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.
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
This is an incredible article, Gavin. I'm happy to have found you here on Substack. :)
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.
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