Jeffery Tucker of Brownstone is a complicated figure. He has some Libertarian genes that occasionally pop out, possibly without full intentions. His deep anger at the SHIT we endured drives him to PROTEST! Be like MLK! Be like Assange! Get imprisoned and assassinated so you can’t influence anyone at all!
He’s moving quickly toward the Booker T / Carver position, the traditional way of mice living in a world of cats. His latest article is pure Booker T.
His process of realization:
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I had read Manufacturing Consent when it came out in 1988 and found it compelling. It was entirely believable that deep ruling class interests were more involved than we know about what we are supposed to think about foreign-policy matters and national emergencies, and, further, entirely plausible that major media outlets would reflect these views as a matter of seeking to fit in and ride the wave of change.
What I had not understood was just how far-reaching this effort to manufacture consent is in real life. What illustrates this perfectly has been media and censorship over the pandemic years in which nearly all official channels of opinion have very strictly reflected and enforced the cranky views of a tiny elite. Honestly, how many actual people in the US were behind the lockdowns policy in terms of theory and action? Probably fewer than 1,000. Probably closer to 100.
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His strategy:
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To be aware of the Overton window, and fit within it, means to curate your own advocacy. You should do so in a way that is designed to comply with a structure of opinion that is pre-existing as a kind of template we are all given. It means to craft a strategy specifically designed to game the system, which is said to operate according to acceptable and unacceptable opinionizing.
The mission here is always to let considerations of strategy run alongside – perhaps even ultimately prevail in the short run – over issues of principle and truth, all in the interest of being not merely right but also effective. Everyone in the business of affecting public opinion does this, all in compliance with the perception of the existence of this Window.
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Well, not everyone. The people who are commanded by the Machiavellian dividers engage in loud protests and marches and lawsuits, all designed to STIR THE CATS INTO A FRENZY so the movement can be squashed and its leaders can be killed.
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I figured this out in 1969, then forgot when I was commanded by the neocon Rush/Bush cult, then regained the understanding in 2018.
Here’s an anguished internal struggle from 2021 in the middle of the holocaust, when I was trying hard to remind myself of the correct method.
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Yesterday we finally got the first REAL relief from the holocaust locally. It’s partial, but worth a celebration.
I made my usual hellish store trip, muzzling in the bus and muzzling in the store, carefully keeping the Time Under Ballgag to an absolute minimum number of milliseconds. I noticed that Safeway no longer had the MUZZLE UP signs outside, and then CAREFULLY read the new inside sign with disbelief melting into relief.
“Masks ENCOURAGED for non-vaccinated customers.”
Well, I’m vaxed, so I’m strictly legal. I yanked off the ballgag and enjoyed shopping without immediate danger of tripping and falling over boxes on the floor, and above all without the horrible SATANIC DEVICE SIGNALING COMPLIANCE. First freedom in a full fucking year.
This is a partial relief, but it’s the majority of the hell. The bus system still absolutely requires ballgags, but the total time on bus is only four minutes, compared to 20 minutes in the store.
Most of the store employees are also unmuzzled now. Their relief must be INFINITELY larger, since they’ve been gagged 8 hours a day for 14 months. Employee strangulation started in May, customer strangulation started in July.
Time for a bit of celebration, even if it’s a partial victory!
[Graphic note: I’ve added the Chumbe lighthouse to this scene as a tribute to the BEACON provided by heroic martyr Magufuli and the ONE SANE COUNTRY of Tanzania.]
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I’ve been playing this shit strictly by the book, never taking advantage of unofficial “tolerance”.
Partly the caution arises from personal experience with psychopaths. After spending six months locked in a prison cell with a demon, I understand how they work, and I don’t want to be the one who triggers the killing frenzy.
More broadly I’m following Booker T’s book.
When you’re at the bottom of the status stack, YOU WILL NOT GET AWAY WITH ANYTHING. Unofficial tolerance is NOT FOR YOU. If you try to push the unofficial limits, YOU WILL BE THE SCAPEGOAT. Low-status people have to survive by obeying and serving, not by sneaking past the Gates.
As it happens, I first learned the Booker lesson from the prelude to the prison experience. I had thought I was just another hippie. I saw some of the high-status hippies openly dealing drugs and getting away with it. I thought I could try using pot since there was “unofficial tolerance”. Nope. A “friend” bought his way out of jail by framing me.
Many years later the lesson emerged from a different angle. In 1969 my parents “had to move” out of Ohio “because” of the shame I brought on the family. In 2000, my mother finally told me the disgusting truth. My father was leaving ANYWAY because he was in a tenure-track position and hadn’t published anything. After three years without Publishing he was automatically Perished in the same month when I was framed.
The real framing and reputational framing may be connected, since there was a suspiciously close relationship between the abovementioned “friend” and my parents. Did my parents trigger the whole pile of shit? We’ll never know.
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