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@ walker
2023-04-11 20:04:56Are you paying attention?
Your government is lying to you. The media is lying to you. Celebrities are lying to you, and paid handsomely to do so.
It's time to wake up.
Politicians fetishize totalitarianism while feigning progressive values. Lawmakers regularly introduce bills that violate your constitutional rights and seek to restrict what scant freedom you have left. Three letter agencies illegally spy on you, while claiming it is “for your safety.” Presidents spend your tax dollars on wars that have nothing to do with you. They send your sons and daughters to die thousands of miles away, while lying to you about the true reasons for their wars. All of this is done under the guise of “protection” and “national security.”
The State finances disinformation and violence, at home and abroad, paid for with your hard-earned money.
Politicians spend untold millions on political campaigns, while veterans go homeless and children go hungry. The wealthiest elites donate their ill-gotten gains to lawmakers or corrupt “non-profit” lobbying groups, seeking favor and the turning of a blind eye to their nefarious dealings. The media is complicit; justifying injustices, glorifying horror, and parroting the talking points of the anointed kleptocrats.
Feeble minds are easily swayed by the State’s tricks, aided by a corporate media machine that long ago gave up the search for truth in exchange for the pursuit of profits.
Dutiful lemmings happily sacrifice what scant principles they claim to hold, so long as they perceive their political team will score the next point in an endless game of futility where the score is always forgotten. Long-term thinking is a luxury few can afford; this is by design.
Stronger minds resist, and speak out, only to be drowned by the faceless mob of the weakest minds with the loudest voices. Those that resist the status quo too fiercely are deemed a threat to the State, and dealt with mercilessly.
The State does not protect your freedoms. You are already free. All the State can do is deny you your freedom.
The gerontocracy that controls our world is a bloated, senile beast that feeds on the destruction of the individual and drinks from the overflowing cup of humanity’s degradation.
They do not care about you. You are nothing to them. They do not see you. You are an insect to be crushed under their boots without a second thought.
To them, you are an annoyance. An inconvenience. A means to an end.
To them, you are a number. An entry in a database. A statistic. Inconsequential.
You are not you, you are nothing. You exist only as a nameless face in the meaningless masses. The only value they see in you is as a slave. Toiling endlessly to feed their swollen state and grease the wheels of their military industrial war machine.
They print the money you must work for, and take from you an ever-increasing portion of what meager amount you earn.
This is not capitalism, because for capitalism to exist, the people and the market must be free. This is totalitarianism. This is fascism. This is a kleptocracy.
The State, the Central Bank, the media, the corporations, and the military industrial complex work hand-in-hand to obfuscate the truth and enrich themselves to the detriment of the people.
You are a slave to the State. The tax man is your overseer. Your obedience is ensured with the perpetual threat of violence for noncompliance. You are not free.
They allow you to vote because it does not change anything, only the color of the partisan flag they give you to wave.
There is no red, there is no blue, there is the State, and there is you.
They allow you to spend money because you are too poor to make a difference by yourself. For those with real money, doors open wide; so long as the money flows to the right people. Power begets more money.
Proximity to the creation of money is the ultimate power.
They encourage you to fight against your neighbor, your family, your fellow human beings. They want you to blame each other. They want you divided from your brothers and sisters. They want you to feel alone, isolated, trapped. They want you poor, powerless, and distracted. They do not want your needs to be met; they care only for themselves. They want to distract you; "pay no attention to the man behind the curtain."
They want you to feel crazy. They want you to be depressed.
They do not want you to get angry. They do not want you to see what is broken. They do not want you to point the finger at them.
They want you to be afraid to speak the truth, because they do not want the truth to be heard. For if you speak the truth, and your brother hears it, your brother may start speaking the truth. And if your sister speaks the truth, and you hear it, you will know you are not alone.
My fellow human beings; you are not crazy, and you are not alone.
You are you, and I am me, but together, we are we. And we are powerful. We can change the world. We can open the eyes of our neighbors who wallow in darkness.
Perhaps you are searching for the truth, unsuccessfully wading through a fetid swamp of disinformation, arguing with strangers online about inconsequential distractions fed to you by algorithms designed to keep you ignorant of the truth.
The truth is our money is broken.
Broken money paves the path to the collapse of empires. When the money breaks, everything else breaks with it. Ordinary citizens pay the price for the avarice of those who wield true power.
This is not opinion or conjecture, this is historical fact proven time and time again. History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
They will try to hide this truth, to paper over the ever-widening cracks with the creation of more money. They are naught but counterfeiters in expensive suits, stealing the value of your hard work. Thieves of time and energy.
All they can do is lie. All we must do is tell the truth.
Bitcoin is truth, and the truth will set us free.
Nostr is the open pulpit from which we will speak. Nostr is how we make our voices heard.