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That paragraph about slow roasting a duck for your dad really do be true, I'm between that one for my favorite part of this one or the intro

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Welcome back.

Scary thought: What if this is an observational period before the age of human husbandry?

What if this is the orchestrated filtering out of dogs from wolves?

I was thinking about the Georgia Guide Stones yesterday ("Keep global population under 500,000,000") and your mention of MK ULTRA got me thinking... propaganda, hypnotism, advertising, etc. only works on x percent of the population. Supposedly, the way civilizations are able to build pyramids, great walls, towers of babel, etc. is because nobody in it is resisting the project. In other words, they are part of the easily manipulable x percent.

To use the wolf v dog analogy: all dogs are domesticated wolves but not all wolves can become domesticated dogs. So if you wanted to weed out the alphas, you might introduce stresses and see which ones exhibit the 'right traits', i.e. which ones fight for self sufficiency and which ones fold? Which ones can be convinced/coerced into stacking bricks and which ones aren't worth the food rations?

Anyway, good work getting one step closer to getting out. Good luck in these crazy times ahead!

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I think about that stuff a lot, but I also think nobody is building any pyramids any time soon

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Pyramids are so 2 millennia ago. The next big thing is some kind of meta-virtual-panopticon/global adrenochrome extraction grid. When Mark Zuckerberg says he wants you to help him build the Metaverse, he only means those of you who would willingly plug themselves into the Matrix. The rest won't have the social-cryptos to buy food.

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Conspiracy aside, we all know that the genomics of g-factor (intelligence), d-factor (opportunism), and p-factor (sensitivity) is being researched upon to be "tuned out". Hopefully there are upsides of these traits for the ruling class so they won't end it outright.

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Or we can all go join Randy in his forest compound, but it will probably make him miserable aha. Although I should say that the problem with most resistance/rebellion fantasies is that they rarely end like Star Wars. Mostly the rebels become like Taiwan: a tiny beacon of semi-democracy off the coast of a massive authoritarian landmass, talking tough but secretly praying they don't get wiped out.

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> The CIA says they gave up on their mind control experiments because they just “didn’t work”.

"If you can't make super-soldiers from it, but lots of sheeps come out, why waste an opportunity?" and so we are all screwed. Yarvin's childhood anecdote of news as a closet wing of government is especially embarrassing.

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Never thought of growing a mustache as a form of procrastination

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