Well, it has been quite a year, 2022. I’m officially dubbing it “The Year of the Gaslighter.” I was going to dub it “The Year of the Mother of All Mindfucking Global-Capitalist Gaslighters,” but that seemed like a mouthful, so I’m opting for brevity.
Sadly, I need to post this reminder again. If you happen to be a crypto-fascist, or just a garden-variety anti-Semite, and you are contemplating trying to do some trolling here, or slip some of your garbage into my replies, you're wasting your time. Seriously, If I see your garbage, which I will, eventually, I will delete it and ban you. So you will have accomplished nothing, except annoying me for a few seconds.
OMG Thank you so much, I laughed till I had tears. It is as if you peered into my mind. The latest in Canada, a junk science paper published in a med journal as well as all our Pravda papers that we unclean, unvaxxed are DANGEROUS DRIVERS. Considering the fact we were not allowed on train,plane nor bus we HAD to drive. Some of the dangerous drivers were unvaxxed pedestrians and unvaxxed passengers as you can be doing those activities whilst DRIVING apparently.
Thanks again,will buy your book or upgrade but sending extra $ to a paralyzed young mother, yes from the shot. Off now to blast through every stop sign I see😀
"... he bought himself a couple of independent journalists "
Reminds me of the bad old joke about the guy who asks a girl if she'd go to bed with him for a million dollars. She says she would. He then asks if she'd do it for one dollar and she responds,
"No. What do you think I am?
He retorts, "We've already established that. Now we're haggling over the price."
"It’s possible that I’m not describing it correctly. As his devoted fans have repeatedly informed me, I don’t understand the nuances of Desmet’s theory. He explained it all on the Alex Jones show, while he was lying, which he does, repeatedly, but … whatever. I’m not a professor of psychology. The point is, the Covidian Cultists were all hypnotized! No one was threatening or gaslighting the masses! The poor confused things were doing it to themselves!" --
Correct that you are not describing it correctly. The misportrayal of Desmet's thesis contains a logical fallacy in that nowhere does he assert that gaslighting is not happening, that threats were not real, that 'it's all in your head'. He is explaining the phenomena of groupthink in complex terms perhaps, too easily misinterpreted by people too easily triggered into irrationality by confronting such a delicate topic of mass formation. He shows clearly how the populace is manipulated by fear-mongering, gaslighting, threatening behaviours and actions from media, government, agencies etc.
Mass reactivity resulting in predictable behavioural results amongst citizens who trust the mainstream, carefully primed and triggered by such as the psychologist groups used to advise media and governments on using 'nudging' to force compliance.
I don't know whether this misportrayal originated with a certain Dr. Breggin, but he is certainly now in a lot of hot water for having propagated that and other slanderous falsehoods in a wrong headed pursuit of chaos agents and controlled opposition. Missed the target by miles, and fell into the sticky trap of helping the gaslighters and official mis/dis info architects. Own goal...
Good stuff. But wrong about Desmet, I think...he does never suggest that "no one was threatening or gaslighting the masses" to my understanding, but rather he evokes how this New Normal Reich (as you call it) was able to gain foothold and lob their truncheon among so many of our friends and colleagues. In other words, how the masses were stoked to prepare for this onslaught. Makes sense to me. Otherwise, I look forward to your continued critical and comic appraisals of these times. Thanks.
Thanks, CJ! I love you, man. Not quite to the level of “I’d have babies with you if you’d let me” but...grateful for your light shining in the darkness. Or your darkness balancing the bright, strobing blue light of GloboCap’s omnipresent media empire.
Truthfully the only way this level of "Mindfuckery" is possible and certainly is! Is the dumbing down of the masses by way of lobotomy! It's what makes the brainwashed psyops work! Everyone who has done their diligent homework should have came up with same conclusions as I have and the great mystery would be solved! There are many ways of dumbing down a population to prepare them for brainwash and they seem to be using them all! We have poisons in our food, water, and air. The one that sticks out the most, and goes nearly unnoticed, is the fakecare and pharmaceutical industries. The entire industry was built around doing exactly what it does create dimwits that will believe anything you tell them. a slave just smart enough to complete a task, but to stupid to know they are a slave. Keep looking, maybe some day you will see it to! Peace and blessing!
THE SECRET COVENANT. By John D Rockefeller
An illusion it will be, so large, so vast it will escape their perception.
Those who will see it will be thought of as insane.
We will create separate fronts to prevent them from seeing the connection between us.
We will behave as if we are not connected to keep the illusion alive. Our goal will be accomplished one drop at a time so as to never bring suspicion upon ourselves. This will also prevent them from seeing the changes as they occur.
We will always stand above the relative field of their experience for we know the secrets of the absolute.
We will work together always and will remain bound by blood and secrecy. Death will come to he who speaks.
We will keep their lifespan short and their minds weak while pretending to do the opposite.
We will use our knowledge of science and technology in subtle ways so they will never see what is happening.
We will use soft metals, aging accelerators and sedatives in food and water, also in the air.
They will be blanketed by poisons everywhere they turn.
The soft metals will cause them to lose their minds. We will promise to find a cure from our many fronts, yet we will feed them more poison.
The poisons will be absorbed trough their skin and mouths, they will destroy their minds and reproductive systems.
From all this, their children will be born dead, and we will conceal this information.
The poisons will be hidden in everything that surrounds them, in what they drink, eat, breathe and wear.
We must be ingenious in dispensing the poisons for they can see far.
We will teach them that the poisons are good, with fun images and musical tones.
Those they look up to will help. We will enlist them to push our poisons.
They will see our products being used in film and will grow accustomed to them and will never know their true effect.
When they give birth we will inject poisons into the blood of their children and convince them its for their help.
We will start early on, when their minds are young, we will target their children with what children love most, sweet things.
When their teeth decay we will fill them with metals that will kill their mind and steal their future.
When their ability to learn has been affected, we will create medicine that will make them sicker and cause other diseases for which we will create yet more medicine.
We will render them docile and weak before us by our power.
They will grow depressed, slow and obese, and when they come to us for help, we will give them more poison.
We will focus their attention toward money and material goods so they many never connect with their inner self. We will distract them with fornication, external pleasures and games so they may never be one with the oneness of it all.
Their minds will belong to us and they will do as we say. If they refuse we shall find ways to implement mind-altering technology into their lives. We will use fear as our weapon.
We will establish their governments and establish opposites within. We will own both sides.
We will always hide our objective but carry out our plan.
They will perform the labor for us and we shall prosper from their toil.
Our families will never mix with theirs. Our blood must be pure always, for it is the way.
We will make them kill each other when it suits us.
We will keep them separated from the oneness by dogma and religion.
We will control all aspects of their lives and tell them what to think and how.
We will guide them kindly and gently letting them think they are guiding themselves.
We will foment animosity between them through our factions.
When a light shall shine among them, we shall extinguish it by ridicule, or death, whichever suits us best.
We will make them rip each other's hearts apart and kill their own children.
We will accomplish this by using hate as our ally, anger as our friend.
The hate will blind them totally, and never shall they see that from their conflicts we emerge as their rulers. They will be busy killing each other.
They will bathe in their own blood and kill their neighbors for as long as we see fit.
We will benefit greatly from this, for they will not see us, for they cannot see us.
We will continue to prosper from their wars and their deaths.
We shall repeat this over and over until our ultimate goal is accomplished.
We will continue to make them live in fear and anger though images and sounds.
We will use all the tools we have to accomplish this.
The tools will be provided by their labor.
We will make them hate themselves and their neighbors.
We will always hide the divine truth from them, that we are all one. This they must never know!
They must never know that color is an illusion, they must always think they are not equal.
Drop by drop, drop by drop we will advance our goal.
We will take over their land, resources and wealth to exercise total control over them.
We will deceive them into accepting laws that will steal the little freedom they will have.
We will establish a money system that will imprison them forever, keeping them and their children in debt.
When they shall ban together, we shall accuse them of crimes and present a different story to the world for we shall own all the media.
We will use our media to control the flow of information and their sentiment in our favor.
When they shall rise up against us we will crush them like insects, for they are less than that.
They will be helpless to do anything for they will have no weapons.
We will recruit some of their own to carry out our plans, we will promise them eternal life, but eternal life they will never have for they are not of us.
The recruits will be called "initiates" and will be indoctrinated to believe false rites of passage to higher realms. Members of these groups will think they are one with us never knowing the truth. They must never learn this truth for they will turn against us.
For their work they will be rewarded with earthly things and great titles, but never will they become immortal and join us, never will they receive the light and travel the stars.
They will never reach the higher realms, for the killing of their own kind will prevent passage to the realm of enlightenment. This they will never know.
The truth will be hidden in their face, so close they will not be able to focus on it until its too late.
Oh yes, so grand the illusion of freedom will be, that they will never know they are our slaves.
When all is in place, the reality we will have created for them will own them. This reality will be their prison. They will live in self-delusion.
When our goal is accomplished a new era of domination will begin.
Their minds will be bound by their beliefs, the beliefs we have established from time immemorial.
But if they ever find out they are our equal, we shall perish then. THIS THEY MUST NEVER KNOW.
If they ever find out that together they can vanquish us, they will take action.
They must never, ever find out what we have done, for if they do, we shall have no place to run, for it will be easy to see who we are once the veil has fallen. Our actions will have revealed who we are and they will hunt us down and no person shall give us shelter.
This is the secret covenant by which we shall live the rest of our present and future lives, for this reality will transcend many generations and life spans.
This covenant is sealed by blood, our blood. We, the ones who from heaven to earth came.
This covenant must NEVER, EVER be known to exist. It must NEVER, EVER be written or spoken of for if it is, the consciousness it will spawn will release the fury of the PRIME CREATOR upon us and we shall be cast to the depths from whence we came and remain there until the end time of infinity itself.
Once again, so well done. Thank you. I can count on you CJ to keep me on the right track. I find myself, at times, to actually be gaslighted...thankfully not in a big way, but a tad. I do not want to be even a tad gaslit. It always helps me to read your work in keeping my head clear.
Well, there is a diabolic pact between the masses and their leaders, isn't there? Commenting on the Desmet mass formation. Of course there was the plan and the roll-out, but why for God's sake do the masses go along? If we don't? I find mass-formation or hypnoses is some kind of an answer. The ultimate devastating insoluble problem for me is not the evil promulgated by globocop and corporatetocracy but by the masses (i.e. my old friends and family) going along. Turning into zombies. Refusing any kind of intelligent conversation about what is going on. Because they b e l i e v e in the cult.
Firstly Merry and Happy Everything Mr. Hopkins! A writer I am not so please forgive me - although I agree with everything you say - I really beleive this all started with Bill Clinton lying to the entire world when he looked into the camera and said he did NOT HAVE SEX with that woman!
It was from that moment on that lying became almost status quo - like a badge of honor. He was the one that I beleive crossed the line - where people became completely devoid of all consciousness and absolutely no regard for the truth! I remember growing up as a kid and when someone lied you not only knew it but immediately thought less of them as did the person telling the lie! Something known as guilt!
But it was with Clinton the lying commenced like never before - there was a small whiff of gaslighting but nothing like the degree it's become - hearing what Fauci said about there being nothing wrong with the vaccines on TV recently when he actually scoffed at the mere thought immediately conjured up thoughts of Bill Clinton!
Gaslighting is perhaps becoming to muddled of a term perhaps we should call it the Bill Clinton disease so it at least becomes associated with something disparaging! I mean technically all these bastards are sociopaths - who actually beleive the lies they spew! And of course we now live in the most solipsistic world to have ever existed.
If the FBI use Twitter to monitor people why would they want people banned? It just means they can't monitor them. Has Elon come into the picture so that everyone they want monitoring comes back to Twitter?
I have read Desmet's book, and chapter 8, "Conspiracy and Ideology", is the important one with regard to the controversy. He says on page 131 that there are certainly all kinds of steering and manipulation being inflicted on the masses. But he does go on to say that this steering is driven by an ideology, an ideology that is mechanistic in nature. So he seems to be saying that the ideology is the thing that is really running the show, i.e., it's running the elite, the leaders who run GloboCap. This is one area where Desmet and CJ do not agree; if I understand correctly, "The Rise of the New Normal Reich" argues that the GloboCap is actually ideology-free.
Desmet also goes on to say that these elite give the people what they want. I'm not sure I agree with this. Instead, I agree with CJ that it's the incessant gaslighting that has brainwashed people into thinking they want what the elites are selling them.
So while I found Desmet's book useful for understanding why people were already conditioned to accept the gaslighting, it's not the whole story. CJ's book fills in the gaps for me.
I will say that I find Malone's involvement in this controversy very disturbing. People should be able to debate and criticize each other's ideas freely without threats of financial ruin.
The real test of the "Twitter Files" will be the Covid stuff. Interesting interview recently on "The UnHerd" podcast with Dr Jay Bhattacharya, who was invited by Musk to look at his "Twitter files." Bhattacharya was one of many in the medical profession whose criticisms of lockdowns and the like got them suppressed on Social Media. Of course, True Believers just wanna True Believe. Excellent point on DeSmet's "psychological" rendering of what was a politico-economic Pandemic Regime...
Sadly, I need to post this reminder again. If you happen to be a crypto-fascist, or just a garden-variety anti-Semite, and you are contemplating trying to do some trolling here, or slip some of your garbage into my replies, you're wasting your time. Seriously, If I see your garbage, which I will, eventually, I will delete it and ban you. So you will have accomplished nothing, except annoying me for a few seconds.
OMG Thank you so much, I laughed till I had tears. It is as if you peered into my mind. The latest in Canada, a junk science paper published in a med journal as well as all our Pravda papers that we unclean, unvaxxed are DANGEROUS DRIVERS. Considering the fact we were not allowed on train,plane nor bus we HAD to drive. Some of the dangerous drivers were unvaxxed pedestrians and unvaxxed passengers as you can be doing those activities whilst DRIVING apparently.
Thanks again,will buy your book or upgrade but sending extra $ to a paralyzed young mother, yes from the shot. Off now to blast through every stop sign I see😀
Unfortunately, I do not think that the Gaslit will become unGaslit.
They don’t seem to have any capacity or willingness to look into the lies
"... he bought himself a couple of independent journalists "
Reminds me of the bad old joke about the guy who asks a girl if she'd go to bed with him for a million dollars. She says she would. He then asks if she'd do it for one dollar and she responds,
"No. What do you think I am?
He retorts, "We've already established that. Now we're haggling over the price."
Bari Weiss and Matt Taibbi are whores.
Probably very well paid whores.
"It’s possible that I’m not describing it correctly. As his devoted fans have repeatedly informed me, I don’t understand the nuances of Desmet’s theory. He explained it all on the Alex Jones show, while he was lying, which he does, repeatedly, but … whatever. I’m not a professor of psychology. The point is, the Covidian Cultists were all hypnotized! No one was threatening or gaslighting the masses! The poor confused things were doing it to themselves!" --
Correct that you are not describing it correctly. The misportrayal of Desmet's thesis contains a logical fallacy in that nowhere does he assert that gaslighting is not happening, that threats were not real, that 'it's all in your head'. He is explaining the phenomena of groupthink in complex terms perhaps, too easily misinterpreted by people too easily triggered into irrationality by confronting such a delicate topic of mass formation. He shows clearly how the populace is manipulated by fear-mongering, gaslighting, threatening behaviours and actions from media, government, agencies etc.
Mass reactivity resulting in predictable behavioural results amongst citizens who trust the mainstream, carefully primed and triggered by such as the psychologist groups used to advise media and governments on using 'nudging' to force compliance.
I don't know whether this misportrayal originated with a certain Dr. Breggin, but he is certainly now in a lot of hot water for having propagated that and other slanderous falsehoods in a wrong headed pursuit of chaos agents and controlled opposition. Missed the target by miles, and fell into the sticky trap of helping the gaslighters and official mis/dis info architects. Own goal...
Good stuff. But wrong about Desmet, I think...he does never suggest that "no one was threatening or gaslighting the masses" to my understanding, but rather he evokes how this New Normal Reich (as you call it) was able to gain foothold and lob their truncheon among so many of our friends and colleagues. In other words, how the masses were stoked to prepare for this onslaught. Makes sense to me. Otherwise, I look forward to your continued critical and comic appraisals of these times. Thanks.
Thanks, CJ! I love you, man. Not quite to the level of “I’d have babies with you if you’d let me” but...grateful for your light shining in the darkness. Or your darkness balancing the bright, strobing blue light of GloboCap’s omnipresent media empire.
Truthfully the only way this level of "Mindfuckery" is possible and certainly is! Is the dumbing down of the masses by way of lobotomy! It's what makes the brainwashed psyops work! Everyone who has done their diligent homework should have came up with same conclusions as I have and the great mystery would be solved! There are many ways of dumbing down a population to prepare them for brainwash and they seem to be using them all! We have poisons in our food, water, and air. The one that sticks out the most, and goes nearly unnoticed, is the fakecare and pharmaceutical industries. The entire industry was built around doing exactly what it does create dimwits that will believe anything you tell them. a slave just smart enough to complete a task, but to stupid to know they are a slave. Keep looking, maybe some day you will see it to! Peace and blessing!
THE SECRET COVENANT. By John D Rockefeller
An illusion it will be, so large, so vast it will escape their perception.
Those who will see it will be thought of as insane.
We will create separate fronts to prevent them from seeing the connection between us.
We will behave as if we are not connected to keep the illusion alive. Our goal will be accomplished one drop at a time so as to never bring suspicion upon ourselves. This will also prevent them from seeing the changes as they occur.
We will always stand above the relative field of their experience for we know the secrets of the absolute.
We will work together always and will remain bound by blood and secrecy. Death will come to he who speaks.
We will keep their lifespan short and their minds weak while pretending to do the opposite.
We will use our knowledge of science and technology in subtle ways so they will never see what is happening.
We will use soft metals, aging accelerators and sedatives in food and water, also in the air.
They will be blanketed by poisons everywhere they turn.
The soft metals will cause them to lose their minds. We will promise to find a cure from our many fronts, yet we will feed them more poison.
The poisons will be absorbed trough their skin and mouths, they will destroy their minds and reproductive systems.
From all this, their children will be born dead, and we will conceal this information.
The poisons will be hidden in everything that surrounds them, in what they drink, eat, breathe and wear.
We must be ingenious in dispensing the poisons for they can see far.
We will teach them that the poisons are good, with fun images and musical tones.
Those they look up to will help. We will enlist them to push our poisons.
They will see our products being used in film and will grow accustomed to them and will never know their true effect.
When they give birth we will inject poisons into the blood of their children and convince them its for their help.
We will start early on, when their minds are young, we will target their children with what children love most, sweet things.
When their teeth decay we will fill them with metals that will kill their mind and steal their future.
When their ability to learn has been affected, we will create medicine that will make them sicker and cause other diseases for which we will create yet more medicine.
We will render them docile and weak before us by our power.
They will grow depressed, slow and obese, and when they come to us for help, we will give them more poison.
We will focus their attention toward money and material goods so they many never connect with their inner self. We will distract them with fornication, external pleasures and games so they may never be one with the oneness of it all.
Their minds will belong to us and they will do as we say. If they refuse we shall find ways to implement mind-altering technology into their lives. We will use fear as our weapon.
We will establish their governments and establish opposites within. We will own both sides.
We will always hide our objective but carry out our plan.
They will perform the labor for us and we shall prosper from their toil.
Our families will never mix with theirs. Our blood must be pure always, for it is the way.
We will make them kill each other when it suits us.
We will keep them separated from the oneness by dogma and religion.
We will control all aspects of their lives and tell them what to think and how.
We will guide them kindly and gently letting them think they are guiding themselves.
We will foment animosity between them through our factions.
When a light shall shine among them, we shall extinguish it by ridicule, or death, whichever suits us best.
We will make them rip each other's hearts apart and kill their own children.
We will accomplish this by using hate as our ally, anger as our friend.
The hate will blind them totally, and never shall they see that from their conflicts we emerge as their rulers. They will be busy killing each other.
They will bathe in their own blood and kill their neighbors for as long as we see fit.
We will benefit greatly from this, for they will not see us, for they cannot see us.
We will continue to prosper from their wars and their deaths.
We shall repeat this over and over until our ultimate goal is accomplished.
We will continue to make them live in fear and anger though images and sounds.
We will use all the tools we have to accomplish this.
The tools will be provided by their labor.
We will make them hate themselves and their neighbors.
We will always hide the divine truth from them, that we are all one. This they must never know!
They must never know that color is an illusion, they must always think they are not equal.
Drop by drop, drop by drop we will advance our goal.
We will take over their land, resources and wealth to exercise total control over them.
We will deceive them into accepting laws that will steal the little freedom they will have.
We will establish a money system that will imprison them forever, keeping them and their children in debt.
When they shall ban together, we shall accuse them of crimes and present a different story to the world for we shall own all the media.
We will use our media to control the flow of information and their sentiment in our favor.
When they shall rise up against us we will crush them like insects, for they are less than that.
They will be helpless to do anything for they will have no weapons.
We will recruit some of their own to carry out our plans, we will promise them eternal life, but eternal life they will never have for they are not of us.
The recruits will be called "initiates" and will be indoctrinated to believe false rites of passage to higher realms. Members of these groups will think they are one with us never knowing the truth. They must never learn this truth for they will turn against us.
For their work they will be rewarded with earthly things and great titles, but never will they become immortal and join us, never will they receive the light and travel the stars.
They will never reach the higher realms, for the killing of their own kind will prevent passage to the realm of enlightenment. This they will never know.
The truth will be hidden in their face, so close they will not be able to focus on it until its too late.
Oh yes, so grand the illusion of freedom will be, that they will never know they are our slaves.
When all is in place, the reality we will have created for them will own them. This reality will be their prison. They will live in self-delusion.
When our goal is accomplished a new era of domination will begin.
Their minds will be bound by their beliefs, the beliefs we have established from time immemorial.
But if they ever find out they are our equal, we shall perish then. THIS THEY MUST NEVER KNOW.
If they ever find out that together they can vanquish us, they will take action.
They must never, ever find out what we have done, for if they do, we shall have no place to run, for it will be easy to see who we are once the veil has fallen. Our actions will have revealed who we are and they will hunt us down and no person shall give us shelter.
This is the secret covenant by which we shall live the rest of our present and future lives, for this reality will transcend many generations and life spans.
This covenant is sealed by blood, our blood. We, the ones who from heaven to earth came.
This covenant must NEVER, EVER be known to exist. It must NEVER, EVER be written or spoken of for if it is, the consciousness it will spawn will release the fury of the PRIME CREATOR upon us and we shall be cast to the depths from whence we came and remain there until the end time of infinity itself.
Once again, so well done. Thank you. I can count on you CJ to keep me on the right track. I find myself, at times, to actually be gaslighted...thankfully not in a big way, but a tad. I do not want to be even a tad gaslit. It always helps me to read your work in keeping my head clear.
Well, there is a diabolic pact between the masses and their leaders, isn't there? Commenting on the Desmet mass formation. Of course there was the plan and the roll-out, but why for God's sake do the masses go along? If we don't? I find mass-formation or hypnoses is some kind of an answer. The ultimate devastating insoluble problem for me is not the evil promulgated by globocop and corporatetocracy but by the masses (i.e. my old friends and family) going along. Turning into zombies. Refusing any kind of intelligent conversation about what is going on. Because they b e l i e v e in the cult.
“…on a moment-by-moment basis, between robotic obedience and impotent rage…”
Wow! That is a brilliant way to state it!
Firstly Merry and Happy Everything Mr. Hopkins! A writer I am not so please forgive me - although I agree with everything you say - I really beleive this all started with Bill Clinton lying to the entire world when he looked into the camera and said he did NOT HAVE SEX with that woman!
It was from that moment on that lying became almost status quo - like a badge of honor. He was the one that I beleive crossed the line - where people became completely devoid of all consciousness and absolutely no regard for the truth! I remember growing up as a kid and when someone lied you not only knew it but immediately thought less of them as did the person telling the lie! Something known as guilt!
But it was with Clinton the lying commenced like never before - there was a small whiff of gaslighting but nothing like the degree it's become - hearing what Fauci said about there being nothing wrong with the vaccines on TV recently when he actually scoffed at the mere thought immediately conjured up thoughts of Bill Clinton!
Gaslighting is perhaps becoming to muddled of a term perhaps we should call it the Bill Clinton disease so it at least becomes associated with something disparaging! I mean technically all these bastards are sociopaths - who actually beleive the lies they spew! And of course we now live in the most solipsistic world to have ever existed.
If the FBI use Twitter to monitor people why would they want people banned? It just means they can't monitor them. Has Elon come into the picture so that everyone they want monitoring comes back to Twitter?
Yes....Matt Taibi once called 911 Truthers dickheads....
I have read Desmet's book, and chapter 8, "Conspiracy and Ideology", is the important one with regard to the controversy. He says on page 131 that there are certainly all kinds of steering and manipulation being inflicted on the masses. But he does go on to say that this steering is driven by an ideology, an ideology that is mechanistic in nature. So he seems to be saying that the ideology is the thing that is really running the show, i.e., it's running the elite, the leaders who run GloboCap. This is one area where Desmet and CJ do not agree; if I understand correctly, "The Rise of the New Normal Reich" argues that the GloboCap is actually ideology-free.
Desmet also goes on to say that these elite give the people what they want. I'm not sure I agree with this. Instead, I agree with CJ that it's the incessant gaslighting that has brainwashed people into thinking they want what the elites are selling them.
So while I found Desmet's book useful for understanding why people were already conditioned to accept the gaslighting, it's not the whole story. CJ's book fills in the gaps for me.
I will say that I find Malone's involvement in this controversy very disturbing. People should be able to debate and criticize each other's ideas freely without threats of financial ruin.
The real test of the "Twitter Files" will be the Covid stuff. Interesting interview recently on "The UnHerd" podcast with Dr Jay Bhattacharya, who was invited by Musk to look at his "Twitter files." Bhattacharya was one of many in the medical profession whose criticisms of lockdowns and the like got them suppressed on Social Media. Of course, True Believers just wanna True Believe. Excellent point on DeSmet's "psychological" rendering of what was a politico-economic Pandemic Regime...