- Is it too much for crew to consider coolly what Catte from Off-G (boohissspit!) is sketching here? - Archived Message
Posted by Rhisiart Gwilym
on May 19, 2020, 10:46 pm
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I know the panic has made lots of 'dissidents' start savaging each other for 'wrong analysis', "the gonorrhoea of the left", as a character in a Trevor Griffiths play once put it. But it seems to me that Catte is making a pretty cogent argument for the corner which Off-G has been fighting since the onset of the panic. It's just not feasible to nit-pick the items in her list into a blanket dismissal. Whatever the ultimate outcome of the virus turns out to be eventually (Dmitry Orlov says bluntly that he thinks it will be as quickly forgotten as SARS-COV1 was after its brief quarter-hour of infamy), let's be frank about this: despite all the authoritative-sounding opinions which are getting thrown about at the moment, no-one - at all, anywhere - knows the whole story yet. It's yet to come out in the full light of hindsight. That being so - as I believe it is - then the ideas which Catte is putting forward deserve urgent, sober attention: https://off-guardian.org/2020/05/19/10-steps-to-turn-a-pandemic-into-the-brave-new-normal/ One further thought: the panic seems to have shoved the West's mediaw hores and wholly-owned pols into even more parochial thinking than they usually indulge. We have what you might call the Gates tendency waffling largely about 'vaccinating, ID-ing, and passporting the whole world'; yet apparently they don't notice that they don't control anything like the whole world, and all the indications at the moment point to a steady slipping away even of the incomplete control of the part of the world that they do dominate. Unless we think Eurasia and Eastasia are ruled by gics who are identical clones of the Inner Party gics of Oceania, who says that the Russian and Chinese rulers are going to meekly fall in with the megalomanic dreams of the Gates tendency in the West? Aren't the Gatesians - like the Rhodes clique a hundred years before them - really already Yesterday's Gics, notwithstanding their - alleged, but by now largely hallucinated - billions? Round here, quite a lot of my friends and neighbours are coming out of the panic frenzy, and are beginning to say pretty emphatically that they don't think we're being given a right story. The stampeding-herd mentality is wearing off, and the sound tendency to question and demur is already re-surfacing again - thank god! Patchy, sure; still plenty in waning-panic mode; but growing. |