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psynapz wrote:I'm just glad nobody filmed me a few years ago; inaccessibly maniacal in convictions (which, yep, cause convicts), hopelessly biased and biased towards hopelessness, self-confirmed and at the edge of sanity, ready to cry or scream at a moment's notice about the sheer enormity of the situation, the weight of it all, firmly upon my own shoulders as the lone nut in any room who could see the matrix.
Well, I guess the only thing that's changed is I've calmed the fuck down and accepted near-term inevitability, started being more careful about the truths I try to share, and started to be more selective of the truths I absorb. Not in judgement of the ones I don't, just in whether it will help me with useful tools or actionable intelligence, or just rape me worse.
I envied Ruppert when I learned he had fled to Venezuela. Though even then I wondered whether he had simply been reassigned.
psynapz wrote:I'm just glad nobody filmed me a few years ago; inaccessibly maniacal in convictions (which, yep, cause convicts), hopelessly biased and biased towards hopelessness, self-confirmed and at the edge of sanity, ready to cry or scream at a moment's notice about the sheer enormity of the situation, the weight of it all, firmly upon my own shoulders as the lone nut in any room who could see the matrix.
Well, I guess the only thing that's changed is I've calmed the fuck down and accepted near-term inevitability, started being more careful about the truths I try to share, and started to be more selective of the truths I absorb. Not in judgement of the ones I don't, just in whether it will help me with useful tools or actionable intelligence, or just rape me worse.
Jeff wrote:Art Spiegelman, in In the Shadow of No Towers, wrote “I can no longer distinguish my neurotic depression from well-founded despair.” I would have said the same when he wrote that five or so years ago. But now, I’m no longer depressed. I just despair heartily.
Brentos said:
Crossing the Rubicon was my entryway into 911 skepticism. It took the former Bircher who wrote The Creature from Jekyll Island to give me enough 'in your face' facts to force open my dreary eyes. Reading Rupperts book after that was easy.
Not a fan of Ruppert anymore though.
mentalgongfu2 wrote:Brentos said:
Crossing the Rubicon was my entryway into 911 skepticism. It took the former Bircher who wrote The Creature from Jekyll Island to give me enough 'in your face' facts to force open my dreary eyes. Reading Rupperts book after that was easy.
Not a fan of Ruppert anymore though.
I find it interesting to note that the writers and media personalities who draw people into the realm of conspiracy thought and deep politics often get dropped and left behind as one delves deeper into and spends more time immersed in seeking information about the dark intrigues of the world.
I would not be surprised if 90_some percent of those surveyed, if there were such a survey, said they no longer listen to or trust the people who got them interested and gave them entry into conspiracy subjects.
I think it is often (but not exclusively) a result of a maturation of thought that leads to a break with the original source, and that can really only come about with a maturation of information - that is, learning where to look and how to look to get closer to truth and further from bias and outside agendas. And part of that is growing and weeding the sources of information upon which you rely and learning how to do so effectively.
It makes sense that the personalities on the fringes of the conspiracy world would attract more interest from the outside than those in the center and thus would be a more likely entry point for the outsider.
Although Ruppert is the subject of this thread, people like Alex Jones, Lenny Bloom, and a lot of other others seem to act as entry-level conspiracists for observers, many of whom will move on to other sources after initiation.
It makes me wonder about how fine the line is between being a poison pill or a good recruiter for the movement.
MWB wrote:Don't believe a word that comes from his mouth. He's probably compromised.
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