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Keep a diary or log. I have, since COVID gave the tyrants an excuse. It's a fantastic way to see what gets memory-holed and where the gas-lighting efforts are

Keep a diary or log. I have, since COVID gave the tyrants an excuse. It's a fantastic way to see what gets memory-holed and where the gas-lighting efforts are spent. Maybe one of us ends up as required reading for whatever civilization emerges from the ashes.

cjbgkagh 3y ago
I'll let Peter Hitchens keep a chronicle. I'm collecting and studying enlightenment era literature to better understand what is being destroyed and what will need to be put back. I don't think the modern era is unique, I do think we're in the twilight of the enlightenment which was an unusually good time for my subset of humanity. Like Chertersons fense, we've forgotten how we got here and we're removing freedoms without understanding the consequences. My main goal is to avoid involvement in any great power conflict. I think I'm an unusual 'prepper' in that my long held prediction of 'collapse' was specifically the cost of living criss we are now experiencing. I prepared for it by investing in software that is inflation resistant. I targeted the low-cost substitutable good market so for me bad times are good.
eastbound 3y ago
I recently met a boomer and I had the shills, hearing him in Paris in 1968 mounting barricades, feeling that he had an impact on the course of the entire political world, feeling that he was setting the direction while mounting theater plays and opening up girl’s dormitories (reference: What triggered Paris’ May 1968 is the girls being locked up at night in their universities). Compared to today. Even the major majority of the population can’t do a thing about the force propaganda, and the ones who protest see a million AI-generated flame pieces in newspapers.
- hilbert42 3y ago
  "I recently met a boomer and I had the shills, hearing him in Paris in 1968 mounting barricades, feeling that he had an impact on the course of the entire political world," I've never felt more politically empowered than during that time, it's been a steady slide downwards since. I now feel helpless and neutered. I just wish that time would return.

cjbgkagh 3y ago

I'll let Peter Hitchens keep a chronicle. I'm collecting and studying enlightenment era literature to better understand what is being destroyed and what will need to be put back. I don't think the modern era is unique, I do think we're in the twilight of the enlightenment which was an unusually good time for my subset of humanity. Like Chertersons fense, we've forgotten how we got here and we're removing freedoms without understanding the consequences. My main goal is to avoid involvement in any great power conflict. I think I'm an unusual 'prepper' in that my long held prediction of 'collapse' was specifically the cost of living criss we are now experiencing. I prepared for it by investing in software that is inflation resistant. I targeted the low-cost substitutable good market so for me bad times are good.

eastbound 3y ago

I recently met a boomer and I had the shills, hearing him in Paris in 1968 mounting barricades, feeling that he had an impact on the course of the entire political world, feeling that he was setting the direction while mounting theater plays and opening up girl’s dormitories (reference: What triggered Paris’ May 1968 is the girls being locked up at night in their universities). Compared to today. Even the major majority of the population can’t do a thing about the force propaganda, and the ones who protest see a million AI-generated flame pieces in newspapers.

hilbert42 3y ago
"I recently met a boomer and I had the shills, hearing him in Paris in 1968 mounting barricades, feeling that he had an impact on the course of the entire political world," I've never felt more politically empowered than during that time, it's been a steady slide downwards since. I now feel helpless and neutered. I just wish that time would return.