Without trying to over simplify, as an amateur history buff, I can say there is a pattern in the rise and fall of civilizations. I refer to this as Action/Reaction. When demi gods seek to establish themselves as rulers, there are always a rag tag bunch who figure out opposite strategies to thwart. Consider those who were referred to as the French Underground, slipping around quietly, doing damage to The Plan. How about our military using Navaho Indians to create a code with their unknown language? How about Corrie Ten-Boom, her dad and sister using college kids to pass notes to give information and slip more than 800 Jews across the border to safety under the noses of the Nazis?
I know it seems daunting, the digital age monster, but Action/Reaction has been a working solution throughout history. All it takes is brave souls who would risk everything to be autonomous rather than submit to being slaves. Think analog. Think bartering. Think hand written notes. They can kill and imprison many but not all.
Good points. But also consider the natural fatigue we are experiencing in our always-on world. Some already use dumb phones or ration their use.
Most of the plans of the elites imagine us unable to do this, yet people already do. Their stupid plans may be enough for more people to put down their phones and start living. They could unwittingly trigger a kind of analogue revival as you suggest which may be the push some need to get rid of the social media and all the rest.
Most folks have no idea how fragile it all is. A series of EMPs could take us back to the dark ages in a heartbeat. Given that plain old common sense is a dying art, I would be seriously concerned except for one thing - God always keeps a remnant.
I am in two minds about the impact of AI. It will definitely destroy some jobs, but nothing creative or essential. I think it is the bullshit jobs that are for the chop.
I also think the downsides are easy to avoid at a personal level. Just don't use it. Write your own emails etc. I suspect AI will be a selection event; the already lazy will love it. The energetic will reject it.
I am in the gray area of AI - I am an energetic, logical free thinker who is willing to use Ai in some circumstances - not for doing my thinking or writing - but I recently was introduced to SUNOai that is a music composer. I'm having fun hearing my old lyrics from my long gone guitar days put to real music. I've had serious discussions with others, including a family member who is a singer songwriter who was concerned this would replace human musicians. My argument was that humans, especially the young, will always want to attend a live performance. I'm not looking to monetize and certainly not interested in starting a new music career at 78, but I am willing to stand in the shallows and take advantage of the technology in limited conditions with eyes open. Just as I know the internet is a beast, and yet here I am. I guess, for me, it comes down to knowing when to hold 'em and when to fold 'em. Use it but don't let it take over.
I wonder about this, where is the electricity coming from? My electrician son did three service changes ( upgrades to the amperage) this week. People are using more and more electricity, being encouraged to use electric heat rather than gas or oil, which are much more efficient and effective, and of course charging electric cars requires another high voltage line. We have no new nuclear power plants, windmills and solar panels are largely performative for high population density. Now they tell us AI requires its own nuclear reactors. I suppose we regular people can expect to lose out if it comes to a contest for electricity with AI. Should I get an Amish propane or wood cook stove? No one seems to be talking about this.
I agree. I think the leadership class view us as cattle. So they imagine they can ration energy when it suits them. But I think that would trigger a reaction.
You need only look at nations where such rationing is normal.
First, people break into electric systems to hot-wire power to their own houses. Fires, breakdowns in power distribution and such follows, as well as corruption when electricians become power-brokers, pardon the pun.
From this things spiral so that systems the state would like to keep going start to falter: people will move to where the power can be accessed.
Eventually, the generation and distribution-infrastructure starts faltering due to corruption, and also due to the people with the skills moving elsewhere.
Finally, nuclear plants must be shuttered or suffer melt-downs. Hydrodams must be emptied or collapse. Mines can't be kept open due to the problems involved with deep shafts: hauling coal from 1 500 meters depth can be done under muscle power, but at what scale? Wind and solar failed long before this. Gas and oil, unless there are sources inside the nation's borders, will become a rarity too due to the expenses involved.
Eventually, things level out with ca 86%-95% of the population living in cities, where your status can be derived from how well the infrastructure functions at your adress: the masses will enjoy intermittent power, non-functioning sewage/waste-handling, and water of dubious quality.
The middle class will be better off, being able to pay bribes, taxes and fees and buy the public-private services.
And the other 5% will be state-controlled farmers and military/police-forces.
I.e, many former colonies populated by browner peoples unable to properly handle the infrastructure left behind by the colonial power, and equally unable to properly invest the profits from their natural resources into solid infrastructure and low corruption/high trust-social systems. As John Carter puts it: "The West becomes Zimbabwe".
Yes, quite. Alas the midwit multicultural enthusiasts will need to learn this the hard way. The world is largely dysfunctional, and now it is inside our borders.
Heating/cooking is a worthy and needed topic. A stove is ideal, but there's more to it than most think. I'm a bit "spoiled" since grandma and grandpa stilled used theirs as a matter of course when I grew up.
A good iron stove is what I'd recommend. But the decision must be made with consideration to where you live.
City or country, apartment or cottage, arboreal or open land, coast or mountain and so on. And how long and severe Winter is, is always important.
I live in the deep dark forests of Sweden, so I have an iron stove (from the 1930s, it was standard issue in every house back then) in the kitchen and one made for heating in the bedroom. About 8 cubic meters of firewood per Winter or so.
Getting the firewood is a separate issue of course. You'll either need to pay for delivery of ready-made or own forested land and do the job yourself (I do the latter). And a splitting axe, a sledgehammer, a couple of wedges (both straight for felling trees and skewed for splitting logs), a bark-knife, a wood-axe, maybe a cutting/felling axe too. And a couple of saws of course, plus spares of everything if we're talking TEOTWAWKI-scenarios.
Better get gear for being your own chimney-sweep and mason too, just in case. Busted chimney and no fire-proof bricks and mortar equals no use for the stove.
It all comes down to level of preparedness, budget, and one's specific circumstances: I can get us through a Winter even if we were to be completly cut off and without electricity. Mom who's close to eighty couldn't. There are also modern gear that's quite good: Austrian company ÖkoFEN makes wood/pellet burners that uses Stirling engine-tech to produce not just heat and hot water but also power:
Thank you for this detailed and informative response! We did put in a wood burning stove for heat a few years ago, we live on two acres, 1.5 of which are wooded, in the eastern woodlands, east coast US, so wood is easily available for now. Winters here are usually mild compared to yours, although last year was colder than average by quite a bit. We have wood delivered and stacked behind our shed.
Cooking is a major concern for me, I guess refrigeration should be too. We live near the largest Amish community in the US and they use propane refrigerators. In fact they have a wide selection of ways of working around electricity which we probably should look into.
Refrigeration is a problem, except in Winter and even then you still need it to be at least -10C below for a top-side "stuka" to work.
(Stuka in Swedish is an old word referring to an entire group of various ways of preserving food outdoors. Also means "to twist" as in twisting an ankle; different etymologies.)
Preserving in different ways is more reliable. Milk into cheese and messmör* f.e. rather than butter and cream. Smoking, salting and drying meat fowl and fish. Fermenting too, and of course pickling in all its forms.
Which is why a good store of salt, sugar and white vinegar (12%-24%) is good to have. Otherwise, its smoking and drying and not much else one can do.
There's no need to go back to the 18th century just because, but having done everything by hand a couple of times to learn the pitfalls is good, and having the gear on hand is too, just in case (and for fun).
Amd of course a good friendship or at least working relation with neighbours is key to survival in a disaster-scenario. Lone wolves don't make it, but a pack does so to speak.
*Messmör = whey from cheesemaking that's been slowly caramelised over heat while gently stirred, until it becomes a light brown creamy substance. Used as spread instead of butter, and is quite the health-food option too. Maybe the Amish makes it? It's old-timey and was done wherever there was a tradition of taking the livestock to pasture up in the mountains, since all you need to make it is a kettle and fire.
I could make this long and boring but I will try to get to the point. I've been sounding the alarm (quietly) since 1999 (Y2K). The destruction of a society, historically speaking, doesn't happen overnight. There are all sorts of things at play. For one thing, even though I was learning survival skills and putting back long term supplies, I knew there was a world wide prayer effort in the works. I prepared for the worst and hoped for the best, which I knew was likely only a delay. All these years though, even though I do my best not to sound like a Debbie Downer, I have been warning people to live their lives but not to be oblivious to what has been written.
Thing is, we don't know when and I am always suspicious of modern prophets declaring a specific day. Could be next week, could be 100 years from now. The point is about preparedness. And that is bigger than material goods and skills learned. It's about attitude, gratitude and willingness to listen. When Jeremiah stood in the ashes of the first Temple, in despair, wondering why he had spent the bulk of his life warning the Israelites to get it together, he heard these words - Call unto me and I will answer thee and show thee great things -and difficult- which though knowest not. Jeremiah 33:3.
FYi - there are numerous small communities that are quietly pulling together to prepare for digital currency. Bartering is Action/Reaction.
Spiff, this is a well argued article but you have overlooked the fact that this metamorphosis of our society is a deliberate, murderous, destruction. Research on the mRNA vaccines and the fibrinoid white clots prove this conclusively, in conjunction with the legal changes to make this totalitarian control "legal". It has been planned malevolently for many years.
Check out Latypovas substack.
However, I do agree with you that the architects of this scheme do not understand the science they abuse and exploit. This ignorance in the hands of the powerful is dangerous. The narrative justifying the lockdowns was risible to anyone with basic biological sciences.
Conspiracies or not, most involved are not conspiring. They are caught up in the excitement of it all. Technology is exciting. It promises much. But past debacles, mRNA included, show they get carried away. Much of it ends in failure.
I think their digital prison will be the same. It will fail.
Planning only works with robust feedback and error correction mechanisms. Having those in place acknowledges fallibility. Since our wannabe rulers style themselves after infallible priests (hence all this whining about misinformation), error detection and correction are anathema to them. They will fail.
That's a good point about the top-down imposition of technology being doomed to failure, due to the trial and error pathway being on a hugely visible and disruptive level from the start.
Whereas in a functional model, technological advances that benefit everyman will always start small and have a low-impact trial/error/success pathway which ends in financial benefit for the innovators as the technology is scaled up and rolled out on a large scale, having attracted capital which sees a good product and piles in.
The elites' problem is that backwards is the only way they can operate. Their mega-corp financial backers will always demand payback over a relatively compressed timescale, as their investors demand it - especially now that the endpoint of fiat currencies in becoming more predictable.
Yes, top-down is great in the same sense authoritarian systems are. You get results fast. People follow orders etc.
But as it cascades down things fall apart. Just ask any CEO. Scale that up to whole nations and even regions like Europe and we see why so little works.
A natural elite who emerge from normal societal interactions then are quite different from some aging aristocracy who have not really emerged naturally. They are more of an imposition and their ideas are out of sync. Mass immigration would be a simple example. It makes no sense to the man on the street and he is the one paying the price.
Indeed. But I don't think our technocratic elites will be in anyone's future. That is their tragedy. Their misreading of life and society and how it works.
I hope you are right on this, it does feel as if the noose is tightening. But they are always wrong, as you say, despite having unprecedented power. It hasn’t sharpened their acuity. They don’t seem to realize most people hate them and their diabolical Bond villain plans to ruin our health and our personal lives.
It’s a very good point that the less of our life that takes place online the less exposure we have. My life revolves around my kitchen, my children and grandchildren, my husband. But a lot of the encouragement and awareness of the outside world comes to me through substacks like this, my favorites of which are British. The online harms bill has me concerned. I hope you guys can keep doing what you do.
Sorry for lack of clarity. But if you'd followed the links, you'd have seen I meant estimates of the numbers of deaths/injuries from mRNA Covid "vax" injections.
And for why that matters, you could read the opening April 2025 post of my stack Dissident Conservative, where I said things like this:
"For four years now, American conservatism’s leaders, in punditry, journalism, and political office, have helped the Legacy media suppress the story of how the Covid-19 “vaccines” have been unleashing an ocean of woe upon the world. That story quantitatively involves one to two million deaths, at a minimum, and qualitatively stands as this century’s greatest crime against humanity."
[And shockingly, the same applies to America's alt-right leaders. I.e. all those writers who present themselves as so bold when it comes to Liberalism, "monarchy," religious-establishment, race-relations, feminism, etc., are total cowards on the biggest calamity/crime, and the biggest suppression, of our time.]
"If these leaders have talked or published pieces about bad Covid-19 policies in general, with some of them occasionally even stating there are “safety concerns” about the jab, they all dodge the main outlines of the story, and any editorial response proportionate to the immensity of the catastrophe. They studiously avoid dialogue with the leading Covid-vax dissident experts. Similarly, they never mention or link to specific Covid-vax-harm stories which are common knowledge among those dissidents--such as the white-clots story, or the DNA contamination story. And nowhere in their publications or speeches do they refer to the estimates of the numbers killed. The clear exceptions, such as Senator Ron Johnson, are so few that we are obliged to speak of a total capitulation of conservative leaders and insiders to this suppression."
I agree with all these broad points. And i also agree the Covid response, or rather responses plural, represent an assault on us, a crime against humanity.
Most wish to move on, especially those who took the injections. I believe most cannot face how they behaved during those times. There is even a meme doing the rounds saying who you were during Covid is who you really are.
The establishment obviously do not wish any scrutiny of their role. Nor does the respectable right as they have too much to lose.
I rarely mention Covid except in passing. I find most simply will not entertain any discussion of it. The time has passed, at least for most. We must be on the lookout for the next attempt, although I think it will be years in the future.
I understand. But I'd invite you to become open to the idea that the "discomfort" and "impossible-to-discuss" barrier you encounter, and back away from, are not merely things which stem from errors and mass psychoses, but are being used as basic supports of a Regime. Leaders, including leaders in conservativism, are CHOOSING to build upon these rotten pillars. These lies.
But the death count is too high, and keeps growing. These leaders are in an impossible corner, unless they seek Repentance.
Final point: I'd also encourage you to seldom use the word "Covid" in the way you do, despite how standard that usage has become. The Covid-Policy-Disaster and the Covid-Vax Catastrophe must be acknowledged to be distinct yet-linked things, and there are many more distinctions w/i both disasters/crimes. People are hiding behind the vagueness. Conservatives will tell you they've been "strong on Covid" when what they really mean is that they (usually a bit belatedly) denounced Fauci and the mandates. Some of these same conservatives are the Suppressors.
I get all that. But our war is fought on multiple fronts, and the pandemic responses are a hard slog when most have left them behind. They are not unimportant of course, but we must also choose our battles.
That system does not exist yet. You are spending too much time in the future. The people behind this are not good at building systems. Covid in the end was a failure, and an expensive one. Fewer people will be easily convinced next time.
Focus on now. That is my point. Resolve to not take their vax. Start to make plans for all of it now.
There is no social credit system. Fake meat has already failed. The companies are losing money and dying. 15-minute cities are beyond their ability to build.
I think you need to recalibrate. I know they want these things but I don't think they will work.
Without trying to over simplify, as an amateur history buff, I can say there is a pattern in the rise and fall of civilizations. I refer to this as Action/Reaction. When demi gods seek to establish themselves as rulers, there are always a rag tag bunch who figure out opposite strategies to thwart. Consider those who were referred to as the French Underground, slipping around quietly, doing damage to The Plan. How about our military using Navaho Indians to create a code with their unknown language? How about Corrie Ten-Boom, her dad and sister using college kids to pass notes to give information and slip more than 800 Jews across the border to safety under the noses of the Nazis?
I know it seems daunting, the digital age monster, but Action/Reaction has been a working solution throughout history. All it takes is brave souls who would risk everything to be autonomous rather than submit to being slaves. Think analog. Think bartering. Think hand written notes. They can kill and imprison many but not all.
Good points. But also consider the natural fatigue we are experiencing in our always-on world. Some already use dumb phones or ration their use.
Most of the plans of the elites imagine us unable to do this, yet people already do. Their stupid plans may be enough for more people to put down their phones and start living. They could unwittingly trigger a kind of analogue revival as you suggest which may be the push some need to get rid of the social media and all the rest.
Most folks have no idea how fragile it all is. A series of EMPs could take us back to the dark ages in a heartbeat. Given that plain old common sense is a dying art, I would be seriously concerned except for one thing - God always keeps a remnant.
We do live soft lives. Convenience is our enemy.
Easy peezy
https://meemanator.substack.com/p/pull-the-plug
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I am in two minds about the impact of AI. It will definitely destroy some jobs, but nothing creative or essential. I think it is the bullshit jobs that are for the chop.
I also think the downsides are easy to avoid at a personal level. Just don't use it. Write your own emails etc. I suspect AI will be a selection event; the already lazy will love it. The energetic will reject it.
I am in the gray area of AI - I am an energetic, logical free thinker who is willing to use Ai in some circumstances - not for doing my thinking or writing - but I recently was introduced to SUNOai that is a music composer. I'm having fun hearing my old lyrics from my long gone guitar days put to real music. I've had serious discussions with others, including a family member who is a singer songwriter who was concerned this would replace human musicians. My argument was that humans, especially the young, will always want to attend a live performance. I'm not looking to monetize and certainly not interested in starting a new music career at 78, but I am willing to stand in the shallows and take advantage of the technology in limited conditions with eyes open. Just as I know the internet is a beast, and yet here I am. I guess, for me, it comes down to knowing when to hold 'em and when to fold 'em. Use it but don't let it take over.
https://meemanator.substack.com/p/justrow
I wonder about this, where is the electricity coming from? My electrician son did three service changes ( upgrades to the amperage) this week. People are using more and more electricity, being encouraged to use electric heat rather than gas or oil, which are much more efficient and effective, and of course charging electric cars requires another high voltage line. We have no new nuclear power plants, windmills and solar panels are largely performative for high population density. Now they tell us AI requires its own nuclear reactors. I suppose we regular people can expect to lose out if it comes to a contest for electricity with AI. Should I get an Amish propane or wood cook stove? No one seems to be talking about this.
I agree. I think the leadership class view us as cattle. So they imagine they can ration energy when it suits them. But I think that would trigger a reaction.
But it is a worry where it is all going.
You need only look at nations where such rationing is normal.
First, people break into electric systems to hot-wire power to their own houses. Fires, breakdowns in power distribution and such follows, as well as corruption when electricians become power-brokers, pardon the pun.
From this things spiral so that systems the state would like to keep going start to falter: people will move to where the power can be accessed.
Eventually, the generation and distribution-infrastructure starts faltering due to corruption, and also due to the people with the skills moving elsewhere.
Finally, nuclear plants must be shuttered or suffer melt-downs. Hydrodams must be emptied or collapse. Mines can't be kept open due to the problems involved with deep shafts: hauling coal from 1 500 meters depth can be done under muscle power, but at what scale? Wind and solar failed long before this. Gas and oil, unless there are sources inside the nation's borders, will become a rarity too due to the expenses involved.
Eventually, things level out with ca 86%-95% of the population living in cities, where your status can be derived from how well the infrastructure functions at your adress: the masses will enjoy intermittent power, non-functioning sewage/waste-handling, and water of dubious quality.
The middle class will be better off, being able to pay bribes, taxes and fees and buy the public-private services.
And the other 5% will be state-controlled farmers and military/police-forces.
I.e, many former colonies populated by browner peoples unable to properly handle the infrastructure left behind by the colonial power, and equally unable to properly invest the profits from their natural resources into solid infrastructure and low corruption/high trust-social systems. As John Carter puts it: "The West becomes Zimbabwe".
Yes, quite. Alas the midwit multicultural enthusiasts will need to learn this the hard way. The world is largely dysfunctional, and now it is inside our borders.
Heating/cooking is a worthy and needed topic. A stove is ideal, but there's more to it than most think. I'm a bit "spoiled" since grandma and grandpa stilled used theirs as a matter of course when I grew up.
A good iron stove is what I'd recommend. But the decision must be made with consideration to where you live.
City or country, apartment or cottage, arboreal or open land, coast or mountain and so on. And how long and severe Winter is, is always important.
I live in the deep dark forests of Sweden, so I have an iron stove (from the 1930s, it was standard issue in every house back then) in the kitchen and one made for heating in the bedroom. About 8 cubic meters of firewood per Winter or so.
Getting the firewood is a separate issue of course. You'll either need to pay for delivery of ready-made or own forested land and do the job yourself (I do the latter). And a splitting axe, a sledgehammer, a couple of wedges (both straight for felling trees and skewed for splitting logs), a bark-knife, a wood-axe, maybe a cutting/felling axe too. And a couple of saws of course, plus spares of everything if we're talking TEOTWAWKI-scenarios.
Better get gear for being your own chimney-sweep and mason too, just in case. Busted chimney and no fire-proof bricks and mortar equals no use for the stove.
It all comes down to level of preparedness, budget, and one's specific circumstances: I can get us through a Winter even if we were to be completly cut off and without electricity. Mom who's close to eighty couldn't. There are also modern gear that's quite good: Austrian company ÖkoFEN makes wood/pellet burners that uses Stirling engine-tech to produce not just heat and hot water but also power:
https://www.oekofen.com/
And having a gas-burner is a good back-up. Redundancy is a must.
Thank you for this detailed and informative response! We did put in a wood burning stove for heat a few years ago, we live on two acres, 1.5 of which are wooded, in the eastern woodlands, east coast US, so wood is easily available for now. Winters here are usually mild compared to yours, although last year was colder than average by quite a bit. We have wood delivered and stacked behind our shed.
Cooking is a major concern for me, I guess refrigeration should be too. We live near the largest Amish community in the US and they use propane refrigerators. In fact they have a wide selection of ways of working around electricity which we probably should look into.
Refrigeration is a problem, except in Winter and even then you still need it to be at least -10C below for a top-side "stuka" to work.
(Stuka in Swedish is an old word referring to an entire group of various ways of preserving food outdoors. Also means "to twist" as in twisting an ankle; different etymologies.)
Preserving in different ways is more reliable. Milk into cheese and messmör* f.e. rather than butter and cream. Smoking, salting and drying meat fowl and fish. Fermenting too, and of course pickling in all its forms.
Which is why a good store of salt, sugar and white vinegar (12%-24%) is good to have. Otherwise, its smoking and drying and not much else one can do.
There's no need to go back to the 18th century just because, but having done everything by hand a couple of times to learn the pitfalls is good, and having the gear on hand is too, just in case (and for fun).
Amd of course a good friendship or at least working relation with neighbours is key to survival in a disaster-scenario. Lone wolves don't make it, but a pack does so to speak.
*Messmör = whey from cheesemaking that's been slowly caramelised over heat while gently stirred, until it becomes a light brown creamy substance. Used as spread instead of butter, and is quite the health-food option too. Maybe the Amish makes it? It's old-timey and was done wherever there was a tradition of taking the livestock to pasture up in the mountains, since all you need to make it is a kettle and fire.
I could make this long and boring but I will try to get to the point. I've been sounding the alarm (quietly) since 1999 (Y2K). The destruction of a society, historically speaking, doesn't happen overnight. There are all sorts of things at play. For one thing, even though I was learning survival skills and putting back long term supplies, I knew there was a world wide prayer effort in the works. I prepared for the worst and hoped for the best, which I knew was likely only a delay. All these years though, even though I do my best not to sound like a Debbie Downer, I have been warning people to live their lives but not to be oblivious to what has been written.
Thing is, we don't know when and I am always suspicious of modern prophets declaring a specific day. Could be next week, could be 100 years from now. The point is about preparedness. And that is bigger than material goods and skills learned. It's about attitude, gratitude and willingness to listen. When Jeremiah stood in the ashes of the first Temple, in despair, wondering why he had spent the bulk of his life warning the Israelites to get it together, he heard these words - Call unto me and I will answer thee and show thee great things -and difficult- which though knowest not. Jeremiah 33:3.
FYi - there are numerous small communities that are quietly pulling together to prepare for digital currency. Bartering is Action/Reaction.
Thanks for a rare optimistic viewpoint! Needed that x
The optimism is realistic I think. They are clowns which is why our world is a circus.
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Facial recognition vs burkha.
I've asked every liberal-progressive-socialist democrat-muselman lover I know about that one.
Not a one wants to talk about it.
Ha! Good point.
Spiff, this is a well argued article but you have overlooked the fact that this metamorphosis of our society is a deliberate, murderous, destruction. Research on the mRNA vaccines and the fibrinoid white clots prove this conclusively, in conjunction with the legal changes to make this totalitarian control "legal". It has been planned malevolently for many years.
Check out Latypovas substack.
However, I do agree with you that the architects of this scheme do not understand the science they abuse and exploit. This ignorance in the hands of the powerful is dangerous. The narrative justifying the lockdowns was risible to anyone with basic biological sciences.
Conspiracies or not, most involved are not conspiring. They are caught up in the excitement of it all. Technology is exciting. It promises much. But past debacles, mRNA included, show they get carried away. Much of it ends in failure.
I think their digital prison will be the same. It will fail.
I agree that it will fail. However many will die.
Probably.
Planning only works with robust feedback and error correction mechanisms. Having those in place acknowledges fallibility. Since our wannabe rulers style themselves after infallible priests (hence all this whining about misinformation), error detection and correction are anathema to them. They will fail.
Absolutely. This is a massive factor. The rejection of feedback as hate or misinformation.
That's a good point about the top-down imposition of technology being doomed to failure, due to the trial and error pathway being on a hugely visible and disruptive level from the start.
Whereas in a functional model, technological advances that benefit everyman will always start small and have a low-impact trial/error/success pathway which ends in financial benefit for the innovators as the technology is scaled up and rolled out on a large scale, having attracted capital which sees a good product and piles in.
The elites' problem is that backwards is the only way they can operate. Their mega-corp financial backers will always demand payback over a relatively compressed timescale, as their investors demand it - especially now that the endpoint of fiat currencies in becoming more predictable.
Yes, top-down is great in the same sense authoritarian systems are. You get results fast. People follow orders etc.
But as it cascades down things fall apart. Just ask any CEO. Scale that up to whole nations and even regions like Europe and we see why so little works.
A natural elite who emerge from normal societal interactions then are quite different from some aging aristocracy who have not really emerged naturally. They are more of an imposition and their ideas are out of sync. Mass immigration would be a simple example. It makes no sense to the man on the street and he is the one paying the price.
Technocrats are naught but Godless religious fanatics.
Great post. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Indeed. But I don't think our technocratic elites will be in anyone's future. That is their tragedy. Their misreading of life and society and how it works.
Glad you liked.
Pride before the fall.
I hope you are right on this, it does feel as if the noose is tightening. But they are always wrong, as you say, despite having unprecedented power. It hasn’t sharpened their acuity. They don’t seem to realize most people hate them and their diabolical Bond villain plans to ruin our health and our personal lives.
It’s a very good point that the less of our life that takes place online the less exposure we have. My life revolves around my kitchen, my children and grandchildren, my husband. But a lot of the encouragement and awareness of the outside world comes to me through substacks like this, my favorites of which are British. The online harms bill has me concerned. I hope you guys can keep doing what you do.
I think the Online Harms Bill will be their undoing. They are very out of touch with reality. Change is coming.
Our leaders are arrogant. And I believe a reckoning is coming. We cannot go on as we are.
A post that seems strangely unaware of, or unwilling to mention, estimates like this: https://theethicalskeptic.com/2025/09/11/the-state-of-things-pandemic/ Or this: https://brownstone.org/articles/into-the-abyss-how-bad-can-the-covid-vaccine-story-get/
Estimates like what? Please summarize your point, thanks.
Sorry for lack of clarity. But if you'd followed the links, you'd have seen I meant estimates of the numbers of deaths/injuries from mRNA Covid "vax" injections.
And for why that matters, you could read the opening April 2025 post of my stack Dissident Conservative, where I said things like this:
"For four years now, American conservatism’s leaders, in punditry, journalism, and political office, have helped the Legacy media suppress the story of how the Covid-19 “vaccines” have been unleashing an ocean of woe upon the world. That story quantitatively involves one to two million deaths, at a minimum, and qualitatively stands as this century’s greatest crime against humanity."
[And shockingly, the same applies to America's alt-right leaders. I.e. all those writers who present themselves as so bold when it comes to Liberalism, "monarchy," religious-establishment, race-relations, feminism, etc., are total cowards on the biggest calamity/crime, and the biggest suppression, of our time.]
"If these leaders have talked or published pieces about bad Covid-19 policies in general, with some of them occasionally even stating there are “safety concerns” about the jab, they all dodge the main outlines of the story, and any editorial response proportionate to the immensity of the catastrophe. They studiously avoid dialogue with the leading Covid-vax dissident experts. Similarly, they never mention or link to specific Covid-vax-harm stories which are common knowledge among those dissidents--such as the white-clots story, or the DNA contamination story. And nowhere in their publications or speeches do they refer to the estimates of the numbers killed. The clear exceptions, such as Senator Ron Johnson, are so few that we are obliged to speak of a total capitulation of conservative leaders and insiders to this suppression."
I agree with all these broad points. And i also agree the Covid response, or rather responses plural, represent an assault on us, a crime against humanity.
Most wish to move on, especially those who took the injections. I believe most cannot face how they behaved during those times. There is even a meme doing the rounds saying who you were during Covid is who you really are.
The establishment obviously do not wish any scrutiny of their role. Nor does the respectable right as they have too much to lose.
I rarely mention Covid except in passing. I find most simply will not entertain any discussion of it. The time has passed, at least for most. We must be on the lookout for the next attempt, although I think it will be years in the future.
I understand. But I'd invite you to become open to the idea that the "discomfort" and "impossible-to-discuss" barrier you encounter, and back away from, are not merely things which stem from errors and mass psychoses, but are being used as basic supports of a Regime. Leaders, including leaders in conservativism, are CHOOSING to build upon these rotten pillars. These lies.
But the death count is too high, and keeps growing. These leaders are in an impossible corner, unless they seek Repentance.
Final point: I'd also encourage you to seldom use the word "Covid" in the way you do, despite how standard that usage has become. The Covid-Policy-Disaster and the Covid-Vax Catastrophe must be acknowledged to be distinct yet-linked things, and there are many more distinctions w/i both disasters/crimes. People are hiding behind the vagueness. Conservatives will tell you they've been "strong on Covid" when what they really mean is that they (usually a bit belatedly) denounced Fauci and the mandates. Some of these same conservatives are the Suppressors.
I get all that. But our war is fought on multiple fronts, and the pandemic responses are a hard slog when most have left them behind. They are not unimportant of course, but we must also choose our battles.
Then do not succumb. Most who become transhuman will do so voluntarily. No vaccines, no modified food. Take control of your own health especially.
That system does not exist yet. You are spending too much time in the future. The people behind this are not good at building systems. Covid in the end was a failure, and an expensive one. Fewer people will be easily convinced next time.
Focus on now. That is my point. Resolve to not take their vax. Start to make plans for all of it now.
I appreciate your contribution, that's why. Others read these exchanges and learn something.
There is no social credit system. Fake meat has already failed. The companies are losing money and dying. 15-minute cities are beyond their ability to build.
I think you need to recalibrate. I know they want these things but I don't think they will work.