The War Between Knowledge And Stupidity

   Just looking at what's going on in the news, we sometimes forget about the bigger picture. It is especially easy when history is accelerating as it is now with the risk of not understanding the direction we're heading to. The difference between good and bad, right and wrong can be confusing when we are talking about the future as a consequence of decisions being taken now. Then, what about the distinction between knowledge and stupidity? Inseparable twins? Fine. Then how do we tilt the scale in the right direction?

Authored by Bert Olivier via The Brownstone Institute,

Bernard Stiegler was, until his premature death, probably the most important philosopher of technology of the present. His work on technology has shown us that, far from being exclusively a danger to human existence, it is a pharmakon – a poison as well as a cure – and that, as long as we approach technology as a means to ‘critical intensification,’ it could assist us in promoting the causes of enlightenment and freedom.

It is no exaggeration to say that making believable information and credible analysis available to citizens at present is probably indispensable for resisting the behemoth of lies and betrayal confronting us. This has never been more necessary than it is today, given that we face what is probably the greatest crisis in the history of humanity, with nothing less than our freedom, let alone our lives, at stake. 

To be able to secure this freedom against the inhuman forces threatening to shackle it today, one could do no better than to take heed of what Stiegler argues in States of Shock: Stupidity and Knowledge in the 21st Century (2015). Considering what he writes here it is hard to believe that it was not written today (p. 15): 

The impression that humanity has fallen under the domination of unreason or madness [déraison] overwhelms our spirit, confronted as we are with systemic collapses, major technological accidents, medical or pharmaceutical scandals, shocking revelations, the unleashing of the drives, and acts of madness of every kind and in every social milieu – not to mention the extreme misery and poverty that now afflict citizens and neighbours both near and far.

While these words are certainly as applicable to our current situation as it was almost 10 years ago, Stiegler was in fact engaged in an interpretive analysis of the role of banks and other institutions – aided and abetted by certain academics – in the establishment of what he terms a ‘literally suicidal financial system’ (p. 1). (Anyone who doubts this can merely view the award-winning documentary film of 2010, Inside Job, by Charles Ferguson, which Stiegler also mentions on p.1.) He explains further as follows (p. 2): 

Western universities are in the grip of a deep malaise, and a number of them have found themselves, through some of their faculty, giving consent to – and sometimes considerably compromised by – the implementation of a financial system that, with the establishment of hyper-consumerist, drive-based and ‘addictogenic’ society, leads to economic and political ruin on a global scale. If this has occurred, it is because their goals, their organizations and their means have been put entirely at the service of the destruction of sovereignty. That is, they have been placed in the service of the destruction of sovereignty as conceived by the philosophers of what we call the Enlightenment…

In short, Stiegler was writing about the way in which the world was being prepared, across the board – including the highest levels of education – for what has become far more conspicuous since the advent of the so-called ‘pandemic’ in 2020, namely an all-out attempt to cause the collapse of civilisation as we knew it, at all levels, with the thinly disguised goal in mind of installing a neo-fascist, technocratic, global regime which would exercise power through AI-controlled regimes of obedience. The latter would centre on ubiquitous facial recognition technology, digital identification, and CBDCs (which would replace money in the usual sense). 

Given the fact that all of this is happening around us, albeit in a disguised fashion, it is astonishing that relatively few people are conscious of the unfolding catastrophe, let alone being critically engaged in disclosing it to others who still inhabit the land where ignorance is bliss. Not that this is easy. Some of my relatives are still resistant to the idea that the ‘democratic carpet’ is about to be pulled from under their feet. Is this merely a matter of ‘stupidity?’ Stiegler writes about stupidity (p.33):

…knowledge cannot be separated from stupidity. But in my view: (1) this is a pharmacological situation; (2) stupidity is the law of the pharmakon; and (3) the pharmakon is the law of knowledge, and hence a pharmacology for our age must think the pharmakon that I am also calling, today, the shadow. 

In my previous post I wrote about the media as pharmaka (plural of pharmakon), showing how, on the one hand, there are (mainstream) media which function as ‘poison,’ while on the other there are (alternative) media that play the role of ‘cure.’ Here, by linking the pharmakon with stupidity, Stiegler alerts one to the (metaphorically speaking) ‘pharmacological’ situation, that knowledge is inseparable from stupidity: where there is knowledge, the possibility of stupidity always asserts itself, and vice versa. Or in terms of what he calls ‘the shadow,’ knowledge always casts a shadow, that of stupidity. 

Anyone who doubts this may only cast their glance at those ‘stupid’ people who still believe that the Covid ‘vaccines’ are ‘safe and effective,’ or that wearing a mask would protect them against infection by ‘the virus.’ Or, more currently, think of those – the vast majority in America – who routinely fall for the Biden administration’s (lack of an) explanation of its reasons for allowing thousands of people to cross the southern – and more recently also the northern – border. Several alternative sources of news and analysis have lifted the veil on this, revealing that the influx is not only a way of destabilising the fabric of society, but possibly a preparation for civil war in the United States. 

There is a different way of explaining this widespread ‘stupidity,’ of course – one that I have used before to explain why most philosophers have failed humanity miserably, by failing to notice the unfolding attempt at a global coup d’etat, or at least, assuming that they did notice it, to speak up against it. These ‘philosophers’ include all the other members of the philosophy department where I work, with the honourable exception of the departmental assistant, who is, to her credit, wide awake to what has been occurring in the world. They also include someone who used to be among my philosophical heroes, to wit, Slavoj Žižek, who fell for the hoax hook, line, and sinker.

In brief, this explanation of philosophers’ stupidity – and by extension that of other people – is twofold. First there is ‘repression’ in the psychoanalytic sense of the term (explained at length in both the papers linked in the previous paragraph), and secondly there is something I did not elaborate on in those papers, namely what is known as ‘cognitive dissonance.’ The latter phenomenon manifests itself in the unease that people exhibit when they are confronted by information and arguments that are not commensurate, or conflict, with what they believe, or which explicitly challenge those beliefs. The usual response is to find standard, or mainstream-approved responses to this disruptive information, brush it under the carpet, and life goes on as usual.

‘Cognitive dissonance’ is actually related to something more fundamental, which is not mentioned in the usual psychological accounts of this unsettling experience. Not many psychologists deign to adduce repression in their explanation of disruptive psychological conditions or problems encountered by their clients these days, and yet it is as relevant as when Freud first employed the concept to account for phenomena such as hysteria or neurosis, recognising, however, that it plays a role in normal psychology too. What is repression? 

In The Language of Psychoanalysis (p. 390), Jean Laplanche and Jean-Bertrand Pontalis describe ‘repression’ as follows: 

Strictly speaking, an operation whereby the subject attempts to repel, or to confine to the unconscious, representations (thoughts, images, memories) which are bound to an instinct. Repression occurs when to satisfy an instinct – though likely to be pleasurable in itself – would incur the risk of provoking unpleasure because of other requirements. 

 …It may be looked upon as a universal mental process to so far as it lies at the root of the constitution of the unconscious as a domain separate from the rest of the psyche. 

In the case of the majority of philosophers, referred to earlier, who have studiously avoided engaging critically with others on the subject of the (non-)‘pandemic’ and related matters, it is more than likely that repression occurred to satisfy the instinct of self-preservation, regarded by Freud as being equally fundamental as the sexual instinct. Here, the representations (linked to self-preservation) that are confined to the unconscious through repression are those of death and suffering associated with the coronavirus that supposedly causes Covid-19, which are repressed because of being intolerable. The repression of (the satisfaction of) an instinct, mentioned in the second sentence of the first quoted paragraph, above, obviously applies to the sexual instinct, which is subject to certain societal prohibitions. Cognitive dissonance is therefore symptomatic of repression, which is primary. 

Returning to Stiegler’s thesis concerning stupidity, it is noteworthy that the manifestations of such inanity are not merely noticeable among the upper echelons of society; worse – there seems to be, by and large, a correlation between those in the upper classes, with college degrees, and stupidity.

In other words, it is not related to intelligence per se. This is apparent, not only in light of the initially surprising phenomenon pertaining to philosophers’ failure to speak up in the face of the evidence, that humanity is under attack, discussed above in terms of repression. 

Dr Reiner Fuellmich, one of the first individuals to realise that this was the case, and subsequently brought together a large group of international lawyers and scientists to testify in the ‘court of public opinion’ (see 29 min. 30 sec. into the video) on various aspects of the currently perpetrated ‘crime against humanity,’ has drawn attention to the difference between the taxi drivers he talks to about the globalists’ brazen attempt to enslave humanity, and his learned legal colleagues as far as awareness of this ongoing attempt is concerned. In contrast with the former, who are wide awake in this respect, the latter – ostensibly more intellectually qualified and ‘informed’ – individuals are blissfully unaware that their freedom is slipping away by the day, probably because of cognitive dissonance, and behind that, repression of this scarcely digestible truth.

This is stupidity, or the ‘shadow’ of knowledge, which is recognisable in the sustained effort by those afflicted with it, when confronted with the shocking truth of what is occurring worldwide, to ‘rationalise’ their denial by repeating spurious assurances issued by agencies such as the CDC, that the Covid ‘vaccines’ are ‘safe and effective,’ and that this is backed up by ‘the science.’ 

Here a lesson from discourse theory is called for. Whether one refers to natural science or to social science in the context of some particular scientific claim – for example, Einstein’s familiar theory of special relativity (e=mc2) under the umbrella of the former, or David Riesman’s sociological theory of ‘inner-’ as opposed to ‘other-directedness’ in social science – one never talks about ‘the science,’ and for good reason. Science is science. The moment one appeals to ‘the science,’ a discourse theorist would smell the proverbial rat.

Why? Because the definite article, ‘the,’ singles out a specific, probably dubious, version of science compared to science as such, which does not need being elevated to special status. In fact, when this is done through the use of ‘the,’ you can bet your bottom dollar it is no longer science in the humble, hard-working, ‘belonging-to-every-person’ sense. If one’s sceptical antennae do not immediately start buzzing when one of the commissars of the CDC starts pontificating about ‘the science,’ one is probably similarly smitten by the stupidity that’s in the air. 

Earlier I mentioned the sociologist David Riesman and his distinction between ‘inner-directed’ and ‘other-directed’ people. It takes no genius to realise that, to navigate one’s course through life relatively unscathed by peddlers of corruption, it is preferable to take one’s bearings from ‘inner direction’ by a set of values which promotes honesty and eschews mendacity, than from the ‘direction by others.’ Under present circumstances such other-directedness applies to the maze of lies and misinformation emanating from various government agencies as well as from certain peer groups, which today mostly comprise the vociferously self-righteous purveyors of the mainstream version of events. Inner-directness in the above sense, when constantly renewed, could be an effective guardian against stupidity. 

Recall that Stiegler warned against the ‘deep malaise’ at contemporary universities in the context of what he called an ‘addictogenic’ society – that is, a society that engenders addictions of various kinds. Judging by the popularity of the video platform TikTok at schools and colleges, its use had already reached addiction levels by 2019, which raises the question, whether it should be appropriated by teachers as a ‘teaching tool,’ or whether it should, as some people think, be outlawed completely in the classroom.

Recall that, as an instance of video technology, TikTok is an exemplary embodiment of the pharmakon, and that, as Stiegler has emphasised, stupidity is the law of the pharmakon, which is, in turn, the law of knowledge. This is a somewhat confusing way of saying that knowledge and stupidity cannot be separated; where knowledge is encountered, its other, stupidity, lurks in the shadows. 

Reflecting on the last sentence, above, it is not difficult to realise that, parallel to Freud’s insight concerning Eros and Thanatos, it is humanly impossible for knowledge to overcome stupidity once and for all. At certain times the one will appear to be dominant, while on different occasions the reverse will apply. Judging by the fight between knowledge and stupidity today, the latter ostensibly still has the upper hand, but as more people are awakening to the titanic struggle between the two, knowledge is in the ascendant. It is up to us to tip the scales in its favour – as long as we realise that it is a never-ending battle.

This Terrifying Alex Jones Prediction Has Just Come True (Russell Brand - 26mn)

  The US is slowly heading towards martial law, there can be little doubts about this. Europe will follow suit. Democracy was a luxury that Western countries just cannot afford anymore. In any case, a majority of people do not value it much and almost none will fight to defend it. 

  Who in any case could argue that it wasn't necessary to curtail democracy and freedom to fight against: terrorism, virus, domestic extremists... and eventually just implement a permanent martial law to make sure we are all safe in our golden prison? Just don't call it for what it is and we are all fine. If we just pretend we are free, cheers at positive economic news and elect once in a while politicians who have been selected for us by the oligarchs who pay them more and more directly, then all will be fine an this Brave New World. 

 Sure Alex Jones was right, but more ominously so was Aldous Huxley long before!

 

Dangers of the Electronic Car

  One more reason NOT to go electric. One reason you want to be in charge of the car is to be able to do "something" when things go wrong. Being stuck in the car with no control whatsoever? Is there a worse way to die?

Guest Post by Eric Peters

You may have heard about the death of the woman who was killed by her Tesla when she inadvertently backed it into a pond and then discovered – as it slowly sank into the pond – that she could not open the door to get out.

She eventually drowned.

The woman – who happened to be the billionaire sister-in-law of Mitch “dirty turtle” McConnell, the glitching front-man for the other half of the Uniparty in the Senate – made the mistake of buying an electronically controlled car. Her Tesla did not have mechanical door pulls; instead, the doors are opened and closed by push-button electric actuators and computers that require electricity to operate. Computer-controlled electronics don’t work very well when immersed; try it with your smartphone and see.

So, when Agenla Chao – the now-dead woman – backed up her car into the pond, the water shorted out the door controls and they could not be unlocked or opened. This resulted in her slow death-by drowning, as it took a while for the Tesla to go totally under. In the meanwhile, she reportedly had time to call/text for help – which came in plenty of time – to watch her drown. Had she backed up into that pond with just about any other car, the people who came to her aid would have had plenty of time to get a door open – and get her out.

But they weren’t able to, because it was a Tesla.

These electronically controlled devices also don’t work very well when dry.

Apparently, the accident itself occurred as a result of Chao’s inadvertently tapping Reverse when she wanted Drive. Italicized to draw attention to the fact that – in Chao’s Tesla – there is no gear selector in the usual/physical sense of a lever that moves back-and-forth from Park through Reverse, then Neutral and Drive, etc. Instead, there is an icon on the touchscreen that the user – to call this person a driver is as silly as calling the person who rides an amusement park carousel horse an equestrian – taps to select forward and backward and so on.

It’s easy to make a mistake because there is no feel – other than the sensation of tapping the screen. It is not like pulling a lever backward – and past Reverse to Drive, which has a definite feel to it – though less so in most modern cars because the selector is now also an electronic  control. Still, there’s a higher degree of physicality. Much more so than the tapping of what amount to apps. When you are tapping your smartphone’s screen, how often do you make a mistake?

Chao’s was fatal.

Boeing Whistleblower: "If Anything Happens to Me, It's Not Suicide"

  "Who are you going to believe: Me or your own eyes?"

  Usually, I try to stay clear of such news, but this is an exception. 

  The guy told us explicitly that he was NOT going to commit suicide. And here we are. How criminal can the system be?

Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Modernity.news,

The Boeing whistleblower who supposedly killed himself reportedly told a close family friend not to believe it if it was announced he had committed suicide.

62-year-old John Barnett died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, the Charleston County coroner’s office in South Carolina said earlier this week.

Barnett had previously raised concerns about the company’s production issues having worked for the company for 32 years before leaving in 2017.

According to his attorneys, Barnett had “exposed very serious safety problems with the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and was retaliated against and subjected to a hostile work environment” and was in the middle of a legal deposition against Boeing.

“He was in very good spirits and really looking forward to putting this phase of his life behind him and moving on. We didn’t see any indication he would take his own life. No one can believe it,” said the attorneys.

It now turns out Barnett was telling close friends not to believe it if he supposedly committed suicide.

After family friend Jennifer asked Barnett if he was concerned for his safety, the former quality manager was emphatic.

“Aren’t you scared?” asked Jennifer. “And he said, ‘No, I ain’t scared, but if anything happens to me, it’s not suicide.'”

“I know that he did not commit suicide. There’s no way. He loved life too much. He loved his family too much. He loved his brothers too much to put them through what they’re going through right now,” she added.

According to the family friend, somebody, presumably representing Boeing, “didn’t like what he had to say” and wanted to “shut him up” without it coming back to anyone.

“That’s why they made it look like a suicide,” Jennifer said, who last saw the whistleblower in late February.

Barnett’s attorneys said they’re still prepared to go forward with the case in June.

59% of Investors Concerned About Greenwashing In Financial Industry

  What happens when people stop believing? Every single religion has to face this daunting risk. "Green" is no different. 

  Ecology is about respecting the world around you and understanding that we are part of it. Nature doesn't need to be saved, just not to be systematically destroyed for a quick profit. 

 Unfortunately "quick profit" is very much what our modern civilization is all about. So that part cannot change. What can change is green washing our activities and that is very much what "green" is all about. 

  You create fanciful enemies, CO2 for example, against which "war" is completely meaningless since carbon is THE essential element for life and on you go. Producing "less" carbon, even though the new processes usually consist in exporting carbon production to China (or other countries) and creating new cycles with elements which are far more polluting: Lithium, rare earths and a litany of metallic compounds all worse than what they replace. 

  What we need is a paradigm shift but the definition is not compatible with changing nothing which is more or less how people understand "green". What about product cycle instead of production and consumption? We're not there yet to put it mildly.      

Via City A.M.,

• Most investors with supposedly sustainable ISAs unknowingly support banks funding fossil fuels.

• Many believe sustainable funds cannot include fossil fuel companies, highlighting a lack of understanding.

• Young investors are more skeptical of greenwashing practices by financial institutions.

A majority of investors that picked their ISA based on sustainability credentials actually have their cash in providers classified as ‘worst’ for their environmental impact, new research has revealed.

Analysis from Triodos Bank UK found that investors were failing to understand the sustainability implications of where they put their money.

The research found that a majority of people (55 percent) who have a stocks and shares ISA with a provider classified as the worst on sustainability, according to Ethical Consumer rankings, actually think that their money is in a ‘green‘ ISA.

Investors are also not fully informed about the extent of what labels can be applied to ISAs, especially if they seem counter-intuitive.

For example, half of consumers don’t believe a fund or savings account can be classed as ‘sustainable’ if it includes fossil fuel companies – even those that also invest in renewable energy.

However, a sustainable label can still be slapped on a fund that invests in fossil fuels, especially if the fund claims it is working on engaging with the polluter to pressure it to cut its emissions.

Meanwhile, 55 percent of investors said they didn’t even know if their ISA was using their money in an environmentally friendly way.

Investors are clearly pushing for more sustainable investment, as 47 percent of people said that banks should not be investing in fossil fuel expansion, rising to 57 percent of 18–34 year olds.

Young investors are also more sceptical of the claims made by financial institutions, with 36 percent thinking their ISA providers are likely to be engaging in greenwashing, compared to just 10 percent of over 55s.

Roger Hattam, director of retail banking at Triodos Bank UK, said that the findings demonstrated “the worrying truth about how well-intentioned consumers are being misled about how their money is being invested”.

The Financial Conduct Authority is set to bring in new anti-greenwashing rules later this year, but the research found only 10 percent of investors were aware of the new rules.

However, Hattam described the new rules as “desperately needed”, and more than half (59 percent) of investors said they were concerned about greenwashing in the financial services industry,

“There are millions of consumers wanting their money to align with their values, but this is not yet matched with real industry commitment to clearly signpost what causes their money is actually supporting,” added Hattam.

“As well as actively screening out negatives – such as never investing in fossil fuel companies – to truly invest in people and the planet, banks need to actively fund areas that are changing the world for the better.”

Amateurs Talk Strategy, Professionals Talk Logistics

 

  Haven't seen articles from Michael Every at Rabobank for quite some time.

  Here's one below. Plenty to worry about. (And that's from an investment banker, not from a nuts survivalist going off rails!) 

By Michael Every of Rabobank

I start today with a reference to yesterday's Seinfeld focused Global Daily: a reader reminded me of the most appropriate George Costanza quote for our present times, which I had missed: "It's not a lie if you believe it." There is a lot of that about.

Of course, shills aside, a strategist should try not to lie to themself about what's going on in order to best predict what may happen. And how does one best look at what's going on? As I stress, start with precepts (how does the world work?), then look at logistics (how is the world working?). After all, as a US general once said, "amateurs talk strategy, professionals talk logistics." What's true in war is true in peace, and more so as we dive deeper into an undeclared and, for markets, unrecognised economic war.

So let's look at some of the logistical dots that have just been plotted for us. (There a lot, so don't stop after just a few, or risk missing some of the best at the end!).

In the Middle East, the Red Sea crisis is getting worse: even if few are paying attention. Try to juice demand with large rate cuts into a supply squeeze and see what happens. The maritime aid flow from Cyprus to Gaza is now starting, but won't resolve distributional issues on the ground, and experts remain sceptical about the naval pier the United States has promised. President Biden just confirmed a $10bn sanctions waiver for Iran, who is backing the Houthis, weeks after making token military strikes on its regional forces (supposedly still ongoing) as payback for killing three US soldiers. In short, peace seems a long way off.

Russia reiterated it will use a nuclear weapon if threatened, even as Ukrainian drones destroy more Russian military factories deep into the latter's territory. Ukraine is also taking out Russian oil refineries: how many more of those before markets react? Yet the larger question is "where is Russia?" given various maps of it going round.

In Europe, the ECB launched an operational review which Bas van Geffen covers in detail here. There are lots of wonkish tweaks: one is the ECB will retain a strategic bond portfolio that includes SSA bonds issued by the European Investment Bank (EIB). At the same time, the EIB will soon consider investing in the EU defense sector.

As our SSA expert Matt Cairns notes, this comes post-Ukraine, pre-Trump, and mid German rejections of joint Eurobonds to fund arms spending. The use of the EIB may prove a path of ‘less resistance' given it already lends for dual use equipment like drones or helicopters. Agreement is likely to take time, and funding will only be raised gradually at first, but the EIB’s funding target is €60bn for 2024, with authorization of up to €65bn, allowing for upside flexibility. Going even higher would be a technical formality, although Matt considers this to be some way off politically. Yet the geopolitical backdrop is as urgent as Covid, which triggered past rapid action, given the long lag times to get defence goods flowing.

What one can also say is that such a development potentially looks like part of the radical European 'strategic autonomy' policy-shift framework we proposed back in December.

In the US, the BTFP bank support scheme has ended: and nothing bad has happened (yet). At the same time, the Fed overnight reverse repo balance has risen from $445bn back up to $522bn in two days. Meanwhile, Treasury Secretary Yellen stated she does not expect US rates to decline back to their pre-COVID lows. Indeed, as Bloomberg puts it: “The three-month rate, for example, will average 5.1% this year, up from the 3.8% projected last March, White House officials said. The 10-year yield projection rose to 4.4% from 3.6%. The latter projection might have been even higher but for the intervention of Lael Brainard, director of the National Economic Council, according to people familiar with the matter prior to the release.”

If so, how are real term cuts in Pentagon spending going to be reversed ahead? Where or what is the US version of the EIB? Or are others globally going to have to do far more to stay safe in a world in which the US deliberately does far less, as it looks more to itself first?

That’s as the TikTok divestment bill passed the US House of Representatives with a huge bipartisan majority and has key backing in the Senate from some quarters, even if the body as a whole is more conservative (read: has different lobbyists) than the House; and if it passes there, President Biden has said he will sign it.

So, China is livid. So are those who worry what happens next to social media. This all seemingly swelled up 'from nothing', but didn't, and where this impetus might be directed next introduces further uncertainty into some markets.

In which, Trump is reported as floating various hedge fund billionaires as potential future Treasury Secretary should he win in 2024; but also former USTR Lighthizer, who is now an avowed Hamiltonian mercantilist. Ever heard of bait and switch? Or Hamilton? Or mercantilism?

There is more than enough acronymic-financial logistics action here than I can cover in detail today. But the underlying direction of travel seems to be fairly clear, unless you are an amateur, have something to sell, or are George Costanza.

The Climate Change Iceberg

  This is the best description you will ever find of the Climate Change Iceberg. 

  Don't worry, this one will never melt however hot it gets!

 

"THE COVID EXPERIMENT" - What really happenend at the social level!

   3 years later, people still do not understand what really happened at the social level during Covid. We, the people, were played like a fiddle and there was simply no force in the world able to resist "the players".

  In order to do something about "it", you first need to understand what really happened. But most people don't and therefore "we" as a society do not understand the game which was played. This discrepancy between what "the players" understand and what the people as a society understand gives a huge advantage to "the players". 

  Do you really believe "they" will squander this advantage and renounce to use it again?  

   But first here are some of the techniques:

The “covid experiment” was a masterclass in the use of authority to coerce, intimidate, and compel the ignorant masses into conforming to made up rules and regulations regarding lockdowns, masks, social distancing, the use of safe and effective medicines like ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, and ultimately forcing an unsafe, untested, dangerous gene altering toxin to be injected into their bodies.

The totalitarian regime which inflicted this global horror show upon humanity has no hesitation in faking data in order to further their evil agenda, so their statistics showing 81% of Americans received at least one jab seem suspect. Overestimating the number who have submitted is a method for convincing more sheep to do so. I would estimate that closer to 60% of adults got the jab, under threat of sanctions, loss of job, and/or loss of privileges.

The Venn Diagram below is an accurate portrayal of the techniques used by the “authorities” in conducting this worldwide experiment in how far they could push people before they pushed back. From the perspective of our overlords, this experiment was a tremendous success, setting the stage for their next planned existential threat exercise to abscond with more of our wealth, while increasing their power and control over our lives. Continued submission to their demands will result in continued loss of our liberties, freedoms, and civil rights.

“The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.” ― Stanley Milgram

“Control the manner in which a man interprets his world, and you have gone a long way toward controlling his behavior. That is why ideology, an attempt to interpret the condition of man, is always a prominent feature of revolutions, wars, and other circumstances in which individuals are called upon to perform extraordinary action.” ― Stanley Milgram, Obedience to Authority

The only thing missing from the Venn Diagram is an overlay of Edward Bernays’ Propaganda, providing the blueprint of how to utilize the regime media propaganda outlets to enforce whatever message was needed to support the particular authoritarian narrative of the day. Key aspects of all three experiments were utilized during the covid plandemic to achieve the desired outcomes of the ruling class, in using authoritarian measures to force the masses to do as they were told, or else. Fear and loathing toward our government has been the outcome of this covid experiment. I steadfastly stand on the loathing side. The brief descriptions below capture the gist of the experiments:

Milgram Authority Experiment

A series of social psychology experiments were conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram, who intended to measure the willingness of study participants to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts conflicting with their personal conscience. Participants were led to believe that they were assisting an unrelated experiment, in which they had to administer electric shocks to a “learner”. These sham or fake electric shocks gradually increased to levels that would have been fatal had they been real.

Stanford Prison Experiment

The Stanford Prison Experiment set out to examine the psychological effects of authority and powerlessness in a prison environment. The study, led by psychology professor Philip G. Zimbardo, recruited Stanford students using a local newspaper ad. Twenty-four students were carefully screened and randomly assigned into groups of prisoners and guards. The experiment, which was scheduled to last 1-2 weeks, ultimately had to be terminated on only the 6th day as the experiment escalated out of hand when the prisoners were forced to endure cruel and dehumanizing abuse at the hands of their peers. The experiment showed, in Dr. Zimbardo’s words, how “ordinary college students could do terrible things.”

Asch Conformity Experiment

The Asch conformity experiments were a series of psychological experiments conducted by Solomon Asch in the 1950s. The experiments revealed the degree to which a person’s own opinions are influenced by those of a group. Asch found that people were willing to ignore reality and give an incorrect answer in order to conform to the rest of the group.

Various adaptations of the Milgram Authority experiment were used during the “covid experiment” to further their aims. We’ve seen the videos of covid authoritarians inflicting pain upon average Americans, forcefully arresting them for swimming alone in the ocean, surfing, sitting in a public park, jogging, and having a catch in their yard with their kids. Inflicting pain upon those not following the “covid rules” was embraced by the Karens and Chads across the land. They wanted the non-conformists (aka critical thinkers) to be fired from their jobs, censored on social media, fined, imprisoned, and made into social pariahs. They wished death upon the un-vaxxed and did victory dances when an un-vaxxed person died. Milgram would have been proud of these petty tyrant psychopaths.

The Stanford Prison experiment showed ordinary people could become cruel fascistic sociopaths almost upon command, inflicting pain and torture upon those they have been told deserve to be treated inhumanely. Authoritarian governors like Cuomo, Murphy, Whitmer, Wolf, and Newsom murdered senior citizens by putting infected patients into the senior living centers. Doctors, hospital administrators, and nurses murdered patients by putting them on ventilators, administering Remdesivir, and denying patients ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine. Biden, Fauci, Trump, Walensky and the Big Pharma industrial complex have murdered and injured millions through the roll-out of their multi-billion dollar jab of death. The ongoing imprisonment of January 6 Capital tourists in the dungeons of DC without trial is cruel and inhuman punishment as a message for all critical thinkers exercising their First Amendment rights.

The Asch Conformity experiment was clearly borne out during the covid scamdemic. People conform to the will of the crowd, even though their brain tells them the crowd is wrong. They don’t want to be the disruptive black sheep in a flock of submissive white sheep. Virtually every person, when told to wear a mask, did so with no push back, even though scientific studies proved masks DO NOT WORK. The masses conformed because they believed Fauci (aka The Science), Biden, Trump, fake experts on their boob tubes, low IQ Hollywood shills, lower IQ athletes paid by Big Pharma, and the talking heads/bimbos spouting the covid propaganda narrative on the regime media outlets. Rather than do their own research, the intellectually lazy, igadget distracted, social media addicted, government school indoctrinated dumbasses decided to conform, obey, and believe everything they were told.

If you didn’t believe we were ruled by an invisible government (aka Deep State) of men who pull the strings of society and manipulate the minds of the masses to achieve whatever outcome benefits themselves, then the “covid experiment” should remove all doubt. The entire covid episode was planned beforehand (Event 201) with multiple objectives, all to the benefit of those conducting this experiment, with us as the disposable test subjects in their diabolical plot. The hubris of these tyrants has grown to epic proportions, as they see their “experiment” as an unmitigated triumph of authoritarian measures.

We know maybe 20% to 30% of the population resisted the measures imposed by the Deep State ruling class, therefore distinguishing themselves as the sole fly in the ointment of the “covid experiment”. There is no doubt they will be introducing their next “experiment” in totalitarianism within the next nine months, as the presidential election potentially derails their ongoing efforts to pillage and plunder the remaining wealth accumulated by the plebs. Will it be an engineered financial collapse, an invasion of Haitian cannibals, another lab created disease, activation of the millions of illegal invaders to create chaos, a coordinated takedown of the electrical grid/internet, assassinating Trump and initiating civil war, or finally crossing Putin’s red line in Ukraine and triggering global conflict?

Resistance during the “covid experiment” meant not going along with their narrative and directives. It was more of a passive resistance. It didn’t stop them from accomplishing their aims. They used the experiment to ramp Federal spending from $4.4 trillion to over $7 trillion, with most of the increase going directly into their Deep State pockets, while leaving the plebs with raging inflation, an enormous increase in their debt load, and a drastically reduced standard of living.

The EV Delusion Crumbles: Major Automakers Are Out!

  And sure enough although we're still in the take off stage, the EV souffle is already deflating. 

  Except for their low range, high insurance cost, low resale value and high repair cost EV are great cars.They of course cost too much but if all you need is a small second car to do some urban shopping on a Saturday afternoon, their are almost perfect.

  On thing we are starting to understand though is that in spite of all the hype they are not green. Far from it. Too bad, so many people were feeling so good doing their part saving the planet (while doing absolutely nothing but what they would have done otherwise!) Well, we'll have to think about something else, then...

Source: Insider Newsletter Issue 191

FLIP FLOP

It’s almost like there’s something wrong with the idea of EVs. I can’t put my finger on it. Maybe it’s the fact that when you trot down to your neighbourhood EV dealer, stopping for a soy latte and some tofu, you’re buying an expensive iPhone on wheels (and we all know what the resale value of a 5 or 10-year old iPhone is like).

You tell yourself you’re excited to be saving the planet as you power the bad boy up with some vegan electricity subsidised by the pronoun compliant guvmint, but now those subsidies are now being pulled (governments are bankrupt — surprise), and your vegan electricity is being imported from Indonesian coal mines and it’s costing a lot more than your old planet killing V8 supercharged testosterone-boosting muscle car and you’re pissed. Or maybe it’s the cost? Or maybe most people just don’t appreciate being forced to switch their car because the alphabet people say so?

It could be any of these things, but you know what? If you ask me, it’s quite simple. It is this very simple metric by which so much of human behaviour can be deduced. When it comes to buying isht, what folks want is a high quality item at a reasonable price and one that is more competitive than alternatives. The fact is that when it comes to their wallet nobody gives a pig’s arse about saving the planet. And THAT, my friends, is where the EV fraud stumbles, trips, and then jarringly smashes its face into a brick wall of reality.

And this brings us to our beer-drinking, bratwurst-eating friends — some of the best designers and manufacturers of cars ever. The Germans, specifically, Audi, who are doing a massive U-turn on electric vehicles. DROPPING their earlier goal of producing only electric vehicles by 2026. And they’re not the only ones.

Audi puts big EV push on the back burner

CEO Gernot Döllner told Bloomberg. “In the end, we decided to spread it out to not overwhelm the team and the dealerships.

Hahaha! That’s what he actually said to Bloomberg, but you know what he’d say to his mates down at the local beer hall? He’d tell them what an insider in the European automotive industry told us over a year ago — that there is bugger all demand for these stupid things and that many of the European auto manufacturers were going to land up being stuck with unwanted inventory… and some would probably “not make it through.”

Speaking of “others.” Mercedes Benz are also doing the same. They are bailing on EVs and instead are ramping up production of ICEs.

Mercedes-Benz delays electrification goal, beefs up combustion engine line-up

The company now expects sales of electrified vehicles, including hybrids, to account for up to 50% of the total by 2030 – five years later than its forecast from 2021, when it aimed to hit the 50% milestone by 2025 with mostly all-electric cars.

And perhaps most curious of the bunch: Apple. After 16 years of teasing entry into the EV market, Apple just bailed on their long-awaited electric car.

After 16 Years, Apple Abandons Work On Electric Car

One other thing worth mentioning is that Apple sits on a gobsmacking $162 billion in cash. And even with all that cash, they decided to pass on the “EV revolution.”

What to make of all this? As we like to say around here, everyone is a greenie until it hits their pocket. It seems to me that maybe, just maybe, Audi, Mercedes, and Apple have figured out that EVs are not the silver bullet they were promised to be.

And speaking of Apple, guess what they’re focusing on instead…

Many employees from the Special Projects Group (SPG), responsible for the car, will transition to the artificial intelligence division led by executive John Giannandrea. Their focus will shift to generative AI projects, aligning with the company’s evolving priorities.

Douglas Macgregor interview - What's wrong with the West (Video - 43mn)

  It is easy to become desperate in the West if you listen to the current light weight politicians. Some are truly imbeciles (A former UK prime minister comes to mind!), others like Macron, the president of France conspicuously put the interest of the Globalists ahead of those of the countries they are supposed to represent. 

 So obviously when you listen to the analysis of someone like Douglas Macgregor, it is easy to be stunned by the depth of knowledge and analysis. 

 But conversely, shouldn't it be the minimum to expect from a politician? Nowadays, you need a license to practice almost any job in the West from driving a car to cutting hairs. But to manage a country, one of the most complex endeavor you can tackle in the modern world: Nothing! In fact the stupider you are the better. Don't think, just read what the teleprompter is telling you to say, even poorly, that's OK, the Medias will correct and amplify the message!

 Here Douglas Macgregor is tackling competently complex issues. You can agree or disagree but at least you get the elements to give the problems a thought. A breath of fresh air in a bleak ideological landscape!