Feudalism’s Revenge
We’re publishing an original essay by longtime contributor Freddie Attenborough today – and this one is a humdinger. Possibly his best yet. Anyone who struggles to digest a piece of this length can go to his Substack where he’s divided it into two parts: one and two. It’s a variation on the “It’s not a conspiracy, but…” theme, suggesting that even though Boris and his Government couldn’t organise a washing up rota, let alone The Great Reset, they’ve revealed their unconscious agenda via their endless cock-ups. And that agenda is essentially to turn the masses back into forelock-tugging serfs by destroying their health and their livelihoods and making them completely dependent on the state. It’s a fantastic read, with some first-class phrasing – more like a stream-of-consciousness novel by Martin Amis crossed with John Kennedy Toole than a polemic. Here are the opening two paragraphs:
The U.K. Government’s latest attempt to satiate Boris Johnson’s multiple, complex and apparently chronic penetrative insemination paraphilias will involve the private sector in bribing young people with discounted takeaway food and free taxi rides. Food delivery and taxi-hailing firms including Uber, Bolt, Deliveroo and Pizza Pilgrims have all been enrolled in this latest psychiatric intervention and are now offering incentives for young people to arouse the Prime Minister’s husband by receiving what he’s taken to referring to during Cabinet meetings as “the pharmaceutical boys’ ejaculate”. “How many disease vectors have the pharmaceutical boys ejaculated into this week?” he’ll ask excitedly, often several times a minute, the words oozing up and out of that capricious little slit in his head like smarmy treacle, mellifluous and full of privilege.
As you might imagine, the BBC got themselves pretty hot and horny about this, the policy’s underlying mix of messianic, full-throttle welfarism and Old Testament-style retributive psychopathy touching a sweet spot for the munificent totalitarians over at New Broadcasting House. Not that they were able to get off as many superlatives as they’d have liked. True, manipulation of the young is as essential to the BBC as it is to every other elite western institution currently waging war on that dangerous, socially harmful pathogen known as “cognitive diversity” – sorry, I mean “Covid misinformation”. But unlike, say, the Guardian, Independent SAGE or Emily Maitlis, the BBC’s efforts to save the povvy proles from wrongthink are forever getting ensnared in all sorts of tiresome, fuddy-duddy, neo-Victorian priggery: here, a Royal Charter blathering on about fairness and due impartiality; there, a Parliamentary Select Committee stuffed to the gills with white men all bloviating away about discredited colonial-era shibboleths like objectivity and truth, and everywhere you look hardworking reporters barely able to take a rhetorical step without some ghastly white supremacist popping out from behind a copy of Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom and demanding they stop acting like the public relations arm of the global pharmaceutical industry.
Go and make yourself a cup of coffee, then come back to your device and read it in full.
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I’ve thought all along that what is currently underway is a certain type of mind-set (who think they own the world and everything in it) trying to roll back 150 years of social advancement and re-introduce serfdom aka 21st century feudalism. Please do not fall into the digital serfdom trap. Educate your children and resist with everything you have and get rid of your smartphone. We have the numbers.
After yesterday’s debacle and the legalised theft from the masses, prepare for a repeat of 1979 and the ‘WInter of Discontent’.
1979 and the winter of discontent was nowhere as bad as the present situation; at least then, you could see a way out.
And you weren’t monitored by thousands of cameras on the streets and inside buildings, and you weren’t tracked by your mobile phone. And all of your e-mails and text messages couldn’t be read by the ‘security services’ and the police back in those days.
They did open the mail of people they thought were dodgy, and they presumably listened to phone calls too. But it’s got much easier.
If I got rid of my smartphone I would be unable to access my bank account nor be able to pay my bills on-line. Also a lot of instructions and information in my workplace come via WhatsApp messages. And an app is required to see our work shifts and timetables and what vehicles we are allocated.
You cannot turn back the clock, and we are all slaves to computers now.
I would advise to at least switching to Matrix’s Elements as its way far secure or even Telegram than Whatsapp.
No-one can make you have a ‘smart’ device. Just say’no’.
If you can manage without, at least switch off location services.
It’s less like serfdom or feudalism and more like slavery. Serfs were not state dependent and were largely self supporting and socially and culturally tied to the land and people around them (obviously there were exceptions). Although it often fell short of the ideal there was also a strong burden placed on the aristocracy to fulfil a constructive role managerially, commercially and culturally.
To be alienated or completely removed from the means of sustaining yourself and to have your interactions and commercial activities not only policed but prescribed by a third party with whom you have no real connection other than what is essentially de facto ownership looks very much like slavery.
or as pets.
Suggestions for people who want to retain their smartphone:
What language is this written in – can someone cleverer than what I is translate please?
I fear Freddie Attenborough is ever so slightly inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity. That aside, I’m sure he’s right, whatever he says!
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Lol That was my immediate reaction aswell. And haven’t read it either.
Thanks, I couldn’t think of the words….
A summary a serf could understand would be nice – but 10/10 for impressive writing, i think
Having now skim-read it I think he’s accusing the PTB of unconsciously encouraging the vast majority of the population to become passive, helpless, incapable puppets willing to accept any directives from above/the PTB. Personally I think that the vast majority of the population are currently only too willing to cooperate with this initiative because they are increasingly longing/yearning, ( unconsciously or not ), to be relieved of the burden of belief in the illusion of free will. The “official” realisation and integration of the fact that free will does not exist would/will however entail a massive overhaul of many/most of the oldest most entrenched social structures/systems, ( in building which this myth probably played a very important role ), and so although the evidence that ( contra-causal/meaningful ) free will does not exist has been building up for the last 60+ years it is still feared and resisted. So for now, humans create ( and/or welcome ) artificial versions of the universal forces controlling everything that they are and do, simulcra/substitutes to relieve them of as much of the burden and stress and unnecessary inequities and suffering that belief in free will produces, and of course these simulcra are ghastly… Read more »
thanks,
once PTB start turning the cosy stress free lives into shit lives then the masses may want their free will back – blind trust of authority assuming they have your best interests at heart will end in tears
I think that the illusion or myth of free will has ( nearly ) had its day; the costs ( mental, physical, social etc ) of believing in its existence now definitely outweigh the benefits. It’s not that surprising that, until the myth is officially debunked and abandoned, and social structures/systems overhauled in response, so many people are apparently so willing to accept the horrible artificial versions, of vast forces controlling everything they do. It maybe feels like a step towards being free of the myth.
The expression “more is less” came to mind .
This is a perfect example of verbal diarrhea .
Definitely not worth reading in full.
Yes and he administered laxatives to himself before writing.
It reads liike something written by a Classics Scholar. Someone like Boris Johnson, perhaps. Could it be that Freddie Attenborough is a BJ nom de plume? (LOL)
It’s like the author is passionately jacking off to his own f****** drivel, but failing to come because he’s already drained himself to begin with (to use one of his brilliant metaphers), expecting others to clap to his s***** performance. I see a bright future before him in role of a former sociology lecturer.
“I see a bright future before him in role of a former sociology lecturer.”
Haha, brilliant 👏👏👏
You are much cleverer than the writer is, his article is doggerel masquerading as articulacy.
Too kind MVL, but I confess my comment was a quote originally uttered by Disraeli in reference to Gladstone.
to be fair i think freddie is quite clever – and certainly not a wanker – but maybe as some have suggested he was a bit pissed
I’m nobody special & at 64 I wish I couldn’t feel the vibe from TPTB but I can !! every little sneaky move , it’s like I’m wired ! Got kids & grandkids & my heart aches for them ! Freddie is spot on , I know these people , I actually know lots of people !! If you don’t get his piece then don’t be surprised very soon when you can’t use your bank card more than say a mile from your house or when your car goes into limp mode if your social credit score is too low etc , We are poised on the edge of oblivion of the life we had before March last year ! If we carry on listening to the shysters in HMG there will be no way back ! I already think it’s too late 😵💫😤😢
Yes. Prose style is absolutely ghastly. Unreadable pompous verbosity.
It sounds like they want us to keep their global money laundering fast food outlets going, while staying thin to ‘protect the health service’, but die quite soon after receiving your pension.
A sensational read – made me laugh and I learnt a new word, bukkake.
You definitely don’t want to do a Google search (other search engines are available) for that!
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or confuse it with kabuki
Ah, now I have a problem. I don’t know what kabuki is and I’m wondering if is associated in any way, shape or form to bukkake? If so, I too don’t want to do a Google search for fear of how Mrs. timsk might respond: ‘jeez, what filth have been looking at on the interwebs – you dirty ol’ man? Divorce, now!’
Thats the problem with academics – they just cant get to the point
Excellent article, gets even better as it goes along
All very clever but massively over-written. Wanted to get my blue pencil out.
I hope that’s not a euphemism
What a glutinous mealy-mouthed word-salad. This is the writing you get when you don’t want to go down the conspiracy route, but there’s nothing left to say except how clever you used to be. Toby loves it and wishes he could write like this.
He’s a retired sociology lecturer, cut him some slack. You’ve got to admit that Genetically modified haemorrhoids capturing and storing methane gas!… is pretty good.
Yes, it is gibberish.
Sustainability is a grand concept. I know, I was encouraged to study a master’s degree in it. While it was all about the roots of the concept and its polticial manifestation in the UN and other global bodies, I did have a lecturer who understood exactly the dilemma that lay at the heart of it. How can you convince a family of 6 in a council house that they need to dump their coal fire to save the planet? To dump the diesel car that takes them to work? To hand over their job to cheaper, more efficient automation solutions? You can’t as said above. You need bribes, coercion, fear, and outright totalitarianism to deliver it. Our democratic ideals simply don’t wash with sustainability in its Eco modernist guise. What lies at the centre of it is this. Those that fear the planet’s destruction at the hand of man, and have the power to address it, hate the human race in its current form. They despise it. They want it to be washed clean and then they can get it rebuild it. It’s psychotic in its grandeur and intent. My lecturer had touched on this back then and it’s stuck… Read more »
I would too, if it didn’t alter and degrade my own lifestyle, which is how it will be for the main players
It can only lead to war. It always does.
Khmers verts…
It was satire, wasn’t it, and not meant to be serious?
Whenever I see that picture I see arrogance personified.
I see a bunch of sad wannabes.
Cosplay feudalists, now doing it for real.
It reminds me of a Spandau Ballet album cover (I think)
yes, this one
The first time I saw Johnson on TV c.1986 he was absolutely exploding with class superiority and entitlement. It was very unpleasant to watch and I thought he’d already committed suicide as a political wannabe. Unfortunately, he got to disguise it better dispensing affability to a middle class he is absolutely determined to destroy but the initial perception seems to have been correct. Of course, this does not he isn’t a grovelling client of globalist feudalists like Schwab and Gates.
Boris Johnson 1995 …
This article is pretentious, unreadable tripe. It says nothing whatsoever because it is so verbose, composed of words thrown together at random.
I had to Google ‘ bukkake party’ – wish I hadn’t What a sheltered life I have led.
This is decidedly too long for elaborating on a single theme and the author does get carried away by his own style at times, but it’s generally an enjoyable read. When edited down to about half the size, it could make really good read, and some of the ideas could be used for another text.
After being edited, the leftover bits could be used to make a pair of purple velvet curtains
Strewth, I wish that fellow who crashed the Tory conference and the Sepp Blatter speech would do a job on the G20!
Well worth reading in full. Once you get past the first couple of paragraphs the extreme verbosity eased off to intermittant verbosity.
Interesting when Utopia is in the past. Who’s to really say we can’t turn the clock back, slow it all down? All it takes is a revolution in reverse mindset. Go back to using the post. Go back to typewriters without memories. Talk to each other. Write cheques. Grow, manufacture & distribute locally. BOYCOTT BIG BUSINESS. Less TV, more radio (the pictures are better). More live performances, less recorded entertainment. Put away that damned camera phone and tell me what you saw, what you heard, what you felt. Use the Churchillian V at every available opportunity. Get out there!
Being so long it was a slog but I enjoyed it and laughed a lot. When someone is on a roll just go with the flow.
My favourite quote:
“ You were educated at Eton and Oxford. True, you only graduated with a third in PPE, and, in all honesty, you’d probably struggle to pour piss out of a boot even if someone told you there were instructions printed on the sole.”
Describes the vast majority of the members of the government.
“…even though Boris and his Government couldn’t organise a washing up rota, let alone The Great Reset, they’ve revealed their unconscious agenda via their endless cock-ups…”
Ffs stop letting them off the hook with the “sorry, we cocked-up” defence. There’s no “unconscious” agenda – the whole thing was planned, and has been executed to plan. The constant flip-flopping is deliberate and designed firstly to wear the public down and secondly to do precisely what you’re doing I.e. get them thinking that it’s incompetence rather than malevolence that’s got us where we are. And stop referring to the PM by first name only as if he a cuddly friend – he a nasty piece of work.