The Progress that became the great cultural regress
Part 1 - progress is backstep
Our culture is a degenerate culture. Everything that the so-called progress of imperialism-colonialism-industrialism brought in the first phase for the colonialists and in some cases for the colonized, was overtaken internally by its built-in decay and culture-destructive mechanics. Reason: the (in)human greed, cynical opportunism and disrespect for human values, because human control sacrifices these values without blinking and replaces them with junk.
EVERYTHING they touch turns to shit.
So it is said in a rather square way, knowing that it is in reality a series of degree bends. We put them aside for a while in the first place, while we take a helicopter perspective tour.
This is the story of how industrialism created degenerate technologies for the sake of short-term gain, which are inferior to the technologies of the past. And not only that they are inferior, they are often harmful and toxic. ‘Mechanics’ is not mechanics after all, but the sum of the chain of human decisions that have always served certain vested interests in an almost mechanical way. Let us just state that those who created the industrial revolution starting in England 200 years ago did not do it for the sake of humanity but exclusively for their own sake. They forgot to say, by the way, that they had stolen the entire concept from those they considered subhuman: the Indians. Named after the Indus Valley, where industries already existed. As is typical of the Empire from the Roman Empire to the British, they always stole from those they despised and envied - the contempt was therefore a perverted admiration - and then took credit for having invented the stolen goods themselves. A charming piece of psychology.
In the following, we will delve into a number of examples, case stories of this progressive destruction of culture, this decay of value, this increasing lack of care for values and finally also a lack of understanding of what value even is. The concept has been blunted to everything from: there is plenty of it to it is cheap as shit. Valuelessness is the prevailing attitude towards life of our time. It’s called nihilism.
An entire hypocritical industry has been created that plays on the fact that people know deep down that they are being fed shit. The goods in the shops pretend to be homemade, from the old factory, classic, free-range, traditional, welfare-label, even organic as a quality concept has been eroded despite the good intentions of many producers, because the erosion has already happened before the final production, and there are many ways to get around the concept. Or you can reinvent the wheel and the deep plate by flattering political correctness with platitudes like sustainable or biodiversity. It’s called virtue signaling, have you all seen how good we are? The hypocrisy is boundless, because the platitudes come from the same mouths that created the problems they claim to want to save us from.
We are not just talking about industrial food production from depleted, leached soil, chemicalized and mechanized agriculture to factories that spit out half-cooked, half-finished or ‘totally finished’ junk combined with a transportation system that allows irradiation of fresh food. We are talking about the entire spectrum of craftsmanship, where human accumulated and refined knowledge is being undermined and perverted, because people jump over the lowest fence to make easy money. We are talking about a pattern that is recognizable.
We allow ourselves to be categorical and generalizing here. We are using the big brush. Of course, quality and refinement exist if we look for it. There are still stubborn traditionalists, and not all good craftsmanship and all good knowledge are extinct. But the all-dominant trend is unmistakable. We often have to stretch the temporal basis of comparison for half and whole centuries. We could also choose to look at millennia. Other times, the decay can be seen from decade to decade. It is seen in the big as well as the small.
This all stands in sharp contrast to the main philosophy of the time that the World is constantly developing from the primitive to the advanced. It is simply a social Darwinist lie. A simple and methodically-consistent comparison can completely disprove this philosophy.
Let’s start at a random place among the crafts.
A very concrete place where the facts are demonstrable / provable.
Wood treatment
The example of classical wood treatment is just one case story among many. Examples can be found in almost every part of our culture where methods/technology are concerned. Behind these degrading and degenerate methods there is of course a mindset: materialism/nihilism. Often combined with greed and stupidity, a wonderful cocktail, both shaken and stirred. The mindset is that of nihilism: Since we only live here-and-now, since we have no soul but simply a waste product of chemical compounds inside our heads, which we experience as consciousness - but it is not, of course, because consciousness is the ‘big problem’ of science - then it is just a matter of burning the powder of the here-and-now and screw the descendants. And it is not even just the descendants, because we pay the price for poor quality already in our own lifetime. Just not today.
We can of course point fingers at a greedy and spineless industry, but we have all wallowed in this here-and-now superficiality. We are all to blame for the progress that turned into a regression.
This is the story of how our ancestors made wood last for centuries.
There are five methods / ingredients that were known worldwide from the Nordic countries in the Viking Age to Japan in the 500s:
Sweating the wood on the surface. This forms a protective layer of char.
Pine tar. It was Sweden’s largest export in the age of wooden ships
Linseed oil. It penetrates deep into the wood, where it solidifies into a polymer.
Turpentine. Helps the linseed oil to penetrate deeper, after which it evaporates on its own.
Beeswax. Forms an additional waterproof coating on the surface itself.
In addition, only the core of the tree was used and not the splinter. Furthermore, hard wood types such as oak, beech and cypress were used and not fast-growing here-and-now profitable wood, which the wood industry prefers. The core is the skeleton of a tree, it is dead wood or should we say less alive and not porous. The outer layer of the tree is alive and porous, and rot and insects have free rein. It can be used but requires all the more the right treatment.
There is a recipe for mixing the four ingredients. The process must be carried out with great care, as the first three methods are flammable materials in a liquid state. It stops when they have solidified. It is also important not to use cheaper imitations of the original products. For example, the linseed oil must be boiled in a special way, as was done in the past. You can buy linseed oil that is sold under a false trade name.
Modern wood is often light and airy wood that, untreated, starts to rot from the start and only lasts 5-6 years. This is then tried to be compensated for by means of pressure impregnation. The first generations of chemical wood treatment (CCA) were super toxic and contained copper-arsenic. Piles of pressure-impregnated wood can poison the soil. The next generations (ACQ and QA) do not contain arsenic but only even more concentrated copper compounds that cause nails and screws to dissolve. It is still toxic, and the durability of the wood is not impressive compared to the old methods.
This is one of many examples of modern technology being inferior and degenerate compared to old technology. We also perceive the 19th century as the age of industrialism, and before that time it did not exist. This is not true. In the Viking Age there were plants in tar factories that could produce up to 300 liters of tar in one firing. Moreover the word indus-trialism arose from the Indian colony meeting industry in the Indus Valley and stole the concept - plus all other ressources from a country soon to become impoverished.
Watch the excellent documentary here:
Why Medieval Wood Never Rotted While Yours Dies in 5 Years
The houses
The following is three articles from the substack and a video on architecture in decay
Read: The City of the Dead
Read: Beauty in Exile
Read: The Human House
Read and hear: How bad architecture wrecked cities
A former colleague who had chosen to settle in the Hyllie district of Malmö with her husband, who was the boss of one of the big mobile phone companies - so they didn’t live there out of necessity - said bluntly that the newly built neighborhood would fall into disrepair after just 30 years due to poor building materials.
This is part of the core of cultural degradation, because hey, we don’t give a damn in 30 years we won’t be alive anymore. We have lost care for the next generations. They will pay the bill for all the pollution, nature destruction, short-term investments or lack of real investments that we contributed to. They have to clean up the mess and make up for the damage and irresponsibility.
We do not build with pride - we lack real pride - with the feeling that we are living on. We do not live with the lineage anymore, so who are we going to pass on to (trans-dition: to hand over, to pass on). We have been told by preachers from the left, especially, that all traditions were crap that should be thrown away. They were progressives, they were members of the cult of progress, and progress was a pseudonym for the fact that everything new is by definition better than the old crap. They forgot, among many other things, that there might be a reason why something was old, and that tradition is experiments that work. To the utopians and pubescent curling kids who were throwing around saying “fuck me in the traditions” (title of a book by Jesper Jensen), a resounding “fuck me in the ass!” The left-wingers were children of the post-war consumer society, where, after the narrow times of their parents, they gorged themselves on the new and modern. They didn’t see it coming, because since the ‘68 generation, the baby boomers’ good times with full employment and affordability, and up to our current nihilist culture, where fatigue has set in, the sacred progress has become a joke.
The shopping mall
Here you can get it all. You get it at a good price if you take advantage of their offers. The offer of the week is there. Yes, but is it a good offer just because it is offered? Aren’t all the other things in the store also offered? The price also comes with a price. An average supermarket has an enormous assortment. But if you ask one of the employees, the poor thing will only be able to tell you which shelf an item is on - if they have time to do so. and if the item is not sold out. They will be unable to tell you what is hidden in the glass, the bottle, the can, the package, the bag. They have no idea about it except the title on the label. They manage quantity and not quality.
This is a deterioration in the quality of merchandising and trade. The traders in the supermarket industry do not care about the goods they sell, because the goods are indifferent to anything other than their saleability. Only in the less discounted supermarket chains - they are still chains with the assortment dictated by the chain - are there special delicatessen departments where the clerk can tell you about the products. They have tried them themselves, they may even have finished them themselves. The butcher, fishmonger and cheesemonger can even recommend a product. A traditional butcher must also be able to cook. A fishmonger knows what you need - or can do with the fish. You can ask, and you will get a quick recipe for what you have just bought. It is a pleasure on both sides of the counter. Perhaps we should consider these delicatessen departments as the guilty conscience of the chain corporations that they are responsible for the small shopkeeper’s death - look, they are here now, they have been eaten by us. But conscience is probably not a quality that one should attribute to them.
Otherwise the rest of the supermarket is a party-killer and endless rows of monotony, anonymity and indifference, for which bling-bling signs must be compensated. Who the hell needs 30 different types of a certain product? OK, we understand, when something is in demand and can be sold, it is added. I ask rather and without pointing fingers at my own bosom: do I need all those choices? So not what I might want, now that it is there, but what I actually need. Is it even a choice between different products, or is it just the same thing in different packaging? Would I suffer if I stood in a shop somewhere in the peripheral world with one of each kind? I am not thinking of places that are artificially impoverished by totalitarian regimes like in the Soviet era or places where a foreign power has taken a stranglehold on the countryside and its population. I think of most places in the world that we have now invented a new euphemism for instead of the old euphemism developing countries (where we have been instrumental in ensuring that absolutely no development took place) or third world countries (because they came in third place). Now we have now gobledigook called the global south. The funny thing is that in the fringe world we often find markets where there is a huge supply. And the good thing about them is that everything is fresh, because if you sell spoiled or bad goods, you are no longer a market seller, because people are critical of quality, and if it is not okay, there is another stall 20 meters away that sells the same thing - which is okay.
You have to go into the remaining small shops in our part of the world to find pride and love for what is sold. But people themselves are responsible for the death of shops. People have chosen to drive 20 kilometers or more in their cars to shop in the bigger city and its supermarkets and shopping centers instead of supporting the small bakery and the small grocery store in the local area. Then one day they closed - too late to regret.
Oh but that’s development, that’s progress, that’s the economic situation, we can’t do anything about that… It’s not just some weak-willed nonsense, it’s completely wrong. It was BECAUSE we didn’t do anything about it that it happened, and now we no longer have the choice. Congratulations on that in the ugly way. Yes, politicians have been corrupt, but there’s nothing new in that. The mayor of Outback City was scolded when someone wanted to plant a terrible factory in a scenic area that people used for recreation. And then a supermarket came along, and then a huge parking lot came along, and then it became a shopping center, because it was right on the road between South Frickington and East Dumbtown. The mayor and his gang saw it as development and money for the area, so they allowed, so to speak, certain exemptions from current ethical practices. Did you say pollution? We think it smells like money. Year after year it moved in the same direction, and in the meantime people forgot what once was. Nobody took a stand, nobody asked questions, isn’t that what we have politicians for? The stupid-lazy Danes where I live became welfare-constipated.
You have to go into the remaining small shops in our part of the world to find pride and love for what is sold. But people themselves are against the death of shops. People have chosen to drive 15 kilometers in their cars to shop in the bigger city and its supermarkets and shopping centers instead of supporting the small bakery and the small grocery store in the local area. Then one day they closed - how sad?
Mnjææ, we have one of the most well-functioning democracies in the world, don’t we?
Uh no, little friend, we don’t really have that, because a democracy requires active, committed citizens who are willing to keep those in power accountable and hold them accountable, and people like you never do that. Our ancestors had a democratic government, but we are unable to remember 1000+ years back to a country led by something like the Althing in Iceland after the Norse settlement in 874 - they brought an already existing tradition and form of government with them from Norway in protest against the fact that the then king Harald Fairhair did not respect this form of government but arrogated to himself despotic power.
These emigrants knew what democracy was, because they invented it. Or rather, their own ancestors invented it, because that was how society was organized in the place they came from once upon a time in pagan times retold about gods and customs, and where was it? It was Russia, before it was called Russia, the land east and north of the Black Sea.
Read: The Vikings
Read: The State
Built-in obsolescence
Most of our consumer goods are produced by mega-corporations. These are so large that their management has no contact whatsoever with the end users. In the age of financialization, the ownership of the corporations is hedge funds and murky private equity firms that have no idea what their property produces, and they don’t care. They only have a cynical calculation to follow. Ethics is then what in Danish folklore speak is called ‘a town in Russia’ in the sense: a foreign word that we cannot pronounce. And since they own an entire industry with all its competitors, the statement that the market regulates itself through competition is a false statement. The Keynes’ian economic model is inadequate. The market no longer exists, we now have feudalism back in a techno version. Some also call it techno-fascism. Competition is a theatre play, because cartel formation is not the illegal exception, it is the norm. And the executive branch of any given state or nation can do nothing against companies whose turnover is 10 times greater than their own. Ooh, we mustn’t insult them by making demands on them, because then they’ll just move abroad. And they don’t have to pay taxes either, the ‘real’ taxpayers do that for them. An real taxpayers can’t affor smart lawyers and economists to fix an offshore tax haven.
Classic capitalism doesn’t exist. The left-over socialists’ throwing around the term as a swear word only shows that they haven’t understood the concept. They’ve never experienced real capitalism - just as they’ve never lived under a socialist regime, because then they would have run away screaming. The fact that we can put the “c” word at the end of predatory capitalism, casino capitalism or monopoly capitalism doesn’t make it capitalism, which is: Every man’s opportunity and right to trade with others without interference from the state, authorities, corporations.
Only to the sick mind in the cartel world does the phenomenon of built-in obsolescence make sense. Something is supposed to break, because otherwise you can’t sell the same crap over and over again. Companies that produce hardware of all kinds are speculating on how they can build this obsolescence in. Advanced electronics have made it possible to build in a kind of time bomb or programmed deadman’s switch, so that the gadget breaks down after a few years. Other times, the materials used are so bad that they burn out, but the Chinese factories that spew cheap crap in a steady stream to the discounted poor of this world know exactly how bad their products are. And that they get away with it.
An example of this calculating cynicism is Apple, who actually lost a case about it with their iPhone when they were caught red-handed. They then counteract this by creating a hype that you absolutely must have the latest model, which now costs twice as much as the model from three years ago, which was actually just as good. Or bad, because it broke down due to built-in obsolescence.
The printer industry was notorious for this, and they were too self-confidently sloppy to hide it. A printer would print exactly so-and-so many pieces of paper, then suddenly report an error. A Russian engineer found the built-in feature in a chip where the timer was encoded, then developed a firmware hack - and the machine continued to run without a care. The company lied, because the error message said oops machine error and not calculated software chip lock.
One of the more famous-infamous examples is, of course, The Light Bulb Conspiracy. This was a conspiracy in the form of a cartel between the competing companies Phillips, Osram, u-name-them to develop a light bulb that went dead. Before that time, quality copper wire was used. A light bulb at a fire station in the United States has burned continuously day and night for 100 years, and every year its birthday is celebrated with cakes and brassband music. And not only that, the life of the bulbs has been greatly reduced. The quality of the light of the LED bulbs they produce is now harmful to our nervous system, exhausts us and makes us sick. And they now have to be discarded as toxic waste.
In the former East Germany, there was no material abundance, so they couldn’t afford the abundant use-and-throw-away. A refrigerator and a washing machine could last for 30 years!
A hyper-smart Tesla car only has the lifespan dictated by its battery system. There are hardly any Tesla models left running since 2011, when the first mass-produced models arrived. They are guaranteed to have burned out. And when the marvel breaks down, a new battery system costs the same as a new car. In addition, the discarded battery is considered ultra-toxic waste that must be stored in the same way as nuclear waste, because a method for recycling it has not yet been developed. Add to that the fact that a battery fire in a Tesla is a fire department’s worst nightmare, and all the super-toxic lithium liquid that leaks into the almost unquenchable fire seriously pollutes the nearby soil. Put these two frightening facts against all the hype about clean and sustainable that the media and politicians blare into our ears. The politicians believe it themselves, because they are too stupid-corrupt. The media believes it themselves, because they are too lazy-corrupt. And people believe it because they are authoritarian-corrupt and easy to fool.
On a car from the 40s-50s, everything could be recycled in one way or another. The metal could be scrapped and melted down, the glass could be melted down. They were simple and actually sustainable materials, and there was no electronics in them of any importance. They required no computers to be maintained. Any skilled mechanic anywhere in the outskirts of the World could repair such a car or motorcycle if it broke down. A farmer in the middle of the last century and decades ahead could maintain his own tractor, and many of them are still running today because they were made to last. Even a bicycle today is a piece of electrified hi-tech, and if the battery burns out, it turns into a fully loaded exercise bike.
Durability = quality.
When nylon thread was invented, it was so strong that you could pull a car with a set of nylon stockings. The stockings didn’t start to run. But that didn’t work, the nylon manufacturers thought, we have to make a thread that breaks. So they did, after which all the fashionable women had to look with annoyance at stocking eel that ran their way.
Healthcare and medicine
Something happened to the art of medicine when it became a science. It is not as difficult to understand as is often claimed. Except that it is mostly claimed that it has never been better, for the holy science of medicine is at its climax of unsurpassed excellence! That is very far from the truth.
This science wears a set of blinders that were put on about 115 years ago, when modern medicine became a byproduct of a new invention by an oil billionaire and a railroad tycoon. Their names were John D. Rockefeller and Edwin Carnegie, and the invention they created was a branch of the petrochemical industry based on the profits of Standard Oil. In the following decades, medical education, and with it medical science, was reshaped to be a tool of the new pharmaceutical industry.
A science connected to an industry with the industry’s business case of supply and demand is doomed to run onto a different track. And it did. The purpose was no longer to care for human health. A doctor today has no definition of health as anything other than the absence of symptoms of illness. When the business case is that people are sick, otherwise money cannot be made, then the purpose of doctors is no longer to make people well but to ensure that they receive a treatment that temporarily relieves, after which the customers come back to the store after a while. The medical profession has done half the damage with the industry, and they are simply in their own departments of the bigger store.
Many people have recognized this. This has meant an increasing interest in so-called alternative forms of treatment - unfortunately to a certaing degree also provided by fraudsters. But in medical art that is 1000s of years old and extremely proven, such as Chinese and Indian / Ayurvedic, there is a deep understanding of what health is. Here we find cures and not just treatments. In our part of the world, too, there is a lot of underground work, and some of it is extremely promising.
An old and tried and tested health prescription that has gained ground is intermittent fasting. A doctor 100 years ago would not hesitate to recommend it to the appropriate patients because he knew it worked A pioneer in the revival of this cure is Jason Fung.
A particularly inflamed area within medicine and medico-tech is what could be called the cancer industry. It is a trillion-dollar business and a striking example of the industry’s business case: the more disease, the more money in the coffers. Cancer has been curable for half a century, but the industry has hidden it from view. All research has gone in the wrong direction, and the idea that a genetic error or mutation is the cause is still the same. It is with cancer, as with all chronic diseases that have plagued humanity: in 100 years, not a single curative treatment has emerged for any of them! That corresponds to the 100 years that the pharmaceutical industry has existed. Coincidentally? Hardly.
Hear what dr. Paul Maric has to say about it.
Hear what dr. Tom Cowan has to say about it.
We-e-el people died of cancer in the old days too, they just didn’t have a name for it.
… there’s always someone standing up and saying. Is that true?
At least these are words that have been put into our mouths and that we repeat like little parrots.
It is perhaps worth considering who might be interested in saying such things. The 20th century is the century of chemistry. There is chemistry in almost everything we touch. There is so much chemistry that the product labels have to write it in ultra-small letters to make room for it. And of course so that we don’t have to read it and get worried about, whether we need that stuff i our organism.
Yet we imagine to ourselves that when the nice people and experts on the flat screen say that the ‘limit values’ have been met, then there is peace and no danger. But then we no longer have an explanation for the epidemic increase in cancer that has taken place in the century of chemistry. Because the nice people on the screen forget to tell us that just-below-the-limit value + just-below-the-limit value + just-below-the-limit value + just-below… as a total daily dosage is FAR above the limit. And who has determined these so-called limit values? Asbestos was also perfectly fine until it landed in the respiratory tract after a few decades. Only when there are enough bodies on the table do the stupid-lazy legislators react afterwards instead of following the healthy principle of giving people the benefit of the doubt beforehand. The poison should not have been there in the first place, because the human body is not geared to so much unnatural chemistry that only arrived 100-150 years ago and has increased on a dayly basis since.
Wasn’t it the exact opposite of ‘giving the benefit of the doubt…’ that happened with the uncritical and large-scale launch of untested experimental gene-manipulating pseudo-vaccines a few years ago? A crystal-clear example of the ethical regression that has occurred. And most doctors agreed without hesitation to betray their sacred medical vow, the hippocratic oath - the old gibberish from antiquity - to save human lives at all costs + agreed to fuck up the otherwise invariable rule of informed consent - that unnecessary crap - and out it went, because doomsday is near, and we’re all going to die of the black plague. Operation Shutdown was a global act of terrorism.
From working 15 years with the department running the hospitals of Copenhagen, I have listened to health personel og HR-manegement staff (where I was) repeating the buzzword compliance. When they used the word again-and-again, it first of all became clear that it was a more academic word for obediance and subordinance. It was the hidden wrapped-in term for the masters subduing the sucjects, the slaves. So instead of focussing on the patients informed consent, they seeked the patients cooperation. And here’s where the word gets slippery, because you can’t treat patients, that do not want to be treated and maybe are suspicious, in other words: that do not complie. You see the problem?
Here, at last, is an area where we can talk about progress: We have become much better at carrying out terror.
The clothes we wear
Who even thinks about inheriting a piece of clothing from their parents today? Because it’s probably worn out. Maybe it is, because back then not wealthy people didn’t just buy new clothes every month for fun and because they could. People took care of their clothes, they repaired and patched them, and they were good at it so that it wouldn’t be seen. And if that wasn’t possible, they made a virtue of necessity and made a beautiful patch, a piece of aesthetics with a style in itself. But the chance that it hasn’t worn out is certainly also there, because quality materials were used precisely so that it would last, and the production was either by hand or at least under strict control by people with hands and heads.
The materials were natural:
Wool, hair, nettles, hemp, cotton were used.
Leather was used and not plastic.
Buttons were made of wood or horn.
Fur and feathers were included.
Dyeing was done without toxic chemicals - and plant based colors are beautiful!h
The textile industry today is one of the most polluting industries and their products are actually toxic until they have been washed several times. Who does that? The global allergy epidemic is due to poisoning, and textiles are very much a contributor to that.
Wool has some properties that few other textiles have. There is a reason why the wool of animals allows them to go outside all year round in all kinds of weather without freezing. If you end up soaking wet in a set of woolen clothes - the lanolin in wool is water-repellent - you can still keep warm, as long as you produce it from the inside. But what about all the people in desert areas? The traditional Beduin dress is made of wool, but not as a knitted sweather from the Orkney Islands. It is worn loosely for ventilation and is perfect for the hot sunny climate. And at night it gives warmth.
Another natural material, silk, has some similar properties. Its heat-regulating properties are formidable and almost mystical. It cools in the heat and warms in the cold. Its durability is great, its lightness unsurpassed. Of course, it is not cheap to employ a few thousand worms to produce it.
It is said that hemp - and we are not talking about the funny hemp that goes up in smoke - is said to have won wars, because all the indestructible military uniforms were made from one of the strongest of all textiles: hemp. This is why there is such a thing as military surplus stocks. The occasional but relatively rare need for the military to replace their uniforms outpaces the wear and tear on the discarded uniforms.
While we’re on the subject of hemp, it’s one of the most potent natural materials with the most applications. You can build houses from hemp fibers woven into building materials, which is said to give the strongest possible construction. You can make textiles. You can eat it. You can make rope from it. The interior panels of cars are made from hemp fibers + something else. The seeds can be used to bake bread. And it grows with great pleasure as a weed. In Denmark, there used to be regulations from the king that every farmer had to have a certain portion of willow and a certain portion of hemp in his fields.
The majority of the clothes that people wear are not made of quality materials but cheap, semi- or fully synthetic materials. A set of undershirts is disposable after 15 times in the washing machine, a t-shirt tears under the sleeves. The seams are weak and come apart.
Buy a Scottish tweed jacket and you’ll have it for life.
Buy a coat made of all-wool and it can be passed down through generations.
Buy a set of leather boots and they will outlast a whole series of resolings.
Buy a felt hat and your grandchildren will play with it.
News reporting
A particularly sad and glaring chapter in cultural degeneration is what has happened to news reporting, journalism, media. In recognition of how important this industry and this craft is, it has been singled out as the target of the worst form of corruption that can be described in the history of mankind. Neither more nor less.
Both our knowledge of the world today and our past / history are fundamentally consciousness-forming. History writing and journalism are degrees of the same.
The interests of lies and propaganda have a firm grip on both.
Mainstream news reporting has never been of lower quality. There is plenty of quantity flowing out through the great brown sewer stream of fabricated information that is disconnected from reality. There is enough of it all, and it arrives in a steady stream. The criterion for this reporting is no longer reality itself but the ‘narrative’ that the interests have decided on. Elements taken from reality are included to give the whole thing a touch of legitimacy and authenticity, but it is built on so-called ‘angles’ in the form of filtering, omissions, additions and fading.
In other and simpler words: the media is full of lies.
They are paid to lie.
They are threatened to lie.
Some have become cowardly cowards to survive in a spineless industry.
Others have then become pleasure liars who love to be paid for it.
There are those who believe the lies they spread.
Food and cooking
In the era of fast food culture, the quality of food and cooking has declined.
The culture of food production, food preparation and food consumption has declined.
The dining table as the family gathering point, where all generations - in some places three generations - shared the meal and spent time on it, has undergone a decline.
The important and unifying rituals around the dinner table have gone down the drain.
The result is clear: division between the generations, no understanding, no interaction, no conversation.
Fast food in the sense of food that is quickly prepared and served does not mean poor quality.
But often the fast food is only superficial, because there may be a longer preparation behind the quick serving.
The best cuisines in the world were created by poor people. Forget about gourmet Michelin-star cuisine. It is the popular ingenuity with often small means that has created the classic dishes.
The famous Italian cuisine derives largely from cuisina povera, the cuisine of the poor. Hard times have taught Italians to compensate for abundance with ingenuity.
Fast food in the spirit of industrialism is junk food. It is industrial food.
MacDonald’s is a perversion of one of America’s only original contributions to world gastronomy: the burger.
A MacDonald’s burger is industrial-gastro-crap. Everything is compromised, and the feeling after eating a Big Mac Meal is… I’ll never do it again. And yet we do it again, because there’s something addictive about it. It’s like dope junk. It hits us in the desire field below the need threshold.
An investigative journalist did the experiment. He exposed himself to Big Macs every day for a few months. He got so sick from it that he had to spend weeks in the hospital to recover. They thought he was going to die. The only reason we don’t end up in his ditch is - fortunately - that we don’t do it every day. Our organism recovers.
There is a reason why both the English and Americans suffer from a ‘contagious’ public disease called obesity. Paradoxically, being overweight can be a symptom of malnutrition. The number of super-sized people in the United States is at a record high. The reason is a completely perverted food culture. Again and again, it is the concern for industry and its products that has destroyed the traditional basis for public health combined with people’s throwing themselves into the arms of the same industry and its seductive cheapness and fast-ness.
A particularly insidious form of poisoning is not acute but chronic: sugar. History tells us that before the election campaign for his second term in 1972, Richard Nixon had to appeal to voters, so he approved that the food industry could increase the sugar content in foods. It extended the shelf life of goods and made them cheaper on a short term, which could be used for propaganda purposes before and during the election campaign. It led to a sharp increase in sugar, fructose, sucrose in a wide range of foods that have been in the industrial pots. Result: a significant upward bend in the curve for obesity, diabetes and cancer - cancer loves sugar.
This corrupt and irresponsible decision has done great damage to public health for Americans in the first place and then for the rest of the world.
Science and education
According to the social Darwinist concept, the culture of knowledge and the resulting level of education must always be at its own climax. That is not the case - far from it.
An example from my own subject at the time: music. I will use it as a case story. And that was at university and conservatory level, which I am not writing with any pretentious feelings but to say that I was at eye level with the standard in the education system to be able to tell the following.
35 years ago, a music education at the Department of Musicology in Copenhagen, where I studied for 6-7 years, was full of disciplines. You could choose between a wide range of sub-subjects / electives and semester-long courses in everything from medieval-renaissance-baroque through Viennese classical-romantic-late romantic to the breakthrough of modernism and further up through the century, including popular music genres. You had to master your piano, you got singing lessons, you were trained as a choir singer, you were trained in rhythmic ensemble playing, you learned arrangements from Renaissance style to freetonality. Ear training was mandatory. The music study was almost holistic, and there were resources allocated to educating a solid all-round musician and music teacher who could go straight into, for example, high school and teach. Or music schools, evening schools, day colleges. The elementary school was taken over by the seminary graduates who had learned to handle those years. Fair enough. There were in principle no gaps in the education. The emphasis was on classical music, as it described a 1000-year period, but without forgetting contemporary music. Part of the education was also the study environment where you met and formed bands, groups and ensembles in all genres.
Already in the last years of my studies towards the 1990s, the worm began to gnaw. There was saving and saving again. Entire electives disappeared, because there was no money for them. It was especially classical music that was cut. Teachers began to flatter the students in order to make themselves popular. This is called grade-level growth, which in the Danish system of free education the econonic ressorces that is fed into each department accoring to, how many candidates the department spit out. The students flattered their own laziness and immediate need-satisfaction, because they had grown up with pop music. A home with a piano became a home terrorized by a wannabe drummer down in the basement or in the children’s room.
Today, classical music has almost disappeared at the Department of Musicology, I have been told by people who have been part-time employees quite recently. The requirements for musician skills have been lowered significantly.
If we then leave the example, the same thing happened in high school. In the 90s, when I was a high school teacher (in music, of course), it was noticed by my colleagues that the level of grading was lowered. Less and less was needed to pass. The development has continued. It spread to university level, where teachers reported that students were no longer able to spell correctly, which was supposed to be a kind of bottom line for academic education. But all this had already been prepared from primary school. This was due to the new pedagogy that emerged from the cultural Marxist John Dewey in particular, where education primarily was a socialization project. It’s not about winning but simply about being involved. Everyone had to be involved, yes they should be, but the flip side of that philosophy in practice was that all excellence was washed out. The bright minds were bored in the grey liver paste field, where they could never push it off. Challenges and demands were seen as harmful to socialization. The curling kids generation had arrived, because ugh, it hurts to be challenged.
We in the West have an idea that we have the best education in the world. That is completely wrong today. We have long been overtaken by the Russians and Chinese and other nations where there are tough requirements. And because challenge is agreed that it must be there to develop the excellence that is needed, it is accepted by the students. However, this does not mean that the less gifted and excellent are left behind, because a society neither needs nor can afford that. This is not to say that it is eternally blissful to be a schoolchild or student in, for example, China, because the socialization of the entire population has completely gone into the other ditch with a massive-totalitarian control system. But the fact is that the West has fallen completely behind the times when it comes to giving students an education that promotes qualifications > competence.
We could go further and extend this to science. Instead, we refer to:
Read: Science is dead - part 1-4
And if you are not already familiar with Rupert Sheldrake, then it will be interesting to hear his lecture The Science Delusion which was deleted from Ted Talks at the request of the girl-offending scientific societies that cannot tolerate criticism. Well, isn’t that the core service of all serious science … are we asking naively? Well, it wasn’t. Sheldrake’s talk has in the meantime been renamed to the referential title (Huxley) Brave New World, and he starts with the statement:
The self-deception of science is based on the assumption that the nature of reality is already fully understood, and that it is then, in principle, simply a matter of filling in the gaps with more details.
Science has ended up in a series of rigid dogmas that it clings to. Some premises that are never questioned. When something petrifies in this way and does not allow new air to arrive, science does not deliver its full potential but degenerates, and then we all become stupider.
It is a side track and a dead end, which started 400 years ago with the Enlightenment, another concept that, like progress, has a downside in the form of its own opposite. Again, we are grossly generalizing, but overall, the playful curiosity and imagination of science have been tamed, inhibited and contained by the same special interests that we have seen in the overall field of the great cultural regress. The Enlightenment was also a time of obscurity. Just two examples: When astrology became astronomy, (astro-logos: the doctrine / logic of the stars <> astro-nomos: counting / naming the stars) what was thrown away in the lurch? The answer is: consciousness - that is, the ‘big problem’ of science. The universe was knocked unconscious with a new-scientific knock-out. When alchemy became chemistry, what was thrown away in the lurch? You guessed it right.
The retrograde culture is a culture of unconsciousness.
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The list is long, but we must also make our way today.
Let us therefore summarize by noting a pattern, an underlying common denominator.
There is a life attitude behind the whole retrograde project.
The philosopher Nietzsche predicted its arrival: nihilism.
It has many ism names: materialism, nominalism, positivism, reductionism, quantumism.
Read: Materialism as into Hell
Nietzsche was misunderstood as praising the great worthlessness of the statement: God is dead.
He simply predicted what he already saw coming and described what people would now had to do in the future when God was sent on early retirement.
Let’s not forget rationalism. We cannot do without rational thinking. But without a balancing counter-effect, rationalism becomes tyranny. It becomes the basis of totalitarianism. It is a rationalist mindset that lies behind the absurd idea of the universe as one big machine. What is it that makes this blunt idea so attractive?
The two psychologists, Professor Mattias Desmet and Iain McGilcrhist, have a suggestion.
Listen to their conversation:
The Moderne World, Totalitarianism and the Brain
The short version is that man seeks security. A machine constitutes security, because there is nothing unpredictable or uncontrollable about it. But the best physicists have never bought that explanation: Bohr, Boehm, Planck, etc. The mathematicians’ coup d’état of physics created theoretical physics and thus a false security of control. The physicists never had to get their hands dirty by recreating their assumptions in the laboratory, because blackboard + blackboard chalk is pure and untainted by consciousness, emotions, soul/spirit and other non-measurable quantities, which were thereby controlled out of the equations. It was purely rational. The proof was on the blackboard or on the paper and not in the experiment.
After the death of God, all the devilry moved in, so to speak. It did not happen all at once, because devilry has plenty of time. It happened so slowly that no one noticed. Well, except for the philosopher who ended up getting a blow to the head for thinking about it - or was it syphilis that did it? Anyway. He certainly didn’t have much left over for the enlightenment project.
It’s the great shift in ethics and attitude to life that has created the loss of value. About 20 years ago, management jargon started talking about value schemas, we have to articulate our value set here in the company / organization … you can almost hear all the newspeak and management gobledigook that are being driven into position and then runs in circles. It was mostly noise and empty talk, but it was also a symptom of: oh my, where did the values that we took for granted go? Which we should have been able to do, but someone or something had removed them in the meantime. They had been eaten up from the inside and outside at the same time, leaving a vacuum. The worthlessness had seeped through, the nihilism had become too obvious, we had better do something about that. It remained with the fine words up there on the projector screen with the PowerPoint. Too little, too late.
We do not have a political or economic crisis. We have a spiritual crisis in the world. We have become sick in our souls, our inner selves. It is painful and quite embarrassing to see the leaders of this world reflect the state of its entire being and all its deeds. The political leadership is rotten to the core, and especially political leaders behave like little spoiled, stupid, evil children. Statesmanship is also ‘a city in Russia’ (Danish way of saying: a word we can’t pronounce). Wisdom in politics no longer exists. However, remember that we have the politicians we deserve. We have neglected our democratic obligations and have sunk into the sofa cushions. Which we then call democracy.
I see signs that the wind is turning. We have hit rock bottom, after which things can only get better. Doomsday prophecies in this regard are useless. A complete loss of trust in leadership, politicians, the media, decision-makers, corporations, BigTech fascists, organizations and institutions is unfortunately a necessary stage. They stand in the way of real progress, they are beyond pedagogical reach, because they are like programs that run when the start button is pressed. They are like the tin chickens that were fun toys 50 years ago. They had a key in their backs, and when they were pulled up, they would walk loudly scratching across the table and over the edge of the table. That was great fun. Reality right now is not funny at all.
If you want things done, do it yourself - as they say over there.
We can’t wait for the degenerate leadership to get their fingers out of the canalia.
I see it happening. It starts somewhere ‘out there’, it flies under the radar, because the stupid-lazy-corrupt propaganda media either haven’t discovered it, they don’t think it’s worth the effort OR - and this is perhaps the icing on the cake - they have been told by their employers that they shouldn’t bother writing home about it. ‘Writing home about’ has also been abolished, because the journalists sit at home and write about what is out there that they have never seen with their own eyes. Who are their clients, by the way?
There has simply been a general ban on reporting on the real change in the world that has begun. The establishment fears it, they deny it, they fight it. Their world of power is based on the status quo. As they arrogantly stated from the podium at the World Economic Forum: In 2030 you own nothing, and you will be happy. What this global fascist billionaire forum forgot to say was who will then own what you thought you owned. And ‘happy’ perhaps means: … and you can’t do anything about it.
They also forgot to say that you didn’t own your property in the first place = well-planned forgetting.
I would argue that this billionaire oligark forum and similar forums for the status quo have committed a millennium-long blunder.
They have underestimated the resilience of humanity.
They Nemesis has arrived at the implementation phase.
Part 2 - the progress machine
Have you ever had the feeling that it’s all a machine?
The feeling that the world is run as if it were a machine?
Or that there is actually some kind of machine that runs it all?
Instead of the hardware analogy, we could also use a software analogy.
It can then be viewed as a huge program, a piece of artificial intelligence.
Or both at once: We are sitting in a large machine that operates according to an operating system.
This could then lead to the inevitable question: Who created the machine and wrote the program?
We now run into machines run by software everywhere.
All money transactions are like this, and if it were up to the machine’s wishes, then banknotes and coins would no longer exist. The children of the future will not go on treasure hunts anymore, because the treasures have been deleted from the hard drive and disappeared into The Cloud.
We buy tickets via machines.
The tax service is a large software interface where you never talk to a human.
Online shopping is an interface for a machine – you can’t haggle over the price, and there’s no handshake after a good deal.
We don’t read texts anymore, we scan QR codes.
We don’t read a book anymore, they Google and Wikipedia.
People are completely and navel-gazingly connected to their mobile devices.
Digital social media has replaced meetings and conversations.
We could go on and on, digitization, automation, robotization are everywhere.
The installations are always presented with the declared intention that they should make things easier for us.
Quite a few people don’t experience it that way, but sense that a kind of screen has come down, a membrane has come in between. Instead of gain and advantage, a loss has arisen. It’s something that’s missing, something we’ve lost in the age of the digital machine.
Modernity
Modernity is a machine.
Art history talks about the breakthrough of modernism.
Art forms like futurism emerged.
Poets wrote ecstatically about machines.
A world war rolled out along with an army of new machines that someone wanted to try out.
The machine produced machines.
The author Paul Kingsnorth uses the term machine-modernity.
Psychologist Iain McGilChrist talks about the hemispheres, the two halves of the brain. The left sees the world as individual parts, the right sees the world as a whole. One would think that one must adopt a holistic perspective in order to understand the individual parts, but in our time it is the other way around. Which then causes us to get stuck in the individual parts. EVERYTHING is individual parts that operate without a whole.
A news page in a media is a collection of information data without coherence.
Healthcare operates in a paradigm of individual symptoms, and treatments in allopathic medicine are pills, preparations, injections, operations, which are fired at symptoms like magic projectiles to kill them without the desire to understand the cause.
Political decisions are an endless chain of isolated patchwork solutions without an understanding of the whole.
The branches of science can no longer talk to each other due to hyperspecialization.
What is worse: They don’t even try.
People are strangers to the whole.
They have stepped out of communities and have become lonely.
They have stepped out of nature, the great biological whole.
They no longer talk about God, the great cosmic whole.
Modernity has given us practical advantages and many ways to jump over where the fence is lowest. In return, modernity has stripped us of parts of our humanity.
Read: The Mean Machine
Hvad er maskinen?
The machine is a way of looking at things, a way of life.
The machine has historical roots dating back to the Middle Ages, but we can really put our finger on the breakthrough of machine thinking with the Enlightenment, rationalism, the French Revolution, the Industrial Revolution. And if we listen to the avant-garde of progress: the transhumanists, then we are working hard to make sure that we lose the last bit of humanity and become machines ourselves.
Read: Materialism as into Hell
The idea of progress became a religion that replaced the previous religion. The idea of enlightenment became a palace revolution, where the old rulers were thrown out and new ones moved in. Despotism is very rational in its essence – until the string breaks, and it turns into absurd-grotesque irrationality. Despots wear blinders, the eye of power does not see itself (Lagerkrantz). One explanation for this is, among other things, that it is psychopaths who rise to the top in systems of power, and psychopaths do not themselves know that they are psychopaths and do not believe that they can make mistakes or do anything wrong. But there is a system in place beforehand and a mindset that has allowed them to rise to the top. Psychopaths are inhuman in the sense that, as chronically brain-damaged people, they lack empathy. The machine can make them do anything without hesitation.
The main idea from the Enlightenment became a semi-religious dogma: Progress is the supporting element. The eternal and beneficent progress. Progress automatically improves everything, always, all the time. The belief in progress is a utopian theology.
People in modernity differ from people of the past or people on the fringes of modernity today described by four key words. If we follow Paul Kingsnorth’s terminology, these are the four P’s: people, place, prayer and past.
People – people: we are in a community, a society
Place – places, nations (birthplaces), nature, land, soil, forest, mountain, river, home
Prayer – prayer, relationship with God, your higher self, your soul
Past – the past, history, tradition – when you come from something, you can also move towards something
Modernity takes all this away from people and replaces it with consumerism, technology, ideology and progressive ‘theology’.
Urbanization attacks all these elements. In England, for example, 1850 is the year when more people lived in cities than in the countryside. The seduction of this immigration was the prerequisite for creating an industrial revolution. Remember that re-volution means rolling back. Back to what? Back to the feudalism that ‘threatened’ to disappear – according to the feudal lords’ need for a slave society where they could be the princes of the new age. Seen through those lenses, globalism was already the main idea behind the neo-feudal industrial society, for a global logistics created by imperialism/colonialism and a systematic plundering of the Peripheral World was the prerequisite for all industrialism. All colonial wars, all mass murders are about breaking the resistance of the peoples who, surprisingly enough, do not want to be plundered.
The industrialists reinvented and re-branded feudalism. As the former Greek finance minister and professor of economics Yannis Varoufakis says: The market no longer exists, capitalism is dead, we have something much worse, techno-feudalism.
NOTHING has changed in 150+ years in that area.
Another word for the machine could be the Empire.
The Empire devours EVERYTHING that comes close.
Including its own inhabitants, which is quite evident today.
Eventually it will devour itself.
The philosopher and seer Rudolf Steiner saw it coming as the manifestation of an icy, tormented being from another realm. This being would lock man up in a prison, a sphere. He called it the 8th Sphere.
Read: The 8th Sphere
Without a past, the historyless man has no place to go. Just like Nietzche said. He therefore has no sense of where he is going. He is stranded in a time bubble, a prison of time locked up with a being who wishes him evil.
It is interesting that the talking heads in Silicon Valley all speak as prophets, evangelists, religious preachers. There is something far more sinister at play than just 0010100. They see themselves as God or even more bizarrely: God’s creator! The same attitude is found in the whole geneticist gang, the megalomaniacal control freaks. Transhumanism and AI are about the Great Progress into the great abyss where people are no longer people. That is why we must listen to their technofascist anointing and their pseudo-religious high-pitched voices.
Ray Kurzweil wrote a book called The Spiritual Machine, where he introduced the concept of the singularity, the great end-all-be-all of the great Matrix, the great mother who has eaten us all and reinstalled us in her womb (as the 8th sphere).
This is more than evil. This is the face of a machine of annihilation.
Steiner speaks of the icy ruler as Ahriman, his synonym for the Antichrist.
The weirdest thing is that all these ‘warnings’ that AI could become conscious and autonomous – the machine world in The Matrix and Terminator 2 – come from the people who have created these AI systems. These are warnings in the form of insider gossip in the same way that Huxley ‘warned’ against the brave new world as an insider in the inner circle of the British Empire establishment – he was a member of The Fabian Society – i.e. the people who have created the brave new world we live in.
An interviewer asked the relevant question to one of the transhumanist preachers: If you keep saying that AI might evolve to be able and would destroy us all, why are you creating these systems? Whereupon the man became confused and hesitant and replied: We don’t really know, but we feel like we have the responsibility to be the birth attendants for this new being. They talk about it as a being, just as Steiner talks about the icy being Ahriman. This is Deus Ex Machina, God crawling out of the machine. A rather creepy god, one might think. These sick heads talk about digitally ‘creating God’ – you can’t make this up!
Marshall MacLuhan wrote in his book Understanding Media, The Extension of Man – where he also wrote the famous sentence: The medium IS the message – he wrote: We are digitally creating what looks like a central nervous system so that ‘something’ can manifest itself. That is, incarnate in this nervous system.
MacLuhan really warned unlike Huxley, who prepared us. All the self-righteous eggheads in Silicon Valley and in the gene laboratories are not warning about anything, they are announcing it, they are hoping and believing in it, they are operating within the cult of death, they seriously believe in their Faustian perversion that this being is in the process of incarnating to make life easier and happier for us. It is the same mindset that bleeds through when the global fascists in the World Economic Forum stand up and, in all seriousness, announce: In 2030 you own nothing and you are happy. Their wet dream is a planet with an inhumanity and slavery the likes of which the Universe has never seen.
Læs: AI and the Human Being
The Culture War
People now sense quite clearly that something is going on that they don’t like. Something disturbing and gloomy on an unprecedented scale. They see their leaders, politicians, media, institutions stepping into character and manifesting this ‘being’. Something demonic-satanic has arrived in politics. It has been there all along, but now it is smack in the face in a totally shameless way. We only have to take a look at the way in which Western leaders have turned a blind eye to what has developed into one of the largest and most brutal genocides in world history in the Middle East. The media has been silent, the politicians as well, and to the extent that they have spoken out, it has been in support of the genocidal state of Israel. We saw the ugly face emerge in Operation Lockdown. The Machine looks at us and laughs at us all the way through the Ukraine war, the artificial energy crisis, the new armament of the NATO’fied EU and the resulting massive cuts in state social programs paid for by people’s own money.
Read: A Killer State at the End of the Road
The culture war should be and is in reality between the population / humanity and the corrupt global leadership, who are more than willing to stick their heads up. And that is what it is, to a certain extent, that is part of it. But another part can’t get its behind out of the last millennium and is still running the same stereotypical fronts between the now absurd-grotesque woke-left-wing-neo-Marxist and brain-dead segment of disturbed types and their cult of ideological correctness and the conservatives who want to defend the values of the West.
But what are these values that they now think they are defending?
Disruption cult vs. rigid rationality cult, which is worse?
The West is either what the left wants to destroy or what conservatism just wants to preserve without making it clear what the value in it is.
One could be so bold (like Kingsnorth) as to say: Then let the West die so that we can live!
Isn’t that what we are witnessing? The downfall of the West (Spengler).
Aren’t mega-organizations like NATO and the EU’s current crisis and panicked actions examples of a privileged elite clinging stubbornly and desperately to the privileges of the past?
Isn’t that what makes the so-called Global South – read: the sum of countries that the West has abused and plundered for far too long – the place where things are currently seething?
See and hear: Mind Controlled Elites: Washington’s Cognitive War on Europe | Nel Bonilla
These peripheral countries are in the majority among the world’s nations, and they have lost faith in the West.
The West’s own populations, who have also been colonized and imperialized, have also lost faith.
The whole false opposition between right and left is just a distraction, a diversionary maneuver (manure) created by the ruling segment, which now feels its power threatened as never before. That is their standard strategy to paralyze all resistance: divide and conquer.
An American Wall Street billionaire recently stated (starting November 2025) that a civil war would probably arrive in the United States and added the revealing slander ‘so that there are no more billionaires’. Since we have learned to understand such statements and translate them, it means: We are working to arrange a civil war, because when people are fighting each other, they do not see us and collectively turn their attention to the real cause of the new poverty that has crept in.
The oligarchs want civil war, not popular uprising against them. They are not sleeping well at night these days. They may have nightmares about bodies dangling from lampposts on ropes …
Watch and listen to an interview between Jimi Dore and James Corbett:
CNBC Warns About Upcoming CIVIL WAR Against Oligarchs! … a wrong title in relation to the content, since a civil war is NOT directed against the oligarchs but is the diversionary maneuver to prevent it, which is also evident from the feature. Never ask the student assistant to upload to YouTube, because she has not understood what the point is.
James Corbett has worked on his book for almost 20
Reportage – Essays on The New World Order.
War as a necessity
The oligarchs within and the West without have lost credibility and trustworthiness for several reasons. One of them is that all wars seem to come from the West (and its oligarchy). Even the wars that apparently started somewhere in the Peripheral World turn out, on closer inspection, to be hiding a hidden hand that comes from the West and since WW2 it has been from the USA in 9/10 cases, posing as the leader of the West.
The West rules the world through terror and chaos.
The West destabilizes and balkanizes – an expression made by Henry Kissinger of what created WW1 starting from the Balkans, where the British Empire organized a major conflict. This is certainly not the Empire’s own explanation, as we have been forced upon it, but a whole generation of younger British historians has meanwhile dug deep into the establishment’s internal communication, and they are no longer in doubt:
The ‘Great War’ was a British imperial project. The Empire also had all sorts of hands in the Russian Revolution, which destroyed Russia for 70 years, and the Turkish Revolution, which shattered the Ottoman Empire, so that the Empire could reach out to the Middle East and West Asia. And WW2 was inevitable for the same reason, because it was only WW1 that had never ended and a perfidious Treaty of Versailles that guaranteed this inevitability.
The West is a direct synonym for imperialism and colonialism. The peripheral world has reached a point of fatigue for tolerance, and they now have enough evidence that the West no longer has the invincibility that they once had. They have begun to see the West as a paper tiger that constantly lies and bluffs and ignores international aggreements and treaties. As they say in the Russian government: the USA is a non-negotiable nation. So they are not a possible or worthy negotiating partner, because they do not want negotiation. They always say one thing and do another, and the Russians speak of bitter experience that they cannot ignore.
NATO and the EU are instruments of the US Empire. Both mega-organizations act and make decisions that benefit the US and not the European people. Simply put.
The Europeans, with the US as the screaming pack in the background, now see that large nations outside Europe have defined their own values, goals and living conditions. They have also built up militaries of considerable strength to defend themselves against what they know the West will most certainly do. Security policy for the West is to create insecurity so that they can float on top. The transatlantic elite suffers from this chronic rabies, and they completely lack the format to see other powers as potential partners. They are competitors and enemies, and they must go down with their heads.
I have often described it in the past as the Empire of Envy. The West simply cannot tolerate others being able to create wealth and prosperity. It is a sickening inner weakness of Western culture as defined by Western leadership. The people (not the governments) of the West have absolutely nothing against trading and acting on an equal footing with countries outside their own territory. Companies in the West are oppressively furious that they are forced into these trade war sanctions. But the establishment is obsessed with the idea of dominance and control-ownership over EVERYTHING that exists, both in terms of resources and in the financial world, and for which the use their militaries. They have never come out of the second half of the 19th century, the happy days when they could take care of the courts. The have probably not come out of the Middle Ages. They have so far successfully practiced this supremacy with military force and have been rightly feared for it. But a series of events have shown that this fear is rather exaggerated, and that it is absolutely possible to challenge the West’s outdated gunboat diplomacy.
And what do the degenerate elites of the West do then?
Do they reconsider their attitude?
Do they decide to become adults and abandon the pubescent form of pampering that they have been accustomed to?
Do they start to rethink the situation in the direction of cooperation for mutual benefit?
NO! They don’t do that! They retreat to the back room and rack their brains on how to come back with even greater impact. It didn’t work well enough, so we must have more of it! That’s what they think. They are like the bully in the schoolyard whose victims allowed themselves to hit back. Does the bully learn anything from that and start behaving properly? No, he sneaks into the corner of the schoolyard with his face lost, and all he can think about is when and how he can smash the little boys again by pulling them aside one by one, when the schoolteacher is looking the other way. And they expect the silent, cowardly majority to look on passively and fearfully. But the silent majority has gained a voice, and they have begun to speak out. They have indeed begun to fight back.
I think again of the Israeli comedian – yes, believe it or not, there are actually people in the killer state who don’t like what is happening – who stood at the spot where missiles had destroyed a strategic area, right in the middle of the bomb crater, and fired off with sarcasm: Shalom from Tel Aviv. This is what it looks like when we have bombed people for fun for half a century and then act surprised when they decide to shoot back.
The US (and its local terrorist agent on the spot) is exactly like this bully. They have always invaded countries that were weaker than themselves. As they used to say in the schoolyard: They always cowardly attacked those who couldn’t fight back. But now they have seen that countries like Russia, China and Iran are able to respond in a very convincing way. They have even seen that their lapdog Israel has been beaten by one of the world’s poorest countries, Yemen! What happened right here? What also happened when a string of countries in the Sahel region south of the Sahara, led by Burkina Faso, decided to kick the French neo-colonial power out where they came from?
This is tearing open old wounds in the USA and France. Because have they really won their wars of aggression against ‘weak’ nations? Did the USA win the Vietnam War, for example? They didn’t, they ended up being thrown out by a bunch of tough-skinned jungle warriors. What happened in Afghanistan? They had to flee at full speed and throw away everything they had in their hands. How is their proxy war against Russia in Ukraine going? They are slowly but surely being pushed westwards and humiliated. At the same time, it rips open an old European-imperial wound. What happened to Napoleon’s huge army in Russia? What happened to Nazi Germany’s violent advance against Russia?
Read: A President that did the unthinkable
The next question is therefore: Have the Europeans and their politicians and military strategists learned anything from history? They have learned NOTHING! They have failed the exam and are declared unfit. They are incapable of anything other than seeing war as a necessity.
The global Deep State and its operators have a thorough grasp on the intimate soft parts of state leaders. Apart from the few leaders who have had the courage to speak out, they have all, including the Danish Slette-Mette* - delete-Mette since the prime ministerer deleted her burdensome email just like Hillary Clinton - in her intoxication with the temporary presidency of the EU, jumped on the bandwagon of new armaments, and we must be able to confront them out there – the evil Russians and Chinese and all the others who believe they have the right to decide over their own nations.
* slette in Danish has two meanings: 1. to delete, 2. the adjective bad or vicious
Interview with Nel Bonilla:
It is a built-in mechanism in fascism that war MUST break out. And fascism is what we have as a system of government in the West, even though we pretend to have democracy. It is an animal or a machine that thirsts for war. When the being becomes weak in its foundation and its existence is threatened, it becomes aggressive.
We live in dangerous times. We can hope that the being is so weakened that it cannot even afford the war it hungers for, because that kind of thing is a costly affair. There is some indication of that.
The real revolution – if we must use this misleading expression at all – arrives when people really discover that we have EVERYTHING in common with those they have been told to hate and fight = each other and absolutely NOTHING in common with those who, with funeral pyres, stand up and pretend that they will help us.