If you want new economic ideas, talk with ordinary citizen. Talk with poor people. Listen to the dispossessed and disenfranchised. They have heaps of great ideas if anyone would bother to listen. Robert Kennedy, when he was running for President in 1968, went and sat on the front porch with poor people who lived in Appalachia and listened to their concerns. No politician (nor academic for that matter) has had the courage to do that since. The deep state murders leaders who listen to the people. But that's what we need -- to listen to the experiences of the dispossessed and to permanently dismantle the deep state.
During his vacation, Justice Thomas has been known to park his RV in Walmart parking lots and talk to the people he encounters. Wise man, Justice Thomas. Back in the day, Henry Ford and Thomas Edison used to do the 1920's equivalent.
Well, Ford didn't listen to his workers when they wanted to unionize. He was rather harsh with them. Edison was ruthless in taking other people's work and patenting for himself. If he listened to anyone, it was to steal their ideas.
Yes. Exactly. That was exactly the message of Marx's "Capital", that the material conditions of the working class must be addressed. "Capital" was a critical analysis of capitalism and the inherent contradictions of it, true over a century ago, and true today. The Working Class (that is just about all of us, including doctors) needs to be able to fully participate in the economy and engage in the workplace without some upper management firing them over not parroting the party line over some questionable medical procedure, for example.
When I read this: “Neoliberalism is dead, but we haven’t developed a replacement,” said Larry Kramer, president of the Hewlett Foundation.” I thought Ya you’re right, some radical needs to be done.
Then I read this: “ The initial recipients of grants to set up research programs are Harvard University’s Kennedy School, Howard University, Johns Hopkins University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Santa Fe Institute.” I thought, wt? This is insanity. Here we go again with the same well known yet useless players. Doesn’t using these old school long in the tooth dinoMFsaurs institutions just reek of doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome? It’s obvious that the 41 million is coming from “old let’s not dare to think outside the box money.” They obviously really don’t want things to change. Why would they?
Yep, everywhere and always. The technocrats want to focus on 1 or just a few factors. But life is made up of trillions of factors seen and unseen. Better to just get out of the way than to tinker with individual inputs in hopes of controlling the system.
I agree with you generally, but you don't go far enough. The problem didn't begin with "technocrats." Technocrats are the natural result of democracy without faith in God. The leaders support democracy but know their will is the will of the people. That usurpation was always possible, but at least earlier in our country's history, Christianity was a check on what rulers could do. Now the politicians believe they have nobody to answer to but themselves. "Without God, all things are permitted." Dostoyevsky(?) Atheism leads to liberalism leads to totalitarianism.
Forrest Maready has been writing about this recently on Twitter. I find it a fascinating hypothesis -- that religion functioned as a sort of 5th branch of government -- that had a humbling effect on the ruling class. And that in the absence of some sort of religious moral core, democracy quickly goes to heck.
Wokeism is a religion pretending to be secular. Humans need purpose and meaning. Secular is t a state humanity knows how to live in.
Humans can place that purpose and meaning in a higher power based in a mature theology that has produced positive outcomes with consistent morals that do change, but slowly and thoughtfully. Or they can look for meaning in very flawed humans and the state - which is destructive throughout history.
While government should not be run by religion, religious people guided by the morality of positive religions do a far superior job than those who aren’t accountable to anyone or anything.
Wackawackawackawacka!!!! Wat a load o bollocks. Superior... like Aztecs or Catholics? Buddhists or Mohammedams? Murderers all. Theocracy is a Murder State and Religious Philosophers are genocidal by design. One cannot be made "accountable" by the Ooger Booger man! Now here's a crazy idea 💡 EDUCATE FROM BIRTH ON ETHICS. Even the youngest bub knows Right from Wrong from the beginning, in sharing milk and toys and love. The DANGER is Individuals who ALL KNOW WHAT MUST BE JUDGED. Unthinkable, hey!?!
Read Blessed Charles of Austria by Charles Coulombe. It will give you a great idea of the model of a ruler guided by faith. Monarchy is largely held in disdain these days, but people fail to recognize how many Catholic rulers felt a duty to their people so great that it could lead to self-sacrifice, as w/ Charles. I will search out F. Maready; thanks.
In earlier centuries, the reality was that the Church once served as a counterbalance on the actions of rulers. History records that a few centuries ago, monarchs would seek the blessing of the pope to bolster their pet cause.
This is not to suggest that either side was perfect. If nothing else: consider it an early version of "separation of powers", in an age before there were legislatures.
Pure democracy, where you get 50%+1 of the (supposedly fair) vote and you can do whatever you want, always ends poorly. A republic provides protections to the minority (some things are simply off the table; other things can be done but only temporarily, until another election where the people can reverse themselves, etc.). One-size-fits-all, top-down, 50%+1 style democracy is just a temporary stepping stone toward totalitarianism.
We have seen what acting "in the name of God" can do from centuries of control, slaughter, plunder by the Christian Catholic church. Christianity can be good or just another form of slavery. Allow each to find their own paths to God. Christianity is not the only way.
You are quite wrong. Man doesn't choose how he will approach God; God does. And Jesus said: "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No man cometh to the Father, but by me." John 14:6. I am not able to stop anyone, but do understand that if you reject Christianity, you will not see God. The Catholic Church did none of the things you spewed out. These were done by sinners, which we all are. That is why Christ left us sacraments to heal and restore us. We fight the world, the flesh and the devil, and sometimes we slip. Still, we try to do better. By the way, it's quite ironic you made these comments on the day the Church reads the Parable of the Sower; you should read it: Luke 8:4-15. I will concede that not everything done in the name of the Church has been praiseworthy, but I suspect that you are condemning a lot of things that are either misinformation or are only disparaged by those who don't love Christ. In any event, the Catholic Church built the greatest civilization ever seen on this planet, and you are still benefiting from the legacy even as the secular world seeks to destroy it.
I wish, hope and pray that parents would research what is being injected into their children as much as they research what type of stroller to purchase/what books to buy/what diapers are best/which preschool is best. Researching these things gets you labeled "a smart parent/consumer" whereas researching what is IN vaccines given to your children beginning on DAY 1, earns you the label "conspiracy theorist".
I so agree with you, however there is TOO much information out there that young parents are gleaming from. where is the confidence in using what moral values they were brought up with, and common sense. I am not a religious follower, however, I do believe religion can help guide people who do not have a good sense of moral values, OR needs to have a tribe to help them in their life journey. In regards to politics and religion, I believe greed and power have outweighed any moral obligation to our society, which our fore fathers took seriously when governing. Those verbs are very evil and powerful, and has been the fall of many societies in our history.
Academic studies are generally worthless. So are universities. So are the so-called 'think tanks' run by elites. The Real World is where the rubber meets the road. Get out of the lab, and into the street. Learn through the school of hard knocks. Make the world your laboratory.
Yeah, I mean, hats off to the bougiecrats for figuring out how to take $41 million off the billionaires. But this project will never achieve its stated aims. I agree -- much better to participate in the world and learn from it.
That’s where I think change needs to start. In the outdated education system. Kids sitting at a desk, zoning out while a talking head drones on for hours a day, has always been a failure. Start engaging kids, teach them to be critical thinkers rather than mindless zombies.
Even in the fifties and sixties, it was outdated. Too much rote learning, too little incentivizing kids to think things through in the early grades. NYC's Success Academies have worked miracles by giving the kids age-appropriate puzzles and problems to solve from the very beginning. On charter school competitions, kids from inner city poorer backgrounds routinely best their Park Avenue peers. Outside NYC, other innovative charter schools are able to claim the same.
NYC public schools are a mess, and have been so for many years. Tragedy is, they don't need to get on a bus to figure out how to educate properly. In a number of cases, NYC charter schools share the same building with the public school!
And most of them aren't even reproducible even if they the thesis was interesting and valuable to understand to begin with, which most aren't, particularly out of the hard sciences.
My wish would be that people would wake up to their own power and stop handing it over to institutions that enslave them. Once we regain our collective power, creative solutions to all these problems would just flow and then the future wouldn’t look so grim.
This why we are losing: people are so up themselves over trivial matters, overlooking the more important ones; they don't have a sense of humour and context. I will remember your name.
While I wish we would stop handing our power over to the institutions that enslave us, I think the second sentence ("Once we regain our collective power, creative solutions to all these problems would just flow and then the future wouldn’t look so grim.") is a bit optimistic. The reality is, the issues we face have been faced over and over throughout history and no "creative solutions" that really solve the problem once and for all have come. The reality is, man has an evil heart and always will. The best we can do is strive for freedom to enable people the INDEPENDENT choices they need to move forward. Some will choose poorly, but others will choose well. If we seek collective solutions then the first time we choose poorly, we're screwed. Such is history.
Love all these comments of power to the people. Hey, tell me what you are doing in your community to change and give more power to the people. We ALL can talk a good story here on the internet, I want to here how people are helping to fix the problems!
Me, I am writing to our legislatures, making calls, going to our local school board and city council meetings. Change doesn’t happen with people bitching on the internet.
To sum up your article - Beware any 'public health' technocrats claiming they have your best interests at heart. They are no smarter than your average trucker and considerably less humane. I know who I'd prefer to have a beer with.
I think William Buckley once said, “I would rather be governed by the first 2,000 people in the telephone directory than by the Harvard University faculty.” He was right.
In answer to the question that you posed, If I had one wish for the world that I knew would be awarded currently it would be that the WEF be declared an international terrorist organisation, with any involvement, with no statute of limitations, with this group grounds for prosecution for treason.
An ACTUAL recognition of the rights of mankind (as opposed to "persons" = corporations and animate STATE property) - within the limits of human scale. Bill Gates (and the rest of us) can own private property, that is truly private - but not the state of Montana, or all of the world's arable farmland. You can maintain absolute right to ownership over your own house and car without arbitrary regulations, interference and perpetual taxation... But you don't get to claim those rights for all of the properties being bought up by a Blackrock, Blackstone, the Vanguard group, etc.. You want to own a fleet of vehicles, you're clearly within the realm of commerce, and subject to regulation by the States, or Congress... But the rest of us (the people) need to have our common law rights recognized and honored.
Competition and merit - opposed by the already wealthy who want gatekeeping to maintain power. The issue isn’t their money (wealth grows). It’s their power.
We can do several things to help. Incremental progress which will have immediate results and is more successful than “revolutions” which tend to be destructive.
1 - Tax university endowments and limit private foundations to 15 years. Rich people are allowed to grow wealth via foundations which are really just used for private equity and weird social experiments that fail.
2 - Competition - school choice, less bureaucracy, limit the size and influence of any institution, limit the size of government, loosen financial regulations to
3 - A return the some sort of backed money and a balanced budget. Government has a spending problem, not a revenue problem. The highest taxed states have some of the worst inequality, low literacy, and lowest graduation rates. When government gets more power and influence they will always serve the already wealthy
4 - lower taxes which frees up capital to promote wide innovation and opportunity
5 - eliminate the requirement to use any liability free product. Period.
6 - outlaw social credit scores based on medical choices, investment preferences
7 - encourage innovations by getting rid of Obama’s patent crushing courts that allow big business to legally steal innovations
8 - improve anti trust. Break up any financial institution that controls more than 5% of US capital, or processes more than 5% of transactions. Or has market capital greater than 2% of the exchange on which its listed (break up black rock, the big banks, big tech, big pharma).
9 - change public board rules to eliminate cronyism and reduce proxy voting
10 - give every American $10,000 for healthcare to split between health insurance and HSA accounts they control. Only require catastrophic insurance. Get government out of directing actual care.
I think they do want them --they don't want to be told what wages and taxes to pay, to comply with consumer and environmental safety regulations etc. They don't want to be accountable and liable!
Yes and no. They don't want to be hemmed in, as you described. But, on the other hand, they do want protection from competition. At least the dominant players do. They do want subsidies, government contracts, bailouts, and so forth. Companies not wanting liability is an example of them not wanting free markets.
technocrats are using technology to to promote the science of social engineering, where they intend to engineer society and the people in society for their own, proprietary economic interest. And this is not really what America bargained for.
The United Nations has been the torchbearer for technocracy since it’s inception. Sounds so glorious. Unless you’ve read Frankenstein.
"What we desperately need is a revolution to smash the technocracy into dust."
Yes, but... we need a revolution that doesn't end like the Jacobins in the French revolution. Most revolutions end poorly, when the enraged mob turns on itself. The best way to smash the technocracy (in the USA) is to simply enforce the Constitution AS WRITTEN. Stop allowing the federal government to inject itself into every aspect of our lives. Sever the special ties between government and industry (subsidies, special projects, indemnity and protections, etc.). Then, allow 1,000,000 lawsuits to bloom. You'll quickly find that the technocracy will fall into line when they become impoverished if they don't. Freedom (of speech, of thought, of action, etc.) provides a strong check and balance on bad behavior.
Absolutely, but right now, we're going to be blocked by the other side who will use the power of government and corporations to force us back into their society as second-class serfs.
Love your work, Toby! This may be kind of out there but could furious Wall Street money grubbing types be the new covid revolutionaries who end up blowing the lid off this Plandemic as they short Big Pharma stock? This must-see Maria Zee interview with former BlackRock employee Edward Dowd is enlightening and suggests this may be the case:
Dowd exposes how Wall Street is now shorting Moderna and Pfizer stock as it plummets (there is a media blackout on this topic, of course). Dowd argues we're in a third bubble (after the housing and dot-com bubbles) and calls it the "U.S. Government & Federal Reserve Bubble." He argues that international captured governments and central banks are imploding and that the Plandemic is a way to control and morph this economic implosion into international control via global digital vaccine passports and new forms of stealth, tyrannical international tax collection.
He cites insurance company reports, unsustainable global debt, upcoming defaults on debt, funeral industry reports, Pharma pushback, and captured agencies. Dowd anticipates that after this next few months of extremely dystopian events, he is hopeful that the people will win and we will go more local/decentralized and uncouple from global, centralized control mechanisms.
LOVE these two lines: "If one cares about the fact that the world is on the wrong track, the remedy is to set 8 billion people free, let them use their voice, get out of their way, and let them create from their own intuitive sense of wonder and purpose. The remedy for the problems the world is facing right now is to allow 8 billion people to experience their own personal sense of agency." YES!
Justin Trudeau is Big Pharma when he is heavily invested in Pfizer & Moderna! Of course he's sending in the storm troopers to crush the Truckers who could severely devalue his investment! Since he is a grad of Klaus Schwab's WEF young leader's group, what Schwab tells him to do he does. Gavin Newsom is in the same lock step!!!
If you want new economic ideas, talk with ordinary citizen. Talk with poor people. Listen to the dispossessed and disenfranchised. They have heaps of great ideas if anyone would bother to listen. Robert Kennedy, when he was running for President in 1968, went and sat on the front porch with poor people who lived in Appalachia and listened to their concerns. No politician (nor academic for that matter) has had the courage to do that since. The deep state murders leaders who listen to the people. But that's what we need -- to listen to the experiences of the dispossessed and to permanently dismantle the deep state.
During his vacation, Justice Thomas has been known to park his RV in Walmart parking lots and talk to the people he encounters. Wise man, Justice Thomas. Back in the day, Henry Ford and Thomas Edison used to do the 1920's equivalent.
God bless him! I had no idea that anyone ever listened to "us."
Well, Ford didn't listen to his workers when they wanted to unionize. He was rather harsh with them. Edison was ruthless in taking other people's work and patenting for himself. If he listened to anyone, it was to steal their ideas.
Yes, Edison wasn't brilliant, the people around him were, including Tesla, then he took credit and discredited him. Not a fan.
Yes. Exactly. That was exactly the message of Marx's "Capital", that the material conditions of the working class must be addressed. "Capital" was a critical analysis of capitalism and the inherent contradictions of it, true over a century ago, and true today. The Working Class (that is just about all of us, including doctors) needs to be able to fully participate in the economy and engage in the workplace without some upper management firing them over not parroting the party line over some questionable medical procedure, for example.
When I read this: “Neoliberalism is dead, but we haven’t developed a replacement,” said Larry Kramer, president of the Hewlett Foundation.” I thought Ya you’re right, some radical needs to be done.
Then I read this: “ The initial recipients of grants to set up research programs are Harvard University’s Kennedy School, Howard University, Johns Hopkins University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Santa Fe Institute.” I thought, wt? This is insanity. Here we go again with the same well known yet useless players. Doesn’t using these old school long in the tooth dinoMFsaurs institutions just reek of doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome? It’s obvious that the 41 million is coming from “old let’s not dare to think outside the box money.” They obviously really don’t want things to change. Why would they?
Absolutely!
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“The remedy for the problems the world is facing right now is to allow 8 billion people to experience their own personal sense of agency.”
Could not agree more. Humans governed by “experts” or “technocrats” is a recipe for failure. Everywhere and always.
Yep, everywhere and always. The technocrats want to focus on 1 or just a few factors. But life is made up of trillions of factors seen and unseen. Better to just get out of the way than to tinker with individual inputs in hopes of controlling the system.
Wait, what am I reading from the infamous uTobian??? The System is a lie! We MUST, and we can, stand up for our sovereign souls❣️
https://rumble.com/vvdenf-christopher-james-this-clown-will-be-tried-for-treason.html?mref=6zof&mrefc=8
I agree with you generally, but you don't go far enough. The problem didn't begin with "technocrats." Technocrats are the natural result of democracy without faith in God. The leaders support democracy but know their will is the will of the people. That usurpation was always possible, but at least earlier in our country's history, Christianity was a check on what rulers could do. Now the politicians believe they have nobody to answer to but themselves. "Without God, all things are permitted." Dostoyevsky(?) Atheism leads to liberalism leads to totalitarianism.
Forrest Maready has been writing about this recently on Twitter. I find it a fascinating hypothesis -- that religion functioned as a sort of 5th branch of government -- that had a humbling effect on the ruling class. And that in the absence of some sort of religious moral core, democracy quickly goes to heck.
Wokeism is a religion pretending to be secular. Humans need purpose and meaning. Secular is t a state humanity knows how to live in.
Humans can place that purpose and meaning in a higher power based in a mature theology that has produced positive outcomes with consistent morals that do change, but slowly and thoughtfully. Or they can look for meaning in very flawed humans and the state - which is destructive throughout history.
While government should not be run by religion, religious people guided by the morality of positive religions do a far superior job than those who aren’t accountable to anyone or anything.
Wackawackawackawacka!!!! Wat a load o bollocks. Superior... like Aztecs or Catholics? Buddhists or Mohammedams? Murderers all. Theocracy is a Murder State and Religious Philosophers are genocidal by design. One cannot be made "accountable" by the Ooger Booger man! Now here's a crazy idea 💡 EDUCATE FROM BIRTH ON ETHICS. Even the youngest bub knows Right from Wrong from the beginning, in sharing milk and toys and love. The DANGER is Individuals who ALL KNOW WHAT MUST BE JUDGED. Unthinkable, hey!?!
Read Blessed Charles of Austria by Charles Coulombe. It will give you a great idea of the model of a ruler guided by faith. Monarchy is largely held in disdain these days, but people fail to recognize how many Catholic rulers felt a duty to their people so great that it could lead to self-sacrifice, as w/ Charles. I will search out F. Maready; thanks.
In earlier centuries, the reality was that the Church once served as a counterbalance on the actions of rulers. History records that a few centuries ago, monarchs would seek the blessing of the pope to bolster their pet cause.
This is not to suggest that either side was perfect. If nothing else: consider it an early version of "separation of powers", in an age before there were legislatures.
We live in a constitutional republic. Or used to....not a democracy
Yeah, I take your point, but I'm a bigger fan of democracy than you are.
Maybe, but democracy (alone) is still two wolves and a sheep voting on what’s for dinner
nowadays, its one wolf vs. one wolf + one clueless vice president, deciding for 330 million sheep.
Pure democracy, where you get 50%+1 of the (supposedly fair) vote and you can do whatever you want, always ends poorly. A republic provides protections to the minority (some things are simply off the table; other things can be done but only temporarily, until another election where the people can reverse themselves, etc.). One-size-fits-all, top-down, 50%+1 style democracy is just a temporary stepping stone toward totalitarianism.
Pure democracy is government by mob rule……….
We've already got "rule by bullies," I don't want more of it.
In other words, without a formal religion, they see themselves as Gods.
We have seen what acting "in the name of God" can do from centuries of control, slaughter, plunder by the Christian Catholic church. Christianity can be good or just another form of slavery. Allow each to find their own paths to God. Christianity is not the only way.
You are quite wrong. Man doesn't choose how he will approach God; God does. And Jesus said: "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No man cometh to the Father, but by me." John 14:6. I am not able to stop anyone, but do understand that if you reject Christianity, you will not see God. The Catholic Church did none of the things you spewed out. These were done by sinners, which we all are. That is why Christ left us sacraments to heal and restore us. We fight the world, the flesh and the devil, and sometimes we slip. Still, we try to do better. By the way, it's quite ironic you made these comments on the day the Church reads the Parable of the Sower; you should read it: Luke 8:4-15. I will concede that not everything done in the name of the Church has been praiseworthy, but I suspect that you are condemning a lot of things that are either misinformation or are only disparaged by those who don't love Christ. In any event, the Catholic Church built the greatest civilization ever seen on this planet, and you are still benefiting from the legacy even as the secular world seeks to destroy it.
I wish, hope and pray that parents would research what is being injected into their children as much as they research what type of stroller to purchase/what books to buy/what diapers are best/which preschool is best. Researching these things gets you labeled "a smart parent/consumer" whereas researching what is IN vaccines given to your children beginning on DAY 1, earns you the label "conspiracy theorist".
I so agree with you, however there is TOO much information out there that young parents are gleaming from. where is the confidence in using what moral values they were brought up with, and common sense. I am not a religious follower, however, I do believe religion can help guide people who do not have a good sense of moral values, OR needs to have a tribe to help them in their life journey. In regards to politics and religion, I believe greed and power have outweighed any moral obligation to our society, which our fore fathers took seriously when governing. Those verbs are very evil and powerful, and has been the fall of many societies in our history.
Better yet, if there are any people still out there with morals, they should teach their children those morals.
Academic studies are generally worthless. So are universities. So are the so-called 'think tanks' run by elites. The Real World is where the rubber meets the road. Get out of the lab, and into the street. Learn through the school of hard knocks. Make the world your laboratory.
Yeah, I mean, hats off to the bougiecrats for figuring out how to take $41 million off the billionaires. But this project will never achieve its stated aims. I agree -- much better to participate in the world and learn from it.
That’s where I think change needs to start. In the outdated education system. Kids sitting at a desk, zoning out while a talking head drones on for hours a day, has always been a failure. Start engaging kids, teach them to be critical thinkers rather than mindless zombies.
Even in the fifties and sixties, it was outdated. Too much rote learning, too little incentivizing kids to think things through in the early grades. NYC's Success Academies have worked miracles by giving the kids age-appropriate puzzles and problems to solve from the very beginning. On charter school competitions, kids from inner city poorer backgrounds routinely best their Park Avenue peers. Outside NYC, other innovative charter schools are able to claim the same.
NYC public schools are a mess, and have been so for many years. Tragedy is, they don't need to get on a bus to figure out how to educate properly. In a number of cases, NYC charter schools share the same building with the public school!
And what do the NEA state? We need more money for better education!!!😡 so sick of that argument
Absolutely agree! To quote Sir Ken Robinson, school kills creativity. Some kids do okay in the school system but many just don’t fit into that box.
And most of them aren't even reproducible even if they the thesis was interesting and valuable to understand to begin with, which most aren't, particularly out of the hard sciences.
My wish would be that people would wake up to their own power and stop handing it over to institutions that enslave them. Once we regain our collective power, creative solutions to all these problems would just flow and then the future wouldn’t look so grim.
Agreed! 🙌
Once we regain our power as individuals. There is no such things as individuals having power in collectivism.
Yes! By definition, your comrade!
I’m no one’s comrade. What a pathetic insult.
My husband has family still trapped in Cuba. I’ll buy you a one way ticket if you think communism is so great!!!!!
This why we are losing: people are so up themselves over trivial matters, overlooking the more important ones; they don't have a sense of humour and context. I will remember your name.
While I wish we would stop handing our power over to the institutions that enslave us, I think the second sentence ("Once we regain our collective power, creative solutions to all these problems would just flow and then the future wouldn’t look so grim.") is a bit optimistic. The reality is, the issues we face have been faced over and over throughout history and no "creative solutions" that really solve the problem once and for all have come. The reality is, man has an evil heart and always will. The best we can do is strive for freedom to enable people the INDEPENDENT choices they need to move forward. Some will choose poorly, but others will choose well. If we seek collective solutions then the first time we choose poorly, we're screwed. Such is history.
Love all these comments of power to the people. Hey, tell me what you are doing in your community to change and give more power to the people. We ALL can talk a good story here on the internet, I want to here how people are helping to fix the problems!
Me, I am writing to our legislatures, making calls, going to our local school board and city council meetings. Change doesn’t happen with people bitching on the internet.
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To sum up your article - Beware any 'public health' technocrats claiming they have your best interests at heart. They are no smarter than your average trucker and considerably less humane. I know who I'd prefer to have a beer with.
I think William Buckley once said, “I would rather be governed by the first 2,000 people in the telephone directory than by the Harvard University faculty.” He was right.
Yes, it was the Yale alumni, William F. Buckley - and hasn't he been proven right, in spades, during the Coronadoom madness.
I always loved watching him talk with Johnny Carson. He was such a brilliant smartass.
In answer to the question that you posed, If I had one wish for the world that I knew would be awarded currently it would be that the WEF be declared an international terrorist organisation, with any involvement, with no statute of limitations, with this group grounds for prosecution for treason.
I like that idea.
https://plebeianresistance.substack.com/p/wef-corporate-supporters?utm_source=url
An ACTUAL recognition of the rights of mankind (as opposed to "persons" = corporations and animate STATE property) - within the limits of human scale. Bill Gates (and the rest of us) can own private property, that is truly private - but not the state of Montana, or all of the world's arable farmland. You can maintain absolute right to ownership over your own house and car without arbitrary regulations, interference and perpetual taxation... But you don't get to claim those rights for all of the properties being bought up by a Blackrock, Blackstone, the Vanguard group, etc.. You want to own a fleet of vehicles, you're clearly within the realm of commerce, and subject to regulation by the States, or Congress... But the rest of us (the people) need to have our common law rights recognized and honored.
👍👍👍https://rumble.com/vvdenf-christopher-james-this-clown-will-be-tried-for-treason.html?mref=6zof&mrefc=8
Competition and merit - opposed by the already wealthy who want gatekeeping to maintain power. The issue isn’t their money (wealth grows). It’s their power.
We can do several things to help. Incremental progress which will have immediate results and is more successful than “revolutions” which tend to be destructive.
1 - Tax university endowments and limit private foundations to 15 years. Rich people are allowed to grow wealth via foundations which are really just used for private equity and weird social experiments that fail.
2 - Competition - school choice, less bureaucracy, limit the size and influence of any institution, limit the size of government, loosen financial regulations to
3 - A return the some sort of backed money and a balanced budget. Government has a spending problem, not a revenue problem. The highest taxed states have some of the worst inequality, low literacy, and lowest graduation rates. When government gets more power and influence they will always serve the already wealthy
4 - lower taxes which frees up capital to promote wide innovation and opportunity
5 - eliminate the requirement to use any liability free product. Period.
6 - outlaw social credit scores based on medical choices, investment preferences
7 - encourage innovations by getting rid of Obama’s patent crushing courts that allow big business to legally steal innovations
8 - improve anti trust. Break up any financial institution that controls more than 5% of US capital, or processes more than 5% of transactions. Or has market capital greater than 2% of the exchange on which its listed (break up black rock, the big banks, big tech, big pharma).
9 - change public board rules to eliminate cronyism and reduce proxy voting
10 - give every American $10,000 for healthcare to split between health insurance and HSA accounts they control. Only require catastrophic insurance. Get government out of directing actual care.
11 - restrict non compete agreements
"What Can Replace Free Markets? Groups Pledge $41 Million to Find Out."
With a headline like that, you know that every statement which follows is going to be complete BS.
On what planet does this writer think that "free markets" are in fact operating? Certainly not on planet earth.
The right question would be, how can we get govts out of the way and actually implement free markets?
Corporations don't want free markets either.
I think they do want them --they don't want to be told what wages and taxes to pay, to comply with consumer and environmental safety regulations etc. They don't want to be accountable and liable!
Yes and no. They don't want to be hemmed in, as you described. But, on the other hand, they do want protection from competition. At least the dominant players do. They do want subsidies, government contracts, bailouts, and so forth. Companies not wanting liability is an example of them not wanting free markets.
Exactly
Agreed!
technocrats are using technology to to promote the science of social engineering, where they intend to engineer society and the people in society for their own, proprietary economic interest. And this is not really what America bargained for.
The United Nations has been the torchbearer for technocracy since it’s inception. Sounds so glorious. Unless you’ve read Frankenstein.
"What we desperately need is a revolution to smash the technocracy into dust."
Yes, but... we need a revolution that doesn't end like the Jacobins in the French revolution. Most revolutions end poorly, when the enraged mob turns on itself. The best way to smash the technocracy (in the USA) is to simply enforce the Constitution AS WRITTEN. Stop allowing the federal government to inject itself into every aspect of our lives. Sever the special ties between government and industry (subsidies, special projects, indemnity and protections, etc.). Then, allow 1,000,000 lawsuits to bloom. You'll quickly find that the technocracy will fall into line when they become impoverished if they don't. Freedom (of speech, of thought, of action, etc.) provides a strong check and balance on bad behavior.
Absolutely, but right now, we're going to be blocked by the other side who will use the power of government and corporations to force us back into their society as second-class serfs.
Love your work, Toby! This may be kind of out there but could furious Wall Street money grubbing types be the new covid revolutionaries who end up blowing the lid off this Plandemic as they short Big Pharma stock? This must-see Maria Zee interview with former BlackRock employee Edward Dowd is enlightening and suggests this may be the case:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/JMIhGJxNyw4e/
Dowd exposes how Wall Street is now shorting Moderna and Pfizer stock as it plummets (there is a media blackout on this topic, of course). Dowd argues we're in a third bubble (after the housing and dot-com bubbles) and calls it the "U.S. Government & Federal Reserve Bubble." He argues that international captured governments and central banks are imploding and that the Plandemic is a way to control and morph this economic implosion into international control via global digital vaccine passports and new forms of stealth, tyrannical international tax collection.
He cites insurance company reports, unsustainable global debt, upcoming defaults on debt, funeral industry reports, Pharma pushback, and captured agencies. Dowd anticipates that after this next few months of extremely dystopian events, he is hopeful that the people will win and we will go more local/decentralized and uncouple from global, centralized control mechanisms.
Yes! https://rumble.com/vvdenf-christopher-james-this-clown-will-be-tried-for-treason.html?mref=6zof&mrefc=8
Here is former BlackRock employee Edward Dowd recently on InfoWars:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/O1H5qohRu9e1/
LOVE these two lines: "If one cares about the fact that the world is on the wrong track, the remedy is to set 8 billion people free, let them use their voice, get out of their way, and let them create from their own intuitive sense of wonder and purpose. The remedy for the problems the world is facing right now is to allow 8 billion people to experience their own personal sense of agency." YES!
Justin Trudeau is Big Pharma when he is heavily invested in Pfizer & Moderna! Of course he's sending in the storm troopers to crush the Truckers who could severely devalue his investment! Since he is a grad of Klaus Schwab's WEF young leader's group, what Schwab tells him to do he does. Gavin Newsom is in the same lock step!!!