Closing The Week And The Summer
Washington’s Farewell Address
I had never read Washington’s Farewell Address in its entirety until this week. September 19th marked the 228th anniversary of George Washington’s departing words as he declared he would not seek a third term. His speech is also a concise description of the nature of the liberty our had achieved, as well as the threats it faced should important lessons be forgotten.
While the introduction of the speech expresses Washington’s gratitude before entering retirement from his role as Commander and Chief, I have to admit I was touched by this sentence, it is something to remember as we examine our own failings. We do forget our defects.
Though, in reviewing the incidents of my administration, I am unconscious of intentional error, I am nevertheless too sensible of my defects not to think it probable that I may have committed many errors.
No other country had achieved what he and the Founding Fathers had done, and truly Washington’s greatest strength was his ability to embrace the responsibility of keeping his troops safe and their morale high. He led by example. The humility he expressed in his farewell was not required given his achievements. He praised the American people for their achievement in riding out the turbulence to give rise to something special that needed to be nurtured. While Cultural Courage is about, in part, celebrating the strength of our heritage, I think Washington’s sense of humility is something that we should reflect upon, too. Bombastic patriotism sometimes overshadows other important elements, and we can blind ourselves unknowingly, and easily.
https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/resources/pdf/Washingtons_Farewell_Address.pdf
Coming Up On Sunday Nights Radio
One of the challenges I am eager to take on is selecting a topic for OZFest Sunday Nights Radio. For those of you not familiar with the format, SNR is a chance to dive deep into topics we normally don’t consider during the week, such as history, philosophy, science of the mind, music, movies and the things of nostalgia that we can derive strength from. There’s a bit of speculation thrown in, but it’s not a George Noory, Art Bell or Clyde Lewis broadcast. Those programs are great, and I could never approach that level of entertainment. And yes, as a kid I grew up with Leonard Nimoy and In Search Of, so trust me, the temptation is there.
This Sunday we will blend history with concepts of cognition that we discussed in our documentary Severed Conscience. In particular, the Grand Remonstrance that preceded the removal and execution of King Charles II in Great Britain will be our focus, as many of the forces that spawned the American Colonies to revolt were at work in the 1600’s leading up the Civil War and Cromwell’s rise to power. Was this a new level of thinking that was put back in the bottle only to rise again with the efforts of the Founding Fathers? And once certain levels of awareness are obtained, does that mean a transformation in thinking is permanent or is it fleeting?
So please join the Sunday Nights Radio Live Stream at 930 PM Eastern for “Grand Remonstrance and Severed Conscience”.
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This Week On Cultural Courage
Tomorrow will be the Autumnal Equinox, the close of summer. And it's Harvest Time, part of our theme for this September. For quite some time I have been focused on food supply chain disruptions, it’s a habit I picked up since Orange and I debuted our documentary Rationed State in September of 2022. Orange’s analysis and research uncovered the themes of planned rationing as an overall strategy for Community of Care, and Canada was hit with a shortage of Children’s Tylenol. To my mind this product is a staple, something that is common enough that we should have no problem producing or buying it. Then in that same fall in the US we had a shortage of baby formula, and I was struck by the theme in the media of “do not strike out on your own and make your own formula, wait for your doctor”. In the meantime, the FDA dragged its feet with the inspections that would have alleviated the problem.
This week I published Still The Wisest Pursuit, an article that focused on the latest struggles of US agriculture. Many homesteaders and small scale farmers are being targeted by corporations empowered to invoke eminent domain to force the sale of generational farm land. In some cases, the federal government is wielding its authority to isolate huge swaths of land for renewable energy projects at the expense of our agriculture sector. While governments are the agents of disruptive action, they are in fact implementing the plans of the global elite. The World Economic Forum has an extensive blueprint for re-engineering our diets, the type of fertilizers we should use, and how we should grow our food.
Severed Conscience Podcast Release Today
Part 2 of Planned Shortages, Planned Ballots is now available. Government causes disruptions that create shortages. And in this episode we examined potential price caps and revoking patents in order to enforce behavior in the economy. From the discontinuation of the monoclonal antibodies, lawsuits in Michigan to shut down Line 5 that brings natural gas and oil to the state, these shortages are not by accident. We also examined the latest in voter registration fraud, where noncitizens are registered to vote in Alabama. Should we worry about the Dominion voting machines when the fraud occurs upstream in the voter rolls that are not being cleansed from election to election?
You can find our podcast on Apple, Spotify and Spreaker. Many times the ideas we present here as articles find their genesis in our preparations or discussions on our podcasts.
OZFest Recap and Next Week
On Tuesday, OZFest Morning Mission supported the efforts of Still The Wisest Pursuit with a focus on eminent domain and late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Ginsburg was known for promoting the concept of “public purpose” which would allow a government entity to take property and for another private entity to develop for public benefits. This new concept expanded the power of government in the name of “public use”. We also reviewed YouTube’s policy of demonetizing videos that criticized carbon capture and the possible damage that can occur for the creation of carbonic acid or from transporting liquified CO2.
This next week OZFest Morning Mission revisits core topics with updates from the Gotion and Green Charter Township lawsuit, irregularities of voter registration and how they will affect a secure vote in the upcoming election, the murky activity of a private corporation MEDC and its refusal to come under public scrutiny, and calls for AI to be used in education to prevent teens from becoming radicalized.
Action packed for Tuesday, 830 AM. Our live streams are at
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