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Lori Fedoronko's avatar

Awesome work! I have so much to learn! Yet love it. The spiritual aspect is key. I recite the armor of god many times a day! We are in deep to this spiritual war!

David A. Hughes's avatar

Thanks, Lori. I think everyone is on a very steep learning curve, given how much has been concealed from us.

Deborah wilson's avatar

Love the wisdom, faith & hope 🙏

monique's avatar

Dear David,

What continues to strike me is that there is a deeply entrenched concept operating worldwide that causes many people to fall silent almost instantly: “Erst das Fressen, dann die Moral.” It functions as a central hinge, a mechanism that makes many things possible which otherwise would not be.

I found myself thinking about Gandhi, who at some point managed to truly master this dynamic. This raises the essential question:

When we speak about omniwar, what is it really about at its core?

There is one layer that is particularly effective precisely because it often presents itself as sober realism, while in fact it represents a profound ethical switch: the mantra

“Erst das Fressen, dann die Moral.”

It is etched so deeply into society that it is rarely questioned. In times of crisis, this phrase functions like an implicit license to suspend morality. The message is clear: as long as survival, security, or stability are perceived to be under threat, ethical boundaries apply only conditionally.

Historically, this pattern is well documented. Before major escalations, moral standards are regularly declared a “luxury” that can supposedly be reinstated later. That later, however, rarely arrives. This is something we should all allow to truly sink in what it does to us as human beings, and to our relationships with one another.

In omniwar terms, this mantra functions as a bridge between economic pressure, psychological mobilization, legal exception, and military escalation.

Where morality is deferred, human dignity becomes a variable. And precisely there begins the structural possibility of war.

This darkness has a name: It is the war you called "Omniwar". What follows is my attempt to understand into how many domains omniwar is actually fragmented and how one might approach this from a Gandhian perspective of conscious decoupling.

1. Military–kinetic field

War is normalized through language (“war-ready”), conscription debates, and escalation rhetoric.

Objective: physical deployability and acceptance of sacrifice logic.

Decoupling: principled refusal to treat human beings as material; human dignity as a fixed boundary.

2. Psychological / emotional field

Fear, guilt, shame, and moral coercion generate emotional mobilization.

Objective: acceleration of us-versus-them dynamics.

Decoupling: emotional self-regulation, slowing rather than escalating, no reactive outrage.

3. Cognitive / narrative field

Framing, enemy images, simplification, and constant repetition (“there is no alternative”).

Objective: narrowing of the space of thought.

Decoupling: systemic thinking, questions instead of positions, refusal of binary language.

4. Social field (mass formation)

Polarization, protest and counter-protest logics.

Objective: predictability and steerability of collective behavior.

Decoupling: coherent individuality, relational networks without enemy images, no mass dynamics.

5. Economic-technological field

Arms industries, security markets, surveillance, data extraction.

Objective: conflict continuity and behavioral control.

Decoupling: conscious reduction of dependencies, sobriety toward technology, strategic simplicity.

6. Legal-normative field

States of exception and the gradual erosion of fundamental rights “in the name of security.”

Objective: legalization of escalation.

Decoupling: explicit commitment to human dignity and universal fundamental rights as non-negotiable limits.

7. Cultural-symbolic field

Aestheticization of violence through films, series, games, and myths.

Objective: emotional habituation and seduction rather than coercion.

Decoupling: demythologizing heroism, restoring tragedy instead of spectacle.

8. Pedagogical / educational field

Early normalization of threat and security narratives.

Objective: pre-conditioning of future generations.

Decoupling: fostering historical and structural thinking, rejecting camp logic.

9. Biological / neurological field

Stress, exhaustion, sleep deprivation, loss of bodily self-regulation.

Objective: increased susceptibility to influence.

Decoupling: restoration of rhythm, rest, and bodily sovereignty.

10. Spiritual-existential field

Meaninglessness or conversely, meaning generated through “holy struggle.”

Objective: readiness for self-instrumentalization.

Decoupling: human dignity as an intrinsic value; life not as a means, but as an end.

11. Time and acceleration field

Permanent urgency (“now or never”).

Objective: elimination of reflection.

Decoupling: deliberate slowing down; refusal to abandon moral boundaries under time pressure.

12. Epistemological field (knowledge and truth)

Authority claims (“experts say…”), fragmentation of truth, discrediting of doubt.

Objective: conformity rather than understanding.

Decoupling: distinction between information and insight; thinking as a process.

In summary, I arrive at the conclusion that omniwar is not a war over territory, but over availability. If this availability is the weakest link, it raises the question of what fragmented, non-violent acts of withdrawal might achieve.

This brings me back to Gandhi’s success in enabling an entire continent to consciously decouple from colonial power with the awareness that decoupling is not passivity, but the systematic withdrawal of availability, without creating new violence and without opening new fronts.

And let’s be honest: the destructive power the military-industrial complex now holds worldwide cannot be confronted head-on by those outside it. We have seen this repeatedly most clearly during the Vietnam War. Despite years of massive protests across the United States, Europe, and even within the armed forces themselves, the war continued. Defense contracts, industrial momentum, and geopolitical logic remained intact.

The real turning point came only when the war became unsustainable from within: soldiers grew demoralized, desertion increased, internal breakdowns occurred, costs — financial, political, and moral began to outweigh any strategic gains, and political legitimacy collapsed at the core of power in Washington itself. The war did not end because external opposition overpowered the system, but because the system could no longer sustain itself internally.

This historical pattern reinforces the central insight: meaningful change does not emerge from direct confrontation with overwhelming destructive capacity, but from the withdrawal of availability when energy, legitimacy, and participation are no longer supplied from within.

This leaves a final, difficult question: when fear reaches into the core of human experience, does non-availability remain a legitimate stance? And if so, what can serve as the anchor that allows a society to remain grounded — conscious of what is being done in its name, and by its military structures?

David A. Hughes's avatar

Monique, this is brilliant!

An original and persuasive interpretation of the Omniwar concept.

I particularly like the solution-focused structure and the framing in terms of decoupling.

I think you are right. Withdrawal of availability is key, i.e., the "systematic withdrawal of availability, without creating new violence and without opening new fronts."

The challenge is how this can be fostered across society and across all the areas you mention. No small task, but your framework is persuasive.

Many thanks!

monique's avatar

Dear David,

Your question about how withdrawal of availability could take hold across society keeps bringing me back to something very basic: societies do not change because they are instructed to do so. They change when people begin to act differently in visible ways.

Milgram already showed that obedience does not collapse because people are persuaded by arguments, but because an alternative becomes visible. The moment one person refuses, refusal becomes imaginable for others. Behaviour spreads through example, not explanation. Across different disciplines from social learning research to more contested observations about field effects we see variations of the same pattern: what is embodied by some can become accessible to others.

From that perspective, withdrawal of availability cannot be organised or rolled out. It becomes socially real only when it is demonstrated when someone remains present, does not escalate, does not retreat into opposition, and does not outsource moral responsibility under pressure.

This raises a central question: how do we show others what such an example actually is? How does “acting differently” become visible in concrete terms, without being packaged as instruction, morality, or position?

At the same time, this exposes a fundamental limitation. Example behaviour is not neutral once it becomes visible. It almost immediately becomes susceptible to framing, not so much at the level of argument or content, but at the level of imagination and feeling.

This is where a major bottleneck appears, closely tied to what can be called imagineering: the shaping of perception through lived imagery rather than explicit persuasion. Many contemporary cultural forms, from series and games to news formats, do not work by telling people what to think, but by showing what it feels like to be inside a situation. Conflict, threat, and violence are not argued; they are experienced. Meaning is shaped before reflection has a chance to begin.

As a result, even attempts to make alternative behaviour visible can be quickly repackaged, neutralised, or bent back into existing narratives. Slowing down can be framed as naïveté, presence as weakness, withdrawal as indifference, not because the behaviour fails on its own terms, but because imagineering can shift its meaning before it is actually understood.

Such behaviour is often experienced by war-oriented systems as provocation. Not because it attacks, but because it does not respond as expected. It is not predictable, not mobilisable, and not deployable. That loss of grip is what triggers a response.

Historically, that response follows a fairly consistent sequence:

1. Framing and delegitimisation

Non-participation is labelled irresponsible, naïve, or dangerous. The aim is to mark the behaviour as socially unacceptable from the outset.

2. Moral and emotional pressure

Fear, guilt, and urgency are amplified: others are making sacrifices, security is said to be at risk, hesitation is framed as betrayal. This is classic social pressure — not yet a military response.

3. Attempted reabsorption

The behaviour is redefined as a permissible role: managed dissent, “critical engagement,” or constructive contribution. Control is easier than exclusion.

4. Repression (as a last resort)

This emerges only when withdrawal becomes visible, spreads, and can no longer be reversed. Even then, it usually signals internal strain rather than confident strength.

5. Elimination (in extreme historical cases)

History also shows that when all other mechanisms fail, repression has at times escalated into physical elimination — from medieval persecutions such as the Cathars and witch hunts, to later political purges. This stage reflects not power, but panic: the point at which a system no longer knows how to respond without destroying what it cannot control.

Crucially, this sequence does not begin with violence. It begins with a deeper failure. Again and again, violence appears where groups are unable to acknowledge loss: that economic models no longer hold, that structures have become obsolete, that innovation cannot occur within existing frameworks, or that not everyone fits within the imagined future those frameworks depend on.

This shifts the question. The issue is no longer simply how to oppose violence, but who — and what — must be willing to look at what no longer works. What losses need to be acknowledged before escalation becomes unnecessary? And where should an alternative debate actually take place if it is not to become another struggle over legitimacy, blame, or control?

If omniwar increasingly operates through perception, through framing, imagination, and the management of urgency, then peace cannot rely solely on policy or declarations. It has to take root at the level where meaning is formed. That points less toward mobilisation, and more toward education in perception: the ability to recognise framing as it happens, to understand how semantics and urgency shape judgement, and to remain present without collapsing into reactive certainty.

Learning to recognise those moments and to respond differently may be one of the quietest yet most consequential forms of peace-building available to us.

This is not a strategy that can be rolled out, but a condition that either holds or collapses. How such perceptual and imaginative capacity can be supported — especially within systems that struggle to face their own limits — is the question I am still sitting with.

David A. Hughes's avatar

Thanks again, Monique, for these very sophisticated and well thought out points. Your material feeds into my "Better Vision For Humanity" idea and how to achieve it.

"Withdrawal of availability cannot be organised or rolled out. It becomes socially real only when it is demonstrated when someone remains present, does not escalate, does not retreat into opposition, and does not outsource moral responsibility under pressure."

It sounds as though we need a society of what Carl Jung called "awakened empaths," those who feel the anguish of another without making it their own. Those who are fully present in an interaction while retaining emotional sovereignty. Those who intuit deception and know how to remove themselves from toxic relationships:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKjUiVy_yW0

"Peace cannot rely solely on policy or declarations. It has to take root at the level where meaning is formed. That points less toward mobilisation, and more toward education in perception: the ability to recognise framing as it happens, to understand how semantics and urgency shape judgement, and to remain present without collapsing into reactive certainty."

I find that very profound. It ties in well with the urgent need to educate the public in the methods of propaganda and how it is deployed against ordinary people, whose perception is thereby shaped in malign ways. The Covid response exemplified this, with some of the methods of social control you describe coming very obviously into play.

monique's avatar

Dear David,

I looked at the link you shared. As far as I can see, it presents AI-generated, Jung-inspired psychological language. I’m curious what you find valuable in it, because it may be that we are talking past each other.

For me, the core problem at this moment is not only the use of war language or propaganda. It is more fundamental: most people do not even know their own information-preference systems — how they process meaning, pressure, and signals.

What is striking is that this knowledge is not new. As early as the 1980s, work by Kolb and by Grinder (NLP) already described differences between abstract vs. concrete processing, reflective vs. active modes, and representational preference systems. Today, these models are often poorly instrumentalised in education — treated as static labels rather than living, adaptive patterns.

At the same time, algorithms have no such difficulty. They can quickly infer whether someone tends to process information abstractly or concretely, reflectively or through action, and through which representational channels. Combined, this allows information to be tailored with great precision — much like personalised systems in aviation, but now applied to attention, meaning, and emotion.

The result is that people increasingly receive customised informational realities — whether framed as engagement, persuasion, or propaganda. Large groups then respond in patterned ways, generating a kind of collective energy that becomes highly steerable.

From that perspective, the real vulnerability lies not only in ideology or rhetoric, but in the lack of awareness of one’s own perceptual and informational conditioning

Robert A Barricklow's avatar

The unabashed Betrayal continues...

A seaph poignant probing; into demonic vaccine origins?

An unexpected raisson d'etre event, like a black swan bred of whites?

Again, OUTSTANDING!

Shows "we're" in the presence of an evil.

When they call down high-heaven...

Don't be surprised.

It just might show up!

AND then; it is "THEY" - who are in a world of hurt!

Dyled Aman Vaniz Dayha's avatar

Absolutely brilliant David... over these 2 episodes, which were very well hosted, I thought you expressed your work majestically... thank you so much for being a seminal educator and revealing what's really going on. very best wishes.

David A. Hughes's avatar

How kind of you to say!

Very much appreciated.

The Club Grubbery team are doing a great job.

dave mann's avatar

I have to disagree that the main objective is to undermine "Christianity". Christianity, imo, has been the most important and successful psyop of 2000 years. It effectively NEUTRALIZES the MASS. In place of effective organizing of the working class, we have prayer and HOPE. Just take as an example Erika Kirk's statement that "We prayed, as usual, for Charlies safety". Then he is supposedly - not really - but supposedly shot. This was of course an inadvertent debunking of Christianity. Yet, revealing. Religion is a psyop to NEUTRALIZE MASSES of people. Far from trying to undermine religion - EVERY political leader is PROMOTING it from on high. Only exception being China I suppose. But, the Romans knew exactly what they were doing when they INVENTED Christianity. See Atwill perhaps.

Karin's avatar

Agree, and tbh what would be the reason for undermining "Christianity"? It's not as though all those who see through the lies and deceit are Christian and many many Christians support all the corruption and in fact were probably instrumental in its development.

SheilaB's avatar

'Far from trying to undermine religion - EVERY political leader is PROMOTING it from on high.'

You need to distinguish between Christianity (the Gospel) and Christian nationalism, which is being pushed as part of the dialectic (e,g, as a reaction to massive muslim migration and to the woke agenda). Christian nationalism - see e.g. Charlie and Erika Kirk (if they're even real), TPUSA, NAR, Seven Mountains Movement, not to mention the rising (probably strongly pushed) 'cultural influencer' Nick Fuentes, who is practically frothing at the mouth for a catholic fascist state - is a different beast from real Christianity. In fact the Beast in Revelation, is a counterfeit church which persecutes Christ's actual church.

I'm familiar with Atwill, but he didn't change my mind. The bible warns of increasing deceptions in the last days, which is where I think we are. The fact that the lukewarm churches disgraced themselves during 'covid' fits in with this vision of apostasy and deception.

The reason for undermining Christianity is that stable Christian families and churches have always been the strongest bulwark against authoritarian totalitarian enterprises.

Tudor Alexander (Dance of Life Podcast) is very good on following the culture-shaping that's going on and how it fits with biblical prophecy, especially in his six-weekly (-ish) end-times news updates.

https://www.danceoflife.com/

I realise none of this means anything to determined atheists, but I wish you well and someone else may be interested!

dave mann's avatar

I'm aware that "Christian Nationalism" hardly fits all Christians - eg, King, Thomas Merton, Dorothy Day, Plowshares, Pastors for Peace - with whom I have worked for years in regard to Anti-War issues.

When you say "increasing deception" though - it strikes me as extremely VAGUE. The main source of deception is the Ruling Capitalist Class - that owns all the media, and controls every institution. That's the reason they can roll out an Internationally Coordinated campaign and operation such as Covid-19 - with such success. Organize 335 foreign military interventions - based on lies. And etc. So "deception" has been with us for a LONG time - and will absolutely continue into the future.

I wouldn't stress over the "End Times" - nor would I recommend orienting your thinking according to scripture. But, that's obviously just my opinion.

SheilaB's avatar

Thank you for your opinion - I'm sure you wouldn't recommend scripture or concern yourself with the end times!

Yes, deception has been with us for a long time - since there were humans, in fact. And yes, the global ruling class are the visible (sometimes individually not so visible) source of it. The only difference in perception is that they're at the top of your pyramid, while for me - and I think for the presenters - there's another entity on top of them who works through them.

But that's obviously just my opinion. 😊 Well, not just mine, obviously. The proof of the pudding will, as always, be in the eating.

Amy Harlib's avatar

WAKE THE F*CK UP! TOTAL SLAVERY IS UPON US!!

IT'S THE OMNIWAR! They can stick their f*cking damned AI, Wearables, Chips, CBDC/NO CASH, NANO, Digital IDs, and Jabs up their asses where the sun don't shine!

HELL NO TO GENESIS MISSION/STARGATE/DEEPSEEK! HELL NO TO AI! technocracy.news

Life everywhere is being assaulted by THE TECHNOCRATIC OMNIWAR! RESIST! DO NOT CONSENT TO ALL THINGS DIGITAL, 'SMART', AI, 5G, NO CASH - ALL OF IT! dhughes.substack.com Technocrat ruling class psychos get a sadistic thrill from their powers over life and death and hurting all who stand in their way and they need the resources worldwide to build their digital total slavery control grids (herd survivors into 15 minute city digital prisons)!

AI is designed to be anti-human/anti-life programmed by technocrat control freak psychos - garbage in = garbage out. Everyone got along just fine without all these absurd and downright satanic electronic gadgets that did not exist until recently. NOBODY NEEDS THIS AI CRAP!

CREATIVITY! ARTISTRY! IMAGINATION! SPIRITUALITY! HUMOR! LOVING KINDNESS! These are all BEAUTIFUL, the best ways to fight THEM!

I also have a landline, a wired laptop and a wired monitor screen, and I never had or will have those infernal mobile devices designed to enslave you. I also use cash as much as possible, no cash is TOTAL SLAVERY.

How to fight back against this TOTAL SLAVERY!

RESIST! DO NOT COMPLY! DITCH THE DAMNED 'SMART' PHONES AND THE DAMNED QR CODES AND GO BACK TO LANDLINES OR FLIP PHONES AND USE CASH AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE! INSIST ON CASH! CBDC IS TOTAL SLAVERY!

It is heartbreaking to witness the holocausts happening and so many fellow citizens are brainwashed/bamboozled by the propaganda media, they are oblivious!

MISTAKES WERE NOT MADE! THEY can't get rid of the 'useless eaters' fast enough!

Peddling pure poison! Folks have to wake up to reality: health comes from organic diet, daily exercise and clean living and never from a needle or a pill except in dire, rare traumatic injuries.

It was NEVER about health! The Powers That Should Not Be were ALWAYS about they want you DEAD or a SLAVE! This is a painful truth to accept but we the people must wake up and fight back! And toxic injections/pills were/are a huge part of their arsenal!

This horrifying Congress Critters, Gates, Governor 'Gruesome Newscum', 'Lone Scum', Soros, 'Benedict' Biden and Harris and even Trump, Vance, and 'Ramaswampy' et al are blatant fully owned and operated puppets of their globalist technocrat parasite masters same as other numerous 'PUBLIC SERPENTS' infesting by design from above, the bureaucratic apparatus.

Can't say this often enough! The Military/Industrial Complex and the Biowarfare/industrial Complex, WEF agenda and the evils assaulting humanity are from one and the same source - it is the 99% against the diabolical GREED of the 0.01% who should not be in charge of anything!

The monsters in human skin suits who rule the world get a sadistic vampiric thrill and boost from perpetrating the vilest most demonic crimes against the most vulnerable (babies and small children) and then corrupting the system to get away with it scot free! We the People must stop them, there are a lot more of us than them!

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And BIG pHARMa is an arsenal making permanently sickly addicted slaves dependent on their products - the complete opposite of actual health.

Can't say this often enough!

SCREW THE HYPOCHONDRIA GERMAPHOBIC FEAR HYSTERIA! DO NOT CONSENT! Avian flu is for the birds! RESIST!

KEEP FIGHTING! All the perps who pushed this greatest crime against humanity, all the way down to the local level, must get their comeuppances!

Proudly ANTI-VAXX! Reiterating for the sake of newbies and to support this post.

Ban all vaccine jabs! There has never been a 'safe and effective' vaccine since Edward Jenner's fraud over 200 years ago as per 'Dissolving Illusions' by Suzanne Humphries and 'Turtles All the Way Down' by Anonymous. Health can never come from a needle or pills, but from healthy eating, healthy exercise and healthy living! virustruth.net

Divide and rule! Agents provocateurs anyone, FALSE FLAGS, propaganda social engineering psyops? Keeping us proles at each others' throats while the globalist technocrat predators laugh all the way to the BIS and The Bank of Rothschild's!

BURN BACK BETTER!

PSYCHOPATHS! MEGALOMANIACS!

Bless and thank you for doing what you do.