Click here for Exit the Cuckoo's Nest's posting standards and aims. Click here to sign the People's Proclamation and send it to everyone you know. Source: CJ Hopkins So, I’m going to be in London on March 25, talking about the New Normal Reich, and the entity I’ve been calling “GloboCap,” so I’m trying to organize my thoughts a bit in order to not make a total ass of myself in front of a bunch of British people. I figured I would reach out to my readers for feedback, as many of you appear to enjoy giving me feedback, most of which I read and appreciate. So, that’s what I am going to do in this newsletter. First, let me tell you about the event. The event is one of those all-day conferences, with panels and breakout groups and all that. It’s hosted by a group called Real Left, formerly Left Lockdown Sceptics. They’re calling it “The Left Case Against the World Economic Forum.” I’m on a panel with Dr. Fabio Vighi, Professor of Critical Theory and Italian at Cardiff University. It’s just the two of us. We’re the panel. We probably won’t be talking about the WEF very much, or not specifically about the WEF. We’ll mostly be talking about global capitalism, which is what I want your feedback on. The other speakers on the other panels are: Cory Morningstar, an independent investigative journalist, writer and environmental activist. You probably know her work from Wrong Kind of Green. Paul Cudenec, an anarchist writer in the organic radical tradition who runs an outfit called Winter Oak. Piers Corbyn, physicist, meteorologist, activist, notorious UK “thoughtcriminal”, and Jeremy’s brother. Vikki Spit, the first person to receive compensation for the loss of a loved one (i.e., her fiancée) killed by one of the “Covid vaccines” from the UK Vaccine Damages Payment Scheme. And some other folks. The line-up is still being finalized. The details are here on the Real Left website. There aren’t any names or any biographical information on the site, so I assume Real Left is some sort of nefarious “Covid-denying, conspiracy-theorizing, Putin-loving, democracy-threatening, far-right, anti-vax” leftist outfit that is plotting to storm the House of Commons, or Buckingham Palace, or whatever it is one storms in the United Kingdom. I’m looking forward to speaking on the panel, and to taking questions afterwards, and to generally meeting and talking to people face-to-face. I turned into a bit of a talking head on the Internet over the last three years, which I thought was important to do at the time but is not something I’m generally inclined to. I’m particularly disinclined to it at the moment. I don’t know about you, but I am feeling somewhat overwhelmed by talking heads, and posts, and tweets, and podcasts, and people bellowing at me at the top of their lungs about the latest detail of whatever ongoing outrage I’m supposed to be all worked up about, and all the limited hangouts, and memory-holing, and smoke- and-mirrors and dog-and-pony shows being desperately presented by people from all quarters. Not that there is any shortage of outrages to be all worked up about. It’s just that we are in one of those phases where we are being barraged with so much random online messaging (and, let’s face it, bullshit) that people can’t even think anymore, and are “distracted from distraction by distraction,” as one old British banker once put it, so it will be nice to get a little break from all that. OK, here’s what I want your feedback on. What I want to do in London is tell a story. The same story I’ve been telling for the last six years. I want to tell it as simply and as clearly as I can. So, I’m going to outline the main plot points below, and what I would like to know is (a) can you follow it, and (b) what am I totally wrong about, and why? Instead of rewording the whole story again, I’m going to just paste in an excerpt from an interview I did with Matt Taibbi, back in May of 2021, when his Substack was still called “TK News,” and then I’ll add a few more thoughts at the end.
So, there’s the story, or the broad strokes, anyway. It’s the story of the evolution of the first globally-hegemonic power system in history, which is emerging out of the dying (or dead, or zombified) Fordist global-capitalist system like a metamorphosing insect in the pupal stage. What I hope I have time to talk about in London is the resistance to the New Normal, and GloboCap, or whatever anyone needs to call it (I am aware that some of my more conservative readers get very upset when I call it “global capitalism”), the majority of which resistance is coming from the political right and is classically reactionary. I do not mean “reactionary” in a pejorative sense. It is meant to describe the social forces that are resisting — and “resistance” is the key word here — the implementation and enforcement of global-capitalist ideology, which I have repeatedly described as a new form of Gleichschaltung. A lot of people on the political right refer to what I’m calling “global-capitalist ideology” as “Wokism,” or “cultural Marxism,” or whatever. I’m not interested in arguing about labels. I’m interested in understanding what’s happening, and trying to articulate and respond to what is happening, before we end up debating Capitalism versus Marxism in the “conspiracy theorist quarantine camps” (which, the way things are going, might be our own neighborhoods). The main reason I decided to travel to London and speak at this conference is that it is organized by “the Left,” and I think we all know what a mess “the Left” is, or most of “the Left,” in any event. I’m putting “the Left” in scare quotes because it isn’t “the Left” I came from, or identify with, or recognize. What most people think of and call “the Left” nowadays is an amalgamation of social forces that are completely aligned with global capitalism, and its ideology, and its global Gleichschaltung campaign, and its counterinsurgency operations against the above-mentioned reactionary backlash, which is why it is in the sorry state it is in (or, arguably, no longer exists). All right, that’s a huge can of worms, and this newsletter is already way too long, and I’ll be writing more about it in the future, and discussing it in London, hopefully, so I will restrain myself, and wrap this up. Feel free to let me know your thoughts and share your criticism in the below replies. And, if you happen to be in London or the vicinity, I hope to see you at the Real Left conference, or sauntering about the House of Commons wearing the British version of a bison hat. |
Tuesday, March 14, 2023
"The Big Smoke (and Mirrors)" by CJ Hopkins
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