(11-14-2025, 03:07 PM)F2d5thCav Wrote: ...
It seems Prof Betz is on the mark regarding coming conflict. The government has made a hot mess out of British society and now has no idea of how to reverse the situation -- and Betz believes that reversal is not even possible at this point.
To be honest, I don't believe governments are interested in reversing the situation for the most part. I believe they've wrecked society specifically to induce the chaos, so that when it gets bad enough, the people will clamor for any solution the governments can advance, and they have their "final solution" already waiting in the wings for that eventuality.
I firmly believe that they do not want to reverse it, they want to advance into something entirely different from the past - call it "world socialism" or "world feudalism" or "world fascism" or "world corporatism" or whatever you want to call it. It's the exact same thing just with different labels - a rose (or skunk) by any other name. Whatever you call it, it's really, really good for the elites at the top of the pyramid, and really, really bad for us proles at the bottom of it. It would be something along the lines of a world-wide governing system, with those at the top dictating to and micro-managing those lower down the ladder, skimming their wealth and power off the backs of those they are treading down.
It's the same principle armies used to use - entirely tear down a raw recruit into raw material so that you can build back up a soldier out of the mess you've made of the initial recruit. What you end up with is not the same boy mother sent off to join the service, and he never will be again. Maybe better, maybe worse, but always different.
Quote:I keep recalling how Europe was immediately after the Wall fell, and can't grasp how swiftly it all went to Hell.
I've said it many times before, and will maintain it's truth to my dying day - we had ONE chance, right around the time the Wall was coming down and communism was collapsing in the USSR and the Warsaw Pact to make the world right again - or at least righter than it was and is - and the U.S. led the pack in screwing that pooch.
Maybe it was out of fear and paranoia, maybe it was out of pure malice... and maybe,just maybe, it was a part of the plan all along to maintain the former "boogey men" in their accustomed status so that "the west" would maintain their perceived enemy to keep the proles in line and scared.
By the time "radical Islam" came along to point at, it was too late to mend the fences. Besides, can you really have too many scary old boogey men to keep the children scared with? What if your primary boogey man trips and falls (as did "radical Islam") - you always need a backup in the wings, just in case.
Nothing pulls folks together like fear of a common enemy. That has been proven and used against us time and time again. It's how those in control maintain their control... even, no ESPECIALLY, those who are unfit to be in charge of anything at all, much less a government.
If you can turn an enemy into a friend, you have won the conflict by default. Most governments, however, are not nearly as interested in winning conflicts as they are in maintaining their power. In order to maintain that power, they have to keep an enemy to point at for their constituents, and they have to maintain the fiction that THEY are the only thing that stands between those constituents and that "enemy"... and they THEY are the only thing that can save their constituents from that enemy.
We see the same thing playing out today in microcosm in the US, by both the Left AND the Right. The Left maintains "MAGA" as the internal boogey man to scare the proles with, and the Right maintains "The Woke" as the internal enemy they must protect America from. Same shit, different day. It's all about inspiring fear, and then reaping power to one's self from the fear they have planted.
It's as if governments are entirely composed of giant knots of psychic or emotional vampires.
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“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake
