by John Ward
SATIRE IN THE SURREAL AGE OF UNTRAMMELED POWER
For many of my life, I’ve been a agency believer in the usage of satire towards energy. The query of whether or not to make use of it or not has by no means actually arisen, as a result of the reply is all the time “Sure”. Some persons are shocked by this angle, typically discovering one thing “in poor style” or muttering issues like “she’s barely chilly in her coffin”. Clarify to them how fractional reserve banking works, nonetheless, they usually appear totally relaxed.
Satire is the artwork of taking a profoundly degenerate, mendacious or hypocritical motion and easily taking it on a stage into the Ridiculous. It is just in poor style if it kicks the sufferer slightly than the perpetrator: Julius Streicher, the editor of the Nazi Journal Der Sturmer in Thirties Germany, thought the destruction of Jewish property and deporting of Jews was humorous. Actually, his cartoons had been each pitifully rabid and pitiless of their vengeance. Examine that to the ironic Jewish story of the SS officer saying to a focus camp prisoner “I misplaced a watch on the Russian Entrance”, and the prisoner saying “Sure, your left eye is glass”. The Nazi asks how he knew, and the Jew says, “As a result of it has a point of pity in it”.
Right here’s an instance of a satirical piece I drafted a couple of days in the past:
WINDSORS IN SHOCK AS BoE BOSS BAILEY FLOATS PROPOSAL TO DIGITALISE CHARLES III
In a plan designed to place Britain forward of the World, the solar, the Andromeda nebula and Hull Kingston Rovers, thriller firm Karl Notanazi GmBH has been in secret discussions with GCHQ and the Financial institution of England to provide planet Earth its first ever digital monarch.
“We realized quite a bit by preleasing the brand new Charles III portrait for commemorative cash,” stated prime mafiosa Godfather Androzzi ‘Fat’ Bellini, chief of the infamous Threadneedle Mob, “and it was clear that inside 24 hours of doing so, the worth of Sterling dropped by 960 per cent, so we determined to digitalise His Majesty earlier than he might do any additional injury”.
The digital King might be often known as C3PO and reside in a fractionally reserved Cloud someplace over the rainbow and three doorways up from the Pot of Gold. The each day enterprise of being a King might be awarded to the winner of a particular Nationwide Lottery to assist pay for the tax cuts initially and rapidly deliberate to be funded by slicing the advantages of anybody who doesn’t purchase the particular lottery ticket value £15.99 out there from CarrieBoJo Enterprises Nigeria Ltd.
“Ve are alle werry prout to haff lastly penetratet ze best nationwide chief since unser geliebter GribbleStuka und makink him an instance of ze transhuman Ordnung,” commented Notanazi boss Klaus von Schwaberghof, “throughout ze rigruss exams ve haff conductet, it was ver clear from ze suggestions that C3PO iss solely artificially clever, und zuss ze excellent Robotic Untermensch”.
Most well-informed individuals would recognise the context of an unprincipled globalist central banker studying the riot act to Prime Minister Truss and her greenhorn Chancellor Kwarteng about slicing taxes, when the neoliberal narrative clearly states that the concept is to get extra tax out of the ineffective eaters and screw the economic system. What Governor Bailey did was to level out in no unsure phrases that he and his mates are the facility within the Land, not them. (The minute Distrust & Khazi U-turned on the cuts, the Pound instantly strengthened)
The draft additionally took a swipe on the comedian megalomania of Schwab, the pretentions of King Charles, the idiocy of AI and the corruption of Boris Johnson, whereas additional establishing the Slog’s use of the robotic C3PO because the (hopefully) enduring nickname of our heir of the Crown of Thorns.
However the satirical component was one thing of a misfit with the seriousness of the cost – that one banker and a dozen hedge funds working for Britain’s closest ally had chosen to destroy its forex if essential to get their manner.
And the issue, additional, is that that is nothing new: when French President François Hollande went for anti-neolib socialism throughout 2013-14, POTUS Obama engineered an all-out assault on his nationwide debt bonds, making compensation close to as damnit not possible. Hollande quietly sued for peace inside 11 weeks.
That is buck-naked unelected energy at work; and more and more, satire feels to me like a Resistance kind 100 per cent poor in mordancy on the subject of the uniquely ghastly nature of this, our unlucky epoch.
For instance, after years of the delusionally vainglorious antics of the dogooder liberal Nazis in Brussels and Frankfurt, Italy has lastly rejected the lunacy and elected a standard Forza Italia model Prime Minister within the form of Giorgia Meloni (left) – a girl whose acceptance speech took no prisoners in any respect. “They wish to destroy la Famiglia,” she appropriately noticed, “as a result of making that unit appear dysfunctional is the highway to final energy over the Individuals”.
You possibly can discern fairly instantly that the MSM’s compliant whores didn’t prefer it, as a result of with out exception they went on a smear marketing campaign to dwarf any nationwide anti-vaginal most cancers push you may think about. She was, variously, an oddball, very far Proper, a throwback, admirer of Mussolini, rabidly anti-immigration and made nonstop “madcap spiritual observations” in regards to the intentions of senior EU officers.
What not one of the compliant media point out is that she can also be a distinguised journalist, has spent seventeen years within the Chamber of Deputies, has led the Brothers of Italy political occasion since 2014, and has been the president of the European Conservatives and Reformists Social gathering since 2020. To this point she has not made any marches on Rome of which I’m conscious, nor certainly invaded Abyssinnia. And in contrast to the overwhelming majority of fat-boy Europols, she was introduced up in poverty by a single mom, her feckless jailbird Dad having deserted them. She will not be a fascist in the true (versus ideologically motivated normal insult) which is why she distrusts blocism, globalism and Large Authorities typically.
She is self-made, and her voice comes from the true proletariat. Isn’t that what the EU wants?
However being each a realist and a well-travelled sufferer from liberal totalitarianism and banking energy, she is avoiding the extra apparent obstacles. Smart, maybe – however already, she has sown doubt in my thoughts. That is what she stated within the later levels of the election that propelled her to energy:
“Traders ought to be clear about the truth that I’ll respect EU funds guidelines and monetary orthodoxy”
It was a traditional case of getting one’s retaliation in first. However as with Truss and Hollande, there’s a cynical acceptance earlier than you’ve even tried to alter the world that The World Is Not for Altering. If each radical politician is able to “compromise” (aka promote out) – and the media whores ignore all the pieces good that the candidate stands for – why ought to the grasping depopulators give an excellent Goddamn about satire? Your complete mess is auto-satirical within the onanist sense of auto.
I used to be born to be a author, however alongside the way in which, I misplaced my manner. Time after time. However ultimately, consciousness returns. On the age of 74, I’m nonetheless growing – residing as I do with the near-certainty that in case you don’t, there may be no 75 – and thus, one should carry on studying because the world modifications….nonetheless completely repellant that change may be.
On this context, we’re again to DON’T COMPLY, COMPLAIN. As 2022 begins to age and head in direction of a precociously unpredictable 2023, I’m dumping satire as a weapon. Those that want neither votes nor media approval not discover it even a minor irritant.
Three weeks in the past I stated acres of stats might be ignored by media and can solely bore the target market: I voted as an alternative for revealing the id and incorrigible nastiness of those that now successfully run the world. The usage of humour in that area nonetheless serves to interact these of excellent intentions: so I’ll nonetheless write humorous stuff (all work and no play makes Johnny Slog a really boring boy) however investigation that results in startling revelation have to be the objective.
We should keep watch over Ms Meloni. She’s both very wily, or very slippery.
Then there may be the case of Netflix. It’s creators made a mountain vary of cash, however far an excessive amount of of the corporate’s output could be very clearly bankrolled by dodgy pursuits who work laborious day in, time out to to color the New World Order image of a horrendously harmful future wherein each citizen should give up civic rights in return for the all-knowing State’s safety from inevitable dystopia.
The corporate boasts “a broad public possession” however that’s all a lot crap: by far the most important shareholder is the Vanguard Fund funding squid – a giga-giant second solely to BlackRock in measurement. Between them, Vanguard and BlackRock management 12 per cent of Netflix – by far the largest block of shares.
Each time both of them does one thing a bit over-controlling, Reuters dives in with some mendacious fact-checking to say that actually they’re jolly good. Normally Bloomberg isn’t far behind them. All 4 of those leviathans are absolutely paid up members of the unelected Prime Desk.
Collectively, BlackRock and Vanguard personal:
• Eighteen % of Fox.
• Sixteen % of CBS, and subsequently additionally of Sixty Minutes.
• 13 % of Comcast, which owns NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, and the Sky media group.
• Twelve % of CNN.
• Twelve % of Disney, which owns ABC and FiveThirtyEight.
• Between ten and fourteen % of Gannett, which owns greater than 250 Gannett day by day newspapers plus USA At present.
• Ten % of the Sinclair native tv information, which controls seventy-two % of U.S. households’ native TV.
• A big unspecified chunk of Graham Media Group, which owns Slate and Overseas Coverage.
Previously, I’ve written many instances that till 1995, you needed to make 73 cellphone calls to twist each international editor’s arm. That determine had turned seven calls by 2018.
The media management exercised throughout Covid, international warming mania and Putin-bashing has been whole….and don’t dismiss that as conspiranoid: biggies like Vanguard do greater than vote their shares; a survey revealed within the Journal of Finance exhibits that 63 per cent discuss on to managements they put money into, and virtually half to board members. These individuals suppress media freedom – and their affect connects to the center of presidency by way of CO² footprints, fiscal coverage, army budgets and the White Home: Former BlackRock government Brian Deese is Biden’s prime financial advisor; former BlackRock government Michael Pyle serves as chief financial advisor to Vice President Kamala Harris.
That’s all the NWO info, fiscal and international coverage, armed forces and local weather unfold from finish to finish coated by two outfits….and Netflix is a part of the deal. As a result of fantasy information is not any completely different to obsessively dystopian film plot output in shaping public moods and opinion. In 2023, the world goes to look much more like a Netflix plot – for instance, Blade Runner 2049 (2017) · Mad Max (1979) & Mad Max 2 (1981) · The Platform (2019) Okja (2017) · Fringe of Tomorrow (2014) nonetheless operating in any case these years, and new stuff Mayday · Little Fish · The Endlessly Purge · Chaos Strolling · Life Like · Improve · The Humanity Bureau · How It Ends Mute · Demise Race · Terminator Salvation and Youngsters of Males.
As a one-time consumer of Netflix, I’ve to specific the opinion that in the present day, there’s virtually nothing unique or in any manner price watching on the Channel past some OK documentaries and good stand-up. However given the facility of the factor, whereas it’s attainable to poke enjoyable on the archetypal film plot – ‘In a dystopian future, Brad and Janet discover themselves trapped in a Timebackroscope heading straight for a black gap inhabited by serial-killer local weather change deniers’ – it feels to me like one thing self-indulgently getting in the way in which of the a lot greater conclusion: They’ve the facility to manage eveything that may persuade you of something….They’ve successfully abolished innocent leisure.
That’s many issues, however humorous isn’t one in every of them.
