Frances Leader wrote another article.
It stood out in my mind because I had come across this a few weeks earlier. Dr. Bryan Ardis was interviewing Dr. Lee Merritt and she delivered this same spiel. “Spiel” pronounced “shpeel” means “game” in German.
So here is the problem…
What is Dr. Lee Merritt a doctor of? History?
No.
Phrygian hats?
No.
So she has no credentials or qualifications in this area. Why do we listen to her? Because she is a doctor. Once you have a doctor in front of your name you must be infallible and super smart. It is a fallacy called False appeal to authority. Plato warned us about it 3000 years ago and we still fall for it today.
Lee Merritt is a back surgeon.
She is really just giving us a book report. She read a book that was outside of her realm of experience. The book was about Phrygian red caps. Now she is regurgitating the contents of the book to us. Frances is just an intermediary promoter. Why does all of Frances research exactly corroborate that of Lee Merritt?
That is an interesting question.
So I wrote to Frances. I asked her the questions I like to ask anybody who I find has a strong belief: How long have you believed this? When did you start to believe this? And how do you know you are not wrong? Another question is, “Why is this so important to you?”
If something truly IS important to us we bother to really check it out. As humans we obsess over important things. We stalk the truth. We test our gold for purity. We love certainty and have the ability to be certain. We are not promiscuous with our beliefs or trust.
Here is what I asked Frances:
How do you know you are not wrong about this Frances?
I heard Lee Merritt regurgitating this before.
Now I hear you regurgitating her regurgitation.
So let's stop the vomit chewing and try thinking this through.
If you were "free" why would you have to wear a hat?
Being free means not being enslaved to a hat or a whip.
Why would you have to mark yourself like that?
And why red?
I am NOT saying the hat is not symbolic of something.
But both you and Merritt miss the symbolism completely.
You missed it because you took her word for it.
She missed it because she is not particularly careful in her deductions.
She also missed it because she found a pile of prechewed vomit and said to herself "Hmmm. someone went to the trouble of chewing this for me. Let's see if it tastes better warm. Oh yes it does. I shall have to share this recipe with the world."
And that is why this particular piece of propaganda is covering the dinner tables of the world in December 2024.
This is how propaganda is spread, through the mockingbird grapevine, just like gossip, one mouth to one ear over and over. These magic lanterns make the process progress much more quickly.
One more question, why is a back surgeon doing book reports on red hats in the first place? When you frame it in perspective then you begin to see the silliness of it all. I am often ashamed of the foolishness I have fallen for in the past.
And what does the Phrygian cap (if that is the correct term) really mean?
[I added this portion after Frances apparently read this article and flipped her lid in the comments below. 1/1/2025]
THE ALURE OF GOSSIP
The moral of the story here (that I am trying to point out) is that you can keep people in the #ChildEgoState busy all day (or all their lives) spreading gossip either for fun or profit. Nobody is doing any REAL research. They are just telling us what other people have said. A lot of people run rumor mills. But the sign on the mill says “Truth Mill” and the manager seems sincere so children assume it must be true.
Mark Twain wrote that a lie can run twice around the Earth before the truth can get its shoes on. This is a perfect example of how it is done.
These people may mean well but they are part of the problem. And when you call them on it they become defensive. Why? because they KNOW they have a huge authenticity problem. They never bother to authenticate anything in any solid objective way. They simply cherry-pick authors who confirm their suspicions. [We all have done it sometime.] They are armchair archeologists. Nothing wrong with that -in a sane world. But you can never be certain of your armchair research, can you? It is all speculation based on yet other previous speculation.
[Children do not understand the difference between evidence and proof. Not all evidence is proof. Evidence can be misinterpreted. This is why we have courts and lawyers are forced to use very specific language. They must convict beyond a reasonable doubt, not 51%. The counter arguments must also be explored in one’s mind to rule them out as possibilities.]
Gossip is not the fault of the teller. It is the fault of the listener for trusting without verifying.
These amateur archeologists/anthropologists are legion these days with the advent of mass communication. People become defensive when they know that their arguments cannot withstand debate. When they become defensive they become de facto… GATE KEEPERS of their pet reality tunnel. This is how gatekeepers are born. They don’t have to be paid with money by handlers. They are paid with fame. They are paid with worship. They love their credibility. It is the currency of this particular type of fame. People who post videos are fame seekers. Stew Peters, Alex Jones, Tucker Carlson, Taylor Swift, are fame seekers. They become wealthy with fame (and maybe money). It gives their life meaning when they go from nobody to somebody. It is addictive.
And as we all know the trap of of obtaining wealth is that once you have it you can never release your grasp. You become a slave to keeping it regardless of the cost. Remember Gollum in the Lord of the Rings? He was once normal. Then he became the gate keeper of the Ring. He lost his former meaning and found a new obsessive one.
THE MAN-TRAP OF FAME ADDICTION
The “content producers” are even more addicted to social media than the content consumers. This is why Frances is so bitter about being deplatformed. The content is hers but the internet is not. Her fame is on the internet. So when she loses it she feels sad. Imagine someone so addicted being deprived of a daily internet connection to check if her fame is still there. I can feel this force myself, and I am nobody compared to her. I was nobody when I was born and I will be after I die. No one will remember me or her in a hundred years unless, like Ozymandias, she builds a statue.
The worst fate of the #ChildEgoState is to admit that you are wrong… even a little. An adult will change his mind. Children don’t believe in that because they do not understand time the way Adults do. That is why they worship their parents and believe they are infallible. And that is why we do what the government tells us to do.
All these people who do research for us and publish it for us (including Alex Jones) are human just like the rest of us. We put them on pedestals but they are quite human with all the psychological flaws, vanity triggers, and baggage that come with the human soul.
They might be in the Child Ego State. If they do not realize the Child Ego State exists how can they guard against it? It is a rare child that can act grown up spontaneously -usually he is just imitating his parents. But that is good in a way. But what will a child do if he sets off to write a book, gets to the lest chapter, and suddenly realizes that he is wrong… he made a fatal error somewhere. What would you do?
Most children will pretend they did not find the error and publish it anyway. Have you ever seen someone scrap his book and admit he made a big mistake? I never have. They want their reward even if they built their house on sand.
That is why I encourage everyone to pick apart my own papers and show me my mistakes. People have done this and I repented. I am not ashamed of my mistakes. I expect them. They are not mistakes to me. They are learning opportunities.
This is why they give us tests in school. It is to help us learn what we lack. We can’t know we are wrong until we see it for ourselves. Imagine a child insisting he is not wrong or never wrong. What grade will he make it to? It reminds me of Caligula.
See how much better our world works if we are all in the Adult Ego State? It fixes itself and there is a whole lot less shame. Shame is what makes most people lie, -shame and the Inner Child working together as a team.
God did not state repeatedly in the Bible that gossip is a sin that will tear apart a nation just because he liked to hear himself talk. It is true. 100% true. I guess deep down we believe that he is just going overboard with his warnings and we are smarter than him.
Gossip takes many forms. It does not always involve whispers and giggling. That is why this is the most pernicious types of gossip… because it is presented so soberly. Sober gossip is a pandemic today.
THE MARK OF THE “BEST”
In closing I want to point out just one thing to prove what I just wrote.
Frances chides me for using a pseudonym.
Why would anyone print their REAL NAME on the internet? So they can get doxed? It is risky to do it. Remember the warning for children… “stranger danger”?
No. Children use their real names because they want fame. They risk much harm to themselves (especially with the antisemite police wandering about seeking whom them may devour). By taking such a risk they tip their hand and betray their motives.
Thank you Frances for reminding me of this. I am learning from your example. By writing this out you have made me take a hard look at my soul. I will guard myself better now. I only wish I could return the favor, sweety.
Wiki states, ‘The oldest known depiction of the Phrygian cap is from Persepolis’.
Persepolis is at the foot of Kuh-e Rahmat (Mountain of Mercy) in south-western Iran.
I have noticed that women weight lifters have deep raspy voices. I thought it was the steroids. How many 70-year-old women lift weights? Merritt does. She also does gardening with copper antennas to promote plant growth. I will have to try that this spring. If it doesn't work then I know she is a loon. It would be a good trick if she became the voice of the anti-vax movement and then one day she says, "BTW I'm a dude!" Instant discredit and chaos. Have you ever seen her husband?