16 Comments
User's avatar
The hatter's avatar

Very nice round up, as usual.

I'm curious where you get 40% from:

"We, at least 40% of us by now, are totally rejecting their control narratives"

I basically agree, but I'm curious how you arrived at that number.

Expand full comment
John Day MD's avatar

40% is my impression, and I think it is conservative. It implies a reset of "common knowledge", like what happened after the 1968 Tet Offensive.

It was a process, but it was brewing, then accelerated to a societal-consensus reset after that shock.

Expand full comment
The hatter's avatar

I agree. I was just curios about the methodology. There are a lot of proxies out there, like polls on trust and confiddnce in the media, the growth of political parties opposing the narrative, substack x/twitter, etc.

I also agree with you reply to John above: "I think we are in the rapid phase of consensus change between 28% and 76%, if I might pick 2 numbers out of the air."

Expand full comment
John's avatar

40% would be an improvement. In 2021 or -22 the blogger John Ward (The Real Slog) estimated that one eighth, say 12%, were aware of what was happening.

Expand full comment
John Day MD's avatar

The transition is in process. A determined core could not be budged, and evidence kept stacking in favor of the truths they held to be self-evident, and stuff.

I think we are in the rapid phase of consensus change between 28% and 76%, if I might pick 2 numbers out of the air.

John Ward is not easily fooled, and got out of France before he was completely robbed by the banks, though he was partially robbed, and is nickle-and-dimed-and-ignored in The Gambia, which he chose knowingly.

Expand full comment
Goeff's avatar

We can't even plant our tomatoes yet. I'm jealous as (bleep)!

Expand full comment
John Day MD's avatar

Sorry. You don't want to be here in August, if it is any consolation.

Expand full comment
Thumbnail Green's avatar

Worst drought I've lived through John. Saving for a bore! Never thought I'd say it.

Expand full comment
John Day MD's avatar

I am most sorry that you are going through that "Oxy".

;-(

I hope you can get a good well.

Expand full comment
les online's avatar

More on something that happened 6000-7000 years ago:

http://www.saharasia.org

Expand full comment
Fritz Freud's avatar

Predictive programming: Beneath the Surface

SG-1 S4 E10

An advanced alien city sits in the middle of a planetary ice age. The elements rage around it, but the city remains protected by a giant dome. Deep underground, the working class maintains the systems that power the great city — though they do not even know it exists.

https://fritzfreud.substack.com/p/klaus-schwab-darpa-harvard-elon-musk

Expand full comment
pyrrhus's avatar

The statute of limitations can be extended by copncealment of the crime...It's well known that a majority of the modern European population is descended from three Bronze Age chieftains...That's going to narrow a lot of genetic diversity...

As I've been saying forever, Trump can't make the concessions that Putin requires for political reasons...But he could cut off aid to Ukraine, which he refuses to do, which would rapidly lead to a settlement...His posture is fake...

Expand full comment
John Day MD's avatar

We just don't see who Trump is playing cards with and what their hands are, though we see the Adelsons, and Netanyahu, and so on.

Expand full comment
Tessa Lena's avatar

The Nonviolent Survivor looks happy!! And the tomatoes look like you put a lot of soul into them!

Expand full comment
John Day MD's avatar

The tomatoes with soul are Russian.

I presume your eyes are drawn to the gnarly larger, irregularly colored Crimean tomatoes in the bowl I am holding.

Expand full comment
John Day MD's avatar

"Original Blame", March of last year https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/original-blame carried the Saharasia story. Thanks for the reminder. It fits.

Expand full comment