Second verse, same as the first
Reanimating the Comintern
Dear
,This post is just an extended comment on two of your recent posts:
The Wolf of Hungary - The Early Years of George Soros
Your “Elected” Officials Aren’t Stupid - They’re Just Young Global Leaders
I hope I don’t have to tell you that I like your writing. The wit, the byte, the diligence, the mastery of the language and the passion always make my day.
Sometimes I find it eerie how similar are the tracks our minds are working on. As I was reading your paragraph:
Let’s not kid ourselves about how Soros built his empire. This isn’t some rags-to-riches fairy tale—it’s a saga of a hedge fund predator who raked in billions, sometimes destabilizing entire economies in the process. Remember the 1992 Black Wednesday fiasco, when he famously “broke the Bank of England”?
…. I thought: Just like Nathan! – and what do you know, your next paragraph shows the parallel perfectly.
I saved both of your posts and I will use them for reference.
But enough of the praise, we have some differences. As a boomer who was born in a communist country four months before Stalin died, I have a different perspective. Your posts give the impression that although it has a history, which you explore thoroughly, it is a new phenomenon that started somewhere after WWII.
No lone genius act, though—this was a remix of a tune he’d danced to himself: Henry Kissinger’s International Seminar. Launched in 1951 by the man himself, it was one of several post-war brainchildren hatched by Council on Foreign Relations bigwigs and the CIA’s freshly minted spooks.
While there is no direct connection, the way I see the World Economic Forum is an ideological reincarnation of the Comintern. But this different position on my part is not why I decided to share my thoughts on the two posts.
As I was reading the post about Soros, I had the feeling that you are giving too much credit to this naked emperor. In my post The Great Reset I mentioned both Soros and Schwab, making the point that neither is particularly smart. Reading the Atlantic Monthly article of Soros in 1998 and The Fourth Industrial Revolution of Schwab was a shock to me. I couldn’t believe the dilettante mediocrity. Both seem powerful and dangerous, but they are intellectual midgets. (Popper must be spinning in his grave)
Soros is just a street-smart hustler who got lucky. He is a narcissist sociopath with a God-complex who managed to figure out how to game the system. Schwab and Gates are no different.
They are also not unlike Marx, Lenin and Stalin. Marx was an idiot, Lenin an opportunist.
Stalin started as a petty criminal, financing the party with his extortion racket, which leads me to my second communist reference.
Your April 5th post is a perfect complement to my own about the The WEF Casting Agency .
Yours fills in the details of my silly musings. Still, I have an objection to the title.
YES, they are stupid!
Which one of the twelve would you consider wise? Or just, and at least, competent?
The WEF Young Global Leaders are the apparatchiks for the 21st century.
The best way to understand the WEF selection is by looking at the party member selection process in communist countries. The candidates must be presentable and corruptible. Rigid in their ideology and pliant in their obedience. They must know how to suck up and crap down. They must be masters of the narrative but without a thought of their own. They must be willing to sell their souls, and even their mothers if need be.
I cannot emphasize the similarity in the selection process enough. The heavily politicized selection process started in elementary school.
The YGLs are not evil by design, but by circumstance. What makes them truly dangerous is the power they are given. They are nothing without it. Power should be respected, but their unworthy wielders should not.
I am also struggling with the questions, trying to understand what creates and motivates bad people. When we see negative outcomes, it is logical to project nefarious intent, but that is still not an explanation.
I think I have the answer and I am planning to write about it in the near future. We may compare notes when I do. 😊
I would like to leave you with two movie recommendations to illustrate to communist root of the problem. Angi Vera (1978) - IMDb and The Confrontation (1969) - IMDb
Angi Vera can be found on Youtube:
angi vera 1978 (eng subs)
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References
George Soros, The Atlantic (list of articles)
Toward a Global Open Society - The Atlantic
COVID-19: The Great Reset : Schwab, Klaus, Malleret, Thierry
The Fourth Industrial Revolution : Schwab, Klaus
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