I've discovered why I am determined to find out the truth (not everyone is it seems). It has to do with the illusions, lies, self-deceptions,delusions, avoidance and fantasies promoted in my original family. It was one of the greatest events of my life to break out of that clingy web and start to think for myself. It probably saved my life, and because he did not break out, it cost my brother his. Lies can be lethal, and so I am determined to pursue the truth, even and perhaps especially into the taboos.
I have discovered that our world presents us with layers of lies, and that most often the truth lies underneath all the layers. This layering is deliberately and systematically applied, so that people will stop at a shallower layer, thinking they have penetrated to the truth, when they have only pierced a few layers. This is called Limited Hangout and Controlled Opposition. Some portion of the truth is admitted in order to protect the full truth from being explored, and some people are presented as representing the truth as opposed to official lies, when they are in fact a part of the lie through creating a false competing lie.
I am embarrassed that I used to believe some things. Then I believed only something deeper toward the truth, but still a lie. Now I am willing and able to go further past all the layers toward the full truth. One good example is 911. The first time I saw towers collapsing on TV, I said "that's controlled demolition." Partial truth. But I did not know how demolition occurred, nor who did it, though why seemed obvious (launch the "war on terror"). It was only later that I learned something closer to the core truth: US Zionist Neo-Cons and Israeli Intelligence working with Jewish organized crime elements (Silverstein et al.) planned, executed, covered up and redirected the events of 911 in order to send the US military against Israel's enemies in the Middle East, Iraq, Syria, Libya and Iran, and to seize the pipeline routes and poppy fields of Afghanistan for the oil/gas profits and opium trade. Then I knew how deep the evil really goes and who could be that evil.
I will not stop at a shallower level on any other topic, not history, not medicine, not science in general, not demographics, not anything. The consequences of failing to find the truth and lingering at shallower lies are too dire. The liberation and strength and joy that comes from knowing the truth is too powerful.
I realize this creates a form of confirmation bias in me, which may be why I align with Cowan's views that viruses as described don’t exist. But settling for shallower lies is also a form of confirmation bias. I have found too many times in life that the truth is pursued through layer after layer of descending lies. I can move one layer at a time, or I can skip over them all toward the final truth. Moreso now, I skip, because my process has shown me this is most often correct.
One of the core truths in my conceptual framework is that powerful, wealthy people in a multi-generational campaign have lied to us all on a massive scale and scope. Whenever money is involved, this is demonstrably true, but also in other areas of control. They are willing to lose money in order to perpetrate some lies, as we see with falling media sales, for instance. Time and again I have seen some big lie start to crumble, only to stop at a shallower lie (limited hangout), as others join in and assert a different lie (controlled opposition). The truth lies beneath and beyond it all, and it is often stunning. DNA changes minute by minute? The theory of neural synapses and neurotransmitters is an artifact? "Nazis" were good? It is the purpose and function of pharmaceutical medicine to make us sick and dead while extracting our wealth in the process? Stunning, but good to know.
So I respect others’ views and especially their efforts in pursuing truths below the layers of lies. I may go further--maybe too far some may think--but I accept that. I thought I'd share a little about why. It has to do with the lies I failed to pierce in the past, the damage it did in my life, and the great benefits I experienced when I started to pursue truth, come what may. Often the truth is surrounded by taboos, social sanctions, punishments, ostracism, poverty, marginalization, even death. But the cost of failing to achieve the truth or some process toward it is worse for ourselves. We can't live a lie we know is untrue without drastic psychological damage. The truth will set us free, but not from external consequences. It sets us free from internal consequences, and into new actions, values and progress toward better lives. That has been my experience.
What is yours?
Karl, thank you for posting such a personal and interesting essay. As a fellow obsessive truth-seeker, I have wondered about your "villain origin story." What you've written here certainly helps me understand the steps that brought you to the position you now hold.
As has often happened during our correspondence, if you will, I find that I agree with almost all of your observations, and almost none of your conclusions. Layers of truth, yes. Controlled demolition, yes. Neocons advocating for war, yes. Self-interest of the moneyed elite, yes. But then it comes down to "The Jews," for you, as it always does.
In logic, there is a principle called the fallacy of the single cause. It's what happens when you peel away so many layers of the onion that there's nothing left of it anymore. At that point, you can pick up any scrap of onion from the counter and say, "Aha! THIS was the center of it all!" The scrap you find, of course, is whichever one you were looking for in the first place.
I feel that this is the trap you fall into in your quest for truth. You're so determined to get to the heart of things that you insist on a reductive, one-dimensional explanation for things that are actually the result of complex, three-dimensional factors. You're so sure that The Jews are behind everything bad that you simply bend all the contradictory evidence to fit your hypothesis.
The Neocon issue is a good example. Wolfowitz, Pearl, and other Jews were part of the core contingent that advocated for the USA to get involved in the middle east, in large part to support of Israel - America's only reliable ally in region. That much is true. But they were PART of the contingent. Dick Cheney, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and many other non-Jewish war pigs were instrumental in creating the War on Terror and the Iraq/Afghanistan debacles in order to accrue more wealth and power to themselves, not because they were somehow in the service of mythical Jewish masterminds. Halliburton, Raytheon, Blackwater, and the other companies that made billions from war may have Jewish employees and shareholders, but they are certainly not exclusively Jewish.
Are there nefarious Jews? Sure. But there are many nefarious non-Jews too. Ignoring all the other possible motivations for evil behavior in favor of a thesis that Jews are behind it all does not mean that you've penetrated to the heart of the lies. It just means that you've decided to replace other people's lies with one of your own choosing.
Speaking of the 'big lie' ...
Incidentally, around six or seven years ago, I started my deep dive into the Putin/Russian rabbit hole which inevitably led me to Stalin, WWII and Hitler. I had seen the ‘Big Lie’ meme repeated incessantly, sometimes attributed to Hitler and sometimes to Goebbels.
So I took the time to read what these two men actually DID say by reading all of Hitler’s speeches (1922-1945), most of Mein Kampf and some of Goebbels’ speeches. I am continuing, but off on a Solzhenitsyn bypass and a few other tangents at the moment.
A classic example that illustrates the point of lying through obfuscation is the following essay:
• Wall Street, the Nazis, and the Crimes of the Deep State – Dr David Hughes
https://www.checktheevidence.com/wordpress/2022/08/02/wall-street-the-nazis-and-the-crimes-of-the-deep-state-dr-david-hughes/
Hughes starts with the quote from Mein Kampf:
“[…] Because the […] masses […] are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, … “
This leaves you in no doubt that this was Hitler’s mindset – to control the masses through lying to them.
What Hughes intentionally obscures is the preceding and subsequent parts of the paragraph …
So let’s look at the full quote from Mein Kampf …
“But it remained for the Jews, with their unqualified capacity for falsehood, and their fighting comrades, the Marxists, to impute responsibility for the downfall precisely to the man who alone had shown a superhuman will and energy in his effort to prevent the catastrophe which he had foreseen and to save the nation from that hour of complete overthrow and shame. By placing responsibility for the loss of the world war on the shoulders of Ludendorff they took away the weapon of moral right from the only adversary dangerous enough to be likely to succeed in bringing the betrayers of the Fatherland to Justice. All this was inspired by the principle – which is quite true in itself – that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; <b> [Hughes:] because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large−scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation.[end of Hughes excerpt]</b> For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying. These people know only too well how to use falsehood for the basest purposes.
From time immemorial. however, the Jews have known better than any others how falsehood and calumny can be exploited. Is not their very existence founded on one great lie, namely, that they are a religious community, whereas in reality they are a race? And what a race! One of the greatest thinkers that mankind has produced has branded the Jews for all time with a statement which is profoundly and exactly true. He (Schopenhauer) called the Jew "The Great Master of Lies". Those who do not realize the truth of that statement, or do not wish to believe it, will never be able to lend a hand in helping Truth to prevail.”
]End of full quote]
By underpinning his entire article on this deliberate misquoted excerpt, Dr David Hughes demonstrates an utter lack of scholarly integrity and reveals himself to be a ‘tenured academic’ [as Matthew Raphael Johnson call them]. I have noted various narrative-pushing revisionists freely citing and mirror his article.