Crisis Update: Follow The Consensus To Your Demise
First of a series on depopulation
Parents, when they do it right, teach us to fly. Schools can keep us submerged
Exactly why you should not follow the consensus
The only answer is to care less what anybody thinks
The entertainment industry is crucial to programming people
‘People changing their votes, along with their overcoats’
Popular culture is the glue that holds the corporate operation in play
Corporations are not ultimate wealth - which is oil, minerals, land and water
Bureaucrats told us in the plandemic, we would never return to the ‘old normal’
For once they were honest: depopulation is a one-way journey
Depopulation series:
Follow The Consensus To Your Demise - First of series on depopulation (Aug 9, 2023)
Pirates, Privateers And Merchant Adventurers - Depopulation Pt 2 (Aug 15, 2023)
Hawaii Islanders Hit With New Normal - Depopulation Pt 3 (Aug 16, 2023)
Maui Land Grab Explains The Great Reset - Depopulation Pt 4 (Aug 17, 2023)
Indigenous People Under Attack By Globalists, From Hawaii to Australia, Depopulation Pt 5 (Aug 17, 2023)
Maui’s Children, Smart Cities And Sex Trafficking - Depopulation Pt 6 (Aug 25, 2023)
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Aug 9, 2023
“We don’t need no education, we don’t need no thought control,” wrote Roger Waters in “Another Brick in the Wall.” The song was his response to harsh and rigid schooling.
Parents gradually give us more responsibility, until we are equipped to fly the nest. Yet we let schools extend childhood until 16, 18, even 21 or 22.
A school is a collective noun for fish. They learn to swim in the same direction. Their chemistry and senses keep them in the slipstream of the fin in front. We don’t know everything about humans: perhaps we have some analogous sense.
Our parents, when they do it right, teach us to fly. Schools keep us underwater, even if they’re teaching us to swim, which is an exception as the teaching of sports declines.
The point is: schooling does not equate to education; it keeps us in the piscene equivalent of a holding pattern for at least a quarter of our lives.
That programming literally trains us how to respond when we hear specific words. Is it any surprise that, as we belatedly emerge from years of patterning to seek our own path, we recoil from certain words, sounds, challenges or perceived threats?
We are often groggy, sometimes grumpy, when we awaken. It applies to ideas, as much as it does to getting out of bed. It certainly applies to “coming of age” in terms of awakening to what is going on in the world.
The next 18 months will be hard, especially for those who, as fate would have it, venture at this time to swim on their own.
Can we help each other? It is not certain. “Waking up” is not about suddenly perceiving things differently; it is ceasing to react in the knee-jerk way we were schooled.
Reminiscence
Why are we reluctant to change? Perhaps because we strove so hard in young adulthood to construct a persona, and we recoil from the memory of the brutal but inane bullying that schoolchildren — and some teachers — are wont to unleash at any superficial difference.
Such trauma leaves people reluctant to reverse opinion, or to alter the style of even a haircut, for what others may think.
Whom should we know better than ourselves?
Here is something I wrestled with for decades. No, not my haircut — though I had an unruly mop sprouting in every direction that could never be tamed. It was a relief when it began to thin. I must be one of the few men to welcome it — but, rather, psychologically.
I went through a nervous agony from an early age trying to work out how people would react, and I tried to guess what they were thinking, in order to estimate their response. I would construct scenarios in my head: first of teachers, then employers.
Schooling made this worse, because it was the days of corporal punishment, which was meted out without much interest in who was at fault. This is the definition of random punishment: the inheritance of British schools that worked this way on purpose, to produce malleable soldiers and administrators for the empire.
My bosses had been through something similar, so that same tendency lurked beneath the surface: pour encourager les autres.
Having spent my first decade in Africa and Brazil, it was not easy to pick up those non-verbal cues of another culture, nominally my own, nor the verbal markers.
My response was to seek more of the punishment with which I was so familiar. I chose to seek work abroad, amid cultural differences which, lost in translation, piled on top.
I should admit I can be impulsive and take bad decisions, so the larger fault is mine, but also I think too much. I was assuming that others were thinking like me — and maybe they were — but that was only one of a dozen human impulses running like apps in the background, many inherited, embedded or based on emotion.
For if we were always rational there would be no scope for advertising. And then there are those impulses retained from our piscene immaturity, of being schooled, for decades, like fish, fry, fingerling or whitebait.
The only answer was to care less what anybody thinks.
Praxis
Today we see those we once counted among the Liberal and the Left in lockstep with the national security state, supporting the wars of the military industrial complex and its pharma, finance, digital appendages.
The entertainment industry plays a crucial role. The media pushes celebrities at us. Most of these celebs, and their little brothers and sisters, the influencers, are integrated within the advertising and political industries, which leverage a public image to sell to followers, ideas and clothes.
A diplomat’s son before he went off script performing as Joe Strummer, captured this in the lyric:
“All over people changing their votes
Along with their overcoats
If Adolf Hitler flew in today
They’d send a limousine anyway”
— (White Man In Hammersmith Palais, The Clash, 1978)
Had John Mellor (Strummer’s birth name) lived beyond 50 — he’d be 71 — he would have much to say about how culture is manipulated to achieve the specific ends of finance capital.
Entertainment, the media, and fashionable products are mostly controlled by the big three investment firms who manage money for the owner investors. Follow your favourite star and you have a connection directly to the messaging of those companies controlled by the same.
An example is the rapper Eminem who in 2017 unleashed on Donald Trump’s followers for imagining that a billionaire property developer shared their concerns. Eminem admitted he got” flustered” when thinking about people who flattered Trump.
Eminem could not see the irony that he is even more directly controlled by the billionaires he works for — the selfsame who own the weapons manufacturers, the peddlers of processed food, the peddlers of big pharma, and the social media companies that censor anyone who criticises those companies or their owners.
Popular culture is the glue that holds the operation together.
Power
The big three investment firms are BlackRock, State Street and Vanguard. They manage assets that are worth more than the national output of any country except the USA and China.
Remind me again who is running the world? Is it the person who occupies the White House for four, maximum eight, years?
The Moneycircus site bangs on about the owner-investors and environmental, social and governance (ESG) guidelines, along with diversity, inclusion and equity (DIE).
We all need a break so listen to a fresh take from Patrick Bet-David with Joe Rogan. Different voices but with a conclusion not so distant.
Divergence
While Bet-David makes a cogent case for how and why the asset mangers/ owner-investors seek to control society, they miss one point from my perspective.
The über wealthy do not hold their wealth (only or even) in BlackRock or the holding companies of the corporations. These are merely mid-level conduits.
The most-wealthy know that dollar and treasury bills, and stock certificates, are paper. They hold their wealth directly in hard assets: oil and gas, gold and minerals, land, seed banks and access to water: in short, the essentials for human survival.
Corporations are the mechanism that turns this oil and steel, land and seed into product which simply provides cash flow for the wealthy. Simultaneously, mass consumption and corporations are a means of control.
Shutdown
The Great Shutdown and strategies like “go Woke, go broke” are evidence that the corporations are a primarily a means of propagation and control.
People ask, “why would the owners damage their own brands?”
Because that is not where their wealth lies. Their wealth is amassed the ground, and they can close factories and farms, they can temporary close down “fossil fuels” and experiment with renewable energy, even if the majority of the population goes cold and hungry.
The über wealthy could even dispense with mass consumption and billions of consumers — in fact, that is what King Charles and his minion Klaus Schwab revealed when they launched The Great Reset, aka The Great Shutdown.
They seek a new society, with new social orders, and it will be based on a very different way of allocating energy, food and resources. Stuff will no longer just “be there” to clothe or feed billions of people, the cotton picked, the apple plucked.
The tree will be felled; the apple produced in a lab, from a self-destructing seed, or seedless, so there will be nothing to plant.
This encapsulates the business rationale behind the owner-investors’ craze for seizing patents, ruling whole areas of research off-limits, modelling and patenting DNA of flora and fauna, plant and paw, including humans. It is the monetisation of life.
In fairness we had an example 100 years ago. Thomas Edison was less of an inventor than a patent scalper for the banker J.P. Morgan. In turn, when the famous banker died he left suspiciously little money in his account — for J.P. Morgan was himself a front for others.
Normal
Politicians and bureaucrats told us three years ago that after the pandemic, we would not return to the “old normal.”
Look around: see anything different?
The assumption that today will stretch into tomorrow, as day follows night, and on into the next year is wrong, from this point on! Farms are being ripped up, the energy available for immediate use put offline, supply chains disrupted, more workers than ever disabled or vanishing from the workforce and doctors are “baffled.”
Those behind The Great Shutdown are powerful. They have enclosed the resources. They can stop the farms, lock out and disenfranchise the citizens, make famine happen, along with wars, and displace millions of people.
“They wouldn’t do that... would they?”
It has happened before: the Bolsheviks seized grain from farmers, to sell it abroad, causing millions to die in famine; they deported Cossack peasants and collectivised agriculture; China’s Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution somehow overlooked the Bolshevik oopsie and (accidentally) repeated the script, causing even more millions to die.
A similar pattern had rolled out hundreds of years previously in Britain and Ireland, with the Enclosure acts, and the famines that followed. And with the children and adults transported to Australia and Canada. And it is happening with the transportation of children across the southern border and into the U.S. at present.
“They wouldn’t do that,” someone chants, seeking cover in the crevices of a digital forest, hoping that they won’t see what’s coming, for the trees.
But it is happening, right now.
Could anyone break up these monopolies? We have been here before with the East India Company (See the next instalment on Moneycircus).
School broke me at the age of 14. That was when I learned a lesson that wasn’t on the curriculum but ubiquitous: that the livelihood you needed to get you through was inevitably going TO BORE YOU TO DEATH! That was what the teachers taught me by their grudging presence every day. And, given the kind of society we had built, they were correct.
Consequently, the only things that were important, that WOULDN'T BORE YOU TO DEATH, were the little things you could indulge in from a sheltered corner.
"Corporations are the mechanism that turns this oil and steel, land and seed into product which simply provides cash flow for the wealthy. "
Astute observation. Everyone's got a boss looking over their shoulder. Why the top of the pyramid hides. and throws out proxies like hunters with duck decoys. Surrogate masters to fight against when you are not fighting each other. The decoys are rewarded pretty good if you have ever hung around with international bankers. But they can be shut down in the blink of an eye or have a mysterious accident.
I found school invigorating. In grade school I finished my lessons and did what I wanted. Read the encyclopedia if nothing else available. In college I majored in physics with like 10 in a class. To succeed at work just make your boss a hero. If you keep thinking how to improve things you will never be obsolete. Any job can be interesting if you try to constantly improve it rather than accept a rut.
To keep from getting bored, interact with people smarter or more creative than you are. Learn new things. Don't worry, everything has a steep learning curve and the first of anything is just for practice.