I have come to the conclusion that everything and everyone I used to trust and/or admire is fake. I grew up believing the BBC was unbiased and reported things honestly. I thought David Attenborough was a lovely man who showed us nature in an honest fashion. I trusted the NHS to not kill us with carelessness. I trusted teachers to teach unbiased truth and to inspire us to investigate and think for ourselves. And I trusted the government to always be governing for the UK's best interests. Over the years, even before Covid, I began to realise I had been a naive fool in many respects. The moving goal posts of Global Warming/Freezing/Acid Rain/CO2. The nonsense of closing coal mines and then power stations and pretending solar panels in a northern country would suffice. The Brexit Fiasco where the people voted to leave and the elite ignored them. The migrants, both legal and illegal, that nobody asked for but arrived anyway. The pandering to Islam and the fading away of Christianity. The obesity and medicalisation of normal life. And then came Covid and the orchestrated hysteria and the sheer stupidity. And the poisonous solution to the fabricated crisis. And the deaths that are explained away as perfectly normal. Then the arrival of Transgenderism and the attempt to obliterate Women. The Mental Health Crisis. Ukraine. Palestine. It goes on and on. 30 years ago I wouldn't have joined any dots but once you see them, you can't unsee them!
Thank you for this. Yes, I wonder if any of the powers that be ever considered that people are able to join the dots. I think Brexit came as a huge shock as they thought they had the propagnda machine working nicely. If we had but known it, Brexit was a strike against the globalist project, although naively we still believed that there was a semblance of democracy at work. This has been shattered. The first election of Trump was a further shock to the globalist project. I have considered the awful thought that what we have been put through over the past five+ years has been set in motion as a result of those two events. (All of the things you list read like the devil's bingo card - all leading to destruction and death).
I read somewhere that there's a logical theory that if we'd voted to remain in the EU and if the Americans had voted for Hillary Clinton, the covid pandemic wouldn't have happened - they wouldn't have needed it! Makes perfect sense doesn't it - the various gravy trains would have rolled along, the plebs would have kept paying their taxes. The only hitch is my husband's theory that the pandemic was needed to avert attention from the imminent collapse of the financial system (the quantative easing during covid gave the banks lots of free cash so averted, for now, the financial crash which is still on its way).
It's funny, my thoughts (while not as strident) have wandered down similar gloomy paths recently, but I will not stop honouring those who serve honourably (that qualification is important to me).
Case in point, here's an extract from a comment I wrote yesterday in response to a post lamenting the rise of antisemitism on the left and the right:
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I dread to think this, but I cannot help but wonder if this kind of hatred isn't purposefully stirred up from time to time as an appalling distraction tactic. It was rather noticeable that there were some political alliances forming that straddled the old left-right divide on a few inconvenient political issues, and then suddenly we were back to rampant antisemitism like it was the 1890s all over again.
Maybe it's a coincidence. Coincidences happen every day. But I do not trust coincidences.
Regardless, as an old school lefty I abhor and denounce blanket hatreds, even and especially that intolerant tolerance that has so utterly corrupted what used to be the left.
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As for Paul, I too was enormously disappointed. He was just at the point of suggesting a path forward, and then almost overnight he became obsessed with who has the money (a complete dead end in my view). I ended up unsubscribing, it was too depressing. I think this happens a lot with the anarchists, I would not presume it was necessarily the result of 77th Brigade action, but neither would I rule it out.
Do check out this month's pieces on Stranger Worlds if you have time. I am tracing the broader problem and offering political solutions, all drawing against thoughts from 350BC to 1958. I think it will be of interest.
First piece is "Pickwickian Democracy", and serves as prologue:
Thank you Chris, always appreciate your remarks. You are discerning the same things as I am for sure. I really do think the powers that be were shocked that their propaganda machine did not quite work out the way they assumed it would. These are people that live for modellling the world rather than experiencing it. The digital world is not reality which is why they seem to want more of it for us. I think you are right with your words about hatred being deliberately stirred up. It was something that caused a fissure in the freedom movement for sure, and I sensed quite early on that this is what would happen, and despite warning people, many fell for it. Sad to see many who regarded themselves as critical thinkers falling at the first serious hurdle they encountered after dodging the mRNA bullet! (I remain astonished at Sam Bailey who keeps banging a very dubious drum indeed. It took me minutes to realise that Cudenec's writing was sixth form common room referencing of the absolute worst kind, so this does not reflect well on her at all and only discredits the freedom movement ultimately).
"The digital world is not reality which is why they seem to want more of it for us"
One of the avenues of resistance is to reject the digital, but another is to (if I may evoke an awkward reference) 'seize control of the means of communication'... I don't think the 'nobles' can control the online discourse, no matter how much money they have, and their blatant attempts to do so only serve to reduce their political power in the long term.
I have come to the conclusion that everything and everyone I used to trust and/or admire is fake. I grew up believing the BBC was unbiased and reported things honestly. I thought David Attenborough was a lovely man who showed us nature in an honest fashion. I trusted the NHS to not kill us with carelessness. I trusted teachers to teach unbiased truth and to inspire us to investigate and think for ourselves. And I trusted the government to always be governing for the UK's best interests. Over the years, even before Covid, I began to realise I had been a naive fool in many respects. The moving goal posts of Global Warming/Freezing/Acid Rain/CO2. The nonsense of closing coal mines and then power stations and pretending solar panels in a northern country would suffice. The Brexit Fiasco where the people voted to leave and the elite ignored them. The migrants, both legal and illegal, that nobody asked for but arrived anyway. The pandering to Islam and the fading away of Christianity. The obesity and medicalisation of normal life. And then came Covid and the orchestrated hysteria and the sheer stupidity. And the poisonous solution to the fabricated crisis. And the deaths that are explained away as perfectly normal. Then the arrival of Transgenderism and the attempt to obliterate Women. The Mental Health Crisis. Ukraine. Palestine. It goes on and on. 30 years ago I wouldn't have joined any dots but once you see them, you can't unsee them!
Thank you for this. Yes, I wonder if any of the powers that be ever considered that people are able to join the dots. I think Brexit came as a huge shock as they thought they had the propagnda machine working nicely. If we had but known it, Brexit was a strike against the globalist project, although naively we still believed that there was a semblance of democracy at work. This has been shattered. The first election of Trump was a further shock to the globalist project. I have considered the awful thought that what we have been put through over the past five+ years has been set in motion as a result of those two events. (All of the things you list read like the devil's bingo card - all leading to destruction and death).
I read somewhere that there's a logical theory that if we'd voted to remain in the EU and if the Americans had voted for Hillary Clinton, the covid pandemic wouldn't have happened - they wouldn't have needed it! Makes perfect sense doesn't it - the various gravy trains would have rolled along, the plebs would have kept paying their taxes. The only hitch is my husband's theory that the pandemic was needed to avert attention from the imminent collapse of the financial system (the quantative easing during covid gave the banks lots of free cash so averted, for now, the financial crash which is still on its way).
Dear Caroline,
It's funny, my thoughts (while not as strident) have wandered down similar gloomy paths recently, but I will not stop honouring those who serve honourably (that qualification is important to me).
Case in point, here's an extract from a comment I wrote yesterday in response to a post lamenting the rise of antisemitism on the left and the right:
//
I dread to think this, but I cannot help but wonder if this kind of hatred isn't purposefully stirred up from time to time as an appalling distraction tactic. It was rather noticeable that there were some political alliances forming that straddled the old left-right divide on a few inconvenient political issues, and then suddenly we were back to rampant antisemitism like it was the 1890s all over again.
Maybe it's a coincidence. Coincidences happen every day. But I do not trust coincidences.
Regardless, as an old school lefty I abhor and denounce blanket hatreds, even and especially that intolerant tolerance that has so utterly corrupted what used to be the left.
//
As for Paul, I too was enormously disappointed. He was just at the point of suggesting a path forward, and then almost overnight he became obsessed with who has the money (a complete dead end in my view). I ended up unsubscribing, it was too depressing. I think this happens a lot with the anarchists, I would not presume it was necessarily the result of 77th Brigade action, but neither would I rule it out.
Do check out this month's pieces on Stranger Worlds if you have time. I am tracing the broader problem and offering political solutions, all drawing against thoughts from 350BC to 1958. I think it will be of interest.
First piece is "Pickwickian Democracy", and serves as prologue:
https://strangerworlds.substack.com/p/pickwickian-democracy
With unlimited love,
Chris.
Thank you Chris, always appreciate your remarks. You are discerning the same things as I am for sure. I really do think the powers that be were shocked that their propaganda machine did not quite work out the way they assumed it would. These are people that live for modellling the world rather than experiencing it. The digital world is not reality which is why they seem to want more of it for us. I think you are right with your words about hatred being deliberately stirred up. It was something that caused a fissure in the freedom movement for sure, and I sensed quite early on that this is what would happen, and despite warning people, many fell for it. Sad to see many who regarded themselves as critical thinkers falling at the first serious hurdle they encountered after dodging the mRNA bullet! (I remain astonished at Sam Bailey who keeps banging a very dubious drum indeed. It took me minutes to realise that Cudenec's writing was sixth form common room referencing of the absolute worst kind, so this does not reflect well on her at all and only discredits the freedom movement ultimately).
"The digital world is not reality which is why they seem to want more of it for us"
One of the avenues of resistance is to reject the digital, but another is to (if I may evoke an awkward reference) 'seize control of the means of communication'... I don't think the 'nobles' can control the online discourse, no matter how much money they have, and their blatant attempts to do so only serve to reduce their political power in the long term.
There are reasons to hope, albeit cautiously.
Stay wonderful!
Chris.
Well done, Caroline! Well done, indeed!
Many thanks for your kind remarks! (I wonder if you refer to the recording!)
Ahh, no ... I referred to your written piece. I must have missed the link to a recording...