Nargh. I feel like Alex is spinning off lately stuck on unproven beliefs about Josephus.
For some reason, my brothers in America seem stuck on the whole World Order thing despite the following facts.
1. There has been ZERO new legislation from any nation that I know of that's creating a one-world government pre or POST Covid.
2. Most people just want to get back to normal after the pandemic. Most governments (the US is the worst) have been providing money to their people to KEEP their businesses afloat and people from falling into abject poverty. IF there was this push, then they wouldn't be helping out to keep the old system running.
3. There's ZERO evidence that Josephus was actually a roman plant or that Christianity was a PSI-OP. I'm not a Christian, and while the idea is compelling, it's still just abject guesswork.
How do I know this?
Because we keep making the same mistakes.
Mistake #1: Hanlon's Razor is in play here. Alex keeps assuming some kind of cabal of some sort that has been purposefully doing all this stuff. The REAL problem are the cracks in capitalism that allow the abuse of the system. But instead of looking at the possibility of creating better safeguards through creating a social democracy, the problem COULDNT be capitalism could it? Ask the Icelanders what they did when the last big crash happened. They jailed the bankers who took the country into ruin. How many bankers did America OR Canada for that matter jail? None.
The problem isn't some deep down evil cabal who wants to rule the world from their front porch. The problems are that capitalism needs to be properly regulated.
Mistake #2. Related to the above mistake. Nobody at the top WANTS a One-World Government. They already control people through the money they are making because of the broken system. Do you think that Bezos wants people to no longer work and depend on a government? OF COURSE NOT. He makes more money employing people cheaply and being able to hook people on a market economy that's specifically an economy that has people look to material items to solve their issues. The wealthy WANT indentured servants. They don't want starving masses they have to feed, clothe, and provide healthcare for. The more you can convince people that government is incompetent, evil, etc... the more you can foist the needs that a government used to have upon corporate capitalist forces. The Nazis knew this. This is why they ran their Fascism through corporate relationships. They made sure their populace worked at a company and could not change jobs. They paid them very little, and scraped up the rest. This is the essence of the right-wing Fascist state.
Mistake #3. Josephus wasn't bound by our understandings of historical accuracy. Most ancient scholars wrote to tell a story. They didn't write NOR DID ANYONE BELIEVE they wrote specific history. We see this all the way up through the middle ages. Geoffrey of Monmouth mixed history with storytelling to add elements in that didn't exist. Never let the facts get in the way of a good story. That was the nature of "historians" until the modern age. And even then...
Mistake #4. Constantine was running a failing society. His choices to make Roman into a Christian empire had nothing to do with controlling people and everything to do with controlling the costs. Before it became a Christian nation, Rome held all gods and goddesses sacrosanct. This means EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK there were holy days. This shut down industry. Shut up commerce. Made it really hard to actually DO anything. Constantine killing his family members had nothing to do about "being a good Christian" and everything to do with being of the age and the world he was in. "Good Christians" raped and pillaged for centuries and even to this modern day. Constantine was a Christian out of economic necessity and nothing else. They had to create a single religion to try to provide clarity to the fading Roman Empire, and there were two possibilities. Mithras who was really popular amongst his soldiers, and this Nazarene named Jesus who the rank and file poor folk loved. He was political to choose Jesus because it made him more popular with the poor and helped stem any uprisings. Strictly political, nothing to do with creating some grand psi-op at the time, as far as any evidence we can find.
I fear that Alex, as brilliant and as clever as you are my friend, you've got your hands on a hammer, and you're going to treat every problem like a nail. Step back a bit and see there are very real holes in your conclusions. You may be totally right. But there's no way we're there yet.
It's too bad Tom Harpur passed away a couple years back. He would have been the best person for Alex to talk to.
http://www.tomharpur.com/biography/