It was nearly a year and a half ago when I sperged about Telegram being a “waste of time” by stating that we should try to end using it; that we should end using all of this. I have come to a place where I don't believe that anymore. I believe something further…
At the time I could only look at the downsides to it all and therefor I said aloud that the only option was to leave it behind. I had defeat in my heart. Aside from feeling the necessity to fall-back; my friend had just been captured by the federal police in a never-before-heard-of-state-sponsored-kidnapping for the crime of making an off-colored joke online; I too make many off-colored jokes and thusly I figured it was only a matter of time before some flagrant homosexual who worships the cock of the state saw fit to target me in an attempt to satiate their sadistic needs of masturbation-to-suffering as these creatures do. This furthered to put despair in my heart. I do not feel this way any longer.
I know many things have changed in this timeframe, but I can’t give you an entire summation: perhaps it was just a process of figuring out how to exist in this space, perhaps it was the personal growth I’ve experienced, or perhaps it was even the fact that my disrespect for the “outside world” was outpaced my concern for our little ecosystem… regardless I have changed my opinion.
In that time I found that shedding the need to use this platform as a traditional form of social media would indeed be its salvation for me. I did walk away for some time, but I have a few colleagues I could contact anywhere else. I also have a few channels that share good information about gardening. If treated as something more than vanity the platform serves to introduce me to information more quickly than if I were to stumble upon it in my every day life. Yes there is an abundance of doom and spiritual-destruction which is carried out through many hydratic-heads on this platform, but at the end of the day if we remain responsible with our actions, as we should as men of good morality, then we can utilize this tool for something more. Here are my examples, and I will follow them with a quote from another content creator’s page:
This morning I downloaded a book from a channel I follow. This book outlines how to not use a grocery store for an entire year. The channel posts the book with the artwork. I downloaded both the PDF and the artwork to my phone, opened the private chat with my wife, uploaded the artwork, uploaded the PDF, and left a searchable tag “BOOK <title>”. Simple right? I’m sure a lot of you do this as well. I probably would never have found this book unless I had stumbled across it at a thrift store, but even then who would give it away? To be honest: I hate reading books on my phone or my computer, but I will look it over and if it does have a lot of handy recipes etc. I’ll dropship the book to myself or print it. In this way, using telegram helped my life.
Without telegram I would not have been able to start a few “clubs” for people. The only one that survived the year was the gardening club; this club remained on-task undramatic and fun to be a part of. It waned as the harvest came and went, but it will again start up when this planting season begins shortly. This small community provided me with information and food-for-thought. I was also able to lend some help to others.
A lot of people on this platform just want to link up with other people who share common interests. Living in the great White northern expanse formerly known as Canada (now only a shell corporation managing the decline into squalor) it is more difficult to find people who share common values with you. Telegram allows this to happen immediately. It can be a trap in some ways; keeping us from becoming active in our communities, but if we find balance through responsibility against the convenience this platform offers our psyche, we can use it as a tool to outpace the desolate souls that exist among us.
Here is the quote I promised:
Read “escape from freedom” by Fromm.
Fromm explores humanity's shifting relationship with freedom, how individual freedom can cause fear, anxiety and alienation, and how many people seek relief by relinquishing freedom. In 1941 before a lot of your parents were born.
Freedom is stressful and requires high accountability. Most people want to give it up for comfort on some level. It’s actually natural. And then they get angry at their master who takes away their responsibility and offers comfort in exchange for service. Because many are incapable of admitting that it’s their choice, so they act “oppressed.”
It’s like the guy at the bar who only tries to fight when people are holding him back.
The government and the system offer comfort and services in exchange for giving up responsibility. Your freedom only comes from self ownership and moral discipline which is very difficult and stressful.
That’s the truth.
Owen Benjamin
I completely agree. Especially with the ending paragraph. It is not for us to resist temptation by complete removal. We are to temper our temptation by placing that what tempts us in front of us and instead being able to refuse it. It will take practice. It will take failure. In time though; harnessing power over our vice of convenience will serve to make us much more powerful than our opponents. I think this extends to all aspects of life.
So yes, it is tempting to consume doom and gloom. This is provided everywhere. Facebook attempted to remedy this by banning news in Canada. All this showed to the people who use that platform is the doom doesn’t exist solely in the news, but in their very existence. Still, I know many good people who use facebook and even do so to share fantastic information about baking bread or hunting. They are in control of their vice that is convenience. It is tempting to parrot talking points which are popular for the vanity of ones platform growth, but it is of paramount more importance to focus on that which will actually pull us out of this ongoing nightmare. We must focus on the things that make us better. I don’t think that means to not share things you are passionate about. If the negativity we are exposed to creates a reaction that causes positive change in our reality, then this is good. It is good to be motivated. It is, conversely, as waste of time to peer into the doom and accept it for what it is. I do think we need to be more focused on goal-oriented behavior.
Rubbing-the-belly-of and assuring someone that it will “be okay” can put their worries at ease temporarily, but once you’re gone and you’re no longer there to comfort them their pain will return. It is in facing that which tempts us; be it through fear, anger, lust, vengeance, etc. and instead refusing to act in the behavioral-paths that these temptations try and goad us into pursing such as defeat, nihilism, or anger-for-anger’s-sake that we achieve growth as people. This growth will allow us to achieve betterment tomorrow. I don’t have it all figured out as I am growing with you, but I have found that a balance of calculated thought coupled with a nurturing of your wild feral instinctual drive can lead a person to accomplish great feats…
Ultimately I still feel in the grand scheme of things, the eventual goal should be to leave the entire internet’s social-media-conditioning-psyop behind. We should want to be so happy in our daily lives that we forget the internet exists. This is not the reality yet, so we must utilize this tool to our advantage. We can come closer to this reality by using the information here to better ourselves. We can use the communication capabilities of these platforms to find people who are worth associating with. We can use the information to acquire assets and knowledge that set us apart from others who do not hold our values. It may even be argued that one, who does reassure the mass of inactive followers; those who can not save themselves, can learn to utilize the power of this audience to further bolster their own pursuits. We can even use our cunning to dismantle the evil which is gripping our existence by the throat…
So today, in an odd change of tone, I say the rare phrase that often does not come from my mouth: I take it back.
I take back what I said about removal from their system. If they have a system that exists, then it is on us to poison it. We will poison their wells as they have done to ours. There are many ways in which we can poison their wells (assets) and the path in which you choose will ultimately be up to you. I have learned much these last months and I choose to do it with our good moral behavior. Their systems are sick and worship evil. I will destroy this evil, but not with more evil.
So friends, guild mates, creators, sh*t-posters… we should not only be on Telegram. We should exist everywhere, boldly. We should take everything for ourselves now and set an example for those who come after us: “We are better men. Do not fall for the lies of the empire of evil.” If we can not take back a space, we should burn it to the ground; make it unusable. Make it unfun for the NPCs who exist in those spaces so that their formed-opinions can not be fomented by the parasites which pose as “holders of popular opinion.”
We have this ability. We are the only ones with a real audience. With the entire system against us, we grow every day at a rate these wretches could only dream-of. Their followers are dead-internet-bots and multiple-accounts credited only to one user. Don’t be fooled by their tricks. They are pathetic. Their pathos is nurtured through degeneracy and complaining which is rooted in their lack of ability to be great.
You don’t need to engage in their abhorrent behavior. This only contributes to their sick society. Go and be moral. We will destroy the degeneracy of our enemies through our shining examples morality.
Make every space unsafe for those who do not deserve it.
RETVRN
Fantastic piece, Sir Gregor. I agree, and you know me, I've been through a very similar thing. It's too easy to fall to the doomers and gloomers on Telegram and Twitter. I think, if anything, Telegram has enabled community-building in ways that would NEVER fly on Discord. and i don't just mean the dialogue we've all shared. Telegram enables open communication in a digital PUBLIC space. Way better than Twitter ever could be.