What Tucker Carlson speaks to below is the disconnect between We The People and those who hold power. In this joint discussion about the possibilities in 2024, both Jordan Peterson and Tucker Carlson take the idea of “stop pretending” and turn the phrase into “speak truth.” This video is worth ten minutes of your time.
These two men both address topics that are important to so many citizens of the world, and they both do it with such compassion for people and deep thought and good insights.
I think Tucker perfectly described the feeling of many people who can’t express themselves in a public setting. And Peterson did a great job communicating that fighting back is powerful. Speaking the truth about your beliefs at your local level does create ripple effects. Can one person make a difference? Absolutely!
One question that arises again and again over the past few years is what can be done, what needs to be done to change the trajectory of where things are headed. I have heard a variety of answers including the idea that some kind of violent upheaval is inevitable.
One approach is to stop pretending the gaslighting narrative is real. Stop ignoring the lies. Call out the lies for what they are. At the same time, speak the truest thing as loudly as you can to confront those who use pretense as a shield to retain comfort and influence.
This pretense is known as normalcy bias. It is a cognitive bias which leads people to disbelieve or minimize threat warnings. Consequently, individuals underestimate the likelihood of a disaster, when and/or how it might affect them, and its potential adverse effects.
People like being comfortable. To be honest, when we are most comfortable, change gives us the willies. In the end, the comfort game is a prayer for more of the same.
Overcoming this comfort trap that we find ourselves in may take a lot of shouting. Those in power will spend the country into oblivion to keep the game going.
We will succeed in breaking the trap with fearless adherence to the undeniable truth. We will succeed through a ferocious rejection of the demented obtuse labels like, “disinformation, misinformation or malinformation.” Something is either true and not true. That’s it. God gave each of us a brain with which to make those determinations.
Fellowship strengthens our endeavors. It reminds us that we are not alone. It strengthens the bond that we have with the truth. Seek out those who have stopped pretending.
Not pretending is the one single action that everyone can participate in. If we all stop pretending, the narrative engineers will find no one to purchase their bulls**t anymore.
We are not alone. We are an assembly of unique and strong individuals. And there are more of us than them!
Let’s defend the inalienable right to freedom and the pursuit of happiness for the entire human race by speaking the truth.