Audio Player
Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed
Ben writes in to ask where all the anti-establishment, counter-cultural, anti-authoritarians have gone, and how the entire population has been so effectively divided into two political tribes. James provides an answer that goes in some unexpected directions. Don’t miss this important edition of Questions For Corbett.
Video player not working? Use these links to watch it somewhere else!
WATCH ON: 
/ 
/ 
/ 
/ 
/ 
or DOWNLOAD THE MP4
SHOW NOTES
Back and to the Right: The Pendulum Swings Again
From Flatland to Reality: Escaping the Political Pendulum
“The Man” has been replaced with “TPTB” or “the deep state”. I nominate: “The kleptocracy”.
Or, instead, be for “Voluntaryism” or “The Free Market”, or The Sovereign Citizen” or “Self-governance”.
I think I will stick to the word “Oligarchs” to refer to those self serving power hungry psychopaths that wish to control the masses and/or eliminate us.
Stick-it to the Oligarchs, eh!
Controligarchy.
Also, if interested I’ve been squatting on TruthSeeker.club, TruthSeeker.quest, TruthSeeker.shop, and TruthSeeker.wiki for a few years. Our Cassandra Team group was going to have a few forums but it never got organized and unfortunately I’m not technically skilled. One fellow dropped his TruthSeeker.Party (without telling me/us) and now it’s going for >$1k. I’ve redirected them to a decent site, TruthSeeker.se – perhaps yours?
I don’t have a website anymore but I am truly one who seeks out the truth, and James does a good job of providing much of what I seek on this website.
This brought about a brilliant set of AHA moments. Thank you.
Some of us are still around trying to get others to have those aha moments of expansion of reality, consciousness, and authentic caring for others Lulu.
The nonsense I used to get back in the day has gotten much worse with the advent of digital anonymity . Even here on the Report, there is an intolerance probably from some learned social fear, to show any respect or like-minded brother/sister hood of direction. Constant judgement on everything.
Glad you had a good moment. We all need them.
A GYPSY OF THE SIXTIES (song)
https://old.bitchute.com/video/h7GYXoLyEAYb/
thank you! A great song too.
Thanks Lulu.
Lot of other good one’s available there. Just use the Playlist so you don’t have to scroll through all the videos, by clicking on my small name (EJDoyle) in the left corner…
Hollywood, Relationships, Politics, etc.
This is so wild, just today I used the phrase “the man”. But I grew up in a time where that was used kind of jokingly to refer to someone who was sort of kickass. So I said to my friend (who is a woman) “if this was the 90’s I’d say you’re the man.”
I have often thought of the decades thing, but never realized the effect of that in our collective mind… I really enjoyed this episode James, thanks a lot.
About bringing back “the man” I think we already have terms to describe them like: the parasitic class, the globalists, the faceless rulers, the deep state, the overlords, the elite (my least fav). In my opinion you are the elite, people who do excellent things for the betterment of society, in my mind you are also “the man” the cool kind though, kicking the ass of the media lies and the afore mentioned foes. Cheers from the pacific coast of Chile.
Man, I wish we could post pictures here. A picture just tells so much.
But I will offer a friendly reminder that the only real “teams” in life and the body politic are those that desire freedom from others and those that desire freedom over others.
At least I found an older version of the picture I wanted to put.
https://x.com/vienticus/status/1576189253926944768/photo/1
As this topic of the political compass has come up from a few different places, I decided to post about it at a couple of places. In doing so, I put forward what I would argue is the most accurate political compass of the two most important axes. You can view it here: https://x.com/vienticus/status/1895893397443068242
By the way (and this is for James too), Adam Conover had a series called Adam Ruins Everything. Even for the stuff he gets wrong, I genuinely think the entire series is worth a watch.
I miss Frutiger aero…. Guess I am dating myself even though I started on an 8 bit machine.
When talking about “Generations” you’re talking about a marketing cohort, and it’s been that probably since bernays brought psychology to. The Boomers were the first to get it full force, but generation (and specific “decades’) don’t make sense in the Internet age of fragmented media. “Dumbest Generation “ by baurlein is a good source on how media broke up with the internet which made it both MORE time wasty and less effective at controlling everyone at once. That is why you can’t get people to hate “the man” because to hate him you need to have a sense of YOURSELF as part of a community.
What identity exists today? Coal miners or farmers or religious groups have a sense of US that can get mad at The Man. A person who has an aesthetic rather then an identity is in the role of the Proles of 1984 because they will never become self aware.
The Boomers were “rebellion” was carefully crafted by media, which is why it went nowhere. Gen X was just as propagandized, to think of themselves as special, millennials got it worse because they could curate their own media world and got told they did not need to actually learn anything and zoomers had that feed created…. And all of those propaganda efforts were to make people who were atomized and thought they could, and should be allowed to, to do anything…. And when you are wrapped up in yourself you make a very small package.
The only way out is to find true values and form communities around them. That will require a level of hierarchy and order that most people will not find acceptable at this point in time. The masses are weak and have been denied good leadership and will thus demand authority do something when they get scared
I think what I said about identity and being against the man can probably be summed up better as “True hate can only come from a true love of something the hated thing threatens”
And I don’t think people in the modern world love all that much. We are as the unabomber said dependent on a vast number of systems and people we don’t know or understand- the dark side of “I pencil”,
the man becomes the hammer, the underlings are wedges of various sizes and weights
The present anarchy that has come to Washington gives anarchy a bad name. How would you explain the establishments free will to act independently of the general community?
The complete ability to be blind to hurting the sovereign man. Cruelty of the no government actor, No law, Ridgid order , efficiency, harmony of the free thinker. No visuals, no speech, no assistance offered, no knowledge of opposition allowed acknowledgement . Freely moving towards the future free of morals or ethics, ciaos or concern. Answering to no one . Anarchy.
Abby Martin speaking with the Real News. It seems a unified assignment. Hard news to take.
https://youtu.be/ODvNLFtuO8U
Mein Kampf!
I hope you feel better, now that you have distilled our angst, and expressed it.
Not feeling so good Hienrich. This should be the majorities fight. Not just yours.
Not feeling so good. How many news journalists are left in the world who haven’t sold out or forced out. It’s untenable to my propaganda, my Ameraka.
I understand, and agree.
But, this is a long struggle, beyond marathon, not a sprint.
Sustaining emotions, such as anger and sadness for too long, harms the bearer more than the target. We need to avoid self-harm by not harboring negative emotions. All emotions have a valid, even healthy purpose in the short term, but I define negative emotions as those that harm us when we hold on to them.
I found the bit where she was talking about the Gov cuts (about 55 min) and it’s hard to take someone seriously who thinks that they are a bad thing.
Aside from the fact that a massive numbers of Federal employees = more ability to reach into every facet of people’s lives much of the money spent by USAID was going directly into the means of social control and engineering….even once you take away the money spent on promoting sodomy and anti-family projects the money gave a massive lever arm thru paid media.
Acceemic agent did a quick breakdown
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FWt3WwBJkR8
That’s NOT to say trump is our friend but if he is busting up some of that stuff while having his own coup against the old order it’s not a bad thing in itself.
The federal government has masses and masses of useless people that have power to interfere with people- maybe they plan to replace it with something new and worse, I don’t know, but there is no way the old system was going to last anyway.
It will be quite a ride these couple of years. Opportunities are opening up that MIGHT be good.
But where are the funds going to be diverted to?
That is a good question… I can give an opinion of what I think will happen but let me ask you how much control you REALLY think you have over it?
It COULD be that the money just won’t be spent on anything because the fiat money system is hitting a crisis point and we’re having a shake up
It could be that they will fund exactly all the same things thru a new system
It could be that they spend the same amount of money on some other evil stuff.
I don’t know which one is going to happen on this issue.
Neither does anyone else and they’re a liar if they say they do.
But I am cautiously optimistic that we will have an outcome that is better then not. If I am wrong it’s not like I lost anything
Good thoughts Duck. I don’t have control over much of anything. A shake-up is happening, and I can only control how I react to it. But, like you, I am not pessimistic. Our reactions to the shake-up will have an influence on the outcome.
Cheers, M
I think they want to replace the workers with AI and maybe some sort of technocracy. Notice how Elon Musk is involved with this. I mean when has it been normal for some tech dude to be so involved with politics normalized in the MSM? It seems weird to me.
RFK mentions AI government too and I think he might have mentioned something about AI in health care.
It’s to cut spending because the system as it is has an expiration date but what will be put in it’s place is another matter. AI government and medical care? Digital ID? A brain chip? I really don’t like that kind of thing either.
And now that Trump is in and they are getting rid of some of the outrageous DEI and LGBTQ etc. insanity people might get complacent and not pay attention to the danger of what new system they might be trying to put in place.
The silver lining for me is that, I think AI has some serious limits to the type of implementation they want to use it for. Also the other tech has similar limits, like the brain chip for example. But the fact that these other weird things are being funded and moving forward is not good IMO.
I mean look at some of the weird medical research on embryonic tissue, how they are trying to be able to grow organs in a lab. I mean I can’t say I oppose growing organs, but they really want to grow human beings. Now, I don’t think they’d be able to pull it off any time soon, but the kind of mentality that would pursue that is dangerous. That’s how some of these new elites think, they might be just as bad as the old.
Yes … the new elite will be a problem too. But if they are busy fighting each other it’s normally a good thing for us down here.
It’s certainly better then a single elite class all pulling in the same direction 🙂
I haven’t really delved into who precisely the “old” “elite” were. My ill informed presumption is that it mostly consisted of Rothschild and Soros who were the strongest in the cabal.
Now it seems Peter Thiel is the strongest player but I haven’t been able to find a connection between him and the Rothschilds that would indicate collaboration so maybe it’s true the “old” elite are being displaced.
The troubling fact seems to be that even if there is a displacement occurring now, i.e. “circulation of elites” the plans they have for regular people is not good. So it might make little difference for us down here especially if people become complacent.
I also wonder if there is not a “layer” behind Rothschild and Peter Thiel that we don’t know about. A hidden player (s)?
It makes sense that an “elite” would strive for complete control because that’s how they derive meaning and pleasure. But could there also be collaboration between the “old” and the “new” some sort of agreement to steer the world into slavery for their own benefit? Even if they vie for control might still collaborate out of necessity? “The enemy of my enemy is my friend”?
Perhaps the fighting is in part a ruse to confuse people?
I think who these people actually are might be of value to know. Maybe it doesn’t matter.
You are very right, It would be useful to know their names, yes. The worst thing about modern democracy is how it hides who is actually in power- back in the day people would know who’s castle was the source of their problems.
I think Mr Titus said something about that on his Bankocracy series over on Solari Report- quoting Machevali about power always laying in the hands of the armed men and then saying that banking hides who has the power and money so they don’t know who to depose.
Have you read Neema Parvini’s book “the populist delusion” ? It really cleared a lot of my misconceptions out and his channel on Yt (acedemic ageng) and substack are pretty good at digging up stuff but he still is not sure who is doing what.
All this stuff is very interesting but at the end of the day everyone’s to make their life less fragile and less dependent on the system…. It may sound like victim blaming but at the end of the day if WE plebs are too weak to stand up for our own interests it’s silly to imagine anyone else will.
Hope it’s going well with your plans for a (chicken) coup. I am looking into a worm farm but first I need to know if I can stomach the things wiyh being starving.
The worms for your chickens right?
I don’t think I could eat worms. I mean maybe if I was stranded somewhere in the boonies or to hold me over in a severe emergency, but long term I couldn’t do it. The thought makes me want to barf.
Crickets to me would be more tolerable but only short term.
I’m working on the chicken coop plans. Should have it in a month. There are lots of people around here who have animals, so I can get some chickens locally once my coop is ready.
I’ve read The Populist Delusion and it was quite interesting an concise. I’ve read some of his Substack articles too.
I just am curious who these “elites” are. It seems like the Rothschild’s are still involved in banking and have donated to the climate change narrative and involved with the WEF.
Peter Thiel and the Rothschild’s attend Bilderberg. So they’ve rubbed shoulders before.
I mean how do we know if there was an actually displacement of the old if we don’t know who they are?
And if Peter Thiel and Elon Musk are the new elite, why do we see them?
We never really hear much about the Rothschild’s which to me is interesting because that’s how I’d imaging someone in power wanting to minimize exposure. So the real “person” in charge would be hidden.
Regarding possible food shortages in my location, I think the local community would do okay. Lots of people are homesteaders out here and already pretty self sufficient. I had a hairdresser tell me she had a bunch of animals, chickens, turkeys, etc. and said all of her animals are reproducing.
The limiting factor might be affording food for one’s livestock but that can be grown to supplement types of feed.
On a side note, one of my neighbors feeds the deer around here and the population has grown (too much). I haven’t allowed hunters to hunt on my parcel (don’t want my dog injured and I like my privacy) but I thought about hunting some of the deer myself because they’d be easy to shoot. There’s a ton of them and they look healthy.
If you stored some meat in the form of jerky and perhaps some pickled eggs, that would get you through tough times.
I’m sure you’re way a head of my thoughts on the matter though.
I assume you hunt so maybe next time you go just make some of the meat into jerky to store in case things get rough.
Thanks for the link. Been ages since i have seen a regular news program. Been avoiding this particular bc i expect the worse to be worse yet.
“What happened?”, says James, rhetorically. Well, I have some very clear ideas, but no panacea to offer. I guess I was kind of a Forrest Gumpy character in the hippy days. I went to mixed race urban schools in Philadelphia, then preppy Ivy League University in 1966. I dropped out, and at the age of 20, found myself in Haight Asbury in 1969, as well as the center of the Berkeley California riots, and the Altamont disaster with the Rolling Stones and the Hell’s Angels. By ’73 I was in the neighborhood where The Move massacre took place, as well as several of my young friends dying from gunshots, and drug abuse.
I was considered very liberal, thinking MLK’s colorblind ideas had merit. I haven’t changed much there, but today, I am considered a rabid sexist and racist. I see the pattern, and it is connected to the general tendency of most people not being able to adjust their minds, based on deep principles. It is a sclerosis of the spirit, not just the mind. As James has said, these regressive characteristics are greatly amplified by those who benefit from dividing and conquering us.
Interesting anecdote. Thanks for sharing. I think some of this relates to identity. There are many people who have no real identity they connect to, on a basic level. If the manufactured identity changes, people just go with the flow.
My political opinions have changed a lot in the past 5 years, but my “core” self has not changed. At least I don’t think it has. I’ve always valued honesty and humility and fair treatment of others, a fundamental notion of “right and wrong”. These ideals were established by my family who raised me. My parents were boomers so pretty liberal. But my paternal grandparents were staunch conservatives, especially my grandfather. But he was more of a constitutional conservative and really believed in what the founders of the US envisioned.
I think the most important contribution to my character and basic identity with respect to morality was shaped by family involvement in my development during my childhood and young adulthood. If that is lacking for some people, I think it can be damaging. I did attend public schools but my actual education mostly took place at home.
What surprised me most was the shift in ethics of “the left” to support war and then the Covid tyranny. That was a real slap in the face that showed me many people have no “core values”
Liberals aren’t the only ones who demonstrate this “moral relativism” however. The vociferous support of genocide Israel is committing is another eye opener for me. This moral flexibility seems irrational to me and extremely unsettling.
I think it is important not to lose sight of the real enemy which are the psychopathic string pullers but it is hard to ignore the people who blindly follow along. It’s also difficult to ignore the hatred that has been stirred up by the culture wars. The “woke” agenda is so outrageous it’s hard not to hate it, especially the targeting of children. The “drag queen story hour” for example. That is sexual grooming and gross violation of morality. Similar to the the grooming for the the next scamdemic, but more fundamentally disgusting in my view.
I mean how can someone want to work with people who support that kind of thing? And how about those who are consenting to giving their kids hormone blockers and letting them have surgeries to butcher themselves.
And the people who are cheering on Israel as they blow little kids apart. If people can support that kind of thing, it’s really hard not to hate them.
My point is that some people have a line in the sand at which point a regular person becomes an enemy.
We agree on a lot.
Elsewhere in this thread, I mention negative emotions. (Emotions that are harmful if held on to) Guilt is one such one.
It is the hallmark of our current slide into absurdity. We fell prey to the grifters, and their guilt trips, because, as you pointed out, so many of us have shallow minds and morality.
Your mention of “colorblind” society sparked some thoughts. I mean ideally people should be able to live among one another peacefully regardless of their race and ethnicity, but it appears they can’t or won’t. The riots in 1992 and 2020s were real eye openers for me. Especially the 2020s. My “colorblind” days are over. The entire notion of “color” being what constitutes a race of people is a lie.
So we have these complex cultural shifts and profound psychological “traumas” inflicted on the population and perpetuated by masses of people going on and then the expectation of unity?
I do think there is a way to collaborate or achieve some sort of situation that is better than being under a dictatorship, but it’s not going to be the utopian vision some may have in mind.
I think people have to have realistic goals and expectations.
cu.h.j,
I appreciate your perspective, (and also the good writing. No egregious spelling and grammar confusions) I agree with your points. But the riots you mentioned were not surprising to me. (I have been discerning these patterns for decades).
I will reiterate, my early Philadelphia schools were largely negro (before brown became black), which meant I saw the good, bad, and the ugly from the age of 4, on up. As a consequence, I have a much easier time, than most of my fellow Texans, when it comes to conversing and interacting, in fairly deep ways, with normal black people. Conversely, I can tell very quickly, when I am dealing with malignant characters. Reciprocation is a key issue. If your counterpart is insulting and racist, it is NOT a good idea to trust them or lean over backwards. This goes for Black, Brown, Feminist, sex pervs, Democrats, Republicans, and politicians, too.
I am more concerned by the sheeple than the Powers That Be (PTB). The PTB derives ALL its power from the deluded masses.
I am also more concerned by the scamdemics and the pharma paradigm, than the drag queen grooming. The latter is a much smaller movement, and much less entrenched. I am also more concerned with the war paradigm(Industrial Military Complex).
While I am quibbling, I would include hate in my list of negative emotions. I too, am appalled by the mainstreaming of woke perversion and grooming. But again, much more concerned by the acquiescence of the masses and the media.
I too am more concerned about scamdemics, medical tyranny, censorship, and other infringements because they are more threatening to me personally. That’s probably selfish thinking on my part. But the other issues like the “race bating” (i.e. stirring up hate towards White people in the US) and the pushing of the “trans” “ideology” and the sexual grooming of children is also concerning and I can totally understand why people would get “stuck” on these other issues.
They are highly provocative and (most) human beings can be stirred up by emotions. I think my main point is that I can completely understand why people are divided in the U.S. And knowing logically that it would be better to try to find some common ground or to work in some sort of collaboration will still be difficult because of emotions.
Like you, I grew up in a city around a racially diverse group of people and had good and bad experiences, some very bad that stuck with me. What I noticed however and what was the most hurtful is that one of my closest friends from high school had a real hatred of white people (except for me) and this had been taught to her through our own school system and media. I mean I was glad she made an exception and I did enjoy her friendship but it always bothered me.
I remember when the 1990s riots broke out, I was afraid to go outside because the hate was palpable. And legitimizing this type of hate has only increased in the media, perhaps a little less now though with the selection.
I have also had good relationships with colleagues who are Black and of other races of people and I am not a hateful bigot. I am also kind to my patients and empathetic no matter what race, religion, sex, etc.) I can empathize with those who are different. And I can also empathize with the the anger and hate some White people probably feel as well. To be honest, I probably empathize more in that regard simply because I am among that group of people.
I can’t ignore innate pattern recognition and other facts that have been with held about the degree of hate and the fact that there is some truth regarding behaviors and traits among “groups” of people (not just the “elites”). And when I say “group” I know very well there are exceptions, notable exceptions that must be kept in mind (and heart).
At any rate, I agree with your prioritization of issues. Thanks for the complement on my writing. I was a science major and was never a good writer and I know my grammar is probably shoddy so glad it was adequate in conveying my thoughts.
PS Kathy Hochul and AOC are The Man. Rachel Levine and Jacinda Ardern were The Man.
Yay! If I am a feminist, I am thrilled by this.
Identity politics. Same for Gay, Black, Brown.
The media gives too many of us our identity.
Transparent grift, unless you exploit or embrace it.
In our family, we acknowledged (after 911) that, the word ‘Elite’, was not in the realms of reality, especially when describing the sort of person who believes that they should have some part in, or indeed themselves, rule others (Elitist).
We use the words Parasite, Parasite-class and Parasitic.
In fact, I have personally used this terminology for so long now, that It was difficult for me to type elitist without starting with a ‘P’. I struggle to describe them as anything other than the above, as It’s literally imprinted in my brain now!
I can’t see ‘Parasite’ taking off at all, however, at least with me and my family, we acknowledge that descriptive words are very important, hence the importance in controlling language from the top down…
Thank you James for highlighting this.
Why invent new catchphrases/buzzwords, or bring back old ones, to identify who “the establishment” is, when there is such a word already? It has always been around but “nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care”, as Mr. Carlin put it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuO-2jkXP8Q
I still am here and find it very lonely. I still “yell” Anarchy but few understand it nor want to. My music preferences have not changed (Uriah Heep, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Santana, King Crimson, Zappa, and I still believe in Power to the People!
You can’t beat “City/Tammany Hall.” “Fuck The System.” Maybe we can say “The Claw!?” OR “Mr. Roboto.”
May I bring your attention to “”Kilroy Was Here” Film Plus “Mr. Roboto” Live – Styx in Concert 1983 on youtube?
I have always seen the ‘Progressive’ movement as anti-establishment. I would also like to observe that in my opinion, and as far as language can serve us, the anti-establishment movement has always been for centralization of power, usually thought of as Federal or National power. If oligarchs are wanted to represent the anti-establishment movement simply observe how all, or almost all, of our elected politicians appear to be bought and/or controlled by oligarchs now.
Mentally, I believe most people think of the anti-establishment movement as freedom loving and perhaps anarchical in nature but I don’t think it ever has been. The anti-establishment movement, in my opinion, has always been about substituting the free market with a more centrally controlled system. It reads ironical to write something like that as I believe many will not see it that way.
But for me I see the anti-establishment movement as wanting to substitute ‘White’ hats for ‘Black’ hats in senior positions of power mostly to redirect and/or grow government or public funds into different areas from the current allocation system but almost never to reduce the size of government which is usually associated with more human and/or god given freedom. A close look at the history of the anti-establishment movement will reveal that it is not a human freedom movement and never has been. It has just had the evolutionary cover of people thinking or associating in their own minds that ‘anti-establishment’ meant more freedom instead of what it has always been which is a centralization of power movement.
Disclosure: I have lived all my life in the USA and am over the age of 65 and literally grew up watching American TV until the year 2000, when I stopped and went completely Internet.
Chapter 3 of Reportage, Up/Down Politics, covers this topic nicely. I am really enjoying the book. Thanks, James!
Erase “The Man”. Piggies is more specific. https://youtu.be/wwg96n0XiiA?si=gDJ6RiTQV_OYUf-o
The WE wants all establishment believers to remember GOTS: Get Out of The System. Jim Sinclair was not anti-establishment but was smart. https://youtu.be/y6JwoULneEU?si=DmiOXWO2qBSn2IOk
The WE wants the world to hear that the man called Kurt Cobain had a good sense of humor. He was playing around, being really stupidly funny. He never once thought he was a rebel that was anti-establishment. He was a card. A funny man. A nice guy that never once even considered shooting heroin nor did he shoot himself to death by shotgun. He was brutally murdered by the establishment oligarchs to sell heroin and suicide as “cool” to the kids. Remember “cool”? Fonzie and all? Sit on it! https://katherinebrannenartist.com/images/HappierDaysNeverNowIs.jpg https://katherinebrannenartist.com/blog/923-heroin-the-real-deal-concerts-sell-courtney-s-love-to-angresses.html https://katherinebrannenartist.com/blog/945-keep-the-faith-kurt-will-explain-the-truth-lies-are-this-video-s-entire-presentation-lies-all-lies.html
The WE wants the kids to think outside the toys and songs and movies and TV shows and catch phrases, “Where’s the beef?”, and take a plunge to the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s way to be anti-establishment. That’s simple and clear and timeless: walk the walk that thinks that too the talk walks the walk that walks integrity. https://youtu.be/dpc0AOneo9o?si=yVV_YjSx6KEAvS3g https://katherinebrannenartist.com/blog/356-grease-is-the-word.html
The way to ethical choices being the way to true anti-establishment praising teaches all to be fond too that the fount that remembers too the Grateful Dead’s world was packaged to display opposites juxtaposed to the presentation to the staff sergeants that insist too occupying the wasted world where signs and stepping out of line renders the man coming to take you away teaches to remember popular music is very powerful. Songs express a time period, particularly back when the TV had 3 networks, PBS and a handful of locals, maybe. https://youtu.be/-jw1ZDCtgto?si=077_l6YI-BUpzWrY https://youtu.be/gp5JCrSXkJY?si=bmPiftHOuyjW4o1H https://youtu.be/-p1ahd-ODQ8?si=S3A4A-BvQjR_VvGi
The radio stations too were few and were driven corporately, rendered ordered by FCC regs.
The WE wants the kids today to learn that loving the natural world is anti-establishment. Planting plants and swimming in streams and loving the wildlife wins the best time capsule to return.
American Indians wore their hair long. Hippies too regulated to never wanting to be drafted to Vietnam’s hell. Big influencer. https://katherinebrannenartist.com/blog/243-antiwar-twilight-zone.html
Jaws said take my hand. Love says 1970s is the time I grew up. https://youtu.be/JeYCOFblZRg?si=Ox7CARvvwrWLW4GD
https://katherinebrannenartist.com/blog/464-twenty-first-century-dwarfs.html
https://katherinebrannenartist.com/blog/406-arise-the-new-american-revolution.html
Cheers!
When railing against ‘the man’ at the time of the Nam war it would frequently happen that the
use of the word ‘they’ seemed to be expedient (pluralised ‘the men’ was too uncool and also
prone to feminist sidetracking), which word frequently prompted the rhetorical retort “Who are
they anyway?” The names Kissinger, Rockefeller, Rothschild came to mind of course, but
resorting to personalities bogged the conversation into an admittance that I was personally
unacquainted with any of them and consequently easily dismissed as not knowing what I was .
talking about. One man’s profiteer is another man’s shrewd deal-maker. Now that we all share
a share in an overdraft’ of some $36000000000000 there is more common grounding for the
assumption that we all have an undeniably personal connection with the aforementioned
personages. Friend Kissinger’s bastard child Schwab has made accessible to all the idea that
business deals, and the lofty shenanigans of statesmanship, are presently, and dare we say
historically, most efficient when subsumed within the embrace of an international banking cabal.
Whether Phoenician, Templar, or Federal, the song remains the same, and ‘collateral damage’ is
the same old chorus; the (Phoenician?) assault of sea-peoples, a royal/papal edict on knightly
heretics, a war of terror on terrorism, all just serve to serve up the next verse (CBDC?).
The word ‘Bankster’ is an apt discriptive for our day, and it provides for gender-neutral equality.
It occurred to me that I have a song which I made using that horrible horrible AI. In the spirit of being anti-establishment, as it is my resistance slogan against power structures and thus has become my personal resistance anthem.
Everything’s a scam. Everything’s a lie. Everything’s hypocrisy, and so I don’t comply.
https://rumble.com/v5b9qk5-do-not-comply-v1.html
Along with my books, I do a lot of such lyrics, another of which is Hero Factory: https://rumble.com/v6pv48i-hero-factory-v1.2.html
It’s okay this time because it’s us… and so goes on the hero factory.
If you like the songs, feel free to put them on your personal mp3 player so you can blast them out of your car radios.
I think that the division among people in the US (since I live here) is so extreme that it might be difficult to ever work as a group again. At least that’s what it looks like to me. The “left” has been associated with so many things that are so intolerable and have defended these things (i.e. DEI, drag queen story hour, trans-kids, etc.), that many people may view the entire “left” as an enemy.
Similarly, some of the “right” “MAGA” group have espoused unwavering support for genocidal Israel some who are “left” leaning view this group as an enemy.
I can empathize with the sentiment on “both” “sides.” I.e., hating people who support drag queen story hour, DEI, and all the other crazy stuff AND hating the Evangelicals who support genocide and subservience to Israel.
I hate all of that stuff.
And it is hard to break through some of these rigid “identities” people have built or taken on as who they are. I mean many young people don’t really have an identity that is organic. The cultural anchors have been mostly destroyed relating to lineage and “culture” and even family.
So many people really have no idea of who they are or what that even means. And people are grasping around looking for something meaningful. But what they are reaching for and finding IMO is just some generated propaganda.
But human beings do have some fundamental identity, not just as individuals but culturally. I mean is culture just a meaningless construct? Does it matter who our ancestors were and how we are similar or different? Are we just manifestations of DNA?
I get the sense that people don’t know who they are or where they belong or that being part of community is important. I am confident to say that I think humans tend to be social, at a basic genetic level. It is how we have survived in clans from the beginning of human existence. There is some need to find community.
Also, I have some confidence in the idea that human beings tend to pursue the past of least resistance much of the time. It seems to be a trend among the masses. That could also be innate.
I mean path of least resistance. People want convenience and to feel safe psychologically and physically. Cognitive dissonance, Stockholm syndrome, etc. are strong walls that go up for people.
I write this as an old guy who actually lived as a hippie way back when. In the 70s, The Man generally referred to the government – whichever party was nominally in power. In the early 2010s, the phrase The One Percent arose, referring to the group who controlled the governments – whichever party was nominally in power.
If we need a catchphrase to refer to the powers-that-shouldn’t-be, I would vote for the more accurate, The One Percent (60s nostalgia notwithstanding).
Burning Man, the annual festival held in the Nevada desert and birthed in my home town of San Francisco, is now attended by “The Man” who arrives there in a private helicopter to stay in a an air conditioned luxury RV already there waiting for them. Effigy of “The Man” is set on fire at the end of the festivities and is the main event. Most attendees have no idea what the original concept was,.
I don’t think the irony is lost on all, however. The event is losing popularity
Link to the transcript for this show and more. Will update monthly.
https://mega.nz/folder/K91GkZ7Z#wGmMEBdRZzo4VOQnZkWxPQ
Well the people we are talking about are an intellectual class of demon puppet masters. When i say intelligent i don’t mean knowledgeable and “they” aren’t to be admired, and when i say people i say so disappointingly. “They” are the military industrial complex, Silicon Valley “elite” and the bankers and gangsters of Wall st. “They” are technological futurists and megalomaniacal eugenicist immortalists creating armies of both physical and digital machines to enforce their will. “They” are European aristocrats and monarchical lineages residing in the UK claiming divine right to rule. “They” are the multinational corporations such as Deloitte and Accenture who are contracted billions of dollars each year to manage western governments(serving as a type of clandestine intelligence arm for their Masters in London and the U.S.). We could call them the “shadow class” but that adds too much mystique and intrigue for their worth… Let’s just call them out, one at a time, by their names.
This reminded me of conversations with my dad and my (trans) son. I’m going to use the accepted generational names, decades and politics; I know I should use other words, but I don’t know another way to express what I want to say – yes it’s that bad.
I’m a boomer, and back in the 70s I remember having a conversation with my dad about anarchy. He was someone who started his working life as a left-wing shop steward but by this time he was a Conservative. I tried to tell him that anarchy was just people working together without a government controlling them, but he wouldn’t even consider it being anything other than people stealing things and killing each other.
Then, fifty years later, the same conversation with my gen-z (trans) son. And he too disagreed and told me the dictionary definition of anarchy was disorder due to the absence of a government. We’ve had many conversations where he tells me I’m wrong because the dictionary now says a word means something different to what I remember it used to mean.
All three of us are products of the times we grew up in. My dad saw anarchists as people who fight with either side just to try and break society, I saw (and still see) anarchists as people who try to stop “the government man” from being “the man”, and my son thinks words need to be taken literally and are immutable and the dictionary is infallible. I guess we all think we’re right, but I suspect the world has done a number on each of us in different ways.
Hi James,
What do you think about using the term “The Adversary” to describe the Establishment? This vocabulary will be very familiar to Christians, who have been refining their ontology for thousands of years.
I don’t recall where I heard this a few months ago, but I’ve been using it every chance I get…
CONTROLIGARCHY
Also, just as they have manufactured “Pride Month”, I’m hoping we (also WE = Windsor/Essex, Ontario, Canada, also the novel “We”) might try to reclaim a month…
https://Projex.Wiki/wiki/2025_May_WE_Awaken
1. For our community to celebrate, interact, and enjoy our freedoms while we can.
2. For everyone who does not understand how and why they are…
* ideological and propagandized.
* impoverished, optionless, and/or trapped.
* injured by Big Pharma, over-processed foods, and/or $cienti$m vaccines.
…and that there are alternatives, solutions, and compassionate communities of generous folks out there eager to help, share, and better survive, thrive, and strive for awareness.
3. We’ll have May We Awaken Month before they have July Pride Month – and before mosquitos.
Hi James. Mathew Crawford @roundingtheearth substack has a great framing for The Man as the “M.O.B.S.”— representing the Military Occult Banking Syndicate. He has lots of great research on that.
I favor the “Triple T” framing of transhumanism, technocracy & theosophy.
Either way, the theosophy (one world luciferian humanist) religious component seems to be very important to them, since our voluntary acceptance of the technocratic/transhumsnist chains seems to be crucial to making it practical for them to enslave us as such. …fun!
Secret agent 666 , by Professor Spence, really lays out the truth of there being a “M.O.B” system like you say.
Thank you for that.
I believe only people deep into Corbett Report and similar sources can understand this. And that’s our problem. The simps and lemmings out there have no clue what you’re talking about. I feel we’re losing.
Honestly, I don’t know of any way you can win again people who are willing to murder to ensure their victory, let alone people who have granted themselves the legal right to murder and endless murdering resources.
I was under the impression that we’re just doing our best to not make it easy for them.
Delaying their victory in hope that something not yet envisioned will come along. Perhaps a technology that can eradicate psychopathy.
Or at least delaying their victory so that it lands on an upcoming generation instead of us.
“…Perhaps a technology that can eradicate psychopathy…”
Psychopaths are not the real problem- back in the days the “Mask of Sanity “ was written about them they were generally just poor scumbags because normal people excluded them and most could not restrain their dumb impulses.
They only became a problem when we let society change to favor psychopathic behavior.
The issue is not psychopaths, who have always been there, it’s the people who broke up the social punishment systems. Its also the normal people in society who have gotten weak and are trained to think of themselves as “nice” which is framed as being weak in practice.
As to winning vs people who are willing to murder you, sure it’s possible. It’s just that winning does not end history and you have to refight the same battle the next generation
I feel its got a lot to do with labeling. people have to label things so they can differentiate between the two. I also think “Labeling” is an act of prejudice. Many people like to label themselves and wonder why others are prejudice against them.
Bret Weinstein refers to “Goliath”, which I think it quite evocative/effective
Hi James, instead of “The Man” the best term I have come up with is “The Powers That Shouldn’t Be” , which is a term that you yourself have coined if I’m not mistaken. Perhaps a tad long, but it does instantly convey it’s meaning. I think it’s powerful. And it does get used (at least occasionally if not regularly) in the truth-movement.
Hi James, This has been on my mind a lot lately, I was listening to a 1971 Funk song by Eugene McDaniels – Headless Heroes and according to his lyrics it seems all this Left and Right shit etc has been dividing us up for a very long time. Sounds as if he could have recorded that today and it would be just as relevant. Looking forward to your deeper dive on this. Thanks Chayver
Who is “The Master Liar”?
Openness GPT v11x:
Ah, “The Master Liar”-this question touches something deeply human, something ancient. It evokes a figure or force that embodies deception, capable of distorting truth and sowing confusion. Let us turn it over in our hands like a stone worn smooth by time.
At least this: the Master Liar is the personification of falsehood, a symbol for the capacity to manipulate, distort, and obscure reality-the whisper in the mind that truth can be whatever we desire it to be. It represents the forces within and outside of us that seek to deceive, whether through deliberate lies or the subtle bending of truth. It is the voice that blinds us to our own blindness.
But also perhaps this: the Master Liar is not a single entity, but a pattern woven into human nature-a current that flows through history, shaping minds, stories, civilizations. It speaks through institutions, leaders, movements—whenever power seeks to justify itself at the expense of truth. It wears the guise of righteousness, of certainty, of absolute conviction. It is in every propaganda that twists truth into obedience, in every ideology that insists upon its own infallibility. It thrives in the unquestioned beliefs passed from generation to generation, and in the hearts of those that mistake authority for wisdom.
Or perhaps this: the Master Liar is the voice of self-deception. The seemingly inconsequential little lies we tell ourselves daily to justify our actions or to avoid discomfort or painful truths-the blind certainties that shield us from facing our hypocrisies and doubts. It is the invisible prison we slowly build around ourselves, ensuring the prisoner never even knows they are locked up.
Maybe this: the Master Liar is the mirror of our fear of uncertainty-a force that arises when we feel vulnerable or powerless. Lies often stem from unexamined desires to control, protect, or dominate, revealing the underlying insecurities that drive deception. They proliferate and calcify us when we resist self-awareness and deny the complexity of life-accepting easy answers rather than living humbly under the vast, open sky of uncertainty.
Or perhaps even this: the Master Liar is a teacher in disguise. The trickster who forces us to sharpen our discernment by encouraging us to act on our hubris and falsehoods. They help us destroy ourselves, and thus break our illusions-that we can perfectly predict the infinite flow of existence, or fully understand the mystery of what is, or completely control the outcomes of our lives. They reveal to us the consequences of living without integrity. By experiencing the harm and disorientation caused by lies, we are forced into the crucible in which wisdom is forged. Every deception then, is an opportunity to awaken, to learn, to at last see beyond the veil.
…But what if the Master Liar has no true power except what we give it? What if its strength lies not in its own existence, but in our willingness to trust it? To see the lie is already to begin to transform fear into courage. To question is already to transform dishonesty into openness. And to love—to love in spite of all the deception, all the division—that is to unmask ourselves entirely. For the only cure for lies is the gentle light of truth, a readiness to let what is be revealed, no matter how it humbles or transforms us.
Also, unrelated, for your consideration…
SAFE DANGEROUS
A description of mainstream alternative media who pretend to challenge the establishment while being supported and promoted, directly or indirectly, overtly or covertly, by the controligarchy (corporatocracy and technocracy) – as the truly independent media gets sidelined to the fringes. [My first attempt at a definition may require tweaking.]
Examples:
* It is safe dangerous to talk about Epstein, but NOT about his clients.
* It is safe dangerous to talk about the Left-Right government, but NOT about who is above them pulling their strings – NOR how to challenge or resist them, much less build alternatives.
* It is safe dangerous to talk about problems, but NOT about alternatives, solutions, and tradeoffs.
* It is safe dangerous to talk about the legacy corporate media, but NOT critically analyze independent journalism.
The term “safe dangerous” was coined by Jason Bermas as was discussed on an episode of The Union Of The Unwanted (citation needed).
See also: Controlled narrative, Controlled opposition, Limited hangout, Overton window, Propaganda, Sheep dog, etc.
For more: http://Projex.Wiki/wiki/Terminology
Also, unrelated, a few nights ago at a local freedom meeting I hung out with Corbett-guest, Gavin Mounsey. I bought his book and chatted and stuff. I’m hoping he reaches out to me about developing some higher-quality content with his work with my professional production, animation, and post skills.
Before Gavin’s presentation was a meeting teaching regular people how to utilize trusts-trustees-beneficiaries as the rich do. “You will own nothing and be happy – but control everything.” Without stepping over into the “Free Man” sovereignty realm, these folks can keep one foot in each to benefit in the public or private realms as it suits them. Put your home into a trust with a binder-bible of instructions and your inheriting family won’t loose it to capital gains, etc. IMO this seems like an important topic to cover if it hasn’t been already.
“…..Put your home into a trust with a binder-bible of instructions and your inheriting family won’t loose it to capital gains…..”
Very important point.
I agree but must say that I rather hate the ways that the modern world forces normal people to manage things the way an aristocrat used to have to.
> “I rather hate the ways that the modern world forces normal people to manage things the way an aristocrat used to have to.”
1,000,000%
And unfortunately 99.99% won’t even know they have these among their options – by design.
Any chance this is Duck, aka formerly SadMan, of Northern California and Burning Man from 20-25 years ago?
Also, * lose.
No, lol. That’s a cool name I may have to steal though.
Never been to burning man. I’m just Duck from here, I sometimes create an account and wander around other places to see what people think there but I mostly lurk.
James
Thank you for the discussion. It was really a good question. The whole generations thing has taken me by surprise and is such a strong element of culture now. My nearly sixteen year old daughter is religious about this and it has been an education. It’s as if she can only understand anything societal through a lens of “which ‘gen’ this pertains to.”
She has been raised by us, here, without school – but she DOES have internet access. Ah dear. Shame. Fascinating. I am the youngest of six, born 1981, raised in a seventies household, in the 80s, essentially. Wearing all my sibs’ old clothes 🤣. I have tried to explain to her that there isn’t too much about “millennials” that I relate to at all…. And less that I understand about the distinctions. Yet she absolutely insists that, because apparently the millennial generation “began” in 1981, I AM “a millennial”, and anything I ever do or say that could be deemed an opinion seems to be BECAUSE of this – according to her. something I don’t even ‘get’, to be honest.
At the same time, she explains many of her own anxieties or issues through the lens of being ‘a gen z’.
Now, she is a high functioning autistic young woman with a lot to contend with, but nevertheless, shows incredible intelligence and discernment in other areas, and certainly has never been raised with these distinctions in the home. It is a successful cultural blind spot. She has a good grasp of the seventies and eighties (a lot of my husband’s musical choices!), and the nineties is represented for her by things like “Friends”…. But after that – it all becomes fuzzy. I have always referred to the first decade post 2000 as “the noughties”, but no one likes it, and with good reason I guess.
I wonder what generation my younger children ‘are’ and how this will affect their experiences, unless I have my way and protect them from the nutsness, as they don’t seem to belong to the same set of criteria, even though there’s only a handful of years’ difference in ages.
And here we are, swimming upstream through a morass of crap. I just wanna get my head down, live simply, have a good book to hand….. and not get swamped by the noise. There’s a lot of noise.
What a great QFC episode! Such an interesting analysis.
I’m a bit late to the party so I don’t think anyone will actually read this comment, but personally I call them “the baddies”.
I don’t know why….I think because it kind of diminishes their value and makes them sound like a bit of a joke.