So far - interview of the year. Listened after a long day - so excuse me if I miss the odd observation. Distilling an hour - I’d say (for what it’s worth) the Miri Finch quote is key: “If you know their name - they’re in the game”. Controlled opposition is a frequent topic of lively debate under our roof. Who is trustworthy is perhaps societies biggest challenge?
So - the closure of 15k UK pubs is bad - but, in the same way Charles M. Schultz used to say “a church is potentially wherever people hang out together”, I’d say a pub is wherever people connect with each other’s world. One trite example is a lovely Indian lady cashier in our local supermarket. For some reason I/we keep bumping into her in various places to the point where suggesting meeting for a coffee might be in order. The brief conversations we’ve had suggest we are massively on the same page & like one another. But - our worlds are ‘different’, or are they?
People (as you eluded to) are siloed everywhere - whether in corporate companies, the civil service, health, trades & that’s what the Spanish ghost town set want!
Take heart - when they retire to ‘billionaire town’ - after a few hours they’ll be a frantic fight between them over who cleans the toilet & cuts the hedges - and in the case of nature - it’s way smarter than all of them - and a Chinese made robotic servant won’t cut it long term.
WW2 didn’t go as planned, so S.G Warburg stood up in the UN in 1950 and stated the world needed one government.
Here we are. They are (indeed) deranged arseholes.
Talk much more amongst yourselves & turn off the idiot box.
Barbra Streisand was right. People who need people are the luckiest people.
Too few people are scared of the truth or questioning the narrative; just look at how compliant (and terrified) people were during Covid. And even now, UK citizens are being texted and pressured into more jabs (of varying kinds, but including Covid boosters for over-65s). It is disgusting how dissenting voices were shut down, doctors struck off the medical roll, prevented from earning their living on the grounds of causing 'vaccine hesitancy' just for having an opinion. Yet the silent majority remains meek and mild, led like lambs to the slaughter... Intelligence has no influence over blind stupidity it seems.
The GB 3 never opposed the vaccine-indeed Bhattacharya recommended it for his own parents and anyone over 50.
What they did was present a sane voice AT THE TIME--their central message was sound-protect those who need protected and let the rest of society get on with their lives and NO mandates. Right from the start ALL 3 opposed any measures against children including school closures. Jay edited this article right at the start.
I do agree-there was nothing there and no need for a vaccine at all--and I wish the regime would say that out loud. Actually I wish anyone in power would. As I said -the people, the finance and the philosophy are still in place and they will do it again if we fall for it and let them.
I have nothing but respect for your podcast so my intent here is not to come off as shrill and bitchy. I would simply ask that you consider being a bit more sensitive to people who are being shadow banned, especially the young generation of people coming up. I suspect that this new generation of voices is being shadow-banned to such a degree that they are effectively ejected not just from social media but from the world in general. If you can't be seen on any of the social media sites you may as well take a bullhorn outside and walk around until the police stop you. Ever since I started writing on Substack, over a year ago, the ONLY way I can get a couple views on Substack is to attach my work to comments or notes that belong to other people, a rather humiliating exercise. I am the only writer I know who predicted there would be a major shift after the debate. You might think that would be deserving of a little notice? It wasn't the only thing I got right. No, I guess I am just full of myself
So far - interview of the year. Listened after a long day - so excuse me if I miss the odd observation. Distilling an hour - I’d say (for what it’s worth) the Miri Finch quote is key: “If you know their name - they’re in the game”. Controlled opposition is a frequent topic of lively debate under our roof. Who is trustworthy is perhaps societies biggest challenge?
So - the closure of 15k UK pubs is bad - but, in the same way Charles M. Schultz used to say “a church is potentially wherever people hang out together”, I’d say a pub is wherever people connect with each other’s world. One trite example is a lovely Indian lady cashier in our local supermarket. For some reason I/we keep bumping into her in various places to the point where suggesting meeting for a coffee might be in order. The brief conversations we’ve had suggest we are massively on the same page & like one another. But - our worlds are ‘different’, or are they?
People (as you eluded to) are siloed everywhere - whether in corporate companies, the civil service, health, trades & that’s what the Spanish ghost town set want!
Take heart - when they retire to ‘billionaire town’ - after a few hours they’ll be a frantic fight between them over who cleans the toilet & cuts the hedges - and in the case of nature - it’s way smarter than all of them - and a Chinese made robotic servant won’t cut it long term.
WW2 didn’t go as planned, so S.G Warburg stood up in the UN in 1950 and stated the world needed one government.
Here we are. They are (indeed) deranged arseholes.
Talk much more amongst yourselves & turn off the idiot box.
Barbra Streisand was right. People who need people are the luckiest people.
Nice weekends all…
Just brilliant Jeff. Looking forward to your novel. Be well.
Many thanks Trevor. I hope to be in London in July. Hope we can get together for a chinwag.
Too few people are scared of the truth or questioning the narrative; just look at how compliant (and terrified) people were during Covid. And even now, UK citizens are being texted and pressured into more jabs (of varying kinds, but including Covid boosters for over-65s). It is disgusting how dissenting voices were shut down, doctors struck off the medical roll, prevented from earning their living on the grounds of causing 'vaccine hesitancy' just for having an opinion. Yet the silent majority remains meek and mild, led like lambs to the slaughter... Intelligence has no influence over blind stupidity it seems.
Interesting viewing. Thorough
The GB 3 never opposed the vaccine-indeed Bhattacharya recommended it for his own parents and anyone over 50.
What they did was present a sane voice AT THE TIME--their central message was sound-protect those who need protected and let the rest of society get on with their lives and NO mandates. Right from the start ALL 3 opposed any measures against children including school closures. Jay edited this article right at the start.
Children should be at school.
https://www.collateralglobal.org/articles/education/
https://hughmccarthy.substack.com/publish/posts/detail/59996533?referrer=%2Fpublish%2Fposts
I do agree-there was nothing there and no need for a vaccine at all--and I wish the regime would say that out loud. Actually I wish anyone in power would. As I said -the people, the finance and the philosophy are still in place and they will do it again if we fall for it and let them.
I have nothing but respect for your podcast so my intent here is not to come off as shrill and bitchy. I would simply ask that you consider being a bit more sensitive to people who are being shadow banned, especially the young generation of people coming up. I suspect that this new generation of voices is being shadow-banned to such a degree that they are effectively ejected not just from social media but from the world in general. If you can't be seen on any of the social media sites you may as well take a bullhorn outside and walk around until the police stop you. Ever since I started writing on Substack, over a year ago, the ONLY way I can get a couple views on Substack is to attach my work to comments or notes that belong to other people, a rather humiliating exercise. I am the only writer I know who predicted there would be a major shift after the debate. You might think that would be deserving of a little notice? It wasn't the only thing I got right. No, I guess I am just full of myself
https://open.substack.com/pub/karlskellenger/p/the-june-27th-presidential-debate?r=fjmlo&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Great stuff!