The Economy of the Social Contract

The social contract is no different in its form than a typical 17th century slave contract. It's content is not much different either. The basic idea is that an authority figure can sign a binding contract on behalf of people living and not yet born. This is of course legal nonsense of the highest order, but most people accept this as a valid state of affairs. The reason for this is that the state comes with a series of attractive illusions. The most important being the idea that the state will take care of us in times of need. However, the state is in no way able to deliver on all its promises.

Anyone younger than 60 years, living in a typical western welfare state, will be sorely disappointed with the pension and old people care that will be provided. Anyone who cares to look into the state's finances can find this out for themselves, so the reason few people are concerned about this is not for a lack of evidence, but for a lack of desire to see the figures for what they are.

However, some people realize what's going on. They understand that they are paying way more into the system than they will ever get. These people will at first react with horror. They will try to wake people up. Get them to see that drastic changes are needed. But this will not work. Most people will remain wilfully ignorant. They cannot imagine the state defaulting on future promises that are guaranteed by law.

The ones waking up to reality soon realize that they must take matters into their own hands. They start a dismantling process that eventually culminate in their disappearance from the system. The burden on the ones who remain become greater. Some that used to find the social contract agreeable are no longer so sure. They too make the calculation. They too realize that things are unsustainable. They too remove themselves from the system. Pretty soon, the trickle of people leaving the system turn into a stream. The stream becomes a river, and the river becomes a flood.

Fort

By Albrecht Dürer - Collection privee, Public Domain, Link

Protesting Creatively

Truth is closely associated with creativity, individuality and freedom. Falsehoods, on the other hand, are associated with conformity, loyalty, dogma, and endless repetition. This is why we need to be creative when protesting in support of truth. We must avoid repetition and strive to come up with something new. When done correctly, this can be both fun and interesting. All sorts of ideas come to mind once we let our creativity loose, some of which may be benefitting in more ways than one. Protesting banks by closing bank accounts and buying gold instead is but one way that creative protesting has benefited me personally. However, at the moment, my focus is mainly on mask-wearing rules. I find this particular insanity fascinating. I love going out in the streets to observe and note how people comply and how they don't, and I greatly enjoy the challenge of coming up with new and novel ways to protest.

Walking the streets of Porto this morning, I noticed that true compliance has fallen somewhat since the new, stricter rules came into effect. Half of all the people I came across seemed defiant in some way.

While compliance is always expressed in one way, and one way only. Defiance is expressed in several different ways.

1. There are the strictly non-compliant who don't wear a mask at all.
2. There are the reluctant compliant who wear their masks incorrectly.
3. There are the defiant compliant who follow the rules theatrically.

All together, these protesters make up about half the population, and they have an advantage on the compliant in that they support each other. The strictly non-compliant are supported by the reluctant and defiant, making it easier for them to stay strong. The reluctant demonstrate to the compliant that a better life, with fresh air for our lungs, is only a matter of lowering the mask below our nose, or all the way down to our chin. The defiant compliant show everyone how ridiculous everything is, making the compliant feel bad in some way, and therefore more likely to become reluctant compliant.

The least stressful of these protests is the reluctant defiance, and the most stressful is the strictly non-compliant, followed by the defiant compliant. However, there are ways to mix reluctant compliance with theatrical compliance in a non-stressful manner. Going out this morning, I wore my "mask of the beast" under my chin. Only when I felt pressured to put my mask on properly, did I do so, which made me go directly from reluctant compliant to defiant compliant, something that made me feel quite happy, because the social pressure of the moment didn't force me into strict compliance. At no point was I fully compliant. The protest mutated spontaneously from reluctant to defiant, without passing through strict compliance.

Mask of the beast

Wearing the mask of the beast reluctantly puts the ones insisting on compliance into a difficult position. They cannot very well fault us for wearing the mask that they have pressured us to put on correctly. They must therefore applaud the mask, even if it clearly states that it is a creation of the beast, which in turn makes them complicit in our protest.

Seven Years of Tribulation

The number 7 is used a lot in the Bible. There are 7 year cycles with 7 good years followed by 7 bad ones. The tribulations mentioned in conjunction with the end of days is also expected to last 7 years, and this may be why some expect the current tribulations of the world to last 7 years.

2027 is now frequently mentioned as a year of final collapse. This year is also mentioned as the year gold is likely to peak.

The consensus seems to be that the current tribulations are unlikely to go away any time soon. If they're right, those hoping for a quick return to normal will be sorely disappointed.

Train wreck

By Photo credited to the firm Levy & fils by this site. (It is credited to a photographer "Kuhn" by another publisher [1].) - the source was not disclosed by its uploader., Public Domain, Link

The Mask of the Beast

Unlike the mark of the beast, which everyone must submit in order to seek lawful employment or start a business, the mask of the beast is a symbol of state oppression. It has nothing to do with health, and everything to do with power.

By forcing everyone to wear a mask, the state becomes an integral part of everyday life. It is no longer possible to escape its presence. It imposes itself on us in a deliberately ugly manner. It makes us fear our fellow men. It makes us less human.

However, the mask is also an opportunity. Everyone that sees the state for what it is, can place its number on their mask. The number of the beast is 666. This is a meme, devised long ago for this exact purpose. Even a brief glimpse of this number is immediately registered and understood. No further explanation is needed. The wearer of a mask with the number 666, is not only aware of the satanic nature of the mask itself, but also the satanic nature of the state.

Making this all the more powerful is the fact that it can easily be presented as a joke. The mask of the beast is a pun. There's no reasonable way to construe this into something sinister without admitting evil intent. However, if enough people mark their masks with the number 666, there will no doubt be some serious reconsiderations of priorities by bureaucrats all over the world.

The mask of the beast

Protesting Politely

To remain in the public psyche, a falsehood needs to be sprinkled with bits of truth and endlessly repeated. Truth, on the other hand, needs only to be said loudly and clearly once, and it takes on a life of its own. This is a key insight when it comes to protesting.

If a falsehood is to be pushed, grand manifestations are required. A script must be written and followed. A team of PR advisers must be put in place. Enormous resources must be employed, and news channels must repeat the falsehood endlessly. However, when it comes to truth, no script and no PR team is required. It needs only to be said clearly once. No repetition is required. But it must be said by all, because it's only when we speak truth that we fully absorb it. An effective way to spread truth is therefore a method of announcement and silence. The truth we want to spread is clearly announced, after which we leave it to rest.

The announcement acts like a seed. It plants the truth in the mind of the listeners. They may vocally reject it right away, but it sticks, because truth sticks. It develops over time in the minds of others. It sets roots, and become eventually a part of what they believe. It becomes so fully internalized that it becomes part of them. At that point, the listeners will announce this truth themselves, often thinking that it's their original thought. Listeners will in turn internalize this truth, and a chain reaction ensues. Suddenly, what was once a fringe idea, becomes common and widespread to the point of being the dominant idea.

Effective protesting on the side of truth is therefore something entirely different than the elaborate schemes required to push a falsehood. It requires no planning and no repetition. Creativity is often key. But truth does not require originality in order to be pushed. Acting truth out in way of example is often all that is required. If mask-wearing is mandatory, don't wear a mask. It can be that simple.

If mask-wearing becomes widespread to the point of being irritating, a one off stunt may be appropriate. I did this once. I published it widely on my Facebook wall a few weeks ago, and I can already see results that may be due at least in part to my stunt. People who used to praise the virtue of mask wearing have stopped their mindless parroting. People who constantly reported on covid cases have likewise stopped doing so. Instead they are focusing on the economic and psychological damage that has been wrought by overzealous bureaucrats.

The encouraging sign in this is that people that used to repeat falsehoods and propaganda, are now either silent or right out vocal about truth. The message is being embraced. To encourage this, I either give them a thumbs up, or I remain silent. The goal is to have these people take ownership of truth. It's not to go about telling everybody how right I was, so I keep a low profile. We must never be tempted by ego to rock the boat just at the moment when things are starting to go well. That would be folly of the highest order.

But there are no lack of eager mask-wearers out in the streets, and this should be combatted as best we can, because it's the consensus of the people that ultimately gives the green light for draconian measures by politicians. Non-compliance and sloppy mask-wearing should therefore be encouraged. Full compliance should be discouraged.

A way to do this is to treat the compliant mask-wearers in a completely different manner from that of our fellow non-compliant and sloppy mask-wearers. When we see a fully compliant mask-wearer, we make a wide detour to avid coming too close to them. This is after all what they desire for themselves. They are voluntarily wearing the mark of the leper, as it were. They are begging for social distancing. If they want to be treated like lepers, why not treat them like lepers? To do otherwise would be impolite.

This sets up a social distinction between compliant and non-compliant mask-wearers. The non-compliant ones are the ones included in our circle of friends. We treat them as we treated people before covid. Only those who are overtly compliant are treated according to the new rules. We don't look at them, we keep them at a distance, and we try to isolate ourselves as much as possible from them. This way, we illustrate clearly what they are rooting for, and many are likely to realize their fault and mend their ways.

Leprosy Rash

By Luis A. Marcos, Stephen Conerly, and Sue Walker - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4125238/, CC BY 4.0, Link

The 5th Empire - Rapture

The rapture is a Biblical concept similar to the four horsemen of the apocalypse. It can be seen as pure magic, or it can be seen as an allegory on how things work in the real world. The four horsemen represents the four stages of a social-economic mega cycle. They appear whenever a social order is based on artificial hierarchy. The current one is the era of central banking in which some men can print money for free, while others work for a living.

Seen in this perspective, the rapture is a chain of events that happen near the end of a mega cycle. This is when things get so out of whack that it's as if the Lord himself comes down with a loud command. There is an awakening in which a large number of people, previously indifferent and ignorant of the corruption of the system, decide to leave. They disappear into the mist and clouds to create an alternative for themselves and others. This alternative order is based on equality and love. It's the kingdom of God or the 5th Empire, depending on our perspective.

An interesting detail in this is that those who are dead in Christ go first. A non-magical interpretation of this is that it is the non-believers that are the first to catch onto what's going on. These are typically citizens of the 5th empire, people who live according to the golden rule, without necessarily being devote Christians. This is particularly interesting to me because I was hit hard by a realization that I needed to escape the system back in 2017. I acted on this impulse, and things have gone very well for me ever since. My savings are secure. I'm with people I love. I've found a community of likeminded people. While  those still in the system are facing tribulations, things are well for me, my family and my friends. It's as if I've been raptured.

Continuing with our secular interpretation, we can expect great tribulations for everyone in the system. The 5th empire will gain in size and power, while those clinging onto the system will suffer. This will usher in a millennium in which the 5th empire exists in parallel with the current order of things. But there will be a final judgement at the end of this, and those who are still in the system will end up loosing everything. This is when true justice based on the golden rule is completely restored. Everyone, past or present, will be judged exclusively by what they did as individuals, not as a part of a group. The current system, which allows for immoral actions as long as they are done within the system will come to an end. It will be revealed once and for all that following orders is not a legal argument. Taxmen are thieves, soldiers are murderers, central bankers are fraudsters, politicians are liars, and so on and so forth.

Furthermore, it will be revealed that the system is bankrupt. All its promises will be broken. Those who fell for the Faustian bargain, that we can save ourselves by following orders, will be sorely disappointed. Obedience and loyalty will not in the end guarantee us health care, a pension or any other goodies.

Rapture

By Jan Luyken - Bowyer's Bible, Bolton, England, Public Domain, Link

The Dream That Became Reality

A long standing goal of progressives in the West has been the establishment of multiculturalism, and it is now safe to say that this dream has come true. We are finally at a point where people are free to live according to their culture wherever they choose to live in the West.

One aspect of this is the multitude of ways that anger can be expressed. It is after all quite natural to react with anger when provoked. The fact that this results in vastly different behaviours, depending on culture, is one of the gifts of multiculturalism. Some may react to provocation with angry words, and some may react with stabbings and beheadings. It all depends on culture.

An important lesson that comes with multiculturalism is that it's wrong to provoke people. While reacting with anger is natural, doing things that provoke anger is bad. This is why we need to think twice before expressing ourselves publically. Anything that may provoke anger must be muted and toned down. Some things must not be said at all. We must keep a lid on our thoughts, because provocative thoughts have a tendency to come out as provocative speech.

This is in stark contrast to how things were before multiculturalism. People said and did offensive stuff all the time without much thought to the anger that they provoked. The West was a cesspool of free speech, and the transformation away from this has been remarkable. We have become a lot more polite. The dream of multiculturalism has finally become reality.

Typical western reaction to a beheading

By Chris93 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Link