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I understand your concerns, and for those who don't look beyond their noses this could very well be the future. But I also think too many people know, talk and publish about what's really going on for the Ministery of Truth to really take a hold on all of society. I mean, even 1984 had Winston Smith.

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Aug 1Liked by Winston Smith

The Ministry of Truth has already taken hold of a near majority of the western world.

A few "topics" to consider, reality vs. the driven message of;

* Climate Change

* Election Integrity

* Russian Collusion

* The Brave Ukrainian struggle for 'Democracy'.

* COVID

* mRNA safety and effectiveness

* Global "Immigration" of "refugees

* Digital Currency

* Diversity, Equity, Inclusion

* Abortion "rights"

* Transgenderism

* Forced acceptance of sexual perversion, name your flavor

* War, War, and more War!

* Free Speech is bad

* Christianity is bad

* Self Determination is bad

* The government must raise your children

* Red meat is bad

* Home grown vegetables are bad

* Solar panels, wind turbines will save the world

* CO2 is a pollutant

* Math is racist, so that 2+2=5 ...

If only a small percentage understand the insanity it won't matter, because the rest will be running the asylum.

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I understand all of it, and I agree with most of it. However I believe there are plenty of people, like me, who are not ready to roll over and die just yet. Am I right to assume you're one of them too? What I don't agree with is that a small percentage of people can't make the difference. Resistance is never futile.

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The problem, is so many people have been trained into the mindset that someone else will deal with their problems for them.

Besides the lunatics of the free palestine, antifa, blm and abortion fanatics, when have you seen tens of thousands of Americans stand up, join up in the centers of modern cities and demand change?

The left owns this kind of push back, the right folds everytime. When was the last time you saw millions marching for sanity. It doesn’t happen. And before you know it, we are Venezuela, we are Ukraine, we are the dysfunctional dystopia that is the EU and the UK.

Sorry, minimizing the scale of the problem is not the answer.

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I'm minimizing nothing. But you're not going to get tens of thousands of people in a mass movement, or millions marching for sanity. It's never worked that way. Those are their tactics. Soon as you have enough people to notice, they'll come in and corrupt it. Make your own decisions, and if you're lucky you'll find a few people around you that share your views. And leave it up to them to do the same. Leave the sheeple to themselves brother. When they want to come over, they will.

A Dutch WWII poet once wrote:

Resistance does not start with big words

But with small actions

Like a storm with soft rustling in the yard

Or a cat getting the folly in it's head

Like wide rivers

With a small spring

Hidden in the woods

Like a blaze

With the same match

That lights a cigarette

Like love with a gaze

A touch, something you notice in a voice

To ask yourself a question

That is where resistance starts

And then pose that question to someone else

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So, how do we fix this mess?

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We fix it one friend at a time.

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Bytheway, I'm from that dysfunctional dystopia that is the EU.

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Also never forget, Winston Smith never won. He got sloppy, went to Room 101, and became just another passive cog in the machine.

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Heading to hell in a hand basket! Technology is continually evolving, somewhat exponentially, from one year to the next and has been like this for decades. AI is no different yet the most nefarious thing about AI is that the ways it evolves and learns are to our detriment specifically because of who it’s “handlers” are and since most folks who read Stacks such as this one and similar are the antithesis of said handlers…evil in, evil out. Not to mention the fact that AI is getting very good at virtually cloning people (as it is clear several different Bidens have recently appeared on TV), it’s only a matter of time before AI will frame people for crimes they didn’t commit but won’t be able to prove otherwise since the evidence will be overwhelmingly believable.

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