Last October, while media attention focused on wars and elections, 1,400 organisations gathered in Abu Dhabi to approve a 103-page document that will indirectly shape whether you can get a mortgage, whether your pension fund can invest in certain companies, and whether businesses you depend on can access affordable credit.
apart from historical trajectory, im not sure what's missing tbqh. everything comes down to the same pattern, though its obviously dressed up differently in some circumstances.
because why be honest. that's probably the primary argument against "but this solves real problems"
pah! had their intents been as pure as the driven snow, there would have been no need to hide it.
Absolutely. No arguing with that. It was always about control and always is. The powerful inevitably seek to maintain and extend their power but the tools they now have at their disposal give them the ability to deliver a global digital prison as you have so adequately described. I am disappointed that the 'resistance to the plan' if I can call it that is so fractured and obsessed with uncovering 'the hidden hand' when your work shows so clearly the evolutionary path of ideas and I know you are right. Anyone with common sense should know that.
What has really hit me in the face since reading all your assiduous research on how the world really runs is just how anti-democratic it all is, has been. Prior to a deeper understanding I might have used the term un-democratic to describe the pieces that I had limited knowledge of. But un-democratic is wholly inadequate. I now believe that what has been called democracy has never existed. It has always been a chimera, and in the Information Age it became a psyop. The title of your Substack is ‘The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance’. That is precisely the point, and points precisely to where the failure has been. The death of newborns is often termed ‘failure to thrive’. This is the diagnosis for democracies worldwide, but unlike babies it is in every case a matter of a lack of vigilance. But it wasn’t to be. I have a friend well on in his 70s who graduated from Berkeley in 1968. You must understand that graduating from that particular institution in that particular year places one at the birth of one of histories singularities. My friend remarked many years later that there were 2 kinds of graduates from Berkeley that year, a rather cohesive group that wanted to change the world and a rather atomized one full of individuals that wanted to start careers and families. My friend says the cohesive group emerged from an activist campus life and took jobs in academia, government, ‘social work’ and media. He remembers being very aware of them during that tumultuous year, as were his like mined compatriots, and that he and all his career and family minded classmates viewed them as fast burning candles that would soon burn out, irrelevant to the future and to the permanent things. He told me just a few years ago: “How wrong we were, and how naive. We were the very first wave of the baby boomer generation to emerge into the world and take over its reigns, but what we didn’t realize is that the reigns had been taken from us. That group of misfits(we thought) would change the world right out from under us. That we never fought back is perhaps this nations biggest mistake.”
Esc, a call for unity and grace in on this day memory of Martin Luther King Jr.
"We must learn to live together as brothers, or we will perish together as fools."
"The person down the street who votes differently than you is not your enemy. They are your neighbor. They worry about the same things you worry about. They want their kids to be safe and their bills to be paid and their country to be a place worth living in. They have been manipulated just like you have been manipulated, fed a different flavor of the same poison, sorted into a different tribe by the same algorithm, pointed at you as the enemy by the same people who point you at them.
The working class Republican and the working class Democrat have more in common with each other than either of them has with the billionaire class that funds both parties.
You share the same struggles. You face the same rigged systems. You are being crushed by the same economic forces that have transferred more wealth upward in the last fifty years than at any point in human history. And instead of uniting against the people doing this to you, you are screaming at each other on the internet about pronouns and flags and whatever fresh outrage the algorithm served up this morning.
This is exactly what they want. A nation at war with itself cannot resist a takeover. A people consumed by mutual hatred will accept any authority that promises to protect them from the manufactured enemy. Every empire that fell was divided before it was conquered. Every free people who lost their freedom were set against each other first.
The red versus blue war is not real. It is a show put on by people who own both teams. It is professional wrestling and you think it is a real fight. The wrestlers go backstage after the match and laugh together while you are still screaming at the guy in the other section who was rooting for the wrong character.
This Is Our Country Not Theirs
This nation belongs to the people who live here and work here and raise families here and will be buried here. It does not belong to billionaires who hold citizenship in three countries and will flee to their bunkers the moment things get bad. It does not belong to tech oligarchs who view democracy as an obstacle to efficiency. It does not belong to foreign interests who have purchased so much influence that they might as well be writing our laws themselves.
We have to stop letting them divide us. We have to start seeing each other as fellow Americans again instead of enemy combatants in a culture war that was manufactured to keep us weak. We have to remember that the person screaming at us online is also a victim of the same manipulation, and maybe if we stopped screaming back and started talking, we might realize we have been fighting the wrong enemy this entire time.
Turn off the television. It is not informing you. It is programming you. Question everything, including the sources you trust, especially the sources you trust. Talk to people who disagree with you and do it without trying to win. Listen to why they believe what they believe. You might discover that the monster you have been told to hate is actually just another person trying to make sense of a confusing world with imperfect information, exactly like you.
Remember who you are.
You are an American. Your ancestors came to this land or were brought to this land or were already on this land, and regardless of how they got here, they built something together that was supposed to be different from the old world’s tyrannies and aristocracies. That project is not finished. Every generation has to fight to keep it alive against the forces that want to drag us back to a world where a handful of rulers own everything and everyone else serves at their pleasure.
Stop letting them divide you. Your enemies are not your neighbors. Your enemies are the people who profit from your division and are building machines to replace you the moment you are no longer useful.
Start acting like it before it is too late". —The Wise Wolf
Words of wisdom, especially as America commemorates the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in 2026; as you astutely note, that "project is not finished" and the Founding Fathers or signers wrote with exactly that in mind; they knew in 1776 that a new nation founded upon principles of sovereignty would continue to be attacked even after the Revolution and so it is today by the all too familiar globalist forces; that is why their words remain immortal, as they were intended to be, not only for America but for all the world; one sentence alone will always remain timeless: "we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
Another head of the hydra - thank you for your ongoing and intensive efforts to reveal as much of the whole as you can esc.
apart from historical trajectory, im not sure what's missing tbqh. everything comes down to the same pattern, though its obviously dressed up differently in some circumstances.
because why be honest. that's probably the primary argument against "but this solves real problems"
pah! had their intents been as pure as the driven snow, there would have been no need to hide it.
https://escapekey.substack.com/p/a-pattern-hidden-in-plain-sight
Absolutely. No arguing with that. It was always about control and always is. The powerful inevitably seek to maintain and extend their power but the tools they now have at their disposal give them the ability to deliver a global digital prison as you have so adequately described. I am disappointed that the 'resistance to the plan' if I can call it that is so fractured and obsessed with uncovering 'the hidden hand' when your work shows so clearly the evolutionary path of ideas and I know you are right. Anyone with common sense should know that.
What has really hit me in the face since reading all your assiduous research on how the world really runs is just how anti-democratic it all is, has been. Prior to a deeper understanding I might have used the term un-democratic to describe the pieces that I had limited knowledge of. But un-democratic is wholly inadequate. I now believe that what has been called democracy has never existed. It has always been a chimera, and in the Information Age it became a psyop. The title of your Substack is ‘The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance’. That is precisely the point, and points precisely to where the failure has been. The death of newborns is often termed ‘failure to thrive’. This is the diagnosis for democracies worldwide, but unlike babies it is in every case a matter of a lack of vigilance. But it wasn’t to be. I have a friend well on in his 70s who graduated from Berkeley in 1968. You must understand that graduating from that particular institution in that particular year places one at the birth of one of histories singularities. My friend remarked many years later that there were 2 kinds of graduates from Berkeley that year, a rather cohesive group that wanted to change the world and a rather atomized one full of individuals that wanted to start careers and families. My friend says the cohesive group emerged from an activist campus life and took jobs in academia, government, ‘social work’ and media. He remembers being very aware of them during that tumultuous year, as were his like mined compatriots, and that he and all his career and family minded classmates viewed them as fast burning candles that would soon burn out, irrelevant to the future and to the permanent things. He told me just a few years ago: “How wrong we were, and how naive. We were the very first wave of the baby boomer generation to emerge into the world and take over its reigns, but what we didn’t realize is that the reigns had been taken from us. That group of misfits(we thought) would change the world right out from under us. That we never fought back is perhaps this nations biggest mistake.”
Esc, a call for unity and grace in on this day memory of Martin Luther King Jr.
"We must learn to live together as brothers, or we will perish together as fools."
"The person down the street who votes differently than you is not your enemy. They are your neighbor. They worry about the same things you worry about. They want their kids to be safe and their bills to be paid and their country to be a place worth living in. They have been manipulated just like you have been manipulated, fed a different flavor of the same poison, sorted into a different tribe by the same algorithm, pointed at you as the enemy by the same people who point you at them.
The working class Republican and the working class Democrat have more in common with each other than either of them has with the billionaire class that funds both parties.
You share the same struggles. You face the same rigged systems. You are being crushed by the same economic forces that have transferred more wealth upward in the last fifty years than at any point in human history. And instead of uniting against the people doing this to you, you are screaming at each other on the internet about pronouns and flags and whatever fresh outrage the algorithm served up this morning.
This is exactly what they want. A nation at war with itself cannot resist a takeover. A people consumed by mutual hatred will accept any authority that promises to protect them from the manufactured enemy. Every empire that fell was divided before it was conquered. Every free people who lost their freedom were set against each other first.
The red versus blue war is not real. It is a show put on by people who own both teams. It is professional wrestling and you think it is a real fight. The wrestlers go backstage after the match and laugh together while you are still screaming at the guy in the other section who was rooting for the wrong character.
This Is Our Country Not Theirs
This nation belongs to the people who live here and work here and raise families here and will be buried here. It does not belong to billionaires who hold citizenship in three countries and will flee to their bunkers the moment things get bad. It does not belong to tech oligarchs who view democracy as an obstacle to efficiency. It does not belong to foreign interests who have purchased so much influence that they might as well be writing our laws themselves.
We have to stop letting them divide us. We have to start seeing each other as fellow Americans again instead of enemy combatants in a culture war that was manufactured to keep us weak. We have to remember that the person screaming at us online is also a victim of the same manipulation, and maybe if we stopped screaming back and started talking, we might realize we have been fighting the wrong enemy this entire time.
Turn off the television. It is not informing you. It is programming you. Question everything, including the sources you trust, especially the sources you trust. Talk to people who disagree with you and do it without trying to win. Listen to why they believe what they believe. You might discover that the monster you have been told to hate is actually just another person trying to make sense of a confusing world with imperfect information, exactly like you.
Remember who you are.
You are an American. Your ancestors came to this land or were brought to this land or were already on this land, and regardless of how they got here, they built something together that was supposed to be different from the old world’s tyrannies and aristocracies. That project is not finished. Every generation has to fight to keep it alive against the forces that want to drag us back to a world where a handful of rulers own everything and everyone else serves at their pleasure.
Stop letting them divide you. Your enemies are not your neighbors. Your enemies are the people who profit from your division and are building machines to replace you the moment you are no longer useful.
Start acting like it before it is too late". —The Wise Wolf
Words of wisdom, especially as America commemorates the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in 2026; as you astutely note, that "project is not finished" and the Founding Fathers or signers wrote with exactly that in mind; they knew in 1776 that a new nation founded upon principles of sovereignty would continue to be attacked even after the Revolution and so it is today by the all too familiar globalist forces; that is why their words remain immortal, as they were intended to be, not only for America but for all the world; one sentence alone will always remain timeless: "we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
Ok. Who needs coffee. Blood boiling.