Art, film and other creative endeavours have the uncanny knack of revealing how the long shadow of the past leaves its indelible dirty stain on the Great Reset.
Great piece! A former college teacher in Canada, I can confirm the atmosphere was toxic... Though driven by management, the group of teachers I encountered were sheepish, and not the group I had met when I attended in the early 90s (those folk were independent and adventurous).
This is a provocative avenue you have undertaken here... I have issues, but let me start with alignments. I concur in the highest degree with your general critique of 'unthinking' (which I personally would be reluctant to tie permanently to the Holocaust in its title, for fear of exacerbating the divisions we are already bedevilled with). Unthinking is, I fear, the condition that best describes the twenty first century.
However, I am by disposition reluctant to rush to conclusions on ambiguous evidence. Perhaps it is, as you certainly see it, that the WEF is overtly nefarious. Yet I cannot escape the impression that the members of this club are far too pompously foolish to constitute a gathering of Bond villains. Rather, I see the nexus of these problems originating among the upper echelons of the feudal capitalists who frequent Davos, especially since everything the WEF espouses aligns with their attendees commercial incentives and political shibboleths. How, indeed, could we possibly distinguish between these two scenarios...? WEF might appear to be a causal agent, yet simply be waving the flags handed to them by their members and allies.
Likewise, try as I might I cannot leap to the conclusion that the tragic excess deaths recorded in every nation that resorted to 'lockdown-until-vaccine' are caused by Malthusian conspiracy, as you and others assert. The vast number of people entailed in such a conspiracy would surely lead to some whistleblowing in that regard if this were the case, and while every unnecessary death is a tragedy the scale of these deaths is nowhere near large enough to be unambiguously considered a committed attempt at depopulation unless it was incompetently pursued - in which case another interpretation of these events is readily available.
Frankly, a combination of incompetence and abject politicisation seems to me more than adequate to explain the utter inability of the establishment to admit its absolute failure to 'save lives' - as was the professed motive for undertaking this disaster. Having taken this path with such premature certainty, it scarcely counts as surprising that nobody involved can admit that the measures pursued were calamitous. Isn't this, indeed, what we ought to expect under these circumstances...?
I will not seek to sway you from the understanding of events you have formed; you are entitled to put this all together however you wish, and never will I seek to sanction anyone with the painfully convenient label 'conspiracy theorist'. After all, we are entitled to theorise about conspiracies - and only those guilty of conspiring have a reason to persuade us otherwise! But I simply cannot draw such strong and divisive conclusions myself, not without stronger evidence, not while I can still explain it through the simple confluence of known forces: incompetence, commercial incentive, cognitive dissonance, metaphysical failure, ethical bankruptcy, and of course, the very unthinking that you draw attention to in this piece.
For me, what matters is not chosen interpretations but that any and all of us aware of these issues can determine some agreed common principles and thus rescue some notion of free speech and democracy before it is too late (the purpose of Stranger Worlds, of course). And in this regard, I worry whenever anyone in the resistance mounts this as a struggle of 'good versus evil', not because evil has not manifested through these events but for the pragmatic reason that there might be no path back to democracy on these assumptions. Both Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Ghandi understood that their struggle had to end with the resistance becoming equal citizens alongside their neighbours. We cannot afford to lose sight of this.
A reply to these remarks of mine is strictly unnecessary. Our respective positions are, after all, clear, and my respect for you is undiminished by our differences of judgement. Please therefore feel free to continue work on this series rather than frittering away any of your time responding to my earnest concerns. It would be enough for me to know that you had read and considered them.
I do appreciate your detailed engagement - every time! And, that you offer critical engagement at that. The essay was intended as a wider explanation for why I feel compelled to return to an earlier research avenue sooner than I'd intended. I've done a lot of work on the Shoah and it concerns me greatly. When you enter into that dark world, you see patterns of thought and behaviour. I'm also mindful of the idea of truth as unconcealment rather than correspondence. So this is not about information or facts but meaning. (Arendt) My earlier essay on Rosemary's Baby (https://thesidewaysthinker.substack.com/p/rosemarys-baby-this-is-really-happening) touched on how evil is portrayed, but also reveals, or unconceals itself (as the evil is invariably concealed and hidden) to us. Thus, there is no claim that the nefarious powers that be copied what was in the film, or that the film foreshadows our present, but that we can see the world un-concealed if you like in humanity's creative endeavours. I wrote the thesis on The Wicker Man, which was a complex examination, and a serious one, as what is revealed when looking through an alternative lens. My supervisor (a highly critical scholar) confessed to being surprised at the amount of evidence I had been able to produce. And he used the word evidence which was interesting in that context. Both the screenwriter and director I found made related or similar allusions, that was one tiny aspect of the 'evidence' I suppose. I suspect your critique is aimed at my rather negative piecing together of events and pointing to theories about depopulation and so on. For me it is the whole package. Nobody in power is acting the way you would expect if this was all an 'accident' or chance happening. Because it is becoming very clear that it is not. Evidence for the planning for what is happening keeps coming out. When you link the events to the climate agenda and ferocious attempts at censorship (look at recent EU legislation which will extend globally) all over the world they are attacking animals, farming, food supplies etc. Not in the 'news!' This cannot be just about Gates wanting to make money by selling us insects or lab grown (cancerous) meat. His family were known eugenicists and the overall direction of travel seems to be so death oriented in the west right now. I try as much as possible to stick to reliable sources. If we are forced into digital IDs and currencies, and threatened with forced medication, the goal of depopulation (which has been an open secret for a long time - and its assumptions are frighteningly shared despite texts like Superabundance (pictured in my essay)) could be achieved very quickly. We are not reproducing ourselves already, and death rates are affecting all ages. As the slogan goes, every little helps. Why would Superabundance not be celebrated by the mainstream? It is a terrific endorsement of human beings and our potential. It goes against an agreed narrative that every western government is slavishly following. I've read Nazi Doctors, there are frightening parallels. How medics can keep quiet when they know what is happening (they must do). I also need to add that I have some personal experience of WEF connected persons. I have gleaned something about the plan they have. I also watched (most of) this this morning - the discussion at the end of the presentation is enlightening https://youtu.be/acBcLPlsqyA?si=ZYD9M2Bnqk8WtCit
Ultimately (and this is an unplanned reply to your comment) I see the formerly free world sliding into something very bad and the patterns are at least rhyming if not repeating. I agree with Naomi Wolf's analysis about how they want to change the way we live forever. I am depressed about the prospect of more injections and compliance requirements possibly linked to digital ID and CBDCs credit scores/limitations on movement in the name of 'climate' and how with each round of injections they can get away with a possible cull. MSM just not covering this, so obviously, no outcry. If you read about population decline, it can happen very quickly and is devastating. I gather in Britain we are at 2500 excess deaths per week (that might have changed since I last saw the figures) but that is easily hidden and as it is not just the elderly, it affects future birthrates and so on. I really do not want any of this to be true, believe me, but the bad actors are gearing up for another round as you must have seen. Call it a warning from history. Till next time!!
Thank you for your further remarks. It might be worth my noting that the political projects that have been put in action have these disastrous consequences regardless of whether those consequences were the purpose of the exercise. For instance, sci-dolatry about 'vaccination magic' plays an important role, as does the insane idea that technology will save us from the environmental problems caused by technology. It is not that there is not insanity afoot. It is that, in a human, all too human, way, those responsible see what they are doing as righteous. It is a pattern we have alas seen before.
Great piece! A former college teacher in Canada, I can confirm the atmosphere was toxic... Though driven by management, the group of teachers I encountered were sheepish, and not the group I had met when I attended in the early 90s (those folk were independent and adventurous).
This is a provocative avenue you have undertaken here... I have issues, but let me start with alignments. I concur in the highest degree with your general critique of 'unthinking' (which I personally would be reluctant to tie permanently to the Holocaust in its title, for fear of exacerbating the divisions we are already bedevilled with). Unthinking is, I fear, the condition that best describes the twenty first century.
However, I am by disposition reluctant to rush to conclusions on ambiguous evidence. Perhaps it is, as you certainly see it, that the WEF is overtly nefarious. Yet I cannot escape the impression that the members of this club are far too pompously foolish to constitute a gathering of Bond villains. Rather, I see the nexus of these problems originating among the upper echelons of the feudal capitalists who frequent Davos, especially since everything the WEF espouses aligns with their attendees commercial incentives and political shibboleths. How, indeed, could we possibly distinguish between these two scenarios...? WEF might appear to be a causal agent, yet simply be waving the flags handed to them by their members and allies.
Likewise, try as I might I cannot leap to the conclusion that the tragic excess deaths recorded in every nation that resorted to 'lockdown-until-vaccine' are caused by Malthusian conspiracy, as you and others assert. The vast number of people entailed in such a conspiracy would surely lead to some whistleblowing in that regard if this were the case, and while every unnecessary death is a tragedy the scale of these deaths is nowhere near large enough to be unambiguously considered a committed attempt at depopulation unless it was incompetently pursued - in which case another interpretation of these events is readily available.
Frankly, a combination of incompetence and abject politicisation seems to me more than adequate to explain the utter inability of the establishment to admit its absolute failure to 'save lives' - as was the professed motive for undertaking this disaster. Having taken this path with such premature certainty, it scarcely counts as surprising that nobody involved can admit that the measures pursued were calamitous. Isn't this, indeed, what we ought to expect under these circumstances...?
I will not seek to sway you from the understanding of events you have formed; you are entitled to put this all together however you wish, and never will I seek to sanction anyone with the painfully convenient label 'conspiracy theorist'. After all, we are entitled to theorise about conspiracies - and only those guilty of conspiring have a reason to persuade us otherwise! But I simply cannot draw such strong and divisive conclusions myself, not without stronger evidence, not while I can still explain it through the simple confluence of known forces: incompetence, commercial incentive, cognitive dissonance, metaphysical failure, ethical bankruptcy, and of course, the very unthinking that you draw attention to in this piece.
For me, what matters is not chosen interpretations but that any and all of us aware of these issues can determine some agreed common principles and thus rescue some notion of free speech and democracy before it is too late (the purpose of Stranger Worlds, of course). And in this regard, I worry whenever anyone in the resistance mounts this as a struggle of 'good versus evil', not because evil has not manifested through these events but for the pragmatic reason that there might be no path back to democracy on these assumptions. Both Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Ghandi understood that their struggle had to end with the resistance becoming equal citizens alongside their neighbours. We cannot afford to lose sight of this.
A reply to these remarks of mine is strictly unnecessary. Our respective positions are, after all, clear, and my respect for you is undiminished by our differences of judgement. Please therefore feel free to continue work on this series rather than frittering away any of your time responding to my earnest concerns. It would be enough for me to know that you had read and considered them.
With unlimited love,
Chris.
I do appreciate your detailed engagement - every time! And, that you offer critical engagement at that. The essay was intended as a wider explanation for why I feel compelled to return to an earlier research avenue sooner than I'd intended. I've done a lot of work on the Shoah and it concerns me greatly. When you enter into that dark world, you see patterns of thought and behaviour. I'm also mindful of the idea of truth as unconcealment rather than correspondence. So this is not about information or facts but meaning. (Arendt) My earlier essay on Rosemary's Baby (https://thesidewaysthinker.substack.com/p/rosemarys-baby-this-is-really-happening) touched on how evil is portrayed, but also reveals, or unconceals itself (as the evil is invariably concealed and hidden) to us. Thus, there is no claim that the nefarious powers that be copied what was in the film, or that the film foreshadows our present, but that we can see the world un-concealed if you like in humanity's creative endeavours. I wrote the thesis on The Wicker Man, which was a complex examination, and a serious one, as what is revealed when looking through an alternative lens. My supervisor (a highly critical scholar) confessed to being surprised at the amount of evidence I had been able to produce. And he used the word evidence which was interesting in that context. Both the screenwriter and director I found made related or similar allusions, that was one tiny aspect of the 'evidence' I suppose. I suspect your critique is aimed at my rather negative piecing together of events and pointing to theories about depopulation and so on. For me it is the whole package. Nobody in power is acting the way you would expect if this was all an 'accident' or chance happening. Because it is becoming very clear that it is not. Evidence for the planning for what is happening keeps coming out. When you link the events to the climate agenda and ferocious attempts at censorship (look at recent EU legislation which will extend globally) all over the world they are attacking animals, farming, food supplies etc. Not in the 'news!' This cannot be just about Gates wanting to make money by selling us insects or lab grown (cancerous) meat. His family were known eugenicists and the overall direction of travel seems to be so death oriented in the west right now. I try as much as possible to stick to reliable sources. If we are forced into digital IDs and currencies, and threatened with forced medication, the goal of depopulation (which has been an open secret for a long time - and its assumptions are frighteningly shared despite texts like Superabundance (pictured in my essay)) could be achieved very quickly. We are not reproducing ourselves already, and death rates are affecting all ages. As the slogan goes, every little helps. Why would Superabundance not be celebrated by the mainstream? It is a terrific endorsement of human beings and our potential. It goes against an agreed narrative that every western government is slavishly following. I've read Nazi Doctors, there are frightening parallels. How medics can keep quiet when they know what is happening (they must do). I also need to add that I have some personal experience of WEF connected persons. I have gleaned something about the plan they have. I also watched (most of) this this morning - the discussion at the end of the presentation is enlightening https://youtu.be/acBcLPlsqyA?si=ZYD9M2Bnqk8WtCit
Ultimately (and this is an unplanned reply to your comment) I see the formerly free world sliding into something very bad and the patterns are at least rhyming if not repeating. I agree with Naomi Wolf's analysis about how they want to change the way we live forever. I am depressed about the prospect of more injections and compliance requirements possibly linked to digital ID and CBDCs credit scores/limitations on movement in the name of 'climate' and how with each round of injections they can get away with a possible cull. MSM just not covering this, so obviously, no outcry. If you read about population decline, it can happen very quickly and is devastating. I gather in Britain we are at 2500 excess deaths per week (that might have changed since I last saw the figures) but that is easily hidden and as it is not just the elderly, it affects future birthrates and so on. I really do not want any of this to be true, believe me, but the bad actors are gearing up for another round as you must have seen. Call it a warning from history. Till next time!!
Thank you for your further remarks. It might be worth my noting that the political projects that have been put in action have these disastrous consequences regardless of whether those consequences were the purpose of the exercise. For instance, sci-dolatry about 'vaccination magic' plays an important role, as does the insane idea that technology will save us from the environmental problems caused by technology. It is not that there is not insanity afoot. It is that, in a human, all too human, way, those responsible see what they are doing as righteous. It is a pattern we have alas seen before.