The meddling kids now include vast swaths of the world’s population, burning to put power back into the hands of the people as the liberal age promised long ago.
Was a crime against humanity, and "the crime of the century" to quote your fellow Bret Weinstein – however the century is still young!
Great piece Jeffrey. Although I'd slightly disagree on this point: "The essential people were the ruling class plus the workers who serve them." Consistent with our paradoxical upside down world, it was the *nonessential* laptop "fully remote work from home" salaried types who ruled. These "WFH" corporate careerists were served by the essential workers despite the laptop class providing nothing of real value to society (not anything anyone needs, nor anything anyone wants). I worked in B2B SaaS (they love their acronyms) and it's confounding how we got here – I can only explain the superfluidity of fake business with a 100-years of fiat monetary policy. The Federal Reserve printed "as desired" dollar has enabled the upside down world; let me know if you have a better hypothesis as to why "the phony" has taken precedence over "Realsville".
«No one’s ideological priors were confirmed in the course of events [𝙚𝙭𝙘𝙚𝙥𝙩 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚 "𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙥𝙞𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙮 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙨"], and everyone was forced to realize that the world worked in a very different way from what we had been told.»
—"A Republic, if you can keep it."
Now that the illusions that men can birth babies has crumbled, the extend of the damage can start to be assessed (#'s are order of magnitude) from my top 5:
1. >50% of adults are illiterate (can only read sports page) & are innumerate (they can't figure out that 3% in 30 years doubles the price, but 18% only 4 years [rule of 72])
2. >50% of US is obese
3. >70% 18 y.o.'s unfit for military
4. Americans lost 2 years in predicted lifespan over the last 4 years
5. The average American spends only 1 healthy birthday after age 65
This is not something reversible in a year or two!
Good article and well constructed argument as to what actually happened during those covid years. The real problem in trying to clean up this deception, this double-dealing fraud, is that it was so very big, "too big to fail," that the perpertrators will never be exposed, and even if they are, they will never be brought to justice, by being arrested, charged and tried.
There are just too many interconnected cogs in the wheels of the ruling classes to allow true justice to prevail. Sure there will be an odd court case or two, but the waggons of government and the establishment are tightly circled, are well funded by BIG PHARMA and they are all firing outwards to defend their precious pile of previous lies, so as to avoid lawfulness. This is the sad truth.
With all those factoids mentioned in this article still around and functional, another "pandemic" and all its horrendous consequences may well be just over the next horizon, cloaked in sacrificial altruism and just waiting to again envelop the populace for the monetary benifit of those in the ruling classes. Time will tell. 😒
Was a crime against humanity, and "the crime of the century" to quote your fellow Bret Weinstein – however the century is still young!
Great piece Jeffrey. Although I'd slightly disagree on this point: "The essential people were the ruling class plus the workers who serve them." Consistent with our paradoxical upside down world, it was the *nonessential* laptop "fully remote work from home" salaried types who ruled. These "WFH" corporate careerists were served by the essential workers despite the laptop class providing nothing of real value to society (not anything anyone needs, nor anything anyone wants). I worked in B2B SaaS (they love their acronyms) and it's confounding how we got here – I can only explain the superfluidity of fake business with a 100-years of fiat monetary policy. The Federal Reserve printed "as desired" dollar has enabled the upside down world; let me know if you have a better hypothesis as to why "the phony" has taken precedence over "Realsville".
«No one’s ideological priors were confirmed in the course of events [𝙚𝙭𝙘𝙚𝙥𝙩 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚 "𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙥𝙞𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙮 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙨"], and everyone was forced to realize that the world worked in a very different way from what we had been told.»
—"A Republic, if you can keep it."
Now that the illusions that men can birth babies has crumbled, the extend of the damage can start to be assessed (#'s are order of magnitude) from my top 5:
1. >50% of adults are illiterate (can only read sports page) & are innumerate (they can't figure out that 3% in 30 years doubles the price, but 18% only 4 years [rule of 72])
2. >50% of US is obese
3. >70% 18 y.o.'s unfit for military
4. Americans lost 2 years in predicted lifespan over the last 4 years
5. The average American spends only 1 healthy birthday after age 65
This is not something reversible in a year or two!
Good article and well constructed argument as to what actually happened during those covid years. The real problem in trying to clean up this deception, this double-dealing fraud, is that it was so very big, "too big to fail," that the perpertrators will never be exposed, and even if they are, they will never be brought to justice, by being arrested, charged and tried.
There are just too many interconnected cogs in the wheels of the ruling classes to allow true justice to prevail. Sure there will be an odd court case or two, but the waggons of government and the establishment are tightly circled, are well funded by BIG PHARMA and they are all firing outwards to defend their precious pile of previous lies, so as to avoid lawfulness. This is the sad truth.
With all those factoids mentioned in this article still around and functional, another "pandemic" and all its horrendous consequences may well be just over the next horizon, cloaked in sacrificial altruism and just waiting to again envelop the populace for the monetary benifit of those in the ruling classes. Time will tell. 😒
Please have Brownstone publish Gato’s piece:
https://substack.com/@boriquagato/note/p-158935852?r=2lahx5&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
Shear brilliance 👏🏽🤗