As I watched my dog rolling in the grass from the window at the back of my house this morning I realized something...
Last night's stream... The PPCs base of support's behavior... saying something because no one else will… why do I continue to do this? Why at all waste my time contributing to social media? Why continue doing my brand at all?
This country is full of “those” people. They exist in every political sphere and spectrum. The PPC support base treated me like a pariah immediately after one of their sacred cows decided that I was the enemy. I’m not even talking about just small accounts; I’m talking about their main influencers. They were incapable of rejecting the mob mentality.
These people, in general, are nowhere near ready to handle what's coming, yet they continue the collective moral high-grounding that is exactly why they are losing support from people such as myself. Allow me to be more clear: there are good people in their community who weren't acting insane, whom I am friendly with, and whom I agree with on many things, but the reality is this: the majority of them behave like a rabid horde. They consume a diet of false hope and is is poisoning them spiritually. It is not wrong to hope. It is, however, wrong to repeat behavior which causes you to fail while expecting different results; the definition of insanity. Infact, the goal of this political party is to attract more of these herd-like people to their cause if it is to be successful. Good people are fewer and farer between every day. If the goal isn’t to attract these people, a political party would then not get enough votes. If the goal is to attract those people, then it is likely that the values of said party are being misrepresented to the people who believe in their policies. It is a conundrum, isn’t it?
Every political party is the same regardless if they pursue an alternative platform, or whatever their end-goal intentions might be, because every political party seeks the same end goals: change within the existing system. Meanwhile, good people we've known for years now suffer for the crime of committing actual change, like refusing to participate and learning to do things for themselves. The political obsessives simply prolong the inevitable: collapsing as a whole. They wish to continue to prop up this system which continues to sap their lifeblood. They seek permission; they are not proactive. The desire to have a political party be elected over another is to skirt ones personal responsiblity to effect change in this world.
So why reopen this wound if I claimed we "achieved peace" last night? Why double back? Because there isn't actually peace. Peace, if anything, was achieved within myself. I don't care about team purple. I do not care for my opponent’s views last night, although I will go as far as saying I harbor no ill will towards him as a person. He is passionate about his convictions. This is admirable. I believe if he were to properly realign his focus he could be effective in creating substantial change in this world, however: that is based on my own perception of this world. The real questions are more simple, for example: Who is he? We never would have met each other were it not for this pain-machine called social media. Who are the PPC? Does the PPC exist outside of the social media consciousness, or are they simply claiming existence at the barbecues they’ve organized. If I were to host a barbeque as the Roman Empire would this too exist? Or is it merely the people who exist who share ideas? This is a long ponder: does something actually exist if it isn’t functioning in the real world? Who are these people that support this party? Who are these people who support any political party? The PPC will fail forever by their own representatives [sic] admission. How does one make this argument for failure and not find it concerning within their internal dialogue? I demanded that they convert to Christianity in my declaration of war. They will never convert to Christianity and I know this. They will never make Jesus Christ nor his teachings a central pillar in their platform, because they feel they have to pander to achieve their intended results. This is why they fail. Their desire to be inclusive is what excludes them from the table. This is why they exclude me from their party: their platform does not represent me. Only a platform written by someone like me could represent me. They have no core principles beyond the laws of man. They may claim their man-made laws exist in a world created by God, but why then exclude God from your platform? The peace we achieved is a lie for social media, just like everything is on social media, but it is a truth for my inner sanctum: I accept peace for myself. Some may argue that I must continue because “thats my job now”, but why is it my job, specifically me, to be out there wasting my time, breath, and stress on this? Why not you, accuser? Stand up. Remove your cloak. Build a platform and engage online to your heart’s content.
I can sit online and point out reality; receive endless waves of hate-mail, slander, and grief from a massive base of people (not really. it's small but enough to be a headache for me personally) who can't see the forest for the trees OR I can take lesson from my dog...
I love my dog.
I love my dog. I love both my dogs. I love my family. So... why is my attention anywhere else? Why is your attention anywhere else? “Well because I care about them is why I participate in online social discourse.” Yeah… Me too. Well that is until right this very moment. I realize that while it may seem like we’re “moving the ball forward” that it isn’t up to me to do it on behalf of others; especially those who dogpile me once I hold up a mirror. In fact I would argue by doing this I am being equally as much as a pacifier as the PPC party: I am doing the work that others should be doing, and I may be preventing some from doing what they must. As I watched my doggie roll in the cool winter grass; scratching her back; loving the air, the yard: her life... I took the final red pill. It isn't a pill at all though... it is the silica gel pack...
Last night live on that stream my opponent claimed to have coined the phrase “exiting the matrix.” How does one exit the matrix by working to change the matrix so that they can more happily exist within that matix? These are two different concepts. Participation in party politics; online discourse on monitored social media sites… Do you want to actually exit the matrix? Take the silica gel pack....
I can spend my time begging people to unretard themselves OR... I can roll in the grass. I will never be able to correct the comprehensional disabilities most people with a social media account possess. Even if I could change people one at a time; drag them tooth and nail THEY LIVE Fight Scene style… my job in this life is to slowly save people who will physically resist my good common sense while other succeed in that what it is they want to? I don’t have those aspirations. I aspire only to save the people I care about in my immediate vicinity. My misplaced empathy of trying to help people beyond my sphere is… well it’s party politics. I have given myself a gut check on empathy, and now I am changing. I don’t have that kind of desire, but... have grass: will roll...
I have a good life. God has blessed me greatly. God comes and frees me when I accomplish great deeds. He saved me from caring about playing music for the evil system. He saved me from wasting my time caring about making music for people who do not deserve it such as “potential audience crossovers with this PPC base.” I don’t make music for that audience. You see these PPC people like me and my music if it serves their purple false god, but they are quick to throw me away once I pose any risk to their carefully cultivated worldview. What now? It’s cool? Let’s forget how you just shit all over me for being honest? Great moral standpoint guys! They are the Canadian; perfectly categorized. Why do you think Canada doesn’t get good stuff; why we haven’t made anything impactful in the last several generations? Canadians is why. You might be Canadian and reading this, probably taking offense as Canadians do, but if thats the case it’s because you are probably like the rest of them.
”Here guys, have a political party that will place your best interests first.” NO WE DON’T WANT IT. “Hey I made you some music that won’t make your kids gay.” WHY ISN’T IT ON THE RADIO. DEFUND THE CBC *turns on the cbc and shares an article for the “gotchas.” That’s who we’re dealing with. Maybe if you believe in the PPC alot, you should start a mainstream media company, then tell them to believe in the PPC. That seems more effective than whatever else is going on right now.
I don’t call myself Canadian anymore. I’m here, but I don’t behave like a Canadian behaves. Canadians are not who I ever made music for: you guys are, and I’m speaking specifically to the people who know I’m speaking to them. You guys are like me. We are different. Canadians kicked us out of their country 3 years ago when we didn’t want to play “jailcell doctor” and I won’t ever forget it. The same people who are supposed to “be on our side” are quick to exile anyone who proposes a different opinion. How very Canadian of you guys... With that in mind this morning God gave me the greatest gift: This morning God told me, "Greg you have done enough. Go roll in the grass."
So what does this really mean? I’m leaving forever? No. Of course not. I will keep making music with the talents God gave me. I will make art. I will write. I will continue to grow my businesses. I will keep hanging out with my friends online and offline. I will continue to help people in this community and beyond produce content, albums, websites for their businesses, etc. I’m just turning off the tap that dictates my energy-flow towards social media, people I don’t know by now, and participation in this evil sick world. Yes. This will make my life a little harder since social media responds to people sperging out, beefing online, and participating in politics, but that isn’t ever what I wanted to do. Ever. Yes. I’m funny sometimes. I’m mean other times. I don’t need to share that with anyone outside my household any longer. What I witnessed these last few days made me sit back in my chair, laugh, and say, “Wow these people really suck dick and care about nothing important don’t they?” So why even open myself up. Expect a continuous flow of “buy my album” from now on. This seems to be the only self-serving thing I can post on there without going nuts or sabotaging all my work to date. If people actually want to get to know me they will seek me out.
“So what then? The Path of nihilism arCAd?E” No. nihilism would be to give up and acquiesce to participating in this system we are expected to participate in. Hopeful optimism, for me especially, is further rejection of this system. I reject nihilism by saying specifically: There is hope outside of this evil and I will seek it out. I will no longer be nihilistically accepting the bad choices which have been placed in front of me.
The fight for “righting the path” is long from over. It is nowhere near complete, however... I have played my part. At the very least I have played my part in these online circles where people, after seeing this scenario is resolving, stop posting why they dislike me, and go back to posting a robotic rhetoric of “I hate liberals,” “Trudeau bad,” and “we’ve got to get the libs/wef/un out.” I grow tired because I recognize this pattern. I have strong pattern recognition skills. I recognize that there will be no changing this online rhetoric of repetition, nor the political discourse in this country, until the word comes down from the top to “change the narrative” in the major media companies. Friends: The alternative influencers who claim the main stream media is bought and paid for, still share their articles for “gotchas!” They are utilizing the system.
I have pushed the ball. It's time for me to take a rest from this and allow another to play my position on the field. It is time to roll in the grass. I will put out music content on a few platforms sure, just no more nonsense. Look guys these dimwits that surround us will forget about me once someone they’ve heard on mainstream country radio starts saying the exact same talking points I have. They will send that person their dollars. They will go see them play a stadium. They will never once question why that person is allowed in that world or placed in front of them. What we’ve built here is for us, and I mean that literally: for ourselves. No one else.
A friend of mine sent me this, this morning:
"Its brutal man. We’ve been trying for 3 yrs to build community and find legit serious people for an alternative live/farm coop. We’ve hosted bigot bbqs, PPC meet & greet, Jeremy, James Topp & the whole crew & nothing but grief because of it. Now here we are, broke & no further ahead because there is only a handfull of serious folks & theyre all doing it. Its damn hard to relate to anyone anymore..."
I relate to this my friend. If it is any consolation your support these last years has saved me and my heart. If it is any consolation I am experiencing similar woes currently. We all are. This is the price we pay for doing the right thing. It is time folks like us; ones who have suffered for this and done what was right, to reap our very own rewards. We may not be wealthy in material, but we are wealthy in skills, tools, family, and love for each other. We are wealthy in spirituality in a world that worships evil.
We don't need to suffer for those who do not get it. They will never get out of this world alive. They are not our responsibility. So just give up? No. This is me learning to finally not-give-up. Our families are our responsibility. Let us tend to them; not to the flailings of the failing others.
I've found my friends.
Greg Arcade has left the building.
Prologue
So i’m still going to make music in the future. I will post those things to social media since I have these tools and assets. I won’t be out there banging any drums other than my own though. Gregarcade.com will remain active forever or as long as I’m alive/can afford it. Please buy albums haha. There is a sale on right now for a 2 cd package; use the code: i didn’t know how to make the price lower without having to do a bunch of stuff and like guy… that’s too far to go ahah. I am getting old. Substack is the only place i’ll really want to make written online content anymore. I’ll post my posts to social media, but this is what I wanted to do last year - recluse from socials and just connect with people by writing. I got distracted. I apologize. If you require services that I offer please contact me through those respective business websites, or if you have my contact info just do that like a telegram message, signal, or text. I won’t be checking social media inboxes because you should see some of the spergs I received over the last couple days. I am not open to communicate to eaily so don’t use those haha. If you need me ask someone who knows me or business contact.
I appreciate you continued support. I look forward to making content I care about; not spergy online nonsense.
I am going to attempt to do some online hangout streams where we don’t talk about the current thing and just be us. More about that to come.
Please consider purchasing my two-cd set of Rolling Thunder and Soundtrack To The Collapse here: https://buy.stripe.com/6oEdST3XucNg3HW9B4
You can also buy single albums at:
https://gregarcade.com
Good Game.
Music or otherwise you made people laugh. Think on things that are good and uplifitng. Thank you Greg. Those that know, know what is higher and worthy of our energy and time. Even being a mere woman who spent six decades raising good Canadians I know it when I hear real love and light!
This was a really good post, man. You articulated very well some things I have been pondering, yet couldn't quite put into words. Much respect.