Life after Lockdown and what next
Excellent book by Jeffrey Tucker about COVID madness and few points what to do next
I have just finished the Life after Lockdown book and I wanted to say, that´s it really excellent. Everything in the book is great summary of all events what we have been through since 2020 and describe precisely the flow of events. You can find most of the writings on Brownstone Institute as well as the other books.
Since it began, I have been confused, what it was all about but I think I understand now more and better with the full picture. I want to just add one point of view, why this has happened. I don´t truly think it was about virus - even though the "internal" power plays of bureaucracy and security state are interesting, I think it was mostly distraction for public. The crisis would have happened anyway, maybe not with virus but with something else, what they could use as reason to act and implement the control of society. The control was main goal.
Financial Crisis 2008
In part I. The Lockdown, Chapter 9th: "How seventy years of progress came to an end", page 35. I noticed, that there is timeline presenting events between 2001 to 2018. In this period, I think one one crucial event is missing and I think it was origin to this craziness. The event was the financial crisis in year 2007 - 2008.
This was the turning point, when it all started and the lockdown, woke, gender, the wreck of society, culture, politics, financial system, freedoms, medicine and others is the direct consequence of this. Just now, we are seeing true consequences of the policies they implemented in 2008 namely the bank bailout.
This is also reason, why I think that the main theme in all the COVID lockdown intrics is hidden from public. The "deadly" pandemic and all the measures were only to distract people. There was nothing really deadly, it was only economical event.
When we accept this assumption, we can find answers for many questions like why they bypass law, bypass human rights, bypass the politicians, why they lied so much and acted as they acted. It was due to financial system.
In 2008 Obama government together with BlackRock and others stepped in directly and instead of let down the economy into recession and clean it, they overtook the money flow directly into hands of governments. Since then, FED and government (or any other central bank) become one entity. This changed everything, now the money can be printed, if the correct political decision is made and political will is unrestricted - financial markets will go up, if the politic say so, no matter if the company bankrupt - they can print more or take it and distribute profits. This changed the society structure. Remember, there were also Wall Street Occupy protests - it was probably starting point of the censorship and propaganda expansion.
I am pretty sure, that any person in government, politics or any other industry know this. If you don´t cooperate, you will get bankrupted as the money supply is not in pocket of people but in central banks, directed by elected political parties. The system doesn´t make sense anymore and when people will notice this, then the power structures will have nothing to do. You don´t really work for customers, people or companies, you work for central banks and governments.
How to protect against COVID craziness
The real antidote to COVID craziness is the different exchange of value. Namely based on physical world. The problem with the digital is, that there is unlimited amount of it and it can be transferred without human interaction across globe.
In real world, it doesn´t work like that. The real money (value exchange) has to be carried by someone - even the paper money, you have to store it somewhere, withdraw it from bank - so you have to physically be there, someone has to give it to you in opening hours (8-16), then you have to go to merchant, choose the correct product if it´s available, exchange the money and then take the physical product. The current economical problem with shopping is not lack of money, it´s the limit of carry weight for shopper. You can´t carry more than two bags of goods, because you have only two hands.
Society change
The events which we lived through COVID, was direct consequence of society change accustomed to money printing and power structure directed by central bank policy. This might also indicate correlation with COVID restrictions intensity and countries exposure to USA dollars - the more you are connected with financial market, the harder the COVID lockdown, censorship, propaganda, measures and vaccine distribution.
I think this is reason, why for example Africa or poor countries didn´t have the COVID restrictions so harsh and people didn´t censor or lie so much, as they were not connected so well to global financial markets which reward this with printed money. But I am speculating here. The first shock was for sure everywhere - we going to die but then in year 2021 with vaccine and after that the response was more related to financial ties to global markets.
In this world, the value of anything is based on pure faith and not real "scientific" method. This is the reason, why also COVID response was not based on science and can not be measures as such, the main currency there was and still is faith, political preference and social status signaling in system. The idea is that real wealth can be printed, if you support the correct status and the system.
How prevent it in future
The way how we can be free from this is return to rational currency exchange, which is based on something real. This is happening in Ukraine right now. You can print how much money you wish, but if opponent is more skillful you will lose physical properties like territory, man power and industrial capacity. The other step after this "reality" check, for me as sane person, will be return to gold-based currency.
If anyone on West recognize that society used to be better in old times 1960s - 1970s, then the return to gold based exchange system will fix this. The gold can not be printed for everyone and to acquire it, you have to show some real skills or values which are valuable for humans. Computer or AI can not print gold as well, they can make illusion but they can not mine it and distribute it to your home.
Schrödinger's Cat experiment
The current madness is because everything has unlimited value and simultaneously zero value - it´s the famous Schrödinger's Cat experiment in global scale, where you need to constantly censor, confuse and speed up to not allow anyone to open the box and see what is there.
The way out is to put real value on things and let people again to exchange real value for things they need. This is happening with food for example, soon will be food more expensive than computers - the chewing gum pack cost more then single CD. When society will understand this, then the attack on farmers and energy producers will stop and they will value again the correct values (family, intelligence, beauty, skills, health) as before.
The book is really great and I enjoy it. I hope more awareness will allow most of the society to return to sanity and rational state of mind.
With this I wish happy Easters and great Holidays to everyone!
Maybe a reason for the lockdowns was to change human behaviour. This point came up when people were interviewed on the streets of London recently. From small changes, large ones can follow if enough people join in!
https://francisoneill.substack.com/p/what-do-you-think-about-lockdown
Spatial computing is probably key to the future. Spatial computing is a system for computers to interact and understand the physical environment around users, and where they can also interact with virtual objects.
Data storage/processing is essential, so maybe an important development happened in 2004 when scientists at Penn State in the USA discovered a material known as graphene.