WADE FRAZIER : A Healed Planet

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Dennis’s heat pump is the best heating system that has ever been on the world market. Mr. Mentor’s hydraulic heat engine was considered to be the world’s best engine for powering an automobile. Heat engines and heat pumps work in opposite ways along temperature differentials. Mr. Mentor’s pressure intensifier turned a low-pressure liquid into a high-pressure one, and then the working fluid could be used to power hydraulic motors. That is pretty simple and uncontroversial. As fate would have it (my “friends” at work again, I suspect), I work today at a company that takes advantage of that same pressure intensifier concept to get 100K PSI pressures, but they don’t use it to power hydraulic motors. High-pressure liquids have many potential applications. Mr. Mentor’s engine, as I recall, only needed 2K PSI or so. His engine was built and run in the Rose Parade, by a company that stole his engine, and I think that I might have heard of their fate a decade later. Kangarooing people like that into prison is an American specialty, especially in California.

I brought Mr. Mentor out to Boston, to assess what we were doing. Was Dennis just dreaming? Not only did Mr. Mentor not declare Dennis’s idea “impossible,” but he proposed his own free energy idea: marrying the panels of Dennis’s heat pump to Mr. Mentor’s engine. Before we got very far along that path (Mr. Mentor is why we moved the operation to Ventura, as I later discovered), along came Victor Fischer, who had another hydraulic heat engine that had been more extensively developed (what are the odds of that?), and Dennis jumped onto that horse instead, just before we had the boom lowered on us. Is it possible for hydraulic heat engines and flat plate evaporators to make free energy? I don’t know, but the standard interpretation of the Second Law of Thermodynamics says that it can’t be done. I’ll likely never have the chance to find out, as Mr. Mentor’s engine may not be built again, at least in my lifetime. And compared to what I know is in Godzilla’s Golden Hoard, heat engines and heat pumps are cave man technology.

For me, the lessons of Dennis’s heat pump and Mr. Mentor’s heat engine are about the fate of disruptive technologies in American industrial capitalism. The idea that the better mousetrap prevails in the “free market” is a fairy tale, and is one of many that the public is fed.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

To briefly return to the post that began my Free Energy Follies thread, my experience was by no means unusual in the field. Betrayal by one’s social circle, and by family members in particular, is standard in the milieu. When I traded notes with fellow travelers, or heard about others relating their experiences, betrayal by family members was a common theme. The story of the Biblical Joseph describes a pretty typical situation. I have murderers in my family, and they generally murdered family members. When I heard that my own mother was campaigning against me, it no longer even hurt anymore, as I had received both barrels of that behavior on my journey, and what my former girlfriend did was just a gentle preview. When I see gung-ho newbies rush out to tell their social circles the “good news,” I do what I can to discourage it. They just have to go out and discover the hard way that nobody is home in their social circles. Those in their social circles simply don’t care, even the “hippest” ones, and their feeding that gung-ho newbie to the sharks, if the opportunity presents itself, is normal. Taking the path of sociality for this Epochal effort is a guarantee of disaster.

Whistleblowers have described a similar process. These are all merely facets of my journey’s primary lesson. There is really nothing remarkable about it, although I would say that the perils and temptations of the free energy pursuit magnify those behaviors by orders of magnitude. For every beacon in the darkness, such as Dennis, Mr. Professor, and Brian, many more act criminally and despicably, turning into Orcs lusting after the One Ring, and those beacons on the darkness often became flaming martyrs, while the mob cheered and roasted marshmallows. I got my first taste of that when I had been at Dennis’s company for only three months, and it was only a gentle preview of what lied ahead.

One of the greatest Free Energy Follies is thinking that one’s social circle is going to truly support the aspirant, especially when the going gets hard, and it has always been hard, for every aspirant that I ever heard of. Their social circles usually made it harder, not easier.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I am about halfway through Hunger and Public Action, and as Krishna wishes, I’ll make some reference to it in my big essay update, probably around here. I’ll probably mention that in the 2,000 years before the British conquest, India had less than one famine per century, but under British rule, they had a famine every few years, and that India has not had a famine since it gained independence. That was not unusual, and Hunger and Public Action presented other nations that immediately ended famines once they achieved independence from colonial rule. The entire point of colonialism was exploiting the subject peoples. Even when colonies finally threw off Europe’s shackles, often the USA was right behind them, establishing neocolonial regimes.

All of it is playing the scarcity game, which will vanish in the Fifth Epoch, which is really the point of my big essay: many, if not all, of the grim aspects of the human journey will become obsolete.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

On Free Energy Follies, from what I have seen, Greer’s are ongoing, as he is stuck at the free energy inventor and mass movement levels. The free energy field is in arrested development in a number of ways, and chasing after free energy inventors is one of the greatest follies, especially at this stage of the game. Brian spent years visiting free energy inventors and scientists, and he spent his last years trying to educate the public on the idea that a free energy inventor with a proof-of-concept gizmo was pretty meaningless. When Greer unveiled his $100K reward for a FE gizmo, I had to shake my head in dismay. Whom was he trying to attract? An inventor with the goods and after the money could do far better than that, as Greer knew well. Was Greer trying to get the “good guy” discount from some inventor with the goods who really cared and thought that Greer was the guy to make it happen? Good luck with that.

When Dennis flew me to that conference in Vegas in 1992, and he mounted a campaign to reach the couch potatoes, while watching the ad was kind of fun, as Dennis made a video on the theme from the earliest days of our free energy pursuit, by 1992, I harbored serious doubts about any effort like that. Dennis was trying to harness people’s self-interest, and I came to realize that any effort centered around self-interest was doomed for an Epochal task such as this.

Greer has been slowly learning, going from demanding monopoly rights for any technology that he obtained to open-sourcing it and letting anybody try their hand at it. But I see too many aspects of his approach that I have strong doubts about. I doubt that he is going to be able to shift gears enough in his lifetime to try something with a chance, but maybe I’ll be pleasantly surprised.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

As I have long written, I don’t know now “necessary” a mystical awakening is for members of the choir. However, I heartily agree that it is a great way to help discard the materialism of our Epoch. Materialism is a religion, and when you have a mystical awakening, you know that materialism is just another false one built on a rickety foundation. Materialists tend to become Level 3s, especially the “smart” ones.

There are many paths to achieving a mystical awakening, but from what I have seen, they have similarities. They involve going within and leaving the five senses behind, so that the sixth can be developed. It also requires a quieting of the mind. I went from zero to awakening in 40 hours of training. So did Brian. Chris, on the other hand, played around for years before coming to it in a more gradual fashion. I doubt that there is a “right” way to do it, although, as with the Silva class, it has to be grounded in love and in service to others. It can be dangerous to a soul’s journey to misuse mystical abilities (and I may be writing from experience on that issue). Chris and his pal abandoned their “ki blasts” when it seemed that Chris harmed his pal, and Chris is on the path of service today. Mark’s awakening led to his building a free energy prototype, and then his adventures began. Mine definitely led to that voice in my head, leading me on my odyssey. My fellow travelers that I most respected had such awakenings, and we were almost always scientists or scientists-in-training.

Unfortunately, the Silva course is a shadow of its former self, and I am not sure that I can recommend it today. I have heard that the Monroe Institute gives good courses and provides good tools for the aspiring psychonaut. Bruce Moen was Monroe’s pupil. There are Eastern meditative traditions. For Westerners, meditation is often called “prayer.” Prayers that come from the heart can be powerful. For the seeker, there are plenty of avenues to walk to a mystical awakening. It is far easier for older souls to attain, as they are on the inward journey, not the outward one that younger souls are on. Basically, if you are interested in having a mystical awakening, you can have one, but it might take some work.

For me, a mystical awakening is merely part of the spectrum of awakening that is available for people who dare to not settle for their conditioning and indoctrination. None of these myths need a mystical awakening to see through.

What a mystical awakening did for me, however, as it did for my other scientific pals, was that it opened up doors of perception, sometimes called intuition. Such awakenings could lead to scientific and inventive breakthroughs. From what I have seen, the “creative moment” and psychic ability are very close cousins, if not aspects of the same thing. It is also related to the “cosmic religious feeling” that Einstein wrote about.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

My wife was happy that I got involved with Brian O’s New Energy Movement (NEM), as I finally got it out of my system. I’ll never join another free energy effort, especially a mass movement, again, unless the effort has completely digested the lessons of my journey and those of my fellow travelers. Even before Eugene Mallove was murdered, I could tell that we were going nowhere. I’ll never attend another free energy conference, and I am so done with the businessman’s, inventor’s, scientist’s, and mass movement approaches to this issue.

When I was invited to the White House a couple of years after the NEM disaster, I instantly rejected the invitation, and a few years later, when I read the FTC’s charges against Dennis, I thanked my lucky stars that I did not get involved with Dennis again. Dennis’s heat pump is the best heating system that has ever been on the world market, and his high MPG technology very likely worked as advertised, although I never really cared about it enough to find out. After Brian was booted out of NEM, he invited me into an effort mounted by scientists, but I was not interested. As I have stated many times, technology is not really the issue, and the multitudinous alternative scientific theories are not very important. Theory combined with working prototypes is another matter, although that is when the inventor has hell to pay, if he survives the experience. Humanity’s fate rides on the twin issues of integrity and sentience, and all else pales into insignificance. The free energy field’s state of arrested development is symptomatic of those issues, and it is reflected in the many failed and doomed approaches that have been tried over the generations.

Brian’s was my final free energy folly, unless my current effort turns into one, but that would be far down the road, and if this effort turns out to be just one more folly, at least nobody is going to have their lives wrecked. I still carried Brian’s spears to the end, helping him with his DOE proposal, writing his NASA bio and getting it published, and improving his Wikipedia bio, at least until this latest act of censorship by Wikipedia, as a side-effect of carrying Uncle Ed’s spears. Brian died while planning to promote my approach, and if he had lived to see my big essay, he would have immediately understood. My Camelot interview will likely be my lifetime’s favorite, as I did it with Brian.

I am making it up as I go, as my efforts since 1986 have been a series of trial-and-error events, seeing what didn’t work and why (and having my life wrecked in the process), and thinking about what might have a chance to at least help. I won’t give up on my choir idea anytime soon, and I might have 30 more good years in me, if I am as fortunate as Ed was. Geez, Noam is going be 90 himself in a couple of weeks. Howard, Ed, and Brian left behind some insanely large shoes to fill, and so will Noam and Dennis.

This will wind down my Free Energy Follies posts for now.

Best,

Wade

[Krishna]

Posted by Wade Frazier (here)
Hi:
I am about halfway through Hunger and Public Action, and as Krishna wishes, I’ll make some reference to it in my big essay update, probably around here.

I think you should mention Hunger and Public Action around here also in the footnote Gideon Polya's name needs to be mentioned.
The comparison between India and China in HPA puts the 2 billion excess deaths in India in context.

In other news, Wikpedia finally responded to my complaint about abusive admin, saying that they found "no administrative misconduct". Haha ha. I did not expect anything different, it only sharpens my perspective about how difficult bringing FE to life is. If trivial matters of Ed Herman's biography can get me banned, I can barely imagine the dangers to FE enthusiasts despite the warnings from Wade.

I am currently reading the book Book of Why by Judea Pearl

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Krishna:

Ever since I first opened Hunger and Public Action, when I read Uncle Ed mention it in his critique of Pinker’s imperial valentine, I planned to use it to bolster Polya’s case. Don’t worry, Hunger and Public Action will get sufficient citing in my big essay update. In the end, Hunger and Public Action is not too relevant to my efforts to get us over the hump into the Fifth Epoch (well-fed peasants are not going to help much with my effort – my work is late-Fourth Epoch, not early Fourth or late-Third, although I note how the farmer mentality has helped breed some of my finest fellow travelers), but it shows how easily issues such as famine are dealt with, as long as the people are not subject to imperial oppression. Drèze and Sen took it very easy on the USA’s role in chronic hunger since World War II, to the point of making it invisible.

I’ll have more to write when I finish Hunger and Public Action, but the gist that I gleaned so far is that there is acute and chronic hunger, and there is state intervention as well as profit-seeking enterprises, and that ideological purity is not helpful for dealing with famines, either for prevention or mitigation. Ideological purity is not helpful for anything. It is all about caring, or the lack thereof.

I plan to write a lot more about domestication in my big essay update, and particularly how farms are highly artificial environments that wiped out or commandeered ecosystems to wrench human-digestible calories from the denuded soils. That will all end in the Fifth Epoch, but the Third Epoch’s energy surplus from peasant agriculture was always thin and vulnerable to failure. Food security was humanity’s primary preoccupation all the way to the Fourth Epoch. It is a scandal that human hunger exists anywhere on Earth today, and homelessness, etc. I was just reading the other day about the 13 million American households that are food insecure, in history’s richest and most powerful nation. My favorite trailhead near my home has a homeless camp at its entrance that I walk past each time that I hike on that trail, as I will likely do tomorrow, and I live only a few miles from the richest men on Earth.

On Wikipedia, yes, you got a little taste. I have seen Dennis smeared since the day I met him, and several national TV shows have been aired about Dennis, which all prominently featured the pathological liar Mr. Skeptic. I have not even bothered to watch them. I learned my lessons on that score 30 years ago and more, which primed me for Noam and Ed’s work. That Ed’s Wikipedia bio is outright disinformation today is actually an example of his propaganda model in action. While working on Ed’s bio, I read somewhere that Noam said that Ed’s model actually did not take it far enough. Ed’s model focused on media performance, but Noam said that it richly applied to academia and “intellectuals” of all stripes.

As far as my adventures at Wikipedia go, the most recent encounter was by far the most unprofessional treatment that I have ever received at any Internet venue, as far as the admins go. The trolls did not even need to roll out of bed before that admin pounced, with his threats, insults, and flimsy and false pretexts for erasing my work, KGB-style. That rude admin’s work will live in infamy, unless they erase that too, where he calls my work a “f**king mess,” as he erased all mention of free energy from Brian’s bio. That amazing behavior aligns quite well with Ed’s propaganda model, in that that admin probably thinks that he was acting righteously, as he literally defended a disinformation specialist, who Wikipedia’s founder also openly defended. This is a very close cousin to the McCarthyite propaganda campaign by Washington Post, and Facebook recently took a page out of Washington Post’s (owned by Bezos) playbook by banning sites on Washington Post’s blacklist, as did other Internet venues, as they used the same “logic” behind my treatment and yours at Wikipedia. They can simply make it up as they go, in an obscene parody of due process, which I am all too familiar with.

We’ll see how much longer a site like mine can last on the Internet. It is besieged by hackers all day long, and I am going to have to try killing all of the bots to my site, as it is sending my traffic through the roof and making it more expensive to host. Other than the Google and Bing crawlers, and maybe a few others, I am going to block all bots to my site. My site is for human readers, not worthless bots, which resemble denial of service attacks.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I just realized that today is the 55^th anniversary of JFK’s death. How time flies. In keeping with the theme of my previous post, recently I was putting my relationship with Gary on the record in a forum, to only have a troll crash the thread, and then the admin erased my thread. Wikipedia is far from alone in its boorish behavior. My work means the end of the world as we know it, and at some level, nearly all of my assailants realize that, so the trolls come swarming, the admins ban me, etc., and the real reasons are never the stated reasons, which only reinforces my journey’s primary lesson.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

This is a little coda to my recent encounters with Wikipedia. One of my free energy trolls also trolled the free energy “conspiracy theory” talk threads at Wikipedia. You can see him trolling both venues (he camped on that thread of mine, so he is not hard to find). My thread, before that forum banned me when the trolls ganged up on me, mentioned Sparky Sweet, and that troll idiotically or dishonestly said that he never heard of Sparky at the Wikipedia pages (he made his posts at Wikipedia soon after he trolled my forum thread). That was more than a decade ago. I just wasted part of my morning looking for where he did it (it disappeared years ago), and not only could I not find where that troll wrote about Sparky at Wikipedia. As far as I can tell, all mention of Sparky has vanished from Wikipedia. No big surprise, given my experiences with Wikipedia, but it seems that their erasure techniques can be pretty thorough.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Well, I did a little digging, after that previous post, and found where I did save that troll’s comment, and you can see how part of the talk page simply vanished. You can see the archived page as it exists today, here. I also attached what it looks like today. I also attached what it looked like in July 2008, and I also attached an image of that troll’s comment that he had never heard of Sparky (Floyd) Sweet, made long after he and his fellow trolls got me booted out of that forum. Either that is one stupid troll, or he is being dishonest. And as I suspected, yes indeed, that entire section on Sparky was erased at Wikipedia, without a trace. Wikipedia in action.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I don’t want to put too much energy into that troll’s comments on Sparky Sweet, but it is a good example of the quality of free energy debunkery that dominates the Internet. To say that magnets are not an energy source is both obvious and inane. Sparky’s free energy gizmo indeed was based on magnets, but the magnets were “merely” a way to tap what is variously called the zero-point field and other terms. Jeane Manning collected more than 30 names for it. Scientists call light electromagnetic energy, and the quantum paradox shows that scientists don’t know what light is.

The so-called unified field theory will weld together quantum theory and relativity, and show how the four “forces” in the universe are related, and it will have things to say about the space-time continuum. What my friend saw, which Greer also described, used free energy technology to produce anti-gravity, or what Greer calls electrogravity. So, right there, you have a welding together of quantum theory with the theory of gravity, and most free energy devices that I have heard of used magnetics. With gravity and electromagnetics tightly related in what my friend saw (Sparky’s gizmo produced antigravity effects), I think that it is safe to say that if and when those technologies come into the open, some kind of unified field theory will either accompany them or be derived from them. The GCs certainly have some kind of theory along those lines. The technology alone will lead somebody in that direction, and the GCs have possessed those technologies for longer than I have been alive. They likely have a pretty developed body of theory, and I can nearly guarantee that the nature of consciousness is part of that body of theory. The GCs know full well that consciousness is not a mere ephemeral byproduct of brain activity. I don’t know how many “skeptics” are on the payroll, but at least some are. That troll’s boorish behavior is likely an example of Ed’s propaganda model, in which most of the debunkery is done gratis, by people who actually believe in what they are doing, and are incapable of understanding how irrational their work is.

I don’t know if my friend was also showed time travel, but by the end of their demonstration (which he was “invited” to by kidnapping him), his eyes were bugging out of his head, and he told his demonstrators that they did not play in his galaxy.

Best,

Wade

[Krishna]

Posted by Wade Frazier (here)
Hi:

Well, I did a little digging, after that previous post, and found where I did save that troll’s comment, and you can see how part of the talk page simply vanished. You can see the archived page as it exists today, here. I also attached what it looks like today. I also attached what it looked like in July 2008, and I also attached an image of that troll’s comment that he had never heard of Sparky (Floyd) Sweet, made long after he and his fellow trolls got me booted out of that forum. Either that is one stupid troll, or he is being dishonest. And as I suspected, yes indeed, that entire section on Sparky was erased at Wikipedia, without a trace. Wikipedia in action.

Best,

Wade

It did not totally disappear. But few people read all the edits so for all practical purposes it is gone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php...ldid=347025882

What they did to you was far worse Wade. They entirely disappeared your content, so that even people who know about it cannot read it.
I understand that Wikipedia does not want to be in violation of copyright. However your edits were very far from any form of copyright violation
a) Quoting the NYT was FAIR USE
b) contributing your own material is not a copyright violation by definition

[Wade Frazier]

Thanks Krishna:

Glad that you were able to find it. Yes, even though it is buried deeply, somebody like you can at least find it before it got erased. As you note, the typical reader will not even suspect that an entire section of the talk page was erased. Yes, with what they did to my work, you can’t even see what I wrote, and yes, they erased it on flimsy and false pretexts, which can make one suspect that the conspiracy theories are true, and to an extent they are, but my take on that rude admin’s behavior is more along the lines of Ed’s structural model of how the media operates, and Wikipedia is definitely part of the media today.

As I have written, I believe that the quotes that were somehow a copyright violation are all over at Wikiquotes, and I can’t wrap my head around the idea that quotes in one part of the Wiki universe are fine, while in another part are a crime worthy of erasure (and yes, any NYT quotes would have been Fair Use protected). And the idea that using my own public domain writings is plagiarism is insane. I think that what it came down to, as far as the justification of the erasure, is that I had a conflict of interest with Brian and Ed, but again, a conflict of interest leading to erasure is also insane. They literally had no rational leg to stand on, but as you experienced, they can make it up as they go, as they “convicted” you of sock-puppetry. Again, what they did to Dennis was a million times worse, so I am not losing any sleep over Wikipedia’s inexcusable behavior. It is just more confirmation of my life’s primary lesson. Diogenes’s quest for the honest man would be as fruitful today as it was back then.

Wikipedia suppressed the suppression, just like it whitewashed the whitewash in its Operation Paperclip article. The author of that erased section openly wondered how the suppressors would justify erasing the suppression. They proved him right. A troll recently crashed my thread on JFK (using Mr. Skeptic’s libel as his ammo), and the admin then erased my thread. A decade ago, another forum that I was invited into erased the entire section of it devoted to my work (soon after a visit from Mr. Skeptic). Another forum that I driven out of has vanished, taking hundreds of my posts with it. So, I am used to this treatment.

Best,

Wade

[Krishna]

Posted by Wade Frazier (here)
We’ll see how much longer a site like mine can last on the Internet. It is besieged by hackers all day long, and I am going to have to try killing all of the bots to my site, as it is sending my traffic through the roof and making it more expensive to host. Other than the Google and Bing crawlers, and maybe a few others, I am going to block all bots to my site. My site is for human readers, not worthless bots, which resemble denial of service attacks.

Best,

Wade

I hesitate to recommend the big cloud hosting providers, but they might be better at dealing with DOS attacks. Keep the data of your website and configuration and everything else on multiple cloud providers, give copies of non-confidential parts of your website to trusted people. This way if any cloud provider kicks you off, you will have a different one to go to, if everything goes off you will have your local copy and copies with trusted parties.

Also the big cloud providers are better at dealing with the technology than you can on your own. And that includes, caching, compression, DOS attack defence etc.
As far as I can tell you are not even compressing the html that you send across the wire, which can be 50% bandwidth savings.

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Krishna:

Thanks for the tips. If I can just block several gigs a day of bot traffic, I should be fine, and if I have to worry about playing daisy-chain to a host that won’t ban me, it will be some kind of plan B. I don’t expect that the human traffic will be a big deal, even if the choir is built. The bots have driven my bandwidth up by a factor of ten in the past year.

Best,

Wade

[Krishna]

Posted by Wade Frazier (here)
Hi Krishna:

Thanks for the tips. If I can just block several gigs a day of bot traffic, I should be fine, and if I have to worry about playing daisy-chain to a host that won’t ban me, it will be some kind of plan B. I don’t expect that the human traffic will be a big deal, even if the choir is built. The bots have driven my bandwidth up by a factor of ten in the past year.
Best,
Wade

You should not have to daisy chain, but given what you are doing we have to think about worst cases. Generally speaking nobody will interfere with you, not sure what happens if GC's get involved and that is a risk no matter who is hosting your site.

All cloud providers have Edge Points of Presence (POPs) which avoid getting data from your servers when they know it can be served from the edge. Think of it as a distribution center in every city, all requests are served locally without needing to climb the highway, it is better for everybody in terms of costs. There are important reasons you must use compression, it saves bandwidth for you as well as the reader, also it loads much faster. Edge caching also has the same advantages. These things are called CDN's (Content Delivery Networks) one example Google CDN

Also no matter what you do, the garden variety bots are going to take up infinite amount of traffic, only CDN's can protect the website.

[Wade Frazier]

Thanks Krishna:

I’ll discuss with my admin soon.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Some odds and ends from current reading… Assange is in trouble, and the big tech companies are at the forefront of the assault on free speech. Here is an article on how the way that scientists receive credit for discoveries is a very flawed process, which is no big news. We are seeing hints of how agriculture in the Fifth Epoch might look. There is an effort to grant elephants the rights of people, and it is very understandable.

Best,

Wade

[Chris Gilbert]

The recent crackdown by tech companies on wrongthink is especially worrying to me. While I don't discuss FE in real life or on social media, I do sometimes broach other topics with people like media and mainstream bias and outright manipulation. While there is some acknowledgement of such, by and large it tends to be a disappointment. I was especially disgusted by "progressives" (including those whom I thought knew better) cheering the recent encroachment on free speech, generally under the rationale of combating hate speech and fake news. All the better excuse for cutting ties with those who waste my time.

It makes me roll my eyes at the big fixation on the 2nd amendment and false flag theories here in the US every time there is a mass shooting. While widespread guerrilla war in the event of social unrest would indeed deter the implementation of hard tyranny in the same vein as the Soviet Union, the soft tyranny that is growing in tandem with corporate control is far worse. As happened with Wikipedia and Ed, it's everyday people trying to act as gatekeepers based on their own fear based reactions who do most of the groundwork for the Deep State spiderweb, far more than any outright conspiracies.