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As Arendt observes, the true “political crisis” of our time lies in our inability to even feel the depoliticized desert to which we have been consigned, ‘the modern growth of worldlessness, the withering away of everything between us’.
This is Technocracy’s coup d’etat. The COVID-19 crisis wreaked havoc on societies and personal existence, economies and economics and dealt a major setback to achieving the 2030 Agenda and the Paris Climate Agreement. And since both are simply elite bench marked goals for Neo-Feudalism the objective of the Globalist is “putting the world back on a path of sustainable, equitable, and inclusive growth” it will require a Great Reset of social and economic systems.
And we're already seeing huge parts of that 'great reset' in other Western nations. As reported in this story titled "From Lockdown to Police State: The 'Great Reset' Rolls Out", Australian police were already going 'FULL NAZI', smashing in windows of civilian cars because passengers riding within them refused to give them details about where they were going.
Democrats and other Globalist tools claimed that they were superior because they were “listening to the science”. They weren’t listening to the science, which is not an oracle and does not give interviews. Instead, they were obeying a class of officials, some of them whom weren’t even medical professionals, who impressed elected officials and the public with statistical sleight of hand. And little else. The entire lockdown to testing to reopening pipeline that we adopted wholesale was a typical bureaucratic and corporate exercise, complete with the illusion of metrics and goals, that suffered from all the typical problems of bureaucracy, academia, and corporate culture. The system that determines reopenings and closings is an echo chamber that measures its own functioning while having little to do with the real world. Testing is a cargo cult exercise that confuses the map with the world, and the virus with the spreadsheet. It gamifies fighting the pandemic while dragging entire countries into an imaginary world based on its invented rules. When the media reports a rise or decrease in positive tests, it’s treated as if it’s an assessment of the virus, rather than an incomplete data point that measures its own measurements. The daily coronavirus reports have become the equivalent of Soviet harvest reports. They sound impressive, mean absolutely nothing, and are the pet obsession of a bureaucracy that not only has no understanding of the problem, but its grip on power has made it the problem.
However I have to add I see no offramp except catastrophe as the populations are even or especially in Western states are similar to the painting by George Grosz-Republican Automata.
Once upon a time there was an engineer
Drove a locomotive both far and near
Accompanied by a monkey that would sit on a stool
Watching everything the engineer would do
One day the engineer wanted a bite to eat
He left the monkey sitting on the driver's seat
The monkey pulled the throttle, the locomotive jumped the gun
And did 80 miles an hour down the mainline run
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The separate and always separative self is inherently, always, and irrationally opposed. The presumed other is always an opponent, in effect, if not by intention. The separate self is confronted only by binding forces, and it is itself a force that is tending to bind every presumed other. The separate self and the presumed other are mad relations, always together in the growling pit, bound by Nature to do Nature's deeds to one another. And as experience increases, it becomes clear that Nature is an Immense Pattern that always seeks and inevitably attains superiority, dominance, and the destruction of every part and self.
Therefore, the Great Other - whether It is called Nature or Nature's God - is your Opponent, not your Refuge. And the very perception and conception of difference (or Otherness), is the sign that the separate and separative self, rather than Truth or God, is the presumed basis of your conscious existence.
Truth is prior or eternal Freedom and Humour, whether or not the Other or the Opponent seems to be present. Therefore Truth is the only Refuge. And if you surrender to Truth, which is Transcendental Being, Consciousness, or Happiness (the Subjective Source of self and all that is objective or Objective to it), then there is an Awakening from this nightmare of condemmed life and its passionate search for pleasure, escape, and victory.
Whatever is apparently objective to the separate self immediately becomes your enemy or opponent. You will therefore be at war with it, seek to control it in one way or another, and eventually seek to or actively act to destroy it.
The Western mind (in particular) is deeply entangled in the separative disposition. Why, how?
Because it presumes that we are inherently separate from God or the Living Divine Reality, the natural world or the Cosmos, and from each other and all beings.