I have a burgeoning theory. Connect these things: Covid 19 is a totally spurious invention, well prepared, hurts no one of working age, clears out government pension and other debt and releases trillions of savings into currency markets.
The hysterical urgent response from the world-wide monolithic media community, the leap of the elite onto the unnecessary anti-social and divisive measures for flu, shows panic about something; the peculiar response of the financial, other, and city markets has been very odd. What on earth for? The increasingly-desperate lefty liberal and hysterical denunciation of anything just sensible; the increasingly obvious desire of TPTB to continue the breaking up of the crowds in bars and elsewhere. They hate common sense from the common people. Why? Why now?
The answer is simple. Brexit looms ever closer. If you think of the world as a single entity it becomes obvious. Farage and the British are scared stiff of us again. And what’s worse it is getting ever more popular.
Now, some background. Our climate is such that we are forced into small pubs to interact and discuss in crowded, small, noisy surroundings with other half drunk, like-minded, amiable idiots wanting to be entertained. This expands into community groups such as WI or church committees or other activities like cricket which has no other reasonable need to exist. So pubs shape our culture.
We listen to those who give us clear, simple, apparently logical answers with a pint and a fag. And then go away. Or fall over. And this may at any moment dawn on the collective idiot or malevolence known as UKIP’s NEC.
The force of the pub pronouncement is unstoppable. eg: “We want our country back”, “Stop immigration”, “We want our fish”, “f**k the ECJ”, “Elf n Safety?”, “Out Now”, “No more money”.
Next, we are seriously considering, and have already started, ‘not obeying’. And the final panic: Government (civil service) pronouncements are being ignored, adding insult to injury.
So could it be that experts are the problem. An expert appears to be someone who knows more than me at the moment. If he can stay ahead, he remains an expert to the young and impressionable, or foolish, or just bored, or not listening, as long as nobody argues.
Have you noticed all experts have written a book? A book is the first step, and to really be an expert, make it controversial. Then people agree, then disagree, and before long they’re killing each other, so be careful to deny everything beforehand.
I have noticed also that most of these sorts of books have just one single lone idea. Then they pad it out with mountains of rubbish, and I mean mountains, large heaps, all to justify one sentence. With luck you can deduce ‘the idea’ from the extra bit of paper they put on the outside for added value. A tip – nothing sells a book better than including a serial killer. It is at this stage you begin to admire authors of novels.
The best way to become an expert is to choose a new and undiscovered truth. But seriously, instead, start a charity. You will automatically have sympathy and many remunerative interviews on BBC. The more gruesome the choice the better.
Now look at this from a different angle. Anyone over the age of 70 has knowledge and experience and at least, understanding, of working with, or close to, a group or a mass of others. This is important. It’s basic. In order to do anything, you have to do things, co-ordinated as we are told, or as habit etc. Even in schools we understood this.
No longer. The idea of being organised or organising yourselves is now officially dead. Alien. Nobody is any longer allowed to cruise quietly in a crowd. Even in football matches we are forced onto seats. We understood the concept of being alone in a Millwall supporters crowd and shutting up, and not explaining a foul.
At the age of 23, after uni and the army, I became an apprentice at GEC Helen Street factory in Coventry. Four echoing floors, each containing long tables and hundreds of high chairs, most of which had a pinny, or apron draped over it in a hurry, and many with a badly battered rudimentary cushion. There were many open windows and dotted about were gently moving male skilled engineers. At 7.30am I was given a pep talk by the foreman – an imposing and feared personage. My duties were explained.
Between 8.45 and 9.02, 200 assorted ladies clocked in and greeted our esteemed foreman: “Morning, Fish Face,” “Out the way, Alf”, “Daft bugger.” “Edna’s not gunna be in today Alf.” But otherwise ignored. For at least an hour there was an unspeakable roar of female voices recounted last night’s doings and highlights. The thing was everyone knew what to do. Nobody needed to shout. There was only me – appalled. Somebody switched a radio on, some started singing. The foreman went back into his little office. One or two took the mickey out of me, several suggestive suggestions were made and I hastily followed the foreman.
In the army I had been organised. This was different. Not necessarily better, just different. In what way? I couldn’t tell. So I went out on the shop floor to try and find out. A window slammed shut, followed by a male complaint. Followed by more windows shutting and ladies cat-calling and men answering.
Danger, danger! Alf the foreman leans forward without hurry and switches the loudspeakers to on to “Workers Playtime”, which gradually soothes them and all start singing. During the next few weeks, I suppose they felt motherly to me, as I was young and clever and from the Army, and an engineer. I got to know everyone. Astonishingly, they were organised informally amongst themselves.
Alf understood, and was personally organised himself, and with his equals and immediate superiors. These two organisations and the departmentally organised were also different.
Being old in the jobs through the hectic war years, the top management of the firm were nice people but a little disorientated I suppose, and were unaware, and the conscientious objectors who were morphed into union activists ran riot until coming up against Alf and his equals.
Over the years I discovered if you separate five to ten people and put them under pressure, extraordinary results can accrue.
There are several lessons here, not all of them obvious, like the bloke who talks about the reasons for the spread of Islam. He must be listened to. He actually understands viscerally and intellectually but is unfortunately not good at passing on the info.
I left GEC a few years later but before leaving I got to meet the boss himself a couple of times and was able to ask about how he ran a business that employed a quarter of a million people. This adds another dimension to which I have added running other large or diverse businesses which all have to be run if not necessarily organised.
Generally, proper experts do NOT know. They are busy, thank you
The way to expertise is education and experience.
You won’t find any of this down the local pub.
Covid 19 isn’t spurious; it’s very real. It certainly DOES affect those of working age (in Texas, the majority of hospitalisations & deaths are now in the 18-39 age group.
I’ll take the word of experts over that of a politician or layman any day of the week.
Note I said experts plural, as unverified scientific or medical claims can often be erroneous.
Mike Sterland. Spanish Flu wasn’t spurious. 1918, 1919 etc. We carried on as normal. Apparently the 1920’s were a time of economic expansion and all round optimism. Many people were very silly in those days in my opinion but that’s beside the point.
Are ‘experts’ the problem? Well WHO IS PULLING THE STRINGS BEHIND the PANICS this time? Perhaps it’s those who want world government. Perhaps THEY think the time has come now. Do you want Dictatorship, Mind Control, genetic modification even. It’s beginning to sound like a cross between 1984 and Brave New World.
Indeed Pauline, dubious “information” abounds.
I know I have posted this before, but it relevant to our present situation.
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.
The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie.
It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the State” –
(Joseph M. Goebbels in Dissent and the Truth – German Minister of Propaganda, 1933-1945)
The “Lie” changes. 2015-16 it was “Project Fear” regarding Brexit. The irrefutable logic of the “man-in-the-pub” squashed that one. We voted the wrong way…LEAVE.
The next was “Climate Change”. (It’s still ongoing.) The “man-in-the-pub” might not have a scientiic education, but he knows when he’s being conned…. and he knows who is expected to foot the bill.
The current “Lie” is the coronavirus. Again the “man-in-the-pub” is begining to see that it is NOT a deadly virus, though it has led to the deaths of a large number of my generation, who have the misfortune to be in care homes. That the figures have been “massaged” by classing ALL deaths, where the deceased tested positive, as a Covid-19 death, regardless of any other serious health issues.
The State can no longer shield us from the social and economic consequences of the Covid-19 panic/hysteria. Someone will have to pay. That will be us.
The State WILL use all its powers to crush dissent, unless it’s a demonstration organised by “The Left” in which case it is to be carefully ignored.
So, better close ALL the pubs lest the “people” gather to plot sedition.
Well said Richard< I think your theory is right and starting to gain supporters
“Spurious Invention”: Just listened to Dr Andrew Kaufman (seems knowledgeable and genuine) and there should be questions as to whether some new virus actually exists – as required by the Koch test and its modified River’s version. Fraud by scientists is not something new – take the Piltdown Hoax perpetrated in support of evolution theory (let’s not also forget Ferguson’s track record of hyper inflated electronic guesstimates). As PM Cameron spoke of a ‘reset’ (a term that is now being used again), Fauci spoke (Jan 2017) at Georgetown about fears of a pandemic event and The Rockefeller Foundation published a report where a pandemic could allow for more political control:
https://needtoknow.news/2020/03/rockefeller-foundation-paper-published-in-2010-predicted-how-a-pandemic-can-be-used-as-an-excuse-to-establish-global-authoritarian-power/
My personal suspicions are based on the ‘All Roads Lead to Rome’ idea which is supported (possibly tenuously) by Johnson’s Catholic (and Oxford) background, following that great change agent of modern UK times, Blair and that the NWO is just the old order, pre reformation, reheated, where there was no middle class, etc and the Pontiff reigned supreme.
Enjoyed this article.But do TPTB even care that the experts are shown to be wrong.
Here’s something suggesting more aspects to all this.
Loved your article, Mr Spokes, sir. Thank you. It must read it a few more times to ensure I’m getting the message correctly. (One has major viewing problems, you see. But you obviously don’t.) In the meantime here’s part of an obituary — and “Yes” — I knew him well.
“But behind the mask of the cold-eyed industrialist, willing to close uneconomic factories and take on the unions and the complacency of much old-style British management, was a warmer figure, whose obsession with his own health meant that he was always there to ensure the best medical attention for an employee or manager’s relative with a problem.
His senior associates at GEC – the inner circle with whom he would chew over the day’s events – also recognised a good deal of wit, and saw that Weinstock’s actions were always governed by a sense of fairness and sentimentality. There was much gentle teasing in his approach to people, though this was sometimes mistaken for sharpness.
Arnold Weinstock was born in Stoke Newington, north London. It was a remarkable birth for the time because of the age of his parents. His father Simon, who had emigrated from Poland to London in 1904, was 50; his mother 46.”