Paul Craig Roberts • Sunday, January 23, 2022 • 400 Words
In a recent interview with Geopolitics & Empire — https://guadalajarageopolitics.com/2022/01/18/paul-craig-roberts-it-may-well-be-the-end-of-the-world/ —
Hrvoje Moric asked me if there was an explanation for the uniformity of
countries’ Covid policies with even the “free world” shutting down
civil liberties with tyrannical lockdowns, mask, vaccine, and passport
mandates, and falsified pandemic and death data. I said it looked very
much like a conspiracy but that I did not understand how such a
far-flung conspiracy could have been organized and wondered if it was
simply stupidity and lemmings following lemmings over the cliff. If I
had read prior to the interview Kees Van Der Pijl’s new book, States of Emergency (Clarity Press, 2022, https://www.amazon.com/States-Emergency-Keeping-Global-Population/dp/1949762483/ ), I would have had a better answer.
Kees Van Der Pijl, an author of distinction, writes that the global
ruling class or oligarchy used Covid-19 to seize power by declaring a
state of global emergency. He explains that the Information Technology
revolution by creating a global information and communication system was
ushering in a social transformation inimical to the oligarchy’s
hegemony over society. In order to stop this transformation, the global
elite used lockdowns, mandates, censorship and controlled narratives to
seize control over populations.
Van Der Pijl makes a cogent argument. He shows that the “pandemic” is
a political emergency, not a medical one. Its purpose was to suppress
populations and transition to an authoritarian state and social
structure. The elites’ abandonment of class compromise resulted in
populist movements against elite control. To prevent a revolutionary
force from emerging, a “Covid crisis” was used to advance
authoritarianism and override objections from the people and from
independent medical scientists. The orchestrated “pandemic” provided
perfect cover for establishing a surveillance society on the basis of
medical emergency without having to use overt violence.
The “Covid Pandemic” emerges as the most threatening example to date
of Disaster Capitalism in which catastrophes are orchestrated in order
to advance economic and political agendas.
Van Der Pijl believes that the global elite’s power seizure will
fail. It is too counterfactual and affects elite interests differently,
giving rise to conflicts within the global oligarchy. He says that as it
becomes clear that we have been deceived, the elite and their
institutions will lose authority, and the path will be clear for a
better and more open democratic society.
Van Der Pijl has provided us with a very interesting and eye-opening
book. If his book is widely read, people will gain immunity to the
self-serving narratives of the global elite.