I think CJ Hopkins thoughts are VERY, VERY, worth consideration—but only if you have a solid head on your shoulders and can tolerate thinking way outside your likely comfort zone.
That is, can you "handle", at least for a few minutes, the possibility that a large segment of your foundational “reality” is unreliable, and maybe even completely bogus?
You had to go through something like that sort of disruption a long time ago, probably when you gave up on Santa Claus, and maybe again when you realized your Mother and Father were seriously flawed human beings.
On the other hand, when you went through those two periods of development, you were aided by fundamental physiologic processes pretty much completely rewiring your brain (the transition from infancy and the transition through teen-age years). But it isn't easy, especially at an older age.
Personally, I've had a tough time letting go of "Land of the Free and Home of the Brave" meme and my belief in our current system as a legitimate and sustainable form of "free market capitalism".
I still believe in the US Constitution; I just think Washington D.C. represents a complete betrayal of the Constitution and, certainly, the Tenth Amendment. I also believe in free markets and capitalism at an individual level. I just think super-human corporations are irreconcilably inimical to sustainable HUMAN rights and a functioning Republic.
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