Authored by Tim Kirby via The Strategic Culture Foundation,
There are countless alarmist articles from the past rotting away on the forgotten side of the internet, warning us that “this time it’ll be different” and that the given crisis of the moment was “the one” that would lead to big change.
Flawed humans are often too eager to over inflate information that suits them to build the exciting revolutionary narrative of their fantasies. We should always be wary of falling into the trap of this alarmism, but as 2020 comes to an end there are some truly unique events happening in the West, especially America that cannot be ignored. The Covid-19 Pandemic, or should I say governments’ strange measures to fight it, have eroded one of the major pillars of Western stability, that is rarely acknowledged. Life in the West is finally becoming uncomfortable and whether this is “good news” is up for debate, but it is certainly good for creating major political change.
The most unseen form of repression is perhaps the most effective
If we look at the late 20th and now the 21st century it is critical to acknowledge that the main means of coercion of the population of a given nation is comfort. Throughout all of human history from the point when we first started to slap together farm implements there has had to be some form of repression/coercion to keep the system, that we call society, on its feet. The serfs needed to toil, the knights needed to defend, the traders to trade and the elite to oversee it all. This is one of the paradoxes of Democracy, we created a system that tells us the people are in charge and free to do whatever they want when in reality society exists as it does, exactly because people cannot do what they want and do not have the power to topple the system.
Fancy textbooks call the willingness of individuals to submit to society “coercion”. Traditionally we, not surprisingly, think of this coercion in the most blunt and obvious form that is easy to understand – the police. In most nations there is an army for external threats, but the police have the same hierarchy of ranks, fancy uniforms and weapons only their enemy is you. The good news is they don’t want to kill you, just coerce you into enough obedience for society to function. After the truncheon club, many point the finger at religion or media as the great repressor. Many of our views and opinions are formed for us by these two factors and it cannot be denied that they shape our way of thinking, which can and does create coercion. Comfort though is usually not mentioned anywhere despite it being probably the most powerful form of repression we have ever seen, but this is not surprising.
Again, this isn’t to say that coercion/repression is a great evil. Without it, the complex societies that give us many benefits, could not stand and none of us wants to go live in a cave. And it is exactly this fact, that very few people are willing to go “live off the land”, that gives comfort so much power as a means of control. The overall global migration trend is for those with less to try to force themselves into countries with more, thus increasing their level of comfort. The migrants may not put it in these terms, but humans like all of God’s creatures tend to take the easy way out. Racoons prefer to attack the dumpster behind McDonald’s for food because it can’t fight back and is always available. This probably has a horrible effect on the racoons’ health but it is the most comfortable option. They become very dependent on the dumpster and would probably shriek in terror if the fast food “restaurant” was ever to be closed down forcing them to go back to dealing with food that can run/squirm away. And this sort of situation is what has happened in the decadent West.
Image: Homeless camps on the West Coast of the United States are a symbol of the decline of comfort.
We have watched the glorious triumphant pith-helmeted European transform from heroic and rock solid at the beginning of the 20th century into a pathetic rotting farce of himself by the dawn of the new millennium. The West is dying out demographically, the ethics and morals of Christianity are gone, the amount of debt has gone beyond the event horizon, and it would seem the average person of European descent has nothing left to look forward to other than pills, booze, marijuana and saving up for a PS5. This is not a shocking revelation, millions of people see this happening, but why is nothing done about it? Again we have to look back to comfort – the West has lived too well for too long after the final shots of WWII.
When you have a lot to lose like a comfortable home, stable income, and the lower two tiers of Maslow’s Pyramid, plus a lifestyle that the kings of old could only dream of, it is only natural to not want to risk losing it all.
The fear of national debt, migrant crisis, degradation of morals, etc. seem just far enough in the future that it is never worth risking the comfortable present. But now the Covid-19 pandemic has eaten away at the West’s level of comfort so much that we can only now expect to see big changes happening in the Enlightenment nations. Once the pleasant mainstream bourgeois lifestyle becomes impossible to live anything could be on the table.
Covid-19 Measures have trounced on comfort levels
The Pandemic has caused “major economic shock” to small businesses in America as various shutdowns and quarantines brought the most havoc “on the little guy” while leaving big Walmart, Amazon and other major players open for business. This advantage for certain international giants has really boosted their profits during a crisis. This is not due to their brilliant efforts but the squeeze put on all the smaller competitors.
This “transfer of wealth” may have finally tipped the scales enough for the amount of Westerners who “have little/nothing to lose” to reach critical mass. Protests against Covid-19 measures, which the Mainstream Media seems unable to manipulate at present, are becoming ever more frequent, and most notably, ever more populist. The protests also have a lot of overlap with the #StopTheSteal and Yellow Vest movements. With Americans frustrated and impoverished by Covid-19 measures, while at the same time there is a battle for power over a blatantly rigged 2020 U.S. presidential election, it looks as though the powder keg is dry, primed and awaiting a final spark.
Image: visions of the future with less environmental impact look very uncomfortable indeed.
The main issue is for recent history is that, as stated above, comfort has worked as a means of keeping people the world over but most specifically in the West coerced into going along with the status quo. Now, however, in the face of “The Great Reset” it seems like the elite have lost their playbook. Comfort is decreasing and promises of a “fourth industrial revolution” that doesn’t seem too promising for the common man, is not exactly going to woo the masses.
Comfort and Communism
We saw that the role of comfort in coercion was very powerful when the Supreme Court gave Bush the Presidency over Gore. Many people at the time felt that this was criminal, the end of Democracy, and cause for revolution. Some people carried some signs around and went home. When the government just outright slaughtered the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas there were similar feelings that this crime against the people would be punished by revolution. The same goes for the various riots in L.A. and Ferguson. But ultimately no one did anything. Fundamental injustices will always be tolerated because for most people comfort is vastly more important than justice or other moral ideals. Part of the reason the Soviet Union lost the Cold War is that simply the Communist elite wanted the West’s level of comfort. “Blue jeans and sausage” proved much more powerful than righteous Marxist positions. Outside of the Soviet Higherups, the masses in Communist nations could see on TV screens that elsewhere there is more stuff and people live “better”. In America historians delude themselves that the Warsaw Pact wanted American freedom, when they actually wanted American stuff. The real race in the Cold War could have been for the highest level of comfort for the masses.
In conclusion
But now we are in a unique moment in history where there is not only a blatantly stolen American election, populist movements rising in the West, public outrage over Covid-19 measures and government incompetence. But more importantly life is becoming finally uncomfortable. So uncomfortable that for many they are starting to have nothing to lose which is exactly what populist politicians need to make the change necessary to keep the West alive.
Image: Donald Trump says he is going to “fight” to right the wrongs of the election. Perhaps this may become a very literal fight.
One of the main reasons the Silent Majority sits at home while radicals mutant Western society is comfort. Now that things are not very cozy the Silent Majority is very likely to get much louder in 2021.
A highly functional society needs enough comfort to create stability, but enough discomfort to keep the population a bit agitated and able to take risks.
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These bitches wouldn’t last five seconds in Chicago or Rockford, Illinois. Oh Canada! Whatever happened to “Sgt. Preston of the Yukon?”
One of my relatives is in his early 20’s. When he was growing up his parents gave in to his demands for a very narrow range of food; chicken fingers, pizza, cereal, hot dogs. Whenever we’d get together as a family for meals his plate was always empty or he’d eat just a serving of mashed potatoes. He wasn’t allergic to good food, he’d just never been exposed to it because his parents felt it was easier to give him what he wanted. He was- in short- kept within his comfort zone. Now as he enters young adulthood he is plagued with health issues that most people don’t encounter until the end of their life. Everyone pretends that it is a mystery and they go from one doctor to the next and he is given another pharmaceutical remedy to add to the growing list of pills he must take daily to regulate his blood sugar, to mitigate his GERD, to improve his digestion, to minimize his anxiety, to help him sleep, to manage his OCD. He is full on into the mask/social distance/isolation program and I haven’t seen him in over a year but apparently it’s having a profound effect on his psyche as well as his physical health. Because they didn’t ever want him to experience discomfort when he was growing up. He is what my grandparents would have called “a hothouse flower”.
On the flipside I am daily exposed to my son and his friends- all of them fit, busy, joyful, helpful. None of them wear masks- at least around us on the farm- they certainly don’t maintain any kind of social distancing unless you mean getting together religiously and they don’t buy a word of what’s going on in the wider world beyond. They are welders, plumbers, farmers, carpenters- tradesmen that keep the wheels on the bus of society. They are the essential workers that get up every day and put in a hard days work and at the end of it expect to enjoy their leisure time in the company of their friends and family and don not care what kind of restrictions or mandates the obese mandarins in the capitol implore them to obey.
Somewhere along the way we came to believe in the mantra of comfort, that work is hard and dirty and to be avoided, that to escape it one must enslave themselves to a debt for a degree that will not buy them a position at a coffeeshop today. We forgot that too much comfort is as dismal as none at all, that rather than opening doors for the enjoyment of life is now a prison cell that cuts us off from experiencing it.
I wish that I could convince more people to take the leap and simply carve out a new life, a separate peace where we can begin to find our footing again after generations of bodily indolence and corruption of the spirit. We have become so weak, so disconnected from our roots, so dependent upon the judgements of others who do not even know, much less care about us, that we no longer know nor care about ourselves. I feel sorry for my young cousin, his sickly body and sedated mind trapped in the prison of his own comfort. I hope that one day he comes out of it, throws of the light yet equally binding shackles of his own making that keep him trapped while the days of his life spiral down the drain of eternity.
“We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more in imagination than in reality.” – Seneca
The parents loved the boy or so they think, but what they did says that what they cared about was their own comfort. When you love, you think not of yourself but only of the other. So simple and so disregarded throughout our culture, especially with people who “feel” everything and interpret that as indicative of their goodness. Nor can such people be convinced otherwise of their goodness and so it perpetuates unabated until the point of ruin, which seems to be about now.
r/K theory It’s the spoiled brat cycle.
Hard times create strong men.
Strong men create good times.
Good times create weak men.
And, weak men create hard times.
The cycle of life and four turnings continues unabated.
Lot of smarter people here than me. Who do we fight? Suggestions? One of my suggestions would be school board members who roll over to NWO . Another would be judges who make outrageous illegal unconstitutional rulings.
Legislating from the judges bench is a huge problem !
If the rumor is true SCOTUS refusing to step in regarding the massive fraud in the recent election for fear of riots .
Remember defending yourself from rioters gets you arrested but looting a flat screen tv is social justice reparations
At this moment, the state and local health departments. They are the enforcers against businesses. If it were not for businesses being threatened with having their business licenses revoked, this whole charade would be over.
Over, Who? All of them: Every elected and appointed official at every level of government and all their staff down to township dogcatcher. No exceptions, ALL of them. All government employees, and contractors thereof. All judges and court officials and minions. All corporate managers and their staff. All miitary officers O-6 and above. All managers and employees of charitable corporations and foundations. Everything referred to as an “NGO”.
One at a time. Quietly. Alone. Bushwhack, ambush, whatever term you like. Honor and the Marquis of Queensbury be damned. Don’t fight fair; They don’t.
The only way this can possibly work is for us to scare enough of them into quitting. So far, we are too comfortable to get off our asses, and they are too successful to quit pushing. Until and unless they are scared, they won’t stop.
Brian ,I’m a fan Tactics are sound . You have to broad a brush for targets. Don’t get all crazy on us.
Who do we fight?
Answer: any mother fucker that collects a check from taxpayers when they are fully capable of making their living by actually working, anyone that works as an elected official, anyone that says you or I or anyone else should pay for some fat fucking shit bird waste of space’s controllable through diet diabetes medication, any fucking spread leg cum catcher that squirts out kids to get bigger tax return credits for adding nothing to society, any fucking piece of shit communist that spouts any Marxist bullshit, anyone that lives fat off of not raising a finger to help themself, any fucking mask stasi or mask snitch, any vax pimp and any fucking medical “professional” that has the time to do a fucking dance video while saying they are overworked while raping the average American with or without insurance. And definitely any banker, wall street cunt or insurance company grifter.
We gotta break some eggs to make this omelette.
You’d just be targeting the shabbos goyem, not the jews behind the curtain calling the shots.
Maybe look at who runs those people you mentioned.
Bosses are implied and should be the first fuckers spiked.
What’s needed is mass civil disobedience. What we’re about to get is mass uncivil disobedience, when it’s announced that Trump ain’t goin’ nowhere. The fight will likely be looking you square in the eyes shortly. False flag cyber attacks, dark winters on the horizon… things be gettin’ sporty!
Are you saved?
Saw this over at the Feral Irishman and think I will donate a mag or two to let TLPTB hear the sound of freedom in the new year.
https://theferalirishman.blogspot.com/2020/12/mark-your-calendars-saturday-january.html
I will light off a pack of firecrackers. This should be fun and very instructive to those who the shitheads count on to do their dirty work.
Get everyone involved. Your average city or county VoPo will be thinking “There are 40 of us spread over three shifts and I just heard 2,000 people firing guns at the same time.”
What to do on the 6th? More of the same? We cannot all be in DC but we can all make a very loud statement wherever we are and the more unified or coordinated the better. I’m spreading the word!
Of course an Irishman came up with the idea!
Something rotten here: I voted up and computer says I already voted but score is 0-0. This scoring being run by Dibold or Dominion?
I’m in, and will share!
Conservative populist Americans will not be rioting in large enough numbers to be described as a general revolt or rebellion. We have day jobs, families to support, and for what it’s worth, respect for the law that acts as a deterrent to violence.
The oppression game plan is gradual and selective. The lights will literally have to be turned off on many people to elicit a response and by that time it may be too late. People need to be pushed past their comfort zones to realize what is going on.
Greg Hunter’s interview with Catherine Austin Fitts this morning (Solari Reports) provides a view of what is currently going on in the U. S. and soon to be coming down the road with the Great Reset
One thing that we should be doing is educating our children on the system that was put in place in the U. S. a Democratic Republic, not a Democracy, a big difference between the two. An excellent source which outlines the principles used in drafting out Constitution by our Founding Fathers is The 5000 Year Leap by W. Cleon Skousen.
A pdf copy of this book can be downloaded from this site https://readdownloadebook.com/titles/the-5000-year-leap/
Another thing which we should do, is reinstate the Original 13th Amendment into the Constitution, which was based upon Article 1; Section 9; clause 8 of the Constitution of the United States which states: No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office or Trust under them, shall, whithout the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.
This Clause was not strong enough for the People, as it did not provide for any penalties for those who violated it.
Which led to the 13th Amendment, as it did provide for penalties. The reason behind this Amendment was that during our Revolutionary War, there were a couple of groups of traitors (working for the Crown) among the people whom did their best to stifle the war for our independence. Who were in these groups? The Bankers and Lawyers, with their loyalty to the Crown through their Associations.
Here is that Amendment which is the “Title Of Nobility Act” (TONA) which was proposed in 1810 and ratified in Dec 1812:
“If any citizen of the United States shall accept, claim, receive, or retain any title of nobility or honour, or shall without the consent of Congress, accept and retain any present, pension, office, or emolument of any kind whatever, from any emperor, king, prince, or foreign power, such person shall cease to be a citizen of the United States, and shall be incapable of holding any office of trust or profit under them, or either of them.”
This Article of Amendment is intimately connected to questions of loyalty, honesty, war and national defense. It is designed to combat internal subversion and discord sowed by people who are adhering to powers foreign to the Congress of the United States without stepping across the bold Constitutional line of treason. The authors of the TONA wrote it after some additional experience with how the British Empire, as well as other European nations, actually conduct their affairs. It is a corrective and supplemental measure to go along with Constitutional treason.
This Article of Amendment added an enforceable strict penalty, i.e., inability to hold office and loss of citizenship, for violations of the already existing constitutional prohibition in on of and other conflicts of citizenship interest, such as accepting of any kind for services or favors rendered or to be rendered, and is particularly applicable today in the 21st Century as government is increasingly FOR SALE to the highest bidder, as foreign nations and multinational corporations and individuals compete to line the pockets of politicians and political parties to accommodate and purchase protection or privilege for their special interests, i.e. with , such as money or allowing dual-citizenships.
This Amendment was fraudulently removed from all the Constitutions in the early 1860’s. Now, whom could be in position to be able to remove this Amendment from the Constitutions of the U. S., States and Territories at this time? And what has been the significance of removing this Amendment? https://www.let.rug.nl/usa/essays/general/the-missing-13th-amendment/significance-of-removal.php
Here are a couple of more sites that cover this missing Amendment:
https://www.let.rug.nl/usa/essays/general/the-missing-13th-amendment/
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=missing+13th+amendment&t=h_&ia=web
Funny how in most countries lobbying is regarded as bribery.
Still defending a document that has an exceptional failure rate? Give it up. It was a mistake. The US Constitution is a complete failure at limiting government and it always has been. It is too general and it centralizes too much power.
From the article:
Which directly corresponds to the following as written in my most recent article here entitled The Grand Inevitability of Unavoidable Endings: “The nation was lulled to sleep through prosperity…”
And what is sleep if not taking one’s comfort? Accordingly, perhaps “looking away” is a form of sleep and this is what we mean when we say “ignorance is bliss”. Maybe this is why people would rather swallow propagandic narratives and “new” circumstances of “normal” instead of fighting to maintain timeless values and principles. Perhaps “sleep” and “comfort” are the negative manifestations of prosperity as expressed through materialism – or, rather the misplaced values that, in archaic terms, were once called “idolatry”?
Or not.
Regardless, a little over 1.5 years ago, Stucky posted an article that concluded with the following quote:
In turn, this brought about my reflection upon “life” as a “struggle”; or as survival and in relation to my own once-perceived “invincibility” now yielding to a certain sense of inevitability. Please understand I don’t keep linking my previous posts here out of vanity or from an insecure need to be right or validated. It’s just that I often can’t think of better ways to say things again (and, especially, with emphasis). Moreover, it’s quicker this way. From that post which was inspired by Stuck’s article so many moons ago:
HSF, a FB video??? really??? Anyway, to the guy who said the Constitution is too “general” ??? The Constitution is a guide, just like in the military we have “instructions” they are guides. As such they are open to interpretation. The problem with that is at some point a person will do a wild interpretation or disregard it completely!!!! I know its a shock!!! Then someone reins them in…in the military usually a superior officer, in the USof A it used to be the Supreme Court in regards to the Constitution but not so much anymore. They pretty much ignore it and just make laws now or say well we do not care…the current US Supreme Court is a shat show!!!!