To all deep and still natures the sudden revelation of an aspect of life causes a slow but pervasive emotion, akin to fear, akin to joy, partaking of one and the other, a trouble of the mind such as we feel when we touch for the first time on the mysteries of religion, of sex, or discover for the first time a hint of the ground plan, of the hypocrisy, the opportunism, and the common sense of a system of human government.
Ford Madox Ford - Mr Apollo (1908)
COP26 may be a bore but it's a hint of the ground plan. An impossible hint to miss but we'll still call it a hint.
Covid rules for travelling to the UK will be relaxed for thousands of delegates attending the UN COP26 climate summit in Glasgow in November.
Up to 25,000 government representatives, media and campaigners from around the world are expected.
By now it must be painfully obvious to all but the terminally deceived that the official climate narrative never had anything to do with the global climate. If nothing else, shoving poor little Greta Thunberg onto centre stage must surely sow a few seeds of doubt into even the most tightly guarded political allegiance. It is not about the science. It never was. It is about you.
The clues are all over the place, elites barely bothering to hide them. The future is to be the same as the feudal past. One world for the aristocrats and one world for the rest of us with useful technocrats to glue it all together and make it work.
Unfortunately they think there are too many of us and we consume too much to make it work for much longer. Too many of us consuming too much to make it work for their children and grandchildren. Here’s yet another recent and very widely reported hint - that lavish birthday party.
Jen Psaki defends Barack Obama's 500-person 60th birthday party and dismisses fears star-studded bash could be a super-spreader event but Joe Biden WON'T attend.
The clues are all over the place, elites barely bothering to hide them. The future is to be the same as the feudal past. One world for the aristocrats and one world for the rest of us with useful technocrats to glue it all together and make it work.
Unfortunately they think there are too many of us and we consume too much to make it work for much longer. Too many of us consuming too much to make it work for their children and grandchildren. Here’s yet another recent and very widely reported hint - that lavish birthday party.
Jen Psaki defends Barack Obama's 500-person 60th birthday party and dismisses fears star-studded bash could be a super-spreader event but Joe Biden WON'T attend.
Hope and change indeed - all for me and none for thee.
It must be equally obvious that the coronavirus debacle has little to do with the virus. For the most part it was a political opportunity. Our government was slow to spot the opportunity but soon altered course. Boris and co. quickly steered away from the dangers of good science with all those prickly people who talk about caveats and uncertainties.
The lockdown approach was of course a taster session. A police state where benign repression could be instituted on the back of an exaggerated public health scare coupled with one-sided scientific pronouncements and relentless propaganda. A huge advantage being that some of it was real.
As for the disadvantages – well they all land firmly in our court. As for the disadvantages of COP26 – well they all land firmly in our court too. Unless you live in the land of the private jet of course.
It must be equally obvious that the coronavirus debacle has little to do with the virus. For the most part it was a political opportunity. Our government was slow to spot the opportunity but soon altered course. Boris and co. quickly steered away from the dangers of good science with all those prickly people who talk about caveats and uncertainties.
The lockdown approach was of course a taster session. A police state where benign repression could be instituted on the back of an exaggerated public health scare coupled with one-sided scientific pronouncements and relentless propaganda. A huge advantage being that some of it was real.
As for the disadvantages – well they all land firmly in our court. As for the disadvantages of COP26 – well they all land firmly in our court too. Unless you live in the land of the private jet of course.
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“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.”
“The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.”
“The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master – – that’s all.”
– Lewis Carroll’s “Through the Looking Glass”
I am reasonably certain that there is a COVID Pandemic, and the Climate Change is happening. There is certainly room to argue about what our responses should be rather than being sucked willy-nilly into a panic... But in the end, even if it is not deliberate, the elite choose their public attitudes to demonstrate who is to be master.
There are signs that the Western elite are struggling to stay on top. It will change but it won't be pretty for anyone.
Feudalism is correct, I think, and although I doubt that there will be a peasants revolt, there will indeed be some revolting peasants and I wonder how they will be dealt with.
The Feudal methods can no longer be used - savage punishments and killing people. The real danger for them is that the internet will link people who can see through the charade, and somehow they will have to be neutralised. Elites work partly through being better connected and organised, and the internet gives that connection, and the potential for organisation, to all of us. So what are they going to do? Switch off the internet? Exclude people who refuse to have their jabs? Engineer an even more "urgent" crisis so they can shut down the grid? It's all very interesting, as this seems to me to be their major point of weakness and they will have to move soon.
Or, of course, they could just rely on sufficient numbers of people believing them.
DJ - yes the Western elite are struggling to stay on top. A constant need to be seen taking a lead doesn't help them. They have to respond to too many pressures and provide too many answers even when there are no clear answers.
Sam - at the moment they seem to be relying on censorship, sufficient numbers of people believing them and perhaps a larger number willing to conform. It could be a simple percentage game where dissenting voices are not suppressed entirely but contained.
"Covid rules for travelling to the UK will be relaxed for thousands of delegates attending the UN COP26 climate summit in Glasgow in November.
Up to 25,000 government representatives, media and campaigners from around the world are expected."
No Zoom or Skype for our betters, of course. Their meetings have to take place in persons, because reasons.
Anon - strange isn't it? Maybe the virus avoids climate change bureaucrats and activists. I know I would.
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