I like Bret Weinstein, because unlike most post-covid new "…
I like Bret Weinstein, because unlike most post-covid new "conspiracy theorist" he knows what he's talking about and didn't go nuts just because he figured out that the world isn’t what he thought it was. There's nothing worse than those who figure that out and then fall for ANYTHING that sounds like it's opposed to the official narrative. Anyway, I even listened to Rogan because he was on and didn't regret it. But here's what I noticed: He announced this event end of September where all kinds of "alt" big wigs like Russel Brand gather their followers in Washington to take a stand against the new totalitarianism. Rescue the Republic, I think they call it. And that's great, I absolutely commend the sentiment and the courage. That the leaders of the opposition are always recovering liberals is another story. As I repeat ad nauseum, I don't think the fall of the Republic, or the West, for that matter, can be stopped. There will be some kind of back and forth, I suppose, but the direction of this ship will not be changed. But leaving that aside for now, here's the point I'd like to make: Totalitarianism doesn't just give up or change its mind. It doesn't shy away because of growing opposition. That's not how that works. When the opposition is growing tyranny just becomes more open and violent. George Orwell said it best: "All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force." The only way I see that avoids this contemporary tyranny rom becoming much more violent in the face of a growing opposition is if the idea was from the start to use the divide and rule paradigm to bring in a new (age) order by presenting a great show of "defeating the dark and evil forces." A "fake awakening" with a "revolution" that makes people think they have won when in reality they just got a brand new set of puppets leading them wherever the Party wants them to go. But now they no longer resist, now they defend the new order with their lives. They are all in. They are heroes of the revolution after all.
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> "All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force."
what a quote, orwell doesn't miss
He knew what he was talking about because he truly lived his convictions, payed a big price and learned big lessons. During the Spanish Civil War, while Hemingway was gallivanting in Madrid having affairs, Orwell was shot in the throat by a sniper, called a fascist by the communists and realized that things weren't as black and white as he had thought.