Well, obviously we need to set aside such prosaic concerns as “nuclear war” when we have far more pressing issues such as the horrifying racist and anti-LGBTQ rhetoric from extremist right-wing fascists like Candace Owens and Matt Walsh.
The real nuclear crisis is not a nuclear exchange but racism. As confirmed by a consensus of experts on nuclear physics in a joint letter to the Guardian.
On the other hand experts on racial justice will note that a nuclear detonation above British cities would disproportionally affect communities of colour. Therefore a nuclear assault on Britain is also racist.
There was another article knocking about a while ago from Raheem Kassam (I know, but I like to keep abreast of the MAGA stuff, and what they're up to over there) , which detailed the same thing around the anti corporate globalisation riots that used to happen. Remember when the WEF conferences and G20 summits used to have "black blocks" smashing up cities, and literally tens of thousands of lefty protestors? All gone now.
I have no idea exactly what's happened but I guess whether it's anti war or anti corporate protests it takes a lot of money and organisation to actually make it happen. From memory I think his headline was "How the rich ate the left", which sounds about right.
The woke stuff killed the left. Marginal issues such as the trans stuff and anti-white stuff were brought front and centre and the socialism and economic activism was completely marginalized.
I'm amazed how quickly they pulled it off tbh. I can actually remember the first time I read the lbgt acronym, I actually laughed out loud at how ridiculous it was. And now I can't walk down the street without seeing their flag. Awful as it is, in some ways it's a lesson. If they can do it then I guess someone else with a different flag could too.
Yes that transformation was underway even before the fall of the Berlin wall. It began in France in the 1960s with Foucault and Derrida, but would have come to nothing had it not been picked up and developed in Harvard and Cornell, the American Ivy League. By the 1980's it had advanced into American politics and from there it spread everywhere.
I think the same reason we don't see war protests from the left is that they know the power structure that's eager for war is now on their side, or is at least heading in a that direction they like. Their flag isn't the Union Jack or the Stars And Stripes. It's the rainbow, and they find that much easier to match behind because it's a flag that the honest working man can only find repulsive, if he contemplates it at all.
The left have been exposed in this way similarly to the way in which their declared concern for the poor was exposed as a sham. They stopped pleading for the welfare of the working class when a greater victim group came along via immigration, proving that they never really thought themselves one with the working class of their country. It was merely a vehicle for protest against a power structure that wasn't to their liking.
Could it be that people have become demoralised by perceived insurmountable, existential threats? After covid lockdowns, realising that voting & protesting do nothing, constantly being told that the environment is collapsing and now the doom of being told that energy, food & fuel are always going to cost more than you can afford they've just given up hope?
Like the rats in Curt Richters Drowning Buckets experiments in the 50s they've learned that there is no hope and given up fighting?
I don't know, I see lots of people my age saying "I'm glad that I won't be around for much longer" online, are these people tired of life?
Whenever I see footage of people being executed I always think why don't they fight, struggle, at least die on their feet defiant but often they meekly do as they're told, follow the orders, accept the noose or the blade.
Maybe many of us are just so soft, medicated, apathetic & bored that as long as we don't need to actually do anything the idea of dying isn't so bad. Perhaps the maniacs that run the world really have broken the spirit of man.
An exceedingly timely and thoroughly alarming piece, Morgoth. Not only is it incredible to think that an actual exchange of nuclear weapons is seriously being talked about, but that the collective public response is a shrug - at most. The ovine passivity and languid disinterest of the public, in the face of their prospective extermination, literally beggars belief.
I can vividly recall when the BBC first screened their film 'Threads' back in 1984. The public's reaction was one of outright terror and revulsion. Now, nobody gives a monkey's toss as the reality of Threads is but a miscalculation away.
You will also notice we aren't being given any instructions at all from the government. Which is interesting in and of itself in such a conspiratorial age.
I have noticed, Morgoth. I've always kept an eye on such things, a bit of an odd interest, perhaps, but there you go. The UK dismantled the air raid siren system back in the early 1990s, though a handful survive for flood warnings. Civil defence , even in its creepy and risible 'Protect & Survive' form (find the clips online if you've not seen them) has simply been abandoned. The plan now appears to be to sacrifice the entire British population to the wishes of the US State Department.
I always liked this quote from Linnie Blake, an academic, in relation to neoliberalism and free trade:
'Under the onslaught of neoliberalism’s bellicose consumerism, people may believe themselves to be both free and unique. But as the cultural ubiquity of the zombie attests, we have been made monstrous by neoliberal conceptions of the self, becoming highly infectious transnational organisms locked within a static subjectivity that entirely lacks self-reflexivity and affirms, at every turn, the inescapability of the status quo.'
There's a lot of ideas packed into that paragraph. One of them being Mark Fisher's idea that there seems to be no escape from Capitalism and the consequent apathy. I used that quote in a review of the movie The Platform. I don't write very often but occasionally I feel the need to get something out of my system.
It was a day trip to Paris in 2004 which changed my attitude quite drastically. I left as a liberal and came back with serious concerns about demographics. It's ironic that the Eurostar brings you to the Gare De La Nord where the shock is acute.
Around that time I wanted to travel but was skint so spent a few years doing manual work around Holland and Germany. For about a year I lived in part of South Rotterdam which had practically no white people in it. The Dutch lads at work thought I was insane and could not believe that I had not been beaten up or robbed. One day I was having lunch with a couple of Moroccan lads and told them this, they just chuckled and said I was ok because people knew I was a "foreigner" as well. A Dutchman certainly wouldn't be welcome around here. That's when I knew we were fucked.
None of them were working though. They were just standing around in the streets all day and I thought why would a government bring in thousands of migrants and just leave them idle like that? They were there in the morning and there when I went to the station to go home. It must be even worse now, nearly 20 years later.
I think there are a few causes at play here. In no particular order:
1. Putin is the new Hitler and Ukraine is the new Czechoslovakia. "We failed to stop Hitler at Munich and look what happened". Hitler is the means by which our masters create an unassailable moral case for either action or inaction. Who wants to be seen taking to the streets to protect Hitler? Even nuclear war is better than Hitler.
2. The British right (such as it is) is completely in the mental pocket of Washington and they're all baying for Russian blood. Besides, normies and GAE boys don't go on marches anyway.
3. The British left has been neutralised and absorbed into the global borg. Besides, they hate Putin because he barred NGOs from Russia in 2013 and is preventing globohomo from gaining a toehold in Russia now. That is unforgivable and Russians deserve to die because freedom = bumsex.
4. The lefties only took to the streets over Iraq because the Iraqis are brown and muslim. The Guardian was on full attack mode against Serbia a few years previously because Serbs are white and, hence, the enemy.
5. Even if there are sincere anti-war people around (and there are a few), I think everyone now appreciates that marching around with placards and chanting slogans is useless. A malaise has settled over everyone, regardless of their political persuasions. There were regular street demonstrations against the COVID lockdowns and none of them made a blind bit of difference. Our rulers have learned to put up with or filter out the howls and screams of the discontented.
Hello Morgoth. I also had similar thoughts just recently, we have truly entered the twilight zone. I think the older generations learned that protests do nothing, but the younger generations have enough bread and circus' to not get politically violent. I am hoping this will change with the energy crisis, but the foxes in charge continue to kick the can down the precariously narrowing path to the edge of the cliff. You can't blame the younger generation too much, most of them are saddled with the debts of the can kicking from their parents generation.
Part of me hopes we see a few fireworks soon, just not near my house. Another part of me, having never experienced military conflict, hopes those fireworks land in my area.
Also, Morgoth, have you ever read any of John Micheal Greer's work? Here is a link:
Despite all the climate, BLM establishment staged events, there are still organic protests. There was more than a reasonable show last year at the lockdown protests. Maybe people don't believe Armageddon will happen. Maybe they have other priorities or concerns that are more pressing and ones which they can affect the outcome of. If it is that important, people will always find a way.
There's a couple of Albanian lads at my work, once I told them I wasn't getting vaxed no matter what they warmed to me and we chat about politics a fair bit. I'm certainly not on board with the way they live in many respects but politically they are very much more aware than I had expected. And yes, if their economy back home was to improve they'd be straight back there.
I remember that vote on Syria very well, one of the things that really stood out for me was the way the Labour front bench reacted when they "won" the vote. The front bench did not look happy, Chukka in particular was staring at Milliband, and Harman looked shocked. They had no intention of stopping that intervention imo but got caught out by the number of tories that voted with them. Remember they threw the saintly Obama under the bus in may ways with that vote.
Well, obviously we need to set aside such prosaic concerns as “nuclear war” when we have far more pressing issues such as the horrifying racist and anti-LGBTQ rhetoric from extremist right-wing fascists like Candace Owens and Matt Walsh.
The real nuclear crisis is not a nuclear exchange but racism. As confirmed by a consensus of experts on nuclear physics in a joint letter to the Guardian.
On the other hand experts on racial justice will note that a nuclear detonation above British cities would disproportionally affect communities of colour. Therefore a nuclear assault on Britain is also racist.
There was another article knocking about a while ago from Raheem Kassam (I know, but I like to keep abreast of the MAGA stuff, and what they're up to over there) , which detailed the same thing around the anti corporate globalisation riots that used to happen. Remember when the WEF conferences and G20 summits used to have "black blocks" smashing up cities, and literally tens of thousands of lefty protestors? All gone now.
I have no idea exactly what's happened but I guess whether it's anti war or anti corporate protests it takes a lot of money and organisation to actually make it happen. From memory I think his headline was "How the rich ate the left", which sounds about right.
The woke stuff killed the left. Marginal issues such as the trans stuff and anti-white stuff were brought front and centre and the socialism and economic activism was completely marginalized.
I'm amazed how quickly they pulled it off tbh. I can actually remember the first time I read the lbgt acronym, I actually laughed out loud at how ridiculous it was. And now I can't walk down the street without seeing their flag. Awful as it is, in some ways it's a lesson. If they can do it then I guess someone else with a different flag could too.
Yes that transformation was underway even before the fall of the Berlin wall. It began in France in the 1960s with Foucault and Derrida, but would have come to nothing had it not been picked up and developed in Harvard and Cornell, the American Ivy League. By the 1980's it had advanced into American politics and from there it spread everywhere.
I remember the “anti capitalist” riots in London where banks and businesses were smashed up on a yearly basis yet that all seems to have gone away??
I think the same reason we don't see war protests from the left is that they know the power structure that's eager for war is now on their side, or is at least heading in a that direction they like. Their flag isn't the Union Jack or the Stars And Stripes. It's the rainbow, and they find that much easier to match behind because it's a flag that the honest working man can only find repulsive, if he contemplates it at all.
The left have been exposed in this way similarly to the way in which their declared concern for the poor was exposed as a sham. They stopped pleading for the welfare of the working class when a greater victim group came along via immigration, proving that they never really thought themselves one with the working class of their country. It was merely a vehicle for protest against a power structure that wasn't to their liking.
Could it be that people have become demoralised by perceived insurmountable, existential threats? After covid lockdowns, realising that voting & protesting do nothing, constantly being told that the environment is collapsing and now the doom of being told that energy, food & fuel are always going to cost more than you can afford they've just given up hope?
Like the rats in Curt Richters Drowning Buckets experiments in the 50s they've learned that there is no hope and given up fighting?
I don't know, I see lots of people my age saying "I'm glad that I won't be around for much longer" online, are these people tired of life?
Whenever I see footage of people being executed I always think why don't they fight, struggle, at least die on their feet defiant but often they meekly do as they're told, follow the orders, accept the noose or the blade.
Maybe many of us are just so soft, medicated, apathetic & bored that as long as we don't need to actually do anything the idea of dying isn't so bad. Perhaps the maniacs that run the world really have broken the spirit of man.
An exceedingly timely and thoroughly alarming piece, Morgoth. Not only is it incredible to think that an actual exchange of nuclear weapons is seriously being talked about, but that the collective public response is a shrug - at most. The ovine passivity and languid disinterest of the public, in the face of their prospective extermination, literally beggars belief.
I can vividly recall when the BBC first screened their film 'Threads' back in 1984. The public's reaction was one of outright terror and revulsion. Now, nobody gives a monkey's toss as the reality of Threads is but a miscalculation away.
You will also notice we aren't being given any instructions at all from the government. Which is interesting in and of itself in such a conspiratorial age.
I have noticed, Morgoth. I've always kept an eye on such things, a bit of an odd interest, perhaps, but there you go. The UK dismantled the air raid siren system back in the early 1990s, though a handful survive for flood warnings. Civil defence , even in its creepy and risible 'Protect & Survive' form (find the clips online if you've not seen them) has simply been abandoned. The plan now appears to be to sacrifice the entire British population to the wishes of the US State Department.
I always liked this quote from Linnie Blake, an academic, in relation to neoliberalism and free trade:
'Under the onslaught of neoliberalism’s bellicose consumerism, people may believe themselves to be both free and unique. But as the cultural ubiquity of the zombie attests, we have been made monstrous by neoliberal conceptions of the self, becoming highly infectious transnational organisms locked within a static subjectivity that entirely lacks self-reflexivity and affirms, at every turn, the inescapability of the status quo.'
There's a lot of ideas packed into that paragraph. One of them being Mark Fisher's idea that there seems to be no escape from Capitalism and the consequent apathy. I used that quote in a review of the movie The Platform. I don't write very often but occasionally I feel the need to get something out of my system.
https://nitratecinema.wordpress.com/2022/05/28/4330/
It was a day trip to Paris in 2004 which changed my attitude quite drastically. I left as a liberal and came back with serious concerns about demographics. It's ironic that the Eurostar brings you to the Gare De La Nord where the shock is acute.
Around that time I wanted to travel but was skint so spent a few years doing manual work around Holland and Germany. For about a year I lived in part of South Rotterdam which had practically no white people in it. The Dutch lads at work thought I was insane and could not believe that I had not been beaten up or robbed. One day I was having lunch with a couple of Moroccan lads and told them this, they just chuckled and said I was ok because people knew I was a "foreigner" as well. A Dutchman certainly wouldn't be welcome around here. That's when I knew we were fucked.
None of them were working though. They were just standing around in the streets all day and I thought why would a government bring in thousands of migrants and just leave them idle like that? They were there in the morning and there when I went to the station to go home. It must be even worse now, nearly 20 years later.
I was thinking it could be “bread and circuses” but there is not enough banal entertainment to detract all that lefty attention.
It is strange. War, the coof, climate change have become the orthodoxy replacing class struggle and Marxist alienation. So strange.
I think there are a few causes at play here. In no particular order:
1. Putin is the new Hitler and Ukraine is the new Czechoslovakia. "We failed to stop Hitler at Munich and look what happened". Hitler is the means by which our masters create an unassailable moral case for either action or inaction. Who wants to be seen taking to the streets to protect Hitler? Even nuclear war is better than Hitler.
2. The British right (such as it is) is completely in the mental pocket of Washington and they're all baying for Russian blood. Besides, normies and GAE boys don't go on marches anyway.
3. The British left has been neutralised and absorbed into the global borg. Besides, they hate Putin because he barred NGOs from Russia in 2013 and is preventing globohomo from gaining a toehold in Russia now. That is unforgivable and Russians deserve to die because freedom = bumsex.
4. The lefties only took to the streets over Iraq because the Iraqis are brown and muslim. The Guardian was on full attack mode against Serbia a few years previously because Serbs are white and, hence, the enemy.
5. Even if there are sincere anti-war people around (and there are a few), I think everyone now appreciates that marching around with placards and chanting slogans is useless. A malaise has settled over everyone, regardless of their political persuasions. There were regular street demonstrations against the COVID lockdowns and none of them made a blind bit of difference. Our rulers have learned to put up with or filter out the howls and screams of the discontented.
Hello Morgoth. I also had similar thoughts just recently, we have truly entered the twilight zone. I think the older generations learned that protests do nothing, but the younger generations have enough bread and circus' to not get politically violent. I am hoping this will change with the energy crisis, but the foxes in charge continue to kick the can down the precariously narrowing path to the edge of the cliff. You can't blame the younger generation too much, most of them are saddled with the debts of the can kicking from their parents generation.
Part of me hopes we see a few fireworks soon, just not near my house. Another part of me, having never experienced military conflict, hopes those fireworks land in my area.
Also, Morgoth, have you ever read any of John Micheal Greer's work? Here is a link:
https://www.ecosophia.net/futures-that-work/
“Swarms don’t march”
The job is Fu ked
Despite all the climate, BLM establishment staged events, there are still organic protests. There was more than a reasonable show last year at the lockdown protests. Maybe people don't believe Armageddon will happen. Maybe they have other priorities or concerns that are more pressing and ones which they can affect the outcome of. If it is that important, people will always find a way.
Maybe the bugs got smart and went elsehwere.
There's a couple of Albanian lads at my work, once I told them I wasn't getting vaxed no matter what they warmed to me and we chat about politics a fair bit. I'm certainly not on board with the way they live in many respects but politically they are very much more aware than I had expected. And yes, if their economy back home was to improve they'd be straight back there.
I remember that vote on Syria very well, one of the things that really stood out for me was the way the Labour front bench reacted when they "won" the vote. The front bench did not look happy, Chukka in particular was staring at Milliband, and Harman looked shocked. They had no intention of stopping that intervention imo but got caught out by the number of tories that voted with them. Remember they threw the saintly Obama under the bus in may ways with that vote.