f'd: For Your Own Good

By Rick Elkin

Americans are realizing that information overload is real and toxic. That much of what we thought we knew to be true is questionable. This book explores the impact of those revelations.

Our culture is experiencing an epidemic of paranoia and self-doubt. We are wondering why formerly reliable traditions and sources of information have been compromised.

It seems that science-based prescriptions for making America healthy are perversely counterintuitive. If we want to protect our family, the next generation, and those that come later, should we be so quick to remodel our foundations, and what will it take to recapture the energy and commitment that gave us the Greatest Nation in human history?

Americans already know the answer. The question is why have we dismissed the obvious? Are we too preoccupied? Or is there something else we are overlooking?

Here is a hint: It starts with "Nuclear…"

• Language: English
• Publisher: Publishdrive
• Release date: May 7, 2022

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Preface

F'd is a provocative title. But if you have ever been f'd you know how humiliating and violated you feel. I have never been raped, but I would venture to say it must be the second most heinous crime there is, other than outright murder.

There is, however, one thing that could make the crime worse, and that would be if the rapist stood over his victim and said, this was for your own good.

Am I angry? Can you tell? If you are a patriot of the United States of America, a student of our Constitutional Republic, a beneficiary of the sacrifices that millions of Americans have made since our inception, and you aren't angry at what is happening to our precious country...well, I question your sanity.

Meanwhile, Lady Liberty is spreadeagled, and the violent act is still going on. And those that claim to be Saving Democracy are hijacking our institutions, our healthcare and our schools while claiming to be elected leaders representing the desires of the American People.

They think we are too stupid to notice that they are undermining our election system, while continuously disrespecting our flag, our military, and police. They are giving away our tax revenues, inviting aliens to trespass our borders, and insisting we abandon our God-given constitutional rights of free speech, free press, privacy, and the right to raise our own children.

They want to take away our guns, our fireplaces, and our cars, while they insist, we are just imagining things.

Now, our so-called President demands every American participate in a potentially unsafe medical experiment or we will be treated like criminals!

I have been a 'go-along-to-get-along', middle of the road guy, most of my adult life. But I don't like being bullied or cheated. Those are transgressions I will not stand for. I may be too old to literally go to blows, but if push comes to shove, I am willing to sacrifice my life to defend my country and our American way of life.

I am not just angry, I'm pissed! The innocence of America is being defiled. I want to hold the rapists accountable. If writing a book about what is happening to destroy my homeland can provoke my fellow citizens to demand justice, to reassess their values and priorities, then that is what I am going to do.

It's too late now to expect any do-gooder counselor could help me 'get over it'.

This shit has got to stop, now! As Ronald Reagan said, Government exists to protect us from each other. Where the government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

I would say have a nice day but can you walk past a rape in progress and do that? God, I hope not. At some point in life, you have to draw a line in the sand.

-- Rick Elkin

Preamble

You guys complain how much you hate it here, and then don't even have the guts to leave! You're all crazy!

-- Randall Patrick McMurphy

Do you remember the 70's film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest? It starred Jack Nicholson and Louis Fletcher and won five academy awards. I loved that movie but at the time I didn't fully appreciate the message writer Ken Kesey was sending.

In recent years, however, it has become crystal clear to me. Let me explain...

The story is about a mental ward occupied by a diverse group of male patients. Each one is afflicted with a different form of mental illness. Though pathetic, we all see a little bit of ourselves in them because we are hopelessly dependent on amorphous institutions to get through every day. The movie symbolizes our modern society, where most of us go about our business to provide for our family, but are constantly subjugated to conflicting information, insensitive rules and irrational regulations.

Nurse Ratched, the Head Nurse, represents the institutionalization of modern Progressive culture: She controls the narrative. She symbolizes what I call the FrankenMedia Monster. She manages the patients with passive aggressive intimidation, scorn, and guilt.

Twice a day she makes sure everyone takes their tranquilizers and sends them off to La La Land. She rewards good behavior with treats of candy, cigarettes, or doctored messages from relatives. But if anyone rebels or misbehaves, she drops the Cancel Culture hammer on them with hurtful diatribes or a session of shock therapy. She depresses their autonomy and reprograms their values. Under her care they are helpless zombies.

Social scientists call her technique of coercive control Perspecticide. Which means the murder of rational perspective. If you know anyone involved in an abusive sexual relationship, you know how powerful this form of coercive control and identity manipulation can be.

Then one day, Randall McMurphy shows up.

He is a loudmouth, fun loving rogue who has committed just enough mischief in his life to be labelled a miscreant. During sentencing for a civil crime, he chooses the mental hospital over prison because he thinks it will be a piece of cake.

He immediately starts getting under the skin of Nurse Ratched. Her abusive manipulation of the patients angers him. He encourages them to lighten up and think for yourselves! She soon realizes he is a threat to the order of the ward and is frustrated when her usual control tactics don't seem to work.

Here is what I recently came to understand about the film: Just as McMurphy was a disruptor, so is Donald Trump. Like McMurphy, he won't accept Washington's incompetency. He rejects the ineptitude of the Beltway. He resents how the cabal of Big Education, Big Pharma, Big Tech, and especially Big Media, use coercive perspecticide to control the emotions of all Americans.

The mental ward is symbolic of what I call the FrankenMedia Cabal. For decades, a deceitful coalition of academia, entertainment and union affiliations has filtered every aspect of our information experience. Especially today, through the ubiquitous controls of social media, we only see what Nurse FrankenMedia wants us to see.

When faced with a loss of control, Nurse Ratched would lash out and use intimidation and fear of shock therapy and benefit restrictions to manipulate the emotions of her patients. Nurse FrankenMedia was the abusive partner in the relationship she had with those she was supposed to be serving.

In the movie, Randall McMurphy inspires the patients to steal the hospital bus and go on a wild fishing trip. After a drunken night of revelry in Nurse Ratched's absence, McMurphy accepts responsibility. The hospital administrators, the Deep State, want to neutralize him. They want their control back, so they have him lobotomized.

There was one character in the ward who silently watched the months of conflict. He never spoke a word, but he noticed that McMurphy made the sick people happy. He was outraged when the officials destroyed the mind of his friend.

Unable to watch his friend live in such a vegetative state, he smothers McMurphy with a pillow. Screaming in anguish, he throws a wash basin through a glass security door and escapes to freedom.

I remember watching this film in a theatre in 1975, and at that moment the audience leapt to their feet and cheered! We related to the 6' 9 tall Indian that McMurphy fondly nicknamed Chief. He was a dignified, quiet man, who stood aside and observed the destruction of The Disruptor" who had become a friend. When Chief saw his friend utterly crushed by the Deep State, he made the decision to cross the line in the sand.

He did what he thought was best for his friend.

He was a symbol for the Silent Majority in America.

Introduction

"Now let me make it clear that I believe

there can only be one defense policy for the United States

and that is summed up in the word ‘first.’

I do not mean first, but. I do not mean first, when.

I do not mean first, if. I mean first — period."

-- John Fitzgerald Kennedy

The purpose of this book is to draw a line in the sand.

Do you know where that phrase came from? One of the enduring legends that emerged from the history of the battle of the Alamo is that the Commander of the small mud brick fort in San Antonio Texas, William Travis, used his sword to draw a line in the sand and then challenged his men to cross it, only if they were willing to die to defend the Alamo.

The story goes that only one man refused to cross that line. That means that most of his garrison of 200 men were willingly stepping into a battle that would almost certainly lead to their death. They were stranded in a small outpost that was not well suited for defensive battle and they knew the Mexican Army, led by a legendary General, was coming and the Mexicans were determined to retake the Alamo at any cost.

And they also knew they were outnumbered by hundreds of well-armed soldiers. They knew their backup would never arrive in time and they were running out of ammunition and supplies. They were making a contract with Commander Travis to go down trying to send a message to other Americans, that freedom and autonomy were worth giving your life for.

In this book, I am committing my thoughts about the state of our union, and the threat it is under, and to explain why I think our American Family, as the inimitable New York baseball legend Yogi Berra once said, is experiencing Deja vu all over again.

I want to draw an analogy between the Battle of the Alamo and the worldwide war that our country is currently fighting. I want to challenge every American that will come along behind my generation, to have a conversation with yourself, and ask, is there anything in the world worth dying for?

Anything?

I believe there are lessons to be learned from the passions and heroism shown in the Battle of the Alamo, that cost the lives of 199 patriotic defenders. But even more importantly, I want to illustrate the strong character, the selfless spirit, and the extreme passion for liberty that those Americans demonstrated.

I want to explore the motivations that members of the American Family so heroically project repeatedly. Because I believe, in the end, it is the devotion to family that motivates men to fight to the death.

I know the same thing could be said about war heroes from any country in any war. That men have a competitive nature and will often subject themselves to the threat of death, and then step over that line for a million reasons, for family, for friends, for country or for their faith.

But I also believe that Americanism is a unique and inspirational concept. It is essentially a Family Gene. It has a deep and immutable impact on many men. Though there are hundreds of examples, I have chosen the Alamo, because it was a tipping point in the formation of our nation.

I believe we are at a similar tipping point in the history of our wonderful nation, and if we don't make a stand now, America may not survive as we have come to know it.

Every American soldier that has lost their life in every theatre of war since our founding, was confronted with the challenge, is there something you will lay down your life for? When their time comes, they must answer that question, will you step over that line in the sand?

I write about Americanism because I treasure it. I wrap myself in its legacy in the same manner that I embrace my wife and kids. I wish all my fellow citizens felt the same.

Unfortunately, I have witnessed, in the second half of my life, a simmering, caustic and destructive suspicion growing in the minds of many Americans. It is a lack of trust and respect one would have if they discovered their dad cheating on their mom.

It would be hard to ever believe, after such a traumatic event, dad could ever be truthful or trustworthy again. And I believe many Americans have been led to believe their nation, their Alma Mater, their American Family, betrayed them by lying about its history. They believe they have been lied to by their leaders, by the history books and by the rich and powerful men who shaped our nation's identity.

Obviously, I disagree. But even if I didn't, I also believe that the Family Unit is too important to abandon due to transgressions that may or may not be true. The Family Unit must be strong for the human species to survive.

Nature is a deadly and unrelenting adversary, and human weaknesses are in many ways, also unrelenting. Weakness is always exploited, and it takes a strong Family Unit to fight off unwavering attacks to our liberty and our future.

We must learn to fight for our species, our community and that battle starts at the nuclear family level. And it should extend to our American Nation's family, too. Like any tribal unit, the American Family is far from perfect, but it beats any alternative the world has ever known. And it has demonstrated a unique history of humility and progress confronting and correcting its flaws.

As a nation founded on Judeo-Christion principles, it is in our nature to turn to a higher authority, to trust in the power of faith, to recognize our imperfections and forgive ourselves and our family in pursuit of living in harmony with our human brothers and sisters around the globe.

By accepting the concept of imperfection, of forgiveness and mutual respect, it doesn't mean we overlook injustice and crime, but when someone in our family stumbles, we shouldn't throw out the baby with the bathwater.

Historical incidents like famous battles, heroic actions, miracle comebacks and personal achievements, help us appreciate people who show no hesitation to go the extra mile, to put their personal fortunes, or their lives, on the line to help others.

They can serve to simplify the complexities of motivation and overcoming fear. We should honor and respect them for their achievements and learn from their mistakes.

The more things change, the more they stay the same…

I am now in my Golden Years, but I still remember vividly the day my mom bought me a coonskin hat at Disneyland. I idolized Davy Crockett, the King of the Wild Frontier. I memorized his lines in the Disney movie, The Alamo, and I spent hours running around Disneyland's Frontierland, pretending to be the powerful, well respected, and self-reliant hunter, and leader of men. I had little grasp of the Battle of the Alamo, just that it seemed unfair and tragic that my hero never came home to his family and friends.

As I have studied the period and what really happened in San Antonio, I couldn't help but notice amazing similarities to what is happening to America in 2021, and the characters involved, and to imagine, could our current social and cultural conflict potentially be Deja vu all over again?

I invite you to come along on my journey. I ask you, are you willing to cross this line in the sand?

Framed

The final act of an unraveling society isn't immoral behavior; it's canonizing immoral behavior as a new normal and celebrating it as a moral victory.

-- Jeff Iorg

We keep hearing about the New Normal. The phrase is so ubiquitous in the media it has lost any cultural impact it may have initially had. When everything has changed, there is no new normal, there is only normal. Here are some hallmarks of that:

It is now normal:

For young females to consider motherhood as a part-time endeavor, and for pregnant females to have an abortion. Or for men who deem themselves to be female, to menstruate and breastfeed.

To practice no religion, other than Progressivism. And to hold no allegiance to the Constitution of the United States of America.

To spend most of the free time viewing electronic devices, alone and indoors, and to have a serious addiction to some form of social media.

To be taking prescription pain relievers, tranquilizers, sedatives, or stimulants daily.

To claim to be disabled or mentally ill, to qualify to collect government subsidies.

For our election process to be corrupted by cyber interference, or organized interjection of unqualified votes.

For young people to own virtually nothing, have little personal wealth, and have no idea how to cook.

For most public schools, private colleges, and government institutions, including the military, to discriminate against white males.

For most government employees and major union members to retire with a pension of 80% of their peak salary, after only 20 years of employment.

For people to have multiple tattoos and jewelry piercings, to undergo some degree of cosmetic surgery, to have sexual organ reassignment surgery, and to request cremation instead of internment.

For the government to restrict your language in public, at work, at school, or even at play. To require you to social distance, refrain from physical contact and to wear a mask, and skip celebrations like bar mitzvahs, graduations, and weddings, and to avoid attending indoor church services.

To impugn the character and integrity of anyone that objects to any generally accepted consensus.

In many ways, our cultural riptide is mirroring what happened during the final years of the Roman Empire when a young Jewish carpenter roamed the Middle East and spoke of change.

He addressed the people by speaking in parables, because the powerful Roman authorities would censor or punish anyone who dared to contradict their dogma.

The Roman Oligarchy owned all the means of production of food, resources, and wealth, and even though many Romans enjoyed opulence, they were still simply peasants in the scheme of things.

Sound familiar?

The Roman Empire was in essence, a massive Ponzi scheme, paying off the new and younger workers while stealing wealth from the older ones. The Jewish carpenter was a disrupter, a philosopher that encouraged the people to depend on faith in a higher power and themselves to cope with the