By Futurist authors from George Orwell to Ayn Rand (and many science fiction writers) have warned of the dangers of centralized power, which tends to end up in the wrong hands. But few paid attention, and as with Audrey in “Little Shop of Horrors,” they kept feeding the humanity-eating monster until it grew big enough to dominate their lives.
Poets, too, like W.B. Yeats in his poem “The Second Coming,” have warned that unkempt civilization can get out of control:
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.
So have songwriters like Barry McGuire:
You don’t believe in war, but what’s that gun you’re totin’? And even the Jordan river has bodies floatin’
Just last month, noted historian Victor Davis Hanson wrote that, “For the first time in a millennium, Europe no longer plays a critical role in promoting Western civilization nor in world history at large.”
Hanson says that, after surrendering its security to the United States at the end of World War II, European nations opted for a postmodern, pacifist, utopian socialism focused on redistributive entitlements, open borders, and radical green policiesthat together hastened Europe’s declining influence on world affairs. Europe was thus unprepared for the Russia-Ukraine war.
According to French journalist Anne-Elisabeth Moutet, twenty retired French generals, backed by over 100 officers, wrote an open letter in 2021 warning President Emmanuel Macron that the divisions between communities in France and increasing “violence and nihilism” were moving the country toward a social breakdown, with a risk of “chaos” leading to a “civil war” that would then “require” a military “intervention.”
Some wonder it the U.S. might face a similar fate.
Less than a month ago, French cabinet spokesperson Olivier Vȇran warned that France might be at a “tipping point” because of the same policy errors identified by Hanson. The result, said Moutet, is that trust between the “ruling” classes and the French public has declined in lockstep with France’s economic and social decline.
The problem with most public protests, says Seamus Bruner in his blockbuster book, Controligarchs, is that the real targets – the puppet masters – have long been hidden, not even recognized by a public that is fed, from the right and the left, to focus on celebrities (effectively, the sales reps and public faces of the “controligarchs”).
In the chapter “The Great Reset,” Bruner shows how the Rockefellers and World Economic Forum founder Klaus Schwab, the inventor of “stakeholder capitalism” and popularizer of “environmental and social governance,” persuaded China to turn from agrarian Maoism to the amoral technocratic state it is today. And it is this Chinese governance model that many Western progressives and corporate executives seek to emulate.
Schwab also partnered with the Rockefellers to tout the philosophy of “The Limits to Growth,” whose crude computer models predicted dire outcomes for the planet barring drastic action. When their fear mongering over resource depletion was exposed by new discoveries, they switched the mantra to the more easily manipulated “global warming.” Read Full Article >
