Thread by @AuronMacintyre

I was going to make a video about how COVID-19 is a perfect example of decentralized coordination by the cathedral but then I realized that YouTube’s censorship around the virus would get it instabanned so instead I’m doing this thread /1

A lot of people have a problem with the concept of the cathedral, thinking of it as just another name for some kind of Illuminati cabal, it isn’t. /2

Conspiracies are difficult to maintain and hard to keep secret for long. As soon as they start to wield real power they become obvious and tend to become part of the formal power structure or collapse. The cathedral is not a conspiracy. /3

COVID gives us a great opportunity to observe how the decentralized consensus created by the cathedral can move the entire country towards progressive goals without a top down authoritarian dictate to the institutions below. /4

Let’s go ahead and get out of the way that COVID-19 is real and has killed a lot of people and some level of response by the government made sense. That said the continuing lockdown of society is insane and likely here to stay for less defensible reasons. /5

Let’s remember that COVID panic began as something the progressives were actually against. Many different political leaders were portraying the virus as no big deal and accused anyone who was raising the alarm of racism against Asian communities. /6

Once it became clear that COVID would be a real thing the narrative was able to shift quickly. This is the advantage of having 90% of the media educated in the same values. There was no official outline issues, no position paper, no orders. /7

The media know who their friends are and who their enemies are and who is to blame on any issue before it begins, their religion informs their view of any given situation, they simply apply it similarly and come to similar conclusions simultaneously. /8

Once we know COVID is a real problem the story is obviously about the government response to the problem, and Trump is theoretically in charge of the government and Trump is evil, so the government response is automatically a failure before it begins. /9

Now that Trump owns the government response and its failure it becomes a moral imperative for that failure to be as disastrous as possible. What is basically a more deadly flu must become the bubonic plague. Anyone saying otherwise is evil. /10

Medical professionals are all well educated and therefore hold similar religious beliefs to the media. They know Trump is evil and certainly don’t want to be seen as siding with the devil. Numbers are fudged, regulations are escalated, each step justices the next action. /11

None of these have to be giant lies, they almost never are. Giant lies are sloppy and obvious. But small tweaks in a general direction, especially in a quickly escalating situation add up fast. This is the beauty of the cathedral. /12

Once the regulations are in place it turns out only giant multinationals can operate profitably under them. Regulatory capture, which has been working its magic for decades, reaps its highest body count ever without any real effort. /13

The system was already in place, machinery was set up decades ago for an entirely different scenario, but because everyone has the same religious goal it all falls into place with little to no effort when the big shifts come. /14

Rights to religious observance, assembly, and self defense which have been slowly eroding for decades crumb under the weight of an “emergency” created by a virus with a less than 1% mortality rate. /15

It feels like a massive shift but it isn’t. It is simply the inevitable result of a thousand little decisions all pointed in the same general direction. There are aggressively bad actors, but most of the shift is in a 1000 subtle pushes. /16

When the incentives are set up properly things flow a particular direction. If I told you last year that half the major Dems would become anti-vax you would laugh, it goes against every part of their cult of science narrative. /17

But here we are. The media knows anti-vax is fine as long as it hurts Trump because Trump is evil and fighting evil is always right no matter how it gets done. /18

This is the power of the cathedral. Countless actors inside 1000s of institutions all fighting the same version of “evil” all in their own way. All pushing the same progressive direction. Always getting results. /19