SEE THINGS AS THEY TRULY ARE

Guest Post by Hardscrabble Farmer

Anyone who has a desire to see things as they truly are need only apply a few basic skills to the task.

First, you must observe and it should be intentional. What am I seeing? What patterns emerge? What are the physics of the actions? What are the underlying motivations? What systems are in effect and what similarities and exceptions emerge. It is helpful if you start small- the act of swinging a hammer at nails several hundred thousand times will reveal a right way and a wrong way to hold the tool, to capitalize on the momentum, to focus energy, to account for the materials in use and the conditions.

After a million or more swings there will be very few secrets left and little left uncovered in the mystery of driving nails. Knowing what you do it will become next to impossible for someone to fool you into thinking there is a better way to swing a hammer or that it is really best used as a pry bar or demolition tool. You will have the experience and the discernment to know whether the guy next to you is a good carpenter or someone pretending that they know what they’re doing.

Second is the skill of discovering linkage between the observable phenomenon you understand and the outcomes you do not. If you plant a garden every single year, after a time the connections between tilth and soil, water and seed, Sun and seasons will instruct you in the optimal and the failure in managing the natural processes that have existed far longer than human beings have been a species.

Seemingly unrelated bits of chemistry and hydrology will unveil their connections to one another because things will either thrive or fail based on your applications. Over decades of producing the food that sustains you a pathway will open up before you and all the meaningless chatter and white noise will subside and the truth will present itself; the proper ratio of water and carbon, light and dark, compost and fertilization and the production of the tastiest and most healthful fruits and vegetables for your family’s table.

Understand yourself. Know what your limitations and failings are, sense your impulses and desires and follow their routes back to the instincts and hungers that drive us all. If you can recognize in yourself these undesirable traits and learn to excise them from habituation, it becomes an easy trick to spot it in others. In comedy one of the most commonly used refrains when someone sees a stand-up perform a particularly well written line is, I see what you did there.

The structure of the joke is mechanical, built like a house or an engine. For it to work as it is intended it must satisfy a certain form and the more efficient that is, the better the impact on the audience even if they do not perceive it. Like standing in the presence of a beautiful painting or a symmetrical structure there is an innate appreciation that requires no explanation to understand, only exposure to it. One who understands the nature of its construction sees the hidden elements, the occult meaning concealed inside the laughter of the audience.

The people running things- whether governments or riots, scams or movements- are human beings, no different than you or I. They may have different motives and opposing moralities, but they can only operate through the framework of human nature. If you understand yourself, it becomes easier to understand others.

I can tell almost instantly if someone is lying because I grew up with a parent that was adept at it the way an Olympic athlete is at the balance beam. Rarely in my adult life have I been fooled or taken advantage of because I avoid liars as I would someone infected with leprosy, not because I possess any particular gift for sensing it, but because it is obvious if you recognize all the tells.

What is taking place is a mixture of Natural events associated with complex societies. The more parts in a system, the higher the number of stress points and the more likely the possibility of failure. Our system could hardly be more complex than it is currently structured and hence the abundance of fractures and breakdowns. It is also predicated upon a huge volume of fictions that simply do not exist outside of the realm of human theory; diversity is a strength, all men (and women and otherkin) are equal, etc.

These platitudes are deliberately fed to us as a palliative in order to placate the masses from justly forming an insurrection against the system that holds them in contempt. Since it is false it only multiplies the blowback experienced when it shows itself as sophistry in times like these.

Of course there is a conspiracy. The Covid hoax was used to throttle the population, to ritually humiliate them, to turn one group against another, to dehumanize us and strip us of our God-given rights to liberty and free expression. It doesn’t matter if it’s just another flu or one custom designed in a laboratory, its purpose was to contain and control the population while the people running things stripped away whatever wasn’t nailed down in the most brazen heist of resources and human rights in the history of our galaxy.

The riots were deliberately engineered, the passions inflamed by a compliant media complex and directed to maximize the discord between mutually hostile populations rather than directed at the perpetrators of these heinous crimes against humanity. All of it is so obvious, so completely feckless in its design that it can only demonstrate the utter contempt that these people feel for humanity in general. And so far it appears to be working because so few people understand the construction of the joke, but I see what they did there and so do most of the people reading these words.

I imagine that our time of freely discussing what is taking place in our garden is just about over and the people out there swinging hammers without understanding their purpose will commence in earnest, but as I have said in the past, they have a tiger by the tail and should they lose their grasp on it…

Sorry for going on so long but your article really got me to thinking. Another important chapter in the final volume of The Fourth Turning Chronicles.

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42 Comments
Donkey
Donkey
June 6, 2020 10:44 am

Thanks.

Gloriously Deplorable Paul
Gloriously Deplorable Paul
June 6, 2020 10:52 am

An unknown voice in a rich Scottish brogue on Pete Townshend’s White City says “It’s all building up to something”.
The something is being revealed.

Ginger
Ginger
  Gloriously Deplorable Paul
June 6, 2020 10:53 am

Wakanda.

Hollow man
Hollow man
June 6, 2020 10:54 am

Excellent don’t stop writing

Harrington Richardson
Harrington Richardson
June 6, 2020 11:10 am

You mention this being “predicated on a huge volume of fictions.” It is one of the biggest frauds or hoaxes in a time of mass fiction. I saw a guest on Carlson yesterday sum it up pretty well. He described the situation in Minneapolis as he is very familiar with the minority area destroyed by the rioters. He said he observed a mostly white mob, burning Black owned businesses, chanting “Black Lives Matter.”

bigfoot
bigfoot
June 6, 2020 11:21 am

Row, row, row your boat
Gently down the stream
Merrily merrily, merrily, merrily
Life is but a dream.

Won’t it be great when non-whites have control? Then for sure we will have equality just like in South Africa.

Beautifully written essay, HSF. Gentle, purposeful, effective.

Black , White, Brown, Yellow, Red Lies Matter!

Joe the Painter
Joe the Painter
  bigfoot
June 6, 2020 4:52 pm

Big, to be proper, the least offensive ordering of the colors are:

Black, Brown, Red, White, Yellow.

Hmmmm, see any trends here? Some go to the front of the bus while others let themselves get pushed to the back of the bus.

Steve
Steve
June 6, 2020 11:59 am

Isn’t it startling that in the span of a few days we went from a nation wide lockdown and mandated social distancing at all costs to nevermind, systemic racism is far more deadly than Covid. WTF?
Further, the democratically controlled states and cities most adamant about total lockdown a few days ago are now the most active in supporting mass protests with maximal population participation in tight groupings. WTF?
These two positions couldn’t be more opposite in ideology.
This is done without the leftist supporters asking any questions about how utterly incongruous this is.

gatsby1219
gatsby1219
  Steve
June 6, 2020 6:50 pm

Nothing happens by chance.

Mygirl....Maybe
Mygirl....Maybe
  gatsby1219
June 6, 2020 8:52 pm

It would seem one of the largest gaslighting operation in the history of the world is currently being conducted under our very eyes. Once/if the leftists gain control you can kiss your asses goodbye. History is rife with what happens when leftists gain control, Gulag Archipelago here we come.
Over half the country is so braindead and brainwashed they believe black is white and up is down. They are Lenin’s useful idiots, the blind who will not, cannot, refuse to see or understand what is happening in front of them.
We are truly in the second coming…..

The Second Coming
TURNING and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

Literature Network » William Butler Yeats » The Second Coming

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hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer
  Mygirl....Maybe
June 6, 2020 9:09 pm

Sadly true.

Mygirl....Maybe
Mygirl....Maybe
  hardscrabble farmer
June 6, 2020 10:49 pm
Mygirl....Maybe
Mygirl....Maybe
  hardscrabble farmer
June 6, 2020 10:53 pm

On a brighter note, seems they caught Martin Weissgarber inciting a riot. He’s a former campaign manager for Bernie Sanders, a true communist and believer and he was seen paying rioters to destroy stuff.

Mygirl....Maybe
Mygirl....Maybe
  Mygirl....Maybe
June 6, 2020 11:04 pm

On another interesting note, seems the Mayor of Milwaukee just got booed off by the protesters because he didn’t say he would defund the police. Some fat black female essentially told him to leave after that and informed him he wouldn’t be re-elected. Please look at that crowd, count the number of white faces and understand the meaning of useful idiots.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-minneapolis-mayor-booed-chanted-away-after-protestor-turns-crowd-against-him

Thunderbird
Thunderbird
June 6, 2020 12:34 pm

This is all going on under the watchful eye of the all present God. God is no respecter of persons as this is all going on under the color of personality.

Don’t underestimate Hardscrabble that all this present hubris in the name of police brutality is coming out of the collective sub-conscience of persons. People don’t see reality objectively they see it subjectively. For most people their waking state is not much different than their sleeping dream state. Observe people; as I am sure you have, and I am sure you agree.

God is the executive director of this universe. What I have learned by studying the different ships in the world we ride on called religion is that God has three goals for man; as the crown of life he created on earth: to expand his consciousness, become a self regulating individual and develop a right use of Will.

This requires self observation and conscious labors. We are instructed through our conscience. Man of himself is nothing. The intellect is reflected light. Without the word of God to guide it the intellect goes insane.

What we are living though today is the climax of mans falling away from God. The insane mind of man sees it as a breakdown of society caused by evil forces. The reason Adam & Eve were kicked out of Eden when they ate the fruit of the tree of good & evil. Their minds were corrupted to think evil exists in the creation. What really exists is badness caused from man turning away from God and his plan for man.

Never the less the presence of God is in the midst of all this hakaka and will guide his followers through it.

He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. Psalm 91.

Harrington Richardson
Harrington Richardson
  Thunderbird
June 6, 2020 2:00 pm

Give that man a cigar!

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer
  gatsby1219
June 6, 2020 7:14 pm

file does not exist

22winmag - TBP's Yankee Mormon DezNat Infiltrator
22winmag - TBP's Yankee Mormon DezNat Infiltrator
  Thunderbird
June 7, 2020 2:53 am

+1

Not to sound like a broken record, but it’s not too late to read the Book of Mormon.
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SlickWilly
SlickWilly
June 6, 2020 1:07 pm

I have come to believe that everyone has a consciousness that lies somewhere between the dream state and total awareness. After waking up from a dream how often do you ponder how unrealistic and ridiculous the events/surroundings/people in your dream were yet during your dream were you aware of these? That unfortunately is the conscious state of many people and I have not found any way to get them to advance towards the path of total awareness.

Some people choose to ignore the truth and remain in the dream state and others choose to advance on the journey to total awareness even though it can at times be very uncomfortable.

onion skin
onion skin
June 6, 2020 1:21 pm

If the White House burns tonight, I wonder where the next Capitol will be? I’m guessing Omaha Nebraska. Sad Times.

Harrington Richardson
Harrington Richardson
  onion skin
June 6, 2020 2:03 pm

The miniguns will be running red hot before that happens.

Ginger
Ginger
  Harrington Richardson
June 6, 2020 2:27 pm

Hope youtube will run the videos.

doc
doc
  Harrington Richardson
June 6, 2020 5:00 pm

It has now been revealed that Esper ordered all National Guard soldiers be unarmed without Trump’s knowledge. It turns out they did not have any ammo since their deployment.

TN Patriot
TN Patriot
  Harrington Richardson
June 6, 2020 10:32 pm

Probably some drone fired hellfires, as well.

Joe the Painter
Joe the Painter
  onion skin
June 6, 2020 4:59 pm

Warren Buffett supposedly lives in a fairly ordinary Omaha neighborhood in a 60 year old house.

I was thinking more like Martha’s Vineyard.

Harrington Richardson
Harrington Richardson
  Joe the Painter
June 7, 2020 1:55 am

True. It’s a nice house but not a mansion. His son Howard’s house in Decatur, IL is pretty special. It looks like what a bazillionaire would live in. On the side of a steep hill overlooking a lake smack dab in the middle of town.

TN Patriot
TN Patriot
  onion skin
June 6, 2020 10:33 pm

Under a mountain near Colorado Springs.

Gene Lancaster
Gene Lancaster
  TN Patriot
June 7, 2020 12:55 am

The Mountain Post (as the locals in the military call it) was reactivated a couple of months ago for the virus thingy. It had been mothballed for several years with all active operations moved to the Space Command nearby, with portions to Peterson Field. Would love to see the budget sheet for keeping that installation in mothballs.

Robert Gore
Robert Gore
June 6, 2020 1:27 pm

Excellent article. Rare in this time, it starts with first principles: observation, experience, and reason. Thanks.

Uncola
Uncola
June 6, 2020 1:43 pm

In addition to my initial response to Hardscrabble’s above words as they first appeared on the other thread, I’ll just add the following:

I referenced the “hammer and nail” analogy in a conversation with someone in my circle yesterday. And, in reading the words again today, it reminds of what I’ve advised my offspring from the time they began to conjugate sentences. In fact, the advice might even serve as a brief summation of Hardscrabble’s stellar insights and observations above:

To be excellent we must first pay attention. Then, what are three ways to get better at anything? 1.) Practice. 2.) Practice. 3.) Practice.

brewer55
brewer55
June 6, 2020 4:26 pm

For those of us with eyes to see and ears to hear, you are correct. We see the conspiracy going on from Covid directly to BLM, Antifa, and all sorts of other nonsense. It seemed so obvious to me that I sent a 10 minute video to my liberal lawyer brother as the video had a ton of information in it in a few short minutes. It was also one that did not directly get into politics as that is a subject we both have taken off our communications. However, I found out, once again, he has completely consumed the leftest Kool-Aid. There was no convincing him of anything. It turned into another back and forth until old family scab wounds were starting to get ripped off. 24 hours later, we made peace. I went against my own code to never send either of my 2 brothers anything. And, that will definitely be the case going forward. (When I mentioned NWO he got ugly with me on how all of that was total BS).

So, it proved to me once again that the divide is so deep, and so grievous, I truly see no middle ground. How long can it go like this? How long can we be in a situation where POTUS has the former SOD and the current SOD both against him where one is voicing he will not follow orders regarding the military. How long before enough is enough when liberal governors and mayors are condoning the violence and excusing it.

The constitution was made for a society that is moral. Ours no longer is. There are no checks and balances, no rule of law, and it we now appear to be more of a banana republic than a world power. This all sickens me.

mark
mark
  brewer55
June 6, 2020 9:41 pm

Prepare for Civil War…it is the only thing you can control…your Prep.

doc
doc
June 6, 2020 4:42 pm

Thanks HF – very eloquently written. The sad and amazing part is the bulk of these individuals aren’t swinging hammers – they ARE the hammers. They are the tools being used to destroy their own imaginary reality. Once they have destroyed the imagery of that false reality they will discover the incredible level of impoverishment of the true reality. What once was the richest society on Earth will be revealed to be among the poorest. And at that point it will be too late.

Such is the fate of all civilizations – including ours.

Anonymous
Anonymous
June 6, 2020 10:48 pm

You are under attack and are doing nothing but Jawboning.

Gene Lancaster
Gene Lancaster
  Anonymous
June 7, 2020 12:56 am

Some are keeping their powder dry.

You criticize, so what is your solution?

22winmag - TBP's Yankee Mormon DezNat Infiltrator
22winmag - TBP's Yankee Mormon DezNat Infiltrator
June 7, 2020 2:56 am

Thanks.

Sending this to my mom with a short introduction.

Vixen Vic
Vixen Vic
June 7, 2020 3:50 am

Great writing as always. Thanks, Hardscrabble.