"What are you doing about it?" is a question I am often asked by people after I have tried to explain to them how I believe the world works. Quite often they are annoyed with me because what I am basically saying to them is, pretty much everything they think they know and believe in is a lie, and quite understandably they don't like it.

This morning, while getting a cup of tea with my colleagues, I raised the subject of how alternate media sources were being removed from the internet and how people or websites with views that challenged the controlled media narrative were finding it more and more difficult to survive. Since the removal of Alex Jones/Infowars from YouTube and Facebook was being reported in the MSM I thought it would be a good example to use, but I should have known better. When I mentioned Alex Jones/Infowars, a couple of people had heard of him/it but a few hadn't, so one of my colleagues let them know that Alex Jones was a 'purveyor of bullshit'.

Now, I realise that Alex Jones/Infowars might well be controlled opposition or a gatekeeper and I don't agree with everything he says. I'm also aware that his style and delivery do not appeal to everyone (perhaps deliberately), but I still find it disappointing to see, read and hear about people who on the one hand say they support free speech and the pursuit of truth/justice, while at the same time are calling for Alex to be banned from sites like Twitter because they don't agree with some of the things he says.

Talib Kweli for example. https://twitter.com/TalibKweli/status/1026542517913673729

Or Shaun King who thinks Trump should be banned too. https://twitter.com/shaunking/status/1026581483694239744

To return to the question I am often posed that I mentioned at the beginning of the post. All I can really do to change the world is to try to live my life the way I would like others to live theirs, but more importantly (because most people don't care or notice my actions), speak to as many people as I can, as calmly and rationally as I can about the problems I believe the world is facing and how we got to where we are today. It's not a fun thing to do and it doesn't make me many friends but it is something I feel more and more like I have no choice but to do.

Most of the time, people don't even hide their disdain for what I am saying and on many occasions I have offended someone with something I have said or been reported for offending someone (most recently about Zionism/Anti-semitism), but as I get older and calmer and I start to better understand myself and self-reflect, I believe I am also getting better. There are still occasions when I know that if I had been calmer or explained things a bit more clearly there might have been a chance of people walking away and spending a minute or two thinking about what I said or perhaps even looking into it, rather than walking away with the impression I am an angry/bitter conspiracy theorist, but those times are getting less and less frequent.

It's hard to retain a permanent level of calmness with people when you believe what I believe about the world and how it works. The magnitude of what were are facing and how we have gotten to the point we are at now and even more concerning, where we might be headed, is almost impossible to convey. How can I expect people to consider the things I say are real or possible when it has taken me years to get to this point and I still have trouble accepting some of it myself?

I don't really know the answer to that question, all I do know is that I must keep trying to speak to as many people as I can using all the skills and lessons I have learned over the past 40 years, in the hope that my actions and words along with the actions and words of the millions of others around the world who feel the same as me, might just wake sufficient numbers of people up before it is too late.

All is not lost. There is still time to avert the disaster we are heading for. Ignorance is the problem. The fact that so much effort is being made to silence alternative media and dissenting voices and keep people ignorant, is both worrying and encouraging at the same time, depending on how you see things. As @caitlinjohnstone pointed out in a recent article,

The only thing holding existing power structures in place is the fact that the public consents to it, and, in a system which does not serve the interests of the public, the only thing holding that consent in place is the ability of those in power to manufacture it.

The ignorance of the majority to the fact they have been brainwashed and conditioned to not only accept things the way they are, but to believe that there isn't any alternative, is the problem. Each new person that starts to see through the lies begin a journey down a road that inevitably leads them to where I and many others are right now. We are getting stronger and our numbers are growing every day despite the huge amount of money and time that is being spent trying to stop us.

How long I wonder, will it be before the methods of control become such that there is no longer any need to manufacture consent or control the narrative. We don't have long. Time is of the essence.

Thanks for reading.

Stay Safe

Jim