Do do that voodoo that you do so well
A Not Sure piece for Alan Watt Redux #222, "Don’t devalue yourself as an individual, whatever you do"
What’s the world coming to when an economist has over 400,000 subscribers on Substack? Below is a screenshot of Paul Krugman’s Substack, and because it’s just a screenshot, you cannot click on the ‘subscribe’ button. But now you know, and you can hurry over and click ‘subscribe’ and help him reach half a million.
I did not do that, but I confess, I enjoyed his article he posted today on Trump’s tariffs, and I might explore his site a little more before I move on.
The Economics of Smoot-Hawley 2.0, Part I
But first, I’ll back up. Often, I’ve said, “I passed through the living room and my brother was watching…” but this is not true. I would never pass through the living room when he is watching the television as I would have to pass between him on the couch and the big, black screen. I would never do that because it would be rudely unnecessary when there’s another entrance to the kitchen.
What happens is that I walk down the hall into the kitchen and from there I can hear the big, black screen and decide if I want to socialize with my brother. It’s not easy to socialize with someone watching television, but I manage this by listening attentively to the boob tube (name derived from idiots watching an image generated by a cathode ray tube, which is ancient tech and now we’re HDTV, LED/OLED/QLED. Same boobs — not my brother!, no tubes.) Whilst sincerely and attentively listening and watching, I can inject humorous and sarcastic commentary that makes my brother laugh. See? I socialized.
The other day, my brother was watching Tucker Carlson interviewing a German economist named Richard Werner. I decided this was worth socializing over. I could not stay too long, but the next day on our walk, I asked my brother a few questions about it, and some general questions on the topic of inflation.
Many years ago, and fresh out of university, before my brother chose a different career path, he enrolled at the University of Chicago to pursue a master’s degree in economics. Milton Friedman taught there, and he and George Stigler were associated with the Chicago school of economics, that rejected Keynesianism for monetarism that emphasized the importance of policy-makers in determining the amount of money in circulation. After one year there, my brother decided that economics was not for him, and he left Chicago.
Regarding Tucker Carlson’s interview with Richard Werner, my brother said, “Werner just isn’t that bright. He was really struggling to succinctly say where money comes from, how it is added into the economy, and he doesn’t seem to have a grasp of basic accounting.” He then gave me a brief lesson on money, and I asked a few general questions. My brother said, “Nothing interesting has come out of economics since the 19th and 20th century thinking of the Austrian school of economics.”
Later I wondered why Tucker Carlson was interviewing Werner. There seemed to be nothing special about his thoughts on credit creation and the role of banking. He had no new book to promote. It was only later when I saw that the World Economic Forum had selected him as a “Global Leader for Tomorrow” at Davos in 2003, that the penny (which the U.S. Treasury vows to stop producing next year) dropped.
Now this former Global Leader for Tomorrow has turned whistleblower and has been making the rounds with a variety of exciting topics that are custom made for an audience that feels misled and even burned by mainstream fare.
Richard Werner Exposes the Evils of the Fed & the Link Between Banking, War, and the CIA
Former WEF Member Turned Whistleblower Warns About Globalists Plan To Microchip People
One thing that leapt out at me during Werner’s interview with Carlson was his description of how popular his lectures became. For three years he was a professor at Goethe-University Frankfurt. Frankfurt, Germany is the seat of the European Central Bank, and a city littered with banks. His humble class audience grew from a couple dozen to more than four hundred, and we assume this is because he was a rock star amongst economists, pacing the stage like Mick Jagger, enthralling young men and women with his ground-breaking ideas.
Werner holds a First Class Honours B.Sc. in Economics from the London School of Economics and a doctorate in Economics from the University of Oxford. He has also studied at the University of Tokyo. Until February 2019, Richard was for many years a member of the ECB Shadow Council. A European Commission Fellow at Oxford University’s Institute for Economics and Statistics, and he is credited with coining the term 'quantitative easing' and advancing that concept in Japan in the mid 1990s. Nowhere on his lengthy and impressive bio does he distance himself from the World Economic Forum and the honor they bestowed on him, nor proclaim himself a whistleblower.
At the end of this article, I will link to several Alan Watt audios where he discusses quantitative easing. Other thinkers have referred to Quantitative Easing (QE) as conjuring growth in voodoo economics.
Put plainly, Werner is an ‘influencer’, placed on the right shows at the right times for reasons which I’ve not time to fathom out. I was stunned that an economist could have 12,000 Substack subscribers, but that was before I stumbled upon Paul Krugman.
How I even knew to go looking for influential economists was by doing keyword searches for ‘academic influencers’. Just as scientists and Silicon Valley tech entrepreneurs are promoted as stars we need to follow and worship, academia promotes its own.
Earlier in the week, while on the hunt for commentary about America’s AI Action Plan released by the U.S. government last month, I discovered an influencer by the name of Joe Allen. I don’t think he has been interviewed by Joe Rogan or Tucker Carlson, but he was interviewed by Steve Bannon, something I learned on one of my pass through/not pass through the living room, as my brother watched TV.
Here is Joe Allen’s bio on the Coast to Coast website from when he was a guest of George Noory:
Joe Allen is an author and blogger who writes on the future of humanity, artificial intelligence, transhumanism, and other technology based topics. He has written for Chronicles, The Federalist, Human Events, The National Pulse, Parabola, Salvo, and Protocol: The Journal of the Entertainment Technology Industry. He holds a master’s degree from Boston University, where he studied cognitive science and human evolution as they pertain to religion. As an arena rigger, he’s toured the world for rock n’ roll, country, rap, classical, and cage-fighting productions.
Nowadays, without financial aid, a year at Boston University is nearly $80,000, so rigging a cage-fight or pontificating on the future of humanity could make a dent in that debt.
I’ve entitled today’s Redux of Alan Watt, "Don’t devalue yourself as an individual, whatever you do" but when it first aired in February of 2014, its title was:
Alan said, “I’ve always said the people must think for themselves. You’ve got to think for yourself. You have a mind to use. You have your own world experiences to use. You will definitely be contaminated – that’s the term that’s used even by the communist system. Yuri Bezmenov and other writers talked about the contamination of their indoctrination. You will believe, especially if you go through university and college, in all the social causes, and global warming, and anthropogenic global warming, it’s man-made global warming, too many people, too many of the wrong kind of people as George Bernard Shaw said. And you will believe it all because it’s presented with the omission of any other parts of any particular story. That’s how you lie to people, from the top. Not by just basically lying, but by omission and then you will be led to a conclusion that was preplanned by those who gave you that limited one-sided information. And yet they come out of college and university thinking they know all there is to know, taught by the best professors, who are part of the act of course. Because some of the top professors that teach all this stuff are members of the same organization, the CFR/Royal Institute of International Affairs and various other names for the umbrella group. So they know what they’re doing. They, again, will say it’s okay to deceive the people, and the students, for the greater good.”
Deception is all around us, and nowadays deceivers are often called influencers. It can take years to prepare an influencer for public consumption. They are groomed and prepped for a distant mission, not unlike sleeper agents of the spy world. They’ll come out with lots of knowledge about a topic that seems pressing, even necessary for the survival of humanity. They are credible, their information is factual. But then there’s the spin, the rat poison. The spin is different in every case. It might be something like, “Geoengineering is real and has been going on for years and we need have open discussions about, and consider other options, and by the way, anthropogenic climate change is a fact.” Or it might be, “We’re run by a technocratic cabal, hellbent on our destruction. It might be time to give Marxism a fair shake.”
Let me say that sometimes the spin may not be intentional. It might come from a place of genuine concern but it lacks the foundation of a deep understanding of the architects of this ancient agenda and their plan of control over the many by the few. But alas, it’s still rat poison.
Quoting again from this Alan Watt talk: “The idea, too, is to stop you thinking as an individual…You see, the idea is to get you working collectively and to eradicate the individualistic quality that you have. You will only grow through being an individual. You will only get wise or some wisdom by being an individual and pondering everything for yourself, not by anybody else’s. And you don’t have to go into the philosophers, that are quoted like gods, and that was the purpose of them, especially in the 1800s and so on. They were all put out there and funded by special interest groups, generally often just one at the time, to eradicate the old order of things where the old religions, as they call them, had run the world for a long time, and to replace them with the scientific elite, you see, those who are logical, rational and all the rest of it, etc. etc.”
‘Thinkers’ and ‘academics’ and ‘experts’ work on our mind in especially damaging ways because we are trained from birth not to value our own minds, our unique thoughts. We seek for our thoughts to be guided and In-Formed. Alan said, “…if you worship philosophers... and you worship them for what? For being an individual? Well, why don’t you be one yourself? without quoting them or following what they said?…Why don’t you do that rather than have to quote them and quote them like they’re some kind of gods?”
The insidious quality of this kind of influence on our minds makes the recent promotion by the Catholic church of ‘hot priest’ influencers seem clumsy and laughable. Evidently, bodybuilding priests are going to swell the numbers of the faithful. It’s all about pecs and tats now.
Alan Watt discusses quantitative easing:
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Great article. Viscerally despise TCarlson, an OBVIOUS system-creature through and through. Along with the other fake 'dissidentoids' like AJones who fully joined/was built by the system long ago, likely had that old "Cremation of Care" scoop thrown at his lap to build his profile up (very interesting story around that along DIcke and others) and now fully shills TechnoTyranny. Who's been recently building up NFuentes, "christian nationalist" fascistoid (an exception among most dissidentoids who tend to be cryptocommunists or "at best" libertarians-but no surprise since at core all ideologies are the same thing in different packages) who seems to be a groomed wunderkind for the future. The wunderkind's been bashing TCarlson so entertainment never ends in this niche. Some sheep must be confused, waiting for new orders/rearranged loyalties from the shepherds.
The mental straitjacket is tight.
I remember taking one class in economics. I recalled saying to myself, “Who in their right mind would want to do this? “No wonder the world is in the shape it’s in.” It all came down to printing money out of thin air and controlling it. Also, making sure we, the people, pay a tax on this “money.” In addition to not being able to acquire as much as we want. The Lords of Death hang it over us like a carrot stick.
"You remind me of a man." "What man?" "The man with the power." "What power?" "The power of hoodoo." "Who do?" "You do!"