If you’ve read enough of my posts, you know that, as a kid, I liked the TV show, Green Acres. This surrealistic sitcom portrayed a New York City attorney who moves to the country and becomes a dilettantish farmer. He’s surrounded by hicks, one of whom owns a pig named Arnold Ziffel. Arnold is like a son to his owner, Fred Ziffel, who can decipher Arnold’s grunts and tail movements.
Thanks for your writing, it has been one of a few beacons in the fog of the last few years. Like you, I have found great comfort in knowing there are others who saw this for what it was: a collective madness and one of the greatest scandals in history. You write with great clarity and humour. Thank God for Substack, Brownstone and others, for they have allowed those of us around the world (I’m Australian) who didn’t succumb, to find sanctuary in the sanity of others.
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Mark, I love your articles, they are smart, intuitive and everything you say hits home, even your simple lifestyle resonates with mine. Just thought I’d let you know. You are a man of integrity and my dad loved Green Acres so your good in my books (oh and Hee-Haw too! It used to crack me up watching my Asian dad laugh his butt off over Hee-Haw, Green Acres, All in the Family and Sanford & Son!
I’m thankful for finding so many like minded people in the sea of outright lies and propaganda. Especially those who early went against the tide no matter what was said about them, and the horrible demonization, and trampling of the 1st amendment, that went along with it.
Thank you, Mark. I can't say it often enough how much I appreciate what have done here. I hope you will put your essays together in a book. I would buy several copies.
Nearly universally when reading your dispatches I am in my head saying "YES!" "I wanted to say the same thing, only MO said it better". Your posts are salve for the soul and definitively heartening to learn of having such alignement in this ridiculous era of manufactured and fomented discord.
these were very kind words and beautifully formulated. perhaps modesty, humility and respect are indeed some of our strongest human traits, while our creativity is absolutely capable of defeating the misery around us. heartfelt greetings and TQ for all the work you do.
May 15, 2023·edited May 15, 2023Liked by Mark Oshinskie
Another refreshing, honest entry to your stack.
While it’s encouraging to know there exists a community of dissenters, I wonder after reading each article by you and the others writing in similar fashion, if it’s enough to right this ship, to prevent it taking on even more water as it slowly sinks below to its complete demise.
Is acute awareness all it’s gonna require to mount the necessary resistance to the evil juggernaut facing humanity?
I think getting our collective sanity back is going to require a supernatural divine intervention much like the ‘intervention’ one goes through with an alcoholic to prevent total familial destruction.
We are being abused on a mass scale much like the kind of abuse that happens in families where a psychotic patriarch/matriarch makes life hell for that family by the enabler/co-dependent system at work in such families.
The abuser gains power through an intimidation/fear cycle that is often impossible to break, without an intervention.
Yes, I will pledge. Your posts are some of the most important that kept me sane during these years of stress. I would also love to read them in a book form, but that might be asking too much.
Oh, Mark thank you for putting your words out there. It really takes guts to back them up with an invitation to meet or talk. Your writing was a kind of shelter during this flare up of human evil. We're not done with it either. The enclosure of our culture by the government-pharmaceutical cabal is now apparent and that demon has merely been poked. I don't believe many Americans realize how captive we are.
But as for Green Acres, that was one of my favorites as a kid. You're right about pigs. When the day arrives to slaughter them, they KNOW. For that reason my immediate family is pork free. Not for religious or health reasons, but we feel like eating a pig is not too different from eating a dog or even a human.
I don't know how I found your stack, but it was a bright spot for me no doubt. You mirror what I was thinking exactly (plus I was a hockey player too lol but golf is really my game). I'm going to be simmering mad about this until the sun burns out and will never forget. It's part of me to bring it up when I can to shame people, which is not really helpful but I think necessary. I let everybody, strangers and acquaintances know that I did not line up outside for hours in the cold snowy wind with a mask on to inject toxic garbage because the government-media complex told me to. Especially since you only had to look around to know that it was nonsense.
I was thinking the other day about how the Boston Marathon bombing foreshadowed the reaction of people to the covid propaganda. We should have known and not been surprised (though I was anyway) how fearful and weak western people really are, contrary to the image they have of themselves. I remember Boston becoming an instant ghost town for days while the "manhunt" for a kid went on, his older brother already dead. Instead of everyone going out and flooding the town looking for the obvious one shot loser, everybody in Boston hid inside. The streets were dead empty, a bustling city switched right off. Then after a guy who wanted a smoke went out in his backyard and discovered him, it took a swat team to take down a punk who already had some lead in him lol.
But what shocked me the most was the people of Boston, who had just spent days huddled indoors like there was an alien invasion, like they were under assault by a superpower, came rushing out into the streets waving flags, acting like they had won a world war, chanting USA USA. I marveled at this and the "Boston Strong" slogan stuff. A nation with more guns than people, a huge ex-military population, and a two bit 17 year old shut the whole city down. When the chips are down, very few have the cojones to stand up and say this is ridiculous and I'm not playing this game. So really, we should have known.
My country Canada, which is supposed to be full of "nice" but strong people with a reputation for being fierce war fighters, was even worse. They fully turned against the resisters, went all in with the government- media complex, to the point where we sane people actually had begun to truly worry how bad it would get. Canada vied for the spot of worst country with Australia and New Zealand. So the feeling I am left with is that the true character of 90% of the population came out, and it is no different now than in the history of the world. "Educated, enlightened, modern science based rational people", they went straight back to the Dark Ages cult like beliefs in the blink of an eye. That is unnerving, but also reinforced my belief that almost everyone is a coward, and the results I've had standing up over the years proves it.
I pledged my support because your writings helped me through the insanity of living in a world filled with Lemmings. I found both support and peace here with you my fellow readers. For this, I thank you. Please don't stop writing - the world is forever changed but our human needs have not.
Thanks for your writing, it has been one of a few beacons in the fog of the last few years. Like you, I have found great comfort in knowing there are others who saw this for what it was: a collective madness and one of the greatest scandals in history. You write with great clarity and humour. Thank God for Substack, Brownstone and others, for they have allowed those of us around the world (I’m Australian) who didn’t succumb, to find sanctuary in the sanity of others.
Mark, I love your articles, they are smart, intuitive and everything you say hits home, even your simple lifestyle resonates with mine. Just thought I’d let you know. You are a man of integrity and my dad loved Green Acres so your good in my books (oh and Hee-Haw too! It used to crack me up watching my Asian dad laugh his butt off over Hee-Haw, Green Acres, All in the Family and Sanford & Son!
I’m thankful for finding so many like minded people in the sea of outright lies and propaganda. Especially those who early went against the tide no matter what was said about them, and the horrible demonization, and trampling of the 1st amendment, that went along with it.
Thank you, Mark. I can't say it often enough how much I appreciate what have done here. I hope you will put your essays together in a book. I would buy several copies.
Nearly universally when reading your dispatches I am in my head saying "YES!" "I wanted to say the same thing, only MO said it better". Your posts are salve for the soul and definitively heartening to learn of having such alignement in this ridiculous era of manufactured and fomented discord.
Looks like I’m the first! Happy to support.
Thanks for all you do Mark!
these were very kind words and beautifully formulated. perhaps modesty, humility and respect are indeed some of our strongest human traits, while our creativity is absolutely capable of defeating the misery around us. heartfelt greetings and TQ for all the work you do.
Another refreshing, honest entry to your stack.
While it’s encouraging to know there exists a community of dissenters, I wonder after reading each article by you and the others writing in similar fashion, if it’s enough to right this ship, to prevent it taking on even more water as it slowly sinks below to its complete demise.
Is acute awareness all it’s gonna require to mount the necessary resistance to the evil juggernaut facing humanity?
I think getting our collective sanity back is going to require a supernatural divine intervention much like the ‘intervention’ one goes through with an alcoholic to prevent total familial destruction.
We are being abused on a mass scale much like the kind of abuse that happens in families where a psychotic patriarch/matriarch makes life hell for that family by the enabler/co-dependent system at work in such families.
The abuser gains power through an intimidation/fear cycle that is often impossible to break, without an intervention.
Intervention is long overdue.
https://www.aier.org/article/fifteen-signs-youre-in-an-abusive-relationship-with-the-government/
Yes, I will pledge. Your posts are some of the most important that kept me sane during these years of stress. I would also love to read them in a book form, but that might be asking too much.
Keep on going Mark we need you.
Oh, Mark thank you for putting your words out there. It really takes guts to back them up with an invitation to meet or talk. Your writing was a kind of shelter during this flare up of human evil. We're not done with it either. The enclosure of our culture by the government-pharmaceutical cabal is now apparent and that demon has merely been poked. I don't believe many Americans realize how captive we are.
But as for Green Acres, that was one of my favorites as a kid. You're right about pigs. When the day arrives to slaughter them, they KNOW. For that reason my immediate family is pork free. Not for religious or health reasons, but we feel like eating a pig is not too different from eating a dog or even a human.
Humility is the key
You have humility and self-awareness
Right back at you, Sir.
I'm sending you a heart-felt greeting from sunny Ibiza. If you find yourself on the island, please don't be a stranger.
I don't know how I found your stack, but it was a bright spot for me no doubt. You mirror what I was thinking exactly (plus I was a hockey player too lol but golf is really my game). I'm going to be simmering mad about this until the sun burns out and will never forget. It's part of me to bring it up when I can to shame people, which is not really helpful but I think necessary. I let everybody, strangers and acquaintances know that I did not line up outside for hours in the cold snowy wind with a mask on to inject toxic garbage because the government-media complex told me to. Especially since you only had to look around to know that it was nonsense.
I was thinking the other day about how the Boston Marathon bombing foreshadowed the reaction of people to the covid propaganda. We should have known and not been surprised (though I was anyway) how fearful and weak western people really are, contrary to the image they have of themselves. I remember Boston becoming an instant ghost town for days while the "manhunt" for a kid went on, his older brother already dead. Instead of everyone going out and flooding the town looking for the obvious one shot loser, everybody in Boston hid inside. The streets were dead empty, a bustling city switched right off. Then after a guy who wanted a smoke went out in his backyard and discovered him, it took a swat team to take down a punk who already had some lead in him lol.
But what shocked me the most was the people of Boston, who had just spent days huddled indoors like there was an alien invasion, like they were under assault by a superpower, came rushing out into the streets waving flags, acting like they had won a world war, chanting USA USA. I marveled at this and the "Boston Strong" slogan stuff. A nation with more guns than people, a huge ex-military population, and a two bit 17 year old shut the whole city down. When the chips are down, very few have the cojones to stand up and say this is ridiculous and I'm not playing this game. So really, we should have known.
My country Canada, which is supposed to be full of "nice" but strong people with a reputation for being fierce war fighters, was even worse. They fully turned against the resisters, went all in with the government- media complex, to the point where we sane people actually had begun to truly worry how bad it would get. Canada vied for the spot of worst country with Australia and New Zealand. So the feeling I am left with is that the true character of 90% of the population came out, and it is no different now than in the history of the world. "Educated, enlightened, modern science based rational people", they went straight back to the Dark Ages cult like beliefs in the blink of an eye. That is unnerving, but also reinforced my belief that almost everyone is a coward, and the results I've had standing up over the years proves it.
I pledged my support because your writings helped me through the insanity of living in a world filled with Lemmings. I found both support and peace here with you my fellow readers. For this, I thank you. Please don't stop writing - the world is forever changed but our human needs have not.
blood brothers til the end
We approve.
Keep up the good work.