The Triumph of the Apocalyptics

Guest Post by Jeffrey Tucker

In the course of almost four years, and really dating back a decade and a half, I’ve managed to read most of the writings of the intellectuals, titans of industry, and government officials who constructed the strange reality of 2020 and after. They wanted to conduct a science experiment on the human population. Because infectious disease knows no borders, they knew for sure it would have to be a global one.

They had every detail worked out in their models. They knew how far apart people would need to stand. They knew that the best way to stop any common virus from spreading would be total isolation of the whole human population insofar as that was possible. Families could not do that of course but they figured that they could live in different rooms or simply stay six feet apart. If they couldn’t do that, they could mask up.

It goes without saying – but they said it anyway because their models told them so – that indoor and outdoor venues where people gathered had to be closed (those were the exact words issued by the White House on March 16, 2020). The scheme was deployed first in China, then Northern Italy, then the United States, and the rest of the world fell in line, all but a handful of nations including Sweden, which faced many months of brutal criticism for allowing freedom for its citizens.

It’s truly hard to imagine what the architects of this barbaric policy believed would happen next. Is it as simple (and ridiculous) as believing that a respiratory virus would just disappear? Or that a potion would show up in time to inoculate the whole population even though no one has ever successfully come up with something like that before? Is that what they believed?

Maybe. Or maybe it was just fun or otherwise remuneratively advantageous to try out a grand and global experiment on the human population. Certainly it was profitable for many, even if it wrecked the social, cultural, economic, and political lives of billions of people. Even as I write those words, it’s hard to believe they are not out of some dystopian fiction. And yet this is what happened.

Almost immediately, the idea of human rights took a back seat. Obviously so. So did the idea of equal freedom: that was immediately on the chopping block. By edict, the human population was divided into categories. It began with essential and nonessential, distinctions drawn from military protocols that suddenly pertained to the whole of the civilian world.

That was only the beginning of the stark divisions. The stigmatization of the sick began immediately too. Were they sick because they were insufficiently compliant? Did they disobey the protocols? In a hundred years of public health, we’ve not seen this level and scale of demarcation. Some of this was attempted during the AIDS crisis (pushed by none other than Anthony Fauci) but not this aggressively or comprehensively.

In those days, you could feel the concern for basic rights and freedom slipping, and with it the moral conscience of the public mind. From the beginning, it felt like martial law and the population was being divided: sick vs. well, compliant vs. noncompliant, essential vs non-essential, elective surgeries vs. emergencies needing medical services. And so on.

And this expanded dramatically over the coming months. When face coverings came along, it was masked vs unmasked. When some states started opening, it became red vs. blue. Us vs. them.

When the vaccine came along, the ultimate division hit, piling upon and swamping all the others: vaccinated vs. unvaccinated. The mandates massively disrupted the labor force. The public accommodations of whole cities were shut off to the unvaccinated, so that noncompliant citizens could not go to restaurants, bars, libraries, theaters, or other public places. Even houses of worship went along even though they didn’t have to, breaking their congregations into two parts.

Behind all of this was a political motive that traces to a text that every high expert still celebrates as a prescient and decisive refutation of liberal values: Carl Schmitt’s Concept of the Political from 1932. This essay is utterly dismissive of human rights on grounds that such notions do not sustain robust states. He was of course a Nazi jurist and his thought laid the groundwork for the demonization of the Jews and the march of the totalitarian state.

In Schmitt’s mind, the friend/enemy distinction is the best method of rallying the people around a grand cause that gives life meaning. This impulse is what gives strength to the state. He goes further: the friend/enemy distinction is best ignited in the reality of bloodshed:

“The state as the decisive political entity possesses an enormous power: the possibility of waging war and thereby publicly disposing of the lives of men. The jus belli contains such a disposition. It implies a double possibility: the right to demand from its own members the readiness to die and unhesitatingly to kill enemies.”

If for years, you have asked the question “Where does this end?” we now have our answer, which seems inevitable in retrospect: war. We are looking at the deaths of innocents and probably this as just the beginning. The lockdowns broke not only the old moral codes and agreed-upon limits to state power. It broke the human personality and spirit the whole world over. It gave rise to a bloodlust that was barely beneath the surface.

States went crazy in bullying and dividing their citizens. It happened nearly everywhere but Israel was a leading case in point, as Brownstone has pointed out repeatedly. The citizenry has never been more divided and the state never more distracted from security concerns. The delicate peace was shattered in shocking ways on October 8, 2023 in a ghastly attack that revealed the worst security failure in the vulnerable state in its history.

That incident then encouraged and further unleashed the apocalyptics, whole peoples determined to take the next step in the dehumanization of the population and the use of appalling means of doing the unthinkable: extermination, a word now thrown around as if it is fine and normal to speak this way. This conflict has now reached further into the politics of every country and down to every civic association, communities of intellectuals, and personal friendship. As Schmitt might have loved – and what Bret Weinstein calls Goliath (the unity of administrative state, media, corporate power, and elite tech platforms) surely celebrates – everyone is being turned into the category of friend and enemy.

We are reminded at last of how incredibly fragile civilization – and the peace and freedom that gives rise to it – truly is. We should worry that in the drama of the moment, the history recounted above will be discarded from human memory. The plans for virus eradication failed so badly that many of its perpetrators are desperate for a dramatic change of subject so that they can avoid responsibility. Again, this is the desire, and it might even be the plan.

This simply cannot be allowed to happen. Those of us with memories of civilized life, including universal rights and freedoms, cannot stay silent or get emotionally drawn in to the point that we are willing to forget what was done to us, the damage it inflicted on public culture, and the moral conduct a civilized people expect.

Every war is preceded by a period of demoralization (I don’t matter), demotivation (there is nothing I can do), and dehumanization (those people are not worth saving). From there it is a simple matter of flipping the switch.

Brownstone was founded in light of the above history to shine a light on higher ideals, not a Schmittian war between friends and enemies but societies of compassion, dignity, freedom, rights, and the exercise of human volition against all threats and uses of violence public and private. This is our guiding light now and always. Apocalypticism builds nothing; it only destroys. It’s the instantiation of the philosophy of The Joker. No nation and no community can survive it.

Few of us knew or fully understood the depth of depravity just beneath the thin veneer of civilization that had previously dominated the large expanse of our lives. It was the maniacal experiment in disease control only a few years ago that triggered this bout of man’s inhumanity to man. There is a burning need to know how this came about and why, and take measures, now desperate ones, to put back into the Pandora’s box all that was released.

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21 Comments
AnonNoMores
AnonNoMores
October 15, 2023 3:56 pm

No virus infected anyone. Only totalitarianism and a compliant populace.

Aunt Acid
Aunt Acid
  AnonNoMores
October 15, 2023 4:59 pm

The Media is the virus as the disease is Totalitarianism. The compliant, obedient masses a stunning symtom.

Todd Packer's Mentor
Todd Packer's Mentor
October 15, 2023 4:26 pm

RFK Jr. versus the genius Nobelists

James
James
  Todd Packer's Mentor
October 15, 2023 5:03 pm

One can contact the author of this article as he kindly left a e-mail to do just that:

[email protected].

I say share your thoughts with Larry,just saying.

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hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer
October 15, 2023 4:52 pm

Few of us knew or fully understood the depth of depravity just beneath the thin veneer of civilization that had previously dominated the large expanse of our lives.

Is it me or is that one of the most disingenuous statements of all time?

If you don’t know, or don’t understand…

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Anonymous
Anonymous
  hardscrabble farmer
October 15, 2023 5:36 pm

Few of us knew or fully understood the depth of depravity just beneath the thin veneer of civilization that had previously dominated the large expanse of our lives.

Makes sense to me.

What’s wrong with it?

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer
  Anonymous
October 15, 2023 6:05 pm

Well it indicates a complete ignorance of both history and human behavior.

So there’s that.

m
m
  hardscrabble farmer
October 16, 2023 3:22 am

HSF is going full gnostic on us 😂

“they, as Gnostics, are the only ones who know we’re in that prison”

fritz
fritz
  hardscrabble farmer
October 16, 2023 1:39 pm

H.S. with all due respect to your assessment..(and I meant that)..you are describing the ’99 and I mean the full 99% of non-Christian (and some Christian) ‘sheep’…not me and not you and not most of TBP tribe…..and I’m just saying

GNL
GNL
  Anonymous
October 15, 2023 6:13 pm

Why has prepping been a thing forever?

k31
k31
  GNL
October 15, 2023 10:36 pm

Because it is a perfectly natural and rational behavior. I don’t want to guess when Jesus is returning, but it could be 5000 more years. I am certain this current iteration of civilization won’t last near that long.

Prepping used to be the normal activity of the year, every year, but then we got electricity.

ILuvCO2
ILuvCO2
  Anonymous
October 15, 2023 7:25 pm

Human civilization is by default depraved.

James
James
October 15, 2023 4:59 pm

Excepting snobby better homes and garden types I will say it yet again,light blue colanders Will Not clash with your stainless/copper ones hanging in the kitchen.

So,as times get more “interesting “do your part to collect as many as you can!

As a added bonus,they do also make very nice gifts!

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PSBindy
PSBindy
  James
October 15, 2023 5:34 pm

“light blue colanders” LOL!

Anonymous
Anonymous
  James
October 15, 2023 5:42 pm

Impossible. Blue is indestructible.

Aunt Acid
Aunt Acid
October 15, 2023 5:08 pm

Greatest S.I.O.P. psyop of all time: coordinated globally with submission to governmental executive fiat, “Yew En” and other psyientific dictatorships for lock-downs, compulsory maksing, and the experimental vaxxines.

The Evil Fuckers were enjoying hot and cold runnning sex slave parties on private islands; superyachts, and fancy hotels, sans restrictions in any case, while planning for WWIII. They will have it and you will have to remain up-to-date on booster injections, serf.

Eat ze bugs and FJB.

Anonymous
Anonymous
October 15, 2023 5:18 pm

“No Such Thing As Innocent Civilians?” “Widespread Destruction As A Means Of Deterrence” A 2006 War Strategy Called “The Dahiya Doctrine”
Now You Can At Least “Make Sense” Of What Makes No Human Sense, From Gaza, When You Understand This “Doctrine” and How It Functions—It’s NOT TRYING To Spare Civilians or Civilian Infrastructure
https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/no-such-thing-as-innocent-civilians?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=257742&post_id=137983311&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=4v87x&utm_medium=email

B_MC
B_MC
October 15, 2023 5:22 pm

They wanted to conduct a science experiment on the human population.

Let’s do it again….

EPA Fast-Tracking of Gene-Altering Pesticide Sparks Concerns

Kendra Klein, deputy director for science at Friends of the Earth and an author of a 2020 report that calls gene-silencing pesticides “a vast, open-air genetic experiment”.

US regulators are fast-tracking a novel, gene-altering insecticide in an unusual move that would greenlight the product for three years of commercial use before a standard testing period is completed.

Calantha, a product of the company GreenLight Biosciences, contains the active ingredient ledprona, which uses a mechanism called RNA interference (RNAi) to kill the Colorado potato beetle, a notorious pest, by turning off genes it needs to survive. Calantha would be the first pesticide spray using RNAi, though the technology has been genetically engineered into some corn plants to protect them from the corn rootworms, and RNAi has a history of use in medical therapeutics and vaccines.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) just granted GreenLight Biosciences an Experimental Use Permit (EUP) in May, giving the company two years to gather and assess data from use of the new product in limited test plots. But now the new pesticide could be widely sprayed on potato crops around the country as early as this spring.

EPA fast-tracking of gene-altering pesticide sparks concerns

Fence Sitter?
Fence Sitter?
October 15, 2023 5:51 pm

Say what You will.

A LIFETIME of wandering/wondering…God. NO God? & ALL the attendant issues.

It was the blatant EVIL that ‘settled’ the issue.

Guess who owns the Fence?

Horseless Headsman
Horseless Headsman
October 16, 2023 9:57 am

“The Triumph of the Apocalyptics”

My pronoun is “Apocalyptarian”.
Apocalyptics sounds like end-times statistics.