Global Totalitarianism: Gradually, Then Suddenly

8/15/2020

“How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked.
“Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually, then suddenly.”
- from The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway, bold added

If someone in the not-too-distant future were to ask me how the world became a global dictatorship, I imagine I would respond in the same manner as Mike in the excerpt above.

Two ways. Gradually then suddenly.

If pressed for details, I could outline the gradually against the contours of my own life and point out the countless baby steps the Establishment took to achieve their long-term objectives; to the thousand little cuts they inflicted upon us - whittling us down; bleeding the life out of us. And then when it seemed there were no more steps to take, no more slivers to slice off, no blood left to drain . . . it happened.

Everyone in the world was labeled a biohazard. We were declared an immense threat to each other and the planet. The peril we posed was so great that it required the swift installation of global governance, which was the only way to ensure the implementation of a safe and just world. Avalanches of other suddenlies quickly followed, burying us where we stood.

Thing is, Mike from The Sun Also Rises knew what the suddenly was when it happened to him. He was painfully aware of his circumstances, and he was also painfully aware of the process that had led him there.

Will I be able to tell my not-too-distant-future enquirer the same about the majority of modern people in the world?

10 Comments

bruce charlton

8/16/2020 09:55:20

Gradually, then suddenly - seems like the way that many things happen.

Considered abstractly, it is the way that complex systems are supposed to fail - for example, it is the way that many people die. Systems adapt to change by fighting it - but only up to a point.

When a sub-system is stressed by the environment, it can compensate to an extent, but when the stress goes on too long or becomes too great to compensate, then that system will fail - and will bring-down any other sub-systems that depend upon it.

You are right to point out that This Time the difference is that the ass of people do not perceive what is being done to them; and are happy (or resigned) to going-along-with their own destruction.

Myabe because people do not (whatever they say) believe in life beyond biological death, they simply cannot countenance that the medium-long term is extremely likely to be worse and worse; assuming that the people with global power are badly-motivated.

This was, until recently, something that nearly everybody seemed to be agreed upon (e.g. that Big Pharma was wicked, CEOs of multinationals were wicked - it is the assumption of countless thrillers, Hollywood movies, TV programs etc.); but now the actuality is upon us, people simply cannot allow themselves to think about a world in which people motivated in the ways They are, have power over every aspect of our physical lives.

The incipient despair is overwhelming; so the premises are denied.

It seems to me that not just Christianity in the West, but all religions everywhere among those with power (including Christianity's most formidable rival), have become spiritually ineffectual at the deepest level - so the entire world is being destroyed by the incoherence, the self-contradictions, of atheistic materialism.

Francis Berger

8/16/2020 13:53:51

@ Bruce - Good points as always. The main suddenly I referred to in this post was the coup, which, as you have mentioned many times on your blog, has happened and is already in place. System collapse is, in my uneducated opinion, very close to the suddenly point right now. Some sub-systems have already collapsed - many others are in compensation mode, as you so well-described above. Time will reveal how long this can be sustained.

But I don't think sustainability is the goal now. So many of the plans They have in store for us require some sort of systemic collapse as a starting point. Take 'decarbonization' of the economy for example. How can you possible decarbonize the economy if the current infrastructure and its inherent processes remain in place? You can't. Much easier to start from scratch or from some bare minimum point that renders the existing infrastructure obsolete.

I cannot comprehend how or why most people can be oblivious to destruction happening all around them. I think you've really touched on the heart of the matter in the last paragraph of your comment. It appears most welcome the destruction or, at the very least, are indifferent to it, which makes me wonder how the average people really felt about the 'normal' that has been taken from them. Doesn't seem like too many people were particularly fond of this normal. Unfortunately, what they will encounter next will very likely be far worse.

Michelle

8/16/2020 16:58:35

Based on my personal interactions with family, friends, and acquaintances, it seems that everyone is operating in a holding pattern. They all expect things to go back to normal once a vaccine is available. As I continue to tell my family, who are protesting mightily about my impending move to a far away place, things are never ever ever going back to normal.
In my opinion, the sudden collapse that you refer to will happen when the average person realizes it is never going back to normal. Whether it be an ineffective vaccine, a continued clampdown on regular life once the vaccine is handed out, the refusal of the vaccine by many, the collapse of the u.s. stock market and the economic calamity that will ensue from it, or likely a combination of all of it will be when the average person will get it.
It seems so obvious, yet right now we might as well be holding a sign on a street corner saying "repent now. The end is near".

8/17/2020 07:05:17

@ Michelle - Holding pattern is a good way of putting it. On the one hand, this is a perfectly natural reaction. One waits the storm out, hoping it will soon pass. Expecting everything to be in the same condition it was before the storm began is another matter entirely.

Though I tend to touch on them quite a bit, I feel uncomfortable about delving too deeply into collapse scenarios because it is difficult to know/predict what a collapse might entail, how deep it will be, who and how many it will devastate, etc. At the same time, I don't want instill doom and despair in anyone who happens to come across these posts. Nevertheless, some sort of systemic breakdown seems inevitable to me at this point. In this regard, I am inclined to agree with your notion that the general population's sudden awareness that things will not return to normal could trigger a cascade effect.

Jacob Gittes

8/17/2020 15:39:46

I know I've gone into this before, and it sounds far-fetched, but I honestly suspect that the Satanic PTB have computer simulations that are by now fairly accurate and predictive, and that they know what they are doing: they want to inflict maximum pain without crashing the system.
That doesn't mean that they won't crash the system by accident, but they don't want to. They want to feed off of despair and fear. They can't do that if we are all dead.
I guess we will soon find out if my supposition is correct, and they avoid any large systemic collapses of the system or parts of it.

8/17/2020 16:38:52

@ Jacob - Good point. I've had similar thoughts myself. Deliberately crashing the System seems counterproductive to Their goals. At the same time, taking the System to the edge of collapse is a risky enterprise. It might end up being bigger them - the task, larger than what they had bargained for.

Inge

8/17/2020 19:30:35

Jacob, Francis,

Since the System is satanic-Luciferian, any and all players can be sacrificed to push the Agenda, whatever the Agenda is at the moment.

Consider: the Civil Rights movement, while purportedly about correcting real wrongs perpetrated against blacks between Reconstruction and the 1960's, was less about that and more about creating a permanent subservient class that could destabilize urban environments and act as the shock troops of the Left at a moments' notice. Everywhere that they established a foothold in the cities, crime skyrocketed, forcing whites to flee.

Rather than admit they acted badly, the Left implemented the next phase of their scheme, immigration amnesty. This "solves" the problem of relying on criminal underclass for labor by trading one class of crime (violent) for another (trespassing). In some parts of California, Hispanics have even ethnically cleansed black neighborhoods a la the Bosnian Serbs.

Currently, after decades of serving as the mouthpiece of the Radical Left agenda, the media and education establishments have been put on the chopping block because no one is going to school, concerts or sporting events. Big Tech have supplanted those two in the mission of indoctrinating the masses.

8/17/2020 20:08:58

@ Inge - Yes, well put. What you have described in your comment constitutes what I would classify as the 'gradually', all of which and more has brought us to the suddenly we currently inhabit. Regarding sacrifice, the Satanic System is ultimately demonically-controlled, which means even those at the very top of the human hierarchy of evil will eventually become expendable.

Ingemar

8/17/2020 22:10:31

I accidentally sent before I completed my name.

But you are right. While the Elites see us as ants, the Enemy sees them as ants as well.

8/18/2020 07:57:28

No problem, Ingemar. I had a feeling it was you - I simply assumed you had shortened your name for some reason.

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