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If you're my age, you'll remember the 1983 film WarGames, in which a young computer hacker nearly starts World War III because the thermonuclear war game he thought he'd hacked into wasn't actually a game after all.
At one point, the night before it looks as if the world will end, protagonist David Lightman says: "I wish I didn't know about any of this. I wish I was like everybody else in the world, and tomorrow it would just be over."
I think about that line sometimes, because now and then I wonder to myself: what would it be like to be a normie, and genuinely not understand anything that's happening?
What would it be like to think the public health establishment is indispensable to my well-being, to think the local school is a wonderful institution, to think price inflation is a part of nature that can't be changed and which is intensified by "corporate greed," and to believe the textbook narrative of U.S. history?
Because on some level, knowing the truth can feel like a burden. "I wish I was like everybody else in the world," you may think to yourself sometimes.
Understanding the world you live in means you cannot simply do what everyone else reflexively does. You cannot make health decisions for your children that everyone else makes just because everyone else makes them, and just because public-service announcements tell you to.
Ten years ago I would not have imagined that I would one day say: the medical establishment is untrustworthy. I did not understand how deep the rot went. I thought I did. I didn't.
Knowing the truth means you can't rely on your school guidance counselor for career advice. He is probably going to give you life advice that would have worked just fine in 1957, but not in today's world.
Knowing the truth means extra work.
On the other hand, would we really want it any other way? Would we want our minds captured by the Obama/Clinton/Romney Axis of Evil?
The schools are in a category of their own. Let's even leave aside the indoctrination problem, because that's an email in itself. GRE data shows that among the very bottom in terms of academic test scores are people pursuing the following degrees:
Elementary Education
Special Education
Early Childhood Education
Social Work
Physical Education
These very same people, however, will solemnly inform you that you are unqualified to homeschool your children.
Now there are exceptions to every rule, and our tendency to remember the especially skilled or devoted ones skews the way we think, but I find teachers in general to be the least impressive people in our society. The cult around them is bizarre, but on the other hand the public school is the closest thing we have to an established church in America, so it makes sense.
What are the chances that someone will leave one of these institutions with a knowledge of American history that isn't propaganda for the regime? Or with a genuine appreciation of Western civilization? Or, for that matter, with practical skills for navigating employment and income generation in the 21st century?
We all know the answer.
And this is why, instead of just writing a newsletter, I try to help my folks cope in practical ways with the responsibilities that come with knowing the truth.
For schooling I endorse the Ron Paul Curriculum, which I devoted two full years to my life to helping to create, and which I give pretty nice bonuses for when people join through me.
For protecting against the ravages of price inflation, my readers do Low Stress Options with me.
For navigating the insane American health insurance world, we instead use CrowdHealth, the crowdfunding alternative to health insurance. It took care of our $200,000 pregnancy bill (not a typo), no problem. JoinCrowdHealth.com, and with code TOM (not WOODS) you get my short but very helpful quick-start video.
This is just the tip of the iceberg, but do you see already just how much we need to secede from in order to keep our sanity, our wealth, and our families' well-being?
We can record podcasts and publish a Substack and write letters to the editor, and that's all great and I have nothing against it.
But all that knowledge should inspire action, not just the passive consumption of ever more knowledge. We have the knowledge. We know things are screwed up. We know the guidance counselor's advice is terrible. So what are we going to do about it?
As it happens, tomorrow I'm closing the doors for six months on my Junior Mastermind, my online community for business owners and entrepreneurs, in which very experienced people share their knowledge to help you grow and prosper.
We live in a world dominated by crazy people. So it's nice to have some normal people in your corner -- normal and very smart, and with lots of experience.
We give you feedback and strategies designed specifically for you. No "drink a green smoothie when you wake up" banalities here.
You will instantly appreciate the value of a group of like-minded business owners. You can find non-Woods groups, it's true, but try joining one and saying something like, "I want to earn enough so my wife can stay home and raise our children," and see what happens to you.
Check out the immediately practical presentation featuring Paul Counts and me, in which we showed you how you can use technology to do 90 percent of what a marketing agency would do for you (and man, did Cracker Barrel's marketing agency hate its customers).
And from there you'll see an invitation to join my Junior Mastermind before the doors close.
When you're surrounded by psychos, reading isn't enough. We need action, to build prosperous and fulfilling lives despite the crazies -- and since we have lots of smart people among us, if we put our heads together we cannot fail.
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