Having read and admired much of his non-fiction (I don’t know the novels) I’d been wondering for a long time what Paul Kingsnorth had to say about our brave new dystopia.
The Expressive Egg post I linked earlier here Eviscerating the spineless alerted me to the fact that actually he has been busily doing what he does best on a substack. This very recent article, with a sequel due shortly, appears to be part of the non-subscriber offering.
A midnight curfew has recently been imposed on pubs and nightclubs. This is odd, as only vaccinated people have been allowed into them for months…
Awake now and paying attention, thankfully. He measures his words carefully and, as far as I’m concerned, is very welcome out from the fold.
In the comments below this PK piece, I gleaned the following link. A weekend presentation that David Martin and Judy Mikovits gave. Some brilliant insights, and that’s just on the first session. I’ll try to follow up the subsequent ones and post as appropriate.
And btw, what I hope will be a useful tip: if you substitute the concept The Great Spirit, Big Mind, The Larger Consciousness System, or some such equivalent during their Christian references to God, you’ll probably find, as I do, that you can pretty well agree completely with their spiritual/religious statements about what they’re doing and what’s happening. I imagine most Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, HIndus, Taoists and maybe even Confucians wouldn’t have any difficulty agreeing too. Druids and shamans? No problem at all :
If people ask me my religion, I say I’m a Born Again Atheist. Yet I find myself agreeing with the bible bashing Americans of the southern US. And reading a blog called the Conservative Woman? Strange times indeed and clearly not possible to put people into boxes anymore, but they are now divided by the fence. They have either swallowed the fear porn, or they have taken the red pill. There are not many fence sitters.
Pat, Mattias Desmet of Ghent university, who’s a professor of clinical psychology, is of the opinion that the split between believers, sceptics and ‘on-the-fencers’ is 30%/30%/40%. He reckons it’s a frequently-seen split in instances of mass-hypnosis leading to mass-psychosis. And that central tranche are actually reachable by evidence and sound argument - unlike the fully-entranced cultist troobleevers.
Clearly the current of events, with its steadily-emerging, unmistakable evidence of the disaster of the poison-stabs, together with the ever-more-obvious relative harmlessness of the covid-flu itself (killing quite a few of the very vulnerable, but then, flus always do, every year)… Clearly this current is running in favour of anyone trying to persuade the undecided forty-percent. Getting enough of those people onside with the truth is what will swing this global war in favour of the sceptical realists. We’re in the midst of a gigantic global scam-attempt. And the more wakeable people who are awoken to that reality, the greater the certainty of our - the truth-tellers’ - victory over it. Keep sluggin’!
Here’s a link about Mattias Desmet and his assessment:
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