I’ve been sitting on an Alistair Crooke article for a few days. The basic idea of the article, which is somewhat sprawling, is that the dynamics of the current world’s structures are shifting, due to economic and cultural shifts. I’ll try to give the gist of the article with some judicious excerpts:
We are so lucky that our 'elite' haven't a clue as to what is going on in the real world. They will continue to make blunders in ways that will be costly to us, but not being able to even imagine what we are thinking, and maybe even assuming we are incapable of thought, they cannot control us. Better for us they should think they do. Meanwhile as reality puts strict limits on what they can accomplish, we who live in reality will cope as situations arise. Rousseau's 'Confessions' are an amazing revelation of a truly depraved individual. He was helped by many, and never failed to bite the hand of whoever fed him. He touts the 'noble savage' and placed his own children in an orphanage. Noble savage, indeed!
Good summary of the malevolent effect Rousseau has had on our society and values. I've often noticed how so many leftist initiatives that are supposed to bring liberty to the individual often end up giving more power to the state. True about globalism and globalisation too. Not only is most of the world against this now but many in the West are waking up. I heard a rather terrifying interview with Whitney Webb yesterday (with Glenn Beck), and she reiterated that the best way to beat the Davos crowd is through local action: building up the kinds of traditional values mentioned above at the ground level in order to blunt the top down excesses of the globalists. Of course, the most interesting question of all is what the Empire will do when it realises that it has lost the mandate of heaven. The first test of this will be the neocons' reaction to the fast approaching denouement in Ukraine.
You could say that the modern mentality, deriving from the likes of Rousseau (but also many other more 'respectable' and seemingly less revolutionary figures of that era), amounts to secularizing society by eliminating the authority of religion and substituting the authority of the State. It was inevitable that, as belief in Man was substituted for belief in a divinely ordered creation, the shift would not be to individualism--that's the pipe dream of Libertarianism and can never happen--but to a new authoritative institution made by Man and answerable only to Man. Hobbes understood that and embraced it. Many other essentially totalitarian ideologies, including our current forms right here in the West, also understand and embrace that, while gaslighting the public. In a society of man made morals we are all at risk with no avenue of appeal.
Agreed. "Man-made morals" is an oxymoron. We seem to need a higher arbiter when it comes to what it means to be a good human being. It doesn't help either that most people have no critical thinking skills and fall very easily for the lies of individuals and movements who want to usurp God's power. Our future depends on how many people are left who can see modern mentality for what it is - the road to destruction.
Yep, a very, very perceptive (and I think accurate) view. For a very well qualified take on just the economic/financial/investment subset of this, I recommend the following:
I remain baffled by the “fantasy world” in which the elites continue to dwell.
Everyone else in the world seems to understand that just “thinking” it so doesn’t “make” it so and yet these people persist in their irrational and one could even say childish view of the world and how it actually works. Reality is coming for them with a vengeance and, as is always the case with these idiots and their enablers, it will be totally “unexpected”.
The Davos Set can’t see below the clouds to note their “elitism” relies on the scaffolds that simple individual, good faith, bargaining creates the complete complexity such they can stand upon all others heads.
We are so lucky that our 'elite' haven't a clue as to what is going on in the real world. They will continue to make blunders in ways that will be costly to us, but not being able to even imagine what we are thinking, and maybe even assuming we are incapable of thought, they cannot control us. Better for us they should think they do. Meanwhile as reality puts strict limits on what they can accomplish, we who live in reality will cope as situations arise. Rousseau's 'Confessions' are an amazing revelation of a truly depraved individual. He was helped by many, and never failed to bite the hand of whoever fed him. He touts the 'noble savage' and placed his own children in an orphanage. Noble savage, indeed!
Yep. Rousseau was a typical leftist: spouting nice stuff in public, but acting like a beast in private.
Wow. Very powerful.
Changing the system dynamics / discussion.
On Twitter at Robert Barnes and Catturd I saw a couple of sudden collapse videos.
https://twitter.com/catturd2/status/1612426173375463424?cxt=HHwWgICyqfnDvuAsAAAA
https://twitter.com/catturd2/status/1612426173375463424?cxt=HHwWgICyqfnDvuAsAAAA
https://twitter.com/amuse/status/1612397001051602946?cxt=HHwWhICwyfKhseAsAAAA
And catturd pointed out the 8 is enough star 3 times jabbed, super pro Vax , died.
https://twitter.com/AdamBaldwin/status/1612127366503108608?cxt=HHwWgMDU0YzTtt8sAAAA
And emerald Robinson is back.
And project Veritas has a video on heart issues from a pizser scientist.
Don Surber just moved from blogger to substack, following in Marks footsteps.
And Dr. Malone on substack is linking to rumble videos, due to the issue of youtube censorship.
And musk is going to expand videos on Twitter, in competition to YouTube.
Good summary of the malevolent effect Rousseau has had on our society and values. I've often noticed how so many leftist initiatives that are supposed to bring liberty to the individual often end up giving more power to the state. True about globalism and globalisation too. Not only is most of the world against this now but many in the West are waking up. I heard a rather terrifying interview with Whitney Webb yesterday (with Glenn Beck), and she reiterated that the best way to beat the Davos crowd is through local action: building up the kinds of traditional values mentioned above at the ground level in order to blunt the top down excesses of the globalists. Of course, the most interesting question of all is what the Empire will do when it realises that it has lost the mandate of heaven. The first test of this will be the neocons' reaction to the fast approaching denouement in Ukraine.
You could say that the modern mentality, deriving from the likes of Rousseau (but also many other more 'respectable' and seemingly less revolutionary figures of that era), amounts to secularizing society by eliminating the authority of religion and substituting the authority of the State. It was inevitable that, as belief in Man was substituted for belief in a divinely ordered creation, the shift would not be to individualism--that's the pipe dream of Libertarianism and can never happen--but to a new authoritative institution made by Man and answerable only to Man. Hobbes understood that and embraced it. Many other essentially totalitarian ideologies, including our current forms right here in the West, also understand and embrace that, while gaslighting the public. In a society of man made morals we are all at risk with no avenue of appeal.
https://www.amazon.com/Man-made-morals-philosophies-shaped-America/dp/B0006BO2DY/ref=sr_1_1
Agreed. "Man-made morals" is an oxymoron. We seem to need a higher arbiter when it comes to what it means to be a good human being. It doesn't help either that most people have no critical thinking skills and fall very easily for the lies of individuals and movements who want to usurp God's power. Our future depends on how many people are left who can see modern mentality for what it is - the road to destruction.
Yep, a very, very perceptive (and I think accurate) view. For a very well qualified take on just the economic/financial/investment subset of this, I recommend the following:
https://www.oaktreecapital.com/insights/memo/sea-change
I remain baffled by the “fantasy world” in which the elites continue to dwell.
Everyone else in the world seems to understand that just “thinking” it so doesn’t “make” it so and yet these people persist in their irrational and one could even say childish view of the world and how it actually works. Reality is coming for them with a vengeance and, as is always the case with these idiots and their enablers, it will be totally “unexpected”.
These people never mix with the hoi polloi or ever leave their ivory towers.
Hubris personified. But many mistook that for conservatism triumphant.
The Davos Set can’t see below the clouds to note their “elitism” relies on the scaffolds that simple individual, good faith, bargaining creates the complete complexity such they can stand upon all others heads.
Much needed optimism!