Welcome to the first Iain Davis Substack. I have no idea where this is going, so stream of consciousness seems like a good place to start.
I am Iain Davis. I write a blog about politics and stuff. It’s alright. Depends if you like that sort of thing really. If you do, then I recommend you visit to iaindavis.com
I investigate the evidence that isn’t commonly reported by our so-called mainstream media (MSM), evidence that isn’t discussed by the academic orthodoxy and is actively avoided or denied by the political class. I provide my opinion based upon my interpretation of that evidence. I don’t pretend to be right, I just hope my readers can use my writing, and more importantly the evidence I offer, to further their own research and decide for themselves what they believe.
By unexpected contrast—I’ve just found this out in the 4th paragraph—my Substack is going to be a puckish satire on contemporary mores. Something Billy Bragg used to specialise in until he caught woke and ingratiated himself with the progressive, virtue glitterati.
I realise that I am not going to ingratiate myself with anyone through this Substack. Most people, who stumble across it by chance, will probably be offended by it. It’s not my intention or my wish to cause offence but it is often unavoidable. We live in a world where saying the commonly accepted “right thing” seems to matter more than intellectual honesty and certainly more than rationale debate.
What I bring to the debate is uncertainty and an annoying refusal to accept the obvious. I have always wanted to know “the why” about everything and I hope that one day I’ll find out. Throughout my life I have always been suspicious that something was going on but no one would, or could, tell me what it was.
And so, some time ago, I decided that it was up to me to try and find out. Like many people I’ve met, who found themselves at a similar point, I often wish I had decided to take up something like extreme ironing or cat herding instead.
Unfortunately, I have concluded that we are all being farmed. I accept that many will be offended by this suggestion. We like to tell ourselves that the world doesn’t work that way, it’s way more complex than that, we say. The oppression, injustice and man-made disasters we endure are just the consequence of our collective ineptitude.
This delusion is an avoidant psychological coping mechanism that enables us to hide from from the darkness. In truth, we collectively suffer because we allow those who exploit us to carry on farming us like sheep.
Whenever the rank hypocrisy and criminality of the ruling class is exposed it relies upon our delusion. The consistent predation upon the vulnerable, the perpetual oppression and censorship, the incessant injustice, the evident economic and psychological warfare waged against us are just failures: mishaps from which lessons should be learned but never are.
Every “mistake” benefits the rich and the powerful, each “failing” centralises authority and all “errors” further erode our rights and freedoms. The consistent, unwavering trajectory of “blunders” is remarkable but our refusal to see it is more so.
The farmers are a tiny gaggle of self-deluded egotists who really believe that the divine right of kings is an inescapable sociological truth that they have proven with their deranged pseudo-science of eugenics. The farmyard is a psychological prison we have constructed under the not very friendly guidance of the farmers.
The fences are made form our obsessions with convenience and our inexplicable willingness to be passively entertained by fat blokes prancing around in sequinned leotards. Combined with the suicidal “trust” we illogically invest in the farmers, we are well and truly penned in by our own belief systems.
To be fair to us, this is largely the result of the “free” education bestowed upon us by the farmers. Nothing is free.
Consequently, expressing the wrong opinion, which is actually a thing now, squeezes peoples’ offence triggers. Apparently this means something. I don’t know what this is yet, but I think some people are genuinely labouring under the misapprehension that they have a right not to be offended.
According to Meta’s lawyers there is also a thing called “protected opinion.” This is the opinion considered “right” by people who wrongly imagine themselves to be “virtuous” while they simultaneously demonstrate distinctly fascist tendencies. Again, I haven’t quite figured out how this is supposed to work.
It is notable however that this “protected opinion” is uncannily similar to the government’s. I say “government’s” while acknowledging that government doesn’t have an opinion of its own. It just trots out whatever it is told to say.
Government claims it is important, although Northern Ireland hasn’t had one for ages and people still seem to be getting along OK. The forces that control government, and desperately want us to believe in government, insist that it is really, really important. So important they are willing to be “stakeholder partners” with it.
Lots of people seem to agree so, I guess, the abject nonsense of sacred, unimpeachable opinion is likely to be maintained. Questioning “protected opinion” is verboten and those of us who do so are to be labelled “extremists.”
Talking about the “political class” doesn’t properly reflect communitarian principles and is almost certainly antisemitic. If not yet, then it soon will be.
Pointing out that the farmers are in no way benevolent, but rather a gang of robber barons with xenophobic predilections whose business is to profit from our sacrifice, is tantamount to terrorism and questioning “democratic principles” is sacrilege, despite the fact that the people who claim to embody those principles have systematically destroyed every single one of them.
Allegedly, we who dare to express the wrong opinions are both “conspiracy theorist” idiots and, at the same time, the most serious threat that alleged democracy has ever faced. Presumably, democratic society is now so delicate that the unhinged ramblings of a disorganised diaspora of flat-earthers, moon landing heretics and climate deniers presents some sort of existential threat to governments around the world.
This is complete drivel of course. The truth is the sheep are starting to question their faith in the farmer. Some are even refusing to be shepherded. And so, the farmers need to act.
Disagreement and healthy debate are practically the defining characteristics of a healthy democracy. But the advent of modern communication technology has meant that unruly sheep across the world have not only discovered that they are not alone they are starting to share their opinions with the other sheep. That’s why we don’t do democracy any more.
Democracy was popular in the ’70’s but since then has fallen out of favour. We now do “civil society.” This is a pastiche of democracy where multinational corporations and oligarchs fund non governmental organisation who then claim, without any discernible reason, that they represent us.
They supposedly represent our interests as “stakeholder partners” in policy discussions with the multinational corporation and oligarchs who created them in the first place and are also “stakeholder partners.” The other “stakeholder partners” are the government whose role is to enable their wealthier corporate and oligarch “stakeholder partners” to get whatever they want.
I am feeling distinctly ranty. I think I am going to enjoy this Substack thingy. It’s quite cathartic isn’t it?
Thanks for stopping by. If you’ve read this far then I hope you will come back again.
Right! I’m off to criticise Putin again. It must be because I am a NATO shill.
What do we call "Them"? Elitists, plutocrats, farmers? Or a group of super rich unlikable nerds who have never come to terms with the limits of their flesh and mortality?
And here's the rub: They may be 'farming' us, but only digitally. It's virtual farming. Not real. The end of their influence is as close as the power switch. That includes their ever-inflating fake fiat bank-credit debt-bubble money supply. It can simply be turned off. Or ignored. And will be as soon as They fail to maintain the illusion that it is serving us.
Sooner or later the world of muscle, stomachs and dirt will reassert itself and the Nerds' digital empires will shrink into digital clubs. The real world moves on driven by needs, instincts and common-sensibility the Super Rich Nerds cannot control.
Or so it seems to me.
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