Forty years ago, a rock band named Pink Floyd had a hit song, The Wall, describing the institutions of education as indoctrination machines generating thought controls. In the era of the internet, the thought control mechanisms metastasized, but the intents of the gatekeepers remain the same.
In his weekly monologue, Neil Oliver frames new internet safety legislation in the U.K. around the issues of government-controlled speech, free thought and the recent examples of weaponized outcomes in the example of our COVID era. [The transcript is HERE, and the internal citation he mentions from Alana Newhouse is HERE]. Oliver’s perspective is thoughtful. WATCH:
[Transcript] – […] “Moving faster and faster, from the 1970s onwards, the online culture enabled the tiny, ideologically driven elite that created it to win and take all. The online safety bill now making its way through parliament feels a whole lot like yet another move from a playbook that is well worn by now – make us, the little folk, feel we’re in danger from something we cannot see, and promise to make us feel safe by assuming yet more control over our lives.
The technocrats moved fast and they broke stuff. They broke the national boundaries that stopped them making more money in every part of the world. All the same stuff – made for the lowest price at the expense of human beings – is, increasingly, available everywhere, so that it is harder and harder even to know where you are. Rather than setting us free, the online world is, more and more, about uniformity and conformity. Much more of this and it won’t matter where you are anyway.
This is not just about the online safety bill – obviously it’s not. That piece of legislation is just another brick in the wall. During the past two years, we have been swiftly and efficiently herded to the opening of a whole new era. Most people did what they were told, in hopes of feeling safe.
And yet let’s stop for a minute and look at where we are, right now, on account of what we were told to do for the best: a cost of living crisis of the sort few alive today have ever seen and no credible ideas about how most might cope with the hits that are coming; spiking inflation; energy prices rising in a way that is out of control; restated commitment to carbon Net-Zero and, now, a land war in Europe that could go in any direction at the drop of a hat. This is where and what we’ve been brought to by those that insisted, with the full weight and force of the law behind them, they would keep us safe, safe from ourselves. In fact, while a handful of billionaires doubled their wealth, the world is apparently more dangerous than ever before.
In recent years, faster and faster every day, the technocrats, corporations and the governments with whom they enjoyed a relationship you might describe as friends with benefits, saw to the breaking or the setting aside of the institutions, long in the building, that really had kept us safe and allowed us freedom to transact with one another, in all manner of fruitful ways: education, bodily autonomy, parliament, employment rights, journalism, even the privately owned businesses on the High Street.
The authorities told the churches to close their doors on their congregations during Covid and most, shamefully, complied. Even the past itself was vilified and dismissed as corrupt, malign, only to be ashamed of. So much of what had grown over centuries, even millennia, to give us real shelter and protection, meaning in our lives, has been methodically steamrollered flat and replaced with the thinking and morals of so-called and self-proclaimed progressives who looked around at all that had been and merely sneered. Most recently, even the biological difference between men and women has been discarded – so that much of the foundation of medical science and also feminism, has been dismissed as mere bigotry. To declare that there are two sexes, and that those sexes matter, is hate-speak.
Across the board we have replaced discussion and debate with a new game where the only acceptable move is to take turns repeating and so validating the narrow world view of those progressives who have so efficiently exploited the technological revolution to create a world shaped in their own image and designed to benefit them and them only.
But of course, every one of you still awake already knows all of what I have just said, anyway. We have this understanding in common and, if nothing else, it has kept us connected and sane in an increasingly insane world that has been deliberately manipulated to make every last one of us feel alone. They shut the pubs, the schools, the churches and made us stay in our homes so that our only means of communication was via the online world they controlled.
Here’s the thing: I don’t know about you, but I have had about as much doom and gloom as I can take, these two years past, and I am a naturally miserable person, I will be the first to admit it! From now on, and as much as possible, I propose to look for the light and the fresh air of promise and potential.
What I feel, more strongly every day, is that there is a way to fix this. Or if not to fix it exactly – because some things are beyond fixing – at least to resist its effects and to offer other ways. Ways for those of like mind to turn away from what is being broadcast at us every moment of every day by every means available – and to try something different. (read more)
The world is run by Satan
Sitting in a bunker, here behind my wall. I will not comply.
Ditto!
And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.
~ 1 Jn 5:19
NAILED IT!
I wouldn’t blame everything on Satan anymore than I would blame everything on the Russians. I am afraid most all of our problems are home grown.
God. Satan. Self.
The 3 powers in this world.
Man has done plenty on his own to cause all kinds of harm.
Yes, Satan’s realm is the Earth.
But God gave dominion of it to Mankind.
It is contingent upon US to use that authority.
There are Laws of the Universe that God set in motion ions ago and He does not break them.
We must pray for Him to intervene.
This is a bad analogy but think about the fictional “rule” that one must invite a vampire over the doorstep or they’re not able to enter one’s house.
We must beckon Him to interfere in our World. Call Him down, if you will.
Men/Women have the spiritual power and authority through Jesus to control outcomes.
Bad things happen because we are not exercising our rights and responsibilities that we were give by the Creator.
Nothing BAD comes from God. Period. It’s either from Satan or from Self… man’s refusal to live in God’s Will.
We don’t use all of our brains nor do we use all the righteous potential that we each possess.
Prayer and Belief that we DO have these powers (if they’re being requested for pure reasons).
If we can learn to tap into that, then we would realize the verse:
“I can do ALL things through Christ who strengthens me.”
The psyops imposed on us by TPTB are brutal indeed, yet many people are awaking to the manipulations and control.
The task for everyone “in the know” is to try to awake at least one more person. In this way we double our numbers, then cuatriple and so on.
Begone ye polite, what did their zero say? Bring a gun to a knife fight?
We are too nice. Polite is the sign of losers. We have brutal reality on our side, something they refuse to look at.
Get in the face of the sheep. Force them to back it up, they can’t because it’s based in fantasy.
Ideologically, pound them into dust. Be fearless, we got this. We always did.
Right on, buddy.
My federal contractor employer tossed their mask rule last week. 90% of my co-workers wore their masks below their noses, anyway. But even with the mask rule gone, 10% are STILL WEARING MASKS.
When I encounter those types I go the other way, they have self-identified who they are. Today I was told I am judgmental for thinking that way. Sorry, but I simply don’t want to be around those types of people and their mind-set. They are not right in the head.
I immediately identify them they are Libtards and it is up to them to prove me wrong.
Most who are still mask wearers in my neighborhood are the kids, teens. It’s tragic because they got this a school.
Two years of constant media mill propaganda will do that. And, I still say a lot of our fellow citizens are hypochondriacs, thanks to the tv, the radio and the medical “profession”. A pox upon all of them, their houses and their spawn,
I pray God strikes all of them down, all at the same time.
How an Obsession with SAFETY Leads to Mental Illness & Tyranny – Academy of Ideas 9:46
This is solid gold info. as is — ” Mind Control In America ” , by Stephen Jacobsen
There was an audio copy on-line …. seek it out.
Steven Jacobson – Mind Control In America – YouTube
My apologies for the punctuation errors but I believe this needed to be said and rushed my writing of it.
Everyone has an Uncle Sam
Uncle Sam is a married alcoholic with children who happens to also be a major control freak. Uncle Sam absolutely cannot stand when other men look, stare or even say hello to his wife, so much so, that he says unspeakable and disparaging things followed by threats of violence to anyone who even nods in the direction of his wife.
Now, Uncle Sams wife has known this about her husband before they even married but convinced herself that he loves her so much that it’s his way of showing it by defending his territory even to his close friends, especially his hated enemies. But just like all alcoholics, when your enemies and friends discount your aggressions realizing you are an alcoholic control freak, that your actions, threats and even your words are pure bluster, they ignore you.
Poor Uncle Sam, he has no one to puff up his chest too, so… Uncle Same creates scenarios where his closest friend, confidant and precious ally is actually the one creating his heartbreaks and behold, Uncle Sam does what all alcoholics do but this time, Uncle Sam actually becomes violent in the form of bruises and broken bones upon his beloved wife, who of course, covers up the violence with excuses after excuses. After a while, years mind you, Uncle Sams wife begins to finally realize and except she has been in an abusive relationship from the beginning, a very hard pill to swallow but swallowed none the less.
As time passed, Uncle Sam realizing he is losing control, begins to take out his tendencies of his children which he is convinced that by just threatening violence upon his children that his wife will continue to remain in his world of control and of course, his conclusions were correct. Until… They weren’t!
Part 2 of this short adaptation is up to you, the children, only you can decide the outcome. VAIO.
Not trying to take away from your theory but….
The Wall is about a rock star who goes nuts. The education system was just one brick in the wall. There were many other bricks. The movie they made for this was very clear about it.
As a pre Dark Side Of the Moon Pink Floyd follower, I can say that The Wall was the culmination of many things and many issues that the band members were addressing regarding their personal experiences in the music industry, themselves and those around them. Wish You Were Here was it’s preamble and in many ways a more concise representation of their feelings about said music industry.
Rodger Waters is not the whole of Pink Floyd and an ass imho. David Gilmore is the better man and a true representation of the band and it’s focus post Sid Barret.
And to add perspective, I was a freshman in 1972, and most of my Pink Floyd experience stems from that.
My first and most precious album is A Saucerful Of Secrets.
Meddle was a great album and Fearless is still one of their best songs.
One of these days…
I’m going to cut you into little pieces!
Syd Barret has an album called “The Madcap Laughs” brilliant stuff , worth listening to just for the words.
A Saucer of secrets came in a double album with “Pipers at the gates of dawn”, a personal favorite of mine.
There was a documentary about the development of Wish You were Here. Quite a story.
Syd was a genius up until he went on an LSD binge and fried his brains.
The early 70s were rife with casualties such as Syd.
What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, in most cases. But there are exceptions.
The Test Of Reality | The Z Blog (thezman.com)
“Last week, the current president of Ukraine thanked Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg for his role in helping him win the propaganda war. Facebook lifted its ban on praising the various neo-Nazi militias in Ukraine. Then it announced it would allow calls for violence against individual Russians. In the world of infinitely malleable ethics, this is what Silicon Valley now calls a principled stand. Ukraine supporters are proud of their work on social media wining the meme war with Russia.
What this war has revealed is a clash of realties. On the Washington side, reality is played out on TV chat shows, office politics and the internet. They really think winning the public relations campaign matters. In the reality in which Western leaders live, words count for everything. Facts are just tools to be used to decorate a clever argument or a novel public relations campaign. From the perspective of the West, the war has been a disaster for Russia.
On the other side, the Russians operate in a different reality. They are focused on securing their border, which means neutralizing Ukraine. They have prepared for the economic consequences. They have prepared their people, who seem to be overwhelming supportive of the effort. Westerners have described Putin as having a medieval mindset, which may be true, but he is dealing with a people and a reality that still thinks the old way about the world.
Ukraine is now caught between two realities.”
The reality is that GloboHomo seeks to dominate the world with endless “progressivism” and various thought crimes. Some of the former Soviet countries have already had enough of that type of BS, even if they aren’t Jeffersonians.
Trusted News Initiative (Deep state faction)
Exposed by: Dr. Robert Malone
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Trusted_News_Initiative
Internet censorship group that emerged just in time to carry out COVID-19 censorship. The Trusted News Initiative is a international grouping, dedicated to fighting “misinformation.”
Member Organisations
BBC, Facebook, Google/YouTube, Twitter, Microsoft, AFP, Reuters, European Broadcasting Union (EBU), Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Hindu, CBC/Radio-Canada, First Draft, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.
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Trusted News Initiative (TNI) steps up global fight against disinformation with new focus on US presidential election – The Trusted News Initiative (TNI) is extending the scope and ambition of its groundbreaking collaboration to tackle the most dangerous disinformation worldwide. – 13 Jul 2020
https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2020/trusted-news-initiative
According to the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) they have verified 816 civilian casualties in Ukraine since the Russian “invasion” began. Meanwhile, on the mean streets of the USA during that same time period there have been 924 murders. Perhaps there is a war going on in America that no one is talking about?
Someone is tired. Rock band. Not rock bank. I had Nuns for 8 years. Great reading as always! My only source for the truth!
Eloquent truth spoken in less than ten minutes.
I do look forward to hearing him on Friday’s.
I don’t know why anyone would think an ant colony needs freedom of speech.
Some think man evolved from monkeys, but I think a better case could be made that man evolved, although not that much, from ants. Although some say sheep while others say lemmings.
Monkeys have tails, primates don’t. And we are in the primate category. But, there are times when a tail might have been a nice thing to have. :p
Retired Magistrate here: First of all thank you Sundance for the transcript. My hearing isn’t what is used to be and I always have a hard time understanding Neil Oliver.
Second, we can control what we put in our minds. We can choose to be thankful for what we have and focus on the beauty around us. Yes, there is still beauty. We live across from the Scioto River and every day I go for a walk. A week ago a Bald Eagle flew over my head; with the sun shining on its head it was a glorious sight. The Red Wing Blackbirds are back which is a sure sign of Spring. Ducks are looking for a place to nest, early flowers are starting to bloom and for now the snow is gone. For peace and comfort look to Psalms and Proverbs in the Bible. Listen to uplifting music and associate with like minded people. Choose this day how you will live: with hope or with despair. As far as I am concerned, I choose hope and my hope is in JESUS CHRIST.
Lovely post. Lovely thoughts.
As a lifelong Non-conformist I go out of my way to upset the ‘apple cart’, with the exception of goods I purchase I havn’t payed tax in 40 yrs.
There are ways to beat them, thinking outside the purposely created box is the first rule.
No brick me !
“What I feel, more strongly every day, is that there is a way to fix this. “
Yes. It involves us winning massively in 2022 and 2024 with Trump back in office … or it involves guns. Lots of guns. And either way, throwing the Fabian Socialists onto the pavement and running over them repeatedly.
I like it!
I identify as sane
” ….. and they will say that you are mad , even if you’re not mad .” – ( Do you conspiracy theory ? )
SHINE ON YOU CRAZY DIAMOND
I’m the sanest person I know .
Putin held a rally 2-3 days ago. On MSM news clips, I saw photos of him addressing a stadium packed with people. I searched the entire internet yesterday (as much as I could)and couldn’t find a full video or a transcript of his speech. All I saw were sound bites with media translations. Every single outlet gave a short and negative narrative of what Putin supposedly said. Why isn’t this speech available online?
In my hometown there is a current controversy at our public library over transgender books. The library claims that it is “censorship” to remove these materials from the reach of kids (such as my elementary school granddaughters).
What kind of world is this?
It wasnt really a Putin-rally like in Trump rally, but just a short speach at a concert of sorts. Source: kremlin.ru
President of Russia Vladimir Putin: “We, the multi-ethnic nation of the Russian Federation, united by common fate on our land…” These are the first words of our fundamental law, the Russian Constitution. Each word has deep meaning and enormous significance.
On our land, united by common fate. This is what the people of Crimea and Sevastopol must have been thinking as they went to the referendum on March 18, 2014. They lived and continue to live on their land, and they wanted to have a common fate with their historical motherland, Russia. They had every right to it and they achieved their goal. Let’s congratulate them first because it is their holiday. Happy anniversary!
Over these years, Russia has done a great deal to help Crimea and Sevastopol grow. There were things that needed to be done that were not immediately obvious to the unaided eye. These were essential things such as gas and power supply, utility infrastructure, restoring the road network, and construction of new roads, motorways and bridges.
We needed to drag Crimea out of that humiliating position and state that Crimea and Sevastopol had been pushed into when they were part of another state that had only provided leftover financing to these territories.
There is more to it. The fact is we know what needs to be done next, how it needs to be done, and at what cost – and we will fulfil all these plans, absolutely.
These decisions are not even as important as the fact that the residents of Crimea and Sevastopol made the right choice when they put up a firm barrier against neo-Nazis and ultra-nationalists. What was and is still happening on other territories is the best indication that they did the right thing.
People who lived and live in Donbass did not agree with this coup d’état, either. Several punitive military operations were instantly staged against them; they were besieged and subjected to systemic shelling with artillery and bombing by aircraft – and this is actually what is called “genocide.”
The main goal and motive of the military operation that we launched in Donbass and Ukraine is to relieve these people of suffering, of this genocide. At this point, I recall the words from the Holy Scripture: “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” And we are seeing how heroically our military are fighting during this operation.
These words come from the Holy Scripture of Christianity, from what is cherished by those who profess this religion. But the bottom line is that this is a universal value for all nations and those of all religions in Russia, and primarily for our people. The best evidence of this is how our fellows are fighting and acting in this operation: shoulder to shoulder, helping and supporting each other. If they have to, they will cover each other with their bodies to protect their comrade from a bullet in the battlefield, as they would to save their brother. It has been a long time since we had such unity.
It so happened that, by sheer coincidence, the start of the operation was same day as the birthday of one of our outstanding military leaders who was canonised – Fedor Ushakov. He did not lose a single battle throughout his brilliant career. He once said that these thunderstorms would glorify Russia. This is how it was in his time; this is how it is today and will always be!
Thank you!
Thank you for posting this Putin transcript.
Our wonderful MSM is also saying he had to pay and threaten the audience to attend. Not sure if that is true, but assume it’s typical fake new bs since the couple video snippets I saw- the audience appeared to be interested in his speech.
We have been taken over and didn’t really know it until PDJT arrived on the scene to disrupt the plans. It’s tough right now but at least we know what we’re fighting and it’s us. It’s no longer about Republicans vs. Democrats. It’s nationalist vs. globalist. Simple. VETT your candidates carefully. Only work for MAGA that are genuine with back bones. We’re in a fight in AZ for our PC’s because the Rep’s & Ducey stabbed us in the back. NEVER vote for anyone who was associated or appointed by McCain or Ducey. EVER – they are groomed by big money establishment and will do nothing but work against MAGA. IMH
MAGA or GTFO!
The freedom and beauty of our Republic is an aberration when compared to thousands of years of despotic strong man governance.
The founders understood history and attempted to erect a form of self rule which addressed the past.
The slow erosion of founding principles and daily attacks rebuking that framework appear to be permanent.
It would seem only a total collapse forcing those living to experience the horrors of anarchy will suffice.
Nobody is coming to save you. No agency is working to protect you.
Time to prepare for you and yours survival.
Understand that the “federal” government has usurped powers of authority they never possessed to do things they never had the power or authority to do, such as change or amend the US Constitution after the STATES adopted it for the PEOPLE to CREATE the federal government.
The federal government was created by the legal contract, the COMPACT that is known as the United States Constitution. Therefore the federal government can NOT change the legal document that created it as ALL OTHER POWERS REMAIN WITH THE STATES.
That would mean that every lawful, legal, and binding contract is null and void upon anyone deciding they refuse to continue to agree to their sworn agreements.
Some Thomas Jefferson on this corruption and how they constrained it and how to remedy the corruption without creating the greater evil of letting it spread to “fix” itself.
“I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have … The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases. The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.” – Thomas Jefferson
“When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.” – Thomas Jefferson
Please relearn the truth of our founding after the people threw off their shackles to the global masters for acceptance of free will and rights to life of freedom and responsibilities granted not by man, but by the creator.
We have been lied to and conditioned for much longer than we may believe by our corrupted government and those that had been trying to force their ways on the newly crafted USA ever since it threw off it’s shackles and they were discussing who should lead and how it should be done. Learn not just the how and why, but the what of the Constitution and the true form of government which the federal is the LEAST of these.
PEOPLE > States > federal This is the power of authority in the USA as written into the fabric and Constitution which is the only Legal Law of the Land.
The general misconception is that any statute passed by legislators bearing the appearance of law constitutes the law of the land. The U. S. Constitution is the supreme law of the land, and any statute, to be valid, must be in agreement. It is impossible for any law which violates the Constitution to be valid.
“All laws which are repugnant to the Constitution are null and void.” Marbury vs Madison, 5 US (2 Cranch), 137, 174, 176, (1803)
I’ve long been mystified why we need, why we have hundreds of media voices all expressing exactly the same opinions.
The rich in America seem to be participating in a giant conspiracy to only allow a narrow range of opinions to percolate through. Laurene Jobs, Steve’s widow, bought the Atlantic magazine. Another routinely leftist media voice, that surely generates almost no gross income. Laurene’s contribution to the leftist church, I guess. Even for this billionaire, the bottomless bucket was too much, so she just laid off most of the staff.
There was a famous experiment by a psychologist named Solomon Asch, that demonstrated that people will pretend to believe the objectively wrong, when placed in the extreme minority. I happen to think this is the game the rich and powerful are playing with us now and every day. The voices of a hundred fools drown out the voice of the wise man.
So censorship becomes an exercise in cost control. We’re paying Brian Stelter $millions why? We’re paying Joy Reid $millions why? Pink slips and censorship and pocket the savings!
I was 20 in ’80…couple tokes of bud, two 16 oz busch…watching TV with the volume turned down, listening to The Wall…my how things have changed………..,………..
The Pink Floyd album is called The Wall but the song linked to is called Another Brick In The Wall.
Here is the actual article.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/everything-is-broken
It is long and complex. A lot I like, a lot I don’t like.
It comes from a point of view that dismisses and accuses the things that I believe are good to be the root to many problems.
But it shares great descriptions of those problems.
Well worth reading, even if you have to plow past much that isn’t good to get to and better understand the good stuff.
But I definitely understand why the link Sundance gave excises much of what she wrote.
Neil Oliver always seems to have such an insightful way of looking at the purposeful destruction around us. There is not one thing he said here, that I can disagree with.
There is a distinct irony that very few will notice to this subject.
40 years ago Pink Floyd’s The Wall was written against the the oppression of the early 20th century neochristian progressivism that largely ruled most Western countries. The Great Progressive Age, prohibition, etc were very simply defined as, government enforcement of social policies by gun point.
Today people like to attempt to pigeon hole the definition of the word “progressive” as being liberal. The truth is this is simply the result of the same failed idealism of using government to force some unconstitutional brand of social political policy.
Anyone who defines themselves as conservative and Republican should probably take a very hard look at liberty, common law and constitutional values. Because quite frankly you can’t be both. Our political parties are both nothing more than 2 progressive factions arguing over which sides crap smells better.
Neil Oliver seems to be the C.S. Lewis of our time.
At least that is of whom he reminds me.