In these posts I use current events, my misuse of painkillers and the hopeful end of Forever World War Two to bring you an optimistic vision of the near future.
The world as we know it is ending, and with it goes the nightmare utopianism of the would-be global elites of the West.
What is more, their policy of excluding anyone but their fanatical factions has created a force far greater than themselves, which is shaping tomorrow’s world today.
CONTENTS
Introduction
How Revolutions Happen
Locked Down and Locked Out - The Locked Discourse of Liberalism
Loud, Quiet, Loud - The Monumental Noise
The Solution - Dissolve the People
O Tempora, O Mores - The Value of Elite Fear
In part two, I will move to the global dimension and the domestic impact of change.
With the unspooling of the tape, the voice of elite power is increasingly garbled. Our liberal leaders are all Joe Biden now. An extemporised word salad here, a public fit of insanity there.
What has happened in the sanatorium atop the magic mountain? Its inhabitants have quarantined themselves from reality, and find themselves among strangers when compelled to confront those who have to live in it.
The panic in the centres of power is obvious. This is an extinction-level event for an elite whose practice of power is calibrated to a vanished post-Soviet world order.
What is worse for them, and naturally better for you, is that this process has excluded a significant number of capable, experienced and disenchanted people, along with the mass of the general population.
This is post is about the accidental birth of the anti-elite.
HOW REVOLUTIONS HAPPEN
With the notable exception of the “conservative revolution” in America, revolutions usually follow a simple form.
Some disaffected group of intellectuals is detached from the mainstream
They attract disaffected power brokers
Mass public disaffection is directed by this counter-elite
What is different this time is that there is not much distance between the vanguard and the mass of the people.
Secondly, the evil of the empire of lies is so great and so obvious that it compels the Godless to visions of Satan and makes a nonsense of liberal-political “partisan” divides.
What unites us is what we are not. “We” are not “them”.
Recently I have been accused of the treason of optimism, and more recently, of “blackpilling”1.
I am a happy fellow who looks forward to tomorrow, and so should you. This is because it is going to be extraordinarily interesting.
THE VANGUARD
Every revolution needs a vanguard. This is the Leninist name for the spearhead, the directors of the business of political change.
Some people believe that this change can come without leadership, in the same way that others believe we are all cosmic beings who have failed to attune to the melodies of distant stars.
This vanguard is present now. It is not in agreement as to what comes next, but it will reach that point soon.
Where did it come from?
LOCKED DOWN AND LOCKED OUT
Herbert Marcuse, like Bertold Brecht, is a good example of a useful Marxist. In his attempt to explain why his favourite doctrine was still relevant in a time of rising consumer satisfaction, he wrote about how liberal democracy was a trap.
Aside from the “repressive desublimation” of consumerism itself, he said that a society managed by Liberal elites resulted in a “locked discourse”.
This means it would talk to you, but you could not really answer back - because the system was built to instruct and not to listen.
If you would like to know more about the synthetic identities of consumerism, the replacement of human relations with transactions, and how the consumer society functions as a trap, see here
Lockdown was an excellent example of the locked discourse in action. You and I were told to accept a form of house arrest and the “temporary” suspension of online and offline liberty for a greater good, which turned out to be evil.
Money which was rightfully yours was shovelled into the corporations and banks, to fund a new regime that wrecked small business, ruined lives, and pressed a toxic treatment whose hazards far exceeded those of the disease it did not stop.
The political result was also practically obvious. Those who resisted this regime were ostracised.
The same process of exclusion applies to anyone who commits a formal heresy against the liberal order. If you deny the mainstreamed extremism of its rainbow, net zero, permanent war creed, you are less than zero.
Coding dissent negatively in this way serves two purposes. One, you can call anyone who disagrees with your schemes an extremist.
Two, you create a de facto mass movement against yourself, as practically anyone with a scrap of sanity is now labelled as an enemy, however loudly they notice the madness at the centre of politics.
LOUD, QUIET, LOUD
The cadence and pitch of political change follows a sort of melodic pattern. There is the loud moment, which signals a sudden crackdown by the state.
There is quiet, as people wonder in fear how far they are going to go.
Then it gets loud again, as the number of people grows who realise that if they do not speak up, there will be nothing left for them to lose.
This noise can safely lead nowhere without direction. Why am I so confident there is one now? If you seek the monument of noise, look around you.
No single coherent movement has yet assembled, beyond the personality cult of Trump - whose impact is significant.
See here for how Trump’s policies, if enacted, will reshape the Western world:
I am aware that Trump is not Christ, nor is he perfect. His new regime promises to be different. Here is the inside view from one of his advisors.
Yet political leadership is emerging elsewhere to capitalise on the obvious. Not, of course, in Britain, whose cycle of predictable political betrayal and reaction is syncopated by its superior system of public deception.
In Europe, to which progressive British zealots turn to pray in longing, parties are popping up which are populist. This means they appeal to people made sick by the medicine of the liberal management.
To stop the wars, to have sensible energy policies, to have police which police and borders which function are the main pleas.
Populism is a plea to halt the madness of “civilisation”, that garden styled by Josip Borrell, of rainbow-wreathed windmills and the delivery of death.
This is not sent only to the jungle outside, of course. Assisted suicide, abortion and deeply suspicious injections are all part of the domestic package.
THE SOLUTION
Another useful communist was Bertold Brecht. He had a sense of humour whilst inhabiting the nightmare realised by his dreams. Speaking in communist East Germany against the suppression of a workers’ uprising, he said in his poem2 “Die Lösung” (The Solution),
Would it not be easier for the government to dissolve the people
And elect another?
In the light of permitted mass migration it seems our governments have read his poem as a “how-to” - a guide to dissolving any chance of opposition.
Alongside mass migration, “rights-based” NGOs also seek to dissolve social cohesion. See here for more on that:
Migrants, we are told, come in the hope of a better life. If some marginal benefit remains over the places they have left, they will be satisfied with the difference.
Yet the benefits are not marginal, and the liberal donation of money, accommodation, health care and legal privilege provide strong incentives to the future lumpenproletariat to resettle in your former home.
O TEMPORA, O MORES
What is going on right now is a desperate attempt by a stranded elite to remain in power. This is being done by fear propaganda and the criminalisation of dissent.
Do not give in to fear, to despair, to madness. This will pass.
The fear in the ruling elite is real and obvious. They are a minority of tyrants, and are despised wherever they are noticed. Their actions, especially those intended to save themselves, are making noticing them impossible to avoid.
This liberal system has excluded the majority of ordinary people from its legal and professional and political system of privilege.
It has propelled the wise, the prudent, the independent of mind into opposition. It has offered a fool’s bargain - submission or exile - to those doubtful of its utopian promise.
Yet we have nowhere else to go. The extremists are the liberal elite themselves, whose policies of Godless national suicide are so insane they are forming a grand coalition of resistance against them.
They cannot imprison us all.
In the next post, I will examine the global and domestic dimensions of the change that is underway in what we must now call the old world order - and why this is a reason to be cheerful.
Last November I took a lot of pills for my toothache, which coincided with an important video conference concerning my future. The result was that I appeared to have suffered a stroke on camera, having mistakenly believed that the codeine based painkillers “would not work” and the anaesthetic gel I had emptied into my mouth “would do nowt”.
Visibly drooling, I was unable to speak, and perhaps unwisely typed the explanation that “I have monged myself with a load of tablets”. My tongue lolled uselessly around my palsied chops as the brief interview became a terrific success, vouchsafed by my inability to speak. Here endeth the lesson.
Brecht was writing in response to the government of the German Democratic Republic, with whose actions in suppressing a workers’ revolt he did not agree.
He suggested the government could go beyond denouncing the people and simply dissolve them. He knew how to lol at the notlol.
The Solution
After the uprising of the 17th June
The Secretary of the Writers Union
Had leaflets distributed in the Stalinallee
Stating that the people
Had forfeited the confidence of the government
And could win it back only
By redoubled efforts. Would it not be easier
In that case for the government
To dissolve the people
And elect another?
You are one hell of a writer.
An incredible article yet one that fails to instill hope in me with regards to Canada, as it seems further along on the strange journey Britain is on than Britain herself. That said, Europe's many nations give reason to hope, as do those in Asia as they reject globalism, reject the strange madness that has gripped liberalism and turn towards reason and faith once again to try to save themselves from the monsters who dwell atop the liberal mountain.