2020 was GloboCap Year Zero. The year when the global capitalist ruling classes did away with the illusion of democracy and reminded everyone who is actually in charge, and exactly what happens when anyone challenges them.<\/p>\n
In the relatively short span of the last ten months, societies throughout the world have been transformed beyond recognition. Constitutional rights have been suspended<\/a>. Protest has been banned<\/a>. Dissent is being censored<\/a>. Government officials are issuing edicts restricting the most basic aspects of our lives \u2026 where we can go, when we can go there, how long we are allowed to spend there, how many friends we are allowed to meet there, whether and when we can spend time with our families, what we are allowed to say to each other, who we can have sex with, where we have to stand, how we are allowed to eat and drink<\/a>, etc. The list goes on and on.<\/p>\n The authorities have assumed control of the most intimate aspects of our daily lives. We are being managed like inmates in a prison, told when to eat, sleep, exercise, granted privileges for good behavior, punished for the slightest infractions of an ever-changing set of arbitrary rules, forced to wear identical, demeaning uniforms (albeit only on our faces), and otherwise relentlessly bullied, abused, and humiliated to keep us compliant.<\/p>\n None of which is accidental, or has anything to do with any actual virus, or any other type of public health threat. Yes, before some of you go ballistic, I do believe there is an actual virus, which a number of people have actually died from, or which at least has contributed to their deaths \u2026 but<\/em> there is absolutely no evidence whatsoever of any authentic public health threat that remotely justifies the totalitarian emergency measures we are being subjected to or the damage that is being done to society<\/em>. Whatever you believe about the so-called \u201cpandemic,\u201d it really is as simple as that. Even if one accepts the official \u201cscience,\u201d you do not transform the entire planet into a pathologized-totalitarian nightmare in response to a health threat of this nature.<\/p>\n The notion is quite literally insane.<\/p>\n GloboCap is not insane, however. They know exactly what they are doing \u2026 which is teaching us a lesson, a lesson about power. A lesson about who has it and who doesn\u2019t. For students of history it\u2019s a familiar lesson, a standard in the repertoire of empires, not to mention the repertoire of penal institutions.<\/p>\n The name of the lesson is \u201cLook What We Can Do to You Any Time We Fucking Want.\u201d The point of the lesson is self-explanatory. The USA taught the world this lesson when it nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki. GloboCap (and the US military) taught it again when they invaded Iraq and destabilized the entire Greater Middle East. It is regularly taught in penitentiaries when the prisoners start to get a little too unruly and remember that they outnumber the guards. That\u2019s where the \u201clockdown\u201d concept originated. It isn\u2019t medical terminology. It is penal institution terminology.<\/p>\n As we have been experiencing throughout 2020, the global capitalist ruling classes have no qualms about teaching us this lesson. It\u2019s just that they would rather not have to unless it\u2019s absolutely necessary. They would prefer that we believe we are living in \u201cdemocracies,\u201d governed by the \u201crule of law,\u201d where everyone is \u201cfree,\u201d and so on. It\u2019s much more efficient and much less dangerous than having to repeatedly remind us that they can take away our \u201cdemocratic rights\u201d in a heartbeat, unleash armed goon squads to enforce their edicts, and otherwise control us with sheer brute force.<\/p>\n People who have spent time in prison, or who have lived in openly totalitarian societies, are familiar with being ruled by brute force. Most Westerners are not, so it has come as a shock. The majority of them still can\u2019t process it. They cannot see what is staring them in the face. They cannot see it because they can\u2019t afford to see it. If they did, it would completely short-circuit their brains. They would suffer massive psychotic breakdowns, and become entirely unable to function, so their psyches will not allow them to see it.<\/p>\n Others, who see it, can\u2019t quite accept the simplicity of it (i.e., the lesson being taught), so they are proposing assorted complicated theories about what it is and who is behind it \u2026 the Great Reset, China, the Illuminati, Transhumanism, Satanism, Communism, whatever. Some of these theories are at least partially accurate. Others are utter bull-goose lunacy.<\/p>\n They all obscure the basic point of the lesson.<\/p>\n The point of the lesson is that GloboCap \u2014 the entire global-capitalist system acting as a single global entity<\/em> \u2014 can, virtually any time it wants, suspend the Simulation of Democracy<\/a>, and crack down on us with despotic force. It can (a) declare a \u201cglobal pandemic\u201d or some other type of \u201cglobal emergency,\u201d (b) cancel our so-called \u201crights,\u201d (c) have the corporate media bombard us with lies<\/a> and propaganda<\/a> for months, (d) have the Internet companies censor any and all forms of dissent and evidence challenging said propaganda, (e) implement all kinds of new intrusive \u201csafety\u201d and \u201csecurity\u201d measures, including but not limited to the physical violation of our bodies \u2026 and so on. I think you get the picture. (The violation of our bodies is important, which is why they love \u201ccavity searches\u201d in prison, and why the torture-happy troops at Abu Ghraib were obsessed with sexually violating their victims.)<\/p>\n And the \u201cpandemic\u201d is only one part of the lesson. The other part is being forced to watch (or permitted to watch, depending on your perspective) as GloboCap makes an example of Trump, as they made examples of Corbyn and Sanders, as they made examples of Saddam and Gaddafi, and other \u201cuncooperative\u201d foreign leaders, as they will make an example of any political figurehead that challenges their power. It does not matter to GloboCap that such political figureheads pose no real threat. The people who rally around them do. Nor does it make the slightest difference whether these figureheads or the folks who support them identify as \u201cleft\u201d or \u201cright.\u201d GloboCap could not possibly care less. The figureheads are just the teaching materials in the lesson that they are teaching us.<\/p>\n And now, here we are, at the end of the lesson \u2026 not the end of the War on Populism<\/a>, just the end of this critical Trumpian part of it. Once the usurper has been driven out of office, the War on Populism will be folded back into the War on Terror, or the War on Extremism, or whatever GloboCap decides to call it \u2026 the name hardly matters. It is all the same war.<\/p>\n Whatever they decide to call it, this is GloboCap Year Zero. It is time for reeducation, my friends. It is time for cultural revolution. No, not communist cultural revolution \u2026 global capitalist cultural revolution. It is time to flush the aberration of the last four years down the memory hole, and implement global \u201cNew Normal\u201d Gleichschaltung<\/a>, to make sure that this never happens again.<\/p>\n Oh, yes, things are about to get \u201cnormal.\u201d Extremely \u201cnormal.\u201d Suffocatingly \u201cnormal.\u201d Unimaginably oppressively \u201cnormal.\u201d And I\u2019m not just talking about the \u201cCoronavirus measures.\u201d This has been in the works for the last four years.<\/p>\n Remember, back in 2016, when everyone was so concerned about \u201cnormality,\u201d and how Trump was \u201cnot normal,\u201d and must never be \u201cnormalized?\u201d Well, here we are. This is it. This is the part where GloboCap restores \u201cnormality,\u201d a \u201cnew normality,\u201d a pathologized-totalitarian \u201cnormality,\u201d a \u201cnormality\u201d which tolerates no dissent and demands complete ideological conformity.<\/p>\n From now on, when the GloboCap Intelligence Community and their mouthpieces in the corporate media tell you something happened, that thing will have happened, exactly as they say it happened, regardless of whether it actually happened, and anyone who says it didn\u2019t will be labeled an \u201cextremist<\/a>,\u201d a \u201cconspiracy theorist<\/a>,\u201d a \u201cdenier<\/a>,\u201d or some other meaningless epithet. Such un-persons will be dealt with ruthlessly. They will be censored, deplatformed, demonetized, decertified, rendered unemployable, banned from traveling, socially ostracized, hospitalized, imprisoned, or otherwise erased from \u201cnormal\u201d society.<\/p>\n You will do what you are told. You will not ask questions. You will believe whatever they tell you to believe. You will believe it, not because it makes any sense, but simply because you have been ordered to believe it. They aren\u2019t trying to trick or deceive anybody. They know their lies don\u2019t make any sense. And they know that you know they don\u2019t make any sense. They want you to know it.<\/em> That is the point. They want you to know they are lying to you, manipulating you, openly mocking you<\/a>, and that they can say and do anything they want to you, and you will go along with it, no matter how insane.<\/p>\n If they order you to take a fucking vaccine, you will not ask what is in the vaccine, or start whining about the \u201cpotential side effects.\u201d You will shut up and take the fucking vaccine. If they tell you to put a mask on your kid, you will put a fucking mask on your fucking kid<\/a>. You will not go digging up Danish studies<\/a> proving the pointlessness of putting masks on kids<\/a>. If they tell you the Russians rigged the election, then the Russians rigged the fucking election. And, if, four years later, they turn around and tell you that rigging an election is impossible<\/a>, then rigging an election is fucking impossible. It isn\u2019t an invitation to debate. It is a GloboCap-verified fact-checked fact. You will stand (or kneel) in your designated, color-coded, social-distancing box and repeat this verified fact-checked fact, over and over, like a fucking parrot, or they will discover some new mutant variant of virus and put you back in fucking \u201clockdown.\u201d They will do this until you get your mind right, or you can live the rest of your life on Zoom, or tweeting content that no one but the Internet censors will ever see into the digital void in your fucking pajamas. The choice is yours \u2026 it\u2019s is all up to you!<\/p>\n Or \u2026 I don\u2019t know, this is just a crazy idea, you could turn off the fucking corporate media, do a little fucking research on your own, grow a backbone and some fucking guts, and join the rest of us \u201cdangerous extremists\u201d who are trying to fight back against the New Normal. Yes, it will cost you<\/a>, and we probably won\u2019t win, but you won\u2019t have to torture your kids on airplanes, and you don\u2019t even have to \u201cdeny\u201d the virus!<\/p>\n That\u2019s it \u2026 my last column of 2020. Happy totalitarian holidays!<\/p>\n The post Year Zero<\/a> first appeared on Dissident Voice<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n