And down that "more sustainable path" of a much lower standard of living for you, is where we are headed.
For now you will be cushioned from the fall in standard of living by stupendous monetary inflation, cash bailouts for all. But when the ballooning money supply -- yes money is just digits and can be inflated without limit -- and the fall in output in goods and services touches off an accelerating rise in prices, then watch out.
There will be an explosion in demand as people seek to rid themselves of currency of rapidly diminishing value. The result will be shortages and panic. As in Germany's great 1923 inflation, folks will be forced to trade the grand piano or the second car, the only car, even a child, for a basket of groceries. In no time, most folks will be entirely cleaned out: no money, no food, desperate.
Wages can then be adjusted: down.
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Maybe, as during Germany's 1923 inflation, the corporate behemoths, the FAANG stock companies and other big boys that survive the great downsizing, will pay wages in their own currency. Amazon, for example, might pay its workers in Amazons, each redeemable by Amazon for one US dollar.
Why? did you ask?
Because when shortages are growing and the supply of money is exploding, the value of the US dollar will fall so fast that between the time Amazon issues its currency and the time those who have sold goods for Amazons receive dollars in return for the Amazons, the US dollar will be worth no more than four-fifths of flip all. At that point, wages will be at the level that Bezos and Zucks are happy with, which is to say next to nothing.
That's the great, but "rapidly shrinking window of opportunity" that the globalist traitor, Prince Chuckie, is working to push you out of.
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The Spectator:
That's the great, but "rapidly shrinking window of opportunity" that the globalist traitor, Prince Chuckie, is working to push you out of.
What's the alternative. Herd immunity, achieved by ending the the shutdown of the Western economies now. The result? Kids, university students, and other young adults, the most socially active element in the population will mostly get Covid19, survive it and acquire immunity. Then the incidence of the disease will collapse due to a shortage of susceptible individuals. The disease will remain in circulation but at a low level. Older people or people otherwise susceptible to serious complications from the corona virus will then be comparatively free to engage in normal social activity as their chance of contact with an infected person will be low.
Herd immunity is thus precisely what the elite seek to prevent at all cost. It is the one thing that can protect your job, and your current prosperity. What the globalist "Great Resetters" want, instead, is a crisis so prolonged as to destroy the consumer economy and permanently lower the standard of living of the 99% to the massively lower level that they, the sheltered elite, call "sustainable."
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The Spectator:
| ... In August, the Lancet published an analysis of data from 50 countries. The researchers found that full lockdowns were 'not associated' with decreased mortality from Covid-19. These are hard outcome data; reality cannot be waved away with theories or projections. So much for the purported benefits. What about the risks? We cannot answer this question fully because a worldwide lockdown experiment has never been run before. However, evidence for the harms of lockdown is now piling up. In the US, homicides are up 50 per cent compared to last summer. In France, domestic violence calls are up 30 per cent. In Canada, almost three times more people are contemplating suicide compared to last year; and in British Columbia, overdose deaths have tripled from pre-pandemic levels. When you deprive children of their education, adults of their livelihood, and elderly people of their social connections, desperation and despair quickly set in. While a thoughtful person might have predicted this, the mathematical models did not. All of these numbers fit with what I see in my clinical practice. I have personally admitted dozens of elderly people to hospital with illness resulting from social isolation and neglect. Some were literally starving to death. One patient, in her eighties, lived in a retirement community but relied on family members to feed her meals. When they were socially distanced (banned) from the premises, she couldn’t feed herself and her health quickly deteriorated. Another patient, a 92-year-old woman, simply gave up on life and started refusing her meals once her family stopped coming to visit. Both these scenes were catastrophically inhumane and will stick with me for a long time. Neither is captured in the government’s Covid-19 statistics. ... ...As a medic, my verdict is clear: mandatory government lockdowns amount to a medical recommendation of no proven benefit, of extraordinary potential harm, that do not take personal values and individual consent into account. Physicians who call for their use should hearken back to these core planks of their ethical training. |
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The plan seems to be to keep the world population at 7.8 billion or increase it, but you square the circle of even fossil fuels not being able to provide for a late twentieth century standard of living for all these people (or even keep them alive) by having most of them eat beans.
ReplyDeleteProbably won't work but either way its not going to be pretty for us peasants.
To keep the world population at 7.8 billion everyone will have to be an African. Only the African nations have an above replacement birthrate. Almost every other country has a fertility rate below the replacement rate of 2.1.
DeleteAs for standard of living, the objective of the "Great Reset," surely, is to lower the standard of living in the West, while lowering the expectations of the Rest.
First Worlders will learn to get around on skateboards or a scooters while the Rest give up any idea of owning an SUV -- except the elite, of course, who will travel by rockets, jets and autonomous flying cars.
I was in Calcutta for a good while back in 1987. I had flown there after climbing with my buddy in the Alaska Range.
ReplyDeleteThe memory of events during my time there has remained startlingly acute, but the sheer horror of what I was seeing and experiencing has faded. I don't think you can keep that with you or you cease to live a life of vitality.
The great German novelist, Gunther Grass,(at least I enjoy him), was in Calcutta at exactly the same time. He had written of the shame he felt in living in a world where Calcutta exists and we allow it to exist, for the most part unaware we share the same world with that place and people.
I've had a perverse and very strong desire to return, but I would have to have something behind me and with me I've never felt was there.
Just as two small tokens of the real nightmare we'll be living if we walk down this path Prince Chuckie and the others prepare for us:
A friend of mine I met while there was walking along taking photographs. (We were young and fearless and taking unspeakable risks.) Some people were offended by that, mobbed him, attempted to blind him, tore his clothes, hair, and scratched his skin. The police arrived just in time. They confiscated his camera equipment, though. When we went to the police station later to retrieve it, they had exposed all his films. (To the light so as to ruin them.)
Then after that, having failed to learn a lesson from his terrible experience, I encountered a group of five or six irate women while strolling around, the source of their irritation unknown to me. I knew it was not me, though. I was just walking along. They came up to me and attempted to viciously pinch my balls. This was in broad daylight, in a place crowded with people. I was so much bigger, stronger, and faster they couldn't succeed unless they got a mob to crystallize, and by the luck of fools one did not. (I'd be childless and have a higher pitched voice if one had.)
It is not just going to be eating beans and moping about. It is going to be hellish, hell on earth.
I precisely agree with your idea of why the elites hate herd immunity.
Wow. I've always wanted to go to India. But if I get their, I'll give Kalicata a miss.
DeleteI don't know why, but I have a strange affection for the place. The whole place, is, however, dangerous. I suffered health repercussions from my time there I couldn't have anticipated. A woman I stayed with as a guest in Calcutta (Kalicata is better-- you must know Hindi) had a heart attack and had to return to Canada. I always believed this was due to the toxic high levels of air pollution there. You'd blow your nose at the end of the day and black soot would come out.
DeleteYou know, I would watch as people bathed and drank from the Ganges River. I could see, farther up, enormous piles of wet cow dung on the ghats leading to the river. And the river was obviously filthy in many other ways than that. I couldn't understand this, of course, but I did appreciate the lesson I learned. From their point of view, the western emphasis on cleanliness and sanitation was an alienation from life forces and aligned us to death. I think they had a point, which is now exemplified with our mask wearing, which will succeed in alienating us not only from nature, but from each other, more than ever before. I strongly suspect mask wearing is here to stay.
Yet you gotta wonder: the Indian people themselves went into lock down and quarantine. What has happened to the world? Do people break the lock down in order to pilgrim to the Ganges in order to contract some cholera for themselves, or have they completely broken with their earlier ethos and its practices?
No, I have no knowledge of Hindi, but have just finished reading Jon Wilson's the British Raj and the Chaos of Empire from which I must have picked up the native name for the place where the British founded the city of Calcutta. Although not stated, the book suggests that the general lack of resentment in India toward the British, reflects the realization that it was the British who brought an overarching rule of law to a region that had seen more than a thousand years of strife among petty princes, religious factions and alien invader -- an order that the Brits then voluntarily passed to Indian administration. And in addition, is the fact that Indians are temperamentally much the same as the English, differing in appearance only in having been slightly darkened in color by the sun.
Delete“Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.”
ReplyDelete― Ernest Hemingway, A Clean Well Lighted Place
I've never suffered from clinical depression, which is perhaps why, although I read Hemingway, many years ago, it made no deep impression on me.
DeleteI've never suffered clinical depression either, but during my teens I suffered the old futility blues for nearly the entire time.
DeleteThe Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms are great anti-war books and I think it is atrocious Hemingway is often seen as pro-violence. He obviously struggled with nihilism and depression, but I believe he broke through. I've never seen him as emotionally truncated or insensitive to others, though looking at his personal life, there's probably more evidence for it than I am willing to admit. I have no idea why a story like A Clean Well Lighted Place would have such an effect on me, but it did.
Why did so much of humanity want to turn the entire world into a A Clean Well Lighted Place such that now fear of germs drives us deeper and deeper into a hideous, lethal trap?
"Why did so much of humanity want to turn the entire world into a A Clean Well Lighted Place such that now fear of germs drives us deeper and deeper into a hideous, lethal trap?"
DeleteWe live in an obsessive compulsive age.
This is quite new. The mass of people have had reliable clocks fo no more than a hundred years or so. Yet today a child can be punished for being one sixtieth of an hour late for class.
In my lifetime, the majority of people in Britain rarely or never bathed. Now people bath every day and still can't be clean and deodorized enough.
Our entire way of life increasingly depends on precision. To get ahead a kid needs to master math and coding.
And everyone knows what a virus is. And everyone is loaded with virus, bacteria, fungi -- yuck.
Is that reaction what will end the human race -- as folks turn to sex dolls as a hygienic alternative to human partners?
"Is that reaction what will end the human race -- as folks turn to sex dolls as a hygienic alternative to human partners?"
DeleteProbably cyborgs.
Or, better yet, whatever you call it in virtual reality.
That'd make Bill and Melinda Gates very, very happy. It'd be their spiritual enlightenment, their satori.
Speaking of the end of humanity as we know it, Isaac Azimov's prescient novel "The Naked Sun" reveals where the obsessive-compulsive coders and social manipulators, the likes of Gates, Bezos, and their lesser associates, Ron Unz for example, aim to drive society.
DeleteThe book focuses on the unusual traditions, customs, and culture of Solarian society. The planet has a rigidly controlled population of 20,000, and all work is done by robots, which outnumber humans ten thousand to one. People are taught from birth to avoid personal contact, and live on huge estates, either alone or with their spouse only. Face-to-face interaction (referred to in the book as "seeing"), and especially impregnating a woman, when replacement of a descendent is necessary, was seen as a dirty chore. (Other science fiction novels examine the extra-uterine care of fetuses, but this is not Asimov's concern here.) Communication takes place through technology unknown of off their world: holography, 3-D television. At the time, 2-D (ordinary) color television was a novelty, with very limited programming and not many of the expensive receivers. Asimov was a scientist with a wide range of interests, and was familiar with the principles of electron microscopes then being developed, and from which holography descends.
The Solarians have no modesty when communicating with each other in this fashion. In the book it is referred to as "viewing", in contrast to "seeing", which is face-to-face and dangerous, because a disease could be transmitted. Nudity was frequent.
"Asimov was a scientist with a wide range of interests, and was familiar with the principles of electron microscopes then being developed, and from which holography descends."
DeleteYou teach me something new and valuable damn near every time I come here.
Must make a confession here. The last two paragraphs of my comment to which you refer were cut and pasted from Azimov's Wikipedia entry. It was supposed to be in quotes with a link back, but I botched that somehow. But, yes, I thought the information was interesting. Azimov was a strange man, but very bright. I have not read all 100 or more of his books, but I've read many of them.
DeleteOn the impact on religion, I'll link to a Wikipedia article on the impact on the lockdown on the Hajj (pilgrimage) to Mecca:
ReplyDeletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_of_the_COVID-19_pandemic_on_Hajj
Essentially the Hajj was cancelled entirely for a few months, then severely restricted.
I think there is an anti-religion (at least the current religions) element to this agenda, and its not limited to Christianity, where the organized churches essentially cancelled Easter and Pentecost.
Lockdowns must be damaging all institutions of civilization. The cost may prove much greater than can be estimated in lost GDP.
DeleteWhat they done did is unprecedented in the history of these religions. It may very well place them at the end of their religions, at the end of these religion's history. Neither Islam nor Christianity can bow before worldly authority in this way. (There was little or no prayerful interlude before this obedience. The leaders appear to have thought it was obvious such obedience was the thing to do. They aren't acting as leaders now, either, when it is obvious such obedience was not the thing to do.) With Hinduism it is a bit different. What they cannot bend in this way is their adherence to tradition. Not in India, anyway.
Delete"Hajj (pilgrimage) has been cancelled 40 times through the history of Islam due to plague, political disagreements, and battles.[21][22] In 1523-1533 (930-940 AD), Hajj was canceled due to the Qarmatian attack which led to the murder of 30,000 pilgrims and the looting of the Black Stone.[23][24] In 1831, Hajj was suspended after a plague that was brought by the pilgrims coming from India, which is claimed to have ended the lives of more than half of the pilgrims in Mecca.[25] The first outbreak of Cholera spread in Mecca happened in 1846, killing more than 15,000 and causing a plague lasting until 1850 in the city. The second outbreak of Cholera happened in 1858, leading to pilgrims being quarantined inside Hajj camps in Egypt.[26][27]"
DeleteThis cancellation was preemptive, though. It is also continuing after evidence the preemptive action was unnecessary, at least in this form.
"It had been canceled several times before in the whole history however since the inception of Saudi Arabia Hajj was never closed. Not even in the pandemic of the Spanish Flu." from one of the references given to support the Wikipedia statement quoted above. I took a look at some of these references and I don't consider them bomb proof. This easily, easily could be propaganda to make the cancellation palatable. And when I looked at one more closely, I even found this admission Hajj hadn't been closed even for the Spanish Flu, which seems the most relevant precedent for the Covid19 cancellation.
DeleteI've seen fish caught in an Indian fish trap. They know right away they don't want to go any further in almost right away. The way the trap is set up, though, the opening to go deeper in is wider than the opening which would lead out, and so they do inexorably go deeper into the trap.
ReplyDeleteThey don't know what's going on and in their thrashing about, they simply take the suggested route. They can't of course know who has made the suggestion of that route, or why.
Look at this incredible situation where Gupta and others are suggesting a way out. Immediately she's denounced by Hancock, and Hancock carries more weight, by far. Gupta is a distinguished epidemiologist and what is Hancock? I think he has degrees in political science, economics, or something like that. He knows nothing of what he's talking about. His opinions should count for very little.
You might think Gupta's value to society would save her. I don't think so, though. Hitler's and Stalin's generals weren't saved by their value to society and what they could and would contribute to military victory. Hitler and Stalin were on the eve of a terrible war, and they still executed their generals.
As someone said:
DeleteThe truth will set you free".
Which is why the rulers of the world oppress the truth speakers.