Authored by Michael Krieger via LibertyBlitzkrieg.com,
The title of today’s post is not meant to be taken literally. I trust plenty of people. I trust friends who’ve demonstrated their trustworthiness over the years. I trust my family. Having people in my life I love and trust makes everything far more meaningful and pleasant. I hope people reading this likewise have a circle of trust they’ve built over the years.
On the other hand, you should never trust anyone or anything that hasn’t given you good reason to do so, and if someone or something gives you good reason not to trust them, you should never forget that. The more power a person or institution has in society, the less trustworthy they tend to be. I don’t say this because it’s fun to be cynical, I say this because my life experience has demonstrated its accuracy.
In the 21st century alone, I’ve been given good reason to distrust all sorts of things around me, including the U.S. government (all governments really), intelligence agencies, politicians, mass media, Wall Street and Silicon Valley, to name a few. These power centers make up “society” as we know it in 2020, which is really just massive concentrations of lawless financial and political power obfuscating rampant criminality behind the cover various ostensibly venerable institutions. What’s most remarkable is how many people still maintain trust in so many of these provably untrustworthy organizations and industries, which speaks to the power of propaganda as well as the comfort of denial.
That said, the ground is clearly beginning to shift on this front. As more and more people recognize that the system’s designed to work against them, increased numbers will reject conventional wisdom and search for an alternative framework. Unfortunately, this next step can be equally treacherous and it’s important not to jump from the frying pan into the fire.
This is where social media comes into play. It offers an endless array of opinions and analysis that you don’t get from mass media, but it’s also filled with bad actors, professional propagandists and con artists. At this point, everyone knows that social media is the new information battleground, so every character or institution with malicious intent is aggressively playing in this arena and often with boatloads of money. The charlatans at MSNBC will have you believe it’s just the Russians or Chinese, but every government and every single special interest on the planet is now involved. They’re all on social media in one form or another, trying to push you in a specific direction that’s usually not in your best interests.
It took me a while, but I’ve finally recognized how unthoughtful and treacherous social media is whenever some big news event hits. Important arguments quickly lose all nuance and devolve into binary talking points and agendas. People split into teams in a way that feels very much akin to the traditional, and now largely discredited, red/blue political theater. For covid-19, it felt like half of Twitter thought it was an extinction-level event, while the other half was convinced the whole thing was a hoax. In the aftermath of George Floyd, you were either cheering on the civil unrest, or wanted to send in the military. Increasingly, if you aren’t in one of two manufactured camps on any issue you’ll be shouted down and ostracized. That’s not the kind of discussion I’m here for.
As someone who’s found great value in Twitter over the years, I’ve become far more careful in how I use it and where to direct my attention and energy. It reminds me of Mos Eisley in Star Wars, a wretched hive of scum and villainy, but simultaneously a place you can connect with Han Solo and get a spaceship.
As we move forward, it’s going to feel like the world’s ending, and in some ways it will be. No the world isn’t literally ending, but a specific kind of world is ending, and it’ll be extremely difficult for many people to tell the difference as it’s happening. This will likely lead to many more episodes of mass insanity as professional manipulators take advantage of millions upon millions of disoriented people. Priority number one should be to stand guard at the gate of your mind during this time so as not to become a victim.
We live in an age of mass corruption, mass oligarch looting and mass institutional and structural breakdown.
We also live in an age of mass manipulation, mass hysteria and mass psychological warfare.
Navigating through these two realities will become increasingly difficult.
— Michael Krieger (@LibertyBlitz) June 12, 2020
The best thing you can do from here on out is use your time and energy as productively as possible. We’re going to need builders, creators and inventors more than ever before, because we’re past the point of putting this thing back together. We’ll need to recreate, reimagine and rebuild, and all of this must spring from a point of consciousness in order to bring forth something that is both better and sustainable. Become more beautiful and resilient as others become ugly and unhinged. Focus on what’s within your capacity to control and always remember to resist the crazy.
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I’ll take the advice of an Internet Sage that I read on a weekly basis, Ol’ Remus. He says “Stay away from Crowds”, and I take that to mean physical and Internet “crowds”.
Currently TBP is a cozy little corner of the web where I can interact with those I generally agree with (I never/rarely totally agree with anyone). However, if it gets too “crowded” here, I’ll likely fade away………..
Just Sayin’
Speaking of ol’ Remus… He usually updates Monday evenings. Here it is 9:00 AM Tuesday and no update… Hope everythings OK.
The more people that do nothing about opposing the Left or becoming food self sufficient, the more people that join the untrustworthy cadre by default.
What does Antifa/BLM want?
To be the useful idiots manipulated by globalist oligarchs to achieve “global governance” by destroying what had formerly been the biggest obstacle to the NWO (i.e., FUSA).
Okay, maybe that’s not what they “want”, but it might make things easier for them in the long run if they did want it.
I was referencing a theory of penis envy that began with, what does a woman want? Many years later, we have concluded that women don’t know what they want. I wonder if Antifa/BLM know what they want? Is it that they simply want what they cannot have; not a penis, but the power that white men wield over international finance.
First, you must discover what the shadowy BLM really is and who runs it. All I know at this point is that it is not run by Blacks. It is a shadowy communist organization, supposedly radical gays who want traditional families outlawed for starters. After the Ferguson riots they started BLM as an offshoot and of course as the name SEEMS self explanatory, all the numbnuts took it at face value to be a Black rights group which it is not. Even more incredibly, large corporations are donating tens and hundreds of millions to a group THEY know nothing about except that it makes them COOL. Rumors now have almost all of this money migrating from the shadow org to the Democrat Party. I can’t be positive about this and it is only what I have been able to cobble together. That said, how in the wide wide world of sports can we have what is in effect a new political party wielding tremendous power with zero transparency and no public spokesmen or a headquarters etc? Will their books ever be examined? Can anyone find any sort of filings?
It’s newspeak terminology. Saint Floyd will be used for all progressive campaigns that George would have approved of if he were still with us.
Everything that is yours that you earned and built including your soul and compliance
Many say the current events are insane and they can’t get their minds around what’s happening. However, if one takes a position as an objective observer it all makes sense.
It’s fairly easy to stay ahead of the curve if you are honest with yourself. We have had plenty of warnings over time and will continue to have warning signs.
Trump, Barr and or Q are NOT coming to save anyone except themselves. I know, that depresses some, get over it and move to the next level of survival.
The Boomers that I had contact with over my lifetime scoffed at me and labeled me a nutcase when I told them how evil those in power are. Now that they are seeing first-hand, they still don’t really believe it. They are checking out via Cancer and other physical ailments or just burying their heads in drug, drink or organized religion. It’s actually pretty sad to watch people do this rather than take the fight to the enemies. Based on their history, it was really predictable. I actually wish I was wrong about some of these things.
Question everything and everyone, take nothing on faith.
Those are not real Boomers. Boomers knew that LBJ was a war monger and that Nixon was a crook. Boomers invented the word iconoclast. Chickenshit BLM is only now waking up to reality; nobody wins fighting the power, they should be fighting for power. So far, the left is doing a bang up job while the right is cowering in the corner.
We need to pick a date and timeframe. Maybe all of December. And stop. Just stop. Do not spend, eat out not a damn thing but minimum necessities. Thise on the right i am speaking to. Also, this Christmas it is all about Christ not gift giving. No gifts unless hand made. Maybe allow only shopping at locally owned places or gift buying from locally owned, christian republican places. Do not support the govt, file for tax extensions, do not support online companies, cut your cable, internet, use less power and water. Make your presence known and felt. This will show the world the free speech they have forced to become closed. Show the world how many support america but are fearful to express it as companies will fire them. Etc etc. if you think saying nothing doing nothing avoiding it all is a solution you are part of the problem. These losers have nothing to lose and all your lifes savings and work to gain. You have EVERYTHInG to lose. Know this now. When you lose it all you have no right to complain for you are awake, have been told, and decided to ignore it hope it goes away. Hope is not a strategy dimwit.
Maybe we call “Remember December”
I agree, drop a wrench into their gear box and see what happens. What does a person have to loose? I also say give President Trump a second term to see if he can walk his talk. We have nothing to loose by doing this either. The only thing you have to do when the fight arrives is go all in. There is no half way in this game.
I already know how much my food, water and gas I have to use per individual in the house hold. Electricity can be cut significantly if you turn of all non essentials at dusk and limit use during the day. I can be done and will toss a f**k into the bottom line of these ass-hats.
Trust but Verify.
Who is Ronald Reagan?