Interesting discussion and a couple things come to mind.
1. I've never understood fundamentalism
The idea that, well, this was said to happen, and it didn't therefore it's all bullshit, never made sense to me.
It's like, "This streetlight is broken, therefore traffic lights don't work."
How does this apply to the conversation?
2. Climate Change is not an on/off switch
Whenever Alex brings up good points about more ice in Antarctica
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/world-of-change/sea-ice-antarctic
he makes comments about islands not disappearing
(Three islands just disappeared, is this Global Warming? Too soon to tell for sure, but when is too late?)
There is never comments about the ice in the Arctic and the massive defrosting of permafrost. The fact that the North is open in ways
that nations like Russia, US and Canada are rushing to declare sovereignty of the territory because it's navigable.
Not a lot of people in Canada, especially on the coasts would ever argue that Climate Change isn't a real thing. We live it every day.
Halifax's crazy weather. The migration of plants and animals from southern climes that never existed even ten years ago here (We have Black widow spiders now! That was unheard of when I was a kid). Vancouver's crazy weather of heatwaves, unheard of forest fire catastrophes etc...
I'm not saying ALL of those are from global warming, but it seems pretty clear (especially if you talk to the Forest Rangers in an area and the natives who have nothing to do with any global conspiracy- they aren't paid enough to be engaged). They will tell you things are insane.
I remember reading that however you fall on the Climate Change argument, it is the most difficult science to do. You have to take thousands of disparate measurements and find ways to see where they connect. I recommend "Sea Sick" (
https://alannamitchell.com/sea-sick-the-book/) as an incredible book that shows just how parcelled off scientists actually are from each other. Those doing ocean science have little connection with each other, and the journalist looked at the different local readings to show a devastating series of findings on the health of the world's oceans.
3. Who is at the Centre of this Global Conspiracy?
I know Kyle Kulinski often says, "It's not who you think it is. It's actually a whole lot easier than that."
And it is.
Alex asks the very honest question of how can people think that there's not a plandemic when the evidence is right there?
Well, the evidence IS there. He's absolutely right. The problem are the conclusions.
Who is the person running DAVOS? He's a zealot for his ideals. Schwab's net worth is
$950,000. That is chump change. He's a guy with a projector
and pretty much nothing else. So who is it? Nobody likes to talk about it.
But the truth is, it's a real flaw in capitalism and that's why nobody wants to talk about it.
But, if you look at the Left from the past, Naomi Klein identified that problem way back. It was called Crisis Capitalism.
And everyone, left and right have used that instict "Never let a crisis go to waste."
Her book was called "The Shock Doctrine"
https://naomiklein.org/the-shock-doctrine/ and it came out in 2007. Well before any DAVOS insistences on the world order.
We see it happening billionaires taking advantage of Klein's Shock Doctrine. Because they aren't interested in a healthy capitalism where we have competition. They want market dominance to the point of removing everyone else.
We see this happening in public schools where corporate think has taken over the curriculum.
We see this happening in society where we once talked about each other as
citizens, Reagan taught a generation to see each other as
clients and now, this has evolved to
customers.
There is a huge difference between the relationships in a community from "Citizens" to "Customers". Huxley (Brave New World) would be very alarmed to see how we're coming closer and closer to his reality. Not so much Big Brother from 1984, but Big Sister. A friendly face where you get rid of your liberties and have corporations run your life. Don't go outside, it's dangerous there. Stay inside, Netflix and chill. There are so many streaming services, I don't even have shows in common with my kids anymore because they have too much to see, too much content.
Neil Postman's nightmarish vision in "Amusing Ourselves to Death" has become uncannily true.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death
And the corporatists, the Plutarchs. The Oligarchs have taken notice.
That's why you can have these Woke corporations say and force you to say whatever Big Sister wants because it doesn't cost them a dime.
Black Lives Matter says Raytheon the defence contractor (
https://www.city-journal.org/raytheon-adopts-critical-race-theory).
Support identifying people strictly by race, sex, gender, because it makes it that much easier for us to sell to you.
Have both sides fight each other. It sells more guns for gun manufacturers.
Manufacture hate and make a profit doing it.
It's not hard to see. Who has profited from COVID? The Bezos of the world. They make the money and want us to wipe out our "little markets" so Amazon sells everywhere and that local Mom and Pop store down the street is gone forever.
Listen to the latest interview from DAVOS attendee and writer of the novel "How Billionaires Devoured the World", Peter Goodman.
https://player.fm/series/krystal-kyle-friends/episode-57-audio-peter-goodman
He sees the real conspiracy for what it is. Unchecked corporate capitalism corrupting governments, centralizing their power and influence to sell more, to remove any safeguards for the populace- environmental standards, union-busting for worker rights, destruction of communities to create digital urban worlds.
4. Conclusions
Is this "EVIL" with a capital "E" that Alex has been talking about, but skirting around the edges? I don't know. I do know we have a ton of psychological evidence to demonstrate that those who are billionaires see no sign of stopping until they continually get more and more and more from what is less and less of the pie. Your autonomy, your freedom, your ability to make things will change once Disney is the only licensed distributor of stories. The idea of reading public domain works could very well disappear. These happen everywhere because there's a market incentive to do so.
It's not rocket science. It's everywhere and right in our face that we can't see it, and even more so, are afraid to engage it because it brings up the dreaded question, "If capitalism is failing us, does that mean capitalism failed?"
I disagree. I think we failed capitalism, not the other way around. I think that we took our hand off the tiller that FDR righted. I think we let Reagan destroy private unions and then the march to the bottom for workers began. Minimum wage has been woefully away from keeping up with times and inflation
https://www.politifact.com/factchec...s-been-decades-minimum-wage-kept-inflation-a/
And yet CEO's wages have exploded. (12% workers, 940% CEO's)
https://www.epi.org/publication/ceo-compensation-2018/
If we are to save capitalism, everyone should be a populist. Marc is 100% right that the left/right politics isn't important here. What's important is walk away when you get a win. Argue about the minutia another time. Do I support Ron Paul's anti-war stance? 100%. Do I support his and Bernie Sanders desire to keep jobs in America and not ship them abroad? 100% Do I agree with Ron Paul's privatizing medicine? No. Do I agree with Bernie Sander's pro-gun views? Absolutely not. I will still work on the things with them that I think are valuable. Take the win.
Do I think that a society has the right to have transparency of government? That the populace has a right to decide on their own what is important and not a group of plutocrat elites make those decisions? Yes. The populace needs to make those decisions. NO. The plutocrats do not.
Who's with me?
J
P.S. I'm not interested in nasty responses, flippant ones, or partisan ones. I am interested in actual non-partisan evidence challenging my ideas ALWAYS. Notice none of the links I've put up are from any MSM. I don't follow them. They are market-driven corporations as well. I am evidence persuaded. Nothing more. Thanks in advance.
