A shortened version of this popped up on my YouTube stream yesterday. It is an interesting interview. Brett Weinstein is a classic case of a liberal who has been mugged by reality, and he is in the midstages of the long march back to sanity.
I’ve not watched the whole thing, but based on the lengthy portion that I saw, I would urge viewers to pay particular attention to the several moments in which Weinstein expresses guarded optimism.
Yes, a lot of trends are very dangerous. BUT ... the corruption of so many institutions — government agencies, the media, academia — carries within it the seeds of the inevitable counterrevolution.
Honest people in these institutions know very well that the party line is a lie. They may submit silently and pretend to go along as a matter of self-protection. They may leave. They may be forced out. But as Weinstein says at one point, all the thinking people now realize that the emperor has no clothes. So: when and how do they join the resistance?
Does the rebellion come from below, from the great masses of the population — especially the competent, educated, functionally indispensable folks who actually do real work — who have been disenfranchised and marginalized by corrupt elites? Maybe.
Will the rebellion come from people who don’t want a fight, who don’t think they’re big enough to win a fight, who will bend over backwards to put their heads down and just get along, who get backed into a corner and finally lash back in desperation? Maybe. The myriad culture war issues dealing with children are already a flashpoint.
Will the counterrevolution begin when the corrupt elites turn on each other — which they eventually will, because radical revolutions tend to end up devouring their own?
All of these factors are in play today. What Weinstein is describing is not simply the corruption of the elites and the desire of corrupt elites to assert control over the great unwashed. He is also describing a classic pre-revolutionary situation.
Sooner or later, the gloves will come off. And at that point, the character of the counterrevolutionary leadership will matter a great deal. The difference between the American and French Revolutions is a classic case.
Anyhow, that’s where we are.
As Glenn Beck says, WE surround THEM! And as Weinstein does say, the ability to share information is a formidable tool against them. I think the push-back has started with people like me - old & retired - but with time on my hands to view this information, share it with friends & family, & bang on my congressmen & senators with what’s going on.
There's a big difference.
As you probably know, he and his wife resigned their tenured positions at Evergreen State College in 2017 over the college's anti-white discrimination as demonstrated by its insistence that white professors stay home on a day of protest against them.
There will no violence without widespread hunger. The French like the immense majorities of revolution was fueled by hunger.
Everything going on is indicative of a climactic ending from a desperate regime barely clinging to power.
This is obviously despite 90% of industry/institution/billionaires colluding/conspiring backing the regime.
Lerner, Russia, Scamdemic, Ukraine all inhibited the closure of the Obama regime. Under which Dems lost net 1050 elections incl to Trump despite being backed by largely the same coalition. That is a record by 500 and a crystal clear repudiation.
The people have already acted. The longer the conclusion is delayed, the more desperate the regime becomes, the more people turn against it. Trump is 7/5 betting fav, close to his lowest odds ever as that is where things stand now.