We all have the capacity to critically examine, who x, y and z scientists and social theorists are, where they get their funds from, what their agenda may be, whether their experiments really support their conclusions, and share our findings online, and with our friends and neighbors.
We all have the capacity to critically experiment with scientific food, medicine and technology, and share our findings with peers.
And we also have the capacity to critically examine ideas on the fringes of, and outside mainstream academia as well, and assess their merit.
This is what I will call the democratic method.
Public opinion matters, it does play and ought to play, not a, but THE role in determining what is and isn’t true and of value for our civilization.
It shouldn’t be suppressed or molded like some herd of wild beasts, on the contrary it needs to awaken itself to its power.
The self-appointed experts have determined the course of our civilization independently of the people for far, far, FAR too long.
It is time to take our power, ethical, intellectual, spiritual, monetary and military power back from them.
It all belongs to us, this is our language, our culture, our government, our science and technology, our civilization, and we will play an active, leading role in shaping them for eons to come.
It is OURS, the political, economic and scientific elite stole it from us!
Has it ocurred to anyone that the real conspiracy isn’t some over-arching evil collection of elitists? Perhaps, maybe, WE are our own devils? Democracy is the closest form of government by and for the people when it is attended to by the people. I’ll only suggest, but is it possible that democracy worked so well that it allowed complacency to become the rule rather than the exception? When less than 50% of eligible voters actually vote for their representatives, how can democracy work?
We are the devils and we create them by ignoring our basic responsibilities as citizens. We collectively conspire to not become educated, to not spend the time necessary to make democracy work for all. Don’t ask me to go through all the work necessary to become an informed citizen. I’d rather watch reality TV or play video games or blather on social media. Just give a simple answer to complex problems and leave me alone to bitch and moan because the world won’t give me everything I want.
We don’t need conspiracy theories. The devils aren’t out there, they’re in the mirror.
An addendum: A to-the-point quote from Doug Adams Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. The Arthur Dent prayer…
“‘Protect me from knowing what I don’t need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don’t know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen.’
There’s another prayer that goes with it that’s very important. … 'Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer. Amen’
And that’s it. Most of the trouble people get into in life comes from leaving out that last part.”
How can you call something a democracy when anyone running must be supported by many corporations and the finance sector. IOW right off the bat any candidate, to have even a slight chance of winning, must be beholden to one primary interest group. Then we have these large companies/organizations controlling, via revolving door, pr, huge legal fees and lobbying their own oversight. They we have more general lobbying affecting policy. The US is not a democracy, it is an oligarchy.
Rushing out to vote for one of the two approved/ not vetoed candidates industry allows us to vote for is not democracy. But further it is not mutually exclusive to have conspiracy theories that are correct and also contribute to the problems.
Trump hasn’t gotten much accomplished, has he?
He’s probably controlled opposition.
I guess at least he’s getting people talking.
I see Trump as a first, small step in the right direction for the US.
Ultimately this isn’t about Trump or any personality, it’s about restoring your national sovereignty and integrity.
Your monetary integrity needs to be restored also, but we know what happens to presidents whenever they try to do that.
If Trump fails to secure the border, I would vote for fringe candidates who promise they will, until one of them does.
Perhaps a Rand Paul would, or a Gary Johnson.
I think they may be poisoning us to reduce the population by about 90-99% within several generations, not to kill every last one of us.
A smaller population is easier to manage, and they only need so many of us to run the machines.
Autism, from almost unheard of in the early 20th century, to 1 out of 50 in the early 21st.
I guess by the early 22nd, everyone will be wearing diapers and helmets.
Again, for me this isn’t about left/right, it’s about bottom-up/top-down.
It’s not about socialism/capitalism, it’s about national populism/global elitism.
We need more negative, and positive rights for the working and middle class irrespective of race, religion or sex, and less negative, and positive rights for the upper 0.1%, especially or particularly for those among the 0.1% pushing these agendas i.e. corporatism, population reduction, white replacement, misandry and so on.
But the elite want to keep the lower classes, races and sexes squabbling amongst themselves over scraps, meanwhile their reign is never seriously challenged.
It’s the ole playbook divide and rule.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Canada’s longevity is now declining as well.
It’s partly by design, but it’s also us, our substance abuse, laziness and faith in science.
We were born in, relatively good times.
Boomers probably had it the best.
We had a little democracy, some freedom, peace and prosperity.
If we don’t turn this thing around, and ultimately we probably won’t, we’re going to continue declining, my only question is how steep the decline will be.
The west is going to look a lot like the third world, like Africa.
The elite will try to manage the fallout they’ve in part caused as best they can, and when things get really bad, they’ll hide in their underground bunkers.
A few of us see it coming, some of us will be better prepared, but many or most will perish.
I believe we’re headed for a worldwide dark, neo-feudal age.
It’s decadence, these things are cyclical, it’s mostly unavoidable.
eventually disabilities, diseases, disorders, and superbugs will proliferate faster than both allopathic, and naturopathic medicine can keep up with, and as we’ve seen, science is both unknowingly in some cases, and even knowingly in others trying to exterminate us.
Sometimes the antedote is worse than the poison…sometimes it is the poison.
Life expectancy is already beginning to decline.
It’s going to get worse and worse.
People are more autistic, cancerous, diabetic, obese, lazier and sexually depraved than they’ve ever been, not just physically lazier, but intellectually, politically, socially and spiritually.
I don’t think humanity and its economy can infinitely grow, we do live on a finite planet with finite resources, but if we were more moderate, we could at least keep ourselves from plummeting, or perhaps conservatively and sustainably grow.
A healthy immune system isn’t susceptible to disease.
it’s only because the host has neglected its physical, intellectual, political and so on health that these parasites at the top (the global elite), and the bottom (illegals, refugees, terrorists, thugs and their advocates) can feed off of us.
The western world has already reached its epoch, its zenith, it’s now being gutted by forces from without, and within.
We’re going to join the third world, enter a long, deep slumber after a storm from which we may never fully awaken.
and let’s not forget, which I am sure you haven’t, diagnosed and medicated for all sorts of mental illnesses and syndromes. This philosophically weak model for, now, dealing with nearly all human emotional pain and stress, has made us hate our own emotions even more and introduced a vast set of side effects and dependence on a group of people with one of the highest rates of suicide: psychiatrists.
Society are accepting their ailments and diagnoses without seeking the root cause of it, and continue their existence living under the label of their diagnosed malaise and on their prescribed tablets.
Those of a certain age ( ) know living without being under the influence, but the young do not and think this current way natural… it is not natural, it is a state of being enforced upon the consumer.
There is only one root cause of all these modern illnesses, but arrived at by many routes.
) know living without being under the influence, but the young do not and think this current way natural… it is not natural, it is a state of being enforced upon the consumer.