I listened to enclosed video on Russell Brand that Joanie Higgs posted.
Allistair Williams and his take on why this is happening to Russel now - rather than during the #MeToo movement when so many were being targeted. He asserts that Russell was protected then though is being used now given his role as ‘truth-teller’. Not just because he’s waking up so many people per se, but because with the increased attention he has, the connection/association created between truther + rapist has a bigger impact.
Brand has been telling some truth and challenging narratives. No doubt. Tarnished with the rapist label the person listening will potentially think/say, Yeah that makes sense, but he’s a rapist.
The ‘truth’ is guilty by association.
Once someone is a rapist (even if just in your mind) you’re not really listening anymore are you? You’re certainly no longer referencing them.
A new firewall easily installed in the minds of those who might be otherwise be persuaded. It’s so easy.
It’s not about Russell but about association. Williams thinks Russell is likely guilty of rape and he also thinks because he’s part of the ‘club’ no real harm will come to him.
Still, he has to do what he’s told.
He makes a persuasive case. I don’t know. And it doesn’t matter.
Here’s a quick RB YT video I found this morning. Brand is persuasive too.
I liked Tereza Coraggio’s take on Brand.
I prefer to assume positive intent with everyone until they prove my trust misplaced. I don’t know Russell obviously and maybe he’s a con man, but I sense a big spirit and intelligence behind the flawed (and we’re all flawed) personality.
Gleaning intent when it comes to certain personalities can suck up a lot of our time. It keeps us mired in confusion. I think that’s the point. We are all tired, genuinely a bit weary and wary at this juncture. That fatigue is easily leveraged by the Would Be Controllers. Confusion is not a state easily sustained.
THEY would like us to give up under the weight of bewilderment and succumb to their plans. If you were attempting to lasso the planet, wouldn’t you?
Another quick example - I was on the fence with Elon awhile back, but as much as I wanted to like him and identify him as an example of an ‘in the club’ member who maintained some human decency and might be rooting for us out-of-the club folks, I couldn’t get past his intelligence ties and neurolink shit he was pursuing, and well, lots of stuff. When I heard CAF say his job was to make slavery look sexy, I snapped out of my ambivalence.
Yes, of course that’s his job.
THEY own him. No one gets to be Elon (and maybe Russell) without permission and without caveats. Still, I can’t make across the board statements about Elon as a person, can I?
As far as I know Brand does not have clear intelligence ties and I don’t see him herding his followers into a dystopian landscape.
Doesn’t matter, though does it? Because I’m not following anyone’s lead. That’s the larger point.
Perhaps Russell was feeling his oats as it were and attempted an escape and THEY are reminding him who’s in charge. Don’t know. Lots of things won’t ever be clear. Ultimately it doesn’t matter.
In this world everyone is a commodity - literally from birth - with issuance of their birth certificate. Especially our rich and famous.
Those who are busy managing perception, who command big forces of media and what you see and hear are many steps ahead of those of us consuming what’s out there to consume. It’s a secret game of chess; we don’t see the board, or know who all the players are but have nonetheless have been relegated to the position of pawns.
Don’t be a pawn. Refuse that role.
Sage and her villains and heroes theme hones in on - hammers really - this tendency. For good reason. Sage is bringing attention to the underlying dynamics in play and how humans gravitate towards and categorize personalities, that the perception-managers utilize to their advantage.
Over and over and in the process camps form, are concentrated, divisions multiply and confusion increases.
We can spend A LOT of time on things that won’t make a bit of difference in the end.
How do we avoid being a pawn? How do we get out of the game?
It’s comes down to simple choice.
It’s not about what’s going on out there only. That’s the part we tend to focus on, but in keeping our gaze there, we may miss what happening internally. Where we actually have control. All this craziness in the world, all this uncovering of the long-time prison planet we live on, is transforming us. It’s easy to miss it in real-time. But we are in fact being transformed.
That is the actual story. The big story.
The versions of ourselves that came out of, and in adaption to our prison planet, is what’s really in play. That’s the primary story. That’s the story THEY do not want you to perceive.
We decide how we spend our time, what our reactions are, where our thoughts go. We decide what we agree to, and say no to.
We decide how we feel about someone.
The matrix is always looking to suck us in. The ubiquity of screens are clearly the major entrances. Choosing who we listen to, who we don’t is in our hands. We control all of that. And we don’t have to have an opinion on everything we see. We don’t need to accept or deny what’s presented to us. We can be neutral on it, and recognize the ongoing attempt to suck us in.
Once you see the large arc of control and endless manipulation, you’re no longer a mere pawn. You’re not even in the game anymore, you’re watching it.
I hammer the nature theme. Not because it’s ‘nice’. Nature isn’t nice. It’s fierce and intelligent and massive and we are a part of it. Nature reorients us back to our natural selves. If we let it, it fuels and informs us.
Getting in sync with Nature, is no small thing.
For my readers who write me and say I should replace ‘Nature’ with ‘God’ in my essays, I want to be clear. For me, God (as I understand it) is in everything, and everything is in God.
On a planet, Nature (including us) is the manifestation of God. (‘God’ is a word I tend to avoid - given associations with religions takes on God that I don’t agree with.) But as Tereza has pointed out to me in a comment exchange, screw that and reappropriate the word.
Don’t let ‘them’ take it.
She’s right.
Finally here’s Clif High being interviewed by Fullmich. I’ve been watching Clif for 8 years, give or take. I like his stuff. I don’t agree with everything he says. (As he likes to say, he may be crazy but that doesn’t mean he’s wrong.) He’s really casual as he shreds the ‘givens’ and underlying assumptions of our world. I love that. And he sees the non-human piece to all this madness, though how we each understand that part is different. So what?
A unique and expansive thinker, Clif doesn’t care in the least, what anyone thinks about him. I love that too. A breath of fresh air for the mind.
Hope you enjoy. (If you choose to watch it that is.)
Thanks for reading.
But me kofi. https://ko-fi.com/kathleen87247
"Once you see the large arc of control and endless manipulation, you’re no longer a mere pawn. You’re not even in the game anymore, you’re watching it."
Yes! These I see what's going on with the agendas and laugh at how poorly planned and executed it was.
They're talking at the wef, cdc and other groups about a loss of trust that they have to regain. Instead of understanding that they have to fess up on some of the sham, they double down on how to use more propaganda to regain trust. 😂
If they were planning to do the correct thing and release some truth, I would be scared because that means they're serious and will regain some trust with selective honesty.
Nope, they're doubling down on more lies to convince us of other lies... Hahaha
Discernment is the operative word as we tread our own pathways through life. We can come to various intersections and crossroads, take some or all or none of the information we are presented with at the junctures, but ultimately we need to stay true to our own journey first and foremost. The Brand story, for want of a better word, may well be a distraction from the various shenanigans that are afoot. It’s jab season. The big brother censorship of platforms that is being installed for our own safety. The long range missilery Ukraine is seeking and being guaranteed. We have no way of knowing all that is going on, and to state you do is to display an arrogance that bordering on being completely delusional. It is at time both wonderful and terrifying to be on the outside looking in, no longer, to the best of your ability, playing the role of a pawn. It can be a lonely place at times. And that too, is by design. And then you come across a damn fine piece of writing such as your fine stack, and the world is not quite as lonely as it was just this morning. It warms the heart to know you are never, in fact, alone. We may be separated by continents, but know that here on the island of Ireland, there is little ol me that you have touched and cheered by your insightful, thoughtful stack. With links to people I may never had come across on my own. A long comment, I know, but I have been babysitting two kids aged 3, and 5 pretty much on my own for the last couple of days. I finally gave in and let them watch the old animated Disney Peter Pan, and snuck in a little read with a coffee. So glad it was your!👏✍️💚