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Welcome to another post from Serfdom Road.
Our reality is being corrupted and distorted beyond all comprehension, and it can be difficult to understand the fundamental causes of the economic and cultural collapse being witnessed today.
Many countries are reporting inflation figures at 40-year highs: UK inflation is at a staggering 9.4%, Germany has experienced a slight easing but still at 7.6%, and the US is at 9.1% currently - all year-over-year.
Maybe this has something to do with expanding their money currency supply into outer-space since March 2020?
While their central-banksters are deciding whether or not to increase interest rates by more than 0.5%, when they are still below 2% in most countries in the West.
It is basic economics - the interest rate must be well-above the inflation rate, in order to fight inflation, because it can take a long time for the effect to filter through the economy.
High interest rates also deter consumers from using debt to purchase goods, and thus, the demand in an economy collapses, as does the velocity of currency.
When inflation is at ~10%, and those are government statistics, so add an extra 5%, and interest rates should be close to 20%!
If you’re in any doubt as to the competency or even the true nature of a central banker, here is a quote from former Chairman of the US Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke in February 2007:
“We expect moderate growth going forward. We believe that if the housing sector begins to stabilize, and if some of the inventory corrections still going on in manufacturing begin to be completed, that there's a reasonable possibility that we'll see some strengthening in the economy sometime during the middle of the new year [2008].”
Incompetent, or a liar?
When an institution is actively doing the opposite of what is expected, you have to ask: “Is this on purpose?”
This article is an attempt to condense the causes of everything that is unjust and immoral into an attack on three pillars of freedom: truth, courage and faith.
During the fall of empires, the collapse is like a black hole stretching, tearing and destroying reality until it is unrecognisable.
Each of us must rediscover the power of truth, courage and faith, or we are doomed to be caught in the gravity of the black hole enveloping our world today.
Truth
What is truth?
Let’s start with reality.
Reality is a shared environment created by our senses.
Some people’s reality can differ from your’s, due to a psychological abhorration or other medical issue.
However, there can be an average reality very similar to the reality of each individual.
Truth is simply an accurate and falsifiable statement about that reality.
Without truth, how can you know where you were, where you are or what you are, and where you will be in the future?
Unfortunately, truth can be attacked by:
being wrapped in a lie and distorted via propaganda,
or being hidden, lost or forgotten via coercion,
or being ignored via incentivisation.
You either don’t know what you don’t know (propaganda), or you know what you know but prevent others (including yourself) from knowing [more] (coercion), or you know what you know but choose to pretend otherwise (incentivisation).
Most children are told the story of The Emperor’s New Clothes - a folktale about two tailors that convince the Emperor to wear their most lavish clothes, supposedly only visible to the intelligent in society.
Not wanting to be seen as stupid, the Emperor’s closest allies all congratulate the Emperor on his fine choice of clothing, despite the fact there are no clothes!
Nobody wants to tell the truth, or admit the truth, the Emperor has spent so much money on clothes that do not exist, for fear of being seen as stupid.
The only person brave (naive) enough to tell the truth is a little boy in the crowd, during the Emperor’s parade through the town.
Once everyone in the town starts laughing at the Emperor, and they realise all the Emperor’s officials have been fooled, the Emperor only walks more proudly through the town - still clinging on to a lie despite the overwhelming truth.
A twentieth-century re-telling of this folktale is a period in Soviet Russia, from the 1950s-1980s.
Alexei Yurchak (b. 1960), a Russian author, described this period in his book Everything was Forever, Until it was No More: The Last Soviet Generation (2005), referring to it as a period of hypernormalisation.
He argued everyone knew the Soviet system was failing, but as there were no imagined alternatives, all the politicians (and most people) kept up a pretence that society was functioning normally.
Eventually political reforms followed, and the Soviet Union collapsed the moment the Berlin Wall was destroyed in 1989.
A social experiment, born in 1917, known to have failed completely by the Holodomor (Death by Hunger) in the early 1930s, marched on for another 60 years before it was finally put out of it’s misery - because nobody could accept the truth.
Propaganda, coercion and incentivisation are tools the immoral use to distort and corrupt the truth for their benefit.
If truth is a statement about reality, then the words that comprise these statements are powerful.
Words can lead men to war, or melt a lover’s heart.
It is crucial words are clearly defined.
However, many words today have undergone a re-branding campaign by the State.
One word in particular, a word that strikes fear into the State: anarchy.
Anarchy is defined as no (an) - ruler (archy), not no rules or absolute chaos as the State would have you believe.
The State cannot have the population discovering there is an alternative, similar to the period in Soviet Russia previously mentioned, that requires no king, emperor or politician.
One could call this micro-propaganda - corrupting language at the level of words.
Another word that has been corrupted, with regards to taxation, is pay - you pay your taxes.
The definition, according to Britannica, of payment is “the performance of an obligation to pay money”.
Well an obligation can only arise after a contract between two parties has been agreed.
The only contract, regarding your salary, is your employment contract, but where is the clause that states, “By signing you agree to pay x% of your salary to the government for services rendered.”?
Sure, you may use government services everyday, but is this through free choice or through coercion?
Do you only use public services because if a portion of your salary had not been stolen by the State, you would have been able to afford a private service?
Now read the definition of theft, according to Britannica, “the physical removal of an object that is capable of being stolen without the consent of the owner and with the intention of depriving the owner of it permanently”.
Maybe you have but most people have never given their consent for the government to reach in with their filthy hand and take a portion of their salary before it has even reached their bank account.
Now think of the elderly that had their salary stolen each month of their working life through the income tax, then invested the remainder in shares, only for the State to steal more through the capital gains tax, and then a third time through the inheritance tax when the elderly leave behind their hard-earned legacy.
If you ever needed a good reason not to pay allow your salary to be stolen by the State, remember, as American writer Randolph Bourne (b. 1886, d. 1918) once said, “War is the health of the State”.
Your stolen salary funds the war machine that has destroyed much of the Middle East since 2001, and declared war on it’s own people with the still enduring COVID mania.
Ironically, but sadly, Randolph Bourne died, aged 32, in the Spanish Flu pandemic, believed to have been caused by flu vaccinations forced upon the US army by the State - wonder how they financed those jabs?
One modern day re-telling of the Emperor’s New Clothes is the terrorist attack on 9/11 in 2001.
To begin, let’s start with a simple question:
How many buildings collapsed in New York City on 9/11?
Two?
The North Tower and South Tower of the World Trade Center?
Not quite. There was also 7 World Trade Center, also known as WTC-7.
Often believed to have collapsed due to fire damage caused by falling debris from WTC-1, it became the first (and so far only) steel-framed building to collapse due to fire considerations alone.
In fact, here there is another use of micro-propaganda - the building did not collapse, it fell with acceleration due to gravity (free-fall).
The same is true of WTC-1 and WTC-2 - the only other examples of free-falling buildings are those primed for a controlled demolition.
Then there is the explosion at the Pentagon - the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense that apparently only had one working camera?
There are numerous other unanswered questions, or coincidences, for example how World Trade Center owner, Larry Silverstein, went to a last-minute medical appointment, after the insistence of his wife, rather than take his daily trip to the Windows on the World restaurant at WTC-1 for breakfast - avoiding certain death.
Nobody knows the truth of what happend on 9/11 but the holes in the mainstream narrative are large enough to drive a Boeing aircraft through.
Truth is the light we use to escape the darkness, without it, we are blind and doomed to spend the rest of our lives roaming in the darkness.
Courage
Knowing the truth is difficult, admitting the truth is traumatic, and acting on the truth… well, that is something only a few dare to do.
Are you able to know you are partly, if not, mostly responsible for your lot in life?
Are you able to admit to this truth? To yourself, and to others?
Are you then able to act as though you are responsible for everything in your life from now on?
All of these stages require courage: the ability to do something that frightens scares the sh*t out of you!
Nevermind the endless problems in society now, it is guaranteed there are many flaws in you that need fixing first.
You know what they are if you think long enough, but why act on the truth about yourself when you could say, “That’s who I am”, “I was born this way” or “It’s my parents’ fault”?
The truth is, if you choose the path of excuses and helplessness, with each day that passes, you will soon understand that you chose this path, nobody forced you to, it was your choice.
“The definition of hell is: Your last day on Earth, the person you became meets the person you could have become.” - Anon.
This is no easy task, and it takes a certain level of truth, or knowledge, to know how to act.
For a jump-start, please read these previous articles:
Throughout our childhood, we are flooded with myths and legends of heroes, young and old, that reached out into the unknown with both hands and said, “I need to know the truth, and I have the courage to do what it takes!”
Think of James Bond, Indiana Jones, Braveheart, Hercules, Batman, Superman, or characters played by the likes of John Wayne, Clint Eastwood or Liam Neeson.
Yet tragedy has befallen us all too often as we became: too fat, too lazy, too broke, too miserable, too helpless, too addicted, or too suicidal to ever relive the glory of our childhood heroes.
While much can be blamed on society over the past few decades, and the slow creep of the State, it is still possible to set sail for a distant land, or jump on a plane to uncharted territory, or take down an oppressive regime.
Rekindle and relive those moments in your childhood where everything seemed possible and little doubt existed in your mind before being adventurous, daring or throwing caution to the wind.
Imagine yourself acting on the truth, whatever it may be, or how insignificant others may think, with your heroic idols alongside you.
Imagine what they would say to you, in that moment.
Faith
So you know the truth, as best as you can tell, and you have the courage to act on it, but one key missing ingredient is faith.
Once we take a step out into the unknown, whether it be to tell the truth for the first time, or to defend it, once adversity hits, and it will, we either falter, or take a deep breath and stay the course.
Faith is required so no matter how often we fail, despite our courage, we have the belief that we will succeed.
We can look to our truth, and to our courage, and say, “I have everything about me that is required to succeed”.
Or we can be bolder, and say, “It is inevitable I will succeed”.
This is not an affirmation you read on Instagram, it is an accurate statement about the truth, your courage and your faith.
Faith being a belief in some-thing or some-one without any guarantees.
While this article is not taking faith in the context of religious faith, they are one and the same.
While there are convincing arguments from the atheistic scientists of today, for example, Richard Dawkins (b. 1941), it appears throughout human history there is a need in all of us to believe in the irrational.
Ironically, Richard Dawkins has found religion himself: the Church of COVID.
Now, think about this example: you’re holding a rifle and check that it is not loaded - do you point the gun at other people, or keep it pointed to the ground?
You know it is not loaded, and yet most would still never point the rifle at another human being - why?
Maybe we all know we are capable of making mistakes and the risk is just too great?
Maybe we all have an irrational fear that no matter how often we check the rifle isn’t loaded, we will still believe it might be.
Is there some survival instinct in all of us to have some irrational fears? Is it evolutionary beneficial?
Or on the positive side - what of irrational beliefs?
In fact the word irrational has many negative connotations - mostly that an idea is rejecting, or beyond, the scientific method or reason.
A more accurate word to use would be supernatural.
Faith in the supernatural is simply a belief in something beyond current scientific understanding.
When you believe you have found the love of your life, how can the scientific method prove this statement? Is it not another example of a belief in the supernatural?
French philosopher Albert Camus (b. 1913, d. 1960) once wrote, “There is only one really serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide.”
In other words: “Why go on?”
Can the scientific community every console you that their modelling and forecasting has shown that you, with all your flaws, have an 86% chance of dying a happy human being? Of course not!
If there are 365 days in a year, and you are 20 years old, you likely have about 22,000 days to live.
If you are 30 years old, you likely have 18,000 days to live, and even if you are 60 years old, you likely have around 8,000 days to live.
In each case, that’s a lot of days where you could be suffering or you could be content.
Let’s say you have a 50/50 chance that each day will be a day of suffering.
If you’re 20, you could still live with 11,000 consecutive days of suffering, before you live one more day without suffering.
In that scenario, how many would be courageous enough to go on living another day past 30, given that truth?
One could argue that to choose to live, is the greatest faith in the supernatural.
If you can imagine it, you can make it happen.
Have faith.
Escaping the Debris
The attack on truth, courage and faith is the fundamental cause of the collapse happening now, that likely started on 9/11 in 2001, or in 1971 when the US stopped all trading of US dollars for gold, or at the outbreak of World War I.
It is no longer a cultural or societal collapse, it is an economic one too.
Today, Lebanon and Sri Lanka appear to be the first dominoes to fall but soon the industrial powerhouse of Germany and the mighty US will experience their own collapse.
Nations with public debt equal to over 100% of GDP are on a course of controlled demolition, with their central banks only feigning an attempt to fight inflation, caused by the explosion of public debt during the COVID mania.
Similar to the period of hypernormalisation in Soviet Russia, our glorious leaders: the senile and corrupt, Joe Biden; the baffoon that couldn’t hold down any of his two previous marriages, Boris Johnson; the globalist that married his school teacher, Emmanuel Macron; and the Fidel Castro look-alike (probably his son) Justin Trudeau, are all making a pretence out of being a national leader.
At the time of writing, the current race to replace former UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, resembles a game show than a political contest - or have they always been the same?
All the while 33% of the public are highly dependant on psychological medication, 33% are overweight and the other 33% are clueless to the State’s propaganda machine.
Doesn’t sound like a pretty picture?
However, if you search for the truth, have the courage to do what is right and just, and have the faith to stay the course, you will find your own small paradise of freedom.
Bonus Feature
If you need help to discover truth, courage and faith in your life:
Become the Best You: Make Peace with the Past and Break the Cycle of Dysfunction
I hope you have found this article insightful and helpful!
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