Millenniyule 2024: A Time To Be Naïve?

‘I think there’s a real danger of painting ourselves into a corner of believing that not much is possible anymore, that the world is too tightly bound in the control grids. I don’t believe that.'

Dec 15, 2024

In Praise of Naïvete

In my fourth appearance with Colin on Millenniyule, we speak of the approaching five-year juncture in the tyranny we have been suffering since the spring of 2020. Time has not made these events more fathomable. For those disposed to ask them, the same questions remain as existed in the beginning, even as we approach what the World Bank in 2020 claimed would mark the year of the end of the ‘Covid Project’ — this coming March, to be precise. What might that mean, if it meant or means anything?

What we in the Resistance face is not so much a physical enemy as a context, a set of circumstances that is unprecedented and utterly abnormal: a singular, globalised crime participated in by all the ‘authorities’ and institutions of the functional world, and a false reality being renewed every dawning day in the pursuit of a cover-up of that crime. For these and other reasons, the general awakening that might have been expected has not materialised, and shows little sign of so doing. Now, coming up to the fifth anniversary of the Covid coup, a new blackness seems to be descending, as the Resistance, riven by internal rivalries and lack of leadership, flails about and flounders and falls into despondency. Now, instead of leading from the front, we await the next development, from which will flow the next probably programmed reaction. In reality, we are no closer to reclaiming our countries, our democracies and our republics than we were in the summer of 2020. Even worse, as though in a kind of convoluted sour grapes response, many within the ‘freedom movement’; have begun to dismiss any prospect of a turnabout or shift in the drift of events as an illusion arising rooted in ‘hopium’. This human-deprecating trope is a self-defeating mechanism which can only result in a dismal ‘vindication’. It proposes nothing but a pathway towards despair, a recipe for going back to bed and staying there; whereas, if we are to continue to believe in the possibility of a better world, we require to be rather less clever and more innocent.

Perhaps it is time to give naïveté a chance?

“I knew I was counter-cultural, but isn’t it a funny thing that, back in the Sixties, being counter-cultural was a really good thing, but in the ‘90s and the 20s it became a really bad thing to be counter-cultural because the culture now was “settled”? It was the End of Culture, almost, in the Fukuyama sense. We now had the answers to everything: men are bad, women are great, gays and better and men can go to hell. That was the new philosophy. And I said: “No, I don’t think that’s true!” Because even if we grizzly ould fells are not a particularly attractive prospect as progressive darlings, we have little boys to think of — children — and they want to kill them too!? Well, no, we’re not going to let that happen.’

‘In April 2020, when they started telling people that they could only go within two kilometres of their own house, that was the moment I began to get dizzy — at the idea that this could even be happening. And the second thing I became dizzy about was that nobody else was getting dizzy about the first thing!’

‘The people who paraded as the gurus of modern liberalism — in media, in academia, in the artistic world; the poets, the playwrights — they all just took to their beds and said, ”Oh well, it is pretty bad. I’ve got quite a bad sore throat, you know.”’

‘I see senior figures in the Irish media now, and one in particular who is a colossus of “integrity”, down through the years . . . He’s a paid liar now! It’s like what happened in [Soviet] Russia with some of the great writers. They compromised themselves to the extent that they destroyed their legacies and reputations. for all time.’

‘I say to people: If you want to know about {electoral] fraud, look at your local politician and the way he looks at you, and the way he speaks to you compared to, say, ten years ago, and ask yourself: does he care whether you vote for him to not? I think not. So he knows something you don’t know. That’s the way to think about fraud.’

‘I think there’s a real danger of painting ourselves into a corner of believing that nothing is possible, that not much is possible anymore, that the world is too tightly bound in the control grids and so on. I don’t believe that. I believe it’s a question of our capacity to hope, and the problem is that that idea [that nothing is possible] itself kills hope. So I think we should abandon that idea, even if, in the abandoning of it, we are being, as it were, naïve, and a little bit gawky and stupid. I say, “Let’s be that! Let’s be naïve, and let’s pretend that we can take our countries and our world back from these bastards!” There’s a better chance of doing it in that frame of mind than in the other one.’

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