The Rudder of Destiny

We Become What We Do

A ship crossing an ocean is something of a metaphor for life. If it's going from, say, London, England to New York in the U.S.A. it must follow a particular heading, but if the heading is changed a few degrees it will be found far from New York. What does this have to do with life? Small changes that we make in our lives may have large effects after a number of years. Not exactly an original thought, but something to think about.

The world is full of people who want to change the world. There is a saying, or if there's not there should be, that if you you want to change the world change yourself, since that's the only thing you have much control over. People will generally be changed by their circumstances, but that might not be in a good way. It's hard to change yourself, but it sometimes happens inadvertently and quickly due to traumatic situations. Since those are not really under your control what I'm considering is what you can do to intentionally change yourself. That is usually a slow process, and basically consists of acting and thinking in the way you want to become. The idea that we become what we do applies both to what we physically do as well as what we think about and what our wants and desires lie. For any skill you wish to acquire the skill itself must be practiced, and the repetitive nature of the practice will change you.

I've mentioned a couple of times that, if you take the cowardly path you become cowardly, and if you take the courageous path you become courageous. People are not usually thinking in terms of deciding whether to take the cowardly path or the courageous one, but the results of many small decisions will trend in one direction or another, causing a shift in the person's courage one way or the other over time.

The same logic applies in any other aspect of life. Similarly, taking the compassionate path will tend to make you more compassionate over time even if you are not compassionate to start with. If you want to be more compassionate try to think about other people's situations and feelings, commit actual acts of compassion, and over time you will become more so. If you want to become more athletic take part in athletic activities. (Admittedly this will only take you so far.)

Things you don't want may come into your life just because you think and talk about them. If you don't think or talk about divorce you are less likely to divorce. What you are likely to do is concentrated in the universe of things that you accept as doable.

It's also true that if you think evil thoughts you will become more evil. Someone starting down a path of criminal activity will move deeper into that realm. If someone begins contemplating murder he may think about it more and more, until the unthinkable becomes thinkable. Just thinking negatively will tilt your whole worldview into a negative space, so it's important to try to control your own thoughts. Think about what type of person you want to be and try to arrange your thinking accordingly.

Of course the first thing when it comes to changing yourself is wanting to, maybe from necessity or maybe just a desire to improve yourself, which bring us to the first thing you might want to change – creating in yourself a desire to improve yourself or increasing the one you have. Many people have little such inbred desire, but it might be that going through life will tend to create one, so the first change on your list might be developing a desire for positive change. To increase one's desire to improve oneself might come down to intentionally working to increase that desire. Intentionally looking into things that will improve oneself should begin to make it a priority.

"How do you become better tomorrow? By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid of standing still. Forget your mistakes, but remember what they taught you. So how do you become better tomorrow? By becoming better today." ~ Benjamin Franklin

But what if someone else wants to change your thinking, and hence yourself? As I said before, if you you want to change the world change yourself, since that's the only thing you have much control over. But what if it's not just an individual wanting to change the world, but an entire class of people?

The third rule of propaganda is: The rule of transfusion - manipulating the consensus values of the target audience for one's own ends. Social media has been taken over by a combination of government influence and left leaning high tech employees. Any sort of mildly conservative ideas have been mostly expunged, leaving mostly left wing ideas. Presumably this is shifting the thoughts of the populace in a leftward direction. (I'm rooting for Elon Musk on this one.)

I think that it is not happenstance, and that there is in fact an operation in progress to to change the habits and thoughts of people so as to move them in the direction of being landless serfs. If changing your own thought patterns so that you are a different kind of person is possible, then it should be possible for an outside agency with influence over mass media and education to do the same.

Anyone who disagrees with this thesis is encouraged to explain what they would do differently if they decided to create this administrative feudalism.

( To reiterate The Five Rules of Propaganda

1. The rule of simplification - reducing all data to a simple confrontation between 'Good and Bad', 'Friend and Foe'.

2. The rule of disfiguration - discrediting the opposition by crude smears and parodies.

3. The rule of transfusion - manipulating the consensus values of the target audience for one's own ends.

4. The rule of unanimity - presenting one's viewpoint as if it were unanimous opinion of all right-thinking people: draining the doubting individual into agreement by the appeal of star-performers, by social pressure , and by 'psychological contagion'.

5. The rule of orchestration - endlessly repeating the same messages in different variations and combinations.)

Think of how many things have changed since the 1950s, and how they seem to be a result of the changes in people's thoughts. Anything that makes people more controllable is prevalent, such as increased fear and anxiety due to the changes in society. Families are in the way of control over people since they provide support against institutional powers. Religion is under assault, or more properly there is an attempt to replace it with the state religion of Scientism. Simple things like how no one in a sitcom is seen going to church, a 125 pound woman in a movie beats up a 200 pound male martial artists, all manner of things that do not reflect reality but create a mind virus.

As I write this, parts of a journal of a young woman who thought of herself as a man and killed six people at the Covenant School in suburban Nashville, Tennessee have been released. She would appear to be a victim of a mind control operation, believing in “white privilege,” and transgenderism. Was her thinking changed over time by a psy-op?

Where do all of these mind changing operations come from? Perhaps President Kennedy had an idea:

"We are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence — on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day" ~ John F. Kennedy

I don't think that they would hesitate to warp the mind of an impressionable young lady.

Stay brave, stay free.