People defend their rulers for the same reason cultists defend their cult leader: because they’ve been indoctrinated. And usually by the same psychological manipulation techniques.

Fauci said that a newly-discovered version of the particle, the muon netutrino, is especially dangerous. “And remember, it does not discriminate, but they especially wants to get grandma. They have been planning this for 10 billion years,” he added

Without mass-scale indoctrination into power-serving narratives about nation, government and world, the power structures which rule over us would immediately collapse.

What happens when it becomes impossible to completely repress the inner realisation of what you are doing, when the thin shell of justification collapses and you, the insider, become aware of the utter depravity of your role in society?

It’s time for a paradigm shift.

What distinguishes the good guys from the bad guys is not the isms, and not the talking points. It’s the feeling of love, an insistence on doing things from love and not from fear (which is one of the hardest things to do in a world that is unfair and broken).

We will never rival the evil controlling powers in their ruthlessness, violence, deceit, and weapons of war. We will not beat them at their own game. We have to play a bigger game, one that includes the game of force but far transcends it.

The Fed sells securities chiefly to major financial institutions (inducing them to buy by charging attractively low prices for those securities) as the economist Richard Wolff points out.

All the institutions of state are aligned to encourage us to call oligarchs “the elite.” We are now told that to speak of them in disparaging terms constitutes a “hate crime.” Yet to speak of them with unbridled reverence is perfectly acceptable.

What is the monetary value of an orangutan, let alone the survival of the planet? The ruling class might be able to calculate those values, but it is clear that they are unwilling to foot the bill to save the planet.