Search Results for: totalitarian

Here are the search results for your search.

CIA Covid Propaganda

Best-Selling Author Michael Lewis Pens CIA Covid Propaganda

By / / , , / 22 minute read / Articles
SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL

The terrifying takeaways from this analysis are: First, that what Lewis is hiding – or trying to divert attention away from – is the massive CIA involvement in the Covid response. Second, that the intelligence and national security leaders who were in charge of the Covid response did not just censor information that contradicted their narrative; they also recruited widely trusted voices – including internationally renowned authors – to disseminate their propaganda.

Best-Selling Author Michael Lewis Pens CIA Covid Propaganda Read Journal Article

mechanisms-of-harm-brownstone-institute

Wait! There’s a Pandemic?

By / / , / 10 minute read / Articles
SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL

Before Covid-19 there had been other pandemics. But in the past 100 years, with the exception of the Spanish flu in 1918, the other pandemics came and went without much notice for the majority of the world’s population. For example, much press coverage of the first SARS in 2003 neglected to report there were only 774 total deaths worldwide. Likewise, the heightened reporting of the 2012 MERS pandemic failed to summarize that there were only 858 total deaths. In contrast, recurring influenza strains kill an average of 400,000 people worldwide each year. 

Wait! There’s a Pandemic? Read Journal Article

churches during lockdowns

Churches During Lockdowns: Near Disaster 

By / / , , / 14 minute read / Articles
SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL

The compassion-hacking of American churches did not in itself save anyone’s life, but it did help to break down another civil-society barrier standing in the way of governmental totalization. As Hannah Arendt warned us, authoritarian and totalitarian schemes do not work without mass buy-in from the constituency. Buy-in requires people to be isolated, lonely, atomized, and stripped of all meaning.

Churches During Lockdowns: Near Disaster  Read Journal Article

Divided We Fall - Brownstone Institute

Divided We Fall

By / / , / 14 minute read / Articles
SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL

We recoil because we know that the appeal to self is corrosive to unit cohesion. We also know that promoting individual identity and self-actualization—focusing on what is different among us—fosters division. And yet we are repeatedly told that it’s precisely such “diversity”—not of thought, but of gender, race, ethnicity, religion, national origin, and sexual orientation—that makes our nation prosperous and our military strong. 

Divided We Fall Read Journal Article

The Not-Very-Hidden Agenda of the Fact Checkers

By / / / 14 minute read / Articles
SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL

Some anonymous drone at LinkedIn took it upon his or herself (there are no other options) to waste the time and hurt the reputation of a customer. When that customer got fed up by such horrendous abuse from a company that was supposed to provide a service, that same anonymous, unaccountable petty person or collection of people told that customer to go spend money on lawyers to sue LinkedIn for access to the data that customer (erroneously) believes he owns.

The Not-Very-Hidden Agenda of the Fact Checkers Read Journal Article

The Politics of Natural Infection 

By / / / 6 minute read / Articles
SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL

Reflecting on this topic of exposure and immunity eventually leads a person to realize that we don’t need centralized control, coercion, and dictatorial power to manage a pandemic. Pandemics are unavoidable but they largely manage themselves while the best-possible outcomes rest with the intelligence of individuals informing choices based on their own risk assessment.

The Politics of Natural Infection  Read Journal Article

Was the Covid Response a Coup by the Intelligence Community?

By / / , / 13 minute read / Articles
SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL

The Western intelligence community driving the illiberalism of the response to COVID explains why the corruption and inhumanity of that response have always seemed so obvious, with the most valuable information on the events in question often coming from leading officials’ own books and interviews, despite how much harm they caused. They’re able to operate with such impunity because they know that the only agencies that can hold them accountable are the ones behind the whole spectacle. The propaganda is obvious, and it’s meant to be.

Was the Covid Response a Coup by the Intelligence Community? Read Journal Article

Join the Brownstone Community
Get our FREE Journal Newsletter