Welcome to Keith's night. Don't try to on anyone and the libertarian Institute. This is an excerpt from the Corbett report newsletter in November of twenty twenty titled how to save the world. The most powerful weapon ever invented is wait. Hold on, rather than answering
right away. Let me tell you a story instead by the 1770s tensions between the American colonies and mother England or at an all-time high the Stamp Act, the Townshend Duties, the Boston Massacre. The Tea Act, the Tea Party protests were sweeping the colonies and no one could deny that American anger at King. George, the third and the English Parliament was reaching a boiling point, but still even as the shot heard round the world rang out in Lexington and
Concord, to Mark the beginning of what we now, call the Revolutionary War few understood, that the American colonies were engaged in a war for independence at all. Even the Declaration of the causes and necessity of taking up arms, sawed. Relieve the Empire from the calamities of Civil War not to achieve independence from England. Although the ranks of those agitating for Independence were growing.
It was still a fringe idea. The average columnist in 1775 believe themselves to be loyal subjects of the British crown seeking to secure the rights, afforded them as Englishmen. So what happened? Common Sense happened, that's what or more accurately. Common Sense happened Thomas. Paine's political pamphlet. Common Sense was published on January 9th, 1776 quickly, becoming one of the most important political tracts in history.
Some even hold it to be the real founding document of the United States, not the Declaration of Independence. There are even those who claim pain himself was the author of the Declaration of Independence, but that's another story. It's difficult to overestimate the impact that common-sense had in shaping the course of American history. It sold 120,000 copies in the first three months alone, equivalent to five percent of the colonies. Total population of 2.5 million by the end of the year.
It had sold 500,000 copies or one pamphlet for every five men, women and children in the colonies. To put that in perspective, a book. Today would have to sell 66 million copies in America, to achieve the same status. And with those sales figures, it would be the 13th. Best-selling book of all time but it's important to note that pain did not achieve this. Monumental success by dishing out dumbed-down mealy-mouthed wishy-washy, platitudes or by regurgitating, the type of
common sense. That would have been held by most of his readers. Know. He did it by completely and utterly changing the narrative. About the colonies, struggle against the crown. In pains view, the colonists were not Grieved Englishmen seeking redress from their King as many at the time, believed they were a nation of Free People engaged in a war of independence from a foreign ruler painted, not couch his argument and fluffy rhetoric or condescending patter on the
contrary. He confronted his readers head-on with his radical View. Men of passive tempers look somewhat lightly over the offenses of Great Britain and still hoping for the best, our app to call out. Come come we shall be friends again for all this, but examine the passions and feelings of mankind.
Bring the doctrine of reconciliation to the Touchstone of Nature. And then tell me whether you can hear after love honor and Faithfully serve the power that hath carried fire and sword into your land.
If you cannot do all these, then you are only Yourselves and by your delay, bringing ruin upon posterity, your future connection with Britain, whom you can neither love nor honor will be forced and unnatural and being formed, only on the plan of present convenience will in a little time fall into a relapse more wretched than the first. But if you say, you can still pass the violations over then I asked hath your house been
burnt, half your property. Been destroyed before your face, are your wife and children destitute of a bed to lie on or bread to live on? Have you lost a parent or a child by their hands? And yourself the ruined and Ratchet Survivor. If you have not, then you are not to judge those who have. But if you have, and can still shake hands with the murderers, then you are Unworthy of the name, husband, father friend, or lover, and whatever May Be your
rank or title in life. You have the heart of a coward and the spirit of a sycophant incredibly by the mere force of his words, pain, succeeded if he had picked up a gun and taken some shots at some British soldiers. He may have taken one or two out before he was subdued, but by picking up his pen, he did something incalculably, more effective. He roused an entire nation into open Rebellion against the largest and most Fearsome military and economic power on the planet.
Obviously. We do not live in the world of 1776, but it is worth reflecting on the story of common sense because embedded within it is the answer to the question. What is the most powerful weapon ever invented? Have you figured it out yet? Story is the most powerful weapon narrative ideas presented in such a way as to provoke certain thoughts. Thoughts. Or actions with a gun. You can kill a man with a bomb. You can kill a family with a nuke.
You Can level a city, but with a story, you can control the world. This is how billions of people around the world have been locked up as prisoners, in their own homes. This past year, not because there is an inexhaustible supply of police Thug standing on every street corner, ready to shoot, anyone who steps outside of their home, but because a narrative has been constructed such that the vast majority Do you want to stay home?
Give us a society. The right narrative, and they will gladly lock themselves inside their own prison and hand over the key. This is why billions around the globe are prepared to roll up their sleeves for an experimental unproven vaccine for a disease with a 99.9 percent survival rate. The masses have been given a narrative whereby. This vaccine is going to deliver them from a deadly plague. It doesn't matter. What counter evidence is presented to them.
The ones who take the vaccine, are the Righteous Heroes of the story and those who question the vaccines are the villains. This is also why. As it pains me to point out over and over again, in my propaganda, Watch series, the powers that shouldn't be spend, so much time money and effort. Urging the public, if the world could be rolled over simply by posting armed guards on every street corner and listening
devices in every home. You better believe those who seek to rule over, you would do that instead, but how could they get armed guards to police their fellow citizens? How could they get the snoops to listen in, on their neighbors? Where would the enforcers come from? The population? Needs to be told a compelling story about why the rulers are rolling and why it is wrong to resist their rule. If such. A story is secure and their minds. They will happily police themselves.
There is a flip side to this seemingly depressing in sight. However, yes, people can be tricked into enslaving themselves through propaganda and narrative manipulation to a large extent that explains the situation. We find ourselves in today, but the inverse is also true. We can be freed by a narrative that helps us to break out of our mental. Prison one Storyteller with a compelling tale to tell can reframe our Collective reality in an instant. And the World will change all at
once. Sadly. It seems the powers that shouldn't be are much more aware of this than we are. That is why the Dutch Army is targeting, dissident voices in the Netherlands. This is why the Canadian military declared that they were going to start to Target the Canadian public in the information War, but don't worry. They totally scrapped, the plan. This is why the British army has an entire cyber Brigade, dedicated to influencing public
Behavior online. Line as does the US military, the Israelis, the Chinese and Russians and every other major government in the world it is because the great reset errs and New World Order agenda, Setters recognize the power of story and they fear the rise of a powerful story. Teller, they're afraid of dissenters coming along and disrupting their carefully. Constructed narrative in the days of yore. They would label those subverting their narrative control.
A heretic and burn them. At the stake today, they label them as agents of disinformation and seek to censor them out of existence. But the fear that motivates these responses are the same. Once again, the world is in crisis and just as in 1776, there are precious few of us who understand the true nature of the struggle that we are engaged in. What we need is a story a way to explain this struggle to the duped masses who have bought into the false narratives unlike 1776.
However, it will not be a political pamphlet that ignites the spark of understanding among The masses. But someone will emerge with a story to tell a university lecturer or an online blogger or Street activist or a crazed person who emerges from the Wilderness and a beard and sandals. To remind us that we are free human beings and that we have all the power, not some small Cadre of deranged Psychopaths who seek to rule over us.
Whoever it is that brings this message to the world and whatever form that message takes. It will appear as a revelation. And answer that's been sitting there under our nose all along and when it arrives, it won't require persuasion or cajoling to convince the public to act. The story itself will compel the public into action. I know these words will fall mostly on deaf ears.
One of the narratives that the narrative controllers have implemented in US. Is that words are meaningless and only the armed Heretics of some steroid Laden gun-toting Rambo can save us from Bad guys about those who have really studied history. Know better. They understand that ideas and stories are the only things that have ever changed the world. Where's Thomas Paine? When you need him, thank you for watching.
Keith Knight. Don't tread on anyone in the libertarian Institute linked to sources and the Corbett report newsletter will be in the description.