An Epidemic of Low Expectations
David Perez
Years ago, I was sitting in a café with my rabble-rousing friend James, both of us gnawing our teeth over the myriad difficulties facing the peace and social justice movement in the United States. We cited the usual suspects that stood in the way of progress: the entrenched corporate and financial elite; the embedded Pentagon machine; too much TV.
“But you know what our biggest problem is?” James said, growing animated. “It’s our low expectations! Think about it, man. Folks in this country will always fight back when pushed hard enough, yet we always seem to settle for crumbs, grateful to achieve anything. And that’s because we’ve accepted that we can’t win much anymore. I mean, yeah, we want a better world, can imagine one, but we don’t expect it, not really.”
James went on to say that our expectations are triply low when it comes to the political and electoral arena, where choosing between lesser evils seems the best we can do, the most we can hope for.
“We accept that they’re all a bunch of crooks and lairs and even murderers,” he said. “But for the most part, we don’t settle for that ‘quality’ about our teachers and doctors—or even our car mechanics!”
James had a point, and his words ring truer to me now than when he uttered them a decade ago. This lowering of the bar has gone on for so long that having a president who can speak in complete sentences is considered a lofty achievement. If the sentences are about the righteousness of war and empire, well, who cares if they’re slurred or bellowed as long as they can work a crowd?
It seems increasingly the case now that we live under an epidemic of low expectations; a resignation to despair that has narrowed our struggle and sapped our vision of what is possible. The system we live under so broken, that even good, intelligent people, generous of heart and spirit, are losing the capacity to imagine genuine alternatives to a US Empire mired in endless wars and escalating repression. It’s to the point where even common sense issues devolve into a bewildering and complex morass.
What, for instance, could be easier to figure out than nationalized healthcare for all, which exists in one form or another virtually everywhere?
Yet a lot of progressives have been trained to lower their expectations to think this is simply too complicated to do, resulting in a continuous loop of being “realistic and “practical” because, hey, what can we do?
Of course, expectations are part of the human condition. Some we’re consciously aware of. Many others, we are not. Often they produce stress. Expectations that are too high can lead a sense of failure, to feeling frustrated, angry, and demoralized. Conversely, when our expectations about ourselves, life, and others are too low, we experience depression, defeatism, and diminished self-esteem.
I’m infected with this epidemic also. A steady, and at times debilitating belief that the best we can do is keep up the good fight, lumber forward and play the crummy cards we’ve been dealt.
On the hand, there are days when, against all odds, I’m able to resurrect at least a modicum of revolutionary optimism, a belief based not on abstract hope but in the power of collective action; in the knowledge that a people’s movement has won before and can do so again, even when victory seems impossible, distant at best.
David Perez is a writer, journalist, activist, and actor living in Taos, New Mexico.
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What is said here about taking the crumbs. We should take the whole loaf and accept nothing less. We need to educate ourselves and fight the injustice. We need to support in any way we can anyone who is fighting on our behalf. We should never take no for an answer from people that we fund, not only government and publicly funded bodies but businesses who cannot survive without our patronage
Zip, nada, nowt……………yep, the obvious need for a Public Inquiry, and whilst that kicks off just to make sure it’s a goer, a full case of ‘cancel culture’ applied to the 99% of Mp’s who’ve been AWOL and the next election.
You’d think people in their 50’s, 60’s…. would be all over this, a Public Inquiry not least to make sure they when they finally end up in an old people home, the damage that they’ve seen against the current inmates isn’t re-visited on them…..YOU LIKE TO THINK SO, but so far, not a murmur……All i hear is ‘bar bar black sheep’
THERE IS NO ALTERNATIVE.
(Margaret Thatcher)
OR IS THERE…?
(The People)
There’s always an alternative in this context – you are either for the people, justice and freedom or against it. At this juncture no other position is possible unless you want to live in a completely totalitarian regime based on international corporate fascism. 🛂 Your papers please!
Ah! Freedom and Justice!
This will never be obtained if people do not change the disposition of their souls first and then become effectively organized to take “collective action” in the appropriate manner throughout the different countries of the world.
Justice and freedom by peaceful means can only be obtained by replacing the present corrupt legal system with a system based on common law principles, Courts and peace constables appointed by the CLC and answerable to it.
Unless that happens then nothing is likely to change for the betterment of humanity. The same corrupt judges, politicians and their ‘advisors’ will remain in situ and get away with perpetuating this fraudulent scamdemic which is scheduled to go on indefinitely until global totalitarianism is implemented along with their Great Reset.
The conception of freedom and justice in a democracy is the conception of a mediocrity, as such these are no more than base, diverse, but base. The dictatorship of the ‘we’, the majority, which is at the same time a uniform block and a chaotic variety. High flying ideas do not stand any chance in a system of the rule of a mediocrity guided by what are deep down, cynical and skeptical establishments. The ideals which democratic people hold onto are copied from a historical elite, they where the inspirational force behind them. When the rebellious democratic people took over, the ideals gradually lost their inspirational force, and as such they became dogmatized and obsessed over to the point of absurdity. By now establishments have their mouth full of these ideals, but they are hollowed out, turned to empty uninspired phrases. A such, by taking control the democratic peoples dug… Read more »
Low expectations: Hong Kong has declared that all restaurant staff can either get the jab or the restaurant will have to continue to endure social distancing to reduce the number of clients. For bars, all the staff get the jab or the bar cannot open. The deal is: you can keep your job if you do as we say, otherwise you lose your job. We knew this day was coming, even though we were lambasted as conspiracy theorists. We knew that the people in charge were cunts and we have been proved right: that is one small victory. Although the CCP are authoritarians – so this is no surprise – the people of Hong Kong are Zombies: they have no spirit so will not fight back. The democracy protests were obviously organised by a different group of people to those I see walking the streets these days. The virus has… Read more »
Low expectations: The CCP is now demanding that church leaders answer to the CCP before God. They wouldn’t demand it if they didn’t have good reason to believe that it will work.
Our lives are headed in a very boring, tiresome direction which will probably involve a lot of us suffering while the rich enjoy life.
Why is this happening? It is happening because your neighbours are worthless shite.
Besides the fact that restaurants are primarily vain attempts by the middle class to ape the rich and that the world would be better off without either, there is the misconception that the rich are even capable of enjoying life.
Clearly they are not; and the proof is in their obsessive pre-occupation with other people – namely, the 7 plus billion who are not rich. Happy people, enjoying their lives, do not concern themselves with what the rest of the world is doing.
Enjoyment of life does not proceed from the ever present fear that someone will come along and take what you have. Fear is at a premium among the rich; otherwise they would not spend so much time devising ways to exploit then hold at bay everyone else.
The poorest beggars on the planet exist with far less fear than the richest moguls. .
Perceptive social commentary about restaurant culture. The same applies to holidays abroad. Ape the rich and max out your credit card. Eat the rich and never have to use a credit card again.
The poorest in Hong Kong eat at restaurants. Many restaurants provide reduced charges for the elderly and poor. Hong Kong also has a space problem and many poor people do not have a kitchen, bathroom or sink.
Hong Kong still has community, so the old and poor are helped by the people around them but less so by the government.
Those poor people that eat in restaurants are aping the rich, and the people that help them are wreckers.
Destroy the restaurant.
Except the super-luxury 15-course exclusive banquet restaurants.
Where would the Party bosses eat?
re: “Yet a lot of progressives have been trained to lower their expectations…”
Progressives have long abandoned the idea of actually progressing on anything substantial. As they are tied at the hip to the Democratic Party and and therefore to neoliberal ideology, they have seamlessly slid into progressivism as simply another identity to circle the wagons around. In the ’90’s they embraced the discursive social engineering of political correctness (e.g. to use the word “ghetto” became taboo but the bleak reality of poor urban black communities remained unchanged). As we have seen for the last 4 years at least, they quickly toe the Party line when told to do so.
Mr Perez seems to have missed the very essence of expectations – at least among the majority. Lets turn to (of all people) Donald Rumsfeld. His “known knowns and unknown knowns” is one of the most ironically salient things ever uttered. The “expectations” that always seem to come up short are not the real, true expectations (the “unknowns”) but rather the “feel good” expectations (the “knowns”) which most people don’t really give a shit about anyway – you know: peace, freedom, equality. The real expectations are as high as ever. These would be the “what can I get out of it” expectations. War, poverty, hunger, enslavement, sickness: it’s not about ending these, it’s about what they can do for me. It’s time – high time – we started looking at real people and ceased looking for the ridiculous and elusive high “expectation” we have of others. They don’t want a… Read more »
V. intresting article by Yeadon https://dailyexpose.co.uk/2021/04/25/an-exclusive-interview-with-dr-mike-yeadon/?utm_campaign=meetedgar&utm_medium=social&utm_source=meetedgar.com
Why is this guy pushing the ‘variant” theme? Hasn’t he heard about what eating toxic chemicals everyday does to people? Oh, yeah, I fergot, he’s ejumucatid.
I’d say the cards are not crummy but the play is. Health is something the body is naturally designed for and it is very acheivable to create healthy ecosystems and eat the fresh vibrant foods.
I call BULLSHIT. If ever I’ve seen a sign of a degenerate society, here it is: More than half of generation Z gay, bisexual teenage boys report being out to parents by American Psychological Association https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-04-gay-bisexual-teenage-boys-parents.html “A majority of gay and bisexual Generation Z teenage boys report being out to their parents, part of an uptick in coming out among young people that researchers have noted in recent decades, according to research published by the American Psychological Association. However, stigma and religious beliefs still prevent some young people from disclosing their sexual identity. This study offers a glimpse into the coming out practices of Generation Z, those born between 1998 and 2010, a group that researchers are only beginning to study.” And also, what else is associated with them? Vaccines, toxins, horrible food, subversive psychological projections, etc? What are their health statuses like, you know, disease levels, abuse rates, etc?… Read more »
unfortunately the mendicants you describe are the vanguard of ‘activists’ that are going to save us all.. with peace and love and tranny toilets..
funny that..
Firstly, I doubt the validity of ANYTHING the APA says. It’s highly unlikely there are so many gays.
Secondly, as I’ve been proposing for decades, homosexuality is a natural brake put on overpopulation. So as the population grows beyond the Earth’s carrying capacity, one would expect (as in “expectations”) to see a growing number, even a growing percent, of gays.
We don’t have a natural predator (except ourselves) to cull the population. So nature had to come up with some alternate means of reducing the population.
Dude, the myth of scarcity is causing the shadow called overpopulation. Try Democracy now, or something. We ain’t takin’ that bait. Oh, and, Brawndo has electrolytes, it’s what plants crave.
People have this amazing ability to mis-read things. I was responding to the absurd notion that homosexuality represents a degradation of humanity – and only parenthetically noted that it could reasonably proceed from conditions of overpopulation.
And – Boom! – the Climate Change Is A Great Big Hoax crowd takes the overpopulation notation and runs with it. We already know that scarcity is a manufactured condition; so of course there’s plenty of food for everyone; it’s just not being distributed correctly. But living consists of more than simply eating.
Many other factors are also driving down fertility, e.g. hormone disruptors, other poisoning, despair, rising expectation, etc. Approaching the subject with epithets and condemnation such as satanic, evil, loser, etc. will not bring any understanding or progress. In fact, the manipulators do not want any common (popular) understanding or tolerance, except selectively.
Uhm…I didn’t know my cavedweller story would be so prescient.
Out of the cave: French isolation study ends after 40 days (Update)
https://phys.org/news/2021-04-cave-french-isolation-days.html
“For 40 days and 40 nights, the group lived in and explored the cave as part of the Deep Time project. There was no sunlight inside, the temperature was 10 degrees Celsius (50 F) and the relative humidity stood at 100%. The cave dwellers had no contact with the outside world, no updates on the pandemic nor any communications with friends or family.”
People’s expectations are all bent out of shape, not necessarily too low. When it suits the generational crime syndicates (new name for the self-professed elite!) people can be brainwashed into ridiculously excessive expectations. Zero Covid is one clear example. Nobody should ever die exhibiting flu-like symptoms ever again is a nonsense expectation. People were also brainwashed into having ridiculously excessive expectations about their parents and their partners. The goal here was to fracture relationships and leave people atomised. Science has been another area of manufactured excessive expectations. People expect they’ll be travelling to Mars with Elon soon. It’s a giant scam and part of their science cult. Weaponised high expectations are as dangerous as low expectations. It’s a question of assessing what our expectations are, where have they come from and do they serve certain agendas? Any knee-jerk reactions need to be sifted out because these will tend to be… Read more »
Zero Covid
zero carbon
trust the plan
trust the science
you start to see very subversive usage of wordings that get put in to the consciousness and normalized and repeated
most of the herd’s expectations are dependant upon what toxic info-du-jour has been ‘injected’ via sly-pad into what’s left of their tiny little minds..
gazing at the pretty colours and surgically altered imbeciles, drool running down their fat chins…
Anybody who wants to get a grip on a large part of this outrage, should watch Sheepfarm parts 8 to 12. The journalistic work of these two down to earth guys is outstanding, and despite the horror of what they are revealing, they actually manage to laugh as they ridicule the evil clowns behind this in the UK.
yeah found that on YT very interesting re the abuse
bojo is not Turkish that crap . he is Jewish – big difference
sheep farm is pushing a angle ! for who though
he is most likely a donmeh jew, though the fat mendicant claims ‘jewish ancestry®’ so it is tautological.. some what like rothschilde place holders cameron and osbourne..
also all three were bullingdon boys, irascible rich ‘dining club’ twerps who when not avoiding the local constabulary after smashing up the odd restaurant or two, liked nothing more than to ‘finish’ the evening sadistically burning fifty quid notes in front of tramps and urchins, no doubt cackling with glee..
however you dice it he is a janissary, the whole cabinet is nothing but..
he’s also a priapic hunchbacked imbecile….
Lol … Nice description. Fucking twats. Someone should take a cricket bat to their testicles.
He’s half-American – hence Brexit etc
The article is direct, mercifully short, and shows a healthy attitude. On the other hand, it’s written as an exchange between “progressives.” “Progressives” are, by definition, people to who define themselves as “the” bringers of improvement in the world. Imagine reading of a historical story of an ancient group of people who called themselves “the enlightened,” or “the righteous.” <chortles> It’s ridiculous. It’s a conceit of a group of people called middle class, who compared to the majority of the sort of modern courtiers about to be turned into plain slaves and sufficiently detached from reality to have trouble recognising that fact. Anyway: If you act on the basis of expectations in this world, you’re bound to get confused & disappointed. It’s a radically different matter if you act out of sheer joy originating in an idealism of a – much purer form. What is that idealism? For starters, the real… Read more »
Just thinking about the current insanity and literary therapy. The dystopian novel in the age of totalitarianism and unreason. The usual list as follows:
George Orwell, naturally, Animal Farm, 1984, Coming Up for Air, Burmese Days.
Jack London – The Iron Heel, People of the Abyss
Aldous Huxley – Brave New World
Arthur Koestler – Darkness at Noon
Franz Kafka – The Trial
But, in my humble opinion, the best – Yevgeny Zamyatin – We
There, that should keep you sane.
Don – for a more contemporary (and still well-written) view of the possible (likely?) not-too-far-off future, I would add Lionel Shriver’s The Mandibles to your list.
so why haven’t they ( haha ‘they’ ) been publishing books with a future that turns out better???? – I guess the old ‘don’t give them ideas’ meme comes into play somewhere here. Anyway – a vision of a positive future, wrapped around a pretty good story, if I may – Green Island – the poster http://www.rudemacedon.ca/greenisland/green%20island%20poster%20may%202015%20big.pdf and an intro to the book – https://www.rudemacedon.ca/greenisland.html (with link to a ‘pay what you will (including nothing)’ epub link somewhere
Given the nature of humanity, it would be an expectation so high as to be surreal to imagine a positive outcome to everything that has gone before.
The old saw “One step forward, two steps back” comes off as quaint wishful thinking.
The fact that people somehow imagine technology will create a better world (such as Peter Joseph’s “Zeitgeist”) proves how completely gullible humanity is.
Agriculture’s Greatest Myth https://www.independentsciencenews.org/commentaries/agricultures-greatest-myth/ “Nevertheless, this purported flaw in sustainable and local agriculture represents a curious charge because, no matter where one looks in global agriculture, food prices are low because products are in surplus. Often, they are in huge surplus, even in the hungriest countries. … The Myth of a Food Crisis identifies four assumptions in food system models that are especially problematic since they have major effects on the reliability of modeling predictions. In summary, these are: 1) That biofuels are driven by “demand”. As the paper shows, biofuels are incorporated into GAPS on the demand side of equations. However, biofuels derive from lobbying efforts. They exist to solve the problem of agricultural oversupply (Baines, 2015). Since biofuels contribute little or nothing to sustainability, land used for them is available to feed populations if needed. This potential availability (e.g. 40% of US corn is used for corn ethanol) makes… Read more »
Well now I definitely can’t post.
Oh look, someone noticed…
https://science.news/2021-04-25-powerful-solar-flare-jams-radio-signals-over-the-pacific-ocean.html
I guess you’ve not gotten the hint yet, though.
I like how the “experts” say “Weakest cycle” and then they also say “Possibly strongest cycle ever”.
I had a “vision” about that a day or two ago, btw. But I guess if I said it’ll be strong, that’s entirely speculative. And you wouldn’t want to have high expectations, so.
You are correct. The GAPS paper points out serious and obvious flaws in production and accountability. Cotton production should be replaced by far more practical and efficient use of hemp based textiles. GMO wheat is toxic garbage, and should be augmented by Barley, Rye, and non-genetically altered grains such as Spelt and Oats.
The Bio fuels industries are grossly subsidized by the usual government/capital alliances, and yield wonderfully inefficient use of agricultural lands. It takes 5 times more petrochemical energy to produce ethanol than the paltry energy derived from the ethanol.
The sheeple continue to eat chemical swill from the company store, grow more incompetent and obese, and piss and whine about the very things they are at liberty to ignore.
Please let someone in the UK in on the secret.
well-meaning people who actually wanted a decent health care system could figure it out easily enough – but when everything has to be filtered through the dominant capitalist paradigm of ‘nothing happens if we don’t get a decent cut!!!’, by people who pretend to want a health care system but are actually capitalist pawns doing all they can to sabotage it – yea, then it’s a bit difficult
What’s in the Shot, Shedding Update and How to Resist. Apr 22, 2021. Partial transcription of a deep discussion by multiple medical experts into adverse effects and possible transmission after the shot. https://rumble.com/vfyvcn-critically-thinking-with-dr.-t-and-dr.-p-episode-44.html “There is something being passed from people who have been shot with this poison to others who have not gotten the shot. The people who had the shot should be quarantined and have a badge on their arm” — Dr. Larry Palevsky MD “Something is being produced by the body of the vaccinated person that is possibly affecting others” — Dr Christiane Northrup MD Dr. Lee Merritt MD: The spike protein is only part of the Covid virus… A prion is a misfolded protein. The way they weaponized the spike protein is by inserting a gene that allows it to have a foreign cleavage… to allow it to bind with your ACE2 pathway… an artificial 3D confirmation… Read more »
Know the enemy. As Dr Larry Palevsky said, we’ve lost our government. We are being ruled. Dr Lee Merritt mentioned PNAC and the psychopaths who recommended bioweapons as a “politically useful tool”.
List of PNAC Signatories and Contributing Writers
http://www.publiceye.org/pnac_chart/pnac.html
See also: http://www.takeoverworld.info/pnac_signers.html
https://duluthreader.com/articles/2019/09/12/113542-a-think-tank-named-pnac
‘ Those who are getting injected are actually the lepers, are the pariahs, and are making healthy people who have never been injected get Covid symptoms (including bleeding), miscarriages and death.’
Well, that is a giant leap…
Would like to see this backed by evidence, before concluding that ‘viruses’ as described above a) exist and b) actually spread through air.
This story also reminds me a little too much of Vonnegut’s cat’s cradle, where life on earth was extinguished by a mad man through ‘ice nine’
When stories remind me of stories, they just may be that, stories..
Ice nine, described by a commenter on internet
‘One of the things I thought creepiest about ice-nine was how it spread: ‘teaching’ water on contact, which in turn can spread the effect.
Not quite as simple or catastrophic as ice-nine, but spookily relevant in the way it ‘travels’ and spreads by contact would be the prion involved in vCJD’
I am calling this bullshit. The doctors involved above may have read too many books.
Indeed, Willem, much of what they say is speculative… though it is speculation in the face of the SARS CoV narrative, much of which is fiction. I agree it is important to stay grounded, as most readers of Off-G seem to be, which is one advantage of the site. Thus one can raise some of speculative stuff knowing readers will recognize it as such. Here is the conundrum. I posted yesterday about pseudo-reality and totalitarianism. The reason it succeeds is because most normal, logical people try to adjust themselves to the pseudo-reality. As they try to rationalize it, they actually build new foundations for the pseudo-reality. They convince others. They normalize it. That is what we see with Event Covid (I tend to avoid the word hoax as provocative and because you can’t prove a negative)… much of the narrative is being provided by normal, logical people. Yet we are… Read more »
I like to play the devil’s advocate and keep my options open. As much as I hear all of the stuff that gets discussed here and elsewhere, such as the depopulation motives behind the (alleged) vaccination, I do consider the possibility that it’s a paranoid lunacy, the adverse reactions, deaths notwithstanding. A little while ago, I translated an interview with the CEO of a local biotech company in which the man said a couple of interesting things. First, pharma companies don’t really do research and development of new products. They do have an R&D department, but they mostly sniff around, look for a company that is developing an interesting product, and acquire it and sell it under their brand. Such was the case with Pfizer’s vaccine/genetic vehicle. They acquired it from the German company BioNTech, which was allegedly working on genetic therapy and modified their existing research to fit the… Read more »
The virus has NOT been isolated by Koch’s Postulates, ANYWHERE in the world.
The RT PCR test is fraudulent as it CANNOT determine if the RNA is from the “virus” or from Human RNA, or from any other RNA virus that WILL also be present in the sample.
Based on those two cornerstones, everything after becomes fear-mongering, creative writing and the reification of science.
As suggested evidence, see the spikes in deaths in the countries that were pushing the jab – during the campaign:
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-mortality-p-scores?country=GBR~ISR~PRT~USA~CHL
Vonnegut had a gift for expressing serious ideas whimsically and ironically. In both his fiction, and also in essays and interviews, he often pointed out that the “stories” expressed in literature that emerge in a given culture inspire, or are unconsciously absorbed by, the population. Put slightly differently, Vonnegut opined that the ideas disseminated by writers, primarily in works of fiction and pop-culture books and movies, can become models of real-life attitudes and conduct; he believed that writers and other story-makers were generally oblivious or indifferent to the extent to which the ideas expressed in their works have broad ripple effects. For instance, just off the top of my head, Vonnegut believed that US gun-mania could be attributed, in part, to the way popular literature historically glamorized and simplified the gun as a useful and convenient method of resolving conflicts and confronting evil. I think he would argue that “stories” and… Read more »
Too true. Many classic science “fiction” books of the 50’s and 60’s became prophecy. That’s when I stopped reading them…
More divide and rule
Even though I have never been into the lord and ammunition, I like the quote from Dr. Lee Merritt as she leads into talking about dealing with the bioweapon promoting PNAC psychopaths.
“Praise the lord, and pass the ammunition!”
Great info and synopsis, moneycircus. Thanks!
Dr Larry Palevsky’s comparison of those vaccinated with lepers kind of sounds like a back door approach to get more people to take the jab. He makes it sound more dangerous for those not vaccinated than for those who are vaccinated. Very suspicious.
COINTELPRO
The dispair and frustration that I read into these articles and their comments comes about from a collision between “There Is No Alternative” and reality. A large proportion of the population — especially younger people — seem to have had this drilled into them from birth along with an automatic rejection of alternates as ‘totalitarian’. In these posts I see a confusion of philosophies, a sort of “four legs good, two legs bad” mindset that conflates (for example) the notion “Bolsheviek” with “multinational capitalism”. The epithet “Nazi” is thrown around freely without any understanding of what the term means, its just used viscerally to invoke negative stereotypes. People will be miling around, not knowing which way to turn, until they get some bearings and the only way to get bearings is to learn, to understand the reasoning and philosophy behind political movements, why they came about and something about their… Read more »
“peace and social justice movement”
Civil Rights (as opposed to Natural Rights) and Social Justice are scourges applied before great geopolitical evil. How can you think of over there when you have this, this right here! Once the war’s stoked up though — Super Predators!
Once you intersectionalized, ’twas over. Good night.
Exaggerated expectations are a sure way to disappoint and frustrate oneself. Instead, the motto is “From illusion to reality”. “If you start small, you’ll end small”, are all those snappy “from dishwasher to millionaire” sayings. But misfortune already lurks in the comparison. Money is inherited, only the very few ever become rich in life, which is no guarantee of happiness. Those who look up to the unattainable make themselves small, worthless and unimportant. What good is that? It can only benefit those who want to condition us like a hamster in a wheel, to plough on more and more in order to consume more and more. But consumerism cannot fill emptiness and meaninglessness. Optimisation mania. For whom, for what, to achieve what? Goals can only be destroyed. What comes after that? When less is expected, one is positively surprised. Many people buy things they don’t need with money they don’t… Read more »
My method to keep myself in a good mood consists
of: Refraining from mass media, gratitude & serenity
exercises (appreciation of one’s own life, health, etc.),
positive music, good, uplifting, meaningful and con-
structive thoughts. Learning to switch off and say no
when something negative wants to steal my attention
and energy.
But from the same Grieg Suite comes “Ase’s Death,” as hauntingly beautiful as anything ever created.
That is probably a question of the consideration. I have said goodbye to letting myself be dragged down into the maelstrom of wistful melancholy. The dark sides of the world have nothing beautiful or aesthetic for me. I also don’t watch scary or crime movies. The world of media and reporting is already depressing and criminal enough. I rely on my gut feeling, should a song or tune not be composed predominantly in major, but in minor, I turn it off. My priority is to reduce and avoid mental or physical suffering, but instead to promote and strengthen optimism, lightness and confidence. I am not one of those who would hang a print of Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” on the living room wall. Many people like to wallow in unfulfillable longing and self-pity. It is like a compulsion that they give in to because they are not aware of what… Read more »
If one truly appreciates music, even a funeral dirge can be uplifting. Beauty is not in the eye of the beholder but in the construction of the art form.
A Van Gough at first view is warm, vibrant and happy; but if you look more deeply, you begin to see the dark side of his psyche.
Cliche that it is, there cannot be light without dark.
“There can be no light without darkness” is, in my opinion, a rather inconclusive argument as far as a healthy lifestyle is concerned. One can choose whether one spends one’s existence on the dark side (deprivation, illness, crime) or on the sunny side. There can also be “no life without death”, but death is inevitable anyway, so it is completely unproductive to burden one’s life with thoughts of it. It may well be day without being night at the same time. Of course, the day forms a contrast to the night, but still it would not be beneficial for the soul to sleep during the day and to walk at night. Mexican culture, for example, proves that a funeral does not have to be a dripping vale of tears. There, people dress in white and celebrate instead of lament. The view of Van Gogh’s art is probably mainly dependent on… Read more »
Again, this is where we differ. I’m not the slightest bit interested in how an observer (myself included) views a work of art; rather, my focus is on what the artist is using the work to express. Yes, an art work can end up being (or at least appearing to be) greater than the artist; but this is merely an illusion. A work cannot transcend its creator. Like it or not, the same forces that drove Van Gogh “mad” are what drove him to create his paintings (obviously an extreme example). To appreciate any artist is to understand the forces (or as some like to say: “demons”) that helped steer his focus and shape his expression. I have no doubt that your perspective offers greater life enhancement than mine – but at a cost I consider too high. I’ve spend my entire life trying to figure out why some people… Read more »
What is the “too high price” that you think I am paying? Aren’t you implying a burden that, from my point of view, does not exist? My point is to live in harmony with oneself. In order not to perish because of the contradictions that inevitably arise I would recommend Far Eastern philosophy as the only effective method not only to survive but also to be inwardly balanced. Most other worldviews demand the world to be changed in order to become happy. Even the materialist can only achieve happiness through possession. One could also say that “all idealism must fail because of the unattained ideal”. The highest price a person can pay (besides his life and health) is his dignity, his self-respect. There are people who consider this even more important than life and health. In my opinion, all three are even interrelated. Because without self-respect, health is in danger,… Read more »
I must correct myself: Of course, destruction can cause construction, namely when destructive things (e.g. a cancer) are destroyed. This is also why denial of recognition is perceived as punishment and denial of punishment is perceived as recognition.
Nevertheless, I believe in principle that evil cannot be fought by evil, but can only be replaced, even overcome, by good. Those who act in a destructive way inevitably become part of the destructive principle, even if they (as always) justify it with “good intentions”.
PS: To Van Gogh’s credit, it must be acknowledged that “demons” were not yet recognised as negative thinking in his time and there was neither the internet nor life coaching nor psychotherapy.
I agree that his paintings (which I just looked at again) have a hint of morbidity despite all the exaggerated colourfulness. “Beauty” is the wrong word to describe them, striking yes, unique too.
He does not seem to have been a happy, contented or fulfilled person in the sense we understand it today. Moreover, in his time, “happiness” was not considered a desirable value in his social environment.
Your fascination with Van Gogh’s abysses aroused my interest in his person or his (supposedly inevitable) fate. Many questions remain unanswered. His paintings were not always so garish, he had a dark phase before. Delusions plagued him even in his youth.
Unique mind with phenomenal recognition value. The Nazis did not classify his art as degenerate. “Allies” destroyed his house (were they British?). How much art (not only) perished in the bombing of Germany will never be known.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi-looting_of_artworks_by_Vincent_van_Gogh
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yellow_House
I myself am not completely unfamiliar with “delusional states”, fortunately only under the influence of drugs (alcohol, hashish). Nevertheless, I know today that “dark thoughts” may be multiplied by such substances.
Once you have mastered your fears and “programmed a new way of thinking” (which is only anchored by inner convictions), you are not immune to irrationalities, but you are no longer so susceptible.
If the TV channel “Arte” hadn’t uploaded a British documentary from 2016 to its YouTube channel yesterday of all days, I would have already forgotten about the topic. However, the original documentary is half an hour shorter than the Arte version.
To excuse the British somewhat, you have to know
about people like “Baron Zuckerman,” for example.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solly_Zuckerman,_Baron_Zuckerman
Nevertheless, I can’t help but grin a little when I read articles like this. https://redflag.org.au/article/prince-philip-good-riddance-racist-elitist-fool
Things can be profound without being negative.
I wondered where the German name of the Toy
Piano came from that their children play on?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schoenhut_Piano_Company
Quote from Diary of A Man in Despair, by a German during the rise and bloodshed of the third Reich. He kept a diary which he hid, although he died at the end of the war in a camp… “Really, this people, only yesterday so intelligent and discriminating, seems to have been overcome by a disease of the mind. They now believe everything they are told, provided it is done with sufficient aplomb…Following a series of articles placed by Goebbels in the newspapers, the wife of a tenant came to see me in fear and trembling. In Jesus’ name, how was she to protect her children? They were all going to be dragged off to be raised in English, American, or Russian orphan asylums, according to newspapers! Nota bene, this woman spent several years in America, as a laundress; she still speaks a little English, and she has a number… Read more »
I have a colleague who believes that Covid is the killer virus, global warming exists, IsIs is out to kill us all (so bomb away), refugees should be invited with open arms but should be taught ‘the enlightened western’ life (it’s the white man’s burden), Serbians are responsible for the war in Yugoslavia, NATO is good, Putin was responsible for downing MH17, the western press is free and the individual newspapers offer a different palet of stories (she actually has a subscription to 2 Dutch newspapers and doesn’t see that they are writing the same stuff!). The Netherlands is the most awesome country to live in (that may be true, as in: it could be worse), but then she simply doesn’t know how things could be made better in the society in which she lives. Of course this superficial thinking is highly praised in Dutch society and this colleague ended… Read more »
Yep… the media is the virus Frieda. If this scamdemic is overturned, these morally bankrupt presstitutes need to be tried for crimes against humanity. And this also applies to their cheering on mass murder and the destruction of entire countries like Iraq and Libya. I refuse to watch any “news” or read any “newspapers”.
They have so much blood on their hands.
Once again, your quote from this Diary provides a much needed counterpoint to over enthusiastic expressions of hope. Hope can never be quenched from without, only from within. Using it for a crutch will inevitably atrophy that within us which gives rise to it in the first place.
To hope for anything materially is to necessarily have that hope dashed. We are so much deeper than material well being; but so many have been persuaded to only seek what their society proclaims to be “good.”
And now that the young have been shown they will never have “the good life,” they succumb to despair when it should be an opening of endless new horizons, wherein they will not have to waste their lives “going for the gold.” (If they could just smash their cell phones to a quadrillion pieces, they could begin their journey.)
I recommend Epicureanism for serenity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epicureanism
Anecdote from Asian Philosophy. A general notorious for his brutality wiped out an entire village, except for a temple where a monk crouched, unimpressed.
The barbarian ordered the old man: “Don’t you know who I am? I am the one who, with one stroke, extinguishes human lives and makes heads roll!”
The monk replied, “Don’t you know who I am? I am the one who is not afraid of all your ridiculous posturing!”
The so-called commander could not refrain from paying respect to this monk and ordered all his subordinates to leave the village without further misdeeds.
The monk wasn’t afraid of his life, the idea of reincarnation and spirituality pervades the Eastern outlook, though the East has become much more materialistic these days
The modern secular peoples have been told that they only live once, hence they cannot be like the monk. The modern secular peoples also have no high flown ideals to die for, if that can be an alternative to the monk’s spiritual philosophy, to overcome fear, they are tied to and heavily clinging on to their vast web of apparent securities, and what is sold to them as securities.
Sorry for my late reply, only discovered your comment now.
That is a conclusive explanation. I personally do not believe
in life after death. But I would be just as defiant as the monk.
However, I do not see the point of dying for unnecessary reasons
and will fight tooth and nail against any kind of “vaccination”. I re-
cently cracked a finger and have avoided going to the doctor ever
since. If I were to die from an untreated injury, it would be ironic.
“Always look on the bright side of death.”
(You can only learn that from the British.)
There was a mashup image on OG recently in which Bill Gates and Tony Fauci were mechanics selling an oil that could destroy your engine which had 99% chance of never having a problem and didn’t need the oil. Does anyone know which article that was under?
It´s called Faucism!
people have been dying for a long, long time. 150 years ago, people would live until they died. it was a natural part of life. they didn’t spend all their days on medication after medication leading to inevitable surgeries, ultimately leading to hospice to morphine to… death. they just died. what blessed souls they were. what is this notion that health care, a misnomer if ever there was one, must be an integral part of our lives now? no one gets out alive… but we are choosing to die every day with low expectations and this incessant need to feel covered by health professionals. (another misnomer)
This video has brilliant humor and truth and sounds like Weird Al Yannkovich, though done by somebody else.
An 80’s song updated about the absurdities of face masks….
The “Woke” Bolsheviks currently in control of what is left of Western Civilisation, have almost certainly never done this, and they never will….They won’t even make it to the river…My wife and I probably will do though even in our 60’s and 70’s.. I had lost my job. I had lost my girl. I was all alone again, and then I met her. I explained the circumstances… She says don’t worry about that….Come to Stonehenge Free Festival with me, so I said O.K. – She borrowed her younger sister’s playtent. I still had a car that worked a bit… So we arrived at the gates of Stonehenge Free Festival, and there was a big sign there – Welcome – please come in It’s Free.. So we wandered around a bit for a few days, and I guess we were getting a bit smelly, so my girlfriend worked out how far… Read more »
Stone Henge Free Festival where i finally understood what the word anarchy fully meant. 83/84 were very memorable and so was the next year 85 when maggies gestapo boot boys fresh from smashing the miners strike came and massacred the peace convoy(who were on their way to setting up the 12th festival which would have made it permanent a bit like if you squat a building for 12 years it becomes yours), it was no battle!! Children were taken into care for two weeks and many much loved dogs and homes were destroyed. This is ethnic cleansing and now they are coming for everybody!!!
I went to Reading Festival and paid a load of dosh to get in and then day or so later went to the Windsor free festival which cost nothing but was twice the craic !
Losing our rights “for the greater good” has a name, it’s called Communitarianism. Sounds all warm and fuzzy, until you understand the Trojan horse effect. The Capture of Goodness https://off-guardian.org/2021/04/25/the-capture-of-goodness/ The New Model: Communitarianism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q9CSKPJ-_Q&t=24s Listen to Bill Clinton’s doublespeak regarding Communitarianism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rg5qB3H8HfE Just as we had to learn economics in order to debunk neoliberalism, which is a set of mathematic models that only work in theory, not in the real world, we must also learn the basics of biology and medicine. JD Rockefeller promoted Pasteur’s germ theory, which should have been long forgotten. Pasteur himself recanted it at the end of his life. Antoine Bechamp’s terrain theory was correct all along. A person’s state of health, whether it is more alkaline than acidic, is what determines susceptibility to illness. Over-acidity is the main cause of disease. “It should be common knowledge that all humans are carrying hundreds of trillions… Read more »
I was in Hyde Park yesterday at the party that got broken up by the police, and used as negative headlines against anti lockdown protests. There were definitely agent provocateurs in the crowd, I know because I spoke to one of them. Me and my mate were standing around when this strange bloke came up to us, he was wearing all black, a black baseball cap and a black bandana somewhere around his chin. He basically looked like every antifa type in America you see on YouTube. I can’t exactly remember everything he said, but I’m sure he said “do you think they’ll be any trouble round here”. I didn’t like this dude but even though it was the worst impression I’ve ever seen of a agent provocateur I didn’t put 2 and 2 together at the time. Anyway he’s been caught on camera provoking the police. I’ve heard about… Read more »
Good stuff, James,
Guess these agent provocateurs don’t want to be identified. Well done to the huge, almost entirely maskless crowd.
Many videos on facial recognition in China, not sure to what extent it’s up to in UK, but looks to be coming fast. (Maybe that is why we haven’t seen the hoped for/expected crowds until now, they don’t want to protest without a mask, for fear of getting an unwelcome visit, which is understandable).
I’ve a feeling/hope next Saturday, 1st May, could be the watershed…God knows, it’s about time..
I know what you mean. Don’t like the idea of an unwelcome visit myself too much!.
“Just another illustration on the misuse and wastage of public funds. Should have asked where he kept his scooby snack.”
https://dangerousminds.net/comments/krispy_kreme_worker_refuses_to_serve_a_cop_because
Never did see NOFX, but I did see Alice Donut, in 94…!
Anyone showing up at a “freedom event” masked is suspicious to say the least.
Good that you attended the protest. Watched it afterwards on a Swedish website and I was surprised that there were so many bottles and other items tossed at the police , even after they had left the park , just standing outside. These were for sure Antifa/paid zombies-with-no-clue.
Take care of the agents the old fashioned way.
“Anti-Antifa”
Be happy, there will not only be Government health care, but Government everything. You will be allowed to be a useless eater and receive your universal basic income. You can spend your days sitting around doing nothing, or if you are ambitious you can sell drugs or rob your fellow proles. For a vision of the future, look at the inner cities in Detroit, Chicago, etc.
First we had the Kent variant, then the South African variant, then the Brazilian variant. The Kent variant sprung into life last Autumn and according to the propaganda spreads very slowly but spreads very quickly. It was the dominant strain apparently. Then suddenly the South African variant was back in the mix but quickly forgotten and has been replaced by a double mutant from India that made its way into the Uk via an asyomotomatic carrier. So deadly the person was so seriously ill they were healthy and had no symptoms. As ‘case’ numbers drop through the floor why is this double mutant not unleashing its rage. What happened to the South African and Brazilian variant. The Kent variant which apparently was the dominant strain seems to have vanished. Briefly we had a New York variant that came and went. But back to the double mutant Indian version of bullshit.… Read more »
Medicine has always had its snake oil salesman. Only now instead of a horse-drawn cart, they are Pfizer, GSK, Merck, etc. and they push their garbage night and day, at least in the US where there are no rules against advertising drugs.
Moneycircus posed an article, “Psychopathy and the Origins of Totalitarianism”, which applies perfectly to Covid. It examines the creation of a ‘pseudo-reality’ and ‘paralogic’ by psychopathic rulers. Definitely worth reading in full, this is the relevant sentence relating to the contradictions you have described:
“That is, a pseudo-real paralogic will always be internally (and often unrepentantly) inconsistent and self-contradictory. This can be taken as a symptom that a paralogic is being presented in support of a pseudo-reality, as can be any sustained attack on principles of objectivity and reason.”
https://newdiscourses.com/2020/12/psychopathy-origins-totalitarianism
Thanks Kevin and to Moneycircus.
Really enjoyed reading the article.
Continuing a theme from a dead guy..
Ah, but what about the Fiji variant, the Monaco variant and the Leichtenstein variant!? Got you there. When the numbers fall towards zero a variant will be pulled out of the bag. Any money that’s going to happen this coming bang on cue this Autumn.
You ain´t seen nothin´yet…What about when the Saffrican variant and the Brazilindian wariant and the Fijiddish worryant and the Frankens…sorry Lichtensteins MONSTROUS Very Violent variant interacts altogether and mixes into a Super Terror Alien Bombastic Devilish mutant.
It will be so contagious that no quarantines , no masks , no vaccines , no distancing , no sanitizers , no NOTHING-AT-ALL is gonna help the whole world from cracking into crumbling and go out of orbit into the big and wide unknown and we will be lucky if we just end up in a huge black hole and disintegrates into small , small smithereens …and that´s just the first phase of the never ending plague.
In your FACE , sheeple and tin foils.
I’m still banking on the Mary Poppins variant. It’s ‘Supercalafrajalisticexpealidoshious and the sound of it is something quite atrocious.” But it does prime you for the Big Screen..
As you give so shall you receive. As a man thinks, so shall he perceive. By the measure we set are we given. Garbage in; garbage out. Living Idea is already alive. If we embody dead thinking, we ‘meet’ a dead world, or rather a masked and dissociated attempt to set terms and conditions on Life – that then condition us in our own measure. Note the novel V for vendettus was ‘unknown’ as so automatically assumed maximal fear. We could just as easily expected a novel change to restore awareness of the miracle of Life. Not in concept but here now – exactly as we are. For an unknown is an opportunity to learn of Life anew. Where what we think to know is a past stamped on our face. Addicts will persist in seeking outside themselves for what can never actually substitute for connected love of life –… Read more »
“…I was sitting in a café with my rabble-rousing friend James, both of us gnawing our teeth…” I believe you meant to say that you were gnashing your teeth. Gnawing a joint of beef or gnawing your knuckles, or perhaps mumbling your chops, but check in with well-worn biblical references from Revelations to situations that cause much wailing and the gnashing of teeth.
This quote seems apt:
“Is it not we who are the elite?
What is at stake is the unfathomable brilliance of our achievements being lost to a small gang of miscreants with a profoundly impaired perception. Defeat is rarely due to external forces over which we have no control, but to our own selfishness and ignorance and a lack of courage. These are failings that each one of us can rectify.
It is not your responsibility to prove Klaus a Moral Imbecile. Live how you choose and together we can make certain that any interloper is guaranteed a nonviolent arrest and fair trial.”
I recommend this site highly. It suggests plans of action which will inspire and ensure our success.
https://www.wecanlivebetter.org/
Thank you for the link
Thanks for the link. Interesting.
Nationalised anything is a government monopoly. You want to know how that ends up? Covimania.
Funny because we seem to have the worst covimania on the planet in Britain where in my lifetime, everything has been privatised.
It’s a world wide epidemic of both. Nationalisation is centralisation and so is privatisation the way things are. Massive corporations monopolise everything. Governments are corporations with fuzzy owners like the people that lend them the money to for what they do, like fund the NHS as an example. Like to recompense their donors, who own them in way. Do you know that 97% of the total money supply is by privately owned banks who lend,at interest, credit that is retired once it is paid back? Retired is bank speak for disappears into the nothing it was created from in the first place. In other words- it never existed. It’s one big fraud that fascists, socialists, capitalists, communists, any ists that you like are knowing parties to. These money creators can buy anyone and do, after all it costs them nothing.
Yes there has been a palpable fusion of the state and big money in its various institutions and guises. Capitalism and Communism are old hat. A totalitarian state capitalism has emerged and is consolidating its rule. This is why it is being confronted by the left and the right. Strange bedfellows increasingly minded to become the resistance. Adam Smith and Karl Marx, left and right in the struggle against the new totalitarian establishment.
If it is being confronted, it’s certainly not by Johnson or Starmer. Left and Right are now just labels for competing gangs of lying opportunists.
Nationalization presents a paradox. Third World nations, such as Venezuela and Bolivia, have no choice but to nationalize their resources to keep the global cartels from taking everything and returning nothing to the people.
Of course, that’s a double edged sword: if the government is corrupt, then the people will still end up with nothing.
Very true, one size don’t fit all. One solution might fix a problem but in a few years BE a problem itself. Any system will become unworkable after a time, control freaks worm their way to positions of power. That’s why I think it inadvisable to revere systems, any systems, even the holy socialism that a lot of people set such store by.
Bob the Hod: … as it almost is in the whole of Australia. John Howard and his band of greedy, avaricious Libtards, privatised virtually everything they could, including the national Telecommunications and the Nations Airline (with the most lucrative airport thrown-in) in a very short space of time and now they preach the potential fear of cyber-hacking … go figure and contraband. For ef-sake, any loon can see that the primary conduits for nefarious deeds were gifted to the privateers and the multi-corps. A Labor band of cut-throats, are no better, they either stole – in the names of donors of course, or sold off the remaining pieces. And people have the stupidity to believe in the efficacy of ‘government’. Funny thing is – there is an endless herd of nongs who still [innocently] believe that the next smirking, psychopathic bullshitter, will be the saving-grace of the nation. Uncle Rupert… Read more »
YOU are the ‘government.’ Better in public hands than in the hands of private profiteers.
The problem is- the private hands are so much more powerful than the government, they’ve bought it. The Crown pays their salaries, controls the selection of MPs, doles out the juicy directorships and directs Parliament through the Remembrancer. The Monarch is just a CEO of the Crown.
It’s no different in ultra-privatised USA. The disease is the same: fascism.
Fascism synthesized with communism. The meaning of the two is completely confused now but are still used to divide people. It’s feudalism, neo feudalism or corporate feudalism whatever. Communitarianism with stakeholder capitalism- what’s the size of an individual’s stake compared to a corporation? GoverNANCE without representation. Sneaky eh?
Truly agree. Fascism and communism are the same. But the psychopaths have succeeded to hide that away from the masses , separating them by appealing to the most basic instincts , fear among others, which causes people to unite against the unknown enemy , which is eventually supplied by the psychopaths propaganda machinery , main stream media. Trap´s sealed.
It has nothing to do with communism.Your idea of communism is based on propaganda!
No, just their record of extermination,drab conformity, ugly architecture,inhumanity,dreary literature, hideously soulless atheism, central banking courtesy of billionaire capitalists behind the scenes, must I go on? Give Pol Pot a big kiss for me!
The Satanic Cabal is presently using every tool in their divide and conquer tool box to fracture the potential for any real freedom movement to arise and challenge their agenda(s). Nowhere is this more obviously the case than in The Divided States of America. Where race baiting, political polorization and division by gender indentification are the main crowbars that are being used to pry apart any possibility of “we the people” mounting any real and substantial resistance to their genocidal plan. Events on the scale of the Freedom March that took place yesterday in London will need to become wide spread and an everyday occurence if we have any hope of stopping or atleast slowing down the Great Reset/Agenda (20)21/2030. It seems an unlikely scenario given that many people have already been successfully “brainwashed” into willingly accepting this terrible situation and are too busy running towards the light of the… Read more »
Many states have already gone back to normal: Texas, Florida, Georgia, etc. And the deathshot take up has tailed off at well below 50%. They don’t need to do protests.
You think in the US the entire huge billions of dollar industry of covid-mania is just going to pack up and go into the night?
“Sorry to say New Jersey has the Murphy virus pretty bad. Don’t know whether it is the PCB’S or the lead in the water but membership in the cult of the face diaper has grown in recent weeks. It is almost as if the number of layers over the mouth and nose are considered status symbols. Well at least it keeps the smelly brown stuff between their ears from leaking out onto the pavement.”
They don’t need to protest? With all do respect I don’t subscribe.There are still all the blue states where case counts are rising due to the bogus nPCR testing. Yes some Red states are doing well after getting rid of their mask and lockdown mandates but for how long?
Covid-19 Scamdemic/The Great Reset is going away anytime soon. If the the evil power continues to have it’s way we are never going back to normal. Cases and deaths are down in the UK and nothing has changed. Expect more of the same. Meanwhile people line up for their poison jabs. Which will induce the next wave of real infections and pandemic deaths beyond anything we have seen up and until now.
That event in London yesterday was only a few thousand made up off anti vaxxers and conspiracy theorists according to the BBC.
I got quite riled reading that.
Utterly shameless propaganda.
The BBC are a national embarrassment.
Hi Paul,
The lack of any real coverage by the Whorporate controlled media of yesterday’s freedom rally in London is to be expected. The BBC has no credibility left, gone years ago. The good news is all the videos taken by people who were in attendance proves just how many thousands of people who attended and proves just how badly the BBC’s coverage really is.
“anti vaxxers and conspiracy theorists”
“That coming from a gaggle of mindless spineless milksops and corporate fascist hack toady suck asses without a shred of integrity or self respect. They can blow it out their face diapers.”
i wish it were jus the bbc… but the good news is that they’re showing their hand for the globally run media they are, owned and operated by one entity. none of them are worth a single minute of our time.
I too have a friend called James. He is a brilliant carpenter and guitarist. I guess he’s nearly 40 years old now, cos he has been on our pinboard in our kitchen for the last 20 years, since he was 18, and occasionally turns up..just out of the blue, to sign his name and the date. and my wife and I are so delighted to see him. I still have his number. He answered it last time I rang. He is also a really nice man, but not seen him for a bit. He has got absolutely loads of kids. I hope he is still with his latest, cos she is such a lovely person…Beautiful Homely Girl….Its hard to explain these things…. So I wrote this today…How many Letters are Allowed on Off_Guardian today? I used to think Deagle was a complete and utter nutter…even worse than Alex Jones, who’s… Read more »
When I take the train – which I try to avoid – not out of fear of the Covid scam, no, what really is depressing and frightening is the masked passengers; the staring into space, the neurotic fiddling around and gazing fixedly into their IPhones contemplating what, I always wonder? A sleepwalking people, in a semi-comatose state, obediently doing as they are told and directed. Self-centred deluded and – courtesy of Talking Heads – on the road to nowhere. As F Scott Fitzgerald, wrote so eloquently: ”Here was a new generation, shouting the old cries, learning the old creeds, through a revery of old days and nights; destined finally to go out into the dirty grey turmoil to follow love and pride; a new generation dedicated more than the last to fear poverty and the worship of success; grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths… Read more »
Sleepwalking. Or maybe Sheepwalking.
“Culling the herd. Culling the herd. ‘Doc Billy E‘ commands and the undermenschen useless eater labrats/lapsheeple obey. Over the cliff and downward to salvation they go.”
“Aren’t Corporate Fascism, Eugenics and Euthanasia grand?”
FFS, Scooper, do something about your absolutely dire repeating grooves! Even skipping over you posts is becoming tiresome. And look: not a bold or all-caps screamer here at all. Try that too.
He can’t control himself.
Over the last few weeks we have learnt that the following from British government and the media: – Boris claims the lockdowns and not the vaccines have reduced the ‘infections’ – Hancock claims the vaccines have reduced the ‘infections’ – Some scientists say mask mandates could be lifted in the summer. Other scientists claim masks will be needed for at least another 2 years. Another group of scientists claim masks could be needed permanently in the winter. – The vaccines are required for the young and healthy as no one is safe until everyone is safe and vaccinations stop the spread and stop variants but actually lockdowns stop the spread and not the vaccines. – UCL claim Britain has reached herd immunity but Imperial College London claim herd immunity not reached yet. – Britain will have all restrictions lifted and return to normal on the 21st June with no mention… Read more »
Yup – keep ’em confused, scared and obedient.
Note that the ‘return to normal’ is scheduled for the summer solstice in northern hemisphere.
It might be genuine confusion about what to do next, analogous to the infighting going on right now.
What I don’t get is why the fuck people think they are doing something important or medical by wrapping up in face nappies
Well, in the trailer of Borat 2 we see the man himself killing the veerus with a frying pan. These are important medical interventions.
it’s important to be part of the herd, to not have your fellow herd-animals looking strangely at you … to do what everyone else is doing, what your ‘leader’ tells you to do …
when conscious brain ejection necessitates something other to fill the void…requiring repeated replenishment – Indebted it feels – and as true need is suppressed, that weakened appettite moves increasingly toward the hat that feeds It scraps.
What can progressives do? Here’s one take. I’d say it’s a little more than low expectations.
Article: It’s Time To Blow Up the Maskholes’ Sick and Twisted Plan | OpEdNews
Buck up man, there’s a war going on.
What a sick article. The title is the reverse of the content.
What I’m talking about. Progressives are them.
“Utter Langley-Land disinformation bunkum to keep the prole slaves at each others throats instead at the throats of the WAR RACKETEER CORPORATE FASCIST OLIGARCH MOBSTER PSYCHOTIC PSYCHO CRIMINALS.” .
I became a member of Slop-Ed about a year ago when they were battling TPTB on operation Covid. Since then they have either been totally turned by deep state or made a cynical decision to value subscriber numbers over truth and life.
they’ve always been a ‘this far and no farther’ deep state operation …
I wouldn’t become a member of that site if they paid me. That was my point.
Must be at least 8 progressive readers out there who don’t like getting criticized. Either that, or some people completely missed my point. The article is by a leading “progressive”, get it. Iow, the progressives this author is talking about are not of low expectations, they are of idiotic, imperialistic, police/military state, expectations. They are part of the problem.
“Revolutionary optimism” always becomes a species of pessimism/low expectations . Such is the nature of the human algorithm , a closed loop that allows mutation through error , Darwin only got it half right ?
Indeed. And once again nihilism (i.e. the lowest of all expectations) proves to be a conservative matter cf. David Bowie:
More breakdown from Reiner Fuellmich and friends Sondersitzung, special session. There are many excellent discussions in an extensive special international meeting, Sondersitzung, with Reiner Feullmich and Committee with lawyers and others from Italy, UK, Canada, US, Germany, Argentina, Uruguay and Chile. A break down of the meetings with lawyers from South America. At 2:40:00 with Miguel Luis Marcelo Iannolfi : Argentina people have been consistently under attack and human rights violations are rampant. They have over 400! lawyers working on cases dealing with the restrictions and lockdown. Like in many places, many people are beginning to see the reality and the illusions of a pandemic are fading. But as Miguel says “ Justice only looks to where the wind blows.” At 3:00:00 with a spirited Gustavo Salle Lorier : Uruguay “Friends we are in the third world war.” . Only one lawyer has filed action against the restrictions in all of… Read more »
Thanks very much for this.
Thank you so much for this link! I had seen the Swinwood excerpt earlier on bitchute but did not know about the others. I loved hearing Garner from NM, and especially Leslie Manookian. Just became aquainted with her recently.
Yes the session with Garner was good as well. I also want to point out to everyone not watching the video, that another common issue in these South American countries is they are refusing to administer medical treatment or care for diseases other than “covid”.
Thanks, fame, for posting the link to the full session!
Youtube create an award for free expression and give it to their own CEO:
https://www.newsweek.com/youtube-ceo-susan-wojcicki-gets-freedom-expression-award-sponsored-youtube-1585147
Awards are a clever psy-op to convince the gullible the rubbish they offer isn’t really such rubbish after all.
Yes, I saw that. I forget where. They have zero shame.
Hilarious and at the same time, very sad.
Great article David!
I think trying to argue within the political framework of low expectations that exists will get us nowhere. We each have a responsibility to create the world we want to live in and make it exist by making choices and taking actions each day that remove us from ‘their’ world.
Re: Yet a lot of progressives have been trained to lower their expectations to think this is simply too complicated to do, resulting in a continuous loop of being “realistic and “practical” because, hey, what can we do?
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Over a decade ago, my expectations with regard to so-called “progressives” went off-the-scale negative; and I have little expectation of it ever changing.
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