Authored by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
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Though I’m certainly grounded in certain key principles, my perspective on specific issues remains malleable as I take in additional information and perspectives. I try to accept and acknowledge my own ignorance and view life as a journey of constant mental, emotionally and spiritual growth. If I’m not growing my capacity in all of those realms until the day I die, I’m doing it wrong. Life should be seen as a battle against one’s own ignorance, as opposed to an obsession with the ignorance of others. You can’t legislate morality, nor can you legislate wisdom. The only way the world will improve on a long-term sustainable basis is if more of us get wise. That’s a personal journey and it’s our individual duty to accept it.
While I’m only in control of my own behavior, this doesn’t mean that the behavior of others is irrelevant to my life. Unfortunately, what I see happening to the population of America right now seems very troublesome and foreboding. What I’m witnessing across the board is hordes of people increasingly separating themselves into weird, unthinking cults. Something appears to have snapped in our collective consciousness, and many individuals I used to respect (on both sides of the political spectrum) are becoming disturbingly polarized and hysterical. People are rapidly morphing into radicalized mental patients.
What’s worse, this environment is providing a backdrop for the most destructive people of my lifetime – neoconservatives and neo liberals – to preen around on corporate media as “the voices of reason.” This is one of the most perverse and dangerous side-effects of the current political climate. As I noted earlier today on Twitter:
What the entrenched political class is doing now, is exactly what the Fed did after the crisis. Posing as saviors to a disaster they created
— Michael Krieger (@LibertyBlitz) August 16, 2017
This is how humans who are dangerous failures stay in power. They claim they'll help handle a problem of their own doing.
— Michael Krieger (@LibertyBlitz) August 16, 2017
If in your disgust with Trump, you’re willing to run into the cold embrace of these destroyers of the middle class and the Middle East, you’ll get what you deserve. In contrast, if we really want to deal with our very real and very systemic problems, the last thing we need is a population-level mental breakdown that leads to a longing for the criminally destructive political status quo, yet that’s exactly what seems to be happening.
Ok fine, so everything seems to be rapidly collapsing, but what are we supposed to do? First of all, don’t lose your minds.
As I suggested in February’s post, Why Increased Consciousness is the Only Path Forward:
As noted earlier, Wilber thinks 10% is a key tipping point. In other words, if we can get 10% of the population to center around a yellow second-tier level of thought, which consists of a momentous leap in consciousness, the entire world will change for the better. I agree. I’m not here trying to sell you a seminar on how to expand your consciousness; rather, I think these article can help spark some sort of revelation in the minds of many of you who are already at yellow, or at least at the cusp of such a transformation. Since consciousness can and does regress under conditions of stress and fear, it’s extremely important to be conscious of your consciousness so that you don’t fall back into lower states.
Unfortunately, I see many people regressing at the moment, and I see the media as an intentional force in trying to get people to lower their consciousness. A perfect way to tell if someone is operating at a low level of consciousness is if they’re constantly placing tens of millions of their fellow citizens into an outside group they subsequently demonize. It’s perfectly fine and healthy to harshly criticize the system itself and the many powerful individuals doing awful things within it, but once you start dehumanizing large swaths of the population as a matter of your worldview, you are most certainly on a very counterproductive path that will lead to merely a blackhole of nothingness for society.
Beyond maintaining one’s sanity, it’s imperative that conscious humans create systems and communities that have as little connection as possible to the existing and rapidly disintegrating paradigm. This will create “anti-fragile” units of strength within the collapsing Potemkin village socio-economic structure that dominates our culture right now. Some of these projects need to be local, while others can be global. Community farming/food production is a great example of a local initiative, while Bitcoin (and cryptocurrencies in general), represent global initiatives to replace the hopelessly corrupt and archaic entrenched financial system. While crazy, power-obsessed tribes focus on taking over the hopelessly corrupt centralized government in Washington D.C., we need to continue to build separate, decentralized paradigms — and there isn’t much time to waste.
Fortunately, there are plenty of very decent, very conscious people out there. I want this piece to provide encouragement to those of you already engaged in this invaluable work, as well as inspiration for those of you looking for an outlet for your creative and intellectual energies. It’s never been more important to keep our heads steady and not permit ourselves to be sucked into the mental sickness infecting so many of our fellow humans. It’s imperative that we vigilantly guard our wisdom and consciousness, because the best solutions will only come from a place of spiritual and mental health. If you descend into the gutter with everyone else, your output will also end up looking like trash. That’s the last thing we need.
Stay strong and stay conscious.
With all around us the sinking sands of the mirage of news, economy and politics, I’m not sure what the authors consciousness is going to grasp onto.
I would suggest faith in God to be a very real anchor to hold onto in troubling times; anything else is just grasping at the air.
I do have increased consciousness. I clearly see the destructive path of the liberal left. The Hollywood ‘actors’, the Media, the ‘Brownshirt’ scum Fascists with baseball bats, shields, and helmets. I do not ‘Turn the Other Cheek’ and bow down.
Having the increased consciousness to recognize this situation, it leads to a very productive path that will lead to a means to defeat that blackhole of nothingness tearing society apart.
How are you refusing to turn the other cheek and bow down?
Very few people are in a position to actually do that with anything other than rhetoric and many of those that try other means get themselves in big trouble for it and actually strengthen the leftist cause, as recent events have shown.
Other than refusing to have my thinking unwillingly manipulated by anyone, and I mean anyone on any side, I’d really like to know what can be done to take effective action at this time.
” I’d really like to know what can be done to take effective action at this time.”
You and many others. To be active in any way means creating a visible you in front of others. This will alienate you from the low information crowd, many which you call your friends. The fight will be lost unless we build an army.
So, I would say: Don’t go out of your way to purposely piss people off (especially friends/family), but it is good to let them know where you stand. Show your affection for Trump or Conservatism – Do wear attire like a MAGA cap and I wear a ‘I AM A DEPLORABLE’ Tee.
I don’t mind people having opinions/beliefs different than mine as long as they have data/facts to back up their beliefs – most don’t. If you notice, when liberals can’t respond with facts, they call you a liar or racist. I am happy to piss off these people.
“Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.”
― H.L. Mencken
Krieger sounds like a linear thinker who is describing the 4th turning. he just doesn’t understand what is happening.
Paid Antifa stirring the shit.
Paid Stormer nazis counter/shit stirring.
Paid scum tearing down monuments.
Once you realize it is a bought and paid for shit show, why would you “descend into madness”? You should be mad that they believe they can play you in that manner.
“A perfect way to tell if someone is operating at a low level of consciousness is if they’re constantly placing tens of millions of their fellow citizens into an outside group they subsequently demonize. It’s perfectly fine and healthy to harshly criticize the system itself and the many powerful individuals doing awful things within it, but once you start dehumanizing large swaths of the population as a matter of your worldview, you are most certainly on a very counterproductive path that will lead to merely a blackhole of nothingness for society.”
Truer words have rarely been spoken. The left is calling a huge part of America deplorables. The right is claiming that anyone other than them are ‘cultural Marxists’ as if that means anything. The right is the crazier of the two right now, believing somehow that white genocide, sexualization of children and economic freedom for women will bring about the death of our society. Truly mad.
All are counterproductive paths, but that’s why we have 4Ts — to sort it out. We can all have comfort that 4Ts tend to weigh in favor of freedom, however.
Btw, I’d really love to work for this guy. He gets it. I only hope he can effect change in a Washington that is crawling with Establishment politicos.
“Ethno-nationalism — it’s losers. It’s a fringe element,” Bannon told the magazine. “I think the media plays it up too much, and we gotta help crush it, you know, eh, help crush it more.”
“These guys are a collection of clowns,” he added.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/08/17/steve-bannon-contradicts-trump-on-north-korea-talks-of-rivals-and-white-supremacists-in-unusual-interview-with-progressive-magazine/
Interesting… so Bannon played the alt right to get Trump elected and now wants to crush them? Guy makes more sense by the day.
boy,
a lot of folks are using my handle these days.
That could be why those using the moniker are often encouraged to create something more distinctive.
READ “anonymous” AGAIN WITH BRAIN FULLY ON: The right is claiming that anyone other than them are ‘cultural Marxists’ as if that means anything. (it does). The right is the crazier of the two right now (not), believing somehow that white genocide (conservative genocide yes) , sexualization of children (& dumbed down, leftist brainwashed) and economic freedom for women (freedom yes but feminism no) will bring about the death of our society. Truly mad. GO FORK THYSELF COMMIE TROLL
Most here do not likely speak Spanish, but even if you don’t, this clip from the 70s is well worth watching. You will see then-Argentine-president Juan Perón addressing (among others) the Montoneros, the “anti-fas” of the time. After calling them stupid and callow, they began to disperse. Shortly after, many of them, believing themselves noble revolutionaries, were dead or in prison, put there by the men in uniform standing behind Perón. They were terrorists and treated as such. This may be an old clipping, but it might serve as a coming attraction for the USA:
Change happens. Thing is, most here at TBP will have no say in it. Since the better part of our hour upon the stage has already ticked away, there is little time left. The “golden years,” contrary to popular use, are not the years of retirement. The real golden years happened when you are in your twenties and you are powered by hormones. Life is meant to be lived hard and fast then. Following the hard and fast years, the survivors will raise their children, get divorced and spend time in tax prison. Since street cred is lost the moment one turns thirty and old-man rants don’t start until sixty, there are years of anonymity which also coincided with real work being done. Now, much later for some, we waste time telling others how it should be. Talk about pissing into the wind. The future will be rife with chaos Jr. If you truly want to plow a straight furrow, you will have to find something constant, something true. Like the tillers of the past who marked a tree, a rock maybe. Set your sight and plow a straight furrow, you will be rewarded, someday. That’s all I got Jr. It’s that simple and that complicated all at the same time.
Your new communities and thought patterns won’t succeed…at least one of your members will have a hidden miniature Confederate Statue in his/her backpack…and there you go…down the tubes. Now, back to a reality that truly existed in this country before things went crazy. Imagine a society without drugs, very little crime, rarely a tattoo seen, no long haired men, no pierced ears amongst the male population, no credit cards, no remote tv’s, no cruise control on the cars, no rehab centers, no legal abortion clinics, very few paid ministers, no trespassing signs rarely seen, if at all, clean city streets, no plastic bags, no security systems, no cctv cameras, no paperwork to purchase a gun, virtually every home, even in town, had a garden, the ‘f’ word was never heard, no Miranda rights, teachers, not the students, ruled the schools, teachers had sex with their husbands, not the band members, single mothers didn’t exist, people lived, and lived very good, on $2.00 or less an hour, with money to spare, no cell phones, no computers, no Assbook, sorry Facebook, no debit cards, few women had driver’s license, no spring break (didn’t have enough whores and whoremongers to keep it going), no smart meters, Sir, Ma’am, and thanks were heard all the day long, and God Himself help anyone that was unpatriotic or attacked the pledge of allegiance. During the 50’s and first half of the 60’s, when we didn’t have, we were sane. Our possessions of convenience, rebellion against Christ, and instant long term crushing debt, drove us mad. Mad we are, and mad we shall remain, until nothing is left of us. Not so much as a whimper to mark our passing. thanks