Philip Dru: Agorist
08-16-2011, 07:08 PM
This is a rather long introductory post, but I hope it will stir up some good discussion:
Until 2001, I was an unquestioning, full-fledged statist who wondered aloud whether or not communism was a preferable system to live under in the United States. No doubt about it. I was 100% for the state and state power. I had numerous conversations with people about this subject and recall being an unabashed moral relativist. I believed with every fiber of my being the mythology of U.S. history.
- Then came 9/11. I remember sitting there watching throughout the entire day in total shock, never once questioning the narrative unfolding on my TV fed to me by the corporate media. I was despondent watching repeated replays of the two main buildings collapsing over and over from various angles. I really believed everything I was being told about the attacks. That is until I watched World Trade Center 7 come straight down into its own footprint with absolutely no resistance whatsoever. I knew it hadn't been hit by a plane. I knew the fires inside hadn't turned into a full-building conflagration and instead were relatively small internal fires. Immediately I sensed something quite wrong with that collapse. You see, in years past I had been a skyscraper enthusiast and had done considerable research on their construction and composition, marveling at their size, rigidity, and redundant structural protections against disasters. Deep down in my gut I just knew that that collapse, in that particular manner, couldn't possibly have happened without something "helping" it along.
That said, I went along with the War on Terror anyway and just convinced myself that what I saw could be easily explained. It's probably more accurate to say I deluded myself because I was uncomfortable with having to face the far-reaching implications of an "inside job". I'd say that on that day, I woke up about what was going on in this country about 20% of the way. At the very least my mind was at least a little bit opened to thinking in conspiratorial ways I had never been interested in before.
- Then came the second war on Iraq and how it never ended along with the failed search for WMDs. Throughout the years from 2003 to 2005, I began to realize that the whole thing was a bit of an inexplicable sham, based on what we had been told previously. I asked myself many questions about that war and didn't like any of the answers I came up with. Why didn't we leave at the end of the hostilities? Why weren't we able to suppress the insurgency? Why was there an insurgency at all if the people in Iraq were so oppressed and desirous of democracy? I woke up another 10% of the way.
- All the while that the Iraq debacle was taking place, I was watching the housing bubble form and growing very suspicious about how it was being allowed to happen through questionable monetary polices, relaxed regulation, and irrational exuberance, much of that fed through the complicit media. I didn't understand economics very well, but I knew something shady on a monumental scale was taking place. I woke up another 10% of the way watching that train wreck unfold.
- The 2008 financial crisis and the bailouts. I was already very suspicious by this time about how the American economy was seemingly being set up to fail on purpose. There was no way in my mind that it was all just incompetence or accident. Without understanding the whole economic picture, I knew I was watching a backstreet shakedown occur between the banks and our government. I woke up another 30% of the way and knew we weren't in Kansas anymore. I was finally awake and trying to put the pieces of the puzzle together. This was the big event that pushed me over the edge for sure.
- The 2009 inauguration of Obama was for me very important. Not that I was a Democrat or a liberal or anything, but I was very interested to see how he would turn things around after eight years of Bush. After all, he campaigned on a platform of being the anti-Bush and in part I sort of believed he meant it. I knew the political system was corrupt. But there was just this tiny part of me hoping, at the very least, that he would shake things up enough to change the trajectory the country was on.
Well, it didn't take long to figure out that Obama was put in place to essentially continue the Bush presidency, and he was put in place by what had to be some very, very powerful people. This realization blew my mind and woke me up another 20% of the way.
- Since then, the final 10% of the way toward my awakening was helped along by reading Griffin, Lobaczewski, Gary Allen, Gurudas, Orwell, Woolfolk, Servando Gonzalez, Bertram Gross, Quigley, Smedley Butler, Brzezinski, Sutton, and Huxley, among others. I am fully awake now and see what is happening, even if I don't fully understand all the angles and potential conduits of disinformation (Freemasonry, Lucifer, the Vatican, Zionism, City of London, etc...).
How did your awakening occur? Was it one event or an accumulation of events like mine?
Until 2001, I was an unquestioning, full-fledged statist who wondered aloud whether or not communism was a preferable system to live under in the United States. No doubt about it. I was 100% for the state and state power. I had numerous conversations with people about this subject and recall being an unabashed moral relativist. I believed with every fiber of my being the mythology of U.S. history.
- Then came 9/11. I remember sitting there watching throughout the entire day in total shock, never once questioning the narrative unfolding on my TV fed to me by the corporate media. I was despondent watching repeated replays of the two main buildings collapsing over and over from various angles. I really believed everything I was being told about the attacks. That is until I watched World Trade Center 7 come straight down into its own footprint with absolutely no resistance whatsoever. I knew it hadn't been hit by a plane. I knew the fires inside hadn't turned into a full-building conflagration and instead were relatively small internal fires. Immediately I sensed something quite wrong with that collapse. You see, in years past I had been a skyscraper enthusiast and had done considerable research on their construction and composition, marveling at their size, rigidity, and redundant structural protections against disasters. Deep down in my gut I just knew that that collapse, in that particular manner, couldn't possibly have happened without something "helping" it along.
That said, I went along with the War on Terror anyway and just convinced myself that what I saw could be easily explained. It's probably more accurate to say I deluded myself because I was uncomfortable with having to face the far-reaching implications of an "inside job". I'd say that on that day, I woke up about what was going on in this country about 20% of the way. At the very least my mind was at least a little bit opened to thinking in conspiratorial ways I had never been interested in before.
- Then came the second war on Iraq and how it never ended along with the failed search for WMDs. Throughout the years from 2003 to 2005, I began to realize that the whole thing was a bit of an inexplicable sham, based on what we had been told previously. I asked myself many questions about that war and didn't like any of the answers I came up with. Why didn't we leave at the end of the hostilities? Why weren't we able to suppress the insurgency? Why was there an insurgency at all if the people in Iraq were so oppressed and desirous of democracy? I woke up another 10% of the way.
- All the while that the Iraq debacle was taking place, I was watching the housing bubble form and growing very suspicious about how it was being allowed to happen through questionable monetary polices, relaxed regulation, and irrational exuberance, much of that fed through the complicit media. I didn't understand economics very well, but I knew something shady on a monumental scale was taking place. I woke up another 10% of the way watching that train wreck unfold.
- The 2008 financial crisis and the bailouts. I was already very suspicious by this time about how the American economy was seemingly being set up to fail on purpose. There was no way in my mind that it was all just incompetence or accident. Without understanding the whole economic picture, I knew I was watching a backstreet shakedown occur between the banks and our government. I woke up another 30% of the way and knew we weren't in Kansas anymore. I was finally awake and trying to put the pieces of the puzzle together. This was the big event that pushed me over the edge for sure.
- The 2009 inauguration of Obama was for me very important. Not that I was a Democrat or a liberal or anything, but I was very interested to see how he would turn things around after eight years of Bush. After all, he campaigned on a platform of being the anti-Bush and in part I sort of believed he meant it. I knew the political system was corrupt. But there was just this tiny part of me hoping, at the very least, that he would shake things up enough to change the trajectory the country was on.
Well, it didn't take long to figure out that Obama was put in place to essentially continue the Bush presidency, and he was put in place by what had to be some very, very powerful people. This realization blew my mind and woke me up another 20% of the way.
- Since then, the final 10% of the way toward my awakening was helped along by reading Griffin, Lobaczewski, Gary Allen, Gurudas, Orwell, Woolfolk, Servando Gonzalez, Bertram Gross, Quigley, Smedley Butler, Brzezinski, Sutton, and Huxley, among others. I am fully awake now and see what is happening, even if I don't fully understand all the angles and potential conduits of disinformation (Freemasonry, Lucifer, the Vatican, Zionism, City of London, etc...).
How did your awakening occur? Was it one event or an accumulation of events like mine?