A Room Full of Deciders
Why Threadfest felt like a family reunion.
On the weekend of April 22nd-24th, an event titled “Threadfest 2022” took place in Nashville, TN. I was blessed to be able to attend the Friday and Saturday sessions, but had to depart on Sunday morning. I’d like to share my experience with you.
We arrived and were greeted by a dozen or so people who were familiar with me and recognized my face, though I did not recognize theirs. It was a humorous situation where people introduced themselves as their Rumble, Telegram, or Twitch usernames, sometimes followed by their real name. The usernames I recognized, but associating the real names AND the face was a chunk of information for me to process and retain. Thankfully, name tags were available on Saturday and I was more able to keep track of who was who ( I am terrible at remembering names unless I see them written down).
This scenario of learning to associate a real face with a familiar username played out over and over again throughout the weekend for me and for each speaker and attendee. There would be this moment of slight awkwardness followed by a laugh and elation that realizing who you were being greeted by was someone you were already familiar with to some degree, but only as a username in some chat somewhere.
On Friday evening I was struck with a sense of something; we all were. Something familiar, yet brand new. A feeling of something shared, but unique. It was like a vibration we were all energized by. It was an aura that illuminated each of us.
Everyone noticed it. They pointed this ‘something’ out with expressions like, “This feels like a family reunion!” and “It’s like I already know everyone here, even though we have never met.” It was as if we had just gained 200 new family members. And perhaps we have.
Certainly, some of this feeling was due to how often we have all chatted with each other on Twitch, Telegram, and other places. We knew each other’s usernames and personalities and were now adding faces, voices and real names. (So glad there were name tags!)
Additionally, there was a kinship born out of our shared values, interests, and politics.
This feeling of “something” was deeper than that, though. More like the feeling you get after going on a trek with someone—a journey full of shared highs and lows, wins and losses, struggles, storms, miraculous recoveries, and enduring hopefulness that the shared destination is just beyond the jutted peaks of the next mountain range.
If asked, I am sure that everyone who attended Threadfest would claim to be “red-pilled” or “awake.” Likely, we each have a story about an event or series of events delivering that first handful of red pills. A story of our awakening, of the moment we broke free of the matrix of current truths that are prescribed to us by the powers that be (soon to be the powers that were.)
You accepted those shiny red pills into your hand, swallowed them, and never looked at the news, history, the government, or the world in the same way again, right?
Well, yes, that is accurate enough for most of us, I am sure, but isn’t it more than that?
Was not your moment of red pilling or waking up a moment of decision? A moment where you decided upon a course, upon a new modus operandi?
I would like to posit to you that some of what you felt, what we felt, at Threadfest was a sense of common disposition, of a shared direction.
See, when you took those red pills, whatever the occasion was, it was a moment where you DECIDED to LEARN or KNOW something. It was a moment where you rejected the accepted “current truth” and made a conscious effort to learn more; to learn THE TRUTH.
Red pill moments and events are often talked about, but I feel that not enough attention is paid to what comes after. To the post red pilling process and steps.
And because of a lack of attention to this time period afterward, I think many folks take a singular “red pill”, they “wake up” for a moment or for a specific news item, and then are lulled right back to “sleep.” Not because they didn’t take the red pill in the first place, but because its effects only last so long, the matrix of current truths is INCREDIBLY strong, and the DECISION is not made.
What decision?
The decision to know.
See, most folks are peripheral consumers of news and information. They take it in as they come across it. They are passive in their intake of news and information, and therefore, are not given to scrutinizing it. In fact, they are more likely to consider WHO or WHERE the news and information came from, rather than WHAT it is. What its merits are. How it comports with other information they may have. Where it fits in their worldview.
Because they are passive in this regard, they are more likely to give extra weight to what their social network (friends, family, coworkers, authority figures, etc.) make of that news and information. Therefore, the red pilling is more easily undone for these folks. Or, at least, counter dosed by the blue pills they are constantly handed.
For example, such folks may have paused when news of Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide made the news, they may have had a “red pill moment,” but they didn’t make a decision to take that moment forward to the next one and the one after that. For them, it was a glitch in their matrix that they noticed, yet did not know what to make of it or how to follow it up. So they didn’t make a decision. They just paused for a moment, laughed at the memes, and then went about their lives. No change at all, just a slight interruption of their patterns.
The folks who were attracted to attend Threadfest, they had MADE that decision to know. It was a social gathering of people who wanted to know more, about everything, and who scrutinized what they were presented with. These are the people who took a red pill and then rejected the blues.
And THAT is what I think made the event in Nashville feel so much like a family reunion. We were like-minded folks, not in that we agreed on everything, but in that we had reoriented our minds to pursue knowledge and Truth. We had all escaped the matrix.
I was extremely blessed to have attended Threadfest 2022 in Nashville, TN. I hope that it is the first of many.
-Just Human aka Kyle
Some of the Threadfest speakers have uploaded their speeches to the Threadfest website so that others can enjoy their presentation. Here’s the link: https://www.threadfest.show/nashville-speakers.html
If you would like to hear more about peripheral learners and central learners, I did a podcast on it. I think its among my best work ever.
Podcast link:
Rumble video link: https://rumble.com/vpquxh-just-human-live-monkey-brained-ideologues.html?mref=rc0c7&mc=8ut9v
Great Stack Kyle! I’m so jealous! Wish I could have been there! Thank you for giving us a taste of what it was like!
Thank you Kyle! I have so often had the sense that your twitch chat is a warm and wonderful family. It makes me happy to think of you meeting so many of our dear group!!! God is at work!!!!!!!