Guest Post by Mattias Desmet
I guess you remember how a few years ago, the media called everyone who refused to wear a mask or get vaccinated a ‘grandma killer’. To protect the elderly, to save every minute of their lives – that was all what mattered.
Here is something to think about: Last week, I stumbled upon an article in a Dutch mainstream newspaper which declared in a technical and deliberate way that the ‘mysteriously persisting excess death’ has certain advantages: it saves the state hundreds of millions of costs of taking care for old people. I checked my calendar. An April fools’ joke maybe? No – it was no joke.
One could argue, of course, that this is just one article. What am I making a fuss about? Let me give you another example. A few weeks ago, the director of a government health insurance fund stated in an article published on the website of Belgian national television that euthanasia should be considered as a solution for the rapid ageing of the population. Exactly. Old people cost too much money. Let’s kill them.
These too are the words of only one man. Yet such words are not printed in the newspapers in such a guileless way if there is not a certain tolerance for such messages in society.
Let’s face it: some people want to get rid of the elderly. And these people look suspiciously lot like those who blamed you for being a heartless criminal when you suggested that the corona measures would do the elderly more harm than good.
Upon a closer examination, the sentimental ‘protection of the elderly’ during the corona crisis was rather cruel and absurd. For instance: why were the elderly dying in hospitals not allowed to see their children and grandchildren? Because the virus could kill them while they were dying?
Beneath the surface of the state’s concern about the elderly lurks exactly the opposite: the state wants to get rid of the elderly. Soon there might be a consensus: everyone who wants to live beyond the age of seventy-five is irresponsible and egoistic – a grandson killer. At least these old bastards must pay a carbon tax.
And in the end, not only the old people have to die. Humans cause climate change – they are a detrimental virus proliferating on the surface of the earth. The planet would be better off without humans.
How did we come to this point? Is there an elite who used propaganda to make us think like this? There is much more than that.
Jacques Ellul taught us that, for propaganda to be successful, it must always resonate with a deep desire in the population. Here is what I think: society is suicidal. That’s why it is more and more open to propaganda suggesting death is the best solution to our problems. That’s why so many people sleepwalk into war with Russia; that’s why so many people don’t really care about the ‘mysteriously persisting excess death’ or even think ‘it has certain advantages’.
And think about the corona measures: They wrecked the economy, destroyed the psychological well-being of people, ruined the health and wealth of children and adults, stripped us of our democratic rights. And all this without any reasonable degree of certainty that the measures would protect us from anything at all. Many people even participated in a quasi-ecstatic way in the corona measures.
That’s exactly what characterizes ritualistic behavior: it has no pragmatic meaning, it demands a sacrifice of the individual, and it leads to a certain ecstasy.
The ritualization of death manifests in its most pure form in the global advance of the practice of state-controlled euthanasia or ‘medically assisted dying’. More and more people wish to die, but they are not allowed to take the decision themselves or do it in their own way. Psychiatrists and psychotherapist are under increasing pressure to report every patient who expresses suicidal wishes. Subsequently, these patients can apply for euthanasia.
Should you want to die, you first have to go through a bureaucratic procedure which will determine whether they have the right to die; should this procedure decide you are eligible for dying, the state will kill you using the ‘right’ procedure.
The leaders of society, whether they know it or not, always have the function to orchestrate rituals. Man is a symbolic being, and society, in the first place, is a shared symbolic system and a shared symbolic-ritualistic practice.
Why do people participate in these state rituals of death? Through participating in rituals, an individual shows that its individual existence is less important than the collective existence. Rituals, in the end, are symbolic behaviors through which an individual transcends its individual existence.
Human beings need rituals. In particular when they feel disconnected and isolated. And that’s exactly what most people feel in this era of the mechanist worldview: disconnected and isolated. Here’s a quote of Aldous Huxley:
‘During the past century the successive advances in technology have been accompanied by corresponding advances in organization. Complicated machinery has had to be matched by complicated social arrangements, designed to work as smoothly and efficiently as the new instruments of production. In order to fit into these organizations, individuals have had to deindividualize themselves, have had to deny their native diversity and conform to a standard pattern, have had to do their best to become automata. […] People are related to one another, not as total personalities, but as the embodiments of economic functions or, when they are not at work, as irresponsible seekers of entertainment. Subjected to this kind of life, individuals tend to feel lonely and insignificant. Their existence ceases to have any point or meaning.’ (Brave New World – Revisited).
The mechanist worldview pulverized society, it fragmented it into elementary particles, lonely like reed that does no longer sing in the wind. Never before humanity has been so much in need of rituals. And never before it has ignored the importance of rituals as much as it does now. In a mechanist-materialist worldview, rituals are completely meaningless.
The entire madness of totalitarianism, with its limitless proliferation of bureaucratic rules, which in the end suffocates the entire society and proves extremely lethal, exactly boils down to this: it represents the return, in an excessive way, of a repressed Truth: the human being is a symbolic being, a being which needs rituals.
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I’d suggest the COVID response is a good example of where it’s important to distinguish among propaganda, censorship, and coercion.
Propaganda was largely ineffective. That’s why they had to use force to silence people and manage behavior.
In the short term that was certainly surprising to people who didn’t realize that national sovereignty and individual rights had long given way to a global power structure. But in the longer term, it shows the weakness of the globalists as rulers and central planning as ideology. Society is not with them. There is actually massive, widespread distrust and disgust for the various busy bodies and scolds out there.
Propaganda during covid was wildly effective. Almost everyone was glued to tvs and repeating exactly what the tv said. Those lines, spacing, masks? It was almost entirely voluntary. I don’t know a single person besides myself who didn’t mask up at least sometimes when they could have said no without anything other than social repercussions.
Most people were never really coerced until the shots, and by then they had nearly a year of compliance trained into them.
Let’s wait until the next ‘thing’ to see if society is really not with the globalists.
The mindfuck was the greatest psyop in recorded human history so there’s that. (The conditioning and programming of humans during the Pestilence was brilliant and demonic. Pavlov and Skinner were equally impressed.)
I would take issue with your use of the word voluntary.
Masking specifically (and NPIs generally) is a great example of widespread adoption following censorship and coercion.
P.S., if you’re not familiar with the background coercion going on at a systemic level, this piece is a good read. There’s nothing particularly Earth-shattering in this document at a content level. If anything, it’s quite restrained (relative to the shut everything down presser a week later). In a system of free choice, informed consent, some of this could actually be quite useful in some circumstances.
But… don’t let the bureaucratese lull you to sleep. The key point – the implicit threat – is found in the act of releasing a document that starts with the word guidance. Especially when the Feds had already issued a public health emergency weeks prior and there was obvious global coordination behind the scenes (not transparent) related to biolabs and the WHO and so forth.
https://www.osha.gov/sites/default/files/publications/OSHA3990.pdf
I just don’t understand the suicidal mindset. I myself am in a good place in life. I find joy and beauty in nature and living things. Of course, on the job, I have always picked up wisdom from the old guys. My mother-in-law, while frail, is sharp as a tack and can debate or talk on just about any subject you can bring up. We stayed out here on the farm and nobody died from the scamdemic.
These fools who hate their lives can die if they wish. As long as they don’t try to impose their views on us, I won’t have to help them along.
I wonder if ones who took the COVID shots didn’t really care about living and/or are just plain stupid, when others knew it hadn’t been tested and avoided it. Some trust and believe everything any politician (or pastor/priest) tells them even on the local level of gov. They were warned by others that it changes DNA and has tracking software. This has ruined friendships forever and people left churches for good as some pastors pushed the vaccines. The first amendment gives us rights like religious exemptions (freedom of religion, etc).
Only our creator(whomever that was) can give us rights. Goverment can only take them away- if we let them. So far we have been doing a pretty good job of that.
Stupid is a valid word.
The government knows, that by killing off the current population, all that money they have in their savings will flow right back to them and if they kill millions, their profits will be in the Billions and by inviting foreigners into this country, they can start their theft program on an entirely new group of people who are completely unaware of this process.
It will go to their heirs as stated in their will when it is executed.
Hopefully by then the heirs will be eliminated. These crimes are the result of a corrupt bloodline.
They don’t care about the money. They have printing presses and have already stolen all the money anyway. What they care about is KILLING YOU, for the joy of killing you. There can be no benefit in the removal of one Man, unless the removal itself is the benefit.
Let us never forget that the two things all governments do is to organize and execute theft and murder on a large scale. It is their trade.
To be surprised by this is to expose one’s ignorance of history.
It seems to me that a lot of the people traveling to countries that allow euthanasia so that they can be killed with the state’s approval are leftists. So, there is an upside.
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The author speaks of rituals. Some rituals of society are beneficial to personal integrity, well being and the preservation of family, community and societal health.
The exception, which is seen in the families, communities and society of the so-called “elites”, is properly called “ritual abuse” and has been practiced for millennia by these slaves of the BEAST, in order to produce offspring and corporate associates who will continue the beatings until compliance is a reflex.
We see this with the Masonic Order, the Jesuit Order, and the Zionist Order (but I repeat myself), among others.
If you want to be “accepted” you must bow, comply and receive the abuse, until you are presented with the Staff of Relief.
How a society treats it’s elderly and sick is a big clue how it will behave as one and it’s always NEVER good. In fact, it is DOOMED in the worst ways and often backfires.
Predictive programming…
Whatever Happened to the Human Race? Francis A. Schaeffer
A good read on this subject, from the ’70’s. Don’t recall having ever watched the movie.