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Hrvatski Noahid:
While the notion that humans are being deceived on a grand scale became popular in the mainstream following the release of The Matrix in 1999, most Westerners would be shocked to learn about the extent and sophistication of the deceptions they have been subjected to. Aside from the monstrously harmful lies about gender and sexuality that have corrupted and mutilated countless children, the mass media and their trusty “experts” have warped the public’s understanding of an untold number of issues, particularly over the last several years as Trump’s popularity catalyzed the “culture war”.

From the perspective of the journalists in the mass media, it is possible that many of them genuinely believe that they are doing important work to raise awareness about important issues. However, the overwhelming focus on issues of race, gender, and sexuality over the last several years, combined with the journalists’ biases on these issues, have led to sensationalist and misleading reporting that has confused the Western public terribly and polarized it dramatically.

For example, the mass media, now largely controlled and operated by university-educated Marxists, perpetrated a series of hoaxes during the 2020 election cycle of the United States which arguably handed the election to the Democrats. From failing to report properly on Donald Trump’s infamous “very fine people” comments, for example, the mass media perpetuated the false belief that the sitting president had condoned neo-Nazis when he actually took care to condemn extremists in his remarks. This grievous mischaracterization of Trump’s statements, laundered into accusations of racism by the media, was made a core feature of Joe Biden’s campaign in 2020 with no challenges from anybody in the mainstream.

Because the articles leave out many details, corrections are issued sparingly, and stories are biased towards scandal and controversy, most Westerners are left disoriented and frustrated by their simplified and colonized understanding of the world. Much like how the radio facilitated genocide in Germany and Rwanda by providing populations with one-sided and sensationalist versions of reality, the ongoing demonization of Donald Trump, the demonstrable lies about homosexuality and transgenderism, and the mass media’s selective outrage over the deaths of unarmed black men are partially responsible for the race riots following George Floyd’s murder as well as the arson of over fifty Canadian churches following erroneous reporting on “mass graves of indigenous children” allegedly found throughout the country. Even if most of what was reported were true and properly contextualized, the average person simply does not have the time to sit down and sort through all the details of every issue, meaning that most Westerners have less insight into their environment than even many prehistoric illiterates.

For example, in addition to dumbing themselves down for “disadvantaged” demographics, white liberals also predominantly believe that requiring identification for voting purposes is racist. This false belief, instantiated by the mass media and perpetuated by Marxist activists, is predicated on the notion that black people somehow lack the resources or ability to obtain identification. Ironically, this infantilizing and disempowering belief, believed to be “anti-racist” due to its approval in the mainstream media, stereotypes black Americans as helpless or incompetent – something that many Afrocentric thinkers have pointed out is not only untrue, but racist. (Ticket to Heaven by Zachary R.J. Strong, PDF version, p 81-82)

Hrvatski Noahid:
The ongoing war in Ukraine, which to many Westerners was a completely unprovoked invasion by Russia, is a shining example of how distanced most people have become from reality. Despite an essay released by Vladmir Putin on the subject of Ukraine, and even past media reporting on issues like the Donbas skirmishes before the war, the mainstream’s hysterical and shallow reporting on the reasons for the conflict has driven much of the public’s opinion in North America. In addition to fictious propaganda about the Ghost of Kiev, counter-propaganda about the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion, and misleading statistics about Russia’s position in the war, Ukraine flags have been raised on many homes and buildings without the historically “anti-war” West pausing to think about why they are gleefully cheering for their money to be funnelled into one of the most corrupt countries in Europe.

For his part, Vladmir Putin, the man who declared the Russian war on Ukraine, has accused the West of several crimes and transgressions. Among them include trying to turn Russia into a dependent country, turning Ukraine into a de facto colony following the NATO-instigated color revolution almost a decade before Russia’s declaration of war, using Ukrainian territory to engage in prohibited biological research, and engaging in genocide against Russian-descended residents of the Donbas region. Putin has also spoken poorly of Western elites, describing them as selfish degenerates who loot the world for their gain – messaging with strong roots in truth, given the evidence.

While many of these criticisms could be dismissed to some degree as wartime propaganda, the fact remains that much of what has been previously discussed, from the destruction of childhood to the metaphysical crimes of Robert Spitzer and the psychologists, are testaments to the high modernist need to exploit and control in service of narrow-minded objectives. Indeed, the idols of growth, science, and progress, meta-narratives from European statecraft and industrialization that have not yet been properly examined, seem to have largely supplanted the Christian concept of God – and to great harm, as Nietzsche predicted.

Sadly, the mountains of thin simplifications and one-sided perspectives propagated by technocrats, bureaucrats, and experts, laundered to the public as legitimate knowledge by scientifically illiterate pseudo-journalists, have left the modern West trapped in an exploitative dream. The prevailing interests that own the mass media seem to have their objectives, each of the political parties seem to have their objectives, corporations will say whatever they can, and even many journalists are explicitly sided with one faction or another.

Today is the age of idols, of ideologies, and of narratives. It is the age of the cult, of Osho, of NXIVM, of Heaven’s Gate and QAnon. While these fringe groups are rightly identified for the cults they are, the intentionally or irresponsibly faulty metaphysics of every belligerent in the Western culture war means that every ideology, liberal or conservative, is in some way, a cult. But while Christian and nationalistic fascism seem to have had their time in history, the liberals’ chance at ruling with an iron fist seems to be just beginning. (Ticket to Heaven by Zachary R.J. Strong, PDF version, p 82-83)

Hrvatski Noahid:
Indeed, while LGBTQ2IIA+++ may be a dangerous transhumanist sex cult that targets children to perpetuate the fantasies of adults, the most pervasive and dangerous cult of the modern era, which provides governments with an existential threat to drive through expansive legislation, is the cult of the environment. Born in the mid-twentieth century following the West’s deepening appreciation for its relationship with the biospheres it inhabits, the prospect of climate change that could change sea levels and raise the global temperature is now represented in the mainstream as an extinction threat to the species that must be acted on immediately.

Among other changes to Western society that have been either proposed or enacted, there has been a dramatic emphasis on switching to electric vehicles by way of government subsidies and taxation of gasoline. The industrial production of meat, long identified as a source of methane and pollutants by environmental activists, is now considered a luxury that ought to be phased out in favor of plant-based diets. The economic opportunities represented by retrofitting buildings with energy efficiencies, building new wind and solar infrastructure, creating walkable cities, and driving growth are also touted by experts as reasons for these very necessary changes.

It cannot be disputed that environmentally conscious commerce is the best long-term solution for humanity, however the solutions proposed by environmentalists are products of thin simplifications and ignorant misunderstandings of the realities of life. Moreover, the unstable and globalist infrastructure proposed as a panacea to global warming is creating not only environmental problems of its own, but grave humanitarian issues in many countries.

Consider, for example, the relative environmental impact of beef over a potato. Given the higher resource requirements for cattle and beef production, the experts have concluded that plant-based diets are the only sustainable alternative for the world’s current population. However, this is a thin simplification that assumes all food production is, and should be, on an industrial scale, and further neglects the realities of industrial farming.

On many residential properties around the world, cows, goats, chickens, rabbits, and other animals are used to graze on and maintain non-arable land while providing food for families. The distributed benefits of having a few chickens in most households would eliminate almost the entire egg industry and simplify that part of the Western economy significantly while providing supply chain resilience to households. The same is true for cows, of which only one or two are needed per group of households to provide sufficient milk, offspring, and meat for sustainable consumption. (Ticket to Heaven by Zachary R.J. Strong, PDF version, p 84)

Hrvatski Noahid:
Furthermore, the monocrop approach favored by the West, which invisibly provides for the environmentalists living in cities, is specifically designed to control the entire environment, kills all animals and insects in the area, and depletes the soil over time. This systematized and industrialized solution, taken for granted by urban-dwelling environmentalists enmeshed in the progress dream of high modernism, is the less sustainable option given the tremendous amounts of work required to keep the soil fertile and the crops alive.

Indeed, reality is a great deal more complex than environmentalists currently believe it to be, as it is likely that a mixture of meat and produce would be in fact more sustainable than the idealistic vegan approach. This type of simplistic thinking, however, is typical of leftist elites who have never worked on a farm, have only lived in suburban or urban settings, and only know about the food supply chain through the mainstream media and the brochures about their organic avocados.

A relatively new talking point among environmentalists, although an urgent one given their allegations about fossil fuel emissions, is the importance of switching to electric vehicles. The “scientific” claim made to support these policy objectives, many of which are being instantiated throughout Europe and North America, have to do with the environmental impact of fossil fuel emissions on the environment. Many might believe the case is so clear, and the need to act is so great given the possibility of climate change, that there could be no question on this matter. However, this is also a thin simplification as seen from the incredible environmental costs associated with mining the rare metals needed for the car batteries.

There are also human costs associated with the Western luxury of emissions-free vehicles, as many human rights groups discovered when over forty thousand children were found to be mining cobalt in Africa to feed the West’s green dreams. This is in addition to the known child labor issues associated with many consumer goods from China, as well as many other human rights abuses tucked away under the glitz and glam of city lifestyles often favored by the political left.

Even the “environmentally friendly” option of solar power is a thin simplification for everyone in the West who has not personally grown a solar panel. Indeed, the raw materials involved in the production of solar panels, which include bone-rotting acids and many other destructive chemicals besides, are a hidden environmental cost and infrastructure burden which are not properly accounted for by the scientifically illiterate mainstream.

Perhaps the greatest test of Western rationality, ingenuity, scientific progress, and high modernist techniques of control was the COVID-19 pandemic, where global bodies were able to achieve an unprecedented level of coordination across all facets of society to achieve a comprehensive goal of death reduction. The entire weight of the Western scientific project was behind this coordinated response, with predictive models developed largely in Britain, vaccines rapidly developed by pharmaceutical companies in America, and additional insight provided by bodies like the World Economic Forum and the Gates Foundation, which all resulted in the public urged to “follow the science” at every new development. (Ticket to Heaven by Zachary R.J. Strong, PDF version, p 84-85)

Hrvatski Noahid:
Unfortunately, in hindsight, it seems that even the best of Western medicine and science turned out to be an idol that far too many have been sacrificed to, from people dying alone in retirement homes to the developmental and educational delays in young children. Indeed, high modernist bureaucrats, drunk on their own power and unaware of existential constraints on their ability to control reality, demonstrably destroyed large facets of society for little appreciable gain. Their thin simplification, which proved fatal for many, was the single variable of the COVID-19 death count – a number to be minimized at any cost.

The first blunder was the extensive lockdown measures implemented in most Western countries, which have had many documented human costs yet were touted as an absolute necessity by health authorities and government policymakers. The truth to this controversy, considered unmentionable by many, is that bureaucrats became exclusively concerned with the pandemic’s death toll, which turned out to be almost entirely concentrated in the elderly, obese, and infirm. Indeed, ensuring that grandma lived an extra few years while ensuring her retirement was spent in miserable isolation contorted society and destroyed countless livelihoods unnecessarily. This is demonstrably evident by the comparison between Swedish and North American approaches, which yielded similar case counts per capita despite starkly different approaches to social control.

The second catastrophe of the pandemic response was the obsession with masks. As anyone with access to YouTube can see, even particulate matter such as tobacco smoke can pass through surgical and cloth masks relatively easily, and even N95 masks can leave holes for airflow around the nose. (Ticket to Heaven by Zachary R.J. Strong, PDF version, p 86)

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