On the Nature and Crafting of Belief in the Elite’s Struggle for Power and Control: A Preface

“The prolonged absence of any free exchange of information within a country opens up a gulf of incomprehension between whole groups of the population, between millions and millions.  We simply cease to be a single people, for we speak, indeed, different languages.”
 - Alexander Solzhnetizyn, The Gulag Archipelago

"Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.” - John Milton

“Again, the devil took him up on an exceedingly high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. And he said to him, "All these things I will give you if you will fall down and worship me.” - Matthew 4:8-9

This world has a sickness to it.  Bad people prosper and good people suffer.  The basic incentive structures of reality is predatory and malevolent: all life survives by consuming other life; even something as simple as a plant is alive and struggles for survival.  Reproductive fitness favors those who dominate others via cunning and strength, stealing resources using force or trickery.  This can take many forms, but in the modern era it typically involves elites utilizing psychological manipulation via media, government, or education.  As Donald Hoffman argues in The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth From Our Eyes, humans are evolved to maximize their reproductive chances which has little to do with the pursuit of truth; indeed, focusing on truth lowers these chances.  Or as Thomas Ligotti concludes in The Conspiracy Against the Human Race, “If truth is what you seek, then the examined life will only take you on a long ride to the limits of solitude and leave you by the side of the road with your truth and nothing else.”  Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate.

Gustave Doré's engravings illustrated the Divine Comedy (1861–1868). Here, Dante is lost at the start of Canto I of the Inferno.

The harshness of reality is difficult for most people to accept; a cold, dark, uncaring universe is depressing and may result in suicidal ideation or becoming a sociopath to take advantage of the weak.  Exoteric religion serves as a mollifying force to keep people sedated and compliant, but it also creates the conditions necessary for the “social contract” allowing people to interact without brutal winner-take-all warfare.

Those sensitive to the fundamental nature of reality have it harder than normal people who outsource their critical thinking facilities to society, formal education, sports, entertainment and the media; removing the burden of independent thought understandably makes it easier to get through life. These regular people, derided in dark corners of the internet as “non playable characters” (“NPC”, a video game term) think in narrowly proscribed, rigid lines as dictated by society. Outsourcing their critical thinking turns them effectively into a form of cattle, ripe for exploitation.  A minority feel a pull to understand the world and experience cognitive dissonance regarding society’s rules and norms and, for those thinking more deeply, about the suffering nature of reality itself. Labeled “dissidents”, these free thinkers are unusual, rare, and set apart from the masses of gray, unthinking NPCs that populate the world.

As Oswald Spengler argues in The Decline of the West: “A thinker is a person whose part it is to symbolize time according to his vision and understanding.  He has no choice; he thinks as he has to think.  Truth in the long run is to him the picture of the world which was born at his birth.  It is that which he does not invent but rather discovers within himself.  It is himself over again: his being expressed in words; the meaning of his personality formed into a doctrine which so far as concerns his life is unalterable, because truth and his life are identical.”  For these few, the pursuit is truth is something serving as an objective in and of itself, whether due to ideals, impulse, belief in God or otherwise, without expectation of material or status rewards.

This essay is a tribute to such free thinkers.  It hopes to serve as a primer for younger dissidents who retain a degree of establishment indoctrination as a jump-start toward their future growth. It also attempts to provide an informational compendium for dissidents who are more advanced in their political journeys but who have holes in their knowledge about the structure of the modern world.  The dissident space is fractured; each blogger, tweeter or author focuses on one aspect of the lies society pushes on us, but no one thus far has tied it together into a cohesive structure using political syncretism.  Because one’s political typology is fixed like one’s physiognomy, this essay is not geared toward NPCs, sociopathic globalists or corporatists, who would either not understand or appreciate the arguments made herein.  It is specifically directed at dissidents.  

This essay also serves as a critique of those who have been fooled throughout history (and continue to be fooled) by falling victim to the elite’s propaganda against their own interests, and it also criticizes society’s sociopathic rulers who hide in the shadows, issuing secret orders behind the curtain without the public’s knowledge or consent.  Per J.R.R. Tolkein, “The true equation is ‘democracy’ equals government by world financiers. The main mark of modern governments is that we do not know who governs, de facto any more than de jure. We see the politician and not his backer; still less the backer of the backer; or what is most important of all, the banker of the backer.  Enthroned above all, in a manner without parallel in all past, is the veiled prophet of finance, swaying all men living by a sort of magic, and delivering oracles in a language not understood of the people.”

This cabal of criminal financiers has adopted a dialectic of materialism which views the World as Power and the World as Reality, and they deny all other powers and all other realities.  According to Eustace Mullins, these people have “absolute contempt for anyone who actually believes in the tenets of…any national, religious or fraternal group…If you are a sincere Christian, Zionist or Moslem, the World Order regards you as a moron unworthy of respect.  You can and will be used, but you will never be respected.”  These are the cunning predators who capitalize on society’s trust for profit and control; motivated not by a sense of noblesse oblige which nominated elites of the past, but by noblesse malice - a desire to punish and destroy society - they lack a clear understanding of the consequences of their actions, potentially leading toward ruin of all mankind if current trends continue.

With that said, events are bringing these malevolent figures into the sunlight as never before.  It is the hope that their reveal from behind the curtain may unite dissident groups and the masses of the world with a common goal, joined in a vision of a better future for humanity.

Some of the following discussion about how the world works is uncomfortable, but it is not intended to be ultimately demoralizing.  The presented framework should be judged by its predictive value for future events and how well it illuminates current and past events, based on an attempt to understand the perennial laws that govern material reality and human nature. Meaningful change is only possible in a directed way once a problem is properly understood.   Perhaps even the aggressive, predatory nature of the universe can ultimately be transcended by a humanity which better understands itself and the laws governing the world around it; from there hopefully a more just and Godly world may follow.

Thanks for engaging on this journey.

Continue with Introduction: Part 1…