FALK REPORT: Issue No.7 - Karl Marx was a 𝔡𝔢𝔤𝔢𝔫𝔢𝔯𝔞𝔱𝔢 𝔡𝔯𝔲𝔫𝔎
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𝔯𝔢𝔩𝔞𝔵, 𝔦𝔱'𝔰 𝔞𝔩𝔩 𝔤𝔬𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔱𝔬 𝔟𝔢 𝔪𝔞𝔯𝔳𝔢𝔩𝔬𝔲𝔰
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𝔯𝔢𝔩𝔞𝔵, 𝔦𝔱'𝔰 𝔞𝔩𝔩 𝔤𝔬𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔱𝔬 𝔟𝔢 𝔪𝔞𝔯𝔳𝔢𝔩𝔬𝔲𝔰 ⚡️
This Report’s Agenda:
⭐️ Socialist Complacency vs. Capitalism
⭐️ Gandhi: The Ultimate Strategist
⭐️ 2023’s Communist Revolution
⭐️ The Matrix Cave
⭐️ Karl Marx was a drunk a$$hole
FALK REPORT: ISSUE 7 | 13 JUNE 2023 | 9:30 PM EST
Keeping up with the 𝔠𝔬𝔪𝔭𝔩𝔞𝔠𝔢𝔫𝔠𝔶
Government backed programs like PPP loans may have seemed great in the moment, but what did you give up by accepting that “free” money?
You can’t say you gave up nothing; there’s a universal 𝔩𝔞𝔴 𝔬𝔣 𝔢𝔵𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔫𝔤𝔢. You must give up something to gain something else.
Keep moving. Don’t lose your work habits. Keep moving.
The only businesses that continuously go up are Ponzi schemes. If you’ve had ups and downs, congratulations 🎉 you’re a real one.
The past few years, we have not been living in free-market capitalism.
For those of you thinking we’re operating within capitalistic constructs, you’re wrong.
Here’s why: Businesses cannot be ordered to shut down or abide by totalitarian mandates in a free-market capitalist society.
The influx of the 2020 pandem*c restrictions caused us to live, work, and operate within a totalitarian society that veers toward communist ideals and away from free-market capitalism. That shift wasn’t necessarily good or bad—many will argue both sides—but the point here is that the aftermath of totalitarian restrictions on businesses has brought us to a point where our normal ‘capitalistic’ desires are unattainable in the ways we knew before 2020.
Economist, Jim Rickards, details in his book Sold Out, that the problem isn’t that work was put on pause and will come back—the problem (for white collar workers mostly) is that the daily habits of working outside of the home and living a fully balanced life has been broken.
Working is a skill. You behave differently at work when you’re a professional. You wear different clothes, you read different material—so what happened to you when your work changed over the last few years? and is it possible to bring back some of those phenomenal work-habits that you may have lost along the way?
As discussed in earlier FALK Reports, supply chains were disrupted in 2020 and the demand for goods + services dried up over time. We’ve changed how we live, function, operate, purchase goods, and activate services. We’re turning into a leaner economy and one with less scale.
This puts the power in the local community—and now we must take our power back.
How do we do it? Mostly, by focusing on actions we can take today to boost the sales of our businesses.
Do not lean on government programs out of laziness or anticipated discomfort.
Do your best to innovate what you have to offer and focus on strengthening that offer to your customers.
Connect with other businesses in your local area and purchase goods from small businesses around you.
Many businesses are operating below capacity and are just trying to make ends meet. For the past few years, you may have heard the calling to start a business—or maybe you’ve had a business for a long time—regardless, all businesses have their ups and downs.
If you are suffering, stressing out over cash flow, you are not alone.
If you are not suffering, try to do something that will help someone who needs it most.
And by all means, do not lose your self-confidence and self-respect over the very normal bumps in the road.
If you can’t find customers, ask yourself:
What can I do to be of service today? Then go do it.
How can I be generous today? Go do it. This applies to yourself and others.
What’s one action I can take right now that will bring me one step closer to my goals? Go do it!
I learned this one from my executive coach, Gregg, the author of The Gifted Storyteller, go check him out!
In war, nothing is as it seems…
Mass-motivation to ignite change can’t be a solo-project. Gandhi, for example, wasn’t operating alone. Choose your team members wisely.
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Gandhi was the ultimate strategist… all marketing.
Gandhi was part of group of strategists who led India out of British colonialism and into a strong era of economic independence.
Note: Intellectual independence, too, to some degree—but that’s the real revolution taking place in India now... for anyone studying up on the future of BRICs and BRIC nations 😉!
For this group of Indian leaders, strategy and all of her players had to move in sync. Which meant volatility was guaranteed and personal dangers would be at an all time high if any player stepped out of line.
Each person had their role to play:
The Humanitarian: Gandhi
Motivator for the masses; a leader who shows strong morals in public, promotes non-violence to contrast the violent crimes of the enemy.
Wartime Negotiator: Subhas Chandra Bose (Netaji)
Others, like Subhas Chandra Bose, we’re the 007 agents brokering international alliances and setting the both the militaristic and political stages for a full economic independence—away from the sticky hands of the British Commonwealth (who took so much food & local resources that they caused one of the greatest famines in all of history in India in the 1940s).
The Figurehead: Nehru
Showcasing strength and stability, less action-oriented than the others.
If your enemies, or backstabbing collaborators, plot for your demise and would consider poisoning their opponents—would you hunger strike? And demand to watch your food be sealed in a precise way and watch it be unwrapped?
Were the morally stringent hunger strikes Gandhi took… because it was a vow of hunger induced political change…? Or were they to prevent him from being poisoned to death? With the news marketed as him dying as a martyr? (Like a Martin Luther king or an RFK, from the perspective of American culture)?
These stories etch game theory tactics into your mind—and right now the American small business owners who have been courageous & non-violent, like Gandhi, are seeing that the tides that once supported them have turned.
So do you ride the same wave to your demise? Or can you shift gears and move into a place where your safety and success are secured?
today’s communist revolution = psychological pollution
all about 𝔞𝔠𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫
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all about 𝔞𝔠𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫 〰️
COMMUNIST REVOLUTION
Netaji studied the rise of communism—but I’m not convinced he was a communist himself. I believe he was understanding the enemy of his enemy to assess the nuances that separate a free society that cares for its people from a socialistic mask of communism.
Where are the sociopolitical trigger points that cause a capitalistic society to collapse into communist practices? Two areas we’ve witnessed first hand include…
A public health crisis
Natural disaster
In a historical sense, communism had led to famine, economic depravity, and extreme poverty. Communism breeds leadership that gets lost in circular conversations; it starts generalizing decision making, compromising the masses, leading to chaos and confusion with too many people depending on having their needs met by the state, rather than OWNING their wants, needs, desires and fulfilling them personally (without the help of the state) to the best of their ability.
In a personal sense, communism creates contrast that can highlight our desires. It’s a scenario that the average American can’t truly comprehend because we haven’t lived in deplorable conditions that communism creates; where no matter how hard we work, we cannot sustain healthy levels of success to adequately meet our family’s needs.
Let’s look at the story of a friend of mine, let’s call him Ilya, who escaped the aftermath of communism in Eastern Europe—leaving behind everything he knew in search of personal freedom + economic independence from the state.
Ilya has a stronger work ethic & ‘can-do’ mindset than any person I’ve ever met. What can he, as a morally strong individual, offer us a lesson on harnessing our freedom when we’re facing a pinnacle of crisis or despair?
His answer is this: Speak up for yourself, and do more than you think is even possible. Exercise. Go Running. Get your body moving and your mind will follow. His nature to not speak up but instead MOVE INTO ACTION says it all.
Getting out of the communist trap we’ve been set to fall into 𝔯𝔢𝔮𝔲𝔦𝔯𝔢𝔰 𝔞𝔠𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫. Any action. Be all about action. You may fail a few times, but when you learn & continue on, you will succeed in your quest for freedom.
allegory of the cave
Freedom, creativity, and energy are all CrAzY in a monotonous world. So, let’s get a little crazy!
to care 𝔬𝔯 𝔫𝔬𝔱 𝔱𝔬 𝔠𝔞𝔯𝔢
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to care 𝔬𝔯 𝔫𝔬𝔱 𝔱𝔬 𝔠𝔞𝔯𝔢 ❓
Are we trapped in the confines of our own mind? Should we care about the horrors? Or ignore?
karl marx was a degenerate drunk
A house of cards will always collapse.
If you haven’t watched this interview with Patrick Bet-David and Paul Kengor on Karl Marx, watch it now. It’s a must!
It’s fascinating to find out by a historian that Karl Marx was a drunken fool, who cheated on his wife with her own sister, lived off of the generous handouts from his in-laws, was a horrible father, and contributed nothing positive to society other than an a manifesto on bottom-feeder culture.
The thing is, alcohol distorts the mind. It shuts down the decision making part of the brain and leads you into chaotic & destructive behaviors that over time will blur over into your moral ethics and belief structures about life, work, and wellbeing.
I believe this happened to Karl Marx. He was talented and the drink enabled him to be lazy in his career, stopped him from innovating and operating in a way that would provide for him and his family. Instead, he favored hoopla and handouts.
He built a big movement, and that means he is an influential orator… so what if he had used that for another ideal? One that encouraged individuals to contribute to society and be the best they can be without getting hyper-fixated on comparing who has what and what it means about their status.
Karl Marx comes across as a mentally sick man. A man driven by ego, fear, and greed. Greed so thick he designed a full ‘system’ that would allow him to have his cake and eat it too all without lifting as much as a finger.
If you believe communism is the answer, I implore you to look into history to see that it has (for the most part) brought about immense famine. Famine creates desperation on a level you could not imagine if you have not seen it before. Even Irish descendants of famine have different responses to hunger, food, and stress even a few hundred years later.
Hunger changes you. So do you feed yourself when you’re hungry? Or are you relying on a handout for someone to feed you? Take this in a literal and metaphorical sense.