Monday in America

It rains as Max Ernst painted but the rain is in the head

Former KGB agent Yuri Alexandrovich Bezmenov warned in 1984 that Russia had a long-term goal of ideologically subverting the U.S.   What it basically means is: to change the perception of reality of every American to such an extent that despite the abundance of information, no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interest of defending themselves, their families, their community, and their country.”

What he couldn’t have anticipated was that the day would come when it wouldn’t be “despite the abundance of information” but it would be precisely because of the abundance of information that we are no longer able to reach sensible conclusions. We think that if we just read one more 3-minute article or listen to one more podcast with our favorite pundit revealing yet another bombshell or urgent revelation, that we will know more of the truth.

Augsto Del Noce in The Crisis of Modernity writes "I have already said that scientism is more opposed to tradition than Communism because in Communism we can still find messianic and biblical archetypes (e.g., in the idea of the proletariat as the universal mediator) which give it the appearance of what was often described as a “secular religion.” Nikolai Berdyaev, now forgotten, wrote that the Marxist revolution carries within itself “the reflected light of the apocalypse” and that it was able to succeed because of the strong inclination toward an apocalyptic mindset found in the Russian soul and in the large majority of Russian intellectuals at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries. This was the reason why Marxism could appear, from this Russian perspective, as “a doctrine of deliverance, of the messianic vocation of the proletariat, of the future perfect society in which man will not be dependent on economics.”  Now, this messianic aspect, which allowed Marxism to put down roots in the Russian tradition, is precisely what is being rejected by scientism and by the technological society.

But, in light of this, we understand why scientistic anti-traditionalism can express itself only by dissolving the “fatherlands” “where it was born. Because of the very nature of science, which provides means but does not determine any ends, scientism lends itself to be used as a tool by some group. Which group? The answer is completely obvious: once the fatherlands are gone, all that is left are the great economic organisms, which look more and more like fiefdoms. States become their executive instruments, confirming the old Marxist-Leninist thesis, but through a different route from that predicted by Marxism-Leninism.”

Pierre DeGaul - "By provoking a deep, systemic and lasting economic crisis that is already affecting us all, from the price of bread to heating and fuel, but also by the shortage of food, raw materials and industrial metals that all this entails, the Americans are weakening the Europeans for their own benefit. Have we forgotten that for at least a century, all the major financial crises have come from the United States? Our dollar, your problem,” said Henry Kissinger. The Americans still hold us by their debt, which they export. By imposing a cultural and social model based on the cult of pleasure and consumption, the Americans are undermining the foundation of our traditional values and the two pillars of civilization—the family and tradition.

Europe, and of course France, have everything to lose, if they entrap themselves into this military and ideological escalation desired by the United States and NATO. As Charles de Gaulle said, “America is not part of Europe. I believe I discovered that on the map.”   Perhaps the carnage is the point. That's the basis of the Rug-Pull hypothesis, which states that the agents of the NWO are setting up current governments to be dissolved in civil wars, which will allow them to step in and seize power afterwards to manage a vastly reduced global population.

Archbishop Vignano writes:  "Today the Western nations are held hostage to potentates who answer neither to God nor to the people for their decisions, because they do not derive their legitimacy either from above or from below. The coup d’état that has been prepared and carried out by the subversive lobby of the World Economic Forum has effectively ousted governments from their independent status by means of external pressure and robbed states of their sovereignty. But this dissolutory process has now been exposed because of the arrogance with which the satraps of the New World Order – everything is new when it concerns them, and everything is old when it is to be overthrown – have revealed their plans, believing that they are now close to final victory. To the point that even intellectuals certainly not accused of conservatism begin to denounce the intolerable interference of Klaus Schwab and his minions in the government of nations. A few days ago Prof. Franco Cardini declared: “The forces that manage the economy and finance now choose, corrupt and determine the political class, which thus becomes a business committee” (here). And we are well aware that behind this “business committee” there are aims of blind profit being pursued, to the detriment of the economy of the States, but also disturbing projects of detailed control of the population, forced depopulation, and the chronicization of diseases in view of the total privatization of public services. The mentality that presides over this Great Reset is the same that animated the bourgeoisie and usurers of past centuries, who were concerned to exploit the large estates that the nobility and the clergy did not consider as a source of profit. "

Framing our time today in light of history, liberal resistance” to the Third Reich was as passive as it was pervasive. “After the elimination of the liberal parties and organizations,” Horst Sassin observes, “there was a bourgeois-liberal milieu on which the founders of a liberal democratic opposition group could depend. The resonance of liberalism that had sunk almost to nothing in the final phase of the Weimar Republic renewed itself in the face of the thoroughly illib­ eral and anti-liberal politics of the Hitler regime.” Nevertheless, as a member of Reinhard Heydrich’s Security Service (SD) reported in 1938, “the impact of liberalism lies not in the forms of organization, but in the private attitude of individual representatives of the liberal way of thinking.”    For all their “resistance”to Nazi attempts to coordi­nate  German social, cultural, and intellectual life, few liberals demonstrated a willingness to carry out the explicitly political and military opposition exemplified by the conservative elites who plotted Hitler’s assassination.

In Vico the historical course of civilizations within a providential order is that “Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally go mad and waste their substance”   Thereafter, when a society at the last stage of development in its “barbarism of reflection” fails to heal itself by taking responsibility for its history, the Vichian ricorso takes place, i.e., the return to primitivism and barbarism which restores simplicity, religion and poetic wisdom.  It is that ricorso which saves Man by preserving his humanity.  Well I dare to contemplate the ruins of our contemporary society, capable of legitimizing unprecedented horrors such as abortion on demand and harvesting the aborted tissue.  The murder of innocent animals and humans by injecting poison.   The corruption of children through gender theory and the sexualization of childhood, and their exploitation.  The contemporary world is governed by a sect devoted to evil and death.  Can injected man have a ricorso?  Can we have some idealized barbarism better than the sophisticated one engulfing us now?

From 2020 below my commentary above.

https://ceasefiremagazine.co.uk/anti-lockdown-theory-in-defence-of-giorgio-agamben/.  The storm has finally broken. The creeping police-state of the last two decades has been extended into an unprecedented system of social control. On the pretext of public health measures to combat the coronavirus pandemic, a swathe of ordinary social activities are criminalised. Scenes which would not look out-of-place in dystopian fiction are unfolding daily: police harassing sunbathers and mountain-climbers, chasing away cricketers, bawling at people on beaches from naval ships. Horizontal social relationships, unmediated by technology or the state, are effectively banned. The ground is taken out from under social movements. This could be the beginning of a new order: the introduction of Chinese-style capitalism, in Britain and across the world.

Today, most people are reacting emotionally, not theoretically. The accepted wisdom that socialising kills is repeated as a mantra by people with no knowledge of the science behind it. An appeal to apolitical science, along with media-fuelled public panic, provide the motivations to meet a healthcare problem with military and policing measures. Yet scientists are actually divided on the pandemic. Scientific knowledge is a product of evidence. It only becomes in any way reliable after extensive experiments have been conducted and cross-checked. In other words, evidence emerging within the first months of a new disease is not reliable and changes constantly. Doctors have told us that early evidence is unreliable, that even simple DIY masks are probably effective, and that testing is more effective than lockdowns. As late as January 2020, scientific consensus was that lockdowns don’t work at all.

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