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Everything about globohomo and the woke requires coercion, coercion requires force, and cancel culture is that force. Why did the CDC just vote unanimously to recommend the Covid jab for babies? Mostly it is to eliminate all liability. But also, if you aren't unanimous in all things mRNA jab, you don't work for, associate with or get funding from CDC, FDA, NIH. That is both coercion and force.

I don't have much sympathy now though, for the argument that "I just need to get to retirement, but the benefits, my insurance, I have to feed my family, etc, now that they have tripled down on jabs for babies. You don't get to complain about the coercion and force preventing you from taking a stand once it starts looking like genocide.

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Oct 22, 2022·edited Oct 22, 2022Liked by Grant Smith

Great stuff, Grant.

"These categories are not meant to be all inclusive. Can you think of others? If so, drop them in the comments!"

I can think of two others at the moment, that I believe are distinguishable from the rest.

4. The bribed and/or blackmailed: the targets of a sophisticated carrot-stick strategy, in which they come to believe everyone is caught in the same net, and the only way to free themselves and enjoy life's fruits is to retail ever more obvious and grandiose lies.

5. The posessed: in secular terms, I suppose you could see this as the victims of a certain trigger or switch being activated in the mind, after which the normal (i.e logical, inheritable) system of value is inverted, while still managing to reinforce a heroic self-image.

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Although I am elsewhere, I still have some connections with one university in mainland China -- this connection expiring January 2023. Because nominally of the Covid-Zero policy, the faculty there get tested every TWO weeks and likewise need to report their movements. Compliance rate: 100% -- from what I can tell based on the WeChat group all the faculty belong to. The Bio-Security Administrative State is actualized -- although obviously also still undergoing development.

In the USA, such efforts been largely corporatized -- but said corporate leaders and other members of the donor class likely also revolving door members of the Administrative State.

You are calling upon one Western Tradition -- the one concerned with Liberty. But before John Locke or JS Mill or F. Hayek, there was Thomas Hobbes, who discarded divine right but nevertheless argued for the absolutism of state power. According to Degree Query: Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan is the most-assigned book in Ivy League colleges, appearing in 209 syllabi. https://www.degreequery.com/the-most-popular-college-books/

A sign of the times, indeed. Our Ivy League educated and so presumed elite likely have no doubts about their right to rule.

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Oct 22, 2022Liked by Grant Smith

I feel like a simpleton writing here for all of you are so well read, but my experiences have shown me that there is what I call an Alien Mind, or Satan, which works against mankind continually. JeSus called them the Tares. They are empathetic and work together by mind against us, also urging others not quite a part of them their way. They are strong mind-wise and can cause someone pain or ill health of varying degrees, as Mary Baker Eddy of the Church of Christ Scientist understood. Richard Shaver who dealt with them said that even toe stubbings are caused by them. Those who have lost their veil covering their mind because of the sins of the fathers, are more prone to lean their way unless they have been given extraordinary understanding of God and the Reason of Things. Evil has its own self-destruct mechanism. I don't think you can sort out the various type off people who might succumb to this evil because it is too varying. We can only suggest how we might overeome it.

Bab Roberts, the prophet, said that from time to time God had to intervene to take some of the Alien Mind away so humanity could move into the future. Apparently that mind can also make us forget things. We have seen how they have tried to erase Christianity or at least moral thinking here in the US. Sometimes the evil had grown to a threat level, more evil minds than good, and they had to be blasted off the face of the Earth, like what happened to Sodom and Gomorrah. In the Book of Revelation, John speaks about God coming to remove Satan for 1000 years so we have time to evolve. That was Job's job. He suffered greatly and didn't know why. God simply said even good people suffer. Bab had said that Job was like Prometheus who was chained to a rock and made to suffer unto death every day, only to regenerate at night, to be ready to be attacked again the next day. God had made Job, Prometheus and even Bab a Lamb of God, in that they suffered every day. Every day God allowed the Predators, those of the Alien Mind, to attack, in effect marking them as someone who follows the Beast Mind, the mind of force and coercion. Once marked, God can take them from the Earth. Bab had said there are many involved in this process and spoke about a man in Africa who suffered as he did.

The Alien Mind is also patient and works many years ahead to cause things to happen. Their hope is to destroy humanity completely. God rejected them because they would not follow the Perfect Pattern for our level of development, and in retaliation they come after the Wheat, our generation.

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Oct 22, 2022Liked by Grant Smith

💬 When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it. ~~Frédéric Bastiat, a couple of centuries back

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Once we throw meritocracy out of the [Overton] window and never look back, the inevitable merry march along the chain begins: wise fool → clever idiot → well-intentioned idiot → idiotic idiot. The endpoint being the rule by rube™ (h/t your favourite pr cat).

I lifted the ↑ sequence from inestimable Tim Morgan who labours patiently & relentlessly trying to (re?)situate the public concept of economy onto its actual base as a primarily *energy system*. Looks like largely in vain so far 😢

https://surplusenergyeconomics.wordpress.com/2022/10/19/242-the-dynamics-of-global-re-pricing/

And yes, ty once again for McConkey! 👌 Can’t promise it’s the last instance 😊

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I agree, and have a similar term "institutionalized trauma", where different sectors self-select for and amplify one or more of Laurence Heller's Development Trauma Survival Styles. I haven't included the military in my list of institutions, but I think that fits too. Some relevant excerpts from my article on this

https://garysharpe.substack.com/p/trauma-at-the-institutional-level

"... in the UK and US in particular, it seems our institutions have become so very locked in to institutional forms of defensive states, devoid of any supervision from right hemispheres' way of attending. Institutionalized left hemisphere attendance indeed! By “institutions”, I am referring to our political, news media, corporate, academic and medical systems. I see these as having become self-selecting and amplifying of, and hence largely made up of people with, certain trauma survival styles.

The manner in which our institutions are communicating with the folks they are meant to serve, is itself, in my view, clearly very triggering to large sections of the people, and is driving a lot of people into permanent, heightened defensive nervous system states, thus spreading left hemisphere overactivation. At the same time, the institutions are also clearly reacting very defensively when the worldview of lots of people is contrary to the institution's own narratives.

Unfortunately, our institutions are now resorting to blaming and shaming the very people that ineffective messaging and lack of good communication skills has already triggered into defensive states. The fastest way I am aware of for rapidly escalating defensive states is through shaming and blaming. One reason for which is that the left hemisphere also does not accept responsibility for anything.

In this way, it seems to me that we have entered a cycle of increasingly explicitly threatening rhetoric, and the resulting increasing entrenchment against or resistance to the messages."

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Nov 8, 2022Liked by Grant Smith

Nice essay, but I have a question. If the elites of globohomo believe in equality why do they have a victim hierarchy? It seems to me they are far more motivated by hatred of traditional constraints of behavior, such as Christianity or white power structures, and in fact view these as competitor systems of control which they want to destroy.

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Most "pundits" on the populist side try to find a single source for the evil that is threatening us. I appreciate the fact that you are more nuanced.

For Mathew Crawford that single source are the bankers and the DoD. They are pulling the strings. Everybody on their side who is not an idiot is either on the payroll or blackmailed or both. See But Why? section at the end of this post: https://substack.com/inbox/post/79820887

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Did you mean this essay by N.S. Lyons (not The Bad Cat) by any chance: https://open.substack.com/pub/theupheaval/p/its-not-hypocrisy-youre-just-powerless.

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