THE ZOOKEEPER SYNDROME (Foreign and Domestic) The transnational, globalist mindset is akin to a zookeeper. First some context. History is replete with ideologies that seek to save people from themselves or a foreign contagion. Until recently this impulse, as illustrated by the 20th Century, have been political ideologies. It sought to cleanse a people from the errors and machinations of the past. If the “authors/instigators of these ills were foreign, so much the better. In any case, salvation from historical, social and economic maladies required a reset of just about everything. More often than not it was accompanied by a sea of blood and violence. The objects of salvation (the people) often died, ended up in the same circumstance or worse off. I’m of course, referring to Communism, Fascism and National Socialism. Some will say what about Capitalism? Whatever the ills of Capitalism it behooves one to consider the alternatives offered during the 20th Century. Some have said that history is just one damn thing after another. Others would say the history is the same damn thing after another. In any case, the intellectuals of modernity (see Thomas Sowell- “Intellectuals and Society”) decided that people left to their own devices will get in the way the salvation of humanity. Their solution is global governance which will closely manage all human activity. Saving humanity is yesterday’ solution. Saving Planet Earth from humanity is the ticket. Enter the zookeeper. In a zoo, the animals/life forms are confined. Their diet, reproduction, interaction with other species, consumption of resources, etc. are carefully managed, depending on the management goals of the zookeepers. When illness, infirmity or age of the kept becomes a liability they are eliminated. Whatever the root cause of the coronavirus its usefulness as a tool to reorder societies and economies across the globe has been passionately embraced by the ruling elite. I may be wrong but I do not recall a time when the governments of the world acted in remarkable uniformity. The virus instigated the collapse of the extant infrastructure (i.e. jobs, income, mobility, access, distribution, manufacturing, agriculture, etc.) has been blindingly swift. The obvious question is one that is regularly answered by the authorities; there will not be a return to the way things were. They intend to give it their best shot. The future being contemplated is one were access, mobility and work will be granted if you comply. It’s advertised as necessary for the greater good. Global mobility has plummeted, enforced confinement is mandated, jobs have vanished, good are becoming scarcer, surveillance is omnipresent, and non-compliance is punished. The power to command and control human activity is off the charts. The impulse toward totalitarian rule is as old as dirt. Those with the power to attempt it have always done whatever it takes. The good news is that the animals in this new zoo are the most innovative, creative, adaptive and resilient creatures on the planet.