MAIN IDEA:

The author is a German neuroscientist specializing in processes related to brain changes due to environment and aging and reviews recent events such as the COVID-19 pandemic. He concludes that these events, when the normal functioning of democracy was dramatically disrupted, are not random but rather part of the quite open process of changing the existing political and economic systems of the Western democracies to the new one characterized by complete dominance over society by the global technocracy: something represented by “Davos people.” Here is the author’s description of how it works using the example of vaccination based on the assumption that a natural immune system cannot handle the COVID-19 virus:” The proclaimed need to be vaccinated against it every three to six months was ultimately based on this false assumption. In the case of this pathogen, however, this meant that for the first time a largely experimental injection was being administered, the mode of action of which is in many cases similar to that of gene therapy (i.e., involving modified active genetic material). This was made palatable to people by a combination of media-generated fear of death (with the key word self-protection) and ethically sanctioned social pressure (protection of others). Thus, this lifelong injection subscription also fulfills the definition of psychosocial dependency, with the ministries of health worldwide having increased their influence on individual lifestyles and pharmaceutical companies having made high profits.”

The author refers to other works that describe the process of people’s indoctrination and then links it to his area of expertise:” An entirely new approach to explaining the increasing controllability of society and the astonishing response of little resistance emerges from this neurological insight. It goes far beyond the sociopsychological approach formulated by Desmet and, in a sense, forms its neuropathological basis. This profound explanation is, however, highly dramatic, for it will take much more than psychological insight and a change of mentality to halt or reverse this dangerous development. Trapped in zombie mode, it is impossible for victims to question their own precarious situation. Natural curiosity or interest in alternative explanations and courses of action is lost, opening the door to indoctrination. The underlying neuropathological process leads to a decrease in psychological resilience. The result is not only an increased fear of anything new but also a particular susceptibility to being controlled by fear.”

In the final chapter, the author presents the closing argument detailing a to-do list for achieving a “Healthier Brain, Healthier Decisions.” He also promises a nice result from implementing it:

MY TAKE ON IT:

I generally do not believe in any conspiracy theories, not because there are no conspiracies, but because the functioning of human societies is way too complicated for conspiracies to be functional. More often than not, great changes in societies, as well as in technology, happen unexpectedly as a result of long undercurrent development that conditions a small number of activists to capture a momentary disturbance of the system and move it to a qualitatively different state. At the same time, the vast majority of people remain passive, whether they support it or not. Such qualitative change could be for the best, as it happened with the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution, which led to prosperity and a huge improvement in quality of life, but it can also happen as it did with Fascism and Communism for the worst, which led to a massive decrease in quality of life and termination of millions of lives.

I think that humanity is at a crossroads now, with one road leading to an attempt to establish a dictatorship of a global elite and another one leading to the massive expansion of individual property rights to everybody. Either of these roads will  

substitute the current method of resource generation and distribution based on control over most of the resources by the minority of members of the bureaucratic hierarchy of government and/or corporations and on the labor-based resource allocation for the majority. It will inevitably happen because technology makes all labor increasingly redundant, with make-believe jobs being a non-viable substitute due to the evolutionary-formed human psychology.

I also think that the road to complete dominance of bureaucratic hierarchy is a dead end because top members of the elite will always fight each other for power, causing pain and suffering for all in the process. So, eventually, humanity will come to an arrangement when everybody has property rights sufficient to obtain necessary resources via voluntary exchange, and the scale, role, and power of elite bureaucracy will be diminished to the absolute minimum required to maintain law and order.