Isn't it an interesting coincidence that so many of the rabid jabbers, such as Bill Gates, also happen to be neo-Malthusian true believers?
And that nearly all, if not all, are zealously in favor of the human-destroying policies you mention, and many more besides?
F.A. Hayek, in his eponymous 1944 book *The Road to Serfdom*, in chapter 10, "Why the Worst Rise to the Top", describes in detail how the more powerful the government, the more it attracts sociopaths and expels the sane.
Nearly eight decades later, I believe we have come to the logical and full fruition of his prediction: The formerly free world taken over by a cabal of all-powerful governments run by the clinically, criminally insane.
Truly, the inmates now control the asylum.
I don't know how we can reverse this, but am certain that if we cannot, these people will be our undoing.
I have been of that opinion for some time now. The data from the last 3 years validated it.
Reversal will come and it will be "biblical" when it does. I doubt we will see it coming. The central actors surely will not as they think they have already enslaved mankind.
Buy guns and ammo while you can. Ammo is nearing a 5 year low as far as price, following a tripling that took place just before the ‘Rona made its appearance. I expect it to be the apocolypse currency. “If I can’t buy it from you with bullets, I can certainly take it from you with them.” - Me
If you don’t wind up “needing” it, the range is a great place to relieve tension and have loud fun.
Odd that so many states are trying to override the recent Heller and New York Pistol rulings from the Supreme Court.
"The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed - when the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees.
However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once."
~ Judge Alex Kozinski, dissenting in Silveira v. Lockyer, 328 F.3d 567 (9th Circuit 2003)
"As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities."
~ Voltaire
For decades I have seen the culmination of a century of progressive "education" and leftist State propaganda infantilize and essentially lobotomize large swaths of the population, creating a gigantic squabbling herd of supine gullible morons who will literally believe anything, no matter how absurd, and rabidly advocate the suppression, incarceration, and even destruction of those who refuse to accept nonsense.
My contempt for the great unwashed, always high, has in the last three years surpassed even perhaps the level of H. L. Mencken.
Having read William L. Shirer's *Rise and Fall of the Third Reich* and other tomes on totalitarian leftism (redundant?), for years I've understand on an intellectual level how a once purportedly civilized nation could descend into tyranny and barbarism.
Horrifyingly, that understanding has now become personal and visceral.
I live in the People's Republic of California, where the mob just re-elected, by a substantial margin, a leftist totalitarian governor who treated a state of 40 million souls as if it were his personal prison labor camp, based on transparently fraudulent "science", and in blatant violation of the rule of law and common human decency.
And, of course "81 million" "elected" Jacobin Joe Biden, an utterly corrupt pathological liar doing everything in his power to accelerate the descent of the US into one of those Third World "Shithole Countries" the Orange Menace was so fond of mentioning.
We have completely lost our way, and are truly in deep trouble as a nation and society.
I don't disagree with your assessment. I just suspect that that the money powers have over played their hand. Time is short but their haste will be their undoing.
Haste, and the final debasement of the dollar, 98% of the value of which the USG has inflated away, and the resultant loss of reserve currency status, which has been well underway for some time and is accelerating.
We have reached the point in the American Empire that has happened again and again throughout history, where a society's elites become so arrogant and stupid they have no idea what made the empire possible.
Jacobin Joe and his band of merry socialists are arguably the dumbest, most hubristic "leaders" in our history.
The petrodollar has allowed the USG to spend far beyond its means for a very long time by exporting inflation globally. Every fiat currency in history has collapsed, and when this inevitable fate befalls the USD, the resulting shitstorm will truly be something to behold.
As ever, timing is uncertain. What is certain, however, is that Leviathan will not go quietly into the night.
"exporting inflation globally." - Few understand this.
"resulting shitstorm" - Beginning about now as we see the rise in debt service that demands cuts to things people depend on. Devaluation is necessary to abrogate the debt, worldwide. A lot of people will be very, very mad.
I for one couldn’t figure out why certain government bureaucrats were placed in powerful positions until I discovered it’s because they use blackmail to get ahead.
A female Dean of a large University Education department told me how she got her job because the outgoing female Dean used some rules to subvert the requirements for a transparent hiring practices. She’s a typical leftist who supports man made climate change politics while she is only too happy to get someone else to provide for her to jet around the world to ‘conferences’ which could have easily been handled via Zoom. All of her big trips are like a bragging rights for her. Government bureaucrats and politicians also abuse travel and go to wasteful conferences. These are perks that they clamored for in addition to taking trips in to war zones like Ukraine so they don’t have to pay taxes. All you have to do is step foot in a war zone and you dot have to pay taxes for that month. That’s why they book their trips for the end of the month so they can claim two months by simply arriving on the last day and departing on the first day. They also get hefty per diems that they can pocket along with travel miles, extra. The big wig routinely book trips to Europe at Christmas time so they can enjoy the festive atmosphere, shop and dine. Who wouldn't want to take a trip to Germany during Octoberfest on Uncle Sam’s dime?
I wish you had not reminded me "the more powerful the government, the more it attracts sociopaths". I think we have arrived. Worse little accountability. Much of it comes via the money Gates provided to capture nearly every health organization including the government ones.
Isn't it an interesting coincidence that so many of the rabid jabbers, such as Bill Gates, also happen to be neo-Malthusian true believers?
And that nearly all, if not all, are zealously in favor of the human-destroying policies you mention, and many more besides?
F.A. Hayek, in his eponymous 1944 book *The Road to Serfdom*, in chapter 10, "Why the Worst Rise to the Top", describes in detail how the more powerful the government, the more it attracts sociopaths and expels the sane.
Nearly eight decades later, I believe we have come to the logical and full fruition of his prediction: The formerly free world taken over by a cabal of all-powerful governments run by the clinically, criminally insane.
Truly, the inmates now control the asylum.
I don't know how we can reverse this, but am certain that if we cannot, these people will be our undoing.
All of us.
I have been of that opinion for some time now. The data from the last 3 years validated it.
Reversal will come and it will be "biblical" when it does. I doubt we will see it coming. The central actors surely will not as they think they have already enslaved mankind.
Buy guns and ammo while you can. Ammo is nearing a 5 year low as far as price, following a tripling that took place just before the ‘Rona made its appearance. I expect it to be the apocolypse currency. “If I can’t buy it from you with bullets, I can certainly take it from you with them.” - Me
If you don’t wind up “needing” it, the range is a great place to relieve tension and have loud fun.
Odd that so many states are trying to override the recent Heller and New York Pistol rulings from the Supreme Court.
Prescience.
"The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed - when the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees.
However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once."
~ Judge Alex Kozinski, dissenting in Silveira v. Lockyer, 328 F.3d 567 (9th Circuit 2003)
Which is why we keep our skills levels up.
My AO is well provisioned and the sound of "range" time is very common out this way. I don't think it will go down like that however.
I hope you are correct, but I am skeptical.
"As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities."
~ Voltaire
For decades I have seen the culmination of a century of progressive "education" and leftist State propaganda infantilize and essentially lobotomize large swaths of the population, creating a gigantic squabbling herd of supine gullible morons who will literally believe anything, no matter how absurd, and rabidly advocate the suppression, incarceration, and even destruction of those who refuse to accept nonsense.
My contempt for the great unwashed, always high, has in the last three years surpassed even perhaps the level of H. L. Mencken.
Having read William L. Shirer's *Rise and Fall of the Third Reich* and other tomes on totalitarian leftism (redundant?), for years I've understand on an intellectual level how a once purportedly civilized nation could descend into tyranny and barbarism.
Horrifyingly, that understanding has now become personal and visceral.
I live in the People's Republic of California, where the mob just re-elected, by a substantial margin, a leftist totalitarian governor who treated a state of 40 million souls as if it were his personal prison labor camp, based on transparently fraudulent "science", and in blatant violation of the rule of law and common human decency.
And, of course "81 million" "elected" Jacobin Joe Biden, an utterly corrupt pathological liar doing everything in his power to accelerate the descent of the US into one of those Third World "Shithole Countries" the Orange Menace was so fond of mentioning.
We have completely lost our way, and are truly in deep trouble as a nation and society.
I don't disagree with your assessment. I just suspect that that the money powers have over played their hand. Time is short but their haste will be their undoing.
Haste, and the final debasement of the dollar, 98% of the value of which the USG has inflated away, and the resultant loss of reserve currency status, which has been well underway for some time and is accelerating.
We have reached the point in the American Empire that has happened again and again throughout history, where a society's elites become so arrogant and stupid they have no idea what made the empire possible.
Jacobin Joe and his band of merry socialists are arguably the dumbest, most hubristic "leaders" in our history.
The petrodollar has allowed the USG to spend far beyond its means for a very long time by exporting inflation globally. Every fiat currency in history has collapsed, and when this inevitable fate befalls the USD, the resulting shitstorm will truly be something to behold.
As ever, timing is uncertain. What is certain, however, is that Leviathan will not go quietly into the night.
"exporting inflation globally." - Few understand this.
"resulting shitstorm" - Beginning about now as we see the rise in debt service that demands cuts to things people depend on. Devaluation is necessary to abrogate the debt, worldwide. A lot of people will be very, very mad.
I for one couldn’t figure out why certain government bureaucrats were placed in powerful positions until I discovered it’s because they use blackmail to get ahead.
A female Dean of a large University Education department told me how she got her job because the outgoing female Dean used some rules to subvert the requirements for a transparent hiring practices. She’s a typical leftist who supports man made climate change politics while she is only too happy to get someone else to provide for her to jet around the world to ‘conferences’ which could have easily been handled via Zoom. All of her big trips are like a bragging rights for her. Government bureaucrats and politicians also abuse travel and go to wasteful conferences. These are perks that they clamored for in addition to taking trips in to war zones like Ukraine so they don’t have to pay taxes. All you have to do is step foot in a war zone and you dot have to pay taxes for that month. That’s why they book their trips for the end of the month so they can claim two months by simply arriving on the last day and departing on the first day. They also get hefty per diems that they can pocket along with travel miles, extra. The big wig routinely book trips to Europe at Christmas time so they can enjoy the festive atmosphere, shop and dine. Who wouldn't want to take a trip to Germany during Octoberfest on Uncle Sam’s dime?
There is no other hope than Jesus Christ my friend. All of this has been foretold. Repent and believe in Him while there is still time! God bless you!
I wish you had not reminded me "the more powerful the government, the more it attracts sociopaths". I think we have arrived. Worse little accountability. Much of it comes via the money Gates provided to capture nearly every health organization including the government ones.