Sometimes the darkness gets too close.
I've been watching some of the panels from this year's World Economic Forum summit.
To understand The WEF you have to understand their language. Every panel is a masturbatory pseudo-intellectual labyrinth filled with finely tuned corporate HR slogans. They speak in the type of code that you'd expect from unimaginative milque-toast metropolitan pencil pushers:
"Rebuilding trust"
"Global collaboration"
"Misinformation and disinformation"
"Private public partnership"
"Population sustainability"
"Sustainable development goals"
"The fourth industrial revolution"
"Build back better"
And of courseā¦
"The great reset"
There are many more. Every sentence is packed with this garbage. It's hard to maintain focus because all of the buzzwords eventually run together and create some unrecognizable hum that doesn't fully register to a conscious mind. I constantly found myself rewinding to listen again, and then again, and then again, because what intellect I have was rejecting the invasive stupidity. It's like watching the cast of Sex and the City read an encyclopedia. The seconds evaporate from your life and curse you for wasting them as they disappear forever.
Liars lying to each other, knowing they're both lying, getting aroused by their sociopathic delusions.
That's all I see. It's three degrees more pretentious than a Ted Talk and what the Third Reich would've sounded like if it was headquartered in a yoga studio.
These are the people in charge. These are the ones who are going to censor the internet, unleash Disease X, force us back inside, enslave us with digital ID's and central bank digital currencies, shove us into fifteen minute ghettos.
These nitwits.
That's the part I have the most trouble with. Stalin had the KGB and the Red Army, Hitler had the Gestapo and the SS, and we're going to be marched into quarantine camps by a bunch of activists and software developers. We're going to lose our freedom to people who do trust falls as a team building exercise. They don't even need a military- they've performed a technological coup d'etat that was too dull to hold our attention, yet far more oppressive and deadly than anything we've seen since Genghis Khan.
And that's where the darkness comes in. I understand the language. I know what they're saying- and I sit quietly listening in disbelief.
It feels like an alternate dimension. Sometimes I wonder if it was always this way: the dissemination of information was so carefully regulated that we were mostly capable of existing without being disturbed by the real world. The internet connected us all and allowed information to flow so copiously that we now have knowledge of what's been lurking beneath us all along, and in turn, it encouraged the most sinister among us to become more brazen. Their mechanisms of control were exposed, and they saw the general public didn't mind being controlled, so it provided a gateway to something they never thought possible: global totalitarianism.
We became docile and apathetic to freedom. We let them slowly erect this prison around us with every Patriot Act and carbon tax- and with every incremental step toward the abyss they were stunned by their own ability to accomplish these infringements on humanity with such ease. They became more arrogant; more egomaniacal; more audacious- to a point where a futuristic feudalism is upon us.
Pitch black darkness.
You are describing once again the banality of evil.
On my worse days, I see similarly (and watching any of those buzzword-laden presentations does not help!) and can be easily frozen in horror envisioning the future these creatures would impose upon us. Not for any of the dubious goals they claim, but essentially to kill and enslave us as unsavory peasants, maintaining only a few for constant cash-milking. I don't know whether to call my better days, when I focus on the necessary things in my real world and pursue my own pinpricks of resistance, offer some antidote, or may prove only delusion.