“It ignited a firestorm on social media”

by Jon Rappoport

September 8, 2021

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PART ONE: THE NEW INTELLECTUALS

Welcome to the show. I’m your host, YouGluer the Magnificent. My guest today calls himself Brad Douchebag. Brad has 1.3 million Twitter followers. So Brad, what’s your secret to success?

Thanks for having me. I scour the web for comments advocating individual freedom of any kind, and I scream against those comments on Twitter. Then my followers pile on with me and create a firestorm.

I see. I’m told you’ve made quite a name for yourself in academic circles.

Harvard offered me a teaching position in their Department of Social Sciences and Data Analysis. I had to turn it down.

Why?

I’ve parlayed my social media presence into a business. I sell cheap Chinese masks online. Managing a business requires a great deal of time and energy. Frankly, Harvard’s offer was an insult. 150K a year…

PART TWO: APOLOGIZE OR STARVE

Joe works for a major corporation. He’s an animal rights advocate.

One day, on his personal Twitter account, he posts the following: “What they do to animals in labs is sheer torture. The lab-thugs poison them to discover a precise dose that kills…”

Social media mavens pick up on this comment. For example: “Joe’s juxtaposition of ANIMALS and THUGS is thinly veiled RACISM. We all know what he really means.”

Two weeks later, the HR person in Joe’s company calls him in. “You’re under attack, Joe. You’re going to have to apologize. Profusely.”

“Nonsense,” Joe says. “I did nothing wrong. People are twisting my words.”

“We know that, Joe. But it doesn’t matter. The company doesn’t care about what you posted. We care about the reaction. Somebody is going to discover you work here. And then they’re going to come after us.”

“Then you tell them my comments weren’t hurtful.”

“It doesn’t work that way, Joe. You have to grovel, or we’ll fire you. You’ll be out in the street. No major company will hire you. You have to apologize, enroll in one of our re-education classes, and sit down with an anti-racist group. We have a list of those groups. You apologize to them—“

“But I’m not a racist.”

“It doesn’t matter now. It only matters what people are saying. Think of your family, Joe. What are THEY going to say when you’re out of work, when you could have saved your job, but didn’t? Do you think you’ll have their sympathy after you flushed 200K a year down the toilet?”

“…This is more serious than I imagined.”

“You bet your ass it is.”

“I’m going to have to become a different person.”

“Now you’re talking.”

“What kind of person will that be?”

“Someone humble, Joe, who seeks forgiveness, who made a serious mistake, who will do everything in his power to atone for his sins. You now realize the pain you’ve caused others.”

“Should I cry?”

“That would be good.”

“I took a drama course in college.”

“Put it to use.”

“What about self-flagellation on camera?”

“With a whip? That would be going too far. People would think you’re crazy. Keep it along the line of, you’re sorry, you’re devastated, and by atoning you hope to set an example for others.”

“Yes, that’s good.”

“We have PR people, Joe. They’ll work with you. They’ll help you craft your new messages, your new persona.”

“I’ll be like a reformed criminal who got religion.”

“Yes. Think of yourself as a prisoner who’s seeking early parole. You’ll do whatever it takes.”

“All right—you pass.”

“Excuse me? What?”

“You pass. My name isn’t Joe. I’m with the Justice Department. In a few weeks, I’m going to resign from my job here with you people and disappear. My unit moves from corporation to corporation, making sure their key people are on board with preferred social trends.

“That’s—I don’t believe you, Joe.”

“I’d advise you to believe me. I really would. I’m not the only DOJ employee on board with your company. We keep an eye on things.”

“No.”

“Yes. We’re in the middle of a vast social experiment. Our goal is changing attitudes. We’re tightening the control system. You’re with us, or you’re against us. ALL humans are wild ANIMALS, biological machines that are mis-programmed from birth. We’re doing the re-programming. We need major corporations like yours to partner with us. Declare vaccine mandates, enforce correct social behavior, and so on. If, for any reason, you decided to oppose what we’re doing, YOU would find yourself out in the street without a job. The resentment of your family would be visited on YOU. YOUR friends would shun you. Am I getting through?”

“…you are. Yes.”

“Good. You’re OK, Bob. You earn a pass. So far. Stay on the straight and narrow.”

“I’m amazed.”

“That’s a normal reaction. It’s a new world.”

“I’ll say. So you have my balls in a box.”

“We do.”

“I’m not sure I like that, Joe.”

“How much you don’t like it is part of the social experiment, too. We want to know how far we can push people.”

“Before what?”

“Before they rebel in great numbers. That’s the ultimate question, isn’t it? When do they stop giving away their freedom for what they think is security?”

“When? How about never?”

“Good. We need people like you. We build our palaces on your backs.”

“Because we’re passive.”

“Bingo.”


And while I’m at it, here is a somewhat related piece, WHEN THE MACHINE-MIND DIED:

From time to time in these pages, I write satire, fiction, even poetry.

Why?

Because I’m a writer.

I’ve been working at it for 60 years. As a writer, I have more than one interest. I lay out what I see along a number of different avenues. I also, God forgive me, employ Imagination—which I know is considered a major crime in some quarters.

HOWEVER, I always make a distinction between fiction and factual articles. How? The CONTENT of the piece clarifies that distinction.

But sometimes…well, for example…

I once wrote a piece about 150 MILLION Americans traveling to Mexico and then coming back across the border as immigrants and going on welfare—and some people believed I was reporting a news story. On top of that, they got up on their hind legs and brayed: “It isn’t true!”

Drugs? Brain damage? The education system?

So…here’s a story about THAT—

DATELINE, JULY 18, 2097: You of course remember the Alice in Wonderland War. Way back in 2056, a government bureaucrat brought suit against Midas Publishing for reprinting the ancient Lewis Carroll novel.

The bureaucrat stated there was no Alice, there was no Mad Hatter. He claimed that to assert the existence of these characters was an affront to the literal mind.

The literal mind, he insisted, was man’s highest achievement. He wrote: “A is A, and can’t be otherwise. The fabrication of A as B or C is an attempt to confuse, subvert, and destroy.”

“In order for universal surveillance to succeed, the citizenry should say what they mean at all times. Metaphor, simile, joke, satire, parody—these constructions confuse algorithms established to detect potential terrorist activity.”

The attorney for Midas Publishing countered with: “The literal mind is an idiot. It wouldn’t recognize a joke or a punchline if they were shoved down its throat. I hereby issue a call to all people everywhere to start lying, fabricating, telling jokes, all day, every day. Stop acting like good little androids!”

Suddenly, it happened. People started enjoying themselves. The joke and the parody and mockery made a comeback. Did they ever. And NSA’s computers went crazy, exactly the way the literal mind collapses in the face of metaphor.

It was, ultimately, a revolution, and enslaved life went right down the dumpster.

Along with the Alice-in-Wonderland War, we all recall another famous turning point in our history—the 2061 Lenny Bruce case. Lenny, a volunteer in a Technocratic SINGULARITY experiment, was hooked up, brain to brain, with the Kurzweil super-computer at MIT, in the first public demonstration of Enhanced Human, a government-funded program.

The assumption was, Lenny would suddenly become a god. The super-computer would load trillions and trillions of pieces of knowledge into his brain, and he would experience an unprecedented expansion of consciousness.

But just before the computer-connection was made, Lenny uttered, “Suppose everything I’m thinking is a series of jokes? Suppose I don’t really mean what I think in a literal sense? Suppose when I think A I’m really meaning Z?”

The experiment was halted at that point and Lenny was arrested by the FBI. He was put on trial for conspiracy to commit an act of terrorism, because, obviously, the whole technocratic premise would fail along all systems of computer-to-brain interaction, if other people took Lenny’s hint.

The bill of particulars against Lenny read, “A violation of the literal…an act of domestic insurrection.”

And then, a hundred thousand Americans rioted at the Federal Court Building and freed Lenny. Remember?

That’s when the machine-mind died…

—And that, dear reader, concludes today’s episode of, “The Overreaching Obsession for The Literal,” brought to you by the Anti-Algorithm Foundation, dedicated to finding honest work for data analysts: repairing sewers, cracked sidewalks, and broken furniture.


Exit From the Matrix

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Jon Rappoport

The author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free NoMoreFakeNews emails here or his free OutsideTheRealityMachine emails here.

17 comments on ““It ignited a firestorm on social media”

  1. THX1138 says:

    This article literally changed my perspective.

  2. Roundball Shaman says:

    “We’re in the middle of a vast social experiment. Our goal is changing attitudes. We’re tightening the control system. You’re with us, or you’re against us. ALL humans are wild ANIMALS, biological machines that are mis-programmed from birth. We’re doing the re-programming. We need major corporations like yours to partner with us. Declare vaccine mandates, enforce correct social behavior, and so on. If, for any reason, you decided to oppose what we’re doing, YOU would find yourself out in the street without a job. The resentment of your family would be visited on YOU. YOUR friends would shun you. Am I getting through?”

    OR…

    ‘We’re in the middle of a vast social experiment. Our goal is changing attitudes. We’re
    breaking free of this ungodly Prison Control System. You’re with us, or you’re against us. ALL humans are DIVINE SPIRITS that were gifted from Our Creator with life and freedom and vitality and potential and creativity from birth. We’re getting back in touch with our original divine programming. We need to remove the scourge of major corporations like yours and all the others that seek to enslave and impoverish us. Ban vaccine mandates, free up social behavior, and so on. If, for any reason, you decided to oppose what we’re doing, YOU would find yourself out in the street without a job. The resentment of your family would be visited on YOU. Or not. YOUR friends would shun you. Or not. BUT THAT WOULD BE THE LEAST OF YOUR PROBLEMS. Am I getting through?’

  3. Paul says:

    OMG !

    “…today calls himself
    Brad Douchebag.”

    I JUST SAW THAT DOUCHE ON CNN LIKE 5 MINUTES AGO

    FLAME ON MAN !

  4. AJ says:

    Great imagination that reflects our present realty. The depth of the hidden assault on our rights is concealed by the dialogue of sophisticated promises to protect you and make life better. Guaranteeing they have the solution to the world’s problems. Once you accept the fraud you become part of the solution to total slavery. I have always imagined myself free and independent which is probably why I have not been intimidated by the continual mountains of threats of death and false information. I have learned to do my own research and use others facts to find the truth. It takes time. But I am still free and independent. As for other’s opinions, not important unless supported by common sense and proven facts. Think for yourself you will love longer.

  5. Bruce Hatcher says:

    Jon — you’re on a roll — like the good now days of the ever present changing now-wow wow

  6. AJ says:

    You can stop much of communist demon-crats agenda by writing and calling your senators and reps everyday demanding that they do not negotiate, compromise, discuss, agree to and flat refuse to discuss any law, act or bill that bankrupt, pork laden for private use, money to other countries and non citizens. Plainly state
    you will vote against them and donate to their opponent. And read the bills thoroughly!!!! This will help stop more fake I formation.

  7. Pam says:

    I see t-shirts and ball caps — Anti Algorithm Foundation.
    I’m in!

  8. Ole C G Olesen says:

    JON — You CLAIM… that the SARS Cov 2 VIRUS does not exist

    I like Your Writings quite a lot… because like You, I am an INDIVIDUALIST… but, I am NOT convinced by Your rhetoric .. even if I am adamantly against the current VACCINE TERROR

    [Two] times I have sent to You by E Mail a QUESTION regarding this NON EXISTENCE with attached Electron Microscopic Pictures of these Virus you claim do not exist… I found the Pictures on line and can I send them and the attached story… again… BECAUSE I would value YOUR COMMENT and ANALYSIS of these PICTURES which are produced in a USA LAB .. If You could find the time and energy to answer me .. You here have my normal E mail address …for a response

    THANK YOU !

    • CK says:

      Please check out some of the videos by Dr. Andrew Kaufman and Thomas Cowan and Stefan Lanka. I’ve seen a few of these E-M pictures. Do they show isolated, intact viruses? The ones I’ve seen NEVER show that- they always show various clumps of viral-like particles, so you know that true isolation wasn’t achieved. The pictures should also be black+white. Otherwise, some CGI might have been used. Even if an isolated virus is shown- has it been proven to actually cause an infectious disease? Our body regularly produces viral-like particles, which are endogenous, not exogenous.

    • BoogeymanSlayer says:

      Ole, perhaps these people can help you with your question. They provide the evidence you seek in this informative video. Money can’t buy the virus because it has not been isolated, no matter what the article you found, states.

      https://www.brighteon.com/08e2ac4b-461e-4852-b8cf-2c2bded2a1ea

    • john-oranje says:

      See Dr. Cowan’s lecture in which he debunks the whole
      sars-cov-2 narrative along with all the other
      supposed contagious ‘viruses’.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_soWxxZtCw

  9. Mann Friedman says:

    “The Overreaching Obsession for The Literal,”

    How about, ‘The Overreaching Obsession of the Liberal”?

  10. Larry C says:

    “I once wrote a piece about 150 MILLION Americans traveling to Mexico and then coming back across the border as immigrants and going on welfare”

    Is that offer still open? 😏

  11. CK says:

    I’ve become “post-pandemic” in my thinking of COVID-19 now since it has NOTHING to do with public health. I regard it mainly as an economic issue now after seeing the Catherine Austin Fitts interview on the HighWire.

    https://thehighwire.com/videos/former-govt-official-financial-system-under-attack/

    I was also shocked recently when I started looking at some investment blogs and I found that several bloggers are fully aware of the current SCAM-DEMIC and they blame the globalists and Davos.

    https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/wef/schwab-how-can-one-many-be-so-powerful/

    https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/conspiracy-theories-coming-true/

  12. ReluctantWarrior says:

    “O Deep Thought computer,” he said, “the task we have designed you to perform is this. We want you to tell us….” he paused, “The Answer.”
    “The Answer?” said Deep Thought. “The Answer to what?”
    “Life!” urged Fook.
    “The Universe!” said Lunkwill.
    “Everything!” they said in chorus.
    Deep Thought paused for a moment’s reflection.
    “Tricky,” he said finally.
    “But can you do it?”
    Again, a significant pause.
    “Yes,” said Deep Thought, “I can do it.”
    “There is an answer?” said Fook with breathless excitement.
    “Yes,” said Deep Thought. “Life, the Universe, and Everything. There is an answer. But, I’ll have to think about it.”

    Fook glanced impatiently at his watch.
    “How long?” he said.
    “Seven and a half million years,” said Deep Thought.
    Lunkwill and Fook blinked at each other.
    “Seven and a half million years…!” they cried in chorus.
    “Yes,” declaimed Deep Thought, “I said I’d have to think about it, didn’t I?”

    [Seven and a half million years later…. Fook and Lunkwill are long gone, but their descendents continue what they started]

    “We are the ones who will hear,” said Phouchg, “the answer to the great question of Life….!”
    “The Universe…!” said Loonquawl.
    “And Everything…!”
    “Shhh,” said Loonquawl with a slight gesture. “I think Deep Thought is preparing to speak!”
    There was a moment’s expectant pause while panels slowly came to life on the front of the console. Lights flashed on and off experimentally and settled down into a businesslike pattern. A soft low hum came from the communication channel.

    “Good Morning,” said Deep Thought at last.
    “Er..good morning, O Deep Thought” said Loonquawl nervously, “do you have…er, that is…”
    “An Answer for you?” interrupted Deep Thought majestically. “Yes, I have.”
    The two men shivered with expectancy. Their waiting had not been in vain.
    “There really is one?” breathed Phouchg.
    “There really is one,” confirmed Deep Thought.
    “To Everything? To the great Question of Life, the Universe and everything?”
    “Yes.”
    Both of the men had been trained for this moment, their lives had been a preparation for it, they had been selected at birth as those who would witness the answer, but even so they found themselves gasping and squirming like excited children.
    “And you’re ready to give it to us?” urged Loonsuawl.
    “I am.”
    “Now?”
    “Now,” said Deep Thought.
    They both licked their dry lips.
    “Though I don’t think,” added Deep Thought. “that you’re going to like it.”
    “Doesn’t matter!” said Phouchg. “We must know it! Now!”
    “Now?” inquired Deep Thought.
    “Yes! Now…”
    “All right,” said the computer, and settled into silence again. The two men fidgeted. The tension was unbearable.
    “You’re really not going to like it,” observed Deep Thought.
    “Tell us!”
    “All right,” said Deep Thought. “The Answer to the Great Question…”
    “Yes..!”
    “Of Life, the Universe and Everything…” said Deep Thought.
    “Yes…!”
    “Is…” said Deep Thought, and paused.
    “Yes…!”
    “Is…”
    “Yes…!!!…?”
    “Forty-two,” said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

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