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The Robin Hood Effect
American Thinker ^ | 14 Apr, 2024 | J.B. Shurk

Posted on 04/14/2024 6:00:38 AM PDT by MtnClimber

When ‘outlaws’ have more honor than governments, respect for the rule of law disappears.

In a previous essay, I broached the topic of popular nullification in the context of rejecting the State’s propaganda. Citizens are increasingly seeing through the lies Western governments regularly tell their populations in order to buttress their authority and maintain effective social control. As awful as COVID’s lockdowns and other rank authoritarian mandates were, they proved salubrious in educating the public as to how government institutions (including health agencies) fabricate scientific evidence and betray basic medical ethics in pursuit of broader totalitarian agendas. Part of the heightened pushback to expensive “green energy” directives and farming regulations stems from enhanced public awareness that Western governments flood the information space with fake news meant to justify more expansive and intrusive government control.

For critical thinkers who are cognizant of governments’ longstanding use of psychological and sociological “dark arts” to manipulate their own citizens, the public’s “awakening” may seem too late, slow, or insignificant. On the contrary, it is accelerating.

Shattering existing paradigms is like escaping from an intellectual prison. For most people, that prison is all they have ever known. A lot of lone escapees look back at their former cages from a distance and presume that those who remain locked up will never find the strength to break free. The problem, however, is not a lack of strength, but a paralyzing misapprehension that the prison trapping so many minds represents the limits of what is possible.

Right now the rate of intellectual liberation seems slow because inmates escape one at a time. When enough critical thinkers are able to demolish prison walls with the force of their reason, no government lie will be able to stop those who wish to be free.

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1 posted on 04/14/2024 6:00:38 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

I think many are becoming wise to the “dark art” manipulation.


2 posted on 04/14/2024 6:00:49 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber

interesting how the folks who touted “never trust the Man” in the 60’s through the 70’s have become “The Man” and now demand we “Trust The Man” they told us all NOT to trust. irony at its finest.


3 posted on 04/14/2024 6:07:26 AM PDT by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star n )
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To: MtnClimber

America is waking up. But Canada? Hopelessly in the dar except for 30% , and most of them independent truckers from the FReedom Convoy, now treated as a terrorist organization by Trucky Fudeau.


4 posted on 04/14/2024 6:07:44 AM PDT by Candor7 (Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!),<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>)
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To: MtnClimber

“[T]he whole world, including the United States, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.”


5 posted on 04/14/2024 6:07:49 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: MtnClimber
When ‘outlaws’ have more honor than governments, respect for the rule of law disappears.

That topic is discussed in this video.

Daoist Philosophy | Zhuangzi: The Dao of Gangstas

6 posted on 04/14/2024 6:08:05 AM PDT by OldHarbor
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To: OldHarbor

For later.

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7 posted on 04/14/2024 6:08:52 AM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Qwapisking
“Irony at its finest.”

It is hypocrisy. Leftists are the biggest hypocrites to ever walk the earth.

8 posted on 04/14/2024 6:26:29 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell>)
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To: Qwapisking

yep


9 posted on 04/14/2024 6:27:05 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: MtnClimber

[in pursuit of broader totalitarian agendas]


The science is clear! - W


When it comes to the va666ine and b666sters, I certainly trust W, Bill and Barack!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li-oxKhvZy0

(read the comments at the video)


10 posted on 04/14/2024 6:28:17 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: MtnClimber

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11 posted on 04/14/2024 6:39:12 AM PDT by sauropod (Ne supra crepidam)
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