So, I sat down with Gunnar Kaiser a few weeks back to talk about the Covidian Cult, the New Normal totalitarianism, global capitalism, etc., and Gunnar was just about to release the interview on his popular YouTube channel, but YouTube has "locked down" his channel to prevent him from posting any new material.
Fortunately, there was this embedded link going around that someone created from Gunnar’s Patreon thing, so you can watch the Interview on YouTube after all. It’s just not officially there. If you do want to watch it, maybe do that soon, before YouTube takes any further emergency measures to protect you from potentially dangerous content. (Here’s the link. The interview is in English. Gunnar’s intro is in German.)
If you are not already familiar with Gunnar Kaiser, he is a German author, who writes about literature and philosophy on his blog and runs Kaiser TV, the YouTube channel where my interview does not officially appear. He has also been a well-mannered, thoughtful, but outspoken critic of the “New Normal,” and thus has been demonized by august members of the German media and other influential personages who are desperately trying to achieve total “New Normal” Gleichschaltung (you can look that word up on the Internet, and I covered the atmosphere in Germany in this column from November 2020).
Anyway, what happened to Kaiser TV was, one of these influential persons, a former TV weatherman (I kid you not) named Jörg Kachelmann, didn’t like some things that Gunnar said in one of his recent videos, so he went apeshit, publicly accused Gunnar of being a “dangerous, far-right Covidiot,” and demanded that YouTube take extreme measures against him.
Kachelmann didn’t bother to offer any evidence of Gunnar’s “dangerousness,” or his “far-rightness” (because, of course, none exists), but he didn’t have to, because, in Germany today, anyone who challenges or questions the official “New Normal” narrative is automatically demonized as a “Covid denier,” a “conspiracy theorist,” a “far-right sympathizer” (if not an outright “neo-Nazi”) by the government, media, and, sadly, much of the German public.
This demonization of anyone citing actual scientific facts, asking perfectly rational questions, objecting to the “emergency Covid-19 measures,” or otherwise failing to mindlessly conform to the “New Normal” ideology, is not at all unique to Germany. You’ve probably noticed it happening wherever you live. It does, however, evince a particularly German character here, which, as you can imagine, is quite disturbing. Watching the majority of German society snap to attention and robotically follow orders for the last year has certainly made an impression on me.
One other bit of news … about this newsletter, actually.
Since I have moved my monthly newsletter over to Substack, it doesn’t really make much sense to keep it a monthly newsletter, because you’ll be getting my columns from Substack as they appear, so I’m going to make this newsletter an “occasional newsletter” from now on, and just send it out when there’s actual news to report.
Finally, I just want to thank all of you who have subscribed recently, and especially those of you who have subscribed with paid subscriptions. Your generous support enables me to do what I’m doing the way I am doing it, without having to answer to anyone. Thank you!
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All best from sunny Berlin,
CJ
CJ, this is a great video and I agree with everything you and Gunnar say...even as I wonder what happened to the 10's of thousands of German peaceful anti-mask/anti-lockdown protestors in the center of Berlin I watched on the Off-G video for hours one Saturday last summer. Also, I have much more to share...maybe because I'm so much older than you, two, who did not live through the horrific 50's McCarthyism here in the US when I was an undergrad...and so much more...because I'm a Great Depression baby born on a ranch in the NW corner of Oklahoma near the panhandle & dust-bowl...as I witness our rushing toward either an even greater depression or nuclear apocalypse if we don't turn these neo-lib & neo-con imperial idiots and the plutocracy that owns them around. I'm a retired psychologist from the UNC Dept. of Psychiatry still living in NC but I've lived all over this country & traveled the world...including much of Asia, Europe, Morocco, most of Mexico, Cuba & beyond. I you want to continue the discussion, get in touch with me via my pathetic Century Link email: jranc@q.com (formerly of Qwest, hence the "q"), then I'll shift to a better venue. Meanwhile, consider the book/the work of former Oxford literature prof.-turned psychiatrist/neuroscientist, Iain McGilchrist, the 2019 updated edition of his "The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World". However, I sent him an email recommending that a better/truer title would be "The Mistress and Her Emissary" (Eros over Thanatos) if we're to save ourselves from extinction, but he rejected it. Never-the-less, I think he's on the mark with his analysis of the "left hemisphere" of the (male) brain dominating our "Western Empire"...to our peril. I intend to get back to my former psychiatry colleagues, who are now deep into neuro-psychiatry....to compare notes. And as for the "Liberal Social Engineering", I first spotted it in the mid-70's with their Evangelical Busing for Integration & actually got a little satirical verse, "Bus Grown-ups" published as an op-ed in The NYTimes...as it was then something of a "paper of record" integrity...compared to The Imperial/International Propaganda Tabloid it's become in this 21st century. Also, note that the prophetic Dave Eggers (living in the Bay Area) foresaw the Silicon Billionaires' Totalitarianism in the making with his novel, "The Circle". But waaaaaay before that, Zamitan (sp?), the Soviet era Russian satirist & his novel, "WE", characters (with tattooed # IDs) marching around in their "blue unis" (uniforms) features foretells the likes of the submissive-obedient conformists we see marching around in their blue muzzles today. Yes, one of the Russian Solzhenitsyn scholars I know has been warning me about the "Sovietization" of US ("WE", the people) that he observes. But finally, you've missed the meaning of the "Trump is US" phenomenon (which I could not get publshed) and of the Russophobia (published by Strategic-Culture as "Russophobia a WMD (Weapon of Mass Deception" 4/13/19) he tried to reverse with his intention "to get along with Russia" (if only to "Make Money/Not War". In fact, I think the last....very last...chance to save what may be left of the original American Republic from its Delusional Imperialism (my diagnosis) lies with "the deplorables" out there in the "Heartland", who live in their bodies, not their heads (like would-be East & West Coast "Intellectuals", whom Thomas Piketty has dubbed the "Brahman Left" & the "Mercantile Right", which have been bought off by the Plutocracy, which they serve...together with the bought-off politicians, mainstream media hired scribes, puppet "scientists" like Fauci, etc.) No, I was not/am not a Trump supporter but I recognize that when all of our Incompetent Ruling Elite, the politicians & intelligentsia they own fail ordinary people, demagogues rise up to lead them...& such as the Koch Bros jump in to buy the likes of the 2009 Tea Party revolt/folks, who knew in their bones & health care insurance premium bones, that Obama-could-Care-less had betrayed them. & such was George Wallace leading the parents, who rebelled against that decade's Social Engineering Experiment on their children.
CJ: After watching this video, I purchased your second book of essays and Zone 23. However, I did not become a paid member of your newsletter. I look forward to reading your writings and, perhaps, contributing to your newsletter in the future. Amazing interview. I learned a lot. Thank you.