Alex’s War

Sometimes a cigar is just a vast international conspiracy of elitist transhumanists

Just arrived: The Great Reset and the War for the World, a new book by Alex Jones.

As I noted in a previous essay, Jones has been on the leading edge of recognizing the global elite’s move toward shareholder capitalism promoted under the aegis of sustainability and climate alarmism.

Has Jones been wrong about some things? Yes. And yet he’s forced millions of people to question official government narratives — a now (unfortunately) necessary component of remaining an informed voter in what’s left of an ostensibly democratic republic that is increasingly a fascist arrangement between progressives, the permanent administrative state, Big Tech, legacy media, multinational corporations, politicized NGOs, and a cadre of young global leaders promoted by the WEF and meant to embed themselves in western liberal governments.

Many putative free speech warriors — Alex Berenson, most recently — reject Jones as a net negative to objective investigative journalism; me, I try never to place limits on speech, particularly speech driven by assertion and argument: popular or not, truth is truth, or, as Justice Clarence Thomas might frame it, north is still north.

It is with that in mind that I’m going to give Jones’s book a fair shake.

So look for upcoming discussions here of Jones’ book. The marketplace of ideas can get unruly — and too many “professionals” wielding credentials recoil from Jones’ bombastic style.

This is a mistake, in my opinion. When Jones is wrong, we should highlight his errors. But when he’s right, we shouldn’t let institutional disdain diminish what are compelling arguments. Instead, we should dig deeper to find out if there’s a there there.

I’m starting the book today. I’ve run this series on pw before — “Provocateurism” — in which I went through Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism and Levin’s Liberty and Tyranny. I did this in installments and in great detail. If you’re interested in an in-depth dialogue on Jones’ book, stay tuned.

“Conspiracy theory” has become the new “racism” or “transphobe.”

And in an age of globalist machinations, we shouldn’t be shamed away from examining official narratives.