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93% of Israeli Jews said they were in favour of the Gaza genocide.
That 93% is severely, mind- blowingly brainwashed. Those that eventually escaped the lifelong brainwashing describe it:
"It starts in kindergarten... It's everywhere... 75 years of racist indoctrination & mass militarisation."
Miko Peled, former IDF soldier & son of Israeli general
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-chris-hedges-report-with-miko .
#USPol #EUPol #zionism #gazaGenocide #palestine #IsraeliBrainWashing #racism #apartheid .
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93% of Israeli Jews said they were in favour of the Gaza genocide.
That 93% is severely, mind- blowingly brainwashed. Those that eventually escaped the lifelong brainwashing describe it:
"It starts in kindergarten... It's everywhere... 75 years of racist indoctrination & mass militarisation."
Miko Peled, former IDF soldier & son of Israeli general
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-chris-hedges-report-with-miko .
#USPol #EUPol #zionism #gazaGenocide #palestine #IsraeliBrainWashing #racism #apartheid .
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93% of Israeli Jews said they were in favour of the Gaza genocide.
That 93% is severely, mind- blowingly brainwashed. Those that eventually escaped the lifelong brainwashing describe it:
"It starts in kindergarten... It's everywhere... 75 years of racist indoctrination & mass militarisation."
Miko Peled, former IDF soldier & son of Israeli general
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-chris-hedges-report-with-miko .
#USPol #EUPol #zionism #gazaGenocide #palestine #IsraeliBrainWashing #racism #apartheid .
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93% of Israeli Jews said they were in favour of the Gaza genocide.
That 93% is severely, mind- blowingly brainwashed. Those that eventually escaped the lifelong brainwashing describe it:
"It starts in kindergarten... It's everywhere... 75 years of racist indoctrination & mass militarisation."
Miko Peled, former IDF soldier & son of Israeli general
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-chris-hedges-report-with-miko .
#USPol #EUPol #zionism #gazaGenocide #palestine #IsraeliBrainWashing #racism #apartheid .
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93% of Israeli Jews said they were in favour of the Gaza genocide.
That 93% is severely, mind- blowingly brainwashed. Those that eventually escaped the lifelong brainwashing describe it:
"It starts in kindergarten... It's everywhere... 75 years of racist indoctrination & mass militarisation."
Miko Peled, former IDF soldier & son of Israeli general
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-chris-hedges-report-with-miko .
#USPol #EUPol #zionism #gazaGenocide #palestine #IsraeliBrainWashing #racism #apartheid .
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93% of Israeli Jews said they were in favour of the Gaza genocide.
That 93% is severely, mind- blowingly brainwashed. Those that eventually escaped the lifelong brainwashing describe it:
"It starts in kindergarten... It's everywhere... 75 years of racist indoctrination & mass militarisation."
Miko Peled, former IDF soldier & son of Israeli general
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-chris-hedges-report-with-miko .
#USPol #EUPol #zionism #gazaGenocide #palestine #IsraeliBrainWashing #racism #apartheid .
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93% of Israeli Jews said they were in favour of the Gaza genocide.
That 93% is severely, mind- blowingly brainwashed. Those that eventually escaped the lifelong brainwashing describe it:
"It starts in kindergarten... It's everywhere... 75 years of racist indoctrination & mass militarisation."
Miko Peled, former IDF soldier & son of Israeli general
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-chris-hedges-report-with-miko .
#USPol #EUPol #zionism #gazaGenocide #palestine #IsraeliBrainWashing #racism #apartheid .
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[#ArtflyArchive – Feb 2022] 🖼️ The Curious Cabinet Florence — Interactive digital exhibit for the Florence Arts Centre's Fruitful exhibition - 19th Feburary - 29th March 2022.
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CW: Of course they are
Twitter Bots Advertise Guns to People Who Use the N-Word – Rolling Stone
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/twitter-bots-guns-n-word-1234690018/“Are they undercover cops? Are they phishing scams? Or are they attempts to sow racial division?”
They can be all three. Some cops may want to encourage more Kyle Rittenhouses. Grifters gonna grift. Racists are always trying to sow racial division.
#Twitter #TwitterBots #Racists #GenocidalManiacs #TwitterTrolls
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"The richest man in the world posted about how the white race was under threat, made allusions to race science or promoted anti-immigrant conspiracy content on 26 out of 31 days in January, according to the Guardian’s analysis of his social media output”
People still on X: “Weird. I wonder what that means.”
Everyone else: ………..
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/12/elon-musk-posts-january-white-supremacists
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"The richest man in the world posted about how the white race was under threat, made allusions to race science or promoted anti-immigrant conspiracy content on 26 out of 31 days in January, according to the Guardian’s analysis of his social media output”
People still on X: “Weird. I wonder what that means.”
Everyone else: ………..
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"The richest man in the world posted about how the white race was under threat, made allusions to race science or promoted anti-immigrant conspiracy content on 26 out of 31 days in January, according to the Guardian’s analysis of his social media output”
People still on X: “Weird. I wonder what that means.”
Everyone else: ………..
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"The richest man in the world posted about how the white race was under threat, made allusions to race science or promoted anti-immigrant conspiracy content on 26 out of 31 days in January, according to the Guardian’s analysis of his social media output”
People still on X: “Weird. I wonder what that means.”
Everyone else: ………..
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/12/elon-musk-posts-january-white-supremacists
#Musk #X #DumpMusk #WhiteSupremacist #OpenSocialWeb #JoinMastodon -
"The richest man in the world posted about how the white race was under threat, made allusions to race science or promoted anti-immigrant conspiracy content on 26 out of 31 days in January, according to the Guardian’s analysis of his social media output”
People still on X: “Weird. I wonder what that means.”
Everyone else: ………..
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/12/elon-musk-posts-january-white-supremacists
#Musk #X #DumpMusk #WhiteSupremacist #OpenSocialWeb #JoinMastodon -
The Battle for a Clear Mind: Why Strong Men Stop Letting Their Thoughts Run Them
941 words, 5 minutes read time
Introduction: This Is the Fight You’re Already In
If your mind won’t shut up, it’s not because you’re weak, sensitive, or broken. It’s because you’ve let it run loose. Nobody taught you how to command it. Nobody warned you what happens when you don’t.
Here’s what this article is going to say plainly: modern men are drowning in noise because they surrendered authority over their inner world. Stoicism figured out part of the solution thousands of years ago—discipline your thoughts or they will discipline you. Christianity goes further and tells the harder truth: discipline without Christ eventually collapses under pressure. We’re going to talk about why your mind feels hijacked, what Stoicism actually gets right, where it fails, and why Christ is not optional if you want more than survival.
The Reality: Men Aren’t Anxious—They’re Untrained
Most men don’t describe themselves as anxious. They say they’re tired, distracted, short-tempered, restless, burned out. Same problem. Different words.
You wake up already braced for impact. You scroll before you think. You absorb other people’s outrage, success, and fear before you’ve decided what you believe. Your attention is fragmented into a thousand pieces before breakfast. Then you wonder why you can’t focus, why everything feels heavy, why your patience is gone.
This isn’t accidental. You trained your mind to live this way. Every unchecked thought stays. Every imagined future runs wild. Every past mistake gets replayed like a courtroom tape with no verdict. Over time, the mind turns on itself.
The Stoics would call this self-inflicted captivity. Epictetus was beaten, enslaved, and crippled, yet argued that most men who consider themselves free are owned by their reactions. Marcus Aurelius warned that a man becomes shaped by whatever he lets his thoughts chew on all day. You don’t drift into clarity. You drift into chaos.
For men, this hits harder because we’re built to carry responsibility. When your mind is scattered, leadership collapses. Work suffers. Relationships strain. You’re still standing, still producing—but internally you’re leaking strength.
The Stoic Line in the Sand: Control What’s Yours or Be Ruled
Stoicism draws a hard boundary modern culture hates. Some things are yours to command. Some things aren’t. Your thoughts, judgments, attention, and actions are your responsibility. Everything else is noise.
Stoicism doesn’t promise comfort. It promises control. Thoughts will arise. Anger will show up. Fear will knock. The disciplined man doesn’t panic or indulge. He observes. He decides. He refuses to let emotion drive the wheel.
Marcus Aurelius practiced this while managing war, plague, betrayal, and political decay. Epictetus taught it after enduring abuse that would break most people. These men weren’t theorizing. They were surviving.
Stoicism teaches distance. You are not your anger. You are not your fear. You are the one who notices them. That gap—small at first—is where strength is forged. Over time, emotional reactions lose their grip because they’re no longer obeyed.
This isn’t suppression. It’s command presence. Modern psychology finally admits this works. The Stoics just didn’t wait two thousand years for peer review.
Where Stoicism Runs Out of Road
Here’s the part Stoic influencers don’t like to talk about. Discipline can carry you far—but not all the way.
Stoicism assumes that if you train reason hard enough, it will hold. Christianity says the human will fractures under enough weight. Not because you didn’t try hard enough, but because you were never meant to carry it alone.
Stoicism can teach you to endure suffering with composure. It cannot tell you why suffering exists or what to do when endurance turns into emptiness. It produces strong men who sometimes don’t know what they’re strong for.
This is where grit becomes brittle. Self-mastery becomes isolation. When loss hits—real loss—technique fails. The mind stays disciplined, but the soul starves.
Why Christ Is the Missing Anchor
Christianity doesn’t soften men. It tells the truth about them. You are responsible—and you are limited.
Christ didn’t teach mental tricks. He taught orientation. When He spoke about anxiety, He went straight to the root: misplaced trust. When Paul talked about renewing the mind, he wasn’t selling optimism. He was calling men to realignment—away from illusion, toward truth.
Augustine lived this tension. Trained in classical philosophy, hardened by discipline, he still admitted that the mind remains restless until it rests in God. Discipline can order the mind. Only Christ gives it direction.
Grace doesn’t replace effort. It makes effort survivable. It’s the difference between standing alone in a storm and being anchored through it.
Conclusion: Take Authority or Pay the Price
Here’s the reality. If you don’t discipline your mind, it will discipline you—through anxiety, distraction, and quiet exhaustion. Stoicism gives men tools to regain control, sharpen focus, and stop being pushed around by impulse. Christianity finishes the work by restoring meaning, identity, and hope.
A clear mind isn’t calm by accident. It’s trained. Stoicism sharpens it. Christ anchors it.
Call to Action
If this hit a nerve, good—it was supposed to. Don’t skim it, nod, and move on like nothing changed. Subscribe if you want writing that cuts through noise instead of adding to it. Drop a comment if you agree, disagree, or have something worth saying. And if there’s a topic you want dissected next, reach out. Clarity takes work. Stay sharp.
D. Bryan King
Sources
- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (MIT Classics)
- Epictetus, Enchiridion (MIT Classics)
- Seneca, On the Shortness of Life (MIT Classics)
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy – Stoicism
- Romans 12:1–2 — Renewing the Mind (ESV)
- Philippians 4:6–8 — Discipline of Thought (ESV)
- Matthew 6:25–34 — Christ on Anxiety and Focus (ESV)
- Augustine, Confessions (Early Christian Writings)
- Thomas Aquinas — Reason, Will, and Virtue (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
- Desiring God – Renewing the Mind
- Crossway – Christian Meditation vs Secular Mindfulness
- Greater Good Science Center – Mindfulness and Attention
Disclaimer:
The views and opinions expressed in this post are solely those of the author. The information provided is based on personal research, experience, and understanding of the subject matter at the time of writing. Readers should consult relevant experts or authorities for specific guidance related to their unique situations.
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Finally got this year's #Goodwood #FestivalOfSpeed pin badge through the post, which we should've got on the final day at sign on, about 6 weeks ago.
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Finally got this year's #Goodwood #FestivalOfSpeed pin badge through the post, which we should've got on the final day at sign on, about 6 weeks ago.
Wasn't worth the wait. -
Finally got this year's #Goodwood #FestivalOfSpeed pin badge through the post, which we should've got on the final day at sign on, about 6 weeks ago.
Wasn't worth the wait. -
The weekend is over and once again I’ve enjoyed it enough to volunteer again next year… I must be mad!
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