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In the West, the debate has ended

by Nico Cost for GlobalSouth.coNo more conversation takes place in the West between people with different ideas. There are still parties, but as on social media, they only engage in monologues. You are for one side and then automatically against the other side. There is no middle ground anymore. Compromise has become impossible. Debate has disappeared, from both politics and society. I will explain this observation through some prominent examples.

Climate Change

For decades, concerned citizens have been protesting environmental pollution. They are rightly alarmed because our environment has been under pressure for so long due to human activity. Right down to the microplastics that can be found in our bodies today.

But have governments done anything substantial about it in all this time? No! We just went on polluting. And then suddenly, “global warming. Within ten years, the Earth would perish. Sea levels would rise tens of meters and more such ominous predictions were poured out over us. I then wonder why then no attention to the environment and now suddenly attention to global warming.

I have a healthy distrust. Especially after predictions had been made before in this same context. The ice age was also predicted decades ago. Not by the first person, but by real scientists. None of the doomsday scenarios came true, nor did we get burned by a hole in the ozone layer. When the temperature rise could not be adequately demonstrated, the terminology was changed with climate change.

Indeed, you cannot deny that there is climate change. The question is to what extent it is happening and whether it is bad. And the question is to what extent climate change is man-made. Then the question of exactly what man is doing. And then after that the question of whether it can be done differently.

The first question is important for the three questions after that. And that first question cannot be answered because we simply do not know. Yes, of course scientists are paid all the time to back up certain desirable outcomes with statistics. But we already can’t predict this afternoon’s weather, so how do we know what the climate is going to do?

Our so-called science has been around for a few hundred years and thinks it has the truth. The Earth has been orbiting the Sun for many millions of years, and there are also scientists who show from miles of ice cores from Antarctica that the climate fluctuates back and forth to such an extent that current trends say very little.

Our governments are betting on carbon taxes and not making policies to biodegrade as many plastics as possible or replace them with more sustainable solutions. Land is filled with solar panels powering data centers. The seas are polluted with windmills that seriously disrupt marine life. Windmills are by no means a sustainable solution, but they are a nice revenue model. So much can become clear if you ask and think through.

Who benefits from climate action? Who can make money from them? It’s not that hard to see through the game. Provided you are willing to keep your eyes open and see things for what they are. That goes for both sides, by the way.

Citizens on the left are concerned about the environment and are using this climate hysteria to finally get things done. Frustrated after being ignored for decades, they now see the opportunity to be at the helm and call the shots. Unreceptive to criticism, they take dead sea life due to offshore windmills for granted.

The citizens on the right are worried about the left in charge and believe that nothing is wrong at all. We can just go on polluting and man can’t be blamed for anything. Nuclear power is apparently suddenly a good solution.

Politicians and citizens on both sides of the spectrum are stuck in their own bubble. They are convinced of their own rightness. They do not listen to the other side, because by definition it is wrong. While they are both wrong, for the truth always lies in the middle. Man can only flourish if there is cooperation and all ideas are given access to the best solution and it’s direction.

Man must adapt to climate change, not try to control it. We must stop polluting the environment. Prosperous countries should help poorer countries do so instead of abusing them as garbage dumps. Electric driving makes no sense if electricity is overwhelmingly generated from fossil fuels.

Gas is the cleanest fossil fuel, so why phase it out first? Might that have to do with geopolitics!

The Earth spirals with the Sun through the Milky Way and therefore has quite a few cyclical changes. Cycles become clear in the Mayan calendars. We know the precision in which the Earth’s axis wobbles. A few hundred years of Western science compared to millions of years of life and thousands of years of ancient knowledge from lore. Governments that have certain interests and servants. Do you then choose one bubble or another with blinders on, or do you start asking questions and thinking about what is really going on?

War

In early 2022, I wrote an article called “What to Believe? In it, I discussed, among other things, Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine. I explained how things came to be and where we can look for the causes. MH17 came up and again the questions that might prompt critical thinking about what we are being told.

A loved one I asked for a response. She disagreed with me. Russia was the culprit. She had talked to Ukrainian refugees and they knew better. None of my arguments arrived, my questions did not lead to thinking things through. My conclusion was that we depend on the sources we believe and the extent to which we are willing to critically examine those sources ourselves. Without that willingness, we continue to believe that our own bubble is the truth.

It was not difficult for the West to cast Russia in a bad light. After World War II, Russians were invariably used as bad guys in Hollywood movies. The Allies had liberated the West and Russia was not mentioned anywhere. Russians were the only ones who used narcotics at sporting events. The arms race was the Russians’ fault. Russia had to be defeated in space. MH17 had been shot down by the Russians. And supposedly out of nowhere, Russia had invaded a democratically sovereign Ukraine. Of course Russia was immediately at fault in the eyes of Western citizens; eighty years of negative propaganda had done its job well.

A 2021 special report by the European Court of Auditors on the massive corruption in Ukraine is just one example of the many facts that suggest otherwise. In my article, I wrote about the Minsk Accords, which in retrospect turned out to be only deception. The truth has turned 180 degrees, our Western governments have lied about everything. I find it incomprehensible that so few people realize that. That is so few Western people, because I think so many non-Western people do realize this. And even that we Western people don’t know, we don’t realize how much we are hated in the world.

The Western world never left its colonial mindset. Slavery has never been abolished, not essentially. Non-Western countries still have to do what the West says, because otherwise. Even Western citizens are actually slaves to the Western system. And no Westerner who sees it, doesn’t see it for what it is. Well, a few do see it and fortunately there are more and more of them. You cannot always hide the truth either. Satanism will always lose out to Love.

So the majority here is in favor of support and thus in favor of “the war” in Ukraine. I asked in my article if you would give your child a knife if they are bullied at school. Or would you start talking. Why does it have to keep escalating? When surely everyone can see how this is going to end. Then I’m not talking about the political elite in the U.S. who have rock-hard interests in Ukraine and want to secure them, after all, they are predators who are happy to sacrifice even ordinary people for their interests. No, I am talking about ordinary Western citizens here, my neighbors, my acquaintances, my family. They don’t understand what is happening. They don’t know the history. They don’t know the facts. They believe the government and the narrative that is being used. They don’t think, they are not critical.

Those who do criticize, they are ostracized. Those who do see it are hounded away. We are even hated by our own loved ones. No more debate takes place.

And then it is October 7, 2023. Yes, just like that for no reason, Hamas attacks Israel. What a fantasy and the terrible thing is that so many Westerners take it at face value. As if since the UK’s meddling and land grabbing there hasn’t been misery in that supposedly promised land to one people for 75 years. Before that, Palestinians and Jews lived together peacefully for many centuries. Yet the Zionists have other plans.

The best-guarded border in the world was overrun. The world’s best intelligence service knew nothing. The world’s sharpest army could do nothing to defend itself for hours. And we are to believe that after that Israel has the right to defend itself by simply slaughtering tens of thousands of Palestinians.

All those politicians here who rallied behind Israel, preferably still with a flag in their profile or wearing a yarmulke which they had to buy quickly. When the Palestinian victims increased in numbers, there were some mutterings of “is this really necessary this way“, but no one spoke out loudly to say “stop it”. Even the parties on the left preferred to keep their distance. One party that “they” like to refer to as the extreme right did ask critical questions and let a different voice be heard, but of course no one listened.

However, the loved one I wrote about earlier in the Ukraine narrative agreed with me here. Apparently she had seen the light here and she too saw that it was Israel that was causing the problems. Not that Hamas is such a sweetheart now, but that comes from somewhere. For example, you might wonder who founded Hamas.

Am I against Israel now? No, you can’t be against a country anyway. Nor am I anti-Semitic, because I have nothing against Jews. Provided they are “normal” Jews and not extremists you can find in any faith. I personally have nothing against ideologies of religions. If they do their own thing and don’t bother others there is little to worry about. However, settlers who do land grabbing can be missed like a toothache. The Jews are suffering under the ideology of the Zionists who were so eager to establish Israel as a one-state solution. How exactly it works I don’t know, of course, but so far it’s clear enough. The point is that you cannot be for one side and against the other when you are looking for the truth and a solution that is workable for all ordinary people.

The question is who is stirring the pot here every time. Who has an interest in the fuss? Why this divide and conquer? Why do people allow themselves to be pushed into one of the bubbles without looking at the bigger picture?

Why do people run after leaders stuck in their own bubble without open and transparent debate with dissenters?

Have we become so stupid?

Well, let’s understand that the propaganda in the West has been professionalized to the point where it is quite difficult to escape it. It’s all very subtle and sophisticated. And the peer pressure is enormous. Go against the masses as a loner, you have to be of good character.

That is my invitation. Come from or go to a good place. Do enter the debate. Be open to ‘different’. The power of man is in ‘together’. The vast majority of people do not want war, want a clean planet. Another can make a move if you and I do the same. Love. It is so close.