Over four years ago, before the Brexit referendum, I wrote my first article for this publication, I intended it to be shocking and possibly back then it was. Since my first article, rather depressingly, many of my first predictions are coming true much sooner than I thought possible, people are not so easily shocked anymore and that is a good thing.
These days I often wonder if I have much else left to say but I’ll offer you this quote from Sun Tzu’s ‘Art of War,’ video here.
“Therefore I say: know your enemy and know yourself and in a million battles you will never be in peril.”
I’ll relate this to one of my own experiences in life. Many years ago, as a young man I was interviewed and ended up working for a firm of city traders; the interview process was exhaustive. Endless interviews and psychometric tests were undertaken and I couldn’t help but wonder why for me they seemed to go on for a lot longer than anyone else.
Eventually I was told just why my testing had taken so long. There are two types of people in this world, those that form a model in their heads of how they think the world should be and those that react to situations as they find them. The former academic types would be slaughtered as market traders, the trick is to ‘trade the market that you have,’ no matter how illogical and extreme the market appears.
My interviewers were puzzled by me as I seemed to have the ability to change the way my thought processes worked at will to suit the occasion: I’m very rare apparently. The point is that I do now understand how this works, particularly when I’m dealing with people. I suppose the ideal situation is a bit of teamwork where ideas are tested for their practicality but in today’s political world it is seldom the case.
History is full of tyrants that tried so very hard to force their own world view on everybody else, no matter how impractical or ridiculous their ideas turned out to be; imagine if you designed aeroplanes like that, they simply wouldn’t fly. It is unclear to me, just how many dictatorial tyrants actually believed in their own dogmatic worldview and which of these were merely opportunists in pursuit of wealth and power.
Stalin I think was just an opportunistic tyrant, perhaps Trotsky was more of an idealist, Angela Merkel another idealist with Tony Blair being just an opportunistic sycophant, his eye firmly on wealth and power: just my opinion of course and there are many other examples, in fact Adolf Hitler seemed to propagate any message that he thought would suit his purpose at the time. Certainly though, many of these tyrants seem to have had psychological and mental problems of a nature that I’m not qualified to diagnose.
The main problem though with these extreme idealists is that we don’t live in an ideal world, like the stock market trader or the aircraft designer, if they can’t adapt their ideas to suit the world as it really is, then they too will crash and burn. Fortunately, historically these tyrants always do seem to crash and burn, the only question is just how many innocent lives will it cost this time around.
Unfortunately, whatever their motives, these narcissistic, probably psychotic tyrants are very good at selling their toxic ideas to those that are blinded by their disaffection, dissatisfaction, personal misfortune or chip on their shoulder. People such as these are all too readily indoctrinated with tyrannical ideals that can never work in the real world.
Stalin had his secret police to subdue the population, Hitler had the Gestapo among others but he also had his Brown Shirts that intimidated the population much like Black Lives Matter and Antifa do today.
These tyrants certainly know how to sell their message to the disaffected, those with envy and loathing in their hearts, indeed Hitler came to power during the great depression, he capitalised on the misery and poverty of the German people at the time. Today as we head into an even greater depression the potential for this is increasing but already we have disaffected minorities blaming our distant past history for their misery.
“Nothing is new under the sun,” the saying goes and so we can see that globalisation as promoted by the European Union, United Nations and various non government organisations has all happened before. These people are tyrants that will enforce their unworkable world view upon us all, never mind that these ideas can never work, have no regard for our culture and way of life and ultimately will cause the loss of our lives as they already have.
So now we are a little closer to understanding our enemy, they want the world to be as they wish or expect it to be, they will not shift one iota from their mental construct for whatever reason is driving them. These are extremist tyrants, like all of those before them, some are idealists, others self seeking criminals and the people that have bought into their ideals are just pawns in a power game. Some people say that Stalin referred to such people as “useful idiots” but it is unclear as to whether he actually said this; even so it is a very apt description of today’s Liberal Lefty cult. A cult propagated by globalist organisations such as the European Union and the United Nations: these people are enemies in every sense of the word.
Estimates of the numbers of people murdered during Stalin’s reign vary but some estimates put this figure at around sixty million; it is estimated that between 70 and 80 million perished in the second world war when we fought Hitler. The question that we should be asking now is: just how many lives will it cost this time around? There are rumours that the globalists are looking to dispose of far higher numbers.
Stalin may have been a monster , a paranoid schizophrenic who killed because he though he was under threat, but Lenin, according to one of his co-revolutionaries, was much worse. Whichever, one of those two had relatives of mine killed, imprisoned, gulaged, for being well-off in pre-revolutionary Russia. Why they were killers is really irrelevant, the failure was in the system that allowed them unrestricted power.
Please do not display images of Stalin, or Lenin, or the pillocks like Corbyn who think it’s cool to wear a Lenin cap. They invade my safe space.*
Lenin caps must fall!
JF
*Well, everyone else is on that bandwagon, why not me?
Julian – yes Stalin, Lenin and a whole legion of these ars**les throughout history; they all had delusions about themselves, they thought of themselves as demigods, above mortal men and as such they thought their actions were fully justified.
I don’t think Tony Blair is too much different, just not quite as a successful; I think that is why he was so desperate to become the president of the EU, he wanted the chance to catch up.
I always enjoy your articles. As for “These days I often wonder if I have much else left to say” I would very much disagree. It seems to me that there is nothing wrong even if you reword previous articles.
Idealists and extremists are always going to be a problem but then it is a part of the human condition along with some other bad characteristics.
During in the campaign before the Referendum I always felt one of the most dangerous aspects of our fight for independence was people’s apathy. This is has now been replaced by fear and thus compliance.
In my opinion you are right if you see a danger in the distractions. Instead of poverty it is now fear and guilt. But in the end we will be subjugated and intimidation that will allow them to take away what freedoms we have left.
Only by organising, informing and persuading can the tide be turned not by fighting the perpetrators. Let us start playing the mind game.
Interesting, Flyer, and thought provoking.
Several years ago I bought a book on the History of Europe which had received quality reviews. In it was an estimated figure of the number of people who had died in the Soviet Union, from the Revolution to the falling of the Berlin Wall, as a result of State action or inaction (e.g. starvation). From memory the figure was 80 million.
As for globalists looking to dispose of “far higher numbers” this makes sense if you believe that anthropogenic global warming is by far and away the most serious pending disaster that we face. The logic would be that as human activity is the cause then the more humans the greater the disaster.
Of course, not all humans are equal in this respect: contrast rich Americans with subsistence farmers. This differential makes the situation worse because, human nature being what it is, there is no chance that rich Americans and subsistence farmers would agree a compromise where they undertake to meet in the middle as regards they global warming impact. Subsistence farmers will aspire to the rich American lifestyle that those already enjoying it will not want to give it up.
You can save the planet and lead the rich American lifestyle if there are a lot fewer humans.
But Alan Wheatley DO you believe in anthropogenic global warming? Maybe some of Xreb demonstrators do but I’m sure if there is a global conspiracy to rule the world none of the conspirators believe it. Surely XReb, BLM etc are the useful idiots, encouraged by the lefty liberal cult, here and in U.S.A..
Here in G.B. – indeed in England – I’m just fed up to the back teeth that, for whatever reason, B.J. has taken dictatorial powers into his own hands to, ‘fight, what is at bottom, a flu virus’.
Pauline, I know the climate has changed radically several times without any input from humans; in contrast what is predicted as a consequence of anthropogenic global warming is peanuts.
But rather than argue a case for or against anthropogenic climate change I am arguing the case against the proposed solution as being pointless because on current population trends it is so far away from what is needed as to be irrelevant.
It is being argued that the Earth is heading for another mass extinction, this time caused by too many humans doing too much damage to sustainable lifeforms. Hopefully not in my lifetime, but I think youngsters are right to be concerned.
Alan, you wrote that some believe that “anthropogenic global warming is by far and away the most serious pending disaster that we face.” Maybe you believe that too.
But forty years ago the average height above sea level of the Maldive Islands in the Indian Ocean was four feet. (Their highest point was just nine feet above sea level).
The Maldives are just the same today, and tourists are paying well over a thousand pounds a week each to stay there. Adverts for holidays in the Maldives are often in the papers.
The Maldives prove that Green propaganda about “rising sea levels” is a lie. And that “Global Warming” is a lie as well.
Ralph, humans are having an impact, given the increasing numbers on a fixed size planet how could it be otherwise. Humans are not the only cause of change as we know from the geological record.
We know the climate changes due to natural causes, and the activities of humans.
Many claims are false, flawed or unbalanced. But irrespective of what is and is not true World population growth continues without criticism, nor even comment, and it is unsustainable; and that for me is by far and away the most significant factor determining the future of Earth.
If solution there be I hope it is one all we humans can be happy with. A few determining what happens to the many is not a happy outcome.
Excellent article flyer but, as we both clearly know, it so difficult to open eyes to reality. I do have a few friends who are open to the facts but too many are more likely to cry “conspiracy theory”.
We have a hard job to save our nation and so little time to do it. Boris seems confused and weak now when we need a strong leader.
Yesterdays conspiracy theory becomes tomorrows headlines.
WOW! Thank you flyer. Do keep on writing.
Oddly enough you have done a very good job of analysing my underlying psychology. Two bits of me are missing though. I have absolutely no desire to control other people. I have more concern for the welfare of animals that we have domesticated, than I have for people as a group. Oh and another bit of me resents unnecessary infringement of my personal liberty.
O.K. Don’t care who knows it now. I am the academic type. Reading Philosophy, 5yrs older than most undergraduates, I did indeed form a model of how the world should be and by gum I found it very difficult to adapt to how it was, afterwards. Anyway, that’s enough of me.
Somehow I don’t see Boris as trying to force his world view on EVERYBODY else. I think he genuinely does want to get Brexit Done and probably does not have the brain to fully understand what is/was needed to do that. So far, he wants to force that view on U.K. whatever, but fair enough, we had a referendum.
Something seems now to have taken him over. Almost like an evil outside force, turning him into a dictator. How can wanting out of EU turn into supporting U.N., W.H.O. etc.?
Sounds fanciful. Who or what, I haven’t a clue. It could just be that he is a coward. He maybe did think Covid was going to kill him. From his point of view that would have been a tragedy because he had not achieved Brexit.
Oh and I suggest Hancock and co are simply sycophantic opportunists seeking money and power. (Like many politicians?)
Thank you Flyer and for your comment Pauline, I agree with what you say but I don’t think Boris will get Brexit done properly. I smell a sell-out but I hope I am wrong.
Boris, like all those before him climbing the political greasy pole, was never, ever, going to be the same Boris when he got to the top. They never are.
Until Johnson plays his hand it would serve us all well to remember that van hoarding of Russell Hicks? You can never, ever trust the Tories.
I noticed this article at Zerohedge today and unfortunately I don’t think it’s too far from the truth:
“Here Are 4 Potential Hotspots Where The Next World War Could Erupt At Any Time”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/here-are-4-potential-hotspots-where-next-world-war-could-erupt-any-time
Hmm . . maybe, flyer and zerohedge. So far as Russia is concerned I have read the theory that Russia NEEDING clear access to the Med was an underlying factor in the start of WW1. They need that access because all other ports were frozen solid in Winter – hence they formed a triple alliance Britain, France and Russia.
There’s oil as well of course.
Look at the years of the Cold War though. Surely if the superstates pulled back then because nucleur war was suicidal they wouldn’t do it now.