Jason Christoff & Etienne de la Boetie2 - The Psychology of Freedom Podcast on Substack, YouTube, Rumble, Odysee, and Bitchute,
Jason Christoff:
Welcome everybody to, I presume, the Jason Christoff: podcast The Psychology of Freedom, and today I have a very, very important guest. Who has an extremely important message for you to digest. Take what you take what works for you. Leave the rest. I don't I don't think there's gonna be much to leave because the information is so valuable.
Now, this man goes under the pen name, Etienne de la Boetie2, He is an author of two very important books. There is a brand new one.
When is that second book coming out? And then we'll we'll get into your important message So when does that second book become released?
Etienne de la Boetie2:
The book is shipping now and we're working on getting it into independent bookstores and ideally all bookstores. But the book is available now. It's To See The Cage is to Leave It - . 25 Techniques the Few Use to Control the Many, and the website is SeeTheCage.com.
Jason Christoff:
And we're just gonna dive right into it. First of all, your pen name, Etienne de la Boetie2. This is this was the original name of a French philosopher or French novel not a novelist, but maybe almost like a reporter of his day...
Etienne de la Boetie2:
He was a political philosopher. Some people call him the first voluntaryist And what he's known for is exposing the tricks and the techniques that rulers use, not just to get obedience, but to get fealty, and adoration, while you're getting robbed and you're getting tax farmed.
You've got the tax slaves singing “God Save the Queen” or “All Hail the Chief”.
The population is being tricked into an adoration for the ruling class using a variety of unethically manipulative tricks. And the original Etienne de la Boetie was the first one to point out that the ruling class (back then monarchy) was running tricks on the population to get them to go along with something that isn't in their interest. And so when I came out with my first book “Government” - The Biggest Scam in History… Exposed!, my kids were in the government school system.
The original Etienne de la Boetie from a statue constructed in front of the court house in his home town of Sarlat-la-Canéda, in the Dordogne region of France.
I was divorced and my ex-wife had my kids in the public school system. And so I didn't want my kids to get any heat for what dad was doing, so I chose to use the Nom de Plume. Now my kids, one of them has graduated from college, one of them is finishing college. And so I could reveal my real name, but now everybody knows me as Etienne de la Boetie2. And when you put the exponent2 or numeral two (2) on the end, you can find ME versus the original. That’s how you can find me in search engines.
And so now I'm stuck with it. I'm not really hiding. As you know, and as a lot of you know, hundreds, if not thousands, of people within the Liberty movement know my real name. So I'm not ready to release it yet because I don't want to cause confusion in the market or anything like that, but that's the reason for the pen name.
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Jason Christoff:
And I came across your work and you know of my work in, say, whatever space you wanna designate that as sort of like deep thinking with a motivation to live a better life. That's sort of the space that we're both in. And I was I want people to know that it took me a little bit of time, not much because I was familiar with some of the common ground, but it did take me some time to wrap my head around the fact that And I want to get this out right now that how H. C. De La Bocci squared and the books that you've authored, you unpacked the idea that we don't need government.
Whatsoever. Now when people hear that, they recoil, and I know why they recoil. But I've heard you talk about it in ways that you know, take down my hesitation, not that I have the biggest hesitation while in the world around what you're talking about, but it would scare most people initially. So how would you start the conversation or start explaining to the average person without triggering a fear response that they don't really need government in their lives. They kind of know this as well as the government steals from them, poisons the shit out of them at every, you know, every turn.
The government's there to make people's lives miserable and and but most people can't envision because of the indoctrination and brainwashing and mind control. They can't envision living their lives without someone stealing their money, without someone bullying them, without someone poisoning them. So it's almost like you have to give them the right words to at least get the idea gestating in, you know, in the fertile soil of their subconscious. And I know you can do that. So how can we get someone from a to b getting them at least considering that a force that poisons them and steals their money?
They're they're probably better off without that in their lives. How do we get there?
Etienne de la Boetie2:
In my first book “Government” - The Biggest Scam in History…Exposed!, the subtitle is: How InterGenerational Organized Crime Runs the Government, Media, and Academia. And the first thing you've got to understand is that the people behind government, think of government as a technique for robbing and controlling populations.
And the people that are behind it and that are making trillions of dollars on the ability to tax farm humanity and transfer the money out the back door in trillion dollar bailouts to banks through the TARP and the TALF and the “Bailouts” and the “Stimulus” and the weapon systems that we don't need for wars based on lies and manufactured evidence.
and ethanol subsidies
and, you know, the list goes on and on
Vaccination you know, forced mandatory “vaccinations”
and all of the ways the “government” is tricking and tax farming and taking their money
The number one weapon is they've been controlling the information society receives about the legitimacy and the desirability of having a government.
So there there whether it's through the monopoly media,
or whether it's through the mandatory government school running the Prussian model of education to trick everybody into thinking that government is legitimate, desirable, and necessary before they're old enough to really evaluate the logic and the morality of that claim.
Almost everybody who's listening to us has been having the information controlled to them.
And so that dynamic is why people, you know, and so with the new book: To See the Cages is To Leave It, what I'm exposing is that they've been running a variety of unethically manipulative tricks to trick the population into a religious belief in government. Mhmm. They're using an indoctrinated religion called Statism, which is the belief and the desirability, the legitimacy, and the necessity of “government” to trick the population into this belief system. And they're actually, you know, changing or, you know, controlling that the information that comes across, you know, through the media in films and in television shows and in social media, to trick the population into, you know, the government is always the hero in the movies.
They're “product placing” the flag at moments of high positive emotion. They're using subliminal programming in the television. They're using all of these tricks that give the population a kind of a warm and fuzzy. At the same time, that, you know, the movies and the TV shows are presenting the alternative, which is real freedom, volunteers, and peaceful anarchy, you know, Anarchy doesn't mean “No rules”,
Anarchy Means “No Rulers!”
But because the rulers don't want the population to know, that there's an option on the menu called “No Rulers”, the media system presents a future without government as chaos, dystopia, you know, mad max scenarios of biker gangs roaming the countryside, raping women, and and it just it's just craziness.
And if you don't know that that's going on. If you don't know that the government is running these unethical, manipulative tricks on you, then you're not even in the game!
And so what I’m really trying to do show everybody is how the magician does the trick
so that they can begin to unpack and really evaluate what they were taught as a child about the legitimacy, the necessity, and the morality of having a government in the first place.
Jason Christoff:
The legitimacy basically, is why the average person would think this is the way it's always been. And they have that sense of learned helplessness. Yeah. But I remember you telling me one day that it wasn't legitimate to have government because two people can't hold hands and sort of get together and vote to have rights for themselves that other individuals don't have. And that made a lot of sense to me.
So could you clarify that for the average person as to the non legitimacy of the system of rule that we're all exposed to today.
Etienne de la Boetie2:
Yeah. Absolutely. And so, you know, if my my beautiful fiance, Julie and I, can't vote to Rob Jason because there's two of us and one of Jason. It doesn't matter if there's three of us or 10 of us or 335,000,000 of us, there's no magical additional person that make something that is immoral and illogical, now moral and logical just because you're in the the majority.
And so democracy is really the political equivalent of gang rape or lynching.
And so you cannot be bound by a social contract that you did not sign.
And if I myself don't have the right to take your money or make up rules for you “My Self” and I can't delegate a right that I don't have “Myself” to a “representative” or to a “government” to represent me doing something that I don't have the ability to do myself.
So “Government” has been (and is) “the Biggest Scam in History”
But because they indoctrinate the belief and the government into children, most people have never really, you know, evaluated the morality and the logic of the claim because they've always accepted it, you know, you know, on its face because there it was given to them as when they were children. And then the government is again controlling the information that people receive so that they never ever really encounter that idea except in these, you know, kinda like, you know, pirate broadcasts where, you know, we're a little bit like neo and Morpheus surfacing in the Nebuchadnezzar and sending out this pirate signal to tell people the good news message that they are free, that you'd really don't owe anybody any money because of where you were born, you really don't know anybody, any allegiance because of an invisible line on this side or that side of, you know, of a border.
You're not really an American or a Canadian by virtue of where you're born. You are a free and independent human being that has been born into a slavery system that is trying to trick you into an artificial tribe to get you to associate, you know, with an artificial tribe across, you know, in some cases, thousands and thousands of miles that is quote unquote, representing dozens and dozens of diverse people that speak different languages in Canada that we got French speakers, we got, you know, in America, it's just it's like, you know, the the, you know, the average person in Maine, in The United States doesn't have a lot in common with somebody in Hawaii, and somebody in Alaska doesn't really have a lot of, you know, you know, in common with somebody in New Mexico, and, you know, I can go on and on. But but government has been the biggest scam in all of human history because it's the most profitable way to tax form, rob, and control human beings.
Jason Christoff:
Absolutely. So basically, what you're saying for the for the person out there is that the people that we're voting for, they are What is their role in this thing called the tax firm? And how does a tax firm really work for people that don't really understand the concept?
Etienne de la Boetie2:
First of all, we're not really voting. What we're what we're do what we're what's going on is they're pretending to let us select them. Okay? I just wanna I wanna repeat that again. They are pretending to let us elect them.
So what they're doing here in The United States and in other countries is they're having a rigged game, okay, where they're controlling the outcome through in The United States unauditable black box voting machines and mail in ballots, which are notoriously easy to rig. They're controlling the outcome with this monopoly media system that, you know, that that is tricking the population into thinking, that both parties are not owned and controlled by the same people. And then they're using the fact that they gave you the vote, which is what I like to call the slave's suggestion box Okay? And that you because you've now elected them. Because you've now participated in their rigged game that you now acquiesce and now owe them money And if you didn't like the outcome, then you've just gotta vote harder in the rigged game.
Even if you break the rigged game down, it's not moral, it's not legitimate, it's not logical, and it's so easily rigged by moneyed interests using the monopolling media, using behavioral psychology, using again, the, you know, the out the the the black box voting machines and the mail in ballots that, you know, it it's it's essentially completely worthless. But again, getting back to the, you know, getting back to the the basics of it, If my lovely fiance and myself can't vOTE to Rob Jason because there's two of us and one of, you know, one of you well, it doesn't matter if there's 10 of us It doesn't matter if there's a 125,000,000 of us. And out of the 125,000,000, we create a bureaucracy and, you know, and a group of shaveheaded cult members with guns to enforce the commandments of the religion on Jason. It's not going to be any more legitimate just because there's now a bureaucracy involved and there's less people And so it really is they're tricking, you know, people by controlling the information that they believe in. And if people just kind of step back and evaluate what they're being told as adults, it's like, hey, Can you Is there any way to have a moral legitimate government?
And most people are gonna find out that there's not. But it really takes somebody with an open mind, you know, to get over the the fear that they've instilled you know, through the monopoly media, through the television shows, through the social media and the programming that has been going on behind the scenes that I break down and kind of detail in my book to see the cages, to leave it 25 techniques that few use to control the mini. And while I I while it's it's really 26 because I snuck in an extra technique in the last, but I could have gone to 30. Yeah. I could have gone to 35.
I just had to ship the book, and I hit I felt like I hit all of the major ones.
Jason Christoff:
So, you know, when you see something on social media, like me, say you see the hodge twins, which is getting forced onto my page these days, you might see Tucker Carlson, you might see Joe Rogan, or people like this. And the public doesn't seem aware that just talking about The government officials or the government policies or the government processes like they're legitimate Mhmm. Is sort of an old form of energy magic where they're sucking some sort of etheric force out of us into these concepts where we're giving them life. Like, if no one talked about this like it was legitimate, I mean, how long would this So basically, what I'm saying is, do you see the same thing that I see that all this social commentary about government is is just sort of one layer of legitimizing. Like, no one's everybody's like, well, Trump did this or the democrats would have done that or someone assassinated this.
I'm not too sure who got assassinated. It looked like it was a member of the government. Someone who voted against extending medical coverage to illegal immigrants, someone got assassinated. But just talking about it in this way, do you see it just the commentary as one major layer of legitimizing this entire horse and pony show.
Etienne de la Boetie2:
Oh, without a doubt. I mean, that in fact, I mean, that is that is the big trick. That is the big scam. That on every single channel, government is legitimate. Turn to the channel.
Government is legitimate. Government is legitimate. Government is legitimate. And so there's a you know, in in in my book, government, the biggest scam in history. I break down.
I show media ownership charts. You know, there's and on the old school television side, there's about six companies running hundreds and hundreds of subsidiaries to give everybody the illusion that there's all these different channels and information sources in society. And what most people don't realize is that, you know, when you take a look at a media ownership chart, all of these hundreds and hundreds of subsidiaries, magazines, newspapers, radio stations, television stations, they're all rolling up into this small handful of companies operating as a cartel to control the information that people receive about the legitimacy, the necessity, and the desirability of having a government. If there were only two channels, okay, and and Jason and Etienne were on one channel, and there was a a liar like Tucker Carlson on the other channel. Okay?
Or or, you know, CIA intern, Anderson Cooper, or, you know, any of the other, you know, folks that are are are not giving you the alternative or never present to you the alternative. So if you think Tucker Carlson is legitimate, then why isn't Tucker Carlson ever interviewing a legitimate real volunteerist or a legitimate real critic of the system? That's, you know, kind of my point. But if you if every chain if if if if it was between us and Anderson Cooper, and you were going back and forth between listening to us talk about the, you know, the the case against the legitimacy of government and Anderson Cooper trying to explain the mythology of, you know, government you'd be like, well, those two guys, that's more logical, that's more, you know, honest, that's more moral. Now, instead of two channels, imagine that we're on one channel and there's 500 channels of government is legitimate.
Government is legitimate. Government is legitimate. Government is legitimate. Government is legitimate. So you have to find the authentic voices.
Now, but it's even worse than that because the system that we have, there's 500 channels of it's government's legitimate, and there's zero channels. Of us. And that is the big con.
And so if you're stealing trillions of dollars through the bailouts, the stimulus, the weapon systems that we don't need, the mandatory vaccines, the ethanol subsidies, and all of the other ways that government is sliding money out the back door to, you know, controlled interests, well, you can easily see how you could spend hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars a year on the ability to ensure that that system continues
That nobody understands that you're stealing their money in a very sophisticated way that's been going on for a very, very long time using techniques that at the original at the at the end, we see wrote about in the fifteen hundreds where some of those techniques were already hundreds or thousand plus years old in the in the time of that Boetti was riding that are still being used today And then, you know, once, you know, that that is the way that's that they're controlling that information to society.
Jason Christoff:
So, what is I mean, obviously, one of the solutions you talk about is being a volunteerist. So what what is that? And how how is that better than someone telling me I gotta give them half my income or I get thrown in a cage? Or they'll just steal that money as it comes in? So how does being a volunteerist you know, pay, you know, pave the the bumpy road to maybe where we where we gotta go.
Like, make things a little easier in the future. If that's gonna be the goal, what is a voluntaryist?
Etienne de la Boetie:
So and that really is kind of the good news message of both of my books is that a a voluntaryist to somebody that believes that all relationships between human beings must be voluntary. That nobody has rights, that other people don't, nobody has an exemption from morality, especially the government,
Nobody has the ability to steal your money or make up rules for you.
There's also a kind of understanding that the world is a self organizing system that produces spontaneous order and that everything that the government does would be provided by the free market, by mutual aid societies, by nonprofits, by insurance companies, not monopoly crony capitalism insurance companies, but if there was a diverse a genuine free market where where some companies weren't getting, you know, overfunded by the banks that create money out of thin air and are buying up the world with their little paper tickets.
And you actually had a diverse diversity of insurance providers. Then, you know, co ops, homeowners associations, genuine charities, there's all ways where you can have governance without having government and society would be much wealthier and much more prosperous under a voluntary world then in this world of coercion and theft and taxation and economic misallocation and government granted monopolies and government monopoly privileges and $300 EpiPen's and $400 a month for insulin, and all of the ways that government is stealing and robbing the population, the number one way is stealing the value out of the money.
And so the so so at the top of the pyramid, the people that are benefiting the most from the system are the banks. The banks have have have lobbied and bribed government in The United States to pass the Federal Reserve Act. Which allows that which created a private central bank called the Federal Reserve. The private central bank called the Federal Reserve is backstopping the money center banks, the JPMorgan's, the Citigroup's, the Wells Fargo's, the Bank of America's, the Goldman Sachs's, to engage in something called fractional reserve banking where they create money out of thin air even though it's inflationary and even though it's stealing the value out of the money that everybody else earns and saves. Okay?
That is the number one way that they're waging economic warfare against us. That's the number one way that they're stealing the value out of our money. And that is that is what is paying for the ability to have bought up the the media, monopolized the media so that people don't understand what's really going on And so it really I do truly believe it is the banks at the top and the people that own the banks. And that is the system that has allowed them to buy up the media
and to buy up the politicians
and to, you know, impose this you know, a mandatory government, Prussian school model on everybody because they're stealing the value out of the money in a way that is that is impoverished in the population. We'd be way way way We'd be everybody would be dramatically wealthier if if the government forget the confiscatory taxation.
If the government just wasn't stealing the value out of everybody's money.
Jason Christoff:
How how is it? So it's invisible theft. Mhmm. I have a $100 US American bill
In 1970. And it could buy me x amount of groceries. Now today, the same $100 American bill Mhmm. $100 will only probably buy me, you know, a lot less groceries. Maybe 20% less or sorry.
80% was about 20% of what I could buy in 1970 or maybe it's even worse than that. But can you explain how that magic show actually works? How does it? How does me saving cash come back to bite me in the ass where and you're saying this devaluation of the money in my wallet or the money under my mattress or the money in my bank account, you're saying that the loss of purchasing power of my money that I save is coordinated, and not even really coordinated, sort of a side effect of the government process. So how actually does my dollars lose money when I I'm looking at it and it's the same dollar.
How do you explain that to someone?
Etienne de la Boetie:
Let let's go let's go back even further. Let's go back to Roman times. And so the before we do that, you know, money think of money the value of money a little bit like a a babe roof, rookie card, a baseball card. If and if there's one babe roof, rookie card in the world, it's worth a whole bunch of money.
Mhmm. If there's two babe roofy cards, it's worth less to, you know, to the wealthy collectors that are trying to, you know, get, you know, put together their collection, you know. And if you find, you know, in a in a warehouse somewhere, you know, dust it off, a box, and there's thousands and thousands and thousands of Bay Breeuth rookie cards, then the value of the Bay Breeuth rookie card drops dramatically. And so money really needs to be relatively rare to be able to hold its value. And if it's not rare, if the governments are printing a gazillion dollars like they did in the Weimar Republic or how like they did in the in the hyperinflation of of Yugoslavia or the hyperinflation of Zimbabwe or other, you know, things, you know, things of hyperinflation, then the money, the value of the money collapses, society is impoverished.
Everyone is is is is dead broke, living in a militarized police state. And so you really there there needs to be a fair and an equitable way for money to come into circulation to where governments can't steal the value out of the money.
Now if we go back in history, if we go back to to Roman times, the coin of the realm was a one ounce gold coin called a Gold Aureus. And in Roman times, before the before the Romans devalued their money. And and today, money is devalued with a printing press.
In Roman times, it was devalued. There were two ways that it was devalued. Number one, coins were clipped.
And so a dishonest crooked merchant would take a coin in commerce and he would take some, you know, he would cut off that just a little bit around the edge of the coin and then the coin would be spinning the circulation and another dishonest merchant would cut off a little bit more of the coin, and it would be spit into circulation. And then after, you know, wash rinse and repeat, and not every merchant was dishonest, but just, you know, the dishonest or dishonest person.
So dishonest person gets the coin and, you know, and and cuts, you know, cuts a little bit off. And so that was called clipping.
And the reason that, you know, the American dime and the American quarter have all the ridges on the outside. That's called reeding. And reading is so that you can tell if the coin's been clipped.
And so that was a kind of technique that was used to, you know, to demonstrate that the coin was not clipped, which is carried over into, you know, into modern times.
And even though we in The United States, we don't even have coins, they're technically tokens because a coin is a, you know, a small disk of an inherently precious metal of, you know, metal of some kind of value that has the hallmark of the mint, you know, hallmark of quality on it. And so because we now are using tokens, it's, you know, it's kind of even silly to have them reeded because there's no value in cutting the, you know, in in clipping it because it's not made of a precious metal anymore. Right. And so but that was the number one way that you would have inflation is by the end of that cycle now the coin doesn't weigh an ounce.
Now the coin is, you know, point 80 of an ounce. And so a merchant is not going to give you the same amount of goods for a clipped coin.
Now, eventually, the Romans, the the the or the organized crime government of the time, the Caesars, would take in the coins and they figured out a more effective way of doing that and they would melt the coins down and and they would, you know, melt a gold coin or a silver coin down and they would add a base metal to the mix, and then they would recast the coins.
And if they added 5% of base metal, then they would have 5% more coins, and they would be tricking the population and stealing the value out of everybody's, you know, coins and a lot of, you know, historians and that as as that process goes on and on and on through successive caesars and successive generations, eventually, you don't have any precious metal value at all in the coins, and now they're reduced to tokens. And then the economy collapses, and a lot of historians believe that that was one of the reasons that by the time the the the money was debased and wasn't really worth anything and people didn't trust the value of the money that that's why, you know, Rome collapsed. And so those were the way those were the original ways of stealing the value through inflation. Now before that process happens, so when when there was, you know, an ounce of gold and a daenerous, a daenerous would buy a fine toga, a belt, and a fine pair of sandals. So it'd buy a man's suit essentially in Roman times.
Okay? Fast forward to, let's say, 1911, before the Federal Reserve Act, the coin of the realm is a one-ounce gold coin, a Saint Godin's gold piece.
And back then, paper money was a warehouse receipt for real money, which was the gold coin that you can't print on the printing press and you can't digitally create as they do today. And so that one ounce gold coin would buy a finely tailored man's suit, a really, really nice belt, and a fine pair of shoes. Now if you took the $20 gold piece and you took the $20 bill that was the warehouse for seat for the gold piece and you buried them in a can in your backyard and you dug it up today, the 20 ounce gold coin or the the 1 ounce gold coin is worth $3,300 US And so you can still buy a very finely tailored man suit, an alligator belt, and a really really nice pair of shoes, and you can't really buy anything with the $20 bill.
And so what happened to the value contained in the $20 bill, it's been stolen by the government. And another way to think of it is, you know, imagine if if if if if you dear listener or dear viewer had 1 single dollar, and I had 1 single dollar. And so I have 50% of there's only $2 in the world. I have 50% of the world's wealth, and you dear listener or dear viewer, you have 50% of the world's wealth. And a a bank comes along and creates two additional dollars through fractional reserve banking or a government comes along and creates two additional dollars through quantitative easing or printing press or digital dollar creation.
Now you and I have been reduced to 25% of the world's wealth and the bank or the government has stolen 50% of the world's wealth, and that's what's been going on. And the first thing that they did is they bought up the media, so the media would not tell you what is really going on? The media is there to distract you and deceive you and to make you look over here and to get you focused on children's games played by adults and all kinds of crazy stuff. Using behavioral psychology and using flicker rates and using all kinds of tricks and techniques so that your scatter brain, we're going to put stuff in the food, we're gonna put stuff in the vaccines, we're gonna make it so you can't think straight so that you're focused on things other than really kind of the most basic things of the world, which is somebody is tricking you into an obedient system. They're controlling your movement.
They're controlling me. They're stealing the value out of their money. And and they're spying on you wirelessly wire tapping your phone and engaged in a in a variety of variety of crimes against you. And then the way they get away with it is this control of perception system is the government, the media, and academia working together to make sure you don't understand what is really going on in the world.
Jason Christoff:
So what even makes it worse potentially is that they're taking the dollars or whatever you you pay paper tickets. Mhmm. And then they're saying buying a building in a company which it has a different accrued value over time than someone with the equivalent of the cash. So it's almost like they're taking the life force of the humans, putting it in assets, and then draining our money away, and keeping the assets for themselves, which always has value inherently somewhere down the road. So they're actually not only stealing the value of our money, they're stealing our life force to the point where all of our energy is in assets and almost out of the people.
Does that make any sense of whatsoever?
Etienne de la Boetie2:
Oh oh, absolutely. It's a it's a way of waging a kind of economic warfare against the people to keep them impoverished so that they're on the hamster wheel of of work of having to work and that where they don't have any spare time to be well read to take, you know, you know, to go to lectures, to have, you know, free time. Some people have to work two jobs, three jobs. They they, you know, their their children, you know, have to go and and learn business instead of, you know, economics or the arts or things like that. They can't have a gap year to sit around and read books that they, you know, wanna read.
They can't take any time off. Versus in a in a in a in avoluntary world, people would be amazingly, amazingly wealthy. And there would, you know, business you know, some people, a lot of people would not have to work, a lot of people could pay to have their kids have, you know, you know, gap years and and and and pay to have them have a liberal arts education and businesses would have to compete for workers and that would bid up the prices of wages and there would be more economic opportunity and there would be it would just be so incredibly incredibly better. We would be society would be more harmonious because you wouldn't have to fight at the school board level that where if you lose, you, you know, your kid gets taught critical race theory or LGBTQ QT studies or whatever else nonsense they're teaching in the government school system. You could buy whatever kind of education you wanted to your for your children.
You could buy Acton Academy. You could buy Waldorf. You could buy Montessori. You know, it could be self directed learning. There's not gonna be a hidden curriculum in the school system.
And so really, they don't want there to be independent wealth also, you know, because if there's independent wealth, then there's, you know, then there's, you know, there's there's lots and lots of money available to organizations like mine, the Art of Liberty Foundation, to get this message out. You know, imagine if we had a if we could double or triple or quadruple our budget every year and, you know, like it's it's it's controlling the information society receives by keeping people in the mandatory government school system by by controlling the alternatives, you know, the communications alternatives that are out there stifling those, the ability to sensor authentic voices, the ability to turn up controlled opposition voices, there's just so many ways that keeping the population impoverished impacts their ability to do anything about what's going on.
Jason Christoff:
So I think you also wanted to show, maybe share the screen. Do you still wanna share the screen and show a little bit of the new book?
Etienne de la Boetie2:
Yeah. I wanna I will we'll just do a little, and I'll just kinda take your audience very, very quickly through some of the techniques. And then also what I wanted to do is I wanted, you know, people to actually kind of see the book to understand it's very visual rich and kind of explain the reason that it's so visual rich and I do so much with memes and I do so much for the visualizations is that the is that, you know, a lot of your audience, they already know all this. You know, I I have no doubt that you have a very high quality audience that's very in tune with what's going on and a lot of what we've been talking about. They already know.
And so I did not write this book for that that fraction of your audience.
My books are really designed to wake up your friends, your neighbors, your colleagues, your family to the system because most people are visual learners, and then they come to insight much quicker when they see an image. And a lot of people, frankly, if I'd written
a text-only book, they're not going to read it. And they know that if they give it to their friend or family member, the family member is not going to read it.
But one of the unique things about my first book and we're seeing a little we're seeing the same thing and kind of the new book is that over 10% around 10% I won't say over, but somewhere around 10% of all the copies that we've sold and we've sold thousands and thousands and thousands of copies to 25+ countries where people are frequently paying the same as the cost of the book to, you know, to to get it shipped to, you know, South Africa or Denmark or
Sweden or you name it. They're being bought in Friends Bundles five, ten copies. And so it's it's it's become one of those rare books that people are buying in fives and tens giving way to their friends to help them wake up because it is so effective to do that because all you've really gotta do is kinda flip through this book and you you can't not put it down. Like, you're going to get that information that is going to flow in because it is visual and because there's because, you know, a meme can be like a molotov cocktail through the Overton window. You know, you're you're able to kind of convey something in a split second to people.
And if they only have a split second or they're only willing to kind of look for split second, generally, they get hooked. And so part of the, you know, part of, you know, my work is is is creating books that are effective at waking people up because most people are visual learners, and I can bring them to that moment of insight that they would not have been able to do with a regular text only book. So I'm gonna share my screen.
Etienne de la Boetie2:
here's my cover. Welcome to to see the cage is to leave it. And I'm just gonna go through just some of the techniques just to take you know, just so that you understand what what we're talking about. Here's the a visualization that I gave.
Jason Christoff:
Could you make it a little could you make it a little bigger maybe? Is that possible so people could see it on the screen a bit easier potentially?
Etienne de la Boetie2:
You know, so I can't.
Jason Christoff:
Yeah. Okay. That's good.
Etienne de la Boetie2:
Yeah. So that's So This, you know, this was the visualization of what we just discussed if I have a dollar and you have a dollar. With my old book, he was neat because it's a landscape book and it fits the screen ever so purse you know, perfectly This is the by the way, this is the media ownership chart that I mentioned earlier. Six companies running hundreds and hundreds of subsidiaries to give everybody the illusion of choice. If I was to you know, if I if you if you click on if you click on the the in the in the in in the e pub version of the book, if you click on that visualization, you're gonna go and it's gonna bring up the, you know, the larger format version of that visualization.
If you if you wanted to go really, really high res, then you can go ahead and you can download either the JPEG or the PDF version of that visualization. And then, you know, that's some of the magic. It's an interactive book. And so, you know, just to, you know, just to give everybody an idea of, like, what what we're talking about So because I don't want you to take my word for it. Right?
I want you to see it for yourself because seeing is believing. And so this is the media ownership that I was talking about And we can just go into that, you know, here just a little bit. And so here's News Corp.
Jason Christoff:
So you can blow it up so that you can see absolutely everything.
Etienne de la Boetie2:
So you can see absolutely everything. And so News Corp doesn't just own Fox News, News Corp owns more than a 175 newspapers worldwide. They own magazines. They own Internet properties. They own Book Publishing Companies.
They own television production. They own television programming. They own Fox. They own Fox College Sports, Fox reality shows, FX Networks, Fox International Channels, Fox Sports Net, Fox movies, Fox News Channel, they own, you know, individual properties like the special, you know, back then, the special report with Brit Hume or the Fox reporter on the record with Greta Van Susteren or Fox News Sunday or No. They know the National Geographic Channel.
This is a little dated. It may have changed, but I think you're getting the the the idea. They own film. They own 20. They own Fox Searchlight Pictures.
They own New Regency, 20% of that. They own satellite. They own entire satellite networks. You know, we could, you know, we could keep going. We could go to Disney.
Disney doesn't just own parks and resorts. They own Walt Disney Pictures. They own touchstone Pictures. They own Hollywood Pictures. They own Miramax films.
They you know, I think you're you're you're starting to get the idea. But if you went and told your friends, your family, that there were, you know, six monopoly media companies running hundreds and hundreds of subsidiaries to trick them into thinking there's, you know, a wide variety of information sources in society, they may or may not believe you. But if you show them a media ownership chart, they're going to come to that insight, you know, much quicker this so these are these are other visualizations that I won't get into, but equally as eye opening, equally as, you know, we'll say, you know, impactful with your friends, your family, and your colleagues, And so because I really wanna get into the big idea and that is that they're indoctrinating the population with the belief in government as a religion
Etienne de la Boetie2:
They're not calling it a religion, but they're using all the tricks and the techniques of a unethically manipulative religion, and it produces some very humorous outcomes such as people dressing in flags and and and other things. And so that religion is the religion of statism. And so the government is the god. The flag is the indoctrinated holy symbol. The presidents are the deities.
People engage in common prayer started in the school system. In The United States, you know, they they pledged their allegiance to the flag to The United States Of America. There's flag worship ceremonies at sporting events The the cathedral, the capital is the cathedral that looks like the Vatican for a reason. Mhmm. The school is the church.
And so the flag is kind of a form of idolatry. Is not the state in the bible. Is it not like any graven image into which men have read supernatural powers and superhuman capacities. The state can feed us when we are hungry. It can heal us when we were our ill.
It can raise wages and lower prices even at the same time. It can educate our children without cost. It can provide us against the contingencies of old age. What cannot the state do for us if only we have faith in it. And so, you know, very, very quickly, you're you're you're you're you're you're you're coming to a moment of insight just by skimming some of the visualizations that make the point that we're talking about, you know, here without having to get into a, you know, a dense a dense book And then there's some amazing amazing videos that if you if you click on in the in the e pub version of the book, I could screen pop this Larkin Rose video called stateism, the most dangerous religion that will break it down even in more detail in twelve minutes.
Or if you're reading the print version of the book, there's a QR code here. You scan that on your phone as you're reading and it screen pops the video and you are brought to a moment of, you know, you know, like it, you know, you can kind of drill down in a in a very kind of, you know, effective effective way.
Etienne de la Boetie2:
You break down the alternative, which is volunteerism. So are you a status or are you a volunteerist, very, you know, effective? And, you know, the difference between volunteerism and all the other isms, I like to say, that volunteerism is the only ism that is fair for everyone. And so here is kind of volunteerism compared to the other, you know, the other isms. And and if you if you believe in mannerism, having a minimal government, if you're a strict constitutionalist in The United States, then you think that the government should rob people to pay for fire protection, police, military roads, and courts.
If you're a conservative, when you think that there's a little bit more that the government should do. So they should rob people for all the first stuff, all the things the monarchists think they should be robbed for. But, you know, we also need unemployment insurance, retirement insurance, and limited healthcare and limited housing and, you know, education and stuff like that. Now if you're a socialist, well, you think that the government should rob everybody for all those things, but also the government needs to rob everybody to have universal healthcare. So we should have all the other stuff and universal health care.
Now if you're a communist, then you think, well, the government needs to rob everybody to have all that other stuff and housing and energy and clothing you know, and all the other stuff. And so, volunteers are down here and volunteers are not willing to use violence against peaceful people. They will seek to acquire desired services through voluntary relationships And so, like I said earlier, you know, the magic of volunteerism is there's an understanding that the free market and mutual aid societies and nonprofits and real charities and and a variety of other institutions that can all be voluntary, can provide everything that government does better, faster, and cheaper, and people are going to be dramatically wealthier without government. And so there's, you know, there's a little bit of that here's another, you know, here's another, you know, kind of explaining to people where govern you know, where where volunteers sit, you know, in in you know, what your teacher told you in the mandatory government school is you've got communism on the far far left and you've got fascism on the far far right in between communism and fascism. There's Democrats on the left There's moderates in the middle, and there's Republicans on the right, and then, you know, just a little bit further from a Republican as a fascist.
Now what's the reality is, is You can better think of it. If you wanna look at just a left right spectrum, you can think of communism and fascism on the far left, and that's total tyranny. Right? That's the government's running everything 100% And then as you go to the right part of the scale, then you get socialists, then you get, you know, kind of, you know, liberals, limousine, liberals, then you get the moderates, then you get the conservatives, And as you get more and more towards real freedom, you get libertarians, and volunteerism is total freedom or real freedom. So I'm an advocate for not fake freedom, not fake government freedom.
I'm an advocate for real freedom. Now, an even better way of taking a look at the political spectrum, this is called the Nolan Chart, and the Nolan Chart was developed by MIT student, by the name of David Nolan, and he recognized that the left right political spectrum didn't really measure anything, okay, for the reasons that I outlined just a second ago. And he said, what's the best way to really map the political spectrum? And if you really think about it, you know, laughs and liberals. They're for a whole bunch of personal freedom.
The government shouldn't be in the bedroom. The government shouldn't be, you know, mandating, you know, prostitution or deciding, you know, whether or not you can smoke plants, but they don't so they're they're on this chart of of personal freedom, they score very very high, okay, on the personal freedom index. But on this index of economic freedom, you know, they score very very low. Okay? And so the government, you know, you got it's gotta redistribute income.
It's gotta control the economy. It's gotta be you know, it's gotta limit how much money people can make. It's got a, you know, rent control. It's got to have, you know, things like that. And so if you believe in a little bit of economic freedom and a whole bunch of personal freedom, you're on the left.
Now if you believe in a whole bunch of economic freedom, so the government shouldn't be intervene in in the economy. The government shouldn't be taxing people based on their income. The government shouldn't be, you know, raining monopoly privileges in the economy, and you believe in a whole bunch of economic freedom. But, oh, those liberals, we got I think we can't, you know, we can't have men marrying men and women marrying women and, like, we've gotta you know, we can't have gambling. That would be wrong.
So now you believe in just a little bit of personal freedom, but a whole bunch of economic freedom. Well, that puts you on the right. That, you know, that makes sense. Okay? And so what if you believe in a whole bunch of both economic freedom and personal freedom?
You're you're for max maximum personal freedom and your for maximum economic freedom. Government shouldn't be doing anything because it's illegitimate and undesirable and unnecessary will boom. You're a volunteerist. And so that is the best way of understanding the political economy. This chart has been popularized by the advocates for self government.
You can go to their their the advocates for self government website. You can take the world's smallest political quiz on on on this for yourself and see where you fall or people personally fall on this. I I I modified it a little bit from the the way that the advocates present it because there's a chasm right here. And this chasm is, volunteers think that government is illegitimate, undesirable, and unnecessary. Where Libertarians, you know, they're kinda, you know, like a you know, the average Libertarian actually believes that the government is legitimate, desirable, and necessary.
And so that's what really separates a volunteerist from a libertarian. A libertarian is kind of an umbrella term, volunteerists fall into the, you know, kind of fall under the libertarian umbrella term Mhmm. But that's, you know, the real difference. Now we're at the 25 techniques. And so I'm just gonna roll through this, you know, kind of just, you know, very, very quickly and we'll get into some of them.
We talked about the main one which is controlling the information that kids receive about the legitimacy, the desirability, and the necessity of having a government in mandatory schools running the Prussian model of education. And public school is where the catchism is taught And so there's a variety of indoctrination techniques. There's a variety of obedience techniques. And I break that down in the book. The second technique is government affiliated scouting programs.
That indoctrinate the kids into the pseudo religion of statism with flag worship, allegiance oaths, indoctrinated respect and legitimacy for the government. They give the kids awards, capscout at venture loops and boy scout merit badges for learning and regurgitating the the doctrine of the of the religion. And so scouting, there's a whole curriculum, like, I could go into the likes of the so in the book, it breaks down the hidden curriculum of the cub scouts, the boy scouts, the Weblows, and the explorers. But you're getting kids into hierarchical command and control. You're getting them into the uni form, the single form, which is artificial.
You know, group conformity with social pressure paste placed on kids to participate. You're indoctrinating the religion of statism and it's it's just bad mojo. And it's the same technique that Hitler used and it's the same technique that the that the that the Soviets used and it's the same technique that the the East Germans used and other countries used that are, you know, bad countries. Everybody agrees or bad and evil countries to not kind of break it down, you know, in no uncertain terms. I break down the hidden curriculum of the junior JROTC, which is a program here in The United States that gets kids into the uniform and conformity.
I break down a lot of the the so each technique that, you know, brella term of, say, police training. Okay. I'm breaking down many sub techniques under police training. So it's not really that there's 25 techniques. If you broke down all the all the sub techniques We're talking about dozens and dozens and dozens of unethical manipulative techniques that are being used on the population to produce what are essentially cult members willing to set their morality aside and use violence on peaceful people for the the, you know, the religion, the the the church leadership of this indoctrinated pseudo religion, and it starts with the shave headed cult members willing to set their morality aside and use violence on peace people.
We break down the again, so, you know, the term military basic training is an umbrella term that really, you know, I'm breaking down, you know, probably a dozen sub techniques under that. But there's a hidden curriculum in the military in military basic training that breaks people down and creates order followers that are willing to set their morality aside and use violence on peaceful people for the I ideology of the state. And, you know, as I kind of scroll through these, you're getting that information to the military, intelligence agencies and federal and state law enforcement are being hierarchically controlled. This is one of my favorites because most people have seen it, but they've never really thought about, well, why is that done? What's going on with that?
Why do they do that? And so the artificially indoctrinated holy symbol of the American flag is manipulatively woven into the burial ceremony of the deceased. Now you can't have seen a Hollywood if you if you partake in any of Hollywood's movies and television shows, everybody has seen the American military or police burial ceremony where the flag is presented to the the family of the deceased. Why do they do that? It's a trick.
It's to get you to associate the memory of your beloved deceased and departed with the American flag, with the government even though it's frequently the policies of the government that have resulted in the death of your loved one, your the government is the one that puts your your loved one into the foreign war. Your government is the one that tricked your loved one into being part of an army of occupation. Your your the government is the one that tricked your loved one into participating in the drug war, which got them shot or, you know, because that's one of the, you know, the known things of of of prohibition is that the the criminal gangs are gonna settle things violently and police officers are gonna die unneedlessly for something that's that's not really a crime. Yeah. So
Jason Christoff:
they're so basically, they're using the high stress of the situation to Mine could I mean, this is how association is done and mind control is you have to really heighten the the fear, the panic, the terror, and the confusion in your mind control victim, and then you associate something, you know, you introduce an object or a phrase or even a trigger phrase or a trigger object where they'll remember forever. They're associated with the fear, the pain, the panic, and the terror. So The next time someone challenges The United States, that person will be indoctrinated and brainwashed to believe that that's a direct threat or encroachment on their loved ones. So it means they're automatically gonna step to the place plate and and defend the state no matter what the state is doing.
Etienne de la Boetie2:
You got it. You got it. And you you nailed it. You kinda set me up for the next one. And so on the positive side, they're tricking the population with an advertising technique known as anchoring.
And the advertising technique of anchoring is, you know, a lot of times, you know, the reason that that a that a company will pay millions of dollars to license a a a a really, you know, popular song. Okay? And or a jingle to be associated with their product is that everybody likes that song. And so they're anchoring the the enjoyment of the song to the product. They're anchoring the enjoyment of the song to the product.
So when you think of the song, you think of the product, when you see the product and you see the logo, you think of the song, you like the songs, you like the product, you like the you know, and and so that's a a technique called anchoring. And so what they're doing with the stadium sports, you know, paid for flagship what what even in the stadium events in sports. What they're doing with the flyovers and what they're doing with the the flagship ceremonies at halftime is everybody loves a ballgame. Right? You're out in the sun.
You're having a couple of beers. You're having, you know, fun stadium food. Your friends are there. There's a, you know, there's a there's a, you know, there's powerful, the energy of thousands of people, and everybody's having a good time and everything. And so we're gonna show you the flag.
We're gonna show you the jet flyover. We're gonna show you the flag. We're gonna show you the jet flyover. Show you the flag. Show you the jet flyover, and you're gonna anchor the good time of the stadium event Mhmm.
To the flag. And again, they're tricking you. They're using a kind of basic, you know, basic, basic anchoring technique. Now here are Now a lot of times, They'll slide it in, you know, in in in the twenty twenty five Super Bowl. I don't know if you remember the the halftime show, but they snuck the flag in to the twenty twenty five Super Bowl.
Didn't do a flagship ceremony because I think people were kinda starting to, like, figure that out. So what they did was they had Kendrick Lamar's backup dancers dressed in red, white, and blue and they did they had to make make the flag at the same time that mustered the other rapper, he had to, you know, very prominent flags, like, you know, American flags right on his, you know, on his jacket So you're anchoring the exhilaration of the Super Bowl, the good time that your enterprise having a Super Bowl party, everybody's watching the Super Bowl, everybody's drinking beer, eating wings, or whatever, and like, boom. We're gonna show you the flag. We're gonna show you the flag. We're gonna slide it into you.
No. Technique number nine is the government is always the hero because the Pentagon and the intelligence agencies are paying for it. And so a lot of people don't realize this, but the Pentagon has been behind 1,000 plus movies, 1,000 plus television shows that we know about. Here's another example of where, you know, you can screen pop a video in the book. And so in the PDF of the book, I could click on this and it would, you know, it would pop up a a trailer for a documentary, a fascinating, fascinating documentary called Theaters of War that really breaks down the Pentagon program and the intelligence agency program that is weaving the American flag in the moments of high positive emotion that is making the government, the hero, that is making the American and military, the hero that is giving people in many, many, many, many cases a false view of what happened in that war or what happened in a war or or the government Yeah.
Absolutely giving a government the government eligibility and their creating the belief that the, you know, the people in the military are all good looking, hot women, moral. Who's and I think all people. And that's unethical. They're weaving in the rule ruleagocity of statism into it. I I'm I'm just gonna go a couple more because I don't wanna give it all away.
You're gonna have to go get the book at seethecage.com to to get everything else. But I'll just go into just one or two more just so that people understand that, hey, this is really, you know, that this is, you know, that they're using these unethically manipulative techniques. They're tricking the population with a variety of techniques, including subliminal programming. And so this is another example where you can screen pop a, you know, a video But in this video and and for your audience that might be a little younger, you know, on the younger side, you know, hey, kids, in the old days, television wasn't twenty four seven. And at the end of the broadcast day, which was usually around 01:00 in the morning or 02:00 in the morning, all of the television stations would play what it was called a sign off message And so 01:00 or 02:00 in the morning, most people are already in a kinda alpha state.
Etienne de la Boetie2:
sleepy. They're not really paying attention. And so what you're seeing in this video is you're seeing these so so as the these these as these words kind of scroll off the screen, other words are for just for a second or two, and you can You can screen pop this video, you can watch the video, you can hit pause, and you can see what I'm talking about. But they're putting other words on the screen. And so is it is it kind of fades off or split second, it says things like trust the government.
God is real, God is watching, believe in government God. Rebellion will not be tolerated. Obey, consume, obey, consume, do not question government. So they're inserting, so when people are in this highly suggestive, sleepy, alpha state, they are putting words on the screen that say, trust the US government. Believe in government at God.
Rebellion will not be tolerated. Do not question the government. Trust the government. And your mind is seeing that. It can't help but see it.
And that's part of the way that they're tricking people into a belief in government. If you don't know this is going on and you've been watching, you know, subliminal messages come across your screen and you didn't know that that I was having, you may have a warm and fuzzy for the government because they tricked you into it. And so I'll do one more. Okay? And then we'll kinda, you know, we'll kinda we'll kinda wrap it up, but technique number 11.
And by the way, like, I'm I'm sure a lot of people are blown. We're only on technique number 11, Jason. I mean, like, we like, there's, you know, there's
Jason Christoff:
there's a lot there's a lot of people though that would say, I'm too smart. Like, I'll just comment here as someone who's lectured some places on mind control. These things do affect you. There are invisible processes at what's called your subconscious, which you are not consciously aware of, that operate in a way where these techniques are proven. That's why the techniques are used because they're proven to infiltrate your behavior, infiltrate your nervous system and guide your thoughts and your beliefs and your ideas on things.
And the person who believes they're outside the scope of being influenced by mind control tactics, that's the perfect person to mind control. So these things do work very well at changing the perception of the public. So yeah, finish off, Howard.
Etienne de la Boetie2:
So, okay, I'm gonna do I'm actually gonna do two more because I feel they're they kinda go together. Okay? And so, this we talked a little bit about anchoring before with the stadium events, and we're gonna anchor the the flag to the excitement of the stadium event. But that technique is also being used in the movies and in the television shows as well. And for people that might just be listening, I've got a picture of, you know, of the move of the end of the movie Rocky where Rocky has draped himself.
I I think is Rocky two, where Rocky has draped himself after after the amazing win, after after the whole movie builds it up to this the moment of high positive emotion has taken the viewer on this you know, this this emotional roller coaster and takes it to the apex of the the the Rockies victory over the bad and evil Russians and he's won and he draves himself in the American flag and he's wearing the American flag shorts, and now they've taken that emotional excitement that they've built up and the storyline and the propaganda and everything like that, and they've anchored it to the American flag. And they brought you to that moment of Expiration and keep on and yes. God. And they show you the flag. And they show you the flag.
And they've been doing it your entire entire life. They've been doing it your entire life.
Jason Christoff:
And we mean, we all know. And emotions are like crazy glue. I just want people to understand the mind control emotions, high emotion or high impact emotion is the crazy glue that activates the illogical mind, which makes the illogical mind unable to see the programming that's being exposed to.
Etienne de la Boetie2:
Absolutely. Absolutely. And there's Superman, you know, carrying the flag. Okay. The last one that I'm gonna do, again, here's another, you know, video that you can, you know, either click on or you can screen pop.
And if you're in your in the print version of the book, there's the QR code, and it will it will bring it up. And another version of the of that Hollywood has been doing is that they've been secretly product placing the flag, not just at moments of high positive emotion, but dozens and dozens of times across, you know, thousands of movies and television shows. And so this short eight minute video, okay, if you if you were to click on this, shows 469 product placements of the American flag in just 12 Michael Bay movies. And I'll actually just click on this for a second and and bring it up just to show everybody kind of like you know what I'm talking about. But in essence, what they've done is that they've taken and I'm gonna turn the sound down here.
But in just so they've they're showing just a second of, like, where the flag is on the screen, and then they've got a little arrow going to the flag. Okay? And in just 12 move 12 movies, they're, you know, they're they're able to get through and kind of and there's the there's the flag ceremony we just talked about. But in just 12 movies, they've got over 469 product placements of the flag in just 12 movies. And there's a little arrow that points to where the flag is and it goes ding.
And then you, you know, you can't really help but like watch this and go, you know, I never noticed they were doing it, but because the human mind and human beings are really, really good pattern recognition machines. Mhmm. Once you see that pattern, you realize, hey, that's artificial. They're doing that on purpose. They're why are they doing that?
Why are they putting hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of product placements of the of the flag in just a dozen movies? Why are there 469 product placements of the flag in just a dozen movies and you realize, hey, they're running game on me. Hey, it's a trick. Hey, that's artificial And the fact that it is artificial is the thing that allows you to, you know, kind of see through it and nobody likes to have game run on them, nobody likes to be tricked Nobody likes to, you know, and and so one of the things that makes the art of liberty foundation kind of unique is that I like to say that we're achieving what I like to call the one way revolution And the one way revolution is, you know, most people when they realize, oh, hey, we're being tricked. We're being you know, they're running kind of a pimp game.
Etienne de la Boetie:
know, somebody that will use unethically manipulative techniques on a woman to get her to hand over a portion of her income. You know, once people realize that that the government's running Pimp game, running, running unethically manipulative techniques on the population to get get them to to to turn over a portion of their income. Well, nobody likes to have Pimp game run on them. And so people will like out. Okay?
I get it. I'm out. They had me. And by the way, they had me. I'm not I'm not special.
They had me hook , line and sinker”. I almost signed up for the military. I was a cub scout. I was a boy scout. When I was in the when when I was in the boy scouts, I would I would when I had saluted the flag, I would make a muscle I I they had me hook line and sinker until somebody explained it to me and then I was out.
And so that's what I'm doing. I'm explaining it to you and I'm giving people a really powerful tool, a really sharp knife to help explain it to their friends, their family, their relatives, their colleagues, and and that's kind of, you know, what we're about at the Art of Liberty Foundation. We're trying to you know, not just expose the illegitimacy and the criminality of government, but we have the good news message that we would all be wealthier and healthier and more prosperous, and there would be much more harmony in society if we could if we could have real freedom and the free market and mutual aid societies and nonprofits and genuine charities would do everything the government does better or faster and cheaper and we'd all be crazy, crazy wealthy if the government wasn't steel wasn't helping the banks and the government itself to steal the value out of everybody's money. And so and that's all I'm gonna say about that.
Jason Christoff:
Yeah. That's a it's a good way to end it. I just want people to know too is that all those 469 imprints of the flag, the way the human mind works, when Trump was in Butler, and it's a high emotional event and he had his fist up and the flag was draped, you know, in the sky wrapping around him inside your brain every time you saw the American flag over your entire life, they all into your brain all at the same time with the same emotional impact, which which which can crazy glue you to the person, to the event, and to the narrative. Mhmm. And so it's very important people know that that's you you should be suspicious where a man that supposedly just got shot in the ear is allowed to do that or wants to do that.
That's very important to to think about. So so basically Howard, the Art of Liberty Foundation, and this is the website. Again, could you mention where people can get a hold of you and get this book or maybe even get the other book as well?
Etienne de la Boetie2:
Oh, a ten day look. We see. Okay. Yeah. Yeah.
So so so first of all, before we do that, I just wanna point out, we only got to 12 of the techniques. Okay? And so there's there's another 13, which is really another 14 techniques because I slid in and one more technique in in the last in the twenty fifth technique is really two techniques, but I could have been going to 30 But, like, I mean, that we we only touched on 13 of the 26 techniques that I outlined in the book. And so that key like, just like, if if you weren't blown away by the by those 13, just imagine how blown away, you're gonna be by another, you know, 13 techniques that you didn't know that was, you know, being run on you. Number two, the answer to your question is, you can find me you can you can get the book at seethecage.com.
Do review it on Amazon, but do not buy it from Amazon. Get it at SeeTheCage.com. It's one of the the ways that they're controlling information and and and steal and demonetizing people like me and and, you know, and and trying to steal our money. Seethecage.com is the place to is the place to buy the book. You can purchase my other book at Government-Scam.com, titled 'Government”- The Biggest Scam in History.' We also offer a bundle that has proven very popular, featuring both books.,
Myyou can find it atrt of Liberty Foundation. We are voluntaryist crime fighters.
We are exposing the illegitimacy and the criminality of government. We're bringing the good news message that you don't really need government. We'd all be dramatically wealthier, healthier, and more prosperous with more harm harmony in society, artofliberty.org, you can find a a free kind of breakdown of the book on my sub stack, artofliberty.substack.com, and you can find most of my writings for free at artofliberty.substack.com, and it has been a pleasure to be with you and your audience today.
Jason Christoff:
Well, we really appreciate it, Etienne. We really appreciate it. So thank you for coming on and and sharing that with the audience of we're gonna see you again really soon.
Etienne de la Boetie2:
Absolutely. And and thank you for doing what you do. You know, it is a group effort. We must all hang together or surely we will all hang separately!
Jason Christoff:
Always a pleasure, my friend.
Etienne de la Boetie2:
Good to see you.
About the Author
Etienne de la Boetie2 is the founder of the Art of Liberty Foundation and the editor of the Art of Liberty Daily News on Substack and Five Meme Friday, which delivers hard-hitting voluntaryist memes and the best of the alternative media. He is an internationally recognized expert and speaker on voluntaryism and government illegitimacy, criminality and corruption, who has been to the site of the Waco massacre and met Charles Key. His original writings and research can be found at ArtOfLiberty.org and ArtOfLiberty.Substack.com
He is the author of the new book To See the Cage is the To Leave It – 25 Techniques That the Few Use to Control the Many which pulls back the curtain on one of history’s most successful psychological operations: The US government and the monopoly media have been using a variety of unethically manipulative techniques to get free and independent human beings to self-identify as “Americans” so they can be tax farmed. The techniques range from mandatory schools to anchoring/product placing the flag in moments of high positive emotion in movies and television shows. From a hidden curriculum in scouting to subliminal programming in television “programming”.
Boetie2 is also the author of “Government” – The Biggest Scam in History… Exposed! which breaks down how inter-generational organized crime centered around banking and central banking is robbing and controlling the population using the technique of “government” with puppet politicians and monopoly media/academia. His upcoming book: Voluntaryism – How the Only “ISM” Fair for Everyone Leads to Harmony, Prosperity and Good Karma for All! explains how REAL freedom (voluntaryism) can provide all the legitimate non-redistributive services offered by “government” without the waste, fraud, abuse, indoctrination and extortion.
About the Art of Liberty Foundation
A start-up public policy organization: Voluntaryist crime fighters exposing the illegitimacy and criminality of “government,” and their partnership with monopoly media/academia. The foundation promotes voluntary free market solutions, charities vs. inefficient “government” aid based on extortion.
The foundation is the publisher of Important News from the Art of Liberty Foundation, The Daily News from the Art of Liberty Foundation and Five Meme Friday - a weekly e-mail or Telegram summary of the best of the alternative media, censored truth videos, and at least five hot, fresh, dank liberty memes every week, and “Government,” Media, and Academia Exposed! - A Telegram summary of the best mainstream and alternative news stories proving our thesis that intergenerational organized crime interests are hierarchically controlling all three.
The foundation’s recent conference, Liberty on the Rocks - Sedona - The Voluntaryism Conference featured leading economists, legal scholars, and political theorists explaining how the free market can provide all the legitimate, non-redistributive services provided by monopoly “government” better, faster and cheaper without the waste, fraud, abuse and extortion.
New book by Etienne de la Boetie2 exposes that the government and Hollywood have been running a multi-generational, trillion-dollar psychological operation on the population to indoctrinate them into accepting a ruling class, confiscatory taxation, and inflationary fractional reserve currency issued by private banks.
The book details 25 unethically manipulative techniques the “government” and monopoly media have been secretly using on the population, ranging from a hidden curriculum in their mandatory schools and scouting to the secret placement of propaganda in over 1,000+ movies and 1,000+ television shows. These techniques include subliminal messages and product placement of the American flag “anchored” to moments of high-positive emotion during the “programming”.
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