{"id":2579,"date":"2021-09-04T08:32:12","date_gmt":"2021-09-04T08:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/?p=2579"},"modified":"2021-09-04T08:32:12","modified_gmt":"2021-09-04T08:32:12","slug":"the-covidian-cult-part-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/?p=2579","title":{"rendered":"The Covidian Cult (Part III)"},"content":{"rendered":"

by CJ Hopkins<\/a><\/p>\n

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In The Covidian Cult (Part I)<\/a> and (Part II<\/a>), I characterized the so-called \u201cNew Normal\u201d as a \u201cglobal totalitarian ideological movement.\u201d Since I published those essays, more and more people have come to see it for what it is, not \u201cinsanity\u201d or \u201can overreaction,\u201d but, in fact, a new form of totalitarianism, a globalized, pathologized, depoliticized form, which is being systematically implemented under the guise of \u201cprotecting the public health.\u201d<\/p>\n

In order to oppose this new form of totalitarianism, we need to understand how it both resembles and differs from earlier totalitarian systems. The similarities are fairly obvious \u2014 the suspension of constitutional rights, governments ruling by decree, official propaganda, public loyalty rituals, the outlawing of political opposition, censorship, social segregation, goon squads terrorizing the public, and so on \u2014 but the differences are not obvious.<\/p>\n

Whereas 20th-Century totalitarianism (i.e., the form most people are generally familiar with) was more or less national and overtly political, New Normal totalitarianism is supranational, and its ideology is much more subtle. The New Normal is not Nazism or Stalinism. It is global-capitalist totalitarianism, and global capitalism doesn\u2019t have an ideology, technically, or, rather, its ideology is \u201creality.\u201d When you are an unrivaled global ideological hegemon, as global capitalism has been for the last 30 years or so, your ideology automatically becomes \u201creality,\u201d because there are no competing ideologies. Actually, there is no ideology at all \u2026 there is only \u201creality\u201d and \u201cunreality,\u201d \u201cnormality\u201d and \u201cdeviations from the norm.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yes, I know, reality is reality \u2026 that\u2019s why I\u2019m putting all these terms in scare quotes, so, please, spare me the lengthy emails conclusively proving the reality of reality and try to understand how this works.<\/p>\n

There is reality (whatever you believe it is), and there is \u201creality,\u201d which dictates how our societies function. \u201cReality\u201d is constructed (i.e., simulated), collectively, according to the ideology of whatever system controls society. In the past, \u201creality\u201d was openly ideological, regardless of which \u201creality\u201d you lived in, because there were other competing \u201crealities\u201d out there. There aren\u2019t anymore. There is only the one \u201creality,\u201d because the entire planet \u2014 yes, including China, Russia, North Korea, and wherever \u2014 is controlled by one globally hegemonic system.<\/p>\n

A globally hegemonic system has no need for ideology, because it doesn\u2019t have to compete with rival ideologies. So it erases ideology and replaces it with \u201creality.\u201d Reality (whatever you personally believe it is, which of course is what it really is) is not actually erased. It just doesn\u2019t matter, because you do not get to dictate \u201creality.\u201d Global capitalism gets to dictate \u201creality,\u201d or, more accurately, it simulates \u201creality,\u201d and in so doing simulates the opposite of \u201creality,\u201d which is equally if not more important.<\/p>\n

This global-capitalist-manufactured \u201creality\u201d is a depoliticized, ahistorical \u201creality,\u201d which forms an invisible ideological boundary establishing the limits of what is \u201creal.\u201d In this way, global capitalism (a) conceals its ideological nature, and (b) renders any and all ideological opposition automatically illegitimate, or, more accurately, non-existent. Ideology as we knew it disappears. Political, ethical, and moral arguments are reduced to the question of what is \u201creal\u201d or \u201cfactual,\u201d which the GloboCap \u201cexperts\u201d and \u201cfact checkers\u201d dictate.<\/p>\n

Also, because this \u201creality\u201d is not a cohesive ideological system with fundamental values, core principles, and so on, it can be drastically revised or completely replaced more or less at a moment\u2019s notice. Global capitalism has no fundamental values \u2014 other than exchange value, of course \u2014 and thus it is free to manufacture any kind of \u201creality\u201d it wants, and replace one \u201creality\u201d with a new \u201creality\u201d any time that serves its purposes, like stagehands changing a theatrical set.<\/p>\n

For example, the \u201cGlobal War on Terror,\u201d which was the official \u201creality\u201d from 2001 until it was canceled in the Summer of 2016, when the \u201cWar on Populism<\/a>\u201d was officially launched. Or, now, the \u201cNew Normal<\/a>,\u201d which replaced the \u201cWar on Populism\u201d in the Spring of 2020. Each of which new simulations of \u201creality\u201d was rolled out abruptly, clumsily even, like that scene in 1984 where the Party switches official enemies right in the middle of a Hate Week speech.<\/p>\n

Seriously, think about where we are currently, 18 months into our new \u201creality,\u201d then go back and review how GloboCap blatantly rolled out the New Normal in the Spring of 2020<\/a> \u2026 and the majority of the masses didn\u2019t even blink. They seamlessly transitioned to the new \u201creality\u201d in which a virus, rather than \u201cwhite supremacists,\u201d or \u201cRussian agents,\u201d or \u201cIslamic terrorists,\u201d had become the new official enemy. They put away the scripts they had been reciting verbatim from for the previous four years, and the scripts they had been reciting from for the previous 15 years before that, and started frantically jabbering Covid cult-speak like they were auditioning for an over-the-top Orwell parody.<\/p>\n

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Which brings us to the problem of the Covidian cult \u2026 how to get through to them, which, make no mistake, we have to do, one way or another, or the New Normal will become our permanent \u201creality.\u201d<\/p>\n

I called the New Normals a \u201cCovidian Cult,\u201d not to gratuitously insult or mock them, but because that is what totalitarianism is \u2026 a cult writ large, on a societal scale. Anyone who has tried to get through to them can confirm the accuracy of that analogy. You can show them the facts until you\u2019re blue in the face. It will not make the slightest difference. You think you are having a debate over facts, but you are not. You are threatening their new \u201creality.\u201d You think you are struggling to get them to think rationally. You are not. What you are is a heretic, an agent of demonic forces, an enemy of all that is \u201creal\u201d and \u201ctrue.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Scientologists would label you a \u201csuppressive person.\u201d The New Normals call you a \u201cconspiracy theorist,\u201d an \u201canti-vaxxer,\u201d or a \u201cvirus denier.\u201d The specific epithets don\u2019t really matter. They are just labels that cult members and totalitarians use to demonize those they perceive as \u201cenemies\u201d \u2026 anyone challenging the \u201creality\u201d of the cult, or the \u201creality\u201d of the totalitarian system.<\/p>\n

The simple fact of the matter is, you can\u2019t talk people out of a cult, and you can\u2019t talk them out of totalitarianism. Usually, what you do, in the case of a cult, is, you get the person out of the cult. You kidnap them, take them to a safehouse or wherever, surround them with a lot of non-cult members, and deprogram them gradually over the course of several days. You do this because, while they are still inside the cult, you cannot get through to them. They cannot hear you. A cult is a collective, self-contained \u201creality.\u201d Its power flows from the social organism composed of the cult leaders and the other cult members. You cannot \u201ctalk\u201d this power away. You have to physically remove the person from it before you can begin to reason with them.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, we do not have this option. The New Normal is a global totalitarian system. There is no \u201coutside\u201d of the system to retreat to. We can\u2019t kidnap everyone and take them to Sweden. As I noted in Part I of this series, the cult\/society paradigm has been inverted. The cult has become the dominant society, and those of us who have not been converted have become a collection of isolated islands existing, not outside, but within the cult.<\/p>\n

So we need to adopt a different strategy. We need to make the monster show itself, not to those of us who can already see it, but to the New Normal masses, the Covidian cultists. We need to make Jim Jones drop the peace-and-love crap, move into the jungle, and break out the Kool-Aid. We need to make Charles Manson put down his guitar, cancel orgy-time, and go homicidal hippie. This is how you take down a cult from within. You do not try to thwart its progress; you push it toward its logical conclusion. You make it manifest its full expression, because that it when it implodes, and dies. You do not do that by being polite, conciliatory, or avoiding conflict. You do that by generating as much internal conflict within the cult as you can.<\/p>\n

In other words, we need to make GloboCap (and its minions) go openly totalitarian \u2026 because it can\u2019t. If it could, it would have done so already. Global capitalism cannot function that way. Going openly totalitarian will cause it to implode \u2026 no, not global capitalism itself, but this totalitarian version of it. In fact, this is starting to happen already. It needs the simulation of \u201creality,\u201d and \u201cdemocracy,\u201d and \u201cnormality,\u201d to keep the masses docile. So we need to attack that simulation. We need to hammer on it until it cracks, and the monster hiding within in appears.<\/p>\n

That is the weakness of the system \u2026 the New Normal totalitarianism will not work if the masses perceive it as totalitarianism, as a political\/ideological program, rather than as \u201ca response to a deadly pandemic.\u201d So we need to make it visible as totalitarianism. We need to force the New Normals to see it as what it is. I do not mean that we need to explain it to them. They are beyond the reach of explanations. I mean that we need to make them see it, feel it, tangibly, inescapably, until they recognize what they are collaborating with.<\/p>\n

Stop arguing with them on their terms, and instead directly attack their \u201creality.\u201d When they start jabbering about the virus, the variants, the \u201cvaccines,\u201d and all the other Covid cult-speak, do not get sucked into their narrative. Do not respond as if they were rational. Respond as if they were talking about \u201cXenu<\/a>,\u201d \u201cbody thetans<\/a>,\u201d \u201cHelter Skelter<\/a>,\u201d or any other cultoid nonsense, because that it is exactly what it is. Same goes for their rules and restrictions, the \u201cface coverings,\u201d the \u201csocial distancing,\u201d and so on. Stop arguing against them on the grounds that they don\u2019t work. Of course they don\u2019t work, but that is not the point (and arguing that way sucks you into their \u201creality\u201d). Oppose them because of what they are, a collection of bizarre compliance rituals performed to cement allegiance to the cult and create a general atmosphere of \u201cdeadly pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n

There are many ways to go about doing this, i.e., generating internal conflict. I have been doing it my way, others are doing it theirs. If you\u2019re one of them, thank you. If you\u2019re not, start. Do it however and wherever you can. Make the New Normals face the monster, the monster they are feeding \u2026 the monster they have become.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by CJ Hopkins In The Covidian Cult (Part I) and (Part II), I characterized the so-called \u201cNew Normal\u201d as a \u201cglobal totalitarian ideological movement.\u201d Since I published those essays, more and more people have come to see it for what it is, not \u201cinsanity\u201d or \u201can overreaction,\u201d but, in fact, a new form of totalitarianism, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2580,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2579\/revisions\/2580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}