by Francis Lee for The Saker Blog
‘‘A party of order or stability, and a party of progress and reform, are both the necessary elements of a healthy state of political life’’. Wise words – John Stuart Mill. But unfortunately not the reality in the present political dispensation. (1)
It is interesting to note that the current global political and social turbulence has been both cause and effect of deep social and political shifts in the body politic. In addition, these subterranean disturbances have also been accompanied by a strange melange of rank stupidity and quasi-religious fanaticism. The nouveau regime of monied interests consisting of the alliance of financial, political and corporate power is now mobilising to impose a radical new global order. These political/economic centres of power have also been given the imprimatur of legitimation by the controllers of the propaganda apparatus – the mass media and its priesthood.
However, there seems to be a general lack of understanding with regard to the nature of the perpetrators of this ongoing political project and its (reactionary) set of end-goals. This distinctive feature of the present crisis has not received much in the way of a characterisation as a political phenomenon and is in need of serious analysis. Strange to say that what appears to be a revolutionary movement, that is, a political upheaval from below with the object of overthrowing tyranny, is, in the present instance, a movement (coup-putsch) from above whose object is to establish it. It is this new order which is being foisted on society from above by those who have used their social and economic power and position to break apart the old order which was established during the Bretton Woods Conference (1944) and consolidated after WW2.
The Great Reset – as it is now called – is a de facto class-based counter-revolutionary movement which involves the political and economic apparatus and its overseers and is directed toward the expropriation of the masses and an imposition of naked class rule. However, what is notable is that many of the opponents of the above reactionary movement who tend to be conservative (small c) intellectuals seem disposed to conflate the Great Reset with the French, Russian, English, and American Revolutions – in short between revolutions and counter-revolutions. Granted, theirs is a well-argued position but it seems to miss the obvious political nature of elite rule by, and composed of, privileged class forces. The conservative analysis also tends to identify what we have been, where we are, and how we got here, but doesn’t seem to have a clear idea of where we might be going. There appears to be an almost religious impulse at the bottom of most conservative philosophy: to wit, man is a fallen angel, imperfect and always will be from being guilty of original sin. Even Sigmund Freud weighed in with this dual aspect to human nature, i.e., Eros and Thanatos (see Civilization and its Discontents).
The Conservative Ideology
Without wishing to seem cavalier I think that the conservative position can be briefly stated as follows: According to this outlook the French revolution, indeed all revolutions, lead to bloodshed, anarchy, and mayhem as well as the many other evils which were brought about by lifting the lid of a political Pandora’s Box. In one sense this certainly is the case. But then comes the great conservative non-sequitur: namely, that all revolutions must fail due to the imperfections of human nature. And apparently the world should stand still at contemplate their collective navels at this political juncture! But there is no reason to believe this will always be the case, and in addition that it is more of a political assertion than a matter of fact. Furthermore it doesn’t leave much room to engage in political change from those who have most to gain from it and who are, by hook or by crook, involuntarily disengaged from any genuine peaceful road to change by the existing swindle mechanisms which are managed and controlled by a decadent ruling elite.
Edmund Burke – 1729-1797 – The Conservative:
The archetype of conservative political philosophy in this respect was Edmund Burke. In his Reflections of the Revolution in France, Burke, the Irish Whig politician was to put forward the most widely read summation as to why revolutions fail. Published in 1790 the Reflections, Burke argued that the French Revolution would end disastrously because its abstract foundations, purportedly rational, ignored the complexities of human nature and society. Further, he focused on the practicality of solutions instead of the metaphysics, writing: “What is the use of discussing a man’s abstract right to food or to medicine? The question is upon the method of procuring and administering them. In this deliberation I shall always advise to call in the aid of the farmer and the physician, rather than the professor”. Following St. Augustine and Cicero, he believed in “human heart”-based government.’’
Nevertheless, and in somewhat way strange manner, he was contemptuous and afraid of the Enlightenment, inspired by the writings of such intellectuals as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Voltaire and Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, who disbelieved in divine moral order and original sin. Burke’s view was that society should be handled like a living organism and that people and society are limitlessly complicated, leading him to conflict with Thomas Hobbes‘ assertion that politics might be reducible to a deductive system akin to mathematics.
As a Whig, Burke advocated central roles for private property, tradition, and prejudice (i.e. adherence to values regardless of their rational basis) and to give citizens a stake in their nation’s social order. He argued for gradual, constitutional reform, not revolution (in every case, except the most qualified case), emphasizing that a political doctrine founded upon abstractions such as liberty and the rights of man could be easily abused to justify tyranny (sic) … and so on and so forth.
Other conservatives have argued in much the same vein. One such, whose name I have unfortunately forgotten – I think it might have been Thomas Carlyle – sums up the conservative philosophy in simple terms: ‘What is, is right.’ For the orthodox conservative, therefore, we must prostrate ourselves before the spirit of the ages, for therein lies true wisdom and good conscience. Hmmm?
Thomas Paine (1736-1809) – The Radical
Mr Paine came from a more radical political tradition. He argued that the current generation needs to be in control of their society, and not under the control and tutelage of a society formed by the past generation, most of which is dead. He argues,
“The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave, is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies. Man has no property in any man; neither has any generation a property in the generations which are to follow.” He attacks Burke’s motive, saying Burke never believed there would even be a revolution because the French lacked the spirit and the fortitude, “but now that there is one, he seeks an escape by condemning it … Every act and every generation must be free to act for itself, in all cases as did the ages and generations which preceded it.’’ (2)
He continues.
‘’Whether a man reflects on the condition which France was in from the nature of her government he will see other causes for revolt than those which immediately connect themselves with the person or character of Louis XVI. There were, if I may say so express it, a thousand despotisms to be reformed in France, which had grown up under the despotism of monarchy, and became so rooted as to be in great measure independent of it. Between the monarchy and the parliament, and the church, there was a rivalship of despotism, besides the feudal despotism operating locally, and the ministerial despotism operating everywhere. But Mr Burke, by considering the King as the only possible object of revolt, speaks as if France were a village, in which everything which passed must be known to its commanding officer, and no oppression could be acted but what he could immediately control. Mr Burke might have been in the Bastille his whole life, as well as under Louis XVI and Louis XIV and neither one nor the other had known that such a man as Mr Burke existed. The despotic principles of the government were the same in both reigns, though the dispositions of the men were as remote as tyranny and benevolence. (3)
Paine is arguing that these revolutions from below – taking The French Revolution as a prototype – had to be understood in the social and political context that gave rise to such an explosive rebellion. The masses do not make revolutions at the drop of a hat or as if they had nothing better to do. When the steam cooker blows its top it is because the valve had been screwed down too tight for too long. Such is the logic of all revolutions in recent years (other than the fake colour variety). The Iranian revolution of 1979 was, like it or not, another peoples’ revolutionary upsurge which fundamentally changed the existing order – i.e., the western controlled Shah and his SAVAK murderers – for good. And why shouldn’t the Iranian people throw off the yoke of imperialist rule – a despotic regime whose power was mediated through western imperialism’s local vassals?
The Royalist/Aristocratic class rule in France, summed up by the ‘Let them eat cake’ ancien regime, typified the disposition of the old order, and was overthrown in a peoples revolution, and the fact that Edmund Burke wasn’t too keen on it, it was nonetheless a genuine revolution from below; an expropriation of the power and position of the aristocratic ascendency.
In England in the 17th century a conflict arose between who should rule: Parliament or the King. A revolution and civil war between Parliament and Charles 1 began in 1642 which Charles lost as a result of the military victories of the Parliamentary New Model Army led jointly by Oliver Cromwell and Sir Thomas Fairfax at crucial battles – Marston Moor in 1644, and Naseby in 1645 – this was also a revolution. King Charles then lost his head – quite literally – in 1649, for Treason. The war raged on as a Scottish army was defeated at the battle of Dunbar and until 1651 with the final battle of Worcester – when the Royalists effectively threw in the towel – which was another (final) victory for the Parliamentary forces. In passing Thomas Fairfax’s descendants migrated to America and settled in Virginia, there is a suburb in Washington which bears their name – Fairfax.
It is also worth mentioning in this respect that a great number of millenarian, political, religious, and quasi-religious movements were quite common in this period. These were comprised of inter alia Baptists, early anarchist groups, the Levellers, Diggers, Ranters, Quakers. There was much radicalism in the land, and although a period of Reformation followed, Parliamentary sovereignty was eventually established and represented a massive step forward for democracy and ordinary folk.
One would have to ask the question of which of to-day’s conservatives among us whose side would they be on during these upheavals? Cromwell, Fairfax, Parliament and the New Model Army, or the King sitting on his throne, immovable, and granted godly rights to remain there forever by the deity?
Revolution and Consolidation
However, as was the normal historical pattern the usual explosive period of revolutionary fervour was followed by a partial reformation to the earlier status quo. But the push back was never as far back as from its original starting point. The great German social theorist, Max Weber (1864-1920) put it very succinctly when he noted that charismatic authority was over time replaced by legal-rational authority. Most of the gains of the revolution which had now lost its momentum were nonetheless embedded in the new social order. So Charles 1 was replaced by Cromwell who in turn was replaced by Charles 2 but the divine right of Kings was gone, and was ultimately replaced by Parliamentary democracy, Mao Tse Tung was replaced by Chou En Lai, Trotsky was replaced by Stalin. (4)and on and on.
Which brings us to the American revolution. This anti-imperialist Revolution was both an ideological and political event which occurred in colonial North America between 1765 and 1783. The American settlers, with help from England’s arch-enemy the French, whose fleet had bottled up the entrance to Chesapeake Bay.* In the Thirteen Colonies the American militias defeated the British in the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), and by so doing gained independence from the British Crown and establishing the United States of America, the first modern constitutional liberal democracy. The Continental Congress declared King George III a tyrant who trampled the colonists’ rights as Englishmen, and they declared the colonies free and independent states on July 2, 1776. The Patriot leadership professed the political philosophies of liberalism and republicanism to reject monarchy and aristocracy, and they proclaimed that all men are created equal.
Unfortunately in contemporary America, the money-changers – who were the bête noir for FDR – have not only gained access to the temple but have actually taken it over, lock stock and barrel. Worse still the anti-imperialism of a prior era has given way to a dangerous, rampaging, rogue elephant of contemporary American imperialism. But this is not necessarily the end of the story. For good or ill the great wheel of history turns. The last 2 centuries have been tumultuous and uncoordinated affairs and unkind to any of those who wished to lead a quiet life. But like the man said.
‘’Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given, and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living. And just as they seem to be occupied with revolutionizing themselves and things, creating something that did not exist before, precisely in such epochs of revolutionary crisis they anxiously conjure up the spirits of the past to their service, borrowing from them names, battle slogans, and costumes in order to present this new scene in world history in time-honoured disguise and borrowed language.” (5)
Conservative disengagement
Men make history, history makes men, as Marx noted. But it would appear that present-day conservative thinkers apparently prefer to abstain from history making – a dirty, shoddy business – and retire into an aloof detachment, and taking Voltaire’s advice to cultivate their gardens. This is of course the position of all conservative elites and their paid-up servant polemicists. In the case of the British Empire such elites consisted of Cecil Rhodes, George Bernard Shaw, Arthur Balfour, Joseph Chamberlain, Lord Alfred Milner, Lord Nathaniel Rothschild et al, (see Mathew Ehret – works, in this respect.)
Their apologists were the tribe of conservative scribes past and present including Burke, Hobbes, Ortega Y Gasset, De Maistre, who basically made a living by the simple proclamation that ‘‘All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.’’ This as enunciated in Voltaire’s novel Candide. But such a view is now associated principally with the satire, and so is almost never used sincerely. However it is used to describe this kind of all to common complacent self-assurance that apparent injustice or other evil could not be avoided or was somehow necessary in the grand scheme of things. And that seems to be the essence of conservatism, ancient and modern.
Contemporary spokespersons include (deceased and current) inter alia Michael Oakshott, Peter Hitchens, Peter Lavelle, Roger Scruton, Robert Nozick, Ayn Rand (a particularly toxic specimen) and so forth, the list is extensive. These are often intelligent and literate people, but alas, they seem to spend most of their time agonising about the state of the world and then advocate doing nothing about it. But this is wholly consistent with the entire conservative philosophy. It seems to be an almost monastic calling among conservative thinkers and intellectuals. But history won’t let them rest. The West’s decaying and decadent elites are determined to enforce their will on their respective societies by an all-encompassing and total putsch from above – the Great Reset no less. Yet the conservatives still contend that the world is in the process of being over-run by a revolution carried out by the sans-culottes and énrages of George Soros and his Open Society Foundation, The Atlantic Council the Council For Foreign Relations, The Silicon Valley giants, Google, Apple, Facebook, Visa, The Federal Reserve, The IMF/World Bank The Financial Times, The New York Times Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and Uncle Tom Cobley and All. I have even heard Soros described as a ‘Cultural Marxist’ (sic!) – words fail one! But this is the level of political illiteracy to which we have unfortunately descended. Revolutions are no easy option and,
“THESE are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated.’’ (6)
NOTES
(1) John Stuart Mill – On Liberty, Chapter 2 Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion.
(2) Thomas Paine – The Rights of Man.
(3) Paine – Ibid.
(4) Max Weber – Economy and Society – Ibid.
(5) Karl Marx -The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte.
*On this day in history, August 30, 1781, the French fleet arrives at the Chesapeake Bay to assist the Americans in their assault on British General Charles Cornwallis and his 9,000 troops at Yorktown, Virginia. The arrival of the fleet under Admiral Francois-Joseph Paul, the Comte de Grasse, played a decisive role in the British defeat at Yorktown.
(6) Thomas Paine – December 1776.
Moving forward positively … hopefully …
read … A Bill of Particulars for 2021 …
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2021/01/james-howard-kunstler/forecast-2021-chinese-fire-drills-with-a-side-of-french-fries-jacobin-style-and-russian-dressing/
Very valuable historical context for Western revolutions. The pressure cooker is an apt analogy. For much of its history, the United States has exported its domestic pressures to enslaved castes at home and around the world. Enfranchise the “citizen” by bribing him with the stolen bread/land/oil of a distant victim.
The neoliberal world order is a global pyramid scheme. Its top-down legitimacy is created only by bribes (from run-of-the-mill “deals” to IMF “loans” to $600 checks), and failing that, violent coercion. Like any pyramid scheme it is antithetical to sustainability; there can only be growth. When the scheme hits the inevitable limit of an exploitable population, it begins a rapid collapse, like a house of cards. Because participation in the scheme is predicated on the exploited eventually becoming the exploiter–work hard, then sit back and then ride your 401(k) through the “golden years”–the American Dream.
2020 was one of the final nails in the coffin for the American Dream. For Americans, 2020 confirmed that 2008 was not merely a hiccup. 2021 will add another nail with the inevitable face-plant of the Biden adminstration; that is, proof that 2016 and Trump was no fluke either–the last straw for Blue America.
Of course, the global anti-American revolution is already in full swing. There will be no regression to neoliberalism in Hong Kong, Venezuela, Bolivia, Belarus, Iran, Iraq, and so on and so forth.
I see that you make considerable note of the apologist for the British merchant-baker ruling class, Edmund Burke. One of his famous dicta was, “The laws of commerce are the laws of Nature, and therefore the laws of God”. Regarding America, he argued, “Be content to bind America by laws of trade; you (Parliament) have always done that.”
You claim that “Burke advocated central roles for private property, tradition and prejudice and to give citizens a stake in their nation’s social order.” Perhaps you do not recall his lovely affection for the “common people” who, “haven’t the intelligence or knowledge to govern; they have dangerous and angry passions
that could be aroused by demogogues which could undermine cherished and established religion, leading to violence and confiscation of property; and they would create a tyranny over minorities.”
Burke advocated the Divine Right of Kings; end of controls on speculation; end of government food handouts during a famine, and ending trade restrictions. Burke extolled “freedom” as in free market, free trade and deregulation.
These Anglo-American merchant-bankers run the West today. Instead of denying the right to vote, they manipulate public opinion and, failing that, fraud the election..
We beat Mr. Burke 245 years ago; we can do the same now, establishing once again the American System of industrial capitalism.
Benjamin Franklin:
“We would gladly have borne the tax on tea if we could have been granted the power to create our own money.”
Denied by George 111 of England!
Chancellor Reginald McKenna:
“They who control the credit of a nation direct the policy of the governments and hold in the hollow of their hand the destiny of the people.”
Karl Marx:
“Money plays the largest part in determining the course of history.”
“The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buying power of consumers. By the adoption of these principles, the taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest. Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity.”
– Abraham Lincoln
And then he was assassinated,
@ Kapricorn4
Vice-President John Garner said in 1933 about international bankers:
“You see, Gentlemen, who owns the United States.”
Congressman Charles Lindbergh of Minnesota said in 1920:
“Financial panics are scientifically created.”
Sir Drummond Fraser, vice president of the Institute of Bankers, also stated in 1924:
“The Governor of the Bank of England must be the autocrat who dictates the terms upon which alone the government can obtain money.”
Lord Gladstone, who also served as Chancellor of Britain’s Exchequer said in 1852:
“The government… in matters of finance was to leave the money power supreme and unquestioned.”
Strange all of these important players and more knowing the truth and yet still we are all under an obscure domination by the internationalists?
I don’t know anybody looking forward to the coming theocracy from Jerusalem?
https://vigilantcitizen.com/sinistersites/sinister-sites-israel-supreme-court/
@ Kapricorn4
“And then he was assassinated” and assassinations?
Why is it that anyone who tries to do the right thing politically in America winds up assassinated?
John Kennedy drives around in a convertible with the top down? He had to be one of the most terribly naive or stupid men ever?
Given America’s political history why would someone who attacks the deep state and threatens to disband the Ci-A and more drive around like that?
I don’t get that really especially in view of James Forrestal whom i believe Kennedy surely knew something about his untimely death under very strange circumstances?
With so much history one would think Kennedy should have had as a paperweight on his desk an M16 or a Kalashnikov and prepared accordingly yes?
The game is almost over. Correct, correct, correct … so today it is all about money and computers. Here is a simple revolutionary idea that began without a revolution wherein bankers and the ruling class would be strung up for their flaws. No longer really necessary. This is well beyond the philosophers of the past who needed to include gold and physical money the basic element of a financial transaction. What happens when it is not?
Here is begins as it is logical, easy, and works from the individuals up … ‘You want to buy my chicken? Give me the money now on your mobile and you can take it.
That the chinese money system (computerised electronic) will do away with physical cash or dollars in all those countries that BRI covers and use the Chinese cashless apps will spell the slow but inevitable end for the US dollar. The transactions will start small and local but will eventually prevail overall other. Already the ‘SWIFT’ money transferr system is being outclassed by other players in cluding the Chinese which already has the largest volume of trade on the planet.
https://youtu.be/ZPwnLdg_9D8
But who will issue this new digital money ?
Will it be privately owned banks or the US Treasury in the case of the US ?
In China it will be the government owned central bank – the Bank of China – who issues all yuan debt free.
If the US leaves control of US money creation in the hands of the private banks, and that includes the Federal Reserve, the US economy will be at a distinct disadvantage, except for the bankers, that is.
This essay seems to start out dedicated to explaining the difference between revolution and counter-revolution – and to condemn what is occurring this year in the US and Europe and being the latter rather than the former.
But it never gets there. Too bad – this promised to be an interesting process. The essay rather gets led into making a straw man of “conservatism,” then condemning that straw man. The former seems largely gratuitous, in an era which accepts the basic distinction between Paleoconservatism and Neoconservatism, and has many detailed demonstrations that there is nothing remotely Conservative about the dominant Neoconservatism. But even this basic distinction must be lost on an essay which recognizes Ayn Rand as a “conservative!”
Ayn Rand’s Objectivism is technically a conservative ideology, because it excludes the possibility and necessity of social development. Rand believed that the individual was absolutely supreme and denied the existence of a substantial shared reality. Society itself is an illusion, if not blemish, to Randians.
Social nihilism discourages social change (unless destructively, as a side effect of improving “individual freedoms”) and hence conserves the present status quo. Though certainly in a roundabout way compared to traditional religious conservatism.
Not sure what’s the role of Russian and China in this. They seem counterrevolutionary to me, especially China with so much of the Great Reset infrastructure in place.
The Great Reset will cause the Great Rebellion.
And I wouldnt like to be in the shoes of those pushing the Reset.
Great article.
The current situation reminds me of around 50 BC in Rome when the elites tried to cling to their power and Julius Caesar and his army of the people removed them.
Same will happen because the few cannot resist the many.
Russia needs to be aware in this those forces will turn on them if Biden-Hillary get in, the 2016 Russian election medalling narrative will resurface and be used to continue the EU money-changers assault on it. The US Deep State is simply a running dog for them.
You begin your piece with an epigraph of John Stuart Mill’s. The man who’s only professional career was as a servant of the British East India Company. Shashi Taroor will tell you that 35 million Indians died unnecessarily under British rule. John Stuart Mill is clearly complicit in this. At the conclusion of the epigraph, I stopped reading. Perhaps you had something sensible to say later on but, frankly, I wasn’t interested.
The great casualty of this revolution so far is truth.
Our science is where our truth came from…….when we had faith in it.
Now the buggers have taken control of the scientific data and so we have 5% unemployment, runaway global warming and an epidemic without patients.
But the very nature of science may be what confounds and betrays the bureaucrats creating the various narratives of these phenomena.
This revolution may be, shall we say biblical, in its progress and ambition but it is being carried out by bureaucrats whose comfort with the principles of science is not one of their strengths.
I never worked in science but was educated in it and revered it as did millions of boomers around the world before it was captured and perverted.
The political takeover of science must be as obvious to those millions as it is to me.
Let the counter revolution begin.!!
0.04% of Carbon dioxide in the gas atmosphere has little to do with the 1 deg C of the earth’s warming over the past century. It is however, extremely important in that without it, photosynthesis could not occur and all plant life would die off.
Correlation of two variables in a dynamic system does not tell us which one is the cause and which one is the effect. The Earth has warmed since the ending of the last ice age a mere 20,000 years ago due to the Milankovich cycles: the eccentricity of the earth’s orbit around the sun, the variation in the tilt of its axis relative to the plane of the orbit from 22 to 245 degrees.
CO2 outgases from the oceans in the tropical regions since CO2 is less soluble in water as its temperature rises. Conversely CO2 is net absorbed by the oceans in the polar regions.
“This ( The) distinctive feature of the present crisis has not received much in the way of a characterisation as a political phenomenon and is in need of serious analysis. Strange to say that what appears to be a revolutionary movement, that is, a political upheaval from below with the object of overthrowing tyranny, is, in the present instance, a movement (coup-putsch) from above whose object is to establish it. It is this new order which is being foisted on society from above by those who have used their social and economic power and position to break apart the old order which was established during the Bretton Woods Conference (1944) and consolidated after WW2.”
Some commentator find problems with the references to Edmond Burke, and John Stuart Mills, people who were recognized as important intellects in their time, perhaps not so much now, as the World they commented on no longer exists, commentator Little Black Duck, correctly, describes the Death of the belief in the discipline of Science and why it happened!
Perhaps ‘Someone’ could address this, “movement from above” whose object is to establish a class based, ( or Genetic Based) Tyranny on the Whole of the World based simply on the proposition that; “He who has the Gold (And the right DNA) Makes the Rules” and having the Gold, and the DNA, gives ‘Them’ the Power to Re-imagine and adjust not only Political Arrangements but the ‘Rules’ of Nature it’s self, Money has great power to control and focus the minds of men in their quest to garner more wealth and (Power?) but does it confer the power to ‘adjust’ Nature into something the ‘Person who pays the bills’ thinks they will like better, though there will be many, with impressive resumes, who will tell them, ” If you give me the Money I will deliver the (Modern) Philosopher’s Stone for you”, but can they do it? Or are they, as always, only Men with their natural limitations and unlimited delusions? And if so, where will we be when this latest Mass ‘delusion’ confronts reality!
WASPs.,i.e-all things white,anglosaxon,protestent, the contents in the area of the echo chambers in the collective minds of the ‘westerners’ conditioned by church ,universities, central bankers(formerly the money changers but now the paper printers), seems trapped in it’s narrative of closed area unable to look outside the box..Like Plato’s cave, they can hardly rise their head over the morass of this toxic narrative.This is not a far fetched idea if one looks around how the civilians in the ;civalised’cities in europe and northers america are guarantied in their nests.
The main culprit is the organised religions, which has invented the notion that every human has a a soul which will live on after physical death., that can only be saved by a man born immaculate who will rise again.This fairy tale, makes it possible for the elites in this narrative echo chambers to address others who don’t respect the narrative as ,”useless eaters”.The other equally guilty ,is the mental climate in hollywood were red indians for example were camerflouged barbarous and muslims are on normall projected as very violent prone.Hollywood is also a twin sided knife, in the sense that other than making non wasps as enemies of humanity, it over sexualised the wasps themselves to be in terror of being alone come friday nights without a sexual partner.
but the main evildoers yet are , the all powerful money printers ,di ya all not notice how they brought down a mixed cultural state leader ASSAD for not having a central bank owned by them!/the only thing that can save humanity is an ASSAD CURSE.
Francis, I love the article; thank you for creating and presenting it, so that I could read it.
With great respect I should like to point out “…that the current global political and social turbulence… is the target effect of years of manipulations, which have proceeded in an accelerating pace, as the socio-economic polarization has enabled more individuals to attain a ridiculously large differentials of wealth, (extreme wealth), so that the opportunity to actively interfere with the governance of society, to further their own further wealth advantage (this is negative-sum gaming of society, at a primary level).
Furthermore, the activities leading to the target outcomes you identify were long “… established at least half a century before “the Bretton Woods Conference (1944) and consolidated after WW2.
We are in unison considering that which is in motion as a “class-based counter-revolutionary movement” being run by an elite socio-economic class, sharing a common ideological orientation which tends towards psychopathy, and complete empathic break from humanity!
Understanding the perception management methods and pathways being used to gain uptake among a critical mass of citizenry is useful, but, as is inherent in your essay, though not explicitly acknowledged, the entire “binary” framing of political epistemology/predictor of behaviours, into “conservative” versus “radical”(/liberal/”progressives”?!), and the framing of conservative as per legacy and/or philosophical traditions works against objective analysis of the emergency, and counter to the development of avenues/solution to the enslavement.
In fact, this now ridiculously outdated ongoing vain attempts to frame the political discussion as binary conservative v. liberal is being used actively, as part of the deception to enable the (counter-)revolution!
We can see this loudly and indisputably demonstrated in the context of the U.S.A., where the labels to clearly not represent… at all!
In fact, it would be much better to view the supposed “opposition” as two marketing brands of the same monolithic transnational interest, in the local market.
On the eve of the US POTUS Senate certification vote and eyes fixed on it and Vice President Pence, I would remind other players a grave situation now exists.
The juncture is one where a choice has to be made between good or evil.
Either Trump or Biden/Hillary.
Whether the ideals of Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Adams will prevail, or the Great Reset end of civilization group controlled by unelected swine in the EU who have improperly controlled and manipulated the US for the past 150 years will take over and destroy the US economy and population
If Pence and others turn out to be Benedict Arnolds the US Military must move to deal with the situation and ensure the true election result prevails.
If the rats in the woodpile were to prevail, McConnell and others will find large chunks of GOP Senators and Reps both in Congress and in State Legislatures will defect into a breakaway group and the RINOs & RNC will find themselves not having any majorities or capacity to have or the power and influence they give any in anytime in the future. So US conservatism will be splinters and the new will replace the old.
There is only once viable & sensible course of action to happen.
The US is at war from foreign forces from China and EU. It is a stealth invasion.
This is 1776 again and the minutemen must act in defense or be defeated for all time.
One commentator yesterday said the Establishment Big “R” Republicans simply want to move on from Trump and his supporters and not want to look at the election fraud in the next 2 weeks and say we will do better next time and continue with the old business as usual.
But they fail to understand the old business as usual is over as they won’t be able to win future election if they do so. There has been a paradigm change since 2016. They need the Small “R” Republicans to vote for their candidates and man the party grassroots machine during elections. Without them, the country club Big R lot are finish as they won’t have the voting numbers to win an election.
Another aspect of whats going on tied in with all the political extremism in the US UK EU is that the lockdowns and shutdowns along with hired thugs like ANTIFA & BLM are being used by certain elites (aka Soros & others) to heavily damage the economy, particularly in some areas where their controlled local officials are hands of law enforcement, with the sole purpose of damaging properties and businesses so they can come in with fiat printed money and buy them up for 10 or 20 cents in the dollar.
This is akin to what the same lot did in 1929-35 period when the FED and BOE cut off the supply of money and put the world into a depression deliberately for the same purpose.
This is precisely why after this mess is sorted out monetary control must removed from those running it now and placed under more egalitarian management.
And when we look at all the tripe that Tory Party under Boris Johnson in UK are doing with the lockdown and rules I can only wonder if they have gone mad as they have no chance now whatsoever of winning another election. The public wont forget or forgive. They are finished. And like the US it won’t be business as usual afterwards – same in Germany and France. And sooner or later the rebellion will start.
So in US, UK and Germany the conservatives who have run things for centuries, their time is up.
The current situation is the greatest political miscalculation in world history.
In 50 BC the inept out of touch Aristocratic Roman Senate tried a counter-revolution when Julius Caesar (a man of the people and loved by the people) came to rescue the system and drain the swamp. And they failed. Same will happen.