Ukraine/Russia, Roe v Wade, RFK Jr., Israel/Hamas, Transgenderism, the pandemic and the vaccines…and anything to do with White House occupant #45.
(A minefield in the Golan Heights)
Threading one’s way through social discourse these days carries high risk of running afoul of these landmines of controversial tragedy (or tragic controversy, take your pick). Broken friendships, estranged families, public vilification, job loss, and lawsuits can follow in the wake of speaking your unguarded beliefs on either side of these explosive issues, most of which are now virtually unignorable, pressing themselves upon our attention wherever we look.
This is part of the reason why my Facebook posts are now, for the most part, relatively harmless sharings of spiritual inspiration, humor, or family remembrance, blended with a few carefully selected postings from my Substack work, while I vigilantly seek to avoid alienating old friends or losing new ones, with a wary eye on the blatant violations of our First Amendment rights of free speech practiced by the government-supported surveillance and censorship in the major social media platforms. It is astonishing to witness how even mild deviations from the corporate media party line can earn one a “community standards violation” and a temporary or permanent ban from Facebook or YouTube, while the heavily censored nature of the Google search engine is now embarrassingly obvious.
Given that I have a Sacred Activism profile, including many public statements seeking to expose the truth about the well-documented harmful effects of the 5G rollout, the reality of elite pedophilia rings, the culpability of Big Pharma in massive damage to human health, the corrupt influence of the central banking interests, and the need for a new and enforceable International Court of Human Rights to bring elite criminals to justice - well, let’s just say that I am fairly far out on the limb of controversy already, a ready target for anybody with a decent hack saw to sever the branch and send me plummeting toward defamation and ostracization…at least in the view of those with their heads firmly and comfortably embedded in the mud of corporate propaganda.
So, dear reader, here in the comparative safety of Substack, let me make my positions clear on these treacherous issues (just so you can swiftly unsubscribe in case I fall afoul of your dearly held beliefs), after which I will offer a few thoughts on when and how to stand your moral ground, and perhaps how to make an actual difference in a world in which tolerance, compassion, love, and the search for common ground are always infinitely more powerful than a bitingly brilliant diatribe.
Let There Be No Gray
The elite technocratic goal, let us be clear, is to divide us, to tribalize, to create endless “issue identity” conflict, setting gay vs straight, Red vs Blue, White vs Black, Pro-Life vs Pro-Choice, on into the long list of fiercely defended and immovable positions of rightness and demonization of “the other.” So long as we are engaged in savage denunciations of imagined foes, we will be less likely to question what that man behind the curtain is up to.
To accomplish this goal, there must be no room for nuance, for balance, for careful examination of historical background, much less for granting that your opponent may also be a person who values family and freedom and decency to the same degree as you and your fellow travelers in the Caravan of Truth.
It is a black-and-white world in which no gray is allowed. Too often, one puts a toe on the landmine even by suggesting that there may be some merit in the opposing viewpoint. As a student of history, I naturally seek to understand the deep background, which so often can give us better light by which to see right and wrong. Ironically, being a moderate whose goal is to foster greater understanding can earn one equal (or even greater) scorn from the zealots of both sides than being a radically committed foe. For I represent a threat to their supply of the intoxicating wine of enraged self-righteousness.
Given that I’d like to keep this post to Substack norms of readability (five minutes being the outer edge of available time for most of us these days), I will now attempt extreme thumb-nailing of my issue-straddling positions blended with my own occasional outraged righteousness (there is a limit to the gray area bit after all - particularly when it comes to #45):
The Coming Election
Corrupt Fascist Buffoon vs Elite Puppet vs Environmental Activist - Trump is indeed, of course, the amoral, corrupt, narcissistic, sociopathic liar and demagogue he has shown himself to be for decades. And Joe Biden is the willing tool of the military industrial, Big Pharma, and Big Oil elite (all the same folks, by the way) which he has shown himself to be for decades. And Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is the same committed and successful environmental activist and carefully science-based bane of Big Pharma he has always shown himself to be. I’ll take the activist, thank you. Kennedy is almost certain to be a major factor in this election, carving out more of Trump’s support than Biden’s, thus making DT’s already certain defeat (Roe v Wade overturn being the death knell of the GOP) into what I predict will be a historic debacle. But come 2028 it will be a very different world, and I wouldn’t write off the possibility of a Kennedy presidency in a radically reshaped American political landscape.
Yikes! Sexuality…
LGBTQ etc. - Human Dignity and Vanishing Sanity - I’m a lifelong artist/performer/writer - veteran of musical theater, Shakespeare, cabaret, and original drama; denizen for decades of Chicago, New York City, and Los Angeles, with many longstanding gay and lesbian friends. I champion the sanctity of family - and for the right to define and create the family that answers the call of your heart, regardless of how that family may look to others. And I will not pretend that there is not an elite technocratic agenda to weaken the concept of family through the cheapening and de-sanctifying of sex, accompanied by a watering down tidal wave which seeks to blur the timeless Nature-based dynamics of Masculine and Feminine, so as to make us less dependent on family and more dependent on the State - which, of course, is not democratic but is controlled by the corrupt elite for purposes of domination and control. Into this scenario enters the Big Pharma-driven Trans agenda which forces the question of gender identity onto mere children and forges a misshapen destiny of surgery and lifelong drugs onto those who may simply need time and patience, who may need to move into the adulthood needed to make such an irrevocable decision. And while I will gladly use whatever pronoun a person requests, and will treat them with the dignity I would treat any child of God, I will not pretend that a man who has had surgery and drugs is a woman, nor that he should be allowed, with his male-endowed muscular superiority, to compete against women athletes on an equal basis.
Ukraine/Russia and Hamas/Israel
This one is the worst, the touchiest, the most explosive, and I avoid it assiduously in conversation with Jewish, Arab, Ukrainian, or Russian friends. If we don’t understand the well-documented reality of how stoking war not only enriches the elite but ensures and stabilizes their power, then we will forever fall into the cycle of outrage at the atrocities of which both sides are always guilty, buying the stories sold to us by corporate media which demonize the enemy-du-jour, prompting our patriotic young men and women to volunteer to “fight for freedom” - which, in effect, means fighting for the right of multi-national factions to seize the natural resources of whatever nation is atop the enemy list this year.
Vladimir Putin is an authoritarian and brutal leader, but he is not Hitler. NATO has done everything it can for many years to provoke Russia into war, breaking every promise, toppling a democratically-elected government in Ukraine to install a West-leaning replacement. Would the U.S. come up with an excuse to invade Mexico if Russia had managed to install a Moscow puppet in Mexico City? In a heartbeat. Has the U.S. interfered in elections, as we accused Russia of doing in 2016? Of course - some 75 documented coups since World War Two, most of them not in the interests of democracy, but to install regimes friendly to the corporate interests which run the CIA. And the sickening atrocities of which war is made - the bombing of hospitals, the torture of prisoners, the deaths of children - would accompany, as they always do, the rising profits of the military-industrial complex…and the distraction of the people from their true enemies.
So I will now offer the offensive suggestion that there is a dark puppeteer faction above the Israeli government, above the Palestinian/Hamas/Iranian alliances which profits from such appalling events as the October 7th attack or 9/11, and which works behind the scenes to facilitate or even carry them out. Given the richly documented history of false flag attacks orchestrated to enrage a nation to war, I will simply encourage the reader to do his or her own research. And to view again that old family favorite, The Princess Bride, which is actually a subversive expose of the reality of false flags, turning on an explicit subplot in which Prince Humperdink plots to kill his newlywed bride so he can frame the neighboring country for the murder, and enrage the people for his long-planned invasion:
Are you still with me? If so, welcome! I’ve decided I’d rather have readers who resonate with my actual convictions and perspective, than to compile a big subscriber list based on neutral namby-pamby. But I may lose you yet, as we move into yet another minefield -
Roe v Wade
Once upon a time, long ago in the comparative quiet of the world, hundreds and then thousands of years past in our human unfolding, there actually existed a humane and widely accepted standard governing the question of abortion, around which no controversy raged. Before 1900 A.D. and stretching back to Biblical times, a widely prevailing view was that abortifacient herbs could be used to end a pregnancy before “quickening” - which mean that moment (usually around 15 weeks) when a woman could feel the kick of the fetus in her womb. After that moment, independent life was in place and abortion was forbidden.
But accepting this standard today would forfeit a fine opportunity to foment controversy and division. So once medical science advanced to the point of being able to identify for the first time the moment of conception, the issue has been steadily stoked. When viewed in the context of the de-sanctification of sex and the erosion of the family, we can be forgiven for suspecting that this works for the bad guys.
Life is sacred. Sex is sacred. Careful planning of a family need not cheapen Life, nor turn the destruction of a fetus into a casual matter after careless intercourse.
Meantime, the revoking of Roe v Wade seems likely to be the final nail in the coffin of the Republican Party. I don’t see how DT45 survives the massive revolt of even Deep South women, let alone suburban women, after proudly claiming credit for the end of Roe.
Have I angered both sides yet again? Oh, well - let’s finish the list and see who’s left!
The Bug and The Jab
Anthony Fauci’s own home territory database at NIH.gov contains a study by eminent medical researchers correlating the CV outbreak with the massive rollout of 5G networks in Wuhan, China, and in Italy, noting that exposure to the millimeter-microwave radiation emitted by 5G towers mimics the symptoms of Covid, and recommending that the vaccine mandates be suspended while the evidence was further studied.
It was, of course, ignored.
RFK Jr. long ago noted that an extraordinary perfect storm of liability-free, consequence-free profiteering by Big Pharma was created by the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, with a steady decline in the health of American children being accompanied by a corresponding rise in the profitability of the big pharmaceutical firms.
The astronomical leaps in deaths-from-all-causes now being recorded in the wake of the rushed CV vaccinations, the skyrocketing rates of cancer, the rise in mysterious deaths of young athletes, and most of all, the systematic defamation and vilification of anyone attempting to expose the facts - all this should encourage you to do your own research. If you resisted the jab - congratulations. If you took it and regret it, there are remedies. If you’d rather not know…well, you’ve probably already left this page.
One View of the Future
Here in my remote Colorado mountain village, a popular cartoon on local Facebook pages features two 1950’s housewives gossiping in the kitchen about a new bachelor in the neighborhood, as one exclaims excitedly to the other, “And get this! He’s not only a pure-blood, but he raises chickens and has a wood-burning stove!”
Such are the sexy attributes of the Post-Jab, Pre-Chaos Man in the view of a growing number of women who describe themselves as “Awake” (as opposed to Woke).
As for me, I have found that it will be necessary now and then to take a stand, to make my views known where it might be helpful…which means keeping quiet most of the time. I’ve learned that being helpful to one’s neighbors regardless of politics is always wise, that focusing on local sustainability and access to locally grown food and clean water will create a sense of community regardless of the social issues divide, and that finding one’s own path of Communion with Source, finding a sacred practice anchored in the Golden Rule is more important and more powerful than any political party or divisive strategy by a shadowy elite.
Yes, that elite exists, but so what? Their greatest fear is that we will learn we can ignore them, that we can create decentralized systems of mutual support and exchange beyond their control. Move into the solution, move into the future, move into and focus on the healing of Mother Earth, and millions will follow you into the only real path forward.
And the game of blood, of divide and conquer, will simply cease to exist. As Joshua the War Games computer notes in the classic 1983 film, “The only winning move is not to play!”
blessings,
Michael
Meditate more. Think less. The only black and white choice is either unity in Spirit or division in materialism. Jai Guru.
I honor your truth and your considerable eloquence. Thank you for sharing.