It is a hierarchical, clandestine, totalitarian Empire which operates over and above politics and beliefs.
It has control over the Committee of 300, the Club of Rome, Bilderberg, Le Cercle, the United Nations, the World Economic Forum and every government in the world.
Those who succeed in times of war are well prepared and keeping a good distance from it. They find ways to justify their withdrawal to safe spaces. They consider themselves superior to it, even though they are the manipulators of it.
They believe that their action is warranted. For them, war is the quickest route to personal salvation on a planet with finite resources. It is an essential thinning of the herd. A herd of humans which they fear may rise up and annihilate them and their inheritance."
Do you think that “The West” as you defined it, all of it’s cultural achievements, would have survived the historical revisionism of Hitler and Stalin?Do you believe that Persia, and all of its accumulated science and wisdom, survived the modern brand of radicalism that now rules its territorial remnant? Did Ptolemaic Greece survive Caesar’s fires or did it die with the Library of Alexandria and simply become a page in the history of Rome? Did Ancient Egypt live on continuously after the wars it lost to upstart empires, or are we still today trying to work out how they lived, how they built what they built, and who they were?
Maybe I am pro this war and pro that war. I do know that war won’t save us in the long run, but I am genuinely interested in your answer to these questions, because I think there are people in this world, and some inside the borders of The West, who wish to wipe its systems and values from memory.
Great essay. To that last anti-war point you made, many of the loudest proponents of it have never fought in one. I'm sure Karp and Konstantine never have.
Pro or Not. Seems to be a binary frame on what the author describes as a much more complex matter. I would like to have seen a different way of positing the challenge.
The saying goes there are only two guarantees in life: “death and taxes.” Is war not an inevitable 3rd thing to add? Has there been a time in human history where humanity has been so peaceful? I could be naive.
This is a fine essay. But on top of that it's wonderful to see pieces with analytical heft in WoC.
"The enemy is not a country.
It is not a religion.
It is a hierarchical, clandestine, totalitarian Empire which operates over and above politics and beliefs.
It has control over the Committee of 300, the Club of Rome, Bilderberg, Le Cercle, the United Nations, the World Economic Forum and every government in the world.
It is the true enemy of the entire human race.
It must be destroyed."
https://francesleader.substack.com/p/ww3-the-pentagon-brief
"There are no winners among us.
Those who succeed in times of war are well prepared and keeping a good distance from it. They find ways to justify their withdrawal to safe spaces. They consider themselves superior to it, even though they are the manipulators of it.
They believe that their action is warranted. For them, war is the quickest route to personal salvation on a planet with finite resources. It is an essential thinning of the herd. A herd of humans which they fear may rise up and annihilate them and their inheritance."
https://francesleader.substack.com/p/and-now-to-war
Conspiracy crackpots must be destroyed.
Do you think that “The West” as you defined it, all of it’s cultural achievements, would have survived the historical revisionism of Hitler and Stalin?Do you believe that Persia, and all of its accumulated science and wisdom, survived the modern brand of radicalism that now rules its territorial remnant? Did Ptolemaic Greece survive Caesar’s fires or did it die with the Library of Alexandria and simply become a page in the history of Rome? Did Ancient Egypt live on continuously after the wars it lost to upstart empires, or are we still today trying to work out how they lived, how they built what they built, and who they were?
Maybe I am pro this war and pro that war. I do know that war won’t save us in the long run, but I am genuinely interested in your answer to these questions, because I think there are people in this world, and some inside the borders of The West, who wish to wipe its systems and values from memory.
Edit: Ptolemaic Egypt not Greece.
Great essay. To that last anti-war point you made, many of the loudest proponents of it have never fought in one. I'm sure Karp and Konstantine never have.
Pro or Not. Seems to be a binary frame on what the author describes as a much more complex matter. I would like to have seen a different way of positing the challenge.
The saying goes there are only two guarantees in life: “death and taxes.” Is war not an inevitable 3rd thing to add? Has there been a time in human history where humanity has been so peaceful? I could be naive.