{"id":81301,"date":"2017-08-17T20:55:12","date_gmt":"2017-08-18T00:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=81301"},"modified":"2017-08-17T20:55:12","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T00:55:12","slug":"this-is-exactly-what-a-total-solar-eclipse-will-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=81301","title":{"rendered":"This is exactly what a total solar eclipse will do"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"post-title\">Americans are Rapidly Descending Into Madness<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>.Michael Krieger | Liberty Blitzkreig<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-46828\" src=\"http:\/\/libertyblitzkrieg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Screen-Shot-2017-08-16-at-11.39.56-AM.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/libertyblitzkrieg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Screen-Shot-2017-08-16-at-11.39.56-AM.jpg 888w, http:\/\/libertyblitzkrieg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Screen-Shot-2017-08-16-at-11.39.56-AM-300x175.jpg 300w, http:\/\/libertyblitzkrieg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Screen-Shot-2017-08-16-at-11.39.56-AM-768x448.jpg 768w\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"175\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t live in an echo chamber, partly because there aren\u2019t enough people out there who think like me, but also because I constantly and intentionally attempt to challenge my worldview by reading stuff from all over the political map. I ingest as much as I can from a wide variety of intelligent sources, picking and choosing what makes sense to me, and then synthesizing it the best I can.<\/p>\n<p>Though I\u2019m certainly grounded in certain key principles, my perspective on specific issues remains malleable as I take in additional information and perspectives. I try to accept and acknowledge my own ignorance and view life as a journey of constant mental, emotionally and spiritual growth. If I\u2019m not growing my capacity in all of those realms until the day I die, I\u2019m doing it wrong. Life should be seen as a battle against one\u2019s own ignorance, as opposed to an obsession with the ignorance of others. You can\u2019t legislate morality, nor can you legislate wisdom. The only way the world will improve on a long-term sustainable basis is if more of us get wise. That\u2019s a personal journey and it\u2019s our individual duty to accept it.<\/p>\n<p>While I\u2019m only in control of my own behavior, this doesn\u2019t mean that the behavior of others is irrelevant to my life. Unfortunately, what I see happening to the population of America right now seems very troublesome and foreboding. What I\u2019m witnessing across the board is hordes of people increasingly separating themselves into weird, unthinking cults. Something appears to have snapped in our collective consciousness, and\u00a0many individuals I used to respect (on both sides of the political spectrum) are becoming disturbingly polarized and hysterical. People are rapidly morphing into radicalized mental patients.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s worse, this environment is providing a backdrop for the most destructive people of my lifetime \u2014 neoconservatives and neo liberals \u2014 to preen around on corporate media as \u201cthe voices of reason.\u201d This is one of the most perverse and dangerous side-effects of the current political climate. As I noted earlier today on Twitter:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What the entrenched political class is doing now, is exactly what the Fed did after the crisis. Posing as saviors to a disaster they created<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Michael Krieger (@LibertyBlitz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LibertyBlitz\/status\/897843251830341632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 16, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is how humans who are dangerous failures stay in power. They claim they&#39;ll help handle a problem of their own doing.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Michael Krieger (@LibertyBlitz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LibertyBlitz\/status\/897843688675713024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 16, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>If in your disgust with Trump, you\u2019re willing to run into the cold embrace of these destroyers of the middle class and the Middle East, you\u2019ll get what you deserve. In contrast, if we really want to deal with our very real and very systemic problems, the last thing we need is a population-level mental breakdown that leads to a longing for the criminally destructive political status quo, yet that\u2019s exactly what seems to be happening.<\/p>\n<p>Ok fine, so everything seems to be rapidly collapsing, but what are we supposed to do? First of all, don\u2019t lose your minds.<\/p>\n<p>As I suggested in February\u2019s post,\u00a0<strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to Why Increased Consciousness is the Only Path Forward\" href=\"http:\/\/libertyblitzkrieg.com\/2017\/02\/10\/why-increased-consciousness-is-the-only-path-forward\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark noopener\">Why Increased Consciousness is the Only Path Forward<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><em>As noted earlier, Wilber thinks 10% is a key tipping point. In other words, if we can get 10% of the population to center around a yellow second-tier level of thought, which consists of a momentous leap in consciousness, the entire world will change for the better. I agree. I\u2019m not here trying to sell you a seminar on how to expand your consciousness; rather, I think these article can\u00a0help spark some sort of revelation in the minds of many of you who are already at yellow, or at least at the cusp of such a transformation. Since consciousness can and does regress under conditions of stress and fear, it\u2019s extremely important to be conscious of your consciousness so that you don\u2019t fall back into lower states.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Unfortunately, I see many people regressing at the moment, and I see the media as an intentional force in trying to get people to lower their consciousness. A perfect way to tell if someone is operating at a low level of consciousness is if they\u2019re constantly placing tens of millions of their fellow citizens into an outside group they subsequently demonize. It\u2019s perfectly fine and healthy to harshly criticize the system itself and the many powerful individuals doing awful things within it, but once you start dehumanizing large swaths of the population\u00a0as a matter of your worldview, you are most certainly on a very counterproductive\u00a0path that will lead to merely a blackhole of nothingness for society.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Beyond maintaining one\u2019s sanity, it\u2019s imperative that conscious humans create systems and communities that have as little connection as possible to the existing and rapidly disintegrating paradigm. This will create \u201canti-fragile\u201d units of strength within the collapsing Potemkin village socio-economic structure that dominates our culture right now. Some of these projects need to be local, while others can be global. Community farming\/food production is a great example of a local initiative, while Bitcoin (and cryptocurrencies in general), represent global initiatives to replace the hopelessly corrupt and archaic\u00a0entrenched\u00a0financial system. While crazy, power-obsessed tribes focus on taking over the hopelessly corrupt centralized government in Washington D.C., we need to continue to build separate, decentralized paradigms \u2014 and there isn\u2019t much time to waste.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, there are plenty of very decent, very conscious people out there. I want this piece to provide encouragement to those of you already engaged in this invaluable work, as well as inspiration for those of you looking for an outlet for your creative and intellectual energies. It\u2019s never been more important to keep our heads steady and not permit ourselves to be sucked into the mental sickness infecting so many of our fellow humans. It\u2019s imperative that we vigilantly guard our wisdom and consciousness, because the best solutions will only come from a place of spiritual and mental health. If you descend into the gutter with everyone else, your output will also end up looking like trash. That\u2019s the last thing we need.<\/p>\n<p>Stay strong and stay conscious.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>If you liked this article and enjoy my work, consider becoming a\u00a0monthly\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/michaelkrieger\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Patron<\/a>,\u00a0or visit our\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/libertyblitzkrieg.com\/support-liberty-blitzkrieg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Support\u00a0Page<\/a>\u00a0to show your appreciation for\u00a0independent content creators.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In Liberty,<br \/>\nMichael Krieger<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/libertyblitzkrieg.com\/2017\/08\/16\/americans-are-rapidly-descending-into-madness\/\">http:\/\/libertyblitzkrieg.com\/2017\/08\/16\/americans-are-rapidly-descending-into-madness\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans are Rapidly Descending Into Madness<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}