You know that you are in a totalitarian system when there are no more intellectuals and social psychologists around in the public arena who are willing to speculate about ideas themselves.
This is because the totalitarian system already has 'the' idea. It maintains at all times and at your costs, that it possesses the correct idea about absolutely everything. Secondly, you are needed for your effort and your energy, to be exploited, to be used and used up -, in order to support the top leaders and their cadres. You cannot be allowed to 'waste' your (their) time, thinking.
There are no publicly-known social psychologists today.
'Pre-chilled' bulbs 'force' the blooms. |
There is no Bertrand Russell, no G. B. Shaw.
...Any kind of social commentary that is subversive is always couched in 'cultural adornments' during these eras - just like you find during the era of manuscript culture Arabic Islam: all of the texts from there, no matter what their subject was, always begin and end with some variation of 'In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Beneficent.' They don't even say 'In the Name of Caliph So-and-So!'
Bernard Arnault, the other 'world's richest man' apart from Elon, never sponsors any French or European philosopher or social commentator onto the world stage or even just the European stage. Is it because he knows of none? Or because he is so miserly that he does not wish to share the ones that he does know, with the people...? What?
Louis XIV the Sun King spent enormous amounts of money sponsoring and endowing thinkers and writers. So one cannot say this is a particularly French way, to deny the public of its access to new and adventurous ideas.
In China of course, right now and maybe it has been thus since forever - Xi has a dedicated team of hand-picked food testers on hand permanently because there are serious endeavors, on-going, to kill him off. Which will happen in the end no matter what he does. ...Apart from leave of his own accord, which he will not do.
The White House also has extremely rigorous processes in place to ensure that no poisons are administered to anyone unless they have been so intended to be administered.
In the UK no one cares because they are all regularly imbibing cocaine anyway and any one 'top leader' can easily be substituted with another from the ranks of Oxford and Cambridge quite readily.
A really good social psychologist is brave enough and also capable enough with words, to confront the ruling cadres with concepts about themselves which quickly eat into their malevolent psychopathy and destroys them from inside.
When you really know how to grow stuff. |
This was the reason the ruling cadres in the United States murdered many people like Wilhelm Reich, and just managed to miss doing the same to Truman Capote, whose sarcasm was in fact beyond their reach and who was not an actual 'social psychologist' by label - even though he was that in fact.
This week Tucker Carlson is re-visiting the old saw about the CIA having 'off''d' Kennedy, but no one will care about it.
The fact that they also off'd Marilyn Monroe in the linked series of murders might not be mentioned by Tucker but if the public were confronted with that fact, realistically, they might already have become inured to the horror of this in the intervening years by having witnessed so many similar misdeeds, mostly all cast as part of the unfortunate natural risks of the Hollywood life anyway.
How soon before all of this breaks down - all of these totalitarian states and regimes founder on their own lunacies? You cannot even use the internet and social media in Singapore, for instance, without attaining a 'basic social credit score.'
What comes after the breakdown of totalitarianism?
This is what you must think about without expecting to have answers right away.
After all, there are no such regimes, 'governments' if you will, going to break down any time real soon, depending on how you define 'soon' of course.
However, I will tell you this much - the very next major public figure to die, will be the marker stone for cataclysmic change across the whole world.
Age has taken Brzezinski, Rockefeller, Lee Kwan Yew, Queen Elizabeth, Bush - and not yet taken Soros, Biden, Schwab, Xi (although he will not die of natural causes). But these are all just the public front people, not to say they are or were not, actually personally influential.
What you are of course looking at, is the basic human flaw taken to its ultimate material manifestation: none of these people are either intellectual (although certainly they sometimes will claim to be) people nor are they benevolent, altruistic characters. They are Cain having just come from killing Abel.
The murder of Abel has never been avenged.
This is not quite a 'people in glass houses' thing, because the house is somewhere people cannot go anyway. |
Up till now.
No one will be expecting what is about to happen.
Nevertheless, we must couch the thing in the wordings of the illuminated forms of scripts! LOL
For these are not the scripts you are looking for.
We have to wait until the 'Silly Season' is well and truly over, I think, before sending anything out in the mail. So don't look in your mail box expecting anything from us just yet.
The interesting feature that is sort of arising in the current breed of conspiracy theory, or whatever you call what those whack jobs on youtube or tucker carlson talk about, that Q-bullshit and so on, is the idea that the "real power" is never where you think it is. Folk like Laura Eisenhower even go further in this effort by speaking of "timelines are shifting," so that reality on a universal level today is not the reality yesterday. And today I am asking myself what the "logical ending" of this sort of thinking might be, in the basic matter of me and my own personal agency over my own situation (which after all is a kind of power too.)
ReplyDeleteDon't know the answer to that one. That is something... ...you have to work out alone, for yourself! (Nyuk nyuk nyuk).
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