Honestly, reading this I felt rather sad. At some point on my journey I was also a “moron”. Many of us are born with “robotic” mainstream parents, indoctrinated at school, leading to a myriad of programs that create these “morons” you speak of.
If I had stuck to listening to just like-minded peeps, I’d never have learned. I’ve always been fascinated by different people, different opinions and views, without these I wouldn’t be where I am today. Those people acted as mirrors, triggering reactions in my machine. The most frustrating of people have so much to teach us. I’m not positive that isolating oneself from all those potential lessons is beneficial.
Also another take, is that there are many living under all that programming who may have questions , just like I did but with the swamp of disinformation we currently live in they may get lost. Which is why I still remain in many groups that aren’t collinear with my current self, if someone asks a question, I’ll give a nudge, and offer some information, like trying EE or to read a certain book. If I isolated myself I wouldn’t be available to drop seeds, seeds need the dark to germinate and then the light helps them grow. Lots of the time they ask for help and my offerings are rejected but sometimes it’s the opposite.
Yes. THIS.
Mandatory Intellectomy (BTW, what are the origins of that name? It's definitely interesting): I have spent a large part of the last several years living like you have. I have very few friends who think as I do, or who are even open to what I have to offer, and as the world has spun off its axis I'd been putting most of my time into maintaining those friendships (few though they are).
But I decided I had to change that over the last year or so. Why? Because I could not deny that most of the people in my immediate sphere of influence - whether family, friends, or acquaintances - were basically
good people. They have just been made to trust the MSM and all that entailed as their God, because most of their peers did. But even that didn't change their essential nature as good, loving, caring people. Even if their brains had been turned to mush, their hearts were still intact.
So I started doing things to make them
think, such as using Flat Earth screen savers and posting a Guy Fawkes mask next to my desk. And at work as of today I *still* have not worn a mask for even one second, though they are now MANDATORY if you have to work within six feet of another person even for an instant (and when I do have to wear one, and that may be soon unfortunately, I will write "HOAX" on it in big, black felt-tip letters. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE attack me on my first amendment rights...).
Yeah they stare at me, but then they come into my room and see the Guy Fawkes mask and the Flat Earth screen saver and see my Suspicious Observers doom-porn video playing and they ask questions (after deciding I'm not yet criminally insane). Some of them really are wondering what is going on, and they don't see anyone else out there rebelling - even silently - like I am. And they want another viewpoint, even if they only use it to try to strengthen their own. But that doesn't matter. What matters is PLANTING THAT SEED.
And I've been reaping the harvest lately with my own family, as I wrote earlier in this thread. Candice is right: someone has to be there to shine that light before it is seen. I've chosen to do that without caring what others think of me, without pushing it down their throats. Just making it visible, and presenting a CHOICE for those looking for TRUTH, makes a difference. And I believe that what I just wrote may be the main reason behind the entire existence of this forum and of SOTT.net.
Not everyone has access to the information that they need to make informed choices. But having NO access to it won't help anyone. So putting yourself and your beliefs out there in such a way as to be noticeable, but not forced, truly can, and does, give others options that they may have been looking for but had no idea existed.
(EDIT: BTW, I am NOT a "Flat Earther". But that stuff does seem to trigger people to ask questions, or bring accusations that start serious conversations. Just an FYI!)
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