WATCH: Despotism (1946)
This educational short film from 1946 was brought to our attention on twitter when a tweet claiming it was being supressed went a little viral.
As it turns out it’s not being suppressed, as you can see it is still hosted by youtube, but it’s still a highly interesting watch.
In less than ten minutes it highlights what it calles the warning signs of “despotism”, underlining first off that the form of government does not guard against the rise of despotism, that being a republic or a democracy is not proof against tyranny, and then rattling off several warning signs including…
- When private land ownership is concentrated in the hands of a small minority.
- When certain people or groups are denied respect or courtesy based on their political beliefs or opinions.
- When the ownership of the press is controlled by a small minority, or overly beholden to corporate advertising interests.
- When education becomes dictatorial, discourages independent thought and punishes people for asking the wrong questions.
- When taxation overly victimizes the working class.
…any of that sounding familiar to you guys?
It’s beginning to look a lot like fascism, everywhere you go.
We’d recommend downloading a copy of the film if you can, even though it’s not being suppressed…yet.
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Low Key names Piers Morgan’s Anglo Zionazi Capitalist associates: B.Liar, Rupert Murdoch, Nathan Yahoo & Sons, “and their Number Ones. Bless ’em all”.
https://youtu.be/VD64VaDK2sM?si=w-7GcjnoRbpxqyDc
“The (Red) Zora & Her Gang”?
https://www.dw.com/en/german-police-raid-pro-palestinian-feminist-group/a-67774918
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rote_Zora_(group)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Outsiders_of_Uskoken_Castle
I’m puzzled as to why a militant feminist terror organisation, who committed bombing and arson attacks against “individuals and organisations thought to be…enforcing patriarchal society”, should support an organisation with official alliances with Hamas and Hizbollah. A2
You are not the only one to be puzzled; so am I. There seems to have been a complete 180 degree reversal of the post-War wave of sympathy for Jews and for Zionism; and I share in both waves. Between WW1 and WW2 most of Europe and a considerable part of the U$A was anti-Jewish. Then with revelations from the Russian liberation of Auschwitz, followed by newsreels from the British liberation of Belsen, came a wave of common human sympathy: Jews deserved their Homeland.
Being always an optimist, I can only suggest that the present wave of sympathy for Palestinians is common human sympathy. Palestine was being forgotten, until the daring military operation by Hamas. Then the world woke up — largely because of the mendacious atrocity-mongering by Israel’s Yahoo regime. Then the Apart-Hate state of Israel, which was already pushing the boundaries of our goodwill, became nakedly genocidal; and caused a wave of sympathy for a Palestinian homeland: side by side with the Jewish homeland (twostate solution); or else included in a normal modern secular state (onestate solution).
ps Red Rosa was a familiar bug-a-boo of post-WW1 Germany. And there was a Red Meinhof Gang bug-a-booh let loose in post-WW2 Germany. But we are not yet even pre-WW3. I think Red Rita is anticipating the starters gun. False start?. A puzzlement.
A very valid observation. I myself am just as speechless as you are. On closer inspection, the absurdity literally catches the eye. My explanation for this is that our world is so insane that it does not realize that it is insane.However, this should activate the highest level of alert in those who are still half awake.
Well, that aged splendidly.
In contrast to the (supposedly German) model of “despotism”, “democracy” means that everything can be bought, including politics. You just have to sell it to the people that eating dirt is healthy and that wars are essential for democracy. The clever Jews Bernays and Lippman already knew that.
https://odysee.com/@swprs:3/Propaganda-The-Manufacture-of-Consent-ARTE-2020:7
In contrast to “Freudo-Marxism”, also of Jewish origin, this is more or less its natural counterpart in the manipulation of mass psychology. In the field of tension of these two poles, the masses have been fooled and set up against each other for 100 years to the greatest benefit of Jewry.
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“You Guessed It: “HIV/AIDS.” The Germinating Field For Everything Ghastly, Now Upon Us”
What came from HIV/AIDS Cult? This is a partial and very insufficient list:
The message has been ‘out-there’ for a while now, hasn’t it … and yet …
The problem is: how do the 5% get hold of the 90% who are controlled by the 1%, without distancing or embarrassing the 4%?
The answer is 42.
My “because I said so” mother always
had the last word…
She was a democrat, and,
she held the purse strings…
Is it not true that most are looking for a savior? Someone, anyone? Please help. Look inward. The only savior is yourself.
I s’pose despotism might also be when they’re not afraid to put unwanted stuff in your food?
Look out for “Animal-free Dairy” or “Precision Fermentation” (made by fungus)
Fake milk is missing all the micronutrients, and contains compounds that have never before existed in the human diet. Ninety-two mysterious, unknown compounds were detected in the fake milk that don’t exist in real milk.
None of these compounds have been tested for safety by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
–From Mercola
What’s more, you drink it raw– could be vaccines or whatever in there.
—
Uh-oh, they’re sticking it in our ice cream and cream cheese now.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/bored-cow-synthetic-milk-protein-unknown-compounds/
Reminds me of sugar-free foods and meds for diabetics. Almost all the synthetic or alternative sweeteners bring new dangers.
FYI. This film, plus countless similar others, are in a huge, and i mean huge, collection of documentary/educational/feature films, produced under the title, “One Hundred and Fifty Essential Films of the 20th Century” by “Paranoid Productions”, available as late as the early 2000’s. I can’t find trace of the collection anymore, but have seen several films from it many years ago.
One very revealing educational film from the 50’s, defending US capitalism vs socialism, had the presenter displaying a graph showing that US capitalism had equality of wealth built in. It showed wealth disparity as a 5-1 ratio of poor to wealthy and claimed that capitalism naturally kept great wealth disparity controlled. Therefore, no need for socialism to restrain acquisition of the rich. As we can see today, right. 🙁
Very much worth a research hunt.
Sandy, depends what you mean by capitalism. We’ve had creeping fascism– the takeover of parts of govt by the financialization segment for many years now. Free enterprise capitalism isn’t what we have now. The most essential elements of real capitalism is individual ownership of property & means of production– AND protection of individual rights even against corporations.
What we have now is NOT the result of proper capitalism nor of proper govt. So many stupid and ill-informed voices on this site are happy to shout “Abolish capitalism” or”Abolish govt.” Don’t you be one of them.
“Proper” capitalism is worse. It means the criminals just get to run hog-wild without anybody restraining them.
Capitalism is the accumulation of excess capital (capital-ism) for the purposes of accumulating more capital and the authority-to-decide that is awarded it’s prosecutors. Trade is day-to-day providing products and services in exchange for money. Humanity has done this for many thousands of years, having nothing to do with “capitalism”. Let’s not confuse trade and capitalism. Using the word “capitalism” in the place of “trade” is merely a tactic to symbol-justify massive system subsidized greed by the rich. Defending the term as “free enterprise capitalism”, inferring the existing subsidized and first-priority capitalism is not “real” capitalism, is a self deception imo. Income access must have limits. Earth has limits, humans have limits, but capitalists believe there is no limit to their acquisition and hording to wield excess power (authority-to-decide). I suggest using trade, instead, as an admirable practice, so we can cage the capitalists and their financialized practices from taking down Humanity and this iteration of Earth’s ecosystem. We let capitalism go unregulated and what we have no is the result of unleashing these aholes.
Prof. Michael Hudson has written multiple books on the inevitable boom and bust of capitalism, based on research on the “Near East” (West Asia). As long as credit was centralised (from the palace or temple), the king could decree a write-off (jubilee) of personal (non-business) debts from time to time. What do you think was the original wording of “and forgive us our treaspasses as we forgive..” How did usury become kosher?
“Earth has limits, humans have limits, but capitalists believe there is no limit to their acquisition”.
As one Wall Street type said to the other after returning from a business trip:
“It’s a sobering thought, Fotheringay, how little we really own, when we look down on Earth and see how much there is yet to own” — Cartoon, The New Yorker, circa 1960..
We are not going to compete and consume our way out of this existential crisis. Capitalism will never make it more profitable to leave a tree standing than cut it down, or to leave fuel sources in the ground rather than dig them up. Markets cannot navigate us through the crisis, no matter how “free” you make them. The problem is capitalism itself, not the wrong kind of it. -Caitlin Johnstone, 2020
When were the ‘small minority’ who own the press, ever fascists?
You obviously mean the Jews, so my answer would be: Zionism’s Fascist and Genocidal streak can be traces back at least to 549BC when the tolerant multi-ethnic Persian Empire of Cyrus the Great rescued the Children of Israel from their Babylonian Captivity, and allowed them to return to Palestine. Once settled in the Holy Land. Ezra and Nehemiah (“with gun rather easy in the holster” — TS Eliot) promptly instituted a program of Ethnic Cleansing. About the same time, or a little earlier, a revised Book of Numbers (Ba Midbar) was miraculously found by Good King Josiah. The book recommends genocide: “even the baby boy in his cradle”.
I was just wondering why you limit the titles under the pictures on the home page to just two lines, so that often you can’t fit the whole title in, and I can’t see what the article is about without clicking and visiting the page… You’ve got all that white space underneath, why not use it? Why not put the first sentence after the title as well?
Fair point. I’ll ask. A2
RE: It’s beginning to look a lot like fascism
Thanks for the holiday cheer!
Enjoy your holiday cheer without guilt. You can always mourn at Easter Friday, And rejoice again two days later.
I did enjoy the singer’s modified lyrics to It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas (that is, it did cheer me up). It seems people can’t fathom irony…
Seems to be of the same genre where their checklists for cult members and abused spouses read a lot like the population’s relationship with government, especially during so-called lockdown.
Anyway, here’s another example of their mocking contempt:
https://dumptheguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/dec/20/risk-of-penile-fractures-rises-at-christmas-doctors-find
The symbolic mockery hardly needs much decoding, but just take this at face value: “hey, you know that sexual adventurism we’ve been selling you for years as a substitute for forming a family or doing anything more meaningful?… well, it turns out it can wreck your health. We’d never have guessed.”
What must it be like to still read this rag and take it seriously?
it would not surprise me if it’s something to do with viagra as a stocking filler.
aye it’s the kind of article you used to see in the sun or sunday sport even
The bigger problem is the understanding of the laws of nature.
Fascism is fine,
if done with the laws of nature in mind.
What are your ‘laws of nature’?
Who says they are laws of nature?
Fascism is fine for who exactly?
The problem is that the problem is used to define its own solutions – as one way of putting it.
Who or what defines the problem?
Reactions from fears believed real?
Fears from past conditioning set in reactions running as second ‘nature’?
I enjoy freedom from problem – and when ‘problems’ arise – finding willingness to unpack them or reveal what they are masking over in terms of my old habits or conditioned sense of self.
So what is our true or original nature?
Not as a point of argument – but as a our own intimate or direct grounded reference point for living?
It must be at rest or unconflicted in itself rather than a mask of keeping face against exposure to conflicts – projected our or dissociated from. A quality of being wholly at one or in the flow of being yourself. or its a nurtured ‘nature’.
Struck a nerve I see, these are universal laws of nature, much like gravity but instead they prove human denial.
No need to get into them all as they only arouse the human anger while neglecting the danger.
Stay patient grasshopper and perhaps one day you shall find a link to the truth of the universal laws of nature.
“So what is our true or original nature?”
Good question, to which no one knows the answer. And even if strife is natural the question arises: are all things good that are natural? There are some really poisonous things in nature — starting with Oxygen, CO2 and Plutonium.
Then there is the idea of Original Sin: as in Cain killing Abel because the Earth wasn’t big enough for the two of them — when there were probably fewer than fifty people on Earth at the time.
Also there have been a few daring spirits who preach Together-Love instead of Apart-Hate, as being equally natural but more desirable.
what like climate change? ffs
like the origins of many cancers.
Another clear sign or warning signal that a government has assuredly moved to becoming one qualified for categorization as despotism is the situation where despots possessing greatest power in the despotic government structure mass murder a scientifically estimated 17,000,000 men, women and children worldwide via mRNA bioweapons (so-called “vaccines”), and (thus far) get away and continue on with it (“skate” and or commit crimes with impunity, in legal slang/jargon), – along with related premeditated, heinous war crimes and/or crimes against humanity, such as genocide.
Good night and good luck.
😎
So that’s how they trained the WEF young leaders of today:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSQApGLbgNg
Simple really.
The dirty truth is that most people like despotism. Just to take one example from the film:
‘ When certain people or groups are denied respect or courtesy based on their political beliefs or opinions.’ =despotism
Well, I certainly remember the thrill that people had because they had a green pass and therefore could mock, ignore, ostracize or simply wishing others to dead, who did not have such a pass because they had a different ‘opinion’ on what was happening in the world.
Why people like despotism?
-Because it saves them from the trouble to take their own responsibility.
And it continues: now that covid turned out to be a hoax with deadly consequences, what do people who had such a green pass do?
Say they’re sorry?
Try to change their behavior?
Admit that they were mistaken?
NO. They turn silent and do as if 2020-2023 never happened! Saves them from taking responsibility…
The thought experiment: what would happen IF humanity would take responsibility in their own hands may be interesting.
Me, I am very pessimistic when I look at my fellow men and think what would happen IF they would take matters on their own, for the reason that people have no taste. And for that reason they need an authority who takes the responsibility from them and who tells them on their behalf what, science, culture, politics, leisure, judgment is.
If not because of authority the works of Shakespeare would have been long forgotten, classical music would not have survived, we would still live in Ptolemaeus world, there wouldn’t have been any cure for any disease, and we would fertilize the ground with Gatorade, because water is a filthy substance with which you flush the toilet.
I may have spoiled my comment above with this extension, but I do believe that humanity (at large) is heading for idiocracy, as it always has. And it’s just to be hoped that through some divine intervention every now and then we get an enlightened despot who actually likes Shakespeare, loves science, knows the beauty of culture and judges fairly, which the population at large does not understand, but accepts based on the rule that they only listen to a despot because they can’t take responsibility on their own.
Agree with most of your comment Willem – but the ghosts of those tortured and executed by the enlightened despot you are referring to, for the crime of being found to have a crucifix in the house and being catholic would beg to differ methinks. Now we collectively find ourselves threatened, bullied, terrified and psyche warfared into taking a bio weapon and ending up dead, injured or worried about one’s long term prospects? There were many calling for unvaccinated to be starved in their homes or put in camps. The thought was placed in their heads, they couldn’t even think it up themselves. So I guess nothing has changed at all when the master propagandists get to work. I am feeling the love. I know it is because they care, these enlightened despots.
Yet.
Interesting as it relates to mimetic theory of Rene Gerard – an imitative masking survival personae.
Girard’s idea of ‘triangular mimetics’; and the idea of memes (i.e., mimetics + memetics) explains quite a bit, at least, vis-a-vis current times. RGB-Y3 out!!
The truth bomb that people are still not waking up to:
We have already been in a new world order for many decades.
There’s no going back to olden times, they were worse. People got lynched, women got burned as a “witch .
I can’t stand these idiots that think we gotta go back to the ” good old days”
ahhhhhh… just a thought: an open-air, digital, panoptic prison is just about the worst thing a human being could possibly come up with; so, yes, i’d luv to go back in time and take a path different from the one we’re ALL currently on. That is all! RGB-Y3 out!!
I’d settle for 2018.