NeedleKraft: The Battle Of Marathon

The Infinitely impressive act of openly defying the Needlekraft … and winning.

"Joy to you, we've won"

The sweetest victory of all the victories we have had so far is one that is so impressive, I need to compare it to a historical feat of endurance, perhaps THE feat of endurance, of all recorded history, the Marathon. The story of the original marathon is centred around a long distance message runner in ancient Greece called Pheidippides. Pheidippides is heralded as, well, a herald, and is claimed to have completed a 153 mile journey from Athens to Sparta in 36 hours of non stop running. His task was to inform the Spartans about the Persian Force that had gathered near Marathon and call them to Athens aide in repelling the invasion. The Spartans, preoccupied with their religious traditions advised they would come as soon as their festival was over. Pheidippides returned to Athens along the same road, completing the round trip of 306 miles in 3 days. When Pheidippides returned to the battlefield to give news of the delay in reinforcements, a five day stand off occurred between the Athenians and the Persians. The pressure of the Spartan arrival meant that the battle had to occur sooner rather than later. An Athenian General by the name of Miltiades used the terrain of Marathon tactically, disabling the Persian force, encircling their infantry and routing them entirely. It is then claimed that Pheidippides then ran the 25 miles from Marathon to Athens, collapsing as he squeezed out the phrase "Joy to you, we've won" passing away from exhaustion there on the spot. It is this story that so many of us should view what we have achieved as being akin to, in a psychological sense.

Pheidippides and his Spartathlon/Marathon run has many parallels to the the journey those of us who refused to comply with the lockdowns and vaccine demands have completed. Many of us were ready, as Pheidippides was, for this feat. We were already individually aware of the conspiracy, or least the possibility of it. We were aware of the enemy. When the word “lockdown” entered the lexicon of the media and joe normie, it was the very same as the Persians landing on the beaches. Our bodies became our Athens. Suddenly we all started assembling ourselves. Strangers forming local battalions, discussing the enemy, alerting those who did not know to the danger we faced. Our messengers were assembled and sent out to call the tribes to battle. The Pheidippides in all of us went to work, psychologically embarking on a road we knew there would be no stopping on. We knew that we would be eternally changed by this journey. We knew that friends and family, still too comfortable inside the city walls, would see us as fanatics, and the wider society as a whole, poisoned by wilful ignorance, would not listen to our message, But still we ran. We knew that the long journey to Sparta would be difficult. We didn’t get the answer we wanted initially and that weighed heavy on us. Society initially targeted us on command. The Spartans, lost in their cake and circus turned us away, but couldn’t help but be impressed that we had committed so intensely to this thankless task on their behalves. The seed was planted.

In this case Sparta is Joe Normie, but it is also a number. That number is 25%. There is an entire field of research out there on group dynamics and what is known as The Tipping Point For Social Change. This theory, which has been demonstrated as repeatable and reliable in terms of predicting human behavioural change patterns, centres around the idea that there is a ratio of saturation the collective conscious reacts to when formulating large scale social trends. From the article linked above:

When a minority group pushing change was below 25 percent of the total group, its efforts failed. But when the committed minority reached 25 percent, there was an abrupt change in the group dynamic, and quickly a majority of the population adopted the new norm. In one trial, a single person accounted for the difference between success and failure.

The researchers also tested the strength of their results by increasing the payments people received for adhering to the prevailing norm. Despite Centola and his colleagues doubling and tripling the amount of money for sticking with an established behavior, a minority group could still overturn the group norm, the researchers found.

The establishment, fearful of our Marathon runners ability to convince the Spartans to enter the battle, preemptively attacked the Athenians before their numbers could grow to that golden ratio. They embarked on a campaign of mass coercion the likes of which had never been seen and to be honest it severely affected us mentally. The propaganda was designed to convince the Spartans that this is what would befall them should they make the perilous journey to Marathon. Knowing that the rest of society, at least for a time, were allowing the ‘Persians’ to conduct their assault on such a small force, was terrifying as we thought we lived in a society where that would never be allowed to happen. But we were Soldiers. The Propaganda waged upon us was plentiful and regular, but lacked the ability to break the shield wall. Like the Persian assault at Marathon, we formed a Phalanx, an unbroken chain of resistance in every town village and city, at every dinner table and at ever door that was hostile to us. We held firm and withstood the initial wave of ostracisation. We thinned out our shield wall, prioritising width over depth, pincering in on the enemy as they realised their provided weaponry, hurty words, had dematerialised against our mental shields, completely retreating back to their boats and sailing away. This is where Pheidippides ran 25 miles to Athens, blurting out "Joy to you, we've won" and died. The Pheidippides in all of us didn’t die in this case, but rather stepped aside and allowed others to carry the torch after we put in the initial effort.

Othismos

This victory, resisting the first Needlkraft wave was achieved with about 7% of the population. The Persians, knowing that Sparta had been alerted and was on its way had to go back across the sea and plan their next assault. Needless to say, the Hold-Out Hoplites resisted further waves of Pharmakia, engaging the establishment in the ancient art of Othismos, pushing them further back as more and more joined the fold,. Inspired by the first victory to take part in the victories to follow, the Hoplites swelled. At Booster 1 (third jab ) we hit the 25% number of Hoplites and the uptake tanked, proving entirely the hypothesis posed by Centola in the excerpt above. A case study I am sure he would be aware of as would many of those employed in the social sciences. It was Behavioural Change Science that guided the Persians here in the first place.

This is where I will at least try to step out of the elaborate metaphor and address the reader directly. If you are one of the 7% who resisted the first jab, you are Pheidippides, you are Miltiades. You are a true leader who has saved the Irish peoples blood from absolute interference. You have saved society from devolving into medical serfdom. You have stood up to the 93 percent or so who initially wanted you to die, convincing them they were in danger, creating an army of Hoplites in the process. Your natural reaction to a Black Mirror situation has shown the establishment that they cannot win with just fear. They cannot win with just numbers. They cannot win with critical mass of any mixture of the two. They cannot win because the strongest will I have ever seen exists within the Irish people who resisted that treacherous campaign of evil. The Universe is set up to produce free radicals. When we are part of the equation, victory is assured.