I was asked recently, what I considered to be the biggest problem of the current moment, and how would I describe it to my future self. My response was, we are living in an era of great pretending, and if you elevate yourself and pause its actually quite interesting to watch.
The pretending issue goes beyond politics, it’s everywhere. Sure, there was always an era where reality was skewed in favor of one position or another by various groups, people and leaders, where denying the obvious was always odd. However, this current state of our national and international disposition extends far beyond politics into almost everything.
A person would ordinarily expect to see cultural or social pretending as an outcome of political correctness. Denying the underlying social construct behind the rules of the urban society has been the norm for several years. However, the pretending has become so pervasive it has recently extended into finance and economics; places where reality -actual outcomes- used to inoculate facts and figures against pretense.
It is no longer uncommon, heck, it’s become almost standard in this new era, to see CEO’s, CFO’s and even entire boards of directors, maintaining a standard of pretense. It is quite weird to see it happening.
Yes, this era -for a host of reasons- has made delusion somewhat of a norm.
In the social sphere, cultural norms now claim men can have babies, people can choose their gender, labels and pronouns, and everyone else bears the responsibility to conform to the delusion. While goofy, that part is somewhat a weird cultural phenomenon of this western era. If we were not pretending people like AOC would have no career opportunities.
In the political sphere, the axiom of politics being downstream from pop culture is perhaps the reason the infection of pretense has overwhelmed congress and the professional bureaucracies of government. The social pretending has metastasized from the federal level to the state level, and now we see efforts to counteract “wokeism” as a social priority for state and local leaders. It’s weird to see so much time and effort being exhausted on combatting social pretense at every level.
But the more stunning development comes in the sphere of economics, where factual outcomes of transactions are matters of simple accounting. A ledger of sales and profits would normally dictate whether a business was successful or failing, and in the bigger picture would show empirical evidence of the financial health of the community of customers who purchase goods and services.
Under all common norms of economics, if a business was operating at a higher cost than its income; or if the income was to shift or disappear quickly; people would seek to identify the underlying cause. However, in this era of great business pretending, an economic mass formation psychosis has led to complete denial of the obvious.
Accepting the state of the Main Street economy as it is – not as we would pretend it to be, CTH shared several months ago that quarterly profits would be far below expectations, and we would see revised projections from just about every business entity who engages in selling durable goods. People just are not buying stuff because the cost of living and buying energy, food, fuel and shelter, has become extraordinarily difficult. It isn’t rocket science to connect economic dots.
As expected, at a macro-level, topline sales for businesses have dropped or collapsed. Inventories of non-essential products are piling up. Consumers are stressed and/or hunkering down, and general economic activity has slowed dramatically.
None of what is happening is surprising. However, what is surprising is that businesses -while faced with empirical results that describe the situation- would continue pretending.
Yahoo Finance – […] The auto giant Ford warned of a whopping $1 billion profit hit late Monday in the form of higher parts costs, with the company blaming vendor inflation. Ford now sees third-quarter adjusted operating profits in the range of $1.4 billion to $1.7 billion, well below Wall Street estimates for $3 billion.
Somewhat oddly in the face of the major warning, Ford reiterated its full-year operating profit outlook of $11.5 billion to $12.5 billion.
The mood on Wall Street is that Ford’s warning is generally a shocker given relatively upbeat comments on demand and the bottom line when second-quarter earnings hit in late July. Now, the Street is scrambling to mark down profit and valuation estimates on the company.
“Vehicles in transit will be seen as transitory, but surprise inflation is always worrying,” said Evercore ISI analyst Chris McNally in a note to clients, adding that he sees Ford’s stock trading down to about $13 off the quarterly letdown. Citi’s Itay Michaeli also appeared stunned by Ford’s warning. (read more)
The great pretending continues…..
Liars going to lie. What would be interesting is to see if and when company executives are selling stocks.
While the execs would show their hand selling stocks, they would do better to repent, first (if repentance is needed):
Revelation 21: 7,8 – KJV
7- He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
8- But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
might need a bigger lake…
Oh my 🤣
That’s what it’s ALL about. Thanks be to God.
Remember in 2019 when all those high power corporate CEO’s decided to retire? That was just before Covid was even a thing. Makes you wonder…
Biggest problem: We are on the precipice of a economic collapse. Russia is threatening nuclear war. China intends to dominate the world and we are in their way. Our own country is being invaded. There is a looming worldwide famine. The entire Western world are adopting polices that amount to cultural suicide. The WTF is plotting a massive die off. Our country is over run with spies and potential terrorists …
WEF = WTF!
It is as if the people responsible for our country are parting it out.
Excellent deduction!
“We’ve been looking for the enemy, for some time now,….
We FINALLY found him!
We’re surrounded.
THAT simplifies things!”
Gen. “Chesty” Puller
His Division was surrounded by 15 divisions of Chinese troops, in Korea.
Fought their way out, causing maximun casualties on the enemh forces, while sustaining minimal casualties.
Not exactly minimal, with about 1000 KIA .. but nothing compared to the 40 to 50,000 KIA suffered by the Chinese. If you’re gonna engage in human wave attacks against entrenched Marines, youre going to get a lot of soldiers shot. And when its 40 below and there’s almost no first aid, they are all going to die. And when you pursue the Marines while being strafed and naped non stop by dozens of American fighter bombers, you get even more killed
Don’t worry. God is in control.
Russia is not the problem…..WE ARE…..and using Ukraine aka “The laundromat” as an excuse to bilk the US taxpayers out of existence. I would bet not $20 in military aide is going to Ukraine….instead….being sold on the black market….SEE Benghazi…to the highest bidder…..and under the dark of night…SEE Cash on planes in Tehran going to the Iranian’s circa 2012 as payment for Bin Laden’s “Death” to keep a lid on the fact that Iran had him all along, and The Kenyan needed a victory prior to 2012 election cycle. Lot’s to unravel once you see the light of day…..and it’s been dating back to the 1930’s
I never thought I’d miss the day when politicians actually relied on PR efforts to gain votes. Now they pay a trafficker and a taxpayer-funded tabulation service for wins.
Other than that Everything’s going Great!
note: see above article via Sundance. -:) or -:(
Conformity is a powerful force that drives entire socieities to do mad things, including professing beliefs in contravention to facts.
Conformity is what teenagers do. I know because I was one once. I wanted to be part of the “in crowd”.
Then I grew up and got over it.
One more time….Instant replay…As Sundance mentions…Mass formation Psychosis
https://www.bitchute.com/video/7yt5BRImUQdz/
TUCKER CARLSON TODAY – S02E089 – MASS FORMATION PSYCHOSIS (09-01-2022)
Thank you for sharing this!
Walmart, Macys, Kohl’s and Target have cancelled billions of dollars worth of orders even though their busiest season, Christmas, is approaching.
https://retailwire.com/discussion/walmart-and-other-retailers-are-canceling-billions-of-dollars-in-orders/
No lying, I just heard on my local radio station that retail sales for Christmas are going to be off the charts! 😂😂😂 I was in the car by myself so the swearing was profuse! 😂
Charts go two ways.
Indeed.
But did you have your mask on ? Asking for a friend…
Ordinarily Christmas season orders are already on the water aboard slow boats from China or other Asian countries. That’s to allow the goods time to transit the ocean at least cost (hence the slow boat), be unloaded, clear customs and get trucked to warehouses where they’re staged for delivery prior to Black Friday.
Considering the West Coast nonsense at LA / LB ports, these days you’d have to get the goods on the water even earlier, whether you’re unloading in California or going through the Panama Canal to a Guld Coast port.
It seems to me that the orders being canceled may more likely be for post New Years sale than pre-Christmas. If so, the cited retailers are battening down their hatches for 2023 and maybe 2024. We’ll know soon enough when they report Q3 earnings, and then either pretend some more or face reality on the investor/analyst calls. I’m guessing the level of pretending needed will cross into civil and criminal legal jeopardy. Therefore, prepare for reality folks.
Yet they keep on building all these giant Amazon warehouses. I don’t get it.
What’s inside all those warehouses then? Chinese troops?
I was recently on a week long group tour with my sister and a bunch of people I had never met.
Things broke into political discussions on occasion. It was clear that (1) nearly everyone hated Trump and (2) most of their beliefs came from listening to traditional news sources, NPR, etc.
I spent a lot of time calmly stating observations, and making logical arguments with these people. I also explained that I didn’t “like Trump”, but listed off a litany of problems that our supposed leaders in both parties have failed to solve for decades.
End result – a number of people said to me something along the lines of “our political views actually aren’t that far off.”
Yes, I despise Pelosi, Obama, Biden, etc. They live by dividing and instilling hatred.
But regular people – show them some love and compassion, and I guarantee you can start the process of changing their minds. Do it, don’t wait for someone else to do it.
Did it with my BIL may have worked a little got the same our political beliefs are not that far off. But likely won’t get an invite to his place next year which is okay with me. The news try to rile you up with fervent ultra MAGA rhetoric but the left are more ultra and have a strong authoritarian bent.
I tell everyone I know that I like President Trump, and that the election was stolen.
I love President and First Lady Trump.
I am an Aussie, and I was on a tour group in Canada a bit over 4 years ago, and there were a lot of Americans in the group. I was genuinely surprised that so many didn’t like Trump.
There was an American Jewish couple in the group and they said they didn’t want to talk politics. I said that I will say no more after one last comment – how can you like Obama after every he has done to Israel (I gave some details/examples). They replied and said it wasn’t true about what Obama had done. It was that simple to this couple – they just refused to believe the facts.
I think that, for too many people, it is far more important for them to feel morally superior and connected to a high-minded collective mentality than it is for them to think and reason for themselves. How ironic for Jewish people to suffer from the same mass formation psychosis that led their Nazi counterparts to commit atrocities against humanity.
FBI = Federal Bureau of Imagination.
Fascist Bureau of Intimidation
Much more accurate.
Fascistiy Bezonastnoctiy Institutiy …… bezonastnoctiy is the Russian word for “security” as in “Kommitet Gosudarstvenniy Bezonastnoctiy”
Get the joke
Oceana has always been at war with Eurasia …..
The left needs Trump as a means to continue all of this pretending. In my social circle (and I expect in those of most Treepers), stating obvious facts – like mentioning how insane it is that the US and China jointly created Covid and that many of our parents and many of us will lose years of our lives because of it and there is not a massive uproar – will elicit accusations either directly or behind our backs of “Trumper!!!!!!” Wear the brand with honor and speak truths.
MOST of us have “red-pilled” which means our views have changed, over time as first one and then another of the matrix delusions we had believed, dropped by the wayside and we saw reality….but just a glimpse, in THAT area.
We continued to believe, for example that America has a great medical care system, even as everyone focused on PAYING for healthcare, and wasn’t paying much attention to the actual QUALITY of the medical care.
How many, before Covid, before even the AMA supporting “trans” treatments for dysmorphia, knew the medical system sucks, is corrupted, etc.?
My point is, you didn’t START OUT “knowing what you know, now”;
It started with one or two things you took as excepted truths, that you realised were UNtruths,…and by degrees you realised it.
Your mind then, unbidden begans to examine OTHER accepted truths.
Point being, that so many in authority conspired to murder millions, and that they may have a ticking time bomb in them (if they got the vax) is too big for them to swallow.
Start small, remembering how you started out, on your red pill journey.
Give them an appetiser,, and then let them ask you for more, instead of trying to force feed them a huge serving, all at once.
Just my suggestion,..
Oh, I know about medical care. Worked in it for many years. I ranted and railed until I gave up. My one voice in a sea of Ceo’s , Cfo’s. For ever worker bee we had a superior to answere to. Don’t let anyone fool you. They are culling the herd. We have NO health care.
We have “managed” healthcare. They’ve “managed” to cripple and maim almost half the free world already!
And medicare is the opposite of health care. It’s a ponzy scheme and ‘single payer’ is just another name for medicare. Has nothing to do with health.
That’s my question – if the US and China worked together on a bioweapon, then who could they possibly be directing it towards?!?!
The only answer I have been able to come up with is the people. I am continually trying to work out if there’s any possibility of another target – maybe my knowledge of international politics is insufficient, but I have not been able to think of another target.
I think the target was always free thinking middle-class. Can’t have subjects who are self sufficient.
Regarding Ford…easy-ish to ascertain…
Accounting 101
Profit=Revenue-Expenses
Profit can go down two ways…revenues go down relative to expenses, or expenses go upore than revenues do…or both…
If ‘vendor inflation’ is/was the culprit, then we should see the expense side of the ledger increase relative to revenues…
Well, did it?
A partial list of pretense:
Biden is a president and Donald Trump isn’t
Elections aren’t rigged
The Virus wasn’t invented by our government with their Chinese partners
Biden and half the others aren’t on China’s payroll
The FBI is a law enforcement agency
The DOJ pursues justice
Our weapons labs and research universities aren’t chock of Chinese spies
Ukraine in not a Criminal Disneyland for the Deep State
Hunter is the criminal, not Joe
The Vaxx works and isn’t just a mechanism for unbridled greed, political control and Depopulation
That money actually goes to Ukraine
Pelosi was the victim and not the perp
Journalism isn’t largely One-Party press releases
We have borders
Obama’s not the Acting President
Climate Change is about Climate and not just another mechanism for unbridled greed, political control and Depopulation
Big Tech Censorship isn’t disguised Government Censorship
Digital Currency would never be used to control people
etc. etc. etc.
“When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control.”
— Theodore Dalrymple
“Vehicles in transit will be seen as transitory, but surprise inflation is always worrying,” said Evercore ISI analyst Chris McNally in a note to clients”
If inflation was a surprise to McNally, his clients need to look elsewhere for advice.
The Great Pretending should get a lot of people fired, and fired up.
Rewatch ‘Network”: Howard Beale: “I don’t have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It’s a depression. Everybody’s out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel’s worth, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there’s nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there’s no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that’s the way it’s supposed to be. We know things are bad – worse than bad. They’re crazy..”
Open your window and yell:
___________________________
And in the plot, T.V. news anchorman Howard Beale is supposed to be undergoing a nervous breakdown: the satiric irony is that to speak the truth makes you a madman!
Worse, America agrees with him…but does nothing!
In fact, their anger is channeled into watching murders broadcast live on The Mao-Tse-Tung Hour !
How prescient was this movie from 1976? Look around!
I’m with you Sundance. I’ve never seen anything like this, or heard of anything like this from my now deceased relatives. I’m always looking to see what the Bible has to say. 2 Thessalonians, Chapter 2, all of it, is very insightful. The below sticks out.
Verses 11-12: “For this reason God will send them a powerful delusion so that they believe the lie, in order that judgment may come upon all who have disbelieved the truth and delighted in wickedness.” And then we are instructed to Stand Firm.
Honestly, there are some, what we used to call “wicked”, people running our government in the name of “equity”. There seems to be very little integrity or morality – those old fashioned principles. There’s just lie after lie after lie. If you complain, you’re called names, and banished from the public discourse. I know really good people who are falling for the lies. I am astounded that this could even be happening. I don’t know how it’s all going to pan out. I’m going to do everything in my power to stand firm.
I don’t know how it’s all going to pan out.
As you stated, I’m always looking to see what the Bible has to say, keep doing that as you stand firm!
Well said Phflipper!
Context rules. In this passage, it is referring to the antichrist and day of the Lord. Look at Romans 1:18-31.
In a sense though, isn’t the view the same whether it be now or in the “day of the Lord”? I don’t know when Christ will return. But, I do see a great delusion, and a whole lotta sin floatin’ around. In any case, He will come like a thief in the night.
The passage relies upon an old spiritual principle that is expressed in its fullest form in this letter.
We can see this principle in Genesis regarding the population during Noah’s life prior to the Flood. We see it again at the Tower of Babel, but this time languages are the means of containment until the time of the false messiah.
But wonderfully, the principle appears when God is getting ready to deliver the Children of Israel from Egypt. The pride of Pharoah is his delusion and the source of his obstinance resulting in the Passover.
Pride is rampant in the hearts of WEFers who consider themselves “gods.” We are experiencing God giving them over to their delusion along with others who align with them rather than righteousness and truth.
These are perilous times for lost sheep.
From my understanding the delusion in 2 Thess. is that those who have heard the gospel before the day of the Lord and rejected it will not believe the truth after the rapture-it will be too late and judgment follows. Yes, He will come like a thief in the night.
The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them…
Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. 29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31 they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. 32 Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them. Romans 1: 18-19, 28-32
Look at “Moses people” who personally OBSERVED the miracles called down, to persuade Pharoa to let them go, and the parting of the Red Sea.
And yet, after all that, a significant portion “loose faith” and have an orgy with a golden calf.
Seems pretty insane, out of touch with reality, to me.
Read the book of Judges! Those Israelites couldn’t bow down fast enough to Baal, as soon as the righteous judge died. They would then go back into servitude to the foreign countries, and cry out for help. Rinse and repeat.
SD, I disagree that “ordinarily” one would see pretending as an outcome of political correctness.
Pretending is driven mainly by inflated and unchecked ego, by the “I am special, look look at me” psychology that has conquered the western world in the era of social media.
If one defines one’s life by tallying received thumbs up and smiley faces and shares, rather than by one’s fruits of accomplishment and love for others, the pretend self becomes the self’s god.
FJB received 81 million votes, pretending? absolutely that hits the nail on the head.
Biden pretended he got 81mil votes, and then TPTB installed him.
My disgust is seeing how many people who should know better are prepared to pretend right along with them.
Now I understand the tightrope the higher level executives have to walk. But it’s hard to watch knowing that at the core and at the top, the company I work for is absolutely conservative and the President/owner and CEO is even MAGA though he could never say as much as a good portion of the people who work here are NOT.
There are still people here wearing masks though as the days pass fewer and fewer do. But from the first days, it felt wrong and so many people were willing to go along with it. Doctors protesting and getting fired for it? Losing their licenses? And people stand back siding with “government” while government disposes of actual experts?
I’m still very uncomfortable here. Too much of the world easily accepts what it is being fed as reality.
But maybe it’s me. They say people don’t know they are dreaming until they wake up. But that’s actually not true for me.
When I am dreaming and I suspect I might be dreaming, I will myself into flight. And if I am successful in actually levitating above the ground and even flying like superman, that’s when I know I’m dreaming and then I turn a nightmare into fun-time as I simply do whatever I want and try my best to not wake up which is hard to do when you know you’re dreaming… but I try to push the question out of my mind and enjoy my temporary super powers.
Are lucid dreamers so rare? I don’t know. But being a lucid dreamer also seems to make me more resistant to all of this BS in the real world.
But wouldn’t it be nice if I could fly or make things move with the power of my mind. I guarantee running out of paper on the role wouldn’t be so frustrating of all I had to do was “will” a new roll into the TP holder…
I have lucid dreams too. Not all the time but I do have them. You’re not alone.
Cheer up.
The old USSR thought it had educated its youth into permanent compliance, whereas rock and roll, fashion and all the attractions of the West won by just being. Without lifting a finger.
Today, the universities produce the statist minds and the media ensures compliance through the easy power of cancellation.
Corporations and bureaucracy quickly comply….they like their jobs.
As I’ve said before….they don’t think you are mistaken, they think you are immoral. That justifies anything.
I’m also a lucid dreamer from the time I was twelve. I can’t be the only one who feels there is more to what is happening and has happened. I am now in the realm of seriously contemplating a sort of demonic possession on a mass scale. Honestly, just being “woke” or “green” is not covering what we are seeing happen.
I am too. I used to change the dream I was in by recognizing it was a dream, have all kinds of fun, and then wrap it up with a happy ending or exit the dream if I didn’t like it.
I too believe that there is an enormous demonic influence in the world. I can feel it. I can see it. It is felt intensely in certain places. I’ve actually rebuked Satan and his demons, out loud, in Jesus’ name when the feeling was strong in a certain place or situation.
What mushroom have you recently ingested, Daniel?
No mushrooms are required to experience lucid dreams. Your comment infers that you’ve never had them.
I’ve always dreamed I can fly. I found out my mother dreamed she could fly during her pregnancy with me. She said it was the only time she dreamed that.
My mom loves to dream about flying too. I seldom remember my dreams. My conscious mind often weighs in while I’m dreaming. Then I either take charge of my dreams or else I wake up.
I remember my mom once handing me the phone while I was asleep and dreaming on the couch. Without opening my eyes I told the caller I was having a good dream and would call them back later. And I kept right on dreaming.
I once dreamt I was in a Southwestern desert and realized I was dreaming. So in my dream I started to force my eyelids open with my fingers, and it worked–I woke up. And that’s all it really takes–opening your eyes.
An appropriate companion article by Rod Dreher – Russia is at war with the Empire of Lies, in a fight for Western, Christian, God-fearing Civilization – it is also to pretend when one simply discounts Vladamir Putin glibly as a ‘bad guy’, and to ignore his words and actions as not worthy of consideration.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dugin-world-war-3-is-coming/
WWIII is coming, and this time, ‘we’ are not the Good Guys. Half or more of the entire population of the planet are arrayed against ‘us’.
Good vs. Evil, ya’ll. I recommend that you think hard and long about which side you are on. It has nothing any longer to do with geography.
“Half or more of the entire population of the planet are arrayed against ‘us’.”
And seemingly that has occurred in less than two years. Trump was respected and feared. FJB.
The inability to question— to nod and accept — amazes me.
I used to identify as liberal.
As soon as labels no longer fit, and I could no longer believe sources I once valued— I got off my butt and began researching…
•who owned what..
• who was beholden to whomever…
At first, I was incredulous.
Now I can’t “unsee” —
can’t deny.
I sought out answers.
Where are the seekers?
I’ll go with the Bible they believe in lies and the father of lies because they refuse to accept the Truth
They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness” (2 Thessalonians 2:10-12).
Amen 🙏✝️🙏
Maranatha!
It seems like lying is accepted now. Being lied to your face is normal. I can’t figure it out.
And an opposition MSM conditioning masses to accept pretend “news” as fact for a generation.
Then came PDJT with TRUTH laying waste to $billions$ spent shaping our future to the perceived needs of self appointed betters
“There are those whose minds are so welded to a position, to a narrative or to dogma, that they have to pretend not to know things. It’s the only way they are able to coexist with their cognitive dissonance.”
Rather than focusing on the cognitive dissonance “pretending not to know things” of others, is it not more fruitful to look for signs of our OWN Cognitive dissonance?
What are WE, America First, MAGA patriots “pretending not to know”, individually and collectively?
Fair question. None of us like to face our own xyz, call it sinfulness or whatever. It’s actually a lot of work to self-reflect, call yourself out, and make changes.
I can’t answer your larger question. I just know we’re in a heap of trouble on the world stage (i.e., WWIII). We’re divided like heck here at home. My only answer to that is Local, Local, Local. I personally don’t think there is an easy way out (i.e., voting – although I’ll vote). Maybe, the answer is, pretending not to know the country has been taken over by Communists and that voting our way out of this ain’t gonna work.
My two and a half cents.
I would submit that this is an ongoing everyday exercise….facing reality.
In my experience, “we” are much further down that path than our enemies of the totalitarian left.
But yes, pretending that the controlled opposition are good guys is a good example of what you are referring to. I’ve been guilty of that.
Either someone or something is floating their books..this country is in a perpetual downfall and mathematically I’m boggled everyday with the regimes accounting!! The sheep still keep bleeting…
My opinion is that they are going to magically wipe out enormous amounts of debt with the new centralized digital currency.
Purchasing compliance
The entire charade comes from up high, who is it that has stacked boardrooms with emotional twits who see the ridiculous as the norm and to what end. How do they have the luxury to pretend who is backstopping this goofiness. It’s in business, sports, entertainment, politics, education and on and on, as the wise man once said always follow the money.
I know yawn, but in short the WEF and their New World Order. This entire charade or pretend as you say is all part of the plan to destroy the West. 700 out of a 1000 of the Fortune 1000 are owned by Blackrock, State Street and Vanguard these three companies are owned by the banking cabal Rothschild’s/Rockefeller’s et al.
Like it or not this is their plan and by their actions (Pestilence, War, Privation, Starvation, Invasion) they want us dead and gone.
They may be pretending but the results are terrible.
I worked for local community college concurrent enrollment (high school students taking college classes). Sitting through meetings was unbearable. They are all so smart and virtuous with our money and children. Never a program idea they were hesitant to pursue if they could get funding. Include equity in your proposal and cha ching. They truly pretend in what they are doing. I quit in April and feel so much better. It’s hard to be in that environment once you see the strings. Stable job, but not worth my soul.
Similar reason as to why I no longer teach at any University. A longer story, but I was disgusted and couldn’t do it any more, then decided to go into farming. LOL. Animals are much more interesting.
Indeed most excellent analysis and articulated secular viewpoint.
But let’s be honest what’s the real deal the big thing that’s changed? I’ll give you some clues. 2 Timothy 3, Isaiah 5:20, John 1:5, Ecclesiastes 10:6-7, Matthew 9:37, Matthew 24. Attempting to interpret the temporal world without an understanding of the Bible is ultimately futile. Prophecy is being fulfilled and if you don’t believe me ask yourself why you don’t hear from the Church. Apostasy and a coming famine of the word of God. “The harvest is plentious but the laborers are few”
To be regenerate is to know the word of God and the truth in Jesus.
Come on man you know the deal man
if you don’t believe me ask yourself why you don’t hear from the Church….
Consider the Laodicean church, lukewarm. (Revelation 3:15)
Revelation 3:14-18
14 – And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;
15 – I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
16 – So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
17 – Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
18 – I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
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In the Apostle John’s day going to the marketplace was an experience of haggling back and forth, and not just picking out your items, paying at the register, and walking out. I hear Jesus saying to the Church today to be working out their salvation; consider 1 Peter 1:7
“That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:”
That is my hope. At the End of the current “world system”, God will have His way. The WEF and the godless will see God – maybe not in the way they had dreamed of. I pray for strength every day – to stand firm, to not be sucked into the vortex. And I don’t care what people think of me. I want to stand in front of Jesus and be accepted, not be spit out by Him because of my own selfishness or laziness or excuses or delusions.
^^THIS^^
LARP as official policy.
They pretend to be stunned, when they know what’s really going to happen!
They’ve lying about inflation in hopes of fooling the public before the midterms!
I agree there is a lot of pretending going on, I’m guilty of it.
I’m pretending that winter is coming on and it’s going to be a cold one. I’m pretending that after the midterms, the draining of the SPR will end and the price of oil will resume its rise to the moon. I’m pretending that act two of the oil price hikes will be harder on the economy than the first act. I’m pretending that if enough republicans get elected to wrestle away the majority from the dims, there will be civil unrest.
I am pretending more these days than I have ever pretended, just ask my invisible friend, not the one that FJB shakes hands with.
You sound pretty solid to me.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/09/george_soros_the_man_behind_the_curtain.html
Soros mentor at London School of economics taught truth is only a perception
Relativism
I told my husband I want to move to a remote city where people only have one pronoun. Insanity is everywhere!
On which continent do you expect to find that city?
Exactly. There is no escape. We have to deal with this whether we want to or not. It has metastasized.
The propaganda is what has metastasized. It has crept into institutions like academia, healthcare and Hollyweird. But it is all based on lies.
It’s bullying, at its core, in an attempt to gaslight and confuse the masses.
The people don’t really believe it, even as they are beaten over the head with it every day. The vast majority just try to keep their heads low, in the hope it will all go away.
There’s lots of us out in them there hills.
It’s pretending all right.
All their pontificating is pretense and prevarication.
ESG – GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT ‘CLEAN ENERGY’ policies ruin nations economies, create food deprivation and energy shortages.
It’s intentional malevolent destruction.
These banks are pushing ESG (Environmental and Social Governance, latest scheme to achieve one world economic/government control, kind of like Climate Change or the Paris Accords, which destroys every nation that tries to implement it – leaving millions hungry, angry, creating riots.) against America: BlackRock, Wells Fargo, J.P. Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs. West Virginia is no longer banking with them. All of us should follow WV’s bold example.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/west-virginia-vs-progressive-banks-riley-moore-fossil-fuels-goldman-sachs-blackrock-11659014667
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BlackRock and Vanguard shun the U.S. coal industry yet invest billions in a Chinese company whose name is literally “China Coal Energy Company,” without saying a peep about ESG over there. The hypocrisy is staggering.
https://twitter.com/VivekGRamaswamy/status/1552826521580191745
Desantis is standing against it:
ESG – So-called “ESG” policies represent an attempt to impose, through the economy, an ideological agenda that could not win at the ballot box.
Florida is fighting back. We stand for the values of places like Destin, Dunedin and Deland – not Davos.
I can tell you imports are way down. I’m a trucker that pulls from ports. We’re really starting to slow and ships are skipping our port here and there. We’ve got export loads sitting on our yard because the ship skipped. Can’t bring them into the port until the 30th. It’s not good !
Which port? Philadelphia is busier than ever last month, haven’t seen figures for this month.
” to sell the nuke codes”
Errrr…. the nuke launch codes can be changed in an instant. Little sell value there.
Those nuke codes are changed, and frequently, so that possessing them (stealing) becomes less likely and therefore less threatening.
Pretending:
Ford pretends its electric F-150 truck has a range of 320 miles.
Recently an experiment was done with an electric F-150 vs a gas powered GM Silverado 1500 truck pulling an identical 26 foot camper.
The Ford F-150 got 85 miles and ran out of battery power and then Ford says only 44 minutes to recharge up to 80% so that’s another 65 miles. The GM truck had used only 1/4 tank of gas.
Politicians say we must shift to all electrics – GM’s woman CEO says GM is going all electric
All these birdbrains PRETEND we will all switch to electrics and we will have the electricity for these vehicles while destroying oil and gas and not building electric plants.
Pretending? In the old days we called that lying and foolish.
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It is misidentification.
They are pretending they are not whores to whomever is pimping them, but THEY ARE whores for whomever is pimping them . . .
John Galt III posted: ‘Pretending: Ford pretends its electric F-150 truck has a range of 320 miles. Recently an experiment was done with an electric F-150 vs a gas powered GM Silverado 1500 truck pulling an identical 26 foot camper.‘
That experiment sounds a lot like the ones that The Fast Lane Truck (Youtube channel) performs. They have a ton of videos of various comparisons of EV’s to “gas guzzlers”.
For example, this video sounds like a very close similar experiment:
How Far Can a Gas Truck & an Electric Ford Lightning Go Towing the Same Camper On ONE Fill-up?
Their channel: The Fast Lane Truck
https://www.youtube.com/c/TFLtruck/featured
Good stuff there.. 🙂
The field of study of how these false/alternative realities take hold is the sociology of knowledge. It’s a somewhat dense and complex category, but here is a very general overview taken from a Google search.
” In all cultures the major sources of knowledge are tradition, authority, and observation and reasoning. Cultures differ with respect to how much they emphasize each source. Science flourishes in societies that place relatively greater stress on observation and reasoning.”
In a nutshell, we have been rapidly moving from the observing/reasoning criteria (mixed with some tradition) to a dominant authority based mindset.
Academia and the science based (and some religious and cultural) institutions have largely been intimidated, infiltrated, bribed or voluntarily cede control of their standards of truth to what in essence is authority with political objectives.
This is nothing new. But what is different is how in sync worldwide this ‘revaluation of values’ ( to take Nietzche’s phrase) has become.
It’s basically the operating method of the ‘great reset’ at ground level. Creating a compliant society that internalizes these false realities and thus literally sees the world through that prism.
The media (social and traditional) are the greatest facilitators. Daily hypnotizing the uncritical masses. The ease and eagerness of the tech oligarchs to play their part is no coincidence. Soft power always seeks the protection and favors of hard power.
There will be a rebound and reckoning at some point. History moves in cycles over time. But I think we may have to hit rock bottom or close to it before the pendulum turns.
While the observation says what’s happening (big lie – economy, COVID, white supremacy), the question should be WHO benefits from the lying? And I’m not suggesting global players or deep swamp.
We’ve seen the coupling of this government to corporations (reduction in labor cost and removing speech) as well as religious organizations (transit of illegals into the interior) among other synergies.
The benefactor of “lies” is our USA Government funneling money to Congressional interest and their families. Congress makes no law to interfere with their members gaining wealth. AND as we witness this government continues to employ the DOJ/FBI and a host of bureaucracies preventing citizens from choosing a new government or people we want to represent us.
The effect is a federal government so large and doling outrageous amounts of cash (50K per illegal child) that the gain of money outweighs key principles of our Republic.
There are 470+ federal agencies. Some so obscure it defies justification. It’s not the lies we need to concern ourselves with (we know when we hear or see them) but removing agencies by which the graft is distributed.
As SD points out it takes 10 million to secure a senate seat for an annual salary of 220K (1.3 million for 6 years). No business does that. No person does that unless there’s a greater reward.
At the core of this great observation by SD is, at least for the US the want/need to be SOLD something. Could be product, idea, political ideology and most recently government “truths”.
I’ll submit the Gain laundry detergent as an example. Young couple, small child in the duldrums, bored, depressed. As they pull out their laundry their entire lives change and become happy, dancing, connected. It’s sick really, but a very real microcosm of what we “require” as people, in this case as consumers.
Give people what they want, in this case marketing that is a bald face lie personified, making it real, making it believable.
Apply it to anything; covid, Russia hoax, ivermectin, vaccines….so yes, the pretending is spot on, it’s the receiving audience (consumer) that has brought us here.
I suspect it’s becoming less effective and is what is driving the censorship.
I respectfully believe the Left is not engaged in the art of pretending.
They are committed to lying to the American people with the support of the media.
The goal is to make the public believe their lies in order to advance their agenda to destroy the America we love.
A “Great Reset” requires a great pretense. That being said, there’s a greater spiritual truth to what is happening. Romans 1. People have been given over to a depraved mind. The original text literally means “doesn’t work”. Their brains don’t work. Further, we have been experiencing the great falling away. It’s kind of the opposite of a great awakening.
2 Thessalonians 2:6 And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.
7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
Getting you to believe men can have babies is a precursor for believing the devil himself is God. If people are not already pliable when he appears, the antichrist’s deception will not work.
The point of all of this is be ready to meet the Lord. Good times. Bad times. War. Peace. Depression. Prosperity. Doesn’t much matter in the grand scheme of things.
Fight the good fight until Jesus Christ returns.
Preach it brother Paul! Amen!
The greatest pretending was by republicans. The “conservative” label was a joke and now everyone is “MAGA”. 95% of the people can’t even describe what MAGA is, but by god, my guy is MAGA.
The sad part is, this once great country, continues to pretend it has a president.
“And for this cause, God will send them a strong delusion that they shall believe a lie.” -2 Thess 2:11
Hair follicle drug screens for the lot of them. Addicts in treatment don’t lie this much. Brutal Honesty is the only way to live.
“Yes, this era -for a host of reasons- has made delusion somewhat of a norm”.
and, we are just getting warmed up..
“For this reason God will send upon them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false”
The greatest and worst pretense came from the medical industry, whose job #1 is to do no harm.
Instead, doctors and nurses unashamedly supported covid mandates and the miraculous cures.
The result was thousands dying of the poison vaxxes, millions more injured. And still the band played on.
To me, this is the most egregious form of the great pretending, the loss of life, by those sworn to uphold it.
Big Harma pretends it’s all about saving humanity, even as they seek to destroy humanity via transhuman gene altering. They pretend to offer a vaccine that is not a vaccine at all.
It is the mark of the beast. The Bible tells it like it is. Believe God, not Lucifer the father of lies.
You know that scene in Monty Python’s Holy Grail where the black knight pretends he’s not mortally wounded? Yeah, that’s where we are. Only we cannot just call the lunacy what it is and walk away.
I think John 3:1-21 describes the choice in front of all of us. This choice is difference between those that are aware of the light and thus the purpose of God ‘and’ who choose to take up their cross and follow him and those that are not.
Keep in mind the choice isn’t between a return to normal vs suffering, but between Salvation and spiritual death.
I’m thinking the CEO of FEDEX lied a month ago when he stated that earnings per share would be on target for the quarter. His finance people had to know by then that the bottom was falling out!
Sundance, I have the utmost respect for you and you have been a bright light in our dark world. That’s an interesting word that you use; ‘pretending.’ Help me understand why you don’t just say ‘lying’? As I understand it, the battle of the end-times is between God’s Truth and satan’s lies. Are we not now witnessing the building of a foundation of lies, chaos, and confusion? We won’t turn the clock back to what we once were. Things will not go back to a USA populated with Norman Rockwell villages and polite civility. This is going to ‘progress’; hence ‘progressivism.’ What boundaries of deviancy are left to cross? I truly want to understand your use of the word ‘pretending’ vs. lying. Is ‘pretending’ too diplomatic for the times we are in?
Yep! Delusion is the denial of Truth.
Here is what God does to them, because of their delusion.
and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. Therefore God sends them strong delusion, so that the may believe what is false, in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth, Thessalonians 2: 10-12.
And so, they are condemning themselves to hell. Isaiah 66: 3-4, ” They have chosen their own ways, and their souls delight in their abominations. So, God also will choose harsh treatment for them and bring them what they dread.
All those that do not believe the truth will loose everything and will go to eternal damnation. That is what they dread.
Goodness.
Those who choose ‘their own way’ therefore means ‘they delight in their abominations’?
Way too many evidence free assumptions to make any sense.