So Melbourne, Australia, begins a surprise descent into a 6-day “snap lockdown” based on the detection of 18 COVID cases in the city of 6 million residents. This is just the latest of many previous sudden lockdowns, and surely many more to come. Many other ostensibly “free” nations have taken advantage of the normalization of this total shutdown of social life and have also begun making use of the surprise lockdown, preceding it usually with a grim-toned press conference highlighting “skyrocketing cases”. The primary effect of these lockdowns is the brutalization of the small business-owner, who has no political connections, and can’t work from home. Canada has moved in virtual lockstep with Australia, New Zealand, Israel, Ireland, England, among others, in pushing forward with ceaseless PCR testing of the masses, followed by forced quarantine, and forced vaccination.
It should be fairly clear that the people of a country whose government can impose a total shutdown of social life is not free. They are slaves, serfs, cattle, or worse, acolytes of a new and primitive religion. And as we know, any attempt at persuasion or reason with someone whose mental defenses have been overrun by a calculated emotional blitzkrieg is impossible. And yet there are protests in the streets, and millions rejecting this civilizational about-face that occurred a year ago.
Totalitarianism in its raw and original form, has taken hold of the nations who are willing and able to make use of the snap lockdown. My biggest fear is this: lockdown authoritarianism has had an entire year to entrench itself, a whole year to begin staffing itself with the most monstrous and sociopathic personalities that our species is capable of producing. They are rising to the top, multiplying among the bureaucracy. The people currently held captive by these governments must fear what comes next, in a year or two years’ time. The vulgarity of unrestrained political power is broadcasting a siren song to the worst among us. Make no mistake, they hear it, and they are headed straight for it.
