Lessons from the last three years of Western Authoritarianism

https://brownstone.org/articles/five-lessons-from-three-years-of-authoritarianism/

Now we know.

Not only do we once again live under the imminent threat of atomic annihilation, as our global “leaders” continue to play out a 21st-century version of Dr. Strangelove, but Covid offered an opportunity to further militarize and subordinate society. For let’s call lockdowns what they were: martial law.

Moreover, the government and the security state during the last few years has proved itself to be in the service of only a tiny sliver of shadowy and in some cases invisible elites and “experts” whose actions have, in America most especially, been held to little accountability. In the face of lockdowns, which happened to be the most universally undemocratic and destructive event of my lifetime, regular citizens were held in contempt and with little more agency than the serfs of the Middle Ages. Some of us were made completely irrelevant and “non-essential.”

Yet, amongst this wreckage and horror, many skeptical people, who once believed in benevolent leaders, have been freed from the flawed faith in “good” government. In this freedom lie several important lessons for how to move forward into a (hopefully) less totalitarian future.

Lesson #1: We need to hold the medical-industrial complex accountable.

There was always a feeling that these big buildings and office parks that housed the machinery of the medical industrial complex were, like consolidated public schools or prisons, quite anti-human. But I still . . . believed, more or less.

What the Covid mania revealed is that much of the medical-industrial complex, like the military-industrial complex, is part of a system of hierarchical relationships that only truly benefits those in power. The beneficiaries being Big Pharma, massive corporate health systems, wealthy physicians and even a security state/biodefense apparatus that sees vast swaths of the global population as dots on a chart to be manipulated, vaccinated and medicalized.

Even worse, iatrogenesis – the massive health harms caused by Covid medical interventions – generates unseemly and massive profits, again for a tiny segment of individuals with unfathomable power and wealth (Bill Gates is the prime example). This sinister complex relies on sickness, not health to make their profits. I believe this is one reason why Covid was so intensely medicalized and why we all became pawns of the vaccine industry, instead of public health pursuing more holistic attempts for better outcomes for people with Covid.

None of us has to take this lying down, though. Health consumers can take back their rights through the great work of organizations such as the Children’s Defense Fund and No College Mandates, two groups with writers affiliated with Brownstone Institute. [/b]

Lesson #4: The technology that was supposed to lessen inequality actually increases societal rifts.

Lesson #5: The most meaningful things are still the most meaningful things.
If we cannot trust the experts, the government, the global order, or technology, who can we trust? This is perhaps the most important question of all, and one that has been asked from time immemorial. In intense readings of Leo Tolstoy’s non-fiction work during this strange and awful time, especially Patriotism and Government and The Kingdom of God is Within You, I’ve come to realize that in the very act of trusting monolithic institutions or the state in general, we are looking for all the wrong answers and even perhaps asking the wrong questions.

For, like all of the material world, institutions are fallible and crumble. The right questions are much larger and far more personal, and the answers are immutable and have been there forever.

Outside the bounds of our fallible institutions, the most important answers to nearly every question are to be found in authentic feelings of love and belonging. Love for your family, or the little plot of land and house that you own, or the tiny farming community that you live in, the church you belong to, or the group of kind-hearted and supportive friends and writers, like those who have found one another in Brownstone Institute and other grassroots communities.

Faceless federal institutions and their representatives do not deserve our love, nor in most cases do they deserve even admiration or respect. They are the products of very flawed, uncaring systems and are ultimately artificial creations of a flawed humankind.

Despite the anguish and pain we have all felt–and the divisions the last three years of authoritarianism have created–don’t let the elites and their petty politics divide your friendships and family. Love is still the ultimate answer.

(Acknowledgement: I would like to thank my friend and Brownstone Fellow, Debbie Lerman, who greatly assisted me in the writing and editing of this piece).

Seth Smith is an avid outdoorsman and public librarian based in Missouri.

All these are true.

As designed , they would work.
But all facets have been taken over by Marxists (whether they know they are. Marxists or not) covertly to the tune that they now flaunt them overtly as a new normal of equitable subjugation.

If we don't stand up and take this country back soon , there will be no country to take back.

Keep in mind. There will be no other countries, either.
The defenders of individualist, global freedoms will be no more.

https://www.revolver.news/2023/02/video-you-think-us-birthrates-are-low-now-one-obgyn-says-thanks-to-the-jab-you-aint-seen-nothin-yet/

We ain't seen nothing yet in the birth rate of this nation and other western nations. I won't call these western nations democracies even in the sense the left defines democracy....they aren't.

One of my favorite informative vids.
From 13 years ago.

Please watch and understand why and how we will be conquered.

perhaps that is why the bible says that chrisians and those refusing to take the mark and/or believe the antichrist is God will be ....BE headed.

You left out the Dept of Justice for Criminals industry. Government is a bit like alcohol. There is no situation so bad that alcohol or government cannot make worse.

JMWinPR wrote:You left out the Dept of Justice for Criminals industry. Government is a bit like alcohol. There is no situation so bad that alcohol or government cannot make worse.

cant make worse? youve missed the intent. which is self perpetuation of job security.