North Stoke Life

I'm going to tell you how all of us are root cause of the world's biggest problems. And have found a way to escape from that through the rules of society. And this is also the primary reason we elect leaders - they can be blamed for our own sins and help make our escape that much easier. Leaders we chose who are the best at helping us to escape in this way are always the ones who get elected or selected. Because they are the best at it. Judge them at your psychological peril for it was you who did it. See here for properly referenced numbers showing the ultra high excess death toll globally. These are the biggest numbers and encompass all the smaller subsets. Deny them if you like. That is your choice. But denial only means it's not happening, to you. It's all about you isn't it? https://www.northstokelife.com/2026/03/the-purpose-of-war.html This piece juxtaposes authority against wisdom in the worlds biggest crimes and scams. And is a call out to the pe...

I am the only teacher I have. We all have many multiples of nominal teachers, not least of which are those we find in schools. But I am the only real one - the one who actually teaches. I wrote this directly after listening to a coffee shop argument between middle aged parents about the broken education system. The usual sea of confusion was immediately entered into, one saying there's no alternative the other repeating what he'd read earlier from the Ministry of Love. I wanted to repeat the thought I'm writing here, to them, but the opportunity to butt in gracefully did not present itself. Of all the things which I can do well and I dersyand well - which are not that many, I have always decided to learn about those things. I made an explicit decision that I wanted to find out. Yes, a teacher might have been trying to force me to learn many many times. And many many times I did not want to learn about that thing. So I did not learn about it. Allow me to repeat the essential...

Do Humans, Within Society, Automatically Harm Themselves? People who openly self harm are the heros.  They are saying "look at me, I harm myself, because I can see the world of people causing the world harm, and no one is listening to me". Just like a young child self harms to raise the alarm about their parents psychopathy. Now, most people are too cowardly to self harm out in the open like this. We cover our self harm up. Slavery for example was never forced on us by wealth and power. We willingly accepted it instead of the alternative of freedom.  And to hide our self harming through wilfully accepting our slavery, we blame wealth and power, Trump, Brexit, immigration, Epstein, the Jews, politicians and so on and so on, because that way we can escape from our own complicity, our own sin, and from this, our own self harming. We're all too afraid to signal that society itself is root cause of the millions of excess deaths at scale. So we find a way to hide ou...