Trust Issues
One of the recurring themes of WEF’s annual circle-jerk at Davos is the loss of trust. There is a viral clip of one delegate from a couple of years ago (?), which I can’t find anymore, in which the loss of trust in the elites is bemoaned.
Why don’t we trust them?
Goodness me, that’s so hard to work out isn’t it?
Why are we not fawning over their every word, tipping our hats, and performing servile bows before their beneficent magnificence?
Why not indeed?
Honestly, the plebs these days just don’t know their place.
WEF is elite arrogance on display. But that’s also true today of pretty much everywhere we look when it comes to governments and their various functions and all the ‘democratic’ institutions (whatever one of those is) they claim are under threat - from orange things, from fascist things, from far-right things, from anti-science things, from anti-vax things - pretty much anyone and everyone, in fact, who disagrees with the glory of our modern governments and the Bureaucracy-Bloat that keeps them going.
Remember that propaganda bit during covid when news channels ran with the same phrase repeatedly? It was probably week 57 of the covid propaganda plan. That week we had that questioning the vaccines, or mandates, was “a threat to our democracy”.
Week 58 was probably the “I wish I had taken the vaccine” week, and week 59 was the “horse paste” week - I can’t recall.
It’s fascinating that it’s always ‘our’ democracy under threat. It’s never entirely clear to whom the ‘our’ is referring.
Remember when Horsey McHorseFace the erstwhile Prime Minister of New Zealand said that her government was “your single source of truth” and that “Unless you hear it from us, it isn’t the truth”? She was talking about so-called covid ‘misinformation’ at the time. We could well adapt her words to apply to democracy
We’re your single source of democracy - unless you hear it from us, it isn’t democracy
When populism agrees with the government of the day it’s wonderful stuff - in fact we don’t even call it populism. We call it democracy. When it doesn’t agree, that’s when it becomes that nasty undemocratic populism stuff.
Now, I actually think that societies need governance, that we need laws and taxes and ethical norms and the like. We also need the people who perform those functions to be trustworthy. Not being glib enough that they give the appearance of trust, but to actually be someone we can trust.
Back in my more innocent and naïve days, I used to ‘trust’ Gordon Brown, the former British Prime Minister (2007 - 2010). He has recently turned into some kind of creepy globalist shill. The recent promotional piece he launched on behalf of the WHO’s global power grab pandemic treaty is quite remarkable and is a great example of why these people can’t be trusted.
I couldn’t find a YouTube version so it’ll have to be a Twitter𝕏 link
Within the first 12 seconds, yes seconds, we have 2 glorious examples of precisely why these people should not be trusted.
We are immediately told that covid claimed 7 million lives and that 700 million were infected. Hmmm. Let’s see shall we? Perhaps a spot of simple maths? Why not?
Ah yes - that would imply an infection fatality rate (IFR) of 1%
Then we’re told that the IMF (no less) estimates that the pandemic could cost us over 12 and a half trillion dollars.
No, the IFR was not 1% and no, the pandemic did not cost us this much - the idiotic response of the majority of the world’s governments cost us this - and none of what they did worked. Over 12 trillion dollars to achieve fuck all. That’s quite some achievement isn’t it Gordon?
But you want more of it. You want more of the insanely expensive lunacy that ‘worked’ so wonderfully before.
The 2 opening misinformation salvos you fire are then followed up with a dire warning; the next flu pandemic could be even worse. The precise wording is “an influenza pandemic could well be worse”.
Weirdly, I agree. Influenza could be worse than covid - but worse than the real impact of covid and not the hyper-exaggerated farcical impact of ‘covid’ that we were told about. An influenza ‘pandemic’ is not going to be worse than the made-up shite you talk about in these first 12 seconds.
This video is all just fear-mongering pseudo-scientific gibbering nonsense.
And we’re supposed to trust these people?
Are they high? Have they forgotten to take their medication today?
It won’t have escaped your notice that there’s a big push to combat ‘misinformation’. Essentially what governments are saying to us is the following
You can’t trust their information, but you can trust our information.
It would be comical if it wasn’t so serious and that so many people seem to have been suckered by this.
But it’s worse than this. Much worse. Not only do these manifestly untrustworthy people want you to trust what they say, they are putting in place laws and systems that will remove and prevent anyone from seeing information that they deem to be untrustworthy.
They are openly creating a “single source of truth”. Except it’s not truth. It’s a single source of god knows what, but truth it ain’t.
This is particularly ironic given that by far and away the biggest purveyors of misinformation during the covid clown show were our own governments and health bodies; some of the very same people who treat themselves to a spot of elite back-slapping at Davos every year.
Medical practitioners are said to be aghast at the rise in so-called anti-vax stances and attribute this to the influence of a mythical group of ‘anti-vaxxers’ who are probably ultra far-right fascists and the like and who, without any proper resources, managed to influence more people with their ‘misinformation’ than governments (copulating with Pharma) utilising multi-billion dollar budgets managed to do with theirs.
They profess to be surprised at this.
Really?
The people who told us that lockdowns were necessary, that masks work (even outside), that slathering chemical gloop on our hands until the skin cracked and peeled was essential, that social distancing was important, that parks and playgrounds had to be closed (when we were finally allowed out a bit), that asymptomatic transmission was significant, that playing board games was risky, we should ‘trust’ these people when they tell us that the vaccines are “safe and effective”?
Look, I know that all of the pyramid schemes we recommended before drained you of your life savings, but this new one will work. Trust us.
Many of you might remember those Nigerian scams. How many Nigerian Princes were there? Perhaps people thought the next email they got would be from a bona-fide member of the Nigerian royal family? The last 100 were suspicious, but I’m sure this one’s genuine?
It seems rather obvious and trite, but if one wishes to be trusted one must be trustworthy.
The last ‘pandemic’ wasn’t much of a pandemic really - not when you look at the data properly. Yes, I believe there was a virus doing the rounds that could be very dangerous for some, but it should never have been elevated to the insane threat level it was.
But notice what they’re doing - they’re warning us that the next ‘pandemic’ could be worse. It’s the Next Nigerian Prince Syndrome; the next one will be genuine, pinky promise.
And they’re going to try to make sure that only their voices get heard. Those awkward ‘anti-vaxxers’ outplayed them magnificently. Dollar for dollar invested, Team Reality completely wiped the floor with Team Fear, despite all their lavish resources, orders of magnitude above those available to the ‘anti-science’, anti-whatever, conspiracy nasties.
They can’t let this happen again. Why, do you think, they’re investing so much time, effort, and propaganda into ‘misinformation’ and the ‘need’ to combat it?
I can tell you this; it’s not for our benefit.
So, tell me this Gordon me old chum, why should we trust you? Why should we trust the WHO, or WEF, or our own governments when what they did during covid was such an unmitigated disaster? And they’re telling us they want to do it all over again?
Trust, once broken, is a devil of a thing to rebuild. In some cases it may be broken beyond repair.
I wish I could trust our governments and these international bodies that are, supposedly, trying to make things better for everyone - but, let’s face it, they have a record more comparable with Nigerian Princes than anything else.
This is what happen when faith in something (is allowed to, is made to) replace knowledge, reason and empiricism:
"Trust me, bro (or else)" becomes the law and the lore.
There's an old anecdote that once was used to teach the importance of not letting faith turn into the kind of dogma that gets in the way of (perception of) reality:
When telescopes had been developed to such a standard that you could clearly see that the surface of the Moon is indeed pockmarked and mountainous, an enterprising owner of such a telescope had rigged it on the street outside the Vatican, letting people have a gander for a small donation.
A cardinal walks by, and the "telescopiere" offers his grace a free look at the mountains of the Moon.
The cardinal declines, stating that his eminence the pope has declared the Moon to be a perfect sphere. As the pope speaks god's truth, there's no need to look since there can't be any mountains there to look at, and to to do so would be heresy.
While the (quite certainly made-up) anecdote refers to catholicism, it is equally valid for any set of belief: there's an arabic version where an imam is offered to look in a microscope at a fly, so he can see that flies - in contravention to the word of the prophet - doesn't carry venom under one wing and anti-venom under the other. Same thing.
Or a Brown being shown data proving that doing nothing but ingesting Zinc, vitamin D, resting and eating healthy works heaps better against covid than does mRNA-injections, masking, lockdowns, distancing, intubation and Remdesivir taken together.
Same thing.
"Will you for the love of _____ just pull over and look at the map! We're on the wrong road - we should see oceans on our right and all there is, is mountains!"
"No! I know this is the right road! The map is wrong!"
Same thing.
Unfortunately they seem to be stitching up the internet quite effectively. You may be allowed to continue producing “mis/mal/disinformation” but no one but your closest friends will ever get to see it. Or, worse, they fine you or throw you in the slammer.