180° by Feargus O’Connor Greenwood (book review)
A 360° view of all the bullshit we've been dealing with for 100+ years.
The ideal of perfect power over people means that the ruled do not question anything they are told.1
— Michael Nehls
Question everything.
This is where we find ourselves. It has become obvious to many of us that government, medical institutions, financial institutions, large corporations and self-elected, self-important psychopaths(globalists) attempting to enforce their values on us have lied repeatedly, making it easier and easier to be skeptical of events that most of us would have never questioned in the past.2 They’re losing the narrative which is why free speech has come under attack and censorship has been used more extensively since 2016. Listen to Joe Rogan during one of his stand up routines on Netflix:
Before Covid I would have told you that vaccines were the most important invention in human history. After Covid I’m like, I don’t think we went to the moon…I think Pizzagate is real. I think there’s direct energy weapons in Antarctica.3
When the government via the Legacy Media tells us what to believe or what not to believe and when they roll out those sound bites quickly after an event it’s a good wager that it’s not true. Recently we had these:
This was the most secure election in the history of the U.S. (immediately after the 2020 election)
Vaccines are safe and effective (in conjunction with the rollout of the vaccines)
It was a lone shooter (immediately after the first Trump assassination attempt in Butler)
Feargus O’Connor Greenwood in his book 180°: Unlearn the Lies You’ve Been Taught to Believe writes this:
When there is a rush to judgement there are grounds for disbelief.4
Greenwood’s book is a panoramic view of many lies we’ve been coerced and propagandized into accepting for the benefit of those who consider themselves our betters and rightful rulers of the world. Greenwood calls them “THEY” (The Hierarchy Exploiting You).5
The book is long (over 700 pages), but it’s an easy read, something I don’t think I’ve ever thought or said about a book of this length. Greenwood has filled it with appropriate quotes, hundreds of them, and weaves them into his commentary in such a way that I looked forward to each one.
Greenwood covers topics readers will agree with, will consider and will outright reject. With all of them he asks readers to come to their own conclusions. There are things I didn’t agree with, but there is so much that I do agree with that I highly recommend reading it. This book looks like Greenwood’s Magnum Opus. There are extensive footnotes for each chapter and QR codes. The topics he covers range from 911, the plandemic, the pyramids, health, trolling, religion, ufos, strategies to fight THEM (The Hierarchy Exploiting Man), central banking and more. Greenwood writes at the end of the book:
I do not have all the answers, nor do I pretend to, but I know this much – given the amount of lies we have been force fed there isn’t a single question that should be off the table at this point.6
The book progresses with “conspiracy theories” that readers will more easily accept and ends with those that many readers will have a hard time with. I know I did. In the epilogue Greenwood writes for those who think he did not go far enough:
Certain propaganda is so deeply embedded in the human psyche that to expose it for what it is, at this moment in time, would be a mistake.7
This is the one thing in the book I didn’t like. I have no problem reading about theories people have that I don’t agree with. I like to see what people think and why they think the way they do. But this statement sounds arrogant and condescending, like essayists who tell you at the beginning of their essay that you’re not going to like what they have to say. Please, let me read it and decide. Same thing here. If Greenwood has some beliefs he doesn’t want to share, then don’t write about them and don’t tell me, as a reader, that I’m not ready for whatever it is you’re not going to tell me. How do you know? If you truly think that—then keep it to yourself to write about another day.
I’m not sure what he’s referring to, but I have a suspicion he may be a flat earther or maybe involved in Q. It could be something I have no idea about—I guess I’ll never know. I am not a flat earther, but I know that is one subject that will cause a strong visceral reaction when someone first hears it from someone they know. When my son first told me he was exploring it a bit (he’s not a flat earther either—notice how I feel obligated to say that), it literally made me angry. I just couldn’t believe it. I’ve seen it make others angry too. I have also been cussed out by a flat earth proponent for asking an inconvenient question—so there’s that.8
I imagine this is the same kind of feeling for some people hearing about the 911 “conspiracy theories” (which I do believe) for the first time.
Our government is just not that evil!
They wouldn’t do that—would they?
People are not that evil, right?
That can’t be true. I can’t believe that.
Greenwood covers 911 in detail in part because he views it as a good litmus test to determine who you can trust for other information.
There is a chink in their armor unique in all the world: 9-11. In no other developed country did a recent government so obviously, intentionally and, by far most importantly, provably murder thousands of its own citizens. — Jeff Montanye, ZeroHedge commenter9
It’s a hard thing for good people to understand how evil and cruel their fellow human beings can be, but it is an important step in being able to comprehend what is going on in the world.
The book also covers how to deal with trolls and how to talk to others about your beliefs without alienating them. In short—be nice. These are two very good sections of the book. At the end he gives ideas on how to fight against the globalists. Also a good section and easier to do than you might think.
The book has so much good information in it and the quotes are so outstanding I would recommend it to anyone who is searching for the truth. Even if readers disagree with a lot of his “conspiracy theories,” or like me are put off some by his choosing to “protect me” from a conspiracy theory I’m supposedly not ready to hear, they’ll still come away having learned much or having confirmed many things they already knew.
My wife and I, because of her long illness, have had the misfortune of seeing and vetting dozens and dozens of doctors over the years. We’ve learned that ultimately we are in charge of our health and even with bad doctors you can sometimes get a small truth that may help along the way. Good doctors will provide more truths, but your health is still your responsibility. So you take what you can get. The same is true of books. Choose as wisely as you can, but take what truths you can from any book, even those you may mostly disagree with.
The very end of the book has a Dead Man’s Switch. I mention it because I’ve never seen that in any book before. Here’s what it says:
Furthermore, the elimination, or taking out of any key personnel connected with this publication will result in an automated tsunami of physical copies being distributed for free (in multiple languages) to tens of thousands of influencers, at all levels of society, across the world.10
I’m not sure that would dissuade THEM, but I guess it’s worth a shot.
You’ll find large truths in this book. You’ll find quotes you’ll want to save and share. You may have some of your long-held beliefs challenged. But it is a book I do not think you’ll regret reading.
For me, it was almost impossible to put down.
Here are some Greenwood quotes and quoted quotes from the book (quotes are Greenwood’s unless indicated otherwise):
A lot of people would be stunned to know the extent to which the Federal Reserve is privately owned. — Andrew Levin, special adviser to ex-Fed Chairman, Ben Bernanke11
The Federal Reserve System does NOT need to be audited. It needs to be abolished. — G. Edward Griffin, 199412
Globalisation to THEY isn’t about everyone living in harmony, it’s about everyone living under totalitarian oppression….Centralisation is key because centralised systems are easier to corrupt and control.13
Cultural Marxism dismantles a country from within by sowing disunity and undermining its moral code.14
The open borders initiative isn’t about multiculturalism; it is, like all other cultural Marxist tactics, about nation destabilisation and culture war.15
It’s forbidden to say so in Europe, but migration is an organised invasion. — Viktor Orbán, Hungarian Prime Minister16
There are at least four major pillars THEY wish to attack and/or destroy. These are the nation state, the family, race and religion. Remember the game you are playing is called divide and conquer – so THEY need you to take a side, THEY need you to use the language of division that THEY have created. What THEY don’t want you to do is realise all this and ask questions like, “What am I not focusing on whilst emotionally engaged with this issue?”17
I’ll end with that. There are many, many more good quotes and ideas.
Notes
Nehls, Michael. The Indoctrinated Brain: How to Successfully Fend Off the Global Attack on Your Mental Freedom. Skyhorse, 2023. Kindle edition. p. 262.
And now with AI and Deep Fakes we'll need to start questioning just about anything we see on the internet. I've read some who think that this may be a blessing in disguise as it will force people to get back to meeting in person. The problem will arise from those who do not question anything they see—the same people not questioning the propaganda they're exposed to now.
Rogan, Joe, "Netflix Let Him Say This?", YouTube.com, Source
Greenword, Feargus O'Conner, 180°: Unlearn the Lies You've Been Taught to Believe, Ta-Dah! an imprint of Tinderbox, first published in Great Britain, 2021, p. 78.
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I am not denigrating all flat earthers from this one anomalous experience, but for what it's worth, on one of my walks in Prescott, Arizona, I used to walk around the town square, a gorgeous area. I often noticed a truck parked there with a bunch of slogans painted on it. One of them was "NASA Lies" or something like that. One afternoon there was a man sitting on a bench near the truck reading something, so I asked him if that was his truck. He replied, "Yes." I asked him if I could ask him a question. My Mom had just died a few weeks before so I said, "My mom, just died. If flat earth is true and I believed it today what difference will that make in my life?" For some reason that really set this guy off. He said something like, "You are a simple-minded man. What a dumb motherfucker you are." I was so taken aback, I laughed out loud, which also was the wrong thing to do as he began a string of expletives directed at me. As I walked away I said something like, "And you wonder why no one takes you seriously." He may have thought I was a troll, but I was asking a real question. One of my best friends believes in a flat earth and he's quite happy to field any and all questions.
Greenwood, p. 52.
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Brilliant. Sounds like a great book.
That does sound like a good book.