"To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions."-Marcus Aurelius
Given the times we are living in now there’s a lot of people on edge when it comes to discussing societal issues.
Apart from the disastrous government, the rise of communism, policies, state of the country, and the so-called leadership in D.C. driving the country off a cliff I personally ask the question Why else is society on edge?
That question is rhetorical because I already know the answer and after my explanation if you’re intellectually honest then you will understand the answer to this question as well.
Unless you’re from another planet then you already know the problems that the country is facing, as well as the entire planet for that matter…and no, it’s not global warming or climate change.
To answer the question I just posed about why people are on edge we first must identify what the problems are in society in the first place before we are able to offer solutions to those said problems.
However, in the current Colosseum of Provocation in which we reside, the battlefield is being blurred by the fog of war when it comes to getting people on the same page.
This division is intentional and is being driven by an Administrative State Media (ASM) to satisfy their big advertisers and to use their platforms to drive the narratives of division to keep their falling ratings from completely hitting rock bottom.
Due to the inability to properly identify the problems, and the reasons for those problems, is the reason why actual solutions can’t be obtained to remedy those problems. This is because society is too divided to even agree on what the problems consist of in the first place.
It’s because of this division that we haven’t yet reached a desired synthesis, as I’ve mentioned before with Hegel’s dialectic that you can examine further here.
The thing you MUST understand is that you don’t have to respect the opinions of anyone who fails to back up their opinion with evidence and objective reality. No, you didn’t misunderstand that last statement.
In other words, I do respect everyone’s right to hold their opinions and to have their beliefs, HOWEVER this doesn’t mean I have to inherently respect the merit, or more specifically the lack of merit, of those opinions and beliefs automatically. There is no inherent, or automatic respect that is impulsively doled out to someone who simply has an emotionally strong opinion about something without backing up their theory of the case with a respectable, and yes I said respectable, logical, and evidentiary effort.
Think about that for a minute.
As one insane example of many with the societal issues plaguing us now regarding this Orwellian environment, if we've managed to understand the differences between a man and a woman since the dawn of mankind then why are we having such a difficult time with that known self-evident truth now?
Once again, this is a problem because the advocates who can’t observe this self-evident truth have been demoralized by a campaign of social engineering, and what is more specifically referred to as ideological subversion.
To understand the divisions in our society and the reasons why people are unable to agree on the problems and solutions as they exist is because we are fighting ideological subversion as the great KGB defector Yuri Besmenov pointed to in his eye opening interview with filmmaker and author G. Edward Griffin.
Psychological Warfare
Yuri Bezmenov (alias Tomas David Schuman) was a former PGU and KGB informant who defected to Canada.
In 1984 Yuri Bezmenov gave a harrowing and highly informative interview with American filmmaker and author G. Edward Griffin where he highlighted the significance and process involved with what he referred to as ideological subversion, or more specifically, a methodology recognized by Soviet intelligence as active measures.
Bezmenov points out that unlike espionage active measures is a very slow, but powerful process of brainwashing that takes 15 to 20 years. Furthermore, active measures is also where the significant investment is within the intelligence community that he was a part of making up about 85% of the total investment with the intention being to expose a targeted population to the Marxist/Leninist propaganda with the specific goal and intention to overthrow that population.
As a side note and observation to piggyback off of this explanation by Yuri Bezmenov if you think about that 15 to 20 year time cycle it was Barack and Michelle Obama who said the following…
“We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” — Barack Obama, October 30, 2008
“We are going to have to change our conversation; we’re going to have to change our traditions, our history; we’re going to have to move into a different place as a nation.” — Michelle Obama, May 14, 2008 (Source: National Review)
In short, from the time those two uttered those remarks to this current day we’re looking at a 15 year cycle where it’s obvious that the Crime Syndicate of Narrative has been implementing the active measures just as Yuri Bezmenov warned us about.
The way active measures are achieved is through continuous propaganda that is pumped into the minds of young generations with the goal being to expose them to the enemy’s ideology. This long slow slog of propaganda and information takes several years, but the outcome is highly effective and the reversal of that outcome can take the same amount of time assuming the reversal process can even be successfully implemented.
The infection of the mind, or what we would refer to now in this modern era as the woke mind virus, is something that can only be countered with patriotism and love of one’s country and customs according Yuri Bezmenov. (Source: YouTube)
Bezmenov also points out that this entire process is carried out in four phases.
Demoralization: As stated before this is a 15 to 20 year process. He also points out that the demoralization process ends up taking on a life of its own with the majority of it happening with Americans doing it to other Americans due to a lack of moral standards and the addition of social pressures.
According to Bezmenov a demoralized individual is someone who is immune to reality. Factual authentic documentation, photos, and even video evidence means nothing to this person.
As Besmenov points out you can take a demoralized individual by force and drag him by the arm to show him the concentration camps in the Soviet Union and the demoralized person still won’t believe what is happening until the “Military boot crashes his balls,” according to Bezmenov, then this is the point the person will understand what is happening.
Destabilization: According to Besmenov the destabilization stage only takes two to five years to employ and the focus here is on foreign relations, defense, and the economy. We've already treaded water here.
Crisis: It can only take 6 weeks to bring a country to crisis.
Period of Normalization: Bezmenov says that this word normalization is a cynical expression and can last indefinitely. As he points out during this period things will not be under control even though they will give off this illusion. In fact, it will be disgustingly out of control as he points out with this phase of active measures.
Besmenov warns us that the time bomb is ticking and that the world communist system is at war with the U.S.. When G. Edward Griffin asked Bezmenov during the interview what he recommends as the remedy for this he responds by saying the answer and solution is rather simple.
As Bezmenov states the first step is educating the public about what is going on so that the Marxist/Leninist ideals that are being pumped into the system don't take hold to demoralize the younger generations.
In addition to this he warns of something else that is key that the U.S. is already guilty of violating in this modern day globalist system.
He says that the U.S. should not trade, finance, or give any money whatsoever to any communist regime. If it’s not obvious now with the relationship that we currently have with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) we have already violated this suggestion in a major way.
With all the craziness going on in the world right now the cause of MOST all of these problems is due to the fact that we finance, trade, and do business with a communist government that wants to destroy us and the money they get from us is being weaponized against us every single day as a whole.
Bezmenov says that these solutions aren’t complicated, but that if the American businessmen can’t curb their desire to profit from communist trade that they will beg to be killed after the communist takeover, but instead of being killed will most likely be shipped to somewhere like Alaska to oversee a prison labor camp.
Bezmenov says that he defected to the west to be a part of this boat now (the boat of freedom) and if this boat goes down then there’s no better place to go down as the United States is the last place on earth that one can run to.
The Provocation From Within
Given what G. Edward Griffin was able to expose with his interview with Yuri Bezmenov this brings me back to the point of conflict that we currently find ourselves in with this society now as a whole.
First of all, those of us who are Emissaries of Freedom are constantly being provoked by the American Bolsheviks in the public square. This is clearly being done by the American Bolsheviks advocating for censorship of dissident voices. The reason they want censorship is because the Emissaries of Freedom are taking direct ownership of Bezmenov’s advice regarding putting forward the correct education and pushing a culture of patriotism.
As a specific example this very show is doing that very thing and is being censored and suppressed by the social media Oligarchs who are trying to control the battleground for the information war that is running white hot at this current time in our history.
Furthermore, this Colosseum of Provocation also exists as American Bolsheviks who call for censorship are unable to accept a dissenting opinion and view a dissenting opinion as a provocation in and of itself. This is problematic as such a reaction is only steeped in emotion.
This emotion is something that has been identified at a psychological and biological level. According to clinical psychologists Jordan Peterson a lot of what determines your political leanings is biological temperament.
For my liberal friends and listeners I’m going to use the misnomer “liberal” here to identify more left leaning people for the sake of this illustration just to keep the discussion consistent with what Jordan Peterson is pointing out in his explanation. This is not to imply that all liberals are far left Marxist because I understand that’s not the case and I want the readers and listeners to this show to understand that as well.
So according to Peterson liberals tend to be high in the trait of openness, but are low in dutifulness and orderliness. Openness is associated with being more interested in the abstract and aesthetics.
However, the conservatives are the opposite, being high in conscientiousness, being dutiful and orderly, but are low in openness. According to Peterson this is why conservatives tend to make good businessmen, administrators, and managers, but not such good entrepreneurs.
As Peterson points out this is because the entrepreneurs are more often drawn from the more liberal type personalities. These are pretty opposite biological differences in temperament and each one is dependent on the other type.
The important point is that the dialog between people of different temperamental types is how the two learn from each other through discussion. You see this is the thing that keeps the different temperamental types from being at each other’s throats according to Peterson. (Source: YouTube Note: To view this video scroll down the article on the Substack)
However, the problem here is that those who would probably be considered to be the far left are so open to openness, while being so closed off to conscientiousness that they advocate for closing down dialog, dissent, and free speech.
If you look at Peterson’s last point, the reason the two temperaments would NOT be at each other’s throats is because they both need to have the ability of open discussion. Essentially this is free speech.
However, the problem is that in this modern era of social media that we currently reside in, we are living in a Colosseum of Provocation.
Why do I refer to this as the Colosseum of Provocation?
The Colosseum represents the arena, or platform(s) that are made up of the social media public squares that so many people use to communicate and share ideas.
The problem is that the social media platforms and their overlords have decided to create a digital barrier, or sort of a digital moat if you will, between people through the act of censorship, as well as through how the social media algorithms are designed to function.
Keep in mind that social media algorithms involve a step-by-step procedure by platforms to collect specific data among a larger collection of data.
Social media algorithms function in how they sort the posts in a particular user’s feed based on relevancy instead of publishing time.
The social networks essentially prioritize what type of content a particular user sees on their feed by the likelihood that those people will actually want to see it.
Now slow down and think about that for a moment.
This is how they manage to divide groups of people into different social communication bubbles which results in these differing groups being isolated based on their ideologies.
So when there is a provocation when two individuals of opposing viewpoints cross paths, after having been isolated for a significant amount of time on social media, the Colosseum proves to be more of a bread and circus show for those groups that have been isolated.
Rather than having produced a healthier environment of conflict resolution the opposite occurs due to these groups having been isolated for quite some time.
If you weren't aware that phrase bread and circus comes from the Satires which is a collection of satirical poems which were written by the Latin poet Juvenal in the first and early second centuries A.D..
To put this into a political context the phrase means to generate public approval not by implementing good public policy or service, but rather by distracting the public with entertainment (circuses) and food (bread). The phrase also points to the erosion of and ignorance of civic duty as it is no longer the priority of the citizenry. (Source: Wikipedia)
This is the issue with the lack of understanding due to groups being isolated from one another, as well as fueling a more bread and circus environment rather than an environment of conflict resolution, problem solving, and civic duty.
In looking at the function of social media as it currently works, if you are more likely to want to see a post from a personality such as CNN’s Jake Tapper based on your social media algorithm then you will see posts that are similar to Jake Tapper. Likewise, if you’re more likely to see posts on your social media from the likes of Sean Hannity then you will see Sean Hannity.
With my own goal regarding this platform I wanted to be able to create something that would cross the digital moat and to blast through the firewalls of censorship which is proving to be very challenging.
As a fitness professional and author I’m obviously into fitness and health, but I’m also into philosophy, history, geo-politics, and culture.
I’m a fan of both Steve Bannon and Tim Poole, but I also wanted to bring about my own approach to impacting the culture by stressing a more grounded and individual experience to demonstrate to you how we can impact culture together as a whole by first focusing on ourselves as individuals.
This individual philosophical approach of me trying to do what I’ve always done within my industry involves helping you to recognize that you have agency. You have personal action and power to influence and directly impact your environment, instead of sitting back and allowing the environment around you to shape your life outcomes.
The latter part of that statement combined with the digital moats that separate most of us that are reasonable and desire to learn are the reason we are currently feeling trapped inside this Colosseum of Provocation, but this platform is offering a way out.
The Wrap Up
I firmly believe the experiences that we respond to shape and prepare us for the world as it changes. However, I want to be very clear that how the world changes is up to each one of us as individuals.
Our actions as individuals impact the culture and result in the desired change that we want whether we desire the status quo, OR if we desire a new thriving, free loving, and enlightened world.
As far as my objective view of the direction of the world as I currently write this I see it going one of two directions. It’s obvious to me that if we continue moving in the direction that the current Biden regime has us on with rampant government corruption, censoring of dissident voices, the destruction of the economy, the early years of World War III, and the continued growth and weaponization of the Administrative State we are on the fast track towards a 1000 years of darkness.
However, I ALSO believe that with the Great Awakening that is occurring across the globe that people are starting to demonstrate their support and actions by putting their dollars where their values are located by supporting businesses and organizations that support freedom, prosperity, and individuality.
It is for both of these reasons as to why this blog and podcasts exist. It was born to be an information source with action towards shaping the environment rather than allowing the environment to shape the outcome of the rest of us.
Your support and understanding in this movement is critical and this is why together we can control the narrative in this Colosseum of Provocation in order to change its culture which will change our political structure.
I hope you enjoyed today’s article/podcast.
If so I hope you would choose to support this platform as part of the patriot economy as well. I really need your help to push this piece out to your friends, family, and coworkers.
In order for BOTH you and me to influence and strengthen our society we must not stay idle so please make sure you hit the subscribe and share buttons here below.
Spreading messages like this one is how we influence our culture and I need your help in order to do it.
Also listen to this episode here on…
If you like this podcast and the message please take a moment to give it a Five Star ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ rating on the Spotify platform.
Also to connect with me please make sure you join me here on Twitter, Facebook, GETTR, and now Substack’s new social media called Notes.
Stay strong. Stay focused. Stay active.
Share this post