Excellent piece. Geddes is insightful and nearly always worth a read. Here's the end (bold added):
Systems of silent enslavement work better than those which require obvious fences and clanking chains. Meta-fraud is the mechanism by which these are established and scaled. Meta-frauds are successful because they are by construction hard to perceive, large, and longstanding: each one is a “new normal” that excludes the idea of any rival system that has legitimacy. By their nature they lead to totalitarian societies — be they communist, fascist, or transhumanist in nature.
The simultaneous unravelling of all the interconnected meta-frauds is therefore both unthinkable to most people, and the most sizeable change to human society possible, short of relocating to another planet or dimension. The Great Awakening is the transformation of our society so that these frauds are widely perceived, which is an experiential process. We have to endure the exposure and collapse of these meta-fraud systems and institutions, in order to overcome and transcend them.
Eliminating meta-fraud is a paradoxical process, in that it involves “boiling the frog too fast”. For instance, the slow rebranding of “red” Marxism as “green” Environmentalism is derailed by suddenly increasing energy prices and creating shortages, which in turn causes people to question the official explanations being offered. The decline and fall of the empire of meta-fraudsters looks like a horrific end of established society, but actually it is only the beginning of genuine civilisation.
Thanks for commenting. Geddes is on another level of analysis that is apparently not readily understood or appreciated here. He has a way of examining and dissecting the big picture unlike anybody else out there.
Excellent piece. Geddes is insightful and nearly always worth a read. Here's the end (bold added):
Thanks for commenting. Geddes is on another level of analysis that is apparently not readily understood or appreciated here. He has a way of examining and dissecting the big picture unlike anybody else out there.
Yes, good way to put it.