by DAVID BROWN | CLEARNFO.com | May 16th, 2021
Plato’s ‘Allegory of the cave’ slightly updated. We would need to add big tech to this picture.
How to research stuff
BROWN: On a call last week, a lady asked me how I was able to research and get to the truth on so many topics, some of which fall within her specialty. She is a degreed expert and was astonished I could find the truth in her area of expertise when she could not. I told her I was an information sleuth and I had been at this a long time, but I do follow some tried and true precepts and techniques.
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
― Aristotle, Metaphysics
First off, I tend to ignore known liars and experts. I’ve been in court no fewer than 25 times and can tell you from personal experience you or your opponent can hire an expert to tell any fairytale you want. The known liars are many. Most of us have come to the understanding the media represent nothing more than a propaganda organ for the power elite and are known liars. Their history of lying is long and easily provable. Why so many still believe the media is surprising. The first step is to pull your head out of the propaganda cannon we call TV.
Now, it is still important to know what the propagandists want you to believe to understand what narratives they are pushing so you can ask why. This also helps you predict future actions of their controllers and understand their agenda. Of course sprinkles of truth are mixed in everywhere to give their stories some credibility and we don’t want to discount these truths when we find them.
Other than the media, you have big tech and sites like Wikipedia which too many rely on for facts. Like the media, big tech seeks to herd their livestock and paint a landscape of permissible truth. Too many fall for this ruse also. Wikipedia is good place to start for many investigations when you start on a new project, but they too have been compromised and so you must consider their statements as just another data point that may be true or not, which brings me to the second step which I call collecting data points. If I find something interesting, that doesn’t mean I support or vouch for that thing, it just means I have found a data point that may be important in determining the truth. Once I collect enough data points, I develop a mental scatter gram that may yield important information or at least provide another vector (length or force and direction) for additional investigation.
Third step is what I call gravitational lensing or looking for foot prints. Much of the real knowledge of the power elite’s or other deceivers’ movements are hidden from the unwashed masses of humanity that find themselves on a constant diet of propaganda. This means you may have no way to ever see the thing you are looking for, but you may be able to see its impact or where it has been. Through gravitational lensing, astronomers have been able to see around a thing that is blocking their view. Likewise, if you see foot prints in the sand, you may be able to conclude someone or something had passed this way before.
Fourth step: put everything on a timeline. Context is important, and many times huge nougats of truth will fall out of a good timeline.
The fifth step is to go to the data, not the experts who tell you what the data mean. Now the data can be squirreled but going to the data can many times remove all the false spin placed on the data by the paid experts.
There is much more to investigating than the above, but this is what I do from a high level. Other important techniques are to learn logic and how to read critically. This means becoming familiar with many of the logical fallacies commonly used by the professional liars above.
Brainwashing our youth and our highly educated professionals: You will notice our Trivium education system has been replaced by the Prussian system. One teaches the student can gain authority from truth, the other teaches the student can only gain truth from authorities. Thus, you will find the big cheat contained in this trickery: that we have to depend on authorities if we ever want to find the truth. Do your own investigation on anything important and never rely on others since your life, your health and your happiness can be destroyed by lies.
Hosea 4:6, Isaiah 5:13: “My people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge.”
Additional information: Two of today’s best researchers are: James Corbett and Mark Kulacz ; in the 20th Century Mae Brussell was without peer–much to learn from these three.