2026-05-17
What to believe?
Why have all the world's governments been evidently gripped by a collective desire to bamboozle their subjects into believing manifestly untrue propositions?
- That vaccines (which didn't exist prior to the 19th century) are the only way to protect us against seemingly unpredictable pandemics (which were nevertheless predicted).
- That governments should provide the answers to all our difficulties.
- That carbon dioxide is a major pollutant (and never mind that without it all plant life would die and cease producing the oxygen that animal life needs to survive).
- Oh, and (how could I forget?) that sex is a matter of personal choice (that can only be delivered by "medical care" designed to negate our innate characteristics in favour of characteristics considered basic to a chosen or affirmed sex, regardless of the obvious risks to fertility health and family life, not to mention our sanity and the propagation of humanity into the future).
So who or what is the malign influence behind all of this nonsense? If I were a politician then I would obviously demand to be told!
Sadly, there are many theories, and choosing between them is likely a fatuous exercise since they all have their origins in past (perhaps even ancient) times, so at this temporal distance I suggest we would be attempting to choose between pots and kettles ...
One factor that all these theories assume is that we the population must be led (astray!) especially by leaders who at best are incompetent and at worst decidedly malevolent.
Whom should we follow? Who is wise enough to lead us? Who has our best interests at heart? Who is the most plausible charlatan? And as Tony Benn famously used to ask, How can we get rid of you?
But maybe the assumption itself is flawed - what if we the people must somehow learn to aspire to leadership of ourselves? Is that not exactly what is meant by "government of the people by the people and for the people"?
If so, then the madness will not end until "we the people" can devise a way to take our leadership out of the hands of those with feet of clay, tarnished morals, and fake integrity, and assert it for ourselves.
And that will not happen until enough of us realise the problem and resolve to fix it - for ourselves.
We already live much of our lives independently of government. And we complain at having to obey their massive tome of statutory laws about this and that and the other, most of which just gets in our way. Imagine how we could start again, working from the assumption that leadership must be sought at the lowest level rather than handed down from the highest.
With the highest levels making complete fools of themselves already, the day cannot be far away ...
It will not come as devolution, handed down from on high. It will come as the people reclaiming their inherent authority.
