The Right is a diverse group – in the true sense of the term, “diversity”, not in the way that the Pharisatanists like to use it. We believe in a pretty wide range of things, and some of us don’t believe in much of anything at all. But, we are fundamentally united in a deep distrust of headlong progress for the sake of itself, and we believe in the primacy of specific cultural and social institutions. We believe that those institutions form the foundation of a civilised society.

(The major difference between the conservative Right and the modern Hard Right is that the former have no firm principles upon which to stand and die. The latter, on the other hand, reject the false doctrines of universalism and equalitarianism – whenever such sentiments exceed the limits imposed by Scripture, we know them to be false, and reject them accordingly.)

That helps to explain why the wilful, complete, and criminal self-deception of our heretofore most trusted and important institutions over the past 24 months has been among the painful aspects of the entire Coof Scamdemic.

What we have observed for the past two years amounts to nothing more, and nothing less, than blatant and extraordinary fraud committed by the very institutions that we rely on the most to keep societies functioning and running. When you get to the point where a once-not-particularly-funny-comedian and former womaniser makes vastly greater sense than the talking heads on TV, you know that you’re getting close to Maximum Clown World:

The depth to which these lies run is genuinely shocking, even for someone as jaded and cynical as me. I have long held a deep anti-government animus, but at some level, I recognise that, in order for a functional society to exist in any meaningful sense, we have to have a commonly agreed set of rules, facts, and axioms by which we all abide.

If we don’t have those rules – if you have your “truth” and I have mine – then we don’t have civilisation. We have anarchy.

One of those rules involves trusting that the people whom we appoint to run society, have some bloody clue what the hell they’re doing. But they don’t. As Mr. Brand points out, in reality, they are just as flawed and fallible as the rest of us – and, in fact, they are significantly more so, because they are carrying burdens and pressures that the rest of us don’t face. On top of that, they are self-selected for narcissism, incompetence, venality, and loyalty to the system that created them, not the nation that trusts them.

That trust takes a long time to break, especially in cultures and among peoples conditioned to trust institutions with near-blind faith – which is what you find in the Western world, actually.

But when it breaks, and it ALWAYS breaks over time, the results are catastrophic for society as a whole.

What Mr. Brand talks about with relation to British institutions, applies entirely accurately to American and global ones as well. The fact is that we can no longer trust any of our most important and critical institutions. They’ve all failed, badly and spectacularly.

Our doctors lie to us and withhold life-saving treatments every day – because they have been trained to think in a very regimented way by a medical system that has devolved to the level where we’d be better off having a backwoods shaman sprinkle chicken’s blood over our heads to ward off the flu.

The politicians who trust those doctors to dispense sensible advice, are held captive by fear of putting a single foot wrong, and operate on an overabundance of the Precautionary Principle. They know that they can and will be blamed for everything that goes wrong, and will get very little credit for what goes right, at the polls. Which is why they almost always overreact, and then frantically try to dodge responsibility when the blame is due for the fact that their apocalyptic predictions failed to come true.

Our news (((media)))))))), staffed by treacherous and disgusting presstitutes and whorenalists, do not seek out the truth, because they are beholden to corporate interests. Those interests are in turn tied to a financial system built entirely on massive amounts of credit.

And that financial system lies to us at every opportunity, telling us that our net worth is increasingly rapidly on paper, while our actual ability to buy things erodes by anywhere between 10% and 30% every year.

Our eyes and wallets flatly contradict what our institutions tell us to our faces. We must choose what we trust more – the plain evidence that slaps us in the face every single day, or the breathless pronouncements of flawed and failing governments and other institutions.

The natural consequence of this failure of trust is that we no longer know where to get our information. Where once we could more or less trust the newspaper, radio, or TV to tell us “just the facts”, that is simply no longer the case, and has not been for a very long time – for this is not a new phenomenon. It has simply accelerated rapidly over the past few years.

Whatever you think, about anything, you can find thousands of people with similar views to reinforce your delusion bubble. It takes a strong man with a strong mind to seek out opposing points of view and digest them, but you have to do it. This is one of the reasons why I tell you constantly not to believe one single thing that I write – I keep telling you to go forth and check for yourselves whether what I write is true. If it is not, you are duty-bound to reject what I am telling you, and make up your own mind.

In other words, everything that we are going through right now is essentially a sorting mechanism. It is an intelligence test.

If you have the intelligence, perceptiveness, and discernment to seek out the truth, you will do so – regardless of the cost.

If you have none of those things, you will not bother, but will believe any old thing that anyone tells you.

Whatever the truth actually is, all that we can say for certain is that lies are everywhere around us, and we must constantly guard against them at all levels. Never before have I seen this level of wilful self-deception and self-delusion, from people who should by rights be intelligent enough to figure out for themselves what is true and what is not.

It has gotten to the point where even my old martial arts school requires vaccinations and masks in order to train. Think about that for a moment. The people who train at that school are going there to get fit and strong and sweaty. They train in a brutal combat art designed to inflict maximum damage upon weak points in the body. As such, they are unlikely to suffer from the comorbidities that actually kill people who catch the Coof – assuming that the Coof is, in fact, a coronavirus, which I personally increasingly doubt.

Furthermore, if vaccines work… why do people need masks? And if masks work… why do people need to take them off when they get onto the training mat? And if staying healthy and fit is one of the best guards against COVID-19… why would you require people to get vaccines in the first place before they train?

And so it goes, into an endless regressive cycle of infinite stupidity.

The test of your intelligence involves your willingness to seek out the truth, regardless of cost, wherever it is, however uncomfortable it might be. And some of those truths will be extraordinarily uncomfortable. But you have to confront them anyway.

One of those truths is that the “rules-based world order” of the West is actually nothing more than a Pharisatanical construct without meaning or virtue, and that order is in its final stages of collapse. Whether we like it or not – I certainly don’t – what comes to pass over the next decade will leave a world that looks profoundly different from the one we inhabit now.

The great mistake that we make, as humans, is that we assume the future will look very similar to the past. This is incorrect, and it comes from the human mind’s fundamental lack of comfort with uncertainty. Once you understand the core difference between uncertainty and risk, you will understand why humans don’t deal well with ambiguity and uncertainty, and why we instinctively seek out rules to strip away that ambiguity.

But those rules are fading away. What will replace them? I do not know. All I know is that what comes next will be far worse, and far more terrifying, than anything we have seen to date.

Be prepared, or as prepared as you can be, and seek out the truth, no matter what – because in a world of lies, the only truths that you can count on, are the immovable facts and realities that you can affirm for yourself.