Podcast #136
John Steppling, Max Parry, Hiroyuki Hamada, Dennis Riches, Shaenah Batterson, George McIntyre, and Lex Steppling
https://john-steppling.com/2024/10/the-ghost-population/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnUcKmeuixY
https://x.com/reporterliz/status/1856174984336453954?s=46&t=R0HHtSoSUnxm3ApvOulW3w
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03687-6
https://www.urmedium.net/c/presstv/131599
https://x.com/Glenn_Diesen/status/1856323261543399805
Pondering John’s mention of Elon Musk’s frankly insane blather about founding a colony on Mars, the roots of this idiocy may be indicated by an author who John doesn’t have much time for i.e. István Mészáros, in his book “Social Structure and Forms of Consciousness”. Mészáros talks about the basic fixations that dominate capitalist society – one of them being “The Programmatic Orientation Towards Science” (title of the first chapter).
This basically means that the inevitable crises and collapses of capitalism are never considered from the perspective of proposing a restructuring of the whole socio-economic sphere (since that would obviously involve the transcendence of capitalism) but are always met with pseudo-solutions of a purely technical nature. The absurdity of expanding the capitalist reach onto another world, offloading the population, generating “new markets” (even in an environment utterly inhospitable to human existence) etc. is considered before that transgressive notion of changing the social order itself.
Nothing returned to normal post-COVID because that was the plan. We were told this is the New Normal.
We must recognize the pandemic as another inflection point, 9/11 being one after which nothing was ever the same. 9/11 was a huge step in cementing the surveillance state that quickly became normalized. No one pushes back on having to be scanned and searched before boarding a plane. Fear is the incentive or “the stick” and patriotism goes along with that.
Genocide seems to be part of the plan, beginning with the most vulnerable, and the think tanks assess the masses reactions to the slaughter. I think the rulers want to get rid of alot of people, less to worry about, while ensuring their own longevity.
We are like boiling frogs. The heat is turned up so slowly while we are distracted by the struggles of our daily lives, the entertainment we hope will distract is from our struggles for a while and the propaganda and the bread and circuses from the media meant to keep us confused and blaming each other or “the other.”
The COVID experiment worked extremely well for those who planned it.
the psyop planners are open to seeing and learning from the results and reactions of the experiment, however they play out. They play the long game and have the means and the time to learn from their mistakes and mis-steps, while the people suffer the consequences.
The rulers use think tanks and now AI to help them make decisions with one aim.
9/11 and COVID and all the elections have become just another production orchestrated by those who plan how to keep their own positions and control and never, never allow another Russian revolution-type event where the people wake up and stand up. Very much like PKD story, as George mentioned.
This is very depressing. I have friends who say, “who are they?” and that I give “they” too much credit.
One thing is clear to me, nothing is getting better for us in the twilight of capitalism. This is cliche, but the psychopaths are running the asylum.