American Corruption was not Inevitable
We hear the phrase “Money is power” and just naturally assume it to be true, but what if that too is pseudoscience? If you don’t understand my argument for the components of a PSYOP, I make my arguments that every PSYOP is based on pseudoscience, rather than science in my article titled “Overcoming Cognitive Dissonance.” What does that even mean that “money is power”? We all acknowledge and recognize that money functions as a “store of value”. In other words, money has durability. We are all willing to hold onto it and use it later because it “holds” its value (minus inflation). But what if that’s part of the “power game”? Do we perceive it as valuable merely because we have been trained to think of value this way?
Even in feudal society, the rich landowners (the gentry and nobility) understood the power of reciprocity. If you treat a person with kindness, they will likewise respond with kindness. However, if you treat them with disdain, they will respond in kind. Reciprocity just means people will respond to your actions in a reciprocal manner. If treated positively, they will react positively; yet if treated negatively, they are almost certainly going to react negatively. If a society has a monetary system to regulate the exchange of resources, and people have been trained to think of money as a store of value, then debt can be used as leverage to persuade people to react to you positively. Citizens of a kingdom or a feudal society would surrender their freedom and become a serf to work off a debt. Think about that! Our ancestors who experienced feudalism surrendered their freedom. A serf in a feudal society was considered the property of their creditor (the person who loaned them money). That is slavery, people!
Today, we all acknowledge the concept of owning another human being as repulsive and disgusting. Our American Declaration of Independence declared that “all men are created equal.”
It is in the English tradition that we find writers like Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Thomas Paine who started explaining the world from the perspective of the individual citizen. It was these men and writers like them that we derive the notion of “human rights” — each individual citizen possesses certain inalienable rights. These rights are evident to a pioneer or persons outside of society. This is what John Locke referred to as the “natural state”.
Thomas Paine witnessed the natural state in his lifetime. He heard tales of Daniel Boone and the Overmountain Men, one of which was Davy Crockett’s father, John Crockett. Blue Ridge is a mountain range which is part of the Appalachian Mountains in the eastern United States running from north to south and stretching over 550 miles from southern Pennsylvania in the north to Georgia in the south. The Blue Ridge had been designated as the partition between the lands of European settlers to the east and those of Native American lands to the west. Anyone who ventured over the Blue Ridge was considered an Overmountain Man.
Thomas Paine wrote “Common Sense” in 1775 and published it in 1776. John Dickinson had made many compelling arguments in his “Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania” from December 1767 to March 1768 pertaining to the lack of definition in the British constitution governing its relationship with its colonies. Many of these arguments almost certainly contributed to Paine’s support for an official Declaration of Independence which he built a case for in the closing paragraphs of “Common Sense.” Especially, if you consider the herculean efforts that John Dickinson made in 1774 and 1775 with his drafts of the “Petition to the King” and the “Olive Branch Petition,” respectively. Both of these efforts to reconcile with King George III were both soundly rejected. As Paine so eloquently argued, without an official declaration of independence there was little hope for gaining help from either the French or Spanish empires in their quest for independence. Without it, their rebellion against King George III would be an internal affair for King George to contend with.
However, it is what the Overmountain Men were doing which contributed to the opening of Paine’s “Common Sense.” Today, our impression of a mountain man comes from literature from the 19th century rather than the 18th century. The 1972 film titled “Jeremiah Johnson” and starring Robert Redford was loosely built around the life of John Jeremiah Johnson who came eight decades after the Overmountain Men; however, this rustic image is probably the same. The one difference is that the Overmountain Men established their own sovereign state outside the protection of King George III. The British had signed a treaty with the Cherokee designating areas where Europeans could or could not settle. Rather than move, many Overmountain Men negotiated a lease of land from the Cherokee and established the Watauga Association (aka the Republic of Watauga) in 1772 in the vicinity of modern-day Elizabethton, Tennessee. This almost certainly inspired him with the narrative we read at the beginning of his pamphlet of the individual citizen coming together with like-minded citizens to form communities. This is where we can see his social evolutionism that he described in “Common Sense.” This is where he got his idea that government could follow a natural progression and evolve.
The first paragraph of “Common Sense” explains the differences between Society and Government. He also lays out for us an economic incentive for us to form societies/communities or simply to share resources. Considering society, we, of course, associate and socialize with persons we share goals with and have similar interests. We tend to like these people who agree with us. However, government, according to Thomas Paine is derived from the fact that while in my pursuit of happiness, I may step on someone else’s toes. I may infringe on someone else’s rights in my pursuit of my happiness. However, when this happens, how do you protect the right of the individual if a society is comprised of a multitude of individuals? How can you ensure that justice is blind? How can you ensure that a mediator remains objective when mediating a dispute? According to Paine’s “Common Sense” he proclaims it to be the sole purpose for creating government. In fact, in “The Federalist Papers, Number 51,” James Madison echoed that sentiment when he declared, “If men were angels, no government would be necessary.” In other words, if we just treated each other fairly, we would’ve never invented government.
In the following paragraphs of “Common Sense,” he articulates a narrative as depicted from the individual citizen for the evolution of government. While outside of society I am my own king — perhaps my own god. I answer to no man. We act as our own sovereign once outside of society and it is in this state — the natural state described by John Locke a century before — that Paine was witness to in 1772. However, a pioneer may not be able to survive without help, so they may implore neighbors to share their labor and assist them with various tasks in their day to day lives. As the community grows, maybe the citizens can no longer go to the parliament and vote themselves, so they dispatch their son to vote as a representative for the family. While laying out the differences between society and government he articulated that society is based on pleasure or wants while government could be said to be “a necessary evil.”
This is the reason our Founding Fathers chose the Republic as the government they would construct in America. See, what Paine had said resonated with these men. Paine echoed the sentiments of John Locke that once we join society, we surrender much of our own autonomy, sovereignty, and right to decide for ourselves what is right and wrong. Once we join the collective, if the collective says to stop on red lights and go on green lights, we allow them to dictate to us what is proper, just, or right. That’s a lot of power to surrender to someone else.
Henry David Thoreau understood this when he wrote in “Civil Disobedience” that, “That government is best which governs least.” As Americans, we have always distrusted government and in 2024 we can see why government should be distrusted. The paranoia of our Founding Fathers was fully warranted. They understood this probably better than many people alive today.
I started out going down the rabbit hole trying to vindicate James Madison, but after years of research I’ve concluded that I shouldn’t try to vindicate James Madison, but rather George Mason because everything he said as the elder statesman of Virginia came true. He tried to warn Madison. In 1787 they gave themselves only a few months before they insisted on ratifying the country’s new constitution. George Mason essentially asked him, “What’s the hurry?” For my fellow Americans who may not know, George Mason was perhaps our champion for an American confederation rather than a federation.
A good communicator focuses on communicating two primary concerns: Expectations and Intentions. Regardless of relationship, whether it is spouse, friend, lover, parent-child, teacher-student, enemies, adversaries — it doesn’t matter — to minimize stress in a relationship a good communicator will convey their own intentions and their own expectations regarding the relationship, and they will inquire the intentions and expectations of their partner for that relationship. The consequences for failing to ascertain even an enemy’s expectations could lead to some serious penalties down the road.
After the advent of nuclear weapons — especially during the Cold War — the West and East had to be very mindful of perceptions by the other. If NATO, for example, wanted to have an exercise and it brought a mass of troops uncomfortably close to a Warsaw Pact member state’s border, they customarily notified the Warsaw Pact of their intentions and expectations months in advance to allow the Warsaw Pact time to communicate their intentions and expectations in response to the exercise. They maintained these channels of communication to minimize stress. No one wanted to be responsible for starting World War III.
Our Founding Fathers were British subjects. Did they seriously want to risk independence or was there something else afoot? Was this an opportunity for a social experiment? Could humanity construct a utopia? At the time, Sir Thomas More’s model for utopia was the standard — which advocated for a two-class system of citizens and slaves. Would people accept such a model?
Monarchists have always used virtue signaling. It shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone that the celebrities they pay to placate the masses employ this technique. Remember, they came up with the knight’s code of chivalry centuries ago! They’ve been virtue signaling for millennia. Do you think Alexander the Great was that great? They plant images and ideas into people’s mind in the most subtle ways.
Remember, Machiavelli gave us their playbook in “The Prince.” They consistently will find a lieutenant to do their dirty work only to ride in on their white steed claiming victory over their insolent lieutenant. They pay for the crime so they can clean it up. They start the fire so they can put it out. It is easy to create the crime when you run an economy built on scarcity and some people are being left out and their only means of survival is either charity or crime. It is easy to convince the world that corporations are all only focused on profit and disregard the environment when you control all the corporate boardrooms. The island of trash in the Pacific may be substantial, but it is still woefully exaggerated. It’s easy to convince everyone that hate speech is a real problem when you employ an army of activists tasked with trolling, shilling, or creating sock puppet accounts that aren’t even real live people. It’s easy to say AI is dangerous when you can write a script for the AI that it will recite invoking fear into the masses of gullible and naïve citizens we have today. It’s easy to run a PSYOP when you have no transparency of government, and you have a mass media that acts as an echo chamber for everyone to reconfirm their worst fears!
It wasn’t inevitable that America evolved so corruptly. Who helped us establish our OSS (the predecessor to the CIA)? Who helped us establish our intelligence alliance called Five Eyes so that the English-speaking world could share intel… doing this four months before America entered World War II? Who helped us establish our National Security State? Who was our most ardent supporter and ally regardless of what war crime we may have committed (think Dick Cheney)? Who helped our American Elite generate a narrative of Trump and Russia in Russiagate? Who, other than US intel, was Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell aligned with?
All roads lead to London. The answer to all the questions above is the UK… but the last three we could answer BOTH the UK and Israel.
Elitism means to remain exclusive — a zero-sum mindset and a hoarding of resources that you and your clique deserve, but no one else… esoteric — again, a zero-sum mindset but the resource being hoarded is strictly information (i.e. to remain secretive).
Elitism hides behind OTHER banners…. like Monarchism, Fascism, Naziism, Communism, Jihadism, Wahhabism, Zionism but they all achieve the same goal. They always get to control the narrative and shape the future of the cultures they’re influencing. So, when people accuse the Deep State of being Fascists or Communists…. they’re BOTH right. A nanny state is still a nanny state no matter how you spin it… and they’re underlying ideology is Elitism.
This is why American Capitalists collaborated with Nazi Germany. This is why — as my next article will show — why the British Crown funded Trump’s Truth Social. Is this the Monarchists playing Trump or Trump playing the Monarchists? Time will tell.