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Sundance introduces Neil Oliver’s latest monologue/meditation:
In this monologue Oliver uses two
of my favorite metaphors to describe modern western civilization. First,
the Potemkin Villages constructed by political elite in their effort to make it
seem like the world is something it is not. Second, the great pretending that
is needed in order to sell it.
Here’s part of the transcript:
[T]he term Potemkin village has
stuck and is still used today to describe the lengths to which the leaders of a
failing, broken country might go in order to create the illusion of success and
prosperity when the truth is altogether different.
. . .
We are no longer policed by
consent. Rather the police force and it is a force now, in lieu of a service,
has been bent around political or ideological will. Some protest groups are
deemed good – Just Stop Oil, Extinction Rebellion, Insulate Britain, Black
Lives Matter and fed tea and biscuits while they block the roads and smash
windows, protected from any and all opposing views.
Others espousing opinions that fly
in the face of the latest ideological kink or political dikta protests about
so-called vaccines, or about lockdown or illegal immigration, often prompt the
unleashing of the men on horseback, the riot shields.
Mountains of data reveal that the
products marketed as vaccines are no such thing. They don’t stop infection. They
don’t stop transmission. They don’t stop an infected person getting sick. They
don’t keep an infected person out of hospital. And they don’t stop an infected
person dying.
By any measure those products,
released under emergency use authorization and demonstrably the cause of
countless deaths and injuries, are, at best, a façade, a front, an optical
illusion intended to make the masses move in the direction desired by the
leaders.
Whatever way you cut it, those
products don’t work as advertised and yet still the
advertising-slash-propaganda campaigns are up and running – right now, this
very minute – pushing needles into as many arms as possible, including those of
healthy 6-month-old babies.
. . .
The Green agenda is not about
Green, rather it is about Greed. There’s even fake meat, and fake milk, and
fake cheese and scores of other fake food products besides. What else would you
serve in a Potemkin village, after all, but fake food?
. . .
While more and more of the
population wakes up to the lies, obfuscation, fear-porn and propaganda around
the so-called vaccines, around the Green agenda, around gender politics and
race politics. The majority of the news media obediently pumps out the same old
tosh about “safe and effective” and “climate crisis” and “preferred pronouns”
and race baiting.
But the fakery has been swiftly and
shoddily constructed, without the foundation of truth. For that reason, this
Potemkin village thrown up around us is flimsy and should be easily demolished,
if we wish it so. . . .
Mr. Oliver is describing Great Britain, but as many reader
comments point out, it’s all happening in America as well. The full transcript, or, if you prefer, the
video, is at Conservative Treehouse here.
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