So, I was reading a comment from a listener earlier today. Shout out to myself. It's supposed
to. Yeah, it was me that wrote it. But it's just, yeah, we got a lot of stuff to go over
today. And yeah, the main monologue that we're going to talk about in the first section
here, whatever you want to call it, if it's going to be an hour or not. But it's the how
fascism, socialism, communism, any form of government, they're all wrong. And I'm going
since it's the Thanksgiving holiday here in the States, I'm going to cover that too. We're
going to talk about a little unknown. It's not really unknown. It's they just don't teach
it in in history class anymore. And I think it's a good thing to get out there because
it really shows what the true meaning of Thanksgiving is. And then after that, oh, after
that, we are going to have an epic hour long trip into. I don't know what you want to
call it, but it's something I've never done. And it's been the most involved thing that
I've done. I've slept a worked in worked on this story for like really a solid month or
so, just this one single story. And I've finally got it to where it's presentable. And
it's going to be fun. It is fiction, of course, but it's based in reality. And the sad thing
is, it's the current state of affairs that we live our lives in. That's by rebels, one
way protocol. That's all coming up here right here on Liberty tunes live on RLM radio. So I
mentioned already that I was reading the comment from a listener and that I made a comment. And
you know, I got a shout out to myself because my comment was really, I thought really good.
But the other person's comments and what it was was a there's in a chat room in a a
communist and basically a socialist was all going at it back and forth, you know. And
basically it was just them arguing the same shit. And they don't realize they're arguing
the exact same shit. And then you can even bring in a, you know, the fascism into the
argument. And they're essentially all fighting over the same thing. I mean, they they they
operate on the soul supreme, unadulterated arrogance that they offer a better way for the
individual to live. They genuinely believe that they can run your life better than you
can. Now just think about the ego required to believe that to look at a human being this
complex, chaotic, beautiful mass of biology, dreams, contradictions, desires and think I
can optimize that I can put that in a spreadsheet. The listener made made a great
distinction though. They said that the only real difference is the delivery method. The
communist wants to force those ideas on you immediately. They use the boot. They use
the gulag. They use the direct threat of state violence to say you will comply because we
own you. The socialists, they're a little more subtle. They want to course you through
the communal majority. They don't use a boot. They use a guilt trip. They use the sheer
weight of the mob. They use the homeowners association from a hell to nag you into
submission. And the fascists, you know how the fascists are, they just force you with
whatever boot that they can find, the biggest, hardest boot they can find. And
they're all, all three of them will start out and say it's for the greater
good. We want everyone to pay their fair share. But the fatal flaw is identical,
whether it's the political or the planning committee. It is the fatal
conceit that a bureaucrat in a windowless room in Washington D. C. Or
somewhere else, someone who has never run a business, never fixed a truck,
never turned a wrench, never stuck a shovel in the ground, never had to hunt
for their own dinner, knows how to spend your dollar better than you do, knows a
diet better for you, knows a health, knows your health and your personal
health better than you. But here's the problem. They view society as a chess
board, and they view you as a pawn. And the problem with playing chess with
human beings, the pawns have their own plans. The pawns have families. The
pawns have distinct motivations that no central planner can ever predict.
And when you try to force the pawns to move against their nature, you don't
get a checkmate. You get a collapse. History isn't just a suggestion, folks.
It's a crime scene. We're going to look at that evidence because every time
this arrogance takes the wheel, the car ends up in the ditch. Let's talk
about sparrows. You want to see the ultimate example of what we know better
than you? You have to go back to 1958. Mouse China, the Great Leap Forward,
unquote, unquote. Spoiler alert. It wasn't a leap. It was a face plant.
The central planners, the experts, the scientists, the guys with the
board who love the smell of their own ink. They looked at the agriculture
numbers, and they identified a villain, the Eurasian tree sparrow.
See, the government did the math, linear bureaucratic math. They
calculated that a single sparrow eats about four and a half pounds of
grain a year. So naturally, if you kill a million sparrows, you save
four and a half million pounds of food for the people. It's simple. It's
logic. It's moronic. So now drafted the four pest campaign. And here is
where that communal majority comes in that we talked about. They
mobilized the entire country. I'm not exaggerating. They didn't just
shoot the birds. They told citizens to go outside with pots, pans,
drums and gongs. The goal was to make up so much noise that the
sparrows would be too terrified to land. Imagine that an entire
nation banging on cookware, forcing these birds to fly until they
literally dropped out of the sky dead from exhaustion. They
smashed eggs. They destroyed nests. It was a war against
nature. And the state won. They nearly wiped out the sparrow
population. The party officials patted themselves on the back. They
gave each other metals. We fixed the inefficiency of nature. But
they forgot one little variable. The kind of variable the
individual farmer knows. But the bureaucrat in the Capitol
ignores. Sparrows don't just eat grain. They eat locusts. With
no sparrows to act as the Air Force, the locust population
exploded. It was biblical. The swarms covered the sky. They
didn't eat just eat the grain. They ate everything. The
harvest didn't just dip. It vanished. The result wasn't more
food. The result was the great Chinese famine. estimates say
anywhere from 15 to 45 million people died. Start the death
because the government thought they could edit the ecosystem
like a rough draft of a bad speech. And you want to hear the
punchline? The irony that hurts to laugh at. By 1960 the
Chinese government realized their mistake. They had to go to
the Soviet Union and import sparrows. They had to beg to
get the birds back. This is what happens when you trade
individual knowledge for collective arrogance. They
tried to engineer reality and reality hit back with a body
count. And yet people today still think well we would do it
better this time. Don't bet on it. Not gonna happen. Here's
some more historical evidence for you. This is the
Thanksgiving part. I can hear you guys already the
skeptics. But bonehead that was Mao. That was China. That was
a dictatorship. That can't happen here. It already did.
In fact, it's the reason you're about to stuff your face
with turkey and watch football next Thursday. We need to
talk about the real origin of Thanksgiving. Not the
construction paper or hand turkey version you learned in
second grade. Not the sanitized everyone held hands and
shared equally meth. I'm talking about the Plymouth colony
1620. When the pilgrims first landed they didn't just
bring buckles and bibles. They brought a corporate
contract from their sponsors back in London. That
contract mandated a system that would make a modern
socialist blush. It was called the common course and
condition. Here are the rules. No private property. No
personal ownership of land. Everything you grew,
everything you hunted, and everything you built went
into a common storehouse. And then the net rations
were distributed equally. It didn't matter if you
worked 14 hours a day or four. It didn't matter if
you were the best farmer or the laziest slacker.
You got the same share. Sounds fair, right? Sounds
like that communal majority utopia my listener was
talking about. Well, guess what happened? They nearly
starved to death. It was a disaster. Governor William
Bradford, the guy running the show, kept the diary
and he didn't mince words. He wrote that the young
able-bodied men suddenly didn't feel like working.
They resented spreading their sweat or spending their
sweat in time laboring to feed other men's wives and
children without any compensation. They felt used.
They felt like slaves to the community. So they
stopped working. They feigned illness. The
crops rotted. The common storehouse was empty.
The colony was on the brink of extinction because
they tried to outsource individual responsibility to
the collective. So in 1623 was starvation staring at
them in the in the face. Governor Bradford did
something radical. He scrapped the socialist
experiment. He abolished the common course. He
assigned every family their own plot of land. He
told them whatever you grow on this land is yours.
You eat it. You trade it. You sell it. It
belongs to you. The effect was electric. Bradford
wrote that suddenly the women now willingly went
into the field and took their little ones with
them to get corn. People who had claimed that
they were too sick to work under the collective
system were suddenly the hardest workers in the
colony. Productivity didn't just increase. It
exploded. They had a bumper harvest. They
had so much food that they finally had something
to be truly thankful for. That's the real
lessons of Thanksgiving. It wasn't a celebration
of a socialist commune working. It was a
celebration that the socialist commune ended.
They survived because they embraced the only
system that aligns with human nature. Private
property and individual incentive. We feast
next Thursday not because they shared
everything but because they were finally
allowed to keep what they created. It's more
than just Native Americans and settlers coming
together. It was also a celebration of human
ingenuity, private ownership, self-reliance,
and the responsibility of the individual, not
the collective. That makes humanity thrive.
That's the real reason you were never taught
this in history books. It's also the
reason they focused the story so much on the
Native Americans and not the exact situation
the Plymouth settlers were in. They don't want you to
remember the real history. Now think about that
when you pass the cranberry sauce.
You're screaming for help but no one hears. Just the
echo of your own fears. No one's coming. No
salvation. Just the government's cruel
nationation. Police and military. They guard
not you but the system. The elite. The
chosen few. They promise security.
Peace and order. But all you get is a tighter
border. Soldiers march not for your
protection but to keep the chains on
your reflection. In the dark under neon
lights. I see the fight but no one fights
right. The mask I wear. A symbol of war
against the state against the core. No one's
coming. No salvation. Just the government's
cruel machination. Police and military. They
guard not you but the system. The elite. The
chosen few. Stand up. Stand up. In this
look around. The truth's in plain sight. The
government's here to maintain their might.
You're just a number. A cog in the wheel.
Their control's the only deal they seal. So wear
your mask. Join the rebellion against the
tech. The corporate hellion. In this dystopia
we're on our own. No one's coming. We're
alone. No one's coming. No salvation. Just
the government's cruel machination. Police
and military. They guard not you but the
system. The elite. The chosen few. No one's
coming. No salvation. Just the government's cruel
machination. Police and military. They guard
not you but the system. The elite. The
chosen few. I just realized that I forgot to
download this video of a news report
to play on this part. But no worries. I'll
fix it in post-production or you know
what do you do. Yeah put just put the link in there.
But it's a news report about back in
Venezuela about eight nine years ago
when they started to go south with their
great stuff because they were really a
great superpower and the people got so
hungry because they couldn't afford to
eat that they broke into zoos and
started eating the animals. But anyways
I digress. Yeah before the break you
know I talked about the arrogance of
the leaders. The ones who think they can
calculate a harvest or design a society
from top down. Now I want you I want a
pit of it. I want to talk about the
weapon they use to keep you in line
when they when you when they run out of
bullets or before they even buy them.
My listener back to that comment
earlier. He made a short observation.
He noted that while Communism uses the
government boot socialism often relies
on being coerced through a communal
majority. Now pause and think about that
phrase coerced through a communal
majority. It sounds so nice doesn't it
communal. Sounds like a potluck dinner
sounds like barring a cup of sugar from
your neighbor. But in practice
is it the soft tyranny of the mob. Yes
it is. See the brilliance of this system
is that the state doesn't always have
to be the bad guy. They outsource the
enforcement to you to your neighbors
to your co-workers. They create a
culture
where conforming is moral and dissenting
is dangerous. They're doing that right
now. Even remember what was back
I think it was obamas or late obamas
second term. If you see something say
something
and then that carried into Trump's
first term and obviously Biden's you
know it's always if you see see see
something say something.
Like the red flag laws for guns.
I just got to remind everybody
you know everybody talks about the
story of Anne Frank.
The people who turned in Anne Frank the
dude. Yeah he was following the law.
He was he was the actual one that was
legally and they're correct.
Just because something's legal does not
mean it's right.
The people that were hiding Anne Frank
in her family they were they were
breaking the law and everybody
celebrates. It's like everybody goes to
the movies like I don't know I don't
pick your favorite Marvel superhero
or you know Batman.
You know they're everybody's for the
rebel in the movies. They stand up
they cheer you know fight the big
man but then in reality when the
government comes up and says say
something see something say something
let us know. Everybody bends a knee.
They tell you that true freedom is
selfish. They tell you that relying on
yourself is suspicious.
They want you to believe that the
social contract a contract by the
way that none of us ever signed
requires you to subject or submit
to group think. If you succeed too
much you're greedy. If you want to keep
what you earn you're anti-social. If you
want to educate your own kids you're
undermining your public the truck
public trust. It's a psychological prison.
The walls aren't made of concrete
they're made of shame. They're made of
the fear of being the outsider.
They sell you this idea of a safety net.
Let the community take care of you if
they say. Let the majority decide.
I still say the majority and the
democracy is gang rape.
But let me tell you something about
nets. If a net is tight enough to
catch you in
when you fall it's tight enough to
strangle you when you try to stand up.
That safety net is a spider web. Once
you're in it you owe the spider.
Listener ended his comment with only
with the only truth that really matters
really. The only real freedom is that
of the individual and he's right.
Freedom isn't about voting for the guy
who promises to give you the most free
shit. Freedom is the ability to look at
the communal majority. Look at the mob
look at the collective and say the
most powerful word in the English
language. No. No I won't participate.
No I won't conform. No I won't pretend
your lie is the truth just to fit in.
But be warned when you say no to the
collective things get ugly and if you
think the communal majority is just
about peer pressure you haven't looked
at East Germany. Let's let's take a look
at what happens when the community
becomes the informant.
I always watch out for
countries that have to put the word
democratic in their name. It's like a
used car salesman telling you a car is
reliable. They have to say it probably
isn't. So let's take a trip to East
Germany the GDR the German Democratic
Republic. We're talking about the
Stasi the Ministry for State
Security. Now most people have to think
of the Stasi as the secret police.
Minutes stretch coats, bugging phones,
opening mail. Sure they did that but
that wasn't their true power. Their
true power was what they weaponized
the community. See the Stasi didn't
have enough officers to watch everyone.
No government does. So they recruited
the I'm going to butcher these words. In
Appasio meet Peter the informal
collaborators. These weren't uniformed
officers. These were your neighbors, your
co-workers, your teachers, even your
family members. History tells us by
that by the time the wall came down
in 1989 the Stasi had about 90,000
official officers but they had over
170,000 informants. Think about that
ratio including part-time snitches. It's
estimated that there was one informer
for every six and a half citizens. If
you sat down for dinner with six
friends statistically one of them was
writing a report on you. This was the
ultimate perversion of the communal
majority. They convinced people that
loyalty to the state was more
important than loyalty to their own
blood. There are files, miles of files
that people found after the wall fell.
Women found out their husbands had been
reporting on them for years.
Kids found out their parents were
informants. Best friends realized
their confidential late night chats
about politics were transcribed in a
government basement the next morning.
Why did they do it? Coercion. The state
said if you want that promotion, if you
want your kid to get into university,
if you want a new apartment, you help
the collective, you help the majority
root out the dissents.
They destroyed the most fundamental
unit of freedom. Trust. They created a
society where nobody spoke the truth
because the community was listening.
And if the community is listening, the
individual will go silent. That is the
end game of community coercion. It's not
a neighborhood watch. It's a prison
where the inmates guard each other.
And the moment you stop trusting your
neighbor is the moment the state has
won. But hey, at least they had free
health care, right? Got one more stop on
this tour of good intentions.
Happy Thanksgiving everybody. And this one
isn't in the history books yet because
it's happening right now. Let's bring
this home. Let's bring us to the 21st
century. Because I know some of what
you're thinking. Bonad, you're talking
about pilgrims Cold War relics. We're
modern. We have iPhones. We're smarter
now.
Tell that to Venezuela. Not long ago, I'm
talking historically yesterday.
Venezuela wasn't just a country. It was
a jewel of South America and sat on the
largest proven oil reserves on the
planet. They were wealthy. They were
modern. They didn't start with gulags.
They didn't start with a coup. They started
with a vote. They voted for socialism of
the 21st century. That was the brand name.
It was a shiny. They promised that the
common communal majority would finally
get their fair share. They cheered when
the government seized the oil companies.
Take that corporate greed. They cheered
when they seized the farms. Land for the
people. They cheered when they set price
controls on food. Finally fair prices
for everyone.
And then the math showed up. You see
when you seize a business, you don't
seize the knowledge of how to run it.
When you demonize profit, you destroy
the incentive to produce the result, the
Maduro diet. That's a real term. In 2016, a
university study found that 75% of the
population of Venezuela had lost an
average of 19 pounds. Not because they
were hitting the gym, but because there
was nothing to eat. We're talking
about a country they used to export
food, now digging through trash bins.
Remember those zoo animals I mentioned
a while ago? There are confirmed reports
from the state of Zulia, from Caracos,
Caracas, however you pronounce it, of
people breaking into zoos. Not to steal
the cash register, but to steal the
animals, to eat them. Imagine the
desperation required to look at a zoo
exhibit and see a grocery aisle.
I know what you're thinking. You just
know, bonehead, you only know what you
saw online. No, I've got friends that
live in Venezuela. If you don't, if
you've listened to me a while, you know
I did a show called Loud and Proud.
One of the members of our hosts on
that show was this new girl. Everybody
called her Andy, because her name was
Angelice, and she lived in Venezuela
while this was all going on.
I don't know if she's still in Venezuela.
I hope to hell not, but she couldn't
leave because of her mom.
She lived through this. She told us
about this stuff as it was happening.
Another frequent, frequent person that
was on the show was Nahupuku.
He lived in Venezuela at the same time.
A different part from where Andy was at.
But the same shit was going on in his city.
They couldn't eat. Nahupuku was a big dude
when he first came on the show.
He wasn't a big dude the last time we
had a show with him.
It's
this thick rim reality of quote unquote
the better way.
They traded their economic freedom for
a promise of security, and they end up
eating zoo animals in the dark.
Just remember, if you ever vote your way into
socialism, you're going to have to shoot
your way out of it.
If you vote your way into communism,
you're going to have to shoot your way out of it.
If you vote your way into fascism,
you're going to have to shoot your way out of it.
That's just the reality.
Of the world that we live in.
Because it's, it's,
I get so tired of the left versus right bullshit.
My side, my ruler is better than your ruler.
And it's, you've got to understand.
It's not left versus right.
It's not red versus blue.
It's the state versus you.
So what have we learned today?
We've looked at the pilgrims starving
in their common storehouse.
We looked at Mao fighting a war against
sparrows and losing.
We've looked at the stasi turning
neighbors into snitches and Venezuela
turning zoos into butcher shops.
The scenery changes.
The uniforms change.
The slogans change.
But the math never changes.
You cannot calculate the human spirit.
You cannot centralize the human drive to survive.
My listener who started this whole rant for today
said it best.
The only real freedom is that of the individual.
That isn't just a bumper sticker.
It's the only surviving survival strategy
that has ever worked.
So stop looking for a savior in the government.
Stop looking for meaning in the collective.
The collective doesn't care if you eat.
The collective doesn't care if you dream.
The only person coming to save you is you.
And frankly, that's the only person
qualified for the job.
A monkey bonehead.
Keep your head on a swivel.
Keep your hands on the wheel.
And for the love of God, don't eat the sparrows.
We'll see you next time.
They're too small.
No, I don't care.
The sparrows are too small.
What is that?
It's like an appetizer.
You want to eat a turkey.
I mean forget the turkey.
Eat an ostrich.
My God, how many could you
how many people can you feed on an ostrich leg?
Good Lord.
Or an emu.
I wonder what an emu tastes like.
I wonder if you could barbecue it.
That would be awesome.
Anyways, we're going to take a break
and then we're going to come back and...
Dude, I don't know what to call this.
I don't know if I should call this an audio book.
A rock opera?
I have no clue what to call it.
It's the playthrough of the album
by Rebels newest album, One Way Protocol.
But it tells a complete story.
I haven't done this at all.
I mean, I've done a couple of things
where all the songs are all kind of
fit along the same concept.
But this actually tells a story.
And I have a story narration to go between the songs.
So there's just 56 minutes of music for it.
And no, 51 minutes of music.
And I don't know how long it's going to take me to read
the narration.
But we're going to take a break
and we're going to come right back
and jump in to by Rebels One Way Protocol.
I hope you enjoy it because I've worked my ass off on it.