If This Guy Can Do This In Just A Few Minutes, What Do You Think Government & Media Can Do To You?
The power of unplugging
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I used to love movies. I would sometimes attend film festivals and watch 5, 6, 7, even 8 movies in a day. I would download films on torrenting sites so I could have access to virtually any movie ever created. Movies were an art form that I spent so much time immersed in and which I so loved the craftsmanship of.
And then the Ides of March 2020 came. My family and I had been aboard the Grand Princess that winter, and followed the news reports and scientific literature about the ship that had spent much of January and February 2020 in quarantine, with everyone troubled by this strange new illness. By the time March 2020 came, I knew everything I needed to know about COVID-19 to see that it was a total non-issue.
Almost everything we now know about Covid-19 in November 2022, was already known in February 2020. Virtually no new information has emerged. It was publicly and easily accessible to anyone who searched it out.
Yet everyone locked down.
And virtually every institution supported that.
I walked through San Francisco, preparing for lockdown on March 16. It wasn’t Covid-19 I was worried about, it was all the people who were falling for all of it.
The next morning, I went for a long walk in the suddenly much more quiet city. I did that each morning for a long time. They could all lockdown if they wanted to, but I would not be.
I looked up on my walk at the steeple of the church I attended. It had closed down. It had not quietly closed down, either. I don’t mean that in the good way that one might hope to see his church close down — kicking and screaming. It proudly closed down. It proudly closed down with fanfare. It virtuously proclaimed that all good Christians are to be happy with the church closing down.
The congregation was housed in a magnificent cathedral. I looked up at the cathedral and understood that the people who built that building and settled this land were not the same people who now closed that building down. Those who once built it, saw a need not just for a building but one that glorifies God mightily. They built the very best they could, and it still stands as a magnificent building today.
But the people who built that building were no more. The members of that congregation could no longer build such a thing. They could not possibly fathom the need for such a thing as that big, beautiful memorial to God.
As I looked up at that steeple, I realized something I had long known, but had not thought about for some time: the church is the single most important bulwark against totalitarian rule in the United States.
That was a conclusion I had come to while living and traveling in Central Europe and writing about the totalitarian control of those lands. I recognized in those days that it wasn’t the Second Amendment that keeps America uniquely free. It wasn’t the military. It wasn’t the economy. It wasn’t its history as being a land of immigrants. There are plenty of failed examples why each of those do not, on their own, protect freedom. The one difference between America and the rest of the world is that it had a church going population. In almost every country on earth, the richer a country gets, the less people go to church.
A few extra dollars an hour is enough to stop most people from going to church in most places.
Not in the US, though.
For many years, I knew that to be an important issue in preventing the spread of totalitarianism or even communism into the United States.
It had been years since I had such a thought. And why would I? The churches remained open. The bulwark against totalitarianism remained firmly in place. Communism was so far away from my mind. I wouldn’t even think of a thing as foolish as people in the United States trying to shut down churches.
Well, then corona communism arrived in the United States. The bulwark had been closed. The bulwark against communism had voluntarily closed, nary a peep of protest.
It would stay closed on Easter.
And on Pentecost.
And for some time thereafter.
As I looked up at that steeple, I realized that practically everyone I knew was acting very strange by succumbing to the hysteria. Very strange. It was as if they had been brainwashed.
A brainwashed person does not know when he has been brainwashed.
And, as I am apt to do, when pointing the finger at another, I also paused a moment and pointed at myself. It is never enough to point at another and to say “He is the problem,” or even to look someone in the eye and say, “He buddy, you are the problem here, now change.”
No, it must always come back to you, no matter the situation. You must always ask yourself, “What role am I playing in this?”
And as I observed the actions of the brainwashed, I looked at myself and wondered how brainwashed I was and what I might be missing.
Well, it was not long before I swore off movies. I’m not sure that I’ve watched 5 since that day. I looked up at the steeple and thought about the techniques of persuasion and manipulation that I understood very well, and which I knew to be in those movies. Yet I sat down and got comfortable with a movie, entirely suspending my disbelief to allow myself to relax and enjoy the movie: Letting who-knows-what goblins run around my head, doing who-knows-what.
The Harvey Weinstein trial was in the news. Jeffrey Epstein had been suicided half a year earlier. I knew how demented Hollywood was. They were but the tip of the iceberg. Were these really the people I wanted to have given free rein in my head?
No, and like that, I quit cold turkey. I knew I needed to address the brainwashing that I might be subjected to and not even be noticing.
We are not in the midst of a kinetic war, but a psychological war. Bullets do not need to be fired to conquer this land. Mind games work just fine. It would be a waste of a good bullet to resort to kinetic activity against the American people at this point in time. Absent kinetic war, a gun does little. It does however have a deterrent effect, even in the home of a coward.
As I looked around myself, I understood that Second Amendment people were complying just as obediently as others in the psychological war. I reminded myself yet again that the gun rights folks were not the unique ones in the American experiment — it was the enduring church that was unique. From before its founding, the American dream is rooted in that freedom to worship God, rather than being rooted in all the other more superficial stuff people often associate with the American dream.
Not even in the openly communist, openly atheist USSR could they close down the churches.
Not even there.
Yet, here I was looking at America’s endurant church and seeing this — it was no longer endurant. It had closed down. Not just in West Coast lockdown land, but across the country, even dear friends who were pastors, they virtually all closed down.
The one singularly important bulwark against tyranny had fallen. They somehow convinced the pastors who proclaimed that they lived their lives to follow God and God alone, they somehow convinced even them to forsake the gathering of themselves together.
That meant I was missing something. And as soon as I realized that, I went to work on drawing as close to reality as I could, which meant movies could no more play a regular role in my life.
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I knew from Day One it was tyranny. I never locked down. Never quarantined. Never wore a face mask. I went about my life as normally as possible, enduring the bullying, harassment, denial of services, cops called on me, etc.
It is still so hard to believe what Americans put up with. Almost 100% compliance. I have come to the conclusion that most Americans are completely spineless.
The church I had been going to, shut down and went to Zoom. When I mentioned in the comments that this was tyranny, my comments were deleted. I found a new church.
I agree with your assessment that the 2nd amendment will not protect us. Many of those big, strong men with a gun strapped on their hip, meekly strapped on a mask when barked at by a minimum wage clerk.
I have almost no respect for 99.9% of Americans. At this point, I stay focused on creating my own world and trying to connect with people who have some modicum of courage but they are very hard to find.
Allan, while I agree with your very profound epiphany, I have to say what appalls and horrifies me to this day is that millions upon millions of people forsake our most human sacred obligation: being present with our parents at their hour of death - denied us the God given right to give comfort to the people THAT GAVE US LIFE. THAT to me is the most profound brainwashing. We willingly allowed the STATE to deprive us of what I would say is THE raison d'etre of human existence - only humans instinctively understand the import and finality of death.