A fabulous job you've done here, Gavin - as with all your posts on whatever topic you take on. My only beef with it perhaps, is that it should even need such a strenuous and competent explication. I guess the reason history has a proclivity for repeating itself is that you can bet your bottom kale seed that most people don't pay sufficient attention most of the time. Especially when they perceive that times are good and fat is a'plenty.
They see - in the mechanical sense of cornea, lens, and retina (and one could only hope connected brain...and heart) - but they do not have vision. As the old adage goes "Where there is no vision, the people perish". The "thing" is seen (the fact, the event, the "news") , but the significance of the thing is not seen, the larger context and historical continuity is overlooked. For instance, what is the significance of unleashing the Emergencies Act like a deranged Pitbull upon the Canadian citizenry? It must imply something really BIG and really UGLY. It begs a plethora of questions and search for truth.
I sent this post on to a number of friends and acquaintances whom I esteem not yet to be sufficiently captured by the ambient Psy-Op so as to be at least partially receptive...but alas. The one acknowledgement I got was from someone who mentioned it was "arduously long". So much for attention spans in the Brave New World of the Techno-synthetic Terrarium.
Forgive me for sounding harsh and judgemental, but surely...surely we can do better than this. Surely we care enough to care; to think and search and act. At least for the kids maybe, as we so often like to claim, never mind the future of the living world?
Just for the heck of it, by the way, I would like to submit a couple of obscure candidates for relevant anti-militarism songs.
The first you may not have heard of, as it harkens back somewhat to the dust of history. Nevertheless, I think it is one of the most impactful and artful anti-war songs to come out of the canon. The title is "Bold Marauder" and it is here performed in 1962 by Richard and Mimi Farina.
For more context, here is the full episode of Pete Seeger's "Rainbow Quest" within which the song was performed. Seeger at the time was on a blacklist of sorts because of McCarthyism and the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities and he was consigned to doing this quaint little show on an obscure public television broadcaster at the time. There is something heartwarming about the episodes, in their earnestness and sincerity and their folksy, unvarnished production value. Plus some of the best folk music of the era was recorded on this unique broadcast comprising something like 35 episodes. I digress. Here is the link.
Your comment brought a genuine smile to my face (a precious commodity these days, so thank you for that). I would indeed 'bet my bottom kale seed' :) that most people do not pay attention to detail (they have been programmed and assured that everything is going according to plan, perpetual "progress" is underway, high tech - centrally distributed - quick fix solutions will lead us all to a paradise, where our governments will keep us safe and well fed, as long as we keep our heads down and follow orders).
You said it well, when you described the compartmentalized/fragmented way in which people view events (without taking a step back to see what greater pattern events are an integral part of). I would also bet my bottom kale seed that the quickly diminishing attention span of the majority of people in the west (those that you described as being part of the "Brave New World of the Techno-synthetic Terrarium") is no accident. The article above is longer than 140 characters, and so the programmed internal switch clicks and people tune out and go back to their endless scrolling feeds (which will inevitably inform them, with catchy one line fact check titles, that everything they began to read about on that other 'long boring post' was just conspiracy theory nonsense).
From a cold and a strategic stand point, observing how highly effective, fine tuned and viciously calculated the mass digital corralling operation is, is quite impressive. As I mentioned in the updated version of the post above, I observed numerous close friends and family members (that were once very skeptical of the edicts of centralized authoritarian systems) get psychologically bulldozed, led along with carrot and stick tactics, coercion campaigns and just flat out fooled by repetitive, relentless, fallacious statements in the last two years. The attention span was shortened, gradually, to the point where now everything that really contains actionable intelligence for those that are mentally enslaved to be capable of emancipating themselves, is automatically dismissed as "long and boring" by their conditioning. It is a genius system for mental enslavement when you look at how efficient it is, completely morally bankrupt and quite nefarious, but never-the-less a very well built machine.
I understand your frustration and find my self wondering the same at moments. Surely, people are capable of just taking a deep breath and feeling within themselves if what they are being told by our so called leaders resonates as true and just (and then taking appropriate action).. surely we are capable of seeing the sheer cliff ahead and changing course?
In the end, I wonder if perhaps many chose to come here to intimately experience the fall, to become enthralled by the world eating parasitic corporatocracy, to bear witness to its monstrous capacity to consume, colonize and commodify... to become hypnotized by its capacity to reduce our attention spans to mere minutes (through hyperstimulation and behavior modification technologies) to witness its ruthless efficiency... turning human beings into numbers (and then adjusting those numbers to satisfy a utilitarian equation)? I wonder if they came here (intentionally) not only to witness how the corporatocracy will inevitably cannibalize itself, imploding under its own immense weight (collapsing due to the gravity of its substantial hubris) but also, to experience it first hand? Perhaps some souls came to play their part like actors in a Shakespeare play, and their role does not involve asking the hard questions, making the difficult choices or awakening to step back and perceive those who play the roles of puppets and puppeteers? Or perhaps they just lack the moral courage and mental fortitude to step up and embrace the opportunity to become their best selves in the face of adverse conditions? Who is to say?
I dig your candidates for anti-militarism songs and have added them to the end of my article, thanks very much for sharing them and for your candid, thoughtful and cogent description of "Rainbow Quest". I look forward to exploring all 35 episodes with my wife in time :)
The opening line in Leonard Cohen's "Anthem" that goes..
"The birds they sang
at the break of day
Start again
I seem to hear them say
Do not dwell on what
has passed away
or what is yet to be."
..made me think of something another musician (Cosmo Sheldrake) said about how birds create a perpetual wave of bird song that constantly moves across the Earth, following the breaking dawn (and the last rays of the sun each day) as the Earth rotates. Here is a clip where he talks about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ksh1XOPNi5s He called it a "constant sonic bathing process". I wrote something that was inspired by that concept for my upcoming book that I will share in a future post on here.
Could you remind me where we first crossed paths, was it on a Charles Eisenstein post or perhaps on the Corbett Report website? In any case, I am glad we did cross paths and I will indeed keep up my efforts.
Thanks very much for the ruminative, encouraging and candid comment.
Thanks for your considered response, Gavin. Your comment resembles, to my strange and associative way of thinking, a healthy and robust squash vine, with tendrils stretching and yearning for the sun. Lots of threads for me to pick up on! Too many, in fact, to be stuffed in to a mere comment box on this platform. By the way, the "Neo" refers to "Neo-agrarian", which is how I like to describe myself, at least on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Alternatively it refers to "Neo-Luddite", on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. The Neo that might be associated with The Matrix is reserved for Sundays only, or so I can only hope!
But speaking of threads to pick up on, I'll see if I'm up to the task...
In my apparent condemnation of what seems to have become of human nature within this post-modern, Hadron collider of a "civilization", I do not mean to be unjust or arrogantly righteous. I just find it all so tragic that the majority of people would willingly abrogate their own given (natural law) autonomy for a deceptive and fatal pipe dream. Too readily they have succumbed to the temptations of the "salesman", the advertiser, the politician and the PR man or woman. Through a generational process of succumbing to cajoling, seduction, coercion and gaslighting they stopped listening to their own visceral, primordial-soup-moral-compass and took the side of the apparent "winners". Nobody wants to be on the "losing" side of the momentum of history and "progress". I speak here of the universal cult of progress, with all its attendant bullshit of human supremacy, its overwhelmingly religious faith in merely technical "innovation" for the sake of itself and in no real service to well-being or health of either ourselves or the world in which we are embodied and embedded. Of course the vaccines and the entire Covid debacle are the latest examples of this.
Our much vaunted rationalism and reductionism that have allowed us as a rather large and dangerous termite colony to fathom the "secrets" of nature and harness them to our will has rendered us lost and homeless and severely damaged. We seem to have delighted in pitting our collective hubris against something far more timeless, far more enormous and far more powerful than ourselves. And now we are stranded on a kind of conveyor belt to oblivion of our own making. I'm certainly not the first to point these things out, but by now the results are palpable and impossible to ignore. Narcissism and cruelty abound; sickness proliferates.
I'm reasonably self-aware enough to realize that it is only human to be frustrated and distraught with the bamboozled "others" who don't see what's going on and I suppose I have to remind myself that they are merely victims. Even though they can be patronizing, dismissive, indifferent, righteous and even vicious in their carefully guarded ignorance, I continually have to remind myself. You know when people have to watch their loved ones or parents slowly become something other than themselves, something unrecognizable such as with Parkinson's, Dementia or Alhzheimer's? That's exactly what it's like. All the people you thought you knew all these years - siblings, spouses, friends, acquaintances, neighbours and community members - they've all effectively been "shipped off" to God-knows-where. It's more than metaphorically like an alien abduction. This, in fact, is how the "Zombie Apocalypse" plays out in the real world.
And in the midst of this a strange and chilling "Code of Silence" both permeates and envelops the entire society all around you. You see things that are abject and overt absurdities or injustices, and those close to you admonish you to just say nothing. Don't ask, don't tell. Don't make waves. Don't offend or shock anyone. Just nod in agreement, keep the conversation at a mediocre, pedestrian level. I never thought fascism would be so "pleasant" and "agreeable".
Meanwhile, that thing we once called "social chill" before 2019, that was a characteristic of our sick society, has now morphed in to something more malignant - social freeze. The bonds of trust throughout society are being dissolved and shattered at a crucial time when we need them the most. I personally know no shortage of people who would rather put their trust and faith in some botoxed, high-density-polythelene TV news anchor with the complexion of a macerated rutabaga than they would a spouse or brother or sister or someone they have known all their lives.
For instance, we have a neighbour/acquaintance up the road from us here in the rural hinterlands of la belle province who informed us she 'lost' her fetus in the early third trimester recently. Now, this is a young, healthy, robust woman (she buys our duck eggs after all!) who has already had two children with no issues whatsoever. There is no reason to expect that the fetus, which had been developing normally, suddenly decided to just call it a day and self-extinguish. It's possible. Anything is of course possible. But given the preponderance of incoming evidence that reproductive issues and miscarriages are actually a thing now, does it not beg the question? Just the question. That's all. I've been told in no uncertain terms not to bring the issue up for fear of upsetting her and compromising social relations. I guess then she'll go and try conceiving again...perhaps after her 2nd booster?
See what I mean? Fascism is proving to be so pleasant and agreeable you see.
an expletive is in order here...
What the fuck!?!?
If we are this defenseless against evil we haven't a chance, since we seem to have enthusiastically internalized the idea that we condone fascism, that we are in fact zealous aiders and abettors of its dark march ourselves.
I have digressed enormously. Sorry about that.
I would like to say more about your above comment, but as you can see I've already done a fair job of clogging up this space with elaborating on but one singular thread.
I do read Corbett and Eisenstein, among many, many others, though we have never exchanged in those spaces to my knowledge. I saw your recent comments on Corbett regarding gee-oh-engineering and bothered to look at your photos uploaded to internet archive. Who the hell could dismiss that without any question whatsoever? I've seen similar things here over the Eastern Townships.
Over and out for now my friend.
*(Your Anthocyanin article was over-the-top stupendous by the way)
First of all, I love that my words are being compared to a squash vine and I very much enjoyed your description of the various meanings of your substack screenname (Neo) depending on the day of the week :)
Your description of the slow (so painfully slow) cooking of the frog in the hot water (where this monstrous machine of "progress" is cooking the minds of a great many human beings) is very accurate and illuminating.
When I read the part where you said "Nobody wants to be on the "losing" side of the momentum of history and "progress" it really hit home for me as I had a family member literally tell me that I am "letting down the masses" and not critically thinking because I refuse to put synthetic mRNA experimental 'gene therapy' injections into my body. After a bunch of sad attempts to gaslight and bully me into line she even said "I couldn’t sit by and not say anything, to me that would put me on the wrong side of history. ". It boggled (and still boggles) my mind to try and imagine how people like her justify their sickening mindless conformity to obviously tyrannical regimes and endorsement of immoral mandates.
You said "you know when people have to watch their loved ones or parents slowly become something other than themselves, something unrecognizable such as with Parkinson's, Dementia or Alhzheimer's? That's exactly what it's like."
Sadly, I know exactly what that is like (literally and metaphorically). Right now as I type the majority of my family is on a tropical beach (on a family reunion / Christmas trip that my wife and I were intentionally excluded from due to our unwillingness to capitulate to my family's cult like opinions about "vaccines"). They arranged the trip back when only those that were injected with synthetic mRNA were allowed to get on a plane in Canada (and there were no signs of that law changing anytime soon) when they could have easily arranged for the re-union to be held in Canada (so that everyone could attend). The "more malignant - social freeze" indeed.
Yes it is a very seemingly 'pleasant and agreeable' type of fascism. In another post I described this transition into new type of fascism by saying:
The old fascism was loud, arrogant, aggressive, blatantly racist and obviously nefarious. It came at you guns blazing with a blitzkrieg of armored vehicles and it was clear to almost everyone what it was about.
The new fascism is quiet, subtle and covert... it comes at you with a blitzkrieg of fear propaganda and psychological warfare operations disseminated through infiltrated institutions you have been raised to trust and respect. It arrives wearing a smiling face, speaking of equality, "keeping the citizens safe from danger" and makes promises of a high tech 'utopia' offering a long list of quick fix 'solutions' that are 'easier' than those 'old natural methods' to seduce the weak minded while it slips a dagger between the ribs.
Now, in the new normal fascist Canada, we have government officials attempting to gaslight children and parents with weird propaganda telling them that unvaccinated kids are on santa's naughty list: https://archive.org/details/hi-200-1 I would almost prefer a blitzkrieg of armored vehicles wreaking havoc to this new kind of fascism. At least with the old fascism people could clearly see they were being targeted for extermination and domination (and either choose to fight or flee) but this new creepy smiley fascism, so effectively brainwashes people, it gets them to line up happily (in a 'socially distanced' single file) for their modern day version of Auschwitz.
I admire your attempting to ask that question of the woman attempting to have a child (while trusting repeat criminal offenders that openly speak about their eugenics aspirations to put experimental substances into her body).
Expletives are definitely called for, the feeling is even beyond words at times, witnessing this quiet carnage, watching the creeping tyranny infect and subsume once free thinking people.. it makes me think of this film for some reason: https://vimeo.com/73539438 in particular it makes me think of the guy's facial expressions at time index 51:00
Thanks for checking out the pics I uploaded of the aerial spraying programs, ya I find it hard to understand how people ignore something so blatantly obvious, perhaps it is partially due to the intentional shortening of the attention span and memory capacity of the masses. I remember the skies when I was younger, but I was someone always looking up at the sky, and even then they were beginning to condition children with digital hyperstimulation of video games etc so I was likely looking up more than others.
Ah I love the forests of the Eastern Townships, my wife and I went camping around there a few years back and I have wanted to go back ever since but not managed to find the time yet. I really enjoyed all the diversity of fungi that are present in those forests, the place is a forager and amateur mycological researcher's dream! :)
I am glad to hear you enjoyed the anthocyanin article, if you like I could send you seeds for a few of the heirloom crops I shared pics of in that article.
Thank you for the funny remarks and heartfelt observations my friend. I`ll check my emails in a bit.
Despite the seemingly increasingly shadowy world we find ourselves in the midst of, I like to keep in mind that the night is always darkest right before the dawn and it only takes a single candle to light up an entire room filled with darkness. Thank you for being as a candle in your neck of the woods and here in this online space as well :)
I look forward to talking seeds with you. It's my life, until it wasn't thanks to the Nazi's. I'll explain at some point. Also, check your gmail if you don't regularly. I sent along a little note.
By all means, don't sweat it. Respond if and when you can.
Now I'm off to look up "perspicacious". Does it have something to do with sweating? If so, I'm charmed and flattered! Sweating is a virtue in the right context. Thanks!
Thanks for this reply Gavin. I've been so busy here on Ye Olde Homestead (compound?) of late that I've neglected to address it in a timely way. I'll try to do that within the next couple of days. I wanted to discuss seeds with you anyhow. Stay well. Neo.
I am quite overwhelmed by the breadth and depth of your writing, links, and multiplicity of the sources exposing the war and mind control psyops of the overlords. I have been experiencing a deep dive in my own mind over the past couple of months in attending to the realization of dishonesty of the war in Ukraine and the ongoing war making and profiteering of murder and destruction. To see that any and all political administrations preside in collusion. The recent historical contextual facts that mask the justification for war and the dangerous and compromising consequences. How to get out of our silos and act and what makes sense? This very complete rundown must have consumed much time and effort. Thank you Gavin
Yes, he is amazing! Gavin is always thorough, despite the time or effort it requires of him. He is that dedicated to bringing the truth to those ready to hear it and to helping the world step out from under the boot of this warped system. He does that not only by shining light on what is going on but also by teaching about things we can do to loosen their hold, like regenerative gardening. I am honoured to share my life with him.
When I was writing the above article I did my best to weave a thread of continuity between the wars of the old order (mostly kinetic warfare with a spattering of psychological warfare to get the ball rolling and keep the machine of war well greased) and the war(s) being waged by the new order (primarily psychological warfare, economic warfare with the addition of biological warfare and a spattering of kinetic warfare aimed at the general population of the Earth by the plutocrats and their puppets in subsidiary government systems).
As you pointed out, the amount of material required to properly reference and back up what I was saying and clearly illustrate the 'through line' that took us to where we are now (being the targets of a war of aggression that is waged on us by multiple corporations, institutions and governments in their quest for "full spectrum dominance") is substantial, so I apologize for the overwhelming nature of the article. I felt gathering all those data points was necessary in the interest of providing all the relevant historical documentation (so that people do not have to take my word for it and can also do the research for themselves if they wish). It did take quite a bit of time and effort, so I appreciate you saying that.
I just updated the post above with additional references, images, writing and other material. I wanted to also speak to the situation here in Canada earlier this year where our government waged war on it's own citizens in Ottawa (with militarized police forces, propaganda campaigns and financial coercion tactics) when ordinary citizens dared to peacefully demand that their right to not be forced to undergo invasive medical treatments (so they could keep their jobs) was respected. I felt this was important to include in the post as when people gathered together peacefully and refused to comply with the "new normal" we were given a preview of what the oligarchs and their puppets are willing to do to crush dissent. I feel they overplayed their hand in that situation, thus, taking a close look at the tools that were used to silence, malign and attack the peaceful protestors in Ottawa (and elsehwere) can help us strategize effectively for the future.
One of the more powerful viable solutions I keep coming back to is taking steps to create decentralized self-perpetuating food and medicine production systems in each of our local communities. "Food Forests" and "Forest Gardening" are excellent examples of methods that effectively accomplish those goals.
When we save heirloom seed, grow and preserving food and medicine from our garden we are also engaging in an act of protest and peaceful resistance. The oligarchs are working diligently to cripple the conventional farmers and global food supply via a variety of means. Creating decentralized food systems that are self perpetuating (regenerative gardens and/or food forests) sabotages their plans to create a situation where the population is dependent on their centralized food infrastructure (and thus helps to de-fang their plans to use CBDC and social credit tyranny to force compliance through the dependence of the masses on their systems for our basic necessities).
These forms of peaceful resistance also cripple their ability to enforce their totalitarian schemes on future generations, for through the act of saving seed, sharing it (and regenerating the earth at the same time) we begin to create communities that can be like islands of resilience and abundance that will be immune to the financial coercion tactics and digital shackles that may be utilized in the future
I feel taking action on the more back to basics front is imperative as I sense that only those who are heavily invested in the living economy of the Earth will be capable of escaping the crippling effects of the stranglehold that is intended to be tightened through this ongoing economic/psychological war and this final push of colonialism and plutocratic imperialism (in which the psychopaths behind this global war against humanity intend to invade, conquer and subjugate the last remaining sovereign territory, The Human Body/Mind).
I firmly believe that by fortifying the sovereign territory of our hearts and minds (through self-education, tending our inner garden through mindfulness/meditation) as well as taking steps to embrace food/health sovereignty and creating “parallel societies” (symbiotically connected communities of humans utilizing decentralized means to access their basic necessities) we can create an effective bulwark to cripple the momentum of the corporate oligarchy. In doing so, we can break their intended choke hold on our financial transactions (and by extension their choke hold on our autonomy). We can do this by looking inward to unlock and hone our innate intuitive capacities, find a firm spiritual footing and then step forward to align our efforts, health and livelihood with the regenerative capacity of Mother Earth and the inherent abundance offered by her ecosystems. In doing so, we can become the living embodiment of a template for a new way of living on planet Earth and render the old parasitic systems obsolete, to one day leave them behind.
You are most welcome, thanks for taking to the time to read what I put together and comment. :)
This is an incredible article, Gavin. I'm happy to have found you here on Substack. :)
Warm Greetings from Canada Barbara !
Thank you, that means a lot.
I am glad you found your way here as well. :)
A fabulous job you've done here, Gavin - as with all your posts on whatever topic you take on. My only beef with it perhaps, is that it should even need such a strenuous and competent explication. I guess the reason history has a proclivity for repeating itself is that you can bet your bottom kale seed that most people don't pay sufficient attention most of the time. Especially when they perceive that times are good and fat is a'plenty.
They see - in the mechanical sense of cornea, lens, and retina (and one could only hope connected brain...and heart) - but they do not have vision. As the old adage goes "Where there is no vision, the people perish". The "thing" is seen (the fact, the event, the "news") , but the significance of the thing is not seen, the larger context and historical continuity is overlooked. For instance, what is the significance of unleashing the Emergencies Act like a deranged Pitbull upon the Canadian citizenry? It must imply something really BIG and really UGLY. It begs a plethora of questions and search for truth.
I sent this post on to a number of friends and acquaintances whom I esteem not yet to be sufficiently captured by the ambient Psy-Op so as to be at least partially receptive...but alas. The one acknowledgement I got was from someone who mentioned it was "arduously long". So much for attention spans in the Brave New World of the Techno-synthetic Terrarium.
Forgive me for sounding harsh and judgemental, but surely...surely we can do better than this. Surely we care enough to care; to think and search and act. At least for the kids maybe, as we so often like to claim, never mind the future of the living world?
Just for the heck of it, by the way, I would like to submit a couple of obscure candidates for relevant anti-militarism songs.
The first you may not have heard of, as it harkens back somewhat to the dust of history. Nevertheless, I think it is one of the most impactful and artful anti-war songs to come out of the canon. The title is "Bold Marauder" and it is here performed in 1962 by Richard and Mimi Farina.
https://dai.ly/x6ifrz8
For more context, here is the full episode of Pete Seeger's "Rainbow Quest" within which the song was performed. Seeger at the time was on a blacklist of sorts because of McCarthyism and the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities and he was consigned to doing this quaint little show on an obscure public television broadcaster at the time. There is something heartwarming about the episodes, in their earnestness and sincerity and their folksy, unvarnished production value. Plus some of the best folk music of the era was recorded on this unique broadcast comprising something like 35 episodes. I digress. Here is the link.
Pete Seeger's Rainbow Quest, Feb 26 1966
https://archive.org/details/RainbowQuest16
The second candidate is Leonard Cohen's "Anthem". I think you'll see why:
Anthem HD 1080 (w/lyrics) London 2008
https://youtu.be/48AJBXs5dNc
And please...keep up your efforts. Some of us at least are reading and thinking and reflecting.
Neo,
Your comment brought a genuine smile to my face (a precious commodity these days, so thank you for that). I would indeed 'bet my bottom kale seed' :) that most people do not pay attention to detail (they have been programmed and assured that everything is going according to plan, perpetual "progress" is underway, high tech - centrally distributed - quick fix solutions will lead us all to a paradise, where our governments will keep us safe and well fed, as long as we keep our heads down and follow orders).
You said it well, when you described the compartmentalized/fragmented way in which people view events (without taking a step back to see what greater pattern events are an integral part of). I would also bet my bottom kale seed that the quickly diminishing attention span of the majority of people in the west (those that you described as being part of the "Brave New World of the Techno-synthetic Terrarium") is no accident. The article above is longer than 140 characters, and so the programmed internal switch clicks and people tune out and go back to their endless scrolling feeds (which will inevitably inform them, with catchy one line fact check titles, that everything they began to read about on that other 'long boring post' was just conspiracy theory nonsense).
From a cold and a strategic stand point, observing how highly effective, fine tuned and viciously calculated the mass digital corralling operation is, is quite impressive. As I mentioned in the updated version of the post above, I observed numerous close friends and family members (that were once very skeptical of the edicts of centralized authoritarian systems) get psychologically bulldozed, led along with carrot and stick tactics, coercion campaigns and just flat out fooled by repetitive, relentless, fallacious statements in the last two years. The attention span was shortened, gradually, to the point where now everything that really contains actionable intelligence for those that are mentally enslaved to be capable of emancipating themselves, is automatically dismissed as "long and boring" by their conditioning. It is a genius system for mental enslavement when you look at how efficient it is, completely morally bankrupt and quite nefarious, but never-the-less a very well built machine.
I understand your frustration and find my self wondering the same at moments. Surely, people are capable of just taking a deep breath and feeling within themselves if what they are being told by our so called leaders resonates as true and just (and then taking appropriate action).. surely we are capable of seeing the sheer cliff ahead and changing course?
In the end, I wonder if perhaps many chose to come here to intimately experience the fall, to become enthralled by the world eating parasitic corporatocracy, to bear witness to its monstrous capacity to consume, colonize and commodify... to become hypnotized by its capacity to reduce our attention spans to mere minutes (through hyperstimulation and behavior modification technologies) to witness its ruthless efficiency... turning human beings into numbers (and then adjusting those numbers to satisfy a utilitarian equation)? I wonder if they came here (intentionally) not only to witness how the corporatocracy will inevitably cannibalize itself, imploding under its own immense weight (collapsing due to the gravity of its substantial hubris) but also, to experience it first hand? Perhaps some souls came to play their part like actors in a Shakespeare play, and their role does not involve asking the hard questions, making the difficult choices or awakening to step back and perceive those who play the roles of puppets and puppeteers? Or perhaps they just lack the moral courage and mental fortitude to step up and embrace the opportunity to become their best selves in the face of adverse conditions? Who is to say?
I dig your candidates for anti-militarism songs and have added them to the end of my article, thanks very much for sharing them and for your candid, thoughtful and cogent description of "Rainbow Quest". I look forward to exploring all 35 episodes with my wife in time :)
The opening line in Leonard Cohen's "Anthem" that goes..
"The birds they sang
at the break of day
Start again
I seem to hear them say
Do not dwell on what
has passed away
or what is yet to be."
..made me think of something another musician (Cosmo Sheldrake) said about how birds create a perpetual wave of bird song that constantly moves across the Earth, following the breaking dawn (and the last rays of the sun each day) as the Earth rotates. Here is a clip where he talks about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ksh1XOPNi5s He called it a "constant sonic bathing process". I wrote something that was inspired by that concept for my upcoming book that I will share in a future post on here.
Could you remind me where we first crossed paths, was it on a Charles Eisenstein post or perhaps on the Corbett Report website? In any case, I am glad we did cross paths and I will indeed keep up my efforts.
Thanks very much for the ruminative, encouraging and candid comment.
Thanks for your considered response, Gavin. Your comment resembles, to my strange and associative way of thinking, a healthy and robust squash vine, with tendrils stretching and yearning for the sun. Lots of threads for me to pick up on! Too many, in fact, to be stuffed in to a mere comment box on this platform. By the way, the "Neo" refers to "Neo-agrarian", which is how I like to describe myself, at least on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Alternatively it refers to "Neo-Luddite", on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. The Neo that might be associated with The Matrix is reserved for Sundays only, or so I can only hope!
But speaking of threads to pick up on, I'll see if I'm up to the task...
In my apparent condemnation of what seems to have become of human nature within this post-modern, Hadron collider of a "civilization", I do not mean to be unjust or arrogantly righteous. I just find it all so tragic that the majority of people would willingly abrogate their own given (natural law) autonomy for a deceptive and fatal pipe dream. Too readily they have succumbed to the temptations of the "salesman", the advertiser, the politician and the PR man or woman. Through a generational process of succumbing to cajoling, seduction, coercion and gaslighting they stopped listening to their own visceral, primordial-soup-moral-compass and took the side of the apparent "winners". Nobody wants to be on the "losing" side of the momentum of history and "progress". I speak here of the universal cult of progress, with all its attendant bullshit of human supremacy, its overwhelmingly religious faith in merely technical "innovation" for the sake of itself and in no real service to well-being or health of either ourselves or the world in which we are embodied and embedded. Of course the vaccines and the entire Covid debacle are the latest examples of this.
Our much vaunted rationalism and reductionism that have allowed us as a rather large and dangerous termite colony to fathom the "secrets" of nature and harness them to our will has rendered us lost and homeless and severely damaged. We seem to have delighted in pitting our collective hubris against something far more timeless, far more enormous and far more powerful than ourselves. And now we are stranded on a kind of conveyor belt to oblivion of our own making. I'm certainly not the first to point these things out, but by now the results are palpable and impossible to ignore. Narcissism and cruelty abound; sickness proliferates.
I'm reasonably self-aware enough to realize that it is only human to be frustrated and distraught with the bamboozled "others" who don't see what's going on and I suppose I have to remind myself that they are merely victims. Even though they can be patronizing, dismissive, indifferent, righteous and even vicious in their carefully guarded ignorance, I continually have to remind myself. You know when people have to watch their loved ones or parents slowly become something other than themselves, something unrecognizable such as with Parkinson's, Dementia or Alhzheimer's? That's exactly what it's like. All the people you thought you knew all these years - siblings, spouses, friends, acquaintances, neighbours and community members - they've all effectively been "shipped off" to God-knows-where. It's more than metaphorically like an alien abduction. This, in fact, is how the "Zombie Apocalypse" plays out in the real world.
And in the midst of this a strange and chilling "Code of Silence" both permeates and envelops the entire society all around you. You see things that are abject and overt absurdities or injustices, and those close to you admonish you to just say nothing. Don't ask, don't tell. Don't make waves. Don't offend or shock anyone. Just nod in agreement, keep the conversation at a mediocre, pedestrian level. I never thought fascism would be so "pleasant" and "agreeable".
Meanwhile, that thing we once called "social chill" before 2019, that was a characteristic of our sick society, has now morphed in to something more malignant - social freeze. The bonds of trust throughout society are being dissolved and shattered at a crucial time when we need them the most. I personally know no shortage of people who would rather put their trust and faith in some botoxed, high-density-polythelene TV news anchor with the complexion of a macerated rutabaga than they would a spouse or brother or sister or someone they have known all their lives.
For instance, we have a neighbour/acquaintance up the road from us here in the rural hinterlands of la belle province who informed us she 'lost' her fetus in the early third trimester recently. Now, this is a young, healthy, robust woman (she buys our duck eggs after all!) who has already had two children with no issues whatsoever. There is no reason to expect that the fetus, which had been developing normally, suddenly decided to just call it a day and self-extinguish. It's possible. Anything is of course possible. But given the preponderance of incoming evidence that reproductive issues and miscarriages are actually a thing now, does it not beg the question? Just the question. That's all. I've been told in no uncertain terms not to bring the issue up for fear of upsetting her and compromising social relations. I guess then she'll go and try conceiving again...perhaps after her 2nd booster?
See what I mean? Fascism is proving to be so pleasant and agreeable you see.
an expletive is in order here...
What the fuck!?!?
If we are this defenseless against evil we haven't a chance, since we seem to have enthusiastically internalized the idea that we condone fascism, that we are in fact zealous aiders and abettors of its dark march ourselves.
I have digressed enormously. Sorry about that.
I would like to say more about your above comment, but as you can see I've already done a fair job of clogging up this space with elaborating on but one singular thread.
I do read Corbett and Eisenstein, among many, many others, though we have never exchanged in those spaces to my knowledge. I saw your recent comments on Corbett regarding gee-oh-engineering and bothered to look at your photos uploaded to internet archive. Who the hell could dismiss that without any question whatsoever? I've seen similar things here over the Eastern Townships.
Over and out for now my friend.
*(Your Anthocyanin article was over-the-top stupendous by the way)
First of all, I love that my words are being compared to a squash vine and I very much enjoyed your description of the various meanings of your substack screenname (Neo) depending on the day of the week :)
Your description of the slow (so painfully slow) cooking of the frog in the hot water (where this monstrous machine of "progress" is cooking the minds of a great many human beings) is very accurate and illuminating.
When I read the part where you said "Nobody wants to be on the "losing" side of the momentum of history and "progress" it really hit home for me as I had a family member literally tell me that I am "letting down the masses" and not critically thinking because I refuse to put synthetic mRNA experimental 'gene therapy' injections into my body. After a bunch of sad attempts to gaslight and bully me into line she even said "I couldn’t sit by and not say anything, to me that would put me on the wrong side of history. ". It boggled (and still boggles) my mind to try and imagine how people like her justify their sickening mindless conformity to obviously tyrannical regimes and endorsement of immoral mandates.
If you have any interest in seeing exactly what I am talking about, I described and documented the details of that exchange here: https://www.corbettreport.com/nwny2023/#comment-144208
You said "you know when people have to watch their loved ones or parents slowly become something other than themselves, something unrecognizable such as with Parkinson's, Dementia or Alhzheimer's? That's exactly what it's like."
Sadly, I know exactly what that is like (literally and metaphorically). Right now as I type the majority of my family is on a tropical beach (on a family reunion / Christmas trip that my wife and I were intentionally excluded from due to our unwillingness to capitulate to my family's cult like opinions about "vaccines"). They arranged the trip back when only those that were injected with synthetic mRNA were allowed to get on a plane in Canada (and there were no signs of that law changing anytime soon) when they could have easily arranged for the re-union to be held in Canada (so that everyone could attend). The "more malignant - social freeze" indeed.
Yes it is a very seemingly 'pleasant and agreeable' type of fascism. In another post I described this transition into new type of fascism by saying:
The old fascism was loud, arrogant, aggressive, blatantly racist and obviously nefarious. It came at you guns blazing with a blitzkrieg of armored vehicles and it was clear to almost everyone what it was about.
The new fascism is quiet, subtle and covert... it comes at you with a blitzkrieg of fear propaganda and psychological warfare operations disseminated through infiltrated institutions you have been raised to trust and respect. It arrives wearing a smiling face, speaking of equality, "keeping the citizens safe from danger" and makes promises of a high tech 'utopia' offering a long list of quick fix 'solutions' that are 'easier' than those 'old natural methods' to seduce the weak minded while it slips a dagger between the ribs.
Now, in the new normal fascist Canada, we have government officials attempting to gaslight children and parents with weird propaganda telling them that unvaccinated kids are on santa's naughty list: https://archive.org/details/hi-200-1 I would almost prefer a blitzkrieg of armored vehicles wreaking havoc to this new kind of fascism. At least with the old fascism people could clearly see they were being targeted for extermination and domination (and either choose to fight or flee) but this new creepy smiley fascism, so effectively brainwashes people, it gets them to line up happily (in a 'socially distanced' single file) for their modern day version of Auschwitz.
I admire your attempting to ask that question of the woman attempting to have a child (while trusting repeat criminal offenders that openly speak about their eugenics aspirations to put experimental substances into her body).
Expletives are definitely called for, the feeling is even beyond words at times, witnessing this quiet carnage, watching the creeping tyranny infect and subsume once free thinking people.. it makes me think of this film for some reason: https://vimeo.com/73539438 in particular it makes me think of the guy's facial expressions at time index 51:00
Thanks for checking out the pics I uploaded of the aerial spraying programs, ya I find it hard to understand how people ignore something so blatantly obvious, perhaps it is partially due to the intentional shortening of the attention span and memory capacity of the masses. I remember the skies when I was younger, but I was someone always looking up at the sky, and even then they were beginning to condition children with digital hyperstimulation of video games etc so I was likely looking up more than others.
Ah I love the forests of the Eastern Townships, my wife and I went camping around there a few years back and I have wanted to go back ever since but not managed to find the time yet. I really enjoyed all the diversity of fungi that are present in those forests, the place is a forager and amateur mycological researcher's dream! :)
I am glad to hear you enjoyed the anthocyanin article, if you like I could send you seeds for a few of the heirloom crops I shared pics of in that article.
Thank you for the funny remarks and heartfelt observations my friend. I`ll check my emails in a bit.
Despite the seemingly increasingly shadowy world we find ourselves in the midst of, I like to keep in mind that the night is always darkest right before the dawn and it only takes a single candle to light up an entire room filled with darkness. Thank you for being as a candle in your neck of the woods and here in this online space as well :)
Neo,
I am in the process of digesting and contemplating your extremely well-written, perspicacious, poignant and thought provoking response.
I hope to be able to respond fully later today or tomorrow after I am done sorting, packaging and shipping another batch of heirloom seeds.
Thank you for all the time and thought you put into writing the above reply.
I look forward to talking seeds with you. It's my life, until it wasn't thanks to the Nazi's. I'll explain at some point. Also, check your gmail if you don't regularly. I sent along a little note.
By all means, don't sweat it. Respond if and when you can.
Now I'm off to look up "perspicacious". Does it have something to do with sweating? If so, I'm charmed and flattered! Sweating is a virtue in the right context. Thanks!
Thanks for this reply Gavin. I've been so busy here on Ye Olde Homestead (compound?) of late that I've neglected to address it in a timely way. I'll try to do that within the next couple of days. I wanted to discuss seeds with you anyhow. Stay well. Neo.
I am quite overwhelmed by the breadth and depth of your writing, links, and multiplicity of the sources exposing the war and mind control psyops of the overlords. I have been experiencing a deep dive in my own mind over the past couple of months in attending to the realization of dishonesty of the war in Ukraine and the ongoing war making and profiteering of murder and destruction. To see that any and all political administrations preside in collusion. The recent historical contextual facts that mask the justification for war and the dangerous and compromising consequences. How to get out of our silos and act and what makes sense? This very complete rundown must have consumed much time and effort. Thank you Gavin
Yes, he is amazing! Gavin is always thorough, despite the time or effort it requires of him. He is that dedicated to bringing the truth to those ready to hear it and to helping the world step out from under the boot of this warped system. He does that not only by shining light on what is going on but also by teaching about things we can do to loosen their hold, like regenerative gardening. I am honoured to share my life with him.
Hi Annie!
Thank you for the kind and thoughtful comment.
When I was writing the above article I did my best to weave a thread of continuity between the wars of the old order (mostly kinetic warfare with a spattering of psychological warfare to get the ball rolling and keep the machine of war well greased) and the war(s) being waged by the new order (primarily psychological warfare, economic warfare with the addition of biological warfare and a spattering of kinetic warfare aimed at the general population of the Earth by the plutocrats and their puppets in subsidiary government systems).
As you pointed out, the amount of material required to properly reference and back up what I was saying and clearly illustrate the 'through line' that took us to where we are now (being the targets of a war of aggression that is waged on us by multiple corporations, institutions and governments in their quest for "full spectrum dominance") is substantial, so I apologize for the overwhelming nature of the article. I felt gathering all those data points was necessary in the interest of providing all the relevant historical documentation (so that people do not have to take my word for it and can also do the research for themselves if they wish). It did take quite a bit of time and effort, so I appreciate you saying that.
I just updated the post above with additional references, images, writing and other material. I wanted to also speak to the situation here in Canada earlier this year where our government waged war on it's own citizens in Ottawa (with militarized police forces, propaganda campaigns and financial coercion tactics) when ordinary citizens dared to peacefully demand that their right to not be forced to undergo invasive medical treatments (so they could keep their jobs) was respected. I felt this was important to include in the post as when people gathered together peacefully and refused to comply with the "new normal" we were given a preview of what the oligarchs and their puppets are willing to do to crush dissent. I feel they overplayed their hand in that situation, thus, taking a close look at the tools that were used to silence, malign and attack the peaceful protestors in Ottawa (and elsehwere) can help us strategize effectively for the future.
As far as "How to get out of our silos and act and what makes sense?" I present some suggestions pursuant to those ends in this post: https://gavinmounsey.substack.com/p/in-pursuit-of-an-antidote-for-parasites
One of the more powerful viable solutions I keep coming back to is taking steps to create decentralized self-perpetuating food and medicine production systems in each of our local communities. "Food Forests" and "Forest Gardening" are excellent examples of methods that effectively accomplish those goals.
When we save heirloom seed, grow and preserving food and medicine from our garden we are also engaging in an act of protest and peaceful resistance. The oligarchs are working diligently to cripple the conventional farmers and global food supply via a variety of means. Creating decentralized food systems that are self perpetuating (regenerative gardens and/or food forests) sabotages their plans to create a situation where the population is dependent on their centralized food infrastructure (and thus helps to de-fang their plans to use CBDC and social credit tyranny to force compliance through the dependence of the masses on their systems for our basic necessities).
These forms of peaceful resistance also cripple their ability to enforce their totalitarian schemes on future generations, for through the act of saving seed, sharing it (and regenerating the earth at the same time) we begin to create communities that can be like islands of resilience and abundance that will be immune to the financial coercion tactics and digital shackles that may be utilized in the future
I feel taking action on the more back to basics front is imperative as I sense that only those who are heavily invested in the living economy of the Earth will be capable of escaping the crippling effects of the stranglehold that is intended to be tightened through this ongoing economic/psychological war and this final push of colonialism and plutocratic imperialism (in which the psychopaths behind this global war against humanity intend to invade, conquer and subjugate the last remaining sovereign territory, The Human Body/Mind).
I firmly believe that by fortifying the sovereign territory of our hearts and minds (through self-education, tending our inner garden through mindfulness/meditation) as well as taking steps to embrace food/health sovereignty and creating “parallel societies” (symbiotically connected communities of humans utilizing decentralized means to access their basic necessities) we can create an effective bulwark to cripple the momentum of the corporate oligarchy. In doing so, we can break their intended choke hold on our financial transactions (and by extension their choke hold on our autonomy). We can do this by looking inward to unlock and hone our innate intuitive capacities, find a firm spiritual footing and then step forward to align our efforts, health and livelihood with the regenerative capacity of Mother Earth and the inherent abundance offered by her ecosystems. In doing so, we can become the living embodiment of a template for a new way of living on planet Earth and render the old parasitic systems obsolete, to one day leave them behind.
You are most welcome, thanks for taking to the time to read what I put together and comment. :)