Rebranding Elitism: Calling the Liberal World Order for what it is, by Mark E. Jeftovic

The presumptuous class think they can run a world filled with over 7 billion people, notwithstanding that they’ve repeatedly screwed up much smaller projects. From Mark E. Jeftovic at bombthrower.com:

Today’s elites are caught in a dilemma: nobody wants what they’re selling.

They promised a world where under their expert management, the economy would function unfailingly, there would be peace in our time, and when the pandemic hit they had it all under control (anybody remember “Two weeks to flatten the curve?”). They even tease us with transhumanist visions of perpetual bliss in a metaverse and the abolition of death itself.

All we have to do in exchange for these trappings of an AI driven post-singularity bliss is cede our sovereignty and our individual free will. Sure, we get decide the little things for ourselves. iOS or Android. Pfizer or Moderna. But for really big issues, like “how will we ratchet down the living standards of every plebeian on Earth in order to deal with this debt bubble climate change, all of this has already been decided. You’ll get to choose how you want to follow the rules, not whether the rules are fair or even make any sense (it’s called “subsidiarity”).

But there’s a problem. A big one.

It threatens the bring down the elites and even the idea of globalism itself:

The problem that is none of their policies are working. In fact they’re actually causing even more damage to the global economy and unleashing greater havoc on the social fabric:

• Supply chains are failing because of second-order effects of lockdowns.
• Energy crises are unfolding due to delusional ESG narratives and platitudes.
• The global economy is imploding because of a super-sized credit bubble and central bank interventions.

To top it all off, looking at the data coming out now it would not surprise me if we figure out that the vaccines are doing more damage than COVID ever did.

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