When the news media first started to build the fake news narrative, the thought of many at that time was this, if human beings in America are not able to discern what real and fake news actually is, this is a reflection of the poor quality of our government schools. When the response to this ‘threat’ was to push for censorship on social media platforms, many responded that training people to discern fake news from real news (really, just training them to be crticial thinkers and how to use the internet to find more objective-type date to figure things out for yourself) would be way more effective and not fundamentally in violation of the spirit of the Bill of Rights, to live dangerously in freedom, ESPECIALLY when it comes to expression, and even more esssentially when it comes to news reporting.
A new study might give the public schools a bit of a defense, while indicting those who would have you believe humans are too stupid to figure out when people are making things up. You might fool them to some degree, but ultimately people have a heuristic understanding of inauthenticity, of fakeness.
A study from MIT suggests that regular readers have proven to be as effective as professional fact-checkers at discering fake stories from real stories. The study itself, however, is not being used to push back against the gatekeeper approach, protecting the dumbs from the dangerous misinformations, but rather to develop models in which you utilize reader groups of proportional representational size to fact-check the content users post on a given social media platform (in this case, Facebook).
Scienceblog itself refers to the problem of misinformation in its opening senten.ce from the article we blurb from below,
In the face of grave concerns about misinformation, social media networks and news organizations often employ fact-checkers to sort the real from the false. But fact-checkers can only assess a small portion of the stories floating around online.
“Grave concerns” is the tone this site chose to reflect, missing, like, perhaps, MIT itself, the broader ramifications of its study, that no filters are needed at all, and that if you took the time to educate people on how to discern stories for themselves you would be far more effective in actually screening out misinformation, but then again, its not misinformation these platforms hope to contain, for misiniformation is regularly approved at the highest levels of government and media and news on an almost daily basis, rather its the orthodox version of reality, in terms of the phenomenology of it, as well as the moral, social, and cultural version of reality.
The DNC theorizes, based on the CCP model of recent decades, that they need not worry about loss of productive excellence at the highest levels being so affected by taking so much control over the lives of the people of the land they coercively control.
Thus, where concentrated power perceives it can extend itself and cut itself off from competition going forward, it will do so, and this is the reality of power assumption of the DNC, an ambition that would be fundamentally threatened if the perception of the the threat of misinformation to the welfare of others no longer held sway over any significant portion of humans that live in this land, and this study certainly lends credence to the opposing fear-based narrative of the DNC.
In the face of grave concerns about misinformation, social media networks and news organizations often employ fact-checkers to sort the real from the false. But fact-checkers can only assess a small portion of the stories floating around online.
A new study by MIT researchers suggests an alternate approach: Crowdsourced accuracy judgements from groups of normal readers can be virtually as effective as the work of professional fact-checkers.
“One problem with fact-checking is that there is just way too much content for professional fact-checkers to be able to cover, especially within a reasonable time frame,” says Jennifer Allen, a PhD student at the MIT Sloan School of Management and co-author of a newly published paper detailing the study.
But the current study, examining over 200 news stories that Facebook’s algorithms had flagged for further scrutiny, may have found a way to address that problem, by using relatively small, politically balanced groups of lay readers to…
Xi Xinping has issued a decree in China that has instantly become law with the full force of policing ready, able, and willing to execute violent consequences should anyone dare defy it. He has issued a decree that your neighbor will not protecy you from when the police knock on your door. He has issued a decree that will gain the instant overwhelming approval of the public faces of the people you see everyday in your daily living.
I juat want to give you a sense of the scope of the control one man holds over a nation that is the 4th largest in terms of land size and number one as far as population in all the world, a major nation-state in the world to be sure, if I can use such lowkey expressions to reflect the true scope of the current geo-economic power the nation-state of China currently possesses on the world stage.
This decreee is about assuring that the children of China, all being sent to mandatory government schools (homeschooling is not a real option, though underground homeschools exist), be taught the new dictates of the demigod-esque leader of China, Xi Xinping, a man we simply refer to as Chairman Xi as it fits the pattern of perhaps his biggest influence as we are seeing this man emerge, Mao Zedong (though his Socialism with Chinese Characteristics is not exactly the same as Chairman Mao’s).
The similarities have more to do with the type of legitimization of power that both men relied upon, which was an apppeal to the ancient Chinese doctrine of the Middle Kingdom, the place where heaven and earth meet, China, and in this exchange of human and nature, the will of heaven is seen in the fruit of the people and the land. This is commonly referred to as the mandate of heaven, and while Chairman Xi is more explicit in this, and more willing to directly refer to the ancient traditions where this ideal was formed and tested, Mao Zedong utilized the terminology of Marx to describe the same type of thing, but instead of the mandate of heaven it was the mandate of the people, only by the people he was only referring to revolutionairies, for everyone else was part of the problem. Mao was no traditionalist.
There are many parallels that can be drawn to the efforts of Chairman Xi to indoctrine the chilldren to think like the party, and the party is Xi, make no mistake about that, and what the DNC is attempting to do by indoctrinating children to think like the party, the DNC. Those similarities have to do with the types of claims Xi and the DNC Apparatchik Class utilize to validate the use of coercion against people for havng opinions or claims of truth that challenge the official party narrative.
The DNC has a particular moral construct it finds useful in undermining the vehicle of power of its opponents, which are very different than the type of opponents the CCP finds itself facing. The DNC has risen to power exploiting the plea of the most needy in the land within contexts that had not been given such hyper focus and concern (not in the polls, however, where economony consistently still rates at the top most all of the time) until the last 10 years, with the last two years seeing an escalation of hyper-consensequential racist and bigoted violations of the new party code.
Now charges of racism and bigotry are as powerful at ending the viablility of a person’s life as being called a witch was back in the early 1600s. The parallels between that reign of moral panic terror and this one are so rich and deep that I have little doubt there will be many books written on those parallels for, perhpas, decades to come, maybe more. It is an extraordinary time in the scope of human history. This is is not a drill, we significantly live in extraordinary times.
The use of failure to meet social orthodoxy is the fundamental method of control that’s being deployed here. This is a tactic hardly ever used effectively to control a large-scale audinece if the faction using this method does not control to 80 percent or more all of the fundamental social and culture affirming, creating, and protecting institutions of the land. These would be the banks, the board rooms, the Federal government, the media, the schools, the news, and emerging tech.
I believe the DNC Empire, if I can call it that, because its coalition of power really does comprise distinct ‘provinces’ that preserve distinct characteristics only bonded by the usefulness of a larger scale structure of support. has such a level of control on the land today here in America, across the board, at 80 percent or more, but that Empire is not the Kingdom that Xi currently rules (though they have begun to venture into their own Empire building, something we have been tracking for a while now).
China is a Kingdom of 99 percent one ‘race,’ the Han race, and Xi and the Middle Kimgdom aims to keep it that way. People there mostly fit within a socially orthodox visual range of acceptable visual characteristics. China is the very type of nation-state the DNC claims to be against, an ethno-state. Yet their alliance still makes perfect sense to me for, like the CCP that Xi derives his legitiamcy of power partially from (it’s ultimately from the mandate of heaven), both parties use the tool of socio-cultural orthodoxy, but one is using it to take power and the other is using it to keep power.
Xi appeals to the moderately well-off Chinese. He is a conservative, and in a profoound sense as well, for he is seeking to revitalize the teachings of Confucius, he is appealing to the ancient history of China and its traditions as the base of his power, and the base of power for China in becoming the new leader of the world.
The DNC is still largely in the insurrectionist role, at least socio-culturally, for, while they have achieved great gains in conditioning society to be much more reflective of DNC values (some of which will still ultimatly be part of their undoing and many on the ‘right’ now opposed to some of those changes will ultimately be happy they happened), they still have yet to undo within the bulk of Americans the sense of one might call rights entiitelment that comes from growing up in a land in which you perceive (in part rightly, in part falsely) that appealing to the rights iterrated in the Bill of Rights is enough to shut down whole police departments, is enough to give families of victims of those whose rights have been violated, millions for the harm.
So they appeal to the moral violations that affect their ‘constituency,’ the people who perceive (to some degree rightly, to some degree falsely) that the way things are is a fundamental threat to their potential to live lives of their own choosing (thoughn they rarely think of it in those terms, more often equating their preferential way of living to THE morally correct way of living that everyone must comply with or face coercive consequences). They set to flame whatever moral vulnerabilities the current socio-religio-cultural institutions are vulernable to. In this tactic, the DNC is far more like Mao than Xi, which, by my theoretical pondering, is more a reflection of Mao being at the beginning of seeking to recreate a socialist China like the D,C would ultimately create if it were to fully rid the American lands of any signficiant number of people that uphold the values of the Bill of Rights, and recognize their power in protecting the weak from the strong, will be a refection of the usefulnes of the structure to meet the current power need of the DNC when it reaches consolidation.
For now, it is enough for the DNC to focus on closing the deal, on fully cementing its hold on power by ridding the land of the Bill of Rights constructs. So long as it is successful in continuing to reinforce the notion that all of the land views threats to other races by dangerous whites as necessitating the rights espoused in those 10 amendments to our American Constitution, more and more is chipped away at the core of the resistance to the DNC world the DNC seeks to create, a world that might be described by them at some point as Socialism with Chinse Characteristics, though the Socialism part in America, as well as what exists in China, will be in name only, as it wlll simply be a police state that controls as much as it can without cutting off productive output from the highest to the lowest levels, what China essentially is today.
Both China and the DNC still rely on the same method, fundamentally, of control, the use of failure to meet social orthodoxy, a penalty that could be worthy of death itself in some circumstances, certainly one that, more often than not, requires market, social, and cultural removal, to be depersoned for the crime of having bad thoughts that you dared express publicly.
We live in extraordinary times. We are soon to find out if the DNC has consolidated power in America, and if Chairman Xi can keep his Kingdom together while the mandate of heaven appears to frown on him and he prepares to insert Chinese troops and personnel into nations around the world.
ASK MEMBERS of China’s elite—from senior officials to academics at leading universities, well-known commentators or bosses at big companies—to explain the beliefs of the country’s leader, Xi Jinping, and their replies are surprisingly unhelpful. Even simple questions elicit waffly answers. Take an ongoing campaign to clip the wings of some of China’s largest firms, notably technology giants. The authorities have variously accused such businesses of seeking excessive profits, harming national security with a cavalier approach to data, abusing workers, bullying smaller firms or exploiting young consumers with addictive video games and online fan clubs. Is Mr Xi revealing himself as an ideologue, bent on re-imposing Communist Party control over the economy at the expense of growth? Or is he more pragmatic than that: a nationalist strongman who is helping to make China stable at home and mighty abroad? There is chatter among the country’s grandees, but no consensus.
Given such confusion among grown-ups, this is a bold moment to issue a new series of textbooks to all students in Chinese schools, colleges and universities, with the aim of explaining Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for the New Era, as Mr Xi’s political philosophy is formally known.
As the academic year began on September 1st, teachers and lecturers began distributing these books, tailored for each age-group, down to children as young as six. The use of stand-alone schoolbooks devoted to a serving leader marks a break with decades of caution. The last time that hundreds of millions of youngsters clutched books devoted to the wisdom of one man was under Mao Zedong, the object (and instigator) of a disastrous personality cult.
Books for the young are especially revealing, for they have to keep their messages simple. Primary schools have long taught the general rudiments of ideology. Via courses with names like “ethics and law”, children have studied…
What will happen if freedom itself dies in this land at the hands of the woke communists and their neocon collaborators?
America cannot remain the world’s predominant freedom commonwealth uniquely blessed by God if our people are willing to follow a godless ruling class and their prescriptions, which violate human nature, the laws of Creation, and God’s standards of righteousness and justice. These things may be protected by law, but they cannot be mandated by law, they either come voluntarily from the heart or they will eventually be involuntarily outlawed. A society of people who willingly embrace depravity and authoritarianism as the norm will never tolerate anything other than total submission.
Imagining that we can, or should, change the fundamentals of human nature in how we create things like marriage, family, and community is a deadly and foolish undertaking that will surely lead to ruin. But the majority of Americans are clearly willing to submit ir tolerate leaders and people with a public trust who do these very things and who desire to shun, shame, and outlaw those who refuse to go along with their godless social, cultural, and economic norms.
What then follows if America as a country ceases to be a commonwealth of freedom and devolves into a savage, alt gendered, totalitarian state where only a few corporate and political shot-callers control politics and where politics controls everything else? What happens is that God raises up new peoples and new countries to fulfill that which America, as a whole country, first ceased to defend and then began to attack.
We can foresee a day, unless the current path is changed, when those who love things like freedom founded upon virtue, liberty, and independence will be a persecuted minority who can only survive through parallel structures that have no dependency to the godless, anti-freedom structures which then dominate this land. But those parallel structures can emerge and, with God’s protection and provision, no power in hell or on the earth will be able to prevent them from emerging and thriving.
Indeed, if America as a country is to be redeemed, then the emergence of new structures for an entirely parallel sociocultural and socioeconomic infrastructure and civilizational paradigm cannot come soon enough. The alt-gendered, hedonistic and authoritarian “woke communism” with its cancel culture extremism is aimed, by hell itself, at the heart and soul of God’s intended manifest destiny for America.
Being afraid to confront and resist the violent perversion and attempted redefining of such sacred instruments of God’s will for human civilization, such as marriage, family, kinship, nationhood, and community, exposes our own pusillanimous hearts. Such a people who cannot or will not arise and resist the siren call of hedomism and authoritarianism will have their lights extinguished and God will raise up a new people, new nations, and a new commonwealth of freedom.
The idea God’s arc of history for human civilization will be prevented from being fulfilled is an idea born in an absence of faith and truth. As the worldlings grow in their wickedness, so too God’s people, if they heed His call, will grow in virtue, and as the worldlings become less free, the nations of people who follow hard after God will become ever more free.
At no point in human civilization will the power hungry, perverted, morally reprehensible forces of totalitarianism whose every idea is born in hell gain world dominion. Pockets of human flourishing rooted in God’s blueprint for human civilization will always remain somewhere, until the time when God removes His People from this present world.
We envision the deliberate creation of alternative, parallel structures, beginning with a virtual commonwealth called “Upadaria”, as a platform that promotes freedom based on virtue, liberty, and independence and that emulates a non-territorial “country” that adheres to God’s standards of righteousness and justice for the nations. We believe the creation of these structures, which also includes distributed free cities, hubs of refuge and support, and clustered living options, could help restore America to its true manifest destiny or, in a worse case scenario we do not want to see happen, create an ark of sorts for people during times of great unrest and ruin.
People who either embrace our virtual commonwealth as e-Citizens or who embrace our alternative nationality, as peers of a globally-distributed spiritual nation whose God is the Lord, will find options and alternative solutions that tend to enhance their level of freedom and prosperity while empowering them to become more influential as a witness for the Lord to others. In the end, this could become the basis of what follows IF America as a country ceases to be a commonwealth of freedom and abandons its true manifest destiny. It could also become the rallying point and foundation for restoring our country to its God-given purpose.
We hope, pray, and work toward creating these parallel ideas, relationships, connections, and structures toward the end of saving our country from being dominated by perverted and corrupt authoritarians, the woke communists and neocon collaborators, whose only god is their own self-pleasure.
But we also know and acknowledge that if Americans do not reject and resist, with spiritual weapons and not the weapons of this world, the wanton destruction of our culture and way of life, then what follows will be the demise of our country and the emergence of new nations of people and a new country who fulfill God’s intention to always have a commonwealth of freedom on this earth.
If you aren’t an American and we say America is the greatest country ever, this may rankle you a bit and make you feel insulted or that we who say that are conceited and rude. But bear with us for a bit as we explain why this is so and why this definitely doesn’t make any American better or more valuable than you, because everything we say about America, for the reasons we give, can be said about you, for the same reasons.
On the other hand, if you happen to hold an American citizenship and vote in our elections but don’t agree that America is good, perhaps you are looking in the wrong places, perhaps you are acculturated to see only our flaws and failures, and perhaps you are so animated by alien and, frankly, rather authoritarian ideas that your eyes will always be jaundiced toward this country. We won’t accuse you of not being an American if you are genuinely deceived about how and why America is good, and therefore great, but there are some who hold our citizenship but whose hearts have turned against us in the same hateful passion any foreign foe might feel toward our country.
America is the greatest country because the arc of its history, even in its most flawed states and during its most henious acts, bent ever more toward freedom and God’s standards of righteousness and justice, thus producing more liberty and prosperity for most of its people than any country in history.
America was not and is not “America” to everyone all the time, some whole groups of people (think inner cities or Appalachia, native American reservations, or the migrants we both tempt across our borders and then condemn as illegals) are left behind. But more of a percentage of Americans were embraced and blessed with freedom and prosperity in, say, 1990, then 1890.
That being said, and this is where America is in danger of losing its crown as the greatest country, the amount of total individual freedom and individual to local autonomy from a top-down system of control owned by the most privileged in 1790 has eroded and hasn’t been experienced by very many Americans even today. Put another way, a rich, white, male in 1790 had more freedom in that era than anyone, including rich white males, does today.
A downward trend isn’t a forever trend and if America is somehow returned to the path of its true manifest destiny as a commonwealth of liberty with justice for all, then we will see this a mere dip in an otherwise upward arcing advancement.
America owes its status as the greatest country ever to God alone. What made us great is our arc toward ever greater freedom with justice and prosperity for all that became more and more common for more and more a percentage of our population. This is an arc of history any would-be tyrant or authoritarian coterie could not tolerate as it would make their totalitarian agendas less feasible.
In the Freedomist vision for America nobody is left behind, the arc of our history continues back on track to expand freedom with justice and universal opulence (abundant prosperity) for all, without exception. If you think rich, white guys in 1790 had all the privileges and maximum freedom and prosperity and this upsets you, consider focusing less on bashing rich white males and more on wanting all Americans to have the same freedom with justice and prosperity.
This all came from God. We did not invent it or create it. Indeed, anyone, anywhere in the world who learns the ways of God’s standards of righteousness and justice will find the same blessings of freedom with justice and universal opulence.
America is the greatest country on the earth because of the blessings and will of God, who made this land a beacon of hope and a model of liberty to all the nations as part of His plan and blueprint to advance human civilization and therefore human dignity on this planet. We are not better people than anyone else. Everyone on the planet who sees in America’s goodness, despite our sometimes badness, the ways of God for the nations which ought to be emulated by all will have a part in these blessings.
American exceptionalism is a product of God’s plan to provide a sanctuary to the oppressed and an example of freedom to the nations. Why He chose this country is only known to Him, but God is the source and deserves the credit. Turning from God’s standards of righteousness and justice for the nations, denying His blueprints for human civilization, beginning with marriage and the family as well as extended family and local communities, we would eventually forfeit this status and God would raise up new nations and a new country or countries to carry the torch of His benevolent desires for humanity.
How and when this happens, if America as a country becomes a secularized, hedonistic, and authoritarian society led by unscrupulous and corrupted leaders without any regard to our true manifest destiny, is not clear. It can take decades or be sudden.
America is the greatest country ever, for now, but that isn’t anything we can brag about as if we made it happen, and it isn’t going to continue as long as we, as Americans, reject the God who made this happen and reject His manifest destiny for our country and His standards of justice as righteousness for the nations.
Recent polls show the nation is just about split on the question of whether the 2020 Presidential election was legitimate, and thus, is Joe Biden a legitimate question. Let’s paint this new fact in the context of the reality of power we find ourselves in, one in which the DNC machine controls, almost completely, the narrative of daily discourse.
Corpowoketarianz of the DNC machine control the media, the culture, the Federal government, and the means of digital public discourse. All of their efforts have been to use heavily coercive, subhumanizing, threatening tactics to bury the notion that Joe Biden was duly elected in a right and proper manner and no questions should be asked that might even hint at something that could diminish this orthodox assertion of the powers that be.
The reality of the election is not the relevent focus here, rather, the revelation you should take from the fact that, even after all the threats, the brutal market assassination, all the propaganda, the whole system is so untrustworthy and unbelievable itself that it cannot even convince more than half the country that the election itself was legitimate.
Methinks if the DNC machine made this much effort to convince people the earth was not flat, suddenly, the nation would be divided about whetther the world was flat, not because a flat earth is credible, but because ANYTHING this machine tries to force on you and convince you with their horrid propaganda bits, be they news reports or new ‘superhero’ movies becomes immediately discredited by a minimum of half the country, and I suspect they’re going to lose even more, and are already losing more and know it.
Nearly one year into his presidency, 70% of Republicans maintain that Joe Biden was not legitimately elected President of the United States, while 22% concede that he was. Those results are according to the most recent exclusive Suffolk University/USA TODAY poll of U.S. registered voters. Meanwhile, 96% of Democrats believe Biden was duly elected. In January, those statistics were nearly identical—nothing has changed.
The table below with results from the poll highlights that Joe Biden’s legitimacy is not the only point of partisan contention. Republican and Democratic registered voters have entirely different views on what the biggest challenges for the country have been over the last 20 years. Democrats’ low historical ranking of the 9/11 attacks was likely underscored by their opinion that domestic terrorism is a much more serious challenge to our security today than foreign terrorism (81-13). Meanwhile, Republicans saw foreign terrorism as being more challenging (53-40).
Leviathan always emerges and always demands total power over everything and everyone. Smallness may be the key to liberation from Leviathan’s control!
Imagine we were able to somehow get 100 million Americans to slow down for just an hour or so to fully hear our message of building freedom. We would explain why we need a foundation of four core ideals and of virtue, liberty, and independence. We would perhaps gain 100,000 or less, perhaps only 50,000, actual freedom-building activists who availed themselves of the legal means by which to find and exploit real “gaps for freedom.”
Gaps for freedom include anything, from a legal structure like a fraternal benefit society to a mutual benefit corporation, to physical spaces like your own house or a self-sustaining intentional community, that allows you to escape from the influence or control of others whose ideas and agenda you don’t support. Through gaps for freedom a parallel system can be created that meets all your most basic needs while affirming, not violating, your dearly held beliefs, values and convictions as well as traditions and customs.
The unpleasant truth is that there is a critical point where those who have found gaps for freedom and who can experience independence from anything or anyone that they don’t want to be influenced or controlled by cannot be large enough in number to be seen as a potential threat to the existing ruling class. It is in smallness that what emerges as the seed-bearing genesis communities of a new civilization survive and thrive in a latter-stage civilization beset by the malady common to all dying civilizations, Caesarism. Too rapid an emergence, unless it become so massive it becomes too big to tackle, of rhese genesis communities earns the attention and wrath of the ruling class. They don’t much fancy any plurality, let alone majority, of the population being weened from dependency!
And so freedom-building parallel structures become possible mostly in the stages where a very small percentage of the population avail themselves of these methods for liberation.
The ruling class are the small body of usually less than 1 in 10,000 people who effectively control the lives of everyone else through enterprises, institutions, and positions of status within every sphere of civilized life. In the latter stages of a dying civilization, the ruling class themselves are controlled for the most part and in most instances by the ruling core, which may be as few as a thousand or less of the most powerful people.
This entire ruling class falls prey to hedonism, narcissism, and authoritarianism to try to fill the growing spiritual void in their lives. They destroy everything they touch. Culture now becomes the product of politics and an extension of the ruling class in their craven lust for more and more sadistic power over others.
The end of a civilization can be a long drawn-out affair that takes decades or centuries and in some cases it’s hard to see where an old civilization ends and a new one begins. The Byzantines are an example of a new civilization emerging somewhat peacefully within the debris of the old civilization, while Western Civilization emerged, eventually, from the debris of the Roman/Greek and the Germanic civilizations.
During the Caesarism era, freedom is prey and authoritarians are the hunter, always looking to plug in any gaps for freedom that will liberate people from their influence or control. Independence of culture and of material self-reliance becomes suspect and treasonous in their eyes. Whereas once the US Government urged people to stock up on vast supplies in case of doomsday, today the “Department of Homeland Security”, a neocon agency of authoritarianism, practically “preppers” to be “suspected domestic terrorists.”
Being too loud or reaching large enough numbers in terms of the percentage of the population, puts you in the cross hairs of the ruling class. Even if your movement is totally a-political and non-violent, your numbers will attract suspicion and eventually prescription by the ruling class. If the Amish ever become a “thing” adopted by more than, say, 3 million Americans, the ruling class will end all their effective carve-outs by which they generally operate free from external controls today.
For this reason, the popularity of a given gap for freedom will result in the ruling class seeking its closure and then persecuting those who were using that opening. This isn’t a conspiracy theory, it is observed over and over again throughout history. Only when an opening becomes too popular or when the small minority using it become too wealthy and powerful does the ruling class move to close it.
The ruling class want to rule and are driven by an almost orgiastic pleasure derived from knowing and observing their control over others. We all become furniture, tools, fixtures, commodities, and beasts of burden all focusing our energy and the fruits of our labor on their satisfaction. There is no benefit to society or common good, these are just slogans and propaganda lies meant to cause mass hallucinations that all is well when, in truth, the fabric of civilization is being torn apart and ruined.
At a certain point even the smallest and unnoticed minorities who properly exploit gaps for freedom become too powerful too soon and cannot be put down. This period between having such outsized power and being a vulnerable minority that could be easily swatted aside is the most critical time for the emergence of a new civilization. One suspects many potential new civilization movements die before they can flourish, being too weak and yet gaining the unwanted attention of the ruling class.
It is important in the early stages that any freedom-building movement fully realize its vulnerability and focus far less on trying to “bully” the ruling class into retreat and far more on gathering/building a movement as a community and on using gaps for freedom to help liberate its adherents from the influence and control of the ruling class. This notion that we must have an election, a specific cause, or a controversy to rally people is short-sighted and shallow. In fact, people too easily drawn in are too easily drawn away.
People must be drawn to building their own freedom and your movement must have blueprints they can use to do so unilaterally and autonomously in their own lives, relationships, and communities. The call from our perspective is a call to help sow the seeds and build the genesis, parallel, structures of a freedom civilization in our very own hearts, live, relationships, associations, and neighborhoods.
This movement, or at least its practitioners, must necessarily be relatively small in relation to the population, until its use of these gaps for freedom makes it so substantive and influential that any effort to suppress it would become too burdensome.
Smallness becomes the secret formula for neutralizing Leviathan. What he can’t “see” he cannot stalk and kill!
The fact that even if we reached 100 million Americans fewer than 100,000 would fully embrace and actualize our proposed gaps for freedom is a blessing in disguise. It means the ruling class have no concern over such an insignificant movement and that our efforts can proceed in peace and safety. But if 100,000 Americans adopted our proposed gaps for freedom, namely by starting with a new and intentional form of shared nationality, they would become the basis of an egalitarian “leadership core” for a much larger movement that would emerge suddenly and become too large to suppress.
The adoption of our proposed gaps for freedom, one major one being the “exploit” of an intentional “ethnicity” based on a globally-distributed spiritual nation whose God is the Lord, will almost inevitably and necessarily only include a small percentage of people. It is as if an ark of cultural and economic autonomy from a dying civilization was being built but only so many people could fit. For those who adopt the new approach, starting with this quite novel concept of intentional ethnicity based on ideals and not ancestry or race, there is the promise that no human power can prevent God from protecting the people of any nation, even a globally-distributed spiritual nation, from all harm.
While our heart is to save as many people as we can, we know this facet of the historical cycle and we know that, until our movement reaches a certain stage, very few people will enjoy the benefits of using our gaps for freedom. It may be most people reading these veru words will want freedom but won’t use our proposed gaps for freedom and will eventually suffer the consequences of being tied to the corpse of Western Civilization in its decline.
We should note, those who are most earnest about saving Western Civilization in its core Judeo-Christian spiritual, moral, and rational foundations are in fact sowing the seeds of a new civilization. This new civilization will emerge through the translation of a Kingdom Civilization mandate from each civilization in the forward evolution of human civilization according to God’s blueprint and design.
This becomes freedom for the very few. It’s not this way because it isn’t offered or accessible to all, it’s not because the few restrict or keep out the many, and it’s definitely not about the relative wealth of the very few who may actually start mostly less well-off than most of society. It is this way because very few will both be willing and able to comprehend and embrace the message and only a few of these will make the disciplined choices and sacrifices necessary to actualize such ideas.
However, at some point, the ruling class will either seek to close the gaps for freedom while suppressing those who used them or they will try to prevent more people to avail themselves of this while leaving the minority who did alone. What this means is that from the time we begin to build our gaps for freedom the clock begins a countdown wherein, eventually, in the natural process, only those few who have already availed themselves of this gap for freedom will be allowed to keep using it.
Many who refuse to countenance something as unusual and unorthodox as nationhood will, sadly, find that eventually this option will be unavailable to them even if they now want to embrace it. Once the “ark”, in our case a new form of nationhood with the genesis structures of a new civilization, is full, the door will close UNTIL the deluge of catastrophic and collapse destroys the old structures and deposed the ruling class. Those who today are free to learn about and adopt our nationhood and build its genesis structures in their lives, relationships, and neighborhoods, will find a time is coming where they won’t be free to do so.
This principle applies broadly as no doubt people other than us also have different gaps for freedom they are building and theirs too will eventually be “closed” by the ruling class to new people seeking those same gaps for freedom. The point is that, whatever gaps for freedom you find now that mostly agree with you, you should avail yourself of them before the option is closed to you because it MUST be. Being picky because it’s not your idea or because it might require some compromises or ceding of total individualism could see you outside the ark when the deluge comes.
People who are focused first on their own things and who cannot surrender an ounce of ownership or control, people who are too infected with the unhealthy, atomized individualism that makes everyone at once an island and yet a cog in a mega machine, will push back against things like shared ownership and corporation that doesn’t give them ownership and control. There is balance.
A true gap for freedom doesn’t require you to lose more personal autonomy than you already have, in fact it increases your own personal autonomy. A true gap for freedom merely shifts some of the areas of your life that depend on the ruling class to a community of people who choose freely to participate in, while releasing more areas to your total individual control than you enjoy now.
If someone buys shares in a mutual benefit corporation equivalent to “onwing” a house, they my not own their individual house directly, but, through their mutual benefit corporation, they have far more control over its use, who their neighbors are, and what values will govern their use of the land and common facilities. In this case, what looks like a retreat from directly owning to indirectly owning the building where you live, becomes a gap for freedom by which you actually gain more real control over the land and environment where you live.
Gaps for freedom is not always convenient and what makes sense from a regulatory and legal perspective is rarely ever how regulations and laws are written. The goal is control, not the common good or safety or anything claimed. The fair housing laws may seem directed at preventing discrimination in housing but they codify the atomization of the individual into bite-sized individual residences alone and destroy the ability of kinship groups from clustering together, as is natural and necessary if you want to nurture family and community as alternatives to the coercion of the state.
Finding a gap for freedom that works around this WITHOUT promoting discrimination in housing is essential if, like us, you see the revival of extended kinship groups clustered together as in days of old as an essential alternative to state coercion and corporate control. The combination of a land trust, mutual benefit housing, fraternal benefit societies, clubs, real estate investment funds, property management corporations, and other legal structures is necessary to get to a place where a private but open, free, and diverse community development can both nurture these kinds of extended kinship groups and yet also provide fair housing without discrimination to the public.
This is just an exmaple. For every area where you want more control your choices are usually things you can do as a lone individual and things that require the freewill participation of others in some form. And for all these you will have to both be creative in finding viable gaps for freedom, such as legal structures, and be ever mindful that your time in which to exploit that gap for freedom may be limited.
To return to our theme: relatively few people will avail themselves of such gaps for freedom because they are seemingly unorthodox and not “convenient” to people whose lives are based on dependency. The fact of this smallness is, however, the greatest stealth protection of those using such gaps for freedom. Smallness is our best and only defense against a ravenous Leviathan.
We face the eventual unraveling of an economic system that controls our social, cultural, and civic life, as well as our economic life, through force and which basically trades in human blood. The alternative is a system of social, cultural, civic, and economic exchange based on freewill participation and mutual, equitable benefit. But the very erection of such a parallel structure will eventually earn the ire and violent reaction of those who rule the present, corrupt system.
To understand the present system, we must begin with fiat currency.
Fiat currency is currency backed by authority, which is force, and not intrinsic value. It is evil and yet it is our money system. Our money system is based on a luciferian model which is a trading floor in which human blood is the medium of exchange. This doesn’t in any way mean the monied powers are luciferians, they don’t have to know or understand the deep and wicked spiritual roots of their system in order for us to say it is luciferian. Satan trades in human blood, he essentially has a human trafficking, as in slavery and murder, trading system which is the essential quality of fiat currency, because it is based solely on force and the shedding of blood.
We can use the term “fiat order”, because it is an order of affairs in which force controls life and the real unit of exchange is human blood. This fiat order is destined to fail because it violates the laws of causality which govern the universe and human civilization.
Those who claim to be interested in rectifying the gross wealth inequality and inequity, especially for women and minorities, and for poorer communities like Appalachia, who don’t advocate for a return to a gold standard, for money backed by value and not enforced through government authority alone, are lying. There will never be any rectifying of social injustice without monetary reform that ends the fiat currency and, therefore, our luciferian economic model.
The development of trade scripts or private cryptocurrencies that may be backed by commodities of value, like gold, may allow for islands of a Kingdom Economy, which is an economy based on equitable exchange of value in freewill participation, which can prosper even when the luciferian economic system begins its inevitable collapse. As these alternatives emerge, the ruling class are using corporations and government, their vehicles of power, to suppress the trade scripts or cryptocurrencies and either ruin them or force them underground, thus limiting the number of free people.
It should be clear: never, ever, will the ruling class totally control the whole population all over the world all the time. There will always be islands for freedom and a minority of people who remain blissfully disconnected to a substantial degree from the controls and influence of this present system. But these will remain in the minority and will always be somewhat insecure until the edifice of this system falls.
The aside here is that only a few will ever ve ALLOWED to remain outside the system’s influence and control before violent suppression is used to prevent the escape of too many people at once. The Berlin Wall goes up when the number of people waking up and escaping is too high for the system to sustain itself. But the erection of such a system leads to the eventual fall of that system: when it can only be propped up through naked force it signs its future death warrant.
In seeking to liberate people from a fiat order to a Kingdom order, from bondage to freedom, we must understand that initially the liberated will be in the smallest minority, which in a sense is its best defense. It is a defense of stealth, in the sense the ruling class and their very limited means of exercising force and intervention have bigger problems than a few people who somehow found gaps for freedom through parallel social, cultural, economic, and civic structures erected among themselves on the basis of freewill participation alone.
Very few people will get this and relatively few even of these will adopt the intentionality and discipline needed to erect their own unilateral parallel structures for social, cultural, economic, and civic life that is effectively divorced from the present system which uses force and trades in human blood.
Imagine a global network of islands of freedom wherein everyone is free to fulfill and experience human dignity, human rights, and human flourishing in freedom and prosperity. This is the heart of our vision for Upo Hubs.
A Upo Hub is envisioned as a small to large clustered living and resource center that not only serves its residents and guests but a larger surrounding community including peers of Upadaria, subscribers to the Virtual Commonwealth platform, fellow Christians, and the surrounding communities. While most Peers and subscribers may not live within the physical environs of a Upo Hub, it will be a safe haven and resource which they have access to which guarantees the sanctity of their well-being, their human dignity, their human rights, and their human flourishing against all hazards and disasters.
A Upo Hub is different than an Estate, which is a envisioned as a clustered living site for members of a Shirehold and anyone connected to them. A Hub is intentionally designed to serve a larger distributed community of Peers and subscribers as well as fellow Christians and the general population within a chapter’s service area.
While many Estates may offer residential and commercial space to the public, Upo Hubs are also explicitly designed, with few exceptions, to emulate the concept of a free and pluralistic society of equals within a privately managed but marketplace driven community. Having space for Upo Estates, other kinship community groups, and the public within a mixed and pluralistic environment of diverse people is explicitly part of the Upadarian vision for community: never isolated or insular and never promoting disunity or division from the greatet society.
Every adult resident of a Upo Hub has a right to become an eResident of the Virtual Commonwealth platform provided they abide by the Common Standards and Terms of Use.
The Upo Hub is meant to be a sort of island of freedom in a positive, peaceful, and harmonious relationship with the larger society of which it is a part. The development of such hubs all over the world is an essential element of a larger vision to be a salt and light influence and witness to the nations as a Kingdom-bearing spiritual nation and harbingers of a new civilization founded explicitly upon Christian ideals. Physical space is needed to provide a sociocultural and socioeconomic experience and environment that engenders a sense of freedom with justice for all and a prosperity that is universal and opulent.
While many ideological movements seek their fulfillment through essentially conquering society, by votes or force, to compel all to adhere to their ways, our “revolution” has no such bent. It is based on freewill participation alone through voluntary consent and free association. The idea here is that the socioeconomic and sociocultural frameworks and blueprints are used and followed on a voluntary basis by people who choose to form free associations with others of a like mind.
The advancement of our spiritual nation as a People and our vision for a new civilization will only follow and be led by strictly voluntary adoption of our ways among willing participants. Our “political agenda” is defined and limited to efforts to secure the right of free association in forming our own voluntary kinship communities, mostly through Shireholds, which are extended familial communities of around 120 adults in voluntary free association.
The Upo Hub becomes a local to regional resource and service center facilitating the development of Shireholds and their Estates or distributed intentional communities where most members don’t live on Upo lands but do have a shared central hub of their own in the form of a Common House, Embassy, or Mission. These networks of Estates and distributed intentional communities as well as Hubs form the material infrastructure of our spiritual nation and our civilization on a unilateral basis.
In this manner islands of freedom will emerge that aren’t just associated with Upadaria as a spiritual nation but many diverse examples inspired by this effort. It is possible that the proliferation of such forms of communities and networks will become the norm for free people and will form the basis of a larger freedom civilization based on Christian ideals.
But for our vision, the focus is on reaching, gathering, training, and mobilizing people around our identity and vision to create Kinship Groups of around 10-20 adults and Shireholds of around 120 adults as well as the material infrastructure of our spiritual nation in the form of Estates and Hubs, all over the world.
Make no mistake, while our nation is not a political state in any sense, it will become a distinct sociocultural and socioeconomic body of free people distinct from all other nations of people, with its own culture and way of life, and with its own international organizations to promote and represent the interests and rights of its peers under international law. Upadaria will become a nation, even though its hubs and estates dot the world and even though its people are drawn from every race and countless ancestries to intentionally adopt a new spiritual nationality.
We believe and are convinced that God Himself protects the nations who make Him their King and Sovereign and who follow, albeit in their own unique ways, His standards of righteousness and justice. Diverse nations who love God and make His standards of righteousness and justice the basis of their norms and way of life are intended by God as the driving force of human civilization. Such nations come within God’s Divine protection and provision, regardless of their physical or material power. By adopting a form of nationality explicitly tied to God’s standards for the nations, the individual comes within the sacred border (pomerium) of that nation and receives a level and type of provision that can only come through such nations.
Building distributed intentional communities, Estates or Villas, and Hubs around this shared form of nationhood, which is adopted on a freewill participatory basis alone, is unilateral transfiguration of our lives and relationships and is the unilateral creation of a new freedom civilization. The Upo Hub becomes both an island of freedom and the vanguard or embassy of a new civilization built on Christian ideals.
Opinion – Chairman Xi has been moving forward aggressively reshaping the socio-cultural reality reinforced with state lethality control, strict and broadly applied death governance power.
He has been working diligently to clip the wings of the nuveau-riche billionaires of China’s Silicon Valley. He ended, in 2017, the three-person council as the final word of the current Communist Policy and made it all about his edicts alone. He revised the Maoist custom of writing “Thoughts,” really dicatates to the society about what society indeed was and the general pentalties for violating what the society is as defined by these thoughts. Mao had his Mao Thoughts and now XI, in 2017, issued his own Xi Thoughts.
He adds to the thoughts as he sees fit. But, until now, the distribution of Xi Thoughts has not been especially forced on others. A whole generation has little knowledge as to what Xi Thoughts even are and what they might even mean. But now, all this has changed, as now Xi seeks to inject his particular version of society to the children, and to the adults, with companies now coming under scrutiny for violating the beliefs, the ethics, really, of Xi Thoughts.
One can see some parallels between the DNC pushing its particular remedy to solving injuustice and inequality, whatever you want to call it (as of the writing of this article, the going favorite label is ‘Critical race Theory,” but, as usual it’s more complicated than that, even though there is enough truth in that label to use that phrase from here going forward), and the CCP pushing Xi Thoughts to all ages through coercive means.
In the case of the DNC, the real power limits on their ability to move as nearly unopposed as Xi will be able to move is a shadow of what Xi is capable to do from the beginning of an idea to the execution of an idea.
He can do that in a nation-state that has 3 times the people within it that we Americans do. For good or for ill, Xi has the power to make the dream real at a a massive scale, and with great haste, far beyond what any human being has on this planet in the here and now. He is the apex of all apex existentials within our earthly frame.
And he is about to become, for the generation in primary education age, the very DNA they will either build a lifetime of options around, or a lifetime of overcoming. This is also what falls upon many of the children in America today, but Americans, at least for now, have the venue to dissent from the presupposutional ethos of the authorities that choose to inject such beliefs into our public schools.
How America comes out of this, or doesn’t, remains to be seen, but at least, for now, we still have options and the power to dissent.
ASK MEMBERS of China’s elite—from senior officials to academics at leading universities, well-known commentators or bosses at big companies—to explain the beliefs of the country’s leader, Xi Jinping, and their replies are surprisingly unhelpful. Even simple questions elicit waffly answers. Take an ongoing campaign to clip the wings of some of China’s largest firms, notably technology giants. The authorities have variously accused such businesses of seeking excessive profits, harming national security with a cavalier approach to data, abusing workers, bullying smaller firms or exploiting young consumers with addictive video games and online fan clubs. Is Mr Xi revealing himself as an ideologue, bent on re-imposing Communist Party control over the economy at the expense of growth? Or is he more pragmatic than that: a nationalist strongman who is helping to make China stable at home and mighty abroad? There is chatter among the country’s grandees, but no consensus.
Given such confusion among grown-ups, this is a bold moment to issue a new series of textbooks to all students in Chinese schools, colleges and universities, with the aim of explaining Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for the New Era, as Mr Xi’s political philosophy is formally known.
As the academic year began on September 1st, teachers and lecturers began distributing these books, tailored for each age-group, down to children as young as six. The use of stand-alone schoolbooks devoted to a serving leader marks a break with decades of caution. The last time that hundreds of millions of youngsters clutched books devoted to the wisdom of one man was under Mao Zedong, the object (and instigator) of a disastrous personality cult.
Books for the young are especially revealing, for they have to keep their messages simple. Primary schools have long taught the general rudiments of ideology. Via courses with names like “ethics and law”, children have studied…
Our Union is at risk because the Federal Government is led by corrupt leaders who are failing to do the most basic functions of the Federal Government.
Our Federal Government, today led by Joe Biden, a man connected to many uninvestigated instances of corruption, abandoned what may be thousands of Americans in Afghanistan, despite his and the media’s claims “only” 200 were abandoned. But, basically, the Federal Government abandoned Americans, thus negating its very right to exist by betraying its most fundamental reason for existing.
The question keeps arising: would Trump have done better?
Those who assume Trump would have done better may forget that the way this was negotiated and the way the Taliban was legitimated came directly from a Trump policy that also looks like a cut and run policy. The standing down of manpower and resources which led to the collapse began under Trump.
On the other hand, it is reasonable to say that Trump’s withdrawal plan, which would have also led to the collapse of Afghanistan, was more focused on removing Americans and Afghan allies, then equipment, and then troops.
Biden’s bumbling plan saw the removal of troops to a very low level, not all Americans and few actual Afghan allies, and not most of the equipment. He did inherent a bad deal, but he also inherited a more aggressive and reasonable exit strategy, near as we can tell. He kept the bad deal but he scrapped the exit strategy.
But Congress, which allegedly oversees all this, has failed in any meaningful way to change the dynamic and to make sure the Executive Branch is doing its job. The problem of corruption and the failure of the Federal Government to do its basic duties is owned by Congress as much as any President who could not operate in such a manner withour Congressional acquiescence.
The Federal Government collects massive taxes, spends inordinate amounts of money on credit, and is the largest most hazardous threat to the rights and prosperity of Americans that exists in this world through its bloated law code and regulations and through rapacious taxes and wasteful spending. But we tolerate it because it does at least have a strong capability to protect its citizens. However, with this move to abandon hundreds of Americans in a terror state who the present and past administration legitimized, the Federal Government has made a hash of its essential justification for existence.
This doesn’t mean we would advocate for any secession, insurrection, or rebellion, our concern is with the consequences to the country if the Federal Government does not take strong steps to reassert its legitimate basis by forcefully if necessary removing all Americans from this terror state that we as a country alone bear responsibility for creating.
The Federal Government cannot continue forward over and over again to undermine its legitimacy through such failures to perform its basic duties without long-term serious consequences to the country. Various groups and movements could emerge over time with aims that are harmful to the Union, ranging from outright terrorist groups of various persuasions to secessionist groups, to race-based groups, and more. All could exploit the failure of the Federal Government to perform basic duties to not only delegitimize that government but this country itself.
This doesn’t mean such delegitimizing is eminent. While people are outraged at the debacle, they seem to blame only one man, Biden, and then his generals, particularly General Milly, and also Secretary of State Blinken. One suspects more uninvestigated corruption is driving these insane policies.
The warning however is warranted because history shows that such incidents begin to act as a growing weight that strains the bindings between the government and the people until, unless checked and repaired, the bonds break and sentiment turns to dangerous alternatives. This may not happen this decade, but it could happen eventually if the trend is not changed.
The Federal Government abandoned Americans and this is yet another stone of broken trust that weighs on the public mind and threatens eventually to undermine our Union.
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