A very subtle, touching observation, Alex! Indeed, If we truly, simply stick to our true essence, we overcome and prevail over any form of existence being imposed or desired for us by the outside planners. Our own desires, if pure, and in alignment with universal laws, will be fulfilled and patience is the key! Thank you, brother! - hope you dont mind me call you that, because I feel as we are sharing similar values and that to me is close as family!
Sep 14, 2023·edited Sep 14, 2023Liked by Alex Krainer
An anecdote on non-compliance.
I live out in the boonies on New Mexico Highway 503 which, years ago, was considered scenic and much in demand for movies and advertisements. So every so often a Sheriff's deputy would block the road so that a film crew could get their shots.
I never experienced being stopped for more than about five or ten minutes until one day I sat there fuming after 20 minutes and behind a full school bus at that. I started my engine and pulled out into the oncoming lane and drove at a reasonable speed past the tens of cars stopped there including that of the Sheriff's deputy. It didn't take him long to fire up his lights and get rolling and he stopped me about half a mile down the road.
The deputy thus diverted, the rest of the stopped folk, including the school bus, felt at liberty to continue down the road past us. I'd achieved my objective.
As for myself, I had to wait for a supervisor to show up to tell me off and in that time word got to the film crew what had happened (bad advertising!!) and the director of the operation rolled by in the opposite direction and asked the deputy to let me go Scott free which, of course, didn't happen.
Eventually the supervisor duly arrived, told me off, and wrote me a citation (I forget what for). My appearance in the magistrate court was very brief, my citation was vacated, and the magistrate muttered something about common sense or something like that and it was over.
Somehow, however, I have a feeling it would not have played out that way these days.
Thank you for this inspiring account. I'd like to share what I am doing locally in Santa Cruz, CA, which is frightenly ground zero for smart city disaster capitalism. We are on path with a digital wallet and the staff in the county are clearly over-qualified, i.e., they have experience with literal regime change operations and disaster-impact capitalism/FEMA adjunct. I have been suggesting that both the city and the county establish a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to review every aspect of the policy changes and decision making structures during the last three years. Not going to happen, of course, but it is an occasion to bring up issues of truth and put forward the demand for accountability from local officials. Just this last weekend Governor Grewsom acknowledged the failure of CA on almost every aspect of covid policy. The Barrington people are calling for a national Covid Commission. But there is no reason why such commissions should not be conducted at the local level. If anyone has the inclination to attend local political meetings, you might consider making such suggestions. It is worth it just to see them squirm!
Sadly, the American experience went much differently. Here in Colorado, in a suburb of Denver, reliably "red", people were not only compliant, they were complicit with the authorities in enforcing all the idiotic and irrational rules.
I was thrown out of more stores than I can remember for not wearing a useless cloth mask. Usually by someone wearing their own mask as a chin strap or in a mask that was filthy dirty.
And the reaction of people to my non compliance was not fear. No, it was rage! In their eyes, they felt mocked (I am glad for that) that someone would have the temerity to think for himself.
Covid and all its aftershocks were nothing more than a trial run for a polices state. A trial run that went better than our rulers could have dreamed.
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The concept of "peaceful non-compliance " really resonated in me.
I was the kind of person who would spend hours reading on and listening to stuff about the plandemic. I would become furious because what was happening was such a hoax and an attack to human dignity.
However, I couldn't speak out in front of my work colleagues, friends or relatives. Personal thing sure enough, but very frustrating.
However, I never got jabbed and never obliged any of my pupils at school to put their masks (back) on if they weren't wearing it; I never put up any notice related to the plandemic health and safety rules in my classroom; I never shared any piece of media spreading propaganda.
Big warriors are surely needed but silent snipers can also help.
Thanks, Alex, for this lovely article and everything you post. Love it!
It reminds me a bit of the song Alice's Restaurant. During the Viet Nam war, the son of legendary folk singer Woody Guthrie, Arlo Guthrie. Oh boy, I could go on all afternoon about how your story and that story interrelate. Sorry, I am just going to chuckle to myself and send this on its way.
Sep 15, 2023·edited Sep 15, 2023Liked by Alex Krainer
Excellent point and a very well written piece! I very much appreciate the positivity of your publications recently. Thank you!
This topic immediately reminded me of Sir Jonathan Sumption’s point during the pandemic that the law is not absolute as individual liberties are of higher value. As he described in one of his early interviews to Unherd that this was also the case in the UK after the war when citizens were required to carry an ID, but then slowly started not to comply and at some point it could not be enforced further.
I will leave here two llinks to the marvelous speeches of SJS in this regard. The first is a short 8 min one at the Oxford Union, brilliant too, but my favourite was the longer lecture given last year in Australia, about our own decreasing treshold to take risks and be responsible for those, as opposed to delegating the risk mitigation to our governemnts who will ineitebly exploit it.
I listened to you explain this experience with Tom & Crypto Rich. It raised my hopes. Indeed, I ended my rather depressed mood with your 'Case For Optimism'...
Great admirer of your job on Browder, a skunk if I ever met one and I have met many on Wall Street, the City and even Moscow, where this obnoxious animal thrived for a while.
However, your non compliance hypothesis sounds a bit meek and wishful thinking to me. We don't live in Ghandi's era any longer, but under the all encompassing panopticon net of Gafam/CIA/LGBTQXXX...and it will take something a bit more virile to escape from that one. At the very least the hypothesis that the inherent complexity and internal contradictions of their system will collapse from within. Maybe? We need the East and the South more than ever to be able to survive in the West!
A very subtle, touching observation, Alex! Indeed, If we truly, simply stick to our true essence, we overcome and prevail over any form of existence being imposed or desired for us by the outside planners. Our own desires, if pure, and in alignment with universal laws, will be fulfilled and patience is the key! Thank you, brother! - hope you dont mind me call you that, because I feel as we are sharing similar values and that to me is close as family!
An anecdote on non-compliance.
I live out in the boonies on New Mexico Highway 503 which, years ago, was considered scenic and much in demand for movies and advertisements. So every so often a Sheriff's deputy would block the road so that a film crew could get their shots.
I never experienced being stopped for more than about five or ten minutes until one day I sat there fuming after 20 minutes and behind a full school bus at that. I started my engine and pulled out into the oncoming lane and drove at a reasonable speed past the tens of cars stopped there including that of the Sheriff's deputy. It didn't take him long to fire up his lights and get rolling and he stopped me about half a mile down the road.
The deputy thus diverted, the rest of the stopped folk, including the school bus, felt at liberty to continue down the road past us. I'd achieved my objective.
As for myself, I had to wait for a supervisor to show up to tell me off and in that time word got to the film crew what had happened (bad advertising!!) and the director of the operation rolled by in the opposite direction and asked the deputy to let me go Scott free which, of course, didn't happen.
Eventually the supervisor duly arrived, told me off, and wrote me a citation (I forget what for). My appearance in the magistrate court was very brief, my citation was vacated, and the magistrate muttered something about common sense or something like that and it was over.
Somehow, however, I have a feeling it would not have played out that way these days.
Thank you for this inspiring account. I'd like to share what I am doing locally in Santa Cruz, CA, which is frightenly ground zero for smart city disaster capitalism. We are on path with a digital wallet and the staff in the county are clearly over-qualified, i.e., they have experience with literal regime change operations and disaster-impact capitalism/FEMA adjunct. I have been suggesting that both the city and the county establish a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to review every aspect of the policy changes and decision making structures during the last three years. Not going to happen, of course, but it is an occasion to bring up issues of truth and put forward the demand for accountability from local officials. Just this last weekend Governor Grewsom acknowledged the failure of CA on almost every aspect of covid policy. The Barrington people are calling for a national Covid Commission. But there is no reason why such commissions should not be conducted at the local level. If anyone has the inclination to attend local political meetings, you might consider making such suggestions. It is worth it just to see them squirm!
Sadly, the American experience went much differently. Here in Colorado, in a suburb of Denver, reliably "red", people were not only compliant, they were complicit with the authorities in enforcing all the idiotic and irrational rules.
I was thrown out of more stores than I can remember for not wearing a useless cloth mask. Usually by someone wearing their own mask as a chin strap or in a mask that was filthy dirty.
And the reaction of people to my non compliance was not fear. No, it was rage! In their eyes, they felt mocked (I am glad for that) that someone would have the temerity to think for himself.
Covid and all its aftershocks were nothing more than a trial run for a polices state. A trial run that went better than our rulers could have dreamed.
Next up. Climate Change. God help us.
Not sure if it's "human nature" you observed. More like culture.
If this was a German beach, wanna bet that the Germans would have continued to follow the rules?
The concept of "peaceful non-compliance " really resonated in me.
I was the kind of person who would spend hours reading on and listening to stuff about the plandemic. I would become furious because what was happening was such a hoax and an attack to human dignity.
However, I couldn't speak out in front of my work colleagues, friends or relatives. Personal thing sure enough, but very frustrating.
However, I never got jabbed and never obliged any of my pupils at school to put their masks (back) on if they weren't wearing it; I never put up any notice related to the plandemic health and safety rules in my classroom; I never shared any piece of media spreading propaganda.
Big warriors are surely needed but silent snipers can also help.
Thanks, Alex, for this lovely article and everything you post. Love it!
Lovely post, Alex. Thank you.
It reminds me a bit of the song Alice's Restaurant. During the Viet Nam war, the son of legendary folk singer Woody Guthrie, Arlo Guthrie. Oh boy, I could go on all afternoon about how your story and that story interrelate. Sorry, I am just going to chuckle to myself and send this on its way.
Anyways, thanks for a great posting.
In the words of our mutual friend Tom, Become Ungovernable!
Excellent point and a very well written piece! I very much appreciate the positivity of your publications recently. Thank you!
This topic immediately reminded me of Sir Jonathan Sumption’s point during the pandemic that the law is not absolute as individual liberties are of higher value. As he described in one of his early interviews to Unherd that this was also the case in the UK after the war when citizens were required to carry an ID, but then slowly started not to comply and at some point it could not be enforced further.
I will leave here two llinks to the marvelous speeches of SJS in this regard. The first is a short 8 min one at the Oxford Union, brilliant too, but my favourite was the longer lecture given last year in Australia, about our own decreasing treshold to take risks and be responsible for those, as opposed to delegating the risk mitigation to our governemnts who will ineitebly exploit it.
1. https://youtu.be/nU-cVy3oWYA?si=nEHdSYRFvcdagtff
2. https://youtu.be/yWq3wFPlVTQ?si=oOVh5wpyBeJKeuP_
I listened to you explain this experience with Tom & Crypto Rich. It raised my hopes. Indeed, I ended my rather depressed mood with your 'Case For Optimism'...
https://nedpamphilon.substack.com/p/its-just-a-mask
Thank you Alex for such a hopeful story
and you kept going back so you were able to see the whole process unfold rather than just seeing the first excruciating day. Thank you
Great post illustrating the triumph of delightful people.
Thank you for this.
Dear Alex
Great admirer of your job on Browder, a skunk if I ever met one and I have met many on Wall Street, the City and even Moscow, where this obnoxious animal thrived for a while.
However, your non compliance hypothesis sounds a bit meek and wishful thinking to me. We don't live in Ghandi's era any longer, but under the all encompassing panopticon net of Gafam/CIA/LGBTQXXX...and it will take something a bit more virile to escape from that one. At the very least the hypothesis that the inherent complexity and internal contradictions of their system will collapse from within. Maybe? We need the East and the South more than ever to be able to survive in the West!
Whodanode the best tactic is act dumb and/or hard of hearing.
Military planning and execution left a lot of fingerprints on covid crime scene. Brutal and beaurecratic but very stupid too. Typical military action.