“So he scraped and scratched and scrabbled and scrooged, and then he scrooged again, and scrabbled and scratched and scraped. Working busily with his little paws and muttering to himself ‘up we go, up we go!’ until at last: Pop! His snout came out into the sunlight, and he found himself rolling in the warm grass of a great meadow.
“‘This is fine!’ he said to himself. ‘This is better than whitewashing!’
“The sunshine struck hot on his fur, soft breezes caressed his heated brow, and after the seclusion of the cellarage he had lived in so long, the carol of happy birds fell on his dulled hearing almost like a shout. Jumping off all his four legs at once, in the joy of living and the delight of spring without its cleaning, he pursued his way across the meadow till he reached the hedge on the further side.”
- Kenneth Grahame, “The Wind in the Willows”, 1908
I started listening to an audiobook of Kenneth Grahame’s “The Wind in the Willows” recently. Almost immediately – and surprisingly – I became angry. There is a reason this book is considered one of the great classics of children’s literature. The prose is beautiful and evocative, and the characters are moving and soulful. I had read it many many years ago, but had somehow forgotten all of this. I had forgotten just how rich and satisfying it was. How it makes most of today’s writing for children feel cheap and empty by comparison.
And I found myself becoming angry. Angry at the world I live in, and angry at myself. I felt suddenly, sharply aware of what I’ve been missing, as I have my head stuck in the latest news cycle, the best analysis of why Covid tyranny was never justified, all the ways the state is coming after my children... It became suddenly clear to me that I needed this kind of writing. That my brain is hungry for it, and that I’ve been starving a piece of myself for a very long time.
I felt robbed.
Of course, the person robbing me is myself. And while it is tempting to blame “social media”, or even “technology” and the ever-growing stream of non-stop information that it brings to our doorsteps, it’s really much more than that. It’s really about our priorities, what we decide is “important”, what we believe a “good life” means, and how mindful we decide to be about how we spend our lives.
I’ll be writing more about all of this in the coming weeks and months (and years, I suspect), because I believe that each one of us reclaiming our lives is what lies at the heart of reclaiming our liberty, and rebuilding a civilized world.
To that end, I will be talking later this week with my friend Susan May, who is the founder of “RiseUP with Susan May” and the RiseUP community. Susan has also created a free Facebook group called “Gather and Get Moving with Susan May”.
The Facebook group is a safe place for medical freedom advocates to connect and be inspired to action. The focus of the group is to shift away from fear and towards Love. The group does not focus primarily on world events or political activism. Instead the focus is on our individual and unique "next right step" - for ourselves, families and communities.
Susan and I will be talking live about all kinds of things, including some of the above, my new private Substack, the mutual-aid society I am building, and a little of my own personal history. If you’d like to be there for the live interview and participate, you can join her group here. She also tells me that she will be posting it publicly a little later, and when she does I will post it here.
I love this book so much. I knew of it growing up but didn’t actually read it until my mid-twenties. Now it’s one of my top favorites, so much so that I recently backed this Kickstarter:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/caurettepublishing/the-wind-in-the-willows-illustrated-by-chris-dunn?ref=user_menu
Wind in the Willows is a wonderful book. I applaud your anger. Anger = action. Humor dissolves anger. Anger leads to ACTION.
Regarding the "peaceful" group, I'll take a look but the peaceful "pacifist" thing was created by the CIA to remove authentic Anger. They're always taking our anger on X and steering it to do their bidding. Analyze BLM, the WOKE, MeToo, and it's all authentic anger diverted into mayhem to hurt us all.
Thus a "peaceful" group has zero chance of coming to solutions if anger can't be expressed, if you can't critique another. We're surrounded by children who haven't matured because they've been coddled by pacifists for their entire lives, and now by the system. Ironically these overgrown children are more angry than we were in my day. Plus they're frustrated, and are trying to distract themselves with: food, drugs, drinking, sex, porn, and frankly being a voyeur.
Nobody it seems is open to being authentic. Consider the piano and all the octaves and keys. Being "peaceful" is eliminating half the keys on the instrument. Bullies LOVE peaceful victims...they never fight back. Give up our guns...more peace.
Clearly peacefulness isn't working. Old news.
What needs to happen is that people learn how their mind works. Our minds are programmed by words creating beliefs. Beliefs are supposed to be bookmarks for making sense of our experience. Instead, people live in their beliefs like they ARE the reality. This is why the world is what it is today.
In Lexington yesterday, everybody is talking about the strangely HOT weather. Yes, it's geoengineered. Duh. Watch the jets spray the sky. And yet I know people who should know better, but instead of investigating, they live in their BELIEFS that it's jet contrails. This willful ignorance is the end of us all.
The facebook group asked what my biggest concern was. It's that I'm roped into a world full of the willfully ignorant who can't even investigate how their mind works.
I wrote a blog article on it, because I'm frustrated with the last two years and we STILL have the willfully ignorant--even when it's pointed out to them. (GeoEngineering is destroying everything...nah, people would rather die than be right--I wrote an article about that last year).
I've been interviewed three times by one of the top psychological historian researchers in the world. Why? Because I nail it.
https://www.descendantsofatlantis.com/post/do-you-have-what-it-takes
https://www.descendantsofatlantis.com/post/why-people-would-rather-die-than-be-wrong
https://www.descendantsofatlantis.com/post/rational-faith-vs-irrational-faith