Knowledge? Or Character?

As my readers know, I knew at the very outset that the “COVID operation” was just that — an operation. A criminal operation. I knew for several reasons, not least of which was because — as I also said at the time — that it was “too stupid to just be stupid…”

Prior experience — general life experience and a decade’s worth of direct experience with one very specific event — told me exactly how this country’s inhabitants would react.

That prior experience of bringing the truth (or at the very least, the impossibilities) of the Sep 11th attacks to my “fellow Americans” — taught me one thing for absolutely certain. No amount of provable, verifiable, undisputed facts would…mean…ANYTHING to most people.

Starting four years ago, the truth of that experience got proven once again.

Knowledge? Or Character?

Is the above a knowledge problem — or a character problem? I say it’s a character problem — and a big one that permeates the majority. A nation’s character is built one person at a time. Right now? Things ain’t lookin’ too peachy.

In Comments sections here and on LinkedIn, I read how if we could just show people how the elites control us…If we could just give people the information they need…If they had the truth, why, then…Why then what???

To many of these comments I respond that the COVID operation did not reveal a knowledge deficit. It revealed a character deficit.

What’s Knowledge Got To Do With It?

Since we can never have complete knowledge of anything at any given time, how do we make the “rightest” decision we can? Character guides us.

With knowledge that we have that if we keep secret leads to our immediate benefit, how do we make the “rightest” decision we can? Character tells us.

Basketball Coach Cleveland Stroud

In the lead-in to his book, “Are We Good Enough For Liberty,” Lawrence W. Reed retells the story of Coach Stroud. Ever heard of him? I hadn’t until I opened this book.

Here’s the story from Mr. Reed’s book:

“In 1987 something quite remarkable happened in the little town of Conyers, Georgia. When school officials there discovered that one of their basketball players who had played 45 seconds in the first of the school’s five post-season games had actually been scholastically ineligible, they returned the state championship trophy their beloved Rockdale Bulldogs had just won a few weeks before. If they had simply kept quiet, probably no one else would have ever known about it and they could have retained the trophy.

To their eternal credit, the team and the town, dejected though they were, rallied behind the school’s decision. Coach Cleveland Stroud said, ‘We didn’t know he was ineligible at the time…but you’ve got to do what’s honest and right and what the rules say. I told my team that people forget the scores of the games; they don’t ever forget what you’re made of.’”

That, ladies and gentleman, is character.

In other articles that I’ve read on this admirable man, I learned that Coach Stroud forfeited the only state championship he and his team ever won.

I also learned that the player, the ineligible one? Coach put him in, a third-stringer, to give him a chance to play since the team was so far ahead and sure to win the game. The player “played” for 45 seconds, did not score, and had no discernible impact on the game’s outcome.

And still character drove Coach Stroud. Read the article hyperlinked above to hear more about why? He was worried about more than just himself…

What came after for Coach Stroud following this? Well, do a search and find out. :)

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So. Knowledge. Pounds of it. Not enough of it. Secret knowledge that gets you short-term returns if you keep it to yourself.

All kinds of “knowledge” is out there, but that’s just it. It’s out there. In the world…that fallen, venal wacky world full of fallible people, sin, temptation, and all the rest of it.

But character. Where does character lie?

Mr. Reed argues it’s hard-wired into as humans. When we ignore that wiring, we subtract from our character. Mr. Reed:

“When a person spurns his conscience and fails to do what he knows is right, he subtracts from his character. When he evades his responsibilities, succumbs to temptation, foists his problems and burdens on others, or fails to exert self-discipline, he subtracts from his character. When he attempts to reform the world without reforming himself first, he subtracts from his character.” (Bold/italics added.)

Or, for example, when he demands that others accommodate his fears, he subtracts from his character — and makes everybody around him miserable.

Or when he demands that his preferences for others’ conduct conform to his, he subtracts from his character — and reduces the God-given free choice of everybody around him.

So, we must ask, what happens when a whole nation subtracts from its character as we saw during the COVID operation? A character that the nation insists is founded upon the ideals of liberty, driven by courage, culminating in “the land of the free and brave.”

Wreckage. That’s what happens. Complete wreckage.

Of life. Of Liberty. Of the good and decent. And ironically, but wholly predictably, of security itself, personal and economic. At the individual level and at the societal.

And how — pray tell — would knowledge far more widely available and readily shared than what we poor slobs had following Sep 11 have remedied any of what happened during the COVID op? What did knowledge have to do with any of it???

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Back in the day, Richard Gage, founder of Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth (asked to leave that organization for his opinions on the COVID op — can’t make it up) came to Boston.

During this particular presentation, which included Gage’s painstaking accumulation of facts (knowledge), I raised my hand to make a comment.

By this time, I had learned that no amount of knowledge, facts, information would make any difference at all. Americans had already given themselves over to the official story. They had already happily forfeited their 4th and 5th Amendment protections for “safety’s” sake. They enjoyed — at least in my/our experience — mocking in the most insulting ways anyone who hung a question mark on any part of that story. Look out if you went so far as to suggest that murdering people in countries that had nothing to do with the attacks might be bad karma…

I thanked Richard for his hard work and his presentation. I then said in all seriousness, but sadly,

“Facts don’t matter, Mr. Gage.”

Of course they do, but in the absence of character? They’re pearls before swine…and that, my friends, makes all the difference. For all of us.