It was possible to bill last week’s Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) conference as a kind of anti-woke Davos, and many did. The sheer weight of personages and, apparently, money, put the event in a similar stratum. Representatives from venture capital and private equity had paid £1,500 each to be there. There were long, languid breaks between panels for ‘Networking’. There were branded notebooks and pens, as many as you could carry. Jimmy Carr circulated the hall with a knot of retainers.
But what ARC reminded me of more than anything else was another alpine conference: the Congress of Vienna in 1814-15, in which the shaken remnants of Europe’s old order gathered to plan for the future after Napoleon’s defeat. For one, the whole thing had a decidedly central and eastern European tinge. Something like a plurality of the guests seemed to be from Poland, Germany or the Danubian basin – huge moustachioed men, each walking with the upright carriage of a hereditary officer. Clericalists abounded, of all shapes and sizes; cassocks, burning incense, long and pointed fur hats. The event was guarded, ushered, and superintended by a corps of what seemed to be Cossacks or Hungarian hussars, each smartly fitted out in a sort of Byronic poet’s shirt.
Present, too, was the same feeling of Metternichian despair, of the ultimate futility of their efforts. An impressive galère committed to some kind of political change in the Western world had assembled here, with considerable resources at their collective disposal. But no one seemed to take much heart from this. Even Jimmy Carr looked glum, and didn’t tell any jokes. There was a bit of a collective pall, and the closest thing I found to a salon wit or social lion there was Curtis Yarvin, otherwise known as Mencius Moldbug, the blogger and tech entrepreneur. Taking no active part in the conference, he instead wandered amiably around the hall, dispensing bits of social and historical apercus.
And this general gloom was borne out in the talks themselves. The unspoken assumption behind most of the headline speeches seemed to be that some kind of flight to the hills would eventually be necessary, and that these people were simply here to set out their stall for posterity.
This manifested itself in a few different ways. You could see it in the retreat to the realm of pure ideas – itself a form of quietism. Jordan Peterson opened the first panel with: “What is the difference between a Story and a Theory?” You could see it in the way that even the possibility of victory was never entertained; the schools, the universities, the bureaucracy, the corporate boards – all were in enemy hands, but this is something that was, time and again, described as a kind of meteorological event, like the rain, not something that had been accomplished by human wiles, and could be undone by the very same. Trump and Brexit, the two attempts to put some of these ARC ideas into practice, were hardly mentioned at all.
You could see it in the panel chaired by Niall Ferguson (whose usual bonhomie was gone), which, bizarrely, focused on foreign policy. This seemed like another wilful distraction. If the stakes are really this high for the Western world, then surely we can put the fate of the Taiwan Strait and the menace of TikTok on ice for now?
You could see it, worst of all, in how the proposed solutions were all personal, not political. Everything always seemed to boil down to some kind of Tolstoyan appeal. Again and again, it was suggested that the attendees should cultivate individual virtues; far less often was it suggested how the assembled might organise themselves for the capture and exercise of power. Day two of the conference began with an extended reflection on Christian forgiveness, which was followed by a musical number from Hamilton on the same idea. Peterson asked the audience to “meditate on what each of us can do” in their personal lives – a fine phrase, but somehow less compelling than Dominic Cummings’ or Trump ’25’s plans to simply fire all the bureaucrats. The best laid proposals were for ‘parallelism’ – that is to say, the founding and nurturing of parallel cultural institutions. But even this spoke to a certain narrowness of vision. What the clamour for new colleges and Sunday schools suggests, ultimately, is that the speakers at ARC hoped only to act as a frustrated appendage to woke society, like the English Dissenters.
For their part, the British delegation did not really rise to the level of events. In this hall the fate of the human race seemed to be at hand, but most of the British speakers kept translating everything back into the local vernacular of the Westminster Lobby. It was myopic and annoying. “Leveling Up”, “SW1”, “Whitehall”, “London-centric”, and – most wincingly – “Blue Labour”. These were all blandly dumped onto the stage with little explanation or introduction. How this audience of long-dispossessed Polish szlachta, Uniate clerics, and ‘Great Hungary’ revisionists were supposed to know what these terms meant was anyone’s guess. Michael Gove began his speech with a giggle about Cummings’ testimony to the Covid Inquiry (few sitting around me seemed to know who or what that was), before reading out a fairly standard Daily Telegraph leading article about the glories of the English constitution after 1689, and how these “Robust Institutions” could explain our present prosperity. He was followed by the patriarch of Duck Dynasty, the American reality show, who gave his predecessor a bemused glance as he quit the stage.
What also disheartened me slightly while listening to these speeches is how backwards the diagnosis tended to be. According to ARC, what has gone wrong with the Western world is a lack of moral purpose – absent strong “Judeo-Christian” values, nihilism, hedonism and, as milord Glasman put it, “atomisation”, beckons.
This simply won’t do. What is woke? It’s a series of unfalsifiable egalitarian moral ideas that you are not permitted to disagree with, and which are now encoded in national and international law. There is nothing languid or directionless to any of this at all; these ideas are enforced in deadly earnest, and the West’s governing classes are less relaxed about heterodoxy than at any time since the 17th century. Insofar as Western nations experience ‘anarchy’, then it is official anarchy – groups like Extinction Rebellion are protected by the courts and the police, whose emergent political function is to protect these provincial Ultras from the wider citizenry. Meanwhile, all Western nations are now signed up to a Net Zero political economy of degrowth and ruralisation. This isn’t hedonism at work here, but the twee asceticism of heat pumps and Solar Punk.
Jordan Peterson’s favourite novel is The Devils. In the book, the spur to narrative action is provided by a group of local nihilists, who mock the reigning social order and intrigue for its overthrow. For Peterson, this is the primordial battle, one that is now being waged on a global scale. This is certainly the case, but ARC’s position in this battle, properly understood, is that of the nihilists. The attendees at ARC are not the defenders of a moral consensus, but the enemies of an existing one. The house slogan of ARC was ‘The Better Story’ – well and good, but the “Better Story” requires first and foremost the destruction of the old one. This is something that demands a certain kind of nihilism, a willingness to declare that all reigning values are stupid, deadening and false. Hope for the future, sure, but never forgetting the value of pure, gleeful negation – which the present order of things can never assimilate.
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The Daily Sceptic is excellent at this sort of well-reasoned and referenced article. The establishment will clutch at any number of straws to avoid the elephant in the room – they cannot bring themselves to even consider the possibility that the vaccines are part of the problem here, when even a sensible layman can see the argument by Will above is perfectly logical. Fair enough if a proper investigation was carried out and in the end it really was Covid rather than the vaccines that are causing this excess mortality. But by denying even the possibility, it is guaranteed that no investigation will happen, which is the only 100% certain way of the vaccines not being blamed.
Another example of how the establishment should be hanging their heads in shame, and then getting their coats and leaving the stage so people with some integrity can sort this mess out. Hopefully the next generation of academics, scientists, and politicians, will have the strength of character to finally dig into the data and give us some answers. Hopefully some of the previous lot will still be alive to take the blame.
If they haven’t recorded something, it hasn’t happened. That’s bureaucracy for you. Incidentally, the ONS site from which the ‘death graph’ is from, was a bit patchy this afternoon. No UK wide figures, and none of the local regional links worked at all. Perhaps it’ll work tomorrow – it’s quite common for it to be delayed.
Of course, the next batch of odd numbers will be in week 40, on account of this week’s funeral – at least on account of the extra bank holiday.
In the meantime, there are an awful lot of people who don’t want to see things that they have fallen into a trap with, having trusted the other side, as it were. Carry on the good work and present the available evidence, as long as it takes.
They won’t release the mortality stats by vax status until:
(a) They’ve found a way to present the information the way they want it to look.
(b) An acceptable narrative has been firmly established through the brute force of constant repetition that explains the additional mortality as not jab related.
But good on the DS to insist on the all cause mortality data by jab status. Maybe the pressure will grow and pay off.
Top analysis, as usual, but the real question is: At what annualized level of absolute deaths and absolute excess deaths will the jabbed people connect the dots and exit their cognitive dissonance in droves, regardless of the government&cos attribution shenanigans, spin, propaganda etc.?
Sure they hide and misstate vaccine deaths, sure excess deaths due to Covid were in a similar ballpark as these ones (around double officially, much, much lower as per single cause of death, 6k in total, see Fenton) and the reaction to that threat was a most ridiculous disaster. But unless one is personally impacted by such an excess death, the jabbed people will just continue to see that the vaccination hasn’t and isn’t killing them in real droves, aka millions, and will therefore happily continue to put their head in the sand, believe the government and its spinmeisters, ignore analysis like Will’s and, above all, continue to roll up their sleeves.
Oh I should just show the jab zealots stuff like this ( see below ) and see if they’re keen to rock up for their next shot in the arm, or offer their kids’ just because they want to go on holiday. Then there’s the footage all over ( I’ve shared stuff on here too ) of how the blood behaves in the vaxxed in comparison with pre-jab, and these mystery floating structures and particles are evident in the vials and the blood. Fascinating, if freaky, stuff. In fact, I think I’ve become a bit too fascinated….
But seriously, why wouldn’t heart-related deaths be up when you have these thingies in your body causing the erythrocytes to clump and die or get lodged in a major blood vessel, then there’s those weird clot things ( the result of these mystery structures interfering with red blood cells? ) embalmers are finding in dead people, I mean, no shit Sherlock.
https://lifeoftheblood.com/nanotech-in-the-shots/
Here is a <30min video where a scientist presents the findings of the German Working Group For Vaccine Analysis and then she discusses with others, including Dr Trozzi. They discuss what these strange things could be but not in the depth I would have liked. Other scientists have given more comprehensive speculation on this aspect. I always wondered what Big Pharma had to say by way of explanation when approached with these findings and it turns out nothing. They were asked but will not disclose what these mystery, undisclosed ingredients are in their products. So nothing remotely ominous about that at all then…We need another lawyer to force it out of them, like the trial data they wanted to withhold from us for 75 years, don’t we?
https://worldcouncilforhealth.org/multimedia/vaccine-analysis-sabine-sebel/
The issue is just that this information simply doesn’t reach the masses. It will eventually, but even then the vast majority will say something along the lines of “ah well, it wasn’t me, at least it wasn’t COVID. Oh look, a cheap holiday” and move on.
There is also the fact that this information is coming from organisations unknown to the mass of the population. Those people who get their information from MSM and only MSM don’t believe anything that contradicts what they say and believe.
I had a recent conversation with some friends during which I told them I’n not having any vaccinations and outlined why. The shock was evident but one of them said that you can find anything you want on the internet and that if you expect a bad outcome you’ll get one. She’s not known for her broadmindedness it has to be said. This is an educated woman who prides herself on knowing what’s going on and is fairly typical of a lot of people. I’m interested to see if I get invited to meet her again!
Somehow I misread “mortality displacement” as “morality displacement”.
I keep bumping into things – must be me balance, people putting bloody things in my way, serendipity. Cannot be me eyesight failing. Not possible. My eyes are perfectly safe and effective. Ouch – bloody chair. Seriously – passed a covid vaccine centre today. Could weep. The masks and sanitizer, people like walking corpses trooping in. Approached this masked woman guarding the entrance with her computer device at the ready. Name? Appointment time? Masks and sanitizer by the door. No, just curious how this lunacy is progressing I volunteered and wandered off.
Our neighbourhood houses a vaccination centre which has taken over the town hall thus rendering it unusable for a lot of activities. There are lots of visible yellow-jacketed people milling about just inside the glass corridor but no queues unlike last time where people were queuing outside into the street. I took this to be a good sign of a lower uptake but discovered that that there is a more detailed appointment system this time. The conversations with neighbours quickly move to when your appointment is so there is still much excitement around the vaccinations.
The mainly interesting (somewhat) thing in this article is that health experts
and functionaries (like guy from U of Essex and the minister from Singapore) still use everything somehow related to death as nothing but an opportunity for more speculative COVID bullshitting. The subtext of Dr Strain’s statement is basically Nobody ever recovers from COVID!! It’ll lay dormant in your body and will then SUDDENLY jump onto your weakest parts and kill you!!! (and – obviously -as Nobody ever recovers from COVID!! everybody who got ever infected with it remains INFECTIOUS and EXTREMELY DANGEROUS for all of his live).
I’d really like to lay dormant somewhere in the vicinity of this guy’s workplace and then suddenly jump onto his weakest parts, although a method to jump onto somebody’s brain would still need to be determined.
Well, maybe you haven’t quite concluded if there even is excess mortality to be worried about, let alone its cause(s).
And maybe you want to wait until a bit more peer reviewed, international data comes to light before jumping to conclusions, and are therefore leaning towards Devi’s explanation of excess deaths caused by heat waves, missed appointments and Covid waves themselves.
But surely you can’t be 100% sure, and the precautionary principle (even if you haven’t labeled it as that yet) would dictate that you wait before injecting yourself?
This stat still floors me sometimes:
Why on earth? You’ve survived 1.5+ years of the most coercive, threatening, bullying vaccine campaign ever conceived; you’ve survived (presumably) job loss threats; you’ve navigated family and friend losses; you’ve (probably) already been infected with SARS-Cov-2 and recovered ………….. and yet you get your first dose now, in September, 2022?
Why (“Novak”), why?
I just don’t get it.
I think some are likely to be pregnant women. The additional pressure and emotional blackmail that they put on expectant mothers is on another level. They basically tell you that you and your baby will die, and it’ll be an awful painful death. I did not fall for it obviously but most do.
Some may also be people who were on the waitlist for an operation/chemo for example who are now being pressured.
Perhaps children reaching the age when they become eligible? Hopefully not.
I didn’t even know you could still get the original, now obsolete because they were formulated against a now extinct strain, gene therapies. I thought they were no longer available and countries were having to chuck millions of doses ( and millions in money down the drain, no doubt ) that were near to expiry. There really is no excuse for being such a dumbass though!
Anecdotally I continue to see a large increase in patients with joint, tendon and nerve inflammation, as well as severe inflammation following therapeutic musculoskeletal injections.
The common factor- all are multiple jabbed.
Cannot recall a single unjabbed patient with these inflammatory symptoms.
Easy to extrapolate these findings to the cardiovascular system.
I read recently that the NHS is concerned about the increased incidences of the ‘Victorian’ malady – gout. I hope this isn’t going to be another affliction for the jabbed.
Saw a patient this week who developed pseudogout, a similar inflammatory joint disease, immediately following a heart attack.
Fully jabbed.
People could be forgiven for thinking the government was trying to hide something…but then again, people are not
allowedsupposed to think anymore in case it causes offence.i don’t think there’s any real empirical evidence for the existence of a ‘SARS-CoV2 virus’. there are no pathognomonic clinical features. the virus has never been isolated. it has merely been characterised in silico using random nucleotide sequences from any old goat or papaya (RIP John Magufuli, Hero of The Resistance) detected by an intrinsically fraudulent upcycled PCR test. however, there is definitely a transmissible illness going around. is it a bird? is it a plane? is it nano-Superman? maybe we’re looking at a continually changing peptide bioweapon, behaving as if it’s a virus? the entire ‘covid’ farrago is suffused with fraud. this degrades all attempts at rational conversation about ‘covid’, in accordance with Lord Denning’s seminal 1956 judgement that fraud vitiates everything it touches.
Apparently, there is no empirical evidence for the existence of any virus. The concept of a sub-microscopic organism with the properties attributed to viruses is necessary to explain disease transmission in some cases. Which is not the same thing at all as evidence for existence.
Indeed, but Experts say there are roughly 40 million virus in every cubic metre of air. I’ve never been able to discover precisely what it is they precisely measure to reach this scientific fact – do they mean there are 40 million bits of “random” nucleotides. genetic material, aka virus, floating around in the air?
If they are correct, I’d like the expert immunologists to kindly explain the precise mechanisms by which the immune system supposedly sorts the harmful ones out.
I’m familiar with the works of Janeway, Beutler, Steinman, Isaacs etc but research into immunology sadly stopped with the rise of our wonderful genetic engineers – cue lots of money/power for you know who.
The runaway train of mRNA engineered products should stop immediately before any more harm is done to humanity.
They don’t know what the effects upon the immune system are or will be.
Putting it politely they haven’t got a bloody clue :-
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027869152200206X
Has anyone submitted a FOI request for these data?
Sarh Caul at ONS blanked all such requests in early 2021, when, as the grim jabbers first went round, spates of deaths from care homes were reported. She has steadfastly refused to give out complete information on the vaccination status of the deceased. The ONS even categorizes deaths as non-vaxxed if the person drops dead immediately on being jabbed, the rationale being that the jabs are not effective against covid for 2 weeks. Sarh Caul has accepted an MBE for her work.
Question to Will: Where does this leave Noah Carl’s 30-Aug-22 DS piece in which he showed the age-adjusted mortality rate for 2022 shows no increase over the 5-year historical average when 2015-19 (rather than the ONS’s 2016-19 + 2021) is used as the base period?