“Sometimes, we don’t need to know everything they’re doing”

1076th Day of Apocalypse

A couple of days ago, my husband had a chat with one of his friends, and I can’t stop thinking about it, so I decided to write.

(which is a big deal, because, let’s face it, I haven’t been writing here since the summer of 2022)

To the point.

So my husband is having this chat, and I guess we can call it the good ‘ol how’s-the-weather-what’s-your-plans-for-the weekend type of thing (at least this is what I imagine - I wasn’t there) when at some point the talk derails from “small” and jumps on the darker tracks aka. let’s talk about the world situation.

The main course on the conversational menu: The Nord Stream pipeline. Seymour Hersch, one of the most prominent investigative journalists of modern times and Pulitzer Price winner for exposing My Lai Massacre in 1969, just published How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline. Long, gut-wrenching and if true - quite terrifying expose - has almost no mainstream media coverage to this day, although usually when Hersh talks, everyone listens. And this should really hit home - for me, my husband and his friend - as we are all currently residing in the geographical and economical backyard of the crime scene - the Kingdom of Denmark.

Well, it didn’t hit home. Probably it would have been different if it was Putin after all. Or if this happened under Trump’s regime. Or if Danish Mainstream Media would cover the story. But none of the above applies, so the friend in question has not much of an interest in the fact that his country’s “friends & allies” have possibly blown up the pipeline in a covert operation, next to Bornholm’s border.

“Sometimes, we don’t need to know everything they are doing” - he sums up, trying to cut the conversation short.

There it is:

“Sometimes, we don’t need to know everything THEY ARE doing”

Let’s start with the obvious.

I am not “THEY”. And neither are you.

See, if you and I had blown up a local gas pipe belonging to our neighbours we would face severe consequences. Firstly, we would get arrested. Then accused and taken to court. In the best-case scenario, we’d pay a fine that would bankrupt us, our children and our grandchildren. But if we had some political agenda for blowing the pipe, we would be prosecuted as domestic terrorists and eventually end up in jail.

That’s you and me. But not THEY. They can act with impunity and we give our silent permission to it. And this, ladies and gentlemen, right there, is the root of our falling civilization’s problem.

We know that the vast majority of politicians are in the best case incompetent and in the worst - controlled and corrupted. Our tax money is spent on God-knows-what by God-knows-who and yet we are hearing the same broken record that it’s all for roads, schools, and hospitals. The rich group at the top (aka the billionaires) is a colourful mix of psychopaths, dick-shaped space rocket-riding megalomaniacs and shady yet powerful characters that we’ll never know the names of. During the last three years when hundreds of millions of people were barely surviving, they’ve managed to take over more than 40% of global wealth - courtesy of laws and legislations politicians have pushed under the umbrella of “emergency measures”. 

But, we don’t need to know everything they are doing, right?                                                                       

It truly amazes me that in times when all is slowly revealed, and the trust in governments and authorities is at an all-time low in almost every country on the face of the Earth, we still carry the same preconceived notion that authorities are somewhat superior to us - “the little people” - and they’re allowed to run the world. Even if it means they’ll run it to the ground.

I don’t know what the solution is and I won’t even pretend to have a clue how to change the status quo; all I know is that we need to start somewhere. For starters, we need to shake off the unconscious bias that the governments are here to save us. That the politicians know what they’re doing and they do it for the highest good of all. That the world is “soon going back to normal” and we just need to wait through another tough year, another war, another health emergency, or another financial collapse to greet the good ‘ol times once again.

But the terrifying yet empowering truth is that no one is here to save you, but you. 

It’s terrifying because the vast majority of us have delegated our personal power to the institutions in the name of social and economical convenience and frankly speaking we forgot we have that power in the first place.

It’s empowering because once you realize you are on your own, sooner or later, you’ll be compelled to take an action. And that’s the very first step on a journey of exercising your power.

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Congratulations, you’ve just survived the 1076th Day of Apocalypse! And if that’s not fucking spectacular, I don’t know what is ;)