Plato’s allegory of the cave is an eerily accurate account of the modern world. Few realize that the shadows on our cave walls are shadows at all. Nobody believes, or rather wants to believe that they are being deceived or distracted. We all think that the shadows on the wall are real, we haven't seen anything to say they're not–unless of course we have, and label it fake or biased, and in some cases we haven't seen anything outside our cave at all. These shadows take the shape of narratives in the real, non-allegorical world. Narratives play an important but largely unrealized role in human society and thought. They find their way into almost every aspect of human understanding as we make sense of things in the format of stories. The problem is, that narratives don't always appear as themselves, but can be, and often are disguised as fact. When I awoke to the scary and hard to accept truth that many of the things I had been conditioned or coerced to believe were nothing more than fake narratives I was angry, embarrassed, and terrified. I learned that during the COVID–19 Pandemic, our “trusted” institutions, figures, and media outlets lied, they are lying about more, they lie about everything and censor the truth. This was the first of my many disillusionments, which inspired a journey to uncover the many tough realities of the world. I caught a glimpse of light and could not stand to be in the cave any longer.
In a world more connected than ever, division has taken over in most Western societies. What may once have been nothing more than mere political disagreement has morphed into real life division that affects people and families. The average American sees two tribes, red or blue. The problem with this all too binary outlook is that everyone else is viewed as on my team, or against us. Thanks to the psychological phenomenon known as out-group homogeneity bias, this quickly leads one to believe that the “other” side disagrees with you on everything. Just because somebody has a different opinion on one thing, means they must be on the other side of that thing too. They’re not worthy of serious consideration anymore. This mindset of division has allowed both sides to label the other as the enemy, when really, the enemy is above us all. Our divisions are programmed into us, to prevent us from uniting, to stop us from working together towards common goals. An illusion that continues to succeed via the appearance of stopping or punishing the other side. The sad truth is that both sides secretly work together to get rich. There is intentional and designed division over cultural hot button issues which neither party fixes even when given the chance–the democrats had a majority large enough to codify Roe v. Wade twice yet never called a vote. The parties work together to harm and exploit us, each chooses a group of social issues to divide the population and make little to no progress on said issue in order to keep gaining support from it. The two parties can always agree to oust any third party challenge, during the 2024 presidential election Biden and Trump have given opposite descriptions of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.--one calling him a right wing conspiracy theorist and the other the most liberal candidate to ever run. In their recently agreed debates, the two primary candidates agreed to exclude Kennedy from the stage.
The American political system has become a uniparty, a duopoly where no third party or candidate “has a chance of winning.” These are the lies that are put in front of our face, and go unnoticed by most. I see an older generation so stuck in the two party binary, one side so terrified of Trump that they have convinced themselves that it is normal to vote for an old man who thought that he was the Vice President during the pandemic, and the other so obsessed with their own candidate that they can not admit his failures on almost every key issue they care about. Most sadly of all, I see a younger generation that doesn’t care about anything not directly affecting them. A generation that wants change, asks for a third option, yet doesn't even care enough to look for one. This entire generation doesn't know how to be bored or critically think, they don't know about anything happening outside of their school or group of friends. Apps like TikTok have ruined the attention span of my whole generation. We already live in a dystopia where people walk around with screens in their hands, distracted all the time, so conditioned to get easy pleasure that reading a book becomes a punishment. People used to write musicals about dystopias similar to today. Does anyone realize that our sovereignty, our way of life, and our future is under threat?
I first realized this in the late summer of 2024. Of course, being younger and sufficiently brainwashed then, I believed my Mom when she told me the vaccine was safe, I believed the doctor, I believed the politicians and commentators on TV. Vaccines are safe, only crazy people are anti-vaxxers I thought. After accidentally being exposed to alternative and independent information I learned that we were lied to. More surprising, was that the truth was being intentionally silenced. The COVID mRNA vaccine is not like other vaccines. The COVID vaccines use mRNA–a technology never before used in vaccines, working in the body in completely different ways, making the COVID “vaccine” closer to gene therapy.
In the years following the rollout of the vaccines a long list of serious injuries and millions of deaths have been reported. The vaccines are now known to be contaminated with cancer promoting SV40 DNA plasmids that could “genetically modify” the patient, a fact which was undisclosed to everybody until 2023. In fact, Pfizer actually released a different vaccine to the public than those which were used for human trials prior to Emergency use authorization. The World Council for Health says “Even a normal vaccine requires a decade of monitoring to assess its safety and effectiveness. These genetic therapies were imposed on the world's population after only two months of experiments on humans. Those experiments were riddled with the intent to obfuscate safety concerns and dramatize the benefits of the product. Furthermore, we do not know if those experiments were carried out with the clean mRNA products that the manufacturers had handed to governments for approval, or the highly DNA-contaminated products which they then distributed and administered to the world's population. In Pfizer’s highly flawed two-month clinical human experiment prior to the emergency approval of their product, there were more deaths among the ‘vaccinated’ test subjects than the ‘unvaccinated’ control group. Recent analysis has revealed that, so far, these novel injections have most likely caused at least 17 million deaths and hundreds of millions of severe injuries worldwide.” The shots have been known to cause “turbo cancer,” strange never seen before–prior to 2021–white fibrous blood clots, myocarditis, pericarditis, cardiac arrest, miscarriages, and a very long list of other life changing side effects. The shots have been called “essentially murder” by Japan’s most senior cancer doctor. Almost comically, the “100% safe and efficient vaccines” do a poor job at stopping transmission, and perform worse than unvaccinated groups in almost every category that they were originally supposed to exceed in. Researchers knew about at least one “severe COVID vaccine reaction” but chose not to say anything, violating the principle of informed consent. Issues continued to arise, but profits silenced those trusted, like Anthony Fauci, to put our safety first. Our government knew that these vaccines were ending or ruining lives but pushed to mandate the vaccine. Weirdest of all was those people who claimed to hate big-pharma and corporations yet could never imagine that they could produce an unsafe vaccine.
Perhaps the most sinister and disturbing aspect of the COVID regime was the suppression of truthful narratives during the pandemic. In May of 2024, the NIH finally admitted that they had been using taxpayer money to fund gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Fauci lied to congress when asked about gain of function research at WIV in 2021. The “lab leak hypothesis” was censored by the Biden administration throughout the pandemic. The theory has now been accepted by the FBI and other agencies as the likely origin of the virus. The origins of the virus may go much further back however, with a patent for the precursor SARS-CoV-1 filed at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill in 2002. All of this information put together leads to an uncomfortable yet not unlikely reality that our government used our money to create and enhance a deadly virus, released it-accidentally or intentionally, lied about it, censored the truth, and used our money to manufacture a deadly vaccine to make lots of money. The COVID pandemic was responsible for the largest upwards transfer of wealth in human history.
This is the dark reality which I view the state(s) and other powerful institutions through. A lens that conjures feelings of hate, rage, hopelessness, and despair. If COVID was only a trial run as some suspect, what will the next lockdown be like? With a new gain-of-function virus on the loose, the H5N1 strain of Bird Flu, and talk of climate lockdowns, the next lockdown could come sooner than we expect. Our freedom can once again be taken from us in the near future. The world we are faced with today is much different than that of our grandparents and parents.
An older generation has left our country almost $35 trillion in debt. This is debt that my generation will have to pay off. This is the same generation who inherited a good economy, and more importantly, a strong dollar. This generation had no problem buying property. Now, “the most populous generation [Millennial] is also the one that trails older generations, with some 47.9 percent owning homes in 2020, vs. gen-X home ownership enjoying an ownership rate of 69 percent, baby boomers, 77.8 percent and the silent generation, 77.8 percent, according to the Census Bureau.” The dollar of today is not the same, it is being printed into irrelevance.
My studies have led me to believe that the Federal Reserve, also known as the Fed, is the root of almost all evils. The Fed is a private bank which has the ability to print as much money as it wants. As Libertarian presidential candidate Joshua Smith puts it, “the Fed has a giant counterfeiting machine that it uses to rob us.” From the creation of the Fed in 1913 to the end of the gold standard in 1971, inflation rose at 309.1% rate, and from 1971 to 2023, it rose by an estimated 659.7% rate; from 1913 to 2023, inflation has increased an estimated rate of 3007.8% total-before the creation of the bank, $1 was worth about $31 today. Through a system of fractional reserve banking the American populace has been forced into a vicious system of debt. Banks in the United States are only required to keep 10% of the money you deposit. The banks then loan the other 90% to other people. 10% of this money is kept by the bank and then 90%--of the 90%--gets given to someone else and the cycle continues like this. Of course this means that most of our money does not actually exist, setting up an inevitable collapse of the dollar. In fear of bank runs, banks around the world have begun to stop people from withdrawing cash. To prepare the laymen for their future society, cash is slowly being phased out. We already make most of our payments digitally, meaning that most of us will accept the soon to come Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) which is only a few steps short of a social credit score system attached to a digital ID. This new digital currency will be programmable and will give irrevocable control to the elitist cabal that currently runs our world.
The cabal in charge has abused their ability to print money as they please to fuel a raging Military Industrial Complex. Currently America funds two wars, one in Ukraine, and one in Gaza. The establishment is also eyeing a potential third major war with China over Taiwan. Biden recently said that he does not recognize Taiwan as an independent state yet vowed to directly intervene if China were to invade their own territory–according to Biden. This paired with the sabotaged 2022 peace deal between Russia and Ukraine has made it obvious to me that our leaders want war. After decades of senseless, unwarranted, and unpunished war crimes in the Middle East our government finds or creates conflicts wherever they go.
After reunifying Germany, the United States agreed not to move NATO one inch further East. After breaking that promise, Putin established Ukraine as a clear red line. In the Nyet means Nyet cable CIA Director William J. Burns knew that bringing Ukraine into NATO “could potentially split the country in two, leading to violence or even, some claim, civil war, which would force Russia to decide whether to intervene.” In 2014 the CIA overthrew Ukrainian President Viktor Yonukovych, who was elected from a Ukrainian where Russian is the native tongue for more than 75% of citizens. Due to his “pro-Russian” stances, the CIA assisted the Svoboda party–a popular neo-Nazi party in Ukraine–in overthrowing Yanukovych. The new Nazi party heading Ukraine began to kill Russians inside of Ukraine, resulting in the people of Crimea–Russians–voted to become part of Russia. This is not the narrative given to us by mainstream media, and a majority of politicians, quite far from it, they never reported on any of it.
The mainstream media is a mouthpiece to power, straying very far from what journalism is supposed to be. The media is owned, it is not a check to power, but an amplifier of it. The corporate news agencies receive a bulk of their advertising money from big-Pharma companies, explaining their inability to do real journalism involving the evils those companies participate in. Explain to me why Jeffery Epstein, a man with deep Mossad ties, and a pedophile ring involving a huge number of major politicians and celebrities was not the biggest story in history? Why was every name on that list not exposed? Journalists knew of Epstein’s activities for years, but American intelligence agencies prevented them from publishing stories on it. In fact, rather than expose the list, the media did not want to accidentally accuse someone on the list of doing something they didn't do. Epstiens lack of investigation by big-news is one of the many reasons I have lost all trust in major news corporations. The sad thing is that many people still believe it. When in history has a government ever actually had the best interests of its people in priority? When has a government not lied? Does anyone remember the Tuskegee Experiment? The US Public Health Service told a black community in Tuskegee Alabama that they would give them free health care. Instead, they injected them with syphilis, leaving it untreated for years to see what syphilis did to the human body. We know that the CIA was doing absolutely evil things to Americans, we know that they infiltrated the media, yet with zero prosecutions, zero reforms we are supposed to buy that things have changed? Sadly, the propaganda forced down our throats has been largely successful. They have lied to the American public while taking hundreds of billions of dollars from them. Why does our political class think it's ok to give so much of our money to other countries when our own country is suffering?
After the train derailment in East Palestine Ohio, Joe Biden did not even show up, giving no money to the families affected. In Maui, after the entire town of Lahaina burned down–largely due to government incompetence–the residents were given a one time $700 check. The residents of Lahaina still can not even go on their property 9 months later. Homelessness and drug addiction have ruined a majority of the cities in the country and rather than use our tax money to fix our problems we send it overseas to fight a war that we started and should have ended, to fund a genocide, and saber rattle at China over Taiwan. We have tried to fix homelessness for years, electing the same people over and over who just take the money without doing anything. The creation of the homelessness industrial complex shows just how corrupt every government institution is. Sanctuary cities across America have spent billions of dollars to put illegal immigrants in hotels, give them prepaid credit cards, extra SNAP benefits and more all while American Veterans go cold, hungry, and sleep in the streets every night? What kind of government gives priority to people who illegally entered the country over the “heros” who “fight for our freedom.”
America is supposed to be the land of the free, yet our government attacks the people who should be thought of as heroes. After Edward Snowden blew the whistle exposing the NSA’s illegal spying on Americans, he was forced to flee to Russia. Yes, an American who exposed the corruption of our government had to flee to Russia because he was being persecuted rather than the people he exposed. We claim to have a free press, many accuse Putin of arresting journalists who oppose him without acknowledging the treatment of Julian Assagne by our own government. Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, released a number of classified documents exposing US war crimes in Afghanistan. Instead of arresting the war criminals and praising Assange, he–an Australian–was arrested and has been sitting in a maximum security British prison for years, being essentially tortured. Former CIA Director Mike Pompeo attempted to put a hit on Assange, and instead of arresting the attempted murderer, the journalist who exposed the war crimes goes to jail. This is not a fair world, people are not strong on their principles.
I have found the obvious conclusion that people have trouble seeing through their adoration for their political team and already cemented beliefs to be true almost 100% of the time. Nobody seeks information which truly challenges their world view, and if they happen to see it, they dismiss it because the all powerful people on TV told them too. I am tired of watching the same politicians say the same things, never actually making true on any promise they make. President Biden and Kamala Harris say that they don't believe anyone should go to jail for smoking or possessing Marajauna but have both put thousands of people into jail for doing just that. The “Biden'' Crime Bill made sure that people around the country went to jail for the same drugs that his son is on video doing. Biden voted for a number of anti-gay laws and has a highlight reel of racist remarks. When will people see through their acts and look for a better option?
While most continue to be stuck in the two-party illusion, I have found a strong identity within the Libertarian ideology. I have always believed in the principle of absolute freedom for all, the core principle of Libertarianism. Once you begin to take a few steps back, to look at the government without your team’s bias, you realize that our idea of the state’s role is totally flawed. Many, especially on the left, see the government as a means to fix societal problems, giving it more money, more power, to ultimately not fix the situation, and in many cases make it worse. The two parties differ on nothing more than social hot button issues, which Libertarians believe governments should not have a say in. The state needs to serve us, not the other way around. People today do not vote on economic issues, in fact most could not tell you one economic belief their favorite candidate has that differs from that of their opponent. Libertarians believe in the free market, free from government interference and regulation. We believe that any problem the government could fix, would be better, and more effectively fixed by a private entity–forced to compete with other companies, thus creating the best product. The state has a monopoly on almost everything it does, allowing for it to misuse and over fund itself. Libertarians believe in the principle of self-government; I best know how to govern myself, and no man has the power to force another to do something else. We believe that victimless crimes are not crimes. Libertarians–for the most part–are not anarchists, but believe that the state should be as small as possible. Why does somebody in Florida get a say on what I do in Oregon? If the government were on a smaller and more local scale, every vote would mean more, giving everyone more–and equal–power, and an almost impossibility to fight overseas war. Libertarians believe taxation is illegal, why does the state get to rob us and spend our money without our say? Most importantly we believe in pure Capitalism, but in a form never before tried. The state has always interred in trade somehow, we have never had a truly free market. I strongly believe that America was intended to be a Libertarian nation, but the rapid expansion of power by the central government leading up to the Civil War took the country in an opposite direction. If Libertarianism was given an open mind, I think it would quickly become a major party, rather than a small radical party, stuck in the shadow of the corrupt super parties which have governed our country from its origin, creating every problem we have ever faced. My rejection of the two parties has isolated me from political like mindedness with most people, promoting my realization that I myself am a radical.
I am not a typical young person in society. As I have continued to seek information which would challenge my world view, I have become comfortably familiar with a wide variety of topics. As I continue to interact with adults more in my life, I continue to find that they too have no idea what is going on. Things which to me feel so matter of fact, things I’ve read a book about, listened to a long podcast about, or things I've seen online over long periods of time, are not things most adults have ever heard of. It is rare that I speak to anyone who has even heard what I would consider to be the biggest, most important news story of the week. I have talked to adults who graduated at the same high school as myself who do not know what the Military Industrial Complex is. These are the people who believe that the powerful institutions in our world today do have our best interest at mind. My fundamental belief has become cynical, the government, government adjacent organizations (WEF, UN, EU, NATO..), banks, corporations, and almost any other powerful group of people pushing for global government want more power over us, more money from us, and possibly something much more important which I have not figured out yet.
What I do know is that the most powerful people in the world are not satisfied. They want to further expand to create a “New World Order.” This rhetoric is mostly coming from the World Economic Forum (WEF) a UN associated organization, and other more underground organizations such as the Bilderberg Group. The globalists plan can best be described as neo-feudalism under a technocratic authoritarian socialist style government closely resembling 1984. The groups also are outspoken in their belief that for the world to continue pushing forward we need to have a massive depopulation. The same people like Bill Gates who openly discuss their support for global depopulation are supposedly saving lives by creating vaccines, fake meat, and genetically modified mosquitoes. The COVID lockdowns were just a trial for these plans, a test to see how many people would already comply, were already brainwashed or didn't care enough to question anything. The “Great Reset” is the elitists plan to move towards a world where you will “own nothing and be happy” by the year 2030.
Libertarian Presidential candidate Dr. Michael Rectenwald outlines it best in his book The Great Reset And The Struggle For Liberty, saying, “the Great Reset means at the very least, reduced standards of living and carbon use for the vast majority. But [Klaus] Schwab [Chairman of the WEF] and the WEF also define the Great Reset in terms of the convergence of economic, monetary, technological, medical, genomic, environmental, military, and governance systems. The Great Reset involves vast transformations in each of these domains, changes which, according to Schwab, will not only alter our world but also lead us to ‘question what it means to be human.’ In terms of economics and monetary policy, the Great Reset amounts to a great consolidation of wealth, on the one hand, and the planned issuance of universal basic income (UBI) on the other. Its goals include a shift to a central bank digital currency (CBDC), including a consolidated centralization of banking and bank accounts, the possibility of immediate real time taxation, negative interest rates, and centralized surveillance and control over spending, debt, and savings. The Great Reset consolidates capital flows from central banks and investment firms into the hands of preferred producers through ‘stakeholder capitalism.’ This would amount to a virtual oligopoly on top with ‘actually existing socialism’ for the majority below. How else are we to explain the promise, ‘you’ll own nothing, and you’ll be happy?’” The Great Reset aims to impoverish the masses, creating a dependent population who will rent everything from a few major corporations who will be able to afford the ineffective resource management required under Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) scores. Their plans also include a huge increase in surveillance capabilities, via facial recognition connected to Digital ID’s. Their planned “15 minute cities” may seem to be innocent, but is really a way to implement complete control over us, limiting our movement, and the ability to constantly surveil citizens.
The Great Reset first began to roll out during the COVID pandemic, believing this was a chance to make major changes. A big part of their future plans is to implement another lockdown, this time potentially keeping the power they give themselves. To achieve this the World Health Organization (WHO) has proposed the WHO Pandemic Treaty. This treaty could give up massive National Sovereignty, potentially allowing the WHO to dictate pandemics, enforce lockdowns, and censor and eliminate opposing speech. President Biden has stated that he will sign the Treaty if/when given the chance.
Dystopian laws have already been passed in 2024, such as the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Section 702 reauthorization. FISA was initially passed to combat terrorism, allowing intelligence agencies to monitor the online communications of foreign suspects. However, FISA has been misused and does get used on Americans. Prior to its passage, an amendment requiring warrants to access the data of Americans failed to gain enough votes to be added to the bill. With its passage, your “representative” allowed intelligence agencies to warrantlessly spy on American citizens, while adding as provision to prevent the act from being used against elected officials. The government also recently banned TikTok, giving the President the power to ban any website or app he deems as being influenced by a foreign adversary. As a response to the student protests, the government began cracking down on free speech by making many valid criticisms of Israel illegal on college campuses, and setting a precedent for other federal and non governmental agencies to follow.
Israel’s actions in Gaza, and the American response to them has exposed one of the big lies living in many people's heads. While October 7th was an awful and disgusting attack, it was not the beginning of the conflict. Israel was founded in 1948, making it a very young country. Like most countries, violence and exploitation play a big role in its history. When the early Zionists first arrived in Palestine, much of the land was occupied by the native Arab people. Through a long and complicated series of European deals and politics, the Zionists were able to successfully found a state on the land just recently belonging to the Palestinians. The conflict has drawn rather accurate parallels to the treatment of the American Indian, yet the wounds are just a generation or two deep, much closer to the surface. Because of Israel’s response to October 7th, Israel's longtime domination has been exposed to the masses, awakening an entire generation to their evils, and their influence in the American government. Angry and empathetic students have helped to bring the issue to center stage by staging massive protests across the world.
My hope for the world is mass resistance, a uniting of the 99%. Seeing the campus protests have restored some recently lost hope in my generation. I am finally seeing a wave of awakening. People see a problem, an abuse of power. Rather than just swiping right past it, they are saying somethin. While the mainstream news tries to berate us with propaganda, my peers are finally questioning the narratives given to them. This has begun to crack my previously rock solid belief that Gen Z is in a very bad and dangerous position. Most of us, at least those who I have interacted with in my own life, have had it very easy. We have lived in a time where everything we need is at our fingertips, never too hot, never too cold. Comparatively, many of those in my generation are living some of the most luxurious lives ever recorded. Despite this, it is a generation full of problems, symptoms of a sick and decaying society. My generation doesn't care, they are obsessed with themselves, mentally ill, or stuck in their own digital worlds. We have all the information we could ever want sitting in our pockets, yet all anyone wants to know about are sports and celebrities. That is why I find this movement of anti-establishment protest so inspiring.
As the grips of tyranny close around us, the beginnings of revolution have started to spread across Europe, a fact the mainstream media loves to ignore. Farmers, and other white collar workers have mobilized in huge numbers to reject the harsh standards being enforced on them by the EU and WEF. While many more still need to wake up to the realities of the world–that we are on the precipice of huge change, our governments are not benevolent and are actively trying to gain more power over us–the mass uprising of common people around the world has continued to remind me that we are not hopeless. The government can censor the truth, but it can't stop it. The growing communities and platforms supporting free speech and alternative information on the internet have, for the first time in history, been able to rival the reach of the establishments. This has reminded me that revolution is possible.
We must accept that the institutions and traditional power structures that we have now do not work. As a personal hero of mine, Dave Smith puts it, “people say we need to have trust in our institutions. But the institutions have lied, they failed us. We don’t need to have trust in our institutions, we need to have institutions that we can trust. The problem is not that we don't put trust in them, but that they are not trustworthy.” The only path towards a better society is to rid ourselves of the systems that oppress us. This is not a battle between Democrat and Republican, man or woman, black or white, straight or gay; this is a battle between the people, and the people that want to control us. The only solution to 1984, is 1776.