Rules of Engagement
1. Once Deception Is Proven, All Claims Must Be Re-examined
The system does not get to lie once and retain your trust.
Any institution, agency, or figure caught manipulating data or reality forfeits the right to be believed without rigorous questioning of everything they've ever asserted.
2. Your Only Loyalty Is to Truth
Not to party, tribe, doctor, scientist, or algorithm.
Truth has no political affiliation, no corporate sponsor, no PR campaign. To serve truth, you must betray false loyalties.
3. Authority Is Not Earned by Echoing Authority
Repeating headlines, credentials, or “expert consensus” is not debate, it’s obedience.
If you cannot defend your view through coherent logic, lived experience, historical context, and first principles, you are not engaging in discourse, but in dogma.
4. No Ad Hominem, No Arrogance, No Appeal to Shame
Attack the argument, not the arguer.
Name-calling, ridicule, and smug condescension are signs of weakness, not intellect. If your position is strong, it will stand without needing to silence others.
5. Always Interrogate Motive and Cost
Truth-tellers rarely profit. Whistleblowers are often destroyed.
If someone speaks out at great personal cost, with no reward or institutional backing, they must be heard, not crucified. Disagreement is allowed; silencing is not.
6. There Are No Teams
There is no “pro-science” or “anti-vax.” There is only pro-truth or anti-truth.
All slogans and labels are meant to divide and discredit. The minute you fight for a team, you’ve surrendered your sovereignty.
7. Knowledge Is Power. Power Is Not Given Freely.
Any data freely handed down by institutions must be assumed to serve their power, not yours.
Real knowledge requires effort, discernment, and disobedience. What empowers the individual is rarely what is broadcast on screens.
8. Civility Is Not Optional, It’s the Price of Participation
Discourse requires discipline.
If you cannot speak without mocking, labeling, or threatening those who differ, you're not equipped for this conversation.
9. Logic Must Be Fractal, Not Fragmented
A truth that only holds at one scale is not a truth.
Any claim about the body, mind, or reality must hold when zoomed out to history, zoomed in to biology, and echoed across disciplines. Coherence is the test.
10. No One Is Exempt From Questioning, Including You
Your own beliefs must be interrogated just as ruthlessly as others’.
If you are not willing to watch your worldview fall apart in service of truth, you are not seeking truth, you are protecting identity.