Alistair Crooke – Strategic Culture Aug 8, 2022
What happens when people awake to the deceit of Totalitarian-Lite posing as liberty and individualism (let alone democracy)?
Well, this piece is from the leading Establishment journal from the Deep-State-linked, Anglosphere, the Daily Telegraph:
“This is the summer before the storm. Make no mistake, with energy prices set to rise to unprecedented highs, we are approaching one of the biggest geopolitical earthquake in decades. The ensuing convulsions are likely to be of a far greater order of magnitude than those that followed the 2008 financial crash, which sparked protests culminating in the Occupy Movement and the Arab Spring …
“Carnage has already arrived in the developing world, with power outages from Cuba to South Africa. Sri Lanka is just one of a cascade of low-income countries where leaders face being driven out of power in an ignominious blaze of petrol droughts and loan defaults.
“But the West is not going to escape this Armageddon. In fact, in many ways, it looks set to be its epicentre – and Britain, its Ground Zero. In Europe and America, a technocratic élite system built on mythology and complacency is crumbling. Its founding fable – which prophesied the nation states’ glorious enmeshment in world government and supply chains – has metastasised into a parable of the perils of globalisation.
“This time, élites cannot shirk responsibility for the consequences of their fatal errors … Put simply, the emperor has no clothes: The Establishment simply has no message for voters in the face of hardship. The only vision for the future it can conjure up is Net Zero – a dystopian agenda that takes the sacrificial politics of austerity and financialisation of the world economy to new heights. But it is a perfectly logical programme for an élite that has become unhinged from the real world”.
Yes, the western sphere has become so prone to a ‘head-spinning’ disorientation (as was intended), through the constant rain of disinformation labels, stuck haphazardly across anything critical of the ‘uniform messaging’, and by outrageous, obvious lying, that a majority in the western world has begun to question their own and surrounding levels of sanity.
In their bemusement, they have come to see the ‘messaging’ of sacrificial politics and the financialisation of absolutely everything as ‘perfectly rational’. They have been rendered helpless, held immobile in a spider’s web. Bewitched.
“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)
Yes, the Beast’s Siren Call is for sacrificial politics to be levered down upon the people, whilst the horsemen of War and Pandemic all scream out that an apocalyptic hour approaches. We may call it a collective syndrome – similar to the Witch Craze of the 14th–17th Centuries – but today, the phenomenon WB Yeats termed the ‘rough beast’ with its’ gaze as ‘blank and pitiless as the sun’, is better known simply as Ideology.
The word ‘ideology’ is often used as a synonym for political ideas, a corruption of language that conceals its fundamentally anti-political, latent totalitarian character. Ideology is incapable of treating human beings as distinct participants in a shared, non-political social life. Today’s woke ideology sees human association rather, as groups to be acted upon. It is explicitly anti-National, anti-Sovereign, anti-Traditional Religion, anti-Traditional Culture, anti-National Infrastructure, and anti-Family.
The term idéologie was coined during the French Revolution by Antoine Destutt de Tracy, an anti-clerical materialist philosopher who conceived of idéologie as a social science of ‘ideas’ that would inform the construction of a rational progressive society governed by an enlightened élite, whose technical expertise would justify their claim to rule.
These contours to European ideology, as they emerged during the French revolutionary era, largely were cast by the Franks in the period before, and after Charlemagne. It was then that the doctrine of racial superiority arose (‘others’ were ‘barbarian’ and Pagan and served only as slaves). It was then too, that outward, predatory expansionism (the Crusades, then colonialism) was embedded in the European psyche.
The Charlemagne era further cemented an unbridgeable social schism. The Frankish oligarch in his castle; his Frankish bishops inculcating his villein serfs, living by the foot of the castle, with vivid fear of eternal Hell. To which, the non-elect was pre-destined, unless improbably, they gained the grace of God. This nascent Frankish ‘idea’ was precursor to how we Europeans are today: the sense of absolute superiority; of belonging to an elect; and Europe’s class divide – are today’s shadows from that totalitarian era.
“But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked.
“Oh, you can’t help that,” said the Cat: “we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.”
What the French Revolution added was raw ideology, through the radical shift in the relation between state and traditional society. Rousseau is often taken as the icon of ‘liberty’ and ‘individualism’ and is widely admired. Yet here we have that clearcorruption of language which conceals ideology’s fundamentally anti-political character.
Rousseau explicitly refused human participation in non-political, shared life. He saw the human associations rather, as groups to be acted upon so that all thinking and daily behaviour could be folded into the like-minded units of a unitary state.
It is that unified state – the absolute state – which Rousseau upholds at the expense of the other forms of cultural tradition, together with the moral ‘narratives’ that provide context to terms such as good, justice and telos.
The individualism of Rousseau’s thought, therefore, is no libertarian assertion of absolute rights against the all-consuming state. No raising of the ‘tri-colour’ against an oppressive state.
Quite the reverse! Rousseau’s passionate ‘defence of the individual’ arises out of his opposition to ‘the tyranny’ of social convention – the forms and ancient myths that bind society: religion, family, history, and social institutions. His ideal may be proclaimed as that of individual freedom; but it is ‘freedom’, however, not in a sense of immunity from control of the state, but in our withdrawal from the supposed oppressions and corruptions of collective society.
Family relationship is thus transmuted subtly into a political relationship; the molecule of the family is broken into the atoms of its individuals. With these atoms today groomed further to shed their biological gender, their cultural identity and ethnicity, they are coalesced afresh into the single unity of the state.
This is the deceit concealed in the ideologues’ language of freedom and individualism. It is rather, the politicization of everything into the mould of an authoritarian singularity of perception. The late George Steiner said the Jacobins “abolished the millennial barrier between common life and the enormities of the historical [past]. Past the hedge and gate of even the humblest garden, march the bayonets of political ideology and historic conflict”.
This Jacobin inheritance was polished further by the Fabians and the likes of HG Wells, who wrote in his new Bible Trilogy, published in 1901,
“It has become apparent that whole masses of human population are, as a whole, inferior in their claim upon the future, to other masses, that they cannot be given opportunities or trusted with power as the superior peoples are trusted, that their characteristic weaknesses are contagious and detrimental to the civilizing fabric, and that their range of incapacity tempts and demoralizes the strong. To give them equality is to sink to their level, to protect and cherish them is to be swamped in their fecundity.”
Bertrand Russell (linked with the same current of thought) would put it most succinctly in The Scientific Outlook (1931):
“The scientific rulers will provide one kind of education for ordinary men and women and another for those who are to become holders of scientific power. Ordinary men and women will be expected to be docile, industrious, punctual, thoughtless and contented. Of these qualities, probably contentment will be considered the most important all the boys and girls will learn from an early age to be what is called “cooperative” i.e.: to do exactly what everybody else is doing. Initiative will be discouraged in these children, and insubordination, without being punished will be scientifically trained out of them”.
In sum, today’s ‘Totalitarianism Lite’ (Niall Ferguson coinage) of contemporary western life, accepts that whilst human beings naturally form social groups for common purposes, today’s woke ideology assumes that organic associations natural to any rooted community, cannot support a good society (because of ingrained racism, etc.), and therefore must be cleansed from the top down to rid it of such legacies. This is the ‘Bolshevik’ seed that Rousseau sowed.
Here is the point: Our disorientation and sense of disappearing sanity owes not a little to the psychic stress of embracing an ideology that purports to be exactly what it is not. Or, in other words, it proclaims liberty and the individual, when concealed within is absolute statism.
Alain Besançon remarks that “it is just not possible to remain intelligent under the spell of ideology”. Intelligence, after all, is an ongoing attentiveness to reality, which is inconsistent with willfulness and fantasy. Nor can it take root in the sterile soil of widespread cultural repudiation. This is why all ideological regimes are without exception plagued by sheer ineptitude.
Which neatly returns us to the afore-quoted Telegraph piece:
“Nor is there any explanation for this fiasco apart from decades of failed assumptions and policy missteps by our governing class. In the wake of the [2008] Great Financial Crisis, the Establishment just about managed to convince the public to submit to the purifying rigours of austerity [sacrificial politics] – persuading voters that we all shared the blame for the crisis and must all play a role in atoning for the country’s mistakes. This time, élites cannot shirk responsibility for the consequences of their fatal errors.
“Carnage has already arrived … And Britain is not going to escape [it]. In fact, in many ways, it looks set to be the tinderbox of Europe.
“The predicament we face is likely game-changing. We have barely begun to grasp how unpredictable the next few years are likely to be – and how poorly prepared we are to face the consequences. This may sound like a grim prognosis, but particularly in Britain, it does feel as if we just may have entered the final act of an economic system that has patently failed. It is clearer than ever that the emperor has no clothes and has no more stories to distract us with”.
The author is right. There will be public protests – in some states, perhaps, more than others; civil disobedience – such has already been launched in the UK and in the Netherlands: ‘The Don’t Pay’ campaign, which is urging people to join a ‘mass non-payment strike’, is the first token of pushback.
This, however, is but the initial step. When the western financial authorities say they ‘welcome’ a recession to destroy demand – and so to reduce inflation – implicit in this statement is an élite conviction that protest can and will be successfully squashed.
All the signs are that a ruthless, violent, and administrative suppression of popular disquiet is being contemplated.
Every so often, throughout history, humans have periodically experienced a deep sense of their lives being somehow hollow, of nothing realised, and of the world about them being sham – being somehow illusory and empty of meaning.
“How do you know I’m mad?” said Alice.
“You must be,” said the Cat, “or you wouldn’t have come here.”
But if we look back at this pattern, repeating itself, time and time again, we get a clear sense of both the event and of the repeating experience of void. For, it is the insecurity and fearfulness associated with ‘void’ which causes torpor to fade, and people to erupt into rebellious disorder. And why also the attempt by the élite inner circle ‘to manage away’ such awakenings, so easily ends in tragedy (and bloodshed).
But there is a further – major – difficulty in today’s situation. Even if the ‘doors of perception were cleansed’ (Huxley), it is that there is no ‘there – there’. No neat conceptualisation to which he or she can say: ‘here is to ‘where’ we should be going’ – or, at least, there is ‘no-where’ that would make sense to those already becoming half-panicked at what they perceive to be the assault on all the landmarks by which they have lived their lives.
What then might ultimately break a collective psychosis caught up in some irresistible, ‘magical’ spell? Well, put simply, pain. Pain is the great clarifying agency.
What happens when people awake to the deceit of Totalitarian-Lite posing as liberty and individualism (let alone democracy!). The question then becomes: To what other ‘image-idea’ will the people collectively migrate?
The geo-political implication is that Italy may migrate to one; Germany to another; and France to yet another, and others may just ‘give up’ on the whole mess of European politics (and nihilism will rise). Does this matter? Might it possibly be revitalising?
It does let us address directly the ‘Beast of ideology’, who through ‘his’ own ineptitude, has inadvertently stripped Pandora of her masque, thus opening her box. Who may say which masque she will don next!
THE ROTHSCHILD GOVERNMENTS NEXT TRICK IS STARVATION
Shropshires is the biggest company of crop harvesters in the UK
with fertilisers etc going up and no rain for many weeks, they said they can see a lettuce
next summer costing £2 50.
This years harvest this year has been terrible, farmers say
after the potato harvests this year, it will not be profitable to grow them again
so we will need to find a source from abroad to import from.
The water taken from rivers has meant rivers are at their lowest for many years
plus the government people trafficking in so many from abroad, the demand for water
is higher that can be supplied.
things are really not looking good for us the people
dont forget :
the FIRST CORRUPTOS are
FREEMASONS+ ruling POLITICIANS
once + now ! + THINKTANKS !
without them the jew snake would be
without power !
Thank you for publicizing these Strategic Culture-articles. They do good and honest work for the humankind.
russian soldiers who welcomed hitler and fought with the German forces against stalin communism and the jews
https://www.quora.com/Did-any-Soviet-soldiers-fight-for-Germany-in-WW2/answer/Manuel-Madera-2-1%C2%A0
the world is fighting back
https://christiansfortruth.com/after-sighting-of-swastikas-cut-into-soccer-field-australias-jews-on-high-holocaust-alert/
I am still interested in how Russell, Huxley, H G Wells and Quigley rode two horses at once, never quite being clear about which side they were on, and understanding that something might be happening that no-one is in control of. Harari is the same, except that he seeks more control. In my scheme, they do not have it and the best they can do is try to get into alignment with a process. Bismarck made a remark along these lines–history is like a wild horse, you cannot guide it but you may ride it for a while (I paraphrase)
Ha Ha.. you just know you are in trouble when one of the Torygraphs screeds reads like a ‘chesterton’ comment…
(of course omitting the real details of this very much planned collapse and the ‘hopes’ of the hollow men and their ‘jewish’ lackeys to manage a disaster of epic proportion and to come out the other end whistlin’ dystopian Dixie holding Fy-sore stock and beach front real-estate in the stolen state)..
Buckle up numbskulls (especially you rich peasants). and don’t forget to check your none existent privilege..
Satan’s watching… and he hates you all…
There is a “there” to aim for.
A global situation where private central banks, creating money out of thin air and loaning it to governments at interest, do not exist.
A world where every sovereign country has its own currency created by the government elected by the people.
No more Nato, Brics, EU etc.
I am not American, but each country would follow a constitution similar to the early, original American one, where only a government elected by the people can create the country’s money.
How to get Rothschild, Rockerfeller, Wallenberg etc to abolish their own banks, and thereby give all the power in the world back to the people who inhabit and work the earth is an enigma.
Why would they give up the power they and their omnipotent families give up the wealth and power they have enjoyed for hundreds of years?
There lies the problem. Those who control the creation of money and therefore all the governments and thereby all the armies of the world do not want to let go of their wealth and power.
Better to allow the whole world to destroy itself than to lose the wealth and power they have enjoyed – think the globalist private central bankers.
What we the people think doesn’t matter to these central banking families.
I for one believe in truth and freedom for all mankind.
I would rather die fighting for that standing with my boots on, than on my knees wearing slippers.
Peace and love,
Glenn Dormer
Government borrow lots of money, virtually at interest free to participate in the COVID scam, and then the (((lenders))) raise the rate of interest on all that borrowed money when governments can’t possibly borrow any more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4yQJwPK-JY
This comedian has got the right idea…
Excellent article !! The prescience of past thinkers is amazing. H.G. Wells back in 1901 nailed perfectly the current social environment of particularly the U.S., while Europeans are less susceptible to being dumbed down en mass.
Glenn Dormer- you have hit the nail on the head…
A massive revolt against our elites is coming (whether they are Rothschilds, jews etc), and (((they))) are scared stiff of us.
The vaccinations are to reduce the revolt, but will only wake up more, some with noting to lose…
It is up to all of us to remember our goals and not settle for less…
No national Central banks for each country is a good start.
Maybe readers can start adding to this so we can compile a list of goals for the revolt against these satsnic elites…
The only thing the Zionist-Communist State fears–for its the only thing that can annihilate them:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=196h-nUrNB4
Waiting to clean up the city
Waiting to put on a black shirt
Waiting to weed out the weaklings
Waiting to smash in their windows
And kick in their doors
Waiting for the final solution
To strengthen the strain
Waiting to turn on the showers
And fire the ovens
Waiting for the queers & the coons
And the reds & the Jews
Would you like to see Britannia
Rule again my friend…..
I am an American and there will be no ‘push back’ over here.
The vast majority of American men are ignorant, dominated by thoughts
of women, sports, ‘stuff’ and ‘fun’ what ever they are.
They don’t know what a neocon is or who Leo Strauss was, or a Wolfowitz
from a walleyed pike. They have never read “Pawns in the Game” or Douglas Reed’s
book “The Controversy of Zion.” They still wear masks, believe there are such things
as viruses, that “voting counts”, and that “The United States” is a country and not a corporation
which it is – incorporated in 1872 by its stockholders in the “City of London.”
The vast majority of American men are intellectually castrated eunuchs who will never “fight”
as a result of fluoride in the water and beer they drink, the mercury in their teeth, and believing their “grade school teachers” and religious leaders. They have never been taught “to think”.
So, “stupid is what stupid does.”
at least the Rothschilds, Rockefellers,Sassons
Soros + other slave-opium-gold-diamond trader
families should know that they are the most
hated families in the world . europeans, indians,
chinese, americans know this + the latins will
learn !
dontpay.uk
It is and always has been, a two horse race. One is the elite racing towards their goal, the other blowback from the masses.
The elite know perfectly well that the nearer they get to their goal, the narrower the ledge they walk on. To increase the odds in their favour, they look to ensuring that the other horse is of poor quality (welfare state, world wars), and doped up (drug legalisation).
Does anyone really know what is going on except the planners in control?
In reading William Engdhal’s equally dire forecast today I had the same impression;
Global Planned Financial Tsunami Has Just Begun
https://www.globalresearch.ca/global-planned-financial-tsunami-has-just-begun/5784217
As far back as the 1970’s we know that the global elites were planning world events 50 to 100 years in advance, and everything which is happening in the world today with respect to Covid, wars, environmental perils, shortages, slowdowns affecting the economy appear to be totally contrived and meticulously planned. Engdahl likes to blame the economic elite who own the central banks for bungling with improvident dealings with China beginning in the 1990’s, but he overlooks the fact that open trade with China and huge offshoring and investments were well underway before then and the opening up of communist China to both our investments and our markets was the result of planning at least some 30 years in advance.
Crooke believes that the coming recession will lead to privation, protest and unrest. Historian Engdhal says in a similar vein, “What is coming now in the coming months, barring a dramatic policy reversal, is the worst economic depression in history to date. Thank you, globalization and Davos.” Engdhal, however offers more hope to avert the worst with perhaps a policy reversal regarding interest rates, like this is no time for quantitative tightening.
Even if the economic plans of the Western elites were off of the tracks a little, I doubt anything is really accidental or out of control. All that is happening is only for the well-planned and UN and WEF, pre-announced global economic and social hegemony over virtually everything – massive centralized control over us.
The godlike people in control of the economic levers not only control our reading of history, the present, but also the future, and they will never allow things to get out of their control. Even in the Great Depression of the 1930’s they had everything under their control such that there would be no assemblies and there would be no uprisings. They have now tested their control mechanisms with their Covid virus and their vaccines, to see how far the people will go in their proposed marriage between fascism and communism, and based on the results I doubt they are going to go full speed ahead. They know that if they go too fast and cause enough privation and hardship to occur in their developed, rich and powerful nations such as the US or the UK, they will lose that very infrastructure they most rely upon. Besides, for any “external debt” those nations are filthy rich and the relative value of all assets are very tightly controlled, as is everything else.
If they were to screw with demand too much and cause really significant shortages as they are in third-world nations they could never protect the corporations and people in their infrastructure or even themselves, and the very basis of their might and power would become very precarious with them loosing control of assets globally. What these forebodings of the economic woes to come really tell us is that what really matters to the money power, the WEF, and the Davos elites are our forebodings and our fears as they continue to scoop up all major assets in our nations and everywhere else in the world.
They have been playing with the economy and deliberately creating problems in order to further exploit us, but as long as we continue to want and need that old moola they make out of nothing and there are no currencies of exchange they do not directly or indirectly control there will be no freedom from their insane totalitarian plans.
But don’t think I am right about what is going to happen with my efforts to connect the economic dots with all of their social engineering and Covid crimes. I do not want to be right about these things because in every way you look what is really most depressing is that there is no real power, protective force or movement for the incredibly shrinking integrity of the individual person, and the reason for that is most likely because the money power has systematically stripped away the very basis of that integrity. It may be centuries before any of our survivors wake up.
Good piece, this. And some excellent commentary by many above. Brilliant bits from Chesterton, Glenn Dormer, Barney,…
“It does feel as if we just may have entered the final act of an economic system that has patently failed.” Let’s be very clear here, the economic system that has patently failed has been due to parasitic Jew-controlled “central banking” in which sovereign nations lost control of their own systems of credit and currency, the terribly destructive idea of compound interest, and grossly under-enforced regulation of wildly corrupt speculative financial markets.
“It is clearer than ever that the emperor has no clothes and has no more stories to distract us with.” Hear hear. And that “emperor” deserves to be forcibly impoverished, dragged through the streets by their ankles, beaten to pulps, and randomly either publicly executed or stuffed in small cages and left to rot.
@Barney You are EXACTLY RIGHT!
This Nico x is a troll of some sort…
He is a candidate for Zycloning and should be hoovered up by a Dyson…..
Most likely based in Tel Aviv via Noo Yoik.
“Waiting to put the blackshirts on”…give us a break will ya….it is so stupid…it is barely worth commenting on.
Then there is “flat earf” white elephant.
How many of these commenters are actually real?.
Smoking Mirrors needs to be put in a straight jacket ASAP.
@JB
there will be no revolt because all the
big families are not to grasp . they will
hide under us with other names + will
have their isolated islands in the tropics
under armed security . to find them,
info, identity,whereabouts we would
have to go from bottom down torturing
us up to the tops to find them + this
would take years . begin only try to get
the 33rd grades of all freemasons in
the world . GOOD LUCK !
and very often you as avenger would
encounter the cynism of the god of this
world when you find the person you are
looking for his god gave him already a
very peaceful retreat in heaven where you
dont get him anymore .
@ BLACK ON WHITE
this eternal control over us i dont
think is steered by some human gnomes .
i think all this is steered by ET aliens
and the fofighters in worldwar + UFOs
today are only their means of controling
us . we are their multidimensional chessgame,
knowing all our intensions + influencing
telepaticly our financial + political leaders .
THE THOUGHTS OF OUR LEADERS
ARE NOT THEIR OWN ! THEY THINK
THY ARE THEIR OWN BUT THEY ARE
NOT .
Dumb Commie crypto-Jew Cass Sunstein agent doesn’t even know those are lyrics from Pink Floyds song ‘Waiting for the Worms’