Communist Party cadres hang a placard on the neck of a Chinese man during the Cultural Revolution in 1966.
The words on the placard states the man’s name and accuse him of being a member of the “black class.” (Public Domain)
Communist Party cadres hang a placard on the neck of a Chinese man during the Cultural Revolution in 1966.
The words on the placard states the man’s name and accuse him of being a member of the “black class.” (Public Domain)
China’s history is full of all kinds of abuses against their own people. They can be a nasty bunch that make sadists look mild.
Bkmk
GREAT comments from the Epoch Times sidebar:
“Older ThanDirt
4 hours ago
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The Bible tells us more than 360 times to “be not afraid” and so I choose not to be. Fear gets in the way of agency.
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PPW
4 hours ago
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Fear is NOT from GOD!
Fears are lies of satan!
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mrsfoster2015
3 hours ago
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Philippians 4:7
“And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.”
The banality of evil. Hannah Arendt told us.
“What you’re dealing with now is not a communist or not fascist authoritarianism. It is the emergence, I think, of technocratic totalitarianism.”
I’ve heard this argument before and it has some merit. But what is new is the methodology they want to use to implement authoritarianism, not the ideology driving it. Communism and fascism are ideologies, not methodologies, so this is an apples to oranges comparison.
You could have both a Communist technocratic authoritarianism (like China) or a Fascist technocratic authoritarianism (like Europe/US is heading towards). The underlying goals and psychological forces driving it still come from the same old ideologies though, and you won’t stop it by attacking the methodology, any more than you stop an addict by taking away one method of them getting high. They’ll just find another method as long as their goals are the same and the motivation is there.
There is already a term for this. It is called managerialism and it is the greatest malady afflicting the modern western world.
People like Robert Malone and Peter McCullough, great as they are, are taken in by “mass formation psychosis” because they were asleep for so long, just bobbing along in the mainstream, that they didn’t see what’s been happening for decades. FreeRepublic came online in the late 90’s just because the trends reached back at least to Watergate, though I think that’s when the media-D.C. complex coalesced. On a recent show, McCullough had a NHS doctor who has been speaking out about vaccine injuries in UK and the guy was blaming Thatcher and Reagan. Mccullough spoke about how he’d been a “moderate, voted both sides of the aisle,” etc., etc. obviously Bobby Kennedy Jr is another one, though I haven’t heard him talk about MFP. So , Malone and McCullough suddenly wake up as the mainstream current is drowning their very reasonable voices and they grasp for some explanation, “it has to be a sudden development caused by the extraordinary free floating anxiety of the pandemic isolation.” Baloney, you were just too busy doing worthy things with your lives, educations and abilities, to see the rapids and approaching brim of the waterfall we’re going over and the chaos below. Tucker teased his Tucker Carlson Today interview with Desmet as one of the smartest men he has ever interviewed. Maybe so ( I didn’t watch it), but his brilliance is in no way exemplified by his theories of mass formation psychosis being the root of this totalitarian outbreak.
Joe Rogan Experience with Guest Dr. Robert Malone (December 31, 2021)
https://odysee.com/@TruthHealthFreedom:1/Joe-Rogan-Dr.-Robert-Malone-JRE-1757-2021-12-31:e
Dr. Malone talks about mass formation in this excellent interview, and talks about Desmet. Malone gets it. The whole interview is worth listening to (yes, I know it’s 3h+), but the section where he talks about mass formation and Desmet starts at around 2h43m.
Although he is not wrong, neither is he especially original. He seems to be unaware of or oblivious to the most pernicious quality of technology— which is, that technology has no soul. If you don’t believe me, compare the feelings you get from a handwritten love letter and the same letter typed out and sent by email. It says it all.
“From the First World War onwards, we’ve seen the emergence of an impressive propaganda machinery in the Western world through which a population was constantly manipulated without them knowing it,” said Desmet.
The remedy for this mass formation and to prevent atrocities from occurring is to speak out, he said.
“If you want to disturb the mass formation, then you have to speak out,” said Desmet. “The ancient Greeks called this parrhesia, like a kind of bold, courageous speech, practiced by individuals who refuse to go along with the narratives of a group or dominant narrative.”
Desmet urges all people to find the courage to speak out against irrational, totalitarian policies, not to convince anyone but to exercise their “inalienable rights.”