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Marenco
08-18-2017, 01:46 AM
Americans are Rapidly Descending Into Madness

I don’t live in an echo chamber, partly because there aren’t enough people out there who think like me, but also because I constantly and intentionally attempt to challenge my worldview by reading stuff from all over the political map. I ingest as much as I can from a wide variety of intelligent sources, picking and choosing what makes sense to me, and then synthesizing it the best I can.

Though I’m certainly grounded in certain key principles, my perspective on specific issues remains malleable as I take in additional information and perspectives. I try to accept and acknowledge my own ignorance and view life as a journey of constant mental, emotionally and spiritual growth. If I’m not growing my capacity in all of those realms until the day I die, I’m doing it wrong. Life should be seen as a battle against one’s own ignorance, as opposed to an obsession with the ignorance of others. You can’t legislate morality, nor can you legislate wisdom. The only way the world will improve on a long-term sustainable basis is if more of us get wise. That’s a personal journey and it’s our individual duty to accept it.

While I’m only in control of my own behavior, this doesn’t mean that the behavior of others is irrelevant to my life. Unfortunately, what I see happening to the population of America right now seems very troublesome and foreboding. What I’m witnessing across the board is hordes of people increasingly separating themselves into weird, unthinking cults. Something appears to have snapped in our collective consciousness, and many individuals I used to respect (on both sides of the political spectrum) are becoming disturbingly polarized and hysterical. People are rapidly morphing into radicalized mental patients.

What’s worse, this environment is providing a backdrop for the most destructive people of my lifetime — neoconservatives and neo liberals — to preen around on corporate media as “the voices of reason.” This is one of the most perverse and dangerous side-effects of the current political climate. As I noted earlier today on Twitter:

Michael Krieger @LibertyBlitz

What the entrenched political class is doing now, is exactly what the Fed did after the crisis. Posing as saviors to a disaster they created
8:31 AM - Aug 16, 2017

Michael Krieger @LibertyBlitz

This is how humans who are dangerous failures stay in power. They claim they'll help handle a problem of their own doing.
8:33 AM - Aug 16, 2017

If in your disgust with Trump, you’re willing to run into the cold embrace of these destroyers of the middle class and the Middle East, you’ll get what you deserve. In contrast, if we really want to deal with our very real and very systemic problems, the last thing we need is a population-level mental breakdown that leads to a longing for the criminally destructive political status quo, yet that’s exactly what seems to be happening.

Ok fine, so everything seems to be rapidly collapsing, but what are we supposed to do? First of all, don’t lose your minds.

As I suggested in February’s post, Why Increased Consciousness is the Only Path Forward:

As noted earlier, Wilber thinks 10% is a key tipping point. In other words, if we can get 10% of the population to center around a yellow second-tier level of thought, which consists of a momentous leap in consciousness, the entire world will change for the better. I agree. I’m not here trying to sell you a seminar on how to expand your consciousness; rather, I think these article can help spark some sort of revelation in the minds of many of you who are already at yellow, or at least at the cusp of such a transformation. Since consciousness can and does regress under conditions of stress and fear, it’s extremely important to be conscious of your consciousness so that you don’t fall back into lower states.

Unfortunately, I see many people regressing at the moment, and I see the media as an intentional force in trying to get people to lower their consciousness. A perfect way to tell if someone is operating at a low level of consciousness is if they’re constantly placing tens of millions of their fellow citizens into an outside group they subsequently demonize. It’s perfectly fine and healthy to harshly criticize the system itself and the many powerful individuals doing awful things within it, but once you start dehumanizing large swaths of the population as a matter of your worldview, you are most certainly on a very counterproductive path that will lead to merely a blackhole of nothingness for society.

Beyond maintaining one’s sanity, it’s imperative that conscious humans create systems and communities that have as little connection as possible to the existing and rapidly disintegrating paradigm. This will create “anti-fragile” units of strength within the collapsing Potemkin village socio-economic structure that dominates our culture right now. Some of these projects need to be local, while others can be global. Community farming/food production is a great example of a local initiative, while Bitcoin (and cryptocurrencies in general), represent global initiatives to replace the hopelessly corrupt and archaic entrenched financial system. While crazy, power-obsessed tribes focus on taking over the hopelessly corrupt centralized government in Washington D.C., we need to continue to build separate, decentralized paradigms — and there isn’t much time to waste.

Fortunately, there are plenty of very decent, very conscious people out there. I want this piece to provide encouragement to those of you already engaged in this invaluable work, as well as inspiration for those of you looking for an outlet for your creative and intellectual energies. It’s never been more important to keep our heads steady and not permit ourselves to be sucked into the mental sickness infecting so many of our fellow humans. It’s imperative that we vigilantly guard our wisdom and consciousness, because the best solutions will only come from a place of spiritual and mental health. If you descend into the gutter with everyone else, your output will also end up looking like trash. That’s the last thing we need.

Stay strong and stay conscious

https://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2017/08/16/americans-are-rapidly-descending-into-madness/

nikcers
08-18-2017, 07:41 AM
Americans are Rapidly Descending Into Madness/ (https://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2017/08/16/americans-are-rapidly-descending-into-madness/)

There is election level propaganda coming from the MSM to produce this. We need to figure out what their end game to their narrative is so we can be ready.

CaptUSA
08-18-2017, 07:52 AM
Great article. +rep.

I think it adequately explains why I've been having such a hard time engaging in this latest "controversy". I find it extremely difficult to relate at that level of consciousness. I think many of us in this forum are experiencing the same disconnect. We are among the few.

Origanalist
08-18-2017, 07:57 AM
Americans are Rapidly Descending Into Madness

It feels that way. How much of this is media driven at the behest of their masters?


There is election level propaganda coming from the MSM to produce this. We need to figure out what their end game to their narrative is so we can be ready.

Madison320
08-18-2017, 08:28 AM
I've said many times I don't think much is going to change until we run out of free stuff. More specifically when the dollar crashes and our standard of living crashes with it. At that point we'll either turn hard towards liberty or towards totalitarianism.

acptulsa
08-18-2017, 08:50 AM
I've said many times I don't think much is going to change until we run out of free stuff. More specifically when the dollar crashes and our standard of living crashes with it. At that point we'll either turn hard towards liberty or towards totalitarianism.

That's it. And it's not too hard to see the powers that be are convinced they can steer toward totalitarianism. Praising--or just giving cover to--groups doing things which could trigger martial law, which seems to be about the only thing antifa ever does, certainly gives us a clue as to what their intentions are.

They certainly are pulling out all the stops. If they fail, they're not going to have many bridges unburned behind them. They're shredding the last vestiges of their MSM's credibility. They're shredding the last scraps of their education system's credibility. They are, in short, going for broke.

Ender
08-18-2017, 09:22 AM
It feels that way. How much of this is media driven at the behest of their masters?

Yep.

America's been in madness for decades- someone is finally noticing.

We're All Mad Here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPbf99GYpUA

Warrior_of_Freedom
08-18-2017, 10:04 AM
Perception and reality are two different things. If I go flick an Asian' persons nose on TV that doesn't mean there's suddenly an epidemic of people flicking Asian noses.

jllundqu
08-18-2017, 10:09 AM
Liberty "Blitzkreig???"

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Carlybee
08-18-2017, 10:20 AM
Great article. +rep.

I think it adequately explains why I've been having such a hard time engaging in this latest "controversy". I find it extremely difficult to relate at that level of consciousness. I think many of us in this forum are experiencing the same disconnect. We are among the few.

I refuse to get drawn into this crap. Both sides are manned by idiots.

acptulsa
08-18-2017, 10:28 AM
I refuse to get drawn into this crap. Both sides are manned by idiots.

There is a certain amount of that, isn't there? It is a temptation to look at who is being stirred up against whom, and say, good. Step back out of the way and root for the total body count.

But when the dust settles, will the Head Psychos In Charge, do you think, say, 'OK, all clear, we burned out the underbrush and now martial law is over, the Constitution is back in effect, we'll stop all the wars and deliberately destroying the economy, and reinstate sound money and start giving you people you can vote for, instead of just people you have to vote against?

Madison320
08-18-2017, 10:42 AM
That's it. And it's not too hard to see the powers that be are convinced they can steer toward totalitarianism. Praising--or just giving cover to--groups doing things which could trigger martial law, which seems to be about the only thing antifa ever does, certainly gives us a clue as to what their intentions are.

They certainly are pulling out all the stops. If they fail, they're not going to have many bridges unburned behind them. They're shredding the last vestiges of their MSM's credibility. They're shredding the last scraps of their education system's credibility. They are, in short, going for broke.

The good news is that we won't be able to print and borrow to give the illusion of prosperity. The only way to improve things will be free market capitalism. I'm not saying we'll choose liberty, but at least the consequences of the choice will be easy to see. Choose liberty and you get a much higher standard of living. Choose socialism and it gets much lower. Right now we're choosing socialism but we're not seeing the results yet because we're able to mask them with printing and borrowing.

Carlybee
08-18-2017, 12:16 PM
There is a certain amount of that, isn't there? It is a temptation to look at who is being stirred up against whom, and say, good. Step back out of the way and root for the total body count.

But when the dust settles, will the Head Psychos In Charge, do you think, say, 'OK, all clear, we burned out the underbrush and now martial law is over, the Constitution is back in effect, we'll stop all the wars and deliberately destroying the economy, and reinstate sound money and start giving you people you can vote for, instead of just people you have to vote against?

All the heads are always psychos.

Anti Federalist
08-18-2017, 01:22 PM
There is a certain amount of that, isn't there? It is a temptation to look at who is being stirred up against whom, and say, good. Step back out of the way and root for the total body count.

But when the dust settles, will the Head Psychos In Charge, do you think, say, 'OK, all clear, we burned out the underbrush and now martial law is over, the Constitution is back in effect, we'll stop all the wars and deliberately destroying the economy, and reinstate sound money and start giving you people you can vote for, instead of just people you have to vote against?

It could work out that way, if "we" have the courage and the will to strike, and strike hard, when the time is right, to break away and start over, by ourselves.

I give that option a 1 in 10 chance.

Much more likely is a full blown color revolution resulting in a communist authoritarian takeover.

Those that sat on the sidelines and refused to commit, like us, will be marked for extermination.

Then will follow roving bands of bolsheviks or Jacobins carrying out the new regime's orders.

jllundqu
08-18-2017, 02:13 PM
I could work out that way, if "we" have the courage and the will to strike, and strike hard, when the time is right, to break away and start over, by ourselves.

I give that option a 1 in 10 chance.

Much more likely is a full blown color revolution resulting in a communist authoritarian takeover.

Those that sat on the sidelines and refused to commit, like us, will be marked for extermination.

Then will follow roving bands of bolsheviks or Jacobins carrying out the new regime's orders.

I disagree with this simply because they don't have the numbers. Look at the election map of 2017... IT'S ALL RED! I don't care if you support Trump or not, regular joes aren't going to go down to a bunch of Antifa pussies with clubs. I could see some coastal places having riots. Maybe some leftist groups take over some small territories in coastal cities... but they step one foot into flyover country? No. That shit won't fly here.

Anti Federalist
08-18-2017, 02:52 PM
I disagree with this simply because they don't have the numbers. Look at the election map of 2017... IT'S ALL RED! I don't care if you support Trump or not, regular joes aren't going to go down to a bunch of Antifa pussies with clubs. I could see some coastal places having riots. Maybe some leftist groups take over some small territories in coastal cities... but they step one foot into flyover country? No. That shit won't fly here.

Meaningless, since those people are too scared or apathetic to do a damned thing.

The left can put a million man mob in the street in 72 hours.

"We" are lucky to get a couple hundred for a Cliven Bundy or Ed Brown.

And can muster zero when the cops randomly kill us or blow us up for no reason.

heavenlyboy34
08-18-2017, 02:53 PM
I've said many times I don't think much is going to change until we run out of free stuff. More specifically when the dollar crashes and our standard of living crashes with it. At that point we'll either turn hard towards liberty or towards totalitarianism.
+rep the (relatively) high standard of living is what keeps Boobus from revolting, IMHO. Bread and circuses.