Why Eve REALLY Ate That Apple

There’s a recurring theme in the comment threads that I want to talk about in one place. It’s the “it’s not an accident, they planned it that way” comment, in all its iterations: The school district police chief in Uvalde let the killings go on unimpeded because he was on somebody’s payroll, and it was useful to the globalists to have those children die; or there wasn’t really a shooting, but instead there was just a bunch of crisis actors who staged it; or there was a shooting, and children died, but it was an op, and they planned it. However it’s expressed, it’s a version of an idea we’ve heard about Covid-19 over and over again, the Plandemic with the so-called “vaccines” that are really deliberately engineered bioweapons the globalists are using to murder us all. You think they’re failing? Oh no, my friend, they’re doing this to us on purpose.

I wanted to build to this point through a series of arguments that would create some scaffolding, but I think at the moment it’s better to just get to it:

I think this is easier, a way we limit our pain and fear. If all of our problems are caused by a secret cabal who are having a new Wannsee Conference — twelve assholes sitting around a table and carefully planning our destruction — then we could solve that problem in half an hour with a dozen lampposts. We just need some names and an address: problem solved.

I think it’s much harder if there’s no they and no plan behind an event like the Uvalde school shooting. You can kill a few plotters, but how do you fix a broadly distributed collapse of courage, honor, decency, competence, knowledge, skill, morality and….a bunch of other things, but that list is a good start. If identifiable actors are tearing things apart, you can know where to put your hands to stop them; you can act. If we’re just trapped in a miasma of vicious mediocrity and weakness, where are the levers that change our course? What’s the solution to widespread societal degradation, to a suicidal loss of shared values and ordinary ability?

Facing an endless string of metastasizing and coalescing implosions — the lockdown-induced mental health crisis among children, appalling growth in energy prices, severe fertilizer shortages, supply chain collapse, unacknowledged vaccine injuries, vaccines that make illness more likely, military failure and the madness of the Afghanistan debacle, an emerging food shortage that’s starting to look really disturbing — the easiest way to deal with it is to say that it’s all one crisis planned and implemented by one set of people. If that’s true, the solution doesn’t even require a full box of ammunition, and we could wake up tomorrow morning in a world that we’ve repaired.

But the problem is that I mostly don’t think it’s true. I think it’s all one interwoven societal crisis, but that it’s connected by the uselessness of overcredentialed weak people. As for the view that they’re planning all of this, I increasingly think that our bullshit elites, our highly compliant social climbers in positions of power, mostly couldn’t plan a plate of toast.

Now, this is important: This doesn’t mean that I don’t think any of it is ever true. Of course there’s fake news. There are false flags, there are staged ops, and there are crisis actors. (The Ghost Of Kyiv, Ukraine’s boldest fighter pilot, agrees with me.) It seems pretty clear at this point that the plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer, that terrifying thing, was some socially awkward dorks being urgently and persistently goaded by FBI provocateurs. And it’s no longer possible to pretend that the Capitol Police didn’t just open the doors on January 6 to the “mob” that “broke in.”

Christina Bobb @christina_bobb

Capitol police open doors for the protestors. They stand aside and invite them inside.

But the transition from “some things are fake” to it’s all a lie and a plan every step of the way is a bigger claim — he says, carefully — and one that doesn’t make that much sense. With regard to Uvalde and the cops who wouldn’t act, for example, cowardice and incompetence work just fine as an explanation, because we have examples to compare the moment to. Peacetime militaries build an officer corps around rules-focused behavior, around the ability to comply and to operate within a hierarchy; then wartime militaries go through a period of officer purges, as they work to find high-functioning leaders who can tolerate the chaos and pain of battle. Confronted with a high level of brutality and danger, some people just can’t do it.¹ This strikes me as an unremarkable fact, and one that doesn’t require extraordinary explanations. The school district police chief, a bureaucrat for decades, pushing paper and going to meetings, was confronted with sudden shock and horror on an extraordinarily harrowing scale, and he lacked the ability to respond. McClellan also couldn’t bring himself to attack Richmond.

I start with fallenness, with ordinary human limits, and with the pattern of long social decline that has robbed institutions of high-functioning leaders equipped with critical thinking skills and confident, independent minds.²

Many of you will disagree with that, and some of you will say that I just can’t face it, man, you don’t have the BALLS to see what they’re doing to us. But I show up with an assumption of societal brokenness, and so that’s the foundation of my explanatory schema. The two-word counterargument is “Yuval Harari.”

Maajid أبو عمّار @MaajidNawaz

WEF Shill, Yuval Noah Harari is at WAR against humanity: “The biggest question..what to do with all these USELESS people. The problem is boredom & what to do with them.. when they are.. WORTHLESS. My best guess..is a combination of DRUGS & COMPUTER GAMES”

But I view this psychopath, and the circle of vampires and psychopaths gathered around him at Davos, as self-flattering fools with delusions of power: Jim Jones, but without the charisma. Whatever he says, I can’t picture the man successfully mowing a lawn. “You know, I find your entire existence utterly useless,” alternative universe Yuval Harari says to the tow truck driver who changes out his flat tire.

I think we’re in much more trouble than we would be facing if all we had to do was break up a plot.

Over to you.

1. This is a controversial and much-disputed example, but the army officer SLA Marshall argued that many soldiers, finding themselves suddenly under fire, simply can’t bring themselves to shoot back; overcoming that reluctance, Marshall argued, requires military organizations to address the “failure of the controls over human nature.” Many people will freeze when you shoot at them, he said, and we shouldn’t be surprised by it.

2. There are mornings I wake up believing that the mRNA vaccines are bioweapons, but mostly I’m inclined to regard them as dismal failures from corporations that were in a hurry to come up with a lucrative product.