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Author: Carne Ross
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Release Date: June 2012
Official book website:
http://theleaderlessrevolution.com/
Books aren’t what they used to be. People still read, but they do so for enjoyment, not to gain knowledge. So what gets read in depressingly large numbers is a shade of perversity, or teenage vampires or boy wizards, or ghost written celebrity memoirs. Not books of worth, but books of banality.
I don’t read banality. I don’t read Marvel comics and I don’t read books that are meant to titillate rather than educate. I read books that tell me something, books that have something to say. That’s why I read books like ‘The Leaderless Revolution’ by former British diplomat Carne Ross. This guy worked for the establishment, building his life by serving the agenda of unaccountable elite’s. It was his job to keep rolling the boulder up the hill, to make it look like things were getting done, when in reality the boulder never progresses, never even moves, and at the end of his shift it goes back to the start again.
He was rewarded monetarily, and in terms of social status. Women, apartments and the uniformed order followers saluting him like he was a big deal, a good man who was doing his duty for his country.
The reality was that Carne Ross was an ambitious, overgrown schoolboy, taking a dream job because of ego and selfish careerism. He wanted to be a fighter pilot, but his eyesight wasn’t good enough, so he became a diplomat instead. Rather than bombing people from the air he spent his time justifying the bombing from the ground.
His life as a diplomat involved drinking too much, popping anti-depressants, doing what he was told, engaging in morality free group think, ignoring reality, and giving politicians diplomatic cover in order to invade Iraq. A country that they all knew had no weapons of mass destruction, had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks, and had nothing to do with the so-called ‘war on terror.’
Carne Ross was a willing tool of the establishment. Morality was not a factor in what he did. He did what was expected of him, and he did it very well. He knew that the organisations he worked for were boulder pushers, but he had a career, he had status, so he just went along with it all. He was not a brave man. He had a chance to stand up and say no, but he didn’t do so. He went along with the lies, retiring quietly when all of the damage had already been done, when one of his best friends (Dr David Kelly) had committed suicide for showing some backbone and trying to expose the lies of the globalist war machine.
Carne Ross was a coward, and he lives with that guilt today. After he quietly ended his career as an establishment yes man he set up a group called ‘Independent Diplomat.’ This group now acts as a facilitator, helping people to talk to each other, away from the deliberate boulder pushing of official channels of communication. Carne Ross is fully aware that what he used to do was wrong, and he is now trying to make up for it.
His political philosophy has changed dramatically. No longer is he a government-worshipping schoolboy, a diplomat who wanted to be a fighter pilot. Today he is an anarchist, a man who knows that government is a useless vehicle for human advancement because he used to be a part of it.
His book is an easy read with a simple message. That message is to do things for yourself, to stop relying on government, to talk to each other on a one to one basis, to stop relying on government to protect you, to stop living a life based on fear. That is all that ‘anarchy’ really is. It’s not riots or masks, or chaos. It’s talking to your neighbours to sort out your problems. It’s sorting things out away from the useless control system of government. This book concludes with the following quotation:
‘Our dream of safety has to disappear.’
That’s the message. Government relies on fear to control you. Abandon fear, and change is inevitable.
Rating: 9/10 (A revealing glimpse into the world of international diplomacy by a man that has been there, and seen that things can only change when we rid ourselves of the control system that is government, and start to do things for ourselves).
Independent Diplomat official website:
http://www.independentdiplomat.org/about-us/our-staff/carne-ross
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