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I can reasonable call myself a liberal - but a PALEO liberal now since the definition is constantly changing.
This is my objection to the concept of "left" and "right". It means different things to different people.
In the digital world, all our exposure to reality is migrating into the pseudo-reality of the smartphone world instead of the real world. Nawaz obviously gets this. In the smartphone world, humans outsource any number of brain processes, from scheduling to road navigation to morality itself to our phones. Nawaz seems to get most of that too.
In the currency of clicks, all media gets paid by its traffic, which means anything they can do to incite panic and fear becomes “true.” I’m not sure Nawaz fully understands the true depth of this problem. He thinks, probably correctly, that the CIA or MI5 or other government institutions are using the postmodernity of online life to propagate false pictures of the world. He doesn’t seem to get that this happens with or without a central coordinated effort by existing power. If our governments wanted us to see a true thing, but the true thing wouldn’t get clicks, then our smartphones wouldn’t tell us the true thing. They would tell us the clickbait thing, and we would spread the clickbait thing around the government’s intervention. The media business model to drive traffic is more powerful in this smartphone space than governments are, or intelligence agencies, or any centralized cabal. Error one.
Bureaucracy is the actual government, not the elected officials, and the officials have almost no control over what the government does. Nawaz clearly gets this, from his experience trying to steer the USA’s behavior towards something positive during the war on terror. But then he immediately forgets it when he alludes to the WEF installing its indoctrinates into cabinets and positions of political power. These are installed in what Moldbug calls “the show,” not the true seat of power. The true seat of government power are the low and mid-level clock punchers that Nawaz could never turn in his time as an anti-war activist. In order to get all these low and mid-level clock punchers to all adopt the same behaviors, you wouldn’t need a centralized conspiracy to which they all proscribe, you would need a vast, pseudoreligious indoctrination program wherein their beliefs are code checked daily against their peers. That in fact is probably why Nawaz’s anti-war efforts failed. Error two.
In Nawaz’s formulation, a conspiratorial cabal influences government, the government influences both policy and the media, and then policy and the media influences individual behavior (such as masks). This is wrong, because the low and mid-level clock punchers are not beholden to the cabal. They are beholden to their smartphones. And their smartphones are beholden to the media, which in turn are beholden to the pay per click traffic incentive, which is derived by feeding an echo chamber what it wants to hear. The groupthink entity at the bottom of the echo chamber is the actual power. The egregore.
Put simply, it’s not the government manipulating the media, it’s the media manipulating the government, and the egregores manipulate the media because they are the tail that wags the dog. The bureaucracy controls the policy, the elected officials go along so as not to anger the egregore, and the control of individual behavior (such as masks) flows from that. Let’s visualize this.
... I’ve been maintaining a running score card of the machinations of the Covid Egregore for years on Twitter, and this is the current snapshot on February 23rd, 2022:
... I was pointed by a reader to a piece by Paul Kingsnorth, “The Vaccine Moment,” where he makes a very similar case to Nawaz. He gets closer to the truth than Nawaz with this passage:
"But though Schwab and the WEF’s power and influence should not be underplayed, he is not pulling the strings. There are no strings: there is only the Machine, and its direction of travel is long-set."
The archetyping of societies as machines is not new nor original, and the reduction of the concept of “the egregore” to just “society” strips it of its analytical value. An egregore is a new thing. It’s a set of behavioral indoctrination principles stored not in a book, but on the feed, which can change year by year or day by day to adapt to different environments, its chief goal being to propagate itself into as much of the available human brain space as possible. It’s not just a religion, it’s a religion with service packs pushed out on Twitter daily. It’s a religion that behaves as if it thinks. ...
Does the Pope control Christianity? No. Christianity controls the Pope. But Christianity changes very slowly and is not beholden to a daily freakoutery click count to maintain its revenue. The groupthink entities comprised by social network echo chambers control the media they consume, which controls their version of the world, which then controls everyone’s behavior captured by them. Can I prove this? Yes. If this were true, each side of the Covid debate would think the other side is gaslit. ...
Each side thinks the other is gaslit.
This problem is deeper than Covid, and it’s not going away. It’s only going to get worse with each successive thing the media organism tries to freak out about. If not for Covid we may have had a nationwide schism over gun control in 2020 – it certainly looked that way in January in Richmond. We may still get that. We may get Nawaz’s prediction, that the coastal virtual elites are going to run a WEF social credit scheme against the rural reality proles and we get our war that way. It could be flat earthers vs round earthers, or a nationwide violent conflict over whether birds are or aren’t real. There’s no way to say what it will be. Because these egregores, in so much as they may be thinking, are thinking one level up from humans and the humans are enacting their will without resistance.
In the digital world, all our exposure to reality is migrating into the pseudo-reality of the smartphone world instead of the real world. Nawaz obviously gets this. In the smartphone world, humans outsource any number of brain processes, from scheduling to road navigation to morality itself to our phones. Nawaz seems to get most of that too.
Nawaz’s argument, in both the GB News clip and the longer JRE interview, is that new technologies disrupt traditional power hierarchies and that creates conflict as the former gatekeepers try desperately to hold onto power. The invention of the movable-type printing press, by Johannes Gutenberg, enabled the Bible to be printed in German and widely distributed for the first time. This disrupted the power of the State Church (which were one and the same thing) that had formerly claimed a direct line to God and cloaked their power in the Latin Mass that nobody but the high priests understood. The invention of the printing press was followed by war, revolution, and repression by the ruling class throughout much of Europe.
Nawaz argues that the invention of the internet and crypto have disrupted the State’s former monopolies on information and the ability to issue official currency. This has disrupted traditional power hierarchies and is at the root of the crises we face today as the state and the ruling class gatekeepers desperately try to hold onto the two sources of their power — the ability to control the narrative and the issuance of money.
But I want to go one step further with this analysis. What the internet did, over the last twenty years, is allow people to figure out that most of allopathic medicine is snake oil and the vaccine program is, in fact, slow genocide. And what we’ve seen in the Covid crisis is that most bourgeois institutions — the mainstream media, academia, government, the scientific and medical establishment — are mafias within mafias. These people are not smart, they do not know how to solve problems, there is nothing meritocratic about them, their wealth and power stem from creating bottlenecks, monopolies, and cartels, not from wisdom nor innovation.
That’s both the bad news and the good news. The astonishing levels of state/corporate surveillance, censorship, and violence of the last two years are the death throes of a dying regime. But just imagine the human flourishing that will occur once we finally get through this phase and end up on the other side knowing what we know now about the inadequacies of bourgeois institutions and the sanctity of personal sovereignty? I just feel like the scales have fallen from so many eyes and now we are seeing the world, for the first time, as it really is.
But I'm not sure smartphones are a good thing.
So what? Trump's daughter married a Jewish guy.
So what? Trump's daughter married a Jewish guy.
When a Jewish person is caught being a criminal, or a mass murderer, a general scumbag or whatever they scream "antisemitism" - and they are absolutely shameless about it. If you start to ask questions about why Jewish people in positions of power seem to only hire Jewish people in positions of power, they do the same thing. The truth is, there's a lot of Jewish criminals, and Jewish bigots.
90% of the whole Jew thing, I'd bet $20 on it, is Agency distraction. It serves to create the threat ("White Supremacy") that justifies the budget as well as the political control of media.
The very first thing "Khazarian Mafia" advocates need to explain is the communication and reward mechanism. Where are the emails? Or do they use Jew Telepathy? In all these decades of Jewish dominance, not one email leaked?
@Patrick @richwicks - do you really think the Internet is making people slaves more than we once were, or do you think it's liberating humanity?
I think it's doing both at the same time. It offers unprecedented ways to spy on people and to censor.
But on the other hand, it offers an unprecedented way for us to communicate directly with each other in spite of the censors.
The Biden regime has proposed “amendments” to the so-called WHO Pandemic Treaty—changes granting that supremely dirty global body dictatorial control over health policy in 194 countries. Should those “amendments” be approved at the WHO’s upcoming conclave next week (May 22-28), the WHO will have the quasi-legal power to declare pandemics, and then impose on all the world whatever “measures” they deem necessary to “keep us safe,” whether you like it or not, and, if you don’t (as you definitely won’t), there will be no way for you to vote them out.
antonio moniz, inventor of the lobotomy, won the nobel prize in medicine for this breakthrough in treating everything from mental health issues to nervous indigestion.
i mean, sure, there were a few side-effects, especially with the early versions where they drilled a hole in your skull and poured in alcohol to kill brain tissue, but omelets, eggs, you know how it goes!
this was cutting edge treatment for the day, widely performed, and lauded by doctors and medical boards alike.
trust the science and it will all be OK in the end, right?
right.
oddly, this once prolific practice has now fallen into disuse and disrepute.
and it’s possible that we may want to have another look at it as i honestly think it could wind up being a huge life saver if repurposed.
these antediluvian medicos were simply seeking to cure the incorrect disorders.
consider:
“anti-social megalo/monomaniacal narcissistic biofascism complex” has been pandemic for years and cures remain elusive. there is no approved treatment and it’s obviously highly contagious and life threatening to everyone around you. seems like a prime candidate for an EUA.
if only we had had it earlier
Jordan Schachtel @ dossier.substack.com
@JordanSchachtel
The Globalists: Here is the full roster of Davos 2022 attendees
I want to make sure you know who is attending the WEF's invite-only gathering.
USA group includes 25 ppl. Gina Raimondo & John Kerry are WH reps. They will be joined by 12 Dem+10 GOP pols.
take this list of people in 2019 and inoculate them against ASMMNBC with a little instrument up the old schnozz, one quick pinch in the frontal lobe (barely even a fauci ouchie) and imagine the suffering we could have saved the world!
billions of person years of misery alleviated. ...
honestly, it would be unethical NOT to run this trial.
the benefits speak for themselves, and the risks and side effects? well, i’m pretty sure the cost/benefit on a societal level is excellent and honestly, who even worries about that stuff these days anyhow? we probably would not even need an FDA panel.
zero ASMMNBC is clearly the way to go.
one really cannot argue.
What we’re seeing isn’t just a divergence in policy preferences between the political class and the rest of America. It’s a chasm of values. Members of the political class derive a substantial part of their meaning from elections and policy wins, comporting themselves year in and year out the way rabid sports fans only behave on game days. Ninety-seven percent of Americans, in contrast, choose something other than political party when asked to name the most important factor in describing who they are. While nearly all Americans point to their families, their religions, and their occupations as being most essential to who they are, our political class — the people bandying about accusations of un-Americanness — defines itself chiefly by partisan allegiance.
Reports published on Tuesday indicate that an agreed-to sale of Radio Mambí, a Spanish-language talk radio station in Miami, to a George Soros-backed leftist group has prompted a potential mass exodus of its employees.
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Japanese MPs tell the truth behind the pandemic
Japanese MPs pointed out that what is happening now is an information warfare. And international capital manipulates technology giant companies to block the truth. The Japanese government works hand in glove with the the medical association to fabricate the covid-19 pandemic and create panic. They use administration power to make vaccines compulsory. The separation of powers in a democracy, the independence of the executive and the independence of the judiciary, have completely failed, and the law only served the authoritarian power. In order to avoid more victims, people should stand up and fight, and believe that through everyone’s efforts, the current dark situation can be changed.
this whole gang all over the world that ran on “being the adults in charge” appear to need some serious babysitting because they are not serious people.
they are serious problems.
from the netherlands to norway to canada to the UK, people are reaching the breaking point with the concatenated calamity of carnival misrule by entitled technocrats and deluded demagogues.
even their own inner circles are starting to bail.
is this trend coming to america? probably.
richwicks says
@Patrick @richwicks - do you really think the Internet is making people slaves more than we once were, or do you think it's liberating humanity?
I believe the definitive answer will come if/when humans can be controlled/enslaved by those who control it.
Almost every anti-Jew canard applied first to the Jesuits, right down to "Expelled out of so many countries".
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WTF?
How can global policy and media across the world be so coordinated?
Kind of makes one tempted to believe in "conspiracy theories".
I really do think there is a cabal of billionaires who own the media and the government and which shifts course when things start to get hot, like right now. They are not "the Jews" but a collection of billionaires from many countries. Many of them are Jewish, but many are not.
Can we identify them by name? Bezos and Gates for sure, but what are the other names? I would especially like to know the names of the ones that desperately want to remain hidden. Klaus Schwab? Top leaders in China like Xi Jinping?
https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/files/gilens_and_page_2014_-testing_theories_of_american_politics.doc.pdf?source=patrick.net