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Posted on August 23, 2024 by barbarianadmin

Subversion and the Stages of Collapse

The American empire is collapsing. Depending on how you look at it this is a good thing or a bad thing. Many say America and think of what the founding fathers started in 1776. While they ignore the reality of America today. In this mind set the collapse is bad.

My dear friends, I think you are in big trouble. Whether you believe it or not, YOU ARE AT WAR. And you may lose this war very soon, together with all your affluence and freedoms, unless you start defending yourselves.

I hope you have noticed on your color televisions that there is in fact war going on right now all over this planet. This war has many faces, but it’s all the same, it’s war. Some call it “national liberation “, some title it “class struggle” or “political terrorism”. Others call it “anti-colonialism” or “struggle for majority rule”. Some even come up with such fancy names as “war of patriotic forces” or “peace movement”

The driving force of this war. has very little to do with natural aspirations of people for better lives and greater freedoms. If at all, these aspirations are being used and taken advantage of by the manipulators and progenitors of the war. The real driving force of this war of aggression is IDEOLOGY something you cannot eat, wear or store for a “rainy day”.

An integral part of this war of ideology is IDEOLOGICAL SUBVERSION the process of changing the perception of reality in the minds of millions of peoples all over the world.

~Yuri Bezmenov 1984

Others see what America has become and see the collapse as good. As a chance to pull the country back to the ideals of freedom it started out with. In this mind set the collapse still may not be great but the possible outcome may be better. Optimism in the dark times I guess, but how did it get to this point?

Some will say its the natural course of empires which is true, most don’t last this long as it is. Others will say it’s getting destroyed. This could also be true the natural cycle of things sure can get helped along.

The “help.” The art of tricking the masses into doing things to hurt themselves and making them believe it is good for them. Is called subversion. This is not a new trick but is as ancient as mankind itself.

In 1984, in the form of a letter addressed to the American people. Yuri wrote a booklet under a pseudonym that talked about Soviet subversion. Subversion that was then under way against the United States. He was former KGB who defected to the United States. He wrote it from the perspective of the USSR vs the United States as that is what he knew.

Now if you read enough history you’ll see the subversion of the United States has been going on long before that.

The subversion started, for all intents and purposes, the moment independence was declared. Some wanted freedom and others wanted to be king them selves or the new equivalent. However many more, only wanted it to fail.

Though without doubt the subversion started as early as 1794. That is when George Washington was convinced by Alexander Hamilton to disregard the founding values and laws, and use the United States military against the citizens. Some refer to this the first civil war but is know as the whiskey rebellion.

Hamilton created legal definitions and precedents at this time that were never challenged. Definitions that undermined the founding documents. Precedents that started the slide down the slope into what the country has become today. Though that is only the earliest I have found. This subversion has continued through out America’s history and still continues today. Though the groups behind it may have changed, or have they?

Who is doing the subverting?

There are many theories and suspects depending on who you talk to. Most come down to a group or groups working together who yearn for totalitarianism. This is the shadowy heart of many movements over the decades.

Yuri blamed The USSR and Communism as that was the world view of the time and that was his first hand experience. As we know the USSR is no longer, how ever Communism does still remain. Though today like it was back then, communism is only the front ideology to push the masses. The group or groups behind want little more than power and control. That is their ideology all the rest is different flavoring for the masses.

I refer to this group by the term coined by Jack Donovan as the Empire of Nothing. He describes it as a collection of self interested and self perpetuating groups. This group includes banking institutions, the military, governments, unions, special interests groups, the entertainment industry, corporations, the media, and so on.

While this definition is accurate. I believe there is more cooperation, intent, and subtle steering of the Empire and its actions. This group and its individual parts do have their own goals. However they all benefit from an increase in centralized control and power.

The founding of the original United States, it’s values and then ideology flew in the face of all of that. I say the original founding because if you look around today the United States is no where near what the founding fathers had envisioned. It could be argued that it in fact has already been subverted.

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Posted on May 20, 2024May 15, 2024 by barbarianadmin

Barbarian book club #1 : A Chase Hughes two-fer on human behavior

I learned more about human behavior and psychology in reading this one book than I did in two semesters of college psych courses. Its in depth but still understandable by the average person.

The second book Six Minute X-ray that is a great add on to Ellipsis if you start there, or its a great place to start for those starting from scratch.

While Ellipsis has everything from human behavior, profiling, influence, and much more. Six Minute X-ray focuses entirely on the profiling system Chase Hughes developed.

Why is all this important?

Having an understanding of human behavior can be a game changer in just about any aspect of life……

From the business stand point it can improve your sales or negotiations by being able to gain some more insight into what might be going on in the head of the person sitting across the desk from you, as well as giving you some skills to influence people to direct them toward your way of thinking, to get them to help you accomplish your goals or simply improve your team management.

From the security and tradecraft stand point, it will help you be able to under stand the baseline of the world around you so that you can more effectively figure out when something is off. You will be able to more easily identify threats and or deception.

Deception detection is also very important for doctors in order for them to decide if a patient is truly in pain or just trying to scam drugs.

If nothing else The Ellipsis Manual will pry open your eyes as to how easy a human being can be manipulated with out their knowledge and on a wide scale. It can be quite frightening but by simply becoming aware to that fact, it sets you up in a better place to defend against it. You can’t defend against what you don’t know about.

So what is the book that is better than these for human behavior? I was able to get my hands on a limited release book from Chase Hughes called the Ops Manual that you could call the Bible of human behavior and influence. It is as thick as a phone book and I am still reading through it so I will cover it its own post when I actually get al the way through it.

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Posted on May 3, 2024April 22, 2024 by barbarianadmin

We need to become wolves again

Wolves are all around us. The Military (and Intelligence agencies), Law Enforcement, Cartels (and other criminals) and large private organizations are all fighting each other as well as preying on the civilian population. This is the game that they all play and everyone is a part of it whether they want to be or not and the stakes are high and are getting higher. Civilization or what people see as civilized society, is just a facade and its collapsing. We will soon be in a place where we have to watch over our own communities and not rely on third parties for that task. If you don’t have warriors around you, your not gonna make it through.

We must become once again a warrior race, something many of us haven’t in generations. And why can’t you? Because you never went to basic training? Nobody gave you a badge or a uniform? That is very much beside the point.

~ Clay Martin @wayofftheres

The majority of the world are sheep. The NPCs, the random characters from the city streets of GTA, the civilians who don’t even know the game is being played often times just out side their perceived world. The ones that don’t know the house down the street is drug house or that they just walked into a mob bar and disrespected the hostess. They either don’t under stand how dangerous the real world is because of their sheltering within “civilization” or they willfully ignore the game entirely. They outsource to and rely on a third party for their protection and security. Most of which have no intention of protecting them when the shit really hits the fan. The sheep will always be targeted, oftentimes victimized, and sometimes caught up in the crossfire as collateral damage resulting in their remaining time in the game much more difficult, or ending it entirely.

“Military, cops, cartels and prepared citizens are all in the game and if you are not you are the target”

~Ed Calderone @manifestoradiopodcast

Many of us have all been consumed by social media, tv, video games or one of the other forms of bread and circus for far to long and that needs to change. Many need to wake up to the fact that no one is coming to save you. If the police force was going to save you which is debatable at this point, See our article HERE, they are not going to now. Their staffing is in the toilet and the good ones are gone or leaving.

There are civilians that understand the game is being played and conduct them selves as such, by preparing the best they know how. Whether or not they are actively playing, they know the game is being played, they have evaluated their situation and judged what level of threat they face and understand that the could be thrust into the game at any moment. Though they typically focus too heavily on buying things when what they really need to do is….

Becoming wolves again

You have to be a sheepdog Ed watch out for the flock….Sheepdogs get eaten where I am from, you want to be a coyote or a wolf.

~Ed Calderone

While coyotes are sly like the fox, seen as the tricksters, and they will survive, they are never honored by warriors but are more respectable than most other metaphors, though they will never be top of the food chain. So what does that leave?…….. Wolves

Why not bears, tigers, lions or any of the many animals often associated with warriors? While some of them have warrior qualities, most of them still perform in the circus. Few of them have tribes or pack, and most of them have qualities that are left unexamined.

Bears are brutes but they are primarily scavengers and loners. All big cats except the lions are loners and are more likely to run than fight. Lions have a pride but the males sit around waiting for the females to do the hunting. Thats why the lioness is popular metaphor for female warriors.

Men with a taste or talent for violence who want to be “good guys” often refer to themselves as sheepdogs, sheepdogs have a deep love for and fights to protect sheep defined as as healthy productive citizens with no capacity for violence. From the wolves who have a capacity for violence but no empathy for their fellow citizens. What is a sheepdog if not a domesticated wolf who as the result of his breeding training and conditioning does exactly what he is told. A sheep dog is a pet a sheepdog has a master his master owns him. The sheepdogs master is not the sheep. His master uses the sheepdog to control the sheep. Who are his assets with which he hill do as he pleases. One wonders if theses so called sheepdogs will ever wake up screaming knowing they aided in the slaughter of their charges or if they will simply block it out and move on barking the wolves are coming perhaps then a sheepdog isn’t such a noble thing to be after all.

~Jack Donovan @ph2t3r

That brings us back to the wolves

Why insult yourself or your tribe by associating them with domesticated pets. Why fight like a sheep dog when you can fight like a wolf. Men need to become the wolves of their tribes again. Our tribes need to raise wolf pups again, because the other wolves are all circling and moving in for the kill.

The empire likes to show wolves as evil, dangerous, violent, typically the villain characters of children’s stories targeting the weak and defenseless. However while wolves were feared they were also revered by the northern tribes.

You don’t see wolves performing in the circus. Wolves are the kings of the north. Wolves protect their own even from other wolves. They live in a pack, work in a pack and hunt as a pack. Up and hunting year round they don’t take a season long nap. They take care of their own including their elders. Being fierce predators no matter the sex there is not an animal in their kingdom that they cannot take down.

The men of tribes have always passed down the warrior skills to their sons. This is the natural way of things. Every man is a warrior for the tribe even though it was not their primary profession.

Professional armies are a more modern invention that sprouts up as people grow soft from the convince of civilization and grow farther and farther from having to survive on their own.

Becoming a wolf will be a journey, take it one step at a time, you just have to prioritize it. Get fit, take classes, learn the skills a little bit at a time in between your other responsibilities. We cover a wide range of info in our paid section Barbarian Tradecraft that will get you started and help guide you to the right topics, information, and experts to search out and learn from.

The longer you wait the more you will have to learn on the fly and the less likely you will be to succeed. Then start teaching your children. Sons and daughters. While they have rarely been the primary warriors there has always been shield maidens and female warriors throughout history. Your wife and daughters should know how to defend them selves and protect their families just as much as the fathers and sons, even if ideally it would be a last resort for them.

Will you become a wolf

There are groups out there that want no other end than your extermination or enslavement. The age old battle of good and evil is making its way back into the foreground for everyone and which side is which is not clear for most people. The facade of civilization is collapsing, and the realities of the world are making their way back into everyones lives. Those who do not want to become prey will need to become wolves. The first step is step is simple decide not to be the victim and become the wolf if you don’t…..