JOB ANNOUNCEMENT TOP URGENT:
EMPLOYERS: POLITICAL LEADERS IN A RANGE OF EUROPEAN COUNTRIES AND IN USA
PROFESSIONAL SKILLS REQUIRED: APPLICANTS MUST BE POLITICAL ENGINEERS WITH A PROVEN TRACK RECORD OF CONSTRUCTING ROBUST “CORDONS SANITAIRES” CAPABLE OF PROTECTING POPULATIONS FROM THEMSELVES WHEN ENGAGED IN VOTING IN NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ELECTIONS. A CORDON SANITAIRE MAY BE DEFINED, FOR PURPOSES OF THIS REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE, AS A COHERENT SET OF ACTIONS WHICH ENSURE THAT “UNHEALTHY VIEWS” (MEANING THOSE VIEWS LABELLED AS SUCH BY THE RULING CASTA) DO NOT RECEIVE REPRESENTATION IN THE POLITICAL PROCESS. SUCH ACTIONS MAY INCLUDE, INTER ALIA, MEDIA OPERATIONS, IMPLEMENTATION OF LAWS AND REGULATIONS WHICH EFFECTIVELY LIMIT FREEDOM OF UNWELCOME SPEECH AND POTENTIALLY OF DANGEROUS ASSEMBLY, UNDERCOVER TRACING AND SIMILAR ACTS. TO ENSURE THAT THE CORDONS SANITAIRES ARE SUSTAINED OVER TIME, A PROPOSAL SHOULD DETAIL HOW EDUCATIONAL POLICIES WILL BE UPGRADED TO GUARANTEE THAT FUTURE GENERATIONS ARE THOROUGHLY VACCINATED. A PROPOSAL MAY ALSO SUGGEST STEPS THAT COULD BE TAKEN, IN ANY SPECIFIC COUNTRY, TO MITIGATE THE RISK THAT EXISTING STRUCTURES OF DEMOCRACY AND ITS INSTITUTIONS MIGHT ACTUALLY THEMSELVES BE A CAUSE, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, OF THE PRESENT DILEMMA.
REASON FOR THE REQUEST: LEADERS OF ALL POLITICAL PERSUASIONS IN THE COUNTRIES CONCERNED CLAIM TO HAVE DETECTED UNMISTAKABLE SIGNS OF “EXTREMISM” IN VOTING AND BEHAVIORAL PATTERNS WITHIN THEIR SOCIETIES. THE ALLEGED “EXTREMISM” IS HELD TO COME FROM ALL POINTS OF THE POLITICAL SPECTRUM AND TO PRESENT A CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER TO THE HITHERTO PREVAILING “CASTRATION OF CHOICE”, ALSO LABELLED POLITICAL CORRECTNESS, WHICH FOR AT LEAST THE FIRST QUARTER OF THIS CENTURY HAS ENSURED THAT THE EXISTING CASTA CAN LIVE AND PROSPER IN SPLENDID ISOLATION FROM THE POPULATION. THE MAINTENANCE OF “STABILITY” THUS REQUIRES THAT THE ENGINEERING WORKS BE INITIATED AT ONCE AND ON A LARGE SCALE. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE REQUEST IS MADE DESPITE A FAMED STATEMENT BY ONE FRANÇOIS-MARIE AROUET, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS VOLTAIRE. ALTHOUGH THE GENTLEMAN IN QUESTION WAS A WEALTHY MEMBER OF THE ELITE LIVING IN ELITIST TIMES, HE STILL ANNOUNCED THAT, EVEN IF HE WAS UTTERLY OPPOSED TO ANOTHER PERSON’S VIEWS, HE WOULD DEFEND TILL THE END THE PERSON’S RIGHT TO VOICE THEM. THE FOUNDER OF MANUFACTURE ROYALE CLEARLY BELIEVED THAT THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A CHASTITY BELT WHEN IT COMES TO DEMOCRACY.
DURATION OF EMPLOYMENT: AS LONG AS IT TAKES TO ROOT OUT THESE DISRUPTIVE FORCES.
BACKGROUND TO THE REQUEST: OVER MANY YEARS AND IN ALL THE RELEVANT COUNTRIES, VOTING PARTICIPATION HAS BEEN DECLINING TO SUCH LEVELS THAT POLITICAL PARTIES WERE ABLE TO SECURE CONTROL OF THE REINS OF GOVERNMENT WITH THE EXPLICIT BACKING OF ONLY TINY SEGMENTS OF THE POPULATIONS (THE “PRAF” PHENOMENON AS IDENTIFIED PRIOR TO THE 2017 FRENCH PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS – “PLUS RIEN A FAIRE, PLUS RIEN A FOUTRE”). THE CASTA WERE THEREFORE GIVEN UNTRAMMELED POSSIBILITIES TO PROCEED WITH THEIR IVORY TOWER CONSTRUCTION INDEPENDENT OF FAST-GROWING STRIFE IN THE SOCIETIES THEMSELVES. ENDLESS PREACHING WAS MORE OR LESS THE SUM TOTAL OF WHAT WAS DONE – LEAVE IT TO MUTTI.
ACCUMULATED RAGE CONSTANTLY MANIFESTED ITSELF IN EXPONENTIALLY INCREASING DEMONSTRATIONS OF ALL SORTS, NUMEROUS EPISODES OF VIOLENCE, HUGE EXPLOSIONS OF OPINIONS ON SOCIAL MEDIA, AND DIRECT EXPRESSIONS OF ALL KINDS OF PREJUDICE. INDEED, THOUGH PREJUDICE IS ALAS AN EVER PRESENT IN HUMAN HISTORY, IN THE CURRENT WORLD IT APPEARS TO HAVE RUN AMOK. IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY UNSPEAKABLE HORRORS WERE PERPETRATED VIA THE VIRUS OF PREJUDICE. YET THAT ICON OF ALL PREJUDICE, WINSTON CHURCHILL, WAS HAILED AS A HERO. IS IT BECAUSE HE SUCCESSFULLY MARKETED HIMSELF AS THE ULTIMATE “PATRIOT”? SOMEHOW THE NOTION THAT PARLIAMENTS ARE OFTEN THE PALACES OF PREJUDICE WAS OVERLOOKED.
THESE POWERFUL LATENT FORCES WERE ACCENTUATED BY THE TOTAL DESTRUCTION (POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, TECHNOLOGICAL AND EVEN MILITARY) OF THE CONTROL WHICH THE “ELITES” OF THESE COUNTRIES HAD EXERCISED IN THE REST OF THE WORLD OVER THE PRECEDING SEVERAL CENTURIES. THE UNMISTAKABLE SIGNS OF THE LOOMING DESTRUCTION AND ITS INTERNAL EFFECTS HAD BEEN CLEARLY SEEN BY HENRY KISSINGER AT THE END OF THE 1960S, A PERIOD WHEN INTERNAL VIOLENCE IN USA WAS AT LEAST AS PREVALENT AS IT IS TODAY. HE OPTED FOR THE TWIN EXTERNAL POLICIES OF SHIFTING AMERICAN POLICY TOWARDS ASIA WHILE SAVAGELY STAMPING ON UPHEAVALS IN LATIN AMERICA. HE HOPED THAT THE FORMER MIGHT COOL SOME OF THE TENSIONS AT HOME.
THE INABILITY TO WREST THE DECLINE OF GLOBAL POWER HAS FINALLY LED TO AND ACCELERATED THE INTERNAL FRACTURES LONG SINCE PRESENT IN THE COUNTRIES CONCERNED. EACH COUNTRY NOW ESSENTIALLY IDENTIFIES ITSELF BY THE RANGE AND DEPTH OF PROBLEMS IT IS FACING RATHER THAN BY ITS ASSETS. GOVERNMENTS AND THE ASSOCIATED CASTA ARE PERCEIVED AS UTTERLY DISINTERESTED IN THE PLIGHT OF INHABITANTS, WOEFULLY INCOMPETENT TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT THAT PLIGHT, AND, WORSE STILL, AS DETERMINED TO HOLD ON TO THEIR POSITIONS AT ALL COSTS (HENCE THIS URGENT REQUEST BY THE CASTA FOR THE CREATION OF CORDONS SANITAIRES). THOSE PROFESSING TO OFFER “SOLUTIONS” MAY WELL NOT HAVE THEM, BUT THE PERCEPTION OF LARGE SEGMENTS OF THE POPULATION IS THAT THEY MUST BE GIVEN AN OPPORTUNITY.
THE FIRST ROUND OF THE FRENCH PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS DRAMATICALLY REVERSED THE PRAF TREND AND DREW VOTING PARTICIPATION RATES UNSEEN FOR DECADES. FOR 7 YEARS THE CURRENT PRESIDENT HAS ACTED IN THE CLASSIC STYLE OF A LATIN AMERICAN CAUDILLO (THOUGH THE INDIVIDUAL HIMSELF IS ALMOST CERTAINLY BEREFT OF SERIOUS KNOWLEDGE ABOUT “THE FORGOTTEN CONTINENT”). UNDERSTANDABLY QUESTIONS HAVE BEEN RAISED ABOUT WHETHER IN PRACTICE THE CAUDILLO HAS ACTUALLY BEEN DOING ANYTHING TOO DIFFERENT FROM PRACTITIONERS OF “ILLIBERAL DEMOCRACY”. PRESUMABLY THE COUNTER ARGUMENT WOULD BE THAT HE DID CALL ELECTIONS THAT HE KNEW HE WOULD LOSE. THE TODAY INSTALLED PRESIDENT OF THE EU COUNCIL OF MINISTERS IS MEANWHILE BUSY LOCKING TOGETHER THE CENTRAL EUROPEAN TRIO (CECHIA, AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY), KNOWN HISTORICALLY AS A CRUCIAL GROUP WITHIN CONCENTRATION CAMP TERRITORY AND MARKED BY THE STRONGEST ANTI -SEMITIC TENDENCIES. THIS MOVE EMPHASIS THAT CORDON SANITAIRE CONSTRUCTION OUGHT NOT TO BE LIMITED TO OPERATIONS WITHIN INDIVIDUAL COUNTRIES. IDEALLY CROSS BORDER OPERATIONS SHOULD BE CARRIED OUT.
APPLICATION PROCEDURE: INDIVIDUALS AND ENTITIES WHICH BELIEVE THEY HAVE THE NECESSARY KNOW-HOW SHOULD SEND THEIR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST (EOI) AS SOON AS POSSIBLE TO THE HEADQUARTERS OF ALL POLITICAL GROUPINGS WHICH HAVE UNDERLINED PUBLICLY THE NEED FOR CORDONS SANITAIRES IN THE RELEVANT COUNTRIES. IN PRACTICE THIS MEANS SEND TO EVERY POLITICAL GROUP THAT HAS BEEN ANYWHERE NEAR GOVERNMENT IN ALL THE COUNTRIES – THEY ALL CLAIM TO WORK AGAINST EXTREMISM OF ONE SORT OR ANOTHER. THOSE CAPABLE OF OPERATING CROSS BORDER SHOULD ADDRESS THEIR EOI TO THE PRESIDENCY OF THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION IN BRUSSELS.
EMOLUMENTS: ALL WORK WILL BE PAID AT THE FULLEST GOING NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL RATES PLUS MASSIVE BONUSES BASED ON SUCCESS. APPLICANTS ARE THUS NOT REQUIRED TO SUBMIT FINANCIAL OFFERS – YOU WILL BE HANDSOMELY REWARDED.
Peter O’Brien, Following Le Tour de France, 1st July 2024