Thread by @rogerahicks

#BretWeinstein refers to an essay by #ArthurKoestler, The Nightmare That Is a Reality, published in January 1944, which has an important message for us today.

This is my response, the first tweet of a short thread, so please click on it. twitter.com/rogerahicks/st…

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The Holocaust was just one, especially horrific, act in a much longer play that is the history & suicide of Western, i.e. European, civilisation.

As historian A J Toynbee observed, ALL successful civilisations ultimately commit suicide. Why would ours be an exception?

There's no reason to suppose our civilisation is an exception, & a mountain of evidence to suggest otherwise.

We're naturally inclined to look to the brightest & most successful (e.g. #BillGates, #Elonmusk) for wisdom & advice, but they are blinded by their own very success.

As are most academics, who are well served by the state & status quo, which is especially problematic in regard to those academics we look as authorities on understanding society & the state. They too are blind to the fact that we are committing #CivilisationalSuicide.

I've long been reluctant to use this term, because of people's inclination to dismiss it out of hand, & me with it. But no longer, because it is the naked truth. We ARE committing civilisational suicide. And we CAN prevent it, if we act together.

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Unlike those who were deaf to Koestler's words, because there was nothing they could do, even if they believed him, OUR situation is different. This is not about saving others in a distant land, but about saving ourselves, our own children & grandchildren.

If we want our civilisation to survive, rather than commit suicide, we must start to self-organise, instead of leaving it to the Matrix of state (BigBro) & capital to do for us.

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We ALL feel powerless in regard to the Matrix of state & capital, & indeed are powerless. Even the super-rich are powerless; enslaved, like the rest of us, to the Matrix. Although many enjoy their enslavement, the power they have over others thanks to their wealth.

I am looking to liberate us from this enslavement. But first, one has to recognise it, & then develop an understanding of it. Only then can we begin to work on our own & others' liberation.
While the Matrix divides & rules us (see below), my strategy is one of divide & self-rule.

The Matrix of state (BigBro) & capital is committed to the #MeltingPot & moral-supremacist ideology/religion of #PostRacial #Multiculturalism, DIVERSITY, Inclusion & #AntiRacism, while I am committed to #ContraPot.

The Matrix cannot be destroyed, but only reprogrammed (radically reformed), which can only proceed peacefully, legally & grassroots-democratically. This is what ContraPot is all about.

Who will join & support me?

Anyone who identifies with the state (Britain, America or whatever it is) as their nation, effectively loves Big Brother & is enslaved to the Matrix, from which we must liberate ourselves, first emotionally.

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If we do not want to commit #CivilisationalSuicide, which the West, like all prior civilisations, is currently doing, we MUST liberate ourselves from the Matrix of state & capital.

No one in their right mind, esp. if they have young children or grandchildren, could want anything else. But of course, most of us are not in our right mind, evolved human nature itself having been corrupted & our minds deluded by the Matrix.

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