[America Out Loud] We had a surprisingly intimate and personal conversation with Dr. Naomi Wolf for our America Out Loud Pulse episode this week. Dr. Wolf is doing a heavily scheduled virtual book tour, which involves being booked back to back with a half dozen or more media outlets in one day and jumping from one interview to the next. It can be a marathon of sorts, and we were happy for the half hour we were provided by her scheduler.In the Zoom interview, Dr. Wolf was gentle, thoughtful, and intensely candid, just as she is in her written essays and books, including her new book, Facing the Beast, Courage, Faith, and Resistance in a New Dark Age. She describes herself as a refugee from another world of academia, culture, and governance.
We came to our interview agreeing that our entire world has been consumed for four years by the oppression that continues to this day and which began with the announcement of the COVID-19 pandemic. Cultures and ethnic groups all over the world have been oppressed—none except, perhaps, the highest elitists— have been spared the lockdowns, maskings, distancing, and bans from churches, synagogues, or mosques. None, except perhaps the most elite, have escaped being mandated to go to school, to come to work, to travel for business or pleasure, to play sports, to spend the afternoon with elder parents, to shop, dine, go to a concert or an opera, or attend a sports event.
More deeply, as Dr. Wolf so eloquently describes, we have not been allowed to attend to the births and deaths of children and elders, to gather for our most sacred religious and cultural events such as marriages, funerals, birthdays, Fourth of July celebrations, Christmas, Easter, Passover and Thanksgiving gatherings and all the other gatherings that mark the seasons and turnings of our lives and reaffirm connections and make new memories with the ones we love.
Early in her book, Dr. Wolf examines the multinational organizations that have coordinated this oppression and propagated it to a global level. In her book, Facing the Beast, she states that:
"...one source of the kind of global cruelty we observed so acutely in the medical fascism of the pandemic derives from a postwar stratum of power. Paradoxically, multinational organizations such as the European Union and the United Nations, agreements such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership and global corporate and investment communities founded after the carnage of the Second World War served to create a class of global elite policymakers, nonprofit leaders, and bureaucrats who are able to engage in cruel and oppressive policymaking precisely because they are no longer part of the communities whose lives are affected by what they have done."
What she is describing are the collections of globalists who have appointed themselves to be in charge of the world and the management and future of all eight billion souls who inhabit Earth. We call these people the Global Predators and document their takeover of formerly free nations as well as the rest of the global community in our book, COVID-19 and the Global Predators: We are the Prey. A subset of these self-appointed "Masters of the World" are the intellectuals in academia and the movers and shakers in media, Hollywood, federal and many state governments, and industry who have been invited to be part of the globalist ruling class, justifying and enforcing the rules of globalism.