Note: The photos I’m using in this post are from my own personal collection from a 2010 trip to Damascus, Aleppo and Palmyra.

If you’re one of those people using the 😭 emoji a lot more than usual, welcome to the club.

I admit, it’s a little painful with all the imperial body blows, but once you reframe current events by zooming out a bit from the granular stream of negative news contained inside various algorithmic feeds, it allows for a lot of optimism to creep in from the gaping institutional cracks that are forming on the defensive walls surrounding the empire.

Reframing #1: Time

The battle is a long one. This is very important to understand.

Think of it as a 10,000 miles long relay race where you are holding tightly on to the knowledge baton and passing it to the next runner following your portion of the run. You aren’t wearing the best shoes and the path you’re following is riddled with hurdles, potholes and puddles, but you must run through it all, all the while maintaining your steady pace. At times you will be ahead of the pack with feverish periods of sprinting, but mostly you will be running from behind. The key is to keep running and keep the others busy trying to keep up with you. The other key is to never let go of your baton. This baton must be passed to the next person. The next generation. Don’t forget to guard your baton!

Reframing #2: Re-education

Being raised in comfortable society will put you at a cognitive ease. Resist this ease at all costs. Travel to difficult places. Eat delicious meals with people you are told to stay away from. Drink plenty of tea and coffee with these people. Learn new languages so you can talk to these people, read their authors, read their histories from their own authors. Read books recommended by others carrying batons. It’s a life-long re-education that will have plenty of fruits to enjoy along the way with friends you will cherish until your last breath. There’s plenty of beauty in the constant re-education.

A street in historic section of Damascus. Such beauty.

Reframing #3: Fractured Media Changes Knowledge & Power Dynamic

A short conversation with friends and family will tell you what they read (if they read at all, that is) and what kind of media they consume. We are living in a world of parallel truths, but the wise know that there’s only one truth. It will take more work on your part to vet sources, but that is part of the struggle and you will be better for it. Cut the cord from bad ones as quickly as possible so that you can avoid rabbit holes.

Reframing #4: Boiling The Giant Imperial Frog Will Take More Time

Taking this analogy a little further, the Zionist entity is not actually the frog that’s boiling, but rather a small tumor on the side of the giant imperial frog. As long as such tumors remain, the imperial frog will continue to wither way more rapidly from a reputational standpoint on the international stage. Normally when a tumor is removed, there is improvement in the health of the physical body in question, but sadly, the cancer contained inside this tumor has spread into the body of the giant frog and the frog will continue to weaken as it chops off its own tumors, until finally one day…all of a sudden…😬

Long walks around historic sections of Damascus were very revealing. People had actual skills, believe it or not.

Reframing #5: New Litmus Tests Are Available

Until the inevitable sudden collapse, the “democratic” electorate has gained a Palestine Litmus Test. Questions on this test go like this: Where did you stand on the student protests? What did you tweet? When did you call for a ceasefire? How did you vote for supplying weapons to this & that tumorous entity at hundreds of bases scattered around the globe? The Palestine litmus test is linked more and more closely to empire than ever before and this must be exploited at every given opportunity when it comes to our elected officials.

Reframing #6: Spiritual

And finally, without the spiritual element, we will have no soul, no guardrails against our selfish desires for economic and military domination. If we’ve learned anything, it’s that the rules-based order that surrounds wholly secular systems of government simply don’t work for humanity at large. It is very self-serving and selective, either economically or ideologically. At the end of the day, this is a battle of one religion vs another religion and I use “religion” here with 20% literal weight and the remaining 80% more ephemeral. The latter is not as tangible as the former. The latter is codified by laws of nature that should humble each one of us into submission. These laws will serve as a check on own selfish desires. These laws will make us afraid of a final judge, a force far greater than anything imaginable by any A.I. system or brilliant billionaire. These laws will force us to make important decisions that are in the best interests of humanity regardless of race, religion or creed and of course save us from most dangerous element of decision making: ourselves.

Eyes were on me upon entering the Great Mosque in Aleppo in 2010. This kid in the photo will be around 15 years old, assuming he is still alive. ❤️

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