2023: An abnormal odyssey
Whatever beastly horrors await, rest easy knowing they will soon be "normal"
Making New Year predictions is a sacred tradition among internet pundits and other self-styled Very Serious People.
These forecasts follow a simple formula: Sometime between late December to early January, our beloved thought leaders share their preposterous, jejune forecasts for the upcoming year.
Then the complete opposite of what they said would happen, happens. The sage predictions are never spoken of again, and anyone who dares to mention them is labeled a Russian/NATO bot (depending on the flavor of punditry) and banned for life from the Comments Section. Each year, every year, ad infinitum.
However, there is a sneaky loophole in this vicious cycle that seasoned bloggers use to save face: Just be as vague as possible so no matter what happens, you can still pretend you correctly predicted the future.
Apropos of nothing, here is our one and only Prediction For 2023:
The unthinkable waits eagerly around the corner, and seemingly overnight, what was supposed to be impossible will be declared necessary, prudent, and completely normal.
I feel pretty confident about this prediction because it’s actually just a one-sentence summary of modern civilization since the end of World War I.
Aside from vaporizing many millions of proles, World War I also triggered social and economic revolutions around the world, and bestowed upon governments previously unimaginable powers and “responsibilities.”
So maybe it’s not so surprising that in 1920, US presidential candidate Warren G. Harding’s campaign slogan was “Return to Normalcy.”
In a stump speech that defined his candidacy, Harding warned the war had transferred responsibility “from citizenship to government” and created “false economics that lure humanity to utter chaos.”
America should seek “not nostrums, but normalcy,” implored Harding.
But the idea of reverting to pre-war normalcy was completely unacceptable to many of Harding’s contemporaries.
In 1928, American historian Charles A. Beard compiled an anthology of essays titled Whither Mankind: A Panorama of Modern Civilization.
Beard wrote in the book’s introduction:
While the doubts and pessimism raised by the World War might pass with the flow of time if the “normalcy” craved by the late President Harding could really be recovered, the prospects for “healing and serenity” are not good and the situation in which the world finds itself is not encouraging to advocates of seraphic peace and benevolence.
An essay discussing the future prospects for business was even more blunt:
In the face of [the] complete transformation of the world of industry and trade, it is the sheerest folly to contemplate the “return to pre-war normalcy,” as is still the practice in some quarters.
As a matter of fact, the business world realizes now as never before, that nothing could be more disastrous than a reversion to the utterly medieval business practices and levels of 1913. To suggest that we scrap all of this astounding post-war economic revolution and build our hopes and plans on 1913 specifications is simply babbling, antiquated twaddle.
Or, to put it another way: The automation, standardization, and regimentation that had resulted from World War I would remain as part of the new normal, and it was delusional to think otherwise. (As an added bonus, the United States now had a permanent arms industry, which would require never-ending “crises” to justify its parasitic existence. Obviously this would not cause any problems in the decades following 1920.)
Yes, the War to End All Wars was the death knell for lots of “antiquated twaddle.”
For example, at the 1926 Geneva Passport Conference—which decided it would be imprudent to abolish “temporary” wartime travel documents (now known as “international passports”), the British delegate opined:
The discussion [has] hitherto proceeded on the assumption that the abolition of all passports would be a sign of progress and advance and that a return to pre-war conditions was desirable. [...]
On the general question of passports, however, the British Government [does] not at all agree with [this] assumption … A passport [is] one of the most useful possessions that a traveler abroad could possibly have.
You could copy-paste those lines into a Guardian op-ed, and it would almost sound like it was written yesterday. How curious. What could this possibly mean?
Let’s return to the unfortunate present day.
We are being frog-marched from one impossibility to the next; torrents of senseless, destructive absurdities—many of which were deemed beyond the realm of possibility in the not-so-distant past—have been repackaged as ordinary, even good!
As Russian blogger (and incorrigible party-pooper) El-Murid prophesized on February 20, 2022:
A military aggravation is a great reason to forget previous troubles and problems…
This is a standard and very primitive technique for creating a new crisis in place of the previous one. People are forcibly dragged from one stress to another.
A normal life with ordinary current tasks and problems is no longer possible for the regime, as people will immediately begin to ask questions—who created these ordinary and current problems and raised them to an insoluble state? And now what to do with it?
Maybe not all New Year predictions are wrong.
"The modern world is insane, not so much because it admits the abnormal as because it cannot recover the normal” — G.K. Chesterton
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Fascinating how I’ve read 5 sub stacks today and all are of the same theme!
Gaslighting/psyop driving the narratives
From Cliff, who sounds actually high High, CJ Hopkins, Ray Horovath, and Jon Rappoport.
Powerful tactics are and as you’ve noticed, have been used for a long time to move the psychological framework of populations to enhance and popularize agendas.
The speed is increasing with the latest tools. Looks like personal human ingenuity, competency and responsibility are of utmost importance to survive not getting swept down the gurgler, ( gurgler = Drain, toilet, a term I’ve borrowed from Gregory Copley, good author - 10 yr old book now ‘Uncivilization’
Of course there are no guarantees here.
I appreciate your reporting :)
Interesting tidbit to tack on.
WW1 introduced the passport, which the UK insisted upon.
WW2 introduced the national ID, which again, the UK insisted upon
The national ID was unpopular, and eventually got abolished in, I believe, the 1960s.
In the 1990s the Labour party tried to reintroduce it again. It was thwarted by the House of Lords stalling it for long enough that campaigners were able to mount an effective opposition to it.
Ever since that defeat, Labour have halfheartedly tried to reintroduce it several times. But it seems the new route the UK government are adopting is a digital ID via the backdoor, centred around a pre-existing identity. In the US, several states are digitialising driving licences.
If WW3 follows the same pattern, it is also an attempt to foist even bigger intrusions upon privacy. Given the public outright rejected vaccine mandated IDs (such as 'ID2020'), the globalists now have to invent a new scheme.
Also, recently, the US government quietly banned Monero and any other 'hashcoin' that 'intentionally hides the source of a transaction'. Bitcoin remains unbanned and morons still flock to it like the naive lemmings they are.