Purity is for my inner-most sanctum. I do not wish to soil my personal sanctuary by invitation. I dislike many forms of social media. I dislike their algorithms that drive content that defiles my personal peace. I do enjoy a good discussion where there is common vernacular sufficient to provide for mutual understanding. SubStack has plenty of trash, but it also has gems, some raw and uncut and others superbly polished. I am thankful I have found a place to engage and dialogue; I learn from this. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter (X)… not the roads of Caesar’s Rome, but the bloodied colosseums of rigged entertainment along the paradigm of Fox News.
Your stance and foundation is inspiring. The evidence for hijacking the opponent's tools and using them to successfully overcome it is undeniable. A "recent" example is China reverse engineering technologies in order to learn, copy, improve, and build its own path forward.
Overall beautiful essays: philosophy, artworks, use of language, and critical thinking. Continue please to fight and bring hope. ❤️
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This lands because you’re naming a real failure mode most “resistance” spaces never examine: purity as disappearance.
The Roman road point matters because infrastructure is never neutral, but it’s also never fully owned once it exists. Empires build pathways to move control efficiently — and then discover those same pathways move meaning just as fast, and with far less permission. History is full of examples where belief outran power on roads meant for legions.
The key distinction you make — terrain vs. trap — is crucial. Withdrawal doesn’t starve the machine; it simply vacates the ground where perception is actively being shaped. That’s not integrity, it’s forfeiture.
I also appreciate the Bunker vs. Triage Tent framing. Messy rooms aren’t proof of failure — they’re proof of contact. You don’t measure a hospital by how healthy the waiting room is. If the already-deprogrammed are the only ones allowed in, nothing actually changes.
Your stance on paywalls and class is another important signal. Keeping core work public while letting paid space function as a workshop avoids the priesthood model that’s hollowed out so many movements. “Subscription vanguardism” is a real rot, and it’s refreshing to see it named plainly.
One thing I respect is that you don’t romanticize the algorithm — you acknowledge it as hostile terrain that still has to be crossed. That honesty matters. Using the roads doesn’t mean pretending the empire isn’t taxing the journey; it means accepting the cost without surrendering the destination.
This isn’t collaboration.
It’s traversal under fire.
That’s how ideas actually spread — and why purity movements tend to evaporate while insurgent ones leave residue behind.
Dialogue is crucial. I try to advance the use of a winner doesnt take all primary that would foster intaparty dialogue and a reduction yet retention of the power assymetry between centrists and activists within a major party.
I see you, David. The forge is busy today! I agree that structural mechanisms (like how we handle primaries) are part of the 'Rust' we eventually need to scrape off. But right now, the focus is on the terrain—using the platforms we have to even start that conversation. We can't reform the party if we've already ceded the battlefield by logging off."
You know better. Back in the very beginning a couple of times I wondered, are they right? They seem so sure of themselves and anyone can twist anything into a bit of a reasonable point of view. But don’t fall for it, they know they’re wrong.. they just don’t want to be exposed and they’re using everything and anything. We know now, they only mean to confuse, and they are not right. Don’t give into their bully strategies. They know one thing, that good & decent people will admit they’re wrong or believe you when you tell them they’re wrong, at least long enough to find out more information and by then they have moved on and are doing more damage.
Use The Platform Just check your Consciousness Not Easy But the Real Game Inside The Self Awareness! Anger sadness etc they the game win!!! Rise above it What we focus on We Create!!! LLL
I wanted the messy ones too, I broke the mould in one article and became partisan with a Robin Hood rewrite for the online right, I promptly lost even good real world friends who were of opposite opinions to me but starting to question, and reading my stuff. I enjoyed writing it though. Ultimately I decided I am not a gun for hire and times are challenging, sometimes it is time to pick a side. I love the triage tent idea, not lock the wanderers or wounded out. Are the war though, I thought it was a well known principle to use the enemies rope to hang them
Like always you’re only a piece of the conversations that you wanna be a part of. This conversation was deeper than just a single one off like that and I actually did talk about sub stack. Thanks for your participation though. I appreciate you being here.
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That thesis is much my own. One of the less discussed and more harrowing ghettoes of the online word is queer space—which has a very interesting history and pre-dates all current forms of social media. Things took a slow motion nose dive in the early 00’s when queer social networking went from activism to hookups with no transition time whatsoever, we where corralled, like it or NOT into the meat market (and what’s NOT to like really?) Yet, a queer community cannot thrive on hypersexualitly alone, head over the app store and search ‘gay’ — it’s the shinny thing syndrome and it is killing us.
And yet the alternatives are what?
Given what you’ve outlined, clearly if we believed at our core that there was no inherent underlying unused value which is be essential to the health, wealth and well being of those we will hand off this fight to—It would not be worth the effort.
We will not be cooked. I am going strong on substacks now. Plus the resistance is now aware.
Just a matter of time before the
Bubble theory = NOO SHERE
Concept is understood
Ideas can pass thigh the internet on different platforms the world over 🌍
Without resistance. NOO SHERE. Google it.
We live in one.
Now share the picture and the rest will fall into place as our minds link and join in a common idea.
The environment changed. 150 years ago - 5000 years ago - We are gifted with abilities.
Today we are simply overstimulated.
Research INNUIT TRADITIONS. RESEARCH AUTISM. RESEARCH ADHD. CROSS REFERENCE TO CURRENT MEDICAL RESEARCH.
END RESULT A RESEARCH PAPER
ADD CROSS REFERENCE TO REDDIT NEURODIVERGENT FORUMS. END RESULT A QUESTION BANK. A RESEARCH PAPER.
ADD SPIRITUALITY. CROSS REFERENCE TO CURRENT SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH DATA. END RESULT A RESEARCH PAPER.
ADD DEFINE NEURODIVERGENT MIND. DEFINE NEUROTYPICAL MIND. COMPARE PREVIOUS RESEARCH. TOP TO BOTTOM. BOTTOM TO TOP. SIDE BY SIDE.
ADD CROSS REFERENCE AND VERIFY DATA TO SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH. INCLUDE A REFERENCE LIST 100 SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH PAPERS LONG.
END RESULT A PDF FILE
ADD TO RESEARCH A MARKETING CAMPAIGN. INCLUDE A PROBABILITIES MODEL. INCLUDE A LIST OF PUBLIC COMPANIES THAT WILL SUPPORT SAID RESEARCH. INCLUDE PUBLICLY AVAILABLE EMAIL AND CONTACT INFORMATION FOR 100 ORGANIZATIONS.
END RESULT A DATABANK OF CONTACTS
ADD BUILD A WEBSITE FOR PREVIOUS RESEARCH. PURPOSE IS PUBLIC AWARENESS CAMPAIGN TO BE SENT TO DOCTORS AND FEDERAL GOVERNMENTS
(Now here is your key. Share it and build a platform for all of us gifted minds to use. Your contacts. Your brilliance will now be known.)
Purity is for my inner-most sanctum. I do not wish to soil my personal sanctuary by invitation. I dislike many forms of social media. I dislike their algorithms that drive content that defiles my personal peace. I do enjoy a good discussion where there is common vernacular sufficient to provide for mutual understanding. SubStack has plenty of trash, but it also has gems, some raw and uncut and others superbly polished. I am thankful I have found a place to engage and dialogue; I learn from this. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter (X)… not the roads of Caesar’s Rome, but the bloodied colosseums of rigged entertainment along the paradigm of Fox News.
We the people created the internet. When your enemy is trying to grab your gun do you give it to him or shoot him with it?
Bread and circus but who’s the baker and who are the clowns when we all show up for the same show?
Thank you Ethan. Good stuff!
Your stance and foundation is inspiring. The evidence for hijacking the opponent's tools and using them to successfully overcome it is undeniable. A "recent" example is China reverse engineering technologies in order to learn, copy, improve, and build its own path forward.
Overall beautiful essays: philosophy, artworks, use of language, and critical thinking. Continue please to fight and bring hope. ❤️
I'm not a US citizen, but I will get a paid subscription for as long as I can. All nations are connected.
✨♾️❤️♾️✨
This lands because you’re naming a real failure mode most “resistance” spaces never examine: purity as disappearance.
The Roman road point matters because infrastructure is never neutral, but it’s also never fully owned once it exists. Empires build pathways to move control efficiently — and then discover those same pathways move meaning just as fast, and with far less permission. History is full of examples where belief outran power on roads meant for legions.
The key distinction you make — terrain vs. trap — is crucial. Withdrawal doesn’t starve the machine; it simply vacates the ground where perception is actively being shaped. That’s not integrity, it’s forfeiture.
I also appreciate the Bunker vs. Triage Tent framing. Messy rooms aren’t proof of failure — they’re proof of contact. You don’t measure a hospital by how healthy the waiting room is. If the already-deprogrammed are the only ones allowed in, nothing actually changes.
Your stance on paywalls and class is another important signal. Keeping core work public while letting paid space function as a workshop avoids the priesthood model that’s hollowed out so many movements. “Subscription vanguardism” is a real rot, and it’s refreshing to see it named plainly.
One thing I respect is that you don’t romanticize the algorithm — you acknowledge it as hostile terrain that still has to be crossed. That honesty matters. Using the roads doesn’t mean pretending the empire isn’t taxing the journey; it means accepting the cost without surrendering the destination.
This isn’t collaboration.
It’s traversal under fire.
That’s how ideas actually spread — and why purity movements tend to evaporate while insurgent ones leave residue behind.
— RIB
Remind Patrick about PARADOX. Perhaps his mind could contain two contradicting thoughts and get the message!
Dialogue is crucial. I try to advance the use of a winner doesnt take all primary that would foster intaparty dialogue and a reduction yet retention of the power assymetry between centrists and activists within a major party.
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I see you, David. The forge is busy today! I agree that structural mechanisms (like how we handle primaries) are part of the 'Rust' we eventually need to scrape off. But right now, the focus is on the terrain—using the platforms we have to even start that conversation. We can't reform the party if we've already ceded the battlefield by logging off."
You know better. Back in the very beginning a couple of times I wondered, are they right? They seem so sure of themselves and anyone can twist anything into a bit of a reasonable point of view. But don’t fall for it, they know they’re wrong.. they just don’t want to be exposed and they’re using everything and anything. We know now, they only mean to confuse, and they are not right. Don’t give into their bully strategies. They know one thing, that good & decent people will admit they’re wrong or believe you when you tell them they’re wrong, at least long enough to find out more information and by then they have moved on and are doing more damage.
Use The Platform Just check your Consciousness Not Easy But the Real Game Inside The Self Awareness! Anger sadness etc they the game win!!! Rise above it What we focus on We Create!!! LLL
I wish we all (including me) understood and remembered that last sentence more
I wanted the messy ones too, I broke the mould in one article and became partisan with a Robin Hood rewrite for the online right, I promptly lost even good real world friends who were of opposite opinions to me but starting to question, and reading my stuff. I enjoyed writing it though. Ultimately I decided I am not a gun for hire and times are challenging, sometimes it is time to pick a side. I love the triage tent idea, not lock the wanderers or wounded out. Are the war though, I thought it was a well known principle to use the enemies rope to hang them
I like it x
Hahaha. I didn’t say it like that ! But you have in fact converted the way I approach people in chat! And I’m still here! :)
So confused- how is Patrick even commenting if he’s deleted all his Social Media? Pot meet kettle, kettle this is pot.
Like always you’re only a piece of the conversations that you wanna be a part of. This conversation was deeper than just a single one off like that and I actually did talk about sub stack. Thanks for your participation though. I appreciate you being here.
Warning to users here: comments are now starting to be covered by data mining message, "...violated your country's Safety Act..." and wants verification of your age. The speech bubble at the bottom of the screen also says this now. When I clicked to verify my age, Substack also wanted photos of my face! This is the start of narrative control here. Time for another platform.
That thesis is much my own. One of the less discussed and more harrowing ghettoes of the online word is queer space—which has a very interesting history and pre-dates all current forms of social media. Things took a slow motion nose dive in the early 00’s when queer social networking went from activism to hookups with no transition time whatsoever, we where corralled, like it or NOT into the meat market (and what’s NOT to like really?) Yet, a queer community cannot thrive on hypersexualitly alone, head over the app store and search ‘gay’ — it’s the shinny thing syndrome and it is killing us.
And yet the alternatives are what?
Given what you’ve outlined, clearly if we believed at our core that there was no inherent underlying unused value which is be essential to the health, wealth and well being of those we will hand off this fight to—It would not be worth the effort.
We will not be cooked. I am going strong on substacks now. Plus the resistance is now aware.
Just a matter of time before the
Bubble theory = NOO SHERE
Concept is understood
Ideas can pass thigh the internet on different platforms the world over 🌍
Without resistance. NOO SHERE. Google it.
We live in one.
Now share the picture and the rest will fall into place as our minds link and join in a common idea.
The environment changed. 150 years ago - 5000 years ago - We are gifted with abilities.
Today we are simply overstimulated.
Research INNUIT TRADITIONS. RESEARCH AUTISM. RESEARCH ADHD. CROSS REFERENCE TO CURRENT MEDICAL RESEARCH.
END RESULT A RESEARCH PAPER
ADD CROSS REFERENCE TO REDDIT NEURODIVERGENT FORUMS. END RESULT A QUESTION BANK. A RESEARCH PAPER.
ADD SPIRITUALITY. CROSS REFERENCE TO CURRENT SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH DATA. END RESULT A RESEARCH PAPER.
ADD DEFINE NEURODIVERGENT MIND. DEFINE NEUROTYPICAL MIND. COMPARE PREVIOUS RESEARCH. TOP TO BOTTOM. BOTTOM TO TOP. SIDE BY SIDE.
ADD CROSS REFERENCE AND VERIFY DATA TO SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH. INCLUDE A REFERENCE LIST 100 SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH PAPERS LONG.
END RESULT A PDF FILE
ADD TO RESEARCH A MARKETING CAMPAIGN. INCLUDE A PROBABILITIES MODEL. INCLUDE A LIST OF PUBLIC COMPANIES THAT WILL SUPPORT SAID RESEARCH. INCLUDE PUBLICLY AVAILABLE EMAIL AND CONTACT INFORMATION FOR 100 ORGANIZATIONS.
END RESULT A DATABANK OF CONTACTS
ADD BUILD A WEBSITE FOR PREVIOUS RESEARCH. PURPOSE IS PUBLIC AWARENESS CAMPAIGN TO BE SENT TO DOCTORS AND FEDERAL GOVERNMENTS
(Now here is your key. Share it and build a platform for all of us gifted minds to use. Your contacts. Your brilliance will now be known.)
Your welcome. 🙏
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