I sent out links and notes on two of the presentations that were recently given in London associated with the Alliance For Responsible Citizenship (ARC):
The First Day of ARC 2023 | Why do we need a better story for our time?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ih8crOO16w
American corporations spend over 2 billion dollars a year lobbying in DC.European corporations spend over 1 billion euros a year lobbying in Brussels.
-infinite value of every human being
-love humanity; something our opponents are unable to do
WATCH: Fighting the 3 Mutant Capitalisms | Paul Marshall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2DIEzdJLaA
This talk is from the first day of the ARC Conference 2023 where Paul Marshall launched the 'Free Markets and Good Governance' stream. To protect true free market Capitalism, which has brought untold prosperity to the world, we might fight against its mutant siblings - Monopolies, Cronyism, and Woke Capitalism.
Sir Paul Marshall is CIO and Chairman of Marshall Wace LLP, founder and owner of UnHerd Media, and an investor in GB News Ltd. He is a founding Trustee of Ark, the children’s charity, and Chairman of Ark Schools.
-from 1600 to 1800, human standards of living more or less flatlined
-then GDP per person rose as much in 50 years as it had in the previous 1800 years; scientific innovation combined with free markets= industrial revolution
-in the last 75 years, extreme poverty has fallen from 90% to 10%
-free markets only flourish/prosper in societies where there is a proper shared understanding of virtue and mutual honor
-London thrived under the principle that "my word is my bond"
-corrupt societies rely on tribalism and cronyism; think Somalia or Sicily or Davos
-when virtue breaks down, you start to observe mutant strains of capitalism:
(1) monopoly capitalism (Google and Meta control most of the world's digital advertising; 80-90% of health care in most us states is controlled by 1 or 2 entities)
(2) crony capitalism = corporatism, not so different than socialism itself. Corporatism is not free enterprise, but the nightmare end game for free enterprise
-East India Company had a standing army of 20K soldiers
-2/3 of US Congress gets money from big pharma
-1/2 of US Congress gets money from gun manufacturers
-European corporations spend over 1 billion euros a year lobbying in Brussels.
-American corporations spend over 2 billion dollars a year lobbying in DC.
-lobbyists and donors and recipients meet once a year in Davos
-privatized their gains, and socialized their losses
(3) woke capitalism: imposition of a top-down ideology onto the free market system by politically motivated bureaucrats, either from the public or private sector. Their ideology is framed through ESG, although there might also be a garnish of DEI as well.
Should instead install the type of governance Adam Smith would have been proud of.
-creative destruction: successful new businesses disrupt legacy businesses and destroy jobs at rivals; free trade does this at scale
-decision makers no longer live near their own factories, and this creates a problem
-need free markets that operate in the interests of the whole of society and not just a small elite
So I was asked, by one of my friends who I had sent these two links to, who are the opponents, mentioned above? That is a good question, and I think discussing it might bring a bit more clarity to the situation that is confronting us. Here is my response:
I believe he is referring to the "new left", or neoleft; the woke, the social justice warriors etc. They PROFESS that they care for humans and the downtrodden, very loudly. But if you pay attention in detail, carefully, this excludes huge swaths of people; white people, families, conservatives, capitalists, religious people, all males, people who exercise, heterosexuals, and so on. In fact, they LOATHE people who fall into these categories, and their targets actually constitute most of humanity. Which is sort of astounding, actually.
Another group they loathe are the Jews, clearly, as one can tell from recent events. But the list of people the social justice warrior types, or critical social justice ideologues find reprehensible and beneath contempt is very long indeed. Just listen to what the people from Davos/WEF say about us, the "little people", the "common people". Listen to what the protesters say in their marches and demonstrations and speeches. People like you and me, and your family, are NOT respected, for numerous reasons. We are heterosexual, we believe in families, we are nominally white, we are educated in STEM, we are capitalists, we believe in mathematics and reason and science, we try to follow the law, we believe in merit and competence, and so on. So you and me are among those that the "opponents" dislike, intensely.
Another group that they dislike would be "workers", or manual laborers.
Another group they dislike would be those who believe in democracy.
The tactics these critical social justice types use has been called "weaponized compassion". They PRETEND to care, but actually, they do not.
Now this would seem sort of minor and unimportant, except that this ideology has taken over most universities and now most grade schools and law schools and medical schools and HR departments, and it is being embedded in laws and legislation and regulations throughout the West and many practitioners are in government bureaucracies and in elected office. So this sort of fringe kooky movement is threatening to take down all of Western Culture imminently unless we start to push back a little bit.
For example, Hillary Clinton has announced (for about the 10th time) that concentration camps and re-education camps need to be set up to destroy anyone that is not a critical social justice type. Immediately dozens of pundits and news figures and media figures leaped onto the bandwagon to agree with Hillary.
The US military cannot meet their recruiting quotas because of it. Even the service academies like West Point and Annapolis cannot meet their quotas. It was proposed a couple of years ago by the Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin that the US military be expunged of all people who had ever voted for conservatives or Republicans or Trump, and these people imprisoned in military camps. He backed off once there was some push back.
The FBI has created documents about plans to try to weed out "nonAmericans" and "disloyal agents". How do they find them? Signs someone is a "right wing radical" and therefore "disloyal to the USA" are that they do not wear a face mask, they served in the military, particularly the Marine Corps, they did not get vaccinated, ever participated in a religious ceremony and so on. Anyone who believes in the US constitution is a "nonAmerican" and "disloyal".
People in the NYC public school system who refused to get vaccinated were not only fired, but their fingerprints and files sent to the FBI where they were put in the same classification as child molesters (child molesters are now viewed as "upstanding citizens"; people who oppose them are not). Kelly Jean Kay in the UK was visited by the UK police and threatened with prison because she was "untoward about pedophiles".
The FBI has classified parents who attend school board meetings and anyone who attends a Catholic Mass in Latin as "domestic terrorists".
So, as crazy as it sounds, we might be facing a bit of a problem.
And ARC and others are starting to push back. And the critical social justice types do not like it one bit and want to put everyone who is not on their side in prison, or execute them.
The critical justice types are against anyone who displays a US or a UK flag.
They also demand uniformity and conformity, in the name of fairness and diversity.
They have banned books like Animal Farm and Orwell's 1984 (probably because they are too much like what they are trying to create).
They also forbid anyone to disagree with them, under any circumstances, or else be sent to prison, or worse.
They are a lovely bunch, for sure...
One of their ideas is to implement a permanent lockdown on us, the "little people" forever.
And another is to ban all car and train and plane travel, forever.
And to make gardening and farming illegal.
And to make wealth accumulation illegal. They want to be able to empty your bank accounts and investment accounts at the push of a button for any reason or no reason.
And to make private property illegal.
And to ban free speech.
And to allow criminals and the mentally ill and addicted to roam freely.
And to mandate injections that would make people allergic to meat.
And to forbid anyone of ethnicity X to eat anything associated with ethnicity Y, or to wear anything associated with ethnicity Z, or to sing any songs associated with ethnicity A, or even to listen to music associated with ethnicity B, and so on and so forth. This is called "cultural appropriation" and it has to be made completely illegal, at all costs.
Of course, the "elites" making these rules do not have to follow any of these rules. The rules are just for people like you and me, the "little people".
Something else these critical social justice types oppose is "self defense". No one is allowed to defend themselves, except for them, the elites.
Another example of books they want to ban would be all Dr. Seuss books. They are supposedly racist or something. And there are lots more. What they are in favor of is kiddie porn; stuff that I would be arrested for possessing has to be available in school libraries and public libraries for kids to see and check out. So, we are fighting a bit of a culture war at the moment. Things have gone completely crazy. I never could have imagined that the world would take such an odd turn.
As a final indication of what these elites are in favor of, consider the latest furore that erupted on social media over a letter of Osama bin Laden. A large fraction of the population, particularly the young, is apparently in favor of bin Laden and al Quaeda:
'You morons!': Gen Z'ers praise bin Laden's 9/11 letter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3j5e4PMwHA
FOX News' William La Jeunesse reports the latest on young Americans agreeing with Usama bin Laden's post-9/11 letter. The 'Outnumbered' panel discuss the influence social media has on younger generations.
'Idiocy’: Douglas Murray on TikTok users praising Osama bin Laden's ‘Letter to America’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzIfkAV_tz4
Author Douglas Murray has blasted young social media users for sharing and praising Osama bin Laden’s 2002 ‘Letter to America’.
The ‘Letter to America’ detailing the former Al Qaeda leader's justifications for the 9/11 attacks was shared millions of times on TikTok.
“The parents of these kids of young people have completely failed, they’ve completely failed to educate their children in any way whatsoever,” Mr Murray told Sky News host Rita Panahi.
“These children have become these empty-headed, empty vessels in which any ignorance it seems can pour.
“I’m amazed by this like there aren’t many things I feel like I can still be amazed by.
“The staggering idiocy of these people is just legion.”
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