How can two groups of people come to polar opposite views?
I must admit that I did not spend much time on Geopolitical events until I got off the work treadmill. Did I accept everything I was told? Yes and no.
To obtain a degree you need to regurgitate material that would satisfy the examiners. Certain concepts bothered me but it was contrary to the accepted norm so I went along. Sounds familiar? If you questioned something in your profession and spoke up you could run afoul of your “regulators”. As being hauled in front of a discipline committee.
On the other hand, life experiences altered my views on health and the concept of money.
So what opened my eyes to the world? The availability of information 24/7 on the Internet. Almost unlimited but one needed to filter what one saw. Other than an experimental Open Net primitive dial-up in the early 90’s in our rural township (mostly Old Order Mennonites who never would have used it) , I did not have access to non-dial-up internet until I moved to Vermont. The telephone Party line was a thing in our township still. We didn’t have one but neighbours did. The internet would not work for Dial-up. The project flopped.
An awakening: I was amazed at the info that one could access and lightning fast and I now had the time. Instantly, 911 theories were presented to me for the first time years after the event. Never thought of that event other than what I was told as I had no alternate information or time to think about it. Never saw the videos of 911 until that time. Building 7? Went to a dinner party where Bob Hagar, of NBC, news attended. (He covered 911 that day for the network). I had the audacity to question the official 911 story and I was no longer invited to that social circle. What did it? Building 7! Another Network producer who I used to hike with told me not to question the narrative or you will become a pariah. At least he was nice about it.
I was living in the sphere of Dartmouth College and came to believe that it was a recruitment centre for the CIA and the Deep State due to all the retired folk I met over the years. Am I correct? A friend who directed me to Fully’s site was the first to tell me that. She has lived and experienced these people for 40 years.
I have only been awake 20 years. I’ve read various histories that clearly showed that the narrative is written by the victors. I had heard that before but had no time to explore. He who wins controls the narrative.
From my uneducated past, it became possible to understand how people see the present day captured Democrats and Biden in a favourable light. Covid and other scams. To think, I may have been one of those if I continued on my day to day busy life.
Question everything.
Well stated Columbia
Interesting set of circumstances you have lived to bring you to this point . Each of us has a story unique but similar to yours.
The Instant Communication with everything and everybody on Planet e
Earth ( Flat or Round Planet Earth) has changed everything.
More and more people are using it for research and connecting to like minds . before this Age of Communication we were completely at the mercy of the narrative controllers .
That is why I am an optimist .
20 years. A long time learning and uncovering. Well done!
For me, it was connecting with a group of business people who steered me into the concepts of worldview and ideas have consequences. My dad taught me in my mid-20s that government was not to be trusted – that they were slowly destroying wealth and undermining the medium of exchange. Had my eyes opened at that time to the national indoctrination centers (public schools) required to keep the scam moving forward.
I’ve met and dealt with tons and tons of educated idiots in my work and travels. The smartest people on earth are those doing the heavy lifting to make and produce useful things, including food. Everyone else is riding on the wealth they create. I’d rather have dinner with a guy who runs a roofing company than the highest professor or politician or executive in the land. Give me the common folk who know what life is and what it takes to stay alive.
Now I know too much – see too much – understand too much. At my age, the brain reels. I’m working at the next two elections in Florida (August local and November state and national) simply for the money. I won’t be voting; it’s an endorsement of the scam raining down on us. They are ALL the same…they march to the same endless drumbeat.
Folks,
I’m just 17 years into my journey. Hell, I’m just 48!
Commuted 4 days a week, spending 2-3 hours on the road, from 2008 to 2020, when Covid hit.
I owe a lot to learning about the conservatives from the likes of the late great Rush Limbaugh. But he could not see Trump coming.
I learned a lot of scientific questioning of the liberals from Michael Savage.
I learned a lot of constitutional right-wing-ism from Mark Levin. His support of Israel turned me off. He was an anti-Iran warmonger. He never supported the 9/11 doubters.
Being in the Silicon Valley, I was one of the few who questioned the real motives behind why the likes of Google (searches), Netflix (entertainment at will), Facebook (learning what is lacking in your own life) mushroomed. The whole “really educated” world is now trying to detox from these drugs.
Public school education: challenged me endlessly but I stuck to my guns of how I differed in my learning approach versus what my daughters learned at school.
Always have the greatest respect for my car mechanic and many other great contractors whose work ethic stunned me.
Covid sealed it for me. Got vaccinated as I needed to put bread on the table, having taken the humongous arduous task off doing the most un-American thing: paying off my mortgage. Learned the most practical life lessons from the evergreen Dave Ramsey. May God bless him and his family.
Read ZeroHedge every day and got connected with some greatest authors from the sidebar, some gone already.
Learned a tonne from 321gold.com
Sir Fully gave us this platform of learning more and more, arguing, getting me connected with some of the greatest thinkers I have come across in the last 5 years or so. Some truly awesome human beings, some of which are not even at the Tent any more. But I’m connected with them.
I could go on and on.
Thank you Sir Columbia. What a nice start to the day today, reading and contributing to this thread!
GL
48!! You’re just a young punk. Wish I was 48 again. No, wait, I take that back. I’ve done 48 and a do-over ain’t worth what’s coming…