What's in it for the truth-tellers?

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I subscribe to Tucker Carlson.com. I don't always agree with Tucker, though I do with him as much as anybody. He has placed himself at the center of the most important discussions of our age.

Yesterday I listened to a two hour interview with Mike Benz about Internet censorship.  It was interesting and the degree to which Tucker attempted to moralize the topic only to have Benz politely rebuff the attempt, broadening the topic. Benz considers himself a one issue person, Internet freedom, but he sees every aspect of it.   By the way, this is the kind of video that is likely to disappear. Ask and I will provide you a link to a private copy.

Listening to the conversation galvanized me to start to write down thoughts that have been collecting in my mind for a few months now. I struggled for a way to state my position concisely. Perhaps the best is to ask the question "Why am I doing this?" As I am attempting to seek the truth and express it to you what's in it for me?  This is a question we can ask of a great many of the personalities that have emerged since Covid. Why do Robert Malone, Mattias Desmet, Naomi Wolf, Peter McCullough, Simone Gold, Steve Kirsch, Andy Wakefield, Judy Mikovits, Jessica Rose, and so many others so avidly attempt to pursue the truth?

Critics would contend that they are driven by ego. They want the recognition. Some even ascribe pecuniary motives. Almost certainly they are wrong. The establishment has attempted to destroy these people, and in many cases come fairly close.  Why would they risk it?

In my mind it is a deeper lying primate instinct of a monkey to warn the troop when he perceives danger. It is altruism, perhaps colored by other motives such as wanting the glory of being recognized for having seen the truth.

On the other hand, the people who want to shut them up are quite clearly motivated by money and power. But there is more on that side as well. The critics who decry the Covid 19 vaccines – other vaccines as well – as attempts at population control see them as uniformly evil. They observe that it is unconscionable to attempt to inject us all with poisons. Murder is evil.  They also decry softer forms of population control. There were vans outside the Democratic national convention providing free abortions and vasectomies. It is quite blatantly anti-life. The Christians are appalled.

There is always another hand. On the other hand, many ecologists contend that the earth is near its carrying capacity. Rereading EO Wilson's quarter century old book "Conciliance" one has to agree that humankind is putting pressure on every other species on our planet. Wilson was thankfully wrong about global warming and species extinction. You can see my videos on those topics on Rumble. On the other hand, I have to concede he is probably right about dangers to Gaia in the long term.

He is right to contend that there must be a finite limit to the carrying capacity, beyond which we will catastrophically overuse our natural endowment. It has happened before, with the late Bronze Age collapse, the Easter Island collapse being two instances in which populations got ahead of carrying capacity.

Whether they are accidental or premeditated, efforts to hold our population down by spreading anti-natalist philosophy, video games and medical interventions that decrease fertility may be the gentlest way of bringing our fecundity in line with the Earth's carrying capacity. It is certainly not a topic that could ever be discussed in a democracy.

Edward Dutton, in At Our Wits End, Breeding the Human Herd and many other books writes that our genetic stock has been rapidly deteriorating since the industrial revolution. We are getting stupider and more antisocial. Why? Darwinian selection. The less capable members of our population are more able to reproduce, and the more capable less willing. On top of that the bien pensants, the bleeding hearts, are all too willing to admit people of other backgrounds on the false premise that they are just like us under the skin.  The upshot is that not only are there too many people in the world, but too many people who lack the ability to make much of a contribution to our Western societies or the betterment of the species.

The elites in our democratic societies recognize that there is no answer to be found in democracy. Per Mike Benz, above, they find a solution in redefining democracy. It is no longer a democracy of individuals but rather of democratic institutions. The elites conveniently reserve for themselves the privilege of defining democratic institutions, and they conspicuously exclude the populist political movements of Europe and America. In Benz’ interview with Tucker, they agree that the United States is really run by perhaps 100,000 people rather than the 325 million inhabitants.

Benz contends that the redefinition of democracy, in the view of this elite, requires curating opinions. This in turn requires censorship. They don't call it that. They have invented their own elaborate vocabulary for describing what they do. They want to stamp out misinformation – erroneous ideas, disinformation – intentionally wrong information, and malinformation, factually correct but inconvenient information.

To this end they put immense pressure on Jack Dorsey of Twitter, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, the principles of Google, Amazon which took down all of my reviews, and others in the social media sphere. Per Benz, this is probably why the French have arrested Pavel Durov, and why they have their sights on Elon Musk. They cannot allow the hoi polloi to spread inconvenient memes.

Whereas Russia, China and Nazi Germany implemented censorship from the top down, the algorithm being used in the US is both gentler and more pervasive. The powers that be establish an environment in which a person is simply not hired, is passed over for promotion, excluded from social circles, not published and so on if he holds the wrong attitudes. The government has plausible deniability. They didn't do it, but they looked on approvingly as their will was carried out by parties that are deeply beholden to the government.  At this point let me reiterate the significance of the Tucker interview. I had not read what Benz expresses as well put anyplace else.

What does this mean for me? I am still able to collect the information I need in order to make decisions that affect my family. The social media controls prevent me from reviewing books expressing opinions that they do not want the hoi polloi to see, but they do not prevent people like Ed Dutton, Robert Malone, Ed Dowd, Celia Farber and others from publishing such books. They are out there – they will simply not be called to my attention.  Like a Soviet citizen half a century ago, I have to find the samizdat if I look. Perhaps that will work best for my family.

If I and my family know what is going on in the world and is attuned to the dangers of the programs being urged on us by the elites, we can probably dodge them. It was possible to avoid the Covid vaccines. It is possible to avoid childhood vaccines. It is possible to avoid indoctrination by public schools. It will probably be possible to avoid using central bank digital currencies. It is possible to limit one's exposure to EMF radiation, pesticides and other environmental poisons. It is possible to buy the books that tell you how and why.

I'll close in saying that I am grateful to all of those who seek the truth and are brave enough to express it. They guide me to useful sources. Carlson has helped shape my thinking through his interview with Mike Benz. Building a circle of like-minded friends will probably help my family – they will be kept in the loop as new things crop up.

However, I should probably be content for the most part to simply observe what is going on in the world, tell my family and help them steer around the obstacles. The threats that are being created and allowed by the elites are the kinds of things that can be avoided. Most people will not have the wit or the desire to do so. If the world's population is decreased by their demise or failure to reproduce, it may allow my progeny to live in a world more comfortably within its carrying capacity.

So why am I writing this? I should forget the primal primate instinct of sounding the alarm when I see danger, doing no more than quietly telling my friends, and spending my time reading and educating my children.

That’s the news from Lake WeBeGone, where the family was enjoying Carpathian hot springs for precisely the four days that the Russians chose for their most enthusiastic bombardment. It worked out just right.

Graham