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On the first few notes of the intro I thought it was Adam Sandler singing and then he started doing a Chinese accent.

The 20th and 21st centuries really are the era of different attempts at totalitarianism. In past centuries I wonder if, even under ancient empires and despots, the reach of the elites didn’t often get as far into the private lives and thoughts of whole populations as Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Hitler, et al? Marx and neo-Marxists like Foucault politicised private life, presenting normal things like family, business, property, sex and relationships as the field of battle for revolutionary upheaval and the places for ideology to sweep in and transform.

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Lovely poem. Stepping out into the garden, with the roses - I like that.

“when I’m at my stillest, when I’m at my calmest” - I like this expression about faith, too, and agree. And about switching off, resting the brain.

I’ve only looked at the start so far but the Matthew McConaughey thing is surprisingly good - a welcome break from “the news” :-)

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Did you listen to the Jermwarfare podcast with Matt Ehret.... Tiananmen Sq was not at all as it was depicted to us ........ it was an attempted colour revolution, orchestrated by MI5 backed student 'activists'...................... This should be indicative in itself as to how Mao managed to rise to prominence - with foreign backing......... Darwin, Mill, Spenser - these are all classic freemasonic writers...

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