Conversation with Aaron Good, American Exception: Empire and the Deep State (Welcome to my world, Jeffrey Sachs)

My recent posts have been more abstract and philosophical, focusing on how “they” control us and conceal the real world. I’ve mentioned that I discovered the hidden truths of this world nearly 20 years ago. Meanwhile, people like Aaron Good or Max Blumenthal focus on uncovering what is hidden from us and exposing ongoing events. I, on the other hand, concentrate on how such deception is possible—how our world is filled with people living in a naïve, fabricated reality shaped by propaganda.

I’ve often thought about the futility of discovering what “they” are doing if people don’t understand or accept this knowledge. Many will reject it and continue to live in the world of the naïve. Of course, I still follow what’s happening and understand much of it, but my knowledge is often smaller compared to experts like Aaron Good or Max Blumenthal. They are excellent sources of information about the real world, and I’ve decided to focus instead on the workings of the human mind.

For instance, if I can already use logic and physics to prove that the official narratives of 9/11 and the Kennedy assassination are false, what does it matter if people don’t accept the evidence? If the laws of physics cannot convince people of objective truth, what is the point of uncovering more such examples? Even if I were to find additional cases, like 9/11 or the Kennedy assassination, where the official stories defy the laws of physics, it would change nothing. It wouldn’t solve the deeper issue. I realized that the real challenge lies in understanding how they make people ignore objective reality—even when it’s proven by the laws of physics.

How do they create a world of naivety where people blindly accept falsehoods, much like religious dogma? For years, I’ve wrestled with these questions. I while how I felt all those years could be summarize best by Edward Snowden:

“People don’t realize how hard it is to speak the truth to a world full of people that don’t realize they’re living a lie.”

I’ve also expressed my reservations about Jeffrey Sachs, as he was instrumental in destroying Eastern Europe, including my home country, Poland. He attempted the same in Russia, but Putin prevented it. I’ve noted before that this was the turning point when Putin became an enemy of the West—when he refused to allow Russia to be dismantled like Poland and the rest of Eastern Europe.

Max Blumenthal explains it well:

A brief history of the new US cold war with Russia(and Putin) w/ Max Blumenthal 25 April 2019

“Everyone thought, oh, Putin is gonna be great; he’s going to keep this thing going. And if you go back to 2000–2001, you can find a lot of people, including Bill Browder, praising Putin. What he proceeds to do is start throwing the oligarchs in prison—the oligarchs who wouldn’t pay into Russia’s economy, from Yukos Oil and so on. And this sent shockwaves through the national security state in the US and through the foreign policy establishment in Washington. You know, Putin was no socialist; he was basically re-centering the economy around a kind of state capitalist model.”

I’ve said before that Putin will remain an enemy of the West as long as Gazprom and other Russian companies are not owned by Western oligarchs, who seek to exploit and steal resources.

Jeffrey Sachs was a key architect of the so-called “shock therapy” that devastated Eastern Europe. This was mentioned in one of the videos I shared about Russia.

The CIA is a Terrorist Organization (Capitalism, Socialism, and So-Called Shock Therapy in Russia)

“Yeltsin allowed anyone to sell anything at any time without a permit anywhere in Russia. This led recently impoverished Russians to flood the streets with makeshift bazaars, selling family heirlooms, personal belongings, and anything they could to make ends meet. Perversely, this situation was described by Jeffrey Sachs, the economist leading the shock therapy project in Russia, as evidence of spontaneous market activity, as though people were being enterprising capitalists rather than desperately trying to stave off hunger. Unsurprisingly, this chaos provided fertile ground for organized crime, which thrived in the deregulated environment of capitalist transition, ultimately contributing, according to multiple accounts, to the rise of the Russian mafia.

The reality is that privatization was sloppy and corrupt—not by accident, but because neoliberal economists intended it to be. Shock therapists wanted privatization to happen quickly, before anyone could intervene, and sloppiness was simply part of the process. Jeffrey Sachs expressed this explicitly in 1993 when he wrote:

"As early advisors on the privatization process, we argued strongly for speed above perfection in the distribution of shares. For the general success of the reforms, which were extremely precarious from the start, it was important to create facts by establishing widespread private property rights. If that meant heavy insider representation, that was a cost that should be accepted."

Interestingly, in 2012, he denied ever making this statement.”

I am not the only one aware of this. In fact, if you watch the main video I posted, you’ll see how Aaron Good treats him with skepticism because he understands, as I do, what Jeffrey Sachs did. However, while I have significant issues with Sachs for his past actions, I can also acknowledge and applaud his recent efforts to speak out and help uncover the truth.

Although I still believe Jeffrey Sachs has much to atone for, I am encouraged to see him taking steps to make amends and do good to atone for his previous wrongdoings.

“A great point is sometimes made of the fact that modern man no longer sees above his head a revolving dome with fixed stars…True enough, but he sees something similar when he looks at his daily newspaper…The newspaper is a man-made cosmos of the world of events around us at the time. For the average reader it is a construct with a set of significances which he no more thinks of examining than did his pious forebear of the thirteenth century…think of questioning the cosmology.”

-Richard Weaver, Ideas Have Consequences

“Modern technology teaches man to take for granted the world he is looking at; he takes no time to retreat and reflect. Technology lures him on, dropping him into its wheels and movements. No rest, no meditation, no reflection, no conversation – the senses are continually overloaded with stimuli. [Man] doesn’t learn to question his world anymore; the screen offers him answers-ready-made.”

-Joost Meerloo, The Rape of the Mind

“For conditions even remotely comparable to those now prevailing we must return to imperial Rome, where the populace was kept in good humor by frequent, gratuitous doses of many kinds of entertainment — from poetical dramas to gladiatorial fights, from recitations of Virgil to all-out boxing, from concerts to military reviews and public executions. But even in Rome there was nothing like the non-stop distraction now provided by newspapers and magazines, by radio, television and the cinema. In Brave New World non-stop distractions of the most fascinating nature (the feelies, orgy-porgy, centrifugal bumblepuppy) are deliberately used as instruments of policy, for the purpose of preventing people from paying too much attention to the realities of the social and political situation…A society, most of whose members spend a great part of their time, not on the spot, not here and now and in the calculable future, but somewhere else, in the irrelevant other worlds of sport and soap opera, of mythology and metaphysical fantasy, will find it hard to resist the encroachments of those who would manipulate and control it.” – Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited

“The only difference between you and the children in the brave new world who are conditioned to hate flowers, beautiful things, and books in that way is that your conditioning is happening while you’re wide awake—or are you? Is the current lifestyle of the consumer, in fact, a kind of waking dream?

What Huxley understands only too well is the conditions under what we might call late capitalism—in other words, the kind of neoliberal capitalist societies we live in now. What Huxley understood only too well was that in an economy defined by consumption, where advertising is the form of behavioral conditioning, everybody will be perfectly pacified as long as their needs and wants are conflated in their own minds.

That is very much the world we’re living in. You don’t need to be a Marxist to understand that you’re a commodity fetishist. You don’t need to feel that you’ve been conditioned to be conditioned.

I think that’s the real genius of the dystopian future that Huxley summons up in Brave New World—there’s no strife, there’s no angst.” – Will Self