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If you’re feeling at all lost, like the world made a couple crucial jumps from roller coaster to collision course while you were busy building a life for yourself, and the next move might be a quantum leap you don’t recall consenting to—then this guidebook is for you. Few have had the time or the stomach for keeping eyes glued to the ball the entire time, and that is exactly what They bank on. Here we Think Through It. Not every single point of the observable universe, just the ones that directly cause the most harm to you and your family and cut into your chances of persevering and prospering. We narrow focus on our actual opponents, so that our strategies of resistance are precise and effective, instead of allowing those opponents to dictate targets for us.
Part of the opposition’s craft we intend to examine works to ensure we feel too busy, too exhausted, too saddened, and too stressed to face what has to be faced. It is my hopeful intention to address all that, if you can just address the first one of “too busy”. I’ll be publishing bi-monthly chapters here to combat the exhaustion we feel from trying to make sense of nonsense, the sadness we feel handing over nonsense to the generations behind us, and the stress we feel knowing there was something more we could have done. Because it actually all comes down to fairly simple math, as a core part of mathematics is the study of patterns. It does compute once you string all the points together. It doesn’t make moral sense, but that’s part of computing in these times, you have to solve for answers using Their immorality to understand the full equation.
We will swiftly go slow through the calculations. You’ll have opportunity, direction and inspiration to pause and ponder, analyze and verify each expression of the equation until the logic is solid in your own mind, before moving onto the next segment. Each chapter will unpack a piece of the puzzle, a piece directly connected to the previous chapter and ready to link to the next—it's all going to add up to something. Something useful.
The continuousness of the analysis is what is most imperative. Part of the impediment to adding it all up, correctly enough to plot a course by new numbers, is a lack of continuity. You get a bit here and a bit there, but you missed a few key pieces in the middle—that’s not how adding it up works, unfortunately. And those few missing pieces are the fuel which runs Their machine. As long as we lack the coherence or the confidence to “show the work” of how we came to the solution, we won’t have what it takes to turn the wheel of this ship or feel secure about inviting anyone else on board. But even a broken world can be navigated using logic and reason.
Like in a long semester of a difficult course where you must keep excellent notes and never skip class to ace the final exam—I’m offering you my notes for any part you missed. This will catch you up on the essential available material which may have sped past you in the blur of adulthood. Opting instead to tune out with entertainment content for the remainder of life is a common coping mechanism for base level survival, but not the wisest game plan if you are looking to evolve or aid any future generations’ evolution. No shade—just sayin!
The most devious of all campaigns is the one that has thoroughly convinced us it is too late to do anything that might turn the wheel. That it is more reasonable to just preserve the years we have left in whatever bubble of copium we can create for ourselves. (How’s that working, btw?). The TRUTH is that it’s not too late. Quite the contrary—the time is now. The time has never been more now.
The process will be a healthy exercise for the brain—a cleanse, a reboot, and a glorious shedding of all that misaligns with common sense. This territory, our mind, is where we still have full authority and mastery, and no force of villainy can stop us from thinking (as of the time I’m writing this :)
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Every new chapter is sent directly to your email inbox, for $0 subscription. They are chapters from a big book I’m writing. A conscientious and chronological organizing of key information about the fight we are in (like it or not, look at it or not). There will even be a chapter about you! Most likely.
The Table of Contents can be found on my Homepage to go in proper order. Proper order is the whole jam here!
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For paid subscribers, I’ll also record audio narration of each chapter for those who prefer listening over reading. (But as someone who does both, I know I only end up grasping about 75% of the podcast I listen to while doing other things. One major theme of the book is that the devil is in that deficit, wherever we’re not paying good enough attention, so the special ask is that you listen carefully and eventually go to the printed version to check out the links and attached videos.)
I’m not a paid academic, but I am accomplished in critical thinking, writing, researching and parenting. I know in my heart that the one special skill I’ve been gifted is to synthesize issues made confusing, misleading and depleting (by design) and translate them into a language and flow my peers can easily digest. I sold my house and quit my job to take on this project, to make keeping my eye on the ball a full-time job. Every ship needs a lookout. We must think clearly through the fog—all the way through.
There are many analysts and podcasters who are doing incredible work examining “the state of the world” from the spectator perspective (and I’ll link to lots of this enlightening content throughout), but I see a great scarcity of words to the wise on what we can do differently as participants.
Sharing this with your own people and helping me grow the readership will be more valuable than anything right now. Thanks in advance!
