
BITCOIN IS PART OF A CULTURE WAR THAT IS THE LEADING EDGE OF AN ECONOMIC WAR ON CITIZENS
The culture war in America has gotten worse—and that spells trouble for the future of the American democratic repulic experiment.
No matter how detailed and solid your strategy is, if the people executing it don’t nurture the appropriate culture, your projects will fail. Democracy, in my view, is an agreement that we will not kill each other over our differences, but instead we’ll talk through those differences. Culture wars always precede shooting wars. They don’t necessarily lead to a shooting war, but you never have a shooting war without a culture war prior to it, because culture provides the justifications for violence. Right now our government appears to have pulled out of Afghanistan after a 20 year war we lost. Now it appears the governments executive and legistative branches are pointing the guns of the industrial military complex that support the hegeminy of the US dollar directly at the citizens of the USA to creating an economic war. This war will be waged with monetary policy and propaganda to create a culture war designed to divide the citizenry along ideologic lines. Divided their economic power can be usurped to pay off the debt central bankers created to fund wars we should have never fought. Wars brought on by bad culture in the military created since the cold war. 50 years of loose monetary policy has allowed government to create a huge debt that has to be remediated This created inflation which debases the value of the currency. This is how a banker is allowed to legally steal from the taxpayer without the need for legistation from Congress.
Yesterday, Kraft Heinz CEO says consumers need to prepare for “permanent” increase in food prices. Why should the taxpayer heed this warning? 4 to 5 investment companies now own 90% of all goods sold in the US because of Congressional law making. It has allowed corporations to abuse customers economically by making sure the shareholders of the corporations are close to the money printer of the Federal Reserve. This is legalized counterfeiting and rackateering. The public could boycott, but it wouldn’t do a thing to them because of how Congress allowed corporations to alienate the rights of the citizen over the last 50 years. These divisions are the result of culture differences that our government created when it was infiltrated in 1971 by Henry Kissinger and the WEF.
Culture isn’t about comfy chairs and happy hours at the office. Rather, it’s more about the ways your people act in critical situations, how they manage pressure and respond to various challenges, and how they treat patients, partners, and customers, and each other.
No matter how strong your strategic plan is, its efficacy will be held back by members of your team if they don’t share the proper belief system or culture. Medicine is part art and part science. Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs. This link to beliefs is important, because if your vision is not based on what is right or good for most it will be rejected. If your belief system does not follow the scientific method you will not get proper buy in. Today modern medicine and government have a big culture problem. Today’s mandate have a familiar feel.
Culture is the name for what people are interested in, their thoughts, their models, the books they read, the papers they study and the speeches they hear. Every country, every community are strongly tied together by an intricate tapestry of individual values, norms and a specific history, so to understand their culture is to understand them. Speaking to a person in a way which is sensitive to their own distinct, unique culture enables a brand to not only elicit the intended emotional response through branded communications, but also shows that the brand can be trusted to understand their consumer.
Culture and its impact on the communities it was born of is a beautiful, multifaceted entity which gives strength, identity and purpose to its people. In a world that politicizes everything, there’s a sense that political culture is both the root cause of the problems we face and, ultimately, the solution. But the larger argument I want you to consider is that politics is an artifact of culture. It’s a reflection: Culture underwrites our politics.
Culture can have a negative conotation when it is used as propganda. You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them, and they will change. This is exactly what the government run education system did in the last 50 years with policy. This has had massive implications in medicine. Most young physicians have no idea how to read or navigate the medical literature properly because of the influence to corporations who create and craft information to suit their goals. Algorithms have been used to craft culture changes.
If taxpayers aren’t passionate about a ’governments vision, they won’t be enthusiastic about executing the plan of its leaders, and then your strategy stands no chance of success. The actions of the founders and executives speak louder than their words in the process of culture creation.
Vaccine mandates and monetary policy have destroyed the culture the founding fathers created in our Declaration of Independence and Constitution. I believe this has been done with intent by those in leadership positions who are unelected and work for corporations to benefits profiteers over the citizenry. The culture of being a citiizen is to speak up. All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent when the public is being abused by a form of tyranny. Within the Declaration of Indepence we can see the Culture of the United States in Thomas Jefferson’s writing when he said, “When a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government” The 50 years of monetry policy by the Federal Reserve since removing the gold standard shows how little regard the Beltway has for the citizens. The same can be said about the vaccine mandates. We need to be reminded that Biden’s mandate is an Executive Order and not a LAW. It means it government propaganda and it should be treated as a presse release. 2019, 2020, and 2021 have become Orwell’s 1984 in real life. Thomas Jefferson once noted, “Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers too plainly proves a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing us to slavery.” Today we are on the precipice of change by tyranny and force. We must evolve our culture in the USA by how we vote. The government you elect is the government you deserve.
The culture of our founding documents has been usurped because 100 years of government has been using propaganda against the voters. Within the propaganda they have created is the narrative of fear. They have enlisted the media into the army to fight against the citzenry. When a government uses fear against its own people it is PROPAGANDA and not statesmanship. Jefferson warned us that when governments fear the people there is liberty. When the people fear the government there is tyranny. We have a big culture problem today in the USA.
Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always. Changing a culture takes courage. The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history of their culture. That is precisely what media has done for elected government. Orwell warned us in 1984, “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” The first amendemnt of the constitution was put in place to maintain out culture of not being silent and always questioning our leaders. Modern governments learned from warmongering that controlling media propaganda was key to success. Why?
Edward Bernays taught the world in his 1928 book, Propaganda, that thought can be used to corrupt language, and language can therefore corrupt thought. The consequence of this linkage is that the media is the most powerful entity on Earth because it should protect the culture of our founding documents. Malcolm X taught us that the media has the power to make the innocent guilty and the make the guilty innocent. This ability is powerful because it can be used to control the minds of the citizenry. The press is so powerful in its image making role, that it can make the criminal look like he is the victim and make the victim look like criminal. Because of this power, the government, especially the intelligence arms of the industrial military complex have sought for years to usurp this power to use in war. Today they are using it against the taxpayers and citizens of the USA. If you do not realize what they are doing, newspapers & websites will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and lovign the people who are doing the oppressing. January 6th, 2021 reminds me of this situation.
Usurping the power of the media is the goal of criminal politicians. It is used to keep you unaware of what they are really doing. This defines the Dunning Kruger effect of some of the citizenry. Orwell told us “Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.” In his book, 1984. Power comes in tearing human minds to pieces and putting those minds and their beliefs together again in new shapes to form the culture of the tyrants choosing.
Culture certainly influences politics. For example, recent research has shown America and France, people who wanted a tighter culture—because they feel threatened—were supportive of politicians with a strong conviction. The threat in both countries is not an exogenous threat. It comes from within the beaucracy that decades of elected tyrants have created to change the culture of the citizenry. Politics can also change culture. We’ve already seen how politicians both now and in history can exaggerate and amplify threats (Hitler/Biden) to tighten cultures. It works—at least for some time—because it taps into a deep evolutionary principle that when there is threat, people want strong rules and autocratic leaders. The problem with this, if the threat is manufactured by propaganda and not real, it sets up the conditions for fascism and tyranny to develop into the void. Media was protected in the Constitution to protect this from happening, but today politicians now use media to control the minds of their voting blocks using propaganda. So the relationship between culture and politics can go in either direction. We saw this culture struggle this week in Joe Rogan’s podcast with Sanjay Gupta when they discussed how CNN was used by Biden to push the agenda to get the US to vaccine mandates over safer drugs to treat COVID.
Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always. VIDEO
The influence of culture on politics is profound because culutre wires the world. Culture mimics the electric power grid. It distributes power to the citizens quickly. Marshall McLuhan warned us the medium of how we communicate affects our culture. The medium is the message is an expression coined by McLuhan in the 1960s that is often interpreted to mean that the forms and methods (the “media”) used to communicate information have a significant impact on the messages they deliver. This includes the meanings and other perceptions about those messages. The technology of communication and discourse, today has fueled the cultural divide because they’ve accentuated polarization. How? The extraordinary advances in social media have stochastically expanded ways in which commincation increases anonymity, which fuels the extremism of rhetoric. This happens because on social media platforms there is an absence of any kind of accountability in our public speech. Social networks allow users to take what is already a shallow discourse in Tweets using slogans and hashtags, and make it even more difficult to find any kind of depth of discourse.
How do you compromise when that becomes the dominant form of discourse?
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Well-being is a crucial ideal for any society and it is increased when the culture of a society is it’s greatest wealth. “Tight” cultures have strict norms and punishments, while “loose” cultures, are more permissive of things that are several standard deviations from the mean of society. This distinction in culture stiffness helps us to understand differences across nations, social classes, organizations, friends and families. Tight and loose cultures are actually compatible—each of their strengths is the other’s liability. In this way, they balance one another if the media if there is freedom of the press from corporate or government control. Tight cultures have a lot of order; they have less crime, more uniformity and more self-control. Loose cultures can be disorganized and have a suite of self-regulation problems. But loose cultures corner the market on openness. They’re more open to different people (immigrants, minorities, the stigmatized), different ideas and change—issues that tight cultures struggle with. Moreover, many complex tasks require both tight and loose cultural elements. Take organizational innovation. It requires looseness to come up with cutting-edge ideas but it requires tightness to implement them and scale them up. The same thing is true is government. When leaders destroy the fabric of culture as the last few presidents have done since 1971 when they removed the dollar from the gold standard, the erosion of culture began and it allows in the creep of fascism and tyranny we have seen with Biden’s mandate. I have always believed that COVID was a compliance test for an economic reset.
If I could draw a parallel to Biden’s mandate, it reminds me of the history found during the Civil War. There was a culture war for 30 years prior to the Civil War. The Civil War was—without question—about slavery and the status of Black men and women. In that culture war, the good guys won but at a massive cost. It cost the country the loss of economic power, because 4 out of 10 Southern males died in that war. 1 out of 10 Northern males died in this war . With that history lesson reminder think about the butterfly effect of a culture war: The case of Dred Scott resulted. Dred Scott v. Sandford, was a decade-long fight for freedom by a Black enslaved man named Dred Scott. The case persisted through several courts and ultimately reached the U.S. Supreme Court, whose decision incensed abolitionists, gave momentum to the anti-slavery movement and served as a stepping stone to the Civil War.
The Dred Scott case and today’s vaccine mandate has a lot in common, in my view.
Dred Scott was an attempt to impose a consensus by law; it took the Civil War and the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments to overturn Dred Scott at the SCOTUS. And yet that was also an imposition of solidarity by law and by force. The failures of Reconstruction and the emergence of Jim Crow and “Black Codes” and all of that was proof that politics couldn’t solve culture in the 1860s so I do not believe poltics will solve the currenct economic culture war. Politics couldn’t solve the cultural tensions, and so what we ended up with was a 100 year struggle for civil rights.
The best leaders are those that are “ambidextrous”—they can find synergies between tight and loose cultural elements. American leadership in the Executive and Legislative branches have been impotent in these skills sets.
SUMMARY
Every culture has its sins. Sin is an old-fashioned word, that refers to that which is, ultimately, profane and cannot be permitted, must not be allowed. Understanding those things that underwrite politics helps us understand why this persists the way it does, why it inflames the passions that we see today in society.
Can we have a stable republic without discussing an economic compromise? No, I don’t believe so.
Part of our problem is that we have politicized everything. And yet politics becomes a proxy for cultural positions that simply won’t brook any kind of dissent or argument. The very idea of treating your opponents with civility is a betrayal. How can you be civil to people who threaten your very existence? It highlights the point that culture is hegemonic: like the USD. You can compromise with politics and policy, but if politics and policy are a proxy for culture, there’s just no way compromise will be found.
The question about culture is this: What is it that animates our passions? I don’t know how one can imagine individual and collective identity—and the things that make life meaningful and purposeful—as somehow peripheral or as “distractions.” Culture, by its very nature, is hegemonic. It seeks to colonize; it seeks to envelop in its totality. The root of the word “culture” is Latin: “cultus.” It’s about what is sacred to us. And what is sacred to us tends to be universalizing. The very nature of the sacred is that it is special; it can’t be broached. Culture wars have been created to allow government to take advantage of us.
Only “We The People” Can put a stop to it. That is what happened at the Berlin Wall when it fell. People stayed there and demanded that governments remove the wall and it happened. The voice of the people is always heard during culture changes. I’ve been a physician long enough to remember a time when real science guided the narrative, not the other way around. Today the cultur war in medicine doesn’t operate like this. Those were good times. People’s beliefs and behaviors are the “butterfly effect” when the bubble of a culture war is popped. I think Bitcoin is the pin to pop this current bubble by the people who own it.
CITES
1. “Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: How Tight and Loose Cultures Wire the World”, by Michele Gelfand
2. “Culture Wars” 1991 by James Davison Hunter
3. Jack Kruse with Tucson Bitcoin: VIDEO