“A TANGLED WEB WE WEAVE” - July 2024 Updates
“When First We Practice To Deceive” - Year’s End 2022
Forward to the July 31, 2024 rewrite:
This is a light refashioning of an essay I wrote in December of 2022 - back when one of our main concerns was the fabric of the digital web which now rules our world.
Oh What A Tangled Web Weave
This phrase sounds very Shakespearean - but it comes from Sir Walter Scott1:
This full poem is well worth reading to begin to gain an at least partial concept of how long we have been fighting the wars which only ever benefit the oligarchs. 2
Just in the isolated instance of my own family history I have ancestors who have fought in just about every war held by the oligarchs - from Flodden Field through WW II.
From our perspective now - with what we know about the CrowdStrike outage, the desperately sick airing of the Olympic opening ceremonies and more, the awful tragedy unfolding in England and the terrible violence being unloosed in American politics - we come to understand that those who desire peace and sanity continue to loose ground.
We also learn the hard way that there is nothing new about totalitarianism - that it has been deeply embedded in our cultural consciousness - our civilizations - for a long time.3
It is no accident or coincidence that we see in the electronic-digital gulag of the 15 minute cities the same footprint of the techno-feudalists - or techno-totalitarians.
The December 2022 essay:
Truly my aim is not to make y’all sick. However when I see the tangled web which has us snared I can’t help but share any facts which help illuminate the existence and purpose of it. It is both sickening and sick making. This is a years end wrap up of the death dealing toxic effluvia of some very sick minds.
Despite these long years of dismantling the conspiracy in hopes of seeing us all overcome it, the more familiar I become with the nature of it the more impressed I am at our patience in allowing it to stand.
Over the past year I have written mostly short exercises in questioning the nature of such evil. The internet, mainstream media, all of our major corporations, our medical care - bought and sold. Threatening our Children’s education, our Children’s physical and emotional health. To the health of our food, air and water.
Thanks to reader Dave Reed for posting the following in a comment:
Every city across the planet - ensnared. Even wilder and remote places - 100% owned. “Buying paradise and putting up a parking lot” is not simply a song anymore. The self-described elite have bought it and can surround it with barbed wire if they choose. Witness the same Larry Ellison mentioned below:
As we approach New Years Day 2023 let’s take another look from a slightly different perspective. We all need to force ourselves to think outside these boxes they try to force us into.
As ever trust your New Year’s celebrations will be Epic! To 2023!
A late breaking addition on the tangled web of finances behind the Techno-feudalists.
https://open.substack.com/pub/lex/p/long-take-can-fifth-third-be-the?r=boqs0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Appreciate the restack!!