Sunday [2]

We can start by establishing one thing, our first premise in this post if you like - that he knows, she knows, they know.  Let me explain.

There are certainly 'normies', [Clif High's word and nicer than sheeple as the latter assumes arrogance on our part, which methinks we must guard against] and there's also a path along which people are slowly climbing, gently sloping at first but closer to the end, exponentially steeper, requiring strategy.

And we're all dotted along that path, heading upwards, except for normies who are still back in the services area eating and drinking their fill.  Along this route are many byways and slip roads, narrow tracks joining the path and equally forks in the road where one chooses.

My first contention or principle is that anyone who is at the steeper part of the path, out in the vanguard, is well aware of it all because he's avidly read and listened, watched, he does know but he's rejected that part of it which does not accord with his hardwiring.  

And as Yuri said, that hardwiring makes him impervious to reason, which is understandable in those of blind faith, but not so understandable to those purportedly rationalist/aged, in pursuit of Science as the replacement God.  

But even in that is the answer as to why it is so.  Scientism is just as fanatical, religious, dogma-driven, 'exclusionary' of inconvenient, 'non-respectable' evidence, sound or otherwise - the quiet fanatic is just as fanatical, he's quieter and more jocular, that's all.  

His method then becomes to either belligerently or silently put on this front of rejection but in fact, he's probably just shelved it, put it in a box and shoved it up on a shelf there, for possible later retrieval if events alter the picture. He sighs and looks at the ceiling often, he is sometimes drawn to anger.

And that's this 80%-20% thing or to mix analogies/metaphors, you can lead a horse to water ... and that other expression - he stumbled at the last hurdle.  At the very beginning of my blogging, I mentioned Sergeant Holcombe and how he handled evidence he could not fit into his hypothesis.  Perry Mason drew attention to it.

There is an element which must be woven into one's mind view as a caution - the nature of coincidence versus malice, and along with it - plausible deniability, confirmation bias and all those things.

Also, psy-ops do exist, false prophets, coats of many colours,  agendas relying on normies rejecting that which does not accord with the worldview they've so carefully instilled in kids and their parents over a few generations.  Part of that worldview is to take over the source of people's reality once the line mooring them to their dock is severed and now they're just floating out there on that sea, rudderless.

The next principle or imperative or premise is what I call the 'Ripper principle'.  It can be summed up in a particular song.  There's a time to write posts such as this and a time to physically act - the wisdom is in knowing when to do one, when to switch to the other ... and how to ... to be prepared.  And when you do strike, you strike hard, with maximum prejudice, no beg pardons.

According to Deng Xiaoping, in order to eventually overcome, China should adopt the ancient maxim of "hiding brightness and nourishing obscurity," and Beijing adds, "to bide our time and build up our capabilities" and again - "to yield on small issues with the long term in mind."

An analogy is the game of table tennis - to develop a balanced game, not all strike, strike strike, not all super defensive returning game - a mix.

Read avidly but good sources which you hone - the skill is in not being swamped by the white noise, the guff pouring in, but seeming guff which constantly reappears - consider it, place it on its right shelf.

Samizdat - and Them are perfectly aware of it - is the lifeblood of any resistance.  Nuff said. Networking, lacking an ostensible chain of command, keeping it organic as far as possible.

The word 'honing' presupposes that you will put to one side for now something which does not fit the more revealed circumstances - honing is tweaking.  But the danger in freethinking is that we can come to entertain any idea, even the destructive, it can weaken the spine, the resolve - relativism is the enemy of universal principles, universal principles can become dogma if you let them, dogma does have its place though because it can take you through the battleground to survival.

The human best placed to encompass all the above is one in touch with his Maker, whomever that Maker is.  Therefore, he or she is a prime target for the Enemy, a high priority for removal.

Humans are essentially weak, susceptible to the seven deadly sins.  Humans are either hardwired to the big bang theory, in which things just come about, independent of any agency or catalyst, or else as a result of an invented agency, and this can be seen in economist's charts which mean zero when confronting those controlling credit and currency in the world - but there is also one smaller group of humans who understand that there really is a malicious agency, much given to bestial solutions, i.e. it's not pleasant for any who oppose the juggernaut.

Practical applications of all the above

In the video I buried last evening, which most of our regulars would watch but casual visitors might not even find, there's an 80% principle there, no argument from me whatever - the Mark Felt principle.  Absolutely - that's how it happens.

But that is not to exclude the final 20%, which includes 'malevolent agency'.  You can define it in the language of your own choosing but that's what it comes down to.  Until you can buy malevolent agency taking advantage of big bang events which obviously do also occur, then you cannot also include benevolent agency ... or in short, the existence of good and evil.