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Vee's avatar

So beautifully written! Thank you for sharing this. This is the kind of thinking that the entire world needs to be exposed to.

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Tesstamona's avatar

I wholeheartedly agree... and at the same time, it feels like the tallest order imaginable. Regardless of psyop, regardless of the late-stage psychological subversion process we’re in, witnessing this did something to my spirit. It feels like we’re now past the point of no return we’ve all been talking about.

The only solace I’ve found has been walking along the bay and through the mangroves. "get out of the way" is probably the best advice i've heard all week. I can feel the addict in me wanting to pick the babylonian rectangle of death (phone) up and see what’s happening. It's like being a junkie for a handheld lobotomy. I suppose I will have to make better friends with silence to stay sane.

Thanks for your work on this essay.

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Joe Van Steenbergen's avatar

The crucial mistake we made was letting the establishment put a cell phone in nearly every person's hand (even in sub-Saharan Africa, if you can believe that). From that point on, TPTB had a perfect mechanism for delivering propaganda directly into human brains. Users simply cannot put them down or stop absorbing establishment drivel almost 24/7. People SLEEP with their cell phones, for goodness's sake. Until/unless we find a way to get people to abandon their phones, we will never even begin to get their attention, because all they pay attention to is the propaganda spewing from their self-made prison device. If we're looking for a place to start to help people see what is happening to them, and who is doing it, start there. Sadly, though, even those who understand that cell phones are toxic will be unwilling or unable to stop using them, so it will be nigh on impossible to get the rest of humanity to do so.

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Curious George's avatar

Yep. And THAT is why Charlie was a threat. He tried to build bridges. Not particularly a threat to those who celebrated his assassination. But to the system we live under.

Be like Charlie: don't hate, debate.(respectfully) Evil hates that. The Matrix hates that. Be Light to the darkness.

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C Woody's avatar

Great article Lily, the planet is a world of distractions now, bombarded with violence, hate,wars(made for television)from all sides of the political spectrum, so much so that people can’t think for themselves, nor want to. Their time is better spent raging against those political (bot) enemies, checking the latest social feed for likes, screaming at the evening news or watching the latest woke propaganda on a favourite streaming platform..people are unable to disconnect..they can’t even make a home cooked meal for their families so they just tap the app on their phones and it’s dashed to your door,never missing a second of screen time. Many stories are and will be crafted about the Kirk assassination,as it dominates the media,while people forget about the last two tragedies in Charlotte and Minneapolis,their attention span short, minds numbed by the constant microwave bombardment.

Whether these events were staged, or false flagged will never be known..all that is known is that it’s tragic. Tragic what we’ve become. All that matters to the people in the high towers is that people are distracted,while the surveillance state is stealthily deployed, after all never let a tragedy go to waste. If the population of the world dropped their smart devices in the trash and went out and lived a little, the world would be a better place and the high towers would crumble. Until then we slow march into a bleak future devoid of humanity…exactly what the rulers of the rulers want.

Thanks for some sanity in this turmoil Lily.

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Stephen Goldspink's avatar

Wow. Eloquent, illuminating, thoughtful. Food for the soul. Thank you, Lily

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A Horseman in Shangri-La's avatar

Thank you Lily

Love never fails 🌾

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Craig's avatar

I dunno, Lily. There is a relationship between online garbage and real life, and it's not zero.

I wish we would close our accounts, turn off our phones, and sing kumbaya, but that ship appears to have sailed in my world. Your mileage may vary.

Some of this is real. Hard to know how much. I'd argue that at least we're becoming aware of some of our reactions.

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the long warred's avatar

When debate dies… shot in the throat…

Well it can be death rattle…

Or could hypothetically return fire?

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Oliver Driesen's avatar

Bravo! Bravissimo!

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Dana's avatar

Thank you for the clarity of your words in the midst of chaos

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WC's avatar

I little sanity among the insanity. Thank you

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P.M. Szpunar's avatar

I do agree, and thanks for saying it so eloquently. Others have claimed that this was an "alleged" assassination implying, that it hasn't happened or was somehow staged. That crosses a line for me. Making sense of horror is what we should all do. But gaslighting other people that what they saw didn't happen and these horrors don't exist, is too much for me. I'm open to other perspectives and certainly open to evidence, but going on about how this is some stage, I just need to ignore.

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Bridget Cresto's avatar

Best I’ve read on this topic.

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Jim M's avatar

Thank you Lily! This is a wonderful piece of writing and shows a path forward that I could not articulate. I will share it as much as i can .

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Laura Garcia's avatar

We are in the era of the required/mandatory two minutes of hate….essential to being a controlled and pacified subject of the overlords. (1984 reference).

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