Dr. Naomi Wolf on Facing the Beast: Courage, Faith, and Resistance in a New Dark Age

agreeing that our entire world has been consumed for four years by the oppression that continues to this day

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We had a surprisingly intimate and personal conversation with Dr. Naomi Wolf for our America Out Loud Pulse episode this week. Dr. Wolf is doing a heavily scheduled virtual book tour, which involves being booked back to back with a half dozen or more media outlets in one day and jumping from one interview to the next. It can be a marathon of sorts, and we were happy for the half hour we were provided by her scheduler.

In the Zoom interview, Dr. Wolf was gentle, thoughtful, and intensely candid, just as she is in her written essays and books, including her new book, Facing the Beast, Courage, Faith, and Resistance in a New Dark Age. She describes herself as a refugee from another world of academia, culture, and governance.

We came to our interview agreeing that our entire world has been consumed for four years by the oppression that continues to this day and which began with the announcement of the COVID-19 pandemic. Cultures and ethnic groups all over the world have been oppressed—none except, perhaps, the highest elitists– have been spared the lockdowns, maskings, distancing, and bans from churches, synagogues, or mosques. None, except perhaps the most elite, have escaped being mandated to go to school, to come to work, to travel for business or pleasure, to play sports, to spend the afternoon with elder parents, to shop, dine, go to a concert or an opera, or attend a sports event.

More deeply, as Dr. Wolf so eloquently describes, we have not been allowed to attend to the births and deaths of children and elders, to gather for our most sacred religious and cultural events such as marriages, funerals, birthdays, Fourth of July celebrations, Christmas, Easter, Passover and Thanksgiving gatherings and all the other gatherings that mark the seasons and turnings of our lives and reaffirm connections and make new memories with the ones we love.

Early in her book, Dr. Wolf examines the multinational organizations that have coordinated this oppression and propagated it to a global level. In her book, Facing the Beast, she states that:

“…one source of the kind of global cruelty we observed so acutely in the medical fascism of the pandemic derives from a postwar stratum of power. Paradoxically, multinational organizations such as the European Union and the United Nations, agreements such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership and global corporate and investment communities founded after the carnage of the Second World War served to create a class of global elite policymakers, nonprofit leaders, and bureaucrats who are able to engage in cruel and oppressive policymaking precisely because they are no longer part of the communities whose lives are affected by what they have done.”

What she is describing are the collections of globalists who have appointed themselves to be in charge of the world and the management and future of all eight billion souls who inhabit Earth. We call these people the Global Predators and document their takeover of formerly free nations as well as the rest of the global community in our book, COVID-19 and the Global Predators: We are the Prey. A subset of these self-appointed “Masters of the World” are the intellectuals in academia and the movers and shakers in media, Hollywood, federal and many state governments, and industry who have been invited to be part of the globalist ruling class, justifying and enforcing the rules of globalism.

The focus with which Dr. Wolf herself describes the people she encounters, along with their habits, traditions, experiences, and surroundings, is wholly missing from global elites, who sit “on top of the world,” surveying vast numbers of human beings. Global elites live in their “top of the world” bubble, interacting only with the subjects who work for them in various capacities. There is no relationship or interchange of experiences and encounters that would enable the mega elites to actually know those whose lives they are impacting through their governance. At a world level, there are the elites who fly from one place to another in their private jets, staying at their private villas and compounds. Then there are those of us in the rest of the world.

A similar situation exists in America. Here, the US has been cleaved into two separate groups—two cultural continents that have been drifting further and further apart for decades and now look back at each other across a great divide. Dr. Naomi Wolf has traveled from her world to join those of us she describes as being in “The Rest of America.” She joined “the rest of America” in March 2020, when she and her husband realized they needed to leave New York City for their safety and settled in a small woodland community.

Dr. Wolf offers us, in her interview and more deeply in her most recent book, Facing the Beast: Courage, Faith, and Resistance in a New Dark Age, insights that are profound. From her unique perspective as a former member of the “privileged class,” she shares observations and witnesses the heartbreak, fear, pain, and anger of these past four years.

“So we’d witnessed the charming, well-educated, “civilized” people all around us—especially from what my husband calls (as others do) “the laptop class” –reveal, during lockdowns and medical tyranny, a side that was nakedly sadistic.”

For those of us who have lived in “the rest of America” for the whole of our lives, she provides insights into that privileged world while clearly and wholly denouncing the vicious and cruel lengths of oppression that captains, large and small, of our country, inflicted upon American citizens.

We spoke together in the interview, the three of us, about the terrors and dread we each experienced in 2020 as we faced, layer by layer, the degrees of evil we were uncovering as we delved into what is driving this mad worldwide shutdown and then the mass vaccinations that have killed and crippled so many. We talked about how to survive those moments that feel so deeply as though we are personally facing evil personified, some form of Satan himself.

Dr. Wolf shares her insights as a refugee from the privileged class into what it was like to leave a culture filled with restrictive and suppressive rules of right and wrong to arrive in the world where:

“There is a massive community of people who accept others based on their character, no matter what they are wearing; who don’t look around the interiors of their friends’ homes or assess their canapes, with icy judgment.

“I have been learning that in “The Rest of America,” people have other things going on in their lives than just or primarily their work or their status and that they are allowed, and allow themselves, to incorporate meaning, adventure, and even fun into their lives….

“…in contrast to a subculture of hardworking super-achievers who, as adults, have no fun—I am amazed to find that the world I inhabit now allows for joy, fun, and meaning.

“And I think that the joy and the sources of meaning kept this half of the country from devolving into animal rage and cruelty.”

Our conversation felt as though it had only just begun, and we look forward to continuing our discussion another time. Meanwhile, for all of us, Dr. Naomi Wolf’s book is available. Dr. Wolf’s Substack, “Outspoken with Dr. Naomi Wolf,“ is available online.

Primary author Ginger Ross Breggin

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