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Hubbs's avatar

There is a reason man and primates have limited the size of their communities to @ 50-200 individuals under natural conditions. Beyond that number, it is difficult for the individual to know the others in his community - personality, trustworthiness, bravery, cowardice, sadistic vs altruistic nature. I can't remember who mentioned this point. I think it was Edward Dowd on his Telegram channel. I also watched an interesting movie on the chimpanzee tribe from Ngogo, Uganda. A very huge tribe by chimpanzee standards- 250 members, and how even at that level, B males were trying to enlist alliances to challenge the alpha male. Why this tendency would have any evolutionary advantage I don’t know, but instincts which promote conflict within a tribe may actually harden the tribe to be better able to resist outside competing tribes or else to put a check on the ability of one powerful individual to lead a tribe to self-destruction. This is rebutted of course by the example of the strong male lion needed to protect the lion pride.

In a small defined tribe, you know which members you want to take with you on a scouting mission who can be relied to fight alongside you to defend your borders, who are cowards or who are weak, and which individuals you do not want to leave near your women and children while you are away.

The punchline: We are in an age of a totally unmanageable centralized society where we don’t even know our neighbors, even those on our own apartment flats. That’s the paradox of the internet: the illusion of so much information at our fingertips, yet even more disinformation is being pumped which results in more ignorance and therefore more centralization of control through deception, which in turn feeds on itself as the very worst kind of people gravitate towards this power and control. Simply put, the politicians don’t give a shit about you. They answer only to the oligarchs who hide behind the veneer of the political system, the fake rule of law, censorship, and disinformation.

Deceptions like our debt based fractional reserve fiat currency monetary system commandeered by the FED spawn yet a whole new class of useless opportunists like financial advisers, CNBC and You Tube content creators to “advise” us. It’s the collateral of the Hegelian Dialectic. Create a problem which requires a solution that benefits the very people who created the problem in the first place, like arsonists creating the need for fire departments.

The problem with mass communication from wireless to the telephone to the internet and now satellites is that they enable greater amounts of anonymity through centralization and pump more disinformation than actionable beneficial information- For our benefit and to “preserve our Democracy" they assure us.

But I like Devon Brewer’s analysis of us being “herded in an information ghetto.” I too have had all of my scathing criticisms of judges and lawyers, KY and NC State Medical Boards, and hospitals, even though based on publicly sourced documentation shadow banned/ censored on Google Reviews, Facebook, etc. Even my publisher Archway screwed me by insisting that I write my memoirs “My Medical Legal Back Pages” as fiction when all events were well sourced and based entirely on actual events.

So the only thing I use You Tube for these days is to play songs as I play on my drum kit. But my reliance on the main stream internet continues to shrink. Everyone is trying to sell you something instead of doing any actual productive work. We can’t vote our way out of it. We can’t “peacefully protest” to change it. There are no political, constitutional, or legal remedies either. The system is too entrenched. It will take a massive violent upheaval and population reduction. At age 70, I have very little at stake and consider myself expendable for those who snidely say, “OK, then you go first!” but not so for my 21 year old daughter.

“Call out the guns and ammo, we’re going to blast our way through here.” Thunderclap Newman. “Something in the Air. “

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Dr Mike Yeadon's avatar

None of this is a surprise. The perpetrators control everything that moves on the highway they built. Did anybody really think Substack itself was a blazing beacon of truth?

We’re here because there’s nowhere else to be. Being here in no way means every writer and commentator is a knowing ally of the perpetrators.

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