Lessons to be Learnt
I was never very good at school. A lot of the time, I was disinterested in what I was being taught. Things like, how to read an ordinance survey map in geography and agricultural methods adopted in the 16th century in history. Those kinds of lessons had me staring out the window and wondering what my mother was cooking for dinner. Homework was even worse, often having to learn the information by rote and write about it to demonstrate whether my brain was a perfect and eloquent sponge or not.
Some people might have photographic memories but school demanded a great deal of effort from me to produce good homework. However, television was something else. I didn’t have to make an effort to become indoctrinated by television; it was enticing. The name “programs” should have been a warning but no one seemed to notice. I remember the advert for Consulate cigarettes showing a sunny day in a beautiful green landscape, with a white frothy waterfall, as the voiceover promised, ‘Consulate, as cool as a mountain stream’, and the adverts for alcohol, always starring young attractive people in five star locations, having a good time.
But, and it’s a big but, since the invention of machines that can process almost everything and regurgitate instant information, the powers- that-be do not need so many of us. And we have been so well programmed, that many of us automatically assist in the plans to reduce our number whilst they, those who lord it over us, look forward to the time when they won’t need us at all.
We are much further down the road of human programming here in the 21st century, way beyond our own desires stimulated by canny operators who know full well how to whet our appetites for sex, idolatry, sloth and greed. We have resorted to the ways of childhood, reliant on those who run the show to make decisions for us. Adopted parents, in a marriage made in hell like that of the Rockefeller Foundation and the Wellcome Trust, making sure we stay compliant and addicted to petrochemical prescriptions that ‘manage’ and ‘treat’ dis-ease, whilst making promises to find cures that never seem to arrive, for cures would surely mean the loss of customers-for-life.
The word is still banded about but democracy went out like a light in 2020. Here is the New World Order of technocracy, where corporate representatives, eugenicists and government ministers bond during meaty conferences held by private institutions like the UN, the WHO, and the WEF. Like master chefs they create disconcerting recipes for totalitarian power that are well seasoned and cooked up to poison and enslave us ‘useless eaters’?
And while all of this is going on, I have noticed certain words creeping into the vernacular. Words of appeasement. Words like ‘ideologies’, as in there is no truth, there are only ideologies. The ideology that men can have babies. The ideology that a person with a penis is a woman because he says so. The ideology that sex between an adult and a child is okay. The ideology that children can have their gender taken away from them under the premise that their life will be enhanced and they can successfully change their sex. The ideology of ‘critical race theory’. The ideology that once upon a time there was a Muslim state called Palestine...
On the other hand there are also words that undermine truth. Words like ‘theatre’ and ‘bad actors’ - which I have used myself - that lend a kind of cartoon-fiction to the wrongdoings of those in power playing havoc with laws and destroying ordinary lives. Words like ‘restraint’ as in the IDF must use ‘restraint’ when fighting an existential war. The Metropolitan police must use ‘restraint’ when dealing with terrorists and their sympathisers on a Saturday afternoon in London, even though restraint, in such circumstances, will almost certainly embolden the sworn enemy to cause more harm.
Psychological projection has also crept into modern day parlance. During Covid, we had the derogatory term ‘conspiracy theorist’, aimed at everyone who tried to warn about the lies we were being told by the media, governments and NGO operatives. In terms of Israel, we have the term ‘occupiers’ attributed to people who are full citizens of the State of Israel by so called ‘Palestinians’ who are stateless and have never had self-governance over a land called Palestine. In the USA we have an acting (I don’t use that word lightly) president who continuously and erroneously blamed his predecessor for colluding with the enemy, Russia, whilst it has now been proven that he, himself, is in bed with the enemy, China. Everywhere, it seems, people are accusing others of what they are guilty of themselves, and doing so without any accountability.
Going back to my schooldays, the two subjects I enjoyed most were English Literature and Latin, both of which got me thinking about how human beings function during different eras in a society. And most interestingly, in Latin, we learnt about the last days of Rome, the lack of morals, loss of reason, hubris of leaders, depraved immorality, and the invasion of barbarians. The people at the top today may think they have reached some godly pinnacle, controlling everything, even the air we breathe, but from where I’m sitting it’s all happened before and such disingenuous hegemony proved to be unsustainable. If, or when, our civilisation falls, I imagine Earth will breathe a sigh of relief, for many reasons, one of which is it too cannot flourish without carbon dioxide.