Two Weeks to Flatten Your Country

Before PANDEMIC!!!! there was Systemic Risk the boardroom game

I’ve posted a new video, my first one ever on Rumble. It’s a presentation I gave in June 2022 to the fourth symposium of Doctors for Covid Ethics (at the 4:36:22 mark), which discusses the remarkable similarities of the fruitless criminal investigations into Wall Street banks in the wake of the global financial crisis (GFC) on the one hand and the follow-the-science campaign we’ve all continued to endure on the other hand. The fingerprints of corruption at the two crime scenes are essentially identical.

In the original post-GFC whitewashing classic, Department of Justice officials, acting on behalf of their corporate mega-clients, would chant “systemic risk” or “collateral consequences” three times whenever those benefactors had been caught perpetrating crimes against the public—and simply hope that no one would notice that both terms were bare-boned diktats concealed under a thick pseudoscientific mucus, or that an attorney-client relationship had existed before and would exist after said client was given a pass for its crimes, or that the ever-anonymous systemic risk “experts” and the corporate criminals themselves were one and the same.

That was 10 years ago. Alas, corporate criminals are much more brazen now, and the public more pliant. Now they have simplified both the process, by installing their “expert” advocates directly into government positions (cutting out $2000-an-hour middlemen) and the language, by doing away with pseudoscientific amorphousness and replacing it with an easier-to-follow command, namely, “follow the science, serf.”

Well, okay. They dropped the serf part after focus groups revealed that TV watchers and big media believers and Facebook addicts are inherently slavish and thus that the language was unnecessary. The rest, as they say, is history.

—John Titus