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Review of
Downward Spiral: Collapsing public standards and how to restore them by John Bowers KC
Political systems, in their decline, often become so gummed up by procedure, factions, petty officials and assorted spoonbenders that
no one is able to grab the reins and turn things around. Outsiders who try to are combined against and disposed of. There are more laws and rules than ever, but
the only real law is that no one is in charge or responsible for anything.In most cases, such a system develops a kind of gratuitous cynicism about itself. A giggling interior world, with its own lore, rituals and endless, wearisome intrigues.
The Forbidden City; the seraglio; Versailles; the Kremlin in the days of Andropov - no one on the inside could justify this state of affairs, or imagine that things could go on like this for much longer, and so there is instead
a conscious revelling in dysfunction. A despairing frivolity. Tittering
schadenfreude. A perverse glee is taken at dispatching anyone who threatens to disturb this internal equilibrium. The only task becomes to keep this milieu going for as long as possible while the wallpaper peels.
But this kind of rot can be reversed, because it is so visibly self-serving that it cannot inspire any sincere defence. When preposterous rackets like the Janissaries or the Praetorian Guard were rolled up, nobody mourned them, and it was impossible to imagine them being brought back.
The trouble really begins, things really become terminal, when the dysfunction and hopeless diffusion of power starts to evolve a moral argument for itself.
All the accumulated barnacles now become, instead, the rule of law, or aristocratic freedoms, or something else.
Comment: A 'kangaroo court debt' indeed, similar to the judgement against Trump, intended to wipe out his campaign fund:
Alex Jones ordered to pay nearly $1billion to Sandy Hookvictims over hoax claims
this is up from a 4.1 million judgement in 2022.
But maybe Jones was on to something:
- Released: FBI documents on Sandy Hook show Feds visited shooter before massacre
- Sandy Hook evidence was compromised by 'unnecessary personnel' says police report
- Sandy Hook cover-up continues: Connecticut State Investigation ends with records sealed, crime scene destroyed, motive 'unknown'
Again, as with Trump, Jones was hamstrung by a corrupt judiciary in prosecuting his defense:- Leftist judges forbid Alex Jones from mentioning 1st Amendment, saying he is innocent, or claiming court case is rigged
- Facebook, Google banned Alex Jones, now they've banned even talking about Alex Jones
- The banning of Alex Jones is a warning shot against dissent
- NewsReal: Social Justice? Alex Jones (Mis)Trial 'Takes Out' Infowars
Joe Rogan and Tucker Carlson have both stepped up to give Alex Jones a voice:Media maverick Joe Rogan interviews Alex Jones in latest podcast, snowflakes flip out, threaten to cancel Spotify subscriptions - UPDATE