How to Poison The Population 1: Roman Lead Pipes

WELL, MAN, COULD IT BE THAT THE GIRLS AND BOYS ARE TRYING TO BE HEARD ABOVE YOUR NOISE? AND THE LONELY VOICE OF YOUTH CRIES "WHAT IS TRUTH?" – “WHAT IS TRUTH” BY JOHNNY CASH

Knowing just how easy it was to lie when we were children to avoid being punished by our parents makes the aforementioned tactics and considerations more of a reality than a “conspiracy.” Personally, when I watch cartoons I realize that they are just drawings meant to entertain the audience. Unless we are capable of getting so lost into a cartoon that we lose our objectivity and become fearful anytime the coyote shoots a rocket at the roadrunner, we ground ourselves in a reality and just enjoy the show without taking it seriously.

The problem with television and news is that the vast majority of them are bought and paid for my powerful commercial entities—from healthcare to political to corporate. These world leaders use the public channels the same way that the Romans used lead pipes to supply water to their people—knowing that lead was poisonous, even back in those days.

“Y'ALL NIGGAS STUCK, I'M BOUT TO CLEAR THE SPOT LIKE THE AQUEDUCT. MAN-WHICH OR SAND-WHICH, MY CLAN SWITCH THE BANDWIDTH. BLAM, IF YOU COME UP, YOU GET BOPPED, BOY, SO STAND STIFF.” – “PUGILISM” BY RZA

As I said, misinforming or deceiving the general public is nothing remotely new to humanity. In fact, just about every powerful civilization had a means to poison their citizens in some way that prevented them from operating at their greatest potential. In ancient Rome, the aquifers that supplied water to the people were made out of lead. Today, we are well aware that lead is poisonous to the brain and can cause those exposed to it to experience a psychotic reaction or even death. Though it may be easy to assume that the Romans did not know this information, they did.

Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23/24– 79), who was better known as “Pliny the Elder,” wrote an encyclopedia called “Natural History.” In this book, Pliny commented on the lead aquifers. He wrote about the "noxious and deadly vapour" (sulfur dioxide) of the lead furnaces. Many even associate the use of lead as one of the largest contributing reasons which caused the decline of Rome itself. Yet, even though history had proven that lead was damaging to human beings, that really never stopped future civilizations from attempting the same strategy.

Whether you believe it or label ideas such as this a “conspiracy,” it does not change the existence of truth. In fact, using this type of derogatory terminology is the primary strategy used to prevent information and people from maintaining integrity in the public sphere. It is for this reason that even though we wish to trust news media or other sources of information, we can't. The quicker we realize that we really can't trust anything in our external world, the more peace we will feel (after we come to terms with the unknown).

The problem isn't that bad things may happen or that we may appear uninformed; the problem is that we are addicted to feeling in control of our lives altogether—or at lease being educated enough to be prepared for what may appear at our doorstep. The only true freedom from the misinformation “shit storm” is to doubt everything and consider the possibility for both extremes before making peace with either of them—without preference or repulsion. Basically, we should always attempt to be individuals who are ready for anything to occur at any time.

This can be difficult if we have families, children, careers that require stability, or other constructs which we could use to value ourselves or our existence. Yet, all of these are addictions. If you are lost in this proverbial “shit storm” of misinformation, you may never get to a point of internal awareness which is necessary for you to inherently “know” truth by using your intuition.

If I was trying to clean out an abandoned house, I would start with one room at at time. However, if I left the door open to the outside world, people could keep dumping things in the same room that I was cleaning; it would never be finished. I would never get to the basement unless I completely shut out the outside world. Our minds are very much like that. In order to “know” truth to where we can trust our intuitive critical thinking, we must detox from the outside world—at least for long enough that we can watch the front door and vet each and every person who tries to enter.

“Darkness” of self is intimately tied into this example. If you are busy cleaning a certain room in your house, then you have no idea what other people may be storing in areas that you have not yet cleaned. The “Trojan Horse” analogy doesn't simply apply to the Romans, but it also applies to computer operating systems, new laws and bills that are passed through congress, or even human consciousness. When certain people we “think” we know suddenly act differently (when they are drunk or sober), they are pulling energy from these parts of their undiscovered conscious mind. It's almost as if they sold their bodies in the future and someone is accessing them to act erratically in the past to cover up certain information to protect a secret.