Reading requires attention and focus. Smartphones have trained people to address life largely visually.
I have an extremely hard time viewing videos because, rather than directly addressing a point, most "interviews, panel discussions et al." hem and haw. There's a lot of filler rather than cold, hard facts.
I can scan a written article and glean the "new points" or information in a matter of minutes. A writer once pointed out that the novelty began normally 2/3-3/4 through the article. He was right.
I red pilled in 2015 in my 60s. I know every rabbit hole there is to know. I don't claim expertise but simply awareness and knowledge in many cases. I accomplished this in less than ten years because I only read; videos were kept to a minimum. Anyone can read 100x faster than listening to a video.
When my Buddhist group began Zoom meetings in 2020, I kept my screen blank. I was on viewing mode only. My reasoning was simply that I knew the Chinese largely backed Zoom and that they were/are compiling a data base of Americans with photos, blood type, heritage, etc.
If I'd never posted on discussion groups, I could be the total Grey Man. However, I don't have to make anything easy for anyone...as you say Ray.
Zerohedge occasionally publishes useful info, but the comment sections are a disaster (which is why I am resolutely guarding mine). 42% is surprising, because in my teaching years in the US and in Europe, only about 30% of college students were able to read with the hope of understanding. I had to omit reading comprehension tests from my syllabi, because nobody would have received an "A"... I kind of think it's only the exceptionally intelligent and unharmed who can read these days, and most of them tend to be over 60.
I am also a rapid reader; can determine the value of a text in 30-60 seconds, and the vast majority is usually not worth reading, but deserve some attention.
It's good to see you are also using the term "fact" instead of "truth." Nobody knows the whole truth, but still, everyone is responsible for their actions, whether they commit themselves knowingly or not. If you know every rabbit hole, please, share; I don't.
This is the first time I hear about the Chinese backing Zoom, not that it matters; the data are sold all over the world and all central-AI owners use them to perfect their global simulations.
Posting contradictory information, preferably in the overload mode, can also work.
I don't read ZeroHedge comments. I did in the beginning, and actually, when I asked questions (because I didn't understand the financial language), I actually received some very kind replies loaded with information I could understand.
Back then, they were a hoot. Maybe ten years ago.
I'm familiar with every rabbit hole anyone mentions in an article, substack, etc. I haven't encountered any new ones in quite a while. Perhaps unknown rabbit holes exist.
Exactly. I glance down an article for the relevant aka new information. If I decide to watch a video, they have 2 minutes to establish themselves after I fastforward to the beginning of the interview.
"Zoom Traffic Through China: Company Apologizes, Announces You Can Control Data Routing" April 14, 2020. How many people looked into controlling their data routing? I don't think my Buddhist organization did. Most of the people in April 2020 were too busy staying at home while being paid and enjoying moratoriums on rent/mortgage payments while baking bread to control their data.
Until about ten years ago, I also used to enjoy comments on Zerohedge, but these days, I hardly ever read even some of the articles. Comments on Mercola also used to be more helpful than the articles themselves, and I got banned there at the beginning of the convid psyop, while the articles have become little else but lies, red herrings, limited hangouts, and compartmentalized details. I have written about those, citing Mercola's pieces, several times, but these days, it would take too much time to address even the most conspicuous problems there... That kind of reminds me of your expression about the rabbit holes; there are too many of them.
I limit by video length, too. Long videos tend to use brainwashing techniques that tick me off.
Thank you for the Zoom details, too! China is certainly a testing ground for full governmental control, but Europe and the Five Eyes are also in the pack...
Are we relatives? :) I was 9, when we got our first TV. I remember watching 12 Angry Men around that time, which fundamentally changed my thinking.
After that, I limited my watching and after 14, I never watched again, except for some movies. Remember? When I was teaching in Europe, I watched TCM on occasion and even bought a copy of The Postman for being homesick, as I noted in
Last time I had to watch TV was nearly ten years ago, when I was visiting a relative and they turned on the 6'o-clock news. I couldn't take it for more than 30-40 seconds, stepped out of the place and asked the host to let me in once the "news" was over. Mercifully, they turned off the TV instead. :)
Never watched a presidential debate or ANY politician talking in public; those stink to high heaven.
I visit my octogenarian mom and step-dad in another province almost every year and as soon as the news comes on at lunch and supper, I'm out on the back deck listening to birds and watching the wildlife.
Re: hillbillies I resemble that remark. Well, I don't really resemble a hillbilly but my ancestors were. Out of Appalachia. But certainly not shiftless. English surnames. One on my mother's father's side came over as an infant before the Revolutionary War.
The Appalachia leads in the "hillbilly" department! (the term itself reveals more of those who use it than of their targets) My parents (who were from all over the place) were a lot more intelligent than I am, but never had a chance. I prefer to keep it mundane, easily accessible for those interested.
I hated it, when my father kept telling me I could be anyone I wanted to be, while hardly ever giving me a hand. My mom was too busy to keep the family together, so already at age 6, I was on my own. No complaints, it did me good, although it took me nearly another 60 years to grow up halfway (I don't think I'll ever fully make it. :) ).
Keep up the fine art of reading and writing, Ray. The world has turned into a convenience reel and willing nuthouse. Most of the time I watch a video I am preoccupied with ‘is this Ai ?’ anyhow. I see all your reasons and would add that the majority of folks needing video stimulus are surface grazers (haha, that’s going to fly well), so it just goes back to what entertainment you want to provide.
I just sent out (yet another) head-shaker to a friend, musing how dismally small the actual professional resistance troupe was back in 2021/22 (and the ground floor was enmeshed in infighting) while we were fed this elaborate show of super experts putting on a fight, and who one-by-one have been outed as actors. Sitting ducks watching the world float by….
To make it a bit more humiliating for many "humans," I could easily make a bundle out of human stupidity, but my stack is not an enterprise; it's meant to be a payback for all the good things I've received from magnanimous souls, most of them gone by now.
At 28 or so, I agreed with Getty. When Donahue asked him if it was easy to become a billionaire, he paused for a few seconds, and said, "Yes." After a few more seconds, he added, "If that's all you want from life." When I was trading in the third, fourth, and fifth grades at school (mostly stamps and numismatics), I learned how easy it was to make money by buying cheap and selling for more, but eventually, I decided that my life was about more and I wouldn't want to spend it like that. I didn't. :)
It's not me; it's you and my readers! Not everyone is incompetent or undecided. As for me, I lost most of my friends and family to the insanity during convid (they severed all ties with me).
Sitting ducks it is. For most "blue-pilled" are also not much more than fish in the fish tank discussing who is going to be eaten first. Or chicken watching the grill...
“Not everyone is incompetent or undecided”. No, but can’t conceal the sacrcasm any longer because your follow-up sentence applies to me as well. Sometimes that’s all that’s left. And being on the ‘Chinese’ side of your northern border, slightly more mangled after the recent show-de-force.
So, if you had to weigh the threat level of embedded psy warfare on the unconscious mind…how would you score the two side-by-side? Reading vs watching ? Say you were an oblivious, and even a moderately or strongly aware consumer?
Knowing you, you’ve probably done a post on this somewhere. Your last comment above is a keeper, LOL.
Please, explain: What's sarcastic about me losing friends and family to the insanity? I thought the same happened to you. Irony, maybe?
For 18 months, my wife and I entered grocery stores ready for six thugs dressed up as highwaymen jump all over us. It was not easy to walk against the arrows in stores, either. Out of nearly 1,100 posts, there might be some that applies. The one that comes to mind is about where I draw the line (which hasn't changed, that's my hill to die on, because I've seen it all):
Ha, no, not at all, Ray. The sarcasm did apply to my own limitations of describing the environment that is created around us. What is missing above is the ‘I’ in ‘No, but I can’t conceal…’ and yes, I can fully relate to the beating it took to get here, and it still keeps coming. Sometimes,… OK, all the time .. it shows that this one isn’t my first language. What I was after was your estimate of weighing the levels of embeddable mind-war threats when comparing written and video messaging. Seemed to me it’s in your professional wheelhouse? A no-snark question. Yes, I have read ‘the Hill to die on’, which was perfect to ring the bell on the silent creep of totalitarian stranglehold, the frog boiling, and the constantly shifting compromise leading into the cul-de-sac.
You and I are "only" humans (is that becoming the highest honor these days? We never wanted to be "heroes"...)
Mind war? I guess, those who have been misled might be possible to convert with one question a day (not only about "vaccines"), which I was too late to realize. If I hadn't, I could have possibly kept some of my friends and family on the ranks of the (mentally) living:
Ultimately, it's everyone's own choice, but the frog must remain alive.
This is a fight to the death. If people realized it, there wouldn't be any technocracy coming. If people could agree where they would prefer to die instead of being slaves, nobody could be enslaved. On my end, I consider it a victory, if I can depart from this world with honor as a human being.
Yes it is. Here is the Policy Horizon Spring 2024 Upcoming Disruptions report. https://horizons.service.canada.ca/en/2024/disruptions/index.shtml Policy Horizon is the direct WEF/Reality Generator installed within the Canadian Government. It is flogged as a Think Tank observing “trends”, when in reality it is their Duffle bag of prepared socio-economic Disruptions and Shocks ready for target launching if the herd strays from the goal posts. Surprisingly, their previous ‘predictions’ have mostly come to pass, with hammers, wrenches and narratives. So, take a look at their 35 grenades Impact Map and timelines - which have already shifted, mind you since written 7 mo. prior to US selections. It’s mostly geared towards Canada, but despite their efforts to slice and dice, we do breathe the same air. Rendering large ecosystems unliveable is a mere tool in that bag of theirs, floating around on a schematic. Thanks for your trail maps, Ray.
You don't really look like a hillbilly to me, maybe a trucker. What may be a compromise would be to do video readings of your thoughts and ideas. Reading your stack is fine, but listening and seeing provides nuance and perhaps a better understanding of the subject.
Thank you for your thoughts. In my case, I prefer to read. Videos are mostly crap, and I have to waste a lot of time by the time I find out they are. Moreover, I like to see the text in front of me in order to be able to construct a whole image a lot more quickly than by watching a video. Videos can also be manipulative in sooo many ways that even I (an "expert") can miss some... I don't trust myself. :)
People with genuine intelligence would never have developed artificial intelligence.
Imagine "humans" adept at killing and maiming efficiently through AI. Then imagine "humans" taking pride in being able to invade the brain and by means of AI replace functions of healthy bodies maimed with the help of AI.
These "humans" are sides of the same coin. Those who engage in these pursuits lead the way to the pit.
The most intelligent people I've ever met in life held no degrees at all. They were tough, but nice; a good combination to trust most of the time, as long as they exhibit some empathy. :)
Of late years I have often wished or dreamt myself back into the illiterate state of childhood. I have come to the conclusion that the gains of education are flimsy as compared to the losses.
I also prefer to prepare for actions that I can most likely do. Lots of people call it being black-pilled, but it's better than hanging on to hopes that have no chance to be fulfilled.
Looks like the folk here in E TN.
Nice!
:)
As I've been saying from the beginning:
We are all in this together. Alone.
Let me know the exact way to communicate w/ you.
Interesting personal perspective Ray, refreshing!
Thank you. Well, not sure about which part you mean. :)
I was surprised today to read in ZeroHedge that approximately 42% of Americans prefer to watch or listen to news rather than read it. https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/third-americans-worry-about-manipulated-news
Reading requires attention and focus. Smartphones have trained people to address life largely visually.
I have an extremely hard time viewing videos because, rather than directly addressing a point, most "interviews, panel discussions et al." hem and haw. There's a lot of filler rather than cold, hard facts.
I can scan a written article and glean the "new points" or information in a matter of minutes. A writer once pointed out that the novelty began normally 2/3-3/4 through the article. He was right.
I red pilled in 2015 in my 60s. I know every rabbit hole there is to know. I don't claim expertise but simply awareness and knowledge in many cases. I accomplished this in less than ten years because I only read; videos were kept to a minimum. Anyone can read 100x faster than listening to a video.
When my Buddhist group began Zoom meetings in 2020, I kept my screen blank. I was on viewing mode only. My reasoning was simply that I knew the Chinese largely backed Zoom and that they were/are compiling a data base of Americans with photos, blood type, heritage, etc.
If I'd never posted on discussion groups, I could be the total Grey Man. However, I don't have to make anything easy for anyone...as you say Ray.
Zerohedge occasionally publishes useful info, but the comment sections are a disaster (which is why I am resolutely guarding mine). 42% is surprising, because in my teaching years in the US and in Europe, only about 30% of college students were able to read with the hope of understanding. I had to omit reading comprehension tests from my syllabi, because nobody would have received an "A"... I kind of think it's only the exceptionally intelligent and unharmed who can read these days, and most of them tend to be over 60.
I am also a rapid reader; can determine the value of a text in 30-60 seconds, and the vast majority is usually not worth reading, but deserve some attention.
It's good to see you are also using the term "fact" instead of "truth." Nobody knows the whole truth, but still, everyone is responsible for their actions, whether they commit themselves knowingly or not. If you know every rabbit hole, please, share; I don't.
This is the first time I hear about the Chinese backing Zoom, not that it matters; the data are sold all over the world and all central-AI owners use them to perfect their global simulations.
Posting contradictory information, preferably in the overload mode, can also work.
I don't read ZeroHedge comments. I did in the beginning, and actually, when I asked questions (because I didn't understand the financial language), I actually received some very kind replies loaded with information I could understand.
Back then, they were a hoot. Maybe ten years ago.
I'm familiar with every rabbit hole anyone mentions in an article, substack, etc. I haven't encountered any new ones in quite a while. Perhaps unknown rabbit holes exist.
Exactly. I glance down an article for the relevant aka new information. If I decide to watch a video, they have 2 minutes to establish themselves after I fastforward to the beginning of the interview.
"Zoom Traffic Through China: Company Apologizes, Announces You Can Control Data Routing" April 14, 2020. How many people looked into controlling their data routing? I don't think my Buddhist organization did. Most of the people in April 2020 were too busy staying at home while being paid and enjoying moratoriums on rent/mortgage payments while baking bread to control their data.
https://www.secureworld.io/industry-news/zoom-traffic-through-china-data-routing-controls
Until about ten years ago, I also used to enjoy comments on Zerohedge, but these days, I hardly ever read even some of the articles. Comments on Mercola also used to be more helpful than the articles themselves, and I got banned there at the beginning of the convid psyop, while the articles have become little else but lies, red herrings, limited hangouts, and compartmentalized details. I have written about those, citing Mercola's pieces, several times, but these days, it would take too much time to address even the most conspicuous problems there... That kind of reminds me of your expression about the rabbit holes; there are too many of them.
I limit by video length, too. Long videos tend to use brainwashing techniques that tick me off.
Thank you for the Zoom details, too! China is certainly a testing ground for full governmental control, but Europe and the Five Eyes are also in the pack...
I love reading your Stacks. If you made videos, I wouldn't watch them. They're too time consuming as I can read and absorb articles much faster.
I wouldn't watch them, either! :D
🤣
I too prefer reading to watching. I haven't had a TV hookup (satellite, cable or even an antenna up here in rural Ontario) since the late 90s.
Are we relatives? :) I was 9, when we got our first TV. I remember watching 12 Angry Men around that time, which fundamentally changed my thinking.
After that, I limited my watching and after 14, I never watched again, except for some movies. Remember? When I was teaching in Europe, I watched TCM on occasion and even bought a copy of The Postman for being homesick, as I noted in
https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/the-most-important-thing-anyone-can
Last time I had to watch TV was nearly ten years ago, when I was visiting a relative and they turned on the 6'o-clock news. I couldn't take it for more than 30-40 seconds, stepped out of the place and asked the host to let me in once the "news" was over. Mercifully, they turned off the TV instead. :)
Never watched a presidential debate or ANY politician talking in public; those stink to high heaven.
Yep! Separated at birth!! 🤪🤣
I visit my octogenarian mom and step-dad in another province almost every year and as soon as the news comes on at lunch and supper, I'm out on the back deck listening to birds and watching the wildlife.
The storm fell a tree last night. Out of three little birds from a nest only one survived. My wife is now cooking eggs to feed it. :)
Update: The little bird didn't make it... :(
Re: hillbillies I resemble that remark. Well, I don't really resemble a hillbilly but my ancestors were. Out of Appalachia. But certainly not shiftless. English surnames. One on my mother's father's side came over as an infant before the Revolutionary War.
The Appalachia leads in the "hillbilly" department! (the term itself reveals more of those who use it than of their targets) My parents (who were from all over the place) were a lot more intelligent than I am, but never had a chance. I prefer to keep it mundane, easily accessible for those interested.
I hated it, when my father kept telling me I could be anyone I wanted to be, while hardly ever giving me a hand. My mom was too busy to keep the family together, so already at age 6, I was on my own. No complaints, it did me good, although it took me nearly another 60 years to grow up halfway (I don't think I'll ever fully make it. :) ).
Keep up the fine art of reading and writing, Ray. The world has turned into a convenience reel and willing nuthouse. Most of the time I watch a video I am preoccupied with ‘is this Ai ?’ anyhow. I see all your reasons and would add that the majority of folks needing video stimulus are surface grazers (haha, that’s going to fly well), so it just goes back to what entertainment you want to provide.
I just sent out (yet another) head-shaker to a friend, musing how dismally small the actual professional resistance troupe was back in 2021/22 (and the ground floor was enmeshed in infighting) while we were fed this elaborate show of super experts putting on a fight, and who one-by-one have been outed as actors. Sitting ducks watching the world float by….
To make it a bit more humiliating for many "humans," I could easily make a bundle out of human stupidity, but my stack is not an enterprise; it's meant to be a payback for all the good things I've received from magnanimous souls, most of them gone by now.
At 28 or so, I agreed with Getty. When Donahue asked him if it was easy to become a billionaire, he paused for a few seconds, and said, "Yes." After a few more seconds, he added, "If that's all you want from life." When I was trading in the third, fourth, and fifth grades at school (mostly stamps and numismatics), I learned how easy it was to make money by buying cheap and selling for more, but eventually, I decided that my life was about more and I wouldn't want to spend it like that. I didn't. :)
It's not me; it's you and my readers! Not everyone is incompetent or undecided. As for me, I lost most of my friends and family to the insanity during convid (they severed all ties with me).
Sitting ducks it is. For most "blue-pilled" are also not much more than fish in the fish tank discussing who is going to be eaten first. Or chicken watching the grill...
“Not everyone is incompetent or undecided”. No, but can’t conceal the sacrcasm any longer because your follow-up sentence applies to me as well. Sometimes that’s all that’s left. And being on the ‘Chinese’ side of your northern border, slightly more mangled after the recent show-de-force.
So, if you had to weigh the threat level of embedded psy warfare on the unconscious mind…how would you score the two side-by-side? Reading vs watching ? Say you were an oblivious, and even a moderately or strongly aware consumer?
Knowing you, you’ve probably done a post on this somewhere. Your last comment above is a keeper, LOL.
Thank you for honoring me with your thoughts.
Please, explain: What's sarcastic about me losing friends and family to the insanity? I thought the same happened to you. Irony, maybe?
For 18 months, my wife and I entered grocery stores ready for six thugs dressed up as highwaymen jump all over us. It was not easy to walk against the arrows in stores, either. Out of nearly 1,100 posts, there might be some that applies. The one that comes to mind is about where I draw the line (which hasn't changed, that's my hill to die on, because I've seen it all):
https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/freedom-is-what-freedom-does-but
Ha, no, not at all, Ray. The sarcasm did apply to my own limitations of describing the environment that is created around us. What is missing above is the ‘I’ in ‘No, but I can’t conceal…’ and yes, I can fully relate to the beating it took to get here, and it still keeps coming. Sometimes,… OK, all the time .. it shows that this one isn’t my first language. What I was after was your estimate of weighing the levels of embeddable mind-war threats when comparing written and video messaging. Seemed to me it’s in your professional wheelhouse? A no-snark question. Yes, I have read ‘the Hill to die on’, which was perfect to ring the bell on the silent creep of totalitarian stranglehold, the frog boiling, and the constantly shifting compromise leading into the cul-de-sac.
You and I are "only" humans (is that becoming the highest honor these days? We never wanted to be "heroes"...)
Mind war? I guess, those who have been misled might be possible to convert with one question a day (not only about "vaccines"), which I was too late to realize. If I hadn't, I could have possibly kept some of my friends and family on the ranks of the (mentally) living:
https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/what-can-you-say
Ultimately, it's everyone's own choice, but the frog must remain alive.
This is a fight to the death. If people realized it, there wouldn't be any technocracy coming. If people could agree where they would prefer to die instead of being slaves, nobody could be enslaved. On my end, I consider it a victory, if I can depart from this world with honor as a human being.
Yes it is. Here is the Policy Horizon Spring 2024 Upcoming Disruptions report. https://horizons.service.canada.ca/en/2024/disruptions/index.shtml Policy Horizon is the direct WEF/Reality Generator installed within the Canadian Government. It is flogged as a Think Tank observing “trends”, when in reality it is their Duffle bag of prepared socio-economic Disruptions and Shocks ready for target launching if the herd strays from the goal posts. Surprisingly, their previous ‘predictions’ have mostly come to pass, with hammers, wrenches and narratives. So, take a look at their 35 grenades Impact Map and timelines - which have already shifted, mind you since written 7 mo. prior to US selections. It’s mostly geared towards Canada, but despite their efforts to slice and dice, we do breathe the same air. Rendering large ecosystems unliveable is a mere tool in that bag of theirs, floating around on a schematic. Thanks for your trail maps, Ray.
You don't really look like a hillbilly to me, maybe a trucker. What may be a compromise would be to do video readings of your thoughts and ideas. Reading your stack is fine, but listening and seeing provides nuance and perhaps a better understanding of the subject.
Thank you for your thoughts. In my case, I prefer to read. Videos are mostly crap, and I have to waste a lot of time by the time I find out they are. Moreover, I like to see the text in front of me in order to be able to construct a whole image a lot more quickly than by watching a video. Videos can also be manipulative in sooo many ways that even I (an "expert") can miss some... I don't trust myself. :)
The academic look may seem pretentious, but natural, down-to-earth people often show far more genuine intelligence.
People with genuine intelligence would never have developed artificial intelligence.
Imagine "humans" adept at killing and maiming efficiently through AI. Then imagine "humans" taking pride in being able to invade the brain and by means of AI replace functions of healthy bodies maimed with the help of AI.
These "humans" are sides of the same coin. Those who engage in these pursuits lead the way to the pit.
The most intelligent people I've ever met in life held no degrees at all. They were tough, but nice; a good combination to trust most of the time, as long as they exhibit some empathy. :)
Of late years I have often wished or dreamt myself back into the illiterate state of childhood. I have come to the conclusion that the gains of education are flimsy as compared to the losses.
You have educated yourself enough to know that. :)
Yes oh yes, but I am wearied unto death of the empty clatter of dialectics.
I also prefer to prepare for actions that I can most likely do. Lots of people call it being black-pilled, but it's better than hanging on to hopes that have no chance to be fulfilled.