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Christopher Ivey

Technology entrepreneur and communications professional. Experienced in 3D illustration, video production, motion graphics, and UX design.

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Communications / Marketing / Software Development

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Christopher is a middle-aged nobody likeable everyman and a 3-time loser serial entrepreneur who has never amounted to anything in been on a voyage of discovery all his life. He has no education is a voracious reader and autodidact and isn’t expert in anything who enjoys learning new things.

“I am not important, nor rich, nor educated. I do not speak for anyone. I am not one of the people who matter. I’m not the guy who gives speeches – I’m the guy who fills the coffee urn and helps stack the chairs when the speeches are over.”

Christopher is a no more unique or special than anyone else. He may be special in the eyes of God, and to a few friends and family members, but he is otherwise indistinguishable from hundreds of millions of other average North Americans – with no particular talents or accomplishments to set him apart.

He has lived an entire lifetime of harmless mediocrity, silent and invisible amongs his peers. He has no particular vision or special wisdom to share. However, he has felt called to act, and to speak out simply because he can, and because other more accomplished people have not.

Christopher has been a professional writer for many years. It’s just that his writing has been as invisible, blameless and anonymous as his life has been. He has writtent the equivalent of an epic novel every year for over a decade – measured out in marketing brochures, whitepapers, technical reports, and aspirational twaddle for a wide array of clients ranging from motorcycle manufacturers to software and pharmaceutical companies. No one was expected to actually read any of it.

After the events of the past two years, he has felt moved to write more meaningful and personal content in defense of liberty, personal autonomy, and western democratic values.

How I Became Radicalized

I didn’t know I was a radical at first, of course. Realization crept up on me slowly. I still though of myself as sufficiently normal that I felt genuine shock when Canada’s Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau made a speech about people protesting against vaccine mandates, calling them “a small fringe minority of people that hold unacceptable views”, and I realized that he was talking about people like me. I wasn’t a radical. How had what I thought of as my severely normal viewpoint suddenly become “unacceptable”?

I wasn’t shocked because an infamously thin-skinned politician said mean things, but because of that fact that in spite of a lifetime of being more-or-less politically agnostic I found myself immovably planted on the wrong side of a political and cultural divide that had somehow crept up on me.

As a younger man, I was lead to make a conscious decision to set politicis aside. Shortly after the events of 911, I was working with a medical marketing start-up based in the United States. One night over drinks in a pub, I started blibbering away about the war in Iraq. The CEO rolled his eyes at me. “No one cares what you think”, he said. “You’re a businessman. We solve problems and sell products.” I took that to heart. For the next 20 years, I focused on my profession, and left political commentary to people better suited to it.

My personal viewpoint hasn’t changed much over the years. I’m a Christian and a conservative. I believe, sincerely and deeply, that the prosperity and growth we have enjoyed in western nations is the direct result of our Judeo-Christian moral foundation, and of our history of struggle in defense of individual human rights and liberties. Even a few years ago, these were socially acceptable, even normal beliefs.

But the Overton window has been shifting with ever increasing speed. Now you’re a toxic reactionary if you belive there are only two sexes. You’re a racist if you don’t believe that all cultural institutions are an expression of systemic racism. You’re an insurrectionist if you disagree with government vaccine mandates. And if you believe in God, you’re a Christofacist. The long march of cultural Marxism through our institutions has transformed millions of ordinary, law-abiding citizens into “problematic” persons who need to be shunned, shamed, and corrected.