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Totalitarianism Via Altruism

3/21/2020

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The word 'lockdown' has been frequently employed in the past two weeks to describe the circumstances the birdemic virus has triggered in the world. In our current situation, we have been instructed to interpret the term lockdown as a state of isolation or restricted access enacted as a security measure.

Appropriately enough, we have been, in effect, isolated and have seen our access to the most mundane of daily tasks severely curtailed. The justification for these draconian measures? A strain of flu virus that has been declared a pandemic and is apparently threatening the lives of millions.

The lockdown is working because it appeals to altruism. Governments around the world have isolated us and restricted our access to the daily routines of life under the pretext of disinterested and selfless concern for the welfare and well-being of others. We have been told that being locked down is the only way to save lives. Any objections to the implemented security and safety measures are treated as declarations of callous selfishness bordering on criminal recklessness. In some places non-compliance has indeed become a crime, punishable by fines and or jail time. 

People have thus far accepted the lockdown without much of a fuss. To do otherwise would be to deem oneself selfish and uncaring. However, like nearly everything in our society, the psychology of the lockdown is saturated with the poison of inversion. It provides a perfect means through which people can appear to be self-sacrificing for the greater good while simultaneously fortifying themselves in selfishness and self-concern.

Let's face it, I imagine many people welcome the lockdown more as a means to protect themselves than as a means to protect others. After all, no one wants to become a victim of this terrible plague, do they? Nor do they want their families to fall ill. The self-centeredness beneath the altruistic syrup coating the lockdown measures also becomes evident through the empty shelves we find in grocery stores and pharmacies. This sort of thing would be rare or would simply not exist if the emotions supporting the apparent altruism were authentic.

The Establishment and the governments it controls are using altruism as a justification for the severe actions it has taken. They inform us they are doing this for our own good. The tell us they don't want to do any of it, but must in an effort to flatten curves and protect the populace from a mass death event. They are quick to point out their own selflessness and concern through their willingness to sacrifice their economies and societies in an effort to stem the tide of encroaching death. They eagerly parade a few of their infected own on the media to drive home the point that no one is safe. 

Employment, taxes, debt, deficits, profits, markets, supply chains - none of that matters here and now. What matters here and now is isolating and restricting the general population to stop the spread of a killer disease that threatens to overwhelm our health care systems, thereby destroying the very foundation of civilization itself.

Yet, paradoxically, the altruistic actions the Establishment is taking, actions the general populace have thus far adhered to with practically little or no protest, also run the risk of destroying the very foundation of civilization.

As far as I can tell, a massive inversion of the old adage 'prevention is better than cure' is currently being played out. The Establishment seems intent on destroying the economy and society in its efforts to hinder the spread of a disease it claims will endanger civilization. I am certain the policies and regulations the Establishment has swiftly enacted around the world will soon show prevention to be far worse than cure in this case. 

This brings us to possible underlying motivations behind the Establishment's current lockdown measures. As I mentioned above, we are being told to interpret the lockdown through the lens of altruism. We are being obliged to view the measures themselves as necessary means to achieve safety and security. Whatever freedom we enjoyed has been suspended in the name of welfare.

While this is happening, the other meaning of the word 'lockdown' - the one employed to describe prison conditions when prisoners are confined to their cells so the guards may prevent or control a riot - has been almost completely ignored. 

How odd. 

Official pundits and armchair pundits alike have argued against the foolishness of reading too much into our current lockdown situation. These pundits claim that the actions and measures we are currently experiencing are not unprecedented. On the contrary, history teems with examples of societies going into lockdown mode as a means to combat a terrible plague. Many have cited the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic as a notable, fairly recent example. Pundits are also quick to point out that life more or less returned to normal once the public health threat subsided in the various historical examples they point to.

Sounds reassuring, doesn't it? 

I certainly hope the pundits are right. I really do. Because if they aren't, then we are likely living through what will one day be known as the biggest and, thus far, most successful totalitarian power grab ever attempted in the history of the world. 

Sounds hyperbolic? Yes, it does, doesn't it? And perhaps it is hyperbolic. But being told you would not be allowed to gather in groups larger than five or take the family out to dinner would have sounded hyperbolic two weeks ago as well, wouldn't it have?

The truth is no one knows what the future will bring - but the present is displaying some pretty grim clues. We all live and breathe in the in the present, and this present has become totalitarian in nature. Whether it stays that way remains to be seen, but as of now we are little more than prisoners on lockdown. 

This immediately raises a question. Why now? 

I can't say with any certainty, but my intuition tells me it has something to do with the economy. The Establishment knew the economy would eventually implode. I am of the mind that it should have imploded back in 2008/2009, but that implosion was averted by ridiculous fiscal and financial stimulus actions and policies that managed to paper over the problem until now. Whatever the case, the Establishment appears quite intent on allowing the implosion to proceed now, and, to me at least, it appears to be using the birdemic virus as a both a shroud and an explanation for the cause of the ever-accelerating collapse.

Bad policies, rapacious greed, and criminal negligence won't be blamed for the collapse; a virus will. To top it all off, the Establishment gets a chance to prove their altruism and demonstrate their love of humanity. By destroying the economy to prevent the spread of virus, the Establishment can show that it loves human life more than it loves money. And as the collapse escalates, it will ask us all to adopt the same stance - all in the name of altruism. 

Nevertheless, there is one thing the Establishment values far more than money or human life - and that one thing is power. Though the Establishment may appear to lose material wealth and comfort in the coming weeks and months, they have made and will continue to make vast gains in power during the lockdown. These gains in power will come at the expense of our personal freedoms and liberties. If we want to know what that will feel like, we need do no more than simply look around because, as of now, we're living it.

Of course, the pundits will argue this all temporary, but in my experience the Establishment rarely, if ever, walks back its encroachments on individual freedoms and liberties. Instead, they have tended to use each step forward as a launching pad for a future encroachment. Think Patriot Act and try to remember the last time you weren't asked to remove your belt or shoes or given a free body massage at an international airport. Or try to recall the last time you weren't asked to fill out intrusive forms in order to transfer larger amounts of money. Or the last time you felt well within your rights to call a man pretending to be a woman a man. 

What has happened and is happening now makes the Patriot Act look like nothing more than a list of club rules a child would write in crayon and stick the wall of his backyard treehouse. Consider the following little news item from Israel that covers a proposal involving "A Total Suspension of Individual Freedom": 


When MK Yoav Kish (Likud) sought to clarify whether she meant a total lockdown or curfew, Sadetsky replied: “A lockdown and personal monitoring of people, and a total halt to personal freedoms.”

Sadetsy and Moshe Bar Siman Tov, the Health Ministry’s director general, tried to persuade committee members to give the Shin Bet the go-ahead to use “special technological means” to detect where people diagnosed with the disease had been and the people they were exposed to while they were contagious, and to isolate them.

When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Saturday that such methods had been adopted, it provoked a strong public outcry due to the extraordinary loss of civil liberties by methods normally reserved for use in the war on terror.

These special means include gathering data about a person’s location via their cellphone and additional technological information using secret tools, and cross-referencing all of the data.

The process identifies all of the contacts coronavirus patients have had and the places they were, whether they are aware of it or not. A text message is then sent to any people who may have been affected, telling them to self-isolate.


The suspension of individual freedom. Micro-surveillance. Special technological means to detect movement and contacts. 

I hate to say it, but Ahriman is cementing its grip on us. I hope the pundits are correct when they claim the isolation and restriction measures will be lifted once the virus fades, but I don't believe this will be the case. Even if the virus threat recedes, the economic fallout of the Establishment's policies will remain.

If this economic fallout turns out to be as bad as some suggest, lockdown measures will probably be maintained or increased in the name of protecting safety and order. Of course, neither of these will truly exist in any meaningful sense if the Establishment succeeds in tanking its own System, but that's very much beside the point. 

The main point, as far as the Establishment is concerned, is to keep us isolated and restricted in our cells. We are all prisoners now. Prisoners in the name of the greater good. Locked down in the name of altruism.

Ahriman is stepping ever closer to a totalitarian world order, and it is wielding altruism as its weapon of choice in the achievement of this aim.
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Craig Davis
3/21/2020 13:17:48

I can't help but think that the "elite" (mostly bankers?), inspired by Ahriman, are behind this collapse. Do they think they can control it well enough to, yet again, rob the masses, stopping it in time to return to business as usual, only richer? Or perhaps they need a near total collapse to once again invoke "too big to fail", thereby allowing them to dismiss all of their debts by sending the bill to, you guessed it, the masses? The big question is whether or not they have the control that they think they do and can stop the collapse at the right time? I suspect they do, for I think it better serves Ahriman to avoid total collapse. Total collapse would likely result in the destruction of the surveillance state and a return of the masses to a family/community-centric mentality and increased awareness of God. Should we, therefore, be cheering on the complete destruction of civilization?

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Francis Berger
3/21/2020 17:52:57

You've raised some interesting points, Craig - points I have considered myself over the past few days.

I agree. I think the key here is how it is happening. It goes without saying that our current system is corrupt - so corrupt that it often exploits crises to enrich itself at our expense as you perceptively point out.

It would have been better if some organic movement/collective shift in consciousness had altered or abandoned the system from the bottom up rather than the collapse we are witnessing now.

The coming days and weeks will determine how much control they have over this, or how far they wish to push this if they are controlling it.

I see your point about total collapse ending the surveillance state - and perhaps they are only aiming for a partial collapse to increase totalitarian control. That makes sense to me. This way they could ensure a desirable level of devastation while simultaneously tightening the noose and ensuring mass damnation.

A total collapse could lead to something beneficial in the long-run, but it would catastrophic in the short-to-mid term, leading to the deaths of millions/billions, many innocents among them. Seen this way, I don't believe we should be cheering on. The system is inherently evil, but it does contain some good. A total collapse would eradicate everything. In the end, we must put our faith in God and accept/work with whatever outcome develops over time.

On a side note, allow me to say that I derive absolutely no pleasure or satisfaction writing about these sorts of things, and I am certain very few people derive pleasure or satisfaction reading these sorts of things, but I believe it is crucial to explore these possibilities in these unprecedented times.

Thanks for the comment.

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bruce charlton
3/21/2020 14:53:33

Valuable stuff Frank - thanks. I've linked from today's post.

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Francis Berger
3/21/2020 17:33:39

Thank you, Bruce. Much appreciated.

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Sean Fowler link
3/21/2020 19:42:39

The swedish central bank has recently, in their infinite altruism, made available 500 billion Kronor to bail out businesses that have or will be closed down due to the terrorcougher birdemic army.
This is to be distributed through the banks at 0% interest. The thing is the banks don’t want the money, due to the fact that in order to receive it they have to buy state obligations at between 20 and 60 basis points higher than normal. The banks have stated that they have the resources to cover demand. Just wait until those resources run out. the banks run all the risks concerning default and have little or nothing to gain. The central banks massively increase debt while making exorbitant profits. Businesses incur debts up to their eyeballs. Pure evil.
Many predict massive inflation. Debts that can never be paid back.
The smart money seems to be predicting a debt reset, stock market holiday, and the imposition of the global cashless society.
What I don’t get is how they are getting all national governments and leaders to go along with shutting down and ruining their economies over a bad case of the sniffles. Who’s giving the orders?
It seems like the press are in charge of government and will crucify any leader who takes, honest, sensible steps that go against the will of the dark powers in the shadows, that shouldn’t be.

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Francis Berger
3/21/2020 21:59:07

@SF - Good comment. Central banks are quite plainly an enormous part of the problem, as is the limitless and un-repayable debt they perpetually issue. The imposition of cashless societies, global or national, will almost certainly be pushed after the birdemic subsides - again for altruistic reasons. We don't want anyone getting nasty germs from coins and such, do we? But they'll say nothing about the added level of micro-surveillance of making every transaction traceable and identifiable.

The System is evil, no doubt about it - any good that still exists within it is dealt with harshly and quickly - much the same way we are all being dealt with rather harshly and quickly now. Countries won't truly exist again until they throw off the shackles of the System.

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Sean fowler link
3/21/2020 22:40:04

Central banks and the dark figures controlling them are definitely at the heart of this.
The question stands though. Can you, or any of your readers, explain how our leaders in the west can be ordered, coerced, fooled into or convinced by what ever means, to simultaneously order the systematic shut down and likely as not economic suicide of their nations. According to, almost identical methodology, throughout the entire west?
Who’s giving the orders. They are all exercising a virtually identical policy. All with no convincing evidence to suggest that this birdemic is at the very worst, a bad case of the flu. It’s being coordinated. By who?

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bruce charlton
3/22/2020 09:54:52

@Sf - My answer would be to break it down into two levels: the (probable) specific human agents, and the demonic masters whose plan this truly is (and who fully intend to sacrifice the human agents, when they have finished ther function).

The ultimate aim is mass spiritual damnation, which is one that benefits only the (immortal) demons - and this is where secular analyses fall-down, since they always try to explain everything in terms of worldly self-interest. CS Lewis's The Screwtape Letters and Screwtape Proposes a Toast help understand the demonic perspective. Lewis's book The Great Divorce is helpful in understanding *why* so many people choose Hell when they might choose Heaven, and thereby what are the strategies of the demons.

There are various charts and lists of the specific top level people involved, and their institutions (many are not famous and indeed obscure, by choice) - I can't vouch for the accuracy of these charts, but I expect they are along the right lines. http://survive2012.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/illuminati-connections.gif . To understand how these things work (probably) you might spend some time watching the videos of Terry Boardman - while they are still available - for example about how and why the EU was formed, or the causes of the 1914-18 war.

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Francis Berger
3/22/2020 10:06:53

@ Sean - It’s being coordinated. By who?

At the ultimate spiritual level it is demonic and it is being coordinated at that level and channeled through the System, which has become an all encompassing, interconnected network of trade, finance, media, etc.

Sub-Systems compete for control/power within the larger System. Nevertheless, each of these sub-Systems is fully converged and assimilated into the greater, overarching System, which makes it extremely difficult/impossible for any country or other segment of the System to operate independently. It also makes it practically impossible to determine just who is responsible for coordinating identical policies.

Take Hungary for example. For years Orbán has been challenging the System and getting away with things like putting up a fence to deter mass migration, funding policies to increase the native birthrate, kicking Soros' CEU out of Hungary, etc. On the surface it seemed like he was somehow outside the System even though he was still in it. When the birdemic first hit here, he responded by saying he would monitor individual cases, but had no plans to lock down the country. Three days later, he locked down the country.
And he locked it down knowing full well it would lead to catastrophe.

I don't know who exactly is doing the coordinating at the material level, but I know with absolute certainty that it all stems from the demonic.

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Sean fowler link
3/22/2020 16:07:39

@bruce@ Francis. Thank you both. Yes. Secret societies and not so secret societies, run by dark forces with evil intent. Can’t get to the top of the tree without joining them, or being beholden to them. All our leaders reading from the same hymn sheet.
Obvious really.
Thank you Bruce, yes I’ve read screwtape and have seen some of terry boardmans stuff and probably will look into his work in more depth. Very interesting.
Still I don’t fear the new world order or it’s army of demons. I’ll take them on any day of the week. Throughout my 54 years of life on this earth I’ve learnt that there is a much more dangerous enemy, namely myself. An enemy who on numerous occasions has proved himself to be almost insurmountable🙂
As you both rightly say. We need to prepare ourselves spiritually. Should be quite a battle. Bring it on.

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Sean fowler link
3/22/2020 21:33:09

What i meant by my previous comment is that i am my own worst enemy and that the battle ground is located within ourselves as much if not more than in the outside world.
Felt the need to clarify that.

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