Fight Like The Third Monkey On The Ramp To Noah's Ark
Resisting The Immediate And Attempting A Restoration
“The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.” W B Yeats
We know that we are living in interesting times. Everybody reading this also knows that we are in deep trouble; by 'we' I mean our societies – at the macro level – but also critical thinkers, as a discrete grouping. We may very well be a disparate coalition politically (historically, at least) and old-school liberals are probably as well represented as conservatives, but we've coalesced because we share an unwillingness to blindly accept what we are told. Unfortunately, that isn't stopping the rest of society from sleepwalking into servitude and taking us with them.
We are probably at a temperamental disadvantage; most people in the center or on the Right are not hard-wired for combat being, on the whole, reasonable, decent people inclined to dialogue and compromise. While this might make us agreeable individuals, in our current straitened circumstances this is a large problem. Our good points are frequently used against us, because the enemy is not constrained by morality. We are always one step behind, trying to achieve parity, rather than matching and raising. Playing by the rules means that we cannot win, because the enemy makes the rules, which can be arbitrarily changed at any time.
“The core problem with discussing solutions to truly momentous problems, at least from the right, is that anything that might work is too fundamental and astounding to gain a fair hearing. What’s more, even stating such possibilities is more likely than not to get the speaker canceled. Whereas anything that can be discussed openly is all but certain not to work.”(1)
For this reason and others besides, the resistance is remarkably long on analysis – much of it of the controlled opposition variety – and remarkably short on solutions. Hang around long enough and one discovers that an uncomfortably high proportion of our fellow travelers have been captured in one way or the other; usually because they are obliged to make a living from their scribblings and that, in turn, involves compromise and a willingness to be willfully blind to certain truths.
The 'pandemic' has produced legions of them, each attempting to hold an indefensible line on any number of topics, before falling back to a new position that still dishonors them but which won't get them cancelled. However, there is no alternative to being cancelled. If we're not cancelled, we aren't trying hard enough, because the ruling class simply will not tolerate dissent at scale.
First and foremost, reality must be acknowledged. There is absolutely no point in any analysis that does not address the fundamental issues; it will simply be part of the problem. It must be the whole truth, not a version curated by the enemy. Better to say nothing than to mislead. But we can't say nothing, because doing so then makes us complicit. So we must make our voices heard. This involves calling out the ruling class in brutal fashion; we should have no qualms about this. We owe nothing to a group of people bent on our subjugation and, while we may well not find excoriation natural to us, whatever values we stand for do not prevent us from deploying as much venom as the enemy habitually flings at us.
All the pretending has to stop. We have to acknowledge that uncertainty as to solutions or success is inevitable and be brave enough to fight not knowing that we'll win. We have to realize that 'not dying in a ditch' swiftly becomes colluding with the enemy. We must acknowledge that traditional ways of resolving disputes and disagreements only work when the other party is also reasonable. We must be prepared to play against type and brutalize the opposition. People who would enslave us and enjoy doing so deserve absolutely nothing from us, other than extreme contempt. We must take their power way by genuinely not caring what they think.
“Abuse is what happens when one does not stand up for one’s rights. Perennial vigilance and standing up for yourself when you are pushed around is the only way to deal with those who face a perennial temptation to push you around.”(2)
'Safe' dissident narratives should be abandoned. All talk of 'lab leaks' or 'mistaken measures' should be consigned to history, along with the pretense that the 'vaccines' were ever anything other than a bioweapon. mRNA technology has been around for thirty years; they haven't just discovered that it's harmful. We need to apply a little common sense and accept the fact that there are patents on the virus, filed prior to the 'pandemic'. It's an engineered disease, deployed so that Big Pharma can get a return on investment. The 'vaccine' wasn't approved, it was granted an EUA – thus circumventing liability issues. And all this came about because the virus 'leaked'? Really? To hold that position is dishonest and weak; it's an insult to the intelligence.
The problems that confront us are of two different orders – the systemic and the immediate. We might start by acknowledging that there is nothing left to conserve – we should be talking about restoring.
“In an earlier era...there was much to conserve. But any honest appraisal of our situation today renders such a definition absurd. After all, what have conservatives succeeded in conserving? … They have lost much: marriage as it has been understood for thousands of years, the First Amendment, any semblance of control over our borders, a fundamental distinction between men and women, and, especially of late, the basic rule of law.”(3)
But before we can get anywhere near dealing with the systemic, we must deal with the immediate, which is the baffling ability of the state to induce mass psychosis among a significant minority of (seemingly) any given population in the West. The advent of the 'pandemic' has revealed that there is a cohort – research suggests that they number around 30% of the total – that is comprised of deeply unpleasant individuals. They are the active colluders, the enablers, the bossy, the neurotic, the cowards and the sociopaths who are devoid of empathy yet shamelessly claim that empathy is, in fact, their guiding principle.
They cannot be reasoned with and no amount of evidence to the contrary will ever persuade them that they are wrong; the fact that they are too stupid to realize that they too will be in the cross hairs soon enough (Utopia isn't being designed for 30%, after all) is cold comfort – they willingly perform the role of useful idiots for now. There is no possibility of compromise with them and, because their neuroses have been prompted, nurtured and exploited by the ruling elite and amplified by the media, it is they who currently hold sway in the public square.
The rest of us, comprised of around 65% who can be characterized as the go-alongs or the head-in-the-sand club and up to 5% who are critical thinkers (and whose disposition is canted towards speaking out), are disenfranchised while the neurotics are busy providing the social conditions that are necessary for the imposition of authoritarianism.(4) The fact that they are being used doesn't make them any less odious. These people have obviously always been amongst us but they've previously been confined to the margins, reduced to chaining themselves to trees or sailing around in the diesel-powered Rainbow Warrior whilst pontificating about climate change, but what we have witnessed in the past three and a half years has been of a different magnitude.
The unmoored quality of their belief system (and their complete inability to think logically) allied to their need to impose their will on the rest of us has been somewhat of a surprise; they've been the boorish, ruthless foot-soldiers of the ruling class. And, as always, the weak and the collaborative will never do anything until it is safe to do so. They never do. We all know who they are. They were the ones who felt obliged to stand on their doorsteps on a Friday night clapping the NHS, an entity that had abandoned its duty of care by cancelling life saving procedures and which was actively engaged in killing what patients remained.(5)
But how has this come about? What has happened within our societies to enable such a transformation? Not from democracy to a dictatorship, but to a totalitarian state, one in which the population colludes in its own enslavement. Well, there are four conditions which lay the groundwork for a totalitarian state and before the seed can be sown, the soil needs to be prepared.
Social isolation.
Purposelessness.
Free floating discontent/anxiety.
Free floating aggression/frustration.
Isn't it true that we were already halfway there, even pre-Covid, as illustrated by the polarizing obsession with mobile 'phones and the self measuring of worth via online 'likes' at the expense of personal interactions? While it is jarringly apparent, three and a half years later, that a significant proportion of the population is completely obsessed with their mobile 'phones, there was already a problem in 2020. Socially, habits were changing and not for the better.
It became socially acceptable to dip in and out of group conversations so that 'phones might be attended to. Everyone had their's on the table, in front of them. Walking along while messaging or surfing was de rigeur. It seemed that many people had a need to be constantly stimulated. Social skills degraded, being 'present' became rarer, life became generally less friendly and less connected. People increasingly lived online.
This transformation happened rapidly. Social networking sites morphed into social media sites in a mere four years, 2009-13. Kids (and, one suspects, adults) instantly became more anxious and depressed.(6)
“Something went terribly wrong, very suddenly. We are disoriented, unable to speak the same language or recognize the same truth. We are cut off from one another and from the past.”(7)
Other factors have played a role, too. While this is not the place for a comprehensive analysis of how we have arrived at this wretched remove, the abandonment of any widely accepted moral framework, the loss of faith in God, the replacement of religion by rational theory (which posits that all life simply consists of a collection of atoms and is, therefore, explicable to man) and the splintering of the nuclear family are all significant contributors to the atomisation of societies.
Culturally, we have regressed. Franchises dominate Hollywood and the music industry is obsessed with the practice of covering old songs in a way that robs them of their potency. Either that, or churning out more of the moral excrescence that is hip hop. Creativity and originality are actively discouraged, as they must be if cultural control is to be retained by our overseers; homogeneity is the end result. Porn is now mainstream. One can now live-stream coitus while running for office and receive plaudits for so doing.(8)
“A person who has been consumed by the consumer value system, whose identity is dissolved in an amalgam of the accoutrements of mass civilisation and who has no roots in the order of being, no sense of responsibility for anything other than his own personal survival, is a demoralized person.”(9)
Prior to the 'pandemic', 40% of people worldwide didn't have a single meaningful relationship in their life. 60% had what they considered to be 'bullshit jobs'. Young adults, while outwardly more sexualized than ever before, were actually dating less.(10) By 2018, nearly 30% of men under thirty hadn't had sex for at least twelve months, a number that had tripled in only ten years,(11) which may also explain the decline in the number of 18 year olds getting a driving licence;(12) Generation Swipe is content to stay home and live online, even though this behavior has led to an epidemic of loneliness.(13) And you can't learn resilience online – you have to physically interact with others.
An extraordinary feature of this tale of woe is the fact of our active participation in our own downfall. Our seemingly innate inability to resist the siren call of the screen is leading to widespread loneliness and depression, but it doesn't have to be that way. Quite why we have allowed ourselves to self-destruct is still somewhat mystifying, notwithstanding some of the more obvious causes.
So, there was already a crisis – societies were becoming unglued by virtue of their own stupidity. This led to one of the biggest questions of all; where was (is) the meaning to be had from life? There is now an enormous hole where it should be and we've chosen to fill it with things that are bad for us, which still don't get the job done. But people haven't evolved beyond a need for meaning – and Nature abhors a vacuum.
What results is free floating anxiety that cannot be controlled because its cause cannot be identified. The aggression that often accompanies this anxiety cannot find an outlet, either. Vast swathes of people are depressed, without knowing why. And while we can debate the potency of particular precursors, that the overall effect has been achieved by design should be beyond dispute. It's been done before – the ruling class is following a blueprint. We know, instinctively, that some people have a tendency to fixate on particular issues. We also know that the mob loves a target.
If one is to take advantage of this rootlessness, what's needed is a crisis; one that people can vehemently believe in. Make them afraid and keep them afraid. Make it so that any measure that's introduced can't be morally opposed. Make it so that only the most courageous will speak in opposition. Pick them off, so that others can see their fate. Then let the zealots police everyone else. And so, the technocratic elites – having created the conditions for a mass formation – helpfully provided the 30% of people (in any society) who are susceptible with a cause; Covid.
The inducement of mass psychosis requires that there be a hyper-focus on one particular issue. It's when a number of associated delusions organize themselves into an irrational belief system and it's rooted in fear; so, a psychotic person craves some form of safety, ergo safe spaces, micro aggressions and hugely sensitive definitions of 'hate speech' and 'disinformation'.
“Mass delusion can be induced. It is simply a question of organizing and manipulating collective feelings in the proper way. If one can isolate the mass, allow no free thinking, no free exchange, no outside corrective and can hypnotise the group daily with noises, with press and radio and television, with fear and pseudo-enthusiasms, any delusion can be instilled.”(14)
It is easier to do this if their situation appears hopeless, if there is no light at the end of the tunnel. Then, of course, a sub-optimal alternative will be gratefully grasped:
“The desire to break down, to give in, becomes almost insurmountable when a man feels that this horrible, marginal existence is something permanent, that he has to adjust to this dulling, degrading life forever.”(15)
It's not as if any of it makes sense, either. In fact, it's better if it doesn't. The hallmark of totalitarianism is mass conformity to an official psychotic narrative which is delusional and contradictable by any number of actual, real life facts. It is a world of appearances and to live within it is to live a lie. Logical argument can never hope to overcome a position that has been reached in the absence of logic. Narratives are invariably paranoid and outside forces (anti-vaxxers, domestic terrorists) are believed to be intent on its destruction. The only way to defeat them is to conform to the collective.
There is no getting through to this type of person, because they have their cause; they have a target for all that anxiety. They find meaning in the collective, they find comfort; they find validation, because it allows them to believe that all that anxiety was justified – there really was a problem. It is the fix that they have been craving and they aren't going to abjure it. Those who buy into the collective don't do so because they actually believe the narrative, either. It's therapy. The collective allows them to feel socially connected again; it couples the anxiety to an object. In this case, the pandemic.
We may have thought that the inconsistencies and arrant nonsense weaken the narrative, but the opposite is true. Any attempt to reconcile the ideology with anything approaching common sense requires too much effort and, ultimately, it's a pointless exercise if they don't believe the narrative, anyway. For instance, how to explain the need for 'vaccine' passports when the 'vaccinated' are at least as likely (in fact, more likely) to catch and transmit Covid as the 'unvaccinated' (if Covid can be transmitted at all). Indeed, they are able to do this repeatedly, whereas those who are jab free will get it once and then have immunity – unless, of course, a manufactured variant's genome is too far removed from the original strain. But the only way to stay within the narrative is to abandon critical thinking entirely; so, that's what they do.
These people are not simply misunderstanding the facts; if it were that simple, we'd not be where we are. Facts simply do not matter. All that matters to the true believers is fealty to the collective. It's about faith, not logic. Facts are secondary and, whilst presenting them is important to those with intact critical faculties and to the undecided (or unenthusiastic), it's not going to have any effect on the ultras.
People become so fully invested in these belief systems that, perversely, they can become a comfort. The rituals – acts which have no pragmatic meaning – are the backbone of the illusion; masking, hand sanitizers, keeping the appropriate distance. Acts that are difficult or harmful become sacrifices to the collective – another important facet of mass formation. And the aggression has somewhere to go, too. Those that won't sacrifice, the dissidents, become the enemy. The collective is radically intolerant to dissidents; in the final stage of mass formation, if it gets that far, they are destroyed. What's more, those doing the destroying will have no qualms, because they'll consider it ethical.
Interestingly, while some meaning may be brought to these people's lives, they're not any less lonely as a result, because there is little encouragement of individual relationships. Each individual is connected to the collective, not to each other and, as has been repeatedly demonstrated in other arenas, extreme group identity necessarily destroys individual bonds. Whatever satisfaction that is derived is rooted in the endorphin rush that they experience as a result of mass compliance.
And, in the end, a long way down the line, the system atrophies; mired in group-think and starved of the oxygen of open discussion and correctives it will wither and die. No-one outside the power structure is truly committed to it, there is no public accountability, no mandates for it; it's hermetically sealed and becomes increasingly divorced from reality, more and more ritualized.
“Where thinking is isolated...whenever ideas are compartmentalized...the process of continual alert confrontation of facts is hampered. The system freezes over, becomes rigid and dies of delusion.”(16)
But that might take decades, as it did in the Soviet Union. Nazi Germany's spell was broken far sooner by virtue of a lost World War, but both share a common denominator that is the one factor that we should focus on; both descended into their extreme iterations when the dissidents stopped vocalizing and went underground. This was in 1930 in the Soviet Union and 1935 in Germany. It was the lack of overt opposition that allowed the 30% and their masters to snuff out any vestige of freedom.
Totalitarianism trended in many other European countries at that time, without ever evolving into its final state, because the opposition stayed true to its cause. This is, therefore, the key – the resistance must keep speaking out in the public square. If they can somehow be silenced, history shows us what comes next. In both Germany and the the Soviet Union, it took a mere six months before the atrocities began and, lest we forget, this time around the camps have already been built.(17)(18)(19) And the likes of the New York Governor is going to court to preserve her right to mandate quarantine.(20) Others will follow if she is successful.
(Interestingly, the 65% are rarely influenced by our advocacy. I suspect that this is likely because it isn't necessarily the facts that they require – it's the introduction of a spine. It may well be that the best that can be hoped for from this majority is that they remain neutral and inactive.)
As an explanation of a phenomenon that we have probably all experienced in our own lives, this theory of mass formation has legs. It explains the extreme illogicality of the 'pandemic' response, the unwillingness of large numbers of people to depart from the orthodoxy despite the evidence of their eyes, the openly mendacious media campaign which continues to this day and the avoidance of any truthful audit of what transpired, both because there is no harmless explanation for the actions of the authorities and their proxies and because the Covid cultists still require nourishment.
Regrettably, the phenomenon of mass formation is not limited to the reaction to the 'pandemic'. There are at least three others; climate change, the trans issue and TDS – Trump Derangement Syndrome. The same mass hypnosis and denial of reality presents itself in a significant minority on each of these issues; probably the same 30% each time. I'm willing to bet that most Just Stop Oil protesters specify their pronouns and think that Trump is a fascist insurrectionist who should be thrown in jail for the remainder of his natural.
The ruling class encourages the continuation of these mass formations with constant streams of propaganda, which are endlessly repeated by the bought and paid for media. It allows them to set the parameters of acceptable discourse. It also allows them to legislate on these issues (and on freedom of speech which, as we've seen with the Branch Covidians response to wrong-think, must also be vigorously policed) in a manner that is oppressive and fantastical.
At present, there is plenty of madness to share around. In the US, the FDA has abandoned any semblance of probity; it's still issuing EUAs for new Covid 'vaccines', despite the fact that there isn't an emergency any more (nor was there ever). The CDC, despite the fact that these 'vaccines' haven't been properly tested nor approved, is recommending them to every warm body from six months up.(21)
“Before 2020, American medical mandarins at least claimed to work on behalf of society as a whole....They have since abandoned this mission, adopting a narrow, much more politicised hygiene extremism. Now they have dropped all pretence, appealing only to the highly radicalised Covidians and the pharmaceutical interest. Thus their rhetoric and their advice grows steadily more divorced from reality and reason, even as the actual threat of Covid recedes.”(22)
The story of a 14 year old girl, with a history of mental health issues, who was bullied at school when she decided to start identifying as a male, encapsulates the trans mass formation. The bullying, both verbal and physical (including threats of rape) was insufficient to dissuade the school from encouraging her to use the boys' bathroom. However, her 'transition' was limited to school hours; her parents had no idea and the school didn't inform them.
She ran away from home when her parents found her school ID, which identified her as male. She was then raped and trafficked with two other men, before being tracked down by the FBI. The juvenile court system then assumed custody of the girl, rather than returning her to her parents, as the latter were not considered 'sufficiently affirming' of her new identity. A public defender placed her in a male juvenile facility where she was sexually assaulted again.(23) She ran away once more, was picked up by another sex-trafficker, which resulted in her again being raped, drugged, starved and tortured until law enforcement found her and, this time, returned her to her home.
You couldn't make it up, nor would you want to. The school is unrepentant and, predictably, the state is not for turning, even though the public defender is now being sued:
'We fully support our attorney, who appropriately represented her client in accordance with her legal, ethical, and professional obligations.”(24)
The entire, wretched saga is a distillation of all the ways in which a narrative that makes absolutely no sense can still be rigidly followed, no matter the harm that is done by doing so. The authorities involved do the obviously wrong thing every time. There is no empathy for the individual; their allegiance is to the collective, the ideology to which they are fully signed up, as further demonstrated by the White House's response to the mass shooting at a Catholic school by a trans individual. Biden didn't have the grace to mention the victims by name, didn't attend any of the funerals and, three days after the shootings, his spokeswoman said:
“Our hearts go out to the trans community, as they are under attack right now.”(25)
The ruling elites don't care and they want the rest of us to know it. They take full advantage of mass formation. At present, they are ramming through legislation that makes absolutely no sense, on its face, simply because there are enough activist eco-terrorists (and a wholly compliant media) to allow them to get away with it. On the one hand, each household in the UK will face a bill of at least £2,300 to decommission the perfectly viable gas grid so that the government can meet its entirely infeasible Net Zero targets.(26)
On the other, they are in the process of passing a bill that will force consumers to fit smart meters to their homes and smart functions to all electrical appliances, on pain of a £15,000 fine or up to a year in clink. And refusing won't do you any good, as your power supplier will now be entitled to return with police back-up, force entry and use reasonable force to subdue you while they install the meter.
The government says that this is necessary and will save money, although data from around the world shows that the latter assertion is untrue and, as catastrophic, anthropogenic climate change is a scam, the former assertion is also bunkum.(27) The real reason is what you will, by now, be expecting:
“The key to smart functionality is that these appliances can be operated externally “in response to load signals” which means that smart meters will soon allow for your energy to be rationed remotely or even cut off completely according to the Smart Tyranny coalition.”(28)
This is in addition to banning gas boilers by 2035 and forcing people to install heat pumps that don't work.(29)(30) Germany, as well as accepting the destruction of the Nordstream pipeline by her ally, is also embracing the madness (31) and Biden is busy banning everything from light bulbs to gas stoves.(32) None of it makes any sense, but that doesn't matter in mass formation. The comfort of the struggle, the enforced sacrifice, the meaning that is derived from acquiring a target for anxiety, the solidarity with other equally damaged individuals are not small matters and won't be voluntarily surrendered.
Biden has also banned all drilling on federal land in Alaska. At this point, it's worth noting that the President doesn't own federal land and neither does the government. Federal land belongs to the people. But since nobody in the mainstream world is willing to point this out, he's getting away with a power grab. In addition, he stopped the transportation of liquid gas by rail. The net effect will be an orchestrated supply chain fubar, a large increase in prices and an increasing reliance on imports from foreign powers which don't necessarily have America's best interests at heart.(33) The 30% will, in all probability, think he hasn't gone far enough. The battle with 'climate change' is, for them, existential despite the fact that none of these edicts with have any effect on global temperatures. Additionally, China has been granting permits for two coal fired power stations a week.(34)
The extent of the 30%'s viciousness to dissenters can best be seen in the treatment of Trump. So far, as well as the continual undermining of his programme when he was still in office, there have been two years-long investigations (Mueller and Durham), two impeachments, all out media warfare, ninety one indictments (and counting) in four court cases – the first time that a former President has been indicted – and ongoing attempts to disqualify him as a candidate by unconstitutionally weaponizing the Fourteenth Amendment.(35)
Trump didn't agree with the climate change scam, nor with any other aspect of the globalist agenda and is the personification of the egotist who ploughs his own furrow. Consequently, he has been designated our 'man in the arena'. If he manages to stay on his feet and threatens a repeat of 2016, they will take him out; they will feel that they have no choice. His travails are a marker; the clear intent is for all dissenters to feel the full force of the law.
We know this because, across the Western world, legislation to punish 'disinformation' is being passed at dizzying speed. And regimes are getting away with it because the 30 per centers, the useful idiots setting the societal guardrails on free speech, approve of people who disagree with them being shut down. So does the media.
The EU has passed the Digital Services Act which allows the Commission to
“...apply significant pressures upon digital platforms to curb “hate speech,” “disinformation,” and threats to “civic discourse,” all of which constitute notoriously vague and slippery categories, categories that have historically been co-opted to reinforce the narrative of the ruling class. By giving the European Commission broad discretionary powers to oversee Big Tech content moderation policies, this piece of legislation holds freedom of speech hostage to the ideological proclivities of unelected European officials and their armies of “trusted flaggers.””(36)
The legislation doesn't just impact countries in the EU, though. Very large online platforms (VLOPs) will be obliged to swiftly remove whatever the Commission deems to be illegal content, 'hate speech' and 'disinformation'. These standards are likely to be adopted worldwide, as is the case with other regulatory standards (known as the 'Brussels effect').(37) This despite Article 11 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights which allegedly
“...protects the right of European citizens to “hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers,” and affirms that “the freedom and pluralism of the media shall be respected.””(38)
Except when it doesn't, because it's being ignored. The UK, having ditched the EU, will instead adopt the Online Safety Bill, which has much the same effect,(39) along with empowering the government to break end-to-end encryption at the precise moment that four out of five Britons want more privacy, not less.(40) The Irish, despite being in the EU, have nonetheless gone even further with their 'Hate Crime Bill'. Under this legislation, 'misgendering' will become hate speech, punishable by up to five years incarceration.(41) Possession of material 'likely to incite hatred' of a particular group will also become a criminal offence; worse, the possessor will find that the burden of proof is reversed.(42) They will be obliged to prove their innocence.
The Antipodeans have also been busy. South Australia has recently joined New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria and Queensland in hiking the penalties for 'unauthorized' protesting (now up to three months in jail and a possible fine of A$50,000).(43) In the US, it is established fact that the regime has colluded with Big Tech to censor the opinions of Americans, once again using the fake categories of 'hate speech' and 'disinformation.'(44)(45) All of these examples of censorship have been implemented in virtual lock-step, as was the case with any and all measures taken worldwide during the 'pandemic'.
Silencing dissent is clearly very important to the ruling class and they are right to be concerned; while vocal disagreement with the narrative doesn't have a huge influence on the 65% go- along-to-get-along crowd, it does (as previously mentioned) create enough disturbance in the force to prevent the final, destructive stage of mass formation. So, they are going to do their damnedest to silence the doubters, as Joe Rogan has discovered - Russell Brand likewise.
This, then, is the immediate crisis that confronts us and it seems that the solution is a simple one. We must continue speaking up and wait for the fever to pass, which sounds straightforward, except it won't be. It'll likely be difficult and, quite possibly, dangerous. We don't know whether platforms of communication that are available today will still be available tomorrow. There is not, as yet, any sign that we have hit rock bottom. The 30% are still policing the approved narrative and they are of a mind to squeeze dissenters some more – to them, they are acting ethically, which speaks to a state of mind that you and I cannot understand, much less countenance. It'll get worse before it gets better, but there are some indications that the silent majority aren't entirely comfortable with total acquiescence, especially with regard to the never-ending requirement for more 'vaccines'.
The systemic problem with which we are faced is not one that can be solved by running out the clock; in fact, it is seemingly intractable. I speak of the political infrastructures within which we live, which have evolved into systems that bear little to no resemblance to what they are said to be; nobody in the West or the Anglosphere is living in a true democracy, although most people don't seem to realize it. There are far too many aspects of live in Western democracies about which the people now have no say. Change is needed. But nostalgia cannot provide the answer. In the UK, for instance, what exactly would we be longing for? A return to what? To the place this journey began, so that it could begin again?
Likewise, the existence of the US Constitution has not prevented the diminution of citizens' rights nor the upcoming, inevitable bankruptcy of the nation. The constant hankering for a return to constitutional norms is an embarrassment. They have been compromised for a century or more and a country in which the President can circumvent democracy with the stroke of a pen is not a properly constituted republic. The unfortunate truth is that, even in 1930s Germany, the constitution remained intact - it wasn't repealed, it was just ignored and history is repeating itself.
Thusfar, we have not defined what it is we hope to achieve in anything other than negative terms – we want to stop stuff happening to us, but we don't have a vision of what that would actually result in. There is no agreement on what our world would look like if we win. We're not organised.
We know (or at least suspect, if we've ever contemplated the conundrum at all) that, human nature being what it is, no system can remain uncorrupted for all eternity. The particulars of the system, whether they be in the order of a parliamentary democracy, a republic or any other construct, are unimportant; none of them can withstand a certain minority's thirst for unchecked power.
So, the system, the method by which democracy is practiced and preserved, is clearly not fit for purpose, not able, in the short term at least, to defend the people against a government that is willing to ignore the Constitution, Bill of Rights or whatever other formulation serves as a society's foundational document. I'm not sure that this assessment can even be said to be controversial any more; it is obvious and, in truth, it's been obvious for a good long while. We just haven't been alive to it because the pace of the ongoing journey from citizen to subject has not been speedy enough to be noticed by a large enough segment of society. That has changed as, perhaps, it was always going to in its final stages. It has lately become apparent that, as Tucker Carlson notes,
"...most governments are run by a small group of people for their own benefit without reference to what the majority wants."(46)
Here is what used to be true. Laws were crafted which reflected principle; in the Western world at least, we did not have to think too hard about the legitimacy of the law, because it was underpinned by a constitution, a Bill of Rights or equivalent thereof. There was an acceptance that new law would not run afoul of the principles espoused in those documents. The legal framework of a nation state was, effectively, the tactical deployment of those principles.
“There is in all of us a strong disposition to believe that anything lawful is also legitimate. This belief is so widespread that many persons have erroneously held that things are ‘just’ because law makes them so.”(47)
There had always been the presumption that an administration would act in good faith and that, consequently, egregious examples of overreach were not possible; or, even if possible, certainly correctable. But if the government has a higher regard for its own moral conscience than it does for the principles that undergird the law, all bets are off. And if it subverts the parliamentary process just a little, it will subvert it a lot. It seems to be an immutable law.
By way of example, it is a little known fact that lawmakers in the UK have chosen to re-define the way they go about their primary function without so much as a by-your-leave from us. This is not a practice that has been introduced recently; it has been in place for a century or more. As is frequently the case, this process was introduced with good intentions. There are, historically, many matters of a technical or administrative nature that do not necessary benefit from parliamentary debate. But, as is inevitable once a principle is departed from by reason of expediency, such a system is prone to abuse.
An actual bill, the Act Of Parliament, is usually just the legal scaffolding. The detail is filled in by an 'entity', otherwise known as a government department staffed by unelected officials, and referred to as secondary legislation (SI). Between June 2018 and December 2020, 622 Brexit SI's became law, with almost no parliamentary scrutiny.(48) In 2020 alone, 1,618 SI's were passed, as opposed to a mere 29 actual bills (49) and, in total, 379 Covid SI's had been passed by March 2021. These processes are not redolent of robust democracy.
As the budget reconciliation process in the US has been recently suborned, so it was with both Brexit legislation and Covid law in the UK. Important matters are being decided by the 'experts' and signed into law and, unlike Acts of Parliament, there is no amendment process. Another protocol has also proven useful in circumventing proper scrutiny. Draft legislation can be submitted to committees, which are controlled by the government of the day and then effectively rubber stamped by both Houses in whipped votes.
If the people's representatives delegate responsibility for law-making (plus the rules, regulations and guidelines that serve as de-facto legislation) to unelected officials, they are abrogating their duty to the people. And if the people's representatives ignore duly enacted legislation, only enforce the laws that they approve of, and make up their own 'law' on the hoof, what system are we actually living under? Look at where we are now. I don't just mean about the official response to the 'pandemic'. We were already severely compromised and in a multitude of ways, by both sins of omission and commission.
I haven't even touched on the absurdity of the concept that the government of a country with the right of free assembly can award itself the power to authorize (or otherwise) protests against itself. You may think this reasonable. If you do, I would submit that you have been conditioned and assimilated. The most skeletal of reality checks is all that is required; the government is supposed to be executing the will of the people and is, therefore, required to be responsive to that will, rather than finding ways to kettle it. I am sure that, in most if not all Western countries, there are laws in place relating to obstruction and trespass. Everybody knows where they are. But governments which attempt to add another layer of authority, especially to lawful opposition, are undermining the freedom of the population.
In my view, it is akin to the situation with free speech. As soon as the government breaks the seal and outlaws any kind of speech, no matter how outrageous or offensive that speech may be to most people, they create a problem that is far bigger than the specific issue. Subjectivity has been injected into a matter of principle. When that happens, once the precedent is set, future bad actors and special interests will find ways of widening the scope of 'prohibited speech', until the original right is obliterated; which is where we find ourselves now.
Precedent setting better is frequently the enemy of existing good, as it has been for free speech. The desire to legislate away Holocaust denial or execrable racist slurs, while laudable on one level, is actually a mammoth error. Likewise, while the introduction of delegated legislation made sense at the time, as it freed up useful parliamentary time for debates on matters that were of more import, it also opened up a mechanism by which unscrupulous ministers could game the system. It would have been better to leave well alone, to exercise restraint, to understand what might be lost as well as what might be gained, to embrace imperfection, but that is not the way that government ever seems to work.
We have forgotten (and been actively encouraged to do so) that it is the principles that inform the structure that are the bedrock, not the structure itself. If the make-up of the people's representatives isn't actually representative of the wider public, then democracy is subverted. If the people's representatives are responsible for legislation that flouts founding principles, democracy is undermined. If the people's representatives are insufficiently involved in scrutinizing new law, democracy is more honored in the breach than in the observance. If the policy agenda that is enacted is in no way compatible with the priorities of the people – and the nominal political opposition is in league with the government – then, while the system resembles a democracy because the same framework is still in place, it no longer functions as one.
A majority of the UK public want a Net Zero referendum, because they have never been properly consulted;(50) they also have a strong disinclination to pay for policies to reduce carbon emissions.(51) The government pays no attention whatsoever and instead ploughs ahead with the project sans mandate. It is also unlikely that the general populace would vote to censor itself, but that doesn't matter either.
This is the systemic problem. The functions of government have been captured by what is termed the administrative state, the class of 'experts' and bureaucrats who are firmly of the opinion that governance is something that is best left to them. The democratic process is anathema to them, because they simply don't believe that the masses should have control or that they are, in some way, servants of the people. That ideology is the polar opposite of what they believe.
As with the energy bill and the Online Safety Bill, laws can be passed that are contrary to the common law understand of rights – others can be ignored with impunity. The permanent bureaucracy rules by guideline and regulation. And, with the possible exception of Trump, no politician will come riding to the rescue. If that was ever a possibility, it would have happened by now. Instead, we find that only 19 British MPs voted against the energy bill, which is yet another indicator of the rotten-to-the-core state of nearly all Western 'democracies'. The US is, if anything, the regime that is the most corrupt of all. This is a country that, firstly, doesn't even hold viable elections any more and, secondly, where the illegitimate administration is trying to jail its principal political opponent. These are practices that were previous limited to dictatorships in Africa or South America.
While the remedy to mass formation is straightforward (if difficult and dangerous for some), fixing our democracies is far less so. They are the playthings of a globalist elite that has no intention of ceding power. What has taken centuries to evolve will not be easily taken apart and, in truth, laws, guiding principles and philosophies aren't suddenly redundant, but if they are capable of being abused and ignored – which they clearly are – then they will never be enough.
There are some truisms, though. Reform, if it is happen, will have to come from the bottom up. The ruling elites and their minions in the administrative state aren't going to take their boot off our collective neck and they have made it perfectly clear that they are self-designated rulers. Yes, there are more of us than there are of them, but that doesn't count for much when most of 'us' aren't going to get involved. We will need to organize ourselves and, certainly in the UK and the US, the existing political parties are too far gone to be capable of reform. Indeed, in the former, the two main parties are virtually joined at the hip and even in the allegedly adversarial US Congress, most business goes through on the nod.(52)
The way to overcome the corruption of a system that has allowed us to arrive at this place is not through tinkering. It's through the fundamental moral reconstitution of society; through the rehabilitation of values like trust, openness, solidarity, responsibility and love. The ties that bind, rather than the sterility of technology, online living and separateness. Structures that grow from the ground up do so because they evolve from the challenges of life, not from an ideology. And there is a need to focus on the here and now, not on 'some day' scenarios, because we are fast approaching a place where there are no moral standards at all.
Start small and local and grow from there. It may be that many existing institutions are worthy of retention in a more accountable form. However, the judiciary and the education system are going to need some radical surgery, as they are two vital components that have been most damaging to cohesion and freedom. And it's difficult to see how the current media landscape can be retained, given the importance of information and the Fourth Estate's well-documented tendency to lie through its teeth on demand.
However, fundamental change is rarely undertaken in any circumstance other than a crisis – there usually isn't the appetite for fixing something that doesn't seem to be broken. It can, of course, be achieved over the long term by taking baby steps, which is how our journey from citizen to subject has been managed (for the most part), but when a big change has been required, a crisis has still proved to a necessary precursor, whether providential or by design – the series of manufactured financial shocks that led to the creation of the Federal Reserve, the Great Depression that was used to mainstream the progressive agenda, the Nixon Shock that removed the last semblance of control on government hubris and many others besides.
As we know to our cost, the 'pandemic' and the climate change scam are the modern iterations of the manufactured crisis. However, the huge changes that we need to make won't be dependent on a fake crisis, but are likely to be precipitated by a real one. Quite what that looks like is unknown, but it may be that it comes in the aftermath of the collapse of the ruling class' mass formation. It may be that the vacuum that is created prompts a reaction, but I suspect that the resistance is currently too dispersed to take advantage. It may be that we are in for another round of gaslighting, but it does feel late in the day. It feels that things are moving fast and it may be that we cannot afford to allow another attempt at extreme collectivism. We cannot continually treat symptoms, rather than causes. We won't be able to keep up, as we are finding to our cost.
I think we need to be ready to fight back when we recognize the opportunity and, whenever that is, we need to go for broke. The enemy will and does. I suspect the next twelve to fourteen months (leading up to the 2024 US election) will be momentous, though – another 'pandemic', attempted lock-down or egregiously bent election might do it. In the meantime, we need to keep telling it like it is even if, in order to do so, we have to be outside the tent, pissing in:
“The best of thought these days come from thinkers who are unafraid to tell the truth. But that penchant also makes them outcasts in academia and mainstream media. Have you noticed how many of the true prophets of our time are emeritus professors, retired reporters, ex-officials, escaped executives, or Substackers? This is for a reason. They are excluded by official culture. But that also allows them to speak their minds.”(53)
Speak out and build alliances. Doing nothing is not an option.
Citations
(1) https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/modernity-and-its-discontents/
(2) https://brownstone.org/articles/government-by-the-people-is-it-possible/
(3)https://thefederalist.com/2022/10/20/we-need-to-stop-calling-ourselves-conservatives/
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(5) https://dailysceptic.org/2020/10/08/interview-with-a-registered-nurse/?highlight=hospital
(6) https://jonathanhaidt.com/anxious-generation/
(7) https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/05/social-media-democracy-trust-babel/629369/
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(13) Václav Havel, The Power Of The Powerless, pg 46.
(14) Joost Meerloo, The Rape Of The Mind, pg 246.
(15) Ditto, pg 83.
(16) Ditto, pg 244.
(18) https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/list-of-every-known-fema-camp-and-their-locations-find-yours/
(20) https://winepressnews.com/2021/01/26/quarantine-camps-appearing-all-over-the-world/
(22) Ditto
(23) https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12479157/mom-trans-teen-sage-blair-sues-school.html
(24) Ditto
(28) https://expose-news.com/2023/09/10/the-risk-associated-with-smart-meters-worldwide-testimonies/
(34) https://energyandcleanair.org/publication/china-permits-two-new-coal-power-plants-per-week-in-2022/
(35) https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/09/donald_trump_vs_the_fourteenth_amendment.html
(36) https://brownstone.org/articles/you-should-be-very-worried-about-the-digital-services-act/
(37) https://dailysceptic.org/2023/08/26/the-eus-censorship-regime-is-about-to-go-global/
(38) https://brownstone.org/articles/you-should-be-very-worried-about-the-digital-services-act/
(39) https://expose-news.com/2023/09/12/uk-online-safety-bill-is-in-its-final-stages/
(40) https://proton.me/reports/privacy-uk2023
(41) https://dailysceptic.org/2023/06/29/irelands-draconian-anti-free-speech-law/?highlight=ireland
(42) Ditto
(43) https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/authoritarianism-keeps-surging-western-free-democracies
(44) https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/09/12/appeals-court-sees-bidens-big-tech-charade/
(47) http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html
(49) https://eachother.org.uk/covid-19-brexit-secondary-legislation/
(50) https://dailysceptic.org/2022/11/27/62-want-a-net-zero-referendum-poll-finds/?highlight=poll
(51) https://dailysceptic.org/2023/08/09/do-britons-support-net-zero/?highlight=poll
(53) https://brownstone.org/articles/doing-nothing-is-not-an-option/