Geopolitics, Social Engineering & Poisoning the Well of Genuine Social Movements

Observations and analysis of alternative media and the general truth and activism movements over time

I am writing this for very specific reasons but I'm purposely burying the lead because there are some things about my background and things I have personally experienced or witnessed for myself that play a huge part into why I have come to the conclussions that I have and why I am writing this.

Before moved to Norwich, NY 5 1/2 years ago I lived 30 some odd miles away in Oneonta, NY my entire life barring two semesters living in Utica, NY for art school. I was born in 1980 in a college town, one state college, SUNY Oneonta and one private, Hartwick College, full of open-minded, creative people. Both sides of my family are rather large, my mom comes from a family of 11 kids (one a half sister) and my dad a family of 5 boys. My dad was a stoner in the 60s before he met my mom, his childhood best friend was Jerry Jeff Walker and he hitchhiked to Florida in the early 60s. My mom worked in factories starting in her teens at the Oneonta Dress Factory and two of her sisters went to Woodstock. I grew up around a lot of anti-war and civil rights activists, artists and musicians (many of which were in my mom's family), factory workers, and generally a lot of speech questioning the government and their actions. I grew up around people of all different faiths. I went to First Baptist Church in Oneonta, NY. My mom was the church secretary and occasionally played organ. I had friends growing up that were Jewish, Mormon, Jehovah Witnesses, Hindu, Muslim and more. I also grew up around a lot of vets, particularly Korean and Vietnam War vets, some of which were in my own family. Being as such, I grew up in an environment where I heard a lot of government conspiracy talk.

I got into activism at an early age. It started with anti-nuclear proliferation activism having spent my grade school years at the end of the cold war, then environmental activism with seeing what the chemicals from factories were doing to the people close to me, then eventually anti-sanctions and pro-Palestine activism in high school in the 90s. One of my high school English teachers, Ms. Moore, actually paid for my membership to Junior Amnesty International and supported my activities. She was an anti-war and civil rights activist in the 60s herself. Her focus was creative writing and in my senior year of high school 97-98 I had an open computer lab period with students from different classes including Korey Rowe and Dylan Avery who made the 9/11 documentary Loose Change. They were always best friends and they would work on writing screenplays and stories during the period and sometimes we would all switch and read and adit each other's writings. During this computer lab period I would also work on my activist letter writing campaigns with her help and I heard all about how the FBI infiltrated and surveilled acitivist groups in the 1960s and 70s from her. I knew at an early age just how manipulated activism is. I learned about mk ultra in the 90s when Clinton publicly apologized for the radiation experiments, and I was against digital surveillance when Microsoft decided to attempt to sell people surveillance equipment on themselves with the clipper chip. I am not new to any of this.

Fast forward a few years when I was managing a popular new age bookstore and headshop in Oneonta. 9/11 happens. Everything changes. I was attacked for defending Muslims and being against the Afghanistan war. Between leaving my job and going back to college due to injury the US was preparing to go to war with Iraq, which I was against because of my anti-sanctions activism which was heavily against the Iraq sanctions, and before I even had the time to join an anti-war group I was hearing from people in numerous anti-war, 3%er and other groups that the government was already infiltrating them. I stayed on the sidelines while helping where I could. I spoke out against it but I never did official activism. Fast forward a couple more years and my brother hands me a thumb drive and tells me to watch a film a couple buddies of his just made. Imagine my surprise when I see Dylan and Korey's names, especially because my brother was a decade older than me. Most, if not all of us in the Oneonta area and upstate NY in general, knew first responders that went to NYC on 9/11 and worked there for months, a lot of us had friends and loved ones there on 9/11, and some of us had legitimate questions. I got into the research early on, I followed the 9/11 Truth movement from the beginning, and I started noticing infiltration early on. That whole movement went from eyewitness testimonies, real research and legitmate concerns to crackpot theories and a lot of in-fighting. Everyone started chasing their tales so much trying to find out the truth and the whole movement was delegitimized by the popularity of planted evidence and theories while completely missing the point that our government was complicit in destroying our country to go to war for oil and power in the Middle East no matter what the details were. Completely missing the point that the people in power will always be subjugating us.

Around the same time the anti-hydrofracking movement took off in my region as well. I personally knew people that were involved in getting it off the ground. A lot of them were my brother's friends but also just people I knew in the area. I was all for that, I passed things around. And then NYS passed the hydrofracking ban but it was *just* hydrofracking. All the older and just as destructive methods were grandfathered in. Come to find out that the biggest proponent of the anti-hydrofracking movement was a retired oil and gas company CEO that lived in Cooperstown and he was likely protecting his investments in the older technologies.

I could go on but the point is that I've seen infiltration, and I know what it looks like when genuine social movements are infiltrated and made to look bad for the benefit of the state to put greater controls on surveillance and speech, to keep the people divided through arguing about ideology and minutia instead of connecting across ideologies and fighting the real problem, the power structure. We have the numbers, we are the many, and the division, infiltration and distractions are to keep us from taking over what's our's from the few, the greedy and the powerful. I think any average person of any political ideology can agree with that. A lot of us are fully aware of social engineering tactics too. But just because you're aware of the tactics it doesn't mean you're immune to them. In fact, I would say that the people who are aware of it are even more susceptible because they're so sure that they're right about everything and so sure that they would see any manipulation coming a mile away that they fall prey to more subversive tactics. Over the past few years I've watched the alternative media and research sphere turn from legitimate research and concerns devolve into in-fighting, calling everyone they disagree with a Fed, and hurling insults at any group of people they disagree with. So many people in alternative media go on and on about how "normies" are in an echo chamber yet people who consume alternative media and research are doing the same thing to themselves. I WANT to hear different perspectives. I have friends and acquaintances across the political spectrum that I can find things in common with, because all politics are bullshit. We are all human, and we all have the same base wants and needs. I'm not singling any one person out, because this is a problem in the greater alternative media sphere. Instead of sticking with discussing the issue of the people in power in our governments and corporations, people are more concerned over what someone's religion is, their race, what organizations they belong to, etc., when it's an issue with POWER STRUCTURES, and psychopathy, what the lust for money and power does to the individual. Greedy, power-hungry people will ALWAYS co-opt something that starts out as genuine and human-based and twist it to suit their needs. This happens with spiritual movements all the time and our world religions once started out as small spiritual movements, turned into power structures to control the masses. Christians, Jews, Muslims, Wiccans, even Satanists, they're not evil. It's all what the individual does with that information as well as the individuals they listen to and take to heart. I personally know enough Satanists that I can firmly say that almost all of them are basically just spiritual Libertarians. That's it. I have also known some absolutely terrible "religious" people, that use their "faith" to excuse bad behavior.

The same can be said within alternative media too. There are "true believers" that believe they are so right about everything that they use supposed "truth" to excuse terrible behavior towards those that don't believe the same that they do. They're not as open-minded as they claim. The first casualty of war is the truth and we've been in an information war for decades and decades. Perhaps centuries. No one is 100% right about anything. Ever. All we have are ideas and our gut feelings. Any amount of evidence and proof can very well be planted to sway opinions and there is ALWAYS social engineering of all sides. As an example I'll use October 7. We all watched Israel attack Palestinians. A lot of us were and are still angry about that. But the pendulum swung in the complete opposite direction and it's become a thing to blame the Jews for everything. People went from calling out a fascist ethno supremacist state annihilating the local indigenous population and separating people from the actions of their government to blaming everything on the Jews. As someone that started pro-Palestine activism in the 90s I can say that is NOT the problem. I did pro-Palestine activism with Jewish people, and though the occasional “self-hating Jew” slur was thrown at them on occasion it wasn’t common. We made sure to make the distinction that the actions were of an authoritarian apartheid government and not of a whole group of people. It's not the average Jewish person's problem, it's not even the individual Zionist. It's the problem with the power structure and the government. They weaponized a people's intergenerational traumas against them to support a murderous regime. I've watched Jewish people turn from supporting the right for Palestinians to live and thrive on their own land to becoming Zionists buying into the lies of the GOVERNMENT, a hateful political ideology and fundamentalist religious leaders. And it's not just Jews, I've witnessed a lot of Christians turn into Zionists too. Thing is, we've seen the very same thing happen to the American people through war. I watched a lot of people turn into legitimate Islamaphobes after 9/11 because of all the hate generated by the GOVERNMENT and fundamental religious leaders. I watched previously open-minded people turn into legitimate racists because of all the engineered hate that the GOVERNMENT has sewn into our society. As well as genuine homophobia and transphobia. Do I have issues with the social engineering aspects to all the policies pushed and cultural manipulation? And the lies? I absolutely do. But there are people in all these groups that just want to live their lives how they see fit and just want people to leave them alone. Just because you might personally disagree with someone's stance it doesn't automatically make them a bad person. Maybe hear them out and their perspectives before insulting them and screaming you're right and they're wrong. That's not building any bridges but burning them down and playing PERFECTLY into what the social engineers and people in power want. To keep us divided.

My intention isn't to call any one person or community out. We ALL do this. I just want people to really take a look inside themselves, evaluate the things they consume, the people they regularly listen and talk to, listen to their own thoughts and words and ask themselves are these my own thoughts and beliefs or am I just parroting someone else because I like them? And maybe instead of paying attention to what someone spouts off as "truth", try to keep in mind that truth is subjective and judge them on how they treat and speak to others who are different or perhaps just hold some differing opinions. The real judge of a person isn't what they know or how smart they supposedly are but how they treat other people. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. We all hate being judged for our opinions. How about we start treating people that hold differing opinions how we would want to be treated by them for sharing our own? Start interacting with people out of compassion, not out of ego. And start checking yourselves.

If anyone at all recognizes themselves in this, perhaps it's time to evaluate your own actions and behaviors, not to attack me. Again, I'm not singling out any one person in particular because I think it's a prevalent issue. I believe in freedom of speech and freedom of expression. My art collective anartistcollective.com I made for EVERYONE to feel free to express themselves and share their work regardless of political or social leanings. I think the arts are a great connector across ideologies and differences and can expose more narrow-minded people to different ideas they have never considered before. I think everyone should be able to say what they want. However freedom of speech does not equal freedom from consequences. If you treat people like shit and have genuinely hateful and judgmental views, you should be prepared for any backlash. Just as you're allowed to have an opinion and speak your mind, others have the right to do so as well. I don't want to shut anyone down or call anyone out for shitty ass behavior. What I WANT to happen is for people to look inward and ask "what's the common denominator" if you keep getting repeat negative attention. The answer will be within yourself and your behavior. I just want people to stop being such assholes thinking they're right about everything and treat each other with mutual respect. I'm not claiming to be perfect. I'm far from perfect and I catch myself falling into other people's thoughtforms. I also catch myself having terrible opinions of others sometimes out of frustration. But I always try to check myself, my thoughts and my motivations. I ask myself during those times what's my own emotions and thoughts and what are those that are rubbing off on me. I do occasional checks on my consumption of everything. Sometimes the things we think, say and our actions are due to external influence and not who we truly are on the inside. I think more of us need to do this and do so more regularly. There's a lot of cult of personality across the internet across ideologies and we all need to check ourselves from time to time.

I'll leave this here. I don't hate anyone. I might not like hateful, judgmental language, I might hate how some people treat others terribly, but I do see the good in everyone and I just want people to do some self-reflection and treat others better because what we have coming for us, we need to get rid of the divide and connect with our fellow man regardless of differing opinions and ideologies because we have quite the fight ahead of us. Lets not play into the hands of those in power that keep us separated instead of joining together to tear down the system and truly join together in humanity. There is actual manipulation within alternative media and the truth community and there has been for a really long time. Actions, words and behaviors from numerous people and communities are delegitimizing a real anarchist, voluntaryist, and humanist movement. I’m far from the only person who has noticed or said anything, I’ve just kept too quiet for too long because I honestly hate drama and fighting. We should be reaching out to people different than ourselves out of compassion and love, not turning people off with hate, anger and ego. The way to change minds isn’t through force but through understanding. If anyone wants to cut off contact with me after voicing my opinion, that’s your problem, not mine, and it pretty much proves my point of everything I’ve written here. I would prefer for people to actually assess their feelings about anything I’ve said here because I haven’t stated anything besides the truth, and I haven’t attacked anyone. These are just my observations out of love for truth and humanity and I just genuinely want to see people act better and be their best selves.