Currently there is a vast festival of the misguided, the ignorant, and the cynical, in Trafalgar Square. Led by antisemitic conspiracy peddler, David Icke, they are protesting the tyranny that has allegedly followed in the wake of what they call a 'plandemic'. Another of these stupid words these people think is subversive. In truth it's language as tedious as it is awkward; like when people used to call New Labour "ZaNu LieBore". Even the Ministry of Truth would wince at the contusion of language.
Of course these people have to believe that the tide of terrible events must be planned. It's a way to make senses of the misery and confusion of it all. What is lacking however is a proper class analysis instead. Of course none of this was planned. But to them, everything is. Surely at some point they are going to have to accept otherwise. How many more 'false flag' events will there be before the actual thing they fear these events precedes ever comes to pass? It's always the same baleful narrative: they are preparing us/culling us for something. It's going to mean this or that.
But yet they ignore the reality of disaster capitalism. While the cheerfully protest the outward appearance of control - having to wear a mask to contain your own effluent for example - they ignore the capitalist response. The 'new world order' doesn't actually need to do the things they believe they are speaking out over, but just do what they normally do - profit off of it all - because they will never see that. In fact I would wager these are the same people bemoaning BLM and calling any left wing analysis 'cultural Marxism'. This terrible juxtaposition is the anthem of our times. It's the same as when Britain's heroic statues (to racists and imperialists) were defended in the name of those who fought in the war by people tattooed with swastikas.
The cognitive dissonance should be overwhelming but they don't recognise it. Or at least they just blame it on the same 'cultural Marxists'. We are in dangerous times. It's no coincidence then that actual fascists are at this demo, predictably, going unchallenged - predictably.
I mean, if David Icke is your weather vane for truth... because of course governments want to wipe out their populations with unstable (by their nature) diseases. What could possibly benefit the economy more? It doesn't make sense. It doesn't have to. It's like newspaper headlines: they are there to soften you up, to make you angry about something. Not to have answers. To hold contradictory views, to feel the internal pressure of doublethink and then be told where to go and who to listen to for the answers. Hint: it's not 'Comrade Corbyn'. It might be his utterly clownish brother, Piers.
That said we must be careful. These will be working class people. Like Brexit this is an expression, a chance to be heard. Misguided in the worst possible way, certainly; and, like Brexit, there will be people with vested interests and power at work. Their influence does not align with that of the working class. It's more than just a few harmless cranks. Icke certainly isn't. He cultivates a message of love and unity among people, sticking it to 'the man'. But in truth, whether he knows it or not (and I genuinely don't know), he propagates antisemitic tropes as well as the comedy sci fi moon nonsense. These are all in roads for fascists, and fascists were present today.
Right now the working class is crying out for direction. I do not care for authoritarianism and would be Lenin's need to be careful. What needs to happen must come from the working class, it must be informed which is why a class analysis is required. But ignore that and seek to manipulate it at your peril. It will only further divide and already embittered and embattled class.
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