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First, I would like to point out that I really like The Duran, but their recent episode about Epstein and his connection to the British, titled “UK establishment panic over Epstein files,” was very underwhelming. Connections between Epstein and the British/MI6 are minimal compared to his connections to Americans, the CIA, Israel, and the Mossad.
I was writing about those things mostly using the work of Whitney Webb, and if you search for “Whitney Webb” on The Duran, you can find my previous posts using her work.
I would also like to point out that I am really surprised by The Duran’s anti-Europeanism and pro-Americanism. While I understand and share their pro-Russian and pro-Putin views — because, as I I’ve written many times, I think Russia is on the right side of history – I don’t understand or share their anti-European and pro-American views. Those views are seen in the video I mentioned, where they try to connect Epstein to the British, while in reality, his connections to the British are minimal compared to American and Israeli connections.
The main video attached to this post is an old video of Whitney Webb explaining Epstein’s connections and history. You can also check out even older videos of Whitney regarding this subject, like this one:
The Duran video was really underwhelming because it only scratches the surface and completely misses the bigger picture. I have written about the “world of the naive,” and you could say The Duran only scratches the curtain of the Kabuki theater of narrative which constitutes that world. I understand that the real world and the truth are overwhelming, so they are not easy to accept, but the story of Epstein should finally make people understand that people like Whitney Webb and me — who wrote about the real world and were called conspiracy theorists for years — were in fact right all along.
That’s why I was critical when I heard Alexander saying “a bigger plan/some conspiracy/hidden truth could not be possible.” While in my opinion Alex is more open-minded, Alexander, because of his connections, is in reality trapped in a cage of external validation. For example, I remember Alexander mentioning he had some meetings at Oxford, Stanford, or some other elite schools, which in reality are brainwashing seminars. Because Alexander has such elite connections, which are partially his sources, he is trapped in a cage of respectability; if he were to acknowledge the things I am writing about, he would risk his respectability. This would result in him being pushed out of polite society and not being invited to those elite circles.
This is why I am writing about respectability as a cage. I don’t care about it because for years I was not respected; I was called a conspiracy theorist and chased out of polite society for theorizing about the existence of deep state assets like Epstein — whose existence his story and files now confirm. The same applies to the JFK assassination and 9/11; discussing those subjects made you a pariah. What gives me hope is that these “dogmas” are starting to be discussed among polite society and are no longer treated as they were in the past.
The funniest thing is that people who are the most educated and surrounded by elitist circles are often the most resistant to the truth and the most dogmatic in their “anti-conspiracy phobia.” In The Duran, while Alex is more open-minded, Alexander is more “educated” (in other words, brainwashed) and surrounded by elitist circles, which causes him to be less open-minded because he is trapped in a need for external validation. Even if what I write makes sense, if it is outside the Overton Window and not accepted in polite society, he feels the need to reject it to keep his “reasonability.”
That’s why I am always saying I am a “nobody,” and I wear it as a badge of honor. If I ever tried to become “someone,” I would have to care about respectability, which would put me in that same cage. You could not be part of polite society while theorizing about the existence of deep state assets like Epstein or the truth about JFK or 9/11. I am only able to know so much about this because I don’t care what people think of me, which lets me out of this cage of external validation. You cannot study the real world if you want a career or be accepted by polite society, because having that career or being part of polite society requires you to accept the “world of the naive,” which is constructed from narratives and lies.
This is represented by the fact that a friend of mine read my posts and felt sorry for me because I wrote that I am a nobody; he thought I was complaining. In reality, I was writing it proudly. It was not a complaint, but because my friend is highly educated and is an “elite” person similar to Alexander, he is also in that cage of needing external validation. He instantly felt that calling myself a nobody had to be a complaint, because he was brainwashed by higher education into thinking that the respectability and opinions of others is everything that matters. This put him in the same cage as Alexander, which is why he called me a conspiracy theorist — and even once said I was “sick” with conspiracy theories — no matter how many of them come out to be true. This need for external validation is the cage most so-called intellectuals are in, ingrained in them by higher education, which is why I have so much disdain for it.
And look now — all those “nobodies” outside polite society who were called “cuckoo crazies” and conspiracy theorist were right, as seen in the Epstein case. I really hope the Epstein case will open more people’s eyes to the real world and free them from the world of the naive, just like COVID did for people like Jimmy Dore. I watched Jimmy Dore before COVID while he still lived in the world of the naive, and only after COVID did he open his eyes to the real world. I hope the Epstein case wakes people up the same way.
Either people wake up, or we end up establishing a “Ministry of Truth” like the one from Orwell’s 1984. The elites who constitute the deep state are panicking because their world of the naive is collapsing. Because of this, we hear constantly about “fighting misinformation,” which is why I defend the rights of people to discuss Flat Earth, Nazis, or Hitler. While I don’t share those views, if I allow them to be censored, I allow the creation of a Ministry of Truth where someone decides for me what I can think or say. Bad ideas should be beaten by good ideas. If we allow someone to decide what is true, we end up as slaves.
Funny enough, my “elitist” friend said once that I should not be allowed to post or speak and should be silenced. This is what the brainwashing of higher education does to you, and why I disdain it so much.
Don’t get me wrong; I am not smarter than Alex or Alexander. It is just that because I didn’t care about my career or the opinions of others, I was able to consider and theorise what Alexander could not. People like Whitney Webb or me only know so much because we were not afraid of being called conspiracy theorists or being chased out of polite society. I want to free people from this cage of needing external validation so they understand that the only real validation should come from within. As long as you care about the opinions of others and being part of polite society, the elites control you. The only way to be a free thinker is to find value from within. In the short term, you won’t be invited to elite circles, but that is a price worth paying to escape the “world of the naive.”
“This is only possible if the past itself becomes meaningless. We can only effectively shift the object of our rage and fear if we no longer have a reliable grasp on our own history. At one moment in 1984, Winston is sure he has seen a newspaper photograph of three purged Inner Party members who are now ‘non-persons’ and supposedly never existed. He is convinced that if he can only share this information—this simple fact that there was a past where things actually happened in a specific way, and not merely how authority decrees—he can hold onto his sanity and his sense of self. Yet, even with his beloved Julia, the woman for whom he has risked everything, he cannot convey how essential it is to have a secure grasp of what once happened.”
— Adam Gopnik
For years, that “newspaper” for me was the truth about 9/11. I was convinced that if I could only share this information — the simple fact that there was a past where things actually happened in a specific way, rather than how authority decrees — I could hold onto my sanity and my sense of self.
Yet, even with someone I respect as much as my father, I could not convey how essential it is to have a secure grasp of what once happened. My father called me a “conspiracy theorist” and “cuckoo crazy.” Later, during COVID, he told me I was “killing people” by not getting vaccinated and even threatened to disown me over it. The fact that I could not convince a person I respect so deeply really hit me and depressed me. However, it did not break me; it didn’t make me abandon my investigation into 9/11, nor did it force me to get vaccinated.
I could write more but I will end it here thanks to everyone who stuck with me until the end of my post. And, as always…
“Knowledge will make you be free.”
― Socrates
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“Knowledge isn’t free. You have to pay attention.”
― Richard P. Feynman
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“Freedom is not free, you need to pay attention.”
― Grzegorz Ochman
“The nature of psychological compulsion is such that those who act under constraint remain under the impression that they are acting on their own initiative. The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free. That he is not free is apparent only to other people. His servitude is strictly objective.”
— Aldous Huxley (Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited)
“We are living in a world in which nobody is free, in which hardly anybody is secure, in which it is almost impossible to be honest and to remain alive.”
— George Orwell
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This is a great post and great comments. I had heard of Whitney Webb before, but with so much going on I never got to her before. This post was so dense with information about the criminal network now running the country and its origins starting with the collaboration between the Jewish and Italian mobs that produced the “National Crime Syndicate” (otherwise known as Murder Inc.) which perfected the techniques of sexual blackmail used by the Epstein network in the 90’s with Bill Clinton, that it needs to be listened to more than once to begin to get all the… Read more »
I know all about it. I wrote in one of my posts that 9/11 was something like an obsession of mine. I read all 290 pages of the NIST report on 9/11 when I was younger, and I followed Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth. There is no event I know more about than 9/11. As for the smoking gun, for me, it is the symmetry of the collapse. Even if we omit the fact that the architects who designed the Twin Towers said themselves that they were designed to withstand multiple hits from the biggest airliners at that time,… Read more »
I agree with everything you say about academia. My experience with it is exactly the same. We completely agree about 9/11. Have you read that specific paper I previously posted the link in my previous comment? I found it particularly impressive, and that is why I came to a permanent split with Chomsky about it.
I only skimmed through the paper you provided because I already know all about it. I have written to you that I was obsessed with 9/11 and I know about this more than about any other event in history. I know about the high probability and the almost certainty of the use of thermite. I know about molten concrete, about the fact there were satellites showing so high a temperature that they could not be explained, about molten steel on the ground floor—with molten steel existing long after the collapse—or about steel columns with straight cuts indicating they were cut,… Read more »
That’s exactly what Chomsky said: “I only skimmed it”. He said that because he was sure it was false, you say it because you are sure it is all true. I just wish I could get somebody to actually read it.
Re: “I remember my father waving around Mark Lane’s book “Rush To Judgement” poking holes in the Warren Commission report about JFK’s assassination. I have been a proud “9/11 truther” Do a search for ‘Israel Did 9/11’ by Wyatt Peterson, which was published on The Unz website on Sep 12, 2024 and is 13,300 Words. Read Chapter 3, of George Lincoln Rockwell book ‘White Power’, which is titled THE CHART FORGERS (which is available for free on the Archive Org, in PDF file format.) Start reading from this sentence -“In the Jew-dominated Bronx, New York, when he was an adolescent… Read more »
I am familiar with the Unz website. I understand those who say “Israel did it”, but if so, it was together with a fully informed US leadership consisting of Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld. They had their own interests in having a war apart from what Israel wanted. I hold them and not Israel primarily responsible for the 9/11 attacks.
Grzegorz, Yesterday, I praised the historian in you. Today, I must mourn him. I read your manifesto regarding Epstein, validation, and the so-called “world of the naive.” It is a tragic document, not because of the subject matter, but because it reveals the architecture of the mental prison you have built for yourself. You speak of “cages” with great passion. You claim that Alexander Mercouris is trapped in a “cage of respectability” because he attended Oxford and Stanford. You dismiss centuries of academic rigor as “brainwashing seminars.” You wear your lack of formal education as a “badge of honor,” convinced… Read more »
Dude, you really don’t get it. You say I have “textbook symptoms of deep narcissism intertwined with elements of paranoia.” What narcissism? “You claim to understand the laws of physics better than every physics department in the world regarding 9/11.” When did I say that? You really don’t get what I am writing. I am writing that I am a loser and a nobody, and I am not really that smart. You are probably a lot smarter than me, and your scientific workshop is like 1000 times better than mine since mine is almost nonexistent. That’s what pisses me off… Read more »
Grzegorz, This sovereign thinker agrees with you 100%. .
Grzegorz, I recognize the shift in your tone and acknowledge your apology regarding our past exchanges; it takes a measure of character to offer one, and I accept it. It is precisely because I see the spark of a capable mind in you—the same one that emerged so clearly in your recent analysis of the distortions regarding Polish history—that I find your current trajectory so lamentable. You asked if I have researched these events myself: as a man of science, I do not believe in experts; I rely on the reproducibility of data and the cold discipline of the scientific… Read more »
Thank you very much for responding. We have a slightly different philosophy. You wrote: “I come from the Lusatian Sorbs. In the days of the GDR, the state apparatus spent decades trying to convince us that we were merely Slavic waste, and that as individuals, we were nobodies.” I am an admirer of Schopenhauer, and you could say I am somewhat of a Buddhist. Let me give you a fragment of something I read about Schopenhauer’s work—an interpretation with which I agree: “In his youth, Schopenhauer despised theologians and called religion the ‘metaphysics of the masses’; he saw how the… Read more »