Odd chap, RTW. Or perhaps very ordinary, because he is so inconsistent, in his case between the idiotic public political performer and the subtle fiction writer. I don't know about Dr Who, - not my thing, - but he has done some good stuff: 'Cucumber' with its lachrymae rerum report on a cast of characters I could for the most part cheerfully have kicked in real life; 'Years and Years' similarly. The AIDS thing whose title I forget was less good, - there was melodrama there, i.e., the attempt to buttonhole the audience - but very affecting in parts. I just wish he'd shut tfu outside fiction. Don't suppose he will.
Leftists have this perennial fantasy that they're always the heroic underdogs fighting against all odds. This shows, for example, in their delusional belief they are still the main victims of censorship. A recent tweet from 60 Minutes showed Margaret Atwood staging a mock burning of her book "The Handmaid's Tale." The tweet said:
"Margaret Atwood, author of 64 books including “The Handmaid’s Tale,” has seen her work banned for content deemed overly sexual, morally corrupt, and anti-Christian."
To this, Matt Walsh replied, 'If by "banned" you mean "the book is available everywhere that books are sold and has been obsessively promoted by every major media outlet for decades and adapted into six seasons of a streaming show on Hulu and not actually banned anywhere in any form at all" then yeah the book has definitely been banned.'
It seems that many leftists, particularly the aging boomer type, are locked into the exact same mindset they acquired 40-50 years ago, and cannot update their ideas. They live in a fantasy world that is almost the opposite of reality.
If Davies and his ilk could be said to be in rebellion, it's against natural order, against god. They are very much cosseted and furthered by the powers of this world, that is, by evil.
Everything is performative for these types, their idea of rebellion is all singing, dancing, wearing cool costumes, no doubt having promiscuous sex, striking Che Guevara poses. The reality (poverty, fear, unable to get on a plane or get a job) would be offputting to Davies, far too lower class, too dull.
This was a Doctor Who episode, right? It made me cringe.
"Davies gave this speech shortly before a TV drama he had written over a year earlier was broadcast. Clearly these thoughts had been in his head for some time, because the drama featured a scene closely matching his description"
Here in Australia we have the “Festival of Dangerous Ideas” - which is and always has been a mainstream progressive gab-fest sponsored by lots of influential academic, government & industry players. I presume there is some practical limit to sponsored self-aggrandisement dressed up as courage, but I don’t think we’ve reached it yet
To echo Soaker, you've been on quite the roll. I wish your most recent essays had been picked up and more widely spread by at least friendly sites, and it is puzzling as to why that hasn't happened. Still, stellar work.
It seems the embrace of Elite Theory is inevitable; I've personally been there a long time now. Still, when someone like Academic Agent claims there is a hidden on/off switch for The Current Thing, they wildly overstate the case. But nothing separates the sheep from the goats quicker than the Elite dropping a Current Thing, to be clear. Glaring opportunists like Greta (who, as you point out, hilariously misread what actually is now acceptable) immediately switch gears. Most, though, don't immediately make the transition, pardon the pun, and deadenders always will be among us. As an aside, am I the only one who remembers that after Greta started to be upstaged at the onset of Covid that she frequently would announce she had been under the weather of late and was worried for her health? Her adoring fans didn't make the connection, of course.
The most cringe recent example of the Elite dropping a Current Thing has been climate alarmism. Climate activism was predicated in large part on the belief that energy production was the cause of massive environmental stress and coal plants and so forth needed to be shuttered. The nanosecond, and it really was the nanosecond, that it became apparent that massive amounts of electricity would be needed for AI, which was purported to be the fast track to even more wealth, the Elite dropped Climate Change like a hot(ter) potato. It almost would make someone a Marxist to have watched the 180.
The saddest part of all this is how much it reveals humans to be herdlike, mindless beings with precious little autonomy. How we arrived here is no mystery.
Watching "An Inconvenient Truth" these days is a trip. I don't know how the believers stay sane. The climate is exactly the same. In fact, its been abnormally stable. CO2 makes plants grow much faster.
Poor old Greta. She was the main character of the mainstream media until the above, and she tried to stop Israel's genocide. Then she found out how things really work.
It's been difficult, but since 2020 I've made peace with the fact that conformity is a part of human nature and I shouldn't get too angry at people for following their nature. The anger should be reserved for the elites who are manipulating the nature of the masses for perverse ends. Speaking of AA, I see him getting angry at people for falling for slop. Yet he of all people should know this is a waste of time, the crowd is always going to indulge the slop with a few seeing past it. (PS I did see him tweeting a claim that was complete BS this past week).
Compassion for the manipulated is indeed the rational and moral response. I do try to focus my rage on the elites responsible for tricking them, but knowing there will come a time when the powerful will not hesitate to go that extra step because there will be even less pushback is both infuriating and terrifying. I've noticed that even after the psyop aspect of Covid became undeniable, the default position seemed to be to pretend that what happened never happened, essentially a repressed memory of sorts. It is far beyond mere resignation.
Excellent!!! I read Weird Scenes Inside The Canyon and I fel despair at how I'd lionised the 60s and it all was just a psyop. . normal people have to spend all day working, yet in all the examples you give, there's just tons of people who have time and money to merely 'hang out'.
Great summary Woes. All things we need to remember as the digital ID battle plays out. As someone against all the Covid measures I'm grateful to all those who opposed the authorities, all I did for my part was not take any jabs and I personally wasn't under huge pressure to take them. But I'm under no illusion that it all went away in early 2022 because those in power gave up on it. If they really wanted to force all the NHS workers to get jabbed they would, but they decided it wasn't worth it. That doctor was allowed to challenge Sajid Javid on live TV news, and the rest is history. I do believe they backed down in part because of the growing opposition, more scepticism from normies as what they were promised did not materialise. I remember one guy who had taken his jabs but was worried he'd fail the coof test and so couldn't go on holiday, he came out with (unprompted by me) "The jabs don't work, I'm not having any more". The authorities had reached the limits of soft power and weren't willing to go further, in Britain at least.
As for digital ID - maybe another faction of the elite will take power before they are able to fully implement and mandate it. Maybe there will be a rebellion within the Labour government itself. Willing to be corrected here, but if they want to mandate it for people to work in Britain that surely requires changes to law which would need to go through Parliament in a bill? Starmer's announcement out of the blue is very concerning, but for now it's just an announcement and the thing has not come to pass.
Yes. I've also strongly suspected that an even more totalitarian endpoint--not certain as to the particulars but it was obviously going to an even darker place-- was desired for Covid but it was called off after those in charge got cold feet.
Firstly, isn't it great that everybody is having to use the Lord of the Rings as a reference? The ideological fight is occurring on our hallowed ground. Nothing the Left tried culturally, stuck. Nobody is talking about their S-for-Shit-tier media products. Star Wars flew its stupid greebled spaceships right into an asteroid. Marvel products are so out of fashion that I would categorize them firmly as "chick-repellant". The value in Disney is to download a massive compilation from a torrenting site. I selectively weed out almost everything in the last fifteen years, keeping gems like "Frozen" and use that distillate to never go and get ripped off and socially-engineered at the cinema again.
As is always the case, Leftism is difficult to directly defeat, because it usually is the will of a large group of our fellow folks. And a great deal of it makes sense, especially to urban people. It is energizing. The Left usually has very strong unity of purpose. It's when they get what they want and see that it is bad, that they wilt away, because its indefensible. I can say every time here, too, because it is radical by nature, and never stops when it gets what it wants. Gay rights being the prime example. It "progresses" into attacking heterosexuality. Everyone sees that is cruel lunacy, and then the leftist loses their motivation and ground is retaken by reactionary, conservative energy.
You are right about the Canadian Convoy Protests, they were nothing like "far right", I was there. There were a lot of timid mainstream conservatives, many leftists, Indigenous people, libertarians, hippies, Sikhs, and other groups. The feel was entirely organic and positive. There was not one iota of violent revolution. Speakers included medical doctors, the elderly, and worried parents with children on their shoulders. These people were violently attacked by the state. To this day, even in a Canadian University -all leftist institutions- the government's treatment of the Convoy is good ammunition. It also directly created that which had not existed before, an organized, justified far-right resistance embodied by men like the phenomenal Jeremy Mackenzie.
Gender critical girls and women are now to be found everywhere. Its cool. The bluehead trend is mostly dead (though of course lingering annoyingly in protected spaces such as Academia and High schools, where they are still sacrosanct.)
The will, the numbers and the arguments are there. We are at the cusp of taking back the culture. They've had their say, though as you point out, we still lack big, open funders like Soros. Elite theory holds. Its likely to be Musk for us, in my estimation. He seems to genuinely loathe woke and leftism. Be cautious as "big fish" money influence WILL be used to re-create a 1980's martial spirit for dumb things like war and Sillicon Valley's demented fantasies. But paired with your other pieces "The Left is Done" and "The Wages of Wokery" this is good, buoying news in time for the 'yulidays. I really does feel like a fin de siècle in winter 2025.
Odd chap, RTW. Or perhaps very ordinary, because he is so inconsistent, in his case between the idiotic public political performer and the subtle fiction writer. I don't know about Dr Who, - not my thing, - but he has done some good stuff: 'Cucumber' with its lachrymae rerum report on a cast of characters I could for the most part cheerfully have kicked in real life; 'Years and Years' similarly. The AIDS thing whose title I forget was less good, - there was melodrama there, i.e., the attempt to buttonhole the audience - but very affecting in parts. I just wish he'd shut tfu outside fiction. Don't suppose he will.
Leftist Rebellion is about perp walking on the charred remains of conservatism.
Leftists have this perennial fantasy that they're always the heroic underdogs fighting against all odds. This shows, for example, in their delusional belief they are still the main victims of censorship. A recent tweet from 60 Minutes showed Margaret Atwood staging a mock burning of her book "The Handmaid's Tale." The tweet said:
"Margaret Atwood, author of 64 books including “The Handmaid’s Tale,” has seen her work banned for content deemed overly sexual, morally corrupt, and anti-Christian."
To this, Matt Walsh replied, 'If by "banned" you mean "the book is available everywhere that books are sold and has been obsessively promoted by every major media outlet for decades and adapted into six seasons of a streaming show on Hulu and not actually banned anywhere in any form at all" then yeah the book has definitely been banned.'
It seems that many leftists, particularly the aging boomer type, are locked into the exact same mindset they acquired 40-50 years ago, and cannot update their ideas. They live in a fantasy world that is almost the opposite of reality.
Policy response to the GFC made the very rich very much richer.
Those very much richer very rich feared class-based challenge from those harmed by the crisis.
In response, their NGOs & GOs funded Big Woke to diffuse the perceived class-based threat along Identity lines.
Because class-based challenge no longer keeps the very rich awake at night, Big Woke is no longer needed for protection.
Dutton explains that woke and leftist are simply weak humans…https://youtu.be/IeRtTH09qJw
Excellent piece.
If Davies and his ilk could be said to be in rebellion, it's against natural order, against god. They are very much cosseted and furthered by the powers of this world, that is, by evil.
Everything is performative for these types, their idea of rebellion is all singing, dancing, wearing cool costumes, no doubt having promiscuous sex, striking Che Guevara poses. The reality (poverty, fear, unable to get on a plane or get a job) would be offputting to Davies, far too lower class, too dull.
This was a Doctor Who episode, right? It made me cringe.
"Davies gave this speech shortly before a TV drama he had written over a year earlier was broadcast. Clearly these thoughts had been in his head for some time, because the drama featured a scene closely matching his description"
I'm afraid so.
Here in Australia we have the “Festival of Dangerous Ideas” - which is and always has been a mainstream progressive gab-fest sponsored by lots of influential academic, government & industry players. I presume there is some practical limit to sponsored self-aggrandisement dressed up as courage, but I don’t think we’ve reached it yet
The only cellars Russell T Davies went to at night were for homosexual orgies.
Harsh
You are brilliant. Every time.
Well, thank you!
To echo Soaker, you've been on quite the roll. I wish your most recent essays had been picked up and more widely spread by at least friendly sites, and it is puzzling as to why that hasn't happened. Still, stellar work.
It seems the embrace of Elite Theory is inevitable; I've personally been there a long time now. Still, when someone like Academic Agent claims there is a hidden on/off switch for The Current Thing, they wildly overstate the case. But nothing separates the sheep from the goats quicker than the Elite dropping a Current Thing, to be clear. Glaring opportunists like Greta (who, as you point out, hilariously misread what actually is now acceptable) immediately switch gears. Most, though, don't immediately make the transition, pardon the pun, and deadenders always will be among us. As an aside, am I the only one who remembers that after Greta started to be upstaged at the onset of Covid that she frequently would announce she had been under the weather of late and was worried for her health? Her adoring fans didn't make the connection, of course.
The most cringe recent example of the Elite dropping a Current Thing has been climate alarmism. Climate activism was predicated in large part on the belief that energy production was the cause of massive environmental stress and coal plants and so forth needed to be shuttered. The nanosecond, and it really was the nanosecond, that it became apparent that massive amounts of electricity would be needed for AI, which was purported to be the fast track to even more wealth, the Elite dropped Climate Change like a hot(ter) potato. It almost would make someone a Marxist to have watched the 180.
The saddest part of all this is how much it reveals humans to be herdlike, mindless beings with precious little autonomy. How we arrived here is no mystery.
Watching "An Inconvenient Truth" these days is a trip. I don't know how the believers stay sane. The climate is exactly the same. In fact, its been abnormally stable. CO2 makes plants grow much faster.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu6SE5TYrCM
Poor old Greta. She was the main character of the mainstream media until the above, and she tried to stop Israel's genocide. Then she found out how things really work.
I did not have Greta being tortured by a Jewish warlord on my bingo card for 2025.
It's been difficult, but since 2020 I've made peace with the fact that conformity is a part of human nature and I shouldn't get too angry at people for following their nature. The anger should be reserved for the elites who are manipulating the nature of the masses for perverse ends. Speaking of AA, I see him getting angry at people for falling for slop. Yet he of all people should know this is a waste of time, the crowd is always going to indulge the slop with a few seeing past it. (PS I did see him tweeting a claim that was complete BS this past week).
Compassion for the manipulated is indeed the rational and moral response. I do try to focus my rage on the elites responsible for tricking them, but knowing there will come a time when the powerful will not hesitate to go that extra step because there will be even less pushback is both infuriating and terrifying. I've noticed that even after the psyop aspect of Covid became undeniable, the default position seemed to be to pretend that what happened never happened, essentially a repressed memory of sorts. It is far beyond mere resignation.
Excellent!!! I read Weird Scenes Inside The Canyon and I fel despair at how I'd lionised the 60s and it all was just a psyop. . normal people have to spend all day working, yet in all the examples you give, there's just tons of people who have time and money to merely 'hang out'.
Great summary Woes. All things we need to remember as the digital ID battle plays out. As someone against all the Covid measures I'm grateful to all those who opposed the authorities, all I did for my part was not take any jabs and I personally wasn't under huge pressure to take them. But I'm under no illusion that it all went away in early 2022 because those in power gave up on it. If they really wanted to force all the NHS workers to get jabbed they would, but they decided it wasn't worth it. That doctor was allowed to challenge Sajid Javid on live TV news, and the rest is history. I do believe they backed down in part because of the growing opposition, more scepticism from normies as what they were promised did not materialise. I remember one guy who had taken his jabs but was worried he'd fail the coof test and so couldn't go on holiday, he came out with (unprompted by me) "The jabs don't work, I'm not having any more". The authorities had reached the limits of soft power and weren't willing to go further, in Britain at least.
As for digital ID - maybe another faction of the elite will take power before they are able to fully implement and mandate it. Maybe there will be a rebellion within the Labour government itself. Willing to be corrected here, but if they want to mandate it for people to work in Britain that surely requires changes to law which would need to go through Parliament in a bill? Starmer's announcement out of the blue is very concerning, but for now it's just an announcement and the thing has not come to pass.
Yes. I've also strongly suspected that an even more totalitarian endpoint--not certain as to the particulars but it was obviously going to an even darker place-- was desired for Covid but it was called off after those in charge got cold feet.
I suspect that the endpoint is Noahide Law. But I'm probably nuts...
The elite switched because of October 23. Nothing else. They have no other loyalties and fear no other force.
You're on a roll, and its glorious.
Firstly, isn't it great that everybody is having to use the Lord of the Rings as a reference? The ideological fight is occurring on our hallowed ground. Nothing the Left tried culturally, stuck. Nobody is talking about their S-for-Shit-tier media products. Star Wars flew its stupid greebled spaceships right into an asteroid. Marvel products are so out of fashion that I would categorize them firmly as "chick-repellant". The value in Disney is to download a massive compilation from a torrenting site. I selectively weed out almost everything in the last fifteen years, keeping gems like "Frozen" and use that distillate to never go and get ripped off and socially-engineered at the cinema again.
As is always the case, Leftism is difficult to directly defeat, because it usually is the will of a large group of our fellow folks. And a great deal of it makes sense, especially to urban people. It is energizing. The Left usually has very strong unity of purpose. It's when they get what they want and see that it is bad, that they wilt away, because its indefensible. I can say every time here, too, because it is radical by nature, and never stops when it gets what it wants. Gay rights being the prime example. It "progresses" into attacking heterosexuality. Everyone sees that is cruel lunacy, and then the leftist loses their motivation and ground is retaken by reactionary, conservative energy.
You are right about the Canadian Convoy Protests, they were nothing like "far right", I was there. There were a lot of timid mainstream conservatives, many leftists, Indigenous people, libertarians, hippies, Sikhs, and other groups. The feel was entirely organic and positive. There was not one iota of violent revolution. Speakers included medical doctors, the elderly, and worried parents with children on their shoulders. These people were violently attacked by the state. To this day, even in a Canadian University -all leftist institutions- the government's treatment of the Convoy is good ammunition. It also directly created that which had not existed before, an organized, justified far-right resistance embodied by men like the phenomenal Jeremy Mackenzie.
Gender critical girls and women are now to be found everywhere. Its cool. The bluehead trend is mostly dead (though of course lingering annoyingly in protected spaces such as Academia and High schools, where they are still sacrosanct.)
The will, the numbers and the arguments are there. We are at the cusp of taking back the culture. They've had their say, though as you point out, we still lack big, open funders like Soros. Elite theory holds. Its likely to be Musk for us, in my estimation. He seems to genuinely loathe woke and leftism. Be cautious as "big fish" money influence WILL be used to re-create a 1980's martial spirit for dumb things like war and Sillicon Valley's demented fantasies. But paired with your other pieces "The Left is Done" and "The Wages of Wokery" this is good, buoying news in time for the 'yulidays. I really does feel like a fin de siècle in winter 2025.