by Peter Miller
“For the real question is whether the brighter future is really always so distant. What if, on the contrary, it has been here for a long time already, and only our own blindness and weakness has prevented us from seeing it around us and within us, and kept us from developing it?” – Vaclav Havel
“One could not move, one could not even dream; it was dangerous to give any sign of thought — of the fact that you were not afraid; on the contrary, you were required to show that you were scared, trembling, even when there was no real ground for it” – Gleb Ouspensky
Origins of Self-governance
Long ago, in a region of the Aegean Sea called Ionia, a band of exiles developed a form of governance known as “isonomia.” It means “law for all” in practice and participation by all regardless of status. Each clan in Ancient Greece had its own household gods. When the clans outgrew their tribal origins and merged into a polis, they realized one clan’s household gods could not command obedience from another clan. Some overarching philosophy of allegiance had to be developed to tie them all together. Without dethroning each clan’s household gods, the multi-clan governance system had to give everyone a voice regardless of their position in the clan hierarchy.
The political philosopher Kojin Karatani suggests that governance on Ionia blended practices of both clan and polis, the main feature of which was continuous participation by everyone. In the natural philosophy of the day, constant motion of things, stars, and ideas, as well as people was considered natural. The Ionians were exiles, after all, so a dynamic (though not relativistic) philosophy suited them. Ionian virtues, including isonomia, made their way to the Greek mainland, where they influenced Athenian democracy, Roman Imperial integration of conquered territories, and subsequent governance philosophy and practice down through to the contemporary era.
Ionian Virtues in America
Many years later, another band of exiles sought in the New World of North America a home for their own individual freedom, governance by consent of the governed, unfettered commerce and industry, and a live-and-let-live style of personal relations. They valued common-sense and natural rights, believing the laws of Nature and the laws of political association to be likewise matters of discovery and not invention. Having experienced King George’s interference in all their affairs, they determined that such intrusions would not be tolerated, and that the personal relations of a citizenry informed by a free press and free speech would be self–regulated. This was the philosophical foundation of the new nation of America, a tradition so ancient it appeared natural to the Founders.
Tocqueville noticed in the early 19th century the American people’s talent for spontaneous self-governance, in such forms as the town meeting, and in the multitude of voluntary associations that grew up in every new settlement. Unfortunately for the new nation, these principles and practices did not include slaves; it took a devastating Civil War to end slavery and begin to integrate former slaves into the commonwealth. Along the frontier of Westward expansion, more exiles brought their own versions of Ionian virtues to small-town America. And these fractally replicated in all kinds of voluntary associations, from 4-H clubs to town meetings, local business firms, schools, and the numerous subsidiaries that make up a dynamic and decentralized commonwealth.
The Ionian virtues of small-town America struggled against oligopolistic tendencies in the late 19th and early 20th century that concentrated economic and political power. Steel, railroads, oil, and finance which had fueled economic growth also produced vast riches for a few. The Federal Government responded by breaking up these agglomerations, meanwhile preempting State and local revenue with a Federal income tax. Finance, banking, and economy likewise came under Federal control with the Federal Reserve, which was and is actually a small group of private bankers endowed with the power to print money and set interest rates. This effectively removed economic and monetary policy from Congress and entrusted it to financiers, with enormous repercussions that would reverberate through the rest of the century and beyond. War and its aftermath brought science and education under Federal control, for national security. While each of these developments followed its own logic of national welfare, collectively they dimmed the prospects of a sovereign self-governing citizenry, and subjected its prosperity to progressively greater stress from an intrusive Federal bureaucracy.
Post-modernist De-sacralization of Beauty
Far removed from the sphere of political economy, ancient ideas of aesthetics and ethics were deemed obsolete by a group of philosophers who became known as post-modernists. They attracted followers throughout academia, though their arguments were often incomprehensible to others. Yet their influence surpassed even their own ambitions. Since Ionian times, beauty, truth, and morality were thought to be aspects of nature, intuitively perceived, memorably evoked in Keats’ Ode on a Grecian Urn. Kant found in these links between seemingly disconnected realms some hints of metaphysical experience, of things beyond the immediate perception of our senses.1 So, unbeknownst to many in more practical fields of endeavor, the post-modernist effort to de-sacralize beauty, truth, and morality really mattered a great deal. Art and music, proclaimed the avatars of this new creed, would no longer celebrate beauty, but instead would simply reflect the prevailing chaos, disorder, and strife. If this was repugnant, so be it. Let viewers be shocked, it was good for them, went their mantra. The more repulsive, the more suitably it fit the reality of contemporary life. In personal behavior among the acolytes of post-modernism, the old morality gave way to situational ethics, cobbled together on-the-fly as the occasion seemed to demand. The social sciences, which had discovered so much that was artificially produced rather than naturally or divinely given, supplied the data and concepts to de-legitimize all of the natural order. If society and human relations were mere artifacts, then they could be de-constructed and reassembled. The post-modern nihilists were keen on destruction and cagey on who would re-assemble the remains or what they would look like. Personal identity, science, and all that had previously been regarded as objective truth could be discarded, because, guess what, there was no such thing as objective truth. It was all socially created. Later, it became evident that what they really meant is that objective truth is whatever those who are in a position to issue diktats say it is.
Post-modernist prose is tortuously opaque, one reason why business and political practitioners wrote it off as gibberish. Yet they ignored it at their peril, for the post-modernists did in fact have an agenda, which filled the thought-vacuum left by the banishment of Ionian virtues and Western Civilization. Clues to the post-modernists’ agenda may be found in their peculiar allegiance to the Marquis de Sade, both as intellectual progenitor and role model. In an essay on the interplay between thought, word, and action, the sociologist Dmitri Shalin writes:
The references to Sade are common in the postmodernist discourse. He is treated reverentially as a daring intellectual who envisioned “profoundly egalitarian institutions of pleasure”. The man is somewhat of a patron saint to French postmodernists who find in his honest cruelties a healthy antidote to the hypocrisy and injustice of modern society. Although postmodernist writers avidly dissect the Marquis de Sade’s literary corpus, they have little to say about his real–life exploits. Yet, this literary giant did not simply imagine his sadistic pleasures; at every opportunity, Sade sought to bring his fantasies to life. You can find this out by placing side by side the depositions that witnesses made at his trials and the pages from his novels. This bard of nonconsensual sexuality honestly believed that if you torture your victims physically, sexually, and emotionally, and do so imaginatively enough, they will come to love the torture and the torturer.
Incredible as it may seem to those whose pursuit of happiness does not include torture, there is apparently no shortage of people who do seek out such perverse pleasures. Their motivations vary – boredom with normality, experimental exploration, self-loathing, folie à deux, job stress acting-out, and so on. The most widely cited prophet of post-modernism, Michel Foucault, reveled in “paeans to pure violence” and “the joys of torture,” participated avidly in sado-masochistic practices, and opposed rape laws. His philosophy and his life were one, and he invited his followers to judge whether his words and actions were consistent. Apparently they were, and served as an example to be emulated by others. Thus sado-masochistic practices acquired philosophical legitimacy in avant-garde intellectual circles. Decades later, political discourse adopted their academic style, essentially a playing-out of sadism in thought, word, and deed.
The Guilt of the Nouveaux-Riches
Another strain of sado-masochistic temperament appeared in the arts and social justice, called forth by those who had enriched themselves and felt guilty about their wealth. Celebrities, tech oligarchs, financiers and overpaid corporate CEOs – Insecure, wary of and yet inured to others’ envy – devoted themselves to the pursuit of social approval. Virtue-signaling to express their deservingness, they conspicuously adopted causes that seemed worthy. In this way they absolved themselves of sin. Fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried, who bilked investors of billions of dollars, claimed his illicit gains were an exercise in “effective altruism,” spinning it as a demonstration of the evils of capitalism while gifting politicians, save-the-planet scams, and public health agencies with the proceeds. One expert practitioner of moral extortion, BLM founder Patrice Cullors, garnered hundreds of millions of dollars from guilt-ridden corporate CEOs, whereupon she concluded her Black life mattered so much that she deserved her own multi-million-dollar house. Contemporary art offers buyers the opportunity to pay grossly inflated prices for images so repugnant, offensive, or just plain ugly that they can suffer twice for the privilege – once in being swindled, again with every glance at the wretched acquisition. Such gratuitous suffering, vicariously or symbolically, sometimes devolves into physical degradation.
The realm of vicarious or symbolic suffering is well-represented in Western art history, as a stroll through the Medieval section of any Museum clearly shows: The Stations of the Cross record in excruciating detail the indignities, false accusations, and fabricated offenses conceived by the Roman authorities to break the Spirit of Christ and justify His murder. Of these innumerable variations of torture, stripped of religious significance, all that remains is the sadism.2 This artistic tradition continues into the current secular age, where it evokes similar feelings of revulsion with different artistic devices. For every billionaire beset by guilt about his wealth, an artist with a PR-machine in tow appears to shock and “challenge” his sensibilities. For a small share of his fortune, the billionaire can enter the ranks of the cognoscenti who buy art that everyone finds offensive, professing to find it attractive.
The Art of S&M
Surely no artwork was more gratuitously offensive than photographs of sado-masochistic acts depicting obviously painful insertions of large objects into bodily orifices where they don’t fit. The whips, chains, leather, and other trappings of the S&M lifestyle that adorned other photographs elicited recognition from appreciative viewers, as if they were given privileged access to a secret ritual. An exhibition of these at the Whitney Museum in New York in 1987 drew lavish financial support from the New York old-money elite. The show was proudly opened by no less of an art-world doyenne than Flora Biddle, granddaughter of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney who had founded the Museum. This gave an unmistakable signal to other fashionable patrons of the arts that it was not only acceptable, but something close to obligatory to endorse this theme with their presence, their influence, and their money. Whitney Associate Curator Richard Marshall did his part to legitimize it by referring matter-of-factly in the exhibition catalogue to one photograph as “Self Portrait with a whip inserted in his ass.” The artist himself, dying from AIDS, positioned himself at the show in his wheelchair beneath “Jim and Tom, Sausalito,” his 1977–1978 triptych of two men in black leather, adorned with the accoutrements of sadomasochistic bondage and torture. In the photographs, Jim, the master, is urinating into the willing, even eager, mouth of Tom, the tied-up slave. “Marvelous,” said one after another of the fashionable crowd as they surveyed the work. The artist’s patron, partner, promoter, and avid collector, Sam Wagstaff, had died of AIDS earlier that year, leaving seven million dollars to the artist. Another promoter, Barbara Jakobson, said, of one sado-masochistic photograph, “I can’t believe that a human being would allow this to be done.” [The artist] replied, “The person who had it done wanted it to be done. Besides, he heals quickly.” And so, another chapter in the cultural conditioning of Americans unfolded. This too, like the post-modernist cult, was remote (except for controversies that erupted over public funding) from the domain of political economy.
Spycraft and Sex-Slavery
However, a third arena of sado-masochistic activity is part of official covert spycraft – torture and kompromat, research on or entrapment into compromising information. Military psychologists have debated the utility of torture in extracting actionable intelligence, the standard objection being that a subject will say whatever he thinks his captors want to hear, which may or may not be true, in order to stop the torture. One way of surviving torture, and extremely painful situations in general, is to compartmentalize, that is, distance oneself from the person being tortured or experiencing extreme pain.3 Some people who have been abused as children develop this compartmentalizing ability to such a high degree of refinement that they can be useful to spy agencies as couriers. Instructed to remember messages until delivered and then to forget them, they have been used for confidential high-level communications. It has been alleged that forcible sex-slavery was used to reinforce the mind-control required to ensure cooperation.4 Whether true or not in that instance, since then it has become possible to exert mind control on a mass scale, taking advantage of the vast amount of private information that users voluntarily surrender to social media. “Psy-ops” highly attuned to masses of self-defined hopes and fears were used to topple regimes in Libya and Ukraine, and to induce billions of people to have experimental gene-altering drugs injected into their bodies. Educated people are generally more susceptible than the less-educated to this mental conditioning, probably because the content of their education included similar messaging.
The career of Jeffrey Epstein illustrates the uses of sex-slavery to obtain kompromat on prominent persons, and incidentally provides a glimpse of how sado-masochistic practices have been institutionalized in government spycraft. Only because he went rogue and privatized what had been a government monopoly did these covert activities become visible. We don’t know what exactly he was doing for the spy agencies, but he had a particular facility for bringing high-powered scientific and technical talent into his orbit, a resource they had not then sufficiently penetrated. Epstein’s generous contributions to Harvard ($6.5 million5), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ($7.5 million), and intellectual impresario John Brockman’s Edge Foundation, netted him such stars as Marvin Minsky, Steven Pinker, Nathan Myhrvold, Gerald Edelman, Murray Gell-Mann, Lawrence Krauss, and others, according to Epstein’s black book and “Lolita Express” flight logs. Epstein was “clubable,” ingratiating himself among the scientific elite with intellectual patter that some found intriguing, and others considered shallow or incomprehensible. But the financial and sexual incentives he offered them spoke volumes. The spy agencies may have been seeking to get ahead of the artificial-intelligence curve and may have even subsidized his donations, as it has never been clear where Epstein’s vast wealth came from.6 Videos of the sex sessions on Epstein’s Caribbean island, his New Mexico ranch, and his New York mansion were taken, but have not (yet) been made public. It is obvious, however, that young women and teenaged girls in isolated surroundings did not have sex with much older men voluntarily. Some combination of inducements (modeling jobs, etc.) and coercion probably did the trick. Studious as always, Epstein ordered how-to books from Amazon on sado-masochistic practices. Here, then, is another locus of sado-masochistic activity, derived from the spy world where it is routine though covert – revealed only because its protagonist had become too visible.
Due to the natural repugnance normal people feel toward intentional infliction of pain, and toward those who derive perverse pleasure in such a relationship, these three areas of sado-masochistic activity remain unacknowledged despite their growing influence on the larger society. Post-modern nullification of aesthetics, ethics, and objective truth still seems remote enough from practical political economy to be ignored. Likewise the celebration of S&M imagery in art museums and galleries today might elicit only a bored shrug: So what, why bring down the wrath of the sodomites, and anyway where’s the harm now that these things are out of the closet and in your face? And as Bill Gates famously responded to NPR reporter Judy Woodruff when she asked him whether he would do anything different going forward about his relations with Jeffrey Epstein – “Well,” Gates smirked in his classic college-dropout smart-ass manner, “he’s dead…” Nevertheless these practices, institutionalized in academia, the arts, and spycraft, do not confine themselves to their seemingly isolated precincts. They set an example for others to follow. And their followers seek to justify their behavior in terms of traditional precepts. Thus the post-modern nihilists seek scholarly reognition for their diatribes, and covet prestigious academic appointments. The producers and promoters of images celebrating S&M represent them as great art, printing them in deluxe editions, priced accordingly. The spies violating the Constitution (itself based on Ionian principles) claim a “higher loyalty.” Thus normalized, humiliation and submission become the default response of a demoralized and terror-stricken populace.
Expertise Replaces Consent as a Philosophy of Governance
When did the U.S. Federal Government start routinely deceiving the public? While any specific date is bound to be arbitrary, the fatally flawed investigation of the 1963 assassination of President Kennedy marked the onset of a series of coverups from which it proved impossible to escape. The tragic irony is that there was most likely no conspiracy, and therefore no need on that account for a coverup. JFK’s successors pursued a disastrous overseas war financed by ruinous taxation and debt. In response to these financial pressures, the Dollar was de-coupled from gold in 1971, and promptly lost value in international trade. The devalued currency enabled the United States to pay for imported goods by printing paper, while introducing a hidden tax and source of future inflation and indebtedness. Foreign wars and domestic social policy experiments vastly inflated the numbers of unelected officials whose tenure was justified by expertise, rather than by the consent of the governed. These two philosophies of governance are antithetical: The holder of expertise believes that superior knowledge enables him to operate systems of government too complex for the uninitiated to grasp. Failures are not disclosed, because all policies are perforce wise and benevolent. Knowledge of these official secrets further enhances officials’ expertise. Fifty million documents classified every year chisels an ever-widening gap between those who know and those left in the dark. One example will serve for many: When a newly developed missile slated for delivery to Qatar via Libya downed a U.S. helicopter in Afghanistan, courtesy of the Taliban, the information was suppressed and the intelligence official who discovered it by tracing the serial number found in the shell casing was later fired.
Nullifying the Ionian notion that everyone, regardless of status, is capable of participating in governance if fully informed, office-holders found that they no longer needed popular support to succeed in their careers. Success or failure would instead be determined by pleasing a regulated industry, or the non-profit cadres that grew up around every tax-financed program. At this stage of shadow conflict, everyone chose not to notice that an adversarial relationship between officials and ordinary people had materialized. At first, only mild satire testified to this divergence of interests: “Your tax Dollars at work” accompanied by a glaring example of governmental waste, or an obviously insincere “I’m from the Government and here to help.” Even as public officials acted more and more as a class with its own interests distinct from those of the public, they maintained an appearance of exclusive devotion to the public interest by testifying at Congressional hearings, issuing reports, etc. All that changed with the advent of mass surveillance.
Mass Surveillance Institutionalizes Predatory Government Behavior
Edward Snowden unmasked the massive extent of Federal spying on ordinary people in 2013, from his own first-hand experience. He was forced into exile for doing so, as he expected would happen, and found asylum in Russia. He was not the first to warn about the dangers of mass surveillance (James Bamford, among others, had done so), but he articulated most thoroughly the nature of the threat posed by the spy agencies to everyone’s freedom. Even while employed by the NSA, he kept a copy of the Constitution near him. By the time he revealed the espionage conducted against ordinary citizens, Snowden was fully prepared to give a moral, legal, and philosophical accounting of the basis of his actions, had arranged for cooperating journalists to write about it, and had made sure that he would have no information that might harm U.S. national security or agents.7 He documented the active collaboration of device-makers, telephone companies, Internet Service Providers, social media, NSA, CIA, FBI, and other agencies in sweeping up indiscriminately, and without the slightest hint of probable cause, Americans’ private emails, telephone conversations, Web-browsing habits, medical records, credit-card transactions, and anything else they could gain access to. Many wondered then what could possibly be the utility of gathering yottabyes8 of such data, unaware that tax records were already being used by the Obama Administration in 2010 to target, intimidate, and silence political opponents. By comparison with the far more sophisticated techniques of identifying and targeting opponents in use only five years later, the early efforts against Tea Party organizations were crude, primitive, and easily detectable. But they dramatized what could happen to anyone faced with hostile Government forces.
As populist opposition in the ensuing years coalesced into a serious threat to the Deep State,9 the previously publicity-shy spy agencies took to the airwaves and pressrooms to broadcast increasingly preposterous assertions of Russian collusion with a presidential candidate. These were based on nothing more than a “dossier” compiled by a British ex-spy from alcohol-fueled ruminations of a Brookings job-seeker, and from well-paid partisan-fabricated dirt laundered through a law firm as legal consulting. After this failed to achieved the desired electoral result in 2016, they were then recycled in a long-running Special Counsel Investigation which eventually deemed them false. The next presidential election revived the Russia-collusion hoax yet again, this time to deny the existence of a computer containing detailed records of bribery, extortion, and payoffs to members of the Biden family. Though clear evidence was published in the New York Post, a cadre of “51 intelligence experts” assembled by future Secretary of State Blinken asserted in a letter that it was “Russian disinformation,” as if the entire computer and all its lurid and incriminating contents had magically materialized from the Kremlin in Moscow to a repair shop in Wilmington Delaware. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency declared the 2020 election “the most secure in American history.” Post-election, an assembly outside the Capitol building in January 2021 was ushered in by Capitol Police who opened doors, while persons later identified as FBI agents urged violent confrontation. This was described by House Speaker Pelosi as an insurrection, in a parliamentary maneuver apparently intended to prevent Representatives’ objections to the electoral vote-count from being presented. The insurrection label was then reified and exploited in lawsuits, to characterize opponents as domestic terrorists, and to justify raiding the homes of people who happened to be in the vicinity. In the pre-dawn darkness of a day in June 2022, FBI agents raided and searched the home of a retired Texas couple, handcuffing them without explanation. The couple had only ever been outside the Capitol on the date of the insurrection. But raids like this (there were many others) made the insurrection seem more real than it would have otherwise appeared.
The National School Boards Association, acting on a request from a school board in Virginia, picked up the domestic terrorist theme in October 2021, calling for “the expertise and resources of the US Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), US Department of Homeland Security, US Secret Service, and its National Threat Assessment Center” – in other words, all available Federal police forces – to combat parents objecting to their daughters being raped in school. The Department of Justice and the FBI accordingly investigated these parents and put them on a domestic terrorist watch-list. Soon, domestic terrorist became a synonym for political opponent, or anyone suggesting officials might be exceeding or abusing their authority. Every act of unprovoked coercion makes Government malevolence more overt. Perhaps the intention is to elicit overt acts from dissidents, which can be labeled as domestic terror.
Government Operations Normalize Sado-masochistic Practices
Forcing the un-woke populace to “affirm” that boys can be changed into girls and vice versa can only be construed as an exercise in humiliation. Such an assertion nullifies common-sense and biological fact in one stroke. Sex is determined at conception, is written into every cell in the body, and is an indelible part of humanity since its origins in multi-cellular life. Humanity as a species survives by sexual procreation. But decades of gender studies produced hundreds of lettered experts prepared to recite on cue that sex is nothing more than a social construct, and that there is no difference between boys and girls. The reader will recognize this bizarre belief as the product of post-modern abolition of objective truth. Nor does it stop with rhetoric. Like Russian collusion and domestic terror, it must be reified – made to seem real. Actual surgical butchery – genital mutilation – is performed to create the cosmetic appearance of the other sex. In schools and other captive institutions, vulnerable individuals are counseled into the belief that all their troubles can be solved by cosmetic genital surgery. They are not told, and will find out too late, that it actually disfigures them for life, irreversibly. Thousands of these operations have been performed, with tragic, often suicidal, results, as the perpetrators must surely be aware. Hospitals and doctors are paid an average of $80,000 for each of these grotesque mutilations, to lend real-world credibility to an utter fiction.
But enriching themselves at the expense of tragically deceived victims is not even the point. The point is to commandeer the resources of the state, with its associated honors, prestige, and privileges, so as to grind their enemies into the dust. They brag about them, as if they were doing heart transplants. And they cite the imprimaturs of Government funding agencies and professional associations, both of which have been staffed with willing accomplices.
The consequences of straying from apparent – though contrived – group consensus can be devastating for fearful individuals. Censorship quickly evolves into threats to jobs, career blacklisting, and loss of livelihood, all of which combine to strip self-esteem to a ghost of its former confidence. Sanctions imposed by professional associations, such as revocation of licensure, “hearings” conducted without the slightest pretense of due process, forced recantations of remarks objectionable to hyper-sensitive individuals, and the like have both practical and psychological effects. Threats to employment of doctors, nurses, airline pilots, soldiers, and truckers have – not surprisingly – endangered public health, civil aviation, military readiness, and supply chains. In civil aviation, for example, mid-air mayday calls due to pilots’ vax-caused cardiac arrest or other emergencies are up 386 percent in the first three months of 2023 over the 2018 – 2019 average.
The psychological effects of such threats can be just as corrosive, as fearfulness reduces all to servile conformity. Fear of job loss or other sanctions causes people to err on the side of caution, suppressing their own free expression. People silenced by threats, coercion, job loss are less able to form a cohesive group of the like-minded who see through official deception. This habit of fearfulness inculcates a sense of personal unworthiness, of regarding one’s private thoughts and observations as somehow less valid than those made ubiquitous through official media. Fear-driven passivity is the real goal of censorship and career sanctions. Thus a sadomasochistic sensibility is built into the routines of a government bent on control rather than consent.
With everyone’s hopes and fears displayed on social media, and covertly available to government spies, masses of people became easy prey for psychological operations (“psy-ops“). These techniques migrated10 from consumer purchase decisions to elections and personal health practices, transforming the nature of governance. They caused billions of people around the world to allow themselves to be harmed by injecting experimental gene-altering drugs into their bodies. How this happened is related in detail by John Leake and Dr Peter McCullough in The Courage to Face Covid-19, and by Robert F Kennedy Jr in The Wuhan Coverup. A consortium of U.S. health agencies and Chinese bio-weapons researchers inflicted a plague on humanity from a lab-engineered virus that escaped from the Wuhan Virology Institute. Whether this bio-weapon was released through Wuhan’s slipshod safety-protocols or otherwise is immaterial. Like arson investigators setting fires, the Baric – Fauci – Zhengli trio (BFZ)11 diligently performed gain-of-function breeding to turn bat viruses into human-transmissible respiratory illness. The likelihood of such a virus emerging through natural evolution is vanishingly small, and in fact no intermediate animal has ever been found. Despite being warned of the obvious dangers, the BFZ trio persisted in their deadly research.
To cover their tracks, U.S. tax dollars were routed through a cutout called the Eco-Health Alliance, gene-splicing was done to simulate animal-species crossovers, genetic blueprints of early forms of the virus were removed from public databases, and prestigious medical journals were paid by the U.S. National Institutes of Health to publish papers falsely claiming natural origin of the Wuhan virus. Millions died or were sickened by the combined effects of the virus, enforced isolation of whole cities, suppression of known remedies, improper use of ventilators, and panic. Within months, another plague followed, in the form of a purported antidote, a “vaccine” using the same spike protein used by the original virus that had been engineered to adhere to human endothelial cells, to hijack the immune system to stimulate billions of antibodies. The downside of this ghastly genetic experiment followed soon thereafter. The designers of this ingenious drug had neglected to consider its effects on other components of the natural immune response, which were weakened in proportion as the monoclonal antibody response was magnified. They also neglected to provide an off-switch, an omission with unfortunate consequences for every organ the spike proteins circulated and adhered to. Cardiological, neurological, hematological, and musculoskeletal damage materialized, in some cases immediately after injection, in others months or years later. All told, the number of deaths and injuries caused by these injections far exceeds that of all previous vaccines combined. The sudden 2021 – 23 rise in all-cause mortality, or excess deaths, tracks closely in every country the initiation of the covid mass-vaccination campaign and rates of injection. Yet inexplicably, not only do these lethal products remain on the market, they are still recommended by the U.S. public health agencies.
A Global Consortium
With traditional kinetic warfare, there is no mistaking an attack – missiles fly, bombs fall, buildings explode, people are killed or maimed, blood streaks the walls. But this two-part bio-weapon attack – the Wuhan virus and the global mRNA injections – presents a conundrum. The scale of death and injury suggests comparison with acts of war. The conundrum is: Acts of war by whom and against whom? Blame focused initially on the Chinese Communist Party, But there’s no “clash of civilizations” here. It doesn’t fit into the traditional template of great-power rivalry. Nationality is apparently irrelevant. In fact, U.S. and Chinese health agency bio-weapons experts and officials actually collaborated intimately, co-authoring scientific papers, mobilizing scientific and popular opinion, back-slapping at conferences, parceling out the work of spreading a smoke-screen over their deadly designs, enforcing conformity, sharing in the bounty of ever-increasing Government funding, and dividing the “vaccine” spoils among drug producers. This behavior cannot be normalized into any peaceful context, yet most people remain confused about who exactly are the belligerents in this attack on ordinary citizens. Cadres of the Chinese Communist Party have long understood that their careers have almost nothing to do with popular approval. Likewise, U.S. Deep-State officials operate largely without answering to the public or to elected representatives. As with the Chinese situation, expertise serves in place of consent, so despite vast differences in culture and history, the template is starkly similar. Today, however, a global consortium of international bureaucrats, linked by the World Economic Forum, WHO, the Gates Foundation, and other self-appointed international organizations, facilitates an unprecedented degree of global uniformity. Their motivations are various – genocidal (in the guise of population control12), pecuniary, personal salvation, power-lust, or all of the above, animated by psychopathic arrogance and utter contempt for common-sense, the common culture, and common humanity. Whether the target populace is aware of it or not, the conflict they (we) are engaged in resembles war, with real casualties. Citizens have been taught to hate their country, their ethnicity (if White or Asian), their bodies, their very selves. They have been made to feel guilty for merely existing, as if their lives threatened the Earth’s “sustainability.” The globalists, channeling Karl Marx, in the jargon of prophecy meets technobabble, claim this is all for our own good, to save the planet, and anyway historically inevitable.
The attack on experience-based common-sense, which originated with the post-modern philosophes, leaves people bereft of elementary perception. The virtual world becomes so all-pervasive, especially for the young who were born into it with no knowledge of what life was like before it got sucked into screens, that the real world hardly exists for them. They consider direct sense-experience an inferior and somewhat quaint mode of perception. Distrusting their own observations and experiences, they are easy prey for algorithm-driven artificial-intelligence programs that “know” what is most likely to ignite their likes and dislikes. These are echoed back to users until they cannot even tell the difference between their own views and what they are induced to believe. Individual personality becomes a casualty of this regime, and with that loss goes any meaningful relationship with others. In the perpetual emergency contrived by alarmist headlines and their reification, fear becomes the driving force of all social interaction, as everyone struggles to avoid the slightest affront to hair-trigger sensitivities. In this way, conformity is enforced.
Yet the Ionian virtues of self-governance, freedom, and pursuit of happiness persist in efforts to:
De-normalize the sado-masochistic cult in control of academia, government, and medicine
Say no to the cult of expertise, the death cults, and the psy-ops distorting our vision
Dismantle the regime of censorship
Grow awareness of the essential nature of free expression in all circumstances
Stop grandiose social and medical experiments lacking an informed societal consensus
Let truth be the test of any assertion seeking assent
Learn from experience what works and what doesn’t work.
Let beauty be sanctified
Take courage
We are living through a time of cataclysmic upheaval. It is not a time of linear progress, but rather one of lurching in several directions at once, with chance events determining momentary outcomes. A software engineer who reads the Constitution in his spare time unmasks a labyrinth of official spying on ordinary people without cause. An oligarch buys a social media network and reveals a host of government-directed surveillance and censorship. Pension-fund managers divesting “woke”-ESG-driven portfolios, and consumers recoiling from “woke” products, bring a much-needed reality check to business decisions. Admissions quotas and curriculum destruction in education are discredited in Florida, but stubbornly remain in place elsewhere. The art world continues to celebrate kitsch; post-modern culture remains the default contextual wrapper. In medicine, a few doctors advise on the etiology of mRNA damage and how to remedy it, while the vast majority of patients suffer in thrall to malpractitioners. Deep-State operatives, reinforced by the weapons and pharmaceutical industries, cling to their privileges. Political disarray or another fiscal crisis could intervene, but no one knows when. With luck, we will survive the cataclysm while also looking out for “the next best thing.”
NOTES
- Roger Scruton, in Beauty and the Restoration of the Sacred (2017), articulates these links. ↩︎
- Only Piero della Francesca painted a triumphant Christ, emerging from his coffin and dwarfing some somnolent Roman soldiers – one of the greatest paintings of the Renaissance, and of all time. ↩︎
- Bruno Bettelheim’s interviews of concentration-camp survivors reports “Ego defenses were varied and extreme, with split personalities practically universal.” ↩︎
- Some critics question Kathy O’Brien’s testimony, which names Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, and Robert Byrd, among others, as her employers. Jeffrey Epstein’s allegedly forcing young girls to have sex with Bill Clinton, Bill Richardson, Larry Summers, Prince Andrew, and many other prominent people, follow a similar pattern, though those charges also are disputed. ↩︎
- Harvard’s then-President Derek Bok stated that the University had no intention of returning Epstein’s donation even after his conviction as a sex offender. ↩︎
- Certainly not from financial acumen, nor from client fees, as he had only one client, Leslie Wexner, the proprietor of lingerie-maker Victoria’s Secret. Victoria’s Secret also supplied many of the models used in the information-gathering division of Epstein’s enterprise. ↩︎
- Edward Snowden, late in the pages of his memoir, Permanent Record, describes his sensation at being personally introduced to XKEYSCORE, the NSA’s ultimate tool of intimate, individual electronic surveillance. “I sat at a terminal from which I had practically unlimited access to the communications of nearly every man, woman, and child on earth who’d ever dialed a phone or touched a computer. Among those people were about 320 million of my fellow American citizens, who in the regular conduct of their everyday lives were being surveilled in gross contravention of not just the Constitution of the United States, but the basic values of any free society.” ↩︎
- In a million square feet, two billion dollar digital storage facility at Bluffdale Utah. One thousand terabytes equal a petabyte. One thousand petabytes equal a zettabyte; multiplied by another thousand, an exabyte. It takes a thousand exabytes to make one yottabyte, which is a 1 followed by 24 zeros. This is equivalent to 500 quintillion (500,000,000,000,000,000,000) pages of text. ↩︎
- “Deep State” is a term that was at first mocked as the delusory belief of “conspiracy theorists” until former CIA Acting Director John McLaughlin said in 2019 “Thank God for the Deep State.” Whereupon the Deep State was not only officially acknowledged, it granted itself Divine authority to supersede the Constitution. ↩︎
- Freud’s American nephew Edward Bernays perfected what he called the “engineering of consent,” persuading women to smoke cigarettes so that they could possess an object resembling a male organ. ↩︎
- Ralph Baric is the University of North Carolina virologist who parlayed gain-of-function research into a lucrative partnership with Shi Zhengli (the “bat lady” of Wuhan), financed by Anthony Fauci from U.S. taxpayers’ funds through the National Institutes of Health. ↩︎
- It is wise to be aware that not all people are well-intentioned; as Archbishop Vigano puts it: “We must understand that our rulers are traitors of our Nation who are devoted to the elimination of populations, and that all of their actions are carried out in order to cause the greatest amount of harm to citizens. It is not a problem of inexperience or inability but rather of an intentio nocendi – a deliberate intention to harm. Honest citizens find it inconceivable that those who govern them could do it with the perverse intention of undermining and destroying them, so much so that they find it very hard to believe. The main cause of this very serious problem is found in the corruption of authority along with the resigned obedience of those who are governed.” ↩︎
Peter Daniel Miller, an American based in Kamakura, Japan, is one of the pioneers of the revival of the 19th-century technique of photogravure etching. His prints are viewable online and in many museums. As an observer of the “big picture,” pattern recognition also informs essays such as this one, and others at his art blog and current-affairs blog. Send him mail.
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