Things are only going to get crazier this year (and probably next), meaning that many more people are going to get red-pilled against their will. What insights can can we share with them?
I've been thinking a lot about this too. As an example, when I tell my fellow MInnesotans that Minnesota is a trans refuge State, that a parent can move to Minnesota, and if their kid says they are trans, the State will not acknowledge the custody of the other parent, if that parent objects to transing their kid, even if there is an extradition order. Neither liberals or conservatives believe me when I tell them that, but I have read the damn statutes on the books. They act like I am the kook.
People are only capable of processing what they are open to. if they are not open to it, their defenses go up and then trying to "red pill" them mostly reinforces their prejudices. That said, I never waste an opportunity to plant a seed, to try and pierce through that veil.
Otherwise I'm mostly engaged in trying to help people strengthen themselves after they have taken the "red pill." That is much the point of my posts on spiritual alchemy, and lately I have been posting about creative meditation and discussing more of the western magical tradition. Changing consciousness is an art form, both in the self and helping others.
Very well said! Planting seeds is the best thing to do, because when Life applies the right kind of pressure and the narrative collapses, people can become receptive to the seeds that were sown in earlier times. That's the advantage of pursuing Truth rather than trying to convince people of a false narrative: the Truth has no expiration date and so will lie there, until the soil of the heart becomes ready for it to take root and grow. (Obviously Jesus' parable of the sower conveys this dynamic.)
I subscribe to the Libs of TikTok newsletter, she sends out examples of transvestite craziness all the time.
They should be called transvestites. They want to avoid that word, so with media help they invented "trans" and "transsexual". Call them transvestites, which means cross-dressing. It points out that's what they are doing, they aren't changing the sex.
Also point out that they are flashers - the men who revel in going to women's bathroom, or dressing in a skirt and going to where children gather at an event in town. In earlier times they would have been flashers and been arrested, now they are transvestites and praised. Both are the same, pushing their sexuality in women's and children's faces and then going home to masturbate to it.
I would support trannies. But then it became clear they want to take their fetish into women's and kids spaces, so now I think of them mostly as pedos and sex deviants, and I call them trannies.
You might like the Disaffected Podcast... A recent episode described how there's no escape from the 🏳️⚧️ ideology, the influence has become too embedded. Several states are these so-called refuge states. I didn't see a way to share their Rumble channel (they are live Saturday 8 PM EST and upload to CensorTube Sunday, but here's a recent one with a segment on the WPATH files.
He can be a bit much sometimes, but I have felt that way about a lot of the gay men I have known, lol. He displays an extraordinary amount of courage, and I truly appreciate him for it.
I'm actually going to weigh in on this as I've red pilled a few people. Once you start seeing things you had not seen before you start finding all kinds of things. I tell people, if you come across a meme or some infomration and your reaction is, "that can't be true" or if its "oh, of course that's true" source it. These days about 80% of things I see from the "red pill community" are dead on. 10% are technically true, but there's some context that makes a difference, and 10% are the Babylon Bee with the header cut off.
Good advice. It can be a fine line you have to walk, between being willing to ask "crazy" questions, on the one hand, and being properly skeptical of the sometimes crazy claims you see online, on the other. There's the "Trust, but verify" saying, but in today's crazy and corrupt world, it might be better as a default to "Distrust, but verify the grounds for your mistrust." It's not easy, that's for sure, to discern good information from bad, when there are so many propagandists and bullshitters coming from so many different angles and with so many competing agendas.
I’ve been red-pilled a number of times in my life. The first major one involved rethinking my religious views after being raised in Tim LaHaye’s church and attending Jerry Falwell’s college, Liberty University (graduated in ’81), then teaching at my Christian high school alma mater for 4 years. That was a slow, gradual process and tough and fearful to endure. At the end of it, there was a real sense of freedom that I had never experienced before.
But like many here on Substack, the last four years have been the biggest red-pill of my life. Like your example of the house in the sinkhole, I think this is the hardest part to accept for me: my pre-2020 life is gone. I’ve read a lot of people experiencing this same sense of loss. For those us who just wanted to be left alone and were left alone living our mundane but significant, satisfying lives…those days are gone.
Interestingly enough, the evil I’ve seen of late has caused me to move back toward my religious roots…not in a way that will ever resemble how I lived and thought in my 20s, but a move back nonetheless.
For advice…I’d say…be brave. Trust yourself.
Don’t lose hope. I’ve always liked the line from The Shawshank Redemption:
“Remember, Red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.”
What you describe of your journey sounds similar to my own: starting out with religious/metaphysical red pills about my own beliefs, getting mega-doses of red pills about the evil in the world and how corrupt things really are, and finding that pushing me back towards a deeper engagement with the spiritual/metaphysical issues. And what you said about not losing hope is incredibly important: I think the demons running this realm feed off of our negative emotional energy somehow and so want us in a perpetual state of despair; so I want to stay hopeful (obviously within reason), not only so that I can have a better life, but so that I do not give these demons what they want from me.
Advice? Nothing about on the ground reality has changed. Only your perspective has. Big picture things generally have subtle effects on day-to-day life. It might change your long term strategies and goals, but chances are everything about your normal life is exactly how you left it, and will continue to proceed as you're used to.
So don't panic and run off to build your doomsday bunker, or quit your job to do full time doom prophecy on the street corner. Chill the fuck out and don't chimp on all the people in your life who are still in the Matrix. Not only will it not change their minds, but you might freak them out to the point they call in Agent Smith.
This is the kind of post whose value is immediate and profound even if it needs to be read a few times to be properly absorbed (not because of the writing, but because of the topics covered) and doesn't include any special pull-quotes, knee-slappers, or other dopaminergic elements. I can see you worked very hard on this and I understand why because I agonize over many of the same things.
I can't help but take the piss because that's how I react to a combination of authoritarianism and absurdities, but I have backed off somewhat on my tone if not my insistence because I think a lot of the people I've been tempted for years to write off as brainwashed are instead reachable but paralyzed by the realization that *all politicians and corporatists suck* and there is nowhere to turn but to each other.
It's helpful to remember some of the biggest lies I swallowed myself, why I believed them, and how I wound up escaping partisan nonsense when I'm tempted to give up outright or just switch to 100% bleak humor and shitposting. I also realize I still have a lot of bullshit caked in the crevices of my own head, even if Iit's not yet clear exactly what and where it is.
Thank you, sir! And yeah, I totally hear you when it comes to taking the piss when confronted with conformmunist illogic. I don't think there's a hard and fast rule, because sometimes, these folks deserve to be mocked, and I honestly think that being mocked for saying something absurd and being so self-righteous about it can really be a positive experience. But obviously if you have a real-life friend or family member who naively believes some regime propaganda and you value that relationship, well, would you rather win the debate or maintain the relationship? Same thing if you encounter someone online who is acting in good faith (though that can be very rare, depending on the site). But the Pharisees? Well, even Jesus mocked them rather mercilessly. Sometimes, that's the right thing to do. But of course, wisdom is required to discern the appropriate response.
"With measurement errors negated, what remains is the real and exciting possibility we have misunderstood the universe," said Adam Riess (lead researcher and Nobel prize winner).
I’m seeing more of these stories every week from JWST. It won’t be long before we experience the next scientific revolution. Einstein’s ideas (the math for the Big Bang) will be superseded.
My red-pill experience left me so shaken (and suicidal) that I had to withdraw from the world in many ways. As bad as 2024 will likely be, it's still the year I'm starting to re-enter the world with a new foundation for my house, so I'm hoping it will be better than any of the other years starting with "202". That said, I don't know if this qualifies as advice, but I'd say something along the lines of "don't be afraid to give yourself time and space to process things." In my case it was very necessary.
That's solid advice. You absolutely have to give yourself the time and space to come to terms with things after getting "red-pilled," because of how traumatic the experience can be -- and I hate to use the term "trauma" because of how overused and watered-down it has gotten, but it really is the correct term to use here -- it really is a form of psychological trauma. Some people absolutely go off the rails because they don't know how to deal with it. Glad to hear you made it through that dark valley and can now see sunlight on the other side!
There’s a very large cohort out there that knows they are wearing the same jersey as the perps(of the current and burgeoning madness), that they have worn the same jersey all of their lives. Taking that jersey off represents THE MOTHER OF ALL RED PILLS. Many will simply never be able to do it. It represents a convulsive cognitive dissonance that will not, cannot, be tolerated. I had a pastor in my youth who was fond of saying “Some people would rather be right than saved”. That pokes at the center of it. The proudest people I ever have known have been those that do not know God, and seem proudest of all of not wanting to.
The thing is if you’re resistant to the reality you’re going to resist every possible avenue of investigation of it. You have to for self protection.
It’s a psychological defense. If you for instance start questioning the covid narrative then you’re fucked. All the other narratives will soon crumble.
So the defense is to resist it all. You cannot even crack the door an eighth of an inch , nor the window.
If you persist in resisting any counter narrative ideas, your house built on the foundation of denying reality will actually hold up and seem to grow even stronger. This foundation is strong and at the same time incredibly vulnerable.
If you open the door to any of it (happening more and more now. One no longer needs to pro actively search it out it’s now punching people in the face and harder to ignore) then that whole intact strong foundation will turn to quicksand far quicker than one is prepared for.
So it’s frightening. It is terrifying. And getting moreso as time passes.
Those that hold on to the false (but strong) foundation the longest are going to have the hardest breaks with reality when it crumbles. This year. Next year. Whatever. A lot of demoralization and despair and mental illness is going to be observable.
To be open to the counter arguments is a different and more grounded view. For instance if I get caught believing something that’s not quite true it doesn’t need to destroy my entire foundation of beliefs nor my psychological well being. As it’s a belief system based more on having questions than having answers. This works for me.
This is the difference now between being culturally “left” vs “not.” I won’t say “right” I’d rather say “not left.” To remain adherent to the “left” you’ve got to keep everything all the time all-in on the orthodoxy. This cannot be sustained.
Vs to be “counter” or “not left”. You can be as disparate as you want in your beliefs and views and always be open to new information without having to see the whole house go down.
Thanks for the kind words! You're 100% right that it's not a viable long-term strategy to cling ever more tightly to an ideology that keeps leading you to believe things that turn out to be wrong. The reality debt eventually gets to be too costly to sustain, and in the process of trying to make it work, you hollow out your own soul and make yourself increasingly fragile. These Marxcissists will learn sooner or later, and the longer it goes on, the more painful the lesson will be!
I"m reading Solzhenitsyn's Gulag for the first time, about a quarter of the way through. I was raised to believe communism is bad. It's kind of nice to find out that I was not misled in that respect. Did not know "gulag" was an acronym.
He is in Lubyanka. His cellmates Fastenko and Yuri are working on him now, helping him unbelieve much of what he believed about the Soviet project in his youth.
It is a book I would like to hand on to the young Bolsheviks in America today, the kids staffing federal government agencies, to help them reconsider their firm belief in the wisdom of censoring mis-dis-mal information to protect our sacred democracy.
My advice for the recently red pilled from a 30 year red PIL veteran is to use the internet as a guide to lead you toward books that are well researched and footnoted. Seek out published works (not self published) materials.
Publishing houses take significant financial risks for the content they publish in print.
The flip side of that coin is there are generally ZERO guardrails for bullshit stories anywhere on the web.
Full stop. Here’s a few books to get you started:
The Creature from Jekyll Island by G Edward Griffin
Thanks! G Edward Griffin delivers the goods in The Creature from Jekyll Island, and the Federal Reserve and central banking system really is a critical pillar of the enemy's control system. We would have an entirely different civilization without the financial system that we've had. I will check out the other two you list.
One minor point of contention: I would not say that one should *not* seek out self-published material, because I have found some really solid self-published material. Of course, I have also come across a great deal of self-published bunk, too. What I would agree with is that you have to exercise caution when it comes to self-published material. Partially this is because "respectable" people are less likely to take the red pill in the first place, and people can be less "respectable" for a variety of reasons, including such things as having a history of mental illness or severe personality disorders or any number of things that may then make them unreliable as sources of information. In addition to this, the "enemy" (or the "Blob" as Mike Benz calls it) likes to discredit legitimate movements by promoting charlatans and false narratives, so the people you encounter in these spaces are not always what they seem. Of course, book deals with traditional publishing houses also seem to be a means the Blob uses to pay its propagandists and loyal apparatchiks. Bottom line, caution and discretion are needed, even when dealing with someone who claims to be red-pilled on the same topics we are!
My advice: try to eat reasonably healthy and get in shape. It’s the best path to good mental health. If you can do martial arts, all the better. Not one of the fake ones like Aikido or whatever. I mean boxing, Jiu Jitsu, Muay Thai. One of the real ones where you become able to break limbs.
>Given the way the world is, it would take a superhuman level of awareness and strength of character for you to have grown up without believing at least some of the really big lies.
Indeed. Living in Europe, I used to believe that the 1990 war against Iraq and the war against Serbia had been justified. That EU membership was a good thing. That U.S. gun laws caused the gun crime. My mind was changed by people online. By seeing the facts. Since then I'm the one who changes people's minds; on the biggest question, the media bosses, I have changed the minds of nine people that I know in real life. So it works. You can change people's minds with your writings and in person.
I've been thinking a lot about this too. As an example, when I tell my fellow MInnesotans that Minnesota is a trans refuge State, that a parent can move to Minnesota, and if their kid says they are trans, the State will not acknowledge the custody of the other parent, if that parent objects to transing their kid, even if there is an extradition order. Neither liberals or conservatives believe me when I tell them that, but I have read the damn statutes on the books. They act like I am the kook.
People are only capable of processing what they are open to. if they are not open to it, their defenses go up and then trying to "red pill" them mostly reinforces their prejudices. That said, I never waste an opportunity to plant a seed, to try and pierce through that veil.
Otherwise I'm mostly engaged in trying to help people strengthen themselves after they have taken the "red pill." That is much the point of my posts on spiritual alchemy, and lately I have been posting about creative meditation and discussing more of the western magical tradition. Changing consciousness is an art form, both in the self and helping others.
Very well said! Planting seeds is the best thing to do, because when Life applies the right kind of pressure and the narrative collapses, people can become receptive to the seeds that were sown in earlier times. That's the advantage of pursuing Truth rather than trying to convince people of a false narrative: the Truth has no expiration date and so will lie there, until the soil of the heart becomes ready for it to take root and grow. (Obviously Jesus' parable of the sower conveys this dynamic.)
While lies are more like poison that accumulating is hostile to life and will increase the likelihood of something like cancer.
I subscribe to the Libs of TikTok newsletter, she sends out examples of transvestite craziness all the time.
They should be called transvestites. They want to avoid that word, so with media help they invented "trans" and "transsexual". Call them transvestites, which means cross-dressing. It points out that's what they are doing, they aren't changing the sex.
Also point out that they are flashers - the men who revel in going to women's bathroom, or dressing in a skirt and going to where children gather at an event in town. In earlier times they would have been flashers and been arrested, now they are transvestites and praised. Both are the same, pushing their sexuality in women's and children's faces and then going home to masturbate to it.
I would support trannies. But then it became clear they want to take their fetish into women's and kids spaces, so now I think of them mostly as pedos and sex deviants, and I call them trannies.
You might like the Disaffected Podcast... A recent episode described how there's no escape from the 🏳️⚧️ ideology, the influence has become too embedded. Several states are these so-called refuge states. I didn't see a way to share their Rumble channel (they are live Saturday 8 PM EST and upload to CensorTube Sunday, but here's a recent one with a segment on the WPATH files.
https://rumble.com/v4i9sjl-episode-160-feb.-24-2024.html
No one says it quite like Josh. I haven't seen that one. I will have to check it out. Thanks for the link.
Agreed! Josh certainly has a way with words!
He can be a bit much sometimes, but I have felt that way about a lot of the gay men I have known, lol. He displays an extraordinary amount of courage, and I truly appreciate him for it.
I'm actually going to weigh in on this as I've red pilled a few people. Once you start seeing things you had not seen before you start finding all kinds of things. I tell people, if you come across a meme or some infomration and your reaction is, "that can't be true" or if its "oh, of course that's true" source it. These days about 80% of things I see from the "red pill community" are dead on. 10% are technically true, but there's some context that makes a difference, and 10% are the Babylon Bee with the header cut off.
Good advice. It can be a fine line you have to walk, between being willing to ask "crazy" questions, on the one hand, and being properly skeptical of the sometimes crazy claims you see online, on the other. There's the "Trust, but verify" saying, but in today's crazy and corrupt world, it might be better as a default to "Distrust, but verify the grounds for your mistrust." It's not easy, that's for sure, to discern good information from bad, when there are so many propagandists and bullshitters coming from so many different angles and with so many competing agendas.
Really enjoyed this, Daniel. Thanks.
I’ve been red-pilled a number of times in my life. The first major one involved rethinking my religious views after being raised in Tim LaHaye’s church and attending Jerry Falwell’s college, Liberty University (graduated in ’81), then teaching at my Christian high school alma mater for 4 years. That was a slow, gradual process and tough and fearful to endure. At the end of it, there was a real sense of freedom that I had never experienced before.
But like many here on Substack, the last four years have been the biggest red-pill of my life. Like your example of the house in the sinkhole, I think this is the hardest part to accept for me: my pre-2020 life is gone. I’ve read a lot of people experiencing this same sense of loss. For those us who just wanted to be left alone and were left alone living our mundane but significant, satisfying lives…those days are gone.
Interestingly enough, the evil I’ve seen of late has caused me to move back toward my religious roots…not in a way that will ever resemble how I lived and thought in my 20s, but a move back nonetheless.
For advice…I’d say…be brave. Trust yourself.
Don’t lose hope. I’ve always liked the line from The Shawshank Redemption:
“Remember, Red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.”
What you describe of your journey sounds similar to my own: starting out with religious/metaphysical red pills about my own beliefs, getting mega-doses of red pills about the evil in the world and how corrupt things really are, and finding that pushing me back towards a deeper engagement with the spiritual/metaphysical issues. And what you said about not losing hope is incredibly important: I think the demons running this realm feed off of our negative emotional energy somehow and so want us in a perpetual state of despair; so I want to stay hopeful (obviously within reason), not only so that I can have a better life, but so that I do not give these demons what they want from me.
Exactly. When I get down or depressed about it all...I feel as if they have in some sense won and it pisses me off.
Advice? Nothing about on the ground reality has changed. Only your perspective has. Big picture things generally have subtle effects on day-to-day life. It might change your long term strategies and goals, but chances are everything about your normal life is exactly how you left it, and will continue to proceed as you're used to.
So don't panic and run off to build your doomsday bunker, or quit your job to do full time doom prophecy on the street corner. Chill the fuck out and don't chimp on all the people in your life who are still in the Matrix. Not only will it not change their minds, but you might freak them out to the point they call in Agent Smith.
This is the kind of post whose value is immediate and profound even if it needs to be read a few times to be properly absorbed (not because of the writing, but because of the topics covered) and doesn't include any special pull-quotes, knee-slappers, or other dopaminergic elements. I can see you worked very hard on this and I understand why because I agonize over many of the same things.
I can't help but take the piss because that's how I react to a combination of authoritarianism and absurdities, but I have backed off somewhat on my tone if not my insistence because I think a lot of the people I've been tempted for years to write off as brainwashed are instead reachable but paralyzed by the realization that *all politicians and corporatists suck* and there is nowhere to turn but to each other.
It's helpful to remember some of the biggest lies I swallowed myself, why I believed them, and how I wound up escaping partisan nonsense when I'm tempted to give up outright or just switch to 100% bleak humor and shitposting. I also realize I still have a lot of bullshit caked in the crevices of my own head, even if Iit's not yet clear exactly what and where it is.
Thank you, sir! And yeah, I totally hear you when it comes to taking the piss when confronted with conformmunist illogic. I don't think there's a hard and fast rule, because sometimes, these folks deserve to be mocked, and I honestly think that being mocked for saying something absurd and being so self-righteous about it can really be a positive experience. But obviously if you have a real-life friend or family member who naively believes some regime propaganda and you value that relationship, well, would you rather win the debate or maintain the relationship? Same thing if you encounter someone online who is acting in good faith (though that can be very rare, depending on the site). But the Pharisees? Well, even Jesus mocked them rather mercilessly. Sometimes, that's the right thing to do. But of course, wisdom is required to discern the appropriate response.
A comprehensive piece, thank you.
FWIW, a growing number of cosmologists are getting red-pilled, thanks to data coming back from the James Webb Space Telescope.
Observations go completely against the Big Bang narrative that has been built up over the past 60 years.
https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-hubble-tension-universe-expansion-study
"With measurement errors negated, what remains is the real and exciting possibility we have misunderstood the universe," said Adam Riess (lead researcher and Nobel prize winner).
I’m seeing more of these stories every week from JWST. It won’t be long before we experience the next scientific revolution. Einstein’s ideas (the math for the Big Bang) will be superseded.
My red-pill experience left me so shaken (and suicidal) that I had to withdraw from the world in many ways. As bad as 2024 will likely be, it's still the year I'm starting to re-enter the world with a new foundation for my house, so I'm hoping it will be better than any of the other years starting with "202". That said, I don't know if this qualifies as advice, but I'd say something along the lines of "don't be afraid to give yourself time and space to process things." In my case it was very necessary.
That's solid advice. You absolutely have to give yourself the time and space to come to terms with things after getting "red-pilled," because of how traumatic the experience can be -- and I hate to use the term "trauma" because of how overused and watered-down it has gotten, but it really is the correct term to use here -- it really is a form of psychological trauma. Some people absolutely go off the rails because they don't know how to deal with it. Glad to hear you made it through that dark valley and can now see sunlight on the other side!
Thanks! Life is better outside the matrix but it can take a while to figure that out.
There’s a very large cohort out there that knows they are wearing the same jersey as the perps(of the current and burgeoning madness), that they have worn the same jersey all of their lives. Taking that jersey off represents THE MOTHER OF ALL RED PILLS. Many will simply never be able to do it. It represents a convulsive cognitive dissonance that will not, cannot, be tolerated. I had a pastor in my youth who was fond of saying “Some people would rather be right than saved”. That pokes at the center of it. The proudest people I ever have known have been those that do not know God, and seem proudest of all of not wanting to.
Well said indeed.
Really well said. Thank you.
The thing is if you’re resistant to the reality you’re going to resist every possible avenue of investigation of it. You have to for self protection.
It’s a psychological defense. If you for instance start questioning the covid narrative then you’re fucked. All the other narratives will soon crumble.
So the defense is to resist it all. You cannot even crack the door an eighth of an inch , nor the window.
If you persist in resisting any counter narrative ideas, your house built on the foundation of denying reality will actually hold up and seem to grow even stronger. This foundation is strong and at the same time incredibly vulnerable.
If you open the door to any of it (happening more and more now. One no longer needs to pro actively search it out it’s now punching people in the face and harder to ignore) then that whole intact strong foundation will turn to quicksand far quicker than one is prepared for.
So it’s frightening. It is terrifying. And getting moreso as time passes.
Those that hold on to the false (but strong) foundation the longest are going to have the hardest breaks with reality when it crumbles. This year. Next year. Whatever. A lot of demoralization and despair and mental illness is going to be observable.
To be open to the counter arguments is a different and more grounded view. For instance if I get caught believing something that’s not quite true it doesn’t need to destroy my entire foundation of beliefs nor my psychological well being. As it’s a belief system based more on having questions than having answers. This works for me.
This is the difference now between being culturally “left” vs “not.” I won’t say “right” I’d rather say “not left.” To remain adherent to the “left” you’ve got to keep everything all the time all-in on the orthodoxy. This cannot be sustained.
Vs to be “counter” or “not left”. You can be as disparate as you want in your beliefs and views and always be open to new information without having to see the whole house go down.
“That which you resist, persists.”
Thanks for the kind words! You're 100% right that it's not a viable long-term strategy to cling ever more tightly to an ideology that keeps leading you to believe things that turn out to be wrong. The reality debt eventually gets to be too costly to sustain, and in the process of trying to make it work, you hollow out your own soul and make yourself increasingly fragile. These Marxcissists will learn sooner or later, and the longer it goes on, the more painful the lesson will be!
“Marxcissists!!” Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha good one!
Welcome to the new ones. Let's all keep focus on helping them out.
Outstanding post. Having been Red Pilled for the last year or so this gave me some insight. And I have always believed I took the Matrix Red Pill.
I love the term "Marxcissist". Did you coin that yourself? I'll be using it from now on.
The term "Marxcissist" is a John Carter original: https://barsoom.substack.com/p/the-marxcissists
It really is the perfect term for those bratty Bolsheviks among the Western elite!
I"m reading Solzhenitsyn's Gulag for the first time, about a quarter of the way through. I was raised to believe communism is bad. It's kind of nice to find out that I was not misled in that respect. Did not know "gulag" was an acronym.
He is in Lubyanka. His cellmates Fastenko and Yuri are working on him now, helping him unbelieve much of what he believed about the Soviet project in his youth.
It is a book I would like to hand on to the young Bolsheviks in America today, the kids staffing federal government agencies, to help them reconsider their firm belief in the wisdom of censoring mis-dis-mal information to protect our sacred democracy.
I still need to read that!
You might be moved by listening to 1984 being read. There are several audio files out there that I know of...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwqmT1D-MbU
Thanks! Orwell writes so well, that his stories no doubt translate well to the audio format. Will add 1984 to my "listening" list.
It really is fantastic.
My advice for the recently red pilled from a 30 year red PIL veteran is to use the internet as a guide to lead you toward books that are well researched and footnoted. Seek out published works (not self published) materials.
Publishing houses take significant financial risks for the content they publish in print.
The flip side of that coin is there are generally ZERO guardrails for bullshit stories anywhere on the web.
Full stop. Here’s a few books to get you started:
The Creature from Jekyll Island by G Edward Griffin
The Disinformation Series (3 books) by Russ Kick
Tragedy and Hope by Caroll Quigley
Thanks! G Edward Griffin delivers the goods in The Creature from Jekyll Island, and the Federal Reserve and central banking system really is a critical pillar of the enemy's control system. We would have an entirely different civilization without the financial system that we've had. I will check out the other two you list.
One minor point of contention: I would not say that one should *not* seek out self-published material, because I have found some really solid self-published material. Of course, I have also come across a great deal of self-published bunk, too. What I would agree with is that you have to exercise caution when it comes to self-published material. Partially this is because "respectable" people are less likely to take the red pill in the first place, and people can be less "respectable" for a variety of reasons, including such things as having a history of mental illness or severe personality disorders or any number of things that may then make them unreliable as sources of information. In addition to this, the "enemy" (or the "Blob" as Mike Benz calls it) likes to discredit legitimate movements by promoting charlatans and false narratives, so the people you encounter in these spaces are not always what they seem. Of course, book deals with traditional publishing houses also seem to be a means the Blob uses to pay its propagandists and loyal apparatchiks. Bottom line, caution and discretion are needed, even when dealing with someone who claims to be red-pilled on the same topics we are!
My advice: try to eat reasonably healthy and get in shape. It’s the best path to good mental health. If you can do martial arts, all the better. Not one of the fake ones like Aikido or whatever. I mean boxing, Jiu Jitsu, Muay Thai. One of the real ones where you become able to break limbs.
Oh, and go to church.
>Given the way the world is, it would take a superhuman level of awareness and strength of character for you to have grown up without believing at least some of the really big lies.
Indeed. Living in Europe, I used to believe that the 1990 war against Iraq and the war against Serbia had been justified. That EU membership was a good thing. That U.S. gun laws caused the gun crime. My mind was changed by people online. By seeing the facts. Since then I'm the one who changes people's minds; on the biggest question, the media bosses, I have changed the minds of nine people that I know in real life. So it works. You can change people's minds with your writings and in person.
Don't try this at home