I am so happy to read your piece as it makes sense and gives us reason to be optimistic. You explain a lot here John and I appreciate the note that they are doomed to fail, and why that is so.
Exactly right. Shit is going to get real and we'll probably go through some trying times before we come out the other side of this process, but the incompetence and insanity of the globalist ruling class and external threat posed by Putin, who does not share their delusions or ideology, are grounds for hope that ultimately their "agenda 2030" will not succeed.
Your analogy of WEF-aligned governments to the franchise model of corporatism is perfect. Whatever comes next, I think localism -- local culture, local supply chains, local governance, local businesses, etc. -- is going to be very highly prized. We've learned our lesson the hard way about globalism. Old Ross Perot's warnings in 1992 proved too accurate.
One of the things that annoys me the most is that these “elites” have appointed themselves. Many of them are govt bureaucrats or connected to “non-profits “ or friends/family of left-wing politicians.....you get the point. And they are funded by self serving billionaires seeking power. Irritates the hell out of me (and many others, apparently)😎
Concerns expressed about Gates, WEF, and other global "elites" are canards invoked by the more local tyrants who actually rule us, to distract us from their failures. They are the only ones who can actually oppress us. Gates can buy all the land he wants, but is always bound by the laws in the jurisdiction where each property resides. Schwab can publish his nefarious plans to gain practical control, but a PowerPoint and five bucks will only get you a cup of coffee. WHO and other UN agents can issue orders, but they're only valid if local rulers adopt them. They can bribe local rulers to support their plans, but the real crime is the acceptance of those bribes. Every human on the planet chooses his rulers, or chooses to tolerate rulers others have chosen. DeSantis proved a state can defy and withstand national tyranny. Trump showed a country can defy and withstand global tyranny. The war is not between us and globalists, its only between us and our rulers. All oppression is voluntary. Competent people cannot be oppressed.
I think that the WEF globalists although they still have a decent chance of getting their way have been so unhinged and incompetent there is some non-negligible chance they are just another controlled front group. There to inflict misery and chaos to destroy the West or more likely since the same malaise in different manifestations afflicts Russia and China, to cause the population to rise up and destroy the leadership/globalists paving the way for a one world government. Some plans really are that simple and the perpetrators of such plans are just that crazed/unhinged/incompetent/bold though so more than likely it is just the WEF maybe as a front for some older organisations. I think whatever happens it will be a rough few years and not everyone is going to make it even it fails to take, or a rough few centuries if it does.
Good point about the intermarried aristocrats not making war.
Another important difference is that the old aristocrats were hereditary. Genes mix in various ways. Sometimes the heir was crazy, but often enough the heir was relatively sane, so the nation prospered.
The new aristocrats are SELECTED by other aristocrats from the broad population, and they are exclusively SELECTED for maximum evil and demonic lunacy. Any ruler who underperforms on Satan's scale is ruthlessly deselected and replaced by a more effective demon.
"The ruling class are therefore no longer perceived as the elites of their respective countries, organically risen from their local populations to fulfill leadership roles in those national communities. Instead, they are experienced as members of a different tribe, which have been imposed upon the nations from without."
This, precisely. My tribe is America, and more specifically what I consider the real America, which is an idea as much as an actual place or an actual political subdivision of the world. If anyone does not know what that idea is, they need only read the Constitution of the United States, and if that does not suffice, read what the people who founded the country and wrote the Constitution had to say about such matters as the role of government and the importance of individual liberty.
Those people who come from among us and join the globalist elite have no concern at all about the individual liberty of peons like us. They react with visceral anger at the very idea that we should put "America first," as if a political leader elected by Americans to serve the interest of Americans should somehow, as a natural matter of course, sometimes put the interests of Belgians and Chinese and Ukranians ahead of those of Americans. "America first" should be as controversial as "don't kick puppies," yet here we are.
Barack Obama aptly demonstrated his "otherism" when he remarked about American exceptionalism being similar to Greeks thinking they have Greek exceptionalism. Was Greece, unlike every other nation state out there, founded on an idea (for example, "liberty") rather than "welp, we got a bunch of people around here who look about the same and have the same culture, so we might as well make it official and declare borders and a capital city?"
No, that was not Greece, Obama. If you don't understand the difference, you're as dumb as you look with those gigantic "car going down the road with the doors open" ears (h/t to Fresh Prince of Bel-Air for the quip). I suspect you do know the difference, but you choose to minimize it by turning it into the caricature that you have.
You continue to knock them out of the park, John, and I sincerely hope your optimism is justified.
Some people see all that is happening as being purely or mostly the result of massive incompetence on the part of the government officials. I tend to see deliberate action... but when asked about it (as I was recently in a Substack discussion), I have to say that no, I don't see a hypercompetent foe playing 5-d chess while the rest of us run around chasing our tails. I see deliberate (conspiratorial) action on the part of the elites, but they're idiots. It does not have to be the either-or they have presented us; either they are legitimately trying to do the right thing for us all but are dumb as posts, or else they are malevolent, megalomaniacal super geniuses who have predicted every response we will have and designed a counter for it before the thing we were reacting to even happened.
About the only thing that is actually true of our opponents is that they are malevolent and megalomaniacal. That, clearly, they are. They clearly are not acting in the public interest in any way, nor do they actually believe that they are. They are neither dumb as posts nor super geniuses, though on balance they are closer to the former than the latter. They are prone to forgetting they are in an echo chamber, and they (along with their useful-idiot servants) often begin to believe their own lies while the rest of us continue to see through them.
One obvious example of this was in the phenomenon of Trump. When he became the frontrunner in the primaries leading up to the 2016 election, they (including their propaganda division, the so-called news media) was perplexed how such a figure could be popular (since none of THEM thought like that), but they had no curiosity to find out why (journalism having been dead for some time now). They simply declared that anyone who supported Trump was a bigoted, stupid, deplorable white supremacist, and that was that. From that point forward, they began to believe this... the thing they made up was repeated so often from within their echo chamber that it triggered their confirmation bias subroutines, and it reached the threshold for it to be considered common knowledge, like in my high school English class when I didn't need to end-note any factoid if I had at least three sources (each on its own 3x5 note card) saying the same thing..
This happened with Trump many times during (and before, and after) his presidency. The lie became the truth; they all believed it, and they were incredulous that many of us out here in flyover country didn't. They never understood that attacking him was not going to make his supporters shy away because we (like everyone else is supposed to) wanted to be in the good graces of Team Globalist. It made it clear that we were the real target, and he was just in the way-- as he said.
Donald Trump is an unlikely champion in a lot of ways, and he has made a lot of the other side's work easier with a lot of rookie mistakes, many of which happened in the latter part of his term, when he should have known who the snakes really were. For all of his faults, though, he appeared to many as a Messianic figure because he possessed some things we have not seen in ages... specifically, as you write, he was one of "us," an American, not a "them" globalist, and he actually has a spine, and won't back down the first time he is threatened with the left's primary weapon, the accusation of racism. It is a very effective weapon for keeping those who oppose globalism silenced, though it has been used so much that we're very much in the "little boy who cried wolf" territory.
That was, and is, at the heart of Trump's appeal, which the other side would know if they had any actual journalists among the legions of operatives they have with exactly that title. Had they known this, they may have countered him in ways that didn't just boost his appeal to his supporters. Nah, they are no 5-d chess players... they are a bunch of dumbasses (in practical terms; some of these dumbasses may well have high scores on standardized IQ tests, which just demonstrates the ongoing inability to put together any kind of test that measures what it claims to), but they are conspiratorial dumbasses all the same, and they do have money, which has given them power.
We can all feel it, I think, that their hold on power is slipping. El gato malo just posted about how the meme is being used to great effect to smash the narrative, and it's another facet of the same thing we are talking about here, where the schism between the elites (acting in their own interests while pretending to be serving us) and the regular people is becoming common knowledge. As the left's patron saint Alinsky noted, ridicule is a potent weapon, and there is fertile ground for ridicule among the globalist set, which is a given when one considers that they are, in fact, ridiculous.
In my research, it comes clear there multiple factions inside seemingly united cabals. Some individuals are members of multiple factions and many don't explicitly know they are a member of any cabal, even while seemingly having great public power.
As such, most factions of the cabal will eat themselves over time, turning on anyone in their quest for further power, wealth, and reputation.
The next few years are going to suddenly become really bad (90s Russia bad)....
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Great piece, John. You have teased out the political implications of the social psychology of the elites very well.
One point that people overlook is that globalisation is more than merely escalating mobility of people, goods, capital and culture. These are merely consequential phenomena of economic integration across national frontiers.
Globalisation is essentially the synchronisation of economic production across jurisdictions enabled by co-operation between national governments. Law, finance, corporate regulation, labour markets and consumption are managed to enable this synchronisation. It is about managing supply chains and maximising economies of scale to ensure maximum rates of growth and development in previously neglected or underutilised regions.
Unfortunately, global economic integration provides opportunities for wage and regulatory arbitrage. The profits from this are extraordinary. The adjustment costs are also distributed unequally. Elites seek their own advantage. Interelite co-operation incentivises decision makers to deprioritise their co-ethnics or fellow citizens.
NB economic integration is not simply a matter of liberal political economy. The formalisation of economic thinking behind globalisation began in Europe before WW1 in several countries, was further developed to a great extent by government think-tank efforts in Germany during WW1 itself and spread across Europe and the US in the 20s and 30s. Both liberal democrats and fascists were involved. Global cartels like I.G. Farben and the leading companies in the energy sector played a huge role too.
Ultimately the class to which you refer, John, is simply the managerial class engaged in realising the work of global economic integration. Their ideas and class culture are adaptations for this role.
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This puts me in mind of the difference between dominance and power. Dominance is essentially a snapshot of all transactions at a given moment, producing a signal of who or what is "in charge" of trends. A dominant force can sometimes manifest a very strong signal, other times a seemingly weak one. What it can't do is openly and brazenly raze your crops, fuck your wife, enslave your children, and murder you and all your friends.
Mere dominance needs to at least pretend to play by rules; a weakness which inevitably results in a lot of lying. Since lies and treachery beget more lies and more treachery, the vicious circle must at some point produce the precarious position the globalist tribe has found itself in. The same entropy applies whether the tech is pitchforks and torches or cell phones and substack posts. Even on those occasions when they apply "force", it is a weak, womanish kind of force: half-apologizing for its existence; promising to eventually relent; nervously measuring reactions and scrutinizing poll data.
Power, meanwhile, can evince something similar to dominance on the outside. But that's because it can evince a lot of things: caudal traps, measured interventions, persuasive arguments and all the rest of the trappings of civilized rule. But when it is threatened (and, in the case of virtuous power, when the *tribe* it belongs to, and is sworn to protect, is threatened), it can regress to relentless, unapologetic force in a heartbeat.
I really enjoyed this and will share it. Thank you. It's nice to see someone wrap their head around this weirdly sudden and new and earth-encompassing power grab. I always knew the shit would hit the fan in approximately 2020, bye I didn't expect the collapse to be accomplished as a deliberate act of sabotage. And what gets me is how many people they have in their claws - like the ENTIRE world media. Right now it's as if every single person who is paid right now to fabricate "news" (which is nightmarish in itself) is pulling out all the stops to fake-explain all the people dropping dead from the "vaccines". It literally is probably the biggest conspiracy In Human history.
I'm not an economist, and have never been too sure how much of that discipline was real or bogus. I'm interested in your dismissal of the minimizations of the Russian economy that I have heard elsewhere, e.g. the size of those of Italy or Texas.
How do we measure the size of an economy, anyway? As an evolutionary ecologically-minded person, I tend to read the size of the economy to be proportional to the growth and maintenance of the human biomass it supports: population, not credit slips. You treat it in terms of hard assets, like wheat, coal, and steel. But do our professional economists really roll these into the debt instruments we owe to each other in terms of dollars, and treat whatever inflating bubbles that creates as a measure of our economy? If so, has it always been thus?
I am so happy to read your piece as it makes sense and gives us reason to be optimistic. You explain a lot here John and I appreciate the note that they are doomed to fail, and why that is so.
Exactly right. Shit is going to get real and we'll probably go through some trying times before we come out the other side of this process, but the incompetence and insanity of the globalist ruling class and external threat posed by Putin, who does not share their delusions or ideology, are grounds for hope that ultimately their "agenda 2030" will not succeed.
Your analogy of WEF-aligned governments to the franchise model of corporatism is perfect. Whatever comes next, I think localism -- local culture, local supply chains, local governance, local businesses, etc. -- is going to be very highly prized. We've learned our lesson the hard way about globalism. Old Ross Perot's warnings in 1992 proved too accurate.
One of the things that annoys me the most is that these “elites” have appointed themselves. Many of them are govt bureaucrats or connected to “non-profits “ or friends/family of left-wing politicians.....you get the point. And they are funded by self serving billionaires seeking power. Irritates the hell out of me (and many others, apparently)😎
Concerns expressed about Gates, WEF, and other global "elites" are canards invoked by the more local tyrants who actually rule us, to distract us from their failures. They are the only ones who can actually oppress us. Gates can buy all the land he wants, but is always bound by the laws in the jurisdiction where each property resides. Schwab can publish his nefarious plans to gain practical control, but a PowerPoint and five bucks will only get you a cup of coffee. WHO and other UN agents can issue orders, but they're only valid if local rulers adopt them. They can bribe local rulers to support their plans, but the real crime is the acceptance of those bribes. Every human on the planet chooses his rulers, or chooses to tolerate rulers others have chosen. DeSantis proved a state can defy and withstand national tyranny. Trump showed a country can defy and withstand global tyranny. The war is not between us and globalists, its only between us and our rulers. All oppression is voluntary. Competent people cannot be oppressed.
this was a masterful piece of zeitgeistology...i will forward to it everyone i know (uhh in 2-3 yrs when they're ready for it)...bravo!
I think that the WEF globalists although they still have a decent chance of getting their way have been so unhinged and incompetent there is some non-negligible chance they are just another controlled front group. There to inflict misery and chaos to destroy the West or more likely since the same malaise in different manifestations afflicts Russia and China, to cause the population to rise up and destroy the leadership/globalists paving the way for a one world government. Some plans really are that simple and the perpetrators of such plans are just that crazed/unhinged/incompetent/bold though so more than likely it is just the WEF maybe as a front for some older organisations. I think whatever happens it will be a rough few years and not everyone is going to make it even it fails to take, or a rough few centuries if it does.
Good point about the intermarried aristocrats not making war.
Another important difference is that the old aristocrats were hereditary. Genes mix in various ways. Sometimes the heir was crazy, but often enough the heir was relatively sane, so the nation prospered.
The new aristocrats are SELECTED by other aristocrats from the broad population, and they are exclusively SELECTED for maximum evil and demonic lunacy. Any ruler who underperforms on Satan's scale is ruthlessly deselected and replaced by a more effective demon.
"The ruling class are therefore no longer perceived as the elites of their respective countries, organically risen from their local populations to fulfill leadership roles in those national communities. Instead, they are experienced as members of a different tribe, which have been imposed upon the nations from without."
This, precisely. My tribe is America, and more specifically what I consider the real America, which is an idea as much as an actual place or an actual political subdivision of the world. If anyone does not know what that idea is, they need only read the Constitution of the United States, and if that does not suffice, read what the people who founded the country and wrote the Constitution had to say about such matters as the role of government and the importance of individual liberty.
Those people who come from among us and join the globalist elite have no concern at all about the individual liberty of peons like us. They react with visceral anger at the very idea that we should put "America first," as if a political leader elected by Americans to serve the interest of Americans should somehow, as a natural matter of course, sometimes put the interests of Belgians and Chinese and Ukranians ahead of those of Americans. "America first" should be as controversial as "don't kick puppies," yet here we are.
Barack Obama aptly demonstrated his "otherism" when he remarked about American exceptionalism being similar to Greeks thinking they have Greek exceptionalism. Was Greece, unlike every other nation state out there, founded on an idea (for example, "liberty") rather than "welp, we got a bunch of people around here who look about the same and have the same culture, so we might as well make it official and declare borders and a capital city?"
No, that was not Greece, Obama. If you don't understand the difference, you're as dumb as you look with those gigantic "car going down the road with the doors open" ears (h/t to Fresh Prince of Bel-Air for the quip). I suspect you do know the difference, but you choose to minimize it by turning it into the caricature that you have.
You continue to knock them out of the park, John, and I sincerely hope your optimism is justified.
Some people see all that is happening as being purely or mostly the result of massive incompetence on the part of the government officials. I tend to see deliberate action... but when asked about it (as I was recently in a Substack discussion), I have to say that no, I don't see a hypercompetent foe playing 5-d chess while the rest of us run around chasing our tails. I see deliberate (conspiratorial) action on the part of the elites, but they're idiots. It does not have to be the either-or they have presented us; either they are legitimately trying to do the right thing for us all but are dumb as posts, or else they are malevolent, megalomaniacal super geniuses who have predicted every response we will have and designed a counter for it before the thing we were reacting to even happened.
About the only thing that is actually true of our opponents is that they are malevolent and megalomaniacal. That, clearly, they are. They clearly are not acting in the public interest in any way, nor do they actually believe that they are. They are neither dumb as posts nor super geniuses, though on balance they are closer to the former than the latter. They are prone to forgetting they are in an echo chamber, and they (along with their useful-idiot servants) often begin to believe their own lies while the rest of us continue to see through them.
One obvious example of this was in the phenomenon of Trump. When he became the frontrunner in the primaries leading up to the 2016 election, they (including their propaganda division, the so-called news media) was perplexed how such a figure could be popular (since none of THEM thought like that), but they had no curiosity to find out why (journalism having been dead for some time now). They simply declared that anyone who supported Trump was a bigoted, stupid, deplorable white supremacist, and that was that. From that point forward, they began to believe this... the thing they made up was repeated so often from within their echo chamber that it triggered their confirmation bias subroutines, and it reached the threshold for it to be considered common knowledge, like in my high school English class when I didn't need to end-note any factoid if I had at least three sources (each on its own 3x5 note card) saying the same thing..
This happened with Trump many times during (and before, and after) his presidency. The lie became the truth; they all believed it, and they were incredulous that many of us out here in flyover country didn't. They never understood that attacking him was not going to make his supporters shy away because we (like everyone else is supposed to) wanted to be in the good graces of Team Globalist. It made it clear that we were the real target, and he was just in the way-- as he said.
Donald Trump is an unlikely champion in a lot of ways, and he has made a lot of the other side's work easier with a lot of rookie mistakes, many of which happened in the latter part of his term, when he should have known who the snakes really were. For all of his faults, though, he appeared to many as a Messianic figure because he possessed some things we have not seen in ages... specifically, as you write, he was one of "us," an American, not a "them" globalist, and he actually has a spine, and won't back down the first time he is threatened with the left's primary weapon, the accusation of racism. It is a very effective weapon for keeping those who oppose globalism silenced, though it has been used so much that we're very much in the "little boy who cried wolf" territory.
That was, and is, at the heart of Trump's appeal, which the other side would know if they had any actual journalists among the legions of operatives they have with exactly that title. Had they known this, they may have countered him in ways that didn't just boost his appeal to his supporters. Nah, they are no 5-d chess players... they are a bunch of dumbasses (in practical terms; some of these dumbasses may well have high scores on standardized IQ tests, which just demonstrates the ongoing inability to put together any kind of test that measures what it claims to), but they are conspiratorial dumbasses all the same, and they do have money, which has given them power.
We can all feel it, I think, that their hold on power is slipping. El gato malo just posted about how the meme is being used to great effect to smash the narrative, and it's another facet of the same thing we are talking about here, where the schism between the elites (acting in their own interests while pretending to be serving us) and the regular people is becoming common knowledge. As the left's patron saint Alinsky noted, ridicule is a potent weapon, and there is fertile ground for ridicule among the globalist set, which is a given when one considers that they are, in fact, ridiculous.
Really good piece. Thank you.
In my research, it comes clear there multiple factions inside seemingly united cabals. Some individuals are members of multiple factions and many don't explicitly know they are a member of any cabal, even while seemingly having great public power.
As such, most factions of the cabal will eat themselves over time, turning on anyone in their quest for further power, wealth, and reputation.
The next few years are going to suddenly become really bad (90s Russia bad)....
Great piece, John. You have teased out the political implications of the social psychology of the elites very well.
One point that people overlook is that globalisation is more than merely escalating mobility of people, goods, capital and culture. These are merely consequential phenomena of economic integration across national frontiers.
Globalisation is essentially the synchronisation of economic production across jurisdictions enabled by co-operation between national governments. Law, finance, corporate regulation, labour markets and consumption are managed to enable this synchronisation. It is about managing supply chains and maximising economies of scale to ensure maximum rates of growth and development in previously neglected or underutilised regions.
Unfortunately, global economic integration provides opportunities for wage and regulatory arbitrage. The profits from this are extraordinary. The adjustment costs are also distributed unequally. Elites seek their own advantage. Interelite co-operation incentivises decision makers to deprioritise their co-ethnics or fellow citizens.
NB economic integration is not simply a matter of liberal political economy. The formalisation of economic thinking behind globalisation began in Europe before WW1 in several countries, was further developed to a great extent by government think-tank efforts in Germany during WW1 itself and spread across Europe and the US in the 20s and 30s. Both liberal democrats and fascists were involved. Global cartels like I.G. Farben and the leading companies in the energy sector played a huge role too.
Ultimately the class to which you refer, John, is simply the managerial class engaged in realising the work of global economic integration. Their ideas and class culture are adaptations for this role.
This puts me in mind of the difference between dominance and power. Dominance is essentially a snapshot of all transactions at a given moment, producing a signal of who or what is "in charge" of trends. A dominant force can sometimes manifest a very strong signal, other times a seemingly weak one. What it can't do is openly and brazenly raze your crops, fuck your wife, enslave your children, and murder you and all your friends.
Mere dominance needs to at least pretend to play by rules; a weakness which inevitably results in a lot of lying. Since lies and treachery beget more lies and more treachery, the vicious circle must at some point produce the precarious position the globalist tribe has found itself in. The same entropy applies whether the tech is pitchforks and torches or cell phones and substack posts. Even on those occasions when they apply "force", it is a weak, womanish kind of force: half-apologizing for its existence; promising to eventually relent; nervously measuring reactions and scrutinizing poll data.
Power, meanwhile, can evince something similar to dominance on the outside. But that's because it can evince a lot of things: caudal traps, measured interventions, persuasive arguments and all the rest of the trappings of civilized rule. But when it is threatened (and, in the case of virtuous power, when the *tribe* it belongs to, and is sworn to protect, is threatened), it can regress to relentless, unapologetic force in a heartbeat.
I really enjoyed this and will share it. Thank you. It's nice to see someone wrap their head around this weirdly sudden and new and earth-encompassing power grab. I always knew the shit would hit the fan in approximately 2020, bye I didn't expect the collapse to be accomplished as a deliberate act of sabotage. And what gets me is how many people they have in their claws - like the ENTIRE world media. Right now it's as if every single person who is paid right now to fabricate "news" (which is nightmarish in itself) is pulling out all the stops to fake-explain all the people dropping dead from the "vaccines". It literally is probably the biggest conspiracy In Human history.
I'm not an economist, and have never been too sure how much of that discipline was real or bogus. I'm interested in your dismissal of the minimizations of the Russian economy that I have heard elsewhere, e.g. the size of those of Italy or Texas.
How do we measure the size of an economy, anyway? As an evolutionary ecologically-minded person, I tend to read the size of the economy to be proportional to the growth and maintenance of the human biomass it supports: population, not credit slips. You treat it in terms of hard assets, like wheat, coal, and steel. But do our professional economists really roll these into the debt instruments we owe to each other in terms of dollars, and treat whatever inflating bubbles that creates as a measure of our economy? If so, has it always been thus?
"It doesn’t look good for the national globalists. Everyone hates them, most especially including sizable majorities of their own populations."
I have a strong sense that you're correct, and only hope I'm not confusing that with my hope for the same.
And they have perfected their schemes by mastery of details, which the People were trained to look away from. Freedom is in the details.
Great analysis - loving your output John!