Today there is a very high level of certainty amongst the masses; yet little understanding. We have access to more information than ever before in history. Not only do we have access to more information than ever, every one of us carries this access with us everywhere we go. Although we do have access to incredible amounts of important information, we have equal access to massive amounts of misinformation.

We can access more information ‘dropping the kids off at the pool’, sitting on the toilet, than kings and presidents have had access to throughout our thousands of years of human history. Yet, none of us have been properly educated on how to manage this incredible access. We have never been taught the skills of discernment. Most don’t understand the importance of layered research and researching opposing views within any given topic of significance. Critical thinking was not thoroughly taught in our institutionalized education systems.

There was a period of time years ago where I was using WebMD as my personal physician. If I felt any ailments or experienced any skin conditions I would consult WebMD and enact my own diagnosis. Then I would carry on with a high level of certainty that all was well. For me it happened to work out, but that is not a wise way of dealing with potential health problems. How many others out there are doing the same thing and missing serious warning signs from the body, then suffering the consequences?

We used to go see trained specialists when we were facing potentially serious life situations. We used to physically go to the library and check out books written by serious researchers. Today, when we are facing serious life situations we consult Wikipedia. Instead of taking the time to read books written by serious researchers, we watch online influencers who claim to be experts, when in fact they probably watched a 60 second TikTok video on the subject, felt certain about what they watched, and deemed themselves a self-proclaimed expert.

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Even if we are finding accurate information, maybe misinformation isn’t the greatest problem we face. What if the greatest danger is the collective belief that access to information naturally makes us wise?

Information alone does not constitute wisdom. Applied knowledge, trial and error, and expansive research lead to wisdom. The internet is full of individuals who watched a few 45-second videos, read a few comments, and saw a compelling statistic, and are trying to debate other individuals on subjects they have spent decades studying deeply.

Information without understanding is not knowledge. We cannot view information without understanding its context within larger frameworks. We must take the dedicated time to view information from multiple angles and viewpoints to be able to properly discern what our personal opinion actually is. We cannot be wise if we take in information, feel an emotion, then accept that emotional attachment as truth.

The problem is that because we are so inundated with non-stop information from too many sources on any given subject, we have lost the ability to sit with and focus on a single subject.

There is constant data stimulation screaming for our attention, even when we’re not actively looking for it. You sit and try to focus on a subject that you feel is important, and then out of the corner of your eye a message window pops up with an emotionally triggering headline and you emotionally react by clicking it. Now you’re being emotionally pulled into a completely different subject.

Unless we each begin to study, learn, practice, and cultivate our ability to tune out distractions and focus on a single subject long enough to research multiple perspectives, then sit still in contemplation about what we learned, we will be unable to attain true wisdom.

Accessing information is easy. Gaining knowledge takes focus and dedication. Understanding is attained within stillness and needs time to assimilate the knowledge gained. Wisdom requires humility and grace.

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Before the internet changed the world, we were required to dedicate time and energy towards acquiring information. We truly could only focus on one or two subjects at a time. We needed to drive to the library, seek out an expert, or make some phone calls. There was friction involved. Not only did we have to focus on the subject we were researching, we valued the information at a deeper level when we finally found it. When we were able to access new information, we slowed down and spent time with it. We sat with it until we had a sense of personal understanding.

Today we don’t value the information we find in the same way. It is human nature to not value that which does not cost us something of value (time, money, sacrifice). This is why many of us do not truly value much at a deep level.

Today most people embody certain conclusions on subjects before they dedicate any time in attaining understanding. They share their certain opinions with others as fact, even though they have not done any research of opposing views to truly gain knowledge. These same individuals lack the humility to admit they are unsure or do not know. There is great humility in saying “this is my opinion, but I don’t know for sure”; this is a statement deserving of respect.

There seems to be this semi-conscious way of thinking permeating throughout human society that believes that all information belongs to us. I could own a library, but that does not make me well-read. Just as having Google in my pocket does not automatically make me knowledgeable.

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Information does not belong to us. The way we take ownership of that information is to personally connect with it, spend time researching it widely, convert general information into personalized knowledge, and dedicate time towards understanding it. After this process, we will then have a personal bond with the information.

Sometimes you will find an expert who has dedicated 30 years studying a subject speak with a tone of more uncertainty than a novice who has spent three weeks studying the same subject.

The novice speaks with certainty because they have not yet experienced the time to uncover a wide array of new information. The deeper you go into most any given subject the more you discover nuance, conflicting arguments that are both equally compelling, historical context, and are forced to acknowledge many unknown variables.

A true expert, who is strengthened through humility, knows that they don’t know everything within their area of expertise. The novice has learned just enough to generate a feeling of confidence, which without humility can quickly turn into arrogance. Arrogance and wisdom cannot occupy the same space.

In the early days of the internet when most everyone automatically used Google to research subjects, there was still a process for many people to research different aspects of a single subject. Social media completely changed that. Short-form videos changed it even more. Short-form social media takes incredibly complex subjects and compresses them into 30 second sound bytes.

The internet is inundated with “experts” trying to explain Israel/Palestine, Russia/Ukraine, gender identity, climate change, racial tension, religion, political agendas… in less than three minutes. Then millions of viewers are watching these condensed explanations and shaping personal ideologies from them. This is insanity! No wonder humanity is on the fast track towards possible extinction.

The problem isn’t that these short videos are wrong and not sharing the truth. Everything they are sharing may be absolutely true, but these subjects are very nuanced and complex.

We each need to look at these important subjects deeply. We need to humbly watch opposing viewpoints with an open mind. We need to deeply study history from reliable sources, not talking heads telling you what happened. We need to compare information we gain online to our real-world experiences. Most importantly, we need to learn how to embody the humility that says “this is my opinion based on the information I have seen, but I know that I don’t truly know”.

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How many people are carrying absolute hate in their hearts right now towards Jewish people because of the actions of the Israeli government and historical corruption of the Rothschild family? What does any of that have to do with the everyday Jewish citizen just trying to navigate this crazy life to the best of their abilities, just like the rest of us.

How many people are carrying hatred in their hearts towards Muslim people just because of the actions of Muslim extremists? What does that have to do with the everyday citizen who is doing no harm to anyone, just trying to navigate this crazy life to the best of their abilities, just like the rest of us.

I have been personally living in countries the past year and a half that are predominantly Muslim. The everyday people I have met, talked with, shared coffee and conversations with are kind, good human beings. With that being said, from living in these regions, I do believe the religion is dangerous and produces bad fruit. I believe the forceful spread of these ideologies throughout the west is dangerous. However, that does not constitute a reason to hate or discriminate against all Muslim people.

We live in a time of such hatred and prejudice because too many people are forming strong ideologies fueled by unwarranted certainty produced from 60 second sound bytes from charismatic people speaking on subjects far too complex to speak upon on TikTok or YouTube shorts.

The masses of humanity today are algorithmic puppets. The majority of people of all ages across the world have surrendered their free will to reactive clicking on social media and video platforms.

How many people actually use the search bar on a consistent basis anymore? Do most people not just click on whichever options the platform puts in front of them?

The algorithms do not care about accuracy and truth. They profit from engagement and therefore reward compulsory behavior.

The algorithm is much more likely to show you a video with the headline: “Aliens ate my dog. Their crap is on my lawn to prove it”; then a headline from a true expert sharing factual data about potential alien lifeforms.

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Few people actually search for the truth. Most people are looking for information that supports their currently held beliefs. People will gravitate toward confirmation bias to a much greater degree than they will take the time to click on a video that may challenge their present ideology. Social media and video platforms have capitalized on confirmation bias as their primary business model.

As soon as you show the slightest bias in a particular direction, the algorithm will identify your bias and flood your feed with supporting data, viewpoints, and supposed experts who support that bias.

If you are not actively using the search bar to seek out opposing viewpoints you will never know there are opposing viewpoints with compelling data and their own set of supposed experts. Many believe their opinions are right because the algorithm makes it seem like this is what everyone else believes. It’s easy to think “if this is all I’m seeing online, it must be true”.

The real danger is that deep certainty in our beliefs that specific information is truth ultimately becomes our self-identity. Once we subconsciously adopt an identity we will fight tooth and nail to defend that identity no matter how obvious the opposing data might be. Now any contradictory data becomes a threat rather than a learning opportunity.

Then you add the element of the comment sections with tons of people agreeing with you, because they too are only engaging in content that supports their beliefs, and you begin to get false social proof that your personal identity is on the “right side of the subject”.

The challenge with comment sections is that humble people who accept that they may not truly know the truth of these complex subjects, rarely ever post comments. It’s mostly the emotionally immature people who live their lives in a reactive state who have created concrete ideologies fueled by unwarranted certainty who are already typing on their keyboards before they’ve consciously thought about what they’re trying to express and why they feel the way they do.

Socrates said something along the lines of “true wisdom is knowing you know nothing”. This was a core component to his life philosophy. Imagine if we all adopted this philosophy as a component to our self-identity.

There is nothing in this life that says that we are required to have an opinion on everything. There is absolutely no shame in admitting we do not know something. We can still hold value in this world without sharing our unexamined opinions on social media.

You and I will likely attain much greater wisdom with our screens dark than we will with them constantly lit. Once you have attained information, turn off your screen for a while, sit in silent stillness and contemplate what you have learned. Use information to challenge currently held beliefs. Tap into the feeling of humility and ask if you may be wrong about some of your long held beliefs.

Seek truth. Question Everything. Find wisdom within humility and stillness.

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What if you had no limitations? What would your life look like? Imagine if you had unlimited money and resources, infinite time, and unrestricted knowledge. What would you change?

Many years ago when I had my life coaching practice I would often ask my clients these questions. The purpose was not necessarily to create an ideal life. It was to look at what would be different. Once we identify what we would change if we could, we open up a new opportunity to explore what we can actually change.

Something that has always brought me solace is the Serenity Prayer. I just became a believer in Jesus Christ and a loyal servant to God a couple of years ago. Even when I doubted whether there truly was a God or not, this prayer brought me peace.

The prayer asks God for serenity. However, even if you take God out of the equation and rely on your own mental faculty you can choose to accept the things you cannot change and summon the courage to change what you can. You can pray to God to grant you the wisdom to know the difference or you can decipher the difference through thoughtful analysis.

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The Serenity Prayer is a cornerstone to Alcoholics Anonymous and its subgroups. You do not need to be a substance addict to benefit from the philosophy at the heart of this prayer. You do not need to approach it as a prayer. Before a couple of years ago I connected to it as a life philosophy more than a prayer to God.

After surrendering my life to Christ I have very deeply experienced that our connection to the Holy Spirit for wisdom is far superior than relying on our own understanding. I understand and accept that many people are not ready to take that step into true faith. I believe it’s important to meet people where they’re at. If you are someone who chooses to navigate life through your own mind alone, this life philosophy can still be very beneficial.

If you had no limitations in your life, what would you change right now? I encourage you to make a list. Write down everything you can think of. Make two columns: things you would not change in one, and things you would change in the other. Take some silent focus time and sit with that list. Analyze it with focused intention.

When you analyze the column of things that you would keep the same, ask your subconscious mind how you can make those things even better. If your marriage is something you would not change, how can you make it even better? Your relationship with your children? Your home? Your career? Whatever you are currently happy with, how can you more fully embrace it in your daily life?

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As you analyze the column of things you would change, really sit with this side. Don’t rush. You may need to sit with this side several different times over a few days or weeks. The important thing here as you decipher what can or cannot be changed is to look at each item from multiple angles.

We all have limiting beliefs and blind spots in certain areas of our lives. If we are not careful we can misidentify certain areas. We may look at something and immediately think we cannot change that. If you are diligent and patient, you will often find that this is not necessarily true. Your subconscious conditioning may be filtering the lens you are viewing the situation through.

The greatest way to find your way to a clearer, more objective perspective is through questioning. When you ask clarifying questions it is the natural imperative for an answer to eventually come. Whether you believe this answer to come from your subconscious, your higher self, the universe, or the Holy Spirit does not matter. What matters is starting the practice and paying attention to the results.

These answers may come as an intuitive feeling in your gut, a subtle whisper or loud voice in your head, or a song lyric, message on a billboard, or something another person says in conversation. Regardless of how the answer is delivered, you will often feel some kind of a spark or consciousness shift.

Slowly moving through your list of things you would like to change, spend ample time on each item. Ask different questions and do your best to view the situation from multiple angles. Ask: how can I see this from a different perspective?

As you move through the list, and find items that you truly cannot see any realistic way to change them, cross them off your list. When you have completed the process all that should remain are things that you believe you can change in some way.

Now go through each item. Again, take this process slowly with thoughtful intention. Start asking questions again. Start asking: how can I shift this? What resources are necessary? What necessary resources do I presently have access to? How do I acquire the missing resources? Do I need help from other people? Who? What can I offer them in return? And on and on.

When it comes to transitional questioning you must see this process as an onion. Allow each question to peel away another layer of discovery. Do not allow one or two questions to be enough. When you think there are no more questions to ask, then ask: what other questions can I ask to reach empowering solutions?

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Most of us are not living our ideal lives. The reality is, even if we did somehow design and manifest our perceived ideal life it would not fulfill us. For many, they need to get close to living what they think they want in order to consciously understand that it won’t fulfill them for the long term. If not, this ideal stays within their consciousness like an annoying pebble in their shoe making their walk through life even more uncomfortable. The process explained above can be a powerful tool to help you get closer to what you believe your ideal life would be.

Personally, years ago, I used this process multiple times. I have manifested much of what I thought I wanted throughout the years. None of it provided the fulfillment I thought it would because it was mostly fueled by ego desires and corrupted subconscious conditioning.

Today, I operate from a very different space. I have no goals. I have no lasting thoughts or feelings of “I wish this or that was different”. Not to say that these thoughts and feelings don’t exist within me. They do. They are just quieter than they once were, and they are infrequent and short-lived when they arise. My current life is very far from the ideal life that my ego has desired; yet I am more content than I ever have been.

From my personal experience of being someone who spent years studying, practicing, and improving proficiency in metaphysics and personal growth success tactics to create the life I wanted, and being fairly proficient in creating a pretty cool life for myself, none of it brought true fulfillment. I did not experience true inner peace and contentment until I surrendered my “I want” life philosophy to “what does God want for me”.

This shift has led me away from what the world considers successful and into a life that would be perceived by most as quite the opposite of success. Yet, I feel more successful than I ever have because I am no longer living for myself and trying to pursue happiness.

There is great peace in allowing the Lord to lead me into His purposes and coming to the places where He is guiding me to do what I truly do not want to do. Time and time again I face a past version of myself and transcend the old self to continue participating in the Divine process of becoming what God created me to be, rather than what society says that I should be.

I don’t think I could have come to this place of surrender if I did not spend ample time pursuing the desires of my ego and succeeding in accomplishing them. Oftentimes we must experience what we think that we want to truly understand that it is not what is best for our soul and higher good.

Many will not be able to access the humility necessary to surrender until their pride has been beaten to a pulp. Continuously chasing the ego’s desires is a great formula to beat the crap out of your pride over time. However, some’s pride is too well fortified and will keep them apart from true peace and contentment throughout this physical existence. Others who are presently ruled by pride will one day experience the inner freedom found in humility.

If you are still ruled by pride, I pray that your breakthrough into humility is coming soon. It is only within humility that we access true inner peace and contentment with what is.

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Paul Simon was inspired with these song lyrics while he locked himself away alone in his bathroom. The intention and purpose of his lyrics and the way they inspire me are different. When Paul Simon wrote The Sound of Silence, it was inspired after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The song reflects how people had become unable to communicate with each other emotionally and authentically. The American nation was collectively feeling strong emotions related to the tragedy and he felt these emotions were being silenced within polite society.

When I reflect on these lyrics, I see a dream of an ideal society. A society that respects and embraces the powerful sound of silence. A society that can sit together in empathy talking without speaking, hearing without listening, and writing the rhythm of their soul without ever vocally singing it. Imagine if instead of ten thousand, ten million could collectively embrace silence together.

Lately I have been very cognizant of how noisy the world is. This is not the first time I’ve been acutely cognizant of this fact, it’s just capturing my attention again. I used to think it was just the United States and western technologically dependent countries that existed in this constant noise. Now I have lived the past year and a half outside of the U.S., in Albania, Greece, and now North Macedonia; it is no different in these countries either. In a few weeks I will be moving to Romania for a while and I’m sure it will be all the same there as well.

Everywhere you turn there are people remodeling homes that don’t need remodeling, streets being uprooted that were perfectly functionable, and all other unnecessary drilling, hammering, and loud motorized engines.

Then you have the low intelligence, simpleton morons who disturb their neighbors while blasting loud music from their homes and cars. You have the completely unself-aware idiots talking loudly on their cell phones in coffee shops and restaurants. I love these fools who sit in the middle of coffee shops doing business video meetings without headphones, so that their correspondents are on speaker for the whole place to hear. This is on par with the numbskulls walking through the grocery store having phone conversations on speaker phone.

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If it feels like I am going on a rant, it is because I am. I am fed up with the senseless noise of the modern world. There are people doing atrocious things in this world that ought to be eliminated. But when my mind goes to those dark places, it’s not the war mongers and luciferian overlords that I think about eliminating, it’s the everyday person that causes unrest and disruption within the lives of others on a regular basis. These are the people that require me to rely on many hours of prayer to remain in the light. Because when I don’t pray enough I see masses of humanity as a cancer on this beautiful earth.

Noise creates disruption. Noise fuels this anger and rage. This diatribe I am spewing right now is the result of consistent noise in this Macedonian apartment I’ve been living in for the past month and a half. I haven’t been able to hear my own thoughts to write anything in almost a week; this writing is all I’ve got available to me.

There are many reasons why we are collectively stressed, anxious, and on edge so often; the lack of silence in our personal lives and collective environments are a big part of that.

The other day I was out walking alone searching for a quiet environment where I could sit and write. There was nowhere. Every coffee shop, restaurant, and grocery store has music playing. Have you noticed that? You cannot go anywhere in public that does not have the noise of music or television.

Here in Skopje, North Macedonia, there is this wonderful area that has maintained its old architecture with statues everywhere of historical figures from all important industries. There is a wonderful spot with a giant statue of Alexander the Great on top of a beautiful fountain with carvings of his soldiers supporting Alexander. Surrounding this statue are buildings of old European and Greek style architecture. Then in the middle of this beautiful historic area is a giant screen visually and audibly broadcasting non-stop commercials 24/7.

The fact that we have music playing in every public business we walk into is not good. Most of it is modern mainstream music. Even here in the Balkans it’s mostly American pop or rap music playing. Music is one of the most powerful sources for programming the subconscious mind. Repetitive lyrics delivered in rhythmic tone is a form of hypnosis. Think about the lyrics embedded within modern mainstream music. It is filled with messages of promiscuous sexuality, heartbreak, superficial ideologies, and anger. In addition, the standard tuning frequency for most modern mainstream music is 440 Hz. 440 Hz is shown to cause anxiety and stress within people. Thank you Mr. Rockefeller.

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I don’t know how we escape the constant noise of this modern world, but I know that we need to for our personal and collective well being. We find healing in silence. We find higher wisdom and inner guidance within silence. Inner peace is cultivated within the silence. You and I must as much as possible choose silence when we are able. Choose to not turn on music or the podcast. Choose to read in silence rather than watch TV. Choose to go for a walk when your home environment is being invaded by construction or dipshit neighbors. We must as often as possible choose silence when we can. The more we embrace the beautiful sound of silence the better we will feel and the wiser we will act.

As a collective society we have become addicted to escaping from ourselves. For most, it feels almost like torture to sit in silence and just be. We are becoming less and less resilient in dealing with our authentic thoughts and feelings. As soon as we feel the slightest mental or emotional discomfort, we turn on the music, the podcast, the streaming shows, the sports, or start hammering and drilling something in the garage.

We must learn to sit with and face our internal discomforts. It is only in facing our internal angst that we may ultimately transcend it. As long as we consistently avoid our thoughts and feelings the anxiety will never disappear, it will only grow under the surface like an ignored tumor.

Life without silence is like an ocean without water; it is something else entirely. Life is truly experienced in stillness. How can we truly experience life when we are unable to truly experience ourselves. How can the ocean know what it is to truly be an ocean when it exists as a desert. The waters of life are found in the flowing streams of silent solitude; constant noise leaves us dry and desolate.

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The modern age of constant artificial noise is a new phenomena for the human species. For most of human existence silence was the norm. We didn’t have automobiles, power tools, cell phones, laptops, radio, and television. People went for long walks, worked in the fields, sat around fires together as a family talking. There were no constant pings from notifications, 24/7 news coverage, music available at deafening decibels, binging shows, and virtual conversations being held through loud speakers in public places. The human mind collectively developed within an abundance of silence. Is it any wonder that we are seeing a growing number of morons in everyday society?

Most people are exposed to noise, rather voluntarily or not, from the moment they awaken to the time they fall asleep. For some, like myself recently, they are awakened by the noise of others. For some, they are unable to sleep at a healthy time because of the noise of others. Whether we are purposefully exposing ourselves to constant noise from dawn to dusk or not does not matter. Noise is being forced upon us and the brain responds accordingly. We are naturally feeling uncomfortable within any moments of silence because the brain is becoming wired to expect continuous stimulation.

Our subconscious minds are continuously forming new neural pathways from the over stimulation of different messages feeding it new information from background music lyrics in grocery stores, restaurants, coffee shops and our jobs, news broadcasts in our restaurants and hotel lobbies, and constantly watching short form video content on our phones whether at home, work or walking down the sidewalk. Your brain is continuously being fed new data throughout the day everyday. The brain has no time to rest, it is constantly being stimulated. No wonder all day brain fog is the new norm.

Because most people have allowed themselves to be continuously inundated with noise, the withdrawal from constant noise into prolonged periods of silence can feel painful. When we withdraw from the world’s noise and enter personal silence, we are faced with internal realities that we have not prepared ourselves for. Old memories emerge. Guilt and shame from unaddressed choices we’ve made show up. Our lack of purpose in life becomes prevalent. Unresolved trauma begins to torment our psyche. People avoid the silence because of what is revealed within it. The sound of silence is not always what we want to hear.

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I think the collective noise of society shows us how many of us have become addicted to escaping ourselves. We have collectively abandoned internal truth to immerse ourselves into the false world of illusion. The illusion is constructed with disruptive noise and mindless distractions. Prolonged silence dissolves the veils.

To face the harsh realities of the inner truths we have been running from will require patience and inner strength. First we must practice sitting silently with our emotional pain, shame, and anxiety. We can do this incrementally. Start with committing yourself to three minutes in absolute silence. Grab this time when you can. When you find those moments when the world’s noise has taken a brief pause, practice silencing your own inner noise for a few minutes. As you become more comfortable in this silence, and begin to build resiliency in facing your inner anxieties, extend the time to ten minutes. Then 15, then 20, then 30, then 45, then an hour.

Though silence was once our collective normality, now it has to become a personal practice. Imagine the wonder and personal potential you may discover over time by embracing the sound of silence in your own life. Ssshhhh…

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Data centers have been quietly being built all around the United States for the past several years. Most of us haven’t paid much attention. Recently however, some aggressive proposals have captured the attention of the national populace.

Data centers first came into my awareness and were a major concern for me almost 20 years ago. Back then my concerns were different than the many concerns most people, including myself, have today. I was not considering AI or the limited land resources and energy these massive operations consume. My only concern was that our personal data that has been illegally collected was being stored there, and profiles were most likely being put together on all American citizens. The coming digital ID and mass surveillance state has always been my chief concern.

Today is a very different picture. The early developers and visionaries of these data centers I’m sure had already envisioned what they would be today. I had no clue.

Though this article is largely focused on what is being built throughout the United States, this affects you anywhere you are living. Here is some projected growth stats in other influential countries:

The United Kingdom currently has over 520 data centers and is projected to grow by 20% through 2030.

Canada is projected to increase the number of operational data centers by 14% through 2030.

Australia is predicted to grow at an almost 6% compound annual growth rate through 2034.

India is projected to grow by a staggering 500% through 2030.

China, which currently has about 120 less data centers than the UK, is projected to grow at about 18% per year.

The United States is projected at a 14% compound annual growth. This percentage looks small compared to China and the UK. Considering the U.S. currently has close to 4,000 operational data centers, you can do the math.

Why is the United States building all of these data centers? The mainstream narrative from our government and billionaire developers is that we are in a tight competition with China in an AI arms race. Okay?

The United States currently has close to 4,000 operational data centers. China has around 369, according to datacentermap.com/china. I’ve already shared the projected annual growth rates. Is this a “tight competition”?

Keeping an eye on China’s AI capabilities, especially militarily, is absolutely of national importance for the U.S. I’m curious though, looking at these numbers, how we justify the hardships put upon so many American citizens from the building of thousands of massive data centers, some the size of small cities, across the country; while at the same time we are expending tremendous military resources and tax payer dollars in a war that doesn’t appear to help the American people at all.

I will come back to my thoughts on why this massive data center expansion is actually happening. First, let us look at the impact these centers are having in the lives of everyday Americans.

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I want to make sure to say that I am not saying we don’t need data centers. Unfortunately, it seems we are at the point of no return in regards to AI, cloud storage, and the internet being the backbone to society.

If I had it my way, I would destroy the internet, cell phones, AI, and most modern technology. Send the whole world into chaos, separate the chaff from the wheat, and rebuild society from the ground up. As horrible as that would be, I feel it’s a whole lot better than what humanity will be 100 years in the future.

However, as in most aspects of life I don’t get my way. So I, and we, must navigate the world as it is. And technology is the dominant player in this life. Soon AI will be the dominant species of this world. We have gone past the point of doing away with AI. There is a much greater probability of AI eliminating humans than there is humans eliminating AI.

Though to function as a society we do need data centers, we do not need the massive scale that is already built and being quickly added to. And when I say “we”, I mean we the people. There are about 1% of humans, possibly they’re human, that do need thousands of data centers.

Again, I will come back to why I believe these psychopaths need more data centers than human populated cities shortly.

To me, the issue of contention is not the building of data centers. We need a certain amount of data centers to support our technological existence. There is a vast difference though between what we need to function as a society and what is well beyond that. For me, the issue is the complete disregard of the well-being of humans and the earth that sustains us.

If the message wasn’t clear before, it certainly is now: you and I don’t matter in the eyes of the wealthy elite. The masses of humanity have always been seen as beasts of burden by the elite few. They have needed us here to work the jobs, build the systems, and maintain the infrastructure that supports their gilded existence.

What happens when AI robots replace most of the human workforce? They already show great disdain for us now. How do they treat us when they no longer depend on our labor?

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More than 2000 years before the birth of the Messiah, a Godless nation was built to control the minds, bodies, and souls of mankind. From Nimrod to Nebuchadnezzar, the Babylonian system was formed and perfected. The spirit of this syst…

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From ancient Babylon to Rome, the few have controlled the majority through covert tactics in plain sight. This has not changed; it has only become more systemized, effective, and widespread. Kings and emperors oppressed and controlled their nation without revolution because the majority did not fully understand they were being oppressed and controlled. Today, invisible emperors use the same tactics to control multiple nations simultaneously across the globe.

No matter which part of the world you live in, you are living in Roman Babylon. There are a few nations that are honest and open about their oppression, where proud dictators make it clear that citizens obey or perish. Most nations’ leaders are controlled by shadow puppeteers who orchestrate systems of control from the cover of darkness.

Babylon and Rome shared some similarities in their methods of control; however, their primary focus differed. Though we see both systems at play today, the Roman system has domination over the majority of the masses in a way that the Babylonian system of cultural immersion and spiritual deception affects pockets of people; a prime tool for dividing and conquering.

Rome ruled the majority without much opposition through pleasure and distraction. Today, shadowy globalist emperors continue to subdue and control the citizens of most every nation through panem et circenses. This is a Latin term coined by the first-century Roman poet, Juvenal, meaning “bread and circuses.” The Romans would provide food and entertainment to keep their citizens passive while they carried on with corruption and self-serving interests in the background.

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The human mechanism has been studied for thousands of years. I would imagine this exploration of understanding who we are stemmed from a natural curiosity. At some point long ago, the intentions shifted towards learning how we operate so that we can better be controlled. The Babylonian empires focused on using this knowledge to systematically change people’s personal identities. The Roman empires used this knowledge to numb its citizens to their identities. Today, both systems are in full effect. When you strip a person of consciously choosing and connecting to their self-identity, you strip them of their sovereignty.

The Roman rulers understood if they could overstimulate the people’s survival brain mechanisms, they would not have as natural access to the higher processing regions of their brain. The survival brain, the oldest regions, crave certainty, safety, and pleasure. This part of the brain prioritizes comfort over truth. It is the newer regions of the brain that desire complexity, truth, critical thinking, and can embrace constructive discomfort.

Roman rulers would satisfy these basic desires by providing bread and other cheap food. The citizens had certainty and knew that their safety was being met by being fed. As the Roman government made it difficult for its citizens to provide their own means to consistently feed their families, they provided free food, similar to modern food stamps or EBT cards. To receive this food though, you had to come to the gladiator events.

At these spectacular events, not only were they fed, they were also entertained. The government fed its citizens’ desire for pleasure through spectacular entertainment. As the people enjoyed their free bread, they sat and watched a variety of entertainment, including bloody gladiator fights.

There was certainty for the people that they would be fed and entertained because these events filled anywhere from one third to one half of the year, often scheduled around political events that needed to be covered up. Sometimes these festivals would last several days or weeks at a time. As long as the government consistently supplied the means to satisfy the people’s certainty, safety, and pleasure, the citizens did not possess the drive to overtly question or oppose the government’s actions, despite obvious corruption.

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Ancient rulers have long understood how the brain works. They may not have had the scientific understanding that we do today, but they understood from thousands of years of observation and documentation how to activate the desired cause and effect outcomes they needed for serving their agendas. This ancient knowledge has passed through mystery schools to their initiates, and still does today. To rise to a position of power, you have always needed to go through these rites of initiation to receive the true secrets of power.

They may not have understood the specifics of how dopamine works, but it was working just the same. Dopamine drives us to seek rewards. These rewards may be a sense of accomplishment, nourishment, or pleasure. The bread and circuses system of control creates dopamine loops within the brain. Our brains reward novelty, stimulation, and quick hits of pleasure. This is why so many men get addicted to watching sports, and women get hooked on reality TV (yes, some women love sports and some men get hooked on reality TV also). The people subconsciously understood that by showing up to these events their brain’s reward circuits would be satisfied. Repetition solidifies certain functions within the brain, so it would start producing dopamine in anticipation of the next festival.

With the consistency of these events year after year, the Roman citizens became neurologically wired to avoid stillness, avoid deep thinking, and consistently seek stimulation. Sound familiar?

Deep thinking expends energy. Mindless distraction is quick and easy with no need for mental energy to be exerted. The food and distraction loop conditions the brain to lessen its cognitive load capacity. As this behavior becomes the new internal operating system, the brain defaults to surface-level engagement, passive consumption, and emotional reactions. Over time, the mental capacity for critical thinking and deep contemplation erodes.

The purpose of this essay is not to share a history lesson on Roman manipulation. The purpose of this essay is to hopefully illuminate the fact that nothing has changed.

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Globally, most of us are addicted to bread and circuses more than Roman citizens ever were. The strategy of feeding our most basic needs and pleasures, while keeping us distracted with mindless and violent entertainment, is infinitely more prominent than it was two thousand years ago. They no longer need us to travel to the festivals. We carry the entertainment with us everywhere we go in our pockets. We don’t need to attend events for cheap food. There is a fast food restaurant on every other corner, and we can have it delivered directly to our homes.

We are inundated with fast food, mobile entertainment, and instant gratification everywhere we go. We have collectively become internally numb, externally dependent, and unhealthily comfortable. Most humans of the modern age are completely disconnected from and numb to their true authentic identity. Many believe themselves to be intelligent and wise, as they’ve consumed a plethora of misinformation and deceitful propaganda.

Civil discourse has been eliminated and replaced with self-righteous outrage. The media outlets, schools, and politicians we have been conditioned to trust as our primary sources of truth are now the most corrupt sources of purposeful disinformation.

Modern panem et circenses has us feeling safe and comfortable in a global environment that is volatile, dangerous, and quite the opposite of comfortable.

There is a saying that if you want to boil a frog, you cannot drop it into a pot of boiling water because it will immediately jump out. Instead, you gently place the frog into a pot of comfortable room temperature water. Then you very slowly turn up the heat. The frog will naturally adapt to the increased temperatures, remaining comfortable at ever more dangerous temperatures. Eventually, the frog will stay comfortably in the water until it ultimately boils to death.

We are the frogs that were born into the room temperature water. As we grow older and enter adulthood, while at the same time the shadow masters slowly implement new stages of their plan for global control, the water temperature is slowly being turned up. As we feel the discomfort of the higher temperatures, we subconsciously react to create comfort within the new environmental conditions. As the temperature is slowly turned up, we slowly increase our dependency on chemically enriched foods, alcohol, marijuana, prescription and otc meds, binge-watching shows, video games, porn, shopping, celebrity idolatry, promiscuity, traveling (escaping), relationship drama, social media outrage, political party loyalty, defending false identities, and all other matters of dopamine-addictive behavior. To me, it feels like the collective boiling point is near.

How can you personally begin to break free from your addiction to bread and circuses?

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