We’re publishing an original essay today by Dr. Freddie Attenborough, a former academic and longtime contributor. This one, originally published on his Substack newsletter, is a corker. His question is this: Given the influential and widely-known work of Antonia Gramsci, which emphasis the importance of securing the consent of the masses to their exploitation by rapacious capitalits via soft cultural power, why have the Italian authorities done something – started to locking down the unvaccinated – that will almost certainly result in the alienation of vast swathes of the Italian population? Here is an extract:
It’s fair to say that Gramsci’s work – or at least, Gramsci’s style of thinking about the machinations of power – has proven enormously influential. In a sense, much of what now passes for social and political criticism is little more than a collective attempt to map the consequences of this form of cultural power to and for contemporary societies. We see the kernel of Gramsci’s idea, that same problematisation of culture, in Theodore Adorno’s work on the “culture industry”, Louis Althusser’s concept of “ideological state apparatuses”, Michel Foucault’s studies of “governmentality”, and Giles Deleuze’s thesis on “control societies”. In each case, we find the same conclusion, that to successfully govern complex, massified modern societies is not to thrash citizens to within an inch of their lives (the state riskily showing its hand), but, rather, to mould and shape those citizens into people who won’t ever need to be thrashed (the state remaining safely in the shadows).
It’s an idea that makes perfect sense, helping to explain a good deal about the way we live and, in particular, why it is that modern bureaucratic, rule-driven states have such unlikely, yet always intense, relationships with expressive, imagination-driven culture. Just stop and think for a moment about the gargantuan amount the Italian Government must surely spend each year on identifying, mentoring, supporting, funding, promoting, co-opting, subsidising, regulating, censoring and banning certain types of culture on the basis that each such cultural form might – or of course might not – help inculcate certain values, behaviours, habits, mores and beliefs within the hearts and minds of Italian citizens. Given everything you know about the type of person who tends to go into politics, the type of oddbod who ends up wheedling his way into positions of power, does it strike you as at all likely that that type of person would be doing any of this culture-work, going to all of this trouble, offering to help the creative and cultural industries, purely from the goodness of his proto-authoritarian little heart?
But now, of course, the Italian authorities have come up with their new ‘super green pass’. What exactly does it achieve? Effectively, to tell a goodish chunk of the Italian population – men, women, impressionable-and-as-yet-not-fully-socialised-children – to do what they want, fend for themselves, cry, and starve, because they’re filthy, they’re scum, and, frankly, they’re not wanted as active participants within mainstream state-sponsored Italian culture.
In light of what we know about Gramsci’s work, let’s just think about that for a moment, shall we? Disenfranchising people from their own national culture… alienating them from their friends, family and wider peer group… isolating them from society in general… and then telling them to go away and do whatever they want. Hmm.
Don’t get me wrong: it’s not that I expect Mario Draghi or any of his technocractic, federal European fanatical ministers to sit around all day in oak-panelled seminar rooms sporting tweed jackets with leather patches on the elbows, puffing on tobacco pipes and debating the finer points of post-structural philosophy’s uneasy relationship with Hegelian dialectics. It’s just that you’d like to think that someone, somewhere in the Italian government, might at some point during the design-phase of these green passes have queried whether a century’s worth of scholarly endeavour, in which the crucial role that inclusive, accessible, citizen-wide cultures have to play in stabilising advanced capitalist societies gets stressed repeatedly, should have been dismissed quite so casually as seems to have been the case.
Let’s not unfairly single out the Italian authorities, though. Their mistakes will no doubt soon be repeated by others – in Austria, for instance, or maybe in Germany or Greece or Australia or… well, everywhere in the end, one imagines. But if that is indeed the case, then in the years to come I fear for our relationship with those whom the authorities around the world are now starting to excommunicate from the sacraments and services of state-sanctioned, mainstream society. It is one of the more quixotic whims of the smug vaccinated classes to imagine that those whom they wish exiled from society, will simply lie down and cry themselves to death before the bin men come to take away their filthy, disease-ridden bodies and everyone can go back to living happily ever after. One suspects, very much to the contrary, that when the ex-communication happens, these people will know all too well what to do about it. New cultures will undoubtedly emerge; new forms of being, new ways of life… and, at the same time, of course, new forms of hatred.
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I wonder, when the dust settles, will it be the intellectuals or the conspiracy theorists who were closer to the mark?
Q: What is the difference between a Covid fact and a Covid conspiracy theory?
A: About 6 months
I think that should answer your question.
I do love that quote.. I’m using it all the time now. You can see people virtual head scratching.. thinking WTF is he on about..
Used to be 6 months, it’s about 6 weeks now
Conspiracy Realists?
Realists?
I’m astonished that the author seems to think that vax passes will exclude people from mainstream culture. I didn’t know that vax passes excluded anyone from using the Internet, streaming services, YouTube, etc.
Seriously, the only culture that vax passes are likely to exclude anyone from is *live* culture, live performances and live sports, etc.
The “live”/in person/”in the flesh” experience, like meat, is going to become increasingly, even more than it already is, a luxury-experience, restricted to the highly privileged.
“The people” must be prevented from accessing “the live” because it is dangerous radical stuff at this point, might distract/free people from the system, so must be restricted to those in power, and the “safest”, most indoctrinated, the vaxxed.
I expect that at some stage they could restrict usage of computer devices (including phones) to approved Apps only, especially that used to operated the CCP style Social Credit monstrosity.
It would seem that you will not feel the loss of losing access to live events, neither will I but in my youth they were all I lived for.
Sat at home with the telly was definitely the last resort.
I doubt that people would be restricted from accessing mainstream culture online, for exactly the reason that Gramski and the author argue, which is that it acts to manufacture consent of the masses, etc. But that is why I find the article’s position so naive, it seems to believe that excluding people from “live culture” will interfere with that process.
I think that, on the contrary, restricting the least indoctrinated to the internet/unlive etc it is likely to strengthen/maintain that consent-factory effect, especially now that Youtube, etc are controlling and censoring their content so heavily.
I have tended to find live culture too expensive, or too noisy, unreliably enjoyable, or inaccessible, and so yes, I wouldn’t/don’t miss it much. I miss travel though.
The trouble is, it doesn’t stop at “live, mainstream” commercially available culture which is often expensive and easily abandoned in favour of a night on the sofa with a book or the telly.
Amateur, local, participatory events are developing similar exclusionary tendencies. They may not (yet) be requiring a Covid pass but they are asking members only return to clubs/choirs/ music societies and possibly sports associations not to attend meetings and events if fully vaccinated.
This has happened to me.
Durham cathedral will only allow people into their Christmas services if they can provide evidence of vaccination (or a negative test) – some other places of worship are doing the same.
They believe they are Doing The Right Thing.
Cathedral renounces Christianity.
Old news now.
I’m no longer a Christian but I remember a parable about Christ not rejecting the lepers and the lesson that was supposed to teach.
That’s exactly the sort of thing I meant; anything “in the flesh”, “in person”, is being increasingly withdrawn from the majority of people, made difficult to access or participate in, because life for “the masses” is intended to be all online/inside the system, and the precious real-life in the flesh stuff will be a real luxury, reserved for the most powerful and the most obedient. And I meant everything, not just theatre, opera, ballet, big concerts, etc but as you say the small stuff; amateur dramatic societies, choirs, local bands and sports association events, etc, anything that exists independently of information technology.
I would urge everyone to watch the video They Need Your Children.. a new financial reset is imminent. This vid was on YouTube with over half a million views, but has now been taken down. This link is via Odysee..
The woman being interviewed, Melissa Cuimmei, explains what the real purpose of Vaccine Passports is, and why governments et al are so desperate to distribute them.
Well worth a watch. On a personal note, I’ve opened up a few eyes to what’s going on by recommending people to watch this video. For some reason, people seem to be able to link in more to this than the health explanations..
https://odysee.com/@Ognir:c/The-Irish-Inquiry—They-need-your-children!-A-new-financial-reset-is-imminent..temp:5
Note : for some reason this link is not working via this site DS. If you want to watch the video just type in a browser They Need Your Children.. a new financial reset is imminent odysee.
Have you checked out the prison camps in Northern Territory of Australia? They appear to be going a lot further than exclusion from Live events over there.
But a prison camp is unquestionably a live event.
There are some people in society that absolutely relish the idea of being left the fuck alone by “society”, I know how they feel.
The first thing I learned about Italian politics is why their governments were apparently so unstable; one never ending merrygoround of ministerial appointments up to and including the Prime Minister.
It’s because every time someone became a Government Minister they got a nice juicy pension for life. It was thus to everyone’s mutual benefit, no matter what Party, for as many as possible to take turns however brief their tenure.
Once again the Italian government ignores its people – they should remember what happened to Mussolini.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-italy-parliament-pensions-idUSKBN1K22FO
The Swiss Italian based comedian party “emme-cinque-esse” managed to get rid of some of these historic pension costs in 2019 and now the senators have to serve a lot longer than a single day, to get paid. M5S is under heavy ‘abrasion’ from somewhere….
The ‘unstable’ coalition parliament that Italy is famous for, was allegedly designed after the WWII by the allies, to stop those annoying soviets from influencing Italian politics. Bologna & Torino have always been a bit marxist. Other countries were ‘given’ the same multiparty system, and Gladio.
Draghi, the unelected but popular PM is likely to be elected President in January, but Silvio Berlusconi is still alive after several covid episodes, and he’s suggesting himself as President. Italian politics is always fascinating…..covid has put a stop to much usual excitement, as billions in ‘structural funds’ are coming-in
(until recently, a supermarket nearby sold wine – quite nice rosso- with il Duce’s picture on the label, and I’ve seen Mussolini wall-calendars, similar to UK’s Cliff Richard calendar – so the country hasn’t forgotten yet)
Now they have been handed over to a Davos Banker and “politics” appears to have been closed down
“It is one of the more quixotic whims of the smug vaccinated classes to imagine that those whom they wish exiled from society, will simply lie down and cry themselves to death before the bin men come to take away their filthy, disease-ridden bodies”
Philosophy lecture this morning?
When’s the uprising?
My first thoughts for today:
1 – Christmas will be a sort of miserable one, with some families wondering if they should invite any ‘unvaccinated’ people, and asking for proof of a ‘negative’ test result. More tat from China will be purchased, thus supporting their economy even more.
2 – the 3rd ‘booster’ rollout will continue and the 5-11 year olds (and also the 0-4 year olds?) will get jabbed after Christmas and before Summer.
3 – international travel restrictions will continue throughout 2022 and, in fact, will never be lifted entirely – vaccine passes/proof of ‘negative’ test results will always have to be shown, and the Passenger Locator Form will be a permanent feature.
4 – Vaxx Passes to be introduced in England for domestic use in 2022. The Scots and Welsh didn’t stop them, did they?
Let’s see if I’m wrong.
“. . . those whom the wish exiled from society will simply lie down and cry . . .”
There is an alternative.
Although only ever on the margins of it (though choice) the drugs/rave/hippy hash crowd seemed to enjoy a perfectly satisfying counter culture despite running outside of or even against mainstream society.
Threats of Police interventions were mitigated by the simplest counter measures.
All finance through a substitute economy.
“Although only ever on the margins of it (though choice) the drugs/rave/hippy hash crowd seemed to enjoy a perfectly satisfying counter culture despite running outside of or even against mainstream society.
Threats of Police interventions were mitigated by the simplest counter measures.
All finance through a substitute economy.”
Hippies are all ‘Peace and Love, Man” until it comes to their own money.
I’m not into drugs and raves.
We’re on to this ‘alternative society’ / black market / ‘living off grid’ nonsense again, aren’t we? I don’t really want to end up having to steal someone’s turnips from the allotments and exchanging them for a bottle of olive oil round the back of the shops by the skips.
I’m not sure if I find it hard to believe that this ‘Covid fraud’ would have been allowed to continue as far as the end of 2021. Yet here we are.
in two short years we’ve gone from liberal democracy to full blown Brave New World.
They’re not kidding when they say things go much quicker these days.
Does this mean we can overthrow it quickly as well? The Soviet Union lasted for around 70 years – most of us haven’t got that long! But how long have we got anyway?
According to Max Keiser, the real environmental crisis (not the climate change carbon scam)- the poisoning of the earth, pollution, over-development, never ending deforesting and the destruction of the oceans, animal habitat and so many life forms – largely down to those same International Corporations, currently trying to steal our lives and our freedom, will make the place uninhabitable for us all much sooner than “Climate Change”. I suspect not before the magic year 2030 though.
I expect Schwab has his Space Suit ready to go and live ‘Off World’ ( sooner the better)
I’m going to a jealous member of the family this weekend who has asked for everybody to take a LFT. I was insulted and was going to say FO, but my wife has said just lie and say you were negative. The trouble is most of my family are zealots and are proud they have now been triple stabbed.
Seems to me its you who should be taking action to counter their spike protein shedding. Arrive in a hazmat suit and see how they like to be treated.
Yes establishing just what damage the vaxxed are doing with their spike protein shedding should be of the greatest concern – not much hard evidence yet.
Do the shedded spike proteins entering via the respiratory tract equate to contracting the ‘virus’ – or does this mean that the spike proteins thus acquired can enter the cells and reproduce in the same way the vaccine works?
Put simply, assuming that the “vaccine” is more dangerous than the virus” is shedding as dangerous as the ‘virus’ or the “vaccine”?
The FO option was the better one
Very interesting. I’ve been interested for a while now in how the NZ Gov (and a lot of others) thinks it can get away with alienating a small, yet significant proportion of the population. In NZ it’s got less to do with shutting people off from their culture – because that would be hard for a number of reasons
It has a lot to do with the current political mob not being aware of recent European history. They got all the way to the top of government without ever reading (let alone learning) about the protests in Eastern Europe that led to the downfall of communism.
Operating in the now, they think they’ve got all the answers and are genuinely puzzled that some people don’t agree with them.
They’ve got no idea that a relatively small group of citizens can derail the whole thing.
It’s the ignorance of a lot of the current leaders that I find so incredible. I know I shouldn’t be surprised – but I’m blown away
It occurred to me some weeks ago that being 72 years of age many of those making these ridiculous edicts have no worldly knowledge of life and are in fact brainwashed – that is the conclusion I’ve reached and the only one that makes sense of what we are experiencing.
It took five decades to derail the whole thing. And even then, it wasn’t the work of a small group of citizens – they got nowhere except Siberia. It was the United States electing Ronald Reagan that did it. If he hadn’t pulled the financial rug away, they’d still be there, propped up now by Chinese money.
BBC
The Rapists Dad
Appealing for people to be vaccinated, he added: “It is the best Christmas present you can give yourself and your family this year, and it’s not too dramatic to say that it’s an investment in making sure that you are here for a healthy and happy Christmas next year as well.”
So we know what this fucking cheapskate is getting his Mrs for Christmas. No wonder he is confined to a shed in the garden.
So if the Welsheeples don’t get their snake oil, they’ll be dead by this time next year?
Want to bet, Dungford?
it’s not a prediction it’s a threat.
Like when the German health minister said by the end of this winter people will be either vaccinated, recovered or dead. People took it as a clever prediction. I understood it as a very dark threat.
Stand proud pure bloods. The ‘authorities’ have clearly shown their hand; it is time to reject those who despise us and create a better way of living, something truly worth living for. In a nutshell, bypass them and start again. This actually is an opportunity, believe it or not. It may not seem like it at times, but it is.
Certainly. The state of Israel emerged from the Holocaust. But what a price.
Emerged, and started to create its own Holocaust.
If we have to live in parallel lifestyles then so be it.
Yeah, if your better way of life consists in involuntarily parting with all your material possessions (as mandated by the government fines imposed on you) and starting the enterprise of picking up cans off the street while sharing your revolutionary ideas with other like-minded bums, you’re welcome. Actually, if the government decides so, you might not be allowed this enterprise either, but at least you will be “completely free” because remember, we all agree that it after all it was “all your individual choice” to throw away the yoke of society.
Insidious, the devil you don’t know, deep state, thin end of the wedge etc. My fear is we are well down this path – Our opposition coopted into a big tech game of censorship – Guy Debord’s spectacle playing out over and over. The final para is the weak spot here – as is my comment and all commentary and that is whether we are not already playing a role in the tail eating structure – more fodder. How do you resist without creating neat oppositions that can be used to create more tension and feed the beast? That is what Adorno et al. struggled with. Go the Shaolin warriror path?
This ^^^^
exactly
It is within the scenarios of possibility that the unvaxxed end up more resistant to covid than the vaxxed. Certainly there are data which support this. HG Wells and his time machine may yet be prophetic, with the proposed unvaxxed untermenschen being, in fact, top dog.
Agree. A pint of my pure blood is now trading at $1,700 above book
The sperm bank are ringing day and night. Now trading at $1.2bn a litre and they cannot fill the orders
LOL!
Don’t tell me… you can supply a litre !!!!!
Much more than just a possibility, – unless the powers that be have managed to fundamentally alter the way virus/immunology behaves we the refuseniks will indeed be top dog.
And furthermore because I aim to be the last unstabbed I fully expect to be THE top dog.
Just imagine…the power I will have.
…or, there will be an attempt to exterminate the excommunicated, which seems more likely.
It’s not as if it hasn’t been tried before.
The same problems that Germans in the 1930s and 40s encountered with marginalising Jews will be encountered now and the range of possible solutions won’t be much different to what it was then.
Re Stratton, remember that nothing gets in the press unless it is officially sanctioned. There is no such thing as a leak
Hancock was done away with because they wanted a more polished front man
The Pig Dictator is a lazy fuck and I suspect he is not hitting his targets for pushing product
My money is on Raab he will do anything he’s told
I don’t know. Raab seems to be zigging a little bit. Has come out twice in the last two days once to denounce the effect of lockdowns on children and once to denounce any further restrictions.
I’ve interpreted it as him sniffing out early a mood change, sensing Boris Johnson is vulnerable and positioning himself according, like the weasel politician he is.
Raab has long had an eye on the dispatch box. Not sure where I stand with him, but at this stage I’d be happier with an old sock full of cat excrement than world-famous Churchill impersonator, Bojo Johnson.
Will the sock be one of yours?
The reason I ask is that if you intend to fill one of your own socks with cat poo that could leave you with a spare sock. In June (the 4th I think) I lost a sock on a beach in West Wales. This left me at a loss as to what to do with my spare sock
If you send me your spare sock I will have a pair
If the sock you intend to fill with cat poo is spare sock in the first instance then obviously all bets are off
Hancock was flushed into the Thames along with all the other turds because he had gone on the record in the Commons saying children would not be lined up for the dangerous gene therapy. When they decided to start injecting that into the children, they had to have a new guy to make it happen. It doesn’t matter. They’re all guilty of crimes against humanity and if they stop running, we’ll catch up with them.
Maybe Raaaab’s heritage might bring forth a hitherto unknown twinge of conscience re his adherence to the Great Reset.
My money is on Javid.
It doesn’t really matter who the front man is – everything seems going to plan….for now.
Ooh. Looks like that Christmas party story may just turn out to be consequential. I wonder if Raab’s mildly anti-government position statements of the last couple of days are connected in any way.
Putting the “bureaucratic entropy” explanation aside and presuming this whole mess is planned and directed, it’s important to point out to the directors that all they will achieve is the creation of a French resistance in every state, communicating with one another and expressing their dissatisfaction with the current totalitarian beatdown in very physically violent and unpleasant ways. You’d have thought the retards running this would have learnt this basic lesson from history. You cannot subjugate, humiliate, and segregate people and get away with it. Not ever.
Another lesson from history is that the French resistance didn’t defeat Germany. The Soviet and American war machines did. (Sorry, and British pluckiness…)
And you thought Escape from New York was fiction.
Texas Hippie coalition ‘Pissed off and Mad about it’. should be the Xmas #1
“… why have the Italian authorities done something – started to locking down the unvaccinated – that will almost certainly result in the alienation of vast swathes of the Italian population?”
It’s because they’re facists. The reason they’ve taken this extreme step is to do something that breaks the will of everyone – locked-down and non-locked down; jabbed and unjabbed alike – so that they can do exactly what they like afterwards. It’s another side of the same coin as scapegoating a part of society so everyone else feels part of the ‘programme’.
And here’s another post that changes the sex of someone (yesterday, Ms Frederiksen, Denmark’s statsminister was a ‘he’). It’s Antonio Gramsci; not Antonia.
The Long March through the Institutions continues in La belle France via our old favourite the PCR test. The test that just keeps on giving.. bullshit on steroids..
https://www.rt.com/news/542521-france-hit-new-covid-record/
“Alec Baldwin has killed more people than omicron”
Made me LOL
In The Real Antony Fauci book, they write that the manufacturers refused to produce these jabs unless every government in the world shielded them from liability, its a fascinating read about the pharma industry
Re the jolly hockey sticks press conference
It’s obvious that they think we are cunts
Perhaps we should show them that we are even bigger cunts than they think we are
I wonder if the unvaxxed could be given an area of Europe that we could make our own homeland, a bit like the creation of the nation state of Israel following WW2.
It would have a population of perhaps 40-80 million. We should we locate it??
how about north of the Isle of Wight across to the Lands End, up to the Cumbrian/Socialist Nation of Wee ‘Eck border (do not turn left into the Socialist Nation of Brains SA), follow Hadrians Wall east across to the south banks of the Tweed and back south to the swamps of Kent?
The Jabby Jabbies can relocate to the Isle of Man
You wonder why any government would want to alienate millions of their own people. because they think for themselves. CarrieAntoinette will need a GE in just over 2 years.
Most still think governments are benevolent entities and that they actually care about their health. They don’t want to see the numerous clues that they don’t.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Real-Anthony-Fauci-Democracy-Childrens/dp/1510766804/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0
Annoying this perfect gift is unavailable
Yes, I had to wait a few weeks to get it from the US. But certainly worth the wait.
Quite so. And quite deliberate.
First create a minority, and then squeeze them so hard that some of them will react violently. Then use that as the excuse for draconian police and surveillance laws and more emergency powers.
It’s the standard playbook. Worked for Hitler.
About 20 years ago, most people believed that the government was there to serve them.
By now, we know that the government is here to rule us.
I did not think, however that governments around the world would start treating us as cattle, and enforce mandatory injections to ‘maintain the health of the herd’.
There MIGHT be a justification for such an action, if
1 – this disease was highly lethal (it is not)
2 – the vaccine would stop the disease spreading (it does not)
3 – there was no other way to treat the disease (there is)
4 – the vaccine had gone through comprehensive safety testing (it has not)
5 – the vaccine had comparable side effects to other commonly accepted vaccines (they are far worse, including permanent disability and death)
And, most importantly,
6 – we had had an informed and open discussion about the benefits and disadvantages of this course of action, and democratically agreed to it. But we have NOT…
All of which goes to show that the pseudopandemic based on lies and fearmongering, which was the excuse for the ‘vaccination’, which is the gateway drug for the ‘opportunity passport’, which is the Trojan horse for the biosurveillance, totalitarian society, has nothing whatsoever to do with public health.
Frankly when I have to go underground as a resister of fascism I won’t want to hear Freddie Attenborough’s kind of headturbating verbiage. I don’t want to hear it now either. Nobody takes Gramsci seriously, mate. (Edit: oh wait – Michael Gove does.) You have no idea how the majority of people in society live.
One reason I lean towards Klaus Schwab’s great reset is it’s a shorter, easier read.
Very interesting article – why alienate the masses when you need compliance?
Why do this when you have already brainwashed a sufficient number to impose your magic vaccines and scare/persuade people to keep asking for more jabs (even though the evidence is mounting that they do not work against the ‘virus’ and are responsible for many thousands of deaths worldwide – probably massively deliberately underestimated)?
Because you are relying on the vaccines to ‘take care of ‘ sufficient numbers in the coming months and years to do the job for you. As yet we can only speculate on the massive damage artificial covid spike proteins manufactured in all the cells of ther vaccinated will do to the immune system – but it looks as if it could be devastating.
Immune system destruction means vaccine dependency for survivors – forever – you need Pharma to keep you alive – if they so choose.
That’s why they need need “total vaccination” it means total control over life and death – and over who lives and dies- read Schwab and it all makes sense – a Schwabian “transhuman” controlled by vaccines will “own nothing and be a happy servant of the elites”….it is as dark as this!
Excellent article. Thank you.
Attenborough’s notion of an underground jab-Resistance in permanent antagonism to the compact jab-happy majority is naive. ‘No exceptions!’ is in their code. ‘They’ mean to eliminate the un-jabbed. (Why do we think there a mortuary and crematorium next door to HMP Wellingborough.). Who are ‘They’? Dr David Martin has named them, the entire orchestra of maniacs who have done this.