Vineeto: I haven’t watched current affairs in the last 7 months but before that Richard and myself were regularly keeping abreast of most of what was going on in the US and the world at large.
In summary, the actions of the previous government had, by statist intervention, doubled the fuel and electricity prices, tripled the food prices, restricted gas-stoves and cars to be replaced with electric vehicles, and instituted a myriad other public-servant-inspired restrictions on affordable living with so-called climate-change regulations based on the world-wide global warming scare. Additionally the privacy of girls’ toilets and locker-rooms were violated by legal decrees for confused males to use them, by instituting edicts that interfered in parents’ rights to choose schools and gender for their children. They also inflicted a world-wide plague on Western and other countries together with insulating/isolating the whole population plus an obligatory, inefficient, even dangerous, genetic experimental drug (deceitfully called ‘vaccine’). On top of it they engineered an invasion of millions of “aliens” into the US resulting in more poverty and crime for large afflicted regions. All these events quite transparently benefitted the already obscenely rich and brought more misery to the middle-class and poorer population.
Claudiu: Even though the majority of the media is owned and controlled by the very same obscenely rich, their scare-tactic of “potential nazi affiliations/ sympathies” seems no longer be effective – it has been used too long without tangible evidence.
It’s remarkable how you lay out everything what happened here. To give you a brief update, since starting his second term, the US president has issued a spate of executive orders that directly address essentially everything you mentioned here. As much of the interventions in the USA were at the level of the federal executive branch, much can be undone at that same level. The orders he issued so far include actions to:
- Create a new Department of Government Efficiency, tasked with reducing bureaucratic waste and spending (which directly contribute to the massive inflation in recent years) – which according to the US Debt Clock has already resulted in $18 billion dollars of savings
- Deliver “emergency price relief” by, among other means, “eliminat[ing] counterproductive requirements that raise the costs of home appliances”
- Push back against ill-conceived and harmful-to-humanity environmental policies by eliminating the electric vehicle mandate, withdrawing from the Paris Climate Accords, allowing and encouraging exploration and production of the natural energy resources so abundant in the country in general and in Alaska in particular (expediting all of which by declaring a national energy emergency), and prioritizing the well-being of humans over the well-being of a small species of (just one of the many and various species) of fish rather than vice-versa with regards to access to fresh water in California
- Begin to un-do the dangerous gender ideology and thus restore the privacy of girls’ toilets, restore the dignity of female sports, and in general unraveling all the harm (and particularly harm to young kids) that such a noxious ideology has perpetrated, via establishing clear definitions of male and female, declaring sex not to be interchangeable with ‘gender identity’, signalling agencies and employees to enforce all laws “to protect men and women as biologically distinct sexes”, rescinding “gender identity-based access to single-sex spaces”, ensuring “that males are not detained in women’s prisons”, designating intimate spaces by sex and not identity, ensuring the “right to single-sex spaces in workplaces”, along with other such protections, and signalling the legislative branch to codify the executive order into law
- Withdraw from the World Health Organization (with an explicitly stated reason due to its “mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic”) and temporarily pause medical grant reviews by the US’s National Institutes of Health, both of which contributed to the severity and impact of the worldwide pandemic
- Take immediate steps to stymie the mass influx of millions of (illegally-entering) “aliens” by declaring a national emergency at the southern border (authorizing the use of the Armed Forces and establishing policy that it is their duty to protect the border), closing asylum/refugee loopholes, continuing to build the border wall, attempting to end birthright citizenship (“birth tourism” to the USA is significant and an extra motivator for illegal immigration), and literally declaring the mass influx of people to be an invasion and thus using constitutional powers to temporarily halt all physical entry.
On top of everything you already mentioned, the sinistral statist ideologies of the world conspired to censor the free speech of their complaining peasants. The founder of Facebook revealed that the administration at the time requested they remove not only misinformation but also factually accurate information, such as the universally accepted fact that it’s possible for vaccines to have side effects, going so far as demanding they remove a satirical meme about this topic. To that extent, the US president issued executive orders to end federal censorship of free speech and end the weaponization of the federal government 1 against the ‘peasants’ acting too inconveniently.
In other words, it appears that the “generally obliging and subservient peasant population” indeed had enough, voted a person into power to undo the dire situation that had been wrought upon them in recent years, and that person is now actually executing on that which he promised. The fact that the extent to which these actions are fulfilments of campaign promises made is surprising speaks volumes about the current political system we find ourselves in.
The above all happened within the first 24-48 hours of the new administration… and yet the mass media has chosen to focus inordinate amounts of attention on the heartfelt emotional gesture 1 an autistic man 1 made in appreciation for the public’s support for his chosen candidate, insinuating that a person who has consistently supported free speech, equal protection under the law regardless of race, democratic voting (which is what he was showing appreciation for at the time), and the state of Israel itself, is actually a fascist Nazi or somehow sympathetic to those who are (conveniently overlooking the fact that many other prominent public figures have also in the recent past made such superficially-similar gestures).
Indeed, by this point it is so absurd and so many people have woken up to these tactics, that it does seem to “no longer be effective” – albeit I was stunned at how many people it did still manage to have an effect on.
Although these recent events are remarkably refreshing, and indicates a dangerous trend towards censorship and totalitarianism is finally being reversed (including the reversal of the patterned-after-Marx division and discord sown along racial lines, evidenced by a total extirpation of so-called Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives 2 from the federal government and federal contractors and “the termination of all discriminatory programs” as well as a re-affirmed commitment to colourblind equality before the law), not only in the USA but also in Argentina and other nations around the world… it is eminently clear that none of it will actually cure or solve the fundamental problem of the human condition.
Increasingly totalitarian and anti-human elements have crept in over the past decades, and it was only through remarkably strength of will and often an access to vast quantities of money that these leaders were able to be elected such as to actually enact the will of the increasingly-growing majority of the people in these regards. And there are many and various counter-indicators today such as various first-world countries punishing speech more harshly than violent crimes, and the democratic elections in Romania literally being cancelled, suspended 2, on the flimsiest of pretences.
Hi Claudiu,
Thank you for your excellent update with so many informative links. It’s great to have a historical snapshot of this fascinating time in history where the pendulum of a certain cultural-political orientation swings into its opposite direction, only to eventually become so extreme that it again (perhaps) evokes correction. The human condition is such that there are always only two alternatives, never genuine equity and parity, or salubrious sensibleness, without being sullied by ‘self’-centricity.
Claudiu: In other words, even if the world does trend to a positive direction now… there’s no telling if it will succeed, or how long it will last. Prosperity tends to breed complacency, at which point the more devious elements creep in again.
Those “devious elements”, which are in all human beings as a result of the instinctual passions – rather ‘erupt’ than “creep in” (lol), and as such are present on both sides of the political divide. The evolution of the human condition itself can only happen via a virtual freedom, and dissolution via an actual freedom.
Claudiu: The best possible thing I can do remains. It is not to espouse a particular political ideology or attempt to convert the massive hordes of people viciously railing against the above actions and falsely smearing their proponents with all manner of calumnies. Rather, it is to self-immolate, to sacrifice myself for the benefit of the human species in general and of the people in my life I am most intimate with in particular (which will be of immense benefit for this body as well), such as to do the very best I can to bring about an actual, lasting and perennial peace on earth, in my lifetime. It is actually possible, and I can take this next step to enable it to occur at the maximum potential I possibly can! (link)
Well said.
Today I remembered something you had reported in your last post –
Claudiu: Walking outside I experienced the stillness, how still actuality really is, and walking along one part of track I experienced myself as somehow a still/ fixed/ unmoving point whilst the body was ambling along – it seemed a bit odd, […] However it didn’t culminate in self-immolation. I do appear to be on the right track though! (link)
I was wondering if you are entirely comfortable yet that an actual freedom is irrevocable.
I am asking because on January 4 2010, in a casual conversation, Richard asked ‘Vineeto’ if it was perhaps the irrevocability of an actual freedom which caused ‘her’ to hesitate. ‘Her’ first impulse was to answer “of course not” but then ‘she’ decided to mull it over carefully so that ‘she’ could be 100% sure. The next evening ‘she’ became actually free.
Cheers Vineeto