Yeah. What was it that Arthur C. Clarke said? Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic? If you wanted to rule over a neofeudal society then posing as gods over the ignorant population would be the way to do it.
That said I'm not sure the elites quite have the ability to pull it off. What do they actually do with the 20% of the population who are immune to their brainwashing? Probably the same 20% that wouldn't take the kill shot?
One idea I have sort of been toying with for a time is that the elites are very fond of this notion of Hegelian synthesis - that the reaction to their agenda is predictable and as such peoples reaction to their agenda synthesises the outcome.
There are parts of the dissident right who think we should reject modernity. If you read uncle Teds ideas about technological slavery. Modlbug talks an awful lot about the benefits of pre-industrial Europe with feudalism and how people had a lot more freedom in their lives as long as they didn't try to foment rebellion against the monarch. The average medieval peasant in England could have a house you would need to be a millionaire to own today. You also got 150 days holiday a year and probably worked fewer hours. In dark age and medieval Europe usury was illegal and feudalism was partly about protecting people from the money changers.
You have to wonder if it really comes down to it the people who have no wish to live in this technological nightmare the elites have planned. Could we end up in a situation where the globalists execute their 90% population reduction agenda and you basically end up with two groups of people left? The more group selected religious types who lived more rural lifestyles and the globalists and their servants. Now we may despise each other but at the end of the day maybe its not the worst thing because all the middle men are the ones who die off. We all hate the brain dead normie dross, they eat our food, use our fuel and take up space and their idiocy is just absolutely insufferable. Us and the elites probably have similar feelings towards them.
Maybe we go our separate ways, the elites living in their luxury technological coastal enclaves with their slaves and servants and the more dissident minded folk choosing to live in the rural interior well beyond the borders of their domain. If there were no money changers or an endless stream of degeneracy and psychological warfare would it really be so bad to live on a remote farm with no mortgage, get 150 days holiday and make tribute in grain, vegetables and animal products a couple times a year?
Essentially artificially inducing a dark age through controlled and managed means. The process of "dark ages" has occurred several times in Eurasia in various different civilisations. If you look at dark age Europe we may call it the dark ages and it was a very hard time but skeleton sizes in Europe actually increased, I doubt it was as truly "dark" for those who lived through it as we may think. Rural peasants were actually better off without the yoke of the empire on their back. So may many people in the west. Good if you're a producer, bad if you're a parasite.
To be fair if Musk wanted his own nukes he could probably develop them from scratch in 5 years. The UK managed it on a shoe string budget after the war. The USSR managed it before they did. Even South Africa at one point developed its own nuclear weapons.
I think his tactic is to weaponise the disaffected masses against the other elites to bolster his own position. He still probably broadly agrees with the direction laid down at Davos. No one is /our guy/ - at best you can only hope to enjoy a brief respite in the power vacuum created by intra-elite conflict.
I think it goes beyond that.
For example do you think Jussie Smollett came up with a plan to stage his own lynching on his own or did someone higher up and more sinister tell him to do it which explains why he seemed to be very worried about being suicided in jail?
If anything it makes these people even more loathsome because I have to believe that a lot of them aren't that stupid but they really have no qualms about just parroting the lines their masters feed them even if they know its bullshit.
Could it have been a way to protect himself? That if his rampant degeneracy and corruption became public knowledge that the regime would have no choice to protect him in order to keep president dementia case in office?
It's a shit show all round. The vast majority of the food supply in this country is controlled probably by about 2 dozen companies. Tesco which is our main supermarket has something like 27% of the business. It uses 1% of the total electricity output of the country in a given year. There are a handful of companies which buy up most of the milk output. These days there are a handful of massive abattoirs.
Farming in most European countries is governed under a policy called the CAP which comes from the EU - the UK has left the EU but I believe the CAP is still in effect pending the introduction of our new national farming strategy. It's basically supply management. Farms are heavily dependent on subsidies and have various methods which manage what they produce and what they're paid. In many cases the subsidies are the only things holding the industry up.
One of the only countries I know of which abolished farm subsides is New Zealand when they had a severe economic emergency in 1984. I believe even to this day one of the only subsidies they have is on diesel fuel for irrigation. Oddly enough farming did pretty well since. New Zealand has a reasonably popular dairy industry and their lamb is quite popular.
France is the main beneficiary in Europe of the CAP. French farmers get paid a lot of money to not farm and do very well out of it. Although UK farming has cleaned its act up a lot since the BSE outbreak. It probably wasn't the worst thing to ever happen to the industry. The food is generally better quality now than it was in the 80's.
I know in some countries its worse. I have no idea why its so screwed up but dairy in Canada is controlled under some sort of monopoly which makes cheese very expensive. From what I've heard its even more dysfunctional than the CAP in Europe.
Subsidies also cause serious issues in America - especially when it comes to corn. Whenever I'm in America I notice the high fructose corn syrup in things from the taste. The beef in America can sometimes leave something to be desired and I know many farmers feed their cattle on corn instead of grass which is crazy because cows evolved to process grass, not corn.
Subsidies really produce perverse results wherever they are employed in most cases.
In the UK the vast majority of people shop at a handful of supermarkets (Tesco, ASDA, Morrisons, Sainsburys, Waitrose) and they are pretty ruthless when it comes to prices. We have had numerous instances of this where supermarkets pay producers less than it costs to produce a given product. Honestly your options for where else to sell aren't great. A handful of wholesalers and large customers in the food industry.
I live in a rural area and I get my eggs from a local farm who sell theirs directly and to numerous market traders and farm shops locally. They'll be OK.
The vast majority of farms are in trouble though.
I would say its a feature not a bug, but our ruling elites are to coddled and ideologically possessed to understand that.
Yeah - if you consider the kind of people you hire as security or muscle and the fact that they probably have trouble affording their rent let alone a home of their own. If it really does kick off at best they'll be off protecting their own neighbourhoods out in the working class satellite towns surrounding D.C if not just join the fray. I am amazed the elites have been able to keep them loyal until now.
I would guess most of the people who fled from the District of Columbia now live in all those very nice wealthy suburbs in Virginia and Maryland earning a rather fat salary as a government bureaucrat or working for the various contractors or NGO's sucking on the government teet. I stayed in Alexandria when I visited D.C in 2012, its quite pleasant meanwhile actual D.C is one of the most violent cities in America. That said after seeing what happened in the BLM riots I would be very nervous if I was them. Multiple cities with large underclass populations within a few hour drive who could descend on the capital.
The standard of living of the average peasant in Europe actually increased after the fall of Rome. You can see this reflected in the average skeleton size. Most values that we think of as western today are the result of our barbarian ancestry. The fall of Rome was probably a net good for Europe.
There is plenty of future in fission in the near term. Most of our widespread reactor designs are based on solid fuel and uranium fuel cycles - low pressure/high temperature. Pressurised light water reactors were designed for submarines because it was quick to do, the guy who designed them never intended them for widespread civilian use scaled up. In the late 1960's they were already working on new fuel cycles using thorium and liquid fuel - indeed a prototype of one of these ran at Oak Ridge Laboratory for years until the Nixon administration shut down the program. This design is much safer. Thorium is far more common in the earths crust. It only needs a small amount of Uranium as a "kick" to start the reaction. Liquid fuel also doesn't degrade like solid fuel does and require reprocessing.
The only places in the world that have significantly reduced the dependence of their grids on carbon based energy are either places like Ontario, Norway and the PNW that have large reserves of hydro power - in Ontario's case it also has the worlds largest nuclear power station or you go mostly nuclear like France did in the 1970's. You have other countries like Sweden, Finland and Switzerland that also have a fair sized nuclear industry. Denmark I believe uses a lot of wind power but its a small flat country in an exposed coastal area. There are only 5 million people living in Denmark and the countries main industry is agriculture. Most of the country side in Denmark smells like pig shit.
One thing somewhere like the UK or Japan might be able to exploit is tidal power. Unlike the wind you get a tide twice a day. I'm surprised so much money has been put into wind and not into tidal. Oddly enough in the UK we have a river estuary that has one of the largest tidal ranges of anywhere in the world and no one has ever made an effort to look into that either. Just wind turbines and solar panels. Our nuclear industry is absolutely moribund. We had the worlds first commercial generating station and we produced two of our own reactor designs - MAGNOX and AGR which ran safely for decades and now our government have been in bed with the Chinese for their nuclear technology to build us a new station which may never be finished at the rate its going.
Seeing all this going on lead me to conclude its nothing to do with climate. It seems to be just a scam to increase the scarcity of energy and make certain corrupt people a return on their investments.
In the late 2000's our government banned the old fashioned incandescent light bulbs because they didn't meet energy efficiency standards and pushed compact florescents instead. Problem was when the Chinese got in on it they flooded our market with low quality CFL's most of which failed after a few years. The whole exercise was probably carbon negative because more resources had to be put into making these CFL's than the energy they saved. We had a few CFL's in our house back in the 90's. My dad being an electrician got a deal on them from a wholesaler. They cost about 20 pounds each but they lasted for 15+ years because they were well made and probably actually saved money. Then LED's went mainstream and made the whole thing a waste of time.
In the middle ages people used to drill holes in peoples heads because they thought illnesses were caused by demonic possession. In the 17th century in England and Scotland we had a mass hysteria about witches and men literally died where they stood when self professed witches "cursed" them.
People don't change and haven't changed.
The mistake that modern man made was thinking his ancestors were backwards and stupid when for the most part they really haven't made many improvements over the last thousand years except the technological revolution we have enjoyed since 1750.
Today we have quantum mechanics, relativity and advanced multi spectral sensors, MRI machines, mass spectroscopy. We may well be able to shed some light on exactly what is going on. We also have this new era of mass communication which means that people who aren't as easily prone to group think and hysteria can share ideas across the world instantly. I think it gives us more of a chance than anyone else has had for the last 8000 years of recorded human history to see who or what is pulling the strings.
Our ancestors might have called them demons for want of a better term but I have to wonder if they aren't extra terrestrial or extra dimensional in origin. If we know what exactly they are and where they come from it may yield some way to fight them or banish them permanently.
Do you think our elite are actually human? If you look at the ideologies they believe in its hard to believe they are the product of human intelligence because they are so antithetical to human nature. It's like they are the product of an insect intelligence.
I'd literally dissect creatures like Klaus Schwab down to the cellular level. I don't know what they are - androids, clones, insectoid in a skin suit but they aren't human.
I remember this guy Dr Pizza - you know if memory serves he was quite active as an "anti incel activist" and "incel watchdog" tied to the r/inceltears sub. Although he used to take the odd pot shot at other places in the manosphere and on the right. I wasn't surprised when I found out he was a pedo.
It's virtue signalling. They know full well their products are going to go into Russia through intermediaries like China. In fact it will probably be quite lucrative business for some finding their way around these sanctions.
In 1965 Rhodesia declared unilateral independence from the British Empire. The British government responded by essentially organising a total economic blockade of this tiny land locked African country and actually it did pretty well for a time. Portugal was quite happy to do business with them and transport goods through Portuguese Mozambique. South Africa was their main ally. Israel, Japan, Taiwan and Korea to some extent all did business with them as well and Rhodesian products found their way all over the place. Rhodesian mines were one of the few sources of Chromium not controlled by the USSR and it was found that the Soviets were purchasing Rhodesian Chromium and then reselling their own substandard Chromium to Western customers despite promising them (on a deniable basis it was Rhodesian Chromium).
This whole thing is an absolute farce. Russia is one of the worlds main resource markets. People need what Russia produces and plenty of countries like China can get away with playing both sides because if the US upsets China to much there won't be fuck all for fat Amerifats to buy in Walmart.
Sounds very plausible.
Well this is why there is a desperate race to introduce the central bank digital currency and the social credit score before the fiat paper currencies become worthless. Whether it will actually work on a practical level probably gives these politicians sleepless nights.
In my opinion we do have two advantages -
The party of Davos are extremely powerful and are often 4 or 5 steps ahead like you say. Their weakness is they are only a few hundred people. They have to depend on a much larger world wide network of administrators and local governors in order to enforce their agenda. These people are greedy, corrupt and many of them are midwits - just about intelligent enough to internalise the elites ideology that they were trained in at school. Not intelligent enough for moral or logical decision making and little ability at leading or dealing with people - relying on propaganda and often resorting to extremely ham fisted heavy handed coercion when it doesn't work. I think among these people are those who have their own ambitions or petty grudges against other factions of the "cathedral" - some of who probably realise they're surrounded by idiots and have their own ideas.
The managerial elite are almost universally in power in every aspect of our lives and yet they view the world through an abstract and faulty lens. Sat away in offices theirs is a world of spread sheets, statistical modelling, viewing everyone as competing individual and interchangeable cogs in the machine. Often with little idea of what is actually going on at the sharp end. Sitting back and dutifully making sure only good news is passed up the chain of command. The view of people neoliberalism has is fundamentally antithetical to human nature and is based on faulty assumptions just like modern economics which also has faulty assumptions about human behaviour. They apply the same methodology to everything, often with poor results. Normally escaping consequences for their failure and failing upwards.
I work in manufacturing. The company I work for (a major multinational in the top 5 in its field) is a perfect example of the managerial system. Managers who have made a career of failing upwards or sideways who lock themselves away in their offices and don't have a clue what is going on. Several enterprising individuals have scammed them over the years. Only good news is ever reported to superiors. Failures are covered up and ignored. One by one the few people who told it how it was and called a spade a spade have been purged and every day brings us closer to the inevitable collapse of our viability as a business. Increasingly complex process being pushed in order to meet various targets and reduce man power requirements but leaving us with machinery our workforce cannot cope with and processes which have issues which defy understanding. The average age of our workforce is 58. I can count those under 40 including myself on my fingers. Critical expertise has been lost. I think this insulation of management and their servants has only got more acute with COVID and the work from home and sit in your bugman or cat lady apartment all day.
You see this decay in a lot of things. Boeing built a plane that dropped out of the sky and the Dreamliner was an absolute disaster. Lockheed Martin built a plane that is a trillion dollar white elephant. Have you seen how bad some car brands build quality has gotten? $1000 flag ship phones don't have a place to plug your headphones in.
Elites talk about build back better and all these grand ideas for net zero and unicorn farts meanwhile the basic infrastructure is degrading faster than it can be repaired. The rot in our civilisation is terminal. Your average corporate manager or politician wouldn't even be able to understand this kind of conversation. They're like the retarded child on the floor trying to shove a square through a circular hole because squares were the only ideology they were told about by an authority figure in school.
I give us a 50/50 chance of being able to come out on the other side of this. We'll have a considerably lower standard of living. We'll miss things about our lives back in the 20th century. The world will be chaotic and probably more violent but it's better than a life time of technological slavery. At the very least I think the globalists may have over reached somewhat and may end up having to write certain provinces of the empire off to "barbarians" much as the Romans did.
I'm sure Blackrock are waiting in the wings with wads of free cash their buddies at the central bank gave them.
I think they vastly over estimate their capabilities. The globalist system is a network based on nodes of power. The problem is there are large parts of the earth that are almost impossible to govern. Why do you think the elites are so desperate to herd the population into these "smart cities"? For example in the United States most of the "nodes" of the globalist system are located in about a dozen or so cities only a handful of which are located in the interior along a few critical transport axes. With a mass casualty event I honestly wonder if they would even bother trying to "govern" the hinter land of North America and wouldn't just consolidate their power in the coastal regions they controlled.
In fact if you look at what the globalists have done since the 1990's with abandoning their American power bases in favour of China I have to wonder if the globalists strategic agenda hasn't pivoted away from the Atlantic and North America as it has been since the 16th century with the European empires and now the American empire and is now pivoting towards the Eurasia-Pacific region. Would the globalists really try to bother controlling Montana or Wyoming or Maine and Newfoundland in Canada? Sparely populated. Poor. No strategic importance.
If you look at America for example - in the post cold war era power in America really rested in the narrow corridor between Boston (MIT), New York (finance) and Washington D.C (admin/military industrial) where as now I would say the most powerful faction are the big tech firms in California. They control something even more important than money or force of arms. Big tech control what the normie masses think and how they perceive the world - more so than even the mainstream media ever did.
They have more than enough with the coastal regions and transport corridors for their logistical systems.
I guess our only hope is to try and stay under the radar and wait out the chaos. Remember "The Stand" by Stephen King and all the chaos as everyone died? My guess is that at first the government would probably cover it up with the help of the media and then slowly it would start to leak out that the hospitals were filling up. Then you start having mass casualty events and the system thrashes around trying to keep order while everything goes to shit. In this case the vaxtards might try to hunt down and murder the unvaxxed before they to died.
I guess you just have to hope you can stay off the radar while it all happens.
You would end up with this weird situation where there are two factions of humanity left. The more religious right wing types most of who have a highly suspicious nature and a distrust of authority and the sort of elite left wing technocratic and technologist types who planned the holocaust and while obviously these groups despise each other - no one likes middle men. The vast normie dross of humanity who are useless sheep would all be gone. I really have to wonder what that kind of world would be like. Either we could go our separate ways or we could fight to extinction and I think we would choose to go our separate ways with those of us of the more right wing/survivalist/religious persuasion going back to the land in the rural areas and the technocratic elite occupying their coastal oases on their estates.
Woah... Thanks for the information mate. I had heard about TPM 2.0 in regards to people who were not happy about Windows 11 and how their relatively new hardware was not supported. I can't say I cared much - I'm 95% on Linux on a few years old system and I have a really old machine still running Windows 7 for a few things and I have a Windows 10 gaming PC for flight simming but I literally never use it for anything but that and it has a pirate version on it.
Does seem to track with the agenda for a single digital ID tied to everything you do.
Do you see open source hardware coming on the market that might not incorporate TPM 2.0 on the basis its cheap secure hardware for Linux distros only? Some OEM's are selling machines with Ubuntu or other distros at the moment. I can't help but think there would have to be a market in hardware that didn't incorporate this technology for certain government departments or corporations who didn't want everything every machine did fingerprinted.
The doom stories most people believe about feudalism were sold by capitalists, socialists and money changers to scare people into accepting their ideologies. I wouldn't say it was perfect by any measure - partly due to certain scientific discoveries our ancestors were not aware of and the fact that we moderns have a different truth regime from our ancestors who's world view was very much dominated by Christianity. At the end of the day you were tied to the land, the bank couldn't take it off you or leverage debt against it. The lord was responsible for your well being and in turn had to make tribute of a certain amount to the king which meant he had to manage his holdings well in order to produce. The vast majority of the population were gainfully employed in agriculture and stewardship of the land. Unlike our current situation where we have mass unemployment and a large underclass which is literally left to rot and commit petty crime.
Just look at the state of agriculture in our current civilisation. It only survives on government subsidy and corporate farming is literally destroying the soils that support our crops and many farms are in debt and facing closure. The money changers who run our civilisation are literally killing the entire underpinning of human existence. Once our soils are destroyed it could take hundreds of years to restore them even with careful stewardship.
The only future for human survival is a return to the land and the cutting out of the money changers from our lives. Feudalism is the only known mechanism for doing that. The problem is the vast majority of the population has no conception of life outside of being a proletarian wage earner. The industrial civilisation that normalised that is but a temporary blip in the course of human history built on cheap availability of energy and pissing most of that into landfill. Someone has to start anew with something that can be sustained. We literally live in a civilisation that cannot even replace itself. Something is badly wrong and time and time and time again we loose because the elites at least have a will to power and a vision for the future - a vision that is horrifying and likely leads only to extinction. Feudalism sustained Europe during the middle ages, there is no reason it couldn't sustain us after the death of global industrial civilisation.