Thanks for your writing. I first discovered your work by way of your sissy porn piece on the 11th Hour Blog. I am not a writer but a mother who has taken to writing to help expose what is being done to children and young adults in the name of 'gender.' My own daughter is included in this count when she joined the campus gender tribe/color revolution as a freshman in college. An estrangement, medical harm and so much followed - before she found her way back to the family that always loved her. (I have written 2 series for the 11th Hour and started a substack). Any words of truth and wisdom are welcome.
Jennifer Bilek is awesome and her work (and yours and others') over at 11th Hour is much-needed. From the 10,000 ft. view, it seems the tide is beginning to turn on the gender insanity.
I had to turn it all off yesterday as soon as I saw the verdict pop up in my email. After introspection, I know that this will not stand. It only served to activate a lot of latent outrage. People are waking up, including a lot of former D voters. For the first time, I donated to the Trump campaign today. I have also decided I will never step foot in the state of NY for the rest of my life, nor will I do business with any company located or headquartered there unless a red wave overtakes the morally and politically bankrupt cesspool. They deserve our scorn. And Trump, while often objectionable, is my enemy's enemy. That makes him my friend.
I’m a reader of your writing and I read offline as well. Mainly philosophy and poetry. I think you can write about what you feel. The audience will appreciate the work of fitting words to bring out from inchoate interior impressions they share with each other about this hour.
About me. Bohemian being and I have lived on the razor edge but not the streets in San Francisco for 37 years. I’m in agreement that this political trial is intended to provoke violence and also help Trump maintain his street credibility as Resistance. The Republic died with Lincoln and the last illusion we had one was LBJ as Capo. The inevitable outcome is that we have a Chinese influenced regime and totalitarian global technocracy with the faceless of a Divinity that manufactures man in Brave New World. As the Grateful Dead say “The wheel is turning and you can’t slow down/Can’t go forward and you can’t stand still/if the thunder don’t get you the lightning will.”
Very possible that I am completely wrong. There is absolutely no ability for us to guess the new. Kierkegaard insisted for God "All things are possible." Clearly not for man. So this rationality of technocracy went beyond the limit with the ability to inject billions of people with poison. By 2020 the System formally globalized and I use China as my metaphor for the Brave New World Technocratic Scientific Man has built and shall continue to build as we over 100 more years are made extinct by our idols.
Sorry, Ben. I honestly don't remember how It encountered your column. I suspect another Substacker might have recommended you or reposted one of your columns.
I'm in my mid-70s; red pilled in 2015 on my own; have investigated a fair number of the rabbit holes in detail; have combined mysticism with a long-established Buddhist practice; and will, within the next year, relocate to a state which I feel won't ever mandate injections or attacks on bodily sovereignty. If so, then local militias will step up to defend against those attacks. Once we lose bodily autonomy, we've lost everything.
I won't leave the U.S. because my karma lies here. I believe in the principles upon which this country was founded. True...we were easily subverted quite early as that was the intent of those "behind the scenes"...but the principles, as stated in the Constitution and Bill of Rights, remain unique in their address. They come from higher realms. My presence is to validate that fact.
The "international situation?" An elaborate orchestration. Oh...it's real, by God. However, we need look no further than WWII where we find international bankers funding Hitler/Germany and the U.S./UK willy nilly. The same ethos continues today. In fact, the corruption of the vast bureaucracy is far easier today. Men have no moral compass as they strive to replace morality with technology.
The highest value and most passionate good for those individuals who orchestrate elaborate conflicts, wars, famines, and geoengineered catastrophes is eugenics and the re-imagining of this world to reflect their values. They essentially hate the human being. They may have once been human themselves.
I note writers like "Mothers Grim" for whom, from her description, I have enormous respect. I'm the opposite. I often wonder why I'm here. I have no particular dog in any fight. I don't particularly want to write a Substack. I've written some articles on the Israeli conflict only because genocide offends me. I frankly don't give a damn about either Israelis or Arabs. I do care enormously about humanity.
Buddhism taught me one huge lesson: whatever confronts you is yours. Any life situation which confronts you...you own. You generated the karma. Your mission is clear: to transmute the karma. When your sensibilities develop, you can actually know the karma you created and why the effects spill out into this life.
I have almost nothing confronting me. Perhaps I'm to be pitied or envied. In my latter years, I appear to be the doppelganger of Diogenes the Cynic who searched for a honest man. I search for truth. The cynic in me tells me that too many of the rabbit holes revealed or ended with the worst truths one might imagine. I wouldn't be subscribing to you (for free...sorry, Ben...limited retired budget) unless you advanced my agenda in some way.
I’m in the U.S. and first saw you on some kind of four-person conversation online that I stumbled across. I looked you up and have read your pieces ever since. I like your honesty and straight delivery. I come from a culture that speaks plainly and doesn’t use allusions and euphemisms a lot, so your style spoke to me. I sometimes don’t agree with your perspective, but still find all your pieces thought-provoking, interesting and entertaining. Thank you for your writing. The online landscape would be poorer without you!
My last vote was in 2008 for Obama. 2 days after the election when I saw his picks for cabinet and secretary of state, like Kramer, I slammed my hand on the table and screamed "I'm out" No hope and nothing changed. Never would I vote again. In 2016 I was thrilled that Shillary lost. In 2020 I was not thrilled that Biden one. I have never been a big fan of Trump. Although I did like his stand on NATO and that he didn't get us into another war. All that said, hearing yesterday of the absurd court ruling, I am registering to vote in November. For Trump.
... tops in my class, I have several degrees. But, that's not who I am. Polite, erudite social scientist by day, polite, erudite street-racer by night, the balance of my life, I've lived a double life. Since my kindergarten, I've made a study of the driving aspect of Formula 1, determined to one day make my way there. Never got my shot at Indy, either. Life gets in the way. One of the oldest sites on the information superhighway, I host a controversial internet presence which predates Netscape, when everything was FTP. circa 2013, when Edward Snowdon went into the cold, was when we packed our bags, put the site on ,lock-down, robot-text protected the entire file hierarchy, swept our content underground, bound for the dark web, awaiting a foregone conclusion regarding integrity of our Founding Father's 1st, 4th, 5th 6th and 8th amendment privilege. A lot happens to a guy when his wife dies. I've forgotten what happiness is; what fun is. Enraptured, in celebration toasting Manhattan-Merchan's dereliction of judicial precedence, nice to see our whacked-out democrat friends most certainly haven't. Don't count on finding me, swinging naked from the chandelier, blowing party favors, stuffing my face with popcorn, laughing it up at 6:00 news, anytime soon. Sure could use something to smile about these days - Samuel.
ps - ... and by the way, latest rumor, Vegas bookies have it 8:1 Democrats a Jeffery Epstein special planned for President Trump. Soon to be incarcerated for a stretch at the gray bar motel, the Obama and Clinton people have it planned for the cameras to go off, prison guards fast asleep, when CIA people creep in to president Trump's cell, where he is to be staged for a suicide, strung up in his cell, complete with a suicide note with admissions of guilt, that he is in fact a Russian spy. Then thereafter, Barack Obama will be freed for an uncontested 4th term, Joe Biden or Gavin Newsom his front man. You heard it here, first - Samuel.
I try to keep a low profile and as much anonymity as I can get. But I live in Latin America, which I highly recommend as an expat or visitor. We are treated very well and basically left alone. Poor countries can't easily afford a totalitarian infrastructure. There are police and soldiers - less if you live in a quasi-autonomous zone - but they aren't here for us, mostly as a make work system for people who might get alienated for lack of opportunity and also to beat back the gangs. (My town has its own system, gang members just disappear!!)
Talking about alienation. America has read as a scam for well over 30 years. I do enjoy seeing what scams the rich run and I copy them. Obama in 2008 seemed hopeful and was horrible. Trump 2016 gave me some hope too but here we are. I resent every cent the elite can squeeze from me, how they use us, and the boring consumerism and game playing and "status" that they try to pass off as life.
We know this. Our most popular books and medias retell this story again and again: The oppression, the emptiness, the need for healthy insurrection and how weaklings find their courage although many find destruction too. Is it worth it? Few books are written about cowards and weaklings and rule-followers.
No people have ever been as domesticated as us. We are the victims of affluence. Why are "poor" people in Latin America happier than us? More connected to meaning?
Ben, I like your substack because you say what you believe -- even though sometimes I am taken aback. You don't hold back. You are braver than I but truly I feel braver by the minute.
Washing the tree of liberty was recommended heartily by the founders but we are too comfortable. We have a president who reminds us we don't have F-16s. Pretty foul. Of course anger will find a way. See Timothy McVeigh. How loyal am I supposed to be a country whose President says I'm a terrorist for having different non-violent opinions. I know he is inciting us rather than uniting us. Even more foul. Eventually his motive won't matter.
For believe me: the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is—to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships into uncharted seas! Live at war with your peers and yourselves! Be robbers and conquerors as long as you cannot be rulers and possessors, you seekers of knowledge! Soon the age will be past when you could be content to live hidden in forests like shy deer. At long last the search for knowledge will reach out for its due; it will want to rule and possess, and you with it!
that's a great Nietzsche quote. I've been in Latin America as well for about a year and a half in different countries. It's cool but I do miss SE Asia a lot.
Ben, I think I found your writing from another Substack writer. I'm in the Real Northern Commiefornia behind the enemy lines... I'm just an old fireman who's been there done that, got the tee shirt, wore it out and now it's in the garage used as an oil rag... My interests are educating and moving We The People to a government our founding fathers created, which is far from what the current Corporate Governing Services Organization has exploded into. I'm also into high frequency vibrational energy and aligning myself with the higher vibrational frequencies that come from the pineal gland compounds that align us with source energy... Peace...
I’ve had a job since I was 14 years old, always worked summers during school. Now I’m 67, still working, thinking of going part-time, but worried that the clowns that run our government at the beck and call of their corporate overlords have done irreversible damage to our country and our currency.
I can’t remember exactly how I found you, but I enjoy most of your daily scribes. I’d like more stories that look at the coming reckoning of our country’s unsustainable debt load. I believe It’s the elephant just outside the door.
Thanks for doing what you do! Love your insights and witty writing. I’m Zahra and together with my husband started Collapse Life last year as a blog and podcast aiming to understand the changing world around us and prepare for what’s to come. We call it a thinking person’s guide to civilization in demise and all are welcome to join us on the journey! collapselife.substack.com
A wrote a song called Kangaroo Court that seems to fit in well with today's political designs. At the time, I was writing mainly about Peter Greste, an Australian Journalist who was imprisoned in Egypt in 2014 for reporting on events that apparently the government there didn't want anyone reporting about. And there was a case in Arizona, and private property stealing by politicians in New Jersey. These events pale in comparison to today's bombardment of injustice, which happens so fast now that it's hard to keep track of. Here is the song - https://open.spotify.com/track/2ujWcmIH8d6jLYCNPLsJo8?si=fb91e23730064a3a. Feel free to use it for your cause if you'd like.
Trump is battling massed forces without blinking an eye. That makes him a hero in my eyes. All classical heroes were flawed, tragic figures, hated by many and probably bound for personal destruction as they gave their polis an essential gift
Hi Ben, I first ran across you on zerohedge. Then i read your book and thoroughly enjoyed your witty writing. I then subscribed. You and Glenn Greenwald are the only subs I pay for. I think you are doing a fine job. Right now I am interested in what other people around the world are thinking. I am retired and live in very rural area of pacific northwest. The only way we are going to get through all this is by community living in all it's many editions. Keep up the good work .
Thanks for your writing. I first discovered your work by way of your sissy porn piece on the 11th Hour Blog. I am not a writer but a mother who has taken to writing to help expose what is being done to children and young adults in the name of 'gender.' My own daughter is included in this count when she joined the campus gender tribe/color revolution as a freshman in college. An estrangement, medical harm and so much followed - before she found her way back to the family that always loved her. (I have written 2 series for the 11th Hour and started a substack). Any words of truth and wisdom are welcome.
Jennifer Bilek is awesome and her work (and yours and others') over at 11th Hour is much-needed. From the 10,000 ft. view, it seems the tide is beginning to turn on the gender insanity.
God bless you, greetings from Bavaria Germany
I am gay and could not agree with you more.
I had to turn it all off yesterday as soon as I saw the verdict pop up in my email. After introspection, I know that this will not stand. It only served to activate a lot of latent outrage. People are waking up, including a lot of former D voters. For the first time, I donated to the Trump campaign today. I have also decided I will never step foot in the state of NY for the rest of my life, nor will I do business with any company located or headquartered there unless a red wave overtakes the morally and politically bankrupt cesspool. They deserve our scorn. And Trump, while often objectionable, is my enemy's enemy. That makes him my friend.
So true! Trump is broken but so were many Heroes.
Trump is not a hero.
I’m a reader of your writing and I read offline as well. Mainly philosophy and poetry. I think you can write about what you feel. The audience will appreciate the work of fitting words to bring out from inchoate interior impressions they share with each other about this hour.
About me. Bohemian being and I have lived on the razor edge but not the streets in San Francisco for 37 years. I’m in agreement that this political trial is intended to provoke violence and also help Trump maintain his street credibility as Resistance. The Republic died with Lincoln and the last illusion we had one was LBJ as Capo. The inevitable outcome is that we have a Chinese influenced regime and totalitarian global technocracy with the faceless of a Divinity that manufactures man in Brave New World. As the Grateful Dead say “The wheel is turning and you can’t slow down/Can’t go forward and you can’t stand still/if the thunder don’t get you the lightning will.”
didn't know those lyrics. they remind me of "the times are a-changin'" by Bob Dylan.
The Wheel on the first Garcia solo album plus many live versions
Hope you are wrong but the blueprint is there
Very possible that I am completely wrong. There is absolutely no ability for us to guess the new. Kierkegaard insisted for God "All things are possible." Clearly not for man. So this rationality of technocracy went beyond the limit with the ability to inject billions of people with poison. By 2020 the System formally globalized and I use China as my metaphor for the Brave New World Technocratic Scientific Man has built and shall continue to build as we over 100 more years are made extinct by our idols.
I always took the Dead quote as a metaphor for sex...
Some say lightning is LSD and Thunder weed. I don’t know.
http://www.deaddisc.com/songs/Wheel.htm. Jerry Garcia single initially.
Sorry, Ben. I honestly don't remember how It encountered your column. I suspect another Substacker might have recommended you or reposted one of your columns.
I'm in my mid-70s; red pilled in 2015 on my own; have investigated a fair number of the rabbit holes in detail; have combined mysticism with a long-established Buddhist practice; and will, within the next year, relocate to a state which I feel won't ever mandate injections or attacks on bodily sovereignty. If so, then local militias will step up to defend against those attacks. Once we lose bodily autonomy, we've lost everything.
I won't leave the U.S. because my karma lies here. I believe in the principles upon which this country was founded. True...we were easily subverted quite early as that was the intent of those "behind the scenes"...but the principles, as stated in the Constitution and Bill of Rights, remain unique in their address. They come from higher realms. My presence is to validate that fact.
The "international situation?" An elaborate orchestration. Oh...it's real, by God. However, we need look no further than WWII where we find international bankers funding Hitler/Germany and the U.S./UK willy nilly. The same ethos continues today. In fact, the corruption of the vast bureaucracy is far easier today. Men have no moral compass as they strive to replace morality with technology.
The highest value and most passionate good for those individuals who orchestrate elaborate conflicts, wars, famines, and geoengineered catastrophes is eugenics and the re-imagining of this world to reflect their values. They essentially hate the human being. They may have once been human themselves.
I note writers like "Mothers Grim" for whom, from her description, I have enormous respect. I'm the opposite. I often wonder why I'm here. I have no particular dog in any fight. I don't particularly want to write a Substack. I've written some articles on the Israeli conflict only because genocide offends me. I frankly don't give a damn about either Israelis or Arabs. I do care enormously about humanity.
Buddhism taught me one huge lesson: whatever confronts you is yours. Any life situation which confronts you...you own. You generated the karma. Your mission is clear: to transmute the karma. When your sensibilities develop, you can actually know the karma you created and why the effects spill out into this life.
I have almost nothing confronting me. Perhaps I'm to be pitied or envied. In my latter years, I appear to be the doppelganger of Diogenes the Cynic who searched for a honest man. I search for truth. The cynic in me tells me that too many of the rabbit holes revealed or ended with the worst truths one might imagine. I wouldn't be subscribing to you (for free...sorry, Ben...limited retired budget) unless you advanced my agenda in some way.
I like your take on karma
"I am Alexander the Great! King of the World"
"I am Diogenes. I live in a tub in the gutter"
"What can the King of the World do for you, Diogenes?"
"Just stand clear of my light"
"If I were not the King of the World, I'd be Diogenes"
I’m in the U.S. and first saw you on some kind of four-person conversation online that I stumbled across. I looked you up and have read your pieces ever since. I like your honesty and straight delivery. I come from a culture that speaks plainly and doesn’t use allusions and euphemisms a lot, so your style spoke to me. I sometimes don’t agree with your perspective, but still find all your pieces thought-provoking, interesting and entertaining. Thank you for your writing. The online landscape would be poorer without you!
thanks for your kind words
My last vote was in 2008 for Obama. 2 days after the election when I saw his picks for cabinet and secretary of state, like Kramer, I slammed my hand on the table and screamed "I'm out" No hope and nothing changed. Never would I vote again. In 2016 I was thrilled that Shillary lost. In 2020 I was not thrilled that Biden one. I have never been a big fan of Trump. Although I did like his stand on NATO and that he didn't get us into another war. All that said, hearing yesterday of the absurd court ruling, I am registering to vote in November. For Trump.
... tops in my class, I have several degrees. But, that's not who I am. Polite, erudite social scientist by day, polite, erudite street-racer by night, the balance of my life, I've lived a double life. Since my kindergarten, I've made a study of the driving aspect of Formula 1, determined to one day make my way there. Never got my shot at Indy, either. Life gets in the way. One of the oldest sites on the information superhighway, I host a controversial internet presence which predates Netscape, when everything was FTP. circa 2013, when Edward Snowdon went into the cold, was when we packed our bags, put the site on ,lock-down, robot-text protected the entire file hierarchy, swept our content underground, bound for the dark web, awaiting a foregone conclusion regarding integrity of our Founding Father's 1st, 4th, 5th 6th and 8th amendment privilege. A lot happens to a guy when his wife dies. I've forgotten what happiness is; what fun is. Enraptured, in celebration toasting Manhattan-Merchan's dereliction of judicial precedence, nice to see our whacked-out democrat friends most certainly haven't. Don't count on finding me, swinging naked from the chandelier, blowing party favors, stuffing my face with popcorn, laughing it up at 6:00 news, anytime soon. Sure could use something to smile about these days - Samuel.
you have mentioned your wife many times. I'm sorry for your loss
ps - ... and by the way, latest rumor, Vegas bookies have it 8:1 Democrats a Jeffery Epstein special planned for President Trump. Soon to be incarcerated for a stretch at the gray bar motel, the Obama and Clinton people have it planned for the cameras to go off, prison guards fast asleep, when CIA people creep in to president Trump's cell, where he is to be staged for a suicide, strung up in his cell, complete with a suicide note with admissions of guilt, that he is in fact a Russian spy. Then thereafter, Barack Obama will be freed for an uncontested 4th term, Joe Biden or Gavin Newsom his front man. You heard it here, first - Samuel.
Hi Ben,
I try to keep a low profile and as much anonymity as I can get. But I live in Latin America, which I highly recommend as an expat or visitor. We are treated very well and basically left alone. Poor countries can't easily afford a totalitarian infrastructure. There are police and soldiers - less if you live in a quasi-autonomous zone - but they aren't here for us, mostly as a make work system for people who might get alienated for lack of opportunity and also to beat back the gangs. (My town has its own system, gang members just disappear!!)
Talking about alienation. America has read as a scam for well over 30 years. I do enjoy seeing what scams the rich run and I copy them. Obama in 2008 seemed hopeful and was horrible. Trump 2016 gave me some hope too but here we are. I resent every cent the elite can squeeze from me, how they use us, and the boring consumerism and game playing and "status" that they try to pass off as life.
We know this. Our most popular books and medias retell this story again and again: The oppression, the emptiness, the need for healthy insurrection and how weaklings find their courage although many find destruction too. Is it worth it? Few books are written about cowards and weaklings and rule-followers.
No people have ever been as domesticated as us. We are the victims of affluence. Why are "poor" people in Latin America happier than us? More connected to meaning?
Ben, I like your substack because you say what you believe -- even though sometimes I am taken aback. You don't hold back. You are braver than I but truly I feel braver by the minute.
Washing the tree of liberty was recommended heartily by the founders but we are too comfortable. We have a president who reminds us we don't have F-16s. Pretty foul. Of course anger will find a way. See Timothy McVeigh. How loyal am I supposed to be a country whose President says I'm a terrorist for having different non-violent opinions. I know he is inciting us rather than uniting us. Even more foul. Eventually his motive won't matter.
For believe me: the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is—to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships into uncharted seas! Live at war with your peers and yourselves! Be robbers and conquerors as long as you cannot be rulers and possessors, you seekers of knowledge! Soon the age will be past when you could be content to live hidden in forests like shy deer. At long last the search for knowledge will reach out for its due; it will want to rule and possess, and you with it!
-- Nietzsche
that's a great Nietzsche quote. I've been in Latin America as well for about a year and a half in different countries. It's cool but I do miss SE Asia a lot.
Ben, I think I found your writing from another Substack writer. I'm in the Real Northern Commiefornia behind the enemy lines... I'm just an old fireman who's been there done that, got the tee shirt, wore it out and now it's in the garage used as an oil rag... My interests are educating and moving We The People to a government our founding fathers created, which is far from what the current Corporate Governing Services Organization has exploded into. I'm also into high frequency vibrational energy and aligning myself with the higher vibrational frequencies that come from the pineal gland compounds that align us with source energy... Peace...
Hey, yo, I'm a comedy writer, found you over at Zerohedge... I mostly lurk...
nothing wrong with lurking
I’ve had a job since I was 14 years old, always worked summers during school. Now I’m 67, still working, thinking of going part-time, but worried that the clowns that run our government at the beck and call of their corporate overlords have done irreversible damage to our country and our currency.
I can’t remember exactly how I found you, but I enjoy most of your daily scribes. I’d like more stories that look at the coming reckoning of our country’s unsustainable debt load. I believe It’s the elephant just outside the door.
fiscal policy isn't my wheelhouse necessarily but I'll take your request for more debt stories under advisement!
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Thanks for doing what you do! Love your insights and witty writing. I’m Zahra and together with my husband started Collapse Life last year as a blog and podcast aiming to understand the changing world around us and prepare for what’s to come. We call it a thinking person’s guide to civilization in demise and all are welcome to join us on the journey! collapselife.substack.com
I have checked in on Collapse Life from time to time. As of now I'm a subscriber.
Thanks for subscribing. Hope you like what you read.
I do!
A wrote a song called Kangaroo Court that seems to fit in well with today's political designs. At the time, I was writing mainly about Peter Greste, an Australian Journalist who was imprisoned in Egypt in 2014 for reporting on events that apparently the government there didn't want anyone reporting about. And there was a case in Arizona, and private property stealing by politicians in New Jersey. These events pale in comparison to today's bombardment of injustice, which happens so fast now that it's hard to keep track of. Here is the song - https://open.spotify.com/track/2ujWcmIH8d6jLYCNPLsJo8?si=fb91e23730064a3a. Feel free to use it for your cause if you'd like.
Trump is battling massed forces without blinking an eye. That makes him a hero in my eyes. All classical heroes were flawed, tragic figures, hated by many and probably bound for personal destruction as they gave their polis an essential gift
Hi Ben, I first ran across you on zerohedge. Then i read your book and thoroughly enjoyed your witty writing. I then subscribed. You and Glenn Greenwald are the only subs I pay for. I think you are doing a fine job. Right now I am interested in what other people around the world are thinking. I am retired and live in very rural area of pacific northwest. The only way we are going to get through all this is by community living in all it's many editions. Keep up the good work .
It's an honor to be included on any list with Glenn Greenwald. Definitely one of my journalistic heroes.
Thanks!