Two Movies, One Screen
It’s crucial to recognize that what we’re seeing is not a clash between classic liberal or conservative policy differences. Gay rights, taxes, that kind of thing. That’s not what the chasm is about. At all.
It’s a clash between two different worldviews.
Two different stories about the nature of the reality that we live in.
We live in two completely different perspectives, and even though we see the exact same event on the TV screen, how we see it is vastly different.
It’s like we’re watching two movies on one screen, a phrase coined by cartoonist and hypnotist Scott Adams.
This is precisely why it’s so important that we talk to and listen to each other.
Both sides think they’re right. Both sides think the other side is a threat to democracy. Both sides consider people on the other side “low information voters”. Both sides can’t believe the election’s this close when the choice is so obvious.
This is the problem. That’s why we must listen and understand each other.
You may find “their” worldview abhorrent, or that it’s quite a stretch to see it that way, that you’d have to be naive or gullible or a tin foil hat conspiracy theorist, or however you judge it. That’s fine.
But understand that a significant portion of your fellow citizens do see it that way. Probably members of your own family too.
We need to understand each other and respect the fact that “they” have good reasons to believe what they believe.
If you’d seen what they’ve seen, if you’d had similar personal experiences, you’d probably se the world the same way they do.
Learn. Understand.
Don’t judge. Appreciate.
We’re all doing the best we know how to.
I’m going to lay out the two world views as best as I can.
The Left’s Worldview
The left sees a world where we have two parties, the Democrats and the Republicans, in a constant battle for who’s in power. Democrats are more liberal with spending and social norms, and the Republicans are more conservative both fiscally and socially. Sometimes one is in power, sometimes the other. That’s how it should be.
Some on the left see Republican politicians as warmongers and racists, but at the core, they’re decent people who are trying their best.
The president is in charge of the government. When he’s in office, institutions like the FBI, the CIA, the DOD, the DHS, the State Department, etc., do what the president tells them to do. The president, his administration, and his party are mostly aligned.
Politicians generally aim to make our lives better. Yes, lobbyists are a problem, politicians overpromise and underdeliver, and some shady things happen here and there, but overall, they’re trying their best.
The media and government institutions like the FBI, the judicial system, and so on, are generally good, hard-working people just doing their best. Sure, things are perhaps not as good as they were, and social media has made us all more polarized, but they’re trying.
Then Trump came and wrecked the system. He took control of the Republican party and whipped most voters into a frenzy, leaving many sane Republican voters and politicians without a political home.
Trump is a vile, racist wannabe dictator who loves other dictators. He craves attention and power in order to fill the bottomless void in his fragile ego. He has no respect for democracy or the rule of law, and will not hesitate to mobilize his gullible, violent mob of MAGA supporters to make sure he stays in power forever, should he ever get into office again.
He lies and cheats, he calls immigrants animals, and he’s a disgusting human who’s unfit to be president.
If he’s elected a second time, he’ll feel emboldened to go all-in on enabling his radical, dictatorial new Hitler-like regime, going after journalists and migrants and political opponents and anyone else he feels has insulted his fragile sense of self.
If you’re on the left, does this ring more or less true? I hope so.
The Right’s Worldview
Now let’s turn to the right’s world view.
The Trump right sees most government institutions, politicians, judges, and media from both sides of the so-called aisle as a corrupt cabal controlled by the deep state co-joined with cartels and organized crime.
This “blob” controls every major government institution, the military/intelligence industrial complex, big pharma, big agriculture, most corporate media, most universities, the drug trade, and human trafficking.
MAGA people don’t consider the Democrat and Republican parties as meaningfully distinct. They call them the “Uniparty” because both parties are mostly controlled by the blob, against the people.
They believe the government and the corporate media are the biggest purveyors of misinformation, and the government wants to get rid of the 1st and 2nd amendments and implement a censorship regime, so they can continue to lie unimpeded and stop people from talking about it or fighting back. The media works to enslave rather than inform the citizens.
The right believes that every recent presidential candidate has been pre-selected by the blob, so the blob could continue their corruption unimpeded regardless of who won. The president must keep the scam going, against the interests of the people, or risk JFK’s fate. That’s why you see such a difference in what presidents say and do after they’re elected.
All the endless, deadly, and costly wars, the deterioration in public health, and the toxic political climate are all outcomes the blob wants.
Trump is the one politician that got away. He won the Republican nomination and went on to win the election in 2016 despite having his own party and the entire corporate media apparatus against him.
Trump is the one politician that got away. He won the Republican nomination and went on to win the election in 2016 despite having his own party and the entire corporate media apparatus against him.
Biden and Harris are both puppets of the blob, mere empty vessels, Biden literally senile, Harris not very bright. Their most critical mission for the blob has been to import millions of migrants likely to vote Democrat to swing states, so they can win future elections without having to cheat, effectively making America a one-party state like what happened in California after the 1986 amnesty.
Those are the two world views.
You may think the other side is absolutely nuts for believing what they believe, but remember, they’re not your enemy. They’re your neighbor, your uncle, your child, your friend.
If you’d seen what they have seen, you’d believe the same thing too. If you believed what they believe, you’d do the same thing they do.
About half the country sees the world one way, the other half sees it the other way.
We See Differently
Let’s look at how this plays out.
When a video clip surfaces of Trump at a rally speaking out angrily against Harris or the media or judges or something, each side sees something very different.
Someone on the left will see Trump as unhinged and dangerous. It reminds them of clips they’ve seen of Hitler. The anger and vitriol hits them in their stomach and it makes them recoil. They think “this isn’t right. We’re better than this. We must be kind to each other. Love, not hate. This tone is just not appropriate for a president.”
Someone on the right sees Trump as righteously angry for all the lies, phony lawsuits, and literal attempts at his life that’s been thrown at him for almost a decade now. Add in all the insults they have personally suffered, like being called racists, Nazis, white supremacists, and worse, and they’re right there with him. Of course, Trump is angry. Our government have destroyed the country for decades, and they’ve viciously tried to destroy him ever since he started running.
They see Trump as having the strength and courage to fight back against the corrupt deep state cabal that has taken over and wrecked the country, so together we the people can restore America to a republic of the people, by the people, for the people. A country that works for all Americans, the way it was intended.
Two movies, one screen.
I saw a clip posted yesterday October 13, 2024 by the @KamalaHQ X account, and it’s a perfect illustration.
The @KamalaHQ account has 1.3M followers, has a verified blue check, was endorsed by the official @KamalaHarris account in 2019, and has a pinned post saying “Welcome to Kamala HQ. This is the official rapid response page of Vice President Harris’ presidential campaign.”
As far as I can tell, it’s a legit account.
The clip is of Trump sitting perfectly calmly with an interviewer on Fox News.
INTERVIEWER: Are you expecting chaos on election day?
TRUMP: No, I don't think so. Not from the side that votes for Trump.
INTERVIEWER: But I'm just wondering if these outside agitators will start up on election day. Let's say you win. I mean, let's not, let's, let's remember you've got 50,000 Chinese nationals in this country in the last couple of years.
There are people on the terrorist watch list, 350 in the last couple of years. You got, uh, like you said, 13,000 murderers and 15,000 rapists. Um, what are you expecting? Joe Biden said he doesn't think it's going to be a peaceful election day.
TRUMP: Well, he doesn't have any idea what's happening in all fairness, he spends most of his day sleeping.
Uh, I think the bigger problem is the enemy from within. Not even the people that have come in and destroying our country. By the way, totally destroying our country. The towns, the villages, they're being inundated.
But, I don't think they're the problem in terms of Election Day. I think the bigger problem are the People from within. We have some very bad people. We have some sick people. Radical left lunatics.
And I think they're the big, and, and it should be very easily handled by, if necessary, by National Guard, or if really necessary, by the military. Because they can't let that happen.
The text that accompanied this video clip says this:
Trump says Americans who don’t support him are “enemies” and says they may need to be “handled by the military”
I believe the @KamalaHQ account that that’s what most people on the left will hear.
They also hear Trump hurling an insult at Joe Biden, a good, decent man who has served his country honorably his whole life, and has now selflessly stepped aside to let a woman of color representing the next generation lead. Totally uncalled for by Trump.
What someone on the right hears is Trump rightfully pointing out violent elements like Antifa on the left. He doesn’t mention them by name, but most people on the right think of Antifa as the armed militia of the Democrat party, who is ready to riot on command wherever and whenever it’s helpful to the corrupt Democrat machine.
Calling those violent criminals “radical left lunatics” is correct in their mind, and using the national guard or the military to stop their violence against innocent citizens is absolutely called for.
As for the insult hurled at Joe Biden, it’s valid. Biden, in their mind, stole the 2020 election, has caused unheard of inflation, have ran a corrupt influence peddling scheme for decades, given billions to foreign nations, allowed millions of illegal immigrants to enter the country, launched lawfare against his political opponent, all while his dementia was being covered up by the media and the VP now running for president.
So, yeah, an insult is in place.
That’s how the same clip lands with each side.
If you’d seen what they’ve seen, if you believed what they believe, it would land the same way for you.
Notice how both sides are motivated by good intentions for America.
This is very important.
Both sides want to do the right thing.
It’s just that our radically different world view means we see “the right thing” to mean radically different things.
Blue vs Red
The blue/red on the cover of this book is not really about Democrats vs Republicans as you might have thought at first.
It’s really about the red pill or the blue pill.
I think we all know the movie The Matrix, where Morpheus offers Neo a choice between the blue pill or the red pill:
This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back.
You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe.
You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.
This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back.
You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe.
You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.
But to a red-pilled person, it’s better to know and look than to live in denial. There’s also the black pill and the white pill.
Black-pilled people believe it’s hopeless. The shadowy forces are too powerful. There’s nothing we can do. Just keep your head down and make the most of it.
White-pilled people are optimistic. People are waking up. We have the power and the opportunity to make the world better. I’m very much white pilled.
On Shaky Ground
To people who took the blue pill, or who were never offered the choice, I get it. It’s really hard to wrap your head around just how warped things are.
When you realize you cannot trust any of the institutions you’ve built your entire life around, it rattles you.
The government. The media. The justice system. The medical system. Celebrities. All of it’s a lie? Sheesh!
Your sense of belonging is threatened. What will your tribe think? Your spouse? Your own family? Will you still be welcome? Will you continue to be one of them?
And are you becoming one of them? The bad guys. The other side. The people you’ve been taught to demonize and vilify. That’s almost too much.
Your very foundation is shaken. Your sense of safety and certainty is in question. It can be really tough. People have nightmares. It triggers their traumas
It’s The Truman Show. Everything you’ve been brought up to believe is a lie. It shakes the foundations of your world. Who and what can I trust?
It reminds me of when I quit smoking. It’s not one thing that keeps you smoking. It’s a whole range of little things: Touching your lips. Having something to do with your hands. The nicotine rush. A social thing to do. It regulates your digestion and elimination. It’s become a habit. And then there’s all of the triggers around food, alcohol, caffeine, social events, and on and on.
This is the same. There’s a million reasons and incentives to take the blue pill, and almost none to take the red pill.
This is why the programming works so effectively.
I still remember when I was going through my own red-pilling.
It was disorienting. My known reality was dissolving in front of my eyes. So much of what I’d been taught about history and politics and the world was a fairytale.
I was already skeptical by nature, so it wasn’t as shocking to me as it is to most people, but it was still shocking.
Shocking and exhilarating, actually. Discovering the truth. Truth, Love, and God are synonyms in my book. I’d rather live in Truth, Love, and God than in lies.
I’d also already made the shift from finding my sense of certainty and safety in the outside world, to finding it in spirit, so I wasn’t as threatened as most.
The Big Lie
The fact is, the bigger the lie, the easier it is to get people to believe it.
It’s wild how this works.
I just looked this up. I thought it was Goebbels, but it turns out that it was Adolf Hitler himself who said this in Mein Kampf:
[...]in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods.
It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously.
Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation.
Make the lie big enough, and you can practically wave evidence right in people’s faces, and they won’t believe it.
It’s almost as if they’re incapable of seeing it.
Their unconscious mind filters it out because it perceives it as a threat to their survival.
It’s clever and devious and sinister.
If you’re not yet red-pilled, you’re probably thinking the lie cannot possibly be this big. No way!
But what if I’m telling the truth? What if it really is as dark and depraved and corrupt as I say it is?
Would you want to know the truth?
Or would you rather stick your head in the sand and continue like before.
The choice is yours. Blue pill or red.
Think about that as you read this book.
I want to emphasize this point too: People are more easily corrupted in their emotional being than in their rational.
This is why there’s such a push to traumatize us into our cavemen and cavewomen. It makes us go low rung, it makes us easier to manipulate, and it makes us into Manchurian Candidates terrorizing each other.
Keep Looking
Most people when they start to hear facts that counter their beliefs will want to just give up.
You must not do this.
Don’t capitulate. Don’t give up on searching for the truth.
I know it sucks that we don’t have any trusted source of truth, but giving up is what the man behind the curtain wants you to do. That’s why one of their favorite tricks is to flood social media with all kinds of false stories from both sides. They want us confused and arguing over BS.
It’s our moral duty as citizens to make the effort to find a way to fact-find for ourselves.
Team up with people you trust, with people you agree with and with people you disagree with, equip yourself with an open mind and an open heart, be willing to deal with your triggers, roll up your sleeves and get to work. I have a chapter that shows you how to do this.
The only way out is through.
We’ve been made to believe the other side is the enemy, when they’re truly your allies.
My Contribution
What I want to do with this book is help you look at reality more honestly.
I want to remind you that “the other side” is not your enemy, no matter which side you’re on. That we fundamentally want the same thing.
And that together, we have the power to create the world that we all want to live in.
If we’re willing to find integrity, courage, love, and healing.
Some people will read this book and dismiss me as a typical right winger.
Some will get triggered and upset and want to throw the book away. If that’s what you want to do, I can’t stop you.
I invite you to look deeper, though.
Your triggers are yours, not mine. They’re your opportunity for more inner freedom and joy.
There’s more here than meets the eye.
Remember that what I present here is a viewpoint that about half the country holds. Even if you disagree with me on all the points, it might be one of the most helpful tools to have a better relationship with your crazy uncle or father or grandmother or friend. To truly understand how they see the world.
It might bring you closer together. You don’t have to agree, but you might be able to empathize more.
Read it for your love of your family and your fellow man.
I’m not your enemy. You’re not my enemy.
We the people are not each other’s enemies.
We’re all on the same team.
Some readers are already red-pilled in some areas, but not in others.
Maybe you’re into natural health, and you’ve seen first-hand the failings of our medical system. Or maybe you’re an expert in some topic, and you’ve seen how distorted the news coverage is in your area of expertise.
But you haven’t yet connected the dots across all of these different areas. Media. Medicine. Immigration. Elections. FBI. CIA. Organized crime. Drugs. Human trafficking. You haven’t seen how it’s all part of one big tapestry. It’s not just broken in this one area, it’s broken all across. And it’s by design.
As the British theorist Stafford Beer, known for his work in cybernetics said :“The purpose of a system is what it does.”
You’ll hear me say this over and over again.
The system is doing exactly what it’s intended to do. It’s just that the intention is in direct opposition to the interests of the people, and not at all what it says on the tin.
If you’re not yet fully red-pilled, I hope to take you there. Go all in. See just how deep the rot goes. Dip your toes in the water. It’s warmer than you think. You’ll find it a more loving, happier, healthier place than you thought.
Take in the wonder of it. If humans can create something this magnificently sinister, we can create something equally beautiful.
And then there are people who are fully red-pilled, and who can add a lot more detail to these pieces than I’ve included here, and that I’m even aware of.
For those people, and for everyone, I hope my vision of the world we want to live in, and my thoughts on how we could get there, are inspiring and insightful.
Love, Truth, God
Just because we see the corruption and the grift in society doesn’t mean we’re angry or scared or think it shouldn’t be this way.
My heart breaks for everyone involved, because I recognize the pain they must be in to live like this.
From Byron Katie’s incredible book A Thousand Names for Joy (which everyone would do well to read a thousand times):
A man sticks a pistol into my stomach, pulls the hammer back, and says, “I’m going to kill you.” I am shocked that he is taking his thoughts so seriously.
To someone identified as an I, the thought of killing causes guilt that leads to a life of suffering, so I ask him, as kindly as I can, not to do it. I don’t tell him that it’s his suffering I’m thinking of.
He says that he has to do it, and I understand; I remember believing that I had to do things in my old life.
I thank him for doing the best he can, and I notice that I’m fascinated. Is this how she dies? Is this how the story ends?
And as joy continues to fill me, I find it miraculous that the story is still going on. You can never know the ending, even as it ends.
I am very moved at the sight of sky, clouds, and moonlit trees. I love that I don’t miss one moment, one breath, of this amazing life.
I wait. And wait. And in the end, he doesn’t pull the trigger. He doesn’t do that to himself.
How beautiful is that?
That’s how you face even the scariest and seemingly most horrible moments in life.
Always question your thoughts.
If you think anything should be any different from how it is, you’re mistaken. You’re fighting reality, and reality will always win.
Reality is exactly the way it’s supposed to be. But only always.
All of the freedom and joy you could dream of is on the other side of that insight.
It doesn’t mean we don’t take action to change things. But the action is coming from love, joy, and being aligned with reality, not from anger and fighting reality.
As David Hawkins taught us in his brilliant book Power vs Force, when you align with Truth, Love, and God, you don’t need to force.
The British Empire was about force.
Gandhi was power.
Making it Simpler
One of my gifts is taking in tons and tons of information and distilling it all down into something simple. Seeing patterns and connecting dots.
I have a rare combination of passions in health and technology, in math and spirituality, in mindset and politics. I put it all together to form a complete tapestry.
I’m also really good at reasoning from first principles. Why is it this way? What do we want to achieve? What’s the simplest way to achieve this?
I add decades of study into health, spirituality, relationships, entrepreneurship, creativity, purpose, and human thriving. Everything we all want out of life and that we tend to want the government to provide for us, but which it never can.
In the coaching that I do with my clients, we go into the deepest unconscious beliefs, and into the deepest, most powerful repressed emotions, like grief and rage. There’s no emotion I’m afraid of, there’s very few places in the human psyche I haven’t been.
This brings a unique perspective on the political conversation, because so much of what we want out of politics is about our unconscious feelings and beliefs, and so much of what makes us fight each other and therefore easy to control is also due to our unconscious feelings and beliefs.
This is both a “moment in time” book and a book that outlines a 30-50-100- 1000 year vision. All the principles are timeless.
Today, I consider myself firmly white-pilled.
For most of my life, I was firmly in the Left worldview. Like everyone else, I grew up on the blue pill. (No, not that one, you freak!)
Let me tell you what changed my mind.
