Holland: The Political disguised as The Medical
The Dutch Truman Show continues.
I like Dutch people. I like them a lot. I like them so much I married one of them.
I’ve been to Holland (and yes spare me, I know that’s not it’s REAL name) several times, have extended family there and several very good friends. I love the place.
I wrote a long piece back in December 2020 about how the Dutch government was lying to its citizens in response to them running one of the more successful propaganda campaigns about having to air lift Covid patients to Germany.
The Dutch are such a trusting society, especially of their government, that I couldn’t get anyone to believe me.
Holland isn’t just any European country, to my mind Holland has one of the most advanced egalitarian cultures and societies anywhere in the world. A form of peak democracy really and a wonderful example of peak human flourishing. Only a small number of other countries are candidates for such high praise in my opinion.
If you can bring these elite democracies to heel, you can bring any other system to heel.
You need to think of these democracies as “prized assets” in this War.
Getting a place like Iraq (my birthplace) to buy into your corruption is a pretty easy feat. Getting a place like Holland to do it, is another thing entirely. But if you can, then you can get ANY country in the world to slip into your peloton.
Having lived through war, I wrote this a while back and it’s one of my more read pieces.
That’s really what war is about, territory. You have something that I want, and I will fight you for it.
So, if this is a war, who are the warring parties and what is the fight over?
The war is between “the state” and “the citizen”. The latter is YOU and ME and it’s easy enough to understand (sort of), but THE STATE is not straightforward anymore and I’ll cover that later.
The border between these two parties is being redrawn. The relationship between the State and the Citizen is being RESET.
When you hear about The Great Reset, that is what “Reset” really means.
This War is playing out everywhere in slightly different but very similar ways. It certainly is playing out here in Australia. But for this piece I just want to focus on Holland.
Lately I find myself reverting back to this wonderful CJ Hopkins observation.
Pathologized Totalitarianism 101
But the most significant difference between 20th-Century totalitarianism and this nascent, global totalitarianism is how New Normal totalitarianism “pathologizes” its political nature, effectively rendering itself invisible, and thus immune to political opposition. Whereas 20th-Century totalitarianism wore its politics on its sleeve, New Normal totalitarianism presents itself as a non-ideological (i.e., supra-political) reaction to a global public health emergency.
Disguising the political as medical is such a genius move!
If people think that the government is doing something for real medical reasons, they immediately and willingly acquiesce. It’s for their health and the health of others after all.
But if people think that the government is doing something for political reasons, then the normal political pushback occurs.
Smuggling the political within the medical is pure unadulterated genius. It hasn’t been invented today, its been used to very great effect before (within Germany especially) but never on this breadth and depth before.
One way to think about the political vs medical distinction is to think about your orientation when someone does something TO you.
If someone does something TO you and you BELIEVE that the person doing it BELIEVES its for your own good, then we are within a MEDICAL realm.
But if that same person does something TO you and you BELIEVE that the person is doing it for THEIR OWN good, then we are within a POLITICAL realm.
Your relationship to THEIR MOTIVES matters.
The medical realm is where BOTH people are looking after ME.
The political realm is where EACH person is looking after HIMSELF.
Which is why this new totalitarianism is SO effective and SO genius.
As they are taking from me, I am convinced it’s for my own good.
That is what happens when the political is disguised as the medical.
Now, the question remains: What can we do about this?
I fall back on CJ Hopkins again:
So we need to adopt a different strategy. We need to make the monster show itself, not to those of us who can already see it, but to the New Normal masses, the Covidian cultists. We need to make Jim Jones drop the peace-and-love crap, move into the jungle, and break out the Kool-Aid.
We need to make Charles Manson put down his guitar, cancel orgy-time, and go homicidal hippie. This is how you take down a cult from within. You do not try to thwart its progress; you push it toward its logical conclusion. You make it manifest its full expression, because that it when it implodes, and dies.
CJ has such a way with words.
Yes, we need to make Charles Manson show his homicidal hippie self.
We need to remove the “medical” cover and show the totalitarian “political” within.
So, let’s do just that and focus only on Holland. This is footage from Holland, mostly over the last 24 hours during a protest. I believe that most people currently living in Holland do not know that this is going on.
Just as most people living in England didn’t know that a million people marched in London. Global and local censorship is happening and is that powerful.
Here is a collection of very recent street videos. Who knows how long they will be allowed up, but hopefully they do the rounds for while.
If you are partially awake, and think that some of what is going on is silly and doesn’t make sense, but it really is a medical emergency. I’ve put this together for you. It’s only when you fully accept that it’s ALL political and NONE of the medical is TRUE in the way it has been relayed or framed, will you truly wake up.
For now you do not need to bother yourself with the question of who THEY are?
You just need to accept that this is POLITICAL and that SOMEONE is actively taking what is yours for themselves, while you are made to believe it’s for your own good.
Don’t be a schmuck, it’s time to wake up.
I live in Amsterdam and attended the protest on Sunday. The turnout was huge, and the atmosphere for the most part terrific, but the massive show of force was completely over the top. The protest had been prohibited by our Green Party mayor, and a massive police presence was mobilized, including Marechaussee (military police). At precisely 1pm, like clockwork, this huge phalanx, including two water cannon trucks, swept clean the Museumplein. A small number of protesters were kettled, and those ugly skirmishes took place, but then, again like clockwork, they all jumped in their trucks and vans, and drove off, leaving the very large crowd in peace. We headed to the Westerpark about 2 km to the west, where there was a smaller rally. The whole thing had a theatrical quality to it. I suspect our feckless mayor was pressured from on high to make a show of force; it had a whiff ill-considered desperation to it. It seems the biosecurity authoritarians still have the upper hand, and it is thought that the new Cabinet, which will be sworn in next week, will recklessly impose an odious G2 and vaxx mandate regime, despite slowly but steadily growing opposition to it. Approval ratings are plummeting, and one has to wonder how long this fragile new coalition will last. This once highly functional, socially cohesive society is, like so many others in the West, heading implacably towards a massive political, economic, and social crisis.
See this Dutch substack from Daniël van der Tuin. The Netherlands is now a "low-trust society", something astonishing and previously unthinkable.
Vertrouwen in Nederlandse regering bereikt dieptepunt: laag-vertrouwen samenleving
Het vertrouwen in de Nederlandse overheid is verder gedaald. In november 2021 heeft de regering een fors deel van de steun verloren. Nog maar 16 procent van de mensen is positief gestemd.
Lees verder hier: https://danielvdtuin.substack.com/p/de-laag-vertrouwen-samenleving-vertrouwen