© Off-Guardian
Once upon a time, on a planet called Earth, there was born a global-capitalist empire. It was the first global empire in the history of empires. It dominated the entire planet.
No one knew what to call the empire, because there had never been anything like it in history. It had no external adversaries, so it had nothing left to do but "clear and hold," i.e., neutralize internal resistance and consolidate its domination of the planet.
So that is what it set about doing.
It did this first in the territories of its final ideological adversary, an empire called the Soviet Union, the ideology of which was known as "Communism."
This was known as the "Post-Cold-War Era."
It did this next in the Greater Middle East, where people were still trying to live their lives according to a religion known as "Islam."
This was known as the "Global War on Terror."
The Global War on Terror was originally intended to go on forever, and it would have, and it will, but it had to be temporarily suspended, and rebranded, because something unexpected happened.
One day, in the Summer of 2016 — theretofore officially "
The Summer of Fear" — the global-capitalist empire noticed that a new form of resistance to its domination of the entire planet had risen up, not in the former Soviet Union, or the Greater Middle East, but throughout the West, right in the very heart of the empire.
And so the War on Terror was suspended, and
the War on Populism began.The War on Populism raged for four years, and culminated in the rollout of the New Normal, officially known as "the Covid pandemic."
Comment: A few days ago Agriland reported: Whether these outbreak are a cause for concern remains to be seen, but, given the other infections threatening livestock, the fragility of the food supply chain, in addition to the establishment's blatant attack on farmers, it seems worth noting: