A Most Indecent Proposal

We can all point to ‘iconic’ scenes and quotes in movies and TV shows. “Yippee-ki-yay motherfucker, I’ll be back”, said Sharon Stone as she uncrossed her legs. Those of us above a certain age will immediately know the 3 movies I’m referencing there in this mash-up.

One of my all-time favourites comes from a TV show, not a movie. It’s the BBC’s wonderful adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. Produced back in the day when the BBC actually did some good stuff and was worth every penny of the licence fee, this version of P&P is one of my “desert island discs” when it comes to TV/movies. If I could only watch 10 things - this version of P&P would be amongst them.

The proposal at the end of episode 3 is one of my all-time favourite scenes. In anything. It goes something like this¹ :

Darcy : You’re totally beneath me and your family are a bunch of oiks. Will you marry me?

Elizabeth Bennet : Fuck off

Elizabeth’s take down of Darcy after his most ungallant proposal is epic.

I think the elites represented by the World Enslavement Forum (WEF) are a bit like this. They keep trying to woo us - and seem to be totally baffled when their indecent proposals are met with a very resounding “fuck off”.

Rebuilding Trust has been the theme of this year’s Jamboree of Gibbershit at Davos, but it’s been on the agenda for some time. These people seem to be completely at a loss as to why more and more people just don’t trust them (the elites) any more.

Have a read of Ursula Fond-of-Lying’s² speech at Davos this year. It’s basically an ocean of platitudes with a few bits of disinformational flotsam bobbing about. But look at just how far removed it is from the concerns and worries of everyday, normal, people.

It’s Ursula Darcy talking to Elizabeth Pleb and wondering why she’s not getting the reception she thinks she deserves.

Konstantin Kisin gets it, in his viral “There is not a parent in the world who would not smash that button so hard their hand bled” speech. I presume most of you have already seen this speech, but it’s always worth a re-watch (9m 19s)

John Carter, who writes the hugely entertaining Stack “Postcards from Barsoom”, referred to a very interesting poll in his recent piece. We should always take polls with a little bit of the sodium chloride, but this is interesting in that it compared the views of the ‘elite’ (the top 1% of people in the US) with ‘normal’ people. The report on the poll can be found here. Interestingly, the poll also considers the opinions of the Ivy Leaguers amongst the elite (or the DIEvy Leaguers, as John Carter describes them).

Here are just 2 screenshots from the report. The first is on individual freedom where, no surprise, nearly half of elites think you have too much freedom.

But look at the divide when it comes to KlimateDoom™

Rather than innovate our way out of a climate emergency, and the evidence for ‘emergency’ is thinner than the ratio of fact to fluff in a Fond-of-Lying speech, these elite of the brain giganticus would rather control you, and regress us to a state of feudalist poverty.

Instead of doing something useful, these authoritarian ghouls spend their time trying to convince you that Homo Aurantiacus³ is bad, really bad, Hitler level bad, democracy killing bad. Just get your endless Pricks of Profit, watch Netflix, oh, and by the way, we’ll need your spare rooms to house 3 immigrant families.

Meanwhile, your 7th grader is trying to figure out which of the 72 genders it is, and you’re trying to figure out where the fuck the next meal is coming from.

Not only do these elite live in a world that is materially different from most of us, they inhabit some kind of alternate headspace too. Their concerns are not your concerns.

They also have a regrettable affectation; they think they know best.

I’m so far above you, so wonderful, so elite - how could you not accept my proposal?

I’m going to have to pass on your proposal, I’m afraid, I’m not really all that much into abusive relationships.

Now, it’s probably true that the World Enslavement Forum is little more than a circle-jerk of elite ghouls; a kind of talking shop with little real power. But it does give us a window, and I would argue it’s a representative one, into the way these ‘elites’ think.

Fond-of-Lying in her Davos speech outlines their number one concern :

Let me go back to the number one concern of the Global Risk Report: disinformation and misinformation. Tackling this has been our focus since the very beginning of my mandate. With our Digital Services Act, we defined the responsibilities of large internet platforms on the content they promote and propagate.

We’d all like the information we ‘consume’ to be true. But what about opinions? If I’m of the opinion that we should hold back on the rampant push to have our ‘vaccine’ status digitally recorded for all to access, is this dis or mis information? It might well be seen to be so. Recall that the dictionary definition of anti-vaxxer was extended to include those who opposed vaccine mandates.

The other (as if there’s only one other thing, eh?) thing that’s implicit in Ursula’s delightful little elitist vignette is that she, and her coterie of WEF-like ghouls, are able to determine what constitutes mis and dis information. Dis is coz dey iz eleet, see. They have this mystical power, this divine capability.

Let’s see how well their divine powers worked, shall we?

Four pieces of government-sponsored misinformation right off the bat⁴ (actually it should more accurately be called disinformation - information they knew to be false).

These are the people who want to control what you get to read and watch and listen to.

And who can sum it up better than Austen? In the (slightly adapted) words of Elizabeth Bennet as she rips Darcy a new one after his proposal :

From the very beginning, from the first moment I may almost say, of my acquaintance with you, your manners impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain for the feelings of others, were such as to form that ground-work of disapprobation, on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last elite group in the world whom I could ever be prevailed upon to follow.

1. Script taken from the forthcoming modernized BBC adaptation of P&P

2. I think I probably misheard her name - that’s what is sounded like to me

3. This is my poor attempt at describing “Man, Orange” in Latin

4. And into a pangolin