We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Tuesday, January 18, 2022

Posts that I especially recommend for Tuesday, January 18, 2022

  • 💥The Last Days of the Covidian Cult by C.J. Hopkins from his weblog Consent Factory. This is a best post. My reaction: Hopkins, a satirical comedian, warns us about the "last days of the Covidian Cult" or, as I would put it, the last days of the transnational capitalist ruling class. Here is what he writes about the last days of their rule:
I don’t know what is going to happen. I’m not an oracle. I’m just a satirist. But we are getting dangerously close to the point where GloboCap will need to go full-blown fascist if they want to finish what they started. If that happens, things are going to get very ugly. I know, things are already ugly, but I’m talking a whole different kind of ugly. Think Jonestown, or Hitler’s final days in the bunker, or the last few months of the Manson Family.

That is what happens to totalitarian movements and death cults once the spell is broken and their official narratives fall apart. When they go down, they try to take the whole world with them. I don’t know about you, but I’m hoping we can avoid that. From what I have heard and read, it isn’t much fun.
Public statements from officials suggest that they consider any “anti-vaxxer” to be a threat to the public interest by undermining the vaccination programme. Thus they can justify barring entry to Djokovic (or, it should be said, any other “anti-vaxxer”) under the guise of “public interest”.

It’s about control, it almost always is.

In short, the government are scared that Djokovic’s very presence in the country is a threat to their neo-fascist lockdown.
  • 💥Ideas For A Dystopian Novel by Australian Caitlin Johnstone with her American husband, Tim Foley, also reading the script (but you may miss supporting examples, illustrations, etc.)--from her weblog. This is a best post. My reaction: What she describes is not dystopia, but reality. We are living in a Truman Show. The dystopia she describes is our world of reality wherever we live in the (de-facto) US/British/Zionist Empire, and she and Foley are living in the worst part.
Did anyone out there actually expect things to turn out differently?  When the federal government kept borrowing and spending trillions upon trillions of dollars that we did not have, we were warned that this day was coming.  And when the Federal Reserve kept pumping trillions upon trillions of fresh dollars into our financial system, we were warned that this day was coming.  So why is anybody surprised by what is happening at this point? 
 
My reaction: It is the Empire's (the de-facto US/British/Zionist Empire) financial system, not ours. US dollars are much of the world's currency. But, this is doubly wrong. In addition, the printing of money is spent on aggressive military adventures throughout the world in order to police their Empire and weaken their foes such as Russia, China, Venezuela, Cuba, etc.--any nation that aspires to independence from the Empire. 
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