Letter To A Mainstream Straddler: Live Not By Half-Lies
Letter To A Mainstream Straddler: Live Not By Half-Lies | ZeroHedge
I get it. You don’t want to be called a “conspiracy theorist.”
You don’t want to be
tarred an “
anti-vaxxer.” A “
science-denier.”
A “far right-wing extremist.”
You’ve got your reputation to protect. Your
credibility. Your
grant funding.
So you water down
the truth.
You tiptoe around it. You don’t go there.
And the
philanthropaths, the
tyrants, the
Big Liars, the
demociders, and their
enablers continue to
profit. Continue to
conspire. Continue to
torture. Continue to
slaughter.
They tell you right to your face what they’re doing.
But if you turn around and quote them, you’re the crazy one.
If you ask why a
child,
teen,
athlete, or other
healthy adult suddenly had a
heart attack, got
turbo cancer, or
died, you’re the “
truly disgusting” one.
If you provide
scientific evidence that a
warp-sped experimental injection being peddled by a
trillion-dollar industry in
collusion with
governments,
federal agencies,
the media, and
Big Tech is
dangerous, you—not the corporations
raking in billions—are
the grifter.
If you ask
what’s causing the
sudden deaths and
injuries that began surging in 2021 in hopes of preventing future such tragedies,
you’re “morally reprehensible” (and yet “
mocking anti-vaxxers’ COVID deaths … may be necessary”).
If you point out that we should maybe
think twice about
pushing a product
estimated to have
killed thirteen million human beings and counting,
you are the “
major killing force globally” and guilty of “
undermin[ing] public confidence” in said product.
If you call
genocide genocide, you are
the enemy, the
misinformation spreader, the
anti–
semite.
If you
dare point out
Never Again is already happening, you get
inquisitioned—even though
Holocaust survivors and
their relatives agree.
If you call out governments for
practicing totalitarianism and enacting
policies that cause
lethal collateral damage,
you’re the granny-killer.
If you challenge people to face the
livid, electrifying grief of those who have lost loved ones to
financially incentivized hospicide, you are making them uncomfortable.
You know you’re living in a world of lies when the mob is more enraged at the whistleblowers revealing the deceptions, corruption, and murder than they are at the lying liars, corrupt corrupters, and murdering murderers themselves—indeed, they trip over themselves racing to defend their narcissistic abusers.
As Edward Snowden says:
When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals!”
But guess what?
Once they start calling you all those hideous names, you realize they’re nothing more than magician’s smoke.
You gradually start to give fewer and fewer f*cks.
You know you’ve hit zero when you feel the exhilarating liberation that comes from
shouting the unfettered truth.
That’s the
words-can-never-hurt-you stage.
You become untouchable.
You start collecting libels like Purple Hearts.
The more scars you can count, the more evidence of your efficacy, your threat to the hegemony.
That’s when you can truly LIVE. And by truth, not by lies.
If enough of us stand up and do that, we can hold the perpetrators
accountable. We can present the
unadulterated evidence of their crimes. And we can find justice … or die trying—like the members of the
White Rose, whose piercing
words still ring out nearly a century later:
“We will not keep silent. We are your guilty conscience.”
I’m going to tell you a secret.
Stick it out long enough, and that tarnished reputation turns into burnished gold.
Because when you are slandered by the
propagandists, that means you are
the good guy, even though the
menticided public believes the opposite.
In Upside-Down World, persisting in seeing things right-side up—despite the incessant, relentless, never-ending gaslighting—means you have valiantly guarded your most precious possessions: your integrity and your sanity.
As e.e. cummings writes:
To be nobody but
yourself in a world
which is doing its best day and night to make you like
everybody else means to fight the hardest battle
which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”
Most gratifying of all, you will find fellow members of your
karass, and
together you will set about fulfilling your
wampeter.
Once you are living in alignment with your values, you will feel the deepest joy fathomable.
And when the COVID criminals have been
found guilty, when the
spells dissolve, the people will gradually
awaken from their coma and recognize you for the
hero you are.
Or not. Most will be
too ashamed to admit they’ve been
conned. To realize they shielded
fascist tyrants and attacked
those trying to rescue them.
Few find that
courageous humility within themselves to
acknowledge their
complicity in
totalitarianism.
And so they will swathe themselves in soothing denial and lash out at anyone who tries to puncture it.
But you will keep trying, anyway. Because that’s what
truth-tellers do. That’s what people who care about saving lives do. That’s what people of integrity do, whether or not anyone ever recognizes it.
You know in your heart what is true, and you speak it. And no one one can ever shut you up again.
Even if they
kill you.
Your bravery will outlive you.
Your words will remain like candles, lighting the path for future
truth-droppers. And you will be at peace, in life and beyond.