamps and soupkitchens ready, my bloodpressure goes to 180/100.

Taboo
Taboo
May 30, 2026 3:48 PM

Thanks Todd, magnificent piece.

I am not sure that ‘stupid’ is the right word, even in semi-jest.

Terhaps ‘intuitive’ , those who listen to the Tao.

tom baxter
tom baxter
May 30, 2026 2:22 PM

An article written by a self-admitted idiot, praising stupidity. That should sit well with the vast majority of urbanites today lol. I scanned it, only read a few sentences here and there, nothing of value.

George Mc
George Mc
May 30, 2026 3:00 PM
Reply to  tom baxter

It isn’t the joy of being stupid. It’s the joy of being “stupid”. And if you don’t get that, then look at what passes for being “smart”.

tom baxter
tom baxter
May 31, 2026 1:08 AM
Reply to  George Mc

Todd– “The smart ones—the credentialed, the data-drenched, the ones who can rattle off every study and counter-study—often end up paralyzed by their own sophistication. They see every angle until they see nothing at all.”

“Meanwhile, the simple-hearted keep moving because something inside them says this matters, even if they can’t cite a single peer-reviewed paper to prove it.”

Typical psychologist, everything backwards. The smart work hard and make life easy, they are the ones who have resources for the future. Meanwhile, the simple-hearted take on all the debt and eat all the junk food and get stuck renting in their old age.

Look at your own life, most posters here are afraid of their own shadows, worried about a trump, a fed, the jews, their retirement pensions. Then a feelgood article comes along and they all swoon. They have had their therapy session now, thanks Tod, now they can go back to their simple stupid futile lives.

Johnny
Johnny
May 31, 2026 6:53 AM
Reply to  tom baxter

No wuckin furries here Tom.
Too many assumptions on your part methinks.

Vagabard
Vagabard
May 31, 2026 4:56 PM
Reply to  tom baxter

Seems hollow. The presence of the ’em dash’ indicating AI input. Get a soul

Tilly Petersen
Tilly Petersen
May 30, 2026 11:22 PM
Reply to  tom baxter

Well someone has just “self-admitted” to being an idiot, but I don’t think it’s Todd 🤔

tom baxter
tom baxter
May 31, 2026 1:22 AM
Reply to  Tilly Petersen

No Todd’s not stupid, he’s making tons of money selling this feel good pseudo-science. He tells people exactly what they want to hear, that it’s ok to be a nobody and there is no need to aspire to anything better than an Amazon delivery driver as long as you are a “Free Soul” Personally I took a different tack, worked hard in my own business and retired in my 50’s, well off and debt free. Am I a free soul? Do I do what he says you shouldn’t?
They pay more attention to protecting the body and being as safe as they can possibly be.”

I eat well, exercise, and I moved away from the city to a rural town where I can live a safe life. So yes I’m free, but not according to Todd. I’m Free from all the cognitive dissonance that infests the minds of the urbanites. Todd on the other hand spends his days with misfits whining in his ear lol. Stuck in Toronto, a literal Madhouse. Free? Only after he’s had a few strong drinks.

Stooge
Stooge
May 31, 2026 6:05 AM
Reply to  tom baxter

What you do best is lying.

Eric Blair
Eric Blair
May 31, 2026 6:06 AM
Reply to  tom baxter

He’s basically talking about people who think for themselves and follow their own path as opposed to people who succumb to groupthink. The more formal education you have the stronger the pull of groupthink. Though of course not all educated people succumb.

Why has it rattled your cage so much? Interesting.

Robber Baron
Robber Baron
May 31, 2026 8:02 AM
Reply to  tom baxter

Well now you’re contradicting yourself Tom. Your initial claim was that Todd was a “self-admitted idiot” writing a stupid article. Now, having (I suspect) read the article and realized your dismissal fell wide of the mark and in fact made YOU look rather foolish, you’re attempting to reframe your hostility into something a little more on point and are now casting quite wild aspersions on the motives and lifestyle of the author.

This is quite dishonest and revealing of your motive – which is simply to be hostile and sound clever with no respect for factual accuracy or grounding in objective reality.

Rolling Rock
Rolling Rock
May 31, 2026 9:36 AM
Reply to  tom baxter

It is possible to navigate this madhouse by doing what is necessary to gain a level of independence. A one foot in the system and one out. Some would say that is not enough and in the long term they may well be correct but it has worked so far.

You said “The smart work hard and make life easy”

Your assumption is that those who are independent thinkers do not work hard or make life easy. So you are a just a herd creature yourself, despite retiring early and being debt free?

No, actually you have done something most people never get to do, at least in the last 10-20 years.

During the Scamdemic it was those who had created a level of independence from the rat race – mainly financial freedom who were able to walk away from their jobs to avoid the cull juice or else valued their health and freedom of choice above material goods.

Never knowing when to say enough is enough to live on, since people are caught in the trap of consumerism and wanting more or else because they are up to their eyeballs in debt, living beyond their means, meant they were easy to coerce – jab or no job, jab or no travel/holiday etc.

Fifty years ago, pre-consumer credit boom, there were many more people debt free or willing to live with hardship or to forego material goods and services to resist coercion and put their principles first.

Peter
Peter
May 30, 2026 2:07 PM

Good to see you back, Todd. Much to think about in your article. As another “stupid” person, I too saw through the Covid con and made myself unpopular with my opinions. Having had many different, and often dangerous experiences in Africa before moving to Canada in late middle age, I now find joy in waking up in the morning with most of my body and mind working as it should.

Binra
Binra
May 30, 2026 1:46 PM

Self-depreciation seems safe but is it honest?
Judgements establish rules and filters of awareness that effectively generate mutually agreed masking and distancing as the social order.

I listen to the current of thought and attention for signs of life and the living – despite the packaging or ‘flesh’ of identity in image and form.
My willingness to listen is the call to attend or be present with, which is both a ‘not knowing’ and a receptivity to being shown.

What I then write is not a personal claim but a with-ness in shared worth-ship – for such is awareness and honouring of being – as distinct from a mutually agreed game of masking distance framed in fear of attack – (which runs as the corollary of judgement).

Discernment is within life and living, while judgements operate AS IF set over or apart from the judged. They cut the Son of God into pieces – and I use the term for All That Is – not for a self set special and apart.

That we can make a ‘self’ from the praise or depreciation of ‘the other’ to then assume social status, is to seek our right on the basis of a wrong perceived in the other. But once entranced, we raise the self-image to a status of our self – such that it governs thought and perception until and unless we question and release invested story to a grounded or connected recognition of being. Story sounds easy to release, but grievance set on fear and hatred of pain and loss – targeted to ‘others’ (or to a self-judged guilt, shame or lack of worth) can run as ‘too big to fail’ or irrevocably set and thus specially protected against questioning, challenge and change. All else must then subordinate and be made sacrifice to idols of guilt-driven ‘solutions’ by which to mitigate or escape pain by limiting awareness to a projected ‘models’ or ‘narratives’ that save us from knowing what we do.

The call to awaken in truth will meet resistance from the call to engage and experience or explore the ‘self-will’ – which presents as freedom, while framed in tyrannous dictates that may be masked over by ingenuity of self-justifications, applied even the instant after the act as a ‘post processed experience’.

If we call to the ego, we reiterate its predicates as our guide and protector.
If we call to truth that heals, that reveals peace of being, we are called to release the ego of self-judgement, blame and sacrifice – whether taken in or projected to the ‘other’ as if to scape or mitigate and mask pain of life for a tolerable containment or compartmentalisation.

All are called but few choose to listen. But this is only a matter of time.
The timing of our readiness and willingness to listen, give welcome, recognition and honour is each our own but never each alone for in truth we live in each other – though a world of bodies given causal or creative agency would limit love to a partiality of self-specialness seeking mutual reinforcement.

When two or more join in willingness to heal they release the terms and conditions of vested self-illusions to a quality of recognition that is not in the world, but though us, blesses the world. Withholding our presence runs as a self-presentation – to ourselves and to others, of who and what we are not.

I don’t care for smart drawn against stupid – nor to think of myself in either frame.
For look – they play together in false praise and blame!
Beneath the mask is the love that you are – as I am.
But not as the world judges.
Yes I can judge myself in others, and recognise that self-hatred runs far deeper than the defences raised against it. Or suffer to believe it real.
But the split of a mind to self and othered is the reflection of a denial or rejection of God, such that God is ‘remade in the image’ and mind of a special Self Exclusion – masked and distanced.
Persisting in what does not work and can not work can run a definition of a stupid behaviour. To take the Name in vanity is indeed to run off in a vain attempt to make illusions real. Nor is this a real war!
Name, nature and identity or recognition are integral to giving and receiving as one.
But the idea of getting rises from the lack and disconnection of unwatched or wishful thinking.
If we want fulfilment in living, we need to give from a living sense of appreciation.
A world cursed as unworthy – that fails to meet our demands – is discarded for an internalised ‘screen’ of ideal substitutions, just as Narcissus gazed on the image of his own reflection, heedless of Echo’s call.

Whatever we write as ‘meanings that can be received, or mistaken there is the space between the lines. There is the More of what I cannot speak. And there is where I read the hearts of others – regardless the current form of expression that the Field of Relationship is given. Align with, in and of the living – as vigilance for the Call – which cometh when ye thinketh not!

BTW the use of the ‘AI’ enables the drawing together and assemblage of vast amounts of ‘information’. The mind set in fixed meanings runs a structured identity in dead concepts running ‘dark’ as rules and filters of self-interest.
But the mind of a transparency to the movement of being knows when to get out of the way and when to serve. Discerning what we need to know when we need to know it is at the edge of a revealing fulfilment.
What is truly resonant and relevant to who you are the unfolding of, may not be at all according to what you think you should be doing or not doing.
The mind is expert in discarding and denying the prompts to healing.
Learning to release ‘default thinking’ in service of the living instead of running a private show, runs contra all that we have learned, and defended as a self-separate authority.
Locked down and lockstepped ‘assumptions and definition’ need to be brought to awareness as questionable. In asking within, we are not merely inward thinking, but calling on That Which Knows – and thus creating a space of willingness to hear or receive answer in whatever way or form and timing serves the living moment of the Whole.

tom baxter
tom baxter
May 30, 2026 2:21 PM
Reply to  Binra

tldr

Republicofscotland
Republicofscotland
May 30, 2026 5:14 PM
Reply to  tom baxter

Why even put that comment up, if you didn’t read it then there’s no need to comment on it – unless of course you’re and arrogant obnoxious little shit, who takes pleasure in remarks like the one you posted above.

Taboo
Taboo
May 30, 2026 5:35 PM

‘tldr’ is the typical response of the spawn of the digital age, who lack the focus for anything longer than a tick-tok video .

When presented with the complete works of Shakespeare, or the Bible, his response is probably ‘tldr’.

By the way ‘Baxter’ was the name of a robot/android in that WEF video from 2014, which was trying to instill fear by telling us how all our jobs were going to be automated away within a few years.

tom baxter
tom baxter
May 31, 2026 2:12 AM
Reply to  Taboo

Nice analysis Taboo. How come you didn’t detect it was an AI post though???

“By the way ‘Baxter’ was the name of a robot/android in that WEF video from 2014,”

I didn’t know that, but I’m not a spawn of the digital age who watches every piece of tripe that comes down the pipe at you. I’ve never watched a trump interview either, or an Elon Musk presentation. Why would I listen to Liars? I have a smart phone but don’t use it for the web, It’s turned off half the time, especially when I’m sleeping.

I’m not at all surprised by the down-votes, in fact I applaud them. It’s confirmation I’m not one of the dull cow herd. Everyone knows the vast majority of people on the planet are dumbed down sheeple, even the sheeple admit that. They just think they are not one of them. By being at odds with the majority means I’m not one of you, and you hate me for it HaHaHa.

Now go back and read Binra’s AI post and see if you can make any sense out of it.

Eric Blair
Eric Blair
May 31, 2026 6:25 AM
Reply to  tom baxter

I don’t think Binra is AI. Just a bit longwinded.

Veri Tas
Veri Tas
May 30, 2026 10:55 PM

Exactly. I had to look it up: TL;DR or tl;dr, short for “too long; didn’t read

Being offensive for the sake of being nasty without cause is a sickness in and of itself IMO.

tom baxter
tom baxter
May 31, 2026 2:15 AM
Reply to  Veri Tas

tldr is nasty? No, it’s a comment to the poster to be more concise, to not repeat themselves over and over, to make a “readable” informative post. So what’s your function here? To be a little HOA Karen attacking comments you think are outside the norm? Add something positive and constructive to the conversation next time ok.

Have a happy day 🙂

tom baxter
tom baxter
May 31, 2026 2:02 AM

Thanks for your reply. One of the dumb people the article is praising. I’m an Aussie, we cut through the crap and tell it as it is. I don’t have time to waste reading a 12 paragraph word salad from an AI. Here’s part of it.

“The call to awaken in truth will meet resistance from the call to engage and experience or explore the ‘self-will’ – which presents as freedom, while framed in tyrannous dictates that may be masked over by ingenuity of self-justifications, applied even the instant after the act as a ‘post processed experience’.”

All comers, no coherent sentence structure, How dumb are you, defending a LLM lol lol

Johnny
Johnny
May 31, 2026 9:09 AM
Reply to  tom baxter

We have our fair share of velvet tongued bullshitters in aUStralia.
Most of em work in politics and the corporate sector.

Republicofscotland
Republicofscotland
May 31, 2026 11:50 AM
Reply to  tom baxter

Aussie obviously don’t tell it like it is, when Australia is a well known US vassal state – being primed for conflict with China – a kind of a US tip of the spear thing if you like.

Paul Keating appears to be trying to stand up for Aussies on AUKUS – but it appears to be falling on deaf ears.

As for the article above, if you find it inane that’s fair enough – keep it to yourself please, but there’s no need to be somewhat insulting about it, the author took his time to pen it no matter what you think – and we should be grateful folk still want to share their thoughts with us in this day and age, where its shout/hit first then ask questions.

Erik Nielsen
Erik Nielsen
May 31, 2026 11:51 PM
Reply to  tom baxter

So you are Aussie? Yeah Australia is a weird place for weird people:
This Aussie guy on the photo here with vaccination gulag camps is also bat crazy.comment image

Johnny
Johnny
May 31, 2026 10:21 AM
Reply to  Binra

‘Self depreciation’?

You’ve invented a new word Binra.
Dunno about my Self depreciating, but my body certainly is☹️

Binra
Binra
May 31, 2026 12:54 PM
Reply to  Johnny

Only new to you!
What you appreciate, appreciates.
This works the same for a negative framing.
I could have used self-deprecating or putting our self down or playing small, false modesty and etc etc.
I get why Todd choose to reverse the normal status of smart and stupid in this particular context. But no matter how hard you work at it – you are not stupid. But your choices and behaviours might be – if you step back from default reaction and re-evaluate them.
Put-downs and one-up-man-ship operate a blame game at all levels of personal and social judgement.
To choose not to play it is a freedom that those who do – may at first misperceive and hate you for, but also come to recognise —along with recognising themselves.

The body of you represents the visibility and tangibility of you. But we hide or fears, shame or a sense of unworthiness by using it as a mask, a weapon and a fashion accessory for social status.

Egocentricity doesn’t really feel life through the body – but uses it a meas to get or get rid of. Dumping shock and stress into body is part of a temproary survival that became default stress-looping.
Its a miracle that the body adapts to such abuse as our ‘culture’ assigns it.
Perhaps that is because at heart you are a miracle, and not a machined outcome. Though the ego sense of self can be seen as a programming.
If your self IS your body- it is frail, weak, susceptible to sickness, easily broken and hurt. I offer a recognition of a self and life through the body. It holds the quality of a blessing or an extension of a self appreciation.
But naturally – not as a mask of virtue signalling.
On some level, trust and appreciate the life you are the experience of unfolding – or ‘that you have come here to live, be and share in’.

The experience of a broken reality is hated and feared, but also opens perspective that is otherwise walled off, censored or ‘denied’.
So I don’t write to fit a body of ‘knowledge’ that runs on false assumptions – no matter how heavily funded or fed by blame-framed sacrifice (Narrative dictates).

Appreciation of the qualities of life offers context for realigning ‘quantified’ or judged and weighted meanings.

Vagabard
Vagabard
May 31, 2026 5:02 PM
Reply to  Binra

I read you in the 1980s. Still spouting CIM it seems. As incoherent then as it is now

Binra
Binra
May 31, 2026 8:34 PM
Reply to  Vagabard

There’s simply no waking the sleepies. They simply cannot and will not hear you
If you don’t make reality – then how can anything real be threatened?
Though you shape your awareness of reality, can anything unreal truly exist?
Vested self-illusions.
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 

Vagabard
Vagabard
Jun 1, 2026 11:20 AM
Reply to  Binra

Why did we come here (and read such comments)?

Fair question. Must be some kind of draw. Likely not entirely madness, though not entirely clear what.

Binra
Binra
Jun 1, 2026 2:48 PM
Reply to  Vagabard

Why not bring it present?
Look within what is in act or flow instead of any modelling concept of it?
Who does not align in self interest as they are currently defining themselves to be?
The latter is the act that most are asleep to – for they operate from the framing of thought that shapes their perception and response.

Johnny
Johnny
Jun 1, 2026 12:10 AM
Reply to  Binra
Binra
Binra
Jun 1, 2026 2:58 PM
Reply to  Johnny

I assume you are seeking to tell me something.
Why don’t you go and read then yourself?
If you resonate negatively to the form of my written thought – that’s your freedom.
That you have No Question indicates you are not listening for Answer.
It is very possible to market to people’s confirmation bias.
But you and I hold very different ideas of what communication is and does.
I simply do not live in your box.
But I have no need to tell you what to think or how to behave – because I am not trying to force others to fit my worldview.
You might consider a direct straight honest exchange.
So you find me irritating etc??
There’s a wide world of irritants – take your pick! – but if you knock on my door you receive something of me by ‘asking’ even if you do not know your own question yet.

Robber Baron
Robber Baron
May 30, 2026 1:28 PM

Always enjoyed your Saturday morning musings Todd. Very very glad to have you back.

This is perfectly expressed –

“I’ve come to suspect that the real division in our time isn’t between the informed and the ignorant, but between those still listening to an inner voice and those who have traded it for the louder, shinier, externally validated one. The former may look stupid to the latter.”

George Mc
George Mc
May 30, 2026 12:44 PM

The Covid con was a really sharp turning point in which all “systemic” knowledge as it had evolved over the last few decades was seriously called into question. I recall that one self-declared Marxist who turned up frequently on the OffG comments poured relentless scorn on the idea covid was a hoax because “capitalism doesn’t work that way”. And this distinguished gent was utterly contemptuous towards all those morons who just couldn’t grasp the fundamental historically established formulae for how capital operates etc. This despite the acknowledgement (from the Communist Manifesto itself) about how capitalism has proved to be the most dynamic system ever – all that is sold melts into the air etc.

But no – we had a period of these smug lectures telling us all how dumb and “Right Wing” we were. From such rational folk cheering on the latest vax scam and fretfully concerned about the LGBTQ++++ community and how the planet was catching fire.

Eventually they all fucked off over the horizon to plague the “serious and fully informed” networks of dupery still operational and churning out the mainstream edification for all things “Groovy Left”.

In opposition to this, I think it’s essential for punters everywhere to get their oar in and rant away about crap that’s happening right in front of them. And if you find yourself in a little group which eventually excommunicates you because you offended against some shitty systemic shibboleth then Fuck that! Tell them to shove their psychanalytic postmodernist social commentary up their arse.  

In the meantime, I’ve seen more honesty and relevance from “tin foil hats”, Icke followers, Bible bashers etc. I’ll go wherever I hear the truth.    

Robber Baron
Robber Baron
May 30, 2026 1:24 PM
Reply to  George Mc

Great comment George. I found this place during convid. Didn’t comment much back then but coming here and reading ATL and BTL was most of what kept me sane. Yes there were a host of morons and shills – as ever – but also some gems of insight and intelligence. You were always a commenter I enjoyed. MLS also, Gezzah Potts, and several others. Latterly I appreciate Rolling Rock and Eric Blair.

There are a few of us – we just need to speak loud over the storm!

tom baxter
tom baxter
May 30, 2026 2:28 PM
Reply to  George Mc

So have you figured out why they perpetrated the covid lock-downs yet? Not the vaccinations, that’s another agenda, just the actual shutting down of half the global economy for an extended period. Once you understand that you can empathize with the top brass. It was a step in the right direction basically. Two steps forward, one step back. Everything else is just a sideshow.

George Mc
George Mc
May 30, 2026 2:57 PM
Reply to  tom baxter

My take on the lockdown without which the whole operation would not have worked:

https://georgemc189059.substack.com/p/bradbury-and-dick-prophets-of-lockdown

tom baxter
tom baxter
May 31, 2026 2:32 AM
Reply to  George Mc

“divide and conquer”? Was that the point of the blog posting? It rambled a bit with all that reliving of old 50’s scifi so I couldn’t be sure.

My take? The purpose was the same as that of the current gulf of Hormuz action, and that of the GFC back in 2008 too. Then the oil price peaked at $140 odd a barrel. By the way, the oil price was rising continually for a couple of years before that as demand outstripped supply and probably triggered the housing crash. I would argue therefore that the price triggered the GFC, but that’s hidden under the propaganda it was the failure of One hedge fund and One insurance company lol.

Bottom line, the lockdowns drastically reduced oil consumption across the planet and brought it back in line with the available supply, leaving a buffer too. Just what we are seeing today. People are consuming less of everything, and since everything is basically made with oil and shipped with oil, that’s taking the pressure off the supply side. Poverty, going back to the sort of lifestyles before the US and massive Saudi oil came fully online. Oil is the master resource, as population demand clashes with supply something has to give.

Eric Blair
Eric Blair
May 31, 2026 6:29 AM
Reply to  tom baxter

Oh dear – so your oh-so smart and informed take is that the lockdown was about “peak oil”.

😂

Hilarious.

Robber Baron
Robber Baron
May 31, 2026 7:51 AM
Reply to  Eric Blair

Good lord, I had no idea anyone was still trying to push that tired old lie

George Mc
George Mc
May 31, 2026 6:57 AM
Reply to  tom baxter

My point was that without lockdown the covid move would have been far less effective and might even have backfired completely. Once everyone was separated they could be “reprogrammed” and this is exactly what happened. I honestly feel that the entire psyche of our society has changed since 2020.

Robber Baron
Robber Baron
May 31, 2026 7:51 AM
Reply to  George Mc

I entirely agree with you on this

Taboo
Taboo
May 31, 2026 9:06 AM
Reply to  George Mc

Yes!

Deep inside, everybody knows that all of our institutions, all of our laws, rules, assumptions, our whole way of life is a phony, godamned sham.

Binra
Binra
Jun 8, 2026 2:31 PM
Reply to  Taboo

Would it be more complete to say we are be-living a lie of a life that masks in mutually self-reinforcing judgements – or rules and filters of ‘conditioned programming’?

Its ok if you don’t see this – but I don’t think we generally recognise our own self-illusion – and this is by design – or it couldn’t run.
The sham so readily suggests shame.
Attempts to hide or mask over a sense of self-lack are a sham, and the intent to frame others as lacking, unworthy, invalid is the attack that serves as the best defence.

But I don’t hold life to be loveless. Human being is characterised by the split and co-fusion of love and fear.

I’m all for a fundamental re-evaluation – but I don’t see demonising past experience as a true advance.

The lie and the cost of the lie are a painful recognition that can spark desire for truth. Transparency and accountability are a condition of communication and exchange. The ‘weaponisation or marketisation’ of language works the corruption of thought.
Who steals the mind does not need to steal kingdoms.

mgeo
mgeo
May 31, 2026 6:35 AM
Reply to  George Mc

Covid was only over-reach, a peak of greed. It had a good run from the 1950s or so, steadily killing off alternatives. Most of the deadly industries are related. Farming, food processing, smokestack industries cannot survive without medical collusion. The entire biosphere – air, water and soil – is permeated by indestructible poisons including plastic particles. Medicine itself cannot survive without bribes to government and doctors, and sadism.

Robber Baron
Robber Baron
May 31, 2026 7:50 AM
Reply to  mgeo

Covid wasn’t “only” anything. It was the opening move to make fundamental changes to the human psyche and to societal interaction. Changes that have been planned or hypothesized for many decades but never thought viable to put into practice until some coterie in the elites seized the initiative and decided this was the time.

It’s still ongoing. George is right that society and the societal mind has changed – been reprogrammed – by lockdown. It’s made the normiest zombies more zombified BUT it also had the unlooked for effect of waking some of the less zombified up to the extent of lies and deception we live with.

As I believe Kit said or hinted in a recent article what’s going on today is a result of both these things – the excessive zombification on one side and the quite desperate attempts by the PTB on the other to prevent further awakening in the newly awakened masses.

George Mc
George Mc
May 31, 2026 9:06 AM
Reply to  Robber Baron

As well as reprogramming, the covid move also reinforced certain psychological operations already in existence. I know I bore everyone’s arse off with this – but covid revealed the true duped nature of this “Left”. I have sometimes found some on the Left who seem to get it but then I transgress against one of their precious shibboleths and I get excommunicated e.g. I refuse to bow to the Freudian/Frankfurt School jibber jabber.

Another curious matter is that these self-styled “Marxists” are ever so perceptive …up to a certain point in history. But the nearer they get to the present, the more they cave in to the mainstream view. And when I attempt to follow them, I always find that, as I come up to the present, I have to jump away to some “tin-foil hat” source to carry on the investigation. The moment you start talking about bloody obvious psyops, the “Leftists” throw up their hands in horror and scream at you for being “Right Wing” and “shockingly reactionary”. Then they stick you on a couch to talk about your anal fixations. Or something.        

les online
les online
May 30, 2026 12:04 PM

I imagined, while reading this, i was Dr Sigmund Freud, listening to you,
lay on his couch – wondering, “Is this Free Association, a Train of Thought –
or maybe, maybe a Defence against Analysis ?
But i’m not Dr Freud. So i’m calculating how much i should charge you for
taking up my time…

Robber Baron
Robber Baron
May 30, 2026 1:26 PM
Reply to  les online

Well you didn’t have to read it Les.

George Mc
George Mc
May 30, 2026 5:32 PM
Reply to  les online

And you had so much else to do.

Johnny
Johnny
May 30, 2026 10:28 AM

Sometimes you’ve gotta ‘Swerve’

https://thebuttonsmusic.bandcamp.com/album/swerve

A song I wrote back in 2012. (Should’ve been a minute shorter).
Just a bunch of old blokes venting their spleens.
And having fun.

tom baxter
tom baxter
May 30, 2026 2:59 PM
Reply to  Johnny

lovely, but don’t assume because you like it anyone else will. In other words, don’t give up your day job.
PS, gave you thumbs up for the effort.

Elvira - Admin
Admin
Elvira - Admin
May 30, 2026 7:03 PM
Reply to  tom baxter

Hmmm I think you are developing some look of a troll today. Don’t be a troll.

tom baxter
tom baxter
May 31, 2026 2:41 AM
Reply to  Elvira - Admin

Well I’ll take your comment on board, and yes I found the leading article quite ridiculous and have been snarky in some of my comments regarding it. But I thought my comment above regarding Johnny’s post was honest and relevant. It’s not like the post in question had much to do with the topic. To me it appeared to be simple self-promotion slipped into the stream of comments. Advertising in fact and bordering on Spam. The website Johnny promoted for us is selling his album for $7.

How would you feel if I linked to a book I wrote and was selling? Even if it had little or nothing to do with the topic.

Johnny
Johnny
May 31, 2026 6:25 AM
Reply to  tom baxter

On topic is fine, but aren’t we all just echoing each other? Over and over.

Like every man/woman and his/her dog I write ‘luv’ songs, but that does get a tad tedious.
At least half of my songs (about 3,000 in total) have a political bent, or are songs about the human condition. You know, Life, Death and the whole damn thing.

Money? I don’t make money from music. Nothing from Bandcamp, that’s for sure.

Landscaping? Done that by building a strawclay, solar passive house on 40 acres of bush, including a Permaculture system.

We took a ride down ‘Freedom Road’:

https://thebuttonsmusic.bandcamp.com/track/freedom-road

(An analogue recording done in a homemade studio).

Johnny
Johnny
May 31, 2026 1:46 AM
Reply to  tom baxter

Writing songs and singing, like most art forms, is enJOYable and therapeutic.

When I’m out busking most Folks just walk straight past. That’s okay.
But then there’s the few who smile or throw some coins in my case.
And often, children will start dancing spontaneously. THAT, makes it all worthwhile.

(Don’t have to give up my day job, I retired six years ago).

PS. Let’s hear/see some of your creations Tom.

tom baxter
tom baxter
May 31, 2026 3:01 AM
Reply to  Johnny

I’m glad you find enjoyment with your hobby, I played bass back in the 80’s with a band and loved it too, but we didn’t record, though once we played at Festival Hall in Brisbane to a crowd of a few thousand as a support band. Playing bass is a bit like restoring motorcycle engines, once you know the way it’s easy to get it right over and over, you don’t need to be a muso or a performer. I’m no musician, and most musicians in bands are just like mechanics as well, playing their riffs over and over, decade after decade if they can make it.

Today the world is flooded with musicians as it is flooded with authors and it’s easy for them to get their product out there with the internet, but that doesn’t mean it’s going to have mass appeal does it? Though it might give that illusion… Give an ego boost so to speak. My creations are my beautiful landscaped property, the motorcycles I buy and modify, and perhaps even the photos I take with my Olympus 4/3 camera. But I know that all these creations are just for my personal pleasure and would not have mass appeal so I don’t go posting them up all over the interwebs. I don’t need the validation and I’m not chasing income, I’m happy in my own skin so to speak 🙂

Johnny
Johnny
May 31, 2026 8:46 AM
Reply to  tom baxter

Ship loads of imitators, not so many creators.

Stooge
Stooge
May 31, 2026 6:36 PM
Reply to  Johnny

You two are so naive. I that endemic where you live, or introduced?

Johnny
Johnny
May 31, 2026 11:49 PM
Reply to  Stooge

Diminishing ignorance is a slow process.

Fiver Rabbit
Fiver Rabbit
Jun 14, 2026 3:41 PM
Reply to  tom baxter

You talk about yourself a lot. “Me, me, me,me” zzz..zzz.zzz.zzz.