Recalibrate

Quality Over Quantity at Burning Bright

Bright Army!

I start almost every non-feature post at Burning Bright with that greeting, and while it started as a tongue-in-cheek term of endearment to those of you who’ve subscribed to this publication, it’s come to define what separates this community from the larger Truth Community.

There’s a lot of crossover between this audience and that of Badlands Media, Jon Herold, Just Human, Chris Paul and many more of the Bright Minds, Anons and Awakening Souls who’ve chosen to defect from the System of Systems, one question—one yearning, gnawing search—at a time. That said, those of you who take the time to engage with my writing will always hold a very special place to me, for a few reasons, which I’d like to touch on today.

My Mind works in strange ways. Many of ours do.

After all, you don’t begin to learn the truth of a millennia-old death cult bent on ruling over the remnants of humanity as a collective of unquestioning slaves without first questioning the very world around you—a world we were each of us brought into by the mothers we thank and cherish on a day like today—but a world that can be as harsh as it is beautiful, as unforgiving as it is blessed.

While I’ve discovered that I have a knack for ranting on podcasts and video just like I do in my personal life, and while the aforementioned Jon Herold and Kate Buckley of Badlands Media have given me the opportunity to do just that on programs like Defected, The Devolution Power Hour and Badlands Story Hour, a smaller, core audience has developed in these digital pages.

You are the folks who follow the Writer’s Mind at Burning Bright, and while that Writer—that Truthful Tiger personified—shares much with the corporeal, physical and sometimes more emphatic, demonstrative and direct form I appear in on said shows, there are differences in how I parse, digest, reframe and ultimately create ideas in written form.

It’s a different mode. A different wavelength. A different speed.

While I can likely come across as somewhat ‘high speed’ on video, and in direct conversation, writing allows what I call a ‘racing mind’ to slow down a bit, to explore paths left to the back of my mind—to that intoxicating world of the creative and emotional subconscious—and bring them to the fore, merging them with the kaleidoscope of analytical frameworks and cyphers I attempt to organize my waking mind into so I can get my way through the day without succumbing to chaotic mania.

This can create a somewhat stressful mental environment for me, and without Mrs. Bright to snap me out of focus, which snaps me IN to the things that matter to my heart and soul, I am prone to isolating, digging, thinking in circular patterns and retracing cognitive footsteps. Sometimes, this obsessive tendency allows me to build cyphers that you folks find useful when it comes to navigating the winding ways of this Fifth-Generation Information War. Sometimes, it results in a feeling of mental paralysis and frustration, and leaves me clawing and climbing my way out of a mental maze I’m responsible for constructing in the first place.

Maybe I do it to myself as some sort of challenge. A way to ‘level up’ my powers of discernment.

More likely, it’s the result of the same sort of over-active, hyper-active and heterodox mental makeup that separates many in this community from our ‘normal’ brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers and would-be friends. It’s what binds us together on this expanding Island of Misfit Toys, sharing loneliness and building togetherness out of the shared purpose we’ve been gifted with the foresight to build.

But then … I think I’ve begun to construct another maze, and I’ll pull myself out of it before I let it pull me to a place I didn’t intend to go today.

The point, as it were, of this post today is to offer both a Thank You to those who’ve chosen to support Burning Bright from its Righteous Russia beginnings, to those who’ve only just joined in recent days, to those who share and spread the words I pen, and to those who’ve chosen to support me financially as I continue the slow, hopefully-inexorable march toward a full-time role waging the Info War, the Mind War and the Culture War that will continue long after we retake our nation from the subversive powers that would lord over it in our stead. That have, for too long.

And I also want to notify you folks of some changes to my publication strategy.

While some like that I notify you of my Badlands Rumble appearances with twice-weekly mailers—Defected on Mondays and The Bright Hours on Thursdays—with my current position both appearing on those shows, doing the research and deep dives I do and, of course, penning the long-form features that brought me to the dance in the first place, I suspect that many more simply delete or skim over them, taking nothing of true value from the posts themselves.

Those who wish to watch my Rumble appearances will continue to do so, and I may consolidate links to them in a weekly mailer down the line, but for now, I’m going to make a conscious effort to pull back on the number of mailers I send out at Burning Bright, and tighten up the Quantity I put out in order to focus on the Quality without burning out.

Even the weekly Bright Brief I kicked off a few months ago I feel has pulled my focus from the more original, esoteric and analytical pieces most of you love most, so, while I will also bring back more quick-hit written content if I have the opportunity to go full time, I’ll also be pulling back on the ‘Briefs’ that never end up being overly brief.

As part of this philosophical change of intent with regards to the content at Burning Bright, I’m also going to refrain from making specific promises as to how many features I’ll be releasing per month, and on which days I’ll release them. I have my own goals—one to two per week—but some features may take me upwards of two weeks to write, and I know the vast majority of you would rather I take my time and put something together that communicates something I feel only I can communicate, or only in the specific way I can, rather than feeling the need to put my thoughts into words on ALL the many theaters in this war between the forces of collectivism and sovereignty, darkness and light.

By being more intentional and sparing about the features I release at Burning Bright, I hope to be able to rest my mind a BIT more than I am currently, which will allow me to dive in to the features I do release with gusto and focus, and which will also allow me to continue working with my friends and peers at Badlands Media to keep putting my all into my Rumble appearances and helping out with their own Substack publication, which has a growing team of writers I’m assisting along the way.

I’m very proud of the work we’re doing at Badlands, and I want to continue to devote a lot of my time and energy to Defected, The Devolution Power Hour and Story Hour as long as I have the privilege and opportunity to do so.

These shorter, show-focused mailers and Bright Briefs don’t restrict my time to a significant degree, but they do divide my focus, so I’m hopeful that recalibrating will allow me to continue to produce deep dives from ‘A Wolf Named Fox’ to ‘The Mind-Killer,’ ‘Righteous Russia’ to ‘The Master’ on a longer timeline, and without burning the wick at both ends quite as often as I have been.

Of course, once the Bright Army gets large enough, it’s possible that I won’t need to split my focus between this world (which feels more ‘real’ than the one I navigate with my birth name,) and my day job, and can focus on living the life of the Truthful Tiger with all of my waking hours. As I work toward that end, it could be that I end up expanding this publication once more, or dipping my toes into the broadcasting world in additional ways.

For now, however, I hope you find the content interesting, engaging, inspiring … or maybe all three at once, and I hope these small, but significant changes to my production schedule allow me to engage more directly with you folks in the comments section with more regularity (STILL working my way through a backlog.)

All of which is to say … most of you probably wouldn’t have noticed the changes if I hadn’t said anything at all, but hey, the Bright Army deserves to know what my plans are around here, even if they change as often as the weather in my native New England.

Oh, and happy Mother’s Day!

I’m off to take my wolf son to see mine this morning. He tends to steal the show.

Until next time, stay Positive, stay Based and most importantly … stay Bright.

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