The oligarchs who rule us are not aristocracy. They are overpromoted upper middle-class strivers.
An aristocrat has confidence in his tastes and his political vision.
Our oligarchs want to *seem* cultured, they are always, in their choices, trying to guess the right answer.
This is the cultural, social explanation for a great part of the evils they bring upon us.
They are insecure lunatics, trying to succeed on some other stage, trying to convince some other audience of their integrity and worth.
Real aristocrats don’t think twice, don’t care, about what anyone thinks. They expect others to adopt their preferences, because they’re simply correct.
We are ruled by a bunch of middling pretenders. That they all muzzle themselves at every photo op, is the clearest proof.
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Finally, in Germany anyway, we come to learn what was pandemic.
Lockdowns and other measures were not a rational response to dangerous virus; rather, a dangerous virus was socially & culturally constructed to justify the shiny new policy toy of lockdowns and other measures.
Maybe there were a few weeks in March where FlaTTenInG tHe CuRvE and related idiocy were a genuine goal. Thereafter exaggerating the curve became the order of the day, to rationalise their insane restrictions.
The whole thing was a massive and massively ridiculous artificially induced panic to rationalise unprecedented technocratic interference in everyday life, essentially a political coup by wannabe television ScIEnTisTs at the expense of ordinary people and their daily lives.
RKI protocols reveal pandemic managers providing "fictitiously accurate" R-values and overstating Covid risk on the explicit directions of their political overseers in the Health Ministry
The political fallout from the RKI document release continues. At issue are 2,500 pages of agendas and minutes from the daily meetings of the "covid crisis team" between January 2020 and April 2021.
2) The witches of these hunts are typically older widowed or single femael peasants who are first denounced by relatives or neighbours. Many of them seem to have been operating side business in divination, folk healing, etc.
3) Upon interrogation, they are often persuaded by torture or threat of torture to admit to the learned diabolistic aspects of witchcraft: pact with the devil, participation in a regular mock liturgy called the 'sabbat', and so on.
In the latest victory against right-wing extremism, police officers pull a 16 year-old girl out of chemistry class and advise her to stop posting Smurf-themed AfD-friendly content to TikTok
As I posted last month, Germany is in the midst of an unusual hysterical paroxysm over RiGhT-WiNG EXtReMisM. Cabinet ministers have announced plans to restrict the speech, travel and economic activity of those with inconvenient opinions.
Domestic intelligence chief Thomas Halendwang has announced his intention to police the "thought and speech patterns" of ordinary Germans, lest uncomfortable words and ideas "become part of our language."
This story is making the rounds after a case study appeared in The Lancet on Monday. Some lunatic German allegedly got himself jabbed 217 times for unclear "personal reasons." So much about the story is bizarre and doesn't make any sense.
Reports on this guy first hit the press in April 2022, after he was arrested on suspicion of vaccine pass fraud. Staff at a Dresden vaxx centre noticed that he was a repeat customer, and when he turned up at another vaxx centre he was arrested.
I never tire of making this point.
Climate policy is a bizarre attempt to apply regional solutions to a claimed GlOBaL PrOBlEm, with the result that we merely move this ProBlEm around, destroying national economies while emissions and fossil fuel production increase undeterred
Carbon taxes and regulatory restrictions merely cause emissions-intensive industries to decamp overseas, where they can emit even more intensely. Market forces, meanwhile, ensure that regional restrictions on fossil fuel consumption are almost perfectly offset abroad.
Western climate hysteria takes off after 1990 (red vertical line) – and gains momentum in the mid-2000s, as Asia and especially China increase emissions in tandem with rapid economic development. Effectively, we restrict emissions to make space for their fossil fuel consumption.