More on “Carney barker for a cult”, Wendell Krossa
The title relates to material that I posted previously where historians have rightly exposed the nakedness of historically recent leftist elites posing as “modern, intellectual, enlightened philosopher kings”. But analysis of leftist/collectivist narratives exposes the fact that they are driven by the complex of primitive apocalyptic millennial themes. This is also evident in contemporary narratives like climate alarmism that is the central motivating ideology in Mark Carney’s worldview (detailed in his book “Values”).
Historians like Richard Landes have pulled off the modernist intellectual robes that elites like Carney try to cloak themselves with.
These quotes from previous material I posted here:
“Historian Richard Landes noted that the Bolsheviks tried to masquerade their movement as “science and modernity”, but they were nothing more than “superstitious members of a salvationist apocalyptic millennial cult”. My mind returned to Landes’ comments on the Bolsheviks as I watched Mark Carney replacing Trudeau.
“See the varied comments below on Carney, WEF socialist (he is a board member) and climate alarmist, seeking to bring his WEF-style climate crusade to Canada to reframe the Liberal party with his smoother elitist presentation. He will replace, but maintain, the destructive eco-zealotry of Justin Trudeau. And take it to even further reaches of destructiveness if elected to a full term.
“Carney is an eco-cultist trying, with elitist smoothness, to present himself as financial expert. No different from the self-delusional framing of the original Bolsheviks, and Marxist elites in general, who wished to mask their salvationist apocalyptic cult as some form of modernism- i.e. as ideology, science, philosophy, etc. Note, for example, Marxism’s claim to “scientific history”. Primitive mythology (apocalyptic millennialism) masked as something rational and credible.”
Continuing with recent news re Carney and his proposed spending…
Mark Carney, with his recent pledge to invest hundreds of billions to “reorient the economy and “catalyze” private investment”, reveals that he will continue the fallacy of Justin Trudeau that “government must spend to get the economy going”, to be the creator of jobs and wealth.
Carney, as Pierre Poilievre has urged, would do far better to just remove investment-killing legislation like Bill C-69 that discourages business investment. Just as Trudeau’s zealous anti-development, anti-growth ideology led him to block resource infrastructure projects and sent hundreds of billions of investment dollars fleeing out of Canada.
The leftist obsession with policies that spend, and then tax citizens to pay for the spending, appear motivated by a profound ignorance of the fact that Government is not the creator of jobs and wealth in society but with its ever-expanding bureaucracies, excessive taxation and regulation, government acts more to block and derail the economic development that should come from the private business sector of a society.
As Pierre Poilievre responds, “That inflationary debt will drive up the cost of food, housing and everything else”.
Carney, along with all leftists, should heed the leader of the Communist faction in Mitterrand’s 1980 coalition government that won the French election. They did what all socialists do and began to nationalize sectors of the French economy. In response, the French economy “tanked” within a year (Joshua Muravchik in “Heaven On Earth”). Mitterrand’s Socialist/Communist coalition then had the sense to back off from nationalizing the French economy and the Marxist leader in the coalition humbly acknowledged, “We must respect business sector as the creator of wealth in society.” Well, that’s a huge “Duh”, eh.
Government has a history of getting in the way of private business creating jobs and wealth, of clogging up the system with taxes and regulations. As 2016 presidential candidate Ben Carson said- The job of government is to provide an environment in which private business can flourish, an environment of low taxation and regulation.
Note this…
“NP View: Mark Carney’s platform is a plan for economic disaster: Liberals promise massive deficits coupled with Trudeau-style social justice agenda”, National Post View, April 22, 2025
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/np-view-mark-carneys-platform-is-a-plan-for-economic-disaster
And another good one
“Sorry Carney, but libertarians are exactly who you want in a crisis: Canada would be in much better shape today if there had been some voices of reason around the cabinet table”, Jesse Kline, April 22, 2025
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/sorry-carney-but-libertarians-are-exactly-who-you-want-in-a-crisis
Kline opens stating that, “Mark Carney is proving once again that the Liberals have never met a crisis they didn’t think they could spend their way out of.”
He recalls Justin Trudeau’s response to the Covid pandemic. Trudeau stated the very same thing that Carney has said, “In a crisis … government needs to step up.”
And Carney is responding to the alleged crisis caused by Trump’s tariffs with $130 billion in more spending. Kline’s point is that libertarians would not respond to emergencies as the Liberals do with more government spending. Libertarians would have worked to strengthen the economy with growth that would enable Canada to better respond to all emergencies. Instead, the Liberals took a surplus in 2014-15 and turned it into a massive deficit a year later. And that has been the story of the past lost decade.
“Rather than using trade threats during Trump’s first term as an opportunity to build pipelines and ports to diversify our export markets, they passed the Impact Assessment Act, which makes it virtually impossible to get major infrastructure approved and banned tankers off the northern coast of British Columbia.
“This cut off a much-needed source of economic growth and government revenue, as the Grits implemented every lefty program they could dream up.”
And when the pandemic began to subside, “Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland argued that due to low interest rates, “it would be shortsighted of us not to” continue the spending binge.
“And so, we got more Big Government programs that we could ill afford, while Trudeau turned away world leaders looking to Canada to help solve an energy crisis resulting from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.”
Kline says that Carney is proposing to continue this wasteful anti-growth government spending.
Kline’s alternative: “Libertarians would have encouraged the government to create a stable business environment and straightforward, easy-to-navigate approval processes in order to promote investment and the use of private capital to develop our natural resources and get them to market.
“Canada could have been the country the world turns to in order to break its dependence on China for critical minerals. We could be home to transcontinental pipelines supplying western Canadian energy to Central and Atlantic Canada, Europe and Asia, thus breaking our dependence on the United States and supporting our European allies against Russian imperialism.
“Instead, the Liberals instituted a law to prevent mines and pipelines from being built and were then forced to nationalize the Trans Mountain pipeline in order to see it through to fruition.
“Libertarians would have done away with our socialistic system of supply management, making life more affordable for Canadians and encouraging our dairy, poultry and egg farmers to be competitive internationally.”
Kline concludes that the libertarian alternative would better prepare Canada to face any challenges: “Most importantly, they would have noted that having a vibrant economy that raises the standard of living of all Canadians would do far more to address the societal challenges we face than the myriad of high-cost programs the Liberals have instituted over the years.”
And something from the “spiritual” lane...
I posted this to a discussion group, some comment on Carl Jung sharing some insights from his NDE, something he never shared publicly during his life and it only came to light some 80 years later.
“Banned for 80 years. Carl Jung on Life After Death, the Soul and what comes next”, from a site called “Mental Dose”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3GyYaLCDe0
The narrator in this link says that during his NDE, “Jung saw a world of light without shadow… But Jung cautioned that where there is no shadow there is no depth. In the future world suffering is erased, pain, confusion, even death becomes transparent. But without them the soul loses its weight. He wasn’t romanticizing pain but suggesting the contrast between the dark and the light was essential to spiritual growth. Without night there is no dawn. Without suffering there is no transformation. He felt many are not ready to hear this. He realized truth is not knowledge but growth, the willingness to let suffering become understanding, to let the unknown become familiar. It is light earned not inherited.” And so on.
Jung’s comments reminded me of Natalie Sudman’s account of her NDE in “Application of Impossible Things” where she noted, as many other NDEr’s have, that we may have some pre-life role in choosing what lessons we want to learn before we come here to live out our life stories. Sudman rightly cautions that this possible personal role in choosing what we might suffer in our lives here does not mean taking a flippant, careless, or irresponsible attitude of unresisting submission toward suffering. In this world we are responsible to engage battles of good against evil, to take evil seriously and work to eliminate it. But her insights offer some possible further understanding of the role of suffering in our overall development and growth and our possible involvement in what happens in our life stories. Maybe meaning that “God” is not responsible for everything going wrong.
Then a friend, Tracey, shared this link to a letter that someone posted from Jung to a dying lady…
Here is some comment on the letter:
“From the correspondence of Carl Jung: life after death
“After a serious heart attack in 1944 Carl Jung wrote during his recovery some letters about his experiences. One begins:
“‘What happens after death is so unspeakably glorious that our imagination and our feelings do not suffice to from even an approximate conception of it.’
“Jung believed at this time that ‘the dissolution of our time-bound form in eternity brings no loss of meaning. Rather does the little finger know itself a member of the hand.’
“In a longer letter to Kristine Mann an American analytical psychologist who was terminally ill he wrote of what he experienced during the attack. The longer account is given in his autobiography Memories, Dreams and Reflections. Whilst greatly weakened physically he notes that fortunately his head hadn’t suffered:
“‘On the whole my illness proved to be a most valuable experience, which gave me the inestimable opportunity of a glimpse behind the veil … When you can give up the crazy will to live and when you seemingly fall into a bottomless mist, then the truly real life begins with everything you were meant to be and never reached. It is something ineffably grand. I was free, completely free and whole, as I never felt before.’
“Jung then describes his near death experience of floating above the earth and seeing it as an immense globe in an inexpressibly beautiful blue light; he sees the southern end of India shining in a bluish silvery light with what was then Ceylon, now Sri Lanka like a shimmering opal in the deep blue sea. He goes on:
“‘I was in the universe, where there was a big solitary rock containing a temple. I saw its entrance illuminated by a thousand small flames of coconut oil. I knew I was to enter the temple and I would reach full knowledge.’
“At this moment a messenger appears summoning Jung back to the world and the whole vision collapses. However during his recovery in a state alternating between sleep and wakefulness Jung experiences what he calls ‘the complete vision’. He felt in a deep union with somebody or something that was itself united – ‘the mystic Agnus’. The experience was permeated by ‘an incomparable, indescribable feeling of eternal bliss, such as I never could have imagined as being within reach of human experience.’
“In the letter Jung says that death is the hardest thing from the outside but once inside ‘you taste of such completeness and peace and fulfilment that you don’t want to return.’ The experience was so overwhelming that as he recovered Jung suffered from black depressions which felt like dying as he returned to ‘this fragmentary, restricted, narrow, almost mechanical life, where you were subject to the laws of gravity and cohesion, imprisoned in a system of 3 dimensions and whirled along with other bodies in the turbulent stream of time. There was fullness, meaning fulfilment, eternal movement (not movement in time).’
“Jung finishes by saying that throughout his illness he had felt carried by something and that ‘my feet were not standing on air and I had the proof that I have reached a safe ground.’ He urges Kristine Mann to do whatever she does with sincerity and that this will become the bridge to her wholeness, ‘a good ship that carries you through the darkness of your second birth, which seems to be death to the outside… Be patient and regard it as another difficult task, this time the last one.’
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