The Wuhan coronavirus arrived just as people across the free world were losing trust in the integrity and competence of their elites.
The pandemic response richly justified that loss of trust... but also gave the Ruling Class what it needed to strike back and subdue the masses.
The pandemic response richly justified that loss of trust... but also gave the Ruling Class what it needed to strike back and subdue the masses.
After the endless pandemic debacles, people have less faith in "experts" and institutions than ever - but it doesn't matter. Your faith is no longer required. In the never-ending state of emergency, you are not allowed to disobey decrees or vote against those who enforce them.
You'll still be allowed to vote on some peripheral issues, swapping out a few politicians now and then for choices from a pre-screened, pre-approved stable of alternates, but you will not be able to vote against or disobey a growing core of untouchable bureaucracy.
And once you can no longer vote against something, the elite see no reason to allow you to continue talking about it. The science is settled, consensus has been reached, progress has been made. Further discussion is wasteful and dangerous - ideological necrophilia.
What you see today, across the Western world but especially in the UK and North America, is the Ruling Class establishing that it can never be held accountable for its coronavirus errors, no matter how foolish or damaging they were, and unquestioning obedience remains mandatory.
Everything the pandemic-turbocharged managerial elites are doing - including prancing around without masks while the Little People are forced to cover their faces - is meant to send the message: no apologies, no accountability, no power will be ceded, no return to normal.
You will be made to perform constant rituals to signal you accept the infallible wisdom and absolute authority of the elite - even though everything they do is an utter disaster. You will admit that you are not qualified to judge them or disobey. You WILL give them more money.
So we arrive at a moment when people trust the State and its supporting institutions less than ever - and yet there is no question the State will grow larger, richer, and more powerful, facing less competition and allowing less room for disobedience and dissent. /end
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