Years ago (seems a lifetime now) I used to be a chess player. I was decent enough, my aggressive tendencies reminding some of my better opponents of Bobby Fischer. Time and again I was defeated though by those who had one of two qualities.

A photographic memory or an uncanny ability to see the variables in the future moves beyond my capacity. Beginning in my thirties I took an interest in history searching for something. I really have no definitive answer as to what as I am still in many ways the same fool who walks asleep a lot of the time as I was then. But I noticed things in that studying despite that. Patterns in history.

These patterns look much like the chess games I used to play with the second opponent I could never beat at chess. Patterns that suggest that the many of the ideas and movements popping up that seem to give hope are maneuvers by chess masters who have been to this rodeo so many times they move their cattle pieces with ease while the cattle feel confident the game is about to turn.

It does not escape me that the very tools that are being used to expose the house of cards were given to us and funded by the very people they seem to topple. I have been telling those few close to me to watch over the coming year or so as people we consider powerful are thrown to the wolves to further grow this sense that things are progressing. Yet these powerful people that will be cast aside are little to the real farmers of the human farm.

My apologies for rambling. This is not the type of conversation that takes place a lot off the internet. I am glad I found your blog, will be curious to see where it heads as your knowledge of times from antiquity piqued my interest greatly. Have a nice night.