The Scientist

Bureaucracy is the rule of nobody, and in that vacuum, the spirit of the age and mindless state machinery take control.

The Tower of Babel - Man’s Effort to Reach the Heavens and Become God

It is clear the vaccines have failed.

How did a wonder drug, with the promise of near total effectiveness fail so quickly?

We were told by all the authorities vaccines would bring about herd immunity and reduce transmission. Studies were done on two shots only, as a result.

But look around the world. Masks, distancing, incessant sanitizing, travel restrictions are not going away. There is no indication they ever will. Case numbers and deaths are soaring in highly vaccinated countries, such as Australia and Scotland:

Boosters are being mandated. Fourth shots have started in Israel and will start in Germany soon. Everything which does not work must be repeated because they did not work.

Most telling, Pfizer is developing therapeutic drugs for covid. In other words, they are more pessimistic than health authorities about their own product.

The modern scientist, the modern bureaucrat, has been exposed to clear-thinking people as a fraud.

Their hubristic assumption that doing anything was better than doing nothing, their belief they could control nature, end death even, conduct bizarre experiments in labs and on whole populations, is killing the spirit and morale of once great nations.

Whitaker Chambers, the famous American Communist spy turned conservative whistleblower, famously said, upon his conversion, that in rejecting Communism, he had chosen the losing side in the great ideological war of our times.

For him, Communism was the choice to build a society based on Man, and not God. It was the choice of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, rather than God’s Tree of Life; it was the choice to be a builder of Babel, rather than a pilgrim.

He pointed to the modern machinery of Roosevelt’s massive expansion of government in his New Deal, his Brains Trust, and his sympathy for Communists in Russia and China, as evidence of a revolution that had already occurred in so-called democratic, capitalist societies.

Bureaucracy is the rule of nobody, and in that vacuum, the spirit of the age takes control. And this is a spirit of machinery at the expense of the cathedral, of silent places, of beauty, of a society built to human scale.

The spirit of the age is vain rationalism, centralization, a colonialism of the spirit by means of the mechanical.

It is the age of the scientist, untethered from morality and a love for life in all its finitude, imperfection, and danger.

The irony is that the rule of the scientist, with its goal of safety, has turned out to be more dangerous than the so-called Dark Ages.

The Wuhan lab, industrial death camps in the Boer War, the world wars, and the gulags, were all built in a bid for purity, hygiene, and safety.

Drugs developed by pharmaceutical companies (see the hidden story of Merck’s painkiller, Vioxx, which killed over 50 000 Americans over five years, even as it was prescribed by doctors), alcohol, suicide, are lowering life expectancy in the US - but nobody cares about these deaths of despair happening in the shadow of liberal capitalism, mostly because they do not hurt GDP and harm mostly white Americans.

A shocking truth: if you survived the lack of hygiene in Victorian England as a child, you lived longer and more healthily than Western Man today.

Yet we continue to worship the builders of the Babel which is modern liberal society.

Our authoritarians continue their insane irrationality in the name of Science and Rationality.

New York has banned under five-year olds from Broadway plays because they are unvaccinated.

South Africa extends its state of disaster whilst government vaccine mandate policy is finalized because somehow, contra every other country, our health authorities believe in vaccine-induced herd immunity.

Meanwhile, British overlords will not release data on vaccine safety for children:

The truth is life is not a laboratory. When we treat it as such, we let in strange demons.

Science and medicine are not meant to rule us. They are good servants but ruthless masters.

My only hope now is the necessary destruction of Babel - the scattering of our cruel technological order.

In Genesis, after Babel fell, its builders were scattered, they adopted new languages, and local community returned.

History shows us that true human development happened in city states, at human scale.

We must return.