I need to get back to my amateur astronomy and telescopes...looking out at the wonders of the universe from my back garden used to really elevate me...was/is great to look at stuff totally untainted by humanity.

thank you

...with a coffee: first time in months. Yea, you're right. Was nice to see everything growing again: all the bulbs shooting up...counting everything in that had miraculously survived the winter.

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and see if there's been any backsliding or inadvertent collusion with things of which you disapprove. Are you setting the rest of the world a good example? Should cheer you up a bit.

From Caitlin:


Do something every day to help undermine public perception of the empire.

Draw attention to its abuses in places like Gaza.

Get people laughing at its absurdities and hypocrisies.

Spread distrust in the imperial propaganda services known as the western press by spotlighting their deceptions and manipulations.

Help people to recognize all the ways their government is screwing them over for the benefit of the rich and powerful.

Facilitate the collective dawning of the realization that everything westerners have been taught about their society and their world is a lie.

Help people to understand that it really, truly does not need to be this way.

Use every means at your disposal to help open up the next pair of eyelids to the ugly reality of the empire.

Cultivate a habit of daily acts of sabotage against the imperial machine. There is always something you can do.

You cannot defeat the machine by yourself, but you can do something every day to help tilt our society’s collective consciousness toward tearing it down together.

"How does that filter down into "good action" would you say?"

I have no idea, but as laws are being enacted and arrests made, it's obvious that one the biggest Corporate elite drives is towards conformity by negating individual freedom of speech and through that actual destroying individual thought. With media monitoring and the use of AI this can only get worse.

It's actually a remarkable positive that a lot of people of all political persuasions are becoming aware that this is an issue so there is a crack there that can still be wedged.

I would reckon you don't underestimate what you are up against but dont be afraid to speak.

In my experience you won't convince anyone immediately or if at all. Though they would deny it most people receive their "opinions" directly from the corporate media so in effect you're not just undermining a solitary "opinion" but weakening an entire matrix of interwoven ones: thus the "Mail" reader, the "Guardian" reader...etc.

Humans are tribal creatures and this is the feature most prone to manipulation and highjack by the media. The idea is to give the comfort of "belonging" and in return they provide ready made "sets" of "views rather than simple stances on individual issues: this wraps the individual in an entire web of opinion or indeed deceit.
Therefore discussing any particular point never mind arguing a rational philosophy with others is immensely difficult because you're not taking on a mere opinion but questioning what has often become someone's entire political or philosophical "personality".

If you take the view you are arguing about a particular point often it seems others will be irrationally defensive about this. They chose to believe you are attacking their whole world view rather than merely questioning an "opinion": which is understandable because the tribal mind set indicates that in effect you are. You have to wedge doubt solidly into that crack in the dam however you can before the gap closes.

You can of course be dismissed as a mere individual with a "point of view" whereas they, well they have that illusory but comforting bond of the collective belief. This is true also.
Even if you have made what you think is a superb case, people will not drop their own "view" in a hurry or indeed at all, despite the fact that you may have shown it's shortcomings because, well, that might leave them without a tribe: i.e. a mere solitary "contrarian" an "oddball" or "loser"- Just like you in fact, and who wants to be like you, eh?!🤣.

But be familiar with the corporate "arguments" because effectively that's what people opinions usually are and what they will use: have a rebuttal ready for when you hear one repeated: which you will again and again. Keep on hammering in those wedges: one day the edifice may start to crumble.

Stay humorous...stay generous.

One of the biggest complements anyone ever gave me which was also one of the biggest criticisms came from an old friend who said to me recently: " You know thirty odd years ago you used to just say stuff and we all said: " Oh just ignore him! It's just Kenny stirring it as usual: he says these kinds of things all the time!" And then over the years things happened, and I thought "Kenny said that...". " Kenny pointed that out..."..and this happened so many times that I couldn't ignore it any more. It was hard to face the fact that thirty years ago we just chose to think you were spouting nonsense but in hindsight it was all actually true".

-My flaw was that my arguments were good enough to be remembered but were never taken on board until it was too late: I wish you all greater power of conviction than me.