<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[An Appeal to Heaven]]></title><description><![CDATA[“And, indeed, what is the State anyway but organized banditry? What is taxation but theft on a gigantic, unchecked, scale? What is war but mass murder on a scale impossible by private
philosophy, economics, cryptoanarchy, and sovereignty of consciousness.]]></description><link>https://pinetree.substack.com</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zQon!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F659ee548-7570-4cb2-b21d-09c22e77ae3b_569x569.png</url><title>An Appeal to Heaven</title><link>https://pinetree.substack.com</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 21:15:07 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://pinetree.substack.com/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[An Appeal to Heaven]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[pinetree@substack.com]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[pinetree@substack.com]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[An Appeal to Heaven]]></itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author><![CDATA[An Appeal to Heaven]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[pinetree@substack.com]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[pinetree@substack.com]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[An Appeal to Heaven]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><item><title><![CDATA[Writing to maintain sanity]]></title><description><![CDATA["The time will come when the world will recognize you as having aided in the reformation of mankind." - Leo Tolstoy]]></description><link>https://pinetree.substack.com/p/coming-soon</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://pinetree.substack.com/p/coming-soon</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[An Appeal to Heaven]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2020 01:45:58 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zQon!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F659ee548-7570-4cb2-b21d-09c22e77ae3b_569x569.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>John Locke&#8217;s <em>Divine Right to Revolution: </em>it&#8217;s in the air.</p><blockquote><p><em>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know how many of you have ever had the privilege of being in a society in a pre-revolutionary situation, but the caf&#233;s stay open all night, and there&#8217;s music in the streets, and you can breath it, you can feel it, and you know what is happening. </em></p><p><em>The dominator is being pushed.&#8221; </em></p><p>- Terrence McKenna</p></blockquote><p>Unprecedented turmoil: class and racial divisions compounding on top of a global pandemic of fear; a financial system teetering on the verge of collapse; a corrupt oligarchy, after decades of plundering, doing their best to convince you that you asked for it.</p><p>With information warfare, psychological operations, and fake news saturating all aspects of life, the Cathedral is finally stepping out of the shadows. The Final Boss is emerging.</p><h3>How to make sense of any of this?</h3><p>Monumental, disruptive changes are rippling across the world; and these underlying currents - economic and cultural - have been my obsession for the last decade. </p><p>I&#8217;d hoped we wouldn&#8217;t find ourselves in this situation. I&#8217;d hoped I could always communicate freely under my own name. I&#8217;d hoped that many of the craziest musings in my head wouldn&#8217;t turn out to be true. </p><h3>&#8220;I was born for the storm, and a calm does not suit me.&#8221; &#8213;<strong>Andrew Jackson</strong></h3><p>These writings are a personal attempt to reclaim my own mental sovereignty and sanity, while trying to make sense of what&#8217;s going on.</p><p>Some posts will speak to developments happening in the moment; some posts will be deeper dives into broader subjects, usually with a Philosophical bent; others may be purely medicinal, spilling out information that&#8217;s been pent up for too long inside me.</p><p>I humbly share all these in case they can be of service to you on your journey as well.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://pinetree.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://pinetree.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>Nobody said transition into the Internet Age would be easy. We are simultaneously witnessing concurrent revolutions in:</p><ul><li><p>The rise of Artificial Intelligence and Perfect Surveillance by the State</p></li><li><p>Bitcoin disempowering the State&#8217;s lifeblood by decentralizing control of money</p></li><li><p>The <em>Managed Decline</em> of the United States Empire geopolitically </p></li><li><p>The shift from Physical Sovereignty to Digital Sovereignty</p></li></ul><p>Each alone is disruptive enough - let alone all of them happening at once. Making matters worse, much about our current paradigm is not properly understood across the population. My main intentions are to document:</p><ul><li><p><em>How did we get here?</em></p></li><li><p><em>What is happening now?</em></p></li><li><p><em>Where is this all going?</em></p></li></ul><p>&#8230;at least according to my own imperfect perspective and experience. </p><div><hr></div><p>I thrive on novelty and discourse; I&#8217;m always available. So please engage on <a href="https://twitter.com/pplthvn">Twitter</a> and in the Replies so we can work out these problems together.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://pinetree.substack.com/p/coming-soon/comments&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://pinetree.substack.com/p/coming-soon/comments"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><p><a href="https://pinetree.substack.com/p/coming-soon?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share">And after a certain point, you have a responsibility to Red Pill your friends as well&#8230;</a></p>]]></content:encoded></item></channel></rss>