In March 2020 I lost my world and almost lost my mind. All the institutions and many of the people I had assumed shared my values — democracy, freedom, curiosity, compassion — turned out to not share them so much, or not at all.
So I’ve been spending the last 4 years restructuring my worldview to try to encompass the terrifying march toward totalitarianism that we’re experiencing, by being aware of what’s happening, so I can stay sane; communicating with others who are aware of what’s happening, so I don’t feel alone; trying to spread the word about what’s happening, so we can try to reverse course; and learning from others who are able to explain and analyze what’s happening way better than I can.
CJ Hopkins is at the top of my list of people to learn from.
I had never even heard of CJ Hopkins until a year or two into the pandemic, and ever since then, his writing has given me more clarity about what we’re going through — historically, politically, spiritually — than anything else I have found.
If anyone reading this has still not heard of CJ Hopkins, or has not read his books and articles, I very highly and loudly recommend them.
The brilliant speech he gave in a Berlin court yesterday has been shared and quoted by many. Here’s a link:
His Substack articles are also fantastic. My fave is this one:
And I’ll end this paean with some quotes from the March 9, 2020 article/chapter in The Rise of the New Normal Reich, entitled “The Great Chinese Bat Flu Panic of 2020.”
These passages make me laugh so hard, I cry. Also, in hindsight, they just make me cry. I wish I had found them, and all of CJ Hopkins’ work, way back then, when I was desperate for a friend, and a laugh.
“That’s 450 million possible cases and over half a million deaths [from regular flu over a 10-year period], and that’s just in the United States! To make it concrete, if you stood all those dead people on top of each other, head to toe, so that everyone was standing on everyone’s head, and used them as an enormous ladder, you could climb to the moon and back four times … or once or twice at the very least.”
“The first thing to do to is to arm yourself and go out and load up on toilet paper. The epidemiologists are now predicting a worldwide toilet paper crisis more or less approaching the scale of the deadly Toilet Paper Crisis of 1813! This toilet paper crisis could continue for months, so you will want to purchase (or otherwise obtain) as much toilet paper as you possibly can, and then hoard it in your house or apartment, or your remotely-located toilet paper depot.”
“Next, after you secure the toilet paper, you’ll want to load up on mineral water, hand sanitizer, those paper masks, MREs, protein bars, DVDs of the film Contagion, and other essential survival items. You will want to do this in a mindless frenzy of butt-puckering Chinese Bat Flu panic, ideally while wearing a full-face respirator, or a wearable anti-Bat Flu shield, or some sort of homemade hazmat suit. Don’t forget to bring along your favorite “modern sporting rifle” to mow down anyone who gets in your way … and anyone who might be infected, which at this point you have to assume is everyone!”
“We’ve been doing a bang-up job of that so far, correcting nature’s (or God’s) mistakes. Haven’t we? I mean, look around. And we have only been at it for a few hundred years. Give us just a little more time, and we will get this whole ugly mess cleaned up, under control, and functioning smoothly if we have to lock down, quarantine, and genetically-correct every sentient creature and particle of matter in the universe to do it! What is the alternative, after all … to just let nature take it’s course, and let people die, like a bunch of savages?”
Debbie, I have been a CJ follower for a long time. Brilliant writer and deep thinker. His acquittal was a rare high point in the effort to push back against idiocy. And his speech was brilliant -- truly brilliant. Good of you to give him more exposure -- he deserves it.