To approach the massive protests in Germany, especially for those who’ve heard very little about this massive upheaval, it might help to set up the context.

2024 is already proving to be a year of disruption and protest.  64 countries representing half of all people on the planet will be voting in national elections.  Major elections will take place not just in the United States, but in the European Union, Russia, and in the world’s most populous democracy India.

Those conversations you’ve been having with only your most trusted cohorts, where you wonder how former friends and people you admire have become ideological combatants; are taking place all around the globe. We find ourselves identifying more and more people as either “far left” or “far right”. Even though we haven’t changed the way we think, we find we’ve also been identified by others as slipping into one of these “far” groups. Our sense of community and family are suffering and may not survive.

Why is this happening?

It comes down to where we choose to get information.

If you haven’t moved away from the legacy media yet, you’re far more likely to be disturbed by the growing numbers on the “far right”.  You simply can’t understand how so many people you know have fallen victim to conspiracy theories and populist leaders who are trying to take the reigns of power.

If you have moved on to learn about the world through long form podcasts and some of the many new information platforms that have emerged, you’ll most likely be swayed by reams of information ignored by legacy media.

For tens of millions this started with the pandemic. A few months into 2020, podcasters and information sites began to notice that the average age of those dying from covid was older than normal life expectancy, that 86% of those who died were obese, that doctors around the world were successfully treating covid with cheap, repurposed drugs, and that masking, social distancing, lockdowns, and eventually covid vaccines made almost no impact on the spread of covid.

People in this camp tried to persuade those close to them that covid wasn’t as dangerous as they were lead to believe. Many conversations became emotional and annoying. One one side, raised voices of those desperate to share information.  On the other side, perfectly intelligent people, informed by legacy media who had heard none of these things. Often they were told the opposite.  A great example is how legacy media labelled one of the safest, cheapest and most effective drugs in world history (the developers won the Nobel Prize for inventing ivermectin) as ‘horse de-wormer’.

New media and long form podcasters have found the situation surrounding covid is the same for most other urgent situations.  The inflation an energy crisis, the Russian attack of Ukraine, global warming (or climate change) and open border policies have only widened the information gap.

One side sees little reason to slow the movement of millions, or to slow the printing of money by governments unconcerned about sinking much, much further into debt. For this group the most important battles in the world are the fight to reduce carbon emissions and the war against Russia.

The other side sees a self inflicted inflation and energy crisis, a refusal to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine, and a massive influx of immigrants beginning to cause societal upheaval.

As elections creep closer, the information gap is growing and the stakes are getting higher.

What does all this disruption and disunity have to do with massive demonstrations by German farmers?  If you are a legacy media follower there is no connection.  Legacy media outlets explain away this nation wide protest as farmers fighting against diesel fuel subsidies. By now, you should at least want to know what the podcasters and new media are reporting.  Jordan Peterson is in that camp.

Last week, the world famous Canadian podcaster spoke with German farmer Anthony Lee and journalist Eva Vlaardingerbroek.

Eva Vlaardingerbroek is a Dutch journalist and Anthony Lee has become outspoken in recent months as he followed news of farmers struggling all across Europe.  In the following videos (especially the longer one) the cause of these massive and spreading demonstrations will be explained by Eva, a new information reporter, and Anthony, a German farmer.

First a shorter video and for those with some more time their entire 100 minute long conversation.

From the YouTube channel of Jordan Peterson

A longer discussion on the ongoing farmers’ protest, the war on efficient agriculture, and net-zero goals creating excess electric vehicles while cutting off the generation of power.

This episode was recorded on January 15th, 2023

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