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How Optimistic Are You About the Future?

Mr. BlueSpynx posted a more extended version of this poll in a gab group with a 1-10 scale. I thought it was interesting enough to see what people on Substack are thinking regarding this. Are the elites just a CBDC rollout away from total world domination, with the dissidents being picked off until the survivors are left living in pods?

Or will a critical mass be reached that allows us to collectively move out of this era of centralization, tyranny and corruption? And perhaps really build something better?

It’s obvious that what they’ve done is not working, unless the goal is mass death and societal collapse. I thought we locked down to save hospitals from being overwhelmed? Note how wait times leapt after safe and effective rolled out.

On that 1 to 5 scale I personally sit at about a 4. I am an optimist. I feel we are winning battles but there is a ton of work to be done, enough to last a lifetime. I do have days when I am frightened for the future, and days when I feel overwhelmed by the sea of clueless people and wonder how to get through to them.

And it’s not like the powers that be even try to hide it at all anymore. Just look at the Grammys!

Actually I decided to really look at the Grammys. Obviously the over the top Satanic performance of “Unholy” got all of the attention of meme makers, along with the Pfizer sponsorship:

But I bet you don’t know who won “Song of the Year,” do you?

It wasn’t that unholy song that likely caused many people to tune out the rest of the show. Even if you take out the blood red and the Luciferian themes the Body Shop implies a transhumanist future of sexless, interchangeable parts swapped out at will like those on a car.

I think “Song of the Year” better summarizes a certain zeitgeist of a year. For example 2019’s winner, “This is America’ by Childish Gambino featured a gratuitously violent nothing matters shock style music video. The 2020 winner for song of the year was the Billie Elish hit “I’m the Bad Guy” (duh-this choice was a no brainer pick for the year one launch of dystopia). The winner in 2021 was “Leave the Door Open” by Bruno Mars, Silk Sonic and Anderson Paak, a sleepy nostalgic reggae tune (it feels like it was written in the 1970’s) that was as forgettable as I think many people hope that entire horrific year was. At a bare minimum that song so distanced itself from 2021 that nobody will remember it was released then.

So what won for the best song for 2022? It wasn’t some gratuitous over the top bootylicious display of star power. There is no music video for the song at all, which is just as well as the words and the vocals carry it.

It is called “Just Like That” by country singer Bonnie Raitt. The song is about finding God in the aftermath of horrific tragedy. I dare you not to cry.

There’s a point when people tire of burying their dead and caring for the injured. You recognize it as an empty seat at the table and another milestone missed. It never goes away. When the death was especially senseless and premature it can develop an aching that grows stronger with each year.

And this has all been for what? To fulfill Bill Gates and Klaus Schwab’s masturbatory fantasies of world domination? To enrich some Pfizer execs, or so some DoD mad scientists can try out some pet theories? The future got thrown away so that they could go to a concert, or on a cruise, or prove that they weren’t an “antivaxxer,” or to keep their job? The empty seat remains.

There’s a point where you stop glorifying death. There’s a point when you stop trying to escape from regret. There’s a point where you need the lives of those you loved which were tragically cut short to have had meaning and purpose. As the bodies pile up, ironically, they plant a seed in the heart of the living. The seed says we’re tired of battlefields and death. The seed says never again.

That’s what makes me an optimist. There is still so much work to do. What do you all think?

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