The Great Dictator was filmed in 1940 in response to the rise in fascism and totalitarianism. In his speech Chaplin asks: "soldiers do not to give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you and enslave you".
If, you regularly use Twitter and Facebook you will no doubt view posts that criticise your government for its response to COVID19. The criticism might be the lack of PPE, failures to implement lockdowns or criticism of the lockdowns. What is clear is that the World Health Organisation and the World Economic Forum have created division and unrest as a result of declaring a pandemic. Those who criticise the lockdowns can provide facts and figures that question whether we are truly experiencing a worldwide pandemic. Those that scream conspiracy theory will argue that governments are acting independently but is this really true? When Chaplin spoke the fear was of war and conflict. The argument went that by removing barriers the fear we sometimes have of each other would disappear as we grew to understand one another better. In fact the opposite happened the barriers were strengthened leading to "The Iron Curtain" and "NATO". Times were good for the profiteers who made their money from fear and mistrust. However, the barriers created by the warmongers have slowly started to erode. The internet has raised people's awareness, many have started to question the proxy wars that their nation have directed or entered into. Most of these proxy wars have been about regime change and control of resources. As resources dwindle it has become harder to hide the true reason for these conflicts. While corporate led governments have tried to take control of resources two other crises or potential crises are occurring: "Climate Change" and "Population Growth". While corporations and their governments can influence wars and to a lesser or greater extent the financial system, climate change and population growth are far harder to control and manipulate.
in 1992 the United Nations held the "Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit" This was one the first major international attempts to address climate change concerns. Since 1992 there have been many other conventions on the same subject with little evidence of any substantial change. Whether climate change is natural or a product of our lifestyles and behaviour is often hotly debated but very few deny that climate change is happening. Most people in the Western World are comfortable with their lifestyles not all but many. So how do you get people who are comfortable with their lives to change? We continue to consume the products fed to us by the corporations. The corporations have no desire to change while the marketplace sustains them and there are no new opportunities. Individuals shrug their shoulders because they feel they have no influence on the system that was created by the elite.
So how do you break the stalemate to enable change, is there a simple solution in a world of economic complexity? So now we have those who want to overthrow capitalist system of economics screaming that it is not complex if you follow the money and those that control it.
Yet it could be argued that the system is more complex than that. Many of us are the system we pay into our pension funds which are in turn invested in company shares. Few if any of us question the investments and whether they are ethical as long as we receive a return on our own investment.
The image above shows a complex network of banks and financial institutions but they themselves are linked to global institutions such as: The World Bank, The International Monetary Fund, The European Central Bank, The World Economic Forum, The World Health Organisation. All global institutions that are linked by economic and financial interest and policy making. So we have have system in place that is more than likely enabling natural disasters such as climate change, famine, overpopulation and the response to changing the system is barely noticeable.
So you are in charge now. You have the knowledge that the world is heading for an environmental disaster. You have a population that is growing while demanding more resources and you have an economic system on the verge of collapse. What do you do to bring about an immediate change or response to these growing challenges? Fortunately, it is not a decision you have to make but perhaps others have done so already? COVID-19 A new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) causing respiratory symptoms was first identified in December 2019 in China. The World Health Organization declared the outbreak of COVID-19 a pandemic on the 11 March 2020, this means COVID-19 has spread worldwide. Whether a new strain of coronavirus exists can be debated as can the definition of a pandemic. However, the existence of a coronavirus problem is not questioned only the extent of its impact. The efficacy of the measures that have been implemented by governments under the umbrella of the World Health Organisation and The World Economic Forum are also being questioned. So was the notion of a pandemic created to instil fear and enable change or did an opportunity arise to enforce the Great Reset? The answer is the same regardless of the question posed. The global institutions through economic leverage and policy are using COVID-19 as a catalyst for change. Crisis management creates opportunities for profit. PPE manufacture and sales, vaccine research and manufacture, private health care and health insurance. Meanwhile people are encouraged to shop online. This favours big business and creates opportunities in logistics of supply etc. Gradually competition and diversity is diminished. But this is all conspiracy people shout or is it
How many of you have seen these ugly posts popping up on your roads? Cheap posts intended to distinguish between cycle lanes and road for motor vehicles? But this is good I hear people shout and how is this part of a global conspiracy. Well more people are working from home, people are shopping online but some still need to travel too and from work. So encourage cycling and use of public transport and discourage car usage. At the same time tell people it is helping the environment. On the 18/11/2020 the UK government announced a ban on the sale of petrol and diesel cars by 2030 creating opportunities for scrappage of existing vehicles and the creation of infrastructure for electric powered ones. Lockdowns enable these changes, they promote changes in how we work, socialise, shop and access the resources we need. They climatise us to the new way of living.
If, you follow this link you can hear the voice of Justin Trudeau calling the coronavirus pandemic an opportunity for a reset and the image below is of a book written by Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum with a direct quote.
In the UK and across the world there have been protests against lockdowns, censorship and facemasks.
In November the UK government removed the right to protest by preventing 2 or more people from gathering in one place. Yet on remembrance day hours before an official ceremony Extinction Rebellion staged a protest at the Cenotaph one of the most highly surveilled monuments in London.
How were these people allowed into a secure area to protest climate change? Are we to think that security for a ceremony in which members of the Royal Family were to attend was so lax that two protestors just walked through?
Lockdowns Lockdowns are damaging to health the rational and support for them is illogical when you examine the harm they are doing to individuals and families. Employment and mental health problems are increasing. Change to how we live and work may be required to save the planet but one should surely question how change is implemented particularly when that change is causing many deaths. In the words of Charlie Chaplin from the film the Great Dictator: "Our knowledge has made us cynical our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much, and feel too little. We need humanity we need kindness and gentleness You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure Then - in the name of democracy - let us use that power - let us all unite Let us fight for a new world - a decent world that will give men a chance to work - that will give youth a future and old age a security
By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power but they lie! They do not fulfil that promise they never will! Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people!" Think carefully about the vision in that speech. Is it a vision you would be happy with and is it one that can be fulfilled by corporate greed, imposed lockdowns and the imposition of the "New Normal". In March we were told that lockdowns and the wearing of face masks would be temporary today there is no end to these measures. Indeed MPs are demanding mandatory vaccination. The Labour Party is calling for censorship and suppression of alternative views. Is this how democracies truly work?