“Red-pilling” is defined as when someone has “their perspective dramatically transformed, especially by introducing them to a new and typically disturbing understanding of the true nature of a particular situation.
This can include wars and the financial system to the very nature of reality itself.
The term originates from the film “The Matix” where Morpheus asks Neo to choose between a red and blue pill. “You take the blue pill... the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill... you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes".
Many books have the potential to “red-pill” someone but you recommend them, even buy someone the book, but the response you get is “yeah it was interesting but not very probable”.
I’d like to compile a reading list so what books have you read that either “red-pilled” you or had an impact on friends or family once they read them? I’m looking for books, on any subject, that made people say, “wow, I didn’t know it was like this and I can’t look back now”.
And if you can, a little summary along with why it had an impact on you or someone else.
For me, recently at least, it was "The Real Anthony Fauci" by Kennedy. People NEED to know how long - and how unsuccessfully - vaccine trials have been going on, the the depths to which the vaccine conglomerate will sink. Eyes totally opened, and totally disgusted by it all.
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Dr. Judy Mikovits’ book PLAGUE OF CORRUPTION is equally compelling on the subject of Dr. F. In many ways, it’s even more disturbing as she worked 20 years as a scientist at the National Cancer Institute and knows firsthand the fraud, the revenge, the stifling of serious repercussions related to all vaccines (cancer & autism), primarily due to retroviruses from animal cell lines used in the process of making them. According to Mikovits, Fauci never allowed this evidence to become known. The book is a quick read and relatively short. I highly recommend.
How in the universe did we have the sixth sense to know people like Mikovits were the people to trust? It’s like a spidy sense - understanding we’re being played. Wonder why some people totally lack it?
Although, speaking from personal experience, I previously was pretty much dismissive of folks like all of us. It took a major,stunningly unexpected adverse health event in our family along with a providential comment by a physician plus additional providential reference to a red-pill book from several people I trusted (the book related to the adverse health event) to begin peeling the scales from our eyes. Shoot, I was skeptical enough initially, about the recommended book, that I borrowed it from the library before buying it. I didn’t want to spend money on something that might turn out to be quackery.
I knew what I knew. I trusted {mostly} the people who said, in one way or another, that they were filtering information for us (no, not MSM; but yes, professional organizations, CDC/FDA). I mean, their entire reason for existing was to protect and advise the public.
Admittedly, it’s weird to think that as skeptical as I have always been of Government, I was not more skeptical of the Government health agencies: USDA, FDA, CDC, NIH.
Most of us are raised to submit our thoughts to the ways of thinking of the people in positions of authority. Schools are huge examples of this - rarely is divergent thinking allowed. Our kiddo in elementary school saw a multiplication array differently than the teacher (6x3 vs 9x2) and was made to correct the “wrong” answer. And that was in a private school that prides itself on teaching kids how to think. (We aren’t there anymore, praise God.). Add to the 13 years of school indoctrination an authoritarian parenting style, plus the innately compliant nature of some personalities, and voila! Compliant, submissive people.
Still, it is indeed a chronic source of angst that so many have yet to wake up - the horror is so horrific that it seems not unseeable.
Great comment. Seems endemic to the dystopia all around us. seemingly impossible to avoid but once seen no longer unseeable. Believe us skeptical types see it faster. The easy going types seem to take longer but likely will be angrier once they do. Guess we must take it more or less in stride.
As to your comment on a book - a note on the widespread banning of books in many places, including some in TN. The Nashville Tennessee Public Library system has just up and announced they will issue new library cards titled "I read banned books".
Yes, schools are notoriously indoctrinated and indoctrinating. Our universities are now among the worst offenders. Seems those of us who can still think have survived and overcome our educations.
Private schools have become far more insidiously dangerous than public over the last few decades, as I've learned from personal experience that mirrors others all over the country: undercovermother.substack.com/
The “cognitive dissonance” is so great that if they were to confront the reality of what they are being shown they would have to admit that their cosy world view is null and void and enter a world of paranoia and fear so they back off as soon as they look down over the parapet
Yes. That is why many psychiatrists today and other sage, sane observers underscore that the response the insanity and dystopia expressed by the “elite” or “leaders” through their demands or mandates results in mass hysteria.involves cognitive dissonance of course.
Besides making complete sense, I trusted her because she had very little to gain, and so much at risk. The only thing she was fighting for was a clear conscience and to warn people. Sadly, the unfair tug of war was won by not having the same number of people of each side. If you spoke up in whatever way they didn't want and you had strength, you were taken out of the game.
I really had much time to read books lately, but I'm very surprised people haven't been drawing comparisons to Squid Game. Too obvious? With season 2 coming out maybe we'll hear more.
I think weighing up what these dissenting doctors and scientists have to gain or lose is a massive factor in assessing their authenticity. While a lot of the big names on our side are famous now, I'm sure it's not what they were expecting and they must have lost a lot of professional and personal relationships along the way, not to mention being relentless smeared and censored off the internet. The dissenters have skin in the game, while others who promote the narrative risk nothing as they remain comfortable in the herd.
The other thing is that while I was concerned enough about what they were saying early on, I stayed skeptical and waited to see if their predictions proved correct over time. And sure enough as time went on, they were consistent in what they were saying, and we see both data and anecdote pouring in to give credibility their dire predictions.
Clue me in here. If I missed a word or two it is from late night compromised brain power. We on SubStack are forced to fly dangerously without editors.
He has a very easy going personality and my husband and I are more intense. We agree to disagree which is how we choose to honor the many differences between family members. I would have to write an entire post to dive clearly into that one! Our kids are pretty highly individualistic and tend to stick to their chosen guns. It really is like the wild west these days.
For me, and for many probably, the trigger was the reality I saw around me during Covid. Once I saw what was happening and how most people were acting and speaking about it, it started an earthquake in my world view. Then I also began to listen to red pilling podcasts and read red pilling books etc. But I was already looking for that.
What made me ready to go through this kind of transformation, while many other seemingly intelligent people chose to follow the narrative? I still haven't been able to find a definite answer for that.
Tom Nichols wrote an article about this in the Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/03/the-experts-had-a-rough-year-we-still-have-to-trust-them/618344/ It outlines why he's doing it -- "I trusted those professionals not because they wear a white jacket or have certificates on their wall, but because I have confidence in the educational and scientific infrastructure that created them." He believes that those of us who think that the institutions have been corrupted are beyond the reach of reason. And thus he never has to engage with us, no matter how reasonable our questions and arguments might be. Don't question authority, you _must_ trust that they know what they are doing.
I read that and immediately thought of the people waiting inside Grenfell Tower with the experts telling them not to leave their rooms despite the fact that it was turning into a giant bonfire.
Not only did it not work out for them very well, it hasn't really redounded to the detriment of the experts, who as far as I know have not spent any time in jail for manslaughter /sarc
I am slightly comforted by the knowledge that I would have ignored the experts, but I feel terribly sorry for those who did not.
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Years ago i would have been one to "Stay in the tower" but 911 opened my eyes to life. I heard someone say once, If people opened their eyes to actually see what was going on they would never vote democrat again.
If there is a ‘deep state’, ‘5th column’, ‘ruling cabal’ then is Washington merely Kabuki Theater designed to keep the sheeple distracted, divided and hopeful...?
I, as the parent, have reading homework at my daughter's school. This is an excerpt from "For the Children's Sake" by Susan Schaeffer Macaulay on Charlotte Mason's teaching philosophy:
This is the challenge in Science teaching. It should be accurate and good, leaving the person with a sure grasp of reality so that he is more likely to think for himself, and not to feel vulnerable and weak when the "experts" pontificate. He should know that the ordinary citizen need not hand over decisions to the "experts" as if he had no mind or responsibility. I believe this is vital in the coming generation. We can easily get intimidated by experts. Let the children know enough so that they will think for themselves.
Here in the USA the news we received concerning that apartment fire was: the cladding used on the exterior caused the fire to spread rapidly, and that the Fire Services failed to mobilize the residents to evacuate as soon as possible. How many times have we read that SAME kind of investigation "report"... way too late ? I remember several cruise ship disasters, most recent a few years back was the Costa disaster off Italy, think it pointed to the captain doing some kind of inappropriate maneuver sailing too close to a small island as a kind of "salute" to someone on the island, or something along those lines, but what struck me was the deadly instructions of the "experts" on the ship's crew who instructed people to return to the LOWER decks and stay in their cabins. Way too many other such examples of this type of people who have NO IDEA what they are doing or saying, being the ones "in change". A most recent example is the many lives lost during the pandemic when seriously ill individuals were ordered into rest and nursing homes with healthy people, and all perished. When a ship is sinking, that is NOT the time to go to an inside cabin below the water line, and it is NEVER a good idea to order extremely ill people and perfectly healthy people to be confined in the same small space ! I wonder just how many in the NYC twin towers were told to "hunker down in place" ? ?
Yep. They are actively engaged in their own mental imprisonment.
I wonder sometimes what would happen without us "anti vaxxers" to point to. Probably the strongest mental prison for the "science followers" is that they don't want to be called science deniers or conspiracy theorists. They will believe anything the establishment tells them to, so that they can be seen as the rational and intelligent ones, in a world they've been told is divided between rational/moral people and ones that are primitive or evil.
BINGO! Thanks for bringing up this article... it describes the typical sheeple... the author himself! First, your quote by the author is perfect... "I trusted those professionals....." It shows just how dumb the author is... the white jacket and certificates are designations of the the educational and scientific infrastructure!!! They're the same thing essentially. Am I wrong?
And he further exhibits his stupidity by saying "I’m not advocating for accepting whatever experts say without delay or question.", while essentially advocating it without realizing it... his supposed questioning is superficial and he will accept whatever answer the doctor gives him.
There are so many other points I could give, but I suspect most readers here of the Naked Emperor are smart enough to glean these from the article.
Yet, "experts" debate and disagree. That's how they're trained, part of the process of "science." This guy in Atlantic is just trying to justify his laziness, he doesn't want to think or research or have to make up his own mind who to follow. Lazy.
I quit my Atlantic subscription after finding they gave too many pages over to that Tse-Tse Fly Coates guy and other really bad writers just because they seemed hip and woke. The arguments of the essays were just awful.
Back in early 2020 we did it all! I even made my own shoe desanitizer at our doorway and posted a Facebook pic of a masked me wearing nitrile gloves with my hands up with caption “preparing to go to Citibank”. But soon we learned that COVID was an airborne disease, so I began to ask questions like, “If it is airborne, why are we seeing News Reports of Hazmat outfitted people spraying the streets with disinfectant?” Having lived in Asia, where cold infected people wear masks as a courtesy to others I gladly wore a mask and even chastised others who refused. Then I started reading and after reading and re-re-reading Geert VandenBossche the wheels came off the narrative and I tried posting on FB about VandenBossche and others. The stunningly aggressive response to my posts encouraged more reading, but it was VandenBossche who, for me, started it all.
Love that you were willing to adjust your beliefs.
We didn’t go quite as far as you, but like most we used a bag over our hands while pumping gas or using touch screens at the grocery store, etc. We didn’t invite our elderly moms for their spring visits, because we didn’t want to make them sick. I was glad for the school shutdown but that was entirely for school-related reasons and not for virus reasons.
Then, we began learning that the disease was quite selective in its morbidity and mortality. Not everyone was equally susceptible. Vitamin D was important. So we adjusted our habits accordingly.
Yeah, as soon as I heard my co-worker and boss say in early March 2020, “We have to ‘social distance’ now because NPR said so” with a straight face, I knew we were in trouble. I sensed I’d be in for it if I laughed out loud like I wanted to and said, “That’s ridiculous!”
And then the public hand-washing in the common kitchen, like they were scrubbing for an Employee-of-The-Pandemic award.
It was pretty amazing to watch people so quickly and easily bamboozled. It was almost as if they wanted to be, or like they were desperate for a cause.
Animal Farm was read (a classroom assignment) in 6th grade. It should be read by adults, not adolescents. The metaphor of farm animals organized, and with a hierarchy, is lost in the imagination. It doesn't convert to reality for those (age 11 as I was) who have no real-world experiences in life. While this was during the cold war, as students, our understanding of communism was an abstraction. We had a bare understanding of the fundamentals of a constitutional republic.
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Well said. I used to sometimes curse what a slow reader I was. Only recently I realised I was truly reading the book and contemplating it and meditating on particular sentences, others whoosh through it catch a glimpse of the feeling of the main characters or something and didn't take onboard the fundamental messages it is now apparent.
But honestly, much more than any enlightening book has been my personal observations of everything to which we’ve been subjected, & my horrified disbelief at how quickly & completely the majority of people (globally) complied w/ irrational lunacy
The whole #MeToo movement developed in the same way and so quickly.
It was really weird to be a woman who thought the whole thing was a set-up. I could only criticize it in conversation with men and my mother.
God forbid the guys or I critique any of the dreadful confessional #MeToo essays shared in our writing group. (That’s when I learned ‘writing groups’ are a bunch of baloney.)
When I read 1984 as a class novel circa early 1970, I had arguments with fellow class mates who insisted it was about USSR. My take was it was about USA. Seems I was closer to the mark.
Orwell first wrote Animal Farm, which more specifically targeted the USSR, even though it applies to all societies. I think in 1984 he wanted to give us a stronger warning about where western societies could be headed.
Anyway it's always wiser to read it as a warning about what might happen in one's own society, rather than something that happened to other people, at another place and time.
Ozi, I always saw it as a cautionary tale about USSR &/or Nazi Germany so I pictured it as taking place somewhere in Western Europe. Until 2 years ago, I never could have imagined all that has happened & been forced on us in the US could happen here. I know the creeping totalitarian impulse & “Big Brother” nanny state go further back but I just wasn’t paying attention, had no idea. Eyes wide open now & it’s terrifying
The Bible, in particular the books of Daniel, Ezekiel, Zachariah and Revelations. I grew up with these books, but everything, and I mean EVERYTHING I see happening in the world right now, was foretold by these books (and if it wasn't for the Bible, I would still be caught in the c19 narrative). And I am seeing these prophecies coming to fulfilment before my eyes. The woke agenda, destruction of family, technology, one world order, destruction of the financial system, inflation, war, depopulation and hunger.... It is all there. Even the next steps in the playbook.
I sometimes fantasize about renting a billboard and just putting one verse from one of the prophets on it, changing every week. People would be stunned.
The bumper sticker on my car says “God Before Man”. I custom ordered it on Amazon about a year ago. You can create your own bumper sticker and design your own background and colors. Mine is simple white letters on blue to be readable. I think bumper stickers can be a great way to reach the public if they are thoughtful and you only have one or two.
And the educated fools often reject the Bible, don’t they? They reject it even though they have never actually cracked it open. I think of God saying to humanity, “Don’t make me come down there!” And then He communicated with humanity over and over. We didn’t listen. He finally had to come down here.
“How you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they're not listening still
" though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men"
Would utterly lost (for eternity) without that!
Every time I read Revelations I am struck by plague after plague coming upon the earth and the peoples of the earth. And what is sent as an opportunity to repent, because it is punishment, results in man raising his fist and cursing God. That would be me, apart from his grace.
Reading is better, but you can listen to the audio book (read by John Cleese) on YouTube. I also found The Chronicles of Narnia magnificent - The Last Battle being particularly relevant now, but even the Silver Chair (things are not always as they appear in that one - how relevant is that).
It’d have to be “The Creature from Jekyll Island” by G Edward Griffin, about the formation of the US Federal Reserve (initiated in 1910 on Jekyll Island). It’s described by the author as a “banking cartel”. It’s disturbing and fascinating:
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"AIDS and the Doctors of Death" by Dr. Alan Cantwell, Jr. theorizing that the AIDS epidemic was actually 2 separate epidemics -- one epidemic was heterosexual in Africa caused by the World Health Organization's "Smallpox Eradication Campaign" and the other homosexual in the U.S.A. caused by the experimental hepatitis B vaccine program administered exclusively to gay men in America's large cities -- both populations being contaminated via separate vaccine campaigns. Written about 1990, the book changed forever my view of vaccines.
Looking back now, the official narratives of the origins of AIDS -- (1) that Africans got it from eating green monkey meat and (2) that gays caught it from a promiscuous flight attendant labeled "Patient Zero" -- now seem as laughable as the narrative (3) that Covid-19 was caused by someone in China eating a bowl of undercooked bat soup!
I haven’t read that book. My red pill was Peter Duesberg Inventing the AIDS virus. So many disturbing similarities with Covid. Also found Kary Mullis Dancing naked in the mind field very eye opening. And then Kennerdy’s Fauci. The last 2 years have been an incredible education.
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Heh. Around 2005 I actually briefly communicated with Duesberg via mail, after stumbling on some articles. Asking him some things, I don't remember the details and I am today surprised he botherd to reply my lay questions, and I was just some random dude from over the pond, directly mailing the professor at his uni mail, back then apparently not much of an automatic sorting out ^^
Pretty kind seeming guy. I guess I was skeptical about his idea that in the gay scene of back then, people suffered from effects of drugs common in the scene (as axplanation for some of AIDS). There were some holes in that idea.
Rob Kay wrote, "That doesn't wash with me: because British gay men also suffered from AIDS, and they were not vaccinated."
Recall if you will the timeline of AIDS: The cases in the American gays occurred first. The cases in British gay men occurred later in time, not simultaneously with the American cases. Yes, the British men did not participate in an experimental vaccine program. But, in order to contract AIDS, the British men did not need to receive the experimental vaccine. **In order to contract AIDS, the British gays merely needed to have high-risk sexual contact with any one of the many American gays already infected by the Hep B experimental shots.** That is the reason posited why the cases in Britain showed up somewhat later than in America ... precisely because the British gays had not been participants in the experimental Hep B vaccine trial in the large cities in the U.S.A. In other words, it took a bit of time for it to spread from America to the United Kingdom. This is also part of Dr. Cantwell's theory.
What was 'it' that spread from Americal to UK? The ingredients of the Hep B shots were sexually transmitted???? If Dr Cantwell theory is based on HIV myth of causing a persons very particular version of AIDS, i will not be bothered to check out his book. But illness caused by an injection is always worth exploring further eh... vaccinations have been the scourge of human health.
Quote: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.“ ~ George Santayana
And its corollary: "Those who DID learn from the past are condemned to WATCH as others repeat it."
Not much has changed in 50 years:
Same Villains: The villains in 1978-79 (experimental Hep B shots, NIH, Gallo/Fauci) are the SAME VILLAINS as today (experimental mRNA injections, NIH/NIAID, Fauci, just add Ralph Baric to the mix, etc.).
Foolish People: The majority of people back then were such devout believers in the benefits of vaccines that they failed to think critically, i.e., to consider the possibility that vaccines could be used to experiment upon a specific demographic group or for depopulation.
I also include gays in this overly trusting group because most gays also had a Pollyannish attitude, which prevented most in 1978-79 from realizing that the government might not have their best interests in mind ... or worse!
And gay men in 2023 are still imo way too trusting today. Just look at how gay men were so easily manipulated to quickly roll up their sleeves to receive the new experimental monkeypox shots INTO THEIR BLOODSTREAM! 😱
OK, well a second and far more major inconsistency, is that Gay people were a small minority of those who received this vaccine: many others such as health workers did but did not get Aids.
Rob Kay wrote, "... Gay people were a small minority of those who received this vaccine ..."
No, it's just the opposite: The **experimental** Hep B vaccine cohort consisted of **EXCLUSIVELY sexually active gay men** in several very large American cities, including New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and several other big cities.
This makes me even more creeped out about a doctor I visited in 2018. She was my new GP and was doing a full checkup and then some follow up visits. She kept asking me if I would consent to a Hep C blood test “because the CDC.” I declined because I didn’t trust the CDC even back then (didn’t tell her that). She seemed pretty flabbergasted that I would decline—as if all her other patients just go along with it.
Now I wonder: What was/is the CDC up to with Hep C?
Were there any digfferences in Hiv status between those who did, and those who did not?
What about all the 'closet' gays, the married ones, who cottaged but were not self identifying or 'Out':
So many questions ...
I'm just doing my usual 'due diligence' : this does look at first sight as a bit of a loony toon theory: does anyone with any medical credibility take it seriously?
Please check your facts because, no, the health workers did not receive the **experimental** Hep B vaccine.
Instead, the health workers in the United States received the commercially approved Hepatitis B vaccine by the drug company Merck, which became available *later* in time than the experimental Hep B vax. The health workers did not get AIDS from their Hep B shots because they received *an entirely different product manufactured by Merck.*
I think it's almost impossible to red-pill someone who does not want to be red-pilled.
To extend the Matrix analogy, Neo had the CHOICE to take the red pill or the blue pill. He CHOSE to take the red pill because he already didn't believe his current "reality".
You can lead a sheep to data, but you can't make them think.
I wish that was true. My husband would never choose to read something that goes against his mainstream agenda. And even if he did, he would see it only as fake news conspiracy theory.
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I think there is a focus on factuals here but fiction-wise, Catch-22 woke me up as a teen. I'll admit that it took many years to fully wake up because of the pervasive media blanket which I finally threw aside; but my cynicism was initiated. It all stays with me even now; the absurd comedy and imbecility of everything that surrounds Yossarian, his confusion over why people can't see what he sees or don't want to, the creep of the amoral Minderbinder capitalist enterprise and his realisation that there is a dark murderousness on his own side as the novel becomes darker as it progresses. But there is a seed of hope at the end. One of the greats of the C20th and still resonating in the current imbecilities. Sometimes fiction can work better in planting a seed than beating people over the head with facts they cannot assimilate.
That does seem a key point to Naked Emperor's question. Perhaps myths, legends, fairly tales, children's books, biblical stories are gentle nudges, that augment one another. Memorable seeds that activate growth at the right time.
I suppose that I and perhaps others would include the Bible. It’s such an inherent part of my life and worldview that I kind of forget to include it in lists like this.
Someone else mentioned specifically the book of Revelation. I agree. I don’t know how the apocalyptic descriptions in the book played out (some believe that a lot was describing the monstrous Roman Empire at the time) or will play out (others believe that the world will yet face global tyranny and persecution beyond anything yet experienced), but, the descriptions of having a government enforced “mark” to buy or sell - it was not at all difficult to see the parallels between that and the man-dates coming. Why so many of my fellow Christians could not and still do not see the parallels, and react accordingly, is something I still cannot explain.
Isaiah 3 - an accurate description of our country (US) today. Verse 4 - infants will rule over them. Yes, we have an infantile president, no disrespect meant to his humanity or to the office.
We see throughout the Bible the futility of man-made, external laws to create truly moral people. God himself acknowledges that a truly good and just people will be those who have his laws written on their hearts - people who have been formed through proper spiritual formation to naturally be people who live good, true, just, and beautiful lives. And, wonderfully, the God of the Bible offers personal grace and help by means of his Spirit to all and any who want to follow him and live in this way, the way of Jesus.
So, what I am saying is that the Bible makes it clear that the farther away from God a people becomes, the less able that people is to appropriately govern themselves individually and thus collectively. Less self-government then requires more external controls to govern behavior. Government grows and morphs into the ginormous beast we now have.
Again, why so many of my good Christian friends are not awake to the current global shenanigans, the impending dread that looms over us all, the loss of God-given freedoms in the guise of disease control, I really do not understand. It is a nagging question for which I have no satisfactory answer.
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I am not a particularly religious person - spiritual yes, but organised religion seems so corrupt although I do appreciate that fundamentally Christianity and many other religions have only good intentions but I remember reading the prophecies of Nostradamus after 9/11 and now I can't stop thinking about them as they are playing out, in my opinion, as they have been interpreted. As a Christian, do you have any thoughts on this?
Reading the bible does not require religious commitment. It, as does any good book, require open minded thought and reflection. Please take the time to read, it doesn't have to be structured, or front to back, but the words will resonate, once they are read and given thought.
I am not a bible literate person but I am amazed more than ever when I realize that there are portions that are warning us of the times we live in now.
Dr. Zev Zelenko talks about this mapping frequently.
Shiva the destroyer comes up.
I was just reading this morning about Behemoth and Leviathan, chaos monsters who, after their destruction in battle, become food for the righteous in end times.
Yes, I know and over the years I have read a fair chunk of it - was raised Christian and if I had to 'identify' as any religion it would be Christianity. I am familiar with most of it and agree it's an interesting book. I excelled in RE at school and much of this was down to a keen interest in Christianity in the modern world and issues like the sanctity of life etc. But all through this pandemic I have wondered what the Christian take is on various prophecies. I know many devout Christians who have surprised me by taking the jabs.
I appreciate your thoughtful responses. It sounds like you too put a lot of careful thought into this stuff.
As far as Christians taking the injections, of course the reasons are going to be different for different individuals. I have one friend who, although she recognized the many political and financial conflicts of interest, took it when it was first available because she works in an ED and felt like she was constantly in an invisible fog of the virus. I think she believed it was simply a pragmaticly reasonable thing for her to do. I don’t think that she had any idea at the time how malicious the injection program would become. Nor do I think she, like a lot of us, would ever have dreamed that it was developed and authorized in swarms of fraud.
I think that many, many Christians simply see/saw the injection as just another v🪓, not really that much different from others. Yeah, it’s mR N A, but it’s safe, and it works, and we’re in a pandemic, don’t you know, and this is another God-given gift from modern medicine that is going to save lives. I think a lot of them just didn’t think much about it.
And of course there are those on the Christian Left who set about shaming all of us into wearing masks and injecting ourselves with experimental products, because we must do it for our neighbors. I don’t even have time to get into that horrible betrayal of what it actually means to love my neighbor.
As for prophecies, well, as you probably know, there are several different interpretations of biblical prophecy. Some, of course, such as those describing the birth of Jesus, have already taken place.
Others, about the end of the age, about plagues and global destruction, are seen by some as describing the “global” persecution under the Roman Empire - certainly would have been experienced by the people then as cataclysmic chaos and destruction. N.T. Wright, I think, holds something of this view. (I’ve heard he is not so great on his views re pandemic, although that’s second hand information so could be wrong.). Others view Revelation as describing yet future events - some of these folks believe Christians will be “raptured” or removed from the world before these hellish events take place. And then there are some in between, sort of.
I admit I don’t have solid views on this. I personally lean toward seeing the events as both already took place (ancient Rome) and yet having stunning parallels now. I’m not sure what the parallels signify (eg, is the final return of Jesus imminent?). I’m sure folks in WW2 Europe felt the world was then in its final days too. And yet, here we are 100 years later.
What I am certain of is that (1) our current global state is from spiritual powers of darkness; they are against humanity and all that is good, (2) every time we see people suffering in the Bible, God offers the opportunity to either repent and find forgiveness and restoration or continue in rebellion and find destruction, (3) Jesus is indeed King of the universe and although his authority is not recognized by everyone everywhere (not even at all times in my own heart and mind - just ask my family!), he will one day judge rightly the whole world, remove all evil once and for all, and recreate the heavens (the unseen reality) and the earth as they are meant to be. He will write his laws on our hearts and we will live and reign with him for all of time. This he offers freely to everyone who will choose to say, “okay, I’m not god of my life, You are.”
Since you’ve studied a lot already, that’s all probably familiar to you. But maybe it will mean something?
As I have been rereading Revelation, I see a lot of parallels. I also noticed the repeated admonition for “he who has ears, let him hear.” I suspect that a lot of Christians are (1) not hearing and/or are (2) hearing the wrong people. 😓
I haven't given up on real science, but the realization that government or oligarch or corporate funded science is no better than Madison Ave spin, with the unfortunate side effect that it may very well be deadly too.
I hear you... Praise God, nothing moves outside his purposes. Even this! He is coming again, and this time he will not be coming as the suffering servant, but as the eternal King of kings and Lord of lords judging justly!
I re-read Brave New World recently. I read it maybe 45 years ago but the second time around I really started understanding and appreciating that Huxley had got it dead right, conditioning was the way to go so they didn't need to force people to do anything and there was no punishment. In a strange way they were free but they stayed in their chains and took the soma just like people do now.
I read Brave New World as a teen and I’m convinced it’s been in my subconscious ever since. I’m sure it’s kept me from seeking medical prescriptions like my Prozac/Xanax peers did.
For me the Covid red pill was Paul Marik's observation that Covid has three stages: replication, inflammation and coagulation; that medicine has long experience with and well established protocols for dealing with all three; and that the CDC et al forbid the use of those protocols early on in Covid. TILT!
Watching the most distinguished doctors and scientists around the world turn the Red Pill corner and go completely counter narrative with detailed rationales and evidence made the COVID red pill happen quickly. This time, there many voices joining in early and and quickly building a loud chorus. Paul Marik. Piere Kory. Peter McCullough. Geert Vanden Bossche. Chris Martenson. Sucharit Bhakdi. Michael Yeadon. Richard Urso. Zev Zelenko. Robert Malone. Shankara Chetty. Arne Burkhardt. Ryan Cole. Daniel Stock. Lee Merritt. Signers of the Great Barrington Declaration. And the chiming in of voices from past health research and industry corruption added strength. Stephanie Seneff. Judy Mikovits. Peter Breggin. Joe Mercola. Christiane Northrup. Unlike in the past with a few brave whistleblowers and a following, this has become an army of voices that are tens of thousands strong.
But my real intent, to generate an exploration of Hegelian influence in modern America, has not been fulfilled. In great part, this can be attributed to an educational system based on a statist-Hegelian philosophy, and which has already achieved the "dumbing down" of America.
This disastrous, destructive philosophy, the source of both Naziism and Marxism, has infected and corrupted our constitutional republic. Much of the blame for this corruption is with an elitist group of Yalie "Bonesmen." Their symbol of Skull and Bones, and their Hegelian philosophy, says it all, although with typical duplicity, they would have you believe otherwise.
Hegelianism glorifies the State, the vehicle for the dissemination of statist and materialist ideas and policies in education, science, politics and economics.
Wonder why we have a "dumbed-down" society?
Look no further than the Bonesman troika who imported the Prussian education system into the U.S. in the 19th Century. A political philosophy in direct opposition to the classical liberalism nurtured in 19th Century British and American history. In classical liberalism, the State is always subordinate to the individual. In Hegelian Statism, as we see in Naziism and Marxism, the State is supreme, and the individual exists only to serve the State.
Our two-party Republican-Democrat (one Hegelian party, no one else welcome or allowed) system is a reflection of this Hegelianism. A small group - a very small group - by using Hegel, can manipulate, and to some extent, control society for its own purposes. (read more..)
Sutton will change everything and that his best by his own account. He has about 35 books mostly rooted in economics but following the money and documenting Wall Street funding Hitler and Bolshevik Revolution.. a few listed at the bio and more than enough in his work to spend a lifetime unwinding. :~) https://www.reformation.org/antony-sutton-bio.html
I’m currently reading The Answer by David Icke. He is incredibly well researched, has been writing for 30 years and has been victimised accordingly. In this book he will take you through everything from what is reality to the hidden agenda of the WEF and the fake pandemic and climate change hoax. It’s a long read and definitely a sobering one.
As it says, totally accurately on the cover of that book Dorothy, he is "the man who has been proved right again and again". I've been reading him and listening to him for 30 years now.
Mad magazine. I read this as a kid in the 1970's. I didn't fully grasp all of it at the time. But looking back at it now I realize it was an all out assault on the hypocrisy found in every institution of daily life: education, medicine, advertising, government, professional sports, movies, everything. It was a manual of cultural deconstruction in comic book form. You can look at how they covered still hot political issues like abortion, sexual freedom, gun rights, racism, and you will be stunned how little has changed. Environmental degradation, manipulation by politicians, exploitation by corporations, poisoning by big pharma, it's all in there. I don't know if there is anything equivalent available today. It definitely instilled in me a type of media literacy, and I am grateful for the protection it gave me from the ubiquitous brainwashing we experience today.
Would Fat Tony have bought the pandemic bullshit? I don't understand what happened to Taleb. I can only think he set off on the wrong track (no shame in that, many did) and his ego wouldn't allow him to reverse course.
I'm going to bypass the question here except to mention Shakespeare, Dante, Milton, and Marlowe. There are so many after these I would likely fail by creating an unreadably long list. Will mention that I believe what we suffer from now relates to a Faustian bargain we made with technology for the sake of convenience. That Faust is a doctor simply underscores this point in 2022. Understanding Faust in this context in 2022 is the ultimate "red pill." The rabbit hole goes exceedingly deep and a betrayal lies at the heart of it.
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Dissolving Illusions by Dr Suzanne Humphries and Roman Bystrianyk
like to suggest we include movies - and even youtube vids - and articles, papers and such.
For instance there was a 'paper' I think it could be called, or merely a press statement maybe, by Prof John Ioannidis in the very early days of Covid, one before the Diamond Princess incident and one after when he had that data.
Comparing what Dr John said and what govts and mainstream media said : and all the pusillanimous bandwagon riding ass licking 'experts' made me conscious for the first time in my life of just what a shabby world we inhabit.
Since then, on the same theme, small things like a govt 'poster' reproduced on a twitter page or a reproduction of a govt graphic from one of their handouts saying, inferring, 'protection with vaccinations, no protection without' made me conscious, fully conscious, removed lingering doubts, of either the crass ignorance and stupidity of government or the deeply entrenched callous indifference to truth and the humanity of the people.
Kendrick is a very strong polemicist and thinker - would have been a slam dunk red pilling for me, if I didn't already believe the medical establishment were full of shit.
These are all great. Tim Noakes--explaining how is vision of carb loading for athletes was catastrophically wrong. Nina Teicholz on the evils of industrial seed oils. So many have written about the bad science of statins.
I read about Tim Noakes in Christopher MacDougals books, either “Natural Born Heroes “ or “Born to Run”. How dare these Tarahumara Indians go and win ultramarathons in sandals made from old tires! I forget what they use for nutrition but it wasn’t Gatorade.
The day my gynecologist had to finally admit the mammogram guidelines had been changed due to overdetection and harms from radiation was a big win for me as I had been explaining the science to her for a decade. She did not congratulate me on my accurate call.
I really enjoyed C.S. Lewis' The Abolition of Man. Like I said before I think you need to be looking for red pills... but once you are, that's a really good one.
In that vein, the novelization of Abolition of Man, That Hideous Strength, is also really good. I found it even more compelling because so many of the horror aspects were very recognizable in my personal experience. That "Holy crap... I think I worked for that guy" really drives the pill down...
The Invisible Rainbow - Arthur Firstenberg. Historical overview with references of the effects of the introduction of electricity and frequency on human/animal and the link to illness and viruses. Mainly flu viruses ! Some Very awakening moments whilst reading.
The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet Paperback
by Nina Teicholz. Tells the truth about how the government and Big Food have colluded to lie about what foods are good for us. It's one of the reasons why Americans are so unhealthy today.
Absolutely. Although by the time I got to her book, I was already red-pilled re dietary fat and was reading to broaden my knowledge base re the evidence. It’s an incredibly well researched book, isn’t it?
It was the same for me. I was already convinced about the importance of real food (Michael Pollan has some good books here, too), but this gave me a real understanding of how we got to this point. I had grown up on Crisco baked goods and margarine. Yes, it is very well researched.
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Malcolm Kendrick 'Doctoring Data' - my wife gave it to me to read in March 2020. Easy to read but eye-opening about pharma's statistical trickery.
Milton Mayer 'They Thought They Were Free' (out of print though) - written in the 50's about pre-war Germany (1933 to 1938) - interviews with ordinary Germans who became Nazis - shows how easy it is to be gently steered down the road.
Suzanne Humphries 'Dissolving Illusions' - data on the history of vaccines and the hyping of their effectiveness, written well before the current shambles. Excellent couple of chapters on the smallpox vaccine in Victorian England, which chimes very well today with the coercion and mandating of a dangerous vaccine.
I wrote a novel to address this point directly (a shift in consciousness that is outwardly unseen or very subtle, but which allows you to "see" what is really going on. This is Purple Light in the Vision Chakra - White Light in the Crown Chakra). I have run off 60 professional copies for family and friends and I'm trying to get it published professionally in large quantities- this has been difficult due the lockdowns. (Title : The Chorus of the Daffodils). The illustrated novel is about a girl of 8 years of age whose father is on The Front in WW1. We follow her till the age of 11. She is traumatized by both the War and the loss of her father. She goes into a series of daydream states in which all the characters in her waking life, tell her things of importance which gradually shifts her consciousness towards True Understanding. The book has an Alice in Wonderland feel to it. I had to do a tone of research before writing it as WW1 is the precursor period of what we are living now. The League of Nations of the period is the precursor to the UN. One World Order begins with the Collapse of the British Empire following WW1. WW2 is largely part of a revenge cycle following the forced signing of Germany to The Treaty of Versailles in 1919 and the The War Guilt Clause - in which Germany is forced into huge war payments to the Allies and shamed into taking 100 % of the blame, and the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. If I get a deal, I will put up a PDF version on the Internet for easy download. You will all be informed !
The unholy alliance between the Mafia, the Catholic Church and the CIA and the use of drug money to fund Operation Gladio 'stay-behind' units' terrorist atrocities. Meticulously researched and shocking.
And, of course, the classic 'The New Pearl Harbour' - David Ray Griffin.
"New Confessions of an Economic Hitman" by John Perkins is one I like to recommend to people because it validates the real conspiracy between corporations, intelligence agencies/governments and the media to create empire and overthrow legitimate governments. I wasn't red pilled by reading it since I was aware of everything he describes, but I'm so glad this book exists as evidence for everyone to read.
I guess I’ve always been a questioner, even toward the conspiracy side, but I’d say something that shook me was a long-form article published in The New York Observer a while after 9/11 where flight attendants and I think pilots explained the impossibility of the “Let’s Roll...” narrative actually playing out (and inferring the military shot that plane down). Have never been able to relocate it.
Recently, at the height of the pandemic I started reading James Howard Kunstler’s four World Made by Hand novels, just by chance. They’re so readable, I could not put them down. I thought...so, this is one way it ends.... These novels have queued me to look head-on at the absurd state narratives (I never believed the jab narrative based on my own admittedly rudimentary but well-meaning medical knowledge and reading), and to think very differently about the future and planning for it. I’d call them dystopic with heart...and jolly good page-turners.
A lot of substacks, some really great ones like this, have convinced me that far from being in the minority as the mainstream misleadia would have us believe, we are not. That’s a red pill. All of James Corbett’s (Corbett Report) is excellent red pill material. I never read 1984 as part of my education (it was an option) but familiar with the narrative & it has red pilled me for a long time. The Coudenhove-Kalergi plan, a set of principles that evolved into cultural Marxism and extolled particularly by Kalergi but also members of the Frankfurt Institute a century ago are so prescient today. The Eleven Point plan will red pill you if you read it and read across to all of today’s fads - BLM, trans, family, education etc. The Camp of the Saints is a chilling description of what unfettered illegal immigration looks like. It was written in 1973. Look at Europe and the USA today. And choke on that red pill. The progressive realisation that all news is biased and agenda driven was a prolonged release red pill I started to digest 15 years ago. The blue pill is not an option. Blissful ignorance is not going to be the destiny for us if we don’t wake up fast. CBDCs, ‘freedom’ passports, social credits and serfdom is the future for 99% of us if we take the blue pill. Coming to the realisation that government is not benign and true democracy is just an elaborate illusion was a revelation to me some years ago. The last two years should convince everyone that this is happening now.
Really great news that there is a lot of us. This is underscored by reviewing the number of subscribers to all manner of independent thinkers on a variety of social platforms. They are way outpacing the MSM. The trouble is I don't sense they live in my neighborhood or who are among the people I meet in the medical arena.
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"Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air" by Sir David MacKay FRS. Basically reading that was the moment when I realised the climate change establishment were lying through both sides of their mouth about renewables and nuclear.
Orlando Figes was good on the Russian revolution too. There never was a "good Lenin betrayed by a bad Stalin", which is something generations of old school lefties, who are now Putin apologists, have refused to learn.
Read (and believed) a LOT of conspiracy shit over the years but these kinds of books were resetting to the ol' world view.
As an aging leftie, I've had arguments with family and friends because I've insisted for maybe thirty plus years that the Russian revolution was stolen. I think, besides the knowledge that Lenin entered Moscow with 30,000 British pounds in gold, a bit of a give away in itself, a very fatcual film on the "International Brigade" in Spain and how at the very end the Red Army comes and takes their weapons speaks volumes about just who was in control of the real left.
PS, ditto Cuba, China, Venezuala. No real people's revolution has ever been allowed. It's all controlled opposition.
Vasily Grossman's 'Life and fate': human kindness versus totalitarianism, and Iain McGilchrist's 'The master and his emissary': triumph of the left hemispheric over the right (i.e. why the parts now control the whole).
Great picks. Second sounds a bit like Jaynes's "Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind." A biggie for me, if a little too speculative to be a "red pilling."
Sorry, I'm a man for the classics. It certainly opened my eyes that the old Thomas Sewell quote is true . . . "The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.”
I was unable to look at politicians, economists, or any 'expert' the same way again.
Manufacturing Consent, Bad Pharma, The Real Anthony Fauci, Deadly Medicines and Organized Crime, Unsettled, Blowback, States of Emergency, A Plague Upon Our House, A Statin Nation, Brainwashed, The Dawn of Everything, Seed Money, Doctoring Data, Sacred Cow, Defending Beef, Vegetarian Myth, Bright Green Lies, Consciousness and the Brain, Behave, Entangled Life, Other Minds, The True Flag, Mary's Mosaic, The Virus and the Vaccine, The Jakarta Method, The Great Cholesterol Con, The Brothers, The Devil's Chessboard, A Lie Too Big to Fail, King Leopold's Ghost, Altered Genes Twisted Truth, The Deep State, The CIA As Organized Crime
I can thoroughly recommend the following selection which cover more or less everything that would be taught in schools if schools were any good and how/why we’re in the place we currently find ourselves.
All 3 books by Dominic Frisby.
The Golden Revolution by John Butler.
Controlled Demolition by Jeff Berwick.
The Rise of the Fourth Reich by Jim Marrs.
How I found freedom in an unfree world by Harry Browne (personal, actionable solutions)
Each is highly readable. There are plenty more but perhaps not as easy going nor can as easily absorbed. Eg the works of Hayek.
I was certainly red pilled already when it came to health and BigPharma. My journey started at 23 when I developed CFS after a dental procedure led to chronic mercury toxicity. I soon recognised that allopathic medicine was going to offer me nothing. My red pilling was completed when I studied nutrition and came across people like Dr. Andrew Wakefield and the lengths that those driven by profit alone were wiling to go to to destroy the reputation of anyone who wouldn’t conform. The film Vaxxed confirmed my suspicions. A simple, little known book called Dissolving Illusions by Dr. Suzanne Humphries into the vaccine myth was an eye-opener.
Sadly I have my illusions about the world we live in made a little rockier every day.
Daniel Kahneman - Thinking, Fast and Slow - slow read, but gave me pause to consider that anyone should be in a position to intervene at scale. We, as humans, are not reliable thinkers.
Interesting. So many people take the opposite message away. I think yours is the correct interpretation, but I am curious as to why you were able to come up with it instead of the usual "everyone is stupid but me and experts, so we had better put experts in charge."
"Spectrum of Consciousness" by Ken Wilbur really did it for me. I had several that were influential in my life, but that one was so dense in its text it was like the theory of religions told from a developmental perspective. Actually anything written by Ken Wilbur is great to me I deeply enjoyed his later writings regarding first and second tier thinking in regards to whether you think of others in an objective way in which you jus bounce your own stuff off of them like a wall, or whether you recognize on the other side an individually conscious being who is processing and filtering things from their own unique and inviolable perspective....
To give a full answer to this request I’d have to refer to a thousand sources, though they are not all books. The internet, despite the suppressive efforts of the big infotech companies, has been a cornucopia of red-pilling sources. But if I had to refer to a single book that did the most to red-pill me I’d say that it was Jonathan Kay’s “Among the Truthers”.
If you know the book then you will be saying “What!? Kay is a pure blue-pilled author writing against those he regards as nutty conspiracy theorists.” And that’s right - it is paradoxical to regard the book as having a red-pilling thrust.
So let me explain. I believe that we should seek out arguments that counter whatever we are inclined to believe. At the time I read Kay’s book I was beginning to be swayed by the arguments of 9/11 truthers, so I was looking for what could be said that would favour the mainstream side. What Kay had to say seemed to me to be totally unfair to truthers, though with a thick varnish of apparent fairness. It is essentially a long ad hominem damning his opponents, not with virulent smears, but with relatively mild ones that appear sympathetic. But it does not look at any of the evidence, nor does it address the psyches of his opponents in light of the evidence they examine. I thought that if this is the best that the mainstream side can do, then the preponderance of the evidence must be on the side of the truthers.
Well, I didn’t leave it at that, and I still look for evidence that I might grab hold of that will bring me out of a very deep and dark rabbit hole. But Kay’s arguments, despite his efforts, left me thinking that the truthers have got to be right, and I still haven’t found a rope of arguments strong enough to enable me to climb back out.
Dr. Wood's book isn't about politics, government, conspiracy, corruption, or who did it. It is just physics. Impossible physics. Woods, from the get go, collected all the data she could find: screen captures, photographs, statements, reports. She knew as she was watching from a faculty break room as the footage on the TV was being "explained" that she was seeing BS. Physics and Chemistry BS. That really bothered her. She combed through mountains of materials and showed how every explanation even from conspiracy groups talking up Thermite and conventional controlled demolition were getting the physics wrong.
I got the book in 2010 and barely put it down for the weekend it took to read this highly technical, mathematical and science oriented analysis of the remains from 9/11 for clues to what did the damage. The book was expensive to produce, full of photographs, graphs, and figures. When I closed the book, that was the big red pill conversion moment. It was a tour de force masterpiece of exposure. There were plenty of garden variety cover-ups and bad actors before. Who killed JFK? We had just endured the 2008 financial scandal. But the scale of this was breathtaking, and the need for whoever and whatever entities pulled this off to make us not believe what we see or to use the knowledge from our own fields of knowledge and scholarship was intense. So that took a lot of propaganda, media collusion, and deep fake video. I believe now it was the warm-up dress rehearsal for the planetary scale of the COVID19 operation. I suspect the same entities are involved. I respect how really big the scale of this is: corruption, the efforts at control, suppressing knowledge and awareness of dark exotic weaponry on all fronts of the sinister side of human imagination. Even now, Ukraine appears to be a hidden playground for NATO weapons experimentation and manufacture. I worry the 9/11 style next generation fancy stuff will be coming out soon.
From 1998 to 2007 I worked in federal government in DC area. I was in a federal building on 9/11, then experienced the "sniper" killing people randomly in the Northern Capital Region for weeks, and then the Anthrax episode where our brilliant CDC put latex gloves in our mailboxes as the remedy--as useless as masks are for COVID19. My mother worked for a large pharma company that had a massive internationally respected "containment" division. She supervised all the technical publications for that department. These are the engineers, chemists, scientists who keep all the products pure and separated, and keep people and the environment from harm due to manufacturing. Her colleagues told me in no uncertain terms, with urgency, that the CDC guidance on Anthrax was completely uninformed and dangerous if there really was Anthrax. There is more to that story that led to connecting those engineers to the CDC, quickly, with my intervention. I don't know anyone who died of COVID, but two close colleagues of mine had deaths in their circle, one had a brother in law in the Pentagon and the other was a co-pilot for the Pennsylvania plane. So I had a natural curiosity and a strong sense from the reactions around me that nothing about 9/11 and the odd collection of events around it and what we were being told was right. So I agree with others here that the Red Pill material has to reach the person at the right point in time after certain perturbing experiences just can't be explained and when the falsehood touches too close to home.
So for me, Dr. Judy Woods is an unsung hero who will be shown right when we turn back to this mystery. I identified with her because she was like me and many of us here, just a regular everyday well meaning researcher/academic, serious about the world, toiling in obscurity.
I believe there may be many scientists and medical professionals out there that have had this moment of realizing something is terribly wrong and who to this day keep it to themselves. And that is a festering poison for the psyche.
Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes. Extensively researched and footnoted account of the entire "cholesterol is bad" myth and statins industry, as well as providing solutions to improving one's health. Opened my eyes to how corrupt science is as well as how misleading and fraudulent the studies were that were used to change behavior to the detriment of the patient and general public. This book as well as my (and spouse's) own experience with statin side effects form the basis of our continual questioning of "science."
The Creature of Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin was the book that made me realize that the financial system controls pretty much everything and that western governments propagandize their citizens as much as any others do.
I would recommend "Death by Food Pyramid" by Denise Minger. Opened my eyes to the corruption and greed at the FDA and other government agencies, going back decades.
I originally came across her when several people I knew were recommending Forks over Knives and I wanted to research the opposing POV. It really points to the problem with credential-ism and how people are quite capable of doing their own research and thinking for themselves.
For me, recently at least, it was "The Real Anthony Fauci" by Kennedy. People NEED to know how long - and how unsuccessfully - vaccine trials have been going on, the the depths to which the vaccine conglomerate will sink. Eyes totally opened, and totally disgusted by it all.
Dr. Judy Mikovits’ book PLAGUE OF CORRUPTION is equally compelling on the subject of Dr. F. In many ways, it’s even more disturbing as she worked 20 years as a scientist at the National Cancer Institute and knows firsthand the fraud, the revenge, the stifling of serious repercussions related to all vaccines (cancer & autism), primarily due to retroviruses from animal cell lines used in the process of making them. According to Mikovits, Fauci never allowed this evidence to become known. The book is a quick read and relatively short. I highly recommend.
How in the universe did we have the sixth sense to know people like Mikovits were the people to trust? It’s like a spidy sense - understanding we’re being played. Wonder why some people totally lack it?
Yeah, I wonder this as well.
Although, speaking from personal experience, I previously was pretty much dismissive of folks like all of us. It took a major,stunningly unexpected adverse health event in our family along with a providential comment by a physician plus additional providential reference to a red-pill book from several people I trusted (the book related to the adverse health event) to begin peeling the scales from our eyes. Shoot, I was skeptical enough initially, about the recommended book, that I borrowed it from the library before buying it. I didn’t want to spend money on something that might turn out to be quackery.
I knew what I knew. I trusted {mostly} the people who said, in one way or another, that they were filtering information for us (no, not MSM; but yes, professional organizations, CDC/FDA). I mean, their entire reason for existing was to protect and advise the public.
Admittedly, it’s weird to think that as skeptical as I have always been of Government, I was not more skeptical of the Government health agencies: USDA, FDA, CDC, NIH.
Most of us are raised to submit our thoughts to the ways of thinking of the people in positions of authority. Schools are huge examples of this - rarely is divergent thinking allowed. Our kiddo in elementary school saw a multiplication array differently than the teacher (6x3 vs 9x2) and was made to correct the “wrong” answer. And that was in a private school that prides itself on teaching kids how to think. (We aren’t there anymore, praise God.). Add to the 13 years of school indoctrination an authoritarian parenting style, plus the innately compliant nature of some personalities, and voila! Compliant, submissive people.
Still, it is indeed a chronic source of angst that so many have yet to wake up - the horror is so horrific that it seems not unseeable.
Great comment. Seems endemic to the dystopia all around us. seemingly impossible to avoid but once seen no longer unseeable. Believe us skeptical types see it faster. The easy going types seem to take longer but likely will be angrier once they do. Guess we must take it more or less in stride.
As to your comment on a book - a note on the widespread banning of books in many places, including some in TN. The Nashville Tennessee Public Library system has just up and announced they will issue new library cards titled "I read banned books".
Yes, schools are notoriously indoctrinated and indoctrinating. Our universities are now among the worst offenders. Seems those of us who can still think have survived and overcome our educations.
Private schools have become far more insidiously dangerous than public over the last few decades, as I've learned from personal experience that mirrors others all over the country: undercovermother.substack.com/
Yes, we learned that very hard lesson decades ago. They can be the worst alright.
They don’t lack it they suppress it
The “cognitive dissonance” is so great that if they were to confront the reality of what they are being shown they would have to admit that their cosy world view is null and void and enter a world of paranoia and fear so they back off as soon as they look down over the parapet
Yes. That is why many psychiatrists today and other sage, sane observers underscore that the response the insanity and dystopia expressed by the “elite” or “leaders” through their demands or mandates results in mass hysteria.involves cognitive dissonance of course.
Besides making complete sense, I trusted her because she had very little to gain, and so much at risk. The only thing she was fighting for was a clear conscience and to warn people. Sadly, the unfair tug of war was won by not having the same number of people of each side. If you spoke up in whatever way they didn't want and you had strength, you were taken out of the game.
I really had much time to read books lately, but I'm very surprised people haven't been drawing comparisons to Squid Game. Too obvious? With season 2 coming out maybe we'll hear more.
I think weighing up what these dissenting doctors and scientists have to gain or lose is a massive factor in assessing their authenticity. While a lot of the big names on our side are famous now, I'm sure it's not what they were expecting and they must have lost a lot of professional and personal relationships along the way, not to mention being relentless smeared and censored off the internet. The dissenters have skin in the game, while others who promote the narrative risk nothing as they remain comfortable in the herd.
The other thing is that while I was concerned enough about what they were saying early on, I stayed skeptical and waited to see if their predictions proved correct over time. And sure enough as time went on, they were consistent in what they were saying, and we see both data and anecdote pouring in to give credibility their dire predictions.
Agree with you about RFK's book.
Another is Peter Breggin's book, "Covid 19 and the global predators: We are the prey". Very good and enlightening
It's a great book, but like his videos it drags on too long. I gave up on it by page 356 (of 934...)
Same! I mean I was already pretty red pulled but that book was the final eye opener. I’ll never go back!!
Perhaps he never read MACBETH (my favorite play).
Clue me in here. If I missed a word or two it is from late night compromised brain power. We on SubStack are forced to fly dangerously without editors.
It’s confusing. Did you and your son argue? Did he change your mind? Did you change his? Unclear.
He has a very easy going personality and my husband and I are more intense. We agree to disagree which is how we choose to honor the many differences between family members. I would have to write an entire post to dive clearly into that one! Our kids are pretty highly individualistic and tend to stick to their chosen guns. It really is like the wild west these days.
Okay, but it still doesn’t explain how you were red-pilled. Your intro made it seem like the red-pilling involved your son.
‘For me it was when one of our three sons - a well-traveled, highly respected tech executive.’
The reader is left asking: “When your son did what?”
Did not miss a word -added one erroneously. Comment deleted. All words gone. It’s private business anyway. NOBBMO.
I agree about Thomas Sowell and Roger Scruton has some great books as well.
Thing is, getting res pilled isn't as simple as getting a book.
You have to want to read it and have a certain openness to its message.
After all, so much information is out there for people to consume, yet they choose to turn a blind eye and only believe the MSM.
Many people have read Animal Farm and 1984 growing up, but they were very gullible and compliant during Covid.
It's true that you need to be ready but there is often a trigger point.
For me, and for many probably, the trigger was the reality I saw around me during Covid. Once I saw what was happening and how most people were acting and speaking about it, it started an earthquake in my world view. Then I also began to listen to red pilling podcasts and read red pilling books etc. But I was already looking for that.
What made me ready to go through this kind of transformation, while many other seemingly intelligent people chose to follow the narrative? I still haven't been able to find a definite answer for that.
Tom Nichols wrote an article about this in the Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/03/the-experts-had-a-rough-year-we-still-have-to-trust-them/618344/ It outlines why he's doing it -- "I trusted those professionals not because they wear a white jacket or have certificates on their wall, but because I have confidence in the educational and scientific infrastructure that created them." He believes that those of us who think that the institutions have been corrupted are beyond the reach of reason. And thus he never has to engage with us, no matter how reasonable our questions and arguments might be. Don't question authority, you _must_ trust that they know what they are doing.
I read that and immediately thought of the people waiting inside Grenfell Tower with the experts telling them not to leave their rooms despite the fact that it was turning into a giant bonfire.
Not only did it not work out for them very well, it hasn't really redounded to the detriment of the experts, who as far as I know have not spent any time in jail for manslaughter /sarc
I am slightly comforted by the knowledge that I would have ignored the experts, but I feel terribly sorry for those who did not.
Years ago i would have been one to "Stay in the tower" but 911 opened my eyes to life. I heard someone say once, If people opened their eyes to actually see what was going on they would never vote democrat again.
Unfortunately many of our establishment Republicans are not much better. 😓 We need a new Sons of Liberty party or something.
If there is a ‘deep state’, ‘5th column’, ‘ruling cabal’ then is Washington merely Kabuki Theater designed to keep the sheeple distracted, divided and hopeful...?
I, as the parent, have reading homework at my daughter's school. This is an excerpt from "For the Children's Sake" by Susan Schaeffer Macaulay on Charlotte Mason's teaching philosophy:
This is the challenge in Science teaching. It should be accurate and good, leaving the person with a sure grasp of reality so that he is more likely to think for himself, and not to feel vulnerable and weak when the "experts" pontificate. He should know that the ordinary citizen need not hand over decisions to the "experts" as if he had no mind or responsibility. I believe this is vital in the coming generation. We can easily get intimidated by experts. Let the children know enough so that they will think for themselves.
Thomas Kuhn - Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
(For context, Copyright 2009)
I think we need to first take care of ourselves, our family and if possible our friends.
I would like to make everyone else see the truth as well, but ultimately we are each responsible for our minds and our beliefs.
Here in the USA the news we received concerning that apartment fire was: the cladding used on the exterior caused the fire to spread rapidly, and that the Fire Services failed to mobilize the residents to evacuate as soon as possible. How many times have we read that SAME kind of investigation "report"... way too late ? I remember several cruise ship disasters, most recent a few years back was the Costa disaster off Italy, think it pointed to the captain doing some kind of inappropriate maneuver sailing too close to a small island as a kind of "salute" to someone on the island, or something along those lines, but what struck me was the deadly instructions of the "experts" on the ship's crew who instructed people to return to the LOWER decks and stay in their cabins. Way too many other such examples of this type of people who have NO IDEA what they are doing or saying, being the ones "in change". A most recent example is the many lives lost during the pandemic when seriously ill individuals were ordered into rest and nursing homes with healthy people, and all perished. When a ship is sinking, that is NOT the time to go to an inside cabin below the water line, and it is NEVER a good idea to order extremely ill people and perfectly healthy people to be confined in the same small space ! I wonder just how many in the NYC twin towers were told to "hunker down in place" ? ?
Yep. They are actively engaged in their own mental imprisonment.
I wonder sometimes what would happen without us "anti vaxxers" to point to. Probably the strongest mental prison for the "science followers" is that they don't want to be called science deniers or conspiracy theorists. They will believe anything the establishment tells them to, so that they can be seen as the rational and intelligent ones, in a world they've been told is divided between rational/moral people and ones that are primitive or evil.
Bingo. You just described my highly educated family. It all comes down to still wanting to be one of the cool kids. Makes me sick and sad.
The worst decision makers in the world are the ones who feel ( or want to feel) intellectually superior. They can’t see the forest for the trees.
BINGO! Thanks for bringing up this article... it describes the typical sheeple... the author himself! First, your quote by the author is perfect... "I trusted those professionals....." It shows just how dumb the author is... the white jacket and certificates are designations of the the educational and scientific infrastructure!!! They're the same thing essentially. Am I wrong?
And he further exhibits his stupidity by saying "I’m not advocating for accepting whatever experts say without delay or question.", while essentially advocating it without realizing it... his supposed questioning is superficial and he will accept whatever answer the doctor gives him.
There are so many other points I could give, but I suspect most readers here of the Naked Emperor are smart enough to glean these from the article.
Yet, "experts" debate and disagree. That's how they're trained, part of the process of "science." This guy in Atlantic is just trying to justify his laziness, he doesn't want to think or research or have to make up his own mind who to follow. Lazy.
I quit my Atlantic subscription after finding they gave too many pages over to that Tse-Tse Fly Coates guy and other really bad writers just because they seemed hip and woke. The arguments of the essays were just awful.
Back in early 2020 we did it all! I even made my own shoe desanitizer at our doorway and posted a Facebook pic of a masked me wearing nitrile gloves with my hands up with caption “preparing to go to Citibank”. But soon we learned that COVID was an airborne disease, so I began to ask questions like, “If it is airborne, why are we seeing News Reports of Hazmat outfitted people spraying the streets with disinfectant?” Having lived in Asia, where cold infected people wear masks as a courtesy to others I gladly wore a mask and even chastised others who refused. Then I started reading and after reading and re-re-reading Geert VandenBossche the wheels came off the narrative and I tried posting on FB about VandenBossche and others. The stunningly aggressive response to my posts encouraged more reading, but it was VandenBossche who, for me, started it all.
Love that you were willing to adjust your beliefs.
We didn’t go quite as far as you, but like most we used a bag over our hands while pumping gas or using touch screens at the grocery store, etc. We didn’t invite our elderly moms for their spring visits, because we didn’t want to make them sick. I was glad for the school shutdown but that was entirely for school-related reasons and not for virus reasons.
Then, we began learning that the disease was quite selective in its morbidity and mortality. Not everyone was equally susceptible. Vitamin D was important. So we adjusted our habits accordingly.
Cant seem to make then”like” button work, but I like your post.
Yeah, as soon as I heard my co-worker and boss say in early March 2020, “We have to ‘social distance’ now because NPR said so” with a straight face, I knew we were in trouble. I sensed I’d be in for it if I laughed out loud like I wanted to and said, “That’s ridiculous!”
And then the public hand-washing in the common kitchen, like they were scrubbing for an Employee-of-The-Pandemic award.
It was pretty amazing to watch people so quickly and easily bamboozled. It was almost as if they wanted to be, or like they were desperate for a cause.
Seems many like these folk were grasping for something they could DO to regain a bit of control in their lives.
Also Animal Farm is still used in schools but many of the students totally fail to understand what it is about.
Animal Farm was read (a classroom assignment) in 6th grade. It should be read by adults, not adolescents. The metaphor of farm animals organized, and with a hierarchy, is lost in the imagination. It doesn't convert to reality for those (age 11 as I was) who have no real-world experiences in life. While this was during the cold war, as students, our understanding of communism was an abstraction. We had a bare understanding of the fundamentals of a constitutional republic.
Well said. I used to sometimes curse what a slow reader I was. Only recently I realised I was truly reading the book and contemplating it and meditating on particular sentences, others whoosh through it catch a glimpse of the feeling of the main characters or something and didn't take onboard the fundamental messages it is now apparent.
I have take to reading out loud, so that I don't skim over important details. Also a slow reader, but when I've read it, I remember it.
Yes, I am reading Scruton’s “The Uses of Pessimism” right now. Copyright 2010 but absolutely prescient today
But honestly, much more than any enlightening book has been my personal observations of everything to which we’ve been subjected, & my horrified disbelief at how quickly & completely the majority of people (globally) complied w/ irrational lunacy
I only read his Fools, Frauds and Firebrands. Also listened to a few of his lectures. Such a wise and brilliant man.
I'll put that on my list as well. Sounds like a great title...
CS Lewis' the Abolition of Man was written in the 60's I think and it's the most relevant book on our time that I've read.
Screwtape Letters... Resently listened to the audio book. That first letter, if it was relevant 80 years ago, even more so now.
That’s a great book on how the enemy seduces.
I’ll have to look for “F, F & F” - thx Mallorn!
I read 1984 right before the whole vivid thing started. I could not believe the similarities going on in world !
Meant to say covid thing. I noticed something was going on with Main Stream media esp during Trump years!
Yes, indeed about the Trump years.
The whole #MeToo movement developed in the same way and so quickly.
It was really weird to be a woman who thought the whole thing was a set-up. I could only criticize it in conversation with men and my mother.
God forbid the guys or I critique any of the dreadful confessional #MeToo essays shared in our writing group. (That’s when I learned ‘writing groups’ are a bunch of baloney.)
Haha, must have been some trip.
Speaking of trips, sometimes I think this is the latest episode of Black Mirror, where the viewers are trapped inside the episode and can never leave.
When I read 1984 as a class novel circa early 1970, I had arguments with fellow class mates who insisted it was about USSR. My take was it was about USA. Seems I was closer to the mark.
Orwell first wrote Animal Farm, which more specifically targeted the USSR, even though it applies to all societies. I think in 1984 he wanted to give us a stronger warning about where western societies could be headed.
Anyway it's always wiser to read it as a warning about what might happen in one's own society, rather than something that happened to other people, at another place and time.
Ozi, I always saw it as a cautionary tale about USSR &/or Nazi Germany so I pictured it as taking place somewhere in Western Europe. Until 2 years ago, I never could have imagined all that has happened & been forced on us in the US could happen here. I know the creeping totalitarian impulse & “Big Brother” nanny state go further back but I just wasn’t paying attention, had no idea. Eyes wide open now & it’s terrifying
More than one interpretation is always possible with good literature.
The Bible, in particular the books of Daniel, Ezekiel, Zachariah and Revelations. I grew up with these books, but everything, and I mean EVERYTHING I see happening in the world right now, was foretold by these books (and if it wasn't for the Bible, I would still be caught in the c19 narrative). And I am seeing these prophecies coming to fulfilment before my eyes. The woke agenda, destruction of family, technology, one world order, destruction of the financial system, inflation, war, depopulation and hunger.... It is all there. Even the next steps in the playbook.
Sometimes I just read a line (Psalms are a favourite) and I am blown away by the insight and relevance for today.
Amen, living and active! A friend sent me Ps 94:20-23 recently. I was floored by its relevance!
I sometimes fantasize about renting a billboard and just putting one verse from one of the prophets on it, changing every week. People would be stunned.
How about a bumper sticker?
I kind of like the idea of being stuck in traffic and having this big quote from Ezekiel percolating in your brain as you sit there. LOL.
Now that would be a edifying traffic jam!
The bumper sticker on my car says “God Before Man”. I custom ordered it on Amazon about a year ago. You can create your own bumper sticker and design your own background and colors. Mine is simple white letters on blue to be readable. I think bumper stickers can be a great way to reach the public if they are thoughtful and you only have one or two.
Fear of man cuts to the heart of much we are seeing!
Fear of man cuts to the heart of much we are seeing!
You can get magnets. Change your bumper message every day!
(Support your local sign shop!)
You could rent one of those digital billboards, would shine brightly at night.
And the educated fools often reject the Bible, don’t they? They reject it even though they have never actually cracked it open. I think of God saying to humanity, “Don’t make me come down there!” And then He communicated with humanity over and over. We didn’t listen. He finally had to come down here.
“How you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they're not listening still
Perhaps they never will”
So grateful that
" though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men"
Would utterly lost (for eternity) without that!
Every time I read Revelations I am struck by plague after plague coming upon the earth and the peoples of the earth. And what is sent as an opportunity to repent, because it is punishment, results in man raising his fist and cursing God. That would be me, apart from his grace.
Yeah, I was indoctrinated. Never was interested in reading C.S. Lewis because Christianity.
Now I’m fumbling trying to pay an old library fine so I can e-borrow The Screwtape Letters (based on recommendations above).
Reading is better, but you can listen to the audio book (read by John Cleese) on YouTube. I also found The Chronicles of Narnia magnificent - The Last Battle being particularly relevant now, but even the Silver Chair (things are not always as they appear in that one - how relevant is that).
Fine paid, but borrowing privileges not updated yet.
I’ll get a print copy and read it on your advice.
I have little kids, so listening is sometimes just easier than reading.
Just like war, human nature never changes
Indeed. And Libs/Lefties/Socialists/Commies want to change it SO BAD.
They really can’t stand themselves.
So from prophecy, what are the next few phases?
It’d have to be “The Creature from Jekyll Island” by G Edward Griffin, about the formation of the US Federal Reserve (initiated in 1910 on Jekyll Island). It’s described by the author as a “banking cartel”. It’s disturbing and fascinating:
https://www.c-span.org/video/?307278-10/the-creature-jekyll-island
"AIDS and the Doctors of Death" by Dr. Alan Cantwell, Jr. theorizing that the AIDS epidemic was actually 2 separate epidemics -- one epidemic was heterosexual in Africa caused by the World Health Organization's "Smallpox Eradication Campaign" and the other homosexual in the U.S.A. caused by the experimental hepatitis B vaccine program administered exclusively to gay men in America's large cities -- both populations being contaminated via separate vaccine campaigns. Written about 1990, the book changed forever my view of vaccines.
Looking back now, the official narratives of the origins of AIDS -- (1) that Africans got it from eating green monkey meat and (2) that gays caught it from a promiscuous flight attendant labeled "Patient Zero" -- now seem as laughable as the narrative (3) that Covid-19 was caused by someone in China eating a bowl of undercooked bat soup!
I haven’t read that book. My red pill was Peter Duesberg Inventing the AIDS virus. So many disturbing similarities with Covid. Also found Kary Mullis Dancing naked in the mind field very eye opening. And then Kennerdy’s Fauci. The last 2 years have been an incredible education.
Heh. Around 2005 I actually briefly communicated with Duesberg via mail, after stumbling on some articles. Asking him some things, I don't remember the details and I am today surprised he botherd to reply my lay questions, and I was just some random dude from over the pond, directly mailing the professor at his uni mail, back then apparently not much of an automatic sorting out ^^
Pretty kind seeming guy. I guess I was skeptical about his idea that in the gay scene of back then, people suffered from effects of drugs common in the scene (as axplanation for some of AIDS). There were some holes in that idea.
That doesn't wash with me: because British gay men also suffered from AIDS, and they were not vaccinated.
Rob Kay wrote, "That doesn't wash with me: because British gay men also suffered from AIDS, and they were not vaccinated."
Recall if you will the timeline of AIDS: The cases in the American gays occurred first. The cases in British gay men occurred later in time, not simultaneously with the American cases. Yes, the British men did not participate in an experimental vaccine program. But, in order to contract AIDS, the British men did not need to receive the experimental vaccine. **In order to contract AIDS, the British gays merely needed to have high-risk sexual contact with any one of the many American gays already infected by the Hep B experimental shots.** That is the reason posited why the cases in Britain showed up somewhat later than in America ... precisely because the British gays had not been participants in the experimental Hep B vaccine trial in the large cities in the U.S.A. In other words, it took a bit of time for it to spread from America to the United Kingdom. This is also part of Dr. Cantwell's theory.
What was 'it' that spread from Americal to UK? The ingredients of the Hep B shots were sexually transmitted???? If Dr Cantwell theory is based on HIV myth of causing a persons very particular version of AIDS, i will not be bothered to check out his book. But illness caused by an injection is always worth exploring further eh... vaccinations have been the scourge of human health.
Quote: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.“ ~ George Santayana
And its corollary: "Those who DID learn from the past are condemned to WATCH as others repeat it."
Not much has changed in 50 years:
Same Villains: The villains in 1978-79 (experimental Hep B shots, NIH, Gallo/Fauci) are the SAME VILLAINS as today (experimental mRNA injections, NIH/NIAID, Fauci, just add Ralph Baric to the mix, etc.).
Foolish People: The majority of people back then were such devout believers in the benefits of vaccines that they failed to think critically, i.e., to consider the possibility that vaccines could be used to experiment upon a specific demographic group or for depopulation.
I also include gays in this overly trusting group because most gays also had a Pollyannish attitude, which prevented most in 1978-79 from realizing that the government might not have their best interests in mind ... or worse!
And gay men in 2023 are still imo way too trusting today. Just look at how gay men were so easily manipulated to quickly roll up their sleeves to receive the new experimental monkeypox shots INTO THEIR BLOODSTREAM! 😱
OK, well a second and far more major inconsistency, is that Gay people were a small minority of those who received this vaccine: many others such as health workers did but did not get Aids.
Rob Kay wrote, "... Gay people were a small minority of those who received this vaccine ..."
No, it's just the opposite: The **experimental** Hep B vaccine cohort consisted of **EXCLUSIVELY sexually active gay men** in several very large American cities, including New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and several other big cities.
This makes me even more creeped out about a doctor I visited in 2018. She was my new GP and was doing a full checkup and then some follow up visits. She kept asking me if I would consent to a Hep C blood test “because the CDC.” I declined because I didn’t trust the CDC even back then (didn’t tell her that). She seemed pretty flabbergasted that I would decline—as if all her other patients just go along with it.
Now I wonder: What was/is the CDC up to with Hep C?
How many of them took the Kool Aid?
How many did not?
Were there any digfferences in Hiv status between those who did, and those who did not?
What about all the 'closet' gays, the married ones, who cottaged but were not self identifying or 'Out':
So many questions ...
I'm just doing my usual 'due diligence' : this does look at first sight as a bit of a loony toon theory: does anyone with any medical credibility take it seriously?
Please check your facts because, no, the health workers did not receive the **experimental** Hep B vaccine.
Instead, the health workers in the United States received the commercially approved Hepatitis B vaccine by the drug company Merck, which became available *later* in time than the experimental Hep B vax. The health workers did not get AIDS from their Hep B shots because they received *an entirely different product manufactured by Merck.*
I think it's almost impossible to red-pill someone who does not want to be red-pilled.
To extend the Matrix analogy, Neo had the CHOICE to take the red pill or the blue pill. He CHOSE to take the red pill because he already didn't believe his current "reality".
You can lead a sheep to data, but you can't make them think.
This is true but eventually we choose to read something which changes how we think about things.
I wish that was true. My husband would never choose to read something that goes against his mainstream agenda. And even if he did, he would see it only as fake news conspiracy theory.
That’s why you need to sneak it into his corn flakes.
Thomas sowell , conflict of visions, vision of the anointed, discriminiation and disparities
Hah, you beat me to it by two minutes...
I think there is a focus on factuals here but fiction-wise, Catch-22 woke me up as a teen. I'll admit that it took many years to fully wake up because of the pervasive media blanket which I finally threw aside; but my cynicism was initiated. It all stays with me even now; the absurd comedy and imbecility of everything that surrounds Yossarian, his confusion over why people can't see what he sees or don't want to, the creep of the amoral Minderbinder capitalist enterprise and his realisation that there is a dark murderousness on his own side as the novel becomes darker as it progresses. But there is a seed of hope at the end. One of the greats of the C20th and still resonating in the current imbecilities. Sometimes fiction can work better in planting a seed than beating people over the head with facts they cannot assimilate.
That does seem a key point to Naked Emperor's question. Perhaps myths, legends, fairly tales, children's books, biblical stories are gentle nudges, that augment one another. Memorable seeds that activate growth at the right time.
I suppose that I and perhaps others would include the Bible. It’s such an inherent part of my life and worldview that I kind of forget to include it in lists like this.
Someone else mentioned specifically the book of Revelation. I agree. I don’t know how the apocalyptic descriptions in the book played out (some believe that a lot was describing the monstrous Roman Empire at the time) or will play out (others believe that the world will yet face global tyranny and persecution beyond anything yet experienced), but, the descriptions of having a government enforced “mark” to buy or sell - it was not at all difficult to see the parallels between that and the man-dates coming. Why so many of my fellow Christians could not and still do not see the parallels, and react accordingly, is something I still cannot explain.
Isaiah 3 - an accurate description of our country (US) today. Verse 4 - infants will rule over them. Yes, we have an infantile president, no disrespect meant to his humanity or to the office.
We see throughout the Bible the futility of man-made, external laws to create truly moral people. God himself acknowledges that a truly good and just people will be those who have his laws written on their hearts - people who have been formed through proper spiritual formation to naturally be people who live good, true, just, and beautiful lives. And, wonderfully, the God of the Bible offers personal grace and help by means of his Spirit to all and any who want to follow him and live in this way, the way of Jesus.
So, what I am saying is that the Bible makes it clear that the farther away from God a people becomes, the less able that people is to appropriately govern themselves individually and thus collectively. Less self-government then requires more external controls to govern behavior. Government grows and morphs into the ginormous beast we now have.
Again, why so many of my good Christian friends are not awake to the current global shenanigans, the impending dread that looms over us all, the loss of God-given freedoms in the guise of disease control, I really do not understand. It is a nagging question for which I have no satisfactory answer.
I am not a particularly religious person - spiritual yes, but organised religion seems so corrupt although I do appreciate that fundamentally Christianity and many other religions have only good intentions but I remember reading the prophecies of Nostradamus after 9/11 and now I can't stop thinking about them as they are playing out, in my opinion, as they have been interpreted. As a Christian, do you have any thoughts on this?
Reading the bible does not require religious commitment. It, as does any good book, require open minded thought and reflection. Please take the time to read, it doesn't have to be structured, or front to back, but the words will resonate, once they are read and given thought.
I am not a bible literate person but I am amazed more than ever when I realize that there are portions that are warning us of the times we live in now.
Dr. Zev Zelenko talks about this mapping frequently.
Shiva the destroyer comes up.
I was just reading this morning about Behemoth and Leviathan, chaos monsters who, after their destruction in battle, become food for the righteous in end times.
Yes, I know and over the years I have read a fair chunk of it - was raised Christian and if I had to 'identify' as any religion it would be Christianity. I am familiar with most of it and agree it's an interesting book. I excelled in RE at school and much of this was down to a keen interest in Christianity in the modern world and issues like the sanctity of life etc. But all through this pandemic I have wondered what the Christian take is on various prophecies. I know many devout Christians who have surprised me by taking the jabs.
I appreciate your thoughtful responses. It sounds like you too put a lot of careful thought into this stuff.
As far as Christians taking the injections, of course the reasons are going to be different for different individuals. I have one friend who, although she recognized the many political and financial conflicts of interest, took it when it was first available because she works in an ED and felt like she was constantly in an invisible fog of the virus. I think she believed it was simply a pragmaticly reasonable thing for her to do. I don’t think that she had any idea at the time how malicious the injection program would become. Nor do I think she, like a lot of us, would ever have dreamed that it was developed and authorized in swarms of fraud.
I think that many, many Christians simply see/saw the injection as just another v🪓, not really that much different from others. Yeah, it’s mR N A, but it’s safe, and it works, and we’re in a pandemic, don’t you know, and this is another God-given gift from modern medicine that is going to save lives. I think a lot of them just didn’t think much about it.
And of course there are those on the Christian Left who set about shaming all of us into wearing masks and injecting ourselves with experimental products, because we must do it for our neighbors. I don’t even have time to get into that horrible betrayal of what it actually means to love my neighbor.
As for prophecies, well, as you probably know, there are several different interpretations of biblical prophecy. Some, of course, such as those describing the birth of Jesus, have already taken place.
Others, about the end of the age, about plagues and global destruction, are seen by some as describing the “global” persecution under the Roman Empire - certainly would have been experienced by the people then as cataclysmic chaos and destruction. N.T. Wright, I think, holds something of this view. (I’ve heard he is not so great on his views re pandemic, although that’s second hand information so could be wrong.). Others view Revelation as describing yet future events - some of these folks believe Christians will be “raptured” or removed from the world before these hellish events take place. And then there are some in between, sort of.
I admit I don’t have solid views on this. I personally lean toward seeing the events as both already took place (ancient Rome) and yet having stunning parallels now. I’m not sure what the parallels signify (eg, is the final return of Jesus imminent?). I’m sure folks in WW2 Europe felt the world was then in its final days too. And yet, here we are 100 years later.
What I am certain of is that (1) our current global state is from spiritual powers of darkness; they are against humanity and all that is good, (2) every time we see people suffering in the Bible, God offers the opportunity to either repent and find forgiveness and restoration or continue in rebellion and find destruction, (3) Jesus is indeed King of the universe and although his authority is not recognized by everyone everywhere (not even at all times in my own heart and mind - just ask my family!), he will one day judge rightly the whole world, remove all evil once and for all, and recreate the heavens (the unseen reality) and the earth as they are meant to be. He will write his laws on our hearts and we will live and reign with him for all of time. This he offers freely to everyone who will choose to say, “okay, I’m not god of my life, You are.”
Since you’ve studied a lot already, that’s all probably familiar to you. But maybe it will mean something?
As I have been rereading Revelation, I see a lot of parallels. I also noticed the repeated admonition for “he who has ears, let him hear.” I suspect that a lot of Christians are (1) not hearing and/or are (2) hearing the wrong people. 😓
Thanks for this answer. Very interesting
My guess is the secularization of the west has tipped the scales to make "faith" in government have a greater influence on people.
"Trust the Science" maybe a very dark moment in humanity.
I haven't given up on real science, but the realization that government or oligarch or corporate funded science is no better than Madison Ave spin, with the unfortunate side effect that it may very well be deadly too.
I hear you... Praise God, nothing moves outside his purposes. Even this! He is coming again, and this time he will not be coming as the suffering servant, but as the eternal King of kings and Lord of lords judging justly!
I re-read Brave New World recently. I read it maybe 45 years ago but the second time around I really started understanding and appreciating that Huxley had got it dead right, conditioning was the way to go so they didn't need to force people to do anything and there was no punishment. In a strange way they were free but they stayed in their chains and took the soma just like people do now.
I read Brave New World as a teen and I’m convinced it’s been in my subconscious ever since. I’m sure it’s kept me from seeking medical prescriptions like my Prozac/Xanax peers did.
I've had the prozac experience and yes it reduced my anxiety while turning off most of my critical thinking skills. Working as planned?
"A History of Central Banking and the Enslavement of Mankind" Stephen Mitford Goodson (former board member of the South African Reserve Bank). Banned on Amazon, can be found here:-https://www.blackhousepublishing.com/bookshop/a-history-of-central-banking/
Along those lines, "The Creature from Jekyll Island."
For me the Covid red pill was Paul Marik's observation that Covid has three stages: replication, inflammation and coagulation; that medicine has long experience with and well established protocols for dealing with all three; and that the CDC et al forbid the use of those protocols early on in Covid. TILT!
Watching the most distinguished doctors and scientists around the world turn the Red Pill corner and go completely counter narrative with detailed rationales and evidence made the COVID red pill happen quickly. This time, there many voices joining in early and and quickly building a loud chorus. Paul Marik. Piere Kory. Peter McCullough. Geert Vanden Bossche. Chris Martenson. Sucharit Bhakdi. Michael Yeadon. Richard Urso. Zev Zelenko. Robert Malone. Shankara Chetty. Arne Burkhardt. Ryan Cole. Daniel Stock. Lee Merritt. Signers of the Great Barrington Declaration. And the chiming in of voices from past health research and industry corruption added strength. Stephanie Seneff. Judy Mikovits. Peter Breggin. Joe Mercola. Christiane Northrup. Unlike in the past with a few brave whistleblowers and a following, this has become an army of voices that are tens of thousands strong.
And if they are trying so hard to suppress this treatment option, why would I use anything they punt?
Sometimes it’s a long form article. From January 2004:
Liam Scheff, The House That AIDS Built
http://www.altheal.org/texts/house.htm
That Fauci survived the AZT scandal proves what a racketeer/power broker he is.
Ida Tarbell ~The History of Standard Oil ~ Original 1904 edition
https://web.archive.org/web/20050216094002/http://www.history.rochester.edu/fuels/tarbell/MAIN.HTM
Antony Sutton ~ America's Secret Establishment ~ Introduction to Skull & Bones ~ 1983
https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol_skullbones11.htm
Authors Preface ~ excerpt
But my real intent, to generate an exploration of Hegelian influence in modern America, has not been fulfilled. In great part, this can be attributed to an educational system based on a statist-Hegelian philosophy, and which has already achieved the "dumbing down" of America.
This disastrous, destructive philosophy, the source of both Naziism and Marxism, has infected and corrupted our constitutional republic. Much of the blame for this corruption is with an elitist group of Yalie "Bonesmen." Their symbol of Skull and Bones, and their Hegelian philosophy, says it all, although with typical duplicity, they would have you believe otherwise.
Hegelianism glorifies the State, the vehicle for the dissemination of statist and materialist ideas and policies in education, science, politics and economics.
Wonder why we have a "dumbed-down" society?
Look no further than the Bonesman troika who imported the Prussian education system into the U.S. in the 19th Century. A political philosophy in direct opposition to the classical liberalism nurtured in 19th Century British and American history. In classical liberalism, the State is always subordinate to the individual. In Hegelian Statism, as we see in Naziism and Marxism, the State is supreme, and the individual exists only to serve the State.
Our two-party Republican-Democrat (one Hegelian party, no one else welcome or allowed) system is a reflection of this Hegelianism. A small group - a very small group - by using Hegel, can manipulate, and to some extent, control society for its own purposes. (read more..)
https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol_skullbones11a.htm#Authors%20Preface
Check out the Prussia Gate substack.
Oh, I’ve got to read that Sutton one. (I have a theory about Hegelian-ism. Perhaps mine is not so original!)
Sutton will change everything and that his best by his own account. He has about 35 books mostly rooted in economics but following the money and documenting Wall Street funding Hitler and Bolshevik Revolution.. a few listed at the bio and more than enough in his work to spend a lifetime unwinding. :~) https://www.reformation.org/antony-sutton-bio.html
I’m currently reading The Answer by David Icke. He is incredibly well researched, has been writing for 30 years and has been victimised accordingly. In this book he will take you through everything from what is reality to the hidden agenda of the WEF and the fake pandemic and climate change hoax. It’s a long read and definitely a sobering one.
As it says, totally accurately on the cover of that book Dorothy, he is "the man who has been proved right again and again". I've been reading him and listening to him for 30 years now.
Me too!
Mad magazine. I read this as a kid in the 1970's. I didn't fully grasp all of it at the time. But looking back at it now I realize it was an all out assault on the hypocrisy found in every institution of daily life: education, medicine, advertising, government, professional sports, movies, everything. It was a manual of cultural deconstruction in comic book form. You can look at how they covered still hot political issues like abortion, sexual freedom, gun rights, racism, and you will be stunned how little has changed. Environmental degradation, manipulation by politicians, exploitation by corporations, poisoning by big pharma, it's all in there. I don't know if there is anything equivalent available today. It definitely instilled in me a type of media literacy, and I am grateful for the protection it gave me from the ubiquitous brainwashing we experience today.
Agree about Mad Magazine. Too bad they're still not around. BTW, don't you think Pete Buttigieg looks like Alfred E. Neuman?
Excellent answer. I read it in the 60’s.
I never read this, but all my male friends did. This publication clearly taught a useful kind of cynicism and irreverance.
Let’s design + teach an undergrad class using classic Mad...been thinking about this for a while. Actual media literacy.
Fooled by Randomness -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb (then read his other books)
Puzzling to me, too.
Would Fat Tony have bought the pandemic bullshit? I don't understand what happened to Taleb. I can only think he set off on the wrong track (no shame in that, many did) and his ego wouldn't allow him to reverse course.
I'm going to bypass the question here except to mention Shakespeare, Dante, Milton, and Marlowe. There are so many after these I would likely fail by creating an unreadably long list. Will mention that I believe what we suffer from now relates to a Faustian bargain we made with technology for the sake of convenience. That Faust is a doctor simply underscores this point in 2022. Understanding Faust in this context in 2022 is the ultimate "red pill." The rabbit hole goes exceedingly deep and a betrayal lies at the heart of it.
Dissolving Illusions by Dr Suzanne Humphries and Roman Bystrianyk
like to suggest we include movies - and even youtube vids - and articles, papers and such.
For instance there was a 'paper' I think it could be called, or merely a press statement maybe, by Prof John Ioannidis in the very early days of Covid, one before the Diamond Princess incident and one after when he had that data.
Comparing what Dr John said and what govts and mainstream media said : and all the pusillanimous bandwagon riding ass licking 'experts' made me conscious for the first time in my life of just what a shabby world we inhabit.
Since then, on the same theme, small things like a govt 'poster' reproduced on a twitter page or a reproduction of a govt graphic from one of their handouts saying, inferring, 'protection with vaccinations, no protection without' made me conscious, fully conscious, removed lingering doubts, of either the crass ignorance and stupidity of government or the deeply entrenched callous indifference to truth and the humanity of the people.
For a movie that is mind opening but very hard to find I recommend MINDWALK.
A state of Fear - Laura Dodson
Cholesterol con and D octoring data - both by malcolm kendrick
good calories, bad calories - gary taubes
bad pharma - ben goldacre
deadly medicines - peter goetzche (apologies for the spelling on that)
Kendrick is a very strong polemicist and thinker - would have been a slam dunk red pilling for me, if I didn't already believe the medical establishment were full of shit.
Either of the two books are an excellent starting point because of the humour he uses in his writing, it’s not a difficult read
These are all great. Tim Noakes--explaining how is vision of carb loading for athletes was catastrophically wrong. Nina Teicholz on the evils of industrial seed oils. So many have written about the bad science of statins.
I read about Tim Noakes in Christopher MacDougals books, either “Natural Born Heroes “ or “Born to Run”. How dare these Tarahumara Indians go and win ultramarathons in sandals made from old tires! I forget what they use for nutrition but it wasn’t Gatorade.
The day my gynecologist had to finally admit the mammogram guidelines had been changed due to overdetection and harms from radiation was a big win for me as I had been explaining the science to her for a decade. She did not congratulate me on my accurate call.
Would love some info about possible harms with overscreening in this area. Can ypu point me in the right direction? Thanks
I really enjoyed C.S. Lewis' The Abolition of Man. Like I said before I think you need to be looking for red pills... but once you are, that's a really good one.
Excellent book!
In that vein, the novelization of Abolition of Man, That Hideous Strength, is also really good. I found it even more compelling because so many of the horror aspects were very recognizable in my personal experience. That "Holy crap... I think I worked for that guy" really drives the pill down...
The Invisible Rainbow - Arthur Firstenberg. Historical overview with references of the effects of the introduction of electricity and frequency on human/animal and the link to illness and viruses. Mainly flu viruses ! Some Very awakening moments whilst reading.
The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet Paperback
by Nina Teicholz. Tells the truth about how the government and Big Food have colluded to lie about what foods are good for us. It's one of the reasons why Americans are so unhealthy today.
For me, Dr Fung’s The Obesity Code.
Absolutely. Although by the time I got to her book, I was already red-pilled re dietary fat and was reading to broaden my knowledge base re the evidence. It’s an incredibly well researched book, isn’t it?
It was the same for me. I was already convinced about the importance of real food (Michael Pollan has some good books here, too), but this gave me a real understanding of how we got to this point. I had grown up on Crisco baked goods and margarine. Yes, it is very well researched.
State of Fear - fiction, Micheal Crighton....easy, page turning...he wrote another one about nano bots too which seems to be coming true.
Malcolm Kendrick 'Doctoring Data' - my wife gave it to me to read in March 2020. Easy to read but eye-opening about pharma's statistical trickery.
Milton Mayer 'They Thought They Were Free' (out of print though) - written in the 50's about pre-war Germany (1933 to 1938) - interviews with ordinary Germans who became Nazis - shows how easy it is to be gently steered down the road.
Suzanne Humphries 'Dissolving Illusions' - data on the history of vaccines and the hyping of their effectiveness, written well before the current shambles. Excellent couple of chapters on the smallpox vaccine in Victorian England, which chimes very well today with the coercion and mandating of a dangerous vaccine.
I wrote a novel to address this point directly (a shift in consciousness that is outwardly unseen or very subtle, but which allows you to "see" what is really going on. This is Purple Light in the Vision Chakra - White Light in the Crown Chakra). I have run off 60 professional copies for family and friends and I'm trying to get it published professionally in large quantities- this has been difficult due the lockdowns. (Title : The Chorus of the Daffodils). The illustrated novel is about a girl of 8 years of age whose father is on The Front in WW1. We follow her till the age of 11. She is traumatized by both the War and the loss of her father. She goes into a series of daydream states in which all the characters in her waking life, tell her things of importance which gradually shifts her consciousness towards True Understanding. The book has an Alice in Wonderland feel to it. I had to do a tone of research before writing it as WW1 is the precursor period of what we are living now. The League of Nations of the period is the precursor to the UN. One World Order begins with the Collapse of the British Empire following WW1. WW2 is largely part of a revenge cycle following the forced signing of Germany to The Treaty of Versailles in 1919 and the The War Guilt Clause - in which Germany is forced into huge war payments to the Allies and shamed into taking 100 % of the blame, and the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. If I get a deal, I will put up a PDF version on the Internet for easy download. You will all be informed !
Good for you! Keep us informed!
'Operation Gladio' - Paul L Williams
The unholy alliance between the Mafia, the Catholic Church and the CIA and the use of drug money to fund Operation Gladio 'stay-behind' units' terrorist atrocities. Meticulously researched and shocking.
And, of course, the classic 'The New Pearl Harbour' - David Ray Griffin.
"New Confessions of an Economic Hitman" by John Perkins is one I like to recommend to people because it validates the real conspiracy between corporations, intelligence agencies/governments and the media to create empire and overthrow legitimate governments. I wasn't red pilled by reading it since I was aware of everything he describes, but I'm so glad this book exists as evidence for everyone to read.
I guess I’ve always been a questioner, even toward the conspiracy side, but I’d say something that shook me was a long-form article published in The New York Observer a while after 9/11 where flight attendants and I think pilots explained the impossibility of the “Let’s Roll...” narrative actually playing out (and inferring the military shot that plane down). Have never been able to relocate it.
Recently, at the height of the pandemic I started reading James Howard Kunstler’s four World Made by Hand novels, just by chance. They’re so readable, I could not put them down. I thought...so, this is one way it ends.... These novels have queued me to look head-on at the absurd state narratives (I never believed the jab narrative based on my own admittedly rudimentary but well-meaning medical knowledge and reading), and to think very differently about the future and planning for it. I’d call them dystopic with heart...and jolly good page-turners.
Good choice.
Love his weekly Clusterfuck Nation as well. Keen observations indeed.
How does it end?!
What a great thread. Thanks for starting and looking fwd to the complete list.
Make sure to send a final copy to the DHS Ministry of Truth.
For burning a la farinheit 451
A lot of substacks, some really great ones like this, have convinced me that far from being in the minority as the mainstream misleadia would have us believe, we are not. That’s a red pill. All of James Corbett’s (Corbett Report) is excellent red pill material. I never read 1984 as part of my education (it was an option) but familiar with the narrative & it has red pilled me for a long time. The Coudenhove-Kalergi plan, a set of principles that evolved into cultural Marxism and extolled particularly by Kalergi but also members of the Frankfurt Institute a century ago are so prescient today. The Eleven Point plan will red pill you if you read it and read across to all of today’s fads - BLM, trans, family, education etc. The Camp of the Saints is a chilling description of what unfettered illegal immigration looks like. It was written in 1973. Look at Europe and the USA today. And choke on that red pill. The progressive realisation that all news is biased and agenda driven was a prolonged release red pill I started to digest 15 years ago. The blue pill is not an option. Blissful ignorance is not going to be the destiny for us if we don’t wake up fast. CBDCs, ‘freedom’ passports, social credits and serfdom is the future for 99% of us if we take the blue pill. Coming to the realisation that government is not benign and true democracy is just an elaborate illusion was a revelation to me some years ago. The last two years should convince everyone that this is happening now.
Really great news that there is a lot of us. This is underscored by reviewing the number of subscribers to all manner of independent thinkers on a variety of social platforms. They are way outpacing the MSM. The trouble is I don't sense they live in my neighborhood or who are among the people I meet in the medical arena.
Yes, that's why they are always faking the vax stats so you feel really alone. Not true.
"Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air" by Sir David MacKay FRS. Basically reading that was the moment when I realised the climate change establishment were lying through both sides of their mouth about renewables and nuclear.
Orlando Figes was good on the Russian revolution too. There never was a "good Lenin betrayed by a bad Stalin", which is something generations of old school lefties, who are now Putin apologists, have refused to learn.
Read (and believed) a LOT of conspiracy shit over the years but these kinds of books were resetting to the ol' world view.
Apocalypse Never also does a good job regarding “renewables” vs Nuclear energy. Michael Shellenberger
As an aging leftie, I've had arguments with family and friends because I've insisted for maybe thirty plus years that the Russian revolution was stolen. I think, besides the knowledge that Lenin entered Moscow with 30,000 British pounds in gold, a bit of a give away in itself, a very fatcual film on the "International Brigade" in Spain and how at the very end the Red Army comes and takes their weapons speaks volumes about just who was in control of the real left.
PS, ditto Cuba, China, Venezuala. No real people's revolution has ever been allowed. It's all controlled opposition.
Vasily Grossman's 'Life and fate': human kindness versus totalitarianism, and Iain McGilchrist's 'The master and his emissary': triumph of the left hemispheric over the right (i.e. why the parts now control the whole).
Great picks. Second sounds a bit like Jaynes's "Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind." A biggie for me, if a little too speculative to be a "red pilling."
https://cdn.mises.org/Anatomy+of+the+State_3.pdf
"Freakonomics" by Dubner & Levitt
Sorry, I'm a man for the classics. It certainly opened my eyes that the old Thomas Sewell quote is true . . . "The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.”
I was unable to look at politicians, economists, or any 'expert' the same way again.
Manufacturing Consent, Bad Pharma, The Real Anthony Fauci, Deadly Medicines and Organized Crime, Unsettled, Blowback, States of Emergency, A Plague Upon Our House, A Statin Nation, Brainwashed, The Dawn of Everything, Seed Money, Doctoring Data, Sacred Cow, Defending Beef, Vegetarian Myth, Bright Green Lies, Consciousness and the Brain, Behave, Entangled Life, Other Minds, The True Flag, Mary's Mosaic, The Virus and the Vaccine, The Jakarta Method, The Great Cholesterol Con, The Brothers, The Devil's Chessboard, A Lie Too Big to Fail, King Leopold's Ghost, Altered Genes Twisted Truth, The Deep State, The CIA As Organized Crime
Maybe some of us should send photos of our bookshelves.
I can thoroughly recommend the following selection which cover more or less everything that would be taught in schools if schools were any good and how/why we’re in the place we currently find ourselves.
All 3 books by Dominic Frisby.
The Golden Revolution by John Butler.
Controlled Demolition by Jeff Berwick.
The Rise of the Fourth Reich by Jim Marrs.
How I found freedom in an unfree world by Harry Browne (personal, actionable solutions)
Each is highly readable. There are plenty more but perhaps not as easy going nor can as easily absorbed. Eg the works of Hayek.
I was certainly red pilled already when it came to health and BigPharma. My journey started at 23 when I developed CFS after a dental procedure led to chronic mercury toxicity. I soon recognised that allopathic medicine was going to offer me nothing. My red pilling was completed when I studied nutrition and came across people like Dr. Andrew Wakefield and the lengths that those driven by profit alone were wiling to go to to destroy the reputation of anyone who wouldn’t conform. The film Vaxxed confirmed my suspicions. A simple, little known book called Dissolving Illusions by Dr. Suzanne Humphries into the vaccine myth was an eye-opener.
Sadly I have my illusions about the world we live in made a little rockier every day.
Ayn Rand's tome: Atlas Shrugged. Once read, it is impossible not to see and hear the motivations of a politician by the words they use.
Spot on observation.
Rene Girard. I am a Girardian 🧐 can't do a summary GO READ HIS THEORY, NOW.
Daniel Kahneman - Thinking, Fast and Slow - slow read, but gave me pause to consider that anyone should be in a position to intervene at scale. We, as humans, are not reliable thinkers.
Interesting. So many people take the opposite message away. I think yours is the correct interpretation, but I am curious as to why you were able to come up with it instead of the usual "everyone is stupid but me and experts, so we had better put experts in charge."
"Spectrum of Consciousness" by Ken Wilbur really did it for me. I had several that were influential in my life, but that one was so dense in its text it was like the theory of religions told from a developmental perspective. Actually anything written by Ken Wilbur is great to me I deeply enjoyed his later writings regarding first and second tier thinking in regards to whether you think of others in an objective way in which you jus bounce your own stuff off of them like a wall, or whether you recognize on the other side an individually conscious being who is processing and filtering things from their own unique and inviolable perspective....
For a new liberty : Murray Rothbard
To give a full answer to this request I’d have to refer to a thousand sources, though they are not all books. The internet, despite the suppressive efforts of the big infotech companies, has been a cornucopia of red-pilling sources. But if I had to refer to a single book that did the most to red-pill me I’d say that it was Jonathan Kay’s “Among the Truthers”.
If you know the book then you will be saying “What!? Kay is a pure blue-pilled author writing against those he regards as nutty conspiracy theorists.” And that’s right - it is paradoxical to regard the book as having a red-pilling thrust.
So let me explain. I believe that we should seek out arguments that counter whatever we are inclined to believe. At the time I read Kay’s book I was beginning to be swayed by the arguments of 9/11 truthers, so I was looking for what could be said that would favour the mainstream side. What Kay had to say seemed to me to be totally unfair to truthers, though with a thick varnish of apparent fairness. It is essentially a long ad hominem damning his opponents, not with virulent smears, but with relatively mild ones that appear sympathetic. But it does not look at any of the evidence, nor does it address the psyches of his opponents in light of the evidence they examine. I thought that if this is the best that the mainstream side can do, then the preponderance of the evidence must be on the side of the truthers.
Well, I didn’t leave it at that, and I still look for evidence that I might grab hold of that will bring me out of a very deep and dark rabbit hole. But Kay’s arguments, despite his efforts, left me thinking that the truthers have got to be right, and I still haven’t found a rope of arguments strong enough to enable me to climb back out.
After reading through all the comments, I didn't see this book, a big moment for me:
Where Did The Towers Go? Evidence of Directed Free Energy Technology on 9/11 by materials physicist Dr. Judy Woods.
https://www.drjudywood.com/towers/
https://wheredidthetowersgo.com/buy/
Dr. Wood's book isn't about politics, government, conspiracy, corruption, or who did it. It is just physics. Impossible physics. Woods, from the get go, collected all the data she could find: screen captures, photographs, statements, reports. She knew as she was watching from a faculty break room as the footage on the TV was being "explained" that she was seeing BS. Physics and Chemistry BS. That really bothered her. She combed through mountains of materials and showed how every explanation even from conspiracy groups talking up Thermite and conventional controlled demolition were getting the physics wrong.
I got the book in 2010 and barely put it down for the weekend it took to read this highly technical, mathematical and science oriented analysis of the remains from 9/11 for clues to what did the damage. The book was expensive to produce, full of photographs, graphs, and figures. When I closed the book, that was the big red pill conversion moment. It was a tour de force masterpiece of exposure. There were plenty of garden variety cover-ups and bad actors before. Who killed JFK? We had just endured the 2008 financial scandal. But the scale of this was breathtaking, and the need for whoever and whatever entities pulled this off to make us not believe what we see or to use the knowledge from our own fields of knowledge and scholarship was intense. So that took a lot of propaganda, media collusion, and deep fake video. I believe now it was the warm-up dress rehearsal for the planetary scale of the COVID19 operation. I suspect the same entities are involved. I respect how really big the scale of this is: corruption, the efforts at control, suppressing knowledge and awareness of dark exotic weaponry on all fronts of the sinister side of human imagination. Even now, Ukraine appears to be a hidden playground for NATO weapons experimentation and manufacture. I worry the 9/11 style next generation fancy stuff will be coming out soon.
From 1998 to 2007 I worked in federal government in DC area. I was in a federal building on 9/11, then experienced the "sniper" killing people randomly in the Northern Capital Region for weeks, and then the Anthrax episode where our brilliant CDC put latex gloves in our mailboxes as the remedy--as useless as masks are for COVID19. My mother worked for a large pharma company that had a massive internationally respected "containment" division. She supervised all the technical publications for that department. These are the engineers, chemists, scientists who keep all the products pure and separated, and keep people and the environment from harm due to manufacturing. Her colleagues told me in no uncertain terms, with urgency, that the CDC guidance on Anthrax was completely uninformed and dangerous if there really was Anthrax. There is more to that story that led to connecting those engineers to the CDC, quickly, with my intervention. I don't know anyone who died of COVID, but two close colleagues of mine had deaths in their circle, one had a brother in law in the Pentagon and the other was a co-pilot for the Pennsylvania plane. So I had a natural curiosity and a strong sense from the reactions around me that nothing about 9/11 and the odd collection of events around it and what we were being told was right. So I agree with others here that the Red Pill material has to reach the person at the right point in time after certain perturbing experiences just can't be explained and when the falsehood touches too close to home.
So for me, Dr. Judy Woods is an unsung hero who will be shown right when we turn back to this mystery. I identified with her because she was like me and many of us here, just a regular everyday well meaning researcher/academic, serious about the world, toiling in obscurity.
I believe there may be many scientists and medical professionals out there that have had this moment of realizing something is terribly wrong and who to this day keep it to themselves. And that is a festering poison for the psyche.
Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes. Extensively researched and footnoted account of the entire "cholesterol is bad" myth and statins industry, as well as providing solutions to improving one's health. Opened my eyes to how corrupt science is as well as how misleading and fraudulent the studies were that were used to change behavior to the detriment of the patient and general public. This book as well as my (and spouse's) own experience with statin side effects form the basis of our continual questioning of "science."
This book was extremely important foundation for many others to break open the science of food and the crimes of the food industry.
The Creature of Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin was the book that made me realize that the financial system controls pretty much everything and that western governments propagandize their citizens as much as any others do.
I would recommend "Death by Food Pyramid" by Denise Minger. Opened my eyes to the corruption and greed at the FDA and other government agencies, going back decades.
I originally came across her when several people I knew were recommending Forks over Knives and I wanted to research the opposing POV. It really points to the problem with credential-ism and how people are quite capable of doing their own research and thinking for themselves.
I know this is not a book but a lot of my friends have been watching 'Dopesick', their
minds being blown for the first time and yet still not willing admit that Big Pharma has anything other than good intentions. How is that so?
Thanks for the rec!