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GM Nostr. I'm in a dark mood this morning.

In the US, we're staring down an presidential election where, on one hand, we have a deranged old man who can't even read a teleprompter and, on the other, a totally spoiled psychopath who thinks he's entitled to whatever he wants. The thing is, the actually agree on 99% of things behind closed doors. Keep the status quo going, keep their friends in power, take more freedom from the people.

In Europe, a union born from the horrors of two great world wars, they've been shockingly quick to forget that oppression and war always comes after you try and control speech, control flows of people and money, and force conformity. You're not "looking after the downtrodden", you're destroying the human spirit.

I never thought it could or would get to this level of state psychosis in my lifetime. I thought maybe the covid shit show might have been a turning point. A gaze into a dark abyss from which we'd recoil and start making the necessary changes. But it's clear that isn't the case. The political class continues to double down on limiting freedom, destroying livelihoods, and crushing dreams.

I really truly hope, for my kids generation, that we manage to unfuck this situation without another world war.

I'm unfortunately getting less and less optimistic about that.

berean jones 1y ago

I hear you.

I also think that operation covid damaged our mental health far more than we like to admit.

- Individually, in testing us to near breaking point, even if we avoided the jabs and saw through the propaganda, the drama still took it's toll on us and left us drained. Which means difficulty in maintaining healthy right brain big picture thinking, difficulty in stepping outside the comfort of the overton window, difficulty in taking action needed to break out of the fear paralysis... we're doing it, but it's hard.

- Collectively, in setting up a mass formation psychosis that has never really been undone, the root fears planted in the lead up to and at the start of operation covid, never really uprooted or reversed, so people still jump in large numbers in whatever direction they're nudged, yes 'the current thing' is a test whistle, but there are many micro nudges that don't make the memes. We call them out in the hope of waking people up, but I think there's a whole critical mass of people that just see them as normal, as witty ways of expressing and reinforcing what they've been given to believe. So you show them a meme of someone with multiple needles in them, to us that's like "hey you keep jabbing yourself for nothing just to obey your government, you silly sheep" and to them it's like "hey, that's me, I'm taking those jabs and doing my part, badge of honour". Same meme, completely different impact. I wonder if people see our money printer memes, and we think 'look at that worthless inflatable fiat' and they think 'well it's good they can keep printing money because we all could do with a little more'.

We know with individual trauma that it can be years before we feel confident to confront what actually happened. I was carjacked downtown in a 'global south capital city' years back, terrifying in that I thought I was going to die alone in the car, but eventually escaped by reckless driving against traffic, on pure adrenaline. I overcame the immediate trauma in seven days, going back to the same spot, the whole 'get back on your horse' thing... and it shifted the immediate fear. However, almost fifteen years later, I realised there were still residual PTSD impacts that I hadn't fully processed. It didn't take long to address that, but I was surprised by how the residiual effects stayed hidden for so long, manifesting in ADHD like behaviours - hypervigilence, distraction, forgetfulness, exhaustion and so on.

What I'm saying is, it's not enough to dismiss the majority of people as dumb, intelligence is a distribution curve but we've got a traumatized population that is now easily manipulated, and the clown show *is* the active manipulation. Getting us out of trauma is the road to greater recovery... otherwise, it will be a painful reset, and perhaps a couple of generations until this has played out. Our generation may already be lost... the next generation may contain a seed with enough resilience... and only in the third generation do they throw off the weakness of their traumatized ancestors and forcefully take hold of their destinies again.

Well, it looks like your dark mood was contagious brother.

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JeffG 1y ago

Thanks for the thoughtful response. I agree, it’s tough. Yes, there are plenty of left side of the curve folks but honestly I’m more worried about the laziness and apathy than lack of intelligence.

All we can do is keep talking about it, keep helping people build their plan B and keep pushing back as much as possible.

Meridian 1y ago

Excellent post. Trauma is an excellent lense to view current events through.

Resolving trauma requires good health and lots of biochemical energy.

When people lack these things, that's when they get stuck in patterns of what we refer to as PTSD. In such cases, the body/mind system is not strong enough to fully process a traumatic memory, and bring it to a more optimal conclusion. Instead, the system gets stuck in a continious loop of attempting to resolve the experience, but being unable to fully complete the process.

This on it's own can be exhausting, and significantly impacts a persons ability to think and plan for the future.

It's an excellent way to deliver a person into a position where they are much more likely to accept a prescribed sequence of events that is handed to them, than to attempt to forge their own way....

The answer to this issue is to balance and deeply nourish the body, restoring real biochemical energy, at which stage traumas begin to surface and resolve, in their own time and at the body/minds own pace.

This might sound crazy to those who have been conditioned to see the mind in isolation, however once properly understood, I would suggest that it is even crazier to expect to maintain a robust psychological state, when the bodies biochemistry is completely out of whack.

The push to have the plebs subsist on soybeans and wheat, vs pastured steak and butter, is just another aspect of the same manipulation.