The Canada we remembered and thought we lived in is over and it is never coming back.
No amount of talking to people at bars, starting your own political parties, forming secret militias to plan out rebellions you never act on will change anything.
What we're seeing happening is the natural conclusion of what happens when organized government has much more power than average citizens. I don't mean power as determined by law but I mean hard power as determined by men and technologies of war.
We actually began to see this shift during the industrial revolution as weapons of war become far more advanced and outside the reach of average people to acquire; however, it wasn't a large disparity until really the second industrial revolution and it has been ever increasing since then, not just in weapons but in communication (satellites), etc... with this new age giving the power of instant control and ideology shifting through the mechanisms of information dissemination (internet, social media, mainstream news etc...).
What we have no is an extreme imbalance in power between average citizens and governments. This always leads to one conclusion which is the continued path toward absolute control in everything.
You are here because you have Traditional Western Values from the 1800s era that have been passed down generation to generation. You believe in individualism, in liberalism (the classical kind) and have an inherent believe that less government is good. You are a dying breed and you will cease to exist soon enough. The government now has control over the culture and you can see it in each new generation who aligns more and more with the government's perspective.
The biggest problem you have is that you understand that the government is not using its power to benefit the people but rather is using its power to benefit itself. The people who accept what the government is doing do not understand how the government does not truly have their interest at heart. In this manner, these people who obey the government are your enemies but they ought not to be if only they understand the situation. They don't however, so you are forced to treat them as enemies and who wants to live in a country full of your enemies?
You are probably wondering, what can you do? There are only truly 3 solutions. You're probably not going to like any of them but they are the only real solutions.
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Develop new military technology that is cheap, easy to construct, easy to use without training and can be made widely available that reduces the disparity between government and average people's power.
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Develop some new technology or social structure that changes the way in which wealth is created by improving production so significantly that it changes the very makeup of society altogether. Examples of this in history would be the industrial revolution or using animals instead of human slaves.
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Ride the Tiger of Modernity. Basically, accept that this is the way things are and you can't change them so don't even try. Just stick to what you believe is right and adapt to society so you can get along and be happy without constantly struggling to combat this situation. The metaphor is that the only place you're safe from a tiger is on its back. You can't control which way the tiger goes but because you've opted not to fight it but to ride it, you will come out unharmed even if you have no control over the direction it takes you.
There is technically a 4th option of get conquered by another civilization but that's maybe not optimal.
Everytime an entity that is not stemming from government funding acquire power, you can be goddamned sure it will be shut down before you can bring any power to it. All the web is crawled and passes through rigorous language recognition AI software that figures out if you are building a "terrorist" organization. You will get destroyed and the media will never hear about it.
Well this is what cryptocurriencies try to achieve. China is banning it because they're aware that it could lead to what you're suggesting here (removing power from the central authority). It is currently in the process of becoming a reality, however rest assured the government is stepping in as soon as (insert random victim) starts to be in need.
I believe you can tame a tiger bits by bits, and by being a strong man and building my life around truth I contribute to it as much as I can. Not every men can change the world, so just let the likes of Maxime Bernier or Jordan Peterson take the lead in bringing a world of ojective reality back, and try to impact people around you by making them understand they are misguided.
You don't have to start a revolution.
It's not about acquiring power through organization like a "terrorist" org but rather it's about acquiring power that is undeniable for governments. An example would be say someone figured out how to 3D print a nuclear bomb. It costs people like $3000 to do it all in and you can buy the supplies at your local grocery store. No matter what they government did, they wouldn't be able to deny this power.
I think cryptocurrencies are overvalued and hyped up too much for what they are. My education is finance and my profession is banking. I absolutely hate banks. If I thought crypto could destroy the establishment, I would be all in but I don't see how it can truly have a significant change.
I don't believe you'll ever win on mere discussions alone. The control of the government is too great. You may redpill the occasional person but for every 1 you redpill, the system bluepills a new generation. And if you redpill enough people, what then? Eventually, there's a conflict and if you don't have the weapons technology you need, you likely lose that conflict. All the people with funding will be funding your enemies, not you.
I got into crypto early this year because I wanted to learn how to trade while paying the lowest commision fees possible, I never thought crypto would amount to anything aside from a stepping stone to become a stock daytrader.
That said, once I started to go down the rabbit hole of researching defi, smart contracts and and the potential of blockchain technologies, the more I've come to realize that crypto is more dangerous to the current power dynamic than 3000 dollar nukes could hope to be.
This technology has the potential to render corporations, governments, and most importantly, bankers, completly obsolete. And I don't think they have any time left to stop what's happening.
My background is science and I can assure you that with proper implementations, we can be certain that no one could touch our lovely moneys where it's sitting (or trace us). Like paying cash, but without having to use a filmed booth to access what's yours. But I mean, maybe you're up to some knowledge regarding regulations and other things I'm not aware of.
That's the problem with the left, they don't want any power. They want the government to provide that for them. The left is pushing for guns registers, or bans on guns, and that does the job telling you that. And at this point we should be scared if they figure out a way to print a 3D gun for 5$ cuz that's the moment white people will be shot down in the street by minorities everyday.
No being able to touch our money doesn't really do much for us. What's the use in that? I want to understand cryptos but I've never had anyone explain to me how they can be useful. I've heard many people say "cryptos are the future and will bring down central banks" but I don't see it and no one can explain it in detail. That's worrying to me and keeps me skeptical. It could be complex sure but I'd hope if it were real, I'd have an answer. Googling it doesn't have any written explanations either.
The left doesn't want power because the left has made a choice (whether conscious or not) to submit and obey the superior power of the government so the left acts as protectors and enforcers of the government. You won't convince these people with words but these people would respond to a superior authority.
The issue with trying to tell people the truth and explain how things would be better if they had more liberty is the same issue of trying to explain what it's like to skydive to someone who has never done it. Or try describing what chicken tastes like to someone who has never ate chicken. They won't get it until they've experienced it. The government has cutoff people from this through each consecutive generation. The only way to get these people back on your side is to give them freedom again so they know what it was they were missing and how their lives would be better in this regard. This only happens by disrupting the power of the government through options 1 and 2 I listed. Just talking to people won't ever work.
Valid points. I can't say I'd lead a revolution but I wouldn't mind joining one if there was the possibility of it not being a rock thrown in the ocean.
Regarding crypto, it's a complex subject but it can be boiled down to a few things. It is based on the principles of encryption, which are in practice unbreakable, to ensure transactions are safe. You own a virtual wallet somewhere on a block of text and encryption does its job to ensure that you own the exact amount you claim. Nobody monitors transactions, and nobody creates money out of nowhere (shitcoins aside). It's inflation-proof, the government can't tax you like it does through money creation. It's decentralized, everyone can work on it, or even branch their own version of the code to make their own version of it. It's anonymous, and you can create a wallet and fill it with money without having your name tied to it. Banks can't know you bought a pepsi, and neither does the government. There are plenty of good youtube videos explaining the basics but in my humble opinion it's a strong weapon against central authorities as it strips their ressources (money) of its value.
Let's imagine best case scenario on crypto.
In effect, you can do everything in crypto.
Where your wrong is how you said nobody creates money out of no where. That's actually a fail. Banks will create money and simply use crypto. You think when we had gold, banks didn't "create money out of no where"? Haha....
The banks will offer to pay you interest if you give them your bitcoins. Perhaps you're a huge rebel so you're like, I don't need 1% return on my cyrpto... so the banks offer 2% or 3% and at this point someone has decided to give their cryptos to the banks. Man sends his crypto to bank wallet. Bank shows the man that he has $X in crypto stored at the bank. Then from here you get exactly the same sort of banking structure as you have now except you have crypto currencies instead of fiat currency. Nothing changes.
There is the aspect of inflation/deflation given that in such a scenario you remove the governments ability to control the money supply. I'd have to really think about this one to understand the impacts but I doubt there would be any major impacts that would change the very nature of society. It might simply lead to a little better quality of life for some people or perhaps worse but I don't foresee it doing more than that.
Yes, but by doing so they lower the value of money, and increase the demand on the crypto. Both impact the relative value of crypto to money positively.
The idea behind getting on it early is to avoid being caught in the system by having banks holding/providing the currency and us losing control over the keys ownership. If you own one bitcoin now, you are assured that the global demand for it leads to a stable absolute value. In theory, even if 80% of currencies in the world are devalued, crypto value won't change. It is in some ways like gold, but can't be target-farmed massively when its value is high (driving the price down).
WE have each other, WE have the Zeitgeist, WE hold our heads high for common sense and reason...
They are twisted in their manipulative logic.
They will lose, because once the true Liberal Left see's that they have been betrayed by their "Utopic Dream". They'll end up fighting with us...
It's gonna take death for them to wake up it seems, too many academics and Lefties flocked for these mRNA shots...
"If you are receiving this Transmission...
You are the Resistance to the Globalists.
Because we have you, We have this Team, it's all of us.
And I'm very humble when I say it, but praise God!
We have the Zeitgeist, We HAVE EXCALIBUR
We have pulled the Sword of Destiny from the Stone...
And I thank all the Old Men that helped me wake up when I was a child, it's literally a Merlin-like story.
But that's why those are Archetypes, whether they're even True to us.
This is all an Arthurian fight against Tyranny, and against these Evil Wizards...
It's such an incredible time to be alive, and I'm thankful to all of you, and thankful to God.
Let us continue our Destiny, Let us Continue our Will..."
We're still HERE!
Every single other big civilization has eventually crashed spectacularly.
Our current civilization is the biggest ever, and it will also eventually crash spectacularly, or go through another world war, or both. It could be soon, but I expect it to be years or decades from now.
All things will not continue as they have always before.
Armageddon may come.
You should fight back but use your energy toward innovation is what I'm essentially saying. You aren't going to win creating a secret militia group with 30 guys going around waving flags but if you got 30 guys to pool their resource together to try and research some sort of superior weapon or technology, that might actually get you somewhere. It's a much better use of energy.
All the "fighting back" has got us no where for over a century. We're continuing a march toward a certain end because we lack the correct power structures and systems in place to force the direction of the path in another direction.
A revolution won't change things as much as people think it might because any new regime will be equally as corrupted by the same pressures forcing things in a certain direction.
You must change these pressures and that's where innovations/inventions that have the power to change the pressures comes into effect.
We don't need a solution.
We just need to stop allowing people to make problems.
This is a fairly decent grasp and summary, yes.
I don't think the tech is quite there yup. 3D printing a little gun that can fire a few times isn't it. The big issue is surveillance and communication. In wars, communication is extremely important. The manner in which the government gathers intel vs. what the average people are capable of is night and day. Furthermore the complexity of the level of ideological subversion governments are capable of vs. what the average citizen is aware of and capable of doing themselves is night and day. Until the playing field is level in these areas, the guns citizens own is mostly irrelevant.
Why would a powerful centralized authority ever willingly give up its power? That's more the angle of my approach. I like decentralized but if you look back through human history, the only time we've had more "decentralized" governments is when organized government armies weren't significantly different than what a peasant army would look like. Any time government armies have a significant weapons advantage, we get much more centralized governments.
Vietnam is going the same way as western society now. They only delayed the inevitable. Afghan has a different social structure. It's still very agricultural based there without the same prevalence of technology in existence for information dissemination.
You're not comparing the same things.
The culture war won't win. Religions and other static ideologies with objective morals worked in periods of time where transportation and communication was not instant. In this world of instant communication and fast travel, it is very easy for governments to change values/beliefs of the population on a whim, which is what they do. The new religion is the State. You won't win the culture war. Look around at almost EVERY country in the world that has embraced modern communications technology. All their cultures are slowly bringing on more and more of essentially global western cultural values. Even China and even the Middle-East.
That's because the values are logical in order to promote the power of centralized authorities, most especially the western elite. If you want to win the culture war you need to set the terrain such that your culture and the way in which it is taught is superior to that of the government's but it's not superior. That's why you're losing and losing badly.
Some people who hold on to Christian values, maybe other religious values, are not open to changing their values on a whim.
We all should try not to let the government brainwash us or change our values.
You are lucky then. I don't enjoy my life. I know plenty of guys that don't enjoy theirs either. Any guy who isn't enjoying things will stop and analyze why. For many guys, the problems lies in the structure of society. It is not possible for some guys to enjoy their life because of how the structure of society is.
Again, some guys get lucky, like yourself but many guys don't.
When guys who didn't get lucky decide to focus their energy on trying to improve things for themselves, every guy will eventually hit the blackpill because the sad reality is that men don't actually have any power or control in their lives enough to change the systems in place that are negatively impacting men's lives.
That leads to either accept things, move on and hope to get lucky in the future or don't accept things and try your best to navigate life while never finding it enjoyable.
It's not about reading forums like this. I know plenty of depressed guys that refuse to read forums like this. Personally, I find forums like this uplifting, knowing that it's not just me suffering out there.
The solutions I gave aren't hopeless ones, just hard ones to accomplish. I see too many solutions focused on "vote this party" or "organize a revolution". Both those are the wrong solutions IMO. False hope that won't ever solve anything.
Yeah, attraction is huge in our society, especially for men. Being attractive as a man IMO is far more important than a woman. Unattractive women have many more options than unattractive men.
I lost out on the attractiveness thing. Even though I workout and exercise almost 7 days a week (Muay Thai and weight lifting), I'm just not there on the attractiveness scale. Genetics.
I've come to the same conclusion as you: "the best you can do is just have a family and shape the future you want to see through your kids". That's the part modern society bars from me. In order to start a family you need to find a woman but if women are being influenced by the very society you oppose, how will you be able to "shape the future you want to see through your kids" when she has divorced you, taken the kids and taught them the very opposite of what you believe?
You can say I'm over exaggerating but I'm already divorce, though no kids. I'm old enough now, 33yo, to know what kind of woman will work for me to start a family with and I can't attract this sort of women. The structure of society is very much a problem for this. Statistically, it's not just me with problems. The number of single adults in their prime ages has increased from 20% in the 60s to ~50% now. Divorces are up. Single mothers are up. The birth rate of natural western civilization people are below sustainable rates. Did you know the most unhappy archetype of person that exists in western society is a 40s single professional woman without children or a husband? But that is literally what the structure of society creates instead of creating mothers and wives, which means all in the community suffer, though the government doesn't care because they're fine with immigrants, a higher tax base and more productivity.
I'm glad it worked out for you though and I'm glad you're at least on this side of the fence. I see too many men that find what they're looking for in life and then blame everyone else who is unable to find what they want on themselves because their logic is if they can do it anyone can do it such that they deny there are any structural problems at play.