DEAR SOPHIA,

THE IMAGE AND WHAT IT SAYS IS MOST APPROPRIATE FOR THESE TIMES. HOW DO YOU BOIL A FROG? VERY SLOWLY. IN THE MEDIEVAL TIMES, THE AUTHORITY IN WESTERN EUROPE WAS THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. EVERYTHING WAS DETERMINED BY THEM, LAW, SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY, MORALITY AND EVERY ASPECT OF A PERSON’S CONDUCT AND THINKING HAD TO BE LINE WITH CATHOLIC CHURCH DOGMA. CIVILIZATION WENT BACKWARDS BY ABOUT 1,500 YEARS. THIS DIDN’T HAPPEN OVERNIGHT. IT HAPPENED VERY SLOWLY (LIKE BOILING A FROG) AND THE METHOD OF COERCION WAS THIS: FIRST, IF YOU DISAGREED WITH THE AUTHORITY, YOU WERE EXCOMMUNICATED; IF YOU DISAGREED WITH THE AUTHORITY, YOU WERE ALSO CALLED A HERETIC; SECOND, IF THAT WASN’T ENOUGH TO PERSUADE YOU, YOU WERE SHOWN THE INSTRUMENTS OF PERSUASION (TORTURE) AND THAT WASN’T ENOUGH TO PERSUADE YOU, THEN THE LAST OPTION, PURIFICATION BY FIRE, MEANING YOU WERE BURNED ALIVE TO PURIFY YOUR SOUL. IF THIS SOUNDS RATHER EXTREME AND UNBELIEVABLE, TRUST ME, IT IS ALL TRUE.

AFTER THE 15TH CENTURY, THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT BEGAN. WE BEGAN TO REDISCOVER LOGICAL THOUGHT AND THE TRUE NATURE AROUND US IN ALL ASPECTS, HOWEVER, TODAY, A NEW WORD HAS BECOME SYNONYMOUS WITH HERETIC. THAT WORD IS CONSPIRACY THEORIST. ALTERNATIVELY, THEY SAY, NUT JOB OR THEY SAY DETACHED FROM REALITY. THE PROBLEM IS THIS IS THE SAME OPPRESSION OF THOUGHT AS WAS DONE IN THE MEDIEVAL TIMES. NO LONGER DO PEOPLE HAVE THE RIGHT TO THINK ALTERNATIVELY TO WHAT MAINSTREAM MEDIA AND THE GOVERNMENT WANTS YOU TO THINK. THIS DIDN’T HAPPEN OVERNIGHT. IT’S BEEN GOING ON FOR ABOUT 50 YEARS. WE HAVE REACHED THE POINT WHERE A CHALLENGE TO STANDARDIZED THINKING IS NOT JUST CRITICIZED, IT’S NOT EVEN THAT YOU HAVE THE ABILITY TO DISAGREE AND DISCUSS. YOU ARE SIMPLY LABELED A CONSPIRACY THEORIST WHICH IS A WAY OF CANCELING YOU IN SOCIETY. IF THAT DOESN’T WORK, THE NEXT STEP IS TO BRING SO MUCH LITIGATION AGAINST YOU, TO PERSUADE YOU (INSTRUMENTS OF PERSUASION) AND IF THAT DOESN’T WORK, THEN THE FORCES AGAINST YOUR THINKING WILL TAKE FURTHER STEPS TO REMOVE YOU FROM SOCIETY EVEN IF THAT MEANS TAKING YOUR LIFE.

NONE OF THIS IS NEW IN CIVILIZATION. THERE ARE TWO EXAMPLES OF INDIVIDUALS PAYING THE ULTIMATE PRICE OF THEIR LIFE FOR STANDING AGAINST STATUS QUO. THE FIRST IS SOCRATES, HE WAS CONDEMNED FOR CORRUPTING THE THOUGHT OF THE YOUTH. SECOND, WAS CHRIST, AND HE WAS CONDEMNED FOR CHALLENGING THE RELIGIOUS STATUS QUO. TODAY, WE ARE DOING THIS TO ANY POLITICAL LEADER WHO SIMPLY CHALLENGES THE STATUS QUO. HOW IS THIS HAPPENING?

THERE IS AN OLD TRUSIM WITH COMPUTERS. GARBAGE IN, GARBAGE OUT. COMPUTERS DON’T MAKE MISTAKES. IF THE END RESULT IS WRONG, IT’S BECAUSE WHAT YOU PUT INTO THE COMPUTER WAS WRONG TO BEGIN WITH. DEMOCRACY IS THE SAME THING. PEOPLE VOTING ARE LIKE COMPUTERS. UNINFORMED, MISINFORMED, ILL-INFORMED, DELIBERATE OR NOT, WHEN PEOPLE VOTE IN THAT MANNER (WHICH IS NOW THE MAJORITY OF THE POPULATION) THE END RESULT IS GOING TO BE AN ELECTION RESULT THAT IS GARBAGE. IT’S GOING TO BE BASED ON BAD INFORMATION. THIS IS WHAT THE POWER STRUCTURE OF THE GOVERNMENT DESIRES. PEOPLE ARE MISINFORMED DELIBERATELY. AND THE END RESULT OF THE ELECTION PROCESS IS TO BE EXPECTED. IN THIS ELECTION CYCLE, THE MANIPULATION IS SO APPARENT TO THOSE WHO QUESTION THINGS CRITICALLY.

SO NOW THAT THE POLITICAL CONVENTIONS ARE OVER, THE FIRST TIME IN FOUR GENERATIONS THE NOMINEE OF ONE PARTY HAS NEVER FACED A PRIMARY CAMPAIGN TO RECEIVE THE NOMINATION AND THE OTHER NOMINEE IS A LAME DUCK. THIS HAS NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE. WITH ONE PARTY, THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE WAS NEVER HEARD. AND WITH THE OTHER PARTY, THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE SEEMS TO BE TO NOMINATE SOMEONE WHO WOULD HAVE LIMITED POWER (BECAUSE HE WOULD BE A LAME DUCK). I DO NOT BUY THAT THIS AN ELECTION TO SAVE DEMOCRACY. ACTUALLY, QUITE THE OPPOSITE. VOTING FOR SOMEONE WHO WAS ANOINTED AS THE NOMINEE IS NOT DEMOCRATIC. AND VOTING FOR SOMEONE WHO WILL HAVE LIMITED POWER IS JUST SLIGHTLY MORE DEMOCRATIC. THAT’S THE CHOICE IN THIS ELECTION NOW. MORE BLUNTLY SAID, IS DO YOU WANT TO BE A BOILED FROG OR DO YOU WANT TO GET OUT OF THE POT?

THAT’S ENOUGH FOR TODAY, SOPHIA. THE HOURGLASS IS STILL RUNNING OUT OF SAND.

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LOVE,

DAD