Truth merchants are everywhere. They operate out in the open with the patience of a fisherman waiting for their bait to lure in their prey. People call them influencers today and I have proven that many of these people are little more than cogs in a machine that keeps humanity enslaved in this world of Spurious Realities. Truth merchants are rewarded for their loyal service to the god of this world with affluence and influence just as long as they continue to lure in more prey and lull as many people as possible into accepting and embracing their compartmentalized existence. This is nothing new, either. The Apostle Peter warned us about people like them within the Church in his second epistle saying “through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise out of you.” People everywhere, regardless of their personal religious beliefs or political ideologies, are nothing but customers to these people and when it comes to the “truth” they are selling we would all be wise to remember that he who pays the piper calls the tune and that all that glitters is not gold…
Jack London, author of the books White Fang and The Call of the Wild, was born in 1876 and grew up in lower to middle class areas of San Francisco. His mother was a “spiritualist” who conducted séances and his probable biological father was a traveling astrologer. In 1896 he began studying at the indoctrination shithole known as the University of California at Berkeley. It was a perfect fit for someone with his background. Author James L. Haley noted (pages 12-14) that London would become a pioneer of commercial fiction and one of the first authors to earn international fame and fortune. He blazed the trail that every asshole you’ve ever seen plug their book has tried to follow, like writing a book makes them Indiana Jones searching for fortune and glory. London referred to himself as a “brain merchant” and he was a member of San Francisco’s infamous Bohemian Club, the same place Alex Jones “exposed” to become famous before his projects with Luke Rudkowski and the 9/11 truth movement made him a conspiracy theory sensation on the internet. The links from Bohemian Club to Jones and to Rudkowski (and David Miller) are interesting but I was really struck by Jack London’s quote, “affluence means influence” because it makes things so very clear: the elite want to influence us and leverage their influence over us to make money. London may have thought of himself as a “brain merchant” before dying at the age of 40 on November 22, 1916 but I think history clarifies for us that his sketchy upbringing and education coupled with his membership in secret societies makes him a great example of a truth merchant whose flaunted his allegiance to Luciferianism, openly mocking his readers with his own words, “affluence means influence.”
Mark Twain, who was also a member of the Bohemian Club, wrote, “Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.” Affluence and influence go hand in hand to truth merchants. Contradicting how the Bible says “the love of money is the root of all evil,” Mark Twain would write, “the lack of money is the root of all evil.” For a truth merchant lacking money would result in lacking influence and that would be totally unacceptable because without influence they’d struggle to gain more affluence. Twain clearly saw this cycle, and I would argue he fully understood how it is used in oppressive ways against humanity because this man would also write the quotes, “Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please” and, “Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.” Facts and evidence do not matter in their economy of truth.
Ironically, a blind man named Ray Charles saw things much more clearly than Mark Twain when he said, “Affluence separates people. Poverty knits ‘em together. You got some sugar and I don’t; I borrow some of yours. Next month you might not have any flour; well, I’ll give you some of mine.” For any student of Holy Scripture it is obvious which of these worldviews is more aligned with the teachings of Jesus Christ. This brings to my mind how Victor Hugo, the author of Les Misérables, once wrote, “adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.” Exposing Miller’s involvement in so much evil has given me a lot of experience in identifying monsters and Hugo’s quote reminds me of how G. Michael Hopf wrote, “Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.” For many of us in 2023 inflation, energy costs and trips to the grocery store have us trying to figure out how to deal with the hard times we’re going through.
Most people are focused on survival during these trying times where the cost of staples like eggs, milk and bread are totally out of control but have you noticed that truth merchants are more profitable than ever? They’re so profitable, in fact, that they can afford to pay Elon Musk $8 per month for a blue checkmark next to their profile names on Twitter. One might think that if everyone from college students to middle aged parents to older or disabled people on a fixed income are struggling to buy eggs and make ends meet then naturally there would be a domino effect that impacts these truth merchants… but that is not the case at all. Average people are crunching numbers at the end of each month and making decisions to cut back on non-essentials. The off brand potato chips or cereal make more sense than name brand foods. No wonder diabetes wreaks havoc on poorer populations. People are weighing which streaming services to cancel this month – they “cut the cord” a long time ago – and now, with stiff competition in the streaming market, Netflix is no longer an unnoticed expense because that $15.99 could buy four or five bags of those off brand chips for their children to snack on this month. Those dollars matter to people more and more during these hard times but every truth merchant has no problem whatsoever coming up with $8 per month to let the world know that they are special because they have a blue checkmark next to their name. They understand that “affluence means influence.” It is a priority for them to appear to the world to be official and verified. It is more of a priority than facts, evidence or even the truth itself because as Twain pointed out all of that can be distorted as they please in their economy of truth. This is why blue checks are red flags.
Elon Musk’s answer to this person is telling but notice how much money he has actually lost recently. He has lost more money individually since late 2021 than the gross domestic product of 138 countries including Iraq, Hungary, Kuwait, Sudan, Ukraine, Cuba and many others and in 2022 he spent 44 billion dollars to purchase Twitter. Why? The answer is simple: he understands “affluence means influence” and that in the economy of truth influence itself is actually more important than dollars. Let that sink in.
These people don’t hide who they really are, either, if you carefully consider their own words. Jack London, for example, wrote, “If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.” Does that sound like a nature lover who just wanted to write good stories about dogs or someone who was totally motivated by greed? Perhaps this quote from London will make it even more clear as he wrote, “I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.” Make no mistake, every truth merchant is committed to adding to their own magnificent estate while people like you and I struggle to figure out how to buy eggs and influence is such an integral part of their affluence that they can lose hundreds of billions of dollars and still consider the pursuit of gaining more influence a profitable endeavor.
I don’t think there is anything wrong with selling a product or a service to people but when it comes to “truth” and influence over the hearts and minds of people that is a different story. The New Testament is full of warnings about greedy false teachers exploiting people and the Lord Jesus Christ identified Himself as THE TRUTH. Because of this, and because Jesus is accessible for all people everywhere, I believe the “truth” is always free. If someone is charging for something then they aren’t selling the truth and whatever they are selling is marred by their own sin. Desiderius Erasmus wrote, “Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.” All too often the sin at the forefront of these truth merchant transactions is greed.
Voltaire, easily one of the most evil men who ever lived, said, “When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.” This man absolutely hated the Christian Church and worked hard in a conspiracy to bring about the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution. His thoughts on religion are worth as much to me as the dog shit sitting in my yard on a hot and sunny day but it is very telling how that darling of academia so openly embraced the sin of greed to the point where he thought that everyone shared a similar motivation in life as he did and the scary part is he was probably right that most people prioritize affluence over religion.
While I could write a book on corruption within the Church this problem the world has with truth merchants extends well beyond any singular religion. It has infected every single area and ideology on earth from religion to politics to academia to history to entertainment to sports and beyond. Every musician and author and politician and athlete has a Twitter account and pretty much universally they have the blue checkmarks. Why? Because it brings a measure of credibility to their audience and it enables them to go fishing…
How? Consider your favorite video game. Whether it is Grand Theft Auto or Call of Duty or League of Legends and whether you play on a video game console on a television or on a computer screen or on a cell phone is totally irrelevant. The days of video games designed from the ground up to be released on a cartridge or a disk are long gone and the standard audiences used to have in labeling a game “great” like Ninja Gaiden or The Legend of Zelda is now but a distant memory. Every video game company now uses the internet to deliver software updates to their games and with each update comes more ways to fish for customers. This is why it is nearly impossible to find a game not pushing microtransactions with skins and special downloadable content. By and large the masses have cooperated with this blatantly and absurdly greedy business strategy and the software companies understand that only a small fraction of their users actually need to purchase anything for them to make a staggering profit. The industry commonly refers to this small percentage of customers as whales.
The time I spent compiling the evidence about David Miller forced me to examine the reality of how common this predatory business practice is in virtually all areas of our lives. My background as a Seminary student who dropped out because of corruption within the 501(c)(3) tax exempt system of how Churches operate made me familiar with many of these concepts but seeing how David Miller infiltrated the 9/11 Truth Movement from the very beginning made me realize that the Klaus Schwabs of the world and his underlings have long figured out how to exploit all of us in every conceivable area of our lives. Allow me to explain:
Many people who enjoy sports play fantasy sports on the internet and a great deal of gambling takes place in what is called daily fantasy sports. Not long ago gambling on a sports game was extremely frowned upon. It prevented Major League Baseball’s all-time hits leader Pete Rose from being inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame and he received a lifetime ban from the sport. Today Major League Baseball openly promotes and advertises for websites like DraftKings, FanDuel and others. If that weren’t bad enough there are large websites and YouTube channels dedicated to providing users with daily tips on how to bet on these sporting events and what is even worse many of them link users to subscription only services where paying members get more information for an extra fee. It is an absolutely brilliant scheme and you can see this same pattern virtually everywhere.
A Pastor of a typical Church is usually paid well by the Board of Directors (often known as Deacons) in charge of that Church. The more “successful” Pastors will not only make a nice living working at that Church but will also create some kind of “ministries” organization where they can sell more sermons, audio files, sermons, DVDs, books, etc. to their audience. Like the software companies, and the sports gamblers, these “Preachers” have a tiered level of quality for their audience. The more you pay the more you get. What does that say to you about the overall quality of their work available to the “base rate” customers at his local Church? There are exceptions, just as there are fun and well designed free-to-play games worth playing, but the underlying motivation is the same: the ever repeating cycle of affluence and influence.
Consider the average so-called “truther” we’ve all seen on social media sharing posts about the Illuminati. The overwhelming majority of these people make their friends and families uncomfortable with pictures or videos “exposing” the Illuminati because the things they share are nearly as cringeworthy as the Taco Bell Belluminati commercial. When the average so-called truther tells someone about the Illuminati they usually sound like a deranged maniac and while I am sympathetic to how the term “conspiracy theorist” has always been weaponized and used to portray any critical thinkers that run afoul of official narratives as lunatics, ordinary “truthers” aren’t doing the world any favors by sharing bizarre and preposterous sources that lack any real evidence or facts and, like an obnoxious old widow at a local Church making it her business to judge everyone else, these “truthers” always bemoan how other people need to “wake up.” Most of the information they share to “wake up” other people has more in common with that Taco Bell commercial than any meaningful primary sources like Abbé Barruel, John Robison or Adam Weishauppt. Have you ever wondered why? Because these “truthers” cannot be bothered to read any primary historical documents or do any actual research apart from browsing YouTube and regurgitating what their influencers, or truth merchants, spoon feed them.
They are absolutely and totally dependent on influencers or truth merchants to indoctrinate them on what to think because they actually lack the ability to think for themselves, perfectly illustrating what Erasmus meant when he wrote, “in the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.”
We’ve all seen these obnoxious people sharing the ridiculous videos “Watch the Water” and “Died Suddenly” from truth merchants like Stew Peters who is just another in an endless line of frauds like David Miller, Luke Rudkowski, Alex Jones, etc. The truth merchants whose content they devour like rabid dogs are in reality no different whatsoever from false teaching charlatans like Joel Osteen and Rick Warren or scheming software companies looking for a “whale” to exploit but the masses keep on searching for the next video to feed on like an actual zombie, willingly being exploited in this economy of truth and allowing their digital footprint to be the basis for another person’s prosperity, feeding the greed of a truth merchant whose sole motivation is expanding their own magnificent estate.
Erasmus once noted, ”Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.” Remember that the next time you see a blue checkmark influencer truth merchant bot linking you to their Patreon, Cash App and other ways to “support their work” because if you do you can recognize the blue check for what it actually is: a red flag warning you that he who pays the piper calls the tune and all that glitters is not gold.
Times are hard right now for all of us and I would encourage you to to think about what Dwight L. Moody meant when he said, “We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.”
God is worth remembering, especially in times like the ones we are living in.
Psalm 100:1-5 says, “Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands. Serve the Lord with gladness: come before His presence with singing. Know ye that the Lord he is God: it is He that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are His people, and the sheep of His pasture. Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, and into His courts with praise: be thankful unto Him, and bless His name. For the Lord is good; His mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.”
Thank you for reading. Take care.
SquatchyWildMan 