Neil Oliver’s piece about our broken democracy for this site set me thinking. I’m interested in all sorts of historical analogies for our times because they can help a wider understanding of the mess we are getting deeper and deeper into. Neil points out, rightly, that we are being increasingly led into a future determined by a small, and getting smaller, elite tier of leaders. Ramesh Thakur warns that once Government takes on extra powers it won’t give them up.
Absolutism in all its forms has a far longer history than democracy and so does what we are seeing in our own time. Ancient Egypt was ruled by a despotic absolutist hereditary monarchy that manifested itself in a succession of dynasties. The reigning Pharaoh, who was in a few exceptional instances a woman, posed as the protector of Maat.
Maat was a nebulous concept that encompassed order, truth and justice. The Pharaoh stood as a bastion between the people and the forces of chaos. This pretext has been used by the ruling class or the ruler since time immemorial. It was no different during Covid, when governments across the world legitimated dramatic controls over people’s private lives on the basis that the state was protecting the population from the chaos and disorder of Covid. They were able to do this, because most people most of the time acquiesce in the state’s leadership. This is perfectly understandable because the alternative is usually anarchy, and because the state is perceived alone to have access to the resources necessary for protection. However, it is very easy to allow the state to subsume ever more power and control.
In or around 1352 BC the Pharaoh Amenhotep III of the 18th Dynasty died. With his Queen Tiye he presided over Egypt at the climax of its power and wealth. If the mummy thought to be his really was him, he was by then a man in late middle age crippled by ill-health, obesity and rotten teeth.
Amenhotep was just the figurehead of a wealthy and totally dominant elite tier of society, defined mainly by the priesthood of the god Amun and the administrators such as the viziers who ruled Egypt for the King. The King and the elite cornered most of Egypt’s resources for themselves, including the tribute that poured in from vassal states and would-be allies who trembled at the thought of Egypt’s army invading them. Amenhoteop and his predecessors maintained the pretence that Egypt was at the mercy of external enemies in the form of Syria and Nubia. Caricature figures of these enemies became an artistic trope.
For around 150 years Amenhotep III’s dynastic predecessors had been managing that narrative with great success, hurtling out of the Nile Valley in their chariots to beat up the enemy and record their destruction in ludicrously biased propaganda inscriptions that described the Pharaoh as a superhero and his enemies as witless cowards led by imbeciles.
The wealth that was seized or handed over in a succession of wars before his accession across the Middle East was invested in vast temple complexes that depicted the Kings as mighty, gigantic supermen, and into royal palaces filled with extravagant decoration, pointlessly ostentatious lakes that the king could sail around on, trophy wives and slaves, and the prodigy tombs and homes of the greedy nobility. Nepotism and backhanders ruled.
Under Amenhotep III a new era of gigantism emerged, with the King portrayed in monolithic statues as much as 18 metres tall and weighing 700 tonnes.
Amenhotep III epitomised the egregious narcissism and self-indulgence an unrestrained elite culture can achieve. When he died, everyone must have expected this to carry on. Instead, the consequences of absolutism took a wholly unexpected turn.
He was succeeded by his son, known now as Amenhotep IV, who soon married a woman called Nefertiti, possibly a relative of his mother’s. Amenhotep IV was probably only in his mid-teens but he was convinced that his world was in an existential religious crisis. With the dramatic combination of adolescent immaturity and monochrome thought with untold wealth and absolutist power which meant his every whim would be indulged he and his Queen expelled most of the old gods.
Amenhotep IV and Nefertiti turned their focus onto a lesser-known solar deity called the Aten. The King renamed himself Akhenaten (‘useful to the Aten’). With a reckless disregard for tradition and a conviction that they were right and everyone else was wrong, they proceeded to build a vast new temple at Thebes, having shut down the cult of Amun, with themselves as the sole agents of bringing the worship of the Aten to the Egyptian people. The priests were out of a job. The palace lickspittles, spotting that continuing to cream off a percentage meant signing up for the new way, eagerly joined in – at least for the moment.
However, there was certainly some opposition to this sudden new order. Angered by this, Akhenaten upped sticks. He abandoned Thebes, and even the tomb he was having built in the Western Valley of the Kings. The royal family and their hangers-on relocated themselves 250 miles north to a virgin plain overlooked by inland cliffs on the east bank of the Nile and now known as Amarna.
Here with their daughters, the royal couple ordered the construction of a new city with temples and palaces, and a royal necropolis. The elite hangers on built themselves fine townhouses and well-appointed tombs. The rest of the city’s people, who had had no choice, lived in slums.
Even worse, the city was built by armies of workers who lived in absolute poverty, locked into compounds where they were kept under constant surveillance. Excavations of their miserable cemeteries show they suffered from malnutrition, terrible physical injuries and sordid deaths, most before their late 20s. Many of them were children.
This was possible because the elite class in Egypt could do as it pleased. There was no political representation, no popular assembly, no mechanism of protest – the modern authoritarian Government’s dream. There were not even any places where ordinary people might gather. They were caught up in a narcotic belief in the security the state would bring them. But Akhenaten and Nefertiti had pushed it to the limit.
While the labourers’ backs were literally broken to pursue the conceit, the King and Queen cruised Amarna’s wide streets in their chariots, the privileged vehicular transport only available to the elite. Indeed, the word for a chariot, werret, was derived from the word for great, wer. In short, being a member of the great elite was synonymous with having prestige transport not available to anyone else.
Accompanied by the chosen elite, on whom were bestowed trinkets and honours to keep them loyal, and guards, the king and queen paraded themselves in front of the rabble who had no choice but to pick the dust and sand out of their eyes as the royal pageant raced by.
Akhenaten, like most self-indulgent fanatics, had what passed for an ideology and liturgy to justify all this. He composed a hymn to the Aten solar deity which one of his chief acolytes, a man called Ay whom some think was Nefertiti’s father, conveniently posted in his tomb which was being cut out of a cliff along with the other noble tombs.
Like all elite visionaries, Akhenaten depicted his idea of the future in naïve idealistic terms. Everyone would be joyfully in festival under the Sun’s rays. People work happily in the fields, surrounded by wildlife that shared in joyous adulation of the god. Everybody is in their place. The Aten supplies everything they need, and their lifespans are foretold. Other countries are also integrated within this system where everyone and everything is working together for the Aten and under its protection. The battered bodies of the workers desiccating in their miserable burials were ignored.
Like most utopian visions of the future, construed to justify everyone being in their preordained place, there was dramatic contrast between the dewy-eyed idealism and the reality of life in Akhenaten’s new city. The location was demarcated by large inscriptions that were dotted around the hinterland that made it clear where his paradise was being made. The city’s outskirts were patrolled by his police.
It wasn’t at all clear where Akhenaten was travelling towards, or what his endgame was. He described a perfect state of affairs that he was incapable of actually achieving. When several of his daughters and his mother unexpectedly died, the bubble began to burst. We do not know why they died but their demises did not smack of divine approval. If it was plague, and that has been suggested, then many more probably died.
Akhenaten had no vision of what happened after death. Having expelled the old cult deities of death and the afterlife, he had nothing to offer. This was a huge problem for an absolutist regime that had dragged the nation down a route to salvation.
The exact dates of Akhenaten’s reign are uncertain. But if the dates normally assumed to be his are at least about right, then on May 14th 1338 BC Akhenaten had a shock in store. A total eclipse blocked out the sun that day, obliterating the solar disk for several minutes. In those days, such a shocking event was seen as a major omen, and it cannot have looked good.
These events in the Bronze Age over 33 centuries ago are shrouded in mystery and confusion. No-one really knows what happened though plenty of Egyptologists have twisted themselves into knots trying to find out.
What we do know is that after 16-17 years of reckless upset, Akhenaten disappeared around 1336 BC. He may have died of natural causes. More likely he was, like other inconvenient kings, assassinated though there is no evidence for that. It seems that Nefertiti stepped up to the mark and briefly ruled as King (yes, women had to rule as kings – there was no concept of a Queen regnant) in his place – they had certainly been joint monarchs for a while. If the body believed to be hers has been correctly identified, she was bludgeoned to death.
After only a short space of time one of the surviving daughters, Ankhesenpaaten, had been married to boy of uncertain origins called Tutankhuaten. He was probably her brother or half-brother. Soon afterwards they changed their names to Tutankhamun and Ankhesenamun.
They were the patsies for old guard who had already been surreptitiously changing horses when they spotted time was up for Akhenaten’s regime. They included the unctuous Ay who not long before had been shown falling down in abeyance before Akhenaten.
Akhenaten’s new world order was dismantled with breakneck speed so the old elite could get back in the driving seat. Amarna, the brand-new city, was abandoned. Thebes was capital once again and the huge temple to Amun at Karnak came back into operation, and the priesthood restored to massive cornering of the nation’s wealth.
One thing you can say about absolutism is that the old order was revived swiftly, and no further questions asked. No waiting around for an election.
Within a decade, by c. 1327 BC, Tutankhamun was dead. He was barely 20 years old, if that, and childless. A sickly youth, he had probably had a chariot injury as well as malaria, to say nothing of the generations of inbreeding that had preceded his birth. Embarrassing royal mementos of the Armana dream were buried with him but he was overseen by Egypt’s gods of old, Osiris, Isis, Anubis and others.
He was succeeded by Ay, now an old man. Ay, who had once been a sidekick-in-chief to Akhenaten’s dreams, now ruled Egypt and carried on the recovery of the good old days. He lasted only a short time before he expired too in c. 1323 BC. A general called Horemheb took over. Horemheb cut Akhenaten, Tutankhamun and Ay out of the king lists and pretended he had succeeded Amenhotep III almost 30 years earlier before introducing some well-timed reforms to make sure he stayed king.
Horemheb died without issue and rule in Egypt passed to a new dynasty. The system was to stagger on in one shape or form for nearly another 13 centuries before the future Augustus Caesar defeated Cleopatra at Actium in 31 BC and took Egypt in 30 BC, ruling as a restorer of the pretend democracy called the Roman Republic, but in fact as a despotic monarch of a new type.
Akhenaten’s brief blaze across the firmament was a bizarre combination of despotism and a sort of proto-Marxian socialist control-freak utopia but under his fanatical dictatorship. He was born into a system where the elite lived, exploited and struck as it pleased, where the resources of an entire nation were harnessed for the exclusive benefit of a very few. This enabled him to impose his will on his people without concerning himself whether they objected or not. He depicted his dream as being to everyone’s benefit. He rushed into it without any consideration of where it would lead, or whether he could carry everyone or even indeed anyone with him. When it became obvious his edifice was crumbling, what passed for his support among the self-serving elite evaporated. So much was done to suppress any knowledge of his rule that it has taken vast amounts of work on the remains at Amarna to recover.
Does Akhenaten have a message for today’s regimes? In a way yes. He typifies the behaviour of elites of all types, especially in systems where the populations they rule over are ignored. He also showed that just because they have dragged some along with them that by no means ensures their continued acquiescence, let alone active support, even among those they thought they could trust. But all that happened is that instead of true reform, the elite succeeded in securing their power even more successfully.
Back in those days political rebellion was all but unthinkable – when rebellion of any sort emerged it was usually crushed with uncompromising violence as was the Spartacus slave revolt in Italy in 73 -71 BC. But we live in different times, when enforced impoverishment, endless controls on the pretexts of public health and climate change, the suppression of free speech, 24/7 electronic surveillance and other privations can, and surely will one day, lead to revolution.
Since the late 1700s popular revolt has become much more dangerous. Our leaders would of course argue that they are doing everything they can to save us from such disorder, while at the same time contributing in no small part to the circumstances that may create what they claim to be preventing. Indeed, perpetuating a sense of crisis is the foundation of its power.
Unfortunately, if there is any lesson from history it will be that whatever upheavals are to come, they will only lead to a rearrangement of the imbalance of power and wealth after a brief euphoric interlude. After all, Russia replaced the despotism of the Tsars with the despotism of the Communist Party, a new type of tsar, a new type of poverty, and a new lack of rights or freedoms. One dreads to think what use Stalin could have made of the Covid, ‘the climate crisis’ and the internet, to say nothing of other despots since time immemorial.
Guy de la Bédoyère is author of Pharaohs of the Sun. How Egypt’s Despots and Dreamers Drove the Rise and Fall of Tutankhamun’s Dynasty, published by Little, Brown 2022.
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Good. Excessive respect for authority is largely to blame for the nightmare of the last 2 years.
If the next generation are now primed to be mistrustful of authority, then that is at least a silver lining.
Free societies are built from a healthy mistrust of power and authority.
I have zero confidence in the sheep that went along with all that.
Maybe the pre-schoolers and the yet unborn can and will develop sceptical skills and behavior eventually, but not the current lot in school.
Least of all the deluded tree hugging 15 year+ old, who should have rebelled but prefer to mask up even until today.
Your last sentence says it all
All this and more is why we took them out of school in October 2020.
From the age of fourteen, suffering “lessons”, I remember thinking, “when I have children of my own, will I want to put them through this?!”
Well, “bubbles”, endless applications of alcoholic handwash, speciously comparing covid with polio, not being allowed to play with their friends – it was all the final straw.
From what I can see about how our kids have improved, and how many other children we know have become insecure, worried and less than healthy, we did the right thing.
I have a very similar article in me, thanks for this one! We are not alone – actually we are the vanguard of the New Enlightenment.
Stay sane, “Eric”!
Well done…one of the saddest things during Covid, from my perspective anyhow, was how little fight there was in parents in relation to their children.
I’m way past the age of having kids in school, but I know if I had I would have been there all the time protesting and complaining, and trying to persuade other people to not let schools walk all over them and their children….I’ve found it heartbreaking watching people go along with this con, in every sphere, but especially in parents, many of whom have badly let their children down. I include some of my own family members in this, who, if I’m honest, I will never be able to think of in the same way ever again.
True. And Brits have put up a particularly woeful show here.
It was very easy for their kids to avoid masking, testing and the GT.
In contrast to the continent, where the therefore fighting parents faced and lost lawsuits and were threatened with jail and loss of custody but still took the risk.
Exactly. I remember telling people that under British Law they could exempt themselves from the masks etc., and how we should not take this for granted, given that most other countries had made no such provision… Use it or lose it…
The day we made the decision to take them out, I remember one occasion with “fondness”…
The playground was full of parents, waiting to collect their children. Staring vacantly at each other, standing dutifully in their two metre distanced spots, they were vacant and silent. And glaring at me militantly for breaking the rules by choosing to sit under a little shelter with one or two other parents, out of the drizzle.
The children from my seven year old son’s class filed out. He came to sit with me for a moment, then went to play on the “trim trail” (a large, wooden playground structure). By this time the drizzle had subsided.
My nine year old daughter came out next, and immediately joined him. A few other children took their lead and played alongside, happily.
“GET OFF THE TRIM TRAIL THIS MOMENT! GET OFF NOW!”
The roar came from the headmistress, seven or eight months pregnant, marching from the back door in a very straight line, diagonally through the ranks of obedient parents towards the playing children, and breaking all the “distancing rules” as she did so.
They all froze. After a moment, my kids strolled nonchalantly to me.
“Oops, teddy died,” they said quietly, in unison. I immediately started sniggering with them both, and together we walked home, laughing about it all. Good times, ironically!
Nice, feelgood anecdote, thanks. I’m pretty sure your kids are going to be just fine by the sound of it!
I hope so! But they have seen their fair share of mum and dad getting furious. But we generally apologise afterwards
At least they understand WHY.
The education sector is populated by the most lamest halfwits, I’m afraid to say.
“Their greatest anger was with the apparent effectiveness of the vaccination programme, especially the idea that Boris Johnson deserved any credit for this.”
That’s sorted at least.
Their main problem now is that Labour was and is even more zealous on all the catastrophic things the Tories did.
Not that they are openly ready to admit all that, only sub-consciously.
The modern left are absolutely deranged, completely batshit crazy. 100% emotion, 0% logic. To understand how these people think all you need to do is read the comments in the Guardian. This article, linked from a DS piece yesterday, is a perfect example – https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/01/herd-immunity-covid-virus-vaccine. These latte-drinking tw*ts WANT another lockdown, they WANT to have to wear masks, they WANT people to be forced into being jabbed. Most disgustingly of all, they WANT children to be sacrificed so they can feel safer during their f*ckin zoom meeting. The so-called ‘Guardian Picks’ should be used as clear and irrefutable evidence as to why some people should not be allowed to exist in a civilised society.
Allow the lot of them, I say.
“Never interrupt a fool”
I sometimes force myself to read these type of articles and BTL comments just to remind myself that I am still surrounded by completely irrational, illogical, virtue signalling tw*ts, and that if circumstances were different most of these people would stand idly by whilst we were herded onto our cattle trucks in the name of “safety”.
One self descriptor I have noticed many of these pro-lockdown Guardian types use that boils my p*ss is “Extremely Clinically Vulnerable”.
What the f*** does that mean? Are you posting from an ICU? Why are you outside anyway? This term didn’t even exist before, now half the country regards themselves as ECV.
Talk about a victim mentality, exactly the opposite ethos to the people who post on here, (I would imagine).
No victims here, foosty. We hate having people to blame for our misfortune! Which is why having to blame almost everyone for enabling all this horror by going along with it all is so goddamn painful…
Even before all of this nonsense our philosophy was, “govern”, our own lives, have as little to do with the state as possible, (a bit like the Amish, but with electricity, gadgets and football
)
Turns out everybody wants to be nannied, infantilised, and herded.
What kind of society have we made?
The interesting thing to note here is how their subject matter becomse evermore miniscule: At first, we were all imprisonend because of a new and dangerous virus. In December 2020, Chris Whitty invented the justification for the next round of imprisonment, namely, new and dangerous variants of a no longer so new virus. This kept the shitshow going for another year. In winter 2021, they were finally forced to admit that their new and dangerous virus wasn’t dangerous after all and another lockdown didn’t happen despite all the usual suspects were calling for one and predicting an apocalypse if there demands weren’t met. When the mask mandate was lifted, the WHO COVID special envoy predictic something catastrophic was about to happen within at most two weeks. Nothing did. Now, we’re on the next step of the ladder, they’re talking about variants of a variant of a virus and I’ve already read about the 4th order (in the USA), the variant of a variant of a variant of a virus.
The pattern is always some minor change of something is detected and then, all the old stories get rotated through once again (Much more transmissible! Maybe more deadly!) as it’s again being claimed that we’re facing an absolute unknown and hence, must act with the utmost caution. Today was a sunny day and I’ve seen unmasked people on a boat on the Thames who were playing Bob Marley at a volume. To professor Altmayer, that’s conclusive evidence that “just live with it” is too thin a recipe and, currently, not very workable or successful because we are trapped on a rollercoaster in a horror film.
That this horror film exists only in the stories he keeps telling while there’s abolutely no evidence of one anywhere in the real world is of no concern to him. He’s an expert and facts just bounce off him.
I left my job as an engineering college lecturer in June 2020 as I wasn’t going to abide by forthcoming COVID theatre rules. I then took on private tutoring.
Feb 2022 I returned to lecturing part time. First day there I was told if lecturers don’t ware a mask how can we expect the students to wear them. I exempted myself and no more was said. When mask wearing was no longer regulated some lecturers still kept wearing them. I have so little identification with them.
Now I’ve left again. I’ve scuppered my CV by presenting two critical thinking student assignments I would propose concerning the value of vaccines and masks. I doubt any education establishment will go near me. So private tutoring will be my future.
Good for you – thanks for your contribution to the struggle
We should set up a Free School together, with ‘Eric Blair’.
Thanks for sharing this. I’m a secondary school teacher who similarly took a stand and fought back as far as I could. This extended to:
I still have a job! (although there were some hairy moments). If any of this tyranny returns in the autumn, as I suspect it will, I’ll do the same again. There’s no decision making to be done here. If you are for the right thing, you do the right thing.
Very inspiring. Thank you
Great stuff.
The kids will remember you. And for the right reasons, I know.
Well done; maximum respect from both of us! x
Thank you. What’s odd and I think telling is that far from becoming a pariah of the school I’ve become more respected I think. I think deep down most people can recognise that the whole thing was off, even if they can’t say it out loud or admit it to themselves. I’d decided by the start of 2022 that I was going to be outspoken to the adults as well as the kids; I think we should all be doing that. I got accused of being an anti-vaxxer by one parent but it never went anywhere; I think she was scared to actually get into a debate about it so it remained a bitchy thread on the local Facebook chat (which of course I never saw because I’m not on Facebook!)
Normies!
Emperor’s new clothes; the whole thing.
indeed!
You’re a flipping star. Well done to you.
thank you.
I empathise and can endorse with all that Eric Blair has said .
atmosphere, with merchandise and music, food, drink, fashion show, chance to win a hundred pounds from the visiting wellbeing org, bracelets, an afternoon drag queen story time and so on. My colleagues who are adept did an amazing job.
Whilst last week having my ‘risks slapped’ by SMT!!
I have been told to stay silent in RSE because my belief is that babies are naturally born and I feel the term ‘assigned ‘ is dishonest ideological manipulation of the young. In addition I have said that pronouns and gender ideology is not scientific but a concerning ideological construct and may damage rather than help! I have been silenced. When I mentioned the word inclusion it was suggested that because I had not had the vaccine, I had been infact included and that there was enough evidence from staff complaint to ‘exclude me’ so this would be my fate if I did not keep these concerns for children’s welfare to myself!!! But I could go talk to them at any time in private.
Pride had a party
Yet the children were masked, staff masked, In a very ordered led way for a long long time. I wore a screen visa only.
WHERES YOUR MASK THE MASK POLICE ARE COMING ( a usually lovely person said)
If you are 11-19, which would you prefer, PRIDE or covid ?
If you are me, which do you prefer, keeping your job or the upset of losing it
If you are me which do you prefer friends or none
My colleagues are good just something has got hold of everyone that is bad.
or is it me .
spelling mistakes everywhere but that’s how I feel.
I don’t think the children in schools stood a chance or stand a chance. They are the future teachers!!!
Masked in covid but free free free free in the party of pride ??? Just making myself clear.
which would children therefore like…. A lot.
‘I have been told to stay silent in RSE because my belief is that babies are naturally born and I feel the term ‘assigned ‘ is dishonest ideological manipulation of the young. In addition I have said that pronouns and gender ideology is not scientific but a concerning ideological construct and may damage rather than help!’
Right on. While not a hill I’m prepared to die on, like covid ‘vaccines’, I am 100% with you, and have watched over the last few years the way that certain children are groomed into gender politics leaving them confused and at odds with their own bodies. I find it disgraceful quite frankly and cannot believe the harm that is being done – quite deliberately, with useful idiot teachers encouraging it with their ‘safe spaces’ etc. we will have a generation of seriously messed up people I’m afraid. The future looks extremely bleak.
Thanks for reply .
Present day younger teachers already totally immersed in the Marxist ideology perhaps don’t realise?
They are all lovely, talented but are quick to ‘inform’ on their fellow colleagues if dissent or another view is detected .
Tricky hill to get up never mind die on !
A clue please? What is ‘SMT’ and ‘RSE’?
Thank you
RSE — relationship & sex education
SMT — senior management team (probably)
The former is especially curious. Children don’t go to school to be taught about relationships & sex, that’s something they supposed to learn in the real world as one doesn’t need to have specially trained experts for that — everybody (or almost everybody) has relationships and sex. The reason why it’s part of the curriculum nevertheless is because real word relationships and sex are not to the liking of the people behind this. Afterall, that’s overwhelmingly about mixed-sex heterosexual relationships, these being a social construct invented to perpetuate the domination of violent man over weak and marginalized women which would ideally be overcome completely. It’s also by far not gay enough to accurately represent the teaching classes.
Sorry Judy
Relationships and sex education which replaced sex education, under the curriculum umbrella of PHSE Personal Health Social.
And SMT is Senior Management Team in a school. I will try copy a video to show what is happening.
I’ve decided that the influential, Guardian-reading group in control at the moment are all suffering from what I’m calling Disaster Movie Syndrome, – they all think they’re playing the hero in a Hollywood film.
Your standard disaster movie always starts with our hero being the only person to see the incoming catastrophe, be it an asteroid, an erupting volcano, a flood, or even rampaging dinosaurs. They then struggle to convince the ignorant masses, or central government of our impending doom. We side with them in their anguish as they confront idiots and deniers at every stage.
Just when all seems lost they find fellow heroes and together they overcome all to save humanity. Examples are made of the deniers – the audience enjoys seeing the idiot being eaten by a dinosaur as he sits in a toilet with his trousers around his ankles, or the man who stays in his house only to be washed away in an apocalyptic flood.
Finally our heroes overcome every human and physical obstacle to save the world, only then getting the recognition they think they deserve and they are feted and celebrated.
So, Sage, Imperial College, MP’s, most of the media, and all the other Covid zealots think we’re in that disaster movie and they are the heroes in this story and are saving the world at whatever cost. Meanwhile their opponents are the idiots and deniers who deserve their public humiliation.
And it ends as always, with thousand’s of extras dead but, as an audience, we will forgive the collateral damage because we’re addicted to the narrative.
You’re right, people love the drama of it all with them at the centre.
Good analogy!!
I envy you being the ‘audience’ do you live on a spaceship looking down. Are you untouched by what did you say the narrative?
It is real not a movie or a book.
Beam me up Scotty
Apologies for reposting, just in case anyone didn’t see this the other day it’s very important.
Something else, (some) teachers are fanatical about, (but not Crisisgarden obviously
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https://twitter.com/FatEmperor/status/1542463974117183488
Brainwashing and not true
Someone should try to nail these people for false advertising: The phrase A boy can become a girl (and vice versa) is manifestly untrue. A boy can never become a girl. Through a combination of lifelong pill taking and so-called cosmetic chirugy, it’s possible to halt the natural development of the body of a boy and make it resemble the body of a woman to some degree if all goes well. If not, the victims is going to become an intentionally crippled invalid facing a lifetime of pain and inconvenience.
Teachers should have been provided with honest science. Instead this gov’t health authorities used scare tactics throughout the first two years of covid. Jail would be too good for these authorities.
I know a teacher, Head of Maths, at my local upper school who said to me that he would rather they close the schools than close the pubs if it came down to a choice. Says it all really.
Sunday afternoon, District Line, affluent West London: young woman well dressed pale complexion (no sun exposure since 2019) couldn’t tell age because she was masked up plops gracefully beside me and my two children. I asked in a concerned tone “Are you infectious?” She replied no so I asked then why are you wearing a mask; she said “to keep safe a bit longer”, to which I said “well masks don’t do that and all you are signalling to everyone else is your infectious“. She spent the remainder of the journey that we were next to her, sitting nervously on the edge of her seat, eyes darting around and around very nervously as seen by my partner sitting opposite her.
Don’t let them get away with this shit without being challenged.