Atomised Thinking

Right to Challenge

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Maybe it’s the weather.

But I am feeling listless. Unsettled.

A little adrift. Unanchored…much like our monetary system.

I feel the urge to write about something. But cannot quite pin down what that should be. I can’t put my finger on it.

Maybe it’s not the weather. Maybe, it’s the utter, shambolic, ruinous state of geopolitics.

I am fairly certain we are slap-bang in the middle of the most epoch-defining moments of our lifetime. Possibly of many lifetimes.

Yet, there is this sense of uncomfortable, uneasy silence. Or rather disintegrated, dampened pockets of anxious noise.

The lead story in the UK’s Telegraph for three days this week has been about a boorish Masterchef bloke who hasn’t updated his behaviour since the 1980s*.

In Australia there’s an argument brewing about which pubs will allow Australia Day celebrations.

At the same time, the German and French governments have fallen, South Korea declared martial law and the lame-duck president, deemed too senile to represent the United States, is nominally authorising Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles being fired at a nuclear superpower.

There are revolts in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Georgia. Syria is sparking up again. Sudan is disintegrating and warmongers are seeking to micro-define genocide.

World War III is openly discussed but major decision-making countries lack decision-makers.

Excess deaths remain stubbornly, alarmingly elevated across the Western world** (crickets). Birth rates are plummeting well below replacement rates. People are objectively getting dumber.

Quality of life is decreasing. Cost of living is increasing.

Issues lay strewn across the globe in fragmented slithers…and in bewildering numbers.

States seem to have turbo-charged their money printers – sloshing around their devaluing “trust-me-tokens” knowing they are about to expire. Those closest to the stimulant-dispenser are all-in on one last fiat bender before the lights flick on and the true extent of the carnage is unveiled.

The interconnectedness of the global population makes it ever more impossible to conceal the desperate misalignment of interests that is driven by a monetary system that divorces the decision-making from the value-creators. The looters from the producers, as Ayn Rand would have it.

Superstate, state and private actors and institutions are all at fault - intertwined in an incestuous crony thieving from what they view as the tax-cattle.

As was the case with the Gutenberg printing press, the transistor radio and then television, information is key. The only way for our perilous situation to be turned around is for individuals to arm*** themselves with knowledge, truth and the genuine belief that sovereignty can only flow from them, the individual.

The state is our servant. Remember that. We pay government to serve us, the people. That’s the only way this can work. It’s either that or tyranny.

So. Australia is legislating for digital ID to be able to access social media (whatever your age, don’t be so easily fooled). Synapse-scrambled midwits are still arguing about whether nuclear energy should be legalised and the whole country is being mal-educated into a bureaucratic cul-de-sac.

The UK has legalised assisted suicide (despite Canada demonstrating to where this leads). Its Pabloist Prime Minister, Keir Stalin – ahem, I mean, Starmer - has stated point-blank that the will of the British people was intentionally ignored and that the vast flood of immigration into the UK were entirely by design (crickets).

France is talking about taxing unrealised gains (on Bitcoin). Macron refuses to abdicate.

Poor ole Joe blanket-pardoned his son…NOT just for the crimes for which he was found guilty…but ANY misdemeanour from the time he started working for the Ukrainian state oil company over a decade ago.

None of these policies emanated from the demos. This is not democracy. It just isn’t.

Are all these independent events? Or are they somehow all linked? There is a deep-seated, visceral sense that we need to do something. But upon which issue to focus?…when they are all interwoven and sometimes counterbalancing?

Before we were machine-gunned with atomised issues, I think it’s fair to say that populations across the West have allowed themselves to be divided, mostly through puerile, inane culture wars. However, the atrophy of clear thinking and physical creativity should trouble us all.

There is a stubborn portion of the lap-top class, those who have allowed their skills to be whittled away, who are now horribly reliant on the bullshit jobs that proliferate in a state-determined economy.

Not only have those degree-miseducated keyboard tappers allowed their intellectual capacity to be shaped by state dictate but they have also made a social contract to believe the government! To unthinkingly trust (corralled, selected, funded) experts.

Be it COVID, climate change, nutrition, medicine, the economy, education, war, immigration or tax, too many who could have otherwise been productive have self-neutered their capacity to create value.

That’s a tough place to be. To diagnose and rectify. To admit and correct.

Rather than confront and push out the cognitive incontinence in their bowels-for-brains, they allow themselves to be marshalled into being pseudo-communist foot-soldiers against the “conspiracy theorists”.

[Belly-propelled long-suffering sigh and 180-degree eye roll]

To those, please, stop and have a think.

During a period in history that combines unprecedented global interdependency, unforeseen communication networks linking the vast proportion of the population of Planet Earth and the ability to concentrate more computing power in the palm of your hand than existed on the globe 50 years ago do you really…SERIOUSLY…think there are no conspiracies?!

At a time when there is more wealth, more control over the money, more legislation, more tax, more people on the planet, more technology, more information/propaganda channels, more powerful weapons, more energy…now…now is one time in human history where no-one is conspiring.

I just don’t know what to say to those people (although I do humbly concede that my verbose insults may not be the best way to go).

Biden was just being fatherly. We need to medicate cows to stop them farting and burping. Fauci was just sticking to definitions and protocol – he’s a good guy. Public health was rightly promoting noble lies for the greater good. With the best science then available. Kid-mutilating surgeons were behaving with children’s mental health at heart. A colourless odourless, inert gas comprising 0.04% is the primary driver of global climate. War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, etc.

It's simply not the case that there are no conspiracies. We must surely all agree on that now.

It’s a question of which conspiracies are true. And how true.

In order to discern that, we need to think for ourselves. This is something we can all start doing immediately. That is something each of us can control now.

It’s good to question. Crucial.

So, apologies. I fear that might have been a bit of a wild rant - a questioning of everything.

But I think that’s how we get out of this. A collective cognition, built from the bottom up. Individuals exercising freedom of thought, expression and the right to challenge.

It is both a right and right to challenge.

* (DON’T have a go at me if that is a misrepresentation…I really could not be bothered to read the stories).

** check out Our World In Data:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-mortality-p-scores-average-baseline?country=USA~GBR~AUS~CAN

*** as I write that, I am picturing myself being accused of a non-crime hate incident for using inciteful language. That’s the position we have arrived at – we can barely use our own language anymore.