Go WEF Yourself
It’s always hard to know whether people truly believe what they say - particularly when being interviewed by the media. Politicians and actors, for example, are consummate, erm, actors. Their job is to look good in whatever role they’re in.
I’m not just talking about eye candy, but about an overall impression given. Politicians project an air of confidence and integrity (or at least they try to). They try to get us on their side. Listen to me, I’m just an honest-down-to-earth-average Joe who’s trying to do his very best to finance my son’s various habits make things better for you.
But sometimes we can be cautiously optimistic.
The recent interview of Elon Musk was quite spectacular. You can see a clip of it here. I hope he truly means what he says.
He was asked about advertisers pulling out of X and his response? He told them to : Go.Fuck.Yourself.
He was objecting to being blackmailed - and he’s right - he is being blackmailed. It seems he’s up for the fight.
Twitter was fine and loved when it was heavily curated in favour of the prevailing (but minority) woke zeitgeist. Now that Elon has (somewhat) shown he’s not prepared to be a government stooge (unlike Facebook, for example) and has allowed a much freer discourse to flourish, the woke authoritarian knives are out in full force.
But at the end of the clip above he says something that I think needs repeating.
This could almost be the description of our times. It describes much of the ‘woke’ almost perfectly. It describes most of our politicians almost perfectly. It describes all of those supranational organizations like the WEF, the WHO, or the UN, who talk nice but whose plans, if achieved, would lead to utter ruination and misery for most of the world’s population.
A recent article by HART highlights some of the undercurrents quite nicely. They pointed out a piece from The Mail Online :
Headlines, we know, are designed to draw people in and they can sometimes be a bit misleading in order to achieve this. But what I want to know is how did the “horse dewormer” thing come about? This did not mysteriously appear out of thin air. Clearly, the media were told how they should be reporting on Ivermectin.
Even journalists are not this inept or craven to do this themselves. And it is inept. I did a quick googly search - it took me all of, I don’t know, maybe ten seconds? Here’s what I found
Don’t take Aspirin you fool! It’s used on animals!!
Almost all of these drugs are also prescribed for human use.
But Ivermectin is singled out for special treatment in the media. Why? Who told them to do this?
What about those other ‘potentially harmful’ substances?
They’re talking about things like vitamin D - and that’s really harmful1. I suppose if you made a 3 ton block of vitamin D and dropped it on yourself it could be potentially harmful.
It’s probable that the source of coercion here is Pharma advertising money. You see, people like Elon don’t want to be told what they have to say.
And neither do the rest of us.
The net, however, is drawing tighter. Governments everywhere are having authoritarian orgasms at the chance to control what people can and cannot say, or can and cannot read or watch.
X, for the moment, is not giving them the censorial hand job they so desire.
Governments, Big Tech, Pharma and all of those supranational organizations - all working for our alleged ‘benefit’ - spout their endless mantra that misinformation is one of the biggest dangers we face. We have global boiling and also global foiling2.
Governments, Big Tech, Pharma, and the supra-national organizations are the biggest dangers we currently face. Bar none.
They can all go WEF themselves.
To be read in your very best sarcastic tone
From the alarming rise in all those “conspiracy theorists” out there
Actually you can have too much vitamin D. Several polar explorers died after living off too much polar bear - polar bears have very large amounts of vitamin D in their livers as they don’t see much sun - and the explorers died from vitamin D poisoning.
This is why I often have just as much trouble with conservative media as with liberal. Yes, it is extremely politically effective to have a set of talking points, phrases, and agreed-upon tropes and stories to choose to cover. Yet I do not consent to merely parroting the lines of the day, turning my gaze in the direction others are pointing, and generating an emotional response (whether real or pantomimed). It’s why I have The Daily Wire and NPR on my podcast feed; it’s easier to see the bias when we disagree with something or someone, but we must challenge our own biases as well. It troubles me that so few people are receptive to being wrong— and thus only listen to reassuringly comforting reflections of their preconceived opinions— but I guess this, along with what happened during covid, is all part of the death of a scientific mind as the ideal.