Living in a grotesque environment of absolute ignorance
A violent and immoral society can only breed more violence and immorality
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/08/gary-d-barnett/when-atrocity-and-perversion-are-ignored-by-the-state-violence-and-crime-will-become-the-norm/
We are currently living in a grotesque environment of absolute ignorance by the bulk of society so fantastic, that it leads to not only the expectation and embracing of absurd conduct, but also to the full and total normalization of heinous and criminal behavior, violence, theft, gross immorality, and perversion. Sadly, this is no exaggeration. Obviously, there has always been crime, and most crime, and the most violent crime, has always been committed or sanctioned by the State itself.
During the past few years, the amount of openly allowed violent behavior has been allowed to rise to monstrous levels, but the theft, immorality, perversion, brutality and disorder, have escalated out of control over the same period. This extreme behavior was for some time happening simultaneously all around the country, and has been ongoing in some regards for years. It began in this cycle with the fake ‘covid’ lockdowns, as the group improperly called “Black Lives Matter,” (BLM) were allowed by this government and its so-called enforcers, to run amok, causing destruction of property, businesses, committing theft, burning, looting, violence, and in some cases death. The bogus claim of ‘racism’ was implemented to excuse this horrid behavior, thus allowing it to go on unchecked. Another criminal group call Antifa, followed the same pattern, and both are little more than terrorist groups. Add to this, especially in major cities, rampant homelessness, property destruction, mass business closures, and filth, and what were once beautiful cities are now little more than hell holes with entire sections remaining only as ghost towns.
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Agamben: There are different kinds of lies. The most common form is that of someone who, while knowing or believing he knows how things are, for some reason knowingly says the opposite or in any case denies even only partially what he knows to be true. This is what happens in false testimony, which for this reason is punished as a crime, but even more innocently every time we have to justify ourselves for a behavior that we are reproached for.
The lie we have been dealing with for almost three years does not have this form. Rather, it is the lie of someone who has lost the distinction between words and things, between news and facts and therefore can no longer know if he is lying, because for him every possible criterion of truth has failed. What the media say is not true because it corresponds to reality, but because their discourse has replaced reality. The correspondence between language and the world, on which truth was once based, is simply no longer possible, because the two have become one, language is the world, news is reality. This alone can explain why a lie does not need to make itself plausible and does not in any way hide what appears to be evident falsehood to those who still adhere to the ancient regime of truth. So during the pandemic the media and official bodies never denied that the mortality data they reported referred to those who died testing positive, regardless of the actual cause of death. Despite this, although they are evidently false, they have been accepted as true.
Pandemic preparedness and the road to international fascism
David Bell
Abstract
The World Health Organization's broad definition of health embraces physical, mental and social well-being. Expressed in its 1946 constitution alongside concepts of community participation and national sovereignty, it reflected an understanding of a world emerging from centuries of colonialist oppression and the public health industry's shameful facilitation of fascism. Health policy would be people-centered, closely tied to human rights and self-determination. The COVID-19 response has demonstrated how these ideals have been undone. Decades of increasing funding within public-private partnerships have corroded the basis of global public health. The COVID-19 response, intended for a virus that overwhelmingly targeted the elderly, ignored norms of epidemic management and human rights to institute a regime of suppression, censorship, and coercion reminiscent of the power systems and governance that were previously condemned. Without pausing to examine the costs, the public health industry is developing international instruments and processes that will entrench these destructive practices in international law. Public health, presented as a series of health emergencies, is being used once again to facilitate a fascist approach to societal management. The beneficiaries will be the corporations and investors whom the COVID-19 response served well. Human rights and individual freedom, as under previous fascist regimes, will lose. The public health industry must urgently awaken to the changing world in which it works, if it is to adopt a role in saving public health rather than contributing to its degradation.
https://doi.org/10.1111/ajes.12531
We hold in our souls the knowledge of something better, else the comparison is lost.