{"id":210469,"date":"2024-02-11T13:53:37","date_gmt":"2024-02-11T17:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=210469"},"modified":"2024-02-11T13:54:55","modified_gmt":"2024-02-11T17:54:55","slug":"the-radical-center-why-ruling-power-elite-are-very-very-afraid-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=210469","title":{"rendered":"<h2><b>THE RADICAL CENTER: Why ruling power elite are very, VERY, afraid of it<\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The Great Reset Is Dead, Long Live The Great Reset<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->By Tom Luongo<br \/>\nGold, Goats, &#8216;n Guns<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThe Babylon Project was our last, best hope for peace.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It failed.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2013 Susan Ivanova,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=d9EbGd1AlMg\">Season 3 Opening Sequence,\u00a0Babylon 5<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>When the World Economic Forum rolled out their advertising campaign for\u00a0<em>The Great Reset<\/em>\u00a0it was supposed to be the victory lap for Globalism.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Coupled with the COVID-19 pandemic, the subsequent global financial crisis unleashed a flood of government funny money that was supposed to buy our way to their perpetual prosperity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/when-the-levee-breaks.jpg?itok=nMELXksR\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/when-the-levee-breaks.jpg?itok=nMELXksR\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/when-the-levee-breaks.jpg?itok=nMELXksR\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"815ad7f0-cd45-44d0-9108-c7c86acc310a\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>It failed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t take my word for it. Take the word of one of the chief architects of the Great Reset, Klaus von Commie Schnitzel\u2019s right hand man, Yuval Noah Harari.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"X Post\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfdGltZWxpbmVfbGlzdCI6eyJidWNrZXQiOltdLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2ZvbGxvd2VyX2NvdW50X3N1bnNldCI6eyJidWNrZXQiOnRydWUsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfdHdlZXRfZWRpdF9iYWNrZW5kIjp7ImJ1Y2tldCI6Im9uIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH0sInRmd19yZWZzcmNfc2Vzc2lvbiI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJvbiIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfZm9zbnJfc29mdF9pbnRlcnZlbnRpb25zX2VuYWJsZWQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib24iLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X21peGVkX21lZGlhXzE1ODk3Ijp7ImJ1Y2tldCI6InRyZWF0bWVudCIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3Nob3dfYmlyZHdhdGNoX3Bpdm90c19lbmFibGVkIjp7ImJ1Y2tldCI6Im9uIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH0sInRmd19kdXBsaWNhdGVfc2NyaWJlc190b19zZXR0aW5ncyI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJvbiIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfdXNlX3Byb2ZpbGVfaW1hZ2Vfc2hhcGVfZW5hYmxlZCI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJvbiIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfdmlkZW9faGxzX2R5bmFtaWNfbWFuaWZlc3RzXzE1MDgyIjp7ImJ1Y2tldCI6InRydWVfYml0cmF0ZSIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfbGVnYWN5X3RpbWVsaW5lX3N1bnNldCI6eyJidWNrZXQiOnRydWUsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfdHdlZXRfZWRpdF9mcm9udGVuZCI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJvbiIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9fQ%3D%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1752715510792311047&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fgeopolitical%2Fgreat-reset-dead-long-live-great-reset&amp;sessionId=42213d5c5c1a8ea0b2ef8a879d18c33d124c5f01&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1752715510792311047\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Spoken like the true authoritarian that he is, Harari can only see violence and chaos. He\u2019s not wrong. The violence and chaos coming, however, have their roots in his attempts (or complicity) in trying to force, through violence, a global order on humanity which humanity doesn\u2019t want.<\/p>\n<p>This push towards violence, however, can stop tomorrow. All that has to happen is for cretins like Harari, Soros, Schwab, Gates, and all the people behind them, to truly accept the fact that they have failed and cut a deal with us.<\/p>\n<p>If they do that we can minimize the violence on the horizon. But that\u2019s not going to happen because they\u2019ve already told us over and over that the abuse will continue until morale improves.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The impending chaos and violence is coming precisely\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Newton%27s_laws_of_motion\">because of Isaac Newton\u2019s 3rd law<\/a>, popularly summarized as \u201cfor every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not coming because we \u2018don\u2019t have any answers.\u2019 We have plenty of answers, Harari and his ilk simply don\u2019t like them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For decades we met their violence with a kind of silent resignation<\/strong>\u00a0as the cost of upsetting this system far outweighed the benefit of being the first 2nd lieutenant out of the foxhole in No Man\u2019s Land. But the costs for so many today for going along to get along far outweigh the benefits accruing to them.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s why the protests all across the West are intensifying.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Great Reset project came at us too fast and we quickly saw it for what it was.\u00a0<\/strong>While it was being rolled out through COVID most went along to be good neighbors. As I\u2019ve argued in the past, acquiescence to the insane lockdown rules didn\u2019t come from most people being sheep willingly herded into\u00a0<s>concentration<\/s>\u00a0happy camps. It came from a sense of wanting to be seen as cautious members of a community during a public crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Of course there were some whose latent psychosis was triggered into being (*cough* Nassim Taleb *cough*), but the majority of people simply had their basic humanity weaponized against them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Once the first wave of COVID ran its course and we saw how far they moved heaven and earth to silence actual cures for the virus, the\u00a0<em>Great Reset\u00a0<\/em>began morphing into the\u00a0<em>Great Awakening<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And the evidence of people standing firm against any further degradation of our society for this nonsense grows daily.<\/p>\n<h2>The Great Diffusion?<\/h2>\n<p>Years ago I wrote about<a href=\"https:\/\/tomluongo.me\/2018\/06\/18\/crossing-chasm-afd-goal-merkel\/\">\u00a0Everett Rogers\u2019\u00a0<em>Theory of Diffusion<\/em><\/a>\u00a0as it pertains to politics in general and the rise of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in specific.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Everett Rogers\u2019 Diffusion of Innovation Theory is applicable to politics as well as products.\u00a0 The idea being that it takes around 16% adoption for a new technology, ideology, etc. to have the\u00a0potential to become something bigger.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0This was made popular by Malcolm Gladwell in his book Tipping Point.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/rogerscurve1_0.jpg?itok=0EhR5tXp\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/rogerscurve1_0.jpg?itok=0EhR5tXp\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/rogerscurve1_0.jpg?itok=0EhR5tXp\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"178\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"0008ec4a-5454-49cb-a2d5-6627d280b5cc\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is the curve I was implicitly invoking in my recent article about humans being more wolf than sheep.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tomluongo.me\/2024\/01\/19\/davos-trust-and-the-end-of-comfortable-wolves\/\">We went from comfortable wolves<\/a>\u00a0in a pack we thought protected us from the dangers of the world to anxious, nervous wolves wondering which one of us would stand up to the psychotic alpha leading us towards an abyss.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The alpha continues towards that abyss thinking it\u2019s a giant game of chicken and that we will stay under his rule out of fear.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Many of us are in either a state of shock and\/or denial about what\u2019s been going on. But, as history has shown us, we don\u2019t need a majority of people to fundamentally change the course of history.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But at the heart of my observation is the following: Who will you really become when you have nothing left to lose? Or better yet, where\u2019s your loss threshold before the real you bares your canines?<\/p>\n<p>Because that\u2019s literally all I was saying. We all have a limit. And the idea that because your limit isn\u2019t as low as mine or some rando on the\u00a0<em>intarwebz<\/em>\u00a0makes you a sheeple is exactly the type of condescending and unearned sense of entitlement that drives the very ghouls that are convening at\u00a0<em>Davos<\/em>\u00a0this week to force us to rebuild our trust in them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Looking around social media and the headlines of protests around the world by the working class, which the managerial class of over-educated\u00a0<em>midwits<\/em>\u00a0despise to the core of their being, you can see we\u2019re very close to if not past the 16% tipping point.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This is why\u00a0<em>Davos\u00a0<\/em>has put on the full court press to accelerate the decline and fall of western civilization. We can all feel it. We\u2019re a little over a month into 2024 and a year\u2019s worth of geopolitics has occurred in that time.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>They can feel the whole project slipping away and this has to be nipped in the bud before it spreads into what Rogers called the \u2018Early Majority.\u2019 To that end this is why they were so hard on \u201cvaccine hesitancy,\u201d and launched the wars on Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s why now anyone to the right of Karl Marx himself is a \u201cFascist!\u201d and is a member of the \u201chard right.\u201d This is to dissuade people from identifying with outgroups and shame them into qualifying all of their dissension from their norm with, \u201cI\u2019m not a racist but\u2026\u201d or \u201cI don\u2019t agree with everything they say but\u2026 \u201c<\/p>\n<h2>The Gap into Conflict<\/h2>\n<p>But also embedded in that article was Geoffrey Moore\u2019s refinement of Rogers\u2019 Curve to include the \u201cChasm.\u201d Getting to 16% adoption isn\u2019t enough. The new thing can get to 16% easily by simply opposing that which is dominant. This is what Harari was implying, that we are just ab-reacting to the opposite of them, by saying that we only reject the liberal order but have nothing to replace it with.<\/p>\n<p>This is why the new idea or product has to then rebrand itself into something more universal.<strong>\u00a0It\u2019s not enough to be\u00a0<em>against globalism or the WEF<\/em>, we have to also be\u00a0<em>for something better.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>That becomes a decision point for a lot of people.<\/strong>\u00a0It\u2019s the moment when the established idea, brand, etc. wakes up to the threat and fights back. This is what the 16% chasm represents, that gulf between opposition and affirmation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/crossing-the-chasm_0.jpg?itok=RgXpNHE1\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/crossing-the-chasm_0.jpg?itok=RgXpNHE1\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/crossing-the-chasm_0.jpg?itok=RgXpNHE1\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"b42390ec-16fb-45d1-87ab-1f214c8b5e92\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>This is also what\u00a0<em>Davos\u00a0<\/em>and their ilk are truly exceptional at managing. They keep the Overton Window framed over irrelevant side issues to ensure that a new majority doesn\u2019t \u201ccross the 16% chasm,\u201d by uniting over that better solution that doesn\u2019t include them.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m calling this group they are afraid of, \u201cThe Radical Center.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is why AfD got to 16% in 2018 as the anti-Merkel party, but was easily neutralized when they didn\u2019t become the true \u201cAlternative for Germany\u201d party. Once they did that and the current Scholz-led government failed to protect the German middle class during and since COVID, they\u2019ve become a real threat.<\/p>\n<p>A mixture of this rebranding and entrenched arrogance of the German political establishment is what led to AfD\u2019s rise to the mid-20s in German polling. And it\u2019s why despite a hastily-organized hit on them for an unconfirmed secret meeting in Postdam over deportation, they are still polling above 16%.<\/p>\n<p>They are now the kind of threat that requires more drastic action, like banning them as a political party. That the German political establishment is even contemplating this tells you that they are fighting a rear-guard action against a movement that has grown far bigger than just AfD itself.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gerrmany has crossed \u2018The Chasm\u2019 and a kind of\u00a0<em>Radical Center<\/em>\u00a0is forming.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The ideas this embodies, a Germany for Germans that rejects globalism, inflation, endless taxation and war, in favor of localism, community and cohesion is far more immune to crude attack.<\/p>\n<p>So, the response is to send Chancellor Scholz to Kiev<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/591820-germany-ukraine-security-pact-february-media-report\/\">\u00a0to sign a mutual security pact with Ukraine<\/a>\u00a0later this month to bypass the political revolution happening at home.<\/p>\n<p>By the same token I\u2019ve exhorted the libertarian movement in the US to become the movement of solutions; practical achievable solutions that speak to a true majority of Americans. And from there lead them to more localized solutions over time.<\/p>\n<p>But because they have refused to do this, getting bogged down in being anti-Fed, anti-this, and anti-that, it leaves them still a fringe political group, easily neutralized by a simple meme:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/libertarian-road-meme.jpg?itok=UgAC9RDO\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/libertarian-road-meme.jpg?itok=UgAC9RDO\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/libertarian-road-meme.jpg?itok=UgAC9RDO\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"584\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"558431c9-1bf8-414e-9a27-4138311d79e6\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is why I\u2019ve become disillusioned with where the libertarian movement has wound up. This is the essence of what\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tomluongo.me\/2024\/02\/03\/podcast-episode-168-peter-quinones-and-the-plight-of-being-post-libertarian\/\">Pete Quinones and I discussed in the recent podcast we did<\/a>. It doesn\u2019t mean I reject the philosophy or even the use of many libertarian critiques of central planning as useful filters, it means the philosophy isn\u2019t enough to move the Overton Window in any practical political sense.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It\u2019s why I voted for Trump twice, despite his many limitations, and will vote for him again if\u00a0<em>Davos\u00a0<\/em>can\u2019t stop him from being on the Florida ballot. Even then, out of spite, I, like many, will simply write his name in.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And, guess what? He\u2019ll still beat the LP candidate.<\/p>\n<h2>Accelerated Decrepitude<\/h2>\n<p><strong>So, the\u00a0<em>Great Awakening<\/em>\u00a0has morphed, from\u00a0<em>Davos\u2019<\/em>\u00a0perspective, into a kind of\u00a0<em>Great Acceleration<\/em>, where they feel the threat of our coming together across the false dyad of the Left\/Right division to reject them outright.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is why they will accelerate their plans to squelch all of those who leak away from their control. It\u2019s why they hate Elon Musk so thoroughly for taking Twitter away from them. It\u2019s why Bill Kristol believes it\u2019s right to bar Tucker Carlson from coming back into the US after his visit to Russia.<\/p>\n<p>That squelching was done to anger us into running to alternative internet ghettos like\u00a0<em>Gab\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>Mastodon<\/em>\u00a0and all the others.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s why they purposefully ruined Twitter under the previous management to drive us away and take away our voices through de-platforming Alex Jones and everyone else.\u00a0<strong>How many people still refuse to go back to Twitter because of what happened in 2017? How many still make the \u201cperfect be the enemy of the good\u201d argument vis a vis Elon Musk\u2019s reign at Twitter?<\/strong>\u00a0*Cough* David Icke *Cough*<\/p>\n<p>Sure the Rachel Maddow set is still enthralled every night, all 200,000 of them, but now they are the ones clutching their pearls in the real media ghettos.<\/p>\n<p>It was easy to go after Jones in 2017. It was easy to go after Gab later on. It was easy to see the alternative platforms like Rumble and Substack spin up to try and become antipodes to YouTube and WordPress, Locals for Patreon\u2026 etc.<\/p>\n<p>I have nothing against these platforms, and have even tried some of them in the past, but I also recognize that they were allowed to become real to siphon people off into smaller tribes and build easily-ignored echo chambers. All to prevent us from crossing the chasm together to form the Radical Center.<\/p>\n<p>And if one of these platforms gets too powerful? Well, I hope everyone has an archive of their Substacks. I also hope my fears on this are fully unfounded. But I\u2019ve seen this movie before and I didn\u2019t like it the first time I watched it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Because, when voices capable of speaking across the false political divide of Left v Right get big enough, they have to be brought low.\u00a0<\/strong>It\u2019s fine for those on \u201cthe right\u201d to be dismissed as kooks, dead-enders, isolationists, conspiracy theorists, MAGAtards, Nahtsees, etc.<\/p>\n<h2>Russell\u2019s Re-Branding<\/h2>\n<p>It\u2019s quite another when someone from \u201cthe Left\u201d comes to the same conclusions. That\u2019s why they came down so hard on Russell Brand last year. And it was disturbing how quickly the \u201cNuts and Sluts\u201d campaign against Brand occurred.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Because Brand was un-personed first before the outrage machine went into overdrive against him. They just accused him and took him out.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And just to remind everyone what I\u2019m talking about, I wrote about this in relation to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tomluongo.me\/2018\/09\/28\/kavanaugh-disgust-circuit-limits-nuts-sluts\/\">Brett Kavanaugh confirmation \u201cprocess\u201d back in 2018:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cNuts and Sluts\u201d is easy to understand. Simply accuse the person you want to destroy of being either crazy (the definition of which shifts with whatever is the political trigger issue of the day) or a sexual deviant.<\/p>\n<p>This technique works because it triggers most people\u2019s Disgust Circuit\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 The disgust circuit is also easy to understand.<\/p>\n<p>It is the limit at which behavior in others triggers our gut-level outrage and we recoil with disgust.<\/p>\n<p>The reason \u201cNuts and Sluts\u201d works so well on conservative candidates and voters is because, on average, conservatives have a much stronger disgust circuit than liberals and\/or libertarians.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What I wrote about in that article then has come to pass today. Back then I predicted that as\u00a0<em>Davos<\/em>\u00a0encouraged \u201cThe Left\u201d to further normalize deviance the less effective \u201cNuts and Sluts\u201d would become. The more we would see the attacks for the crude attempts at maintaining the Overton Window that they were.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But, here\u2019s the problem.\u00a0 As liberals and cultural Marxists break down the societal order, as they win skirmish after skirmish in the Culture War, and desensitize us to normalize ever more deviant behavior, the circumstances of a \u201cNuts and Sluts\u201d accusation have to rise accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s behavioral heroin.\u00a0 And the more tolerance we build up to it the more likely people are to see right through the lie.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s why Gary Hart simply had to be accused of having an affair in the 1980\u2019s to scuttle his presidential aspirations but today Trump has to piss on a hooker.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>For Russell Brand, however, they had to go all the way to the end game\u2026 being a sexual predator of younger women.\u00a0<\/strong>Amidst all the clamor about Epstein Island etc., tying Brand to the talk of pedophilia by inference was meant to be the knockout blow against someone who has become one of the most effective and irrepressible dissident voices in the post-COVID environment.<\/p>\n<p>There are few people in the current zeitgeist who were becoming more capable of radicalizing the Left side of the center than Russell Brand.<\/p>\n<p>But, most importantly, it was meant demoralize us to not put faith in anyone else, to have no sources of comfort or people to trust. Brand\u2019s overnight demonetization was the beginning of what I\u2019m now calling the\u00a0<em>Great Demoralization<\/em>\u00a0campaign.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The goal of that campaign is to stop the emergence of that Radical Center; a loose coalition of normal people who are willing to put aside that which they disagree on in service of that which they do agree on.<\/strong>\u00a0And eating bugz, living in pods under constant surveillance, and the threat of being un-personed is something we can all agree sucks.<\/p>\n<p>To his credit Brand got right out in front of the accusation by taking complete responsibility for his past behavior, and throwing himself, rightfully, onto the altar of public opinion. He showed us his own\u00a0<em>disgust circuit<\/em>\u00a0for the person he used to be, not the person he is aspiring to be.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s why his interview with Tucker Carlson recently was such a galvanizing thing. Carlson, smartly, practiced exactly what he preaches\u2026 a little Christian charity. By giving Brand the platform to tell his story, he finds another fellow traveler on the path to breaking this illusion of control\u00a0<em>Davos<\/em>\u00a0and their kept media outlets have laid over us.<\/p>\n<p><strong>These two guys aren\u2019t supposed to agree on these things.\u00a0<\/strong>Tucker\u2019s a right-wing Fascist. Brand is a left-wing Lunatic. And yet, they share something very powerful in common, they both were cast out of the temple for speaking truth to power.<\/p>\n<p>And Brand doesn\u2019t disappoint in his performance. It\u2019s one of his best, and I\u2019ve seen\u00a0<em>Forgetting Sarah Marshall.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s spot on, noting himself at one point that the goal of everything we see in the media was \u201cdemoralization.\u201d In fact, this entire post was inspired originally by that one statement during the 45 minutes he spoke with Tucker. That was the \u2018money shot,\u2019 as it were, of this interview.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It told me that not only does Russell Brand get it, but he knows exactly what his role now is.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-1\" class=\"\" title=\"X Post\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-1&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfdGltZWxpbmVfbGlzdCI6eyJidWNrZXQiOltdLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2ZvbGxvd2VyX2NvdW50X3N1bnNldCI6eyJidWNrZXQiOnRydWUsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfdHdlZXRfZWRpdF9iYWNrZW5kIjp7ImJ1Y2tldCI6Im9uIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH0sInRmd19yZWZzcmNfc2Vzc2lvbiI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJvbiIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfZm9zbnJfc29mdF9pbnRlcnZlbnRpb25zX2VuYWJsZWQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib24iLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X21peGVkX21lZGlhXzE1ODk3Ijp7ImJ1Y2tldCI6InRyZWF0bWVudCIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3Nob3dfYmlyZHdhdGNoX3Bpdm90c19lbmFibGVkIjp7ImJ1Y2tldCI6Im9uIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH0sInRmd19kdXBsaWNhdGVfc2NyaWJlc190b19zZXR0aW5ncyI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJvbiIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfdXNlX3Byb2ZpbGVfaW1hZ2Vfc2hhcGVfZW5hYmxlZCI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJvbiIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfdmlkZW9faGxzX2R5bmFtaWNfbWFuaWZlc3RzXzE1MDgyIjp7ImJ1Y2tldCI6InRydWVfYml0cmF0ZSIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfbGVnYWN5X3RpbWVsaW5lX3N1bnNldCI6eyJidWNrZXQiOnRydWUsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfdHdlZXRfZWRpdF9mcm9udGVuZCI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJvbiIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9fQ%3D%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1752466469454061656&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fgeopolitical%2Fgreat-reset-dead-long-live-great-reset&amp;sessionId=42213d5c5c1a8ea0b2ef8a879d18c33d124c5f01&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1752466469454061656\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong>As I write this speculation has gone wild that Tucker is meeting with the vilified Vladdie Putler. If he does pull that off it won\u2019t quite break the internet, but if there is any event in 2024 outside of\u00a0<em>Davos\u2019\u00a0<\/em>control which could it will be that.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Because what happens when Carlson and Putin discuss the lies of foreign policy, of the nature of the conflict in Ukraine, the grievances between Russia and the West and find out they have more in common than they are supposed to?<\/p>\n<p>Carlson didn\u2019t break the internet with his interview of Russell Brand, nor with Alex Jones, but he is taking what\u2019s left of the comfortable lie that the media is anything other than court stenographers putting it in a paper bag, dropping it on our doorsteps, and lighting it on fire. It\u2019s been so long since we saw anyone do journalism that we barely understand what it looks like when we see it.<\/p>\n<p>Carlson, like Brand, Elon Musk, Donald Trump, Jerome Powell, Jamie Dimon, or any of the others I give credit to in this blog, aren\u2019t perfect men.<\/p>\n<p>We killed that guy over two thousand years ago.<\/p>\n<p>We don\u2019t need them to be perfect men. If you need that, I suggest you seek professional help.<\/p>\n<p>What we need is for them lead where they can when they can. They just need to give us the tools needed to cross the chasm and find common ground. Let us then build a public square that looks nothing like the one that we\u2019ve been allowed to protest in up until now.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>THAT<\/em>\u00a0is a\u00a0<em>Great Reset\u00a0<\/em>I can look forward to.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/great-reset-dead-long-live-great-reset\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/great-reset-dead-long-live-great-reset<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Great Reset Is Dead, Long Live The Great Reset<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=210469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=210469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=210469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=210469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}