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Unfortunately, Linda, your analysis is very astute.

With the sudden flood tide of Virtual Reality in the early 1990s, America (and later, the world) dug a deep, deep hole in a pre-existing pit of psychotic delusions... and half the population fell into it.

Worse, the sane survivors have struggled to get the measure of what was happening to them and to the whole world. We remain completely ignorant of some of the techniques, new and old, being used against us.

I'm afraid that current victories against would-be far-right dictators, even a Democratic triumph gaining the presidency and both houses of Congress, will amount only to buying time in which to adjust to new worldwide realities.

But that tenuous foothold is essential.

The aim of our struggle: to save our children and theirs from the worst of what we are bequeathing them, arming future generations to help themselves in a world devastated not so much by the power of money as by the gravely diseased abuse of that great power.

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I agree we do not even understand all that is being used against us. I have some idea of what the DDR government used to use in Germany because Germany has so many films that are set in the DDR. Putin was part of their Stasi just as he was part of the KGB. He learned his trade there, and now has people using these same mind control techniques with modern tech. They are spying on us, I am pretty sure Trump gave him Kompromat on lots of people. For all we know the Democrats who are coming out against Biden have dirt on them that makes them victim to pressure. Although with our lying press, we see that they name 4 democrats as Jeff Tiedrich pointed out as being against Biden staying in the race, and then it turns out one name was wrong. They traded one Asian democrat for another. So, where is the fact checking? https://substack.com/home/post/p-146399983

We do need to save this planet for ourselves and our children. We have to have the children be more savvy about the ways in which they are being manipulated too.

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I read that the President was not even in Washington at some times when this neurologist visited the White House...

In the past three decades and more, some of the most remarkable human beings I have met have been children. Actually, this goes back much further. During the very short period during which I worked as a (lousy) teacher, a few children left an indelible impression on me. Even the boy who was academically zero but showed great natural intelligence when playing football (soccer).

Some make it to adult life intact. They can see through the world's besetting evils and delusions.

As for the NYT, a source of news I had used for decades, I cancelled my subscription in 2016.

The kindest word that can be found for the media in Anglo-Saxon countries is that it is like the Curate's Egg...

"Good in parts".

Hold your noses...

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