We’re publishing a guest essay today by Nick Comilla, a writer based in New York, about why so many apparently sensible, intelligent people have embraced the restrictions on their freedoms that states have imposed the world over. He thinks a clue may be found in the work of psychologist Sarah Schulman, who writes about why students seek emotional safety rather than stimulating debate on campus and why victimhood has become so appealing. In a nutshell, this is Nick’s hypothesis: “Quite simply, it seems to me that the Covid hysterics are taking up the mantle of victimhood and then construing any resistance to their pathology as abuse, when really it’s the opposite.” Here is an extract:
Last winter, a familiar refrain I noticed in New York amongst myself and many others was “stay safe”. It became the new “have a good night”, it was instinctual and communal. I even started saying it without realising it. It is meant as a compassionate slogan, but it’s also an imperative. You’re being told to do something: stay safe, which suggests the possibility of danger or threat. But why were we suddenly all saying that to each other? I chalked it up to the strangeness of those times: a new ‘Covid wave’, extreme uncertainty, the city still felt emptied out, and crime was up. “Stay safe” and the little things we could do for each other were like linguistic pacifiers, offering us a reprieve from the endless media reminder that we were in ‘unprecedented’ and ‘uncertain times’ and that, despite this, we were ‘all in this together‘.
I started to think about the other phrases that encapsulate an overabundance of caution which masquerades as compassion. And at what point does overemphasising caution become its own form of harassment? Certainly, we are seeing rising incidents of shunning and neuroticism since the start of the pandemic. These are notions favoured by the laptop-class: people who want to live in March 2020 in perpetuity, clamouring for more lockdowns and ‘stimulus’. Some people in the United States seem convinced – quite literally – that they are going to die. This is a problem. They perceive themselves as being in great danger when they aren’t, and view others as a threat in an overstated way. This is dangerous. I noticed that they also seem to take a strange sort of glee in telling others what to do – adult hallway monitors run amok. There was something fundamentally pathological about the sheer pleasure people – usually women and men who seemed off the deep end into over-socialisation – took in events being cancelled for ‘the greater good’. When LCD Soundsystem announced, due to public pressure, that they were abruptly cancelling the last three shows of their reunion performance here in NYC everyone started talking about ‘the greater good’. Those who voiced their disappointment in various comment sections were ostracised, while those who were sanctimoniously, righteously having their ‘concern for safety’ met seemed pleased to have their virtue reaffirmed. To be clear, I don’t necessarily think they enjoy the ongoing restrictions: I think they enjoy the righteousness of their perceived sacrifice.
The chorus they kept repeating was ‘this was a tough call, but it’s the right thing to do!’ and ‘see you when it’s safe’. The issue is that for these people, it will never be safe. And they are holding the rest of us hostage in the meantime. What struck me as odd was that if anyone dared to complain about this over-zealous and overstated concept of risk, if anyone pointed out that these people were beginning to make life seriously miserable, the neurotics would double down and accuse us of that which they were guilty of: ‘Stop throwing a fit’, ‘Oh poor you, little baby, you can’t go to a concert’. Sadomasochistic glee. Anyone who has spoken out against restrictions knows that the social ostracising is rampant: you’re either accused of ‘lacking empathy’ or of actively ‘wanting people to die’. It is bizarre to me that a civil conversation can’t be entered into under the shared assumption that neither of us want people to die and that you can be simultaneously against lockdowns and in favour of reducing suffering in general.
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For me the WEF represents the personification of Evil and anyone associated with it is likewise tainted.
Agreed , King Charles is upto his unusually large Ears in it ,as is his son Wills who has given Toothy Jacinda a climate non job !
I agree with anyone seeking to reduce the psychological elitist messaging of the WEF. Through the long tentacles of their influence, they have sought to engineer an image of solid intellectual foundations that simply do not exist. They create an artificial atmosphere of contrived consensus and pretend the only room for disagreement is about as large as the difference between the Tory establishment and Labour, or the establishment Republicans and the establishment Democrats. This is of course nonsense. But similarly the corrupting effect of their influence should not be underestimated.
Or rather they, the WEF, are a public pustule on the surface of a deeper more powerful confluence of global forces, which include corporate entities like Blackrock and Vanguard and billionaires like Gates and Bezos. The thing that should not be underestimated however, is the extent to which the vast wealth they control serves to unseat these people from the same realities and concerns as affect ordinary people. We understand how solitude and lead to psychological aberration and a lack of ability to empathise and socialise. Similar aberrations arise for the super wealthy. Some people are able to weather dissimilar experience and still recognise and appreciate the reality inhabited by others. This isn’t necessarily a sign of “empathy” either, but can be simply a sign of rationality or intellect. However we should be aware of our proximity to some truly harsh anti social behaviours exhibited and actually pretty widespread that have never, in truth, left this earth. It wasn’t too long ago that in the US, during the period known as the Wild West, there were corporate entities that gave rise the phrase “railroading.” The railroad companies were prepared to employ thugs to bully and kill in order to relieve citizens of their land.
The thing that, when viewed in a proper context, surprises me, is how many people think the globalist elites, having come through “Western” education, must now be civilised and divest of all such immoral drives, when their wealth insulates them and de-socialises them every bit as much, if not more than for the hermit loner living on a hill. Anyone who thinks that is asleep and simply not paying attention to what is occurring in the world.
So while I agree with this article and we need to break any propagandist psychology that conflates the WEF agenda with the truth, and while I agree we should laugh at these people, I also think they really are remarkably dangerous, and very very close to achieving their aim of global authoritarian domination and control.
Consider Blackrock now own 30% of the land in Ukraine.
Blackrock and vanguard private equity firms now own over 60% of the housing stock in the land of the Free.
Bill Gates has gone from owning no land to being the biggest landowner in the US.
and most worrying of all, private equity like Blackrock and Vanguard own roughly 80% of the S&P500.
This latter point is to my mind illustrative of the fact the authoritarian door is very very close to being closed on us.
The pandemic successfully saw the transfer of over a trillion in wealth to the global elites and very nearly as much out of the pockets of the ordinary citizen.
These facts, unfortunately, are harder to laugh at.
Excellent points.
The WEF serves a few useful purposes to the Trillionaires whom we never see.
They act as a point of coalescence with the global barons of wealth and industry allowing them to reinforce the goals of centralised authority and control
Create agendas that are implemented through UN treaties infiltrating all the way down to council level edicts from traffic regulation, energy usage, carbon taxing etc All designed to limit movement and constrain resistance.
They reward higher level bureaucrats and career politicians with social power manifesting in rewards such as travel, elite holidays, gifts, revolving door opportunities between government, corporations and NGOs so that their will always be a profitable landing place no matter how bad their public reputations become. All as long as they push the agendas.
They prepare the highest level elites for the transitions that are occurring and being forced through “polycrisis” offering them a place at the table no matter what engineered crisis occurs into the NWO.
They target emergent technologies and seek to appropriate them always in the aid of power and control by the few over the many.
So yes I wouldn’t sniff at the WEF.
Good point…I recall it was Rotterdam a few years ago that Bezos had a historic bridge removed and later constructed so he could sail his giant Yacht out of the city. That is an obscene amount of power and influence in the cold light of day. These people need taking down, this is not jealousy when they want to create a serf class with modern Robber Barons.
Egalitarian? Cobblers. The “anointed” think they know better than everybody else.
tof, for all the convoluted counter arguments in the article it really does boil down to:
The “anointed” think they know better than everybody else.
Although I would add – with menaces.
Menaces and then the jackboot in your face.
Bland, malevolent, ridiculous and uninteresting people who make sweeping, grandstanding pronouncements on big theatrical stages in a hideaway Swiss mountain resort about the futures of the other 7 billion or so other people in the world without any of their agreement or inclusion. Anyone associated with Davos should be psychologically assessed. It’s a hive of evil masquerading as the saviours of the world.
Hear, hear.
Don’t forget the others like the secretive Bilderberg Group.
Whitney Webb discusses with Peak Prosperity the Globalist technocratic plans, the new serfdom system, and Conspiracy vs cock-up.
https://youtu.be/tkLq54lVqHU?si=KpLw8W0rVb6v_u-p
Who wants one of my new T Shirts? ——–JUST START OIL .—-They come in a range of colours and in small, medium. large, XL and XXL. They are not at all “sustainable” and I am sick to death of hearing that word anyway. ———What is the difference between a Just Stop Oil idiot and a plank of wood? ——The Grain. ——–Yes folks that is the only difference. Basically the Just Stop Oil people are the same as a plank of wood. They will sit on their cosy couch in their nice warm house (courtesy of fossil fuels) with a laptop on their knee that couldn’t exist without oil. Infact nothing in their house could, and neither could their house, their bicycle or their sustainable cabbage. Then out they march to chuck soup over a Van Gogh———But ofcourse these people are just the Elites useful idiots. They are the ones that do the WEF’s dirty work for them while they sit sipping prosecco and knocking back the Lobsters at Davos carving up the world and deciding whether we should be allowed wood pellets or whether we should maybe collect all our toenail clippings and recycle them into windows for our sustainable dwellings. ———Roll up Roll up get your JUST START OIL T Shirts while stocks last.
Can I order one in nylon please?
Put a link in then or is this just irony. Patrick Heningson the old UK Column had a good T-Shirt…”We Are All Essential”.
Ron ——It was a joke mate. I thought that was obvious. But it isn’t such a bad idea to have one of my T Shirts now is it? It seems only those who scream the loudest get listened to. ———-I remember away back in the 70’s before all of the wokery and political correctness I saw a person with a T Shirt that said “Equal Rights for Gay Whales”—-Boy was he ahead of his time.
This has nothing to do with “aesthetics” (whatever that is supposed to mean in this context). It seems to me that the policies the WEF advocates for are either explicitly or implicitly going to reduce the freedom and prosperity of me and my family, therefore they are my enemies.
The Davos Gang (“weffies”) are a gang of cold-blooded psychopaths, plain and simple. Anyone who doesn’t believe in human rights, particularly individual rights, does not belong anywhere even remotely near the levers of power whatsoever. There is nothing redeeming about them at all.
Even someone in The Guardian of all papers called Davos a ‘Pit of Vipers’.
My opinion is that we need to re read the novel Brave New World, this is the text that is being followed by the WEF not so much 1984. In Brave New World, the citizens are conditioned to be happy, they indeed own nothing, but their conditioning is such from birth,
does any of that ring a bell?, look how happy the majority were to be locked up, told what to do in exchange for “free money” and not having to work, they didn;t mind about the loss of freedom, they thought it was great.
In Brave New world children are grown outside of the womb and depending on societies needs for Alphas (the elite) or down to Epsilons, (the drone low caste workers) the foetus were fed or denied the appropriate hormones, oxygen to ensure the appropriate brain development, these children were then raised and conditioned seperately to fulfill their pre prescribed goal by the technocrats.
This is what Schwab and his disciples are aiming at, when they state you will in the future own nothing and be happy, they mean that you and your future offspring will be conditioned to happily accept the limits on your existence which they the small band of elites allow.
Dont believe me? look at what they did during Lockdown, look at the relentless propaganda, the happy way individuals allowed their bodies to be taken over, how they are now programming us to accept a digitalisation of our very beings through vaccine markers in our bodies, chips under our skin to pay and of course to be tracked, and the kids are happy to accept it.
The WEFS are part of an ole entitled elite, they are scared of freedom of speech and the internet, hence their manic desire to control, the only way they can protect their position is for the population to happily accept the conditioning to expect less, and to be controlled in exchange for convenience.
In BNW there is no comparable computer technology (or nuclear weapons, discussed by the author in BNW Revisited). Therefore that imaginary society needed people, even if they were simply godless slaves and clones. Soon humans could be completely replaced by robots, which are far easier to control (maybe). The conscious human population is becoming superfluous and completely dispensable to these crazed megalomaniacs. We should be terrified. Word has it that the depopulated Ukraine is being reconstructed as the first completely SMART nation; a model for the rest of the world to copy.
I find this discrimination against human lungs and guts, the by far most spacious inner organs one will find when, well, gutting a human, extremely offensive. The Davos crowd clearly suffers from lung-and-gut-phobia!
“For one, the WEF has never met a new technology that it likes.”
Except, that is, for mass facial recognition surveillance, blanket digital ID systems including medical records, CBDCs and mRNA gene therapy technologies.
All of which conspire to be the greatest collective threat to our lives in modern history.
While it’s easy to mock and write the Davos/WEF cartel off as an oddball bunch of cosplay villain eccentrics, they have an exponentially increasing dominance, influence and power over all aspects of our lives and remain without doubt the gravest danger we face in the world right now.
These grasping feudalist predators need to be completely defunded and obliterated into irrelevance before they can kick our foot out of the way and slam the prison door shut.
Spot on , + these freaks run the WHO !