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https://twitter.com/MassadVictorhttps://gettr.com/user/victor_massadMUSINGS ON THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE (or We are all North Koreans Now)by Victor J. Massad
In a dream I was shuttered in a house, holding a shotgun, preparing to defend myself. Outside there were thousands of zombies descending upon me, each with a needle in its arm, muttering the words “Build Back Better, Build Back Better.” I took the butt of my rifle and I smashed out a window. Gazing at the advancing horde, I screamed at the top of my lungs “Let’s Go Brandon!” Then I woke up, and wrote what follows.
When historians look back on these times they will note this as the era in which a global coup d’etat is being carried out against individuals worldwide by a loose conglomerate made up of big government, big tech, big media, big pharma and big retail. It is the eruption of a perfect storm, triggered by pandemic, proceded by a “great reset” and ultimately global control of the population through a combination of mind control, censorship, and ultimately force. It is the predictable consequence of governments becoming too large, powerful and corrupt. Our government and all world governments are now under the control of the very rich and used for the purposes of eliminating competition, promoting economies of scale, and fundamentally controlling people and markets.
This has not been the result of any great conspiracy, but the predictable consequence of many large collectives pursuing their interests. As these collectives accumulate more and more wealth and power the only opportunities for expansion reside in the breaking down of individual autonomy and the promotion of forced compliance. It is not as if there is one small cabal sitting in a boardroom making the decisions on the future of human civilization. Rather, it is that the prognostications in all of the boardrooms – from Amazon, to Citibank, to Pfizer, to Microsoft, to The Department of Homeland Security, to The World Health Organization – lead to the same conclusion: individual human autonomy is a big problem and it must be reined in.
The Covid-19 pandemic of early 2020 was the perfect catalyst for these collectives to carry out their great assault on freedom. Looking at each of these great institutions, in retrospect their decisions and actions seem entirely predictable. To a sizable portion of the US population, this was the exact dystopian nightmare that had been expected for some time. But the majority went along willingly, which was surprising to those of us who treasure basic human rights. We had assumed that Americans would resist the advance of tyranny, but a society used to the Transportation Security Administration, the Internal Revenue Service, and trifle regulations such as seat belt laws and smoking bans had become accustomed to the idea that individuals should give up their freedoms for the “common good.” And so they acquiesced.
What a difference two years has made.
As the year 2020 dawned, the apparati that make up the federal government of the United States were facing a number of existential threats. The public was enjoying prosperity and expansion, the borders were under control, energy was cheap and there were no significant pending wars. The public was growing more and more skeptical of global warming, which was the primary pretext for the expansion of federal and global control. To make matters worse, the sitting President of the United States was openly hostile to the global and federal bureaucracies which had been politicized and weaponized over the eight years of the Obama administration. President Trump had been chipping away at this with the withdrawal from the Iran treaty, appointment of judges and the replacement of federal employees lost through attrition. A second Trump term would mean even more dismantling of the global establishment, a prospect the progressive class found daunting.
The pandemic could not have come along at a better time. It gave the managerial state the perfect pretext for taking back control. Global martial law was imposed under the guise of “14 days to slow the spread.” Small businesses ranging from restaurants, beauty salons, fitness clubs and mom-and-pop retailers were shut down while big box stores and corporate fast-food operators were permitted to continue operating. There was a reset of financial distribution as hundreds of thousands of businesses and millions of people were paid to do nothing. Literally no one and nothing could operate without the permission of government. The fear among the people was palpable. A minority of us who treasured our autonomy feared for our freedom; while the majority bought into the narrative being sold to them and feared for their health and welfare, although their fears were way out of proportion to the actual threat. Perhaps most crucially, the virus provided the pretext to change election laws so that voters would not cast their votes in the solitude of a voting booth where they might reflect on their freedom and autonomy. Instead, a system of mail-in ballots was implemented, and voting became a process for political machinery and chicanery. Thus, Trump was “defeated” and the managerial state had once again asserted itself against the individual.
Two years in, we are now seeing the consequences of the coup. Crime is rampant in the cities. Citizens are being arrested and abused by police for not wearing masks. People are being forced out of their jobs for refusing to be vaccinated. The borders have been opened up and third world cast-offs are flooding into the country. Inflation is out of control even as the economy is stagnant, the predictable consequence of the financial “reset” that was enacted by the newly elected congress. Our enemies around the world have become emboldened as the newly-elected Biden is seen as weak and feeble. China is preparing to advance its interests in the South China Sea and Taiwan, Russia is prepared to invade Ukraine, and the mullahs of Iran, who were on the verge of collapse two years ago, are newly-invigorated.
What future is envisioned for us by this re-empowered managerial class? Assuming its members see themselves as well-intentioned, one must look at the world through their eyes and imagine what they imagine. To the enlightened elites, it is obvious that the world is overpopulated, its resources are depleted, and (thanks to humans) the planet is dying. All of this has been caused by humans over-consuming. Therefore, human consumption must be controlled and regulated. The challenge is how to accomplish this without people perceiving that their lives are diminished. This is where the marriage of convenience between big government, big media and big tech comes into play. Big media instills censorship and promotes fear, big tech is tasked with distracting us from material consumption with the promise of an even more pleasurable digital consumption, and big government enforces it all with police power.
In their vision, we average citizens will be allocated minimum fixed incomes and live in the metaverse, investing our lives into relationships with digital objects and beings, while the managers reap the harvest. They will serve Americans fake meat, fake families, fake stimulation. They will marry real trophy wives, live in real mansions, fly around the world in private jets, and congratulate each other for saving the planet. But thanks to digital enhancement they expect us to feel more fulfilled in our lives than ever before.
This is where we are headed, and it seems that the forces propelling us to digital/progressive utopia are beyond any individual’s ability to resist. The tools at the disposal of the managerial class have become very effective. We are in a zombie apocalypse and our leaders are able to manufacture more and more zombies through the toxic brew of communication, regulation, innovation and, ultimately, force.
It;’s enough to make me want to put on one of Zuckerberg’s headsets and become a zombie myself.
