A Small Town Distraction

The Jason Aldean “controversy” is nothing but distraction for the dumbed down masses

“The basic ego mind is constantly making preferences. No matter how dumb you are, you have an opinion about everything. And if you can keep the population dumb enough, and give them two parties to choose from, they will innately identify with one, and despise the other.

This allows the globalist system the cover they need to implement unpopular policies, such as a Central Bank Digital Currency, while ‘We the People’ ignorantly fight each other.

United we stand. Divided we fall. And we’ve been falling for it for generations.

The American people have been so thoroughly dumbed down that we think freedom is the ability to choose between two parties working for the same control system.”—Greg Reese

Call me conspiratorial, but do you ever think that fake “liberals” and fake “conservatives” are constantly contriving controversies in order to manipulate and distract the masses?

That’s a rhetorical question. It’s painfully obvious this is occurring. And the tribalistic society always takes the bait.

That’s effectively what the so-called “controversy” behind Jason Aldean’s “Try That In A Small Town” is.

This is the type of story I generally ignore. Because I’ve ignored it, I can’t really get into much of the details of the “controversy.” But from what I can gather, the “leftwing media” got their “liberals” whipped up in a frenzy of how the song is “racist,” and the “rightwing media” got the “conservatives” whipped up in a frenzy to fight back and make it the #1 song.

Now, I don’t care much for this silly little battle. But I’ve seen a lot of my friends and family post about the song, basically all favorable of Aldean. I decided to just take a listen:

Now, I ask you to just listen to the song and put aside the perceived message you take away from it, and judge it objectively. And objectively speaking, it’s a bad song. It’s exactly what one can expect from the modern music industry. And I’m not singling out country music. This is the music industry at large today. And the country music industry is no different than the rest of the music industry.

It’s formulaic drivel with simple-minded lyrics. There’s no depth.

But how bad the music is does not matter to the tribal fighters. The “leftwing” tribe express righteous indignation for combatting “racism.” The “rightwing” tribe gloats that “we’re winning” because they pushed a bad song up the ranks.

But honestly, we are subjected to just bad music these days. It’s all formulaic, regardless of the genre.

If you want good country music in particular, there’s plenty to choose from. It, like most genres, comes from artists from the distant past like Johnny Cash, Hank Willaims, Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard.

Aldean will never come close to ever being as good as those country legends. But his crappy music will make loads of money, thanks in part to the “culture warriors” creating phony meaningless controversies as the masses show us the modern Americans have absolutely no discernment. They have no discernment of when they’re being manipulated. They have no discernment on what good music is.

By the way, you can watch just how formulaic pop country music is:

A website called Saving Country Music has put together the list of the “6 cookie cutter pop country song formulas” that have destroyed country music:

1. The Country Checklist/Laundry List Song

2. The Nostalgia Ballad

3. Tears From Heaven

4. The Booty Anthem

5. Lake Party/Weekend Warrior/Summer Song

6. The Flag Waving Anthem

Music Industry Phonies

It’s kind of humorous that Aldean sings a song ostensibly glorifying small towns when he previously sang about how small towns suck. He flipped off small towns in his 2019 song “Rearview Towns.” Literally, it’s in the lyrics: “I Stuck My Middle Finger Up In The Sky/Flipped Off That Y’all Come Back Sign”

Also, remember what I wrote about formulaic music. Listen to “Rearview Towns” and then “Try That In A Small Town.” Sounds very similar. Same formulaic music, different simplistic lyrics.

But you can’t blame Aldean too much. He didn’t write either of those songs. He’s just a performer. He’s not an artist, not a musician. He’s just a performer.

In fact, that’s a big reason why most all music sucks these days. The industry looks for performers who can sell messages and push narratives. The music industry is just like all other industries in the Big Government-Big Corporation fascist system. Just look at how the country music industry, including Aldean himself, have been promoting the sodomite agenda for decades.

Looking for performers, not artists, the industry does not care about authenticity. They have no problem with phonies, and Aldean appears to be just that.

Whether singing for or against small towns, does Aldean even know what small town life is like? Well, he currently lives in a Nashville mansion. He grew up split between his mom and dad living in Macon, Georgia, a city with a population of over 157,000, and the Miami suburb of Homestead, Florida. Doesn’t sound like he has much small town experience.

And again, this spans the strata of music genres. Take hip hop which promotes the thug life. And one of those is Rick Ross, a former correctional officer turned gangsta rapper. He literally was the fuzz.

The hip hop industry literally desires to corrupt young minds. That’s what former gangsta rapper turned Christian artist Bizzle saw. It also pushes satanic messages, as MC Hammer has shown.

What’s offensive about this Aldean “controversy” is its contrived. Aldean, I’m sure, loves it. It makes him money. The industry loves it as well for the same reason. And the tribes love it too because they get to pander to their respective bases.

Meanwhile, I know there are actually good musicians and artists out there who make good music but are ignored. They’ve already been cancelled by the industry because they’re authentic and they’re individuals. They aren’t controlled.

And to the most serious aspect of this, this fake “controversy” is a distraction from real issues. And it is manipulative.

Distractions and Manipulations

“(I)t is my belief that the human species continually reinforces the insanity of man, using ‘civilization’ and ‘culture’ as excuses to alter the paradigms of good and evil so as to favor both equally.”—Gary Barnett

As the “left’s” outrage foments the “right’s” outrage, these are some of the stories from the last few days that have received nary a peep from the tribes.

Did you know that FedNow has launched? I’ve previously written about it and how it’s the next step toward central bank digital currency enslavement.

Hey “conservatives,” did you know that your precious GOP is bragging about advancing the Digital Services Act which sets up the digital framework for global control over the internet? Yeah, that happened a few days ago. But you were distracted with making a crappy song go #1.

How about the Federal Trade Commission announcing its plans for collecting the biometric data through facial scans of all kids under 13. And American Masonic lodges are already assisting in that effort. Did you know about that?

Oh, and the big Ukraine lie continues. Did you know that the Pentagon approved hazard pay for American soldiers in Ukraine? Funny, I thought American soldiers weren’t on the ground in Ukraine. Another financial package has been announced for Ukraine. And a bipartisan cabal, damn near unanimous, has voted to continue forever wars.

And what exactly are we fighting for?

That does give me a chance to promote one of those artists, Bill Ward, who is not controlled by the industry manipulators:

Meanwhile, what was the ultimate message of Aldean’s “controversial” song? Well, promotion of the police state, John Whitehead states for The Rutherford Institute. He described it as “little more than authoritarian propaganda pretending to be respect for law and order, is just more of the same.”

Whitehead wrote:

“The music video, riddled with images of militarized police facing off against rioters, implies that there are only two types of people in this country: those who stand with the government and those who oppose it.

Yet the song gets it wrong.

You see, it makes no difference whether you live in a small town or a big city, or whether you stand with the government or mobilize against it: either way, the government is still out to get you….

That the government, which now constitutes the greatest threat to our freedoms, would appoint itself the so-called defender of our freedoms shows exactly how farcical, topsy-turvy, and downright perverse life in the American police state has become.

Unfortunately, ‘we the people’ are partially to blame for allowing this double standard to persist.

While we may claim to value freedom, privacy, individuality, equality, diversity, accountability, and government transparency, our actions and those of our government rulers contradict these much-vaunted principles at every turn.

Even though the government continues to betray our trust, invade our privacy, and abuse our rights, we just keep going back for more….

By tacitly allowing these violations to continue and legitimizing a government that has long since ceased to operate within the framework of the Constitution, we not only empower the tyrant but we feed the monster.

This is exactly how incremental encroachments on our rights, justified in the name of greater safety, become routine, wide-ranging abuses so entrenched as to make reform all but impossible….

In the same way, the government campaign to spy on our phone calls, letters and emails was sold to the American people as a necessary tool in the war on terror. Instead of targeting terrorists, however, the government turned us into potential terrorists, so that if we dare say the wrong thing in a phone call, letter, email or on the internet, especially social media, we end up investigated, charged and possibly jailed.

The tactics follow the same script: first, the government lures us in with a scheme to make our lives better, our families safer, and our communities more secure, and then once we take the bait, they slam the trap closed and turn ‘we the people’ into Enemy Number One.

Despite how evident it is that we are mere tools to be used and abused and manipulated for the power elite’s own diabolical purposes, we somehow fail to see their machinations for what they truly are: thinly veiled attempts to expand their power and wealth at our expense.

So here we are, caught in a vicious cycle of in-fighting and partisan politics, all the while the government—which never stops shaking the jar—is advancing its agenda to lockdown the nation.

As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diaries, until we can face up to that truth and forge our own path back to a world in which freedom means something again, we’re going to be stuck in this wormhole of populist anger, petty politics and destruction that is pitting us one against the other.

In that scenario, no one wins, whether you live in a small town or big city.”