This is surely one of the strangest twists in official narratives in perhaps hundreds of years. The bad guys have been christened as the good guys, and the good guys have been purged, deplatformed, canceled, and demonized.
Just consider the fate of former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. She locked down her country, trampling the rights of the people under the guise of controlling the spread of a virus that wasn't even a threat to anyone who wasn't either really old or already infirm in some way. You couldn't go to church. You couldn't be unmasked. You couldn't leave the country and return. In fact, no one could travel in New Zealand without permission from the government during the Plandemic.
As bad as the United States and Europe were during this period, New Zealand was worse, and the tyranny there was even backed up by speech controls. Anyone protesting the policies was risking everything. And when the vaccine came along, Ardern outright said it: "the people who get it will have rights but those who do not will not." It was a new biomedical caste system, the likes of which was unparalleled in human history. All for something no more deadly than the Flu.
Eventually, the country did open. Now, speakers decrying the whole period are attracting audiences in the thousands, and Ardern is widely unpopular. Her successor who continues to defend all this despotism is under a cloud and is also deeply unpopular. The tables have completely turned. Of course, the virus came anyway, as it must, so the junta that did this has turned their attention to [the false narrative of] "climate change," the defense of censorship, and the escalation of the Russia/Ukraine war.
Five years ago, anyone would have supposed that a leader that acted this way would live in shame. I certainly assumed so. My supposition is that Ardern had made horrific misjudgments and would be widely decried as a tyrant. She would live out her days in disrepute, surely.
However, the opposite has happened. She is now the subject of celebratory biographies. She is lauded by mainstream media. She addressed the United Nations last year in a speech that was an open call for a new global censorship regime. True, George Soros' and Bill Gate's so-called "fact-checkers" disagree with this interpretation. Instead, they tell us that she was merely calling out "the weaponization of free speech by misinformation agents," which is NewSpeak code for anyone who is skeptical of the Totalitarian narratives that are forced down our throat.
In any case, in my imagination, I could not have dreamed up a specimen of error and tyranny more deserving of devaluing than Jacinda Ardern. Everything she did during the COVID era flies in the face of values that the West has held for almost a thousand years since King John signed the Magna Carta.
But I was wrong. Completely. I underestimated just how broken and corrupt the world is. Instead of being disgraced, this tyrant is now enjoying, not just one, but two fellowships at Harvard University where she enjoys massive prestige and adoration by faculty, staff, and students. To me, this seems like the Twilight Zone-an ending to the story that I could not have ever imagined. Aren't we supposed to be against segregation, house arrest, forced medical treatments, and censorship? I thought at least we would agree on that much. Apparently not. Apparently, it is the opposite. Everything that I believed was deprecated is now exalted and all the public virtues I believed we once championed are now denounced.
It's not just Ardern. The whole tiny but global junta that imposed all of these policies seemed to be enjoying a glorious send-off by the entire establishment, even though they were 100 percent wrong about everything. Fauci's successor is Fauci II, and the same goes for Walensky's successor at the CDC. And the media propagandists who for three years lied to the public about lockdowns, masks, social distancing, business closures, school closures, and shots are now writing books that are calling people like me the bad guys!
I almost cannot imagine that this has happened.
As another example, the New York Times Op-Ed page has carried an amazing and very long article by Yoel Roth, the former chief censor of Twitter 1.0 before he was summarily fired by Elon Musk. The Times let him tell his tale of woe on how oppressed and beaten down he is merely for enforcing "trust and safety." He was only doing his job to stop online lies!
Makes me want to vomit.
The Twitter Files revealed that the company was obeying government priorities, and that they were blocking and throttling content that took issue with COVID policies, questions surrounding election integrity, and vaccine effectiveness just like this CIA-hatched social media platform did, and still does. Roth, in cooperation with federal agencies, set himself up as the arbiter of truth and arguably distorted information flows based on his personal [Neo-Marxist] bias.
Like Ardern, I might have expected that he would retire from public life and deploy his considerable communication for a small company somewhere. But I was wrong again. Instead, Roth now holds a coveted position at the University of Pennsylvania and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
This is not just about how high-end academia has become a haven for Woke, Neo-Marxist politics, censorship, and wildly pro-Statist thinking across the board. That battle seems to have been won by the bad guys perhaps two decades ago. The problem is much larger. It has to do with the entire academic, corporate, political, and Deep State establishment that was heavily involved in imposing a despotic turn for the entire globe.
They are right now in the business of protecting their own, trolling the rest of us by granting awards and honors to the absolute worst offenders of core Western values. It's like the world has been turned upside down. As grim as I believed the lockdowns that began in March 2020 were, and as much as I expected some terrible economic and cultural fallout from that period, I never would have imagined that the lockdowners and mandaters would be riding high at 42 months of this.
And at the very same time, the purges of the people who were right all along are continuing at a furious pace. Every day, we observe sneaky attacks on the greatest champions of basic liberties on which I thought everyone agreed on back in 2019. Every unflattering bit of personal information on the resistors is fair game, amplified by the media, and then realized in the form of demonetizations by Big Tech, the courts, and the professional circuit generally.
The battle lines are very clear and only one side stands for the rights and liberties for which humanity worked for a millennium to secure. The other side stands for controls, impositions, divisions, surveillance, censorship, de-growth, and corporate cartelizations. Can someone explain to me why we are supposed to think that the bad guys are now the good guys? In short, how can we account for the valorization of tyrants that we are witnessing?
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