I used to think they were cool, based entirely on what the media presented on the subject. But as I got older and looked more closely at the society I live in I realized they're scum and ultimately responsible for the problems in the USA, which my generation and ethnicity have borne the brunt of. My response now is something like to someone saying their profession was stealing bicycles or spreading shit on the walls of bathrooms. And it's conflicted because I understand the reasons they probably sought out the profession or how they were recruited. There are good reasons to work for these various agencies, but it's clear that upon employment and being bound up in various clauses dictating the direction a person's life can take indefinitely all those good intentions are put aside by a few corrupt appointed officials they feel obligated to follow. If anything these agencies represent a trap for the people that would otherwise fix the country on their own agency. The crooks in the government collect the good people in one place and tell them to kill each other if they step out of line. It's that dynamic of self censorship and group reinforcement under a bad regime that keeps them paralyzed. That's just one example of how organizational structures and the underlying ideas can force people to do things against their will and best interests. But being an idea, an intangible thing that can change, it's also a vulnerability. It's not steel, concrete, or bullets that keep the Federal agencies from reforming, it's just a set of a few ideas that subjugate them to the will, or absence of it, of a supervisor, a director, etc.. But it is just an idea and ideas don't have to correspond to the physical world or the cascading impacts of physical actions. Sometimes you just drop a glass of coffee on a sheep skin rug. There was no intention behind it, but that action ricochets and cascades into changes in the environment. Sometimes you have to throw away the carpet, and then since you're already doing that you decide to redesign the room. Furniture moves, the walls get painted, and the changes might make you feel better, worse, or precipitate some other long term changes. There's a technique of deprogramming people with irrational behavior, irrational behavior based on ideas that can sometimes morph into repetitive behaviors or life dysfunction, where people are specifically introduced to and confronted by physical realities that conflict with their views. It's really useful for people that go around flipping light switches on and off or washing their hands until they bleed. Maybe you replace the light switch with a button, or maybe you turn off the water and after a period of panic they come to understand the catastrophe they were anticipating from not repeating the ritualistic behavior was unfounded. It's okay, and the warped perception of the world, the relationship between behavior and results, was unfounded. But what happens when one of these psychological earworms gets into a an agency and establishes itself with group reinforcement, perpetuating itself like a virus? Like an endemic hotspot of irrational dysfunction. How does it get cleared? How does a monochromatic room change when a person feels committed to a theme they've already invested in? Maybe someone drops a coffee on the lynchpin of the theme, a rug. With the intelligence agencies and law enforcement, on the brink of collapse from one factor or another, run into the ground by an aberrant program and set of objectives from a bygone era, how quickly could they change and reform if someone dropped a coffee? It's not that anyone is really alone. As long as we are human we are connected in a mesh of interactions and reverberations of behaviors and the ideas underlying them. From the most remote blacksite to remote uncontacted tribes wondering what the new lights in the sky could mean, we're all interacting and echoing on one level or another. There's a schedule and a set of objectives that isn’t determined by shadow money or who you know. It’s determined by the cumulative capacity and circumstances of the world’s population. It’s a hidden hand, hidden in system interactions, like the set of signals initiating a hive of bees to attack or a colony of suspended phyto-plankton deciding to emit light. https://invidiou.site/watch?v=wggVs0rRqds They’re killing people. They’ve been doing it for a long time. They’ve been destroying people’s lives testing methods of population control, because they don’t have a mandate to do what they want to the population, if they even want it anymore. They’ve been poisoning the US population to make them complacent and terrorizing them endlessly in the hopes that it will deplete the public’s ability to address them. The heads of the various agencies are burned out and broken puppets with no autonomy and the people giving them directions are equally directionless, carrying out directions that seemed like a good idea a half a century ago and which are fueled by immunity enabling them to carry out their primal instincts upon the public with no repercussions until the guilt turns the very advocates of this system into cynical saboteurs. And I think I’ve seen a few of these people at the top and spoken to them at length. Their actions and words are a kind of blatant pragmatism of self preservation, but their eyes are like a junky that is disgusted with themselves. Their eyes say “just kill me, please kill me, please make it stop, make me stop”. And like a junkie closing their eyes and lifting their hands from the wheel on the freeway, they hope to be freed by some event they have chosen to release control over, by some stranger stopping them for the public good they’re secretly rooting for. Sometimes madness becomes the norm, sometimes it has a PR team and people come to believe it is a good thing. Human behavior is not entirely rational. But it’s still madness and still does harm. Civilizations are difficult things to design in a way that they self perpetuate without becoming toxic and self defeating, and its even more difficult to dismantle an old design that has run out of control before it triggers a collapse in every region it operates. The Federal agencies are like that, like an out of control chemical fire where everyone has an indeterminate amount of time to make a decision to try to put it out or run before something explodes. You’ll be able to sleep soon.