Not Our Future

‘Not Our Future’: the Last Stand of the Anti-Vaxx Confusionists: from, David Fleming, Maajid Nawaz, Frank Furedi, Neil Oliver, Laurence Fox, to… ‘others’. Re-published with thanks from Tendance Coatesy

Mad Frankie Furedi’s Journey from the Revolutionary Communist Party.

There are two defining events unfolding before our eyes.

The first is the fightback to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Across the world people have stood with the Ukrainians’ resistance in a spirit of internationalism. Ukraine has begun to succeed in liberating itself from the occupation.

The second is the uprising in Iran. Under the banner of Zan, Zendegī, Āzādī (Persian), Jin, Jiyan, Azadî (Kurdish) Women, Life Freedom, the revolt brings people together for equality and liberty, against the Islamic Republic of Iran. Up to 378 people have died protesting against the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei regime. But the movement, far from having been quelled, continues to grow.

Neither battle fits into the old culture wars, promoted by the politics of the liberal left and identitarian right. They are universal struggles. Anybody can join. Just as the protests against the compulsory Hijab cut against the grain of the assertion – and enforcement – of religious difference, so does the fire at Ayatollah Khomeini’s ancestral home strike at the heritage of the oppressive past.

Solidarity with Ukraine and the Iranian uprising is based on the simplest reasons and sentiments. More than feelings of compassion, they are admiration at people’s self-assertion against oppression.

The late French Marxist Daniel Bensaïd Michael Löwy has said, believed within his concept of “bifurcation”, a field of possibilities in which the class struggle occupies a decisive place, but whose outcome is unpredictable” Yet within these potentials we have choices. “Class internationalism remains the best response to tribal nationalism and imperialism. It is the heir of the universality of reason proclaimed by the philosophy of the Enlightenment and of the revolutionary concept of citizenship – open to foreigners – of the republican constitution of June 24, 1793, adopted by a Convention in which sat – but not for long ! – Anarchists Cloots and Thomas Paine. Finally, solidarity with the “other” is based on an old tradition that goes back to the Old Testament: you will not oppress the foreigner because you were foreigners – and undocumented – in the land of Egypt.” (Daniel Bensaïd: a bifurcation.)

Bensaïd has suggested that..”.there prophecy in any great human, romantic, aesthetic or revolutionary adventure. The revolutionary prophecy is not a forecast, but a project, without any assurance of victory”. At one point, at a seminar in North London, he referred to Kant’s The Prophetic History of Mankind (1798). “Even without the mind of a seer, I now maintain that I can predict from the aspects and sigs of our time that the human race will attain this end, that it will henceforth progressively improve without any more total reversals. For a phenomenon of this kind which has taken place in human history can never be forgotten, since it has revealed in human nature an aptitude and power for improvement of a kind which no politicians could have thought up by examining the course of events by examining the course of events in the past. Only nature and freedom, combined within mankind in accordance with principles of right, have enabled us to forecast it; but the precise time at which it will occur must remain indefinite and dependent upon chance”.

The thought is dense, complex, open to multiple interpretations. One, Bensaïd inclined to, is that the Russian Revolution showed an “aptitude and power” – unrealised – for improvement. Another centres on the echoes of the French Revolution. One, perhaps more appropriate then and today, is that the capacity for progressive change, once entered on the historical scene, will, despite the darkness that has overwhelmed our common history so many times, can and will always be fought.

At the risk of being optimistic I’d say that, at present, despite the horrors of the war in Ukraine and the repression in Iran, that the signs of the times are in favour of the Ukrainian and Iranian people, and that there are good reasons to have hope in the future.

Now…

Enter the world of the last confusionists flailing around in the darkness (flagged up by Bob from work by John Bye) …

Please help us get the truth to the public one at a time. @TheFreds https://t.co/eB3S1OikqJ#SignThePledge #NotOurFuture pic.twitter.com/xzJtENY9nT

— Not Our Future (@Not_OurFuture) November 21, 2022

We, the undersigned, reject the future that is being forced upon us. It is not our future.

For the first time in history, governments around the world have taken steps that reduce our quality of life. The draconian and destructive response to COVID-19, involving the lockdown of entire populations, mandated injections and mask wearing, and aggressive suppression of freedom of expression, could be a harbinger of things to come.

This self-inflicted damage reflects a concerted drive toward centralization of political and economic power which is eroding life expectancy, personal liberty, and freedom of expression worldwide. These deliberate steps backwards herald the beginning of a new Dark Age.

For generations, people have fought to improve their ability to thrive and pass on a better future to the next generation. Unless we act decisively, this may come to an end and leave our children and grandchildren facing a bleak future. It is becoming increasingly clear that government policies worldwide, influenced by unelected and unaccountable supranational organisations are detrimental to our future.

We are told that modern healthcare is getting better over time. But if that were true, the rate of chronic health conditions in American schoolchildren would not have risen from 12% in 1986 to 54% now. Clearly, for whatever reason, current healthcare policies are destroying the joy of childhood and crippling our children’s future.

These are some of the other areas where governments around the world are laying the tracks for a bleak and authoritarian future. :

• Rampant inflation and unsustainable debt caused by uncontrolled money printing

• Belligerently supporting war instead of negotiating for peace

• Unaffordable food and energy prices exacerbated by war

• De-industrialisation caused by the NetZero energy crisis

• Collaborating with online platforms and the corporate media to censor news and facts in “the public interest”

• Enacting legislation to curtail freedom of speech

• Propagating divisions in society via identity politics

• Politicisation and corruption of science and academia

• Looming food shortages resulting from forced buy-out of productive farmland

• Attempting to grant the World Health Organisation power to direct worldwide pandemic management policies

• Digital IDs and programmable Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) which have the potential to lock humanity in a dystopian control grid; a de facto prison

All of these disastrous actions were or are totally avoidable whilst many of the policies that are now beginning to affect our lives are broadly those adopted by our governments under the United Nations Agendas 21 & 30 and the Sustainable Development Goals. The aims of the SDGs appear to be very much in line with the race to Net Zero and the pursuit of “Health Security” in the post Covid-19 world. All of this is occurring without any meaningful public debate or democratic oversight and being led by elites who pursue their own vested interests.

While governments enact policies harmful to humanity, they claim to care about people, the planet, equality, diversity, sustainability, health, and wellbeing. If that were true, our children would be healthier today than their predecessors were 40 years ago. Governments simply cannot be trusted any longer.

We reject this bleak future that is being forced upon us. It is dark, coarse, and devoid of any hope or humanity. It is not our future and it is certainly not a future we should want for our children.

We pledge to be responsible custodians of our children’s future. We pledge to give them a better life than the one we have. We therefore pledge to stand firm against these destructive policies.

Not Our Future, the latest project from Covid-19 Assembly founder David Fleming, has finally gone public. Signatories include a who’s who of cranks, conspiracy theorists, anti-vaxxers and Z-list celebs, from Michael Yeadon to Right Said Fred… 🧵 pic.twitter.com/k8nheoMQNH

— John Bye (@_johnbye) November 21, 2022

Not Our Future, the latest project from Covid-19 Assembly founder David Fleming, has finally gone public. Signatories include a who’s who of cranks, conspiracy theorists, anti-vaxxers and Z-list celebs, from Michael Yeadon to Right Said Fred… 🧵 pic.twitter.com/k8nheoMQNH

— John Bye (@_johnbye) November 21, 2022

Other signatories include veteran anti-vaxxer Del Bigtree (who produced Andrew Wakefield’s film about the MMR vaccine), Vernon Coleman (AIDS denier), Robert Malone (who claims to have invented mRNA vaccines) and long time New World Order conspiracy theorist Patrick Wood. pic.twitter.com/CLaxGwDNoG

— John Bye (@_johnbye) November 21, 2022

Mike Stock is one third of Stock Aitken Waterman, the 1980s pop factory behind Kylie Minogue’s early hits (h/t @roryjiwani). He joins Right Said Fred and DJ Danny Rampling, who ironically founded a “carbon neutral DJ campaign” .. but has now signed a pledge against Net Zero. 🤔 pic.twitter.com/Z9etX7ZMU3

— John Bye (@_johnbye) November 22, 2022

Simon Elmer co-founded Architects for Social Housing, and went from campaigning for council houses to writing a book “Road to Fascism: A Critique of the Global Biosecurity State”. 😳

Frank Furedi co-founded the Revolutionary Communist Party, and writes about a “culture of fear”. pic.twitter.com/wgflal1mXi

— John Bye (@_johnbye) November 22, 2022