The time of spice is upon us and with it plenty of news. Some of it is shocking.
Today I will argue why this is a good thing. Taken together, this news means that change is coming.
In this summary and analysis of recent events, I will argue that the power of the powerful to control what is believed about the world is waning.
It is having one of its turns.
The Liberal consensus relies on the control of information to control its population.
Let’s see how that has been going.
CONTENTS
CENSORSHIP - ELON MUSK TO ADVERTISERS “GO F*** YOURSELVES”
PROPAGANDA FAILURE: ANTISEMITIC CANARDS
REGIME CHAOS - BLINKEN IN REVERSE
NATO DEFEAT: THE UKRAINIAN CYCLE
EU ECONOMY AND DEFENCE: EUROPEAN UNREALISM
SHELF LIFESTYLES: CANADA’S SUICIDE INDUSTRY
LIBERAL RULE OF LAWYERS: DUTCH & UK GOVERNMENT DEADLOCK
CONCLUSION - GOOD TIMES AHEAD
There is too much doom and gloom in the world.
To correct this addiction to misery, I have added a brief explanation at the end of each news piece.
I explain why these events signal a major shift away from the empire of lies which has been ruining our lives.
These are the signs of the return of the Good Times. Enjoy!
MUSK DOES A BIG SWEAR
The world’s richest man told corporate advertisers to “Go f*** yourself” this week.
He said this in response to attempts to “blackmail” him “with money”.
Major advertisers, such as Disney, have withdrawn advertising from X/Twitter because it has too much free speech.
Musk has faced accusations of “antisemitism” from the Anti Defamation League, to which he once replied that it should simply be renamed.
Musk said that the coordinated removal of advertising would “kill the company” that is X. Does this mean your free speech platform is going to die?
No. As I wrote before, Musk intends to turn X into an “app of everything”, including online payments and banking. It will become a platform which requires no advertising to be profitable.
Just like Paypal, which Musk created, sold on, and intends to replace.
Why is this a good thing?
Musk’s fightback shows how the media is controlled in large part by people who do not want you to speak freely. What is more, X is here to stay. Musk is building a rare commodity with this public denunciation of the censorship-industrial complex: trust. It will drive users to the new services he offers to make X advertiser-proof.
ANTISEMITIC CANARDS
The head of the ADL, Jonathan Greenblatt, seeks to discredit anti-semitic canards whilst personifying them.
He is rumoured - here by the Iranians - to be deeply concerned that Israel has lost the support of the younger generation.
"The issue in the United States' support of Israel is not left and right, it is young and old." "...We really have a TikTok problem, a Gen-Z problem..."
Greenblatt, a former Special Assistant to President Obama, makes a living from demanding online censorship through leveraging claims of “antisemitism”.
The current Israeli strategy is to label any and all criticism of the Israeli operation in Gaza and its insane government as an irrational hatred of all Jews.
I have explained this disgraceful lie here, where I examine the death cult of Zionism.
Greenblatt is not the only one defaming anyone doubtful about the desirability of genocide, and of a government containing many people who wish to spark armageddon.
This line is pursued by many “conservative” commentators and politicians.
I have examined some of them and their motives here.
The problem for Greenblatt and his political and pundit friends is that they have lost the room to reality. The propaganda war has been lost by Israel, marking a permanent shift in public sympathy away from the routine policies of their state.
One result of the Greenblatt Effect is that Tiktok kids started reading Bin Laden - and agreeing with him.
Why is this good news?
Grievance-leveraged censorship is losing power. The argument for reality is being heard. Calling people nasty names to shut them up is not working any more.
BLINKEN IN REVERSE
The reverse ferret is a shameful but common manoeuvre. It is performed by a shameless political actor when they realise their stated position is akin to driving into a brick wall.
Antony “Blinkzkrieg” Blinken did one last month when he realised his initial support without conditions for Netanyahu had placed in that position. With the wall approaching, he ferreted into reverse and suddenly began calling for a two state solution.
This is not just a public relations move. It is a major policy shift, and one which leaves Netanyahu’s cheese out in the wind.
It shows the Regime is in complete disarray and has lost a lot of control.
Netanyahu has been dedicated to the destruction of the peace process for over thirty years. Many argue he is complicit in the murder of the former Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin, who had agreed to create a Palestinian state by 1999.
Why did Blinken reverse his position, and abandon Netanyahu to a hostile world? This indicates the influence of Obama, who for his many faults was also a supporter of the two state solution.
This also shows that the US Government is no longer capable of authoring reality.
A “senior adviser” in the GW Bush White House was reported as saying
“We are an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality”.
The United States is still an empire, but the reality-based community are no longer passive consumers of its script. Reality can no longer be dismissed as a sort of spectator sport1.
Blinken’s change of heart, and with it the direction of US foreign policy in the Middle East, betokens a deep crisis in the Biden administration. It is compounded by the failures in Afghanistan, and the fallout from the looming defeat of US/NATO in Ukraine.
Why is this good news?
Liberal propaganda has failed to shape reality - in reality itself, and in the minds of its populations.
This is a sign of the end of Liberalism - the cult of make belief - as it relied on propaganda to replace overt force in social control.
The Regime is faltering. It has passed its peak. A new reality is coming soon - one which does not exclude the reality-based community on principle.
THE UKRAINIAN CYCLE
It is not only the power of advertising, of slurs, and of state propaganda which is on the wane. It is also hard power, as in the military force once concentrated and now exhausted in Ukraine.
In 2022 I argued that
Ukraine would lose the war
Russia would not collapse
Europe’s economy would be devastated
I summarised this in part four of my Ukraine Explainer series in January of this year:
Ukraine is now conscripting women, teenagers and the elderly to die on a static front line.
This continues the cycle illustrated in the Wheel of Troubles2 (Koliso Genotba), the greatest meme on Ukraine ever to exist.
It passes from “victory” at the top, through “struggle”, “shame”, “treason”, “Maidan” and “Help” - and back to “victory”.
It is a cycle of delusion, rage and destruction fuelled by political manipulation.
This war was avoidable for two reasons, both of them rooted in reality.
One - Russian national security requires buffer states. It has a long indefensible border. Seeking to absorb Ukraine into NATO and/or the EU dissolves Russia’s national security strategy. This was the intention.
Two - Peace was agreed weeks after the war began, at the end of March 2022. The condition for the war’s end was that Ukraine would not join NATO. The Russians would have left with Donbass and Crimea.
What happened? Boris Johnson flew to Kiev and told Zelensky to tear up the peace deal. He said the West would back him until Ukraine won the war.
After a sustained propaganda campaign and the expense of many lives, NATO stocks of ammunition and armour are extremely low.
Why is this good?
The dangers of ignoring reality in favour of wish-thinking are made obvious. People will listen less to propaganda and demand pragmatic solutions in its place.
EUROPEAN UNREALISM
We were told consistently that Russia was losing, it would collapse, Putin was dying, his troops deserting, his armies running out of ammo and his factories resorting to cannibalising washing machines for computer chips.
In reality, it is the European economy which has been ruined, and its armies are so weak that the Berlin Security Conference conceded that the EU would be “washed away” in a war with Russia.
The Russians have traded outside the sanctions system, making a new reality for themselves in the process. This involves closer cooperation with former friends and current foes of the United States, which has done much to unite the world’s producer nations against itself.
By contrast, Germany is deindustrialising so rapidly it looks extremely unlikely that it will be able to continue to subsidise the EU. The Euro currency was effectively engineered to favour German exports, whose profitability would fill the EU’s coffers.
The economic collapse set in motion by the destruction of Europe’s strategic energy supply has rendered the EU completely dependent on the USA.
It is defenceless, penniless and cannot escape this predicament without abandoning the US-led sanctions and reopening its Russian oil and gas lifeline.
I think this will happen - when Scholz is gone. The two previous German Chancellors worked for decades to make Nordstream 1 and 2 a reality.
It will not take the next one so long.
What is good about this?
Europe has been ruined by believing in its own propaganda. Its leadership will be replaced by reality based opportunists. The politics of make belief has led to ruin.
CANADA’S SUICIDE INDUSTRY
The slippery slope fallacy rears its ugly head again, affirming the dangerous power of pattern recognition to predict the obvious.
When Canada adopted the promotion of suicide as a healthcare option the reality based community said that more people would kill themselves as a result.
If your government hates you and makes your life joyless and hopeless, then offers you an easy way to end it all, what could possibly happen? Hmmm. Noggin = joggin.
Strangers to reason were shocked to discover that suicides have increased in Canada. 45000 people have killed themselves since the law was changed in 2016, with further “assistance” last year resulting in a 30 percent increase in legal suicides. In 2022, 4 percent of deaths were due to MAID.
The industry of Medically Assistance In Dying foresees rapid growth, with the medical provision of end-of-life being offered to the mentally ill in March 2024.
This is a business, of course, and one in which a life judged to be worthless can be concluded in a businesslike manner. It is a transactional end to a transactional life.
The institution of medically assisted dying as healthcare is one obvious consequence of the destruction of the value of life. The person as product now lives a shelf life.
If you would like to know more about how transactions replaced human relations, see here:
Where is the good in this?
Justin Trudeau is a poster boy for Liberalism. Liberals like to show you they are the Better People, the Good People, the Kind People, the Caring People.
This policy clearly reveals the value of your life under consumer-Liberalism.
DUTCH & UK GOVERNMENT DEADLOCK
Geert Wilders won the election but is not in power. The two parties who could put him there will not do so, because his policies are “illiberal”.
Pieter Omtzigt who leads the NSC is arguing that the Liberal Dutch constitution forbids Wilders’ extremist policies of national preservation.
For detailed analysis of the Dutch election, see here:
The same problem is present in the UK. David Cameron, the new Foreign Secretary, has vowed to “stop the boats” bringing mass illegal immigration to Britain, but has also refused to ditch the Liberal rights-based legal structure which protects them on arrival.
Nothing can be done about mass immigration if Liberal legalism is retained. Former adviser to the Prime Minister Dominic Cummings has called the ECHR legislation which is defended by Omtzigt and Cameron as a “paedos and terrorists defence act”.
Why is this a good thing?
People can clearly see that the rule of law has been replaced by the rule of lawyers. These Liberal activists promote and defend legislation which prioritises the rights of criminals over the law abiding, and those of aliens over natives.
CONCLUSION
The Liberal system has no solutions to the problems it has created.
It IS the problem. Things can change. To say they cannot is the politics of despair.
DO NOT GIVE IN TO THIS MEME.
It is clear that Liberalism and its legalism has to go. It is going. This is good news.
I am writing a series on the return to reality, which makes the case for a swift return to sane principles in politics and society. I am convinced this process is already underway, and I will show you why you too should expect better times - and soon.
If you can afford to pay me for this, please do. If you can’t, don’t.
Ron Suskind’s famous quote was attributed to Karl Rove, a senior staffer in the GW Bush White House. Suskind wrote a piece in the New York Times about the cultish - even messianic - self-belief of the administration, whose Blairite imprint has been clearly received by that of the current Israeli government.
It shows a pungent contempt for reality and those who believe it matters, from the point of view of people who consider themselves its authors.
Here is the full quote from Suskind’s 2004 piece:
In the summer of 2002, after I had written an article in Esquire that the White House didn't like about Bush's former communications director, Karen Hughes, I had a meeting with a senior adviser to Bush.
He expressed the White House's displeasure, and then he told me something that at the time I didn't fully comprehend -- but which I now believe gets to the very heart of the Bush presidency.
The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality."
I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off.
"That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."
Here is a translation of the words on the wheel.
It is hard to translate word "генотьба" (genot'ba). It is something close to "troubles" or "problems". So it is "The wheel of troubles"
To the left is EU and Merkel as an angel. To the right is the Russian Customs Union and Lukashenko as a devil.
12:00 is "Victory" (above it "Double think" and "Сonsciousness")
02:00 is "Struggle" ("Predecessors" and "Damned moskals").
04:00 is "Shame" ("Attention" and "Arrested").
06:00 is "Treason" ("Why us?" and "We are in trouble").
08:00 is "Square"/Maidan (To the left is: "Heroes" and "Hall of UPA/Ukrainian Rebel Army" as analogue to Hall of Heroes or Halls of Valhalla. This is a wordplay as in russian/ukrainian this two words when pronounced successively sounds like a swear word for penis head)
10:00 is "Assistance" (Above is "Association" and "Lace panties")
Here is another take, from a 2022 article saying “Ukrainians are living in fantasies while their leaders lie”:
The purely Ukrainian concept of “Wheel of genoty”, denoting the periodic change of “zrada” (treason), “shame” (shame) and “overcoming” (victory), has now sparkled with new colors.
Before the public has time to declare any negotiations with Russia and formulas of a possible compromise as “zrada”, the Kyiv “chief calmer” Aleksey Arestovich appears on the screens, gives out on the air a set of completely unimaginable fantasies – and the same public immediately rushes to celebrate the “victory”.
Another fine analysis and a reminder reality actually exists, the ability of some temporary empires to create their own reality notwithstanding.
I like reality. I like living in it. I get to do real things. And I find it a useful antidote to the other existence I endure online.
It is snowing where I am and I got up this morning and looked out at a perfect carpet of pristine white snow that made the otherwise boring car park it covered look clean and magical. All of it real. None of it AI generated.
You write in a way that is like a good debate. You state your premise, lay out the reasoning, then reaffirm the premise with a conclusion. Great!