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“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
I have for a long time realized that I was a fighter.
So what do I mean by that?
When I use that word fighter I don’t just mean carrying out the act of a physical fight although I’ve had a few experiences with physical fighting in my lifetime both in the game of life and in sports as it pertains to martial arts and to training.
However, when I use that term fighter a fighter can take on many different forms and I’m going to spend a portion of this episode explaining the importance of this concept, as well as proving this concept to you by demonstrating how both you and myself must fight during the current war we find ourselves in.
Some people might hear this and in a typical and emotional knee jerk reaction they may scoff, or pearl clutch themselves in the moment thinking Well Brandon’s just being antagonistic by saying that he’s a fighter.
That previous statement would be a completely false one and even further it highlights a complete lack of empathy, it displays willful ignorance, and completely demonstrates an out of touch viewpoint concerning objective reality.
Being a fighter doesn’t automatically translate to one being antagonistic or inimical. Now that last word inimical is an interesting word so what does that mean?
Inimical means hostile, or unfriendly. In fact, the title of today’s post is War With The Inimicus which means that word Inimicus is Latin for Enemy or Foe.
So if I claim to be a fighter then how is it that I’m not being antagonistic? I’m not antagonistic because it is not my nature to be an enemy or a foe, at least not without reason. In fact, for that to happen I have to be put into that position.
As Rambo might say for that to happen They must draw first blood.
I’m going to elaborate on this further, but for the moment let’s put this into some context with the current environment that we all find ourselves living in during this Fourth Turning in history.
In a brief explanation of current events in today’s world we see what Aldous Huxley and George Orwell pointed towards with each of their theories as to what would be the cause of the fall of mankind.
On that note Huxley pointed out in Brave New World how society would devolve into an unequal and technologically advanced future where humans are genetically bred, society at large is socially engineered and indoctrinated, and people are pharmaceutically anesthetized in order for an authoritarian order to uphold a ruling order stripping society of all individual freedom and perhaps even down to the human soul itself.
As if that synopsis of Huxley’s Brave New World isn’t terrifying enough it’s even scarier when we take a look around at how this is actually happening throughout society at large today.
To add onto this George Orwell also had a vision of a dystopian future that those of us who are awakened are also witnessing playout here in 2023 in real time.
In Orwell’s book 1984 the story revolves around Winston who happens to be a citizen living in a miserable society known as Oceania. Winston is trying to rebel against the Party and it’s ruling overseeing authority known as Big Brother. Winston also happens to work for the Ministry of Truth in order to alter the history of Oceania in order to fit the government’s narrative.
If you don’t see how this has literally already happened under the Biden regime you’re willfully ignorant and completely ignoring reality as the “Committee of Public Information” (aka Ministry of Truth) was put forward by the regime under the leadership of Alejandro Mayorkas and the boot licking bureaucrat that was assigned to lead this department under Mayorkas was Nina Jankowicz. (Source: The Hill)
Jankowicz had referred to herself as a Russian disinformation expert and that should say enough with all the lies that have been brought into the light about Russian disinformation and Russians being responsible for stealing the 2016 U.S. elections. At this point that narrative is completely laughable as we’re clearly seeing the result of a stolen election everyday that the Biden regime stays in office, but I digress.
So the way I look at this is that we are already living through the beginnings of a sort of hybrid version of Huxley’s Brave New World combined with Orwell’s 1984 in today’s modern society. What’s even stranger is the seemingly fast development of the dystopian parallels of these two imaginary societies compared to our own real life modern day society.
After all, I remember having a certain feeling years ago after having read Orwell’s 1984 telling myself that what he explained was way too insane to actually happen in real life where big brother would be watching every move you made, where the government would criminalize thought, and that 2+2 would be equal to 5. It turns out that I was wrong.
We can easily check off all three of these as they are criminalizing speech, redefining words to suit their narratives, and want to set themselves up with a government authority to be the “Ministry of Truth” with Jancowicz’s attempt to kick off the “Committee of Public Information.”
This doesn’t even factor in the coming dangers and unpredictability of how AI will be used within the context of society for technological surveillance, as well as military, policing, and the creation, controlled type, and flow of information.
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