James Corbett: On Hopium and Heroes

I know that I’m very late to this party, but I am loving James Corbett! He’s funny, well-informed, has technology capabilities and production values that have me green with envy, is entertaining and quick-witted, and maybe most importantly, is logically consistent. This is true both within his own framework and with my own core dogma, that I’m no better than anyone else. His analysis of history is therefore unimpeded by barriers for off-limit topics, yay!

I’ve done several episodes questioning the official narratives of WWI and WWII. In pursuit of the first, I’ve been slogging through (it must be said) The Karma of Untruthfulness by Rudolf Steiner. One of his statements seemed especially relevant:

… the world is frequently misled by the way in which history is written. The writing of history is really something very much more profound. … Whether a historian knows how to depict the right things or not depends on whether his karma leads him to the possibility of discovering the right things or not. … For one who is led by his karma to see the right things at the right moment, they are revealed at the point where something significant is expressed by a single phenomenon. Often a single phenomenon expresses something that throws light on decades, illuminating like a flash of lightning what is really happening.

This has been my experience with many of the topics I’ve pursued. It’s felt more like they pursued me and I’ve merely been receptive to them. Once I’m asking the right question, the information I need seems to fall into my hands like ripe apples.

This serendipity occurred when I happened upon Unz Review and a 2018 metastudy that Ron Unz put together called American Pravda: Understanding WWII. This goes through the many books by eminent historians about the 1940’s that were suppressed because they countered what has become the official narrative. One of these from 2008 by Patrick J. Buchanan is called Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War.

And then, much to my surprise, James Corbett and Keith Knight presented a quick-paced review of the book in which each present five key points and what they teach us about WWII that will certainly surprise you.

James Corbett and Keith Knight Tackle Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War

As I wrote that, Cynthia Chung just posted Matt Ehret’s “It’s Time to Finally Win WWII” for May 9th. I think that they and James Corbett agree on much of this history, and I’ll be doing an in-depth article on it in the future.

For Victory Day: It's Time to Think About Finally Winning WWII

In this episode, I’d like to respond to another Corbett interview by Truth Over Comfort about Obama, Trump, Qanon and something he calls Hopium—the belief that someone is coming to save us:

James Corbett on Obama, Trump, Q, Musk and Hopium

The question I ask is, what’s the opposite of Hopium or even Hope? Is it despair, to be ‘black-pilled’ or bleak? I think the opposite of hope is to take responsibility. To give one example, I’ve been talking a lot about the weather and these days-on-end of white skies. I could be like Little Orphan Annie and say, the sun will come out tomorrow! That would be hopium, especially if I was relying on Daddy Warbucks to make it true.

As an aside, was this intended as political satire? I know there was the real person Daddy Warbucks represented, although that’s been disappeared in the memory hole of the internet. Was Little Orphan Annie a psyops from the get-go? A load of hopium? Or like the Wizard of Oz or Jonathan Swift or the game of Monopoly—something that used satire to show the way things really are, that was then turned into an amusement?

The opposite of hoping the sun will come out is taking responsibility for researching why it’s not—being observant, trusting your senses that this isn’t normal, figuring out what’s happening.

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In another example, I watched The Global Pandemic Treaty Is A Threat To Us All:

The Global Pandemic Treaty Is A Threat To Us All

In it, James talks about decentralization, a topic after my own heart. In my video, I suggest that the Health Freedom Movement be renamed the Health Responsibility Movement because what we want is to take responsibility for our own health, as individuals, families and communities.

To illustrate this, I tell a story from my dance class about Bob, fearful of Covid, who insists on opening the outside door even with the heat on. After I shut it, stating that being sweaty and chilled was not healthy for any of us, another person told him she was warm enough (with the heat still on) and opened it for him. This sequence has happened before.

Let’s examine the message that the sympathetic woman was sending to me: “Unlike you, I care whether our friend Bob lives or dies.” It wouldn’t be in her nature to add “you selfish bitch,” but it’s implied. What would happen if the door was shut and Bob did get sick and even, to imagine the worst, died? Whose fault would it be? It would clearly be mine because I had failed to take responsibility for Bob’s health.

There’s a woman, similarly fearful of Covid, who dances outside. Another woman, who gets chilled, no longer comes when Bob is there. They’re taking responsibility for their own health. What Bob wants is the same benefit of a crowded dance class without the risk that everyone else is taking.

This wouldn’t be worth mentioning except that I believe it shows the mindset that’s driven the past three years. People could have chosen to wear masks and businesses could have opened for the first hour or two for masks only, including workers. After that, they would be optional. Instead we still have servants, err… essential workers, wearing masks eight hours per day to ‘protect’ those who come in unmasked for a few minutes.

Schools could have stayed open for kids, parents and teachers who assumed the risk of getting together. Those who chose to could have taken classes online, with similarly minded teachers. And needing to get vaccinated to protect others could have been seen as the nonsense it was.

Instead we were sold a psyops that good, caring people wore masks, stayed home, and got vaccinated because instead of taking responsibility for our own health, we had to take responsibility for every else’s. And no one could take a risk to enjoy a benefit that wasn’t available to everyone, including those ‘at-risk’ because that would be stigmatizing and unfair.

To end, I feel this goes to the heart of the issue with Robert Kennedy and particularly Robert Malone. If we want to take responsibility—for our health, education, food production, economics—we can only do that through a decentralized network of communities, from the bottom-up. If we’re tricked again into Hopium—handing responsibility to someone who can ‘save us’—I don’t believe that’s ever going to work.

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To follow up, in the same vein as James Corbett, here’s Matt Ehret & Cynthia Chung: GeoPuzzle Pros:

Co-founders of The Rising Tide Foundation and co-authors of the trilogy, Clash of the Two Americas, Matt and Cynthia are the dynamic duo of deep state politics in the global Gotham City, sussing out conspiracies from their book-lined batcave in Montreal. In this episode, I talk about sleepwalking into Fascism, Bertrand Russell, why we should unplug and read a book, 911 wake-up calls, the CIA and abstract expressionism, Shelley and hierophants, and the importance of being Ernest. I end with meaning as healing.

and this is Thomas Frank Misses the Point on Populism that talks about the Wizard of Oz:

In Russell Brand's interview of Thomas, he quotes Steve Bannon that populism is the future, the only question is whether it's right- or left-wing. Thomas retorts that there is no right-wing populism, only left. I answer that if it's right OR left, it's not populism. In recent politics, I use the example of Ron Paul as more populist than Bernie Sanders. In the history of populism, I look at The Nonpartisan League in a book called Insurgent Democracy by Michael Lansing and how bipartisan politics gave money creation to the banks in Ellen Brown's Web of Debt. I end with the hope that we emulate the farmer Grange movement and come to agreement on policies that we support instead of parties.