Who Dunnit?

(Sarcasm is OFF for this post.)

[Update: Here are two articles that articulate my position much more clearly and thoroughly:

Toby Rogers: Mapping the different theories of the case in the medical freedom movement

Hugh Willbourn: Cock-up, Conspiracy or Murmuration?]

Many of us who have resisted the Covid insanity for the last three years have been struggling with the question of responsibility: who is responsible for this insanity? Answering this question could be helpful in ensuring that this insanity doesn’t happen again.

But the question has led to a discouraging amount of in-fighting in the anti-insanity movement. One the one hand, we have people who point to specific people as the villains in this story, such as:

• Bill Gates
• George Soros
• Anthony Fauci
• Klaus Schwab

The idea here is that if we can remove these people from power, perhaps using the criminal justice system, the result will be unicorns and rainbows.

Then there are critics like C. J. Hopkins (whose book The New Normal Reich I highly recommend), who argue that the villain is global capitalism (which Hopkins calls “GloboCap”). This faceless, apolitical monstrosity has no ideology other than “reality”, a reality it creates in order to subject the world to its control.

Then there is the idea of “mass formation”, as articulated by Mattias Desmet (whose book The Psychology of Totalitarianism I highly recommend), in which the terrorized and atomized populace demands that governments keep them “safe” with anti-freedom rules and regulation.

Then there are factions that have uncovered evidence that the insanity was coordinated by the US government, which created and deliberately released the super-scary virus, and simultaneously created the unsafe and ineffective magical cure.

These various factions hate – or at least distrust – each other. For example, the GloboCap proponents hate the Mass Formation proponents for supposedly blaming the populace for the insanity, and have written numerous articles explaining why they’re right and Desmet is wrong. The in-fighting reminds me of Tom Lehrer’s song “National Brotherhood Week”, in which everybody hates everybody else, despite the urging to treat each other as brothers and sisters:

But despite my apparent cynicism here, I think it’s actually a good thing that these various factions are working hard on their theories. I believe that the Covid insanity is much too large and complicated to be fully and easily understood (I’m reminded of the parable of blind men trying to understand an elephant). The various pieces that these factions are investigating are important parts of the insanity as a whole, and are worth uncovering, but no one piece is the entire story.

So for example, I believe that both mass formation and GloboCap are real and reinforce each other. GloboCap succeeded in scaring people into a mass panic, and the people in turn demanded that GloboCap do something to make them feel safe. And it seems likely that GloboCap utilized government agencies like the Department of Defense to further its goals. There are many more interconnections like these; the story is not as simple as we’d like it to be.