“Live Not by Lies” – Today, Being Informed is Itself an Act of Peaceful Resistance
Introduction to a Series
February 12, 1974. Just over 50 years ago. Alexandr Solzhenitsyn – a gulag alumnus still residing in the Soviet Socialist Republics – released a short essay titled Live Not by Lies.
(It’s short and is worth reading in its entirety, for it holds many lessons for today. This will be even more so if “they” manage to again steal the election in 2024 – at which point the Globalist-CCP Axis will be emboldened, and will double-down to still meet their goal of having established a global totalitarian governing structure by 2030. We would then find ourselves living a world not unlike that under the Soviets, as recounted in Rod Dreher’s excellent book Live Not by Lies, the title of which was inspired by Solzhenitsyn’s essay.)
These quotes from (Solzhenitsyn’s) Live Not by Lies will provide context for what follows:
“And therein we find, neglected by us, the simplest, the most accessible key to our liberation: a personal nonparticipation in lies! Even if all is covered by lies, even if all is under their rule, let us resist in the smallest way: Let their rule hold not through me!”
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“And thus, overcoming our timidity, let each man choose: Will he remain a witting servant of the lies (needless to say, not due to natural predisposition, but in order to provide a living for the family, to rear the children in the spirit of lies!), or has the time come for him to stand straight as an honest man, worthy of the respect of his children and contemporaries?”
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“It will not be an easy path, perhaps, but it is the easiest among those that lie before us. Not an easy choice for the body, but the only one for the soul. No, not an easy path, but then we already have among us people, dozens even, who have for years abided by all these rules, who live by the truth.
“And so: We need not be the first to set out on this path, Ours is but to join! The more of us set out together, the thicker our ranks, the easier and shorter will this path be for us all! If we become thousands—they will not cope, they will be unable to touch us. If we will grow to tens of thousands—we will not recognize our country!”
The Lies Being Fed Us
With each passing day, more and more of us recognize that (most) media outlets are not acting as “news” or “journalism,” but are instead serving as transmission mediums for regime-approved narratives.
Their methodologies include “lies by omission” – ignoring unapproved stories or parts of stories; or reporting snippets of truthful information to add an aura of accuracy, but out of context, or embedded with in inaccurate information, and so overall misleading; to outright fabrication and lies (whether generated in-house, or through exercising willful ignorance by passing along information provided by government officials / agencies or other “trusted sources”).
They are bad actors, not naïve folks acting in good faith – they know full well what they’re doing. That they have come up with fronts like the “Trusted News Initiative” to coordinate and control output between outlets – and Orwellian-named “fact-checkers” whose mission is to validate the lies and so convince gullible people that the media is not lying – reveals their culpability.
A favored method of theirs is to try to discredit sources of “mis” and “disinformation” (a/k/a truthtellers) by labeling them “conspiracy theorists,” who they claim are peddling information for which there is “no evidence” to support the premise: “Never mind those ‘conspiracy theorists,’ stay cuddled within our ‘trusted’ news sources and we’ll keep you acquiescent with a steady diet of fake news informed.”
But those are all considered stopgap measures. People who exercise critical thinking skills are slipping through their fingers; the ranks of those who distrust the “mainstream media” are growing, as polling (and declining market shares) are confirming.
So, the regime and its approved media outlets are working toward entirely cutting off access to so-called “misinformation” and “disinformation” – not because the purveyors of such represent a threat to media market share (though they are having an impact) – but, in true Orwellian style, because they convey “inconvenient truths” that can and do derail the approved narratives (truth is funny like that).
Progressives’ (and other varieties of totalitarians) efforts at mass manipulation of the public goes back a long way. A little over a century ago, it was called “propaganda” – Woodrow Wilson’s advisor Edward Bernays, wrote a book with that very word as its title. Since that time, we’ve been subjected to the CIA’s notorious “Operation Mockingbird.” With experience gained to refine methodologies, and technology enabling new vectors, it’s all now evolved into “5G Warfare” / “information warfare.”
The forces in power intend to corral us only into only receiving (or even being able to access) approved information, knowing that depending upon what is provided, and how it is framed and otherwise presented, most will then reach approved conclusions about events of the day. And from that, that they will “organically” gravitate toward conducting themselves in the desired manner (e.g., in the voting booth).
All this while believing that they’re free, and exercising free will.
What a perfect prison state – the prisoners don’t realize that they’re in a (virtual) prison, and so give no thought to their subjugation, much less escaping from it, or even resisting their subjugators. So, among other benefits for the subjugators (such as “comprehensive” control), the don’t have to incur “Soviet like” massive costs required to maintain secret police and prisons at the scale necessary for processing tens (much less hundreds) of millions.
We can think of this as analogous to (former Obama Regulatory Czar) Cass Sunstein’s “choice architecture” designed to “nudge” us into approved behaviors, without us realizing that we’re being manipulated. Here, the “choice architecture” is the information / news and opinion that is permitted to be available – and that which is prevented from being available or is effectively hidden (e.g., what Google is notorious for doing with its search results).
The Red Pilled vs. Klaus Schwab, Yuval Noah Harari and the Great Reset Matrix
“Blue pill” and “red pill” are in the current lexicon, having originated from movie “The Matrix” (1999). At a quarter century old, the movie plotline arguably envisions our existence should Klaus Schwab and Yuval Noah Harari their WEF “Great Reset” is allowed to be consummated; perhaps not literally, but with way too many parallels. They fully intend a dystopian existence for the bulk of humanity (that portion of it that is not eliminated because they are “useless eaters”). Here are some excerpts from one source’s plotline of the movie:
He explains to Neo that they exist in the Matrix, a false reality that has been constructed for humans to hide the truth. The truth is that everyone in the world is a slave, born into bondage. Morpheus holds out two pills. In his left palm is a blue pill. If Neo takes it he will wake up in his bed and "believe whatever you want to believe." But if he takes the red pill in Morpheus's right hand, then "you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes." Neo takes the red pill.
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Morpheus goes on to say that "at some point in the early 21st century all of mankind was united in celebration as we gave birth" to artificial intelligence, a "singular consciousness that birthed an entire race of machines."
Someone started a war, and no one knows who, but it was known that it was mankind who blotted out the sky, attempting to deprive the machines of the solar power they required to function. Instead the machines turned to humans as a power source, enslaving them like Neo had been before he was freed. Morpheus goes on to explain that a human's body provides "more electricity than a 120 volt battery and over 25k BTUs in body heat." Morpheus shows Neo fields where machines grow human beings, connecting them to their outlets, ensconcing them in their pods, and feeding them with the liquefied remains of other human beings. "The Matrix," says Morpheus, "is a computer-generated dreamworld created to keep us under control, to turn us..." into a mere power source, into coppertop batteries.
Lest you think I exaggerate the parallels between where the ultimately the WEF intends to take us, may I commend your attention to the video clips on this website of Harari talking about AI, transhumanism and his (and Klaus’) vision for the world – presumably shared by a critical mass of the bankers, CEO’s and Globalist pooh-bahs who join them in Davos every year:
One could say that what The Matrix and the WEF envision is a melding of the tangible gulags endured by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn with intangible gulags now possible through technology. “Climate change” and “sustainability” are the ruses they employ to herd us in – most not realizing what’s happening – into their “Great Reset” matrix. This is why information control is so critical to their success … can’t let the sheeple realize the nature of the corral into which they’re being herded!
“Red pilling” is a means for us to see reality, the critical first prerequisite for resisting the fate that is intended us. If a critical mass of us “red pill” in time, we can still stop it.
And even if we don’t succeed in that, “red pilling” will enable us to continue to resist this ultimately Satanic evil after it’s in place, as God would want us to do. For us to “live not by lies.”
Forbidden fruit is sweeter, but its sweetness is nothing compared to forbidden information that red-pills
Today, our “red pill” is truthful information and opinion originating therefrom, which by definition comes from sources independent of the informational matrix a/k/a “the mainstream media.”
The good news is that since the stolen election of 2020, the number of sources for such information is actually exploding. That said, it’s not clear how long this will last – powerful Globalist forces are already working on ways to censor, deplatform and ultimately extinguish non-approved sources of information.
In a future installment, I’ll provide the names and recommendations for multiple such non-approved sources. May I suggest that you begin consuming those sources as soon as possible, to the extent your time permits. This for several reasons.
Once you start becoming red-pilled, you’re going to want to share your newfound knowledge with others – including the sources from which you obtained it. In this way, we start building toward that critical mass mentioned above.
On the personal level, the more one reads the truthful information, the more one develops discernment (a/k/a “bullshit meter”), which will be beneficial for the rest of your live, even if the evildoers succeed in snuffing out sources of truthful information. This is important because …
If in 2024 they again succeed in stealing the U.S. Presidential election (from the presumptive winner Donald J. Trump), we can expect that in short order unapproved sources of information will be eliminated, and only “approved” outlets will remain (just like in the “live by lies” Soviet media).
At which time we’ll find ourselves in a Live Not by Lies kind of world as described by Solzhenitsyn and Dreher. One in which there might be some surreptitious sources of truthful information (e.g., citizen journalists and Ham radio?) – but mostly, we’ll have to rely on our wits, our discernment and most importantly, our prayer and “bitterly clinging” to the Christianity against which persecution is already appearing in this country, and around the globe.
Let us each resolve – now, and for the remainder of our lives – to live not by lies.
Extraordinary! Ditto, ditto, ditto!!
I agree 100%. In fact, less than two weeks ago I began a post with this quote,
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote, “The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie.”