My last job at Columbia, up to this past summer, was curating the School of Public Health’s centennial, leaning into Covid for fundraising and newsiness.
The burning all-consuming ascetics have always been in the public health field. Ibsen dramatized them in 1900, in 'An Enemy of Society'. Clean water and good sanitation were NOT ENOUGH for the fanatics.....
DR STOCKMANN. But they'll get the worst of it, I can promise them. Henceforth, every day I'll throw myself into the breach in the Messenger; bombard them with one article after another.
ASLAKSEN. Yes, but look here...
BILLING. Hurrah! There'll be war, there'll be war!
DR STOCKMANN. I will smite them to the earth. I will crush them, level all their entrenchments to the ground before the eyes of all right-thinking men. I'll do it.
ASLAKSEN. But all the same be reasonable, doctor; proceed with moderation...
BILLING. Not at all, not at all; don't spare for dynamite.
DR STOCKMANN (going on imperturbably) For, remember that henceforth it is not merely a question of water works and sewers.
No, the whole of society must be cleansed, disinfected.
That's one way of looking at it, but sort of presumes that decision makers basically agree with her analysis and are villains cackling and twirling their moustaches over their dastardly deeds. I'm sure there's no shortage of such sociopaths but in my experience most people who reach that level of government are pretty conventional, literal minded "midwit" technocrats who truly believe that their pious faith in the New York Times and prestige miniseries and latest fashionable narratives puts them and their friends on the cutting edge of the smartest, wisest, most unimpeachable statespersons in history. I tend to think many of those kinds of incremental policy steps, as dystopian as they add up to in the big picture, are undertaken with pretty good intentions by fairly decent people who simply lack the empathy and imagination to understand critiques or conceive of any other points of view. At the end of the day, that's probably more terrifying.
There certainly was a lot of ignorance and looking the other way, but there is ALSO verifiable Marxist influence throughout. It is evidenced by, if nothing else, its manifestation in EVERY social institution that exists, and by the subsequent chaos that results.
We're talking about decades of planning and legislation that is ALSO verified by many many many globalist texts, interviews and stated goals. What they wanted is exactly what they're getting. It's been in the works for a very long time.
Club of Rome, Committee of 300, The CFR, The Tri-Lateral Committee, Fabian Society, The WEF, Open Borders Society, UN Agenda 2030. Frankfurt School, Tavistock Institute and many others.
They TOLD us exactly what they're going to do, and it's happening. They used bribery, promises of power and blackmail to get what they wanted. A very easy task considering they control the printing of money. Unlimited wealth provides a voluminous capacity for achieving power. Then consider the fact that the unlimited wealth was born of usury and devious infiltration into governments.
That's absolutely true at the highest levels... Bill Moyers had an interview with one of the Rockefellers from the early 70s that was chilling in its prescience. A lot of lionized .01 percenters have been working for a long time to destroy any semblance of representative government. That said, the everyday administrators and foot soldiers of the 5-10% were/are largely oblivious to any of that, it just sounds like tin foil hat stuff to them in the context of anything they've ever read or considered, which is only what supposedly authoritative outlets have been spoonfeeding them for decades. Question is, can things get so obviously insane that some of them can't just blame the flyover Nazis for all the cognitize dissidence and start peeling off? I don't know, but I wouldn't have launched a dissident Substack if I didn't think there were still some glimmers of hope.
You know, I did know that, but being linked to CFR can mean a lot of things, from being a full-blown true believer in global authoritarian technocracy to being an influential person invited to a couple of dinners or to speak on a few panels. Bill Moyers was very good to me and very open to my pointed questions/criticisms about globalism, and more generous with his time with me as a heterodox character than any of the other more conventional young staffers. I don't think he's ever forgotten his small town roots or done anything that he didn't ultimately believe would help ordinary people, I just think he's very tied to the idealism of his generation (the belief that technocratic expertise ended the Depression, won WWII, put a man on the moon, and prevented WWIII) and as he's gotten older has had less and less exposure to voices who might suggest that there have been unintended consequences. In that respect, he reminds me a lot of my late father who spent his final years watching MSNBC religiously.
The burning all-consuming ascetics have always been in the public health field. Ibsen dramatized them in 1900, in 'An Enemy of Society'. Clean water and good sanitation were NOT ENOUGH for the fanatics.....
DR STOCKMANN. But they'll get the worst of it, I can promise them. Henceforth, every day I'll throw myself into the breach in the Messenger; bombard them with one article after another.
ASLAKSEN. Yes, but look here...
BILLING. Hurrah! There'll be war, there'll be war!
DR STOCKMANN. I will smite them to the earth. I will crush them, level all their entrenchments to the ground before the eyes of all right-thinking men. I'll do it.
ASLAKSEN. But all the same be reasonable, doctor; proceed with moderation...
BILLING. Not at all, not at all; don't spare for dynamite.
DR STOCKMANN (going on imperturbably) For, remember that henceforth it is not merely a question of water works and sewers.
No, the whole of society must be cleansed, disinfected.
BILLING. There sounds the word of salvation!
https://bailiwicknews.substack.com/p/american-domestic-bioterrorism-program
That's one way of looking at it, but sort of presumes that decision makers basically agree with her analysis and are villains cackling and twirling their moustaches over their dastardly deeds. I'm sure there's no shortage of such sociopaths but in my experience most people who reach that level of government are pretty conventional, literal minded "midwit" technocrats who truly believe that their pious faith in the New York Times and prestige miniseries and latest fashionable narratives puts them and their friends on the cutting edge of the smartest, wisest, most unimpeachable statespersons in history. I tend to think many of those kinds of incremental policy steps, as dystopian as they add up to in the big picture, are undertaken with pretty good intentions by fairly decent people who simply lack the empathy and imagination to understand critiques or conceive of any other points of view. At the end of the day, that's probably more terrifying.
There certainly was a lot of ignorance and looking the other way, but there is ALSO verifiable Marxist influence throughout. It is evidenced by, if nothing else, its manifestation in EVERY social institution that exists, and by the subsequent chaos that results.
We're talking about decades of planning and legislation that is ALSO verified by many many many globalist texts, interviews and stated goals. What they wanted is exactly what they're getting. It's been in the works for a very long time.
Club of Rome, Committee of 300, The CFR, The Tri-Lateral Committee, Fabian Society, The WEF, Open Borders Society, UN Agenda 2030. Frankfurt School, Tavistock Institute and many others.
They TOLD us exactly what they're going to do, and it's happening. They used bribery, promises of power and blackmail to get what they wanted. A very easy task considering they control the printing of money. Unlimited wealth provides a voluminous capacity for achieving power. Then consider the fact that the unlimited wealth was born of usury and devious infiltration into governments.
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That's absolutely true at the highest levels... Bill Moyers had an interview with one of the Rockefellers from the early 70s that was chilling in its prescience. A lot of lionized .01 percenters have been working for a long time to destroy any semblance of representative government. That said, the everyday administrators and foot soldiers of the 5-10% were/are largely oblivious to any of that, it just sounds like tin foil hat stuff to them in the context of anything they've ever read or considered, which is only what supposedly authoritative outlets have been spoonfeeding them for decades. Question is, can things get so obviously insane that some of them can't just blame the flyover Nazis for all the cognitize dissidence and start peeling off? I don't know, but I wouldn't have launched a dissident Substack if I didn't think there were still some glimmers of hope.
Moyers was CFR, did you know?
You know, I did know that, but being linked to CFR can mean a lot of things, from being a full-blown true believer in global authoritarian technocracy to being an influential person invited to a couple of dinners or to speak on a few panels. Bill Moyers was very good to me and very open to my pointed questions/criticisms about globalism, and more generous with his time with me as a heterodox character than any of the other more conventional young staffers. I don't think he's ever forgotten his small town roots or done anything that he didn't ultimately believe would help ordinary people, I just think he's very tied to the idealism of his generation (the belief that technocratic expertise ended the Depression, won WWII, put a man on the moon, and prevented WWIII) and as he's gotten older has had less and less exposure to voices who might suggest that there have been unintended consequences. In that respect, he reminds me a lot of my late father who spent his final years watching MSNBC religiously.
FWIW it's more than a coupla dinners. Member of the board.
https://www.cfr.org/historical-roster-directors-and-officers
I appreciate your efforts. Thank you.