One of the things I try to do here, is explain how much the insanity of the past two years can be put down to the ordinary, routine shortcomings of our institutions, our culture and our psychology. This analysis routinely displeases some of my readers, but it is just unquestionably true. Of course I understand the impulse to characterise Corona as pathological, malevolent and conspiratorially arranged, and I would never deny that there have been bad actors at work throughout all that we have endured. None of this would have been possible, though, without legions of true believers inside our native institutions furthering this madness in autonomous good faith, in accordance with an array of very mundane incentives.
Feb 20, 2022·edited Feb 20, 2022Liked by eugyppius
For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Last year the Prime Minister of New Zealand could walk on water. Now protesters are camped on her lawn and she has gone into hiding. Covid is turning into political toxic waste. It will be buried. Even the stupidest of leaders can read a poll.
We are seeing a purity spiral (aka holiness spiral). As soon as public opinion was that covid-19 is dangerous, the harsher the state reaction the more the covidians could claim to be good and holy people and gain power.
How this will unfold depends on how harmful the vaccinations are. Will most of the vaccinated die within the next few years or will the effects only be felt by life insurance companies and some unlucky vaccinated? We'll see. It is too soon to say
While I am not one for conspiratorial thinking, the pandemicists have overlapping desires with the statists and centralists. Accordingly, there does appear to be some effort to take advantage of the situation and put in laws and launch initiatives that wouldn't have worked before. But this is not a conspiracy- the same way that pre 9/11 you certainly had people who were security obsessed and who used the attacks as a pretense to push through laws and programs.
On the other hand, i do feel an invisible hand of control, of some entity trying to exert its will on the world. Is it the ccp? Maybe. If any entity is capable of massive conspiracy, its them
Oh, the fingerprints of midwits are all over this fiasco, but there was/still is a central force trying to push through revolutionary change in the West. In light of America's stolen election (your friend William Briggs has documented the irregularities) and Canada's crackdown yesterday, with subsequent threat to take bank accounts of all those who contributed to the truckers, I am baffled that anyone can think otherwise.
And there actually is a worldwide organization openly boasting about how its disciples have penetrated the cabinets of governments in the west. Dissent to the Davos crowd is being criminalized.
Bill Gates just expressed his disappointment that Omicron was a natural vaccine that spread throughout the world before he could stick a needle in more arms. He promised in another interview last week that another pandemic would be coming. It's not over; it's just starting, I fear.
Yes, truth, thank you we see too little of it. I’ve really appreciated your writings friend and your balanced point of view. I appreciate you very much.
Naziism was only defeated militarily. The ideology lived on post WW2 thanks in part to operation paperclip and bringing of the Nazis to the US and elsewhere. Everything that started in 2020, the riots, the pandemic, is starlight out of the Nazi playbook and being run via the new Hitler/Schwab and the graduates of his global leadership program (Trudeau, Macron, Johnson, Arden, et al) using the planDemic in usher in the NWO. Criminals and psychopaths are running the world.
It is not a big stretch to view the whole period of compulsory education as one long limited lockdown. If students are very lucky they may have a decent hearted guard (teacher?) or two. However, if we see this long conditioned period as normalizing, perhaps many people are actually more comfortable in UBI/highly regulated conditions, then fending for themselves or having to face any meaningful consequences for their behavior. Hence the long decline you speak of is perhaps fully and intentionally engineered in the schools.
What I find refreshing about your viewpoints is that you look at the big picture. I tend to try to look at things anthropologically. Civilizations come and go; usually near the end there's a widening wealth gap between the elites and the plebeians.
Historically speaking, there is nothing new under the sun. However this time there is something new. This is the first time it's global. Our pathological population growth is its own worst enemy.
I challenge your conclusion that we have to learn to live with this new reality. The power of the Ottawa convoy and the youth that have joined the protests provide evidence that the status quo of the past two years is no longer acceptable and will not be tolerated. This is a movement to return to "normal", as we experienced before this WEF-led effort to impose totalitarian control under the guise of the hyper-inflated hysteria of the lab-created virus. We will not be ruled by fear going forward.
Western liberal democratic republics have devolved into oligarchies. The ruling class now has a rancher and cattle relationship with the ruled. This progression appears to be one of the main weaknesses of the republican form of government: individuals elected to represent the electors naturally move toward their own interests until the electors become only a means of support that must be inconveniently placated from time to time. We were well into the late stages of this process long before Covid. Covid simply gave the Oligarchy a plausible justification for bringing this reality out into the open.
Thank you for a clear view of the state of affairs.
Since this is more like a feature of our system and not a bug, there is no way around this mess except for a change of system.
This change is unfortunately not gonna come from trucker rallies or any of the forms the "resistance" has taken (not that i wouldn't wish it could, but it can't).
As i see it, that leaves two options;
Figure out how a new system should look, and attain enough power to install that system.
Or;
Figure out what measures one should take personally in order to cope with the current system and comming similar situations.
Neither of these are easy, and neither seems to be adressed by any parts of the "resistance".
Ufortunately the "resitance" in which ever form it is manifesting (and these are very different, and will never be able to unite into one thing and they only agree on one slightly vague thing "the current handling of out situation is not quite right") doesn't seem to adress these two options.
We seem to be deluding ourselves into thinking that the system will change itself if we use the tools available within the system (and yes, rallies is one of those tools). For example if we just make it clear enough how wrong "INSERT PREFFERED WRONGTHING" is, then they will change everything - even if you/we win that battle, we're still fighting a completely outnumbered war in foreign land, with no clear definition of victory, against the people who decide which weapons we are allowed to use.
This assumption is both wrong and a falsely grandiose view of our power (which seems to stem from the idea of democracy).
I think this current text of yours is one the most clearheaded and easily understood summerizations of our predicament and i hope you will delve into one of the two options i previously mentioned.
If I understood you, you believe that "the diffusion of political power downwards" is something that exists and that it is a bad thing.
I disagree with both. Country-level lockdowns and other tyrannical measures are only possible because political power is centralized. What we need is a LOT more decentralization (ideally at the individual level). But decentralization at the city/town or neighborhood level is still better: Street X says you cannot go there without the jab but you can still be free in street Y.
In addition, this lunacy was not created by the useless bureaucrats. It is created by the people that empower these bureaucrats. The little wannabe dictators are the *voters*. These votes are the real enemy. And the only way to avoid the mob rule that we saw with corona is to make it illegal for anyone to impose their views on everyone else.
The difficult to swallow pill that corona gave us is to clearly show that democracy is really just mob rule (as we always knew but ignored). The only solution is a different governance system, like a republic, based on individual rights (not the "50%+1 can kill whoever they like and it is OK because it was a democratic decision", for example).
Well said. I struggle to explain to my more conspiratorially minded friends that we are merely reaping the fruits of decades of societal decay.
For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Last year the Prime Minister of New Zealand could walk on water. Now protesters are camped on her lawn and she has gone into hiding. Covid is turning into political toxic waste. It will be buried. Even the stupidest of leaders can read a poll.
We are seeing a purity spiral (aka holiness spiral). As soon as public opinion was that covid-19 is dangerous, the harsher the state reaction the more the covidians could claim to be good and holy people and gain power.
How this will unfold depends on how harmful the vaccinations are. Will most of the vaccinated die within the next few years or will the effects only be felt by life insurance companies and some unlucky vaccinated? We'll see. It is too soon to say
While I am not one for conspiratorial thinking, the pandemicists have overlapping desires with the statists and centralists. Accordingly, there does appear to be some effort to take advantage of the situation and put in laws and launch initiatives that wouldn't have worked before. But this is not a conspiracy- the same way that pre 9/11 you certainly had people who were security obsessed and who used the attacks as a pretense to push through laws and programs.
On the other hand, i do feel an invisible hand of control, of some entity trying to exert its will on the world. Is it the ccp? Maybe. If any entity is capable of massive conspiracy, its them
Even Rome didn’t last forever. By the time they got to this stage there wasn’t much hope.
If not for this "pandemic" many would still be asleep.
Oh, the fingerprints of midwits are all over this fiasco, but there was/still is a central force trying to push through revolutionary change in the West. In light of America's stolen election (your friend William Briggs has documented the irregularities) and Canada's crackdown yesterday, with subsequent threat to take bank accounts of all those who contributed to the truckers, I am baffled that anyone can think otherwise.
And there actually is a worldwide organization openly boasting about how its disciples have penetrated the cabinets of governments in the west. Dissent to the Davos crowd is being criminalized.
Bill Gates just expressed his disappointment that Omicron was a natural vaccine that spread throughout the world before he could stick a needle in more arms. He promised in another interview last week that another pandemic would be coming. It's not over; it's just starting, I fear.
Yes, truth, thank you we see too little of it. I’ve really appreciated your writings friend and your balanced point of view. I appreciate you very much.
Naziism was only defeated militarily. The ideology lived on post WW2 thanks in part to operation paperclip and bringing of the Nazis to the US and elsewhere. Everything that started in 2020, the riots, the pandemic, is starlight out of the Nazi playbook and being run via the new Hitler/Schwab and the graduates of his global leadership program (Trudeau, Macron, Johnson, Arden, et al) using the planDemic in usher in the NWO. Criminals and psychopaths are running the world.
It is not a big stretch to view the whole period of compulsory education as one long limited lockdown. If students are very lucky they may have a decent hearted guard (teacher?) or two. However, if we see this long conditioned period as normalizing, perhaps many people are actually more comfortable in UBI/highly regulated conditions, then fending for themselves or having to face any meaningful consequences for their behavior. Hence the long decline you speak of is perhaps fully and intentionally engineered in the schools.
What I find refreshing about your viewpoints is that you look at the big picture. I tend to try to look at things anthropologically. Civilizations come and go; usually near the end there's a widening wealth gap between the elites and the plebeians.
Historically speaking, there is nothing new under the sun. However this time there is something new. This is the first time it's global. Our pathological population growth is its own worst enemy.
I challenge your conclusion that we have to learn to live with this new reality. The power of the Ottawa convoy and the youth that have joined the protests provide evidence that the status quo of the past two years is no longer acceptable and will not be tolerated. This is a movement to return to "normal", as we experienced before this WEF-led effort to impose totalitarian control under the guise of the hyper-inflated hysteria of the lab-created virus. We will not be ruled by fear going forward.
Western liberal democratic republics have devolved into oligarchies. The ruling class now has a rancher and cattle relationship with the ruled. This progression appears to be one of the main weaknesses of the republican form of government: individuals elected to represent the electors naturally move toward their own interests until the electors become only a means of support that must be inconveniently placated from time to time. We were well into the late stages of this process long before Covid. Covid simply gave the Oligarchy a plausible justification for bringing this reality out into the open.
Indeed!
Finally!
Thank you for a clear view of the state of affairs.
Since this is more like a feature of our system and not a bug, there is no way around this mess except for a change of system.
This change is unfortunately not gonna come from trucker rallies or any of the forms the "resistance" has taken (not that i wouldn't wish it could, but it can't).
As i see it, that leaves two options;
Figure out how a new system should look, and attain enough power to install that system.
Or;
Figure out what measures one should take personally in order to cope with the current system and comming similar situations.
Neither of these are easy, and neither seems to be adressed by any parts of the "resistance".
Ufortunately the "resitance" in which ever form it is manifesting (and these are very different, and will never be able to unite into one thing and they only agree on one slightly vague thing "the current handling of out situation is not quite right") doesn't seem to adress these two options.
We seem to be deluding ourselves into thinking that the system will change itself if we use the tools available within the system (and yes, rallies is one of those tools). For example if we just make it clear enough how wrong "INSERT PREFFERED WRONGTHING" is, then they will change everything - even if you/we win that battle, we're still fighting a completely outnumbered war in foreign land, with no clear definition of victory, against the people who decide which weapons we are allowed to use.
This assumption is both wrong and a falsely grandiose view of our power (which seems to stem from the idea of democracy).
I think this current text of yours is one the most clearheaded and easily understood summerizations of our predicament and i hope you will delve into one of the two options i previously mentioned.
In any case, thanks for your work.
If I understood you, you believe that "the diffusion of political power downwards" is something that exists and that it is a bad thing.
I disagree with both. Country-level lockdowns and other tyrannical measures are only possible because political power is centralized. What we need is a LOT more decentralization (ideally at the individual level). But decentralization at the city/town or neighborhood level is still better: Street X says you cannot go there without the jab but you can still be free in street Y.
In addition, this lunacy was not created by the useless bureaucrats. It is created by the people that empower these bureaucrats. The little wannabe dictators are the *voters*. These votes are the real enemy. And the only way to avoid the mob rule that we saw with corona is to make it illegal for anyone to impose their views on everyone else.
The difficult to swallow pill that corona gave us is to clearly show that democracy is really just mob rule (as we always knew but ignored). The only solution is a different governance system, like a republic, based on individual rights (not the "50%+1 can kill whoever they like and it is OK because it was a democratic decision", for example).