New reader from South Africa with interest in - every - country so yes, Carney's sliming into Trudeau's shoes disappointed me. But then Poillievre did too. Stick with the writer's musings. They're worth spending time with.
South Africa really tried its hardest to get an Olympic medal for creative covid stupidity. Witness supermarket rules during Level 5, the most stringent:-
Certain isles were cordoned off in red and white plastic tape. No purchase of ... paper, crayons, glue, anything that might prove useful, educational (?) for children.
No purchase of clothes for babies of a certain age.
Only closed shoes. No sandals.
Only shorts that could be worn with tights underneath.
No hot food.
Yes. You read that.
They tried militarily patroling townships to enforce staying inside shacks and tiny houses but that ultimately proved unenforceable.
One township I visited to see a child from my class (illegally of course) had people casually out on the streets.
And a friend gave clay classes to a group of Xhosa orphans from another township. They looked puzzled when she asked if they knew anyone really sick with covid.
The small Waldorf school where I taught had a largely insouciant staff, not devoted to breathing back carbon dioxide. But the larger city schools were horrendously zealous.
However, there was a big push made to prevent uptake of the safe and effectives and South Africa had one of the lowest rates of needling. Luckily there were no requirements for proof of this to retain jobs or enter venues.
Tough times - losing real life friends, gaining internet connections. Not the same.
I had the pleasure of sitting in to hear an old anarchist tell the story of his anti-globalisation protests back in the day. Back when people still protested WTO meetings, got tear gassed, beaten, thrown in jail, broken bones, the works. Back when leftists actually cared about anti-globalisation.
He said 2 things I found useful:
1. The activists these days are mostly armchair revolutionaries. We need a bunch of practical skills - fast. First Aid, self defence, manoeuvre and tactics, decision making, printing, layout and typography, legal skills (or lawful skills rather), conflict resolution, catering, building toilets…
2. The internet should’ve made it easier to organise. But it’s harder. People meet face to face less. So there’s less opportunities to build trust and harder to organise. He’s pretty wizened and thinks this generation is less radical than earlier generations.
Yeah, for sure... before, I was part of a movement where there was a lot of people who understood that... The Quebec anarchist movement in particular had a lot of things dialled in. The Francophone scene had a way of working as a team that really was beautiful to behold when it was working well... but Anglo university students in Montreal brought in all kinds of terrible politics that kind of poisoned the scene. It could bounce back, though.
That’s heartwarming to read. I think there been a big shift since 90’s and early 2000’s too…smartphones! The very devices that should connect us are disconnecting us; tools for liberation are enslaving us. Jack Kruse talks about how blue light turns people into docile obedient idiots and it strikes me that’s a great way to disarm any movement.
Despite our shitty political class I still find time to engage with good people in the real world. Enjoying time in South Korea and soon Taiwan. F*ck leaders! Love people and will continue to fight for our rights to be who we are on this planet. Thank you Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
I read nearly everything you publish unless it’s something I can’t handle at the time for whatever reason, and then I often come back to it. I share your articles all the time! And what I mean by I can’t handle something is maybe it’s too heavy for me or weighs too heavily on my soul. But whenever I go through my list of subscriptions to weed out stuff I don’t really read or get much from, I never unsub from you! I am broke AF right now but when I had a bit of extra wiggle room I bought Gavin Mounsey’s book from substack to support him and in the future I will financially support you in some way or form. Thank you for your valuable contributions! I love your work!
That's awesome! I'm honoured that you read almost everything we publish... we publish a lot! I'd love to hear which pieces you've found particularly valuable... It's hard to be objective about your own work and I never know what will strike a chord beforehand.
I'm totally with you on being fed up with my fellow Canadians. I have given up with socializing with the normies/Boomers, so to speak, as they are all so ignorant of what is going on and totally incapable of having any opinion or thought that isn't fed to them by the main stream media. When you approach them with any fact or statistic about the whole Covid scam, or about the current wars/genocides going on you get the old "Deer in the Headlights" stare. We go south (GA,FL) every winter for a few weeks to visit family and I enjoy being able to talk to people who have at least a minimal understanding of the way the world works. The only people I can talk to here are my old trucker buddies and people who I was volunteering with when I helped with the NCI (National Citizens Inquiry) in Saskatoon. The only thing that brings me hope about Canada is the thousands/millions of people who supported the Freedom Convoy and are still standing strong. Tamara Lich & Chris Barber are still standing strong after spending months in jail, going through 2 years of trial for MISCHIEF, and still facing sentencing with the Crown seeking another 2 years jail time.
As for the state of the world, have you ever read any of the articles from The Winter Christian (Terry Wolfe) here on Substack? He's a Canadian Mennonite (former, past, current?) who seems to have a good perspective on the way the world is headed.
Congrats. I mirrored your convid response but i still live in Chinada.
Its all about consciousness and the asleep will remain that way. You want to change the World? Change yourself. Go within. We are all so much more powerful than we can imagine. Why else does it take a world wide matrix of lies to keep us down. Those fuckers know, but now, so do we. Keep growing!!!
'To me, the fact that so many people voted for Mark Carney shows that most people really just don’t have a clue.'
So true.
Congratulations from England and keep up the good work.
New reader from South Africa with interest in - every - country so yes, Carney's sliming into Trudeau's shoes disappointed me. But then Poillievre did too. Stick with the writer's musings. They're worth spending time with.
Awesome! Hey, I'm curious - how was South Africa during COVID? I never heard too much about that...
South Africa really tried its hardest to get an Olympic medal for creative covid stupidity. Witness supermarket rules during Level 5, the most stringent:-
Certain isles were cordoned off in red and white plastic tape. No purchase of ... paper, crayons, glue, anything that might prove useful, educational (?) for children.
No purchase of clothes for babies of a certain age.
Only closed shoes. No sandals.
Only shorts that could be worn with tights underneath.
No hot food.
Yes. You read that.
They tried militarily patroling townships to enforce staying inside shacks and tiny houses but that ultimately proved unenforceable.
One township I visited to see a child from my class (illegally of course) had people casually out on the streets.
And a friend gave clay classes to a group of Xhosa orphans from another township. They looked puzzled when she asked if they knew anyone really sick with covid.
The small Waldorf school where I taught had a largely insouciant staff, not devoted to breathing back carbon dioxide. But the larger city schools were horrendously zealous.
However, there was a big push made to prevent uptake of the safe and effectives and South Africa had one of the lowest rates of needling. Luckily there were no requirements for proof of this to retain jobs or enter venues.
what? No hot food? Are you serious?
Hot takeaway away chicken, curry, pies were all verboten to keep South Africa safe in March, April and May of 2020!
Man, what a world we live in!
Tough times - losing real life friends, gaining internet connections. Not the same.
I had the pleasure of sitting in to hear an old anarchist tell the story of his anti-globalisation protests back in the day. Back when people still protested WTO meetings, got tear gassed, beaten, thrown in jail, broken bones, the works. Back when leftists actually cared about anti-globalisation.
He said 2 things I found useful:
1. The activists these days are mostly armchair revolutionaries. We need a bunch of practical skills - fast. First Aid, self defence, manoeuvre and tactics, decision making, printing, layout and typography, legal skills (or lawful skills rather), conflict resolution, catering, building toilets…
2. The internet should’ve made it easier to organise. But it’s harder. People meet face to face less. So there’s less opportunities to build trust and harder to organise. He’s pretty wizened and thinks this generation is less radical than earlier generations.
Food for thought!
Yeah, for sure... before, I was part of a movement where there was a lot of people who understood that... The Quebec anarchist movement in particular had a lot of things dialled in. The Francophone scene had a way of working as a team that really was beautiful to behold when it was working well... but Anglo university students in Montreal brought in all kinds of terrible politics that kind of poisoned the scene. It could bounce back, though.
That’s heartwarming to read. I think there been a big shift since 90’s and early 2000’s too…smartphones! The very devices that should connect us are disconnecting us; tools for liberation are enslaving us. Jack Kruse talks about how blue light turns people into docile obedient idiots and it strikes me that’s a great way to disarm any movement.
Congrats Crow for your perseverance. We all benefit. Kudos. Ken (Kman) Billings, Sooke, BC
Thank you so much! I appreciate your comments! Keep 'em coming!
Congratulations and thanks.
Despite our shitty political class I still find time to engage with good people in the real world. Enjoying time in South Korea and soon Taiwan. F*ck leaders! Love people and will continue to fight for our rights to be who we are on this planet. Thank you Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
congrats. keep that shit up
I read nearly everything you publish unless it’s something I can’t handle at the time for whatever reason, and then I often come back to it. I share your articles all the time! And what I mean by I can’t handle something is maybe it’s too heavy for me or weighs too heavily on my soul. But whenever I go through my list of subscriptions to weed out stuff I don’t really read or get much from, I never unsub from you! I am broke AF right now but when I had a bit of extra wiggle room I bought Gavin Mounsey’s book from substack to support him and in the future I will financially support you in some way or form. Thank you for your valuable contributions! I love your work!
That's awesome! I'm honoured that you read almost everything we publish... we publish a lot! I'd love to hear which pieces you've found particularly valuable... It's hard to be objective about your own work and I never know what will strike a chord beforehand.
I'm totally with you on being fed up with my fellow Canadians. I have given up with socializing with the normies/Boomers, so to speak, as they are all so ignorant of what is going on and totally incapable of having any opinion or thought that isn't fed to them by the main stream media. When you approach them with any fact or statistic about the whole Covid scam, or about the current wars/genocides going on you get the old "Deer in the Headlights" stare. We go south (GA,FL) every winter for a few weeks to visit family and I enjoy being able to talk to people who have at least a minimal understanding of the way the world works. The only people I can talk to here are my old trucker buddies and people who I was volunteering with when I helped with the NCI (National Citizens Inquiry) in Saskatoon. The only thing that brings me hope about Canada is the thousands/millions of people who supported the Freedom Convoy and are still standing strong. Tamara Lich & Chris Barber are still standing strong after spending months in jail, going through 2 years of trial for MISCHIEF, and still facing sentencing with the Crown seeking another 2 years jail time.
As for the state of the world, have you ever read any of the articles from The Winter Christian (Terry Wolfe) here on Substack? He's a Canadian Mennonite (former, past, current?) who seems to have a good perspective on the way the world is headed.
No, I haven’t read him, though I’ve heard the name. Didn’t know he was Mennonite… I’ll check him out!
Congrats. I mirrored your convid response but i still live in Chinada.
Its all about consciousness and the asleep will remain that way. You want to change the World? Change yourself. Go within. We are all so much more powerful than we can imagine. Why else does it take a world wide matrix of lies to keep us down. Those fuckers know, but now, so do we. Keep growing!!!