I sometimes slip into an alternate reality known as “but don’t they have a conscience?!” when pondering The Overlords™, as was the case in my prior post. Whatever naive hope is left in me seems to rear itself into language periodically, as if compelled by some force that wants to “fix it”, like the final flickering light of rationale set against the stark reality of a crumbling empire. The reticence of the super elite to involve themselves in objectives of genuine altruism toward humanity seems unfathomable to me. For a large swath of the population, initiatives like the Green New Deal and the Fake Meat Brigade seem like efforts to steer our ship into that benevolent future. Others of us see beyond the platitudes of institutional facade to a joke of epic proportions — a power grab so laughably massive in its scope that most don’t even see it, let alone believe it. But more and more of us are seeing it.
The word apocalypse literally means “an uncovering” and it’s easy to argue that the predominant force of the last ten years has been that of disclosure. The various spheres of power, seemingly individuated points of activity and influence, existing like dots in a Lichtenstein, have through the events of this apocalypse, moved from abstraction, to form a very clear picture — one of a formerly free republic, and of the world really, usurped by corporatism.
“By means of ever more effective methods of mind-manipulation, the democracies will change their nature; the quaint old forms — elections, parliaments, Supreme Courts, and all the rest — will remain. The underlying substance will be a new kind of totalitarianism. All the traditional names, all the hallowed out slogans will remain exactly what they were in the good old days. Democracy and freedom will be the theme of every broadcast and editorial. Meanwhile the ruling oligarchy and its highly trained elite of soldiers, policemen, thought-manufacturers, and mind-manipulators will quietly run the show as they see fit.”
Aldous Huxley
You may know The Regime as a labyrinth of entities driven by a singular agenda and connected by mutual incentives and interests, but perhaps you are unclear of (and basking in peace because of it) how vast the scope of its totalitarian monopoly truly is. Mention the name Blackrock to most people and the immediate association is the rising cost of housing and a corporate land grab of epic proportions. All true, but the talons of this behemoth are sunk much deeper than that. In order to understand the state of global affairs, a firm grasp is needed on the breadth and scope of institutional power, how that power intends to assert itself, and what the end game is.
The Four Horsemen of Institutional Money
It would be redundant of me to write poorly what has already been concisely delivered by others. For those interested, this newsletter will serve as a vehicle for some homework of sorts, to be digested bit by bit.
Start here.
Sorelle Amore breaks down what exactly Blackrock is and the scope of their holdings in this succinct fifteen minutes.
Then move onto Monopoly—
This documentary lays out an eye-opening dissection of the monumental sprawl of influence and ownership held by Blackrock and its “sister” company, Vanguard. Ever heard of circular ownership? Blackrock and Vanguard are two of the big three passive fund asset management firms. The third is State Street, which is owned by Blackrock, whose largest shareholder is... Vanguard.
In order to really make sense of what is taking place in the world and what will unfold in the next ten years, this is a must watch film.
With this basis for understanding how institutional money owns the capitalist game — everything we buy, every bite of food we ingest, the land, the power grids, the internet, every source of information, every form of entertainment — we begin to gain some clarity into how easily it is to steer a global population like cattle. You poke here, it veers left. You cinch here, it squirms to the right. The mass formation of billions of seemingly individual minds into one malleable consciousness is so much easier when you own everything and all roads of thought lead directly to your door. The Seed of Mass Psychosis is Global Monopoly.
If your revolution is endorsed and sponsored by America’s most powerful corporations, and any dissent against it is censored by Big Tech, it’s not a revolution. Its the triumphant lock-in of an ideology that controls citizen’s hearts and minds for vested interests. In a real revolution, revolutionaries have to use force of arms to seize the newspapers, tv stations, and corporate headquarters. In a consolidation of power, the media and vested interests support the ‘revolutionaries’ every step of the way.
The Great Reset
For years, the term New World Order has been thrown around as a conspiracy theory, openly mocked and used to discredit anyone able to disengage from the constant barrage of programming long enough to see a few steps ahead. With the appearance of Covid, the plot toward totalitarianism took a very predictable turn.
“Communicable diseases have always shaped civilization. The consequences of an epidemic can last for centuries, and the outcomes of many wars have hinged on viral and bacterial infections. Smallpox, for instance, played a central role in the European conquest of the New World. During the American Civil War, nearly two-thirds of soldiers’ deaths were caused by diseases like dysentery and typhoid.
The spread of the bubonic plague through medieval Europe presents one of the clearest examples of how an infectious disease can alter the course of history. By some estimates, the Black Death killed 30 percent to half of Europe’s population. The plague severely shrank the peasant workforce, boosting its labor power. Attempts by the nobility to curtail this trend only fueled turmoil and peasant revolts. With reduced agricultural output, the merchant class gained influence at the nobles’ expense, setting the stage for the transition away from a land-based economy and the eventual disintegration of the feudal system.
From 2020 to 2022, we have witnessed an attempt to engineer a reversal of this historical development. Covid-19, a disease many orders of magnitude less deadly than the plague, has been deliberately exploited by ruling elites to bring about a neo-feudal order. This regression has so far been marked by diminished quality of life, sharply increased inequality, and the erosion of personal freedoms and civil liberties. Plans for digital IDs and central-bank digital currencies may further accelerate these developments, and the result will be total domination of a property-less underclass by ultra-wealthy elites and their expert class of technocratic clerics.”
To further expound upon the correlation between Covid and The Great Reset, former Blackrock executive Edward Dowd:
“The global debt bubble is at its peak and it’s becoming apparent, given what’s going on across the globe, that we’re at the end. And due to that fact, we’re going to see lots of crazy things in the financial markets. I think we’re going to see the credit markets become unhinged, the equity markets become unhinged. You know, the fed got a reprieve from Covid when they were able to, under the cover of Covid, print 65% more money to keep this thing afloat but we’re at the end days here and a lot of what you’re seeing from the response from global governments is, what I believe, setting up a system, under the guise of medical tyranny, to prevent the riots that are going to ensue when this thing all unwinds. That’s my personal belief and I watch what people do, not what they say.”
What he’s saying is that the government was using the pandemic as an excuse to print more money, bankrupt us completely, and now the markets are ready to collapse. The pandemic was employed as a scapegoat for an unprecedented seizure of power and the implementation of draconian force so that when the shit inevitably hits the fan and the world wakes up to the reality that our wealthiest republics have been decimated in the largest casino heist in history — carried out with total impunity — we can do nothing but politely accept our fate.
Dowd’s insight comes on the heels of Blackrock telling us just last month that we should “be ready”. The writing is on the wall. The S&P 500 is teetering. All it takes is another black swan event and Boom.
Tweet of the year:
Instead of a single horrifying moment, we’re in the midst of a rolling apocalypse that will build and escalate over the next decade of highs and lows — a series of tension and release events formulated to break us down mentally, spiritually, and financially until we submit to a totalitarian world government, digital ID’s, medical tyranny, and a fully regulated global digital currency; i.e. total control over every aspect of our lives corresponding to seizable assets if we should step out of line, say perhaps by overstepping the boundaries of free speech? It’s cancel culture except now we’re completely excommunicated from society.
This brings us to the fight over the global town square, Twitter, as Elon Musk and his endeavor to “liberate free speech” now stands head to head with Blackrock and Vanguard1, who as we now know, operate on a unified front. Why is maintaining control over Twitter such a sticking point for the regime?
It is not a secret who Twitter has been censoring these last two years. One very prominent group is comprised of doctors, nurses, scientists, researchers, the vaccine-injured, and countless others who speak out against the mainstream germ narrative. The same censorship policies have been in effect at Facebook and Instagram, both owned by Meta, as well as at YouTube owned by Google, all of whose largest shareholders include both Blackrock and Vanguard in the top three. Here’s an obvious point: if the platforms, like Twitter and YouTube, that are censoring those who speak out in any way against the official Covid narrative are owned primarily by the same institutional investors as the pharmaceutical companies that the censored are critiquing, that means you can’t trust the platform or the pharmaceutical company. And if the panel of global elites that is writing the Covid policy for world government is comprised of the same board members as the institutions who own both the media platforms and the pharmaceutical companies, that means you’ve got a global scandal. This is an obvious conflict of interest. Research at this level is due diligence 101 as a human being, yet a mention of this to most people brandishes one a conspiracy theorist, as increasingly the mere notion of thinking for oneself becomes grounds for dismissal to the lower rungs.
…a series of ostensible crises — Russiagate, the 1/6 riot, the COVID pandemic and now this war (Ukraine) — have, in rapid succession, convinced not just liberals but increasingly large numbers of Westerners in many ideological camps not only to tolerate but to crave state/corporate censorship. They have somehow inverted history so that they now believe that it is not censorship that is the favored tool of fascists, tyrants and authoritarians — even though every fascist and despot in history used censorship as a key means for maintaining power — but instead believe that it is free speech, free discourse, and free thought that are the instruments of repression.
Few events have revealed this twisted framework as vividly as the news that Elon Musk offered on Wednesday to buy Twitter and take it private. The fact that Musk has repeatedly denounced Twitter's increasingly heavy-handed and clearly ideological censorship regime does not mean he is earnest in his intention to restore free speech to the platform, but the mere possibility that he does intend to do so has sent censorship-dependent liberals into spasms of panic and hysteria. Before the morning was over, some were even comparing Musk's offer to . . . . . the rise of Nazism in the 1930s.
Twitter is the axis point in the war on information because implementation of free speech there undermines the narrative everywhere.
And this is why, to answer my incredibly naive question from the aforementioned post, a group of rogue billionaires isn’t moving their money through these institutions as a means of rewriting their policies and practices. They aren’t doing that because, by and large, they cannot accumulate a majority holding over the collective web of establishment firms whose incentives bind them together in a course of action.
The Metastatic Regime endures and our problem is, as it has always been, that once enough of us see it for the cancer that it is, it’s too late.
“The supreme trick of mass insanity is that it persuades you that the only abnormal person is the one who refuses to join in the madness of others, the one who tries vainly to resist. We will never understand totalitarianism if we do not understand that people rarely have the strength to be uncommon.”
Eugene Ionesco
The human animal can be coerced into anything by manipulating our inherent desire to fit in. This is the weak point of the human psyche. There is no public reckoning for the astronomical failures of the elite and their disastrous policies because there is no incentive for us to break from the safety of the tribe and fight an unwinnable war against an invisible corporate enemy. Most revolutions are incentivized by the desire to escape enormous suffering. Will it come to that?
The issues facing us as a human race are no longer about party lines and placing political blame. Both sides are fair game when it comes time for Eat Your Bugs, Inc. to manipulate the moment. They muddy the water to make it seem deep but it’s not. The rules are always plastic for the holographic empire.
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Thank you to my friend Natalie Nipper for editing this piece.
At the time of publishing, Musk has been bumped from his position as Twitter’s largest shareholder by Vanguard, who now owns an estimated 10.3%.
I was watching to see who would stand against Musk. Vanguard is showing its colors. They are adamant about having the upper hand over their sheep and cattle. It’s like a geo force that keeps accumulating energy in the direction of conflict, forcing us into the rabbit hole of earthly illusion making it more difficult to remain in peace. Interesting that such a small group of fear based thinking people would want so much control. Yet I do see many people awakening, speaking out and standing their ground. There’s still enough uncensored information that can be gathered in an effort to bring light into the minds of people. Thank you for writing this. You’ve explained it with such clarity.