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David's avatar

Some of you maybe familiar with the following quote from the late musician Frank Zappa:

„The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.“

These words have haunted me since March 2020.

It is evident that the mass-production and mass-consumption of the last century are no longer profitable to those people who promoted both (regardless of the human and environmental costs) in order to enrich themselves. The tipping point of debt that powered the outgoing system was reached in 2008. After which point, I suspect, concrete plans for the current pseudopandemic were made. Since 2008 the debt-based system has been artificially, and only temporarily, propped up by so-called „Quantitative Easing“.

The new system that is planned - the 4th Industrial Revolution, the Great Reset, whatever you want to call it - has no requirement for mass-production or mass-consumption as economic drivers. Hence, the masses (ie you and I) are no longer needed; in fact, we are seen as a positive threat to the success of the new system and must be made harmless through reduction in numbers and technological control.

Basically, I believe that what we have been witnessing since March 2020 has been a preemptive strike by the 0.001% against the rest of the human race as they knew that if they didn’t strike first their fortunes, and possibly even their lives, would be forfeit when the 99.999% realised that they had been the dupes of a rigged pyramid scheme that left them and their children in the end owning absolutely nothing and no better than slaves.

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"Wolff believes—and I believe it’s plausible—that it is out of their own desperation, i.e. the desperation of the rich, who are very scared of losing control." - absolutely.

This is the conclusion I've also come to. The "controlled demolition" of the global economy with the lockdowns - that further impoverished most of humanity while dramatically transferring more wealth to the top - certainly suggest that both greed and desperation are both at play for those uber-wealthy who control the planet.

These people populate the same oligarchic systems of control for which a half a million dead Iraqi children are considered - "worth it" - and the horror of two world wars during the past century was not considered too high a price to maintain their wealth, power, privilege and control.

These are the same forces that don't care if you and your family are homeless, living under a freeway overpass and dumpster diving for your next meal - but they expect you and I to believe that the covid related mayhem and associated ongoing assault on our freedoms are because - "they care about us" so very very much.

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