Establishing Dominance

 

I had a strange dream last night. I was outside a Greek pizza shop. There were at least two other people outside, one was male and the other female and I guess maybe they could have been my friends, though I did not recognize them. I told these “friends” I was going to go inside the pizza place, grab two slices and also a beer.

I went inside the pizza place and there was a tall counter and two young Greek guys behind it. They looked down on me and asked what I wanted. I told them I wanted two slices of cheese pizza. The Greek guy was about to get the two slices for me, but then he suggested I just go ahead and order a small cheese pizza because the price was only slightly higher than getting two slices. He may have been helping me out or he may have been upselling, but I figured he was right, so I told him to go ahead and cook up a small cheese pizza for me.

As I was waiting for the pizza, I said to myself, “Damn, you know what’s going to happen now, though? I’m going to walk out with a small cheese pizza and I’m going to look like a jerk if I don’t offer any to my friends. But if I do offer them any, I’m not going to have enough for myself. Maybe I should have just stuck with the slices to make things less complicated.” But then I thought I should maybe get a large cheese pizza, even though it would cost much more money than I had originally planned for. I figured this way I could not only look like a nice guy in giving my friends (or whoever the people outside were) some pizza but I could also establish dominance over them.

Wait, what?

Yes, establish dominance. I figured if I’m the one paying for the pizza, then that will elevate me to a position of superiority in the social order of the group. The “provider” of food ends up getting the upper hand, the dominance over the others. If you’re confused by this, then think about why men like to pay for a woman’s dinner while on a date. In doing this, they look like a nice guy, yes, but they also establish a primal-like dominance over the woman (i.e. I’m paying for YOUR dinner, therefore I now have the dominance over you in this relationship). Now, you may be saying that this all sounds so sexist, but we can all admit that if the opposite happened, if the woman paid for the man’s dinner, the man would feel emasculated. The woman would have the dominance in the relationship and the man would feel weak and powerless.

Anyway, I woke up from the dream around this time and thought about what it all meant. I pondered this whole phenomenon of establishing dominance through the process of giving people stuff or providing for people or taking care of people. You look like a nice guy on the surface, but the ulterior motive could also be that you are establishing dominance.

This is when I realized that this is EXACTLY what is happening right now with our government.

In an interview last week, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra, said, and I quote:

“The Federal Government has spent trillions of dollars to try and keep Americans alive during this pandemic. So it is absolutely the government’s business [to know people’s vaccination status], it is taxpayers’ business, if we have to continue to spend money to try and keep people from contracting COVID.”[1]

 

What Becerra is saying here is that, because the government has spent so much money on people via COVID relief, the government now has the right to know who is and isn’t vaccinated. This means there is no privacy when it comes to the government knowing whether you got the shot. This also means that, because the government spent so much money on you, you are now indebted to the government and, thus, they kind of own a part of you and you’re obligated to surrender certain rights to them. In short: the government has established dominance over you.

Indeed, what we are witnessing in the government today is a conscious effort to establish dominance over the individual and they’re basically accomplishing this by providing that individual with free money and free services. Whether it’s COVID relief checks, unemployment checks, child tax credits aka “middle-class tax cuts”, student loan forgiveness, free healthcare, free child care, racial “equity” or even universal basic income (which was just made law in California), the endgame is not to really help those in need but to establish dominance over them. This dominance, in turn, gives the government much more power. In fact, this is the modus operandi of an authoritarian communist regime. You give the people a bunch of free stuff, but you indebt and, thus, enslave them to you in the process.

Therefore, what we are witnessing today is a government trying to become authoritarian but in a sneaky way. They’re coming off as the saviors who offer short-term help to the little guy through free money and services, but what they are really doing in the long-term is establishing dominance.

Now, at first thought, people love the idea of free stuff and government assistance, but what you end up losing in the long run is your individual freedom and, really, your soul. This has happened time and time again in history and it’s time we wake up and realize what is happening right before our very eyes.

Giving to people in need is, of course, a virtuous move but not when it comes at the price of the people’s liberty!

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MATT BURNS is the author of THE WOMAN AND THE DRAGON, JOHNNY CRUISE, WEIRD MONSTER and SUPERMARKET ZOMBIES!. Find these books (and many more) at Matt Burns’ Amazon author page HERE.

 

RECENT TRENDING ARTICLES BY MATT BURNS:

 

Vaccine Thoughts

 

It’s Ok to Admit the Emperor Has No Clothes

 

We All Know Cancel Culture is Ridiculous

 

INDIVIDUALISM VS. COLLECTIVISM: the bad acid-like trip I experienced during the 2021 Superbowl halftime show

 

Pride Comes Before the Fall

 

The Cloak of Woke

Parallels Between Lyme Disease and the Washington ‘Swamp’

 

Is Being Woke a Joke?

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[1] Mastrangelo, Dominick. “HHS head: ‘Absolutely the government’s business’ to know people’s vaccination status.” The Hill, 8 July 2021, HHS head: 'Absolutely the government's business' to know people's vaccine status | TheHill.

IT’S OK TO ADMIT THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES

Most people are familiar with the old folktale The Emperor’s New Clothes, right? The story is about two con-artists posing as weavers who convince an emperor that they will weave him “special clothes”, clothes that are only visible to smart people while invisible to stupid people. The joke, however, is that there are no clothes, but the emperor is too afraid to admit that he doesn’t see them, lest people think he is stupid. So, he walks around naked and his subjects are also afraid to admit the clothes don’t exist because they don’t want to look stupid, either. Eventually, it takes the courage of a little girl who doesn’t care about looking stupid to call out the fact that the emperor is wearing no clothes.

Now, there are many ways this simple but brilliant folktale can be broken down and analyzed, but what I think is most fascinating about the story is its lesson in human psychology. In particular, this is a fascinating case-study in gaslighting.

Gaslighting, if you don’t know, is basically a manipulative psychological tactic where you convince a person they’re crazy for believing or stating the obvious. In the case of The Emperor’s New Clothes, the emperor’s subjects see—clear as day—that the emperor is buck naked with no clothes on, but the emperor is able to gaslight them that he is, indeed, wearing clothes, the most splendid clothes ever to be worn, and he’s able to get everybody to sign on to this unreality because people are too afraid to state the obvious. This is how manipulative power-hungry personalities work: if you can convince people that unreality is reality and vice versa, you can literally convince them of anything. Once you accomplish this, you can get away with anything. Literally anything.

This lesson in psychological manipulation is, of course, timeless and perhaps more relevant than ever right now in the current political climate. What we are witnessing today is an overwhelming amount of policies coming out of a Biden administration that defy common sense and, frankly, defy reality. There are many examples of this (a wide-open border policy during a pandemic, continued school closures that contradict science, cancelling Dr. Seuss etc.), but perhaps the most glaringly obvious one is the federal mandate to allow transgender women to compete in women’s college sports.

Now, this is a controversial and sensitive topic, but let me just say from the outset that this is America and I believe everybody has the right to live their life in any way they darn well please, so long as it doesn’t infringe upon the rights of others. There are many people born who don’t feel right in their own skin—there’s no denying this and there’s nothing wrong with it. They feel compelled to switch genders, at least to the extent that man-made hormone treatment and surgery have allowed them to.

The problem, however, is that these man-made medical procedures can only take their sex change so far. Based on what we know, it appears as though hormone treatment can potentially reduce bone density and muscle mass to a point that is near or close enough to a biological woman’s; however, science has also shown that muscle mass can be easily rejuvenated afterwards because of “muscle memory”.[1] Either way, hormone treatment still has little to no effect on a male’s bone structure, muscle fiber composition, larger heart, larger lung capacity[2] and the other 6,500—yes, 6,500—genetic differences between men and women.[3]

In short, transgenders are still unavoidably built like a man in many ways that cannot be changed or at least cannot be guaranteed by science to be changed. So is it fair for them to be allowed to compete against biological women in sports? No, doesn’t seem very fair to women, does it? Because there are still significant biological differences at play and the transgenders could have significant advantage over the biological female competition. If anything, much more research has to be done on what, exactly, hormone treatment does to a man’s body before we give the situation the benefit of the doubt and assume there is a level playing field between a trans-woman and a biological woman when it comes to sports.

That makes logical sense, doesn’t it? So why are we afraid to state the obvious? Well, because of the Emperor’s New Clothes phenomenon. Very few people want to state the obvious—that there are innate and unchangeable biological differences between man and woman—because they are afraid to do so. They don’t want to be seen as stupid or, in this case, bigoted or transphobic. So they agree to sign on to an unreality. And that’s what this is really about at the end of the day: inverting reality into an unreality.

That’s right: I don’t think the Biden administration or the political left in general really cares about transgender folks as much as they proclaim to. There is a much bigger issue at play here and that issue is POWER. Remember: if you can convince people that reality isn’t really reality (as we see in The Emperor’s New Clothes), then you can convince them of anything. Once you have obtained the power to invert reality, then you have basically obtained absolute power. And what is absolute power but God? Plain and simple: it’s God.

So that’s the real goal here. Not to help out the transgender community but to put the American people into an “Emperor’s New Clothes” kind of psychological state, which is a state of easy manipulative control and absolute power over them. Once you accomplish this, you have accomplished the goal of every power-hungry emperor and that is to essentially usurp the role of God. This will mean people no longer answer to God as their ultimate ruler; they answer to you and you only. Instead of being one nation under God, America basically becomes one nation under the Biden administration.

To put this another way, what we’re witnessing today is a near-coup-like war against God. Because a war on biology, a war on nature, a war on science, a war on common sense, a war on “the obvious”, a war on reality is just that: a war against God.

What we need more than ever right now is for people to put their foot down and state the obvious, especially when we see so many policies being rolled out—one after another—that defy common sense. We need to fight against unreality. We need to have the courage to say, “THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES!”

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MATT BURNS is the author of THE WOMAN AND THE DRAGON, which is a novella loosely based on chapter 12 in The Book of Revelation. He’s also the author of JOHNNY CRUISE, WEIRD MONSTER and a memoir called GARAGE MOVIE: MY ADVENTURES MAKING WEIRD FILMS. Check out these books (and many more) on his Amazon author page HERE.

 

 

RECENT TRENDING ARTICLES BY MATT BURNS:

 

We All Know Cancel Culture is Ridiculous

 

INDIVIDUALISM VS. COLLECTIVISM: the bad acid-like trip I experienced during the 2021 Superbowl halftime show

 

Pride Comes Before the Fall

 

The Cloak of Woke

 

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[1] Rigby, Sara. “Can transgender athletes be fairly integrated into women’s sports?” Science Focus, 29 March 2019, https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/can-transgender-athletes-be-fairly-integrated-into-womens-sports/?fbclid=IwAR25A2Ks_3ObyNE-2jYdtP6EX2SQskJTFuEBeTDOozyhw_Tb9NFuB2-9tIQ.

 

[2] Bettle, Mackenzie. “Study: Transgender Male Athletes Keep Physical Advantages Even After Female Hormone Injections.” The Federalist, 8 August 2019, https://thefederalist.com/2019/08/08/study-transgender-male-athletes-keep-physical-advantages-even-female-hormone-injections/?fbclid=IwAR03TsPEyYlbgs_FteHX7sHXYUtyuRymApLZXFMxsKHQlbHs9FSraIx1pFA.

 

[3] Perkins, Tony. “New Study Shows Transgender Players Have Advantage in Women’s Sports.” The Daily Signal, 3 February 2021, https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/02/03/new-study-shows-transgender-players-have-advantage-in-girls-sports/?fbclid=IwAR2TpvAnMOJbMjDUcRfRym1ssZE09VouqhZvXPS90keVLorjRa6QZCNp37E.

 

FOR FURTHER READING:

Avery, Dan. “Trans women retain athletic edge after a year of hormone therapy, study finds.” NBC News, 5 January 2021, https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/trans-women-retain-athletic-edge-after-year-hormone-therapy-study-n1252764?fbclid=IwAR2JGxUuIeSE-zior598zWoSW1auZdo0VEFrQ8ZQh1olJz3Ceh8qiZDJtmk.

The CLOAK of WOKE

Sometimes you have to take a step back and look at everything that has happened over the past year…you know, with a bird’s eye view. 

A year ago, we have a president (Trump) who is making America’s economy as strong as it has perhaps ever been, or at least stronger than it has been in a long while. At the same time, he’s being very tough on America’s number-one International competitor (China). He works out a trade deal where China ends up paying much more money in tariffs.

Not surprisingly, China is not happy about this. It’s a blow to their growing economy.

Right around the same time that Trump is making this trade deal, a virus (COVID) suddenly appears out of nowhere in China, the outbreak of which suspiciously occurs near a virology lab in Wuhan. This virus is spreading quickly and it’s only a matter of time before it spreads to the rest of the world, including America.

Meanwhile, Joe Biden has just secured his position as a frontrunner in the 2020 presidential democratic primaries. As soon as Super Tuesday ends in March and it looks like Joe Biden will be the democratic nominee, COVID arrives in America.

With the arrival of COVID, there are shutdowns, Trump’s prized economy takes a blow and everybody is miserable. Biden is being presented to us as the guy who will save us from Trump’s ineptitude in handling COVID and somebody who will return our lives to a state of normalcy. In fact, COVID becomes the main issue driving Biden’s presidential campaign. It’s what he’s running on.

As the year moves forward, it appears as though Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, has very suspicious business ties to China. It also appears that Joe may be mixed up in this business as well. The mainstream media and big-tech social media try to censor a New York Post story about a computer repairman stumbling upon a Hunter Biden laptop containing emails that help prove these ties are real. (It’s only after the presidential election on November 3^rd that the media stops censoring this story and admits Hunter is under investigation by the FBI).

Meanwhile, COVID also provides an excuse to alter how the presidential election process will take place. Mail-in voting will become more the rule than the exception and other changes are made to supposedly make it “safer” for people to vote. Although it’s presented (mainly by the democrats) as something that is in our best democratic interests, this mail-in voting system makes it easier to “muddy the waters,” so to speak, and basically create a smoke screen so that voting fraud can more easily take place.

Not surprisingly, Biden ends up winning the presidential election on November 3^rd.

So, let’s recap. A year ago, we have a President (Trump) who is clearly disliked by China. A suspiciously-timed virus comes out of China that makes Trump look like a bad president, helps Joe Biden have something to run on (i.e. he will save us from the virus and the incompetent Trump), and, at the same time, it appears as though Joe’s son and maybe even Joe himself have suspicious business ties with China. Then, the changes in the electoral process due to COVID end up favoring Joe Biden in the election…

In other words, it doesn’t take a conspiracy theorist here to arrive at the conclusion that China, COVID, and Joe Biden are all connected to one another.

Need further convincing? Let’s see what happens as soon as Joe Biden gets into the White House.

Every single policy of Biden’s is designed to hurt America, make it weaker and push it further away from its status as the world’s superpower. These anti-America-first policies, in turn, strengthen China, because whatever hurts America basically helps China and its goal of usurping America as the world superpower, numero uno, the big cheese.

Here are some examples of Biden’s anti-American policies:

 

-        Ending the construction of the Keystone pipeline. On the surface, it seems like this is all being done in the name of protecting the environment and addressing climate change, but what it really does is make America less energy independent and more dependent. In other words, it weakens America.

-        Rejoining the Paris Climate Accord. Again, this sounds good on the surface, something being done in the name of the environment and climate change. But what it really does is cripple America with environmental regulation while China doesn’t have to do a darn thing about its own dirty, polluting ways. So this move only hurts America’s economy but helps China’s.

-        Ending “harsh and extreme immigration enforcement” (quoted from Biden’s executive order) as well as stopping the construction of the border wall. Once again, this looks like a virtuous move and like we’re helping immigrants in need; however, this open-border policy where we are much more lax about who and what (i.e. drugs/diseases like COVID) is coming in and out of our country also makes America generally less secure as a nation, less stable and, in turn, weaker.

-        Ending the Muslim country travel ban. As much as we would all love to have peaceful Muslims able to travel in and out of our country with ease, one must admit the travel ban Trump instituted may have been necessary to tamp down on the ISIS problem. After all, we have not had an ISIS attack in our country for quite some time. Will ending the travel ban make us less secure? Yes, even though it’s politically incorrect to admit this.

-        Establishing a $15 minimum wage. Indeed, this looks good on the surface, but many small businesses cannot afford to pay these high wages, so their growth is stunted in a devastating manner. In other words, wages may go up but small business growth goes down. Maybe the transnational corporate world gets stronger as a result, but small business America in general gets weaker.

 

There are many more examples of these America-weakening policies, but those are just a few.

Now, how does Biden get away with all these policies that are so destructive to America? Well, in reading the examples above, you may have noticed a theme: he cloaks these policies with wokeness. Every policy comes wrapped in a package that looks good on the surface but is really not as benevolent as it appears to be. These policies are basically wolves in sheep’s clothing.

Additionally, Biden signs other overtly woke executive orders that directly address transgender rights, racial “equity” etc., all of which raise our new president’s appearance of wokeness to even greater heights. The end result is that the Biden administration establishes moral supremacy over us, which basically gives itself immunity from criticism. After all, how could you ever question a guy like Joe Biden when he appears to be so kind to immigrants, transgenders, blacks, Muslims etc.? A woke cloak gives you the moral high-ground and, thus, near-invincible power. That’s right: wokeness in politics today is less about being truly virtuous and more about the power it gives you. I repeat: It’s ALL ABOUT THE POWER.

So that’s the game-plan: establish yourself as super-virtuous and then nobody dares question your destructive, anti-American policies. Questioning you would simply make a person feel guilty and ashamed for not being woke enough.

In conclusion, it’s time to think about who Joe Biden is really working for. America and the American people? Or China? Because, so far, all signs point to him hurting America with almost every single policy, while helping China move closer and closer to superpower status. Biden gets away with this because he cloaks himself with woke, but it’s time for us to look beyond the sheep’s clothing. We need to stop being concerned with appearing virtuous and, instead, actually be virtuous in calling him and his administration out on their total, 100-percent, unadulterated, treasonous bullshit.

I will leave you with a relevant quote from the Bible:

27 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean. 28 In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.

-- Matthew 23:27-28 

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MATT BURNS is the author of THE BURNZO PAPERS: Selected Articles & Essays and also the novels JOHNNY CRUISE, THE WOMAN AND THE DRAGON and WEIRD MONSTER. In addition, he’s published a memoir called GARAGE MOVIE: MY ADVENTURES MAKING WEIRD FILMS. Check out these books (and many more) on his Amazon author page HERE.

Parallels Between Lyme Disease and the Washington 'Swamp'

What often happens with Lyme disease is that you don’t know you’ve actually had it for a long time, sometimes for many years or even for your whole life. It’s stealthy and likes to keep a low-profile. If you’re lucky, you finally get a diagnosis, and you start taking a medication, antibiotic or herb, to fight it. This disturbs the disease, stirs it up, makes its otherwise stealthy presence very well-known, and also makes it VERY angry. In retaliation, the disease releases powerful neurotoxins into your body, to make you feel even sicker and to deter you from fighting it any further.

Something similar has been happening in America’s recent political culture. For a long time, there was the Washington “swamp”, a diseased power structure made up of political insiders and career politicians who ruled us through division, identity politics and victimhood. They profited off of wars, favored multinational corporations and big banks over people, played the role of puppets for big pharma and Wall Street, did the bidding of lobbyists and wealthy campaign donors etc. But then an unlikely (and undoubtedly flawed) outsider named Donald Trump – the “great disruptor” – came along and challenged this power structure. Whether you liked his personality or not, he was the antibiotic that attempted to begin eradicating the so-called “swamp creatures”, once and for all. Just like with Lyme disease, this antibiotic disturbed and stirred up the creatures, they didn’t like what was happening—not at all—and fought back…hard, released toxins into our culture (largely via the corporate-owned mainstream media) and made America very toxic for about four years (the last of which, the year 2020, was the most toxic of all). People blamed Trump for this toxic culture when, in fact, the toxins were mainly a direct result of Trump trying to cure us of the swamp. The toxicity was, in effect, the swamp’s defense mechanism, a way to deter Trump and likeminded people to stop fighting it.

If Joe Biden, a man who’s basically been swimming in the swamp that is Washington for almost 50 years, does indeed become 46^th president of the United States, this “defense mechanism” will have ultimately worked, because Biden’s presidency will put an end to the fighting of America’s swamp disease. Biden claiming that he will *restore* peace, unity, decency and normalcy in America is his way of saying he will *restore* the old political power structure, a place where the swamp creatures rule unchallenged yet again. They’ll stop releasing many of their toxins into our culture, things will appear to settle down and there will be the illusion of peace…

But, alas, we’ll still be just as diseased as we always were.

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MATT BURNS is the author of THE BURNZO PAPERS: Selected Articles & Essays and also the novels JOHNNY CRUISE, THE WOMAN AND THE DRAGON and WEIRD MONSTER. In addition, he’s published a memoir called GARAGE MOVIE: MY ADVENTURES MAKING WEIRD FILMS. Check out these books (and many more) on his Amazon author page HERE.