I was eighteen years old when commuter jets slammed into the World Trade Center. I remember watching it on live television that morning. It was like I'd been jolted out of a long slumber. The 90's were a period of seemingly endless prosperity. September 11th, 2001 appeared to be the beginning of a long hangover.
Do get Francis Christian's Substack? Yesterday, he wrote this: "A remarkable disappearing act has taken place in the last thirty odd years since the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991. Through a coordinated propaganda campaign by think tanks, legacy media, the internet and governments, the mass genocides, murders, terrors, tortures, incarcerations, disappearances, show trials, famines and multiplied miseries of Communism have been all but completely hidden from the masses.
You would think that a system that systematically and ruthlessly killed many more millions than the Nazis did and lasted for many more decades than the short, murderous rule of the third Reich would be the subject of numerous scholarly studies, retrospective news articles, actual narratives and case studies and dedicated academic departments. Clearly, this has not been the case - and there is instead a desire by the ruling classes to induce a sense of mass amnesia about the horrors of Communism. Why is this? ...
The answer is actually quite simple. The ideological descendants of the same people behind the murderous Bolshevik Communist regime that brought unspeakable suffering to millions of Russians and Eastern Europeans (before engulfing China and SE Asia in a similar convulsion), are in charge of our Western Governments and institutions today. The same players, the same playbook, the same international goals. They don’t want you to know of the connection of course - because if you do, the similarities are so stark that you will take notice and be enraged. The Bolsheviks/Communists of today are just as determined, just as ruthless, just as efficient and likely much more powerful than their Soviet ancestors. We ignore them at our peril.
To the well known aphorism, “those who do not remember the past are doomed to repeat it,” I would like to add another phrase of my own, that perhaps more accurately describes the present - those who sleep through the past are sleepwalking into disaster."
Excellent encapsulation of the last 25 years. I think that modern media has made being a wolf in sheep's clothing easier than it has ever been but I think that with covid enough people got a glimpse behind the curtain and once seen it cannot be unseen. As they try to consolidate and bring all those elements together that they are finding that taking over the world is harder than they anticipated. The more balls they have to juggle the more they will fumble and stumble and hopefully fail.
Do get Francis Christian's Substack? Yesterday, he wrote this: "A remarkable disappearing act has taken place in the last thirty odd years since the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991. Through a coordinated propaganda campaign by think tanks, legacy media, the internet and governments, the mass genocides, murders, terrors, tortures, incarcerations, disappearances, show trials, famines and multiplied miseries of Communism have been all but completely hidden from the masses.
You would think that a system that systematically and ruthlessly killed many more millions than the Nazis did and lasted for many more decades than the short, murderous rule of the third Reich would be the subject of numerous scholarly studies, retrospective news articles, actual narratives and case studies and dedicated academic departments. Clearly, this has not been the case - and there is instead a desire by the ruling classes to induce a sense of mass amnesia about the horrors of Communism. Why is this? ...
The answer is actually quite simple. The ideological descendants of the same people behind the murderous Bolshevik Communist regime that brought unspeakable suffering to millions of Russians and Eastern Europeans (before engulfing China and SE Asia in a similar convulsion), are in charge of our Western Governments and institutions today. The same players, the same playbook, the same international goals. They don’t want you to know of the connection of course - because if you do, the similarities are so stark that you will take notice and be enraged. The Bolsheviks/Communists of today are just as determined, just as ruthless, just as efficient and likely much more powerful than their Soviet ancestors. We ignore them at our peril.
To the well known aphorism, “those who do not remember the past are doomed to repeat it,” I would like to add another phrase of my own, that perhaps more accurately describes the present - those who sleep through the past are sleepwalking into disaster."
There is more here and the entire piece is well worth reading: https://francischristian.substack.com/p/know-your-enemy
Excellent encapsulation of the last 25 years. I think that modern media has made being a wolf in sheep's clothing easier than it has ever been but I think that with covid enough people got a glimpse behind the curtain and once seen it cannot be unseen. As they try to consolidate and bring all those elements together that they are finding that taking over the world is harder than they anticipated. The more balls they have to juggle the more they will fumble and stumble and hopefully fail.