KEEP ON THINKING

This is very prophetic now that we live in a society of jabbed up zombie phonetards who wouldn't notice if there were lines in the sky and poison in the water...

 

 

Hannah Arendt warned us 70 years ago: the real danger isn't making people believe lies—it's making them give up on truth entirely. 

 

She was a German-born political philosopher who survived the rise of Nazism, fled Europe, and spent the rest of her life trying to understand how civilized societies descend into totalitarian nightmares. 

 In 1951, she published "The Origins of Totalitarianism," a work that remains chillingly relevant today. Arendt's central insight was this: 

 

Totalitarian systems don't succeed by convincing people of their ideology. They succeed by destroying people's ability to think at all.

 

In her most famous observation from that book, Arendt wrote:

"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (and the distinction between true and false) no longer exists."

 

Read that again. The goal isn't belief—it's confusion. It's exhaustion. It's making people so overwhelmed by competing claims, so buried in lies and counter-lies, that they simply give up trying to know what's real. 

 

When you can no longer tell truth from lies, you can no longer tell right from wrong. And when that happens, you become easy to control—not because you've been persuaded, but because you've stopped trying to think for yourself.

 

Arendt understood something crucial: totalitarian education is not about indoctrination—it's about destroying the capacity to form any convictions at all. 

 

If people believe nothing, question nothing, and trust nothing, they won't resist anything. They'll float along, numb and passive, as the world around them darkens. 

 

In her later essay "Truth and Politics" (1967), Arendt explored how lies function in political systems. She observed that constant, pervasive lying doesn't just spread falsehoods—it erodes the very concept of truth. 

 

 

When everything is contested, when every fact is dismissed as partisan, when reality itself becomes a matter of opinion, then truth loses its power entirely. And when truth has no power, neither does justice, morality, or human dignity. 

 

Arendt watched this happen in real time in 1930s Germany. She saw how the Nazis didn't just lie—they created an environment where lying became so constant, so overwhelming, that ordinary people stopped caring what was true. They became numb. Cynical. Detached. And in that numbness, atrocities became possible.

 

She wrote about this not to assign blame, but to issue a warning: This can happen anywhere. It can happen to anyone. It starts not with violence, but with the slow destruction of our ability to distinguish reality from fiction. So what do we do? Arendt believed the answer lay in what she called "thinking."

 

Not just absorbing information, but actively engaging with it. Questioning. Reflecting. Holding multiple perspectives. Refusing to accept easy answers or simplistic explanations. 

 

She wrote: "The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution." Meaning: the moment we stop thinking critically, the moment we accept any narrative without question—even one we agree with—we've already lost. 

 
Totalitarianism doesn't announce itself with jackboots and tanks. It begins quietly, in the gradual erosion of our capacity to know what's real. It thrives in cynicism, exhaustion, and the belief that "all politicians lie" or "you can't trust anyone" or "who knows what's really true anymore? 

 

"That resignation—that exhaustion—is exactly what Arendt warned us about. Hannah Arendt died in 1975, but her warning echoes forward: Guard your capacity to think. Demand evidence. Distinguish between fact and opinion. Don't let the flood of lies make you give up on truth itself. Because once you stop caring what's true, you've already lost everything that matters.

 

The fight isn't just about believing the right things. It's about refusing to stop thinking at all

 

 

I CAN'T HELP MYSELF

Given how totally gross KFC both looks and smells, it boggles my mind that there are so many of these disgusting American franchises in New Zealand. 

I live just down the road from one, and every time I walk past it I inhale it's thick aroma of greasy chemicals and stare at fat people getting out of their cars in the car park. (Yes, for real, almost all their customers are fat).

About 30 years ago I tried eating one piece of KFC chicken but it was so revolting I spat it out. And it's safe to say I've never been tempted to try it again.

So avoiding KFC (or any other junk food) really isn't a problem, I'm simply not tempted. But giving up my last two social media temptations, Youtube and Facebook, has proven harder.

If they weren't trying to force feed me so much pathetic AI slop I would just keep on sneaking a quick look, but AI is like the stench of KFC, it wafts about, like a stenching fart that I I'm trying to avoid but keep noticing.

Miles Mathis (who is probably a fake himself) recently wrote this:

"Why is Youtube now overrun by fake AI videos like these claiming to be narrated by Joe Rogan . . . but not. Not only are the subjects fake, but Rogan isn't narrating them: an AI voice is mimicking him.

You can tell it isn't him because it is mispronouncing a lot of words Rogan knows how to pronounce. For instance, in one he mentions a date of 1992, but says “one-thousand nine-hundred and ninety-two”.

No human makes that mistake. And this is just one channel of many publishing hundreds or thousands of fake videos. Youtube has rules against things like this and it used to police them, but now it promotes them instead, I am guessing as part of Operation Chaos. 

The question is, why is Rogan allowing it? He has to know about it. 

It looks to me like AI has been tasked with creating literally millions of fake videos tailored for every possible interest, to snare you in an endless loop, waste as much of your time as possible, stir your brain, create fear and unease, and make it impossible for you to tell reality from fiction. Why? To
keep you from starting the revolution. 

 They want you to think Joe Rogan and his pals are on it, so you can just sit back and watch. You are supposed to believe that Trump and Rogan and Tucker and RFK, Jr., and a gaggle of CIA whistleblowers pretending to be white hats are rousting out the Deep State, starting with the Epstein files.

And they are going to clean up your food supply while they are at
it, as well as declassify the aliens, explain the pyramids, and tell you what happens after we die. Ain't it great? So you can sit on the sidelines and cheer, or go back to sleep.

Even worse, they mix in a lot of truth, for maximum confusion. I am not saying everything they say is wrong. Some of it, like outing fake food, is true. See Rogan outing Kraft mac and cheese as the garbage it is. 

Unfortunately, when this is mixed with a lot of AI fakes, most people can't tell the difference between the true stuff and the false, and they eventually give up trying. Which is of course the point of it: many will conclude the story about Kraft is as fake as the rest of it, and keep buying their old garbage food."

I can help myself, and I do fully intend avoiding all AI - if that means no more Youtube, so be it. I will miss a few things, like some of the music videos, but I have saved copies of all my favourite ones.

Admittedly I do still quickly check YouTube and Facebook most days, but I'm only engaging in that filthy habit as a sort of quick check to see what normies are freaking out about. Sort of like sniffing some KFC but not actually eating any! (At least that is what I'm telling myself)

Remember the 90's? No phones (I don't use those things either), no AI, and some of the music rocked!

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7gPTwY9cLM

UNCERTAIN TIMES

We now live in an era that has been deliberately engineered to create maximum uncertainty. For most of my life I was taught things, and even though many of them were complete bullshit, there was generally an overall sense that most people were on roughly the same page.

In 2026, unless we have inside info, we are entering into each new human interaction with no idea if we are dealing with an ally, or an enemy,

And then there are an entire separate class of people like Uber drivers, who only discuss superficial topics, and avoid anything controversial. Which is fully understandable, but this mindset has become so predominant that many young people now constantly say "yeah,nah" or use the word "like" so frequently, they seem to be unable to string together a sentence without saying it. Which results in them sounding "like" vague clueless morons.

For the past 20 odd years I've done my best to plainly state my position, not just online, but in person as well. That has included things like calling out germ theory five years before the covidhoax, and letting rip on woketards since I first got an internet connection back in the 90's.

But I have to admit that over the past five years I feel like I've run up against so many flavours of TARD that I've sometimes lost my will to bother resisting the clueless fuckers. During the covidhoax I never gave in and wore a submission muzzle, but I did just stop going into any business that demanded one. I wonder if they ever missed my cash?.

Locally quite a few of them have since closed down now so maybe they did, but I suspect they never made a direct connection between their drop in sales and them being pissy little masktard nazis back in 2021.

My current sense is that wheels have been set in motion, and there are several large events that are going to continue taking place over the next three years whether or not we are aware of them. One prediction I fully expect to see is a crash in the US$ and all the currencies that are linked to it, which certainly includes the NZ$.

The tricky thing is to somehow maintain a positive mental attitude and to stay focused on a plan even though I do think we are in the middle of a complete train wreck which is inevitably going to play out.

BEATING AROUND THE BUSHES

Why do so many people constantly beat around the bush, or sitting on both side of the fence, too afraid to say what they actually think?  

 I've really had enough of seeing a bunch of spineless twats desperately trying not to cause offense, in the hope of gaining some sort of reward for being popular. 

They call themselves "influencers" because they have masses of imaginary AI "followers".  Except that in reality they don't, because an AI follower is no more a real follower than a man in a dress is a real woman.

When you get down to it an AI follower is just as fucked up as a man in a dress. They are both just delusional fantasies. 

I've done a page summarising a bunch of things that most normies seem to believe - it's called "CONSPIRACY 101" and it includes all sorts of psyops from 911 to "vaccines" 

 

But right now there are some new things that a lot of people are beating around bushes on. Here are three that are very current right now:

1.AI  

AI is complete bullshit. It's not "a bubble", it's an all out scam. Right now, companies like Microslop (Windows 11) and Apple (Now paying billions to Google to rent a second rate version of their AI) are totally losing the plot. 

I wouldn't invest a cent in any company that was chasing an AI delusion. I fully expect the AI crash to make the EV crash look like a seniors beginner Yoga lesson.

2. MICROSLOP

Windows 11 is like a trillion dollar Linux marketing campaign. They may have gotten away with selling a lot of really shit sloperating systems over the past 30 years, but I fully expect Win 11 to take Microslop down. 

Their credit has run out, and even if they released Windows 12 next month and it was reasonably good, I think the damage is done now. Once people leave Microslop they never go back. 

3. FICTIONAL "GLOBAL WARMING" 

This is clearly the next big psyop planned to follow on the heels of the covidhoax. 

Greentards and normies will fall for it hook line and sinker, as they always do. But all the chemtrails and geoengineering in the world can't hide the fact the the earth is cooling, glaciers and areas of ice are growing, and sea levels are dropping.

https://www.climatedepot.com

 

MERRY NEW YEAR

A long standing tradition, that I've been doing since the dawn of time, is to do a blog post on the first day of each new year, usually called something like "NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS", in which I spell out my good intentions for the upcoming year.
 

I generally don't seem to end up doing many of them for very long, but at least I set out with some good intentions each year.

Here are my five resolutions for 2026 (five is always a good number for this sort of thing, simply because we have five toes on each foot):
 

 1. HEALTH

To focus firstly on my own health, by asking "Is this thought or action good for me?" And then to only do it if it is. I already eat pretty well and generally have fairly good habits, but the thing I think I really need to change is to shift towards a more positive focus. 

I'm sure Louise Hay would have recommended that! 

2. PINE

To apply the acronym "PINE" to what I say and post online. Check that it's Positive, Inspiring, Necessary or Entertaining. So I'll be aiming to stop going on about conspiracies for at least the next year. I've been doing quite a lot of that for the past 25 years, and although I've mostly been right, it probably hasn't really achieved much. 

Here's an example: This year rather than saying Microsoft are evil, I'll try to help people who already know that to switch over to Linux.

3. STAY FOCUSED 

To limit my looking at crap online to under 15 minutes a day. 

I'm now using an extension on Brave called "StayFocusd" and the sites I've got it monitoring include Youtube, Bitchute, and Facebook, which are essentially the last three remaining social media sites I was still looking at in 2025. Now after 15 mins they are being blocked. 

Essentially I can choose whether to let a bunch of deep state programmers use their lame AI to fill my mind with crap, or to choose to come up with my own thoughts.

4. LAUGH

To laugh more. Things are way too dark, serious, and depressing in fudporn world. 

If one of my enlightened objectives is to make woketards heads explode, taking the piss out of the clueless fuckers is probably one of the best tactics we have. 

We can either laugh or cry, but laughing is more fun.
 

5. MOVE ON

To let go and move on. There are all sorts of things that are beyond my control, like everything in the past for example, but I've been like a dog that won't let go of it's stick. 

I want to direct my attention at the things that matter and ignore the stuff that doesn't. 

OK that is probably a bit ambitious I know, but I'll give it another crack this year.

 

 

ENDING MY OBSESSION

I've decided that the end of 2025 will also mark the end of my two years daily www.sift.co.nz blogging. Posting something every day has been an entertaining experiment, but now I want to reduce my posting to a more random occurrence.

Some days I really feel like posting something, but some days I don't, and that is OK too. Being a completionist I'm going to keep doing a post each day until the end of this year, but from January 1st 2026 I'll just be posting whatever and whenever.

The truth is, I'm a bit burned out, and even with the blog hits now up well over 1000 on good days, that's still nothing to write home about. Back in the good old days (around 2017) I was getting more than 5000 hits a day, which was more impressive.

But it's not primarily about the hit count, it's more about watching what I essentially think is a giant fake global circus show, and having nothing very productive to say about any of it. I suspect that watching this endless flow of utter bullshit is just making me increasingly negative and cynical.

I used to think exposing psyops was helping to work against them, so that meant I was doing good work. I'm a bit embarrassed to admit now that after more than 20 years "conspiracy" research it's only in the past few years I've started to grasp that the puppet masters are not trying to hide their psyops any more.

On the contrary, they are doing their best to make them blatantly obvious. Back when they did the first fake moon landing in 1969, they were actually doing their best to make it look real. It looked utterly ridiculous, but that wasn't deliberate, they were just really bad at special effects back then. 

Last year when they pretended to shoot Trump's ear off, they knew full well it was obviously fake, but that was the desired intention.

It created division, between people who believe in official narratives, and people who can see obvious fakes. And that division is a key objective.

All the narratives both official and unofficial, are fake, but I've analysed them to death for decades and I really need to move on. I've already pretty much stopped looking at all media, and all social media too, apart from a quick daily look at Facebook.

But even looking at my Facebook feed of over 1500 "conspiracy theorists" posts in chronological order, pretty much everything on my feed is utter bollocks, and it seems to get more lame and retarded by the day. It's quite depressing to see how little ability even my own FB friends seem to have to differentiate shit from chewed dates. I'm on the brink of just giving up looking at even these last remnants of all the programming inputs. I probably will half heartedly keep a lazy eye on what today's stories are, but I've long since lost interest in most of it, even including posts from the "freedom" and "truther" movements, who seem to have no idea how completely they are being played. I'm hanging out to make a mental shift. I don't even want to wait until the new year, I just want to start right now. As part of that shift I don't even want to tell everyone about what I'm no longer doing, in some big explanatory blog post. I will just aim to quietly change and see how things work out.

HOW MUCH???

Not being into phones myself I had no idea that people were flinging this sort of money at the stupid things, but when I did some looking into phones yesterday, it boggled my mind that there are phones apparently selling in New Zealand for NZ$3799.
 

Are people really paying that much for phones? Are they stark raving mad?

A person who was able to make good second hand selections on Trade Me could buy an entire collection of technologies for that amount of money.

 To see how this might play out, I went imaginary shopping online. What did I buy?:

Firstly a laptop - I like 17" Dell Laptops - here is a fairly good one for $599. And this comes with a good hard drive so it wouldn't need upgrading like my next purchase, the PC, would.

 

 

Next a PC - I like old HP Z240 PC's - this one is just $200 - yes I would do some hard drive upgrades to it, but I'm sure there will be plenty of $ remaining from my imaginary $3799 budget to cover those as well.

 

 

The PC would also need a screen to go with it - I like 32" screens - OK, for this item I'll splash out and go with a brand new LG monitor because they are good, and that would cost $445. So far I'm up to $599 + $200 + $445 = $1244.

 I'd like a new tablet as well - my pick is a 12" Samsung - $699 brand new

 And I might as well buy a phone even though I seldom use them - If I was buying one for real I'd prefer a Brax 3 privacy phone, but for the purposes of this blog I'll just go with the first half decent refurbished phone I see - $169

So now I've spent $599 + $200 + $445 + $699 + $169 = $2112.

 I'm doing an imaginary tech spending spree here, and still have $1687 to spend. Those purchases will cost about an extra $100 in freight, so I'll need to keep at least that much in reserve, and next I'd like to buy some better drives for the PC.

 First a new 500Gb Samsung SSD drive for doing a fresh install of a Linux Mint operating system on the PC - $96

 

Then a big 4TB Samsung SSD slave drive for storing all my data - $689 - those drives are fairly expensive and I could easily find something cheaper, but even after buying one, I'd still be rolling in cash at this point, and wouldn't really need to look for drive bargains.

 I'd also get a stylish keyboard and mouse for the PC, along with a WD 4TB external drive ($229) for doing my backups. That lot will cost about $400 all up, leaving me with $300 to spend on extras like a foot massager.

 

As well as using the external drive to backup the slave drive on the PC, I'd also use it to share my big collections of movies and stuff with the laptop.

  

So for the price of that one total rip off phone I could have a nice laptop, PC, monitor, tablet, phone, and a backup drive with some leftover change.

Yeah, that is pretty much what I already actually do have, and honestly, I think if anyone spends $3800 on a phone they are a complete tool.

Speaking of tools, if you are still looking for something to spend some leftover money on, I recommend a Stanley Fatmax 20oz hammer because I think they have a nicer grip than any other hammers. 

 

SOME RUSSIAN DUDE

 Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–1881) was a Russian novelist, philosopher, and essayist, widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in world literature. His works explore the depths of human psychology, morality, and faith amid the turbulent social and political changes of 19th-century Russia. Arrested for his involvement in a political group, he spent years in a Siberian prison camp — an experience that profoundly shaped his worldview and writing. 

Dostoevsky’s most famous novels, including Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, Demons, and The Brothers Karamazov, delve into themes of guilt, redemption, free will, and the search for meaning in suffering. His profound insights into the human soul influenced countless writers, philosophers, and psychologists.

"People do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility. They prefer to live under someone else’s idea of truth, to obey rather than think, to blame rather than act. The real battle is not between good and evil, but between cowardice and courage — between those who dare to think for themselves and those who choose the comfort of chains." — Fyodor

 

 

MY INNER PARROT

Sometimes people talk about their inner guides, as if they are delicate soft spoken little wallflowers, hard to even hear, let alone to understand what they are trying to say.

Five days ago I woke up with a voice like an angry parrot in my head, telling me to get my arse off the internet.

I made a pretty solid compromise and decided to cut my internet time back to a maximum of one hour each day, and I have indeed been doing that. But each evening as I fire up my countdown timer to time my daily internet time, it seems like quite a rush to get the basics done.

I was half expecting my inner parrot to say something like “It’s OK to use the internet for longer if you have a specific reason, as long as you don’t waste time surfing”.

But no, today my inner parrot is saying “One hour is more than enough, cut back all the crap you are doing". I have already cut out most of the crap, but I can’t argue with my inner parrot. I suspect any blog posts I do will not be long winded epic masterpieces (I’m already writing them offline, but don’t have much spare time to post them).

It’s not always this clear, but whatever sense of intuition I have really seems to have had enough of the internet at the moment.