trying to convince others to up is a demoralizing tactic that can harm your own and others ability to make lasting positive change. Hold on to hope, please understand there are those that working very hard to the problem we face today and as long as their doing the right thing they should be offered every opportunity to create that positive change. Yes, there are real dangers and evil in the world, but relenquishing hope, to give up only benefits the evil, because you honestly believe there is nothing you can do to change it. So, remember hold tightly to hope and never give for in the end we all win, God has already won. God Bless you all!

Black Pills

“Taking The Red Pill” is a cultural idiom from the Matrix where the main character was given the choice to fully awaken to the nightmare around him everyone had lied about or lull himself back into a complacent reality which ignored all of it.

Once people become aware of the scale of problems around them, it frequently leads to a sense of despair, and in time, this hopeless realization began being referred to as “being black-pilled.”

One of the recurring themes in any alternative movement is there will be a black-pilled subset of the group which shoots down any proposal to make things better under the logic such as “it’s futile to ever make things better so if you try to, you’re just getting scammed,” “all the things being proposed are actually distractions to keep us from fixing the real problem,” or “the person proposing this terrible proposal is actually an enemy trying to sabotage the movement.”

Note: a key point often missed by this crowd is that there are a lot of people within the system who want to help and in many cases have spent years waiting for the chance to.

In turn, while initially I was immensely intrigued by understanding the full scale of how twisted the world was, as time went on, I got more and more frustrated by people who only wanted to complain about things but never fix them, so like many others I know who wanted to make things better eventually parted ways with many of those overly black-pilled groups. Likewise, over the years, I’ve known many black-pilled people who’ve complained about everything in the world for decades as their personal life, in tandem, fell apart (despite the issues in it being easily addressable).

Presently, I believe the black-pill is incredibly seductive because it:

•Gives you a way to feel in control of your environment (by declaring it’s hopeless to do anything) and superior to others (by knowing a secret truth they don’t know). Likewise, I believe this validation explains why individuals who believe in a black-pill (or outlandish interpretation of existing data) will be so aggressive in trying to get others to submit to adopting their perspective.

•Emotional and mental patterns are self-sustaining and much more comfortable to repeat than repattern. As such, black-pills have a strong subconscious appeals to individuals with pre-existing trauma or longstanding marginalization (hence causing them to accumulate in marginalized groups).

•Since they rely upon speculative inferences (e.g., that someone we’ve trusted is actually our secret enemy), black-pills are essentially impossible to disprove, and as such, always provide an endless stream of attention-grabbing content for those who need it even if they’ve repeatedly made false allegations in the past.

Note: since this “works” tabloid media (and in some cases the MSM) also often does it.

For all of these reasons, I try to avoid diving into most black-pills, and when I catch myself starting to, I take a step back and inevitably find that tendency is simply an expression of my own current frustration with the world. As such, I instead try to focus on (truthful) things that give people hope and actionable steps to make things better.

Note: people will often be the meanest to those they are the closest to, as it’s a safe space for them to displace their unresolved frustrations without fear of being retaliated against for their hostile behavior (and likewise they can expect to be listened to). In parallel, I find something similar often occurs to leaders in groups.

Next part is wedging, a more well known term for this is divide and conquer. You divide the one one Oregon more issues getting the fighting amongst them selves compete distracted and oblivious to the real threat in there midsts.

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