Brilliant!! Was just saying the other day that many of us have been encouraged to move out of the family home at 18 when we ostensibly went to college. This practice has broken up extended families. That and working for big corporations has taken us out further from family/community with multiple location moves. The strength a family and close community provides is a threat to those whose penchant is to control the populace. We must consider going back for our futures.
Perhaps we 'drank to deeply' of the heady Freedom Movement of the 60s and 70s. By rebelling against everything, we left a void which the "Corporate State' filled with Money and an ersatz purpose?
It was a time of serious change. Not just one generation, either, it was the twist and jerk of the post WWII era, when the CIA/Mossad/MI6 colossus really got rolling... When the Nazi Plan really GOT BUSY... It wasn't a rebellion against family, I'd say, as it was rebellion against a New System that was instinctively repugnant to the youth... I was a child in the 60's, but I felt it, not about my parents being "un-hip" or something, but the VIBE... Hard to explain, but I think it was the real PUSH of starting what is going on NOW...
So true. The understanding of the people in this comment thread is uplifting not because the subject is uplifting but because the clarity with which so many can now describe what has been happening is surely a great part of the increasing consciousness of the planet.
I can see many people shifting to a love paradigm.
The world system/matrix is a fear paradigm, it is based on economy as a central bankers business model not on Reality.
In the old world system humanity is techo-extincting itself with ignorance and stupidity( fear) so this shift towards Freedom( from fear to love) is now essential.
Mass enlightenment( self remembering) is now essential .
We have to come to the here and now.
Instead of this regression and inertia we need to use ancient wisdom and move into the Now.
Yes, I agree... It was happening in the 60's, so the Nasties had to introduce DRUGS to stomp it out. And it worked, for the most part. But it's baaaaack... ^_^
Dr Yeadon, thank you so much for bringing up Alan Watt. I discovered him via an internet radio show, Road Warrior radio, host Chris Hinkley on RBN, Republic Broadcasting Network. Chris has talked about Alan Watt and played some of his great insights. I did not know who Melissa, only that she has worked to maintain Alan Watt’s wisdom and work. Thank you for sharing her substack link.
The Cutting through the Matrix is a great resource and has links for Alan’s old radio show recordings.
Cutting Through the Matrix with Alan Watt - Clearing the rubbish from the road to reality
I have no doubt Alan Watt was murdered, as I understand it the psychopath's attempted to recruit him but he was having none of it.
God bless him, although it was the covid bullshit that woke me up it was Alan who enabled me to see the intergenerational nature of what is occurring, he enabled me to see that "culture" does not come from grass roots but is given to us by the controllers, mini skirts, promiscuity, satanic rock music etc etc
I can no longer watch films, have you noticed that in so many films the hero is a psychopath? In the last James Bond film I watched Daniel Craig looked around in boredom as he ended the life of an assailment on the balcony of a flat in Haiti, do you see it? How we are led astray little by little? Taking human life is cool, treating other human beings as objects to be used is macho and cool.
Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.
On a note of hope, I do not believe this poison will continue much longer, it can't, it will come crashing down, we need a few more people to grow a pair and that will expedite the collapse, it sickens me to see all the "professionals" continuing to take their pay check in exchange for the destruction of their own children's future but at some point these selfish cowards will say enough is enough.
Good points... Now's our chance to get back on the Good Road.
Ever notice how the music these days is ... Noise? Give a listen, if you're a young 'un, to the music of the 60's... There was real revolution in the air. It was GREAT. I would like to feel that again, and I think it's coming on, it's growing again.
Well if her safety is in harm’s way it may be the best thing for her to do. Andrew Brietbart’s wife did not pursue anything after the coroner quickly died just before Andrew’s autopsy was about to be released. Once coroner death hit local LA news it VANISHED, poof like it never happened.
If you have no conscience, killing someone, anyone, is not a big deal. Might actually be kind of thrilling. This is why people fear psychopaths-- they have no regrets, and serve only themselves.
I've seen things recently discussing the unhappy dissolution of the family, how the family used to be the focal point of a person's life. For many people today it's just a weak adjunct--the perfect canvas on which to paint a transhumanist future. I live alone by choice, but I understand how important it is to have deep connections to other human beings because isolation kills. If you know that and take care not to fall into that trap, if you intentionally build alliances with others, you're much more likely to survive the cull that's already happening. Not to mention be happier.
It's interesting (to me) that on 160 acres in rural Texas I know and interact with more neighbors than I did living on a third of an acre near Dallas. In fact, living on that suburban tract in the middle of town I met and spoke with exactly one neighbor in nine years. Nine years in that house and I couldn't have picked any of my neighbors out of a lineup. We never spoke, waved, or really even saw each other. Which was completely fine. It's not like I moped about it, because I didn't want anything to do with anyone. But now in this rural area the neighbors and I wave when we see each other, keep an eye each other's places, exchange eggs, beef, and produce, borrow bulls--and those who want to socialize in person hang out. I still don't socialize that way but my sister does, and we're on good terms with nearly everyone in a mile radius. And I'm not saying it's a close-knit familial situation here, but there's at least a sense of amity that didn't exist in town.
As a pilot I was able to have a great career and live wherever I wanted, but being close to family didn't make me feel close to family. I lived with or within five miles of my parents for over 50 years, then moved four states away in 2013 and haven't been back since. It's obviously a "me" problem.
I grew up in Texas. When Covid came, my brother terminated my membership in my family. I was forcibly driven away. Ever want a good cook around, let me know, I live in Fascism WA. I could bring my tent...
Your story is so uplifting Dr Yeadon. Thank you soooo much for sharing it with us. I am an old fashion gal; I bake bread and cook. I know how to survive. I lived in Greece when I was young. I can garden etc. It's going to be a rocky road ahead, but I think we will survive it. Once you see the agenda. You cannot unsee it. I guess David Icke was right all along. Thank you. I wish you were my neighbor. Toni Blake [Irene}
"Nobody is coming to save us. Melissa commented (1:06.30) that often, Alan was accused of being so negative, such a downer, but he always supplied the solution."
I get accused of being "negative" all the time as well. I, also, have always preached the solution. The solutions are so incredibly simple that it baffles me to see so many people not get it (and I grow weary of hearing, "but what can I do?). Start by saying NO. No to anything that you know in your gut is not right. Stop complying with "laws" that are unethical or immoral. We are under no obligation to comply with a law that is insane on its face (and, of course, be willing to endure the fines or whatever happens if we are "caught" not "obeying"). Stop asking if something is "legal" before you do it. If you want to do something and it's not going to hurt someone else... just flipping do it! (I often use the example of a guy's comment I saw in a post on electrical work who actually called the city to find out if it was "legal" for him to change out a light switch in his home... which he found out is *wasn't* "legal". Who does that? WAY too many people do exactly that... call and find out if they have "permission" from their masters to do something). And finally, START being responsible for yourself. Your food, your safety, your happiness, your health... none of this is government's responsibility! (And, quite frankly, I don't want it to be their responsibility for heaven's sake... can't people see what a disaster it is when government sticks its filthy fingers in *anything*?) I never tell people to do anything I'm not willing to do myself and I live what I said above every day of my life. I *refuse* to play along... and if just 25% of us would commit to the same we could right this ship in months.
I remember well when Alan Watt came into my circle of non-influence and I ordered from him his "book" for $25.00 dollars which was not a regular book from a book publishing company but was sort of a "term paper" in a binder like you put together for some of your first essays turned in in high school or college. (I sensed something not quite right about Alan Watt's message, but I did not know what it was that was not quite right, as it certainly sounded right on its surface.)
I also remember my father working for a large international chemical company / corporation being offered a transfer from a blue little Texas city to big blue Torrance California that included a big payraise and career advancement. Daddy took a democratic vote of us kids and we could, with a show of hands, vote for FOR or AGAINST the proposition of moving to California. We kids won by voting against that proposition.
____
I would beg to differ a bit with .....
"Nobody is coming to save us. Melissa commented (1:06.30) that often, ..."
SomeOne has already come to save us.
____
I would also beg to differ a bit with .....
"Alan was accused of being so negative, such a downer, but he always supplied the solution. It’s to care for one another...."
Alan did not supply The Solution. Alan supplied a solution.
"It’s to care for one another...."
That solution with a lower-case s is to care for one another. The manner in which we care for another should be in the manner of agape love. The manner in which we operate or do things, our "operating system," should be related to love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, gentleness, and self control, even when we are operating to spread the best truth we can find.
Caring for one another is testified to in several verses in the New Testament of the Christian bible.
"12 ...We see now through a glass in a dark manner; but then face to face. Now I know in part; but then I shall know even as I am known. 13 And now there remain faith, hope, and charity, these three: but the greatest of these is charity.
______
Dachsie note: Biblehub will take you to the entire chapter 13 because biblehub is mainly a "Protestant" site and focuses mainly on the "Protestant" bible versions and those versions have a "verse 14" but Douay-Rheims bible version is a Catholic bible version and Catholic bible versions such as Douay-Rheims bible end at "verse 13", no "verse 14", for Saint Paul's first epistle to the Corinthians.
Dachsie, although raised in old-school Catholicism in an old-school Democrat town, has been fully conservatized, patriotized and politicized, socialized and collectivized. [Dachsie will restrain from launching into preachy comment here.]
Thank you. As is often so, quickly dashed off posts morph into grander looking Substack articles. My phrasing was in error. I knew it was weak but it was all I could manage in the moment. You’ve given it full life. I appreciate it very much.
I grew up in a working class community just outside of a large urban conurbation in the North of England. I was fortunate enough to receive a university education thanks to the expansion of the public education system in the post WW2 period. I moved around the country during my professional life, but moved back to where I was brought up when a career move enabled me to look after my ageing parents.
Where I live now is like a broken shell of the place where I grew up. I know nostalgia can flatter our memories, but the difference I now see around me is brutal, and it is very real. The rural and urban working class communities I remember from the 1960s are long gone. Abject poverty, making its return after nearly a century, now imbues many fragments of this broken shell. Yes, one by one, the factories and farms are slipping away, but so are families and those adventitious organisations that bind people together naturally. All is being replaced - slowly but irrevocably - to the point of disappearance and it is being engineered. Boundaries change, according to political expediency, and with them the very names of communities that have existed for millennia. Computerised forms which no longer accept those traditional names, are there to enforce this new dispensation; and the broken windows of brutalist architecture are everywhere.
Absolutely on the money. Any sense of place or roots has been actively discouraged. Even maligned as xenophobic or something.
Growing up (as I realized later in life) the surnames of my classmates were reflected in the headstones of the local graveyards all over the region. A deep sense of place and rootedness that encourages shared values and community. Still here where I pretty much started but when I go back to the local town it feels strange. Virtually everyone left because they can no longer afford to live where their mostly high school graduate working class WWII/Korean war era parents raised them. A compelling reason to stay was because it was home. A indefinable term that most instinctively understand. But now it increasingly does not feel like home at all. Makes one wonder, what was the point of staying? What the locals hold valuable is sold out daily.
"Home" is a universal concept I would suspect. Hard not to feel a bit of resentment that the very idea of home has been systematically beaten out of us and cast as some sort of malady. Xenophobia, parochialism, whatever. Affection for your roots seems to be allowed on a selective basis. If you're 3000 years removed from "home" and want to "reconnect with your roots" it is considered fine and dandy, and if your a favored ethnicity it is encouraged no matter how much trouble it may cause. But if you just want to wake up and not feel like "the other" in your own stomping grounds that somehow is cast as wrong.
Bottom line is as long as we are encouraged to have no loyalty to place and community we can easily be herded in to the easily manipulated loyalty to nothing but dollars. Seems to be working just fine. Till one day you wake up someplace with which you have no connection whatever and when you decide "wouldn't it be nice to go home" you find home is no longer there also. You find you have no connection to anything. No wonder so many people retire to foreign alien environs where they have nothing in common but the lure of "a cheaper existence". Sometimes they don't even speak the language. No grand children, no family no shared tradition no nada. But they feel "at least I might be able to run out the clock with the heat turned on". Something that may not be possible if they stay home. Why face the struggle if "home" does not offer familiarity, family and safety? No wonder so many opt out late in the game to go run out the clock on a seemingly ridiculous alien adventure where you have not much other than some walls and perhaps a internet and facetime connection, ... if you even have that.
I enjoyed reading your stories of family, building little communities, and re-thinking what is important, all set against the background of Alan Watt’s thoughts and voice. Thank you for this, and for sharing the Real History conversation I had with Adam, “This is not a dress rehearsal.”
Your wife’s family’s connection to Coats Group (possibly the oldest multinational corporation) made me smile. My sewing boxes are full of J&P Coats threads, sorted by color, and I can tell by looking at the spool if this is thread I purchased, or if I inherited it from my mother, or my aunt Betty, who may have inherited it from her mother, my Mema.
I’ll include a link here to a section of CTTM book club coverage of Carroll Quigley’s Tragedy and Hope. When we were dividing up sections, I made sure to take this one for myself! Years ago, when I first read this giant book, I was most struck by what Quigley wrote about American middle class values. I think his observations and examples also apply to Commonwealth countries. It was no accident that we grew up aggressively pursuing the carrot, allowing ourselves to be separated from families and communities under the guise of ‘doing better.’
"The United States and The Middle Class Crisis" CTTM Bookclub Tragedy & Hope Ch. 20, pt. 2 - 3/8/25
Some of us recognized in Operation Covid, that we had an opportunity to return to timeless human values that many of us were not raised with. We’ve been given a chance to see that it is our humanity, and love of it, that offers a way out of madness-by-design. Thanks again, Dr. Yeadon!
An analogy....There was a sage plant in our yard, and my ex-partner kept moving it around, because she was changing the plan of the garden. After she moved it for the 3rd time, the thing died. Our roots are so important, and the tiny hair roots that do all the work supplying nutrients are harmed in too many transplants. Same for people, I have come to believe. We need as many constant threads in our lives as we can have, and the evils that be understand that the best way is through our constant disruption in all facets of life. At 61 I just moved across the US, to escape the Smartmeter (it caused tinnitus and life threatening heart palps). Living without electricity suits me much better. Here's a toast to 'a more rooted life'. ;]
Brilliant!! Was just saying the other day that many of us have been encouraged to move out of the family home at 18 when we ostensibly went to college. This practice has broken up extended families. That and working for big corporations has taken us out further from family/community with multiple location moves. The strength a family and close community provides is a threat to those whose penchant is to control the populace. We must consider going back for our futures.
…..yes, oh how we were duped with “independent living”
I see nothing wrong with "independent living", But, the proto-Fascist structure is the opposite of independence.
Exactly. Its dependence and slavery sold as independence.
Perhaps we 'drank to deeply' of the heady Freedom Movement of the 60s and 70s. By rebelling against everything, we left a void which the "Corporate State' filled with Money and an ersatz purpose?
I think young people of the 60’s were set up to be de familiarised in order to be newly programmable.
It was a time of serious change. Not just one generation, either, it was the twist and jerk of the post WWII era, when the CIA/Mossad/MI6 colossus really got rolling... When the Nazi Plan really GOT BUSY... It wasn't a rebellion against family, I'd say, as it was rebellion against a New System that was instinctively repugnant to the youth... I was a child in the 60's, but I felt it, not about my parents being "un-hip" or something, but the VIBE... Hard to explain, but I think it was the real PUSH of starting what is going on NOW...
So true. The understanding of the people in this comment thread is uplifting not because the subject is uplifting but because the clarity with which so many can now describe what has been happening is surely a great part of the increasing consciousness of the planet.
Simplified the answer is Love.
I can see many people shifting to a love paradigm.
The world system/matrix is a fear paradigm, it is based on economy as a central bankers business model not on Reality.
In the old world system humanity is techo-extincting itself with ignorance and stupidity( fear) so this shift towards Freedom( from fear to love) is now essential.
Mass enlightenment( self remembering) is now essential .
We have to come to the here and now.
Instead of this regression and inertia we need to use ancient wisdom and move into the Now.
Yes, I agree... It was happening in the 60's, so the Nasties had to introduce DRUGS to stomp it out. And it worked, for the most part. But it's baaaaack... ^_^
Oh, I didn't see your comment til after I'd written mine... We might have been collaborating, LOL. Yeah, I agree!
Dr Yeadon, thank you so much for bringing up Alan Watt. I discovered him via an internet radio show, Road Warrior radio, host Chris Hinkley on RBN, Republic Broadcasting Network. Chris has talked about Alan Watt and played some of his great insights. I did not know who Melissa, only that she has worked to maintain Alan Watt’s wisdom and work. Thank you for sharing her substack link.
The Cutting through the Matrix is a great resource and has links for Alan’s old radio show recordings.
Cutting Through the Matrix with Alan Watt - Clearing the rubbish from the road to reality
https://cuttingthroughthematrix.com/
I have no doubt Alan Watt was murdered, as I understand it the psychopath's attempted to recruit him but he was having none of it.
God bless him, although it was the covid bullshit that woke me up it was Alan who enabled me to see the intergenerational nature of what is occurring, he enabled me to see that "culture" does not come from grass roots but is given to us by the controllers, mini skirts, promiscuity, satanic rock music etc etc
I can no longer watch films, have you noticed that in so many films the hero is a psychopath? In the last James Bond film I watched Daniel Craig looked around in boredom as he ended the life of an assailment on the balcony of a flat in Haiti, do you see it? How we are led astray little by little? Taking human life is cool, treating other human beings as objects to be used is macho and cool.
Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.
On a note of hope, I do not believe this poison will continue much longer, it can't, it will come crashing down, we need a few more people to grow a pair and that will expedite the collapse, it sickens me to see all the "professionals" continuing to take their pay check in exchange for the destruction of their own children's future but at some point these selfish cowards will say enough is enough.
I’d say Alan Watt has changed my life. It’s not gloomy, the discombobulation was already there, he just clarified it.
Your observation of James bond films is true. James Bond anagrams to 'demon jabs'.
Good points... Now's our chance to get back on the Good Road.
Ever notice how the music these days is ... Noise? Give a listen, if you're a young 'un, to the music of the 60's... There was real revolution in the air. It was GREAT. I would like to feel that again, and I think it's coming on, it's growing again.
Hard to be sure about that. Melissa herself categorically refutes that anything untoward caused his death.
Well if her safety is in harm’s way it may be the best thing for her to do. Andrew Brietbart’s wife did not pursue anything after the coroner quickly died just before Andrew’s autopsy was about to be released. Once coroner death hit local LA news it VANISHED, poof like it never happened.
If you have no conscience, killing someone, anyone, is not a big deal. Might actually be kind of thrilling. This is why people fear psychopaths-- they have no regrets, and serve only themselves.
Yes.
They gave us all the religions, too.
I've seen things recently discussing the unhappy dissolution of the family, how the family used to be the focal point of a person's life. For many people today it's just a weak adjunct--the perfect canvas on which to paint a transhumanist future. I live alone by choice, but I understand how important it is to have deep connections to other human beings because isolation kills. If you know that and take care not to fall into that trap, if you intentionally build alliances with others, you're much more likely to survive the cull that's already happening. Not to mention be happier.
It's interesting (to me) that on 160 acres in rural Texas I know and interact with more neighbors than I did living on a third of an acre near Dallas. In fact, living on that suburban tract in the middle of town I met and spoke with exactly one neighbor in nine years. Nine years in that house and I couldn't have picked any of my neighbors out of a lineup. We never spoke, waved, or really even saw each other. Which was completely fine. It's not like I moped about it, because I didn't want anything to do with anyone. But now in this rural area the neighbors and I wave when we see each other, keep an eye each other's places, exchange eggs, beef, and produce, borrow bulls--and those who want to socialize in person hang out. I still don't socialize that way but my sister does, and we're on good terms with nearly everyone in a mile radius. And I'm not saying it's a close-knit familial situation here, but there's at least a sense of amity that didn't exist in town.
As a pilot I was able to have a great career and live wherever I wanted, but being close to family didn't make me feel close to family. I lived with or within five miles of my parents for over 50 years, then moved four states away in 2013 and haven't been back since. It's obviously a "me" problem.
I grew up in Texas. When Covid came, my brother terminated my membership in my family. I was forcibly driven away. Ever want a good cook around, let me know, I live in Fascism WA. I could bring my tent...
Your story is so uplifting Dr Yeadon. Thank you soooo much for sharing it with us. I am an old fashion gal; I bake bread and cook. I know how to survive. I lived in Greece when I was young. I can garden etc. It's going to be a rocky road ahead, but I think we will survive it. Once you see the agenda. You cannot unsee it. I guess David Icke was right all along. Thank you. I wish you were my neighbor. Toni Blake [Irene}
"Nobody is coming to save us. Melissa commented (1:06.30) that often, Alan was accused of being so negative, such a downer, but he always supplied the solution."
I get accused of being "negative" all the time as well. I, also, have always preached the solution. The solutions are so incredibly simple that it baffles me to see so many people not get it (and I grow weary of hearing, "but what can I do?). Start by saying NO. No to anything that you know in your gut is not right. Stop complying with "laws" that are unethical or immoral. We are under no obligation to comply with a law that is insane on its face (and, of course, be willing to endure the fines or whatever happens if we are "caught" not "obeying"). Stop asking if something is "legal" before you do it. If you want to do something and it's not going to hurt someone else... just flipping do it! (I often use the example of a guy's comment I saw in a post on electrical work who actually called the city to find out if it was "legal" for him to change out a light switch in his home... which he found out is *wasn't* "legal". Who does that? WAY too many people do exactly that... call and find out if they have "permission" from their masters to do something). And finally, START being responsible for yourself. Your food, your safety, your happiness, your health... none of this is government's responsibility! (And, quite frankly, I don't want it to be their responsibility for heaven's sake... can't people see what a disaster it is when government sticks its filthy fingers in *anything*?) I never tell people to do anything I'm not willing to do myself and I live what I said above every day of my life. I *refuse* to play along... and if just 25% of us would commit to the same we could right this ship in months.
Excellent comment and I it’d take a lot less than 25%.
Unfortunately a high % of people don’t want to make decisions for themselves.
I remember well when Alan Watt came into my circle of non-influence and I ordered from him his "book" for $25.00 dollars which was not a regular book from a book publishing company but was sort of a "term paper" in a binder like you put together for some of your first essays turned in in high school or college. (I sensed something not quite right about Alan Watt's message, but I did not know what it was that was not quite right, as it certainly sounded right on its surface.)
I also remember my father working for a large international chemical company / corporation being offered a transfer from a blue little Texas city to big blue Torrance California that included a big payraise and career advancement. Daddy took a democratic vote of us kids and we could, with a show of hands, vote for FOR or AGAINST the proposition of moving to California. We kids won by voting against that proposition.
____
I would beg to differ a bit with .....
"Nobody is coming to save us. Melissa commented (1:06.30) that often, ..."
SomeOne has already come to save us.
____
I would also beg to differ a bit with .....
"Alan was accused of being so negative, such a downer, but he always supplied the solution. It’s to care for one another...."
Alan did not supply The Solution. Alan supplied a solution.
"It’s to care for one another...."
That solution with a lower-case s is to care for one another. The manner in which we care for another should be in the manner of agape love. The manner in which we operate or do things, our "operating system," should be related to love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, gentleness, and self control, even when we are operating to spread the best truth we can find.
Caring for one another is testified to in several verses in the New Testament of the Christian bible.
1 Corinthians 13:12-13
Douay-Rheims Bible
https://drbo.org/chapter/53013.htm
1st Epistle of St Paul to the Corinthians
Chapter 13
"12 ...We see now through a glass in a dark manner; but then face to face. Now I know in part; but then I shall know even as I am known. 13 And now there remain faith, hope, and charity, these three: but the greatest of these is charity.
______
Dachsie note: Biblehub will take you to the entire chapter 13 because biblehub is mainly a "Protestant" site and focuses mainly on the "Protestant" bible versions and those versions have a "verse 14" but Douay-Rheims bible version is a Catholic bible version and Catholic bible versions such as Douay-Rheims bible end at "verse 13", no "verse 14", for Saint Paul's first epistle to the Corinthians.
https://biblehub.com/drb/1_corinthians/13.htm
Dachsie, although raised in old-school Catholicism in an old-school Democrat town, has been fully conservatized, patriotized and politicized, socialized and collectivized. [Dachsie will restrain from launching into preachy comment here.]
Thank you. As is often so, quickly dashed off posts morph into grander looking Substack articles. My phrasing was in error. I knew it was weak but it was all I could manage in the moment. You’ve given it full life. I appreciate it very much.
I grew up in a working class community just outside of a large urban conurbation in the North of England. I was fortunate enough to receive a university education thanks to the expansion of the public education system in the post WW2 period. I moved around the country during my professional life, but moved back to where I was brought up when a career move enabled me to look after my ageing parents.
Where I live now is like a broken shell of the place where I grew up. I know nostalgia can flatter our memories, but the difference I now see around me is brutal, and it is very real. The rural and urban working class communities I remember from the 1960s are long gone. Abject poverty, making its return after nearly a century, now imbues many fragments of this broken shell. Yes, one by one, the factories and farms are slipping away, but so are families and those adventitious organisations that bind people together naturally. All is being replaced - slowly but irrevocably - to the point of disappearance and it is being engineered. Boundaries change, according to political expediency, and with them the very names of communities that have existed for millennia. Computerised forms which no longer accept those traditional names, are there to enforce this new dispensation; and the broken windows of brutalist architecture are everywhere.
Absolutely on the money. Any sense of place or roots has been actively discouraged. Even maligned as xenophobic or something.
Growing up (as I realized later in life) the surnames of my classmates were reflected in the headstones of the local graveyards all over the region. A deep sense of place and rootedness that encourages shared values and community. Still here where I pretty much started but when I go back to the local town it feels strange. Virtually everyone left because they can no longer afford to live where their mostly high school graduate working class WWII/Korean war era parents raised them. A compelling reason to stay was because it was home. A indefinable term that most instinctively understand. But now it increasingly does not feel like home at all. Makes one wonder, what was the point of staying? What the locals hold valuable is sold out daily.
"Home" is a universal concept I would suspect. Hard not to feel a bit of resentment that the very idea of home has been systematically beaten out of us and cast as some sort of malady. Xenophobia, parochialism, whatever. Affection for your roots seems to be allowed on a selective basis. If you're 3000 years removed from "home" and want to "reconnect with your roots" it is considered fine and dandy, and if your a favored ethnicity it is encouraged no matter how much trouble it may cause. But if you just want to wake up and not feel like "the other" in your own stomping grounds that somehow is cast as wrong.
Bottom line is as long as we are encouraged to have no loyalty to place and community we can easily be herded in to the easily manipulated loyalty to nothing but dollars. Seems to be working just fine. Till one day you wake up someplace with which you have no connection whatever and when you decide "wouldn't it be nice to go home" you find home is no longer there also. You find you have no connection to anything. No wonder so many people retire to foreign alien environs where they have nothing in common but the lure of "a cheaper existence". Sometimes they don't even speak the language. No grand children, no family no shared tradition no nada. But they feel "at least I might be able to run out the clock with the heat turned on". Something that may not be possible if they stay home. Why face the struggle if "home" does not offer familiarity, family and safety? No wonder so many opt out late in the game to go run out the clock on a seemingly ridiculous alien adventure where you have not much other than some walls and perhaps a internet and facetime connection, ... if you even have that.
Thank you for mentioning Alan Watt. He did more to connect the dots of this demonic system than anyone IMO.
I'd say let him share that title with George Carlin...
Loved Alan Watt who I discovered in college. Great that you shared this resource.
I listen to a few Cutting Through The Matrix podcasts every week.
I have learned more from Alan Watt than from anyone else.
It's happiness to at least know and see someone like you, as a human being. Hope comes alive, sometimes.
I enjoyed reading your stories of family, building little communities, and re-thinking what is important, all set against the background of Alan Watt’s thoughts and voice. Thank you for this, and for sharing the Real History conversation I had with Adam, “This is not a dress rehearsal.”
Your wife’s family’s connection to Coats Group (possibly the oldest multinational corporation) made me smile. My sewing boxes are full of J&P Coats threads, sorted by color, and I can tell by looking at the spool if this is thread I purchased, or if I inherited it from my mother, or my aunt Betty, who may have inherited it from her mother, my Mema.
I’ll include a link here to a section of CTTM book club coverage of Carroll Quigley’s Tragedy and Hope. When we were dividing up sections, I made sure to take this one for myself! Years ago, when I first read this giant book, I was most struck by what Quigley wrote about American middle class values. I think his observations and examples also apply to Commonwealth countries. It was no accident that we grew up aggressively pursuing the carrot, allowing ourselves to be separated from families and communities under the guise of ‘doing better.’
"The United States and The Middle Class Crisis" CTTM Bookclub Tragedy & Hope Ch. 20, pt. 2 - 3/8/25
https://youtu.be/m8k86EsEBsg
Some of us recognized in Operation Covid, that we had an opportunity to return to timeless human values that many of us were not raised with. We’ve been given a chance to see that it is our humanity, and love of it, that offers a way out of madness-by-design. Thanks again, Dr. Yeadon!
Melissa/Cutting Through the Matrix
An analogy....There was a sage plant in our yard, and my ex-partner kept moving it around, because she was changing the plan of the garden. After she moved it for the 3rd time, the thing died. Our roots are so important, and the tiny hair roots that do all the work supplying nutrients are harmed in too many transplants. Same for people, I have come to believe. We need as many constant threads in our lives as we can have, and the evils that be understand that the best way is through our constant disruption in all facets of life. At 61 I just moved across the US, to escape the Smartmeter (it caused tinnitus and life threatening heart palps). Living without electricity suits me much better. Here's a toast to 'a more rooted life'. ;]