Give me crack and anal sex
Take the only tree that's left
And stuff it up the hole in your culture
Give me back the Berlin wall
Give me Stalin and St. Paul
I've seen the future, brother, it is murder
Leonard Cohen
There is a disturbing sense of irony when the liberal left, who are used to seeing Nazis everywhere they look, do not seem to recognise the sudden rise of totalitarian fascism which has overtaken us in the last 18 months. I use the term fascism in its most literal sense, that offered by Europe’s first fascist dictator, Benito Mussolini:
“Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.”
The architecture of monopoly capitalism which has shaped our world since the 16th century enclosures has today reached its final perfection. But while today’s liberals lament the harsh economic inequalities of our modern world; the bitter impoverishment of the working class, rising unemployment and the blight of student debt, unaffordable housing and healthcare, failing infrastructure and so on; and insist that the wealthy should be made to pay higher taxes, as usual they fundamentally misunderstand the problem and fail to grasp the most basic economic principles.
Monopoly ownership, overproduction and spectacular boom bust cycles aside, what liberals fail to notice most of all about the system of private capital accumulation we live under is that with great wealth comes tremendous power. When corporations like Apple, Microsoft and Amazon control as much wealth as half the world’s countries combined, how does one begin to measure the power they exercise? Democracy, human rights and the rule of law are the emperors clothes, and like the fabled emperor, the machinery of fascism stands naked behind these transparent adornments. The only difference is that unlike in the children’s story, the emperor’s subjects also seem consumed by his vanity and are unable to see past the narrative framing.
Nowhere is this more clear than in Operation Covid 9-11. When seen through any other window but that of a 40 inch plasma screen, it is prima facie straight up financial fraud. When we look deeper we see a complex web of deceit involving governments, health bureaucracies, and the military, pharmaceutical, finance and technology sectors, whose interests intersect and overlap as much as they compete.
I want to be absolutely clear here. I will not be called a ‘covid denier’. I will not play victim to anyone’s straw man argument. I will state for the record that I believe a contagious respiratory disease with flu like symptoms exists, and that it is more severe than a typical seasonal flu, (or at least it was in 2020.) What I do categorically deny however is the categorisation of ‘pandemic’, at least as commonly understood before 2012, when the World Health Organisation - a public health body which is now completely captured by private financial interests - changed the definition of the term to omit the important words "with enormous numbers of deaths and illness."
As I have stated previously, the current coronavirus outbreak does not meet the definition of a pandemic by historic standards. In 2018 Australia had 300,000 cases of flu and no pandemic was declared. It should be noted that these were all symptomatic cases recorded after clinical presentation, before the absurd notion of testing people with no symptoms based on ‘close contacts’ became commonplace. This compares with some 85,000 cases of coronavirus recorded in the last 18 months, many of which had zero to mild symptoms.
I am not denying the seriousness of Covid 19. I am not denying that people have died from Covid 19. What I am saying is that the number of cases and deaths does not add up to a deadly pandemic by any historical standard, nor justify the extreme measures of bullying, coercion and psychological abuse we have seen in response. In fact there were less deaths recorded worldwide in 2020 than in an average year. I suggest that rather than a pandemic, what we are seeing is an example of the Emperors Clothes being used to cover up something far more evil and grotesque. And by that I don’t mean the naked figure of Bill Gates.
What the majority fail to see going on behind the theatrical dry ice of the covid pandemic is more than just the set being rearranged. It is the total transformation of society. The slogans ‘build back better’ and ‘new normal’ have become commonplace, but as I’ve been saying since the outset, we are never going back to normal. This is our new normal. Forced to wear masks forever and carry papers on us to step outside our houses. Made to check in and out everywhere we go. The world we knew prior to 2020 is in a process of radical transformation. There is no going back, because there is nothing to go back to.
Just as the period of post war reconstruction ended in 1971 with the removal of the gold peg, so the neoliberal era ended with the 2008 Global Financial Crisis. But instead of allowing for a painful market correction, the central banks used their influence to hold governments at gunpoint and demand bailouts. Since then the financial economy has been a runaway train. That train ran off a cliff with the 2019 credit crunch when the FED once again stepped in to print trillions of dollars to avoid another market correction. Faced with the Covid crisis, rather than shrinking its balance sheets the FED doubled down on repo market operations - 40 percent of all US dollars in existence were printed in 2020. With the USD still crowned as the world reserve currency, we are effectively living in Wiemar Germany. It just hasn’t hit home for most of us yet.
The 2019 credit crunch gave the green light to Operation Covid 9-11.
This is the reason for the movement restrictions. This is the purpose of the stay at home orders. It’s not for your safety, or the safety of society. It’s to get you used to your new chains.
Stay at home while they take a wrecking ball to the last vestiges of the capitalist project and plough up its foundations. Stay at home while they destroy small businesses. While they collapse the fiat banking system and usher in Central Bank Digital Currencies. While they roll out digital health passports and social credit. You’ll be allowed to return to normal life when they tell you it’s safe. But it wont be the life you knew before.
Listen to what the elites are saying:
“As we look to rebuild after the pandemic, there is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to reshape our world”
“In sum, we need a new social contract to create a sense of security in our globalized and fast-changing economy:
“You will own nothing, and you will be happy”
Get your vaccine, but you’ll still have to wear a mask, because the vaccine won’t stop you catching the virus, or spreading it. And you’ll need to come back for a booster shot every six months. Don’t worry, you’ll be reminded when your next injection is due, probably at an inconvenient time, perhaps when you need to buy food, or check into a motel, or catch your next bus, train or uber.
I cannot stress this enough. The owners of this world have a plan, and that plan is to take us back to the 13th century. Free market capitalism has outlived its usefulness and is no longer fit for purpose. All wealth is now being transferred to global corporations. This will cause a massive rise in state debt, bankrupting national economies. The solution will be a shift to digital finance - the penultimate instrument of totalitarian control. We are already seeing our access to public life restricted on the basis of our vaccination statuses. Soon our access to money will be determined based on our compliance to algorithm-based ‘community standards’. The social media platforms are already preparing us for this. The final stage of the plan is bio-digital convergence via neural implants not only capable of controlling our smart devices, but also policing our thoughts. No, this is not science fiction.
Let me be clear again. I am not a libertarian. I believe in the rule of law and I have no problem making sacrifices for the common good of society. But none of this is for the common good. Everything we see being done, all of the new terms and conditions being imposed on us, from contact tracing to mandatory injectables, are for the exclusive benefit of a tiny group of elite psychopaths whose lust for absolute power knows no earthly bounds.
This is not just about freedom of movement or bodily autonomy. This is Gramsci’s interregnum:
'The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.'
For those of us who can see and understand the importance of this historical moment; for those who would choose life and liberty over digital serfdom, this is the fight of our lives. This is the hill we must die on.
Covid 9-11: The Emperor's New Clothes
Brilliant Sean! Yes, this is the hill of the last stand.
Hasn't this been going on many, many years? The rich get richer, and the middle and lower class continue to decline. It's just more noticeable now with internet.