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COVID19 - SHORT PATH TO 'YOU’LL OWN NOTHING. AND YOU’LL BE HAPPY.’: Welcome to the new Age of Tyranny
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Preface
“Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR per G.G., CHIEF OF ORDNANCE” – Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1885
My path to this book has been decades in the making. My background consists of many avenues of knowledge and experiences. I am part of the Oregon Trail generation -1985 Apple II computer game- or a Xennial, which allowed me to live through the start of computers and video games, moving from an analog childhood to electronic adulthood. I have enjoyed freedom of movement -the root definition and context of the word free- during my youth, being out in the world at a young age with significantly fewer restrictions than what exists today. The number of federal and local laws and regulations have significantly increased across the board from when I was a child.
I experienced the freedom the Internet initially offered, being able to explore and experience it without the worry of laws and restrictions or fear of something or someone constantly monitoring my every move for any misstep. I experienced the electronic music scene, raves -pre and post-9/11- and the freedom of listening to music when no one was being victimized. I witnessed the scene become vilified and condemned for enjoying the freedom it offered from those who had no understanding beyond what the government and mainstream media explained. I experienced the freedom that cryptocurrency, e.g., Bitcoin and Ethereum, brought until government laws and regulations were enacted against them.
As a Network and Systems Administrator, I have worked on routers, switches, and servers. I have designed and developed websites and graphics. I have been a United States (U.S.) Army soldier experiencing military life as an Infantryman and Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) and Cyber Intelligence Analyst. I have held a top-secret clearance and have been entrusted with what some consider the nation’s greatest secrets. I have worked for years in the public sector as a Business and Solutions Analyst, trying to see how it would be possible to make positive changes regarding the freedom and rights of citizens -you can’t unless you amass power and resources and are elected to high levels of public office. I have worked on analyzing laws and regulations while learning and understanding how industries of practice initially become regulated.
Many of the ideas and principles I have learned, gathered, and developed during these experiences have helped guide me down my path as I have evolved into what I am today. With sadness, I recognize that my children will not be able to experience these things the way I did -to enjoy and experience the freedom that should come with life while navigating the pitfalls and dangers that freedom can come with. That is what it should mean to be an adult; we should be free to experience life as long as we do not victimize and violate the natural rights of others. I have witnessed freedom and the idea and understanding of freedom erode over the decades. Government restrictions and regulations in many aspects of our lives and trade industries continue to grow with no end.
I went through the Orlando, Florida, public education system from 1st through 12th grade. I hold several degrees; an Associate of Science in Digital Media and Computer Engineering, an Associate in Applied Science in Intelligence Operations Studies, a Bachelor of Science in Liberal Arts, and a Master of Business Administration in IT Management. Throughout these educational experiences and extensive self-growth educational research, I have realized that public education encouraged me to be a literacy slave, competent enough to work but not competent enough to think for myself, with blind obedience towards authority mixed in.
In 2015, I was taught the Trivium Method of Critical Thinking -a proper way to think critically as a skill set. This was one of those life-changing moments for me. In the following years, I published works and articles that corrected the rhetoric I had held as the truth -rhetoric that the government and the public education system had heavily influenced. Far from any semblance of fact in many bodies of knowledge, I discovered -with horror- how confused and systematically manipulated we all have been. When first seen, the truth can be painful, but it is within all of us to think critically as a skill set and to know and accept the truth without fear and pain.
“In a highly developed society, the Establishment cannot survive without the obedience and loyalty of millions of people who are given small rewards to keep the system going: the soldiers and police, teachers and ministers, administrators and social workers, technicians and production workers, doctors, lawyers, nurses, transport and communications workers, garbage men and firemen. These people-the employed, the somewhat privileged-are drawn into alliance with the elite. They become the guards of the system, buffers between the upper and lower classes. If they stop obeying, the system falls.” – Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States, August 2nd, 2005
What is obedience? Obedience is to submit to being ruled by authority or compliant with tyrannical laws and policies. Slaves are obedient, which is achieved through violence and intimidation. Free and innocent people should not be ruled, nor should they be forced to be obedient to anyone over them through violence and intimidation. The idea of government, and the legitimacy of government, is around the “consent of the governed,” not being “forced to be governed.” However, the “consent of the governed” is still a fallacious idea and thought, and I will show you why in this book.
Being ruled or controlled through non-voluntary means is akin to being a slave; varying degrees of slavery require different levels of control and force. Tyranny is force, and at a government level, it is forced through a monopoly on violence. The idea that we must be obedient to authority through a monopoly on violence is slavery. Documentaries on the idea of the monopoly on violence are The Monopoly on Violence and Overpoliced, directed by Chris Cofer, and are documentaries that I helped produce.
The U.S. was officially established with the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, 1776. A declaration to be independent of British tyrannical rule -which Thomas Jefferson drafted using many ideas and teachings from philosopher and physician John Locke. The founders of the U.S. and most of those in the original colonies no longer wanted to be obedient to a tyrant. To gain independence and freedom, resistance against tyranny was an absolute requirement, which led to the U.S. Revolutionary War. Resistance in this context is defined as organized opposition to rulers and tyranny. This resistance to government tyranny provided the pathway for the U.S. to maintain its independence and to usher in a couple hundred years of advancement that supposedly boasted freedom for all, even though slavery continued to be standard practice after the signing of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution.
“Reading is for the improvement of the understanding. The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.” – John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Reading and Study for A Gentleman, 1703
Why is it now that blind obedience to governmental authority is viewed as being a “good citizen,” and resistance to what some see as government tyranny is viewed as “terroristic behavior”? Has all understanding of how this country was formed vanished? Why does the government-run public education system not teach the essential ideologies many of the founders used as justification for the Revolutionary War?
Many do not understand these ideas about freedom from tyranny. Each of us should be able to judge our current political climate and issues without only repeating the rhetoric of others. We should be able to form and create our rhetoric by using critical thinking to process all information available to determine our rhetoric and truth. Why do you think the government-run education system teaches individuals what to think and not how to think?
The U.S. Education System comprises the Classical Trivium -Classical Education- and the Prussian Education System. The Classical Trivium -designed by the Catholic Church- was used to create a circle body of knowledge and to keep people within that body of knowledge. Stepping outside that body of knowledge is viewed negatively and quickly “corrected.” This system is used to create literacy slaves, those competent enough to work but not competent enough to think for themselves. The Prussian Education System was designed after the Prussian army -and its mercenaries- lost against Napoleon’s army from 1806 to 1807. The Prussian Parliament determined that its soldiers and mercenaries lost due to independent thought -thinking for themselves- so it changed the educational system to create blind obedience to authority with a focus on creating mercenaries and nation-building. The Prussians later evolved into Nazi Germany. The U.S. Education System comprises these two systems and aims to generate literacy slaves who have blind obedience towards authority. What we see today is a direct result of this system teaching and indoctrinating multiple generations.
Our Natural Rights -Life, Freedom, and Property- are inalienable rights that everyone in the world has and shares, and they are being attacked at every step. Most people accept it without question or any protest or resistance. We are on the precipice of human evolution or devolution; which way do you want to go?
In his Five Types of Regimes, Plato -arguably the most influential person in Western philosophy- said thousands of years ago that government has a lifecycle. Government is not a static thing. Plato explained that Revolution comes after Tyranny, which, if a Revolution is successful, citizens are revolved into a previous, less restrictive version of government. This less stringent government version is still statism and eventually leads to Tyranny. We are at a point in this global government lifecycle where no revolution against government tyranny would be televised or otherwise published by any tyrannical government trying to maintain control and power over the innocent. Unless, of course, it is politically advantageous to do so. It is up to all of us to stand up against tyranny and voice the ideas that made the U.S. an arguably once great nation; defiance in the face of tyranny.
In 2016, I wrote an article asking myself, “what made America great?” From this article, I came up with the saying “Make America Defiant Again” (MADA), a response to President Donald Trump’s campaign slogan “Make America Great Again” being pushed at the time. President Trump’s campaign slogan was a blatant ripoff of the year President Reagan used “Make America Great Again” as his campaign slogan. Since then, I have used this MADA statement as a motto for where we need to go and how we must be as a society collectively. With this article, I defined patriotism and learned what it was to be a patriot.
Patriotism comes from the words patriot + -ism; patriot from the Late Latin word patriota, “fellow-countryman” + -ism as a system or practice (Online Etymology Dictionary), so a system or practice of being a fellow-countryman -a government supporter. Using context and theme, a country is defined as a landmass controlled by a government. This is the root definition of a patriot; however, in the 18th century, patriot was also used as “a factious disturber of the government” (Online Etymology Dictionary). When viewed with context and theme, should patriot -how Thomas Jefferson and the other founders used it in the 18th century- be considered a fellow redcoat or a factious disturber of the redcoats and the tyrannical British government? Would the likes of Thomas Jefferson and others view where we are today as American flag-waving patriots -the U.S. flag being the U.S. government’s coat of arms- or would they be factious disturbers of a tyrannical government in search of a Revolution and new coat of arms to distinguish themselves from said tyrannical symbol?
“If patriotism were defined, not as blind obedience to government, nor as submissive worship to flags and anthems, but rather as love of one’s country, one’s fellow citizens (all over the world), as loyalty to the principles of justice and democracy, then patriotism would require us to disobey our government, when it violated those principles. We have thrown away the most valuable asset we had — the individual’s right to oppose both flag and country when he believed them to be in the wrong. We have thrown it away; and with it, all that was really respectable about that grotesque and laughable word, Patriotism. We grow up in a controlled society, where we are told that when one person kills another person, that is murder, but when the government kills a hundred thousand, that is patriotism.” – Howard Zinn, Declarations of Independence: Cross-Examining American Ideology, January 1st, 1991
Individually, a single person cannot stop government tyranny, but an individual can be the start of a movement of defiance and disobedience, which progresses Tyranny through Revolution. We can evolve past the need for government, the need to be controlled, and an endless cycle of tyranny that has lasted thousands of years. But to get to this point, defiance in the face of tyranny is a must which would be the catalyst to end Tyranny and progress us to the beginning of Revolution.
The etymology of the word defiance is a “challenge, declaration of war” (Online Etymology Dictionary). We must be defiant in the face of oppression from a government that does not represent the wishes or wills of those it supposedly represents. Defiant against those who wish to violate the rights of the innocent when seeking more power and resources. If this stance and defiance against government tyranny do not happen, then we, and our children, will be in this phase of tyranny for many years to come; we are only at the beginning stages of this new Age of Tyranny.
It is not the goal of this book to teach you how to think critically but to provide you with the tools and knowledge to start understanding the path we are heading down and the bleak outlook the future might hold for us. We can get through it and survive what is coming over the next few decades, but it will get very rough. This book will focus on everything I could find on COVID19 while showing how COVID19 is the new 9/11 helping to usher in the Great Reset and a short path to “You will own nothing. And you’ll be happy.” (World Economic Forum). I hope this book helps open others’ eyes to the truth as I see it and the potentially dangerous direction we are heading. We can enact real change in this new Age of Tyranny if we meet the issues we face with a sense of purpose focused on helping expose the horrors committed against innocent people worldwide. It is up to us to speak up, or the servile insanity will continue for generations.
Jeffrey Hann