For one thing, I think you understand the human race perfectly.
And I'm sorry to say, so do I.
If you remember, I'm this French speaking blogger (skidmark.blog) with more than 350 posts under his belt - although a good part of them are translations, which sometimes take up more time than my own writings. I'm a 58 years old guy with a grueling full-time job. I have at least 300 tabs open on my browser at any time. Never monetized anything. My blog took over my life.
I sometimes put more than thirty hours into an article that will draw less than twenty people. Sometimes someone catches up later, promotes it on some place - something I never do myself, I'm not on *any* social platform - and boom, it spreads like wildfire. Sometimes.
My blog is maybe the best resource in the French language - there, I said it. I should have thousands of suscribers. I have 27. I should get hundreds of thousands views a month. I get less than two hundred.
In more than two years, I got less than ten comments total. I have a fan in Bolivia, though, of all places. He even wrote me a Christmas message last year. I sometimes think about him when I'm not sure about what to write.
Just to convene the idea that you're not alone in this, the quote under the title of my blog is "Trying to save a world that does not want to be saved". No one has ever asked where that quote comes from. Well, I can tell you. It was from a mom I once saw in a video, who lost her son to the Irak war. She was trying to wake people up. She was talking to people on the street. Nobody cared.
The truth is, people like a good story. With a hero, a villain, and possibly a happy ending. Most of them still like to watch television. If they do, I don't even try anymore. I've realized some time ago that most of them are beyond help.
I've been through times of discouragement. Then the next day, I'd see a kid on the street, his eyes full of hope and wonderment. Sometimes a kid waves hello, because I'm such an impressive sight riding my scooter, so I wave back. When I come home I just sit back again in front of my computer and type away.
That's my life now. My life during wartime. Because I haven't been a good man, I probably deserve it.
They don't.
"A man has done what he must when he has done what he could." Pr Henri Joyeux
I'm feel very sorry at your obvious disappointment about the results of your articles, after all of your hard work. My heart genuinely goes out to you - especially when you are clearly a person of very high moral standards, who wanted to do something to try to improve the world.
Having myself had a very 'up and down' life, sometimes pretty wealthy or pretty happy, and other times the opposite of either or both, and having also worked very hard sometimes to build something, sometimes succeeding, and sometimes failing, I greatly sympathize with the intense disappointment and disillusionment that you must be feeling now.
However, chiche though it may be, when I look back on my very up and down life, it really did always happen - sometimes almost immediately, and sometimes after a period of time, that after every great disappointment or disaster that I experienced in my life, that something very good followed such painful events.
And I am absolutely sure that the same will be true for you. You are, clearly, a very intelligent, principled and disciplined person - and such personal characteristics absolutely guarantee that something good for you will pretty quickly follow this disappointment with the Beagle.
So - I suggest that you treat it as a blip, which is going to lead on to great things, which will come very soon! I say that absolutely sincerely: someone with your talents is not going to be down for long.
I incidentally totally agree with your comments about Elon Tusk: if he was the 'free speech absolutist' that he claims to be, he would be saying that absolutely anyone can come on Twitter and express their political opinions.
By saying 'no' to Alex Jones, and debating whether or not Trump (or anyone else) should be allowed on Twitter, and by talking about limiting some people's 'reach' (i.e., shadow banning them), he clearly has no intention of allowing Twitter to become a free speech platform. I agree with others, that it appears likely that he bought Twitter to serve as a vehicle for him to launch something Orwellian and all-embracing like China's 'Wechat'.
Anyway - very best of luck to you for the future! Please don't be downhearted: this is just a blip - and you may look back on it as an essential experience without which you would never have thought of the XYZ success story which you are going to enjoy sooner, perhaps, than would seem possible right now, when you're feeling temporarily down!
My two cents' worth about articles on politics, the Covid 'vaccines', or whatever, is that most of them infuriate me by not putting the key points of what they want to say in clear, simple English at the to top of the article. This applies not just to written articles - but to so many videos that people make.
People are willing to spend time reading something containing a level of detail - but to get big viewing / readership numbers, it has to be something attention-grabbing, straightforward and clear right at the beginning - and thereafter, to expand on each of those key points as concisely as possible.
Obvious, perhaps - but true. That comment is not, incidentally, made with reference to your articles - but just as a general observation.
Actually, every website of the NWO resistance movement is competing to produce information the main readership has known for a year. ie Wow, extra extra, mRNA kills.
I have been doing this free since 1999. It will always be free. Where is the justice in this?
Umderstand this, there is, and never was, any such commodity as JUSTICE. So stop expecting a dream
I will continue, despite 11 death threats, including 4 or 5 attempts ( I lose track), I will fight till the day that I die.
I guy named Strachan wrote the first book in Australia warning of the corporate takeover back in 2004 and a few years later, was shattered that he had not been declared saviour of Australia and its first president. Actually , he hankered for messiah status.
I wrote a similar book, but pro-democracy, in 2007, read by the massive number of 70 people on this planet. Did I get carried away by this success? Leaned on the morgue door, more like it, but one reader said "write a fucking novel with the same fucking meassage and you might get somnewhere".
Did I sulk? Did I say, "Fuck humanity". Hell yeah.
Then I adjusted to reality and wrote a novel. "The Lost Track". Is it any good? No publisher will dare print it. I have had three attempts to kill me in the past 11 months. If it is published, Murdoch will go to prison. The NWO will die. John Kiriakou was wrong, it should never be read by a publisher who values all things earthly.
This is how it is, Beagle Boy.
But heed the reader below who paraphrases... one door closes; another door opens.
Keep up the fight because the one critic who counts watches you shave every morning and cannot be fooled. You have to be true to yourself. A coward dies a thousand deaths but the brave man dies but once, with a defiant grin on his face. Together, we may yet wipe the smirk off Bill Gates's is face.
I'm sorry things didn’t workout as they should and want to say I admire you for at least trying. Not that my opinion counts for anything.
You touched a nerve when you asked “why do you people lie? To yourselves and each other?” I often wondered the same, how people can have that mix of intelligence yet stubborn stupidity even when its self destructive. It seems impossible to reconcile. The only answer I can come up with is that they just don’t care about the truth.
When indifferent to the truth theres an easy drift to conform. And if they don’t care there is no need to question or doubt. After all If they don’t care what is true then all believes are equally valid and the one that suits them is the “right one”. When the desire to believe what pleases overcomes the desire for the truth, insanity follows and history shows. In society psychopaths will fight to win and some will. But the idealist will ask people to care, but they dont, will point out the truth which they dont care about and ask them to challenge authority which frightens them.
Caitlin Johnson said “It is not easy being someone who cares about the world and opposes the status quo. It's a series of disheartening failures and crushing disappointments amid an endless deluge of information saying that everything is getting worse and worse. ... Some people fall down after a few hard bashes. Some don't get back up again. Others keep bashing away, becoming harder and harder and more and more miserable and neurotic the longer they go at it... As Terence McKenna put it, "The cost of sanity in this society is a certain level of alienation." ... And as Marshall McLuhan put it, "In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is a hallucinating idiot."
I have lost friends over this. What is true is true and we are being lied to, if the price of friendship is to submit to a the lie then its a price too high and they were never really friends.
The final break for me was seeing Assange dragged out of the Ecuadorian embassy in London England (The mother of parliament’s) on the orders of the United States (Land of the free) for the crime of telling the truth about US war crimes. And about 30 people turned up to protest, yet 70 thousand will turn up for a football match.
Sorry for ranting - If you figure out the answer please let me know :-)
It's disappointing to see you go. I will not reiterate what has been said in the other comments. Your last post says it all. Yours is/was one of the few letters that I have /had a paid sub to. After reading a few posts, I said to myself this guy is worth it, so I subbed and didn't regret.
Please do make sure to cancel the auto payment on your side, because from where I live, before getting out just in
time to escape the tyranny, it will be a hassle to cancel it from this side.
There's enough interest in your immense efforts that make me peruse much of it and regularly comment.
You may have noticed I comment on some of your topics but always try to slip in my fanatic view that IF LIABILITY was made LAW for Pfizer & other poison makers, this mess might disappear!
But it seems the WEF are so well entrenched with their NWO, even our new UNELECTED UK Prime Minister (Rat) SUNAK voted for MANDATING DEADLY INJECTIONS ("vaccines") for all UNVAXXED, like me, wishing to travel internationally.
Obviously, RAT SUNAK was being closely supervised by his new WEF boss Adolf Schwab!
Keep up your sterling efforts, we're all pulling in the same direction.
Mick from Hooe (UK) Unjabbed because I joined the dots and enjoy living!
Perhaps the Common Sense model would yield better results. One blog with multiple authors contributing, we could use an alternative to that conservative inc. BS anyway.
Sorry screen is unresponsive to touch in one area and I’m tired. I didn’t notice some of that came out pretty garbled .... those damned dictators lol but I hope it was comprehensible enough . Cheers
Is there a way to do more “academic” style citations on Substack?
It struck me perhaps something as simple as retaining hyperlinks but making it appear more posh might alert people’s attention more to sources which evidently = time spent in addition to that being a service in and of itself and a running tally of them
So mental associates + literally giving people a running fact count
Nothing lacking in what you do and how just wondering if the [ citation* ] style might be worth trying out if possible.
I absolutely hated doing that so cold just be applicable to me but I feel the pain of the effort so even though what you’re doing now is far more useful if it doesn’t add much time maybe try doing the exact same but adding the little numbers if I’m making any sense
Also you tend to be extremely concise and when it’s not verbal to my mind it’s less obvious that is actually hard to do because there’s no imposed speed such as with dictators
Sorry if you thought of all this if suggestions like these aren’t worth the time to read I’ll refrain and don’t be shy no offence will be taken (not to make it seem like I think you’re an asshole by any stretch haha but time and return understandably something you’re trying to improve not spend more of to be told things that are perhaps abundantly obvious as an actual writer )
All constructive criticism is greatly appreciated, and often I have the difficulty of seeking it out.
I have considered the citation model - and when appealing in more professional contexts (governments, academics), I might use my own format for it - however citations are notoriously difficult to organise in order of appearance in the article, especially if you do a lot of edits or changes that change or disrupt the ordering, which require re-ordering of the citations.
It also violates User Interface design principles in that a user should do the least amount of effort to achieve something. Citations force them to look at the number, then skim the page, and do this manually for each entry of interest. If I embed the link directly into the claim, there's no need for them to do any searching. Quality rather than quantity.
Substack supports citations, however citations are designed for very specific situations - usually keeping an expert advisory document summary/preface as short as possible whilst allowing verification of key claims (usually the reader of a citation document is expected to already know most of the area being referenced). Typically government briefings where it might be printed out and read and thus hyperlinks aren't a thing.
"Also you tend to be extremely concise"
This is the first time I've heard this. One of the earliest and frequent criticisms I had were articles were 'too long winded', so I've been working to reduce 'fluff words' in articles and increase information density. In terms of speed, I will try to insert more commas, so text-to-speech readers process it more effectively.
Well total article length and efficiency of the wording is not the same thing and one can have both and I believe you do
I wouldn’t change anything for text to speech nothing is wrong I think I was not clear.
All I meant is that to me economy of words is picked up more readily in verbal communication. For written it can be misconstrued as having done less.
So it was really just meant as a compliment and I suppose in light of what you said validation your attempts to increase information density have succeeded !
I wasn’t suggesting change there just a complement :3
Neat to get some insight thanks.
Don’t forget your most important feedback is your gut and how you feel about what you produce it’s what makes it compelling in the first place!
Hi!
For one thing, I think you understand the human race perfectly.
And I'm sorry to say, so do I.
If you remember, I'm this French speaking blogger (skidmark.blog) with more than 350 posts under his belt - although a good part of them are translations, which sometimes take up more time than my own writings. I'm a 58 years old guy with a grueling full-time job. I have at least 300 tabs open on my browser at any time. Never monetized anything. My blog took over my life.
I sometimes put more than thirty hours into an article that will draw less than twenty people. Sometimes someone catches up later, promotes it on some place - something I never do myself, I'm not on *any* social platform - and boom, it spreads like wildfire. Sometimes.
My blog is maybe the best resource in the French language - there, I said it. I should have thousands of suscribers. I have 27. I should get hundreds of thousands views a month. I get less than two hundred.
In more than two years, I got less than ten comments total. I have a fan in Bolivia, though, of all places. He even wrote me a Christmas message last year. I sometimes think about him when I'm not sure about what to write.
Just to convene the idea that you're not alone in this, the quote under the title of my blog is "Trying to save a world that does not want to be saved". No one has ever asked where that quote comes from. Well, I can tell you. It was from a mom I once saw in a video, who lost her son to the Irak war. She was trying to wake people up. She was talking to people on the street. Nobody cared.
The truth is, people like a good story. With a hero, a villain, and possibly a happy ending. Most of them still like to watch television. If they do, I don't even try anymore. I've realized some time ago that most of them are beyond help.
I've been through times of discouragement. Then the next day, I'd see a kid on the street, his eyes full of hope and wonderment. Sometimes a kid waves hello, because I'm such an impressive sight riding my scooter, so I wave back. When I come home I just sit back again in front of my computer and type away.
That's my life now. My life during wartime. Because I haven't been a good man, I probably deserve it.
They don't.
"A man has done what he must when he has done what he could." Pr Henri Joyeux
I'm feel very sorry at your obvious disappointment about the results of your articles, after all of your hard work. My heart genuinely goes out to you - especially when you are clearly a person of very high moral standards, who wanted to do something to try to improve the world.
Having myself had a very 'up and down' life, sometimes pretty wealthy or pretty happy, and other times the opposite of either or both, and having also worked very hard sometimes to build something, sometimes succeeding, and sometimes failing, I greatly sympathize with the intense disappointment and disillusionment that you must be feeling now.
However, chiche though it may be, when I look back on my very up and down life, it really did always happen - sometimes almost immediately, and sometimes after a period of time, that after every great disappointment or disaster that I experienced in my life, that something very good followed such painful events.
And I am absolutely sure that the same will be true for you. You are, clearly, a very intelligent, principled and disciplined person - and such personal characteristics absolutely guarantee that something good for you will pretty quickly follow this disappointment with the Beagle.
So - I suggest that you treat it as a blip, which is going to lead on to great things, which will come very soon! I say that absolutely sincerely: someone with your talents is not going to be down for long.
I incidentally totally agree with your comments about Elon Tusk: if he was the 'free speech absolutist' that he claims to be, he would be saying that absolutely anyone can come on Twitter and express their political opinions.
By saying 'no' to Alex Jones, and debating whether or not Trump (or anyone else) should be allowed on Twitter, and by talking about limiting some people's 'reach' (i.e., shadow banning them), he clearly has no intention of allowing Twitter to become a free speech platform. I agree with others, that it appears likely that he bought Twitter to serve as a vehicle for him to launch something Orwellian and all-embracing like China's 'Wechat'.
Anyway - very best of luck to you for the future! Please don't be downhearted: this is just a blip - and you may look back on it as an essential experience without which you would never have thought of the XYZ success story which you are going to enjoy sooner, perhaps, than would seem possible right now, when you're feeling temporarily down!
My two cents' worth about articles on politics, the Covid 'vaccines', or whatever, is that most of them infuriate me by not putting the key points of what they want to say in clear, simple English at the to top of the article. This applies not just to written articles - but to so many videos that people make.
People are willing to spend time reading something containing a level of detail - but to get big viewing / readership numbers, it has to be something attention-grabbing, straightforward and clear right at the beginning - and thereafter, to expand on each of those key points as concisely as possible.
Obvious, perhaps - but true. That comment is not, incidentally, made with reference to your articles - but just as a general observation.
Best of luck,
Richard
Will your past articles remain on Substack?
Before you go, could you please post a link to your videos? You have a real talent for video production.
Thank you for all your hard work and research. Perhaps you will find a way to come back. Your work has great value.
(Even though I know more than you about the nuclear industry) :)
Just giving you a hard time. Thanks again for everything. I will not be requesting a refund.
Good luck with your endeavors! I have the feeling we will be seeing you again, somehow.
Just some advice, don’t keep swallowing the black pills.
You are seriously going to let me have the last word on this? Now I am worried about you.
Great Article!
Wellcome to REALWORLD.
Actually, every website of the NWO resistance movement is competing to produce information the main readership has known for a year. ie Wow, extra extra, mRNA kills.
I have been doing this free since 1999. It will always be free. Where is the justice in this?
Umderstand this, there is, and never was, any such commodity as JUSTICE. So stop expecting a dream
I will continue, despite 11 death threats, including 4 or 5 attempts ( I lose track), I will fight till the day that I die.
I guy named Strachan wrote the first book in Australia warning of the corporate takeover back in 2004 and a few years later, was shattered that he had not been declared saviour of Australia and its first president. Actually , he hankered for messiah status.
I wrote a similar book, but pro-democracy, in 2007, read by the massive number of 70 people on this planet. Did I get carried away by this success? Leaned on the morgue door, more like it, but one reader said "write a fucking novel with the same fucking meassage and you might get somnewhere".
Did I sulk? Did I say, "Fuck humanity". Hell yeah.
Then I adjusted to reality and wrote a novel. "The Lost Track". Is it any good? No publisher will dare print it. I have had three attempts to kill me in the past 11 months. If it is published, Murdoch will go to prison. The NWO will die. John Kiriakou was wrong, it should never be read by a publisher who values all things earthly.
This is how it is, Beagle Boy.
But heed the reader below who paraphrases... one door closes; another door opens.
Keep up the fight because the one critic who counts watches you shave every morning and cannot be fooled. You have to be true to yourself. A coward dies a thousand deaths but the brave man dies but once, with a defiant grin on his face. Together, we may yet wipe the smirk off Bill Gates's is face.
Now that is a dream worth pursuing.
I'm sorry things didn’t workout as they should and want to say I admire you for at least trying. Not that my opinion counts for anything.
You touched a nerve when you asked “why do you people lie? To yourselves and each other?” I often wondered the same, how people can have that mix of intelligence yet stubborn stupidity even when its self destructive. It seems impossible to reconcile. The only answer I can come up with is that they just don’t care about the truth.
When indifferent to the truth theres an easy drift to conform. And if they don’t care there is no need to question or doubt. After all If they don’t care what is true then all believes are equally valid and the one that suits them is the “right one”. When the desire to believe what pleases overcomes the desire for the truth, insanity follows and history shows. In society psychopaths will fight to win and some will. But the idealist will ask people to care, but they dont, will point out the truth which they dont care about and ask them to challenge authority which frightens them.
Caitlin Johnson said “It is not easy being someone who cares about the world and opposes the status quo. It's a series of disheartening failures and crushing disappointments amid an endless deluge of information saying that everything is getting worse and worse. ... Some people fall down after a few hard bashes. Some don't get back up again. Others keep bashing away, becoming harder and harder and more and more miserable and neurotic the longer they go at it... As Terence McKenna put it, "The cost of sanity in this society is a certain level of alienation." ... And as Marshall McLuhan put it, "In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is a hallucinating idiot."
I have lost friends over this. What is true is true and we are being lied to, if the price of friendship is to submit to a the lie then its a price too high and they were never really friends.
The final break for me was seeing Assange dragged out of the Ecuadorian embassy in London England (The mother of parliament’s) on the orders of the United States (Land of the free) for the crime of telling the truth about US war crimes. And about 30 people turned up to protest, yet 70 thousand will turn up for a football match.
Sorry for ranting - If you figure out the answer please let me know :-)
It's disappointing to see you go. I will not reiterate what has been said in the other comments. Your last post says it all. Yours is/was one of the few letters that I have /had a paid sub to. After reading a few posts, I said to myself this guy is worth it, so I subbed and didn't regret.
Please do make sure to cancel the auto payment on your side, because from where I live, before getting out just in
time to escape the tyranny, it will be a hassle to cancel it from this side.
All the best.
Hi Underdog!
There's enough interest in your immense efforts that make me peruse much of it and regularly comment.
You may have noticed I comment on some of your topics but always try to slip in my fanatic view that IF LIABILITY was made LAW for Pfizer & other poison makers, this mess might disappear!
But it seems the WEF are so well entrenched with their NWO, even our new UNELECTED UK Prime Minister (Rat) SUNAK voted for MANDATING DEADLY INJECTIONS ("vaccines") for all UNVAXXED, like me, wishing to travel internationally.
Obviously, RAT SUNAK was being closely supervised by his new WEF boss Adolf Schwab!
Keep up your sterling efforts, we're all pulling in the same direction.
Mick from Hooe (UK) Unjabbed because I joined the dots and enjoy living!
Perhaps the Common Sense model would yield better results. One blog with multiple authors contributing, we could use an alternative to that conservative inc. BS anyway.
Sorry screen is unresponsive to touch in one area and I’m tired. I didn’t notice some of that came out pretty garbled .... those damned dictators lol but I hope it was comprehensible enough . Cheers
Is there a way to do more “academic” style citations on Substack?
It struck me perhaps something as simple as retaining hyperlinks but making it appear more posh might alert people’s attention more to sources which evidently = time spent in addition to that being a service in and of itself and a running tally of them
So mental associates + literally giving people a running fact count
Nothing lacking in what you do and how just wondering if the [ citation* ] style might be worth trying out if possible.
I absolutely hated doing that so cold just be applicable to me but I feel the pain of the effort so even though what you’re doing now is far more useful if it doesn’t add much time maybe try doing the exact same but adding the little numbers if I’m making any sense
Also you tend to be extremely concise and when it’s not verbal to my mind it’s less obvious that is actually hard to do because there’s no imposed speed such as with dictators
Sorry if you thought of all this if suggestions like these aren’t worth the time to read I’ll refrain and don’t be shy no offence will be taken (not to make it seem like I think you’re an asshole by any stretch haha but time and return understandably something you’re trying to improve not spend more of to be told things that are perhaps abundantly obvious as an actual writer )
All constructive criticism is greatly appreciated, and often I have the difficulty of seeking it out.
I have considered the citation model - and when appealing in more professional contexts (governments, academics), I might use my own format for it - however citations are notoriously difficult to organise in order of appearance in the article, especially if you do a lot of edits or changes that change or disrupt the ordering, which require re-ordering of the citations.
It also violates User Interface design principles in that a user should do the least amount of effort to achieve something. Citations force them to look at the number, then skim the page, and do this manually for each entry of interest. If I embed the link directly into the claim, there's no need for them to do any searching. Quality rather than quantity.
Substack supports citations, however citations are designed for very specific situations - usually keeping an expert advisory document summary/preface as short as possible whilst allowing verification of key claims (usually the reader of a citation document is expected to already know most of the area being referenced). Typically government briefings where it might be printed out and read and thus hyperlinks aren't a thing.
"Also you tend to be extremely concise"
This is the first time I've heard this. One of the earliest and frequent criticisms I had were articles were 'too long winded', so I've been working to reduce 'fluff words' in articles and increase information density. In terms of speed, I will try to insert more commas, so text-to-speech readers process it more effectively.
Well total article length and efficiency of the wording is not the same thing and one can have both and I believe you do
I wouldn’t change anything for text to speech nothing is wrong I think I was not clear.
All I meant is that to me economy of words is picked up more readily in verbal communication. For written it can be misconstrued as having done less.
So it was really just meant as a compliment and I suppose in light of what you said validation your attempts to increase information density have succeeded !
I wasn’t suggesting change there just a complement :3
Neat to get some insight thanks.
Don’t forget your most important feedback is your gut and how you feel about what you produce it’s what makes it compelling in the first place!