Daddy's Home!

"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years." —Mark Twain

Last weekend, I visited my son in college. He's doing great in his classes, works out at the gym daily, has a job to earn some extra money, new friends and a new girlfriend (his first). It's the first time I'm seen him all gooey in love! He's turned out to be a real charming gent, buying his gal flowers and the works. I don't know how he manages all that he does, but he looks healthy and strong. I'm proud of him, and I trust the process of letting him go. It's certainly not easy! He's my baby, but I understand that separation is a part of life and necessary for his health and well-being, as well as mine.

The thing that really disturbed me was my learning that all his female friends are taking SSRIs. Curiously, none of his male friends are taking them. Are you kidding me? I asked. No, he wasn’t kidding…EVERY SINGLE ONE OF HIS FEMALE FRIENDS. I felt sick to my stomach. I've never taken psychotropic medications in my life, so it's hard for me to understand. These women are too young to be having mental health issues bad enough for meds, I thought. When I asked him why he thinks this is the case, he confidently replied, "Social media, of course."

A conundrum started beating in my head. Why women? Why not men? Men use social media, too. All week, I honed in on social media, and the next thing I noticed were gobs of Kamala voters having emotional meltdowns online. While there were some men, most of them were women. But why were they screaming, crying, throwing things, rolling around on the floor, foaming at the mouth, cussing? It looked like a horror movie! And why were they filming and publishing themselves doing this online? Since then, I've had to play counselor for what appears to be the beginning of the seven stages of grief for certain friends.

Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is a very serious disease that comes from believing a story about who he is and what he represents. The afflicted are convinced that Trump is racist, sexist, and anti-gay—and since their fellow citizens voted for him—they have now concluded that the majority of the country must be racist, sexist, and anti-gay. This would explain their meltdowns. I'd melt down too if I thought we just elected Hitler. Somehow they've managed to ignore the fact that Blacks, Asians, Hispanics, Amish, Jews, Christians, Muslims, Gays, and all kinds of diverse people voted for Trump. To ignore this fact, however, and not question one's own beliefs is racist, sexist, and anti-gay. 

This bizarre syndrome is a mental health condition in which a person is pathologically obsessed with their dislike of Donald Trump, to the point at which they abandon all logic and reason, such as wanting someone with dementia or anti-American policies to run their country into the ground. How did this happen? How can this happen? It's not super clear, but it has a lot to do with story, with narrative. Those who have TDS believe that Trump is racist, sexist, and anti-gay, but they cannot provide one reason why they believe this. Ask them what they are afraid of, and they don't really know. I think TDS is a form of social engineering. Why? I can only speculate.

Let's say there's an energy crisis and the only solution is depopulation. Or the financial system is failing and America is in the way. You need to covertly conquer and divide to break down the country and bring change. First, you secure a medium for narrating to mass populations. Then you construct captivating stories with certain archetypes that have heroes and villains. These stories capture people's emotions and trigger neural mirroring (a brain mechanism that allows people to understand and imitate the actions and emotions of others). This connects more and more people together in reinforcing the story.

Once you've caught and connected people through neural mirroring, you start to subtly change their thinking patterns. Before, they would watch, listen, contemplate, and discuss-debate with you about topics of disagreement...but now you get them to hand over their thinking brain to an "official" Fact Checker, which is really an Opinion Reinforcer. There's an element of misguided trust and loyalty that plays into this process as well, where people displace their family and friends in favor of an official impersonal source. At the same time, you manufacture a pandemic and pump trillions of dollars into the financial system to cause asset inflation and a fury of greed.

After depatterning your victims, you develop trigger words like misinformation and anti-vaxxer and connect them with certain negative emotions. Then you move to the next step of devaluing and discrediting outsiders, punishing them for not being a team player. Something that's been categorized as "misinformation" by the narration machine, or someone who has been called an "antivaxxer" or "conspiracy theorist" now triggers herds of people to Fact Checkers. If the Fact Checker reads NOT OK, you program people to terminate or shut down the information or person, reinforcing the trigger words through labeling and name-calling.

This is why so many lefties were blindsided by the election results. They ignored folks like Tucker Carlson, Joe Rogan, RFK Jr, Tulsi Gabbard, Elon Musk, Lara Logan, John Pilger, James Howard Kunstler, Naomi Wolf, and many more (way too many to name) who were telling us what the administration was really doing and what was going on behind the narratives. Since I watch and listen to alt.media, like The Duran, I knew what to expect. Alt.media is so much better than mainstream, but those who are "captured" don't follow. It's almost as if they are covering their ears, screaming "I can't hear you!" like a three-year old. They won't even listen. They can't, because they are programmed to shut you down.

Here's a little trick, don't use the politically-charged trigger words. Choose different words, and ask them questions to force them into thinking. Or play dumb and ask "What's misinformation? What's an antivaxxer?" And watch how they struggle as you continue to probe.

Stories shape our worldview, and hopefully the censoring will go away now that Trump is taking over, and people will start hearing some new stories. This could be curative for those suffering from TDS. I hope! It's time to make people healthy again, make people think again, and start reconnecting and uniting with our fellow citizens and the world. Americans have been in LaLa Land, while the country and currency is being deconstructed and dismantled right in front of our eyes. It’s almost as if the current administration is complicit. Here's a new story...RFK Jr. recently came out and explained that as soon as the current administration took office, they did something shockingly anti-American.

Think of the United States of America as a story about a family. Our government is the parents and we are the children. The plot takes us through the rise and fall of our family empire. From pioneers to conquests to commerce to affluence to intellect to decadence, to the age of decline and collapse. It’s the seven stages of all empires, according to Sir John Glubb, who studied their life cycles and published his findings in The Fate of Empire and Search for Survival. There are many heroes in this story, incredible adventures, and promises of prosperity and transformation. Who are the heroes and who are the villains is a matter of how the media tells this story.

In these last two stages of empire, the final Acts, our family has unconsciously wandered from the good mother and father to a shadow of their former selves. According to Carl Jung, the "shadows" of the Good Mother and Good Father are the “Devouring Mother” and the “Tyrannical Father.” The Devouring Mother is a pathological version of motherhood where she figuratively devours her children’s potential and competence by overprotecting them. She is censoring, controlling, manipulative, invading privacy, and over-involved in her children's lives. She is our massive government today, with its overreach and control.

But where is Father? Our Father has been missing, and I think it's fair to say that masculinity has been under attack for a long time now, all the characteristics of men. In fact, there's been growing concern about the decline of masculinity in the United States over the past decade or so. Could it be our devouring mother? The mythological story of Oedipus is about a king who unknowingly kills his father and marries his mother. Sigmund Freud equated this to a "complex" where young boys become unconsciously attached to their mothers, and hostile towards their fathers. The father is subdued or absent during this period of hatred, instigated by an overprotective and sheltering mother.

When boys aren’t permitted to grow up, they become overgrown man-children. Look around and see. What are so many young men doing these days? Fantasy football? Pornography? Playing video games? It’s as if they are trying to act out their masculinity in virtual reality, in fantasy, since they are shamed for acting it out in real life. The Oedipus complex is only resolved when the manchild begins to identify with his father again, as an indirect way of growing out of the smothering destructive relationship he has with his devouring mother. Curiously, Donald Trump just swept the White House, with a team that’s on fire. Is it Father walking through the door?