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Jaime Jessop's avatar

And this is probably why the population as a whole is so inextricably entwined with the existence of evil in totalitarian regimes. Because in a very real sense, it is the act of us OBSERVING evil which breathes life into that evil and it is up to us, the people, as to whether we become passive or active observers of evil. And by active I mean, actively PARTCIPATING in evil or actively REBELLING against evil. So, three choices in total: only one of them might be considered 'good'. Guess which?

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Douglas Brodie's avatar

Back in January 2023 I was starting to feel a little more optimistic. Elon Musk had just bought Twitter and had sacked all the censors. More and more well-known figures were speaking out against what to me were obvious establishment malfeasances. However I couldn’t understand why so many of the general public still didn’t smell a rat: https://metatron.substack.com/p/why-do-so-few-of-the-general-public.

Almost 2 years later, I’m not so optimistic and if Trump loses the presidential election the West could very soon be in big trouble. This recent post by Kaihatsu gives a great overview of the global tyranny we face and the establishment’s growing clamour to shut down free speech: https://keihatsu.substack.com/p/the-growing-threat-of-censorship.

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