June 24, 2022
Yesterday I spent my afternoon queuing up a bunch of images to send out today but with the news of Roe vs Wade being overturned AND the looser gun control laws anything but the terrifying truth that is our reality is hard to think about.
I come from two parents that left Colombia in the 80s. To them the US was the dream. It was a literal escape to a better world, and it definitely was that for them. The last few years I’ve been a harsh critic about what is going on in our country and my mom always still defends the US with some iteration of you don’t know how lucky you are, if you would have grown up in Colombia, etc, etc. She is so protective of her experience in America that I often feel like she is blind to the ever changing reality of our world. It also doesn’t help that she lives in Miami, a “progressive” city in a conservative state. She doesn’t see that her life is composed of the best of both (political) worlds where she is free to believe and think and behave however she wants and no one is trying to infringe upon her everyday, there is no homelessness or trash to the extent that I see living in NY and LA, and taxes and gas prices are low!
The point I am trying to get to is that our reality is very different than I think to what most people experience it as. People being shocked that Roe vs Wade was overturned proves that. I don’t even want to go into voting here but if you examine the insanity that has been the last few years, some things simply don’t add up, and most people don’t even question that.
I see a lot of people forming political alliances solely based on what they think it says of them— in the last two elections there has been a very clear creation of the “wrong”side and the “right” side— and again, not enough people talk about why that is or how that came to be or the cultural, societal, and psychological repercussions of that. I could talk about this forever but instead I’d like to share a few links of things to watch and read instead that really blew my mind. You don’t have to agree with them, or even believe them, but to not expose yourself to beliefs and opinions other than your own is to live in an alternate reality. More importantly though, I am a firm believer that the best solutions must take into consideration the worst case scenarios as well (insert Fitzgerald quote about intelligence as the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind and still being able to function here).
To watch:
- KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov’s warning to America.
This link has an intro to Yuri in case you want to know more about him, this link is a few minutes longer and will blow your mind even more, and for the full shebang on ideological subversion you can find this interview in its entirety here).
- BBC’s HyperNormalisation you can watch here or here.
- Hoaxed from 2019. You have to rent on Apple TV or Youtube.
If your first reaction to this recommendation is that Mike Cernovich produced it you’re missing the whole point.
To read:
- George Orwell’s 1984. Buy this book from your local bookstore! And yes this is a fictional book but once you read it you’ll get it.
Comment section also open for any other thoughts/ideas/recommendations!
Thanks for sharing this. ❤️ I thought what you said about your mom not wanting to let go of the “American dream” was really interesting. I’ve lived abroad for a couple of years, but I always come back to live in Latin America, where I’m originally from because I actually believe there are many things about our way of life that are actually much better here. I’ve often gotten into arguments with people because a lot of the time people think emigrating is the solution to hardships in our countries. It often seems like people think you can only be happy and/or achieve success if you live in the first world.
Thanks for sharing the links, one must never stop learning.