This eternal truth, written by Randolph Bourne in the early 1900’s, points out the plain fact that war enriches and empowers the total State. It strips rights away from the citizenry, and cuts through Constitutional red tape that ties the hands of government in peacetime. We always imagine these wars taking place overseas, against some other nation. But why couldn’t the war happen right here at home, against the government’s own people? Why couldn’t the government, under the guise of a war against a virus, grant itself all the power and wealth that it normally gains in a war against a foreign enemy? I believe we recently lived through just such a war. A war against an imaginary enemy, or one of almost infinitely inflated danger, and the consequences thereof, is what we suffered under for the better part of two years. The pandemic was a means to enrich the government and its private sector allies in the same way that it would enrich itself during a real war. In this sense, it was a rounding success.
I’m now convinced that the “Crimson Contagion” pandemic “exercise” was merely war preparation. Just as was Operation Dark Winter in 2001, Atlantic Storm in 2005, and “The SPARS pandemic of 2025-2028”.
Even those most staunchly anti-war fell lock stock and barrel for the COVID war propaganda, and fell in line as militant enforcers of wartime behavior. It is painfully true. The COVID pandemic was a domestic war, waged against the citizen population. Or, waged against no actual enemy, but with the entire civilian population as collateral. We might as well have went to war with UFOs, or dust bunnies. But the fantasy took hold in a way that no other world event ever has. It became too real for too many people: impending apocalypse, societal collapse, a return to totalitarianism. Our government played a dangerous game in that it came close to reawakening our primitive desire for totalitarianism. I don’t think we’ll ever fully understand how close we did come to that cultural reversion.
