We’re going to try some shoes on.
First, put yourself in the shoes of one of the leaders of the world, say about eighty years ago. Perhaps you are a high ranking military officer overseeing very secret missions, or a government scientist tasked with very secret research and experiments, or a well-connected politician who is gathering and sharing the results of missions and research with all the other well-connected global politicians.
This is a role playing game (RPG), so select your choice of character and dress him or her in whatever uniform or outfit takes your fancy. Intelligence, pattern recognition, responsibility, and problem-solving are high rolls, but empathy and compassion are proportionately low.
The crisis: Data that has been gathered over the last century reveals that earth is about to reenter a series of severe global disasters that will cause an extinction-level event, not only of animal and plant species, but of humans. It’s happened before, and it will happen again.
Assume that a couple of world wars were cover stories for a massive effort to gather data about past global disasters and how they affected different parts of the world.
Total up the GDPs to see how many lives each nation could sustain if it had to rely only on its own food and energy production. Include the risk statistics depending on specific vulnerabilities, such as earthquake faults, volcanoes, percentage of populated low-lying coastal lands, dependence on imported fuel for energy, dependence on imported grain, etc.
Compile this data into tables by nations, and inform each nation what percentage of its population can be expected to survive a similar period of disasters, and leave it to them to decide how to meet that number.
Now you are going to try on a different pair of shoes: you are the supreme leader of one of the world’s nations.
You have been presented with the horrifying facts. Without fuel and food purchased from other countries that are distant from you, you cannot feed your countrymen through the upcoming disasters (let’s call them “seven lean years”). The deaths by starvation and disease, plus the cruel chaos caused by “survival of the fittest” coups, battles, looting, rapes and murders will wipe out the memory of your nation and its history forever.
But you can be proactive, and alter your future population numbers by acting now (remember, this is 80 years ago) so that your resources might be sufficient to preserve your nation and its precious human DNA through this terrible time. Your choices are:
• War with another nation that has a similar quota of deaths to meet
• War with another nation that refuses to deplete their population (either through denial or hoping to enlarge its regional influence by surviving with the biggest population)
• Help another nation to fight their war by sending your young healthy males to die
• Impose a harsh dictatorship and make up excuses to kill millions of your own people
• Secretly instigate a civil war in your own or another country
• Restrict live births
• Increase conception rate but restrict live births of “disposable” people groups via abortion so your pharmaceutical research against pandemic diseases has a sufficient supply of human tissue
• Increase live births because projected risk for your nation is so high that otherwise you wouldn’t have enough survivors to start over with
• Assess your surplus of food and energy and take in other nations’ excess population
• Genocide of undesirable people groups within your borders or who you project will be a burden on the state with no return for the investment of resources (this option requires at least rudimentary knowledge of genetics)
Note: If you draw a certain fairly large people group that is not living in its ancestral land and has few resources besides the ability to survive and thrive anywhere, you can arrange to have another country deplete your population by a third as long as the survivors are assigned national lands for the remainder to inhabit. Lives for land?
Did I just say that out loud?
Well, I think it’s probably true (and yes, I am half Jewish and yes, my gg-grandfather was a passionate Zionist; I know both the good and the bad about my mother’s tribe).
I think that describes the 20th century pretty well, don’t you?
Now come forward 80 years. You’ll prefer it, the shoes are more comfortable and there’s a lot less death.
This time you are again among the decision makers of the world, the people who have inherited the leadership roles in government, military, and science. These people did not make the decisions to murder their own or other people so that a cross-section of the whole human race might survive. Instead, these are the leaders who will be carrying out the survival part of the plan. Their hope is that as few people as possible die, because the current global population is the Ark that contains the DNA of all nations that will repopulate a denuded world following the seven lean years of horrific disasters.
You may choose to wear the shoes of:
• A civilian actor to play the role of national leader (possible candidate for dictator of the world under the worst conditions)
• Head of an intelligence agency (the agency tasked 50 years ago with getting the nation and world from there to here)
• An Admiral of the Navy, who understands the laying of cables and pipelines and movement of goods by sea
• A General of the Air Force, who understands the movement of people and goods by air, and also weather modification and use of injected plasma with ionospheric heaters to strengthen the failing geomagnetic field, and launching high altitude nuclear weapons from planes
• A General of the Army, who must oversee ground installation operations around the world and also head up the teams creating distractions, deceptions, and divisions so that the populace is not provoked to terror (on the realization of the truth about the disasters and projected survival ratios) until after the supply chain system is installed and secured
• A General of the Marine Corps who is tasked with supply chain protection and food storage and energy security at home and in other countries
• Chief of Space Operations, whose job it is to get planetary defenses and communications satellites in the sky, and a data server base built on the moon for backup, and also detect and track incoming space rocks as well as the increasingly threatening behavior of the sun as it approaches solar minimum and micronova conditions
You can also be a “brain,” either military or civilian, in these specialties:
• Diplomat (crafting equitable trade agreements between nations so all will agree to world peace)
• Internet architecture (connecting the whole world through data capture and analysis)
• Economy (blockchain technology)
• Medicine (public health, especially pandemic diseases)
• Astrobiology (growing food and sustaining life in space or in bunkers or undersea stations)
• Psychology (mental survival under harsh conditions)
• Logistics (flexible design plan to accommodate unpredictable obstacles)
• Education (physical and intellectual survival skills of pre- and post-disaster populations)
• Math (I don’t know what for, because I don’t math, but we need people who math)
• Archaeology/History (so we don’t forget who we were and what came before)
• Entertainment (distraction of bored, cooped-up people)
• Mortuary services (public health)
• Disbursement (rationing, social credit, deciding who eats and who doesn’t)
• Public safety (robotics, drones, surveillance, internment camps, labor camps, executions)
Many more brains are needed, this is an incomplete list. Come up with your own essential skill and add it if none of the above appeals to you. Like dentistry. Imagine all the gap-toothed smiles of survivors in the decades to come if dentistry can’t be performed during an extended crisis. Not to mention all the heart attacks due to tooth infections (that’s a tooth truth).
And now that you have your comfy made-in-China soft-soled shoes on and know your greater or lesser role in the upcoming disasters (vaccine promoter? riot marcher? meme generator? chat channel owner? plausible retired sheriff’s deputy and veteran sticking your patriotic two cents in on social media?), it’s time to think about weighing how much or little truth to tell the public and what risks to the mission can be caused by either.
How much of the truth can the public handle without becoming a frightened mob willing to overthrow any government that appears to be unresponsive to their demands for information and control? If the populace is armed, is less truth better than more truth? For the sake of public safety, do you need to order up some retired SpecOps or military officers to organize “patriot communities” to inspire neighbors to help neighbors and keep an eye on which folks with guns could be a future problem if the lights go out?
How do you win this game?
Think about your exit strategy. Who has your six when it may be every man or woman for himself? Do you need to document what you are doing behind the scenes so that when war trials come around, you can produce proof to show that your intentions were for the protection of the weak and the responsible execution of your duty? Would anyone believe it? Should everyone drop 17s every time they promote a deception, so that every single media outlet and national leader can be shown by headlines and audio/video to be complicit—to convey that there’s too many of you to execute and it was all done by global agreement in the best interests of humanity?
But how will you protect your future existence in your community if you had to make very difficult decisions about who lives and who dies during the worst of times?
Here’s one idea: With today’s technology, you could always change your appearance and create a false identity for news and social media, keeping your real life below ground and out of view, and then burn your fake ID by “dying suddenly” when it was time to assume your digital ID (which will connect you to everything you’ve ever done if the records exist within AI’s reach).
Ideas for anonymity while deceiving: Grow a beard and shaggy hair, or shave your head. Some folks may want to switch genders to make this easier. It won’t work for everyone, but chances are good that you will one day be able to walk into a food court and not be recognized as Starvation Sallie or Freezer Freddy who fed or heated one community at the expense of another when you had to flip a Bitcoin to choose where to send the last supply truck. You win the game if no one ever connects you with your fake identity and your very real job to save humanity.
Okay, my TED talk is over. So that was how to see the big picture and walk in the shoes of people who were or are making life and death decisions for us as the whole of humanity, as a nation, as communities, and (less importantly) as individuals. All these psyops are to keep us from guessing the danger we are in until it’s too late to stop them from completing their global digital blockchain economic and supply chain system that has the best chance of ensuring the most survival per nation, per capita.
Or that’s what they believe. The truth is that after the seven “fat” years are over, they will be followed by seven “lean” years, just like in Egypt, when Joseph was given authority second to the Pharaoh in order to store up grain during the fat years so that he could feed the world (and his own people, who were chosen by God to become a nation set apart for Him) during the lean years.
The difference is that the believing church is going to be called out of here by Jesus, taken to Heaven during the seven lean years to become His own people, from every nation, tribe, people, and tongue, while Israel will remain behind on earth to answer for the deceptions and plans that called evil good and good evil, who turned away from God in their blindness and leaned on their own understanding instead, creating a “Beast from the Sea” system that links all nations and all continents, run by satellite and providing trustworthy and equitable trade of energy and food that makes peace possible. A very fragile peace.
Tragically, their whole glorious plan will fall to pieces, with Israel expecting to be thanked by the nations for their great technological solutions, yet receiving little but ungrateful sneers, to be attacked and plundered and kicked out of their homes and taken captive or killed, until Jesus returns with the church to rescue the remnant and avenge them on those who took a little too much pleasure in kicking Israel when it was down.
[Zechariah 1:14-15, 20-21 NKJV]
14 So the angel who spoke with me said to me,
"Proclaim, saying, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts:
"I am zealous for Jerusalem
And for Zion with great zeal.
15 I am exceedingly angry with the nations at ease;
For I was a little angry,
And they helped--but with evil intent."
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20 Then the LORD showed me four craftsmen.
21 And I said, "What are these coming to do?"
So he said, "These are the horns that scattered Judah, so that no one could lift up his head; but the craftsmen are coming to terrify them, to cast out the horns of the nations that lifted up their horn against the land of Judah to scatter it."
I estimate we have a year left of the fat cattle time…two at the most. You’ve read Ezekiel, right? And Revelation? And Daniel? Not yet, perhaps? Sit down and pull up a Bible and start reading. Watch a Chuck Missler video. Now that you have context, it will make any RPG like D&D look boring. And besides—dragons are evil and God says don’t mess with magic and stuff. So don’t.
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