FOOLING MOST OF THE PEOPLE MOST OF THE TIME
You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time
You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time
The ability to see past pretty words to what is actually the intention of the speaker is an essential task for any citizen. Seeing past the facile words of Yuval Noah Harari to his actual intent is not easy. If he raises the hackles of your spidey sense then you are fortunate. Everything about these videos are intended to deceive. Harari is a frequently featured partner of our friends at the World Economic Forum (WEF). I will leave the conclusions to be garnered from these videos to the readers.
Current circumstances are enhancing our abilities to become ever more adept at being highly skeptical and our abilities to celebrate irony. They force us to be better at both. It seems if history has taught us anything it is that the advent of new fascism triggers certain reliable social indicators.
The first is perhaps the tendency to use more acerbic, caustic wit laced with irony. Fascism inspires in normal people a desire to make wicked fun of the super organized and uptight fascists, so pompous and robot-like in character. As the mainstream propaganda contingent becomes increasingly dedicated to the ridiculous, slavish popular narratives we sharpen our skills.
Years before Naziism rose to power in pre WW II Europe several things became popular, especially in the Weimar republic. But these expanded worldwide as the economic storms merged with the political storms engulfing the planet.
Promotion and expansion of gender bending activity
The nightclub life with all the trimmings
https://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2018/09/revue-rave-in-berlin-1920s-club-culture
https://historycollection.com/17-reasons-why-germanys-weimar-republic-was-a-party-lovers-paradise/
Disturbing cultural expressions
In order to help disguise the rise of totalitarianism with confusion the normal social boundaries existing in the population break down. Deliberate tactics of divide and conquer are used. The integrity of the family is attacked. Sex becomes used as a tool to further destroy rather than support relationships. Any boundaries offered by gender become deliberately blurred. Race is used as a tool to further divide. Economic boundaries become more sharply defined and used as a wedge tool.
Anything which enhances the peaceful functioning of the social order is deliberately destroyed.
Today we have a number of extreme examples.
Immigration is changed from a positive, controlled process into a deliberate destabilization.
Definitions of gender are blurred and used as a wedge to further divide.
Families are attacked by the adoption of child-harming practices by educators
Race, sex, and economics are used as further dividing tools
Health practices are used as a dividing tool. From abortion to masks, vaccines and lockdowns.
Virtue signaling becomes widespread as the public becomes further stratified into “they” and “them”
Normalization of violence
8. Use of racism and sexism used as reverse tactics to divide
Purposeful stratification of the rich over the poor
Why Do Totalitarians Engender Such Comedy?
The Popular narrative becomes increasingly absurd until people actually debate such questions as what defines a boy or girl, man or woman. When this point is reached we know the force of tyranny has risen sharply. Individuals bend the knee so thoroughly as to be willing to ridicule themselves. They become subservient to the emperors who have no clothes.
The pompous goose stepping of the uniformed WW II Nazis gave birth to some epic comedy in earlier times.
All reminders that we have been here before.
Today’s Nazis aren’t necessarily as entertaining as the WW II variety but possibilities exist. The Davos Country Clubbers give us hope for further irony. They do have the Uber villain figure in Klaus Schwab. Some of their partners offer potential. From Joe Biden, through Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Putin, Angela Merkel, Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak, Bill Gates, Boris Johnson, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Elizabeth Holmes, Larry Ellison, and to the Elon Musk capers we have epic examples. Their mugshots reverberate in our brains. If they don’t goose step entertainingly it is not because they have haven’t tried. They don’t even have the talent or self respect to become decent Nazis. They live in fear of being discovered as frauds.
So once again, nearly 100 years after the rising roots of fascism in the 1920’s, having “once and for all” defeated the Nazis we have a planet infested with New World Nazis and their minions. They have had a lot of time and money to plan and implement all this. Money and time we the people have given them. For no power rises without the support of the people. Restraining and potentially rescinding that power is the greatest duty of citizens. It is not easy and it too takes time, resources, and money. The most important characteristics of citizens are highly skeptical, jaundiced views of power. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
We don’t need political degrees to cultivate such forewarned and forearmed citizens. To have such citizens we require free speech and ideally actual, physical town squares where we can reinforce our wishes in an integrated manner. The last thing any would-be fascist desires is that we the people speak and meet freely. This raises the potential that the people will rise against them.
My hope is that some very talented folks will make good use of these villains to create epic humor. We are going to need it.
FOOLING MOST OF THE PEOPLE MOST OF THE TIME
More ballistic incoming from Harari and the WEF:
https://youtu.be/hQ3uCSl1X8o
They don’t seem to be capable of helping themselves.
Excellent essay. Insightful your comparison to Nazi Germany. I came across a book recently by Eric Metaxas called "Letter to the American Church", about the similarities between the American Church and the German Church in the 1930's. How they both did not speak up against evil. He previously wrote a book on Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German pastor who did and was eventually killed by them.