Guest Post by Eric Peters
When did Americans become so . . . obedient? That is easy to answer. It became so when they became so reflexively fearful. Of everything. Of anything.
That happened a little more than 20 years ago.
They were told to freeze in place – some may remember this – and they did. And so it came naturally when they were told to stand six feet apart. They just did it.
They were told to spread their legs. Having done that, putting on a “mask” came naturally enough, when they were told to do that, too.
They were told the “threat” was “elevated.”
The cases! The cases!
Panic became the new American drug. Obedience, its hangover. The drug was pushed from the top down by the man who was president – just barely – when (supposedly) a handful of disgruntled Saudis flew commercial jets into American landmarks, one of which pancaked straight down into its own footprint after not being struck by a commercial jet. Americans were told by George W. Bush, squinty-eyed and finger pointing, to be very afraid – of everything. Of everyone. That to not be afraid was a kind of affirmation of “evil-doing.”
“You are either with us or with the terrorists,” he said.
“We are all in this together,” Americans said – a generation later, as they terrorized one another.
One doesn’t hear much about “Islamic terrorism” anymore. Probably because the “enemies of freedom,” as Bush styled them, won. Their squinty-eyed leader now comfortably retired to his ranch in Texas where he occupies his latter days painting luridly, disjointedly – in the John Wayne Gacy style.
His inheritors having built upon his legacy.
It happened so fast and now it’s so long ago it is hard to imagine it ever not being the way it has become – and feels like it always has been. Which is exactly how it has been to those not old enough to remember how it was, once. Who have grown up like this. Never known anything other than this. How does a tadpole know what it is like to breath air – until he becomes a frog?
What if he remains forever a tadpole?
Fear is a potent drug – and obedience keeps people addicted to it. The pushers of fear tell people that obedience will soothe their fears. Just do as we say and all will be well. Comply and this will all pass. Though it is by complying that it never passes. Who ever obeyed their way out of slavery?
“Fear,” wrote Frank Herbert in his Dune series of books, “is the mind killer.” And so it is. It is fear – of falling – that can prevent a toddler from walking. Fear – of crashing – that keeps him from learning to ride his bicycle. Fear – of what’s under the bed – that keeps him under the covers. Fear – of rejection – that keeps him from summoning the gumption to talk to the girl in his class that he likes.
It is not by obeying his fears that the child overcomes them. It is by facing them. He may need help, initially, to stand on his own two legs. To be brave when his father or mother lets go of the bike. But then he realizes – I can walk! I can ride! He is less afraid now of talking to that girl he likes. His confidence swells when she smiles back. His fears subside. His confidence grows. The world isn’t terrifying; it is exciting. There is so much to do! So much to experience.
Let’s go!
Driver’s license at 16. Out of the house at 18.
This was once the American progression, familiar to all who grew up in an America not riddled by the disease of fearfulness. They were not – as the saying once had it – ‘fraidy cats.
Probably because their parents weren’t. And because the leaders of the country weren’t, either. The only thing we have to fear is – fear, itself.
An American president said that once.
Imagine if the man who was president on that September day only a little more than 20 years ago had said something like that rather than what he actually did say. It would have made it harder for the little man whose name we all know today to say the things he said – over and over and over, again – beginning just about three years ago.
A generation of Americans not conditioned to be afraid – and to just obey – might not have obeyed the little man who told them to be afraid.
They might instead have regarded him with one eyebrow raised – and their middle fingers raised.
Perhaps they have learned not to be afraid, again. And have their middle fingers at the ready.
Finally.
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And the vast majority fell for it.
I debunked FauciVid and Pastuer by March 2020.
The only terrorism I have ever been exposed to is the msm.
Good article. My how people are pussies these days
Obedience is for those with a pusillanimous nature and bend with each blast of hot wind from TPTB.
WE are the 20%, unyielding, ungovernable, unafraid.
Pareto’s Patriots
“WE are the 20%”
“Imagine if the man who was president on that September day only a little more than 20 years ago had said something like that rather than what he actually did say.”
There was no chance that Bush was going to say anything other than what he did say after 9/11. He was simply a puppet, and was selected to win in 2000 to help guide policy after 9/11 (much like Trump was selected in 2016 to help guide policy after the COVID-19 scamdemic started). Bush was reading a script that was probably written before he even took office. Cheney, on the other hand, was one of the principal architects of 9/11. He wasn’t a puppet. He was a puppeteer, controlling Bush among others.
Don’t forget the ‘source’ of the WMDs and everything else related to creating war with the Arab Nations — ‘our friend and ally’ … that has admitted, via its leadership time and again, to have total control of our Congress …
Too bad we didn’t have a department of misinformation back then …
“Driver’s license at 16. Out of the house at 18.
This was once the American progression, familiar to all who grew up in an America not riddled by the disease of fearfulness. They were not – as the saying once had it – ‘fraidy cats.”
Failure to be out of the house by 18 is not because of fear. That’s straight out of HS. Hell, my parents had children at 19 years old. Only ghetto welfare people can do that nowadays. Come on, Eric.
No, out of the house by 18 now means 1. Go away to college and rack up enormous amounts of debt 2. Go away to college on your parents dime. Being on your parents dime is NOT the same as being out of the house 3. Being a pregnant ghetto rat or 4. Being an illegal alien living on the taxpayer’s dime.
Alot of misguided youth still join the military straight out of high school at age 18, unfortunately
I ran away from home when I was 4. My parents were nice enough, but I felt they were holding me back. I was busted at a restaurant on the otherside of town cashing in my piggy bank to buy supplies for the road. B@stards.
In retrospect, I think one is blessed with guts and rebellion, sort of like luck of the draw. These are not learned traits.
“I ran away from home when I was 4…B@stards.”
🤣🤣🤣 Thank You! Sooo Funny!
Absolutely nothing wrong with being a late Bloomer.
Could it be? Marty Feldman in the 1st one?
Marty someone, Marty who, Marty Feldman, I’m sure that was his name.
“Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on “I am not too sure.” ― H.L. Mencken
“The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.”
~ H. L. Mencken
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias[2] whereby people with low ability, expertise, or experience regarding a certain type of task or area of knowledge tend to overestimate their ability or knowledge. Some researchers also include in their definition the opposite effect for high performers: their tendency to underestimate their skills.
https://thedecisionlab.com/biases/dunning-kruger-effect
The Dunning-Kruger effect effect occurs when a person’s lack of knowledge and skills in a certain area cause them to overestimate their own competence. By contrast, this effect also causes those who excel in a given area to think the task is simple for everyone, and underestimate their relative abilities as well.
There have been five decades of Academic Marxists teaching America’s youth “what” to think, not “how” to think.
The Saul Alinsky playbook has worked very well. The population has been well programed to do what they are told.
The Globalists/WEF/Elites know that one of the best weapons in their quest to destroy Western Civilization is FEAR.
And, they have employed it around the world, as well.
All of it comes together to help with the Great Re-Set. Klaus Schwab and the DAVOS crowd are never ones to let an advantage get cold. They knew how the sheeple would behave with the release of the bioweapons Covid/Vaccines.
And then, there are those of us who are not afraid. Sometimes I resent the fact that informational technology has deprived me of ignorance. I was so much happier before I realized what was happening.
🤣 “The only thing we have to fear is – fear, itself.”
Feckless d’RUSEvelt would STILL be in office, had he not croaked. Let’s NOT talk about his malignant wife’s ‘accomplishments’, Shall WE?
“Hell hath no Fury”
1. She had more Communist front affiliations than you could shake a hammer & sickle at. Eleanor was, at the very least, a conscious “fellow traveler” of subversive Communists of America — but quite possibly, an actual secret member of the Party.
2. She was a lesbian.
3. She arranged for the FBI to investigate Westbrook Pegler, an award-winning journalist and harsh critic of hers that she sought to intimidate.
Huff’n-n Puff’n Post Founder(ing) Role model.
Coincidentally, Walt was discussing this very topic with a couple of his more philosophically minded imaginary friends just the other day.
Why, we were wondering, has the apparent majority become so mindlessly, unquestioningly and embarrassingly obedient?
The conclusion we came to was very similar to the author’s – it all revolves around fear but specifically, fear of loss. Our reasoning was that since God has been forced to take a backseat to materialism, people now live in fear of losing their stuff (which includes their very lives, of course) in the here and now, which The Science™ has convinced them is all that exists.
We reasoned that if someone who has nothing to lose is to be feared, it follows the more someone has to lose the less they are to be feared and the more accommodating of coercion they will be. This is exacerbated by the fact that virtually every human endeavor requires a license of some sort, a permit at a minimum, and that everything of any import (and much that is not) is purchased on credit and so can be foreclosed, repossessed etc. It also doesn’t help that they spend so much time in front of their various screens, all spewing non stop propaganda.
What we couldn’t figure out, though, was how Uncle Klaus’s Utopia of ‘owning nothing’ was supposed to work, because this seemed to contradict our theory. The only conclusion we could come to in this regard was that the fear of loss would be centered around the much touted ‘social credit’ score, which will be tied to everything. And then there’s the centralised digital currency which, combined with a ‘social credit’ score, will serve as a virtual Sword of Damocles in perpetuity. (No soup for you!).
For an example of a seriously hard core obedience mindset we contemplated the Chinese, who owing to their ‘social credit’ system appear to be the world’s most regimented people.
The Solution? While Walt rather likes Mr. Brown’s mellifluously articulated reasoning, his imaginary friends were in unanimous agreement that Jesus had it sussed long ago:
He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it. Matthew 10:39
and:
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. Matthew 6:19-21
And also keeping in mind that:
Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. Matthew 7:13-14
As usual, when it comes to ‘obedience’, wrong because just scratching at the surface.
Did the people taking part in the Milgram Experiment enter it fearful? No.
The US (and West) fearfulness arose from the irreligious view of life,
or if you really get down to it, people have nothing worth higher than themselves anymore, which would allow them to strive for a goal even when becoming very fearful.
2. “Driver’s license at 16. Out of the house at 18.”
Eric forgot to continue the progression, to make it look really stupid just as it is:
“Drinking alcohol with 21.”