Apr 12, 2022·edited Apr 12, 2022Liked by Monica Hughes PhD
"The leftists and the rightists each see half of the fraud."
I hear that a lot in these circles...along with "This isn't a right/left issue, this is an X!"
I couldn't disagree more. There is a very observable pattern between those captured by the mainstream left orthodoxy being in favor of (or even complicit) in the crimes of the last two years.
The Covid Crisis didn't begin in 2019/2020 it was clearly a pre-planned initiative that they had been laying the groundwork for quite some time.
1) Normalizing censorship (They came for Alex Jones, then they came for the doctors)
2) Normalizing using finances as a weapon against regular people (firing people for tweets)
3) Indoctrinating people into a new state religion (trust the experts)
There is only a single political tribe/side that has been so consistently working towards all three:
The "progressive" "woke" ideologues and their enablers, and they had many enablers.
Many will fall short of calling these people mind-controlled, but that's only sparing their feelings.
There are two things I've noticed that have solidified my view on this.
1) Any time the public is polled on the state of reality on *any issue* the "right" consistently closer to reality than the "left" by a massive margin. Both groups will be wrong, but one is consistently "more wrong" than the other in a significant way.
2) Listen to the crowds. If you pay attention not to the speakers, but listen for when the crowds on the "right" cheer more intensely or stay quiet, you will consistently notice that they have a far more advanced understanding on issued than people would think...and that's just the people attending events!
Naturally this isn't absolute, there are always notable exceptions, but I would argue that the main predictors of one's pro-tyranny affinity is a combination of:
1) Right/left persuasion
2) How much they benefit from the status quo
3) Their age
In that order!
I believe the right (as a group) has already "woken up" to the scheme in significant ways and that the left is still years behind. Now there is a lot the right needs to learn from the old left, the problem is that most people who consider themselves left these days aren't even able to explain classical liberal ideas. The "left" hasn't been what most people see it as for quite some time and it's simply a sick mockery of what it ever stood for.
Couldn't agree less. The people you call "left" aren't left at all. They are neoliberals, and there's little to none of the traditional values of the left to be found in a neoliberal. Neoliberals are globalists and corporatists; they espouse a state which serves the global elite, not the people.
It seems to me there are two main categories of thought/belief that get confused all the time: the 'social' and the 'economic'. Left politics is based on political economics, not social wokeism. Think of Marx's historical materialism and his labour theory of value. When you state, "the 'left' hasn't been what most people see it as for quite some time and it's simply a sick mockery of what it ever stood for", that is because the those whom you refer to as the "left" aren't the left at all. In most western countries, the left no longer exists in an organized political form. That's not to say that there are no more leftists; it's just that their former political expressions, such as Britain's Labour Party or Canada's NDP, have been taken over by neoliberals and are no longer "left" political parties.
The neoliberals you describe incorrectly as the "left" are an evolution (some would say an inevitable evolution) of classic liberal ideas, which have nothing to do with traditional left ideas.
Apr 12, 2022·edited Apr 12, 2022Liked by Monica Hughes PhD
It's definitely a "sandwich" where both the higher and lower bound are more susceptible in my experience, but it's not as good as #2, which seems to be quite a bit less accurate than #1. if I was to throw out numbers here's how I'd rank it.
Right/Left persuasion: 85% likely to tell you where they are
Do they benefit or not: 70% likely...
Very young or very old: 65% likely...
Also, I've noticed by a small margin men seem to be more likely in favor than women for reasons I'm not quite sure.
But everything I've seen is that the ""type" most likely against all this is:
A middle-aged woman who isn't working in the public sector who leans right or centrist.
One of the things that I think the Cryprocurrency/Precious metals crowds are 100% correct about is that if we managed to wrestle the power over money away from the state a great deal of problems would be solved. The "money printer" has been more of a social engineering tool than a fiscal one...and THAT'S a nuclear warhead against people's individual rights.
I think it's foolish to pigeonhole oneself into particular solutions though. The way I see it is that anything that tilts the balance of power towards the people is (mostly) inherently good. If that's boycotting state currencies in favor of barter, metals, crypto or even just free sharing I'm all for it.
Ditto. Used to be a minarchist, too. But now we have blockchain, anarchy is the only governance we need. The people can do the rest. It won't happen for generations though so us pioneers must do what we can on the fringes. Eventually, the sheep will follow. Or they won't. And it won't matter to us quite frankly, as long as they leave us the hell alone.
You're exhibiting the callous disregard for the “sheep” that to my mind discredits the “anarchy” you're advancing. Isn't this EXACTLY the callous disregard that the current ascendant monster oligarchs have for nearly everyone, including you and me?!
“... now that we have blockchain ...”: Who is going to keep the internet and the electricity supply going?
Oh! I just saw this! Not sure why I didn't notice it in my notifications before.
Joel can answer for himself of course. But here would be my replies.
"Isn't this EXACTLY the callous disregard that the current ascendant monster oligarchs have for nearly everyone?"
Not at all. Horrible things happen to millions of people around the globe every day and none of us know a thing about any of it. Failing to spend every waking moment obsessing about everything going wrong with the world and failing to propose a centralized top down solution is NOT the same as constantly meddling in everyone's business to direct them for their own good (or for my own good, as the case generally turns out to be).
The former is a hypothetical construct of governance of course, but the latter is what centralized governments and oligarchs do in reality every damned day.
"Who is going to keep the internet and the electricity supply going?"
The same people who keep it going right now, of course.
I think we have exactly the form of government we deserve. If there were some mass desire for personal responsibility and autonomy, we would have it. Each of these tyrannical institutions grew out of our request that someone "do something". Mask mandates would have never happened if we didn't comply with them. Vax mandates same. The powers are just giving us what we ask for.
An iron fist wrapped in a velvet glove is still an iron fist. As you correctly noted, the Canadian protestors found out the hard way what sort of government they really have. We are owned, loosely for now, but the leash has been tightened.
I was in a pool in Vegas in 2012 (ish) and one of my buddies was selling me on Bitcoin. I laughed and told him I thought the whole thing was either a fraud cooked up by the Winlkevoss twins, after Zuckerberg screwed them out of what became FB, or the Feds were using it as an easy asset seizure vehicle. Big joke on me! $10/coin then. I don't know what to do, so I wait, thus is truly the first time in our lives we can't just "sell it all" and debunk to the woods or the Outback, the Uniparty wants to know all and control all now.
For what is worth, I never thought the system was broken. When grifters can be President, the system works just fine.
It’s so great when I meet others with ‘live and let live’ leanings, and when I found libertarianism 15 years ago there weren’t many, but year by year I’ve met more and more. These last two years have really shaken me to my core. I thought most people were good, and now I realize there’s a rotten few, and many, many, that will give into fear and mass psychosis and subjugate others. But I see it from all sides, like you say. The swinging pendulum of tyranny, that has now swung far left, will in the future swing far right. Society always goes too far when it tries to correct itself. Meanwhile we continue to ask questions as the outsiders- try our best to keep society awake enough to not fall sleeping off another cliff.
👏 👏 👏 collaborative anarchism is a thing. From one anarchist to another, even when caught in the throes of Klaus Anal Schwab, deep down, I know it’s gonna be ok in the end. And if it’s not ok, it’s not the end.
We find ourselves in a “system.” On it’s basis we are carried to a reasonably comfortable standard of living without a lot of individual effort because a lot of the effort or work is done by technological organization of the energy extracted from petroleum. We can have the leisure to speculate because it is furnished by this technological platform which is so successful that billions are supported by it without needing to understand how. “Conservatives” are people who are closer to “the nitty-gritties” of “how” and closer to some physical aspect of “actual”maintenance of it, I would suggest.
Do you make preparations and supply some clinics in Mexico? A friend has been working with the Hoxey Clinic treatment in TJ and they seem to be good people doing good work.
Apr 12, 2022·edited Apr 12, 2022Liked by Monica Hughes PhD
I've got some idea of 'what's to replace the government'.
We do.
Step up to the plate. Do what we've been supposed to have been doing from the beginning as citizens of a democracy.
Speak. Have a say. Play a part.
Now we can.
With the internet and smartphones and computers we can do it.
We can have a kinda perpetual plebiscite running whereby the nation acts according to the will of the people.
The clear problem with the last two years - apart from the epidemic of malfeasance in the part of govt - was the people's total lack of interest in (a) discovering the truth and (b) doing something about it when they found it.
The nearest they came was to demand more violent versions of the truckers convoy.
That is the thinking the Roman slaves had back then. Revolt in the streets.
And you know what happened to them.
Nope.
The thing to do is forget two party representation, proportional representation, we want individual representation and now we can have it.
There's heaps and heaps and heaps and heaps of things in this structure that are good and praiseworthy, well thought, painfully constructed etc...
All that doesn't need destroying.
It just needs us.
mbccc.com says it. said it more than five years ago i think.
Apr 13, 2022·edited Apr 14, 2022Liked by Monica Hughes PhD
It may be a personal bent, but it seems that witnessing authoritarianism and the abuse of power almost inevitably leads the thinking feeling person toward parallel/horizontal systems (as compared to pyramidal/vertical organization). Personal responsibility and a healthy measure of love and compassion for all are the intangible guides that seem to make horizontal and communal organizations work. I’m not sure what -ism or -ist that falls under, but the labels matter less than the outcomes.
Thank you again for a wonderful piece—I do enjoy your writing very much.
Monica, YOU are a woman in her power! 👊 Thank you for an Inspiring article, great job! 🙌 Keep up the good work! 👍 I’m so happy I found this big melting pot of debate, free discussion and diversity of opinion, called Substack. It’s like brain food for me. I really love this community! Gabriel Wilson you described me to a tee....middle age woman, not working public sector, and I’m centrist. Kinda tripped me out! 😂
"I’m so happy I found this big melting pot of debate, free discussion and diversity of opinion, called Substack. It’s like brain food for me. I really love this community!"
Yeah I knew instinctively the financial game was rigged and 2008 financial crisis revealed the schemes. Imagine the health treatments suppressed that we don't have not been allowed access to.
People have been brainwashed by social Darwinism and its antecedents in people like Hobbes to believe that anarchy means giving unlimited rein to what is worst in human nature, rather than unfettering what is best (as Rousseau thought, but that idea didn't survive the Reign of Terror).
Whilst it is true that left-libertarians are allied with the Right now, I still think the really interesting thought is on the left. Right-libertarians are mostly minarchists because they know that without the State's resources their "natural right" to private property would be unsustainable. Also, at this point I think it is reasonable to conclude that the Coase theorem (irrelevance of ownership to economic outcomes) just doesn't fit the facts. Billionaires amass wealth through corruption - making them an extension of the State - and then put it to socially suboptimal (if not downright nefarious) ends. When David Graeber says that a policeman is just a bureaucrat with a gun, he makes a really telling observation of a kind you would never expect from Ron Paul. And such insights would never have been possible without Foucault's historicization of culture. I believe in a minimal state too, and autonomous administration of justice. But the functions of this state and its relationship to its citizens needs to be very different from how it is usually premised. It is not tolerable that it is the worst and most predatory functions of the State that are the most vehemently and universally defended, on both sides of the political spectrum.
It's not too hard to learn in practicality. I went on a deep dive in 2017. If you want a shortcut, learn about hardware wallets like Trezor or Ledger, which support almost all important cryptocurrencies. Andreas Antonopoulos is an excellent educational resource and has free videos on his YouTube channel to learn all about the basic concept of crypto. Monero is the totally anonymous one.
"The leftists and the rightists each see half of the fraud."
I hear that a lot in these circles...along with "This isn't a right/left issue, this is an X!"
I couldn't disagree more. There is a very observable pattern between those captured by the mainstream left orthodoxy being in favor of (or even complicit) in the crimes of the last two years.
The Covid Crisis didn't begin in 2019/2020 it was clearly a pre-planned initiative that they had been laying the groundwork for quite some time.
1) Normalizing censorship (They came for Alex Jones, then they came for the doctors)
2) Normalizing using finances as a weapon against regular people (firing people for tweets)
3) Indoctrinating people into a new state religion (trust the experts)
There is only a single political tribe/side that has been so consistently working towards all three:
The "progressive" "woke" ideologues and their enablers, and they had many enablers.
Many will fall short of calling these people mind-controlled, but that's only sparing their feelings.
There are two things I've noticed that have solidified my view on this.
1) Any time the public is polled on the state of reality on *any issue* the "right" consistently closer to reality than the "left" by a massive margin. Both groups will be wrong, but one is consistently "more wrong" than the other in a significant way.
2) Listen to the crowds. If you pay attention not to the speakers, but listen for when the crowds on the "right" cheer more intensely or stay quiet, you will consistently notice that they have a far more advanced understanding on issued than people would think...and that's just the people attending events!
Naturally this isn't absolute, there are always notable exceptions, but I would argue that the main predictors of one's pro-tyranny affinity is a combination of:
1) Right/left persuasion
2) How much they benefit from the status quo
3) Their age
In that order!
I believe the right (as a group) has already "woken up" to the scheme in significant ways and that the left is still years behind. Now there is a lot the right needs to learn from the old left, the problem is that most people who consider themselves left these days aren't even able to explain classical liberal ideas. The "left" hasn't been what most people see it as for quite some time and it's simply a sick mockery of what it ever stood for.
Couldn't agree less. The people you call "left" aren't left at all. They are neoliberals, and there's little to none of the traditional values of the left to be found in a neoliberal. Neoliberals are globalists and corporatists; they espouse a state which serves the global elite, not the people.
It seems to me there are two main categories of thought/belief that get confused all the time: the 'social' and the 'economic'. Left politics is based on political economics, not social wokeism. Think of Marx's historical materialism and his labour theory of value. When you state, "the 'left' hasn't been what most people see it as for quite some time and it's simply a sick mockery of what it ever stood for", that is because the those whom you refer to as the "left" aren't the left at all. In most western countries, the left no longer exists in an organized political form. That's not to say that there are no more leftists; it's just that their former political expressions, such as Britain's Labour Party or Canada's NDP, have been taken over by neoliberals and are no longer "left" political parties.
The neoliberals you describe incorrectly as the "left" are an evolution (some would say an inevitable evolution) of classic liberal ideas, which have nothing to do with traditional left ideas.
what do yo mean by age? The older you are the less you see? Or the younger you are the more you are swayed by the "narrative"?
It's definitely a "sandwich" where both the higher and lower bound are more susceptible in my experience, but it's not as good as #2, which seems to be quite a bit less accurate than #1. if I was to throw out numbers here's how I'd rank it.
Right/Left persuasion: 85% likely to tell you where they are
Do they benefit or not: 70% likely...
Very young or very old: 65% likely...
Also, I've noticed by a small margin men seem to be more likely in favor than women for reasons I'm not quite sure.
But everything I've seen is that the ""type" most likely against all this is:
A middle-aged woman who isn't working in the public sector who leans right or centrist.
Thank you! 👍
One of the things that I think the Cryprocurrency/Precious metals crowds are 100% correct about is that if we managed to wrestle the power over money away from the state a great deal of problems would be solved. The "money printer" has been more of a social engineering tool than a fiscal one...and THAT'S a nuclear warhead against people's individual rights.
I think it's foolish to pigeonhole oneself into particular solutions though. The way I see it is that anything that tilts the balance of power towards the people is (mostly) inherently good. If that's boycotting state currencies in favor of barter, metals, crypto or even just free sharing I'm all for it.
Totally!
I just don't see many of the government services we take for granted working well without community/public oversight and “accountability”.
What government services?
Ditto. Used to be a minarchist, too. But now we have blockchain, anarchy is the only governance we need. The people can do the rest. It won't happen for generations though so us pioneers must do what we can on the fringes. Eventually, the sheep will follow. Or they won't. And it won't matter to us quite frankly, as long as they leave us the hell alone.
You're exhibiting the callous disregard for the “sheep” that to my mind discredits the “anarchy” you're advancing. Isn't this EXACTLY the callous disregard that the current ascendant monster oligarchs have for nearly everyone, including you and me?!
“... now that we have blockchain ...”: Who is going to keep the internet and the electricity supply going?
Oh! I just saw this! Not sure why I didn't notice it in my notifications before.
Joel can answer for himself of course. But here would be my replies.
"Isn't this EXACTLY the callous disregard that the current ascendant monster oligarchs have for nearly everyone?"
Not at all. Horrible things happen to millions of people around the globe every day and none of us know a thing about any of it. Failing to spend every waking moment obsessing about everything going wrong with the world and failing to propose a centralized top down solution is NOT the same as constantly meddling in everyone's business to direct them for their own good (or for my own good, as the case generally turns out to be).
The former is a hypothetical construct of governance of course, but the latter is what centralized governments and oligarchs do in reality every damned day.
"Who is going to keep the internet and the electricity supply going?"
The same people who keep it going right now, of course.
I think we have exactly the form of government we deserve. If there were some mass desire for personal responsibility and autonomy, we would have it. Each of these tyrannical institutions grew out of our request that someone "do something". Mask mandates would have never happened if we didn't comply with them. Vax mandates same. The powers are just giving us what we ask for.
The numbers are only growing in one direction, though.
"But Monica, wouldn’t warlords take over?"
An iron fist wrapped in a velvet glove is still an iron fist. As you correctly noted, the Canadian protestors found out the hard way what sort of government they really have. We are owned, loosely for now, but the leash has been tightened.
I was in a pool in Vegas in 2012 (ish) and one of my buddies was selling me on Bitcoin. I laughed and told him I thought the whole thing was either a fraud cooked up by the Winlkevoss twins, after Zuckerberg screwed them out of what became FB, or the Feds were using it as an easy asset seizure vehicle. Big joke on me! $10/coin then. I don't know what to do, so I wait, thus is truly the first time in our lives we can't just "sell it all" and debunk to the woods or the Outback, the Uniparty wants to know all and control all now.
For what is worth, I never thought the system was broken. When grifters can be President, the system works just fine.
It’s so great when I meet others with ‘live and let live’ leanings, and when I found libertarianism 15 years ago there weren’t many, but year by year I’ve met more and more. These last two years have really shaken me to my core. I thought most people were good, and now I realize there’s a rotten few, and many, many, that will give into fear and mass psychosis and subjugate others. But I see it from all sides, like you say. The swinging pendulum of tyranny, that has now swung far left, will in the future swing far right. Society always goes too far when it tries to correct itself. Meanwhile we continue to ask questions as the outsiders- try our best to keep society awake enough to not fall sleeping off another cliff.
🥂 🍻
I just wanna go back to the 90s. Is that really too much to ask? 😂😅😝
I loved this, "The Ship is NOT Sinking"! Excellent. TY.
It flattened me, however, to recognize my family as ship-clingers versus lifeboat-users. No critical thinking or courage there. Entirely brainwashed.
On another topic... I would love to read a Substack talking about why to avoid "believing" in and thus paying, or not, federal income tax...
👏 👏 👏 collaborative anarchism is a thing. From one anarchist to another, even when caught in the throes of Klaus Anal Schwab, deep down, I know it’s gonna be ok in the end. And if it’s not ok, it’s not the end.
We find ourselves in a “system.” On it’s basis we are carried to a reasonably comfortable standard of living without a lot of individual effort because a lot of the effort or work is done by technological organization of the energy extracted from petroleum. We can have the leisure to speculate because it is furnished by this technological platform which is so successful that billions are supported by it without needing to understand how. “Conservatives” are people who are closer to “the nitty-gritties” of “how” and closer to some physical aspect of “actual”maintenance of it, I would suggest.
Right. I’m not a conservative but I’ve been a small business owner for 8 years and also sympathetic to business owners for 20.
Do you make preparations and supply some clinics in Mexico? A friend has been working with the Hoxey Clinic treatment in TJ and they seem to be good people doing good work.
I've got some idea of 'what's to replace the government'.
We do.
Step up to the plate. Do what we've been supposed to have been doing from the beginning as citizens of a democracy.
Speak. Have a say. Play a part.
Now we can.
With the internet and smartphones and computers we can do it.
We can have a kinda perpetual plebiscite running whereby the nation acts according to the will of the people.
The clear problem with the last two years - apart from the epidemic of malfeasance in the part of govt - was the people's total lack of interest in (a) discovering the truth and (b) doing something about it when they found it.
The nearest they came was to demand more violent versions of the truckers convoy.
That is the thinking the Roman slaves had back then. Revolt in the streets.
And you know what happened to them.
Nope.
The thing to do is forget two party representation, proportional representation, we want individual representation and now we can have it.
There's heaps and heaps and heaps and heaps of things in this structure that are good and praiseworthy, well thought, painfully constructed etc...
All that doesn't need destroying.
It just needs us.
mbccc.com says it. said it more than five years ago i think.
It may be a personal bent, but it seems that witnessing authoritarianism and the abuse of power almost inevitably leads the thinking feeling person toward parallel/horizontal systems (as compared to pyramidal/vertical organization). Personal responsibility and a healthy measure of love and compassion for all are the intangible guides that seem to make horizontal and communal organizations work. I’m not sure what -ism or -ist that falls under, but the labels matter less than the outcomes.
Thank you again for a wonderful piece—I do enjoy your writing very much.
Monica, YOU are a woman in her power! 👊 Thank you for an Inspiring article, great job! 🙌 Keep up the good work! 👍 I’m so happy I found this big melting pot of debate, free discussion and diversity of opinion, called Substack. It’s like brain food for me. I really love this community! Gabriel Wilson you described me to a tee....middle age woman, not working public sector, and I’m centrist. Kinda tripped me out! 😂
"I’m so happy I found this big melting pot of debate, free discussion and diversity of opinion, called Substack. It’s like brain food for me. I really love this community!"
Right? I love it, too.
Yeah I knew instinctively the financial game was rigged and 2008 financial crisis revealed the schemes. Imagine the health treatments suppressed that we don't have not been allowed access to.
Yup! It extends to every sector of society. From roads to medicine, and it's been going on a long time, even before 2008!
People have been brainwashed by social Darwinism and its antecedents in people like Hobbes to believe that anarchy means giving unlimited rein to what is worst in human nature, rather than unfettering what is best (as Rousseau thought, but that idea didn't survive the Reign of Terror).
Whilst it is true that left-libertarians are allied with the Right now, I still think the really interesting thought is on the left. Right-libertarians are mostly minarchists because they know that without the State's resources their "natural right" to private property would be unsustainable. Also, at this point I think it is reasonable to conclude that the Coase theorem (irrelevance of ownership to economic outcomes) just doesn't fit the facts. Billionaires amass wealth through corruption - making them an extension of the State - and then put it to socially suboptimal (if not downright nefarious) ends. When David Graeber says that a policeman is just a bureaucrat with a gun, he makes a really telling observation of a kind you would never expect from Ron Paul. And such insights would never have been possible without Foucault's historicization of culture. I believe in a minimal state too, and autonomous administration of justice. But the functions of this state and its relationship to its citizens needs to be very different from how it is usually premised. It is not tolerable that it is the worst and most predatory functions of the State that are the most vehemently and universally defended, on both sides of the political spectrum.
I think the split is less the old ideas of left and right and more along the lines of credulity.
Our institutions have betrayed us. Only the credulous don’t see it.
i never even heard of monero before, this whole crypto is a bizarre language im going to have to learn
It's not too hard to learn in practicality. I went on a deep dive in 2017. If you want a shortcut, learn about hardware wallets like Trezor or Ledger, which support almost all important cryptocurrencies. Andreas Antonopoulos is an excellent educational resource and has free videos on his YouTube channel to learn all about the basic concept of crypto. Monero is the totally anonymous one.
Thank you