"Everything is on the table" when it comes to getting rid of the inconvenient trucker convoy. We stand on the brink of the person being turned into a QR code, a product to be managed by a merger of corporate-state authoritarianism.
From Seattle 1999 to Ottawa 2022 -->
From Seattle 1999 to Ottawa 2022 -->
The 1990s were the end of history. Following the course of the post-war era, the institutions continued to seize power, covertly not overtly.
Unelected institutions like the WTO & WEF, which sprang from the grass like daisies, accrued more & more influence over people's lives.
Unelected institutions like the WTO & WEF, which sprang from the grass like daisies, accrued more & more influence over people's lives.
Where did they come from? How did they get here? A unifying pop culture, controlled by corporate media, distracted people. Bread & circuses, tried and true, allowed people to cede responsibility over their communities to experts they trusted.
But the experts betrayed them.
But the experts betrayed them.
The ascendancy of the Clintons completed a pro-corporate shift in the Democratic party. NAFTA went into effect. The word "globalization" finally bloomed into mass consciousness, and for a moment it became clear what was at stake: the loss of jobs, the loss of self-determination
For reasons too complicated to state here, it seems the elite of the world had decided the most serious threat to their power was a widely dispersed yeoman class, interested in self-responsibility, uninterested in trading freedom for dependence.
The story of the 20th century is the story of governments mass-murdering their own people (something "be obedient"-minded folk should remember). The US had a history of brutality like any other. But circumstances prevented corralling the unruly here into gulags.
Almost everyone alternates b/t treating America as evil incarnate or a triumph of hope, depending upon what they're arguing at the moment. America, either way, is good currency for myth-makers. And a lot of meaningful history gets lost along the way.
Like the Battle for Blair Mountain. Corporations didn't magically become nicer on American turf. Around the world, union-organizers are still assassinated. But US post-war wealth and independence prevented immediate open attacks on Labor.
Middle-class wealth was tolerated.
Middle-class wealth was tolerated.
So the focus became pacifying the American people while yoking resources and peasants outside the Western world into manageable patterns of trade. And slowly the administrative state was built up to take away that American independence and replace it with control & dependence.
It had been easy to dismiss as fringe kooks those who criticized this a global consolidation of power away from individuals and their communities. But in the winter of 1999, thanks to the work of leftists of all persuasions, awareness exploded.
Suddenly thousands of people were out protesting three letter acronyms that had apparently co-opted an incredible amount of power away from what people had believed to be sovereign communities. Environmentalists & labor, united in favor of democracy.
The last thing the powers that be wanted was solidarity b/t middle-class, middle-America workers and hippies. At any given time one of those groups had to serve as defenders of globalism and keep the left/right dichotomy going.
Well, for the coming decade it would be middle-America. Globalism was a cure for Terror and culture wars filled much of the left's time.
Then came the banking collapse and the spotlight shifted back to private interests treating the public as playthings. Enter Occupy.
Then came the banking collapse and the spotlight shifted back to private interests treating the public as playthings. Enter Occupy.
From NYC to Oakland, the movement spreads like wildfire. Twitter, which had been offered as a tool of color revolutions the State Department wanted to see, was suddenly very dangerous. People were sharing images in real-time of their camps being bulldozed.
It seemed like they might actually make it through the winter, but orders were sent out again and again and by January/February they were cleared. The protests were not celebrated in MSM consciousness. They were dangerous. And a new, more potent distraction was required.
The lovely charts here show very interesting happenings at the New York Times after 2012 and the end of Occupy:
You can read much more on them here: marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…
You can read much more on them here: marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…
In the decade since Occupy fell, a political realignment has taken place. Class-based leftists looked around in shock. Leftists who took the old ACLU at their word were amazed by the embrace of QR codes and vaxx passports. People who voted *for Biden* openly say they're shocked
Once again words like globalism and institutions like the WEF (who voted for Schwab?) are before us. People are aware the technocratic class has been a useful tool of capital and neo-feudalism seems upon us. We have very few tools.
But we have truckers.
But we have truckers.
All the automation, all the outsourcing of jobs, hasn't been able to conquer simple facts of reality. A world order based on trade needs people to move goods. It's the one hole in the dragon's armor. The working class is demoralized, but someone has to take out Davos's garbage.
I'm not here to say all globalization is wrong. I'm not going to say right or left is always right or wrong. How we organize society is complex. I have mixed feelings about many things. I don't know how much global governance we should or shouldn't have.
But I do not have mixed feelings about a few Machiavellians making those decisions for everyone. I do not have mixed feelings about turning people into QR codes. I do not have mixed feelings about private corporations buying my government officials.
When the most powerful really hate something, I pay attention. Always and ever they hate independence. They hate kulaks, they hate peasants, they hate different languages. And they use gulags and murder to stop them. And they lie.
So I know them by their fruit.
So I know them by their fruit.
I won't let my eyes be taken from the truckers. Not this time. Whatever Seattle & Occupy got wrong, the true loss came in the following years. I want a renewal of diverse, organic life. I do not accept a vision designed by the few to benefit themselves and treat us as cattle.
Again, it's not that all globalization is bad. But what we have is a type of globalism controlled by private interests, run for their own power, and a sycophantic media that blocks transparency. They've seized the right to rule and the masses have no rights. They are managed.
Who knows what good things are possible with globalism & technology. But lies are bad. Depriving people of their gift of freedom of conscience are bad. Turning people against their neighbor is bad. Holding people's bodies hostage to corporations is wrong.
Vive la truckers!!!
Vive la truckers!!!
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