I appreciate what you write here today but I disagree on one thing. The noncompliers, the seers of the truth, may not have political power, but we have influence. We limit the amount of harm that is done and the pace at which the plans proceed. Because not everyone is sheeple, the culprits must weave complex tales that are so full of contradictions and are so inane that they end up giving themselves away for those with some alertness,
We the resisters have the responsibility to not believe ourselves ineffective. We must continue to share hope and information with each other and trust that we slowly penetrating the dormant minds of others. We must not give up on those within our own spheres. That is my disagreement with you. We may not have the power of politics but do have the ability to persist in influencing and alerting others.
Great piece! I found my understanding of current events improved considerably when I turned my attention backward and started trying to understand current events in the light of history instead of contemporary media reports. We have more information available than ever before, but most of it is manipulated garbage. When you look at a current situation and study how other comparable situations played out through history, it's a lot easier to make intelligent guesses about how it will turn out this time.
There are still a fair number of True Believers who are convinced masks and vaccinations were the only thing that saved us from the Holocough. There are even more who will jump on any bandwagon that gives them permission to virtue signal and abuse others. I don't think they will be able to get away with lockdowns though I expect them to push more vaccines. But I expect they will see far more noncompliance this time than last.
Thanks Kenaz, I agree with you. The key metric to me is that 80% of the idiot masses got the first death jab but only 20% got the booster, showing the much declining effectiveness of this particular media narrative, so I am skeptical that they will try to revisit COVID like they did previously. But you never know...
I'm sure they'll milk COVID for all it's worth, but the next big scare will have to be something different. Given how COVID closely followed Event 201 I fully expect the next virus will be of the cyber variety - i.e. a real life Cyber Polygon. I'd not be surprised if just as CBDC's come online the global banking system happens to get 'hacked' and all our money disappears. We'll be 'saved' by the introduction of a UBI for all - paid in WEF Good Behavior Tokens (FedCoin/BISCoin). Once you work your way back from the WEF's stated goal of a Great Reset and realize that there is no way in Hell they are going to achieve this with the consent of the public, it is clear their planning must necessarily include events of such magnitude.
I agree the next big one will be different, and it could well be Cyber Polygon. They like to hit the masses where its fresh and it hurts, and the public has already developed a scab toward this approach. It could also be direct involvement in Ukraine and/or war with China, or a controlled Redneck Rebellion (as justification for a massive crackdown), or a stealth censorship of the entire internet (as Sundance argued recently), or something else. I believe that globohomo has a lot of contingencies mapped out -- all they do is conspire against the masses -- and they use AI analysis to determine what the best course of action is to further their goals.
I would like to deepen the waters here by mentioning in passing a few observations.
Back when he was in the public eye, Karl Rove gave a speech or two for journalists which was characteristically blunt. He repeated often enough that he was involved in 'creating reality'.
Early on in Covid the MSM switched from terrorizing their audience with deaths to cases, which vastly increased their count. The credulous didn't even notice the switch.
Gates plastered his face all over the TV, acting worried and telling everyone what was needed was a vaccine, yesterday.
I spoke with a few average Americans, and I directly observed that the belief in Covid was universal within my own sample group, and further the general impression on Gates was very positive, despite the fact that he was always smirking and snickering whenever he talked virus and vaccines.
The faith in the disease remained very strong, with the masked lock downs producing a segment of the population empowered to abuse and demand compliance. I saw this self righteous subgroup as convinced of their moral position. They enjoyed playing their new role of mask cop, and the greater mask wearing public approved.
What I concluded from this was an undeniable fact. The public firmly believed and participated in their belief. They acted and reacted according to this herd like consensus, finding agreement with the crass symbolism of the mask. From this point, it was a given that the public would inject themselves with reckless abandon.
What we have is an event that went beyond mere media influence, to a feature of life that was directly and personally participated in. Covid reality swept through the weak cognitive functioning of society to become the new threat to rally against, and if you weren't with us, you were against us.
From my perspective, the new advances in frequency technology, in cognitive science, in neurological psychology help the actors to shape a powerful narrative that completely bypasses any natural defense. I'm currently working on a piece that covers this in a hopefully effective format, no idea when it will be done.
In the meantime, it certainly appears that the general populous has learned nothing from their latest dive into herd mentality. They continue to inject themselves, have re-adopted the mask, and move unquestioning back into the 'I'm with Covid' camp.
Some, A very few, realize the last injections didn't work to protect them, but in the case of new injections, will their faith in the narrative override their own experience? Time will tell.
I just want to point out that the "reality-based community" quote you cited, often attributed to Karl Rove, traces back to a book by Ron Suskind, in which he quotes an unnamed White House official.
I mention this because I've always wondered who said it, but Karl Rove as the source is pure speculation.
Suskind attributed this quote to an aide in the W administration. Here it is, from Suskind's book:
The aide said that guys like me were 'in what we call the reality-based community,' which he defined as people who 'believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.' [...] 'That's not the way the world really works anymore,' he continued. 'We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors...and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do'.
Karl Rove denies saying this and claims the quote is fictitious; Suskind maintains it is real and won't disclose the source.
I wish I still had the piece and the link that covers this point, from I believe a Gould & Fitzpatrick piece discussing imperialism. Rove made all kinds of obnoxious quotable assertions during his career, and at this point, even if he mined someone else for the idea, I have no evidence that he didn't say it.
Regardless of the responsibility shirking that characterizes modern American politics, it should be more than evident that every effort is made to create themes and narratives to control perception, inquiry, and debate. The entire event of COVID serves as a great example of this.
Therefore, whether or not Rove admits to the quote isn't the real issue, is it? The perception that is intended for the public is that events just happen, and the people in power bravely and amazingly respond to these events on behalf of the public. Most people believe this, because that is the narrative we are all conditioned to believe.
However, as we can see going way back, events such as wars, pandemics, and depressions don't spontaneously arise-they are orchestrated. The Rove quote is accurate to this truth regarding such events. So, we can fret over the details, or we can understand the greater landscape these details dwell in, the choice is yours.
William Casey, like most of the CIA directors from Dulles to Burns, was a member of the liberal-fascist Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) which has controlled the US govt and the media since WW2. Allen Dulles, who ran the CIA "Operation Mockingbird", was a CFR director for 40 years. See charts: swprs.org/the-american-empire-and-its-media/
The CFR network includes major corporations, foundations, NGOs. and captured govt agencies. CFR members on the "Biden team" include the secretaries of State, Treasury, Defense, Commerce and 'Homeland Security'. Also the CIA director, Fed chairman, and dozens more. See lists: cfr.org/membership/corporate-members
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Thanks for the thought-provoking rant! Especially: "the media conducts their highlighting or downplaying, they decide how intensely to push the issue and for how long, then the globohomo-backed politicians act on that media pressure to conduct the goals of the Rothschild & co. central bank owners, and then establishment historians, teachers and professors inscribe these false narratives as facts and brainwash the next generation to believe it wholeheartedly. There is a complete, closed feedback loop from narrative creation and dissemination to political change to social shaping as the demonstration of oligarchical power, with no outside influence. The right has no such loop, nothing even slightly close to it; it can whine and point out the hypocrisy of the left or of globohomo or whatever, but because there is no path for the right toward power or money or putting their perspective into power with it (with no control over the DOJ, FBI, court system, legislature, mainstream media, Federal Reserve, universities, public schools, social media companies, etc), eventually the right gets tired of discussing it and spinning their wheels with no change and, quiet and dispirited, but not having learned the lesson, they move on to toothlessly criticizing the next globohomo narrative. A total loss, toothless and ineffective."
And the great newspaperman quote from 1883.
Rather than be blackpilled by these realizations, I focus on the progress we are making with the non-NPC minority. Ever more of them now have the Central Bankers and the pathocracy gathered around them clearly on their maps, and see the war being waged upon us.
Hi Jerome, nice link, thank you for sharing. I agree with it, there is nothing comforting that comes from free-thinking, it is scary to feel alone and outside of the herd -- but that's why it's important to support each other in communities such as Substack. I agree that there is a greater awareness about the nature of globohomo and how horrendously awful it is, and hopefully that awareness continues to develop. Of course globohomo has, is and will continue to put its boot on our faces to use hard power instead of soft power to enforce their rule, but perhaps even that can be said to be progress, because the use of hard power is always more costly for the regime than the use of soft power.
I really enjoyed this piece, it brings out the disorientation that a lot of us feel as we realize how much news was always just propaganda. Still, I wonder whether there's some optimism to be found in another answer you could offer the NPC interlocutor. During COVID the best objections seemed to me to depend on critical thinking, like for example that it was said of a vaccine which had only briefly been in existence had no long-term side effects. Likewise with Ukraine, in life as in international affairs, the big guy usually beats the little guy, so when someone tells you that you should go all in on the little guy something is not as it seems, and if you don't know what's going on you're probably the mark. Critical thinking of this sort doesn't require any qualifications at all.
Thanks Hugh, I agree with you that we should always try to use our discernment and reasoning abilities and not rely on others. For me, I knew early on COVID was a scam because (1) in February 2020 the Diamond Princess cruise ship showed that mortality rates were at maximum (with no special care) 1% of those infected, and all for people over the age of 70; (2) the coincidental timing, which was leading up to a national election that globohomo was desperate for Orange Man to lose using any means necessary; (3) the COVID tests could not tell the difference between the flu and COVID, and incidents of flu dropped to zero in 2020; (4) meta studies showed that mask use was completely ineffective, and (5) every mRNA vaccine trial throughout the past couple decades were cancelled due to extreme side effects exhibited during the trials. Anyone should have been able to look at these facts and come to the same conclusion, but the lack of basic reasoning ability for most people is still shocking...
Oh man, I had forgotten about how the flu took a year off. I remember a guy piously explaining this to me, and I couldn't resist asking him whether he also believed that Clark Kent always happened to step out of the room shortly before Superman arrived. I guess this sort of thing is the best evidence against the egalitarian worldview (I think we disagree here, but I pin it on Enlightenment nonsense rather than on Christianity).
Of course nothing happens if it doesn't enter our personal conscioussness. That's why we all live in our private individual world which is a tiny filtered version of the real world. Secondly, it is an almost entirly mental unreal world we concern ourselves with. But our fears and desires pull us towards it.
With all due respect for the quality of your work, I don't think substacks like 2nd Smartest Guy in the World are good references, this person (or group) uses figures and numbers in a way that is either irrational or stupid...no credibility at all...just look at the article you linked at, he talks about "billions" when the very article mentions explicitely 2.5% of the total, which would mean 160 millions even if we were to assume that 8 billions got jabbed....and for having read his substack for a few months, I can telleyou he has done that repeatedly
Hi Jordan, I wasn't linking those as an endorsement of any particular theory, merely as a snapshot and representation of how various Substack authors continue to post about the COVID-vaccine-as-deadly narrative.
I would argue that COVIDism is harder to attack than transexualism. As you say, the latter is rooted in the egalitarian values of liberalism, but the former is founded on the mode of thinking that allowed liberalism itself to come into being; Enlightenment rationalism. Belief in the capacity of rationalism and science to deliver us from all the evils of this world is the fundamental basis of all secular liberal thought. Experts are the high priests of this new faith – Scientism and trust in these priests’ wisdom is absolutely fundamental to the liberal’s world view. The truth; that the people behind the WEF have corrupted scientific institutions to such an extent that whole areas of science have become weaponized forms of social control is impossible to accept, as it would shake the very foundations of their belief system.
As far as the media goes, I liken mass media messages to the shadows on the wall of Plato’s Cave. However, unlike Plato’s Utopian conception the cave we in fact inhabit is Goebbels’ Cave – one in which the shadows are manipulated by powerful dictator kings – the intent being to keep us mental prisoners and discourage us from leaving the narrative prison. We few who have escaped Goebbels’ Cave and seek to return to save others are declared ‘conspiracy theorists’ for suggesting we live in a cave at all. And we returnees still risk at least metaphorical death (de-personing/cancellation) at the hands of the other prisoners. In this cave the puppet masters project images on the wall encouraging the prison population to de-person and cancel heretics – i.e. anyone daring to deviate from The Narrative of the cave.
If you stare at the wall of shadows you are never going to see anything else. The first step is to cease ‘consuming’ mainstream news altogether. Until internet censorship becomes all pervasive finding whatever scraps of truth you can there is the only route out of Goebbels’ Cave – a process requiring much time and dedication. Sadly politics of any kind is not going to help. It must be appreciated that modern technocratic governments have delegated most meaningful decision-making to the high priest Experts already – viz. COVID policy. We live in a post political age where the democratic process is just more shadows on the wall. Arguments about whether you sit on the right or the left of the cave are irrelevant. The technocrat shadow makers control the whole political system via military grade psyops.
You are right that a mass cave escape would only be possible through a competing media apparatus kick starting a dissident feedback loop of narrative-to-power. Trump either did not understand this or was simply unable to change anything. Anyway, since at least Kant one of liberalism’s most powerful weapons is the accusation of anything it cannot tolerate as being ‘irrational’. Going forward I think dissidents need to turn this around and embrace the term. Paradoxically, the more science is weaponized and the more people lose faith in it as a route to salvation, the more the false religion of liberalism is undermined. Science is based on one mode of thought, true religious faith on another altogether – one that is immune to accusations of irrationality.
Science was fine while guided by religious (Christian) values. But the modern, secular scientific promise of earthly salvation is value-free. It should not therefore be surprising that a subtle but tremendously important reversal has taken place. The Enlightenment principal of science and technology guided towards the betterment of mankind has been perverted. We are now told we must adapt to technological progress (e.g. AI) – no matter where that leads! It is clear that our would be technocratic overlords have the intention of using science and technology to enslave and destroy mankind (it is called ‘transhumanism’). If I am irrational in pointing out that this plan is pure evil then so be it, I offer no defense and don’t need one. No amount of rationalizing and science will shake my faith that humanity is synonymous with good and transhumanism with evil. In fact I’ve seen science itself described as the biblical Katechon. Heidegger believed that only a God could save us and I find it increasingly hard to disagree.
I was recently listening to Fox news hosts talking about covid policy. They all seemed to agree, masks don't work, lockdowns don't work, the jabs won't prevent you from spreading covid - but the jabs will keep you safe.
Presumably conservatives will have their day when the experts lose to empire...
I appreciate what you write here today but I disagree on one thing. The noncompliers, the seers of the truth, may not have political power, but we have influence. We limit the amount of harm that is done and the pace at which the plans proceed. Because not everyone is sheeple, the culprits must weave complex tales that are so full of contradictions and are so inane that they end up giving themselves away for those with some alertness,
We the resisters have the responsibility to not believe ourselves ineffective. We must continue to share hope and information with each other and trust that we slowly penetrating the dormant minds of others. We must not give up on those within our own spheres. That is my disagreement with you. We may not have the power of politics but do have the ability to persist in influencing and alerting others.
Great piece! I found my understanding of current events improved considerably when I turned my attention backward and started trying to understand current events in the light of history instead of contemporary media reports. We have more information available than ever before, but most of it is manipulated garbage. When you look at a current situation and study how other comparable situations played out through history, it's a lot easier to make intelligent guesses about how it will turn out this time.
There are still a fair number of True Believers who are convinced masks and vaccinations were the only thing that saved us from the Holocough. There are even more who will jump on any bandwagon that gives them permission to virtue signal and abuse others. I don't think they will be able to get away with lockdowns though I expect them to push more vaccines. But I expect they will see far more noncompliance this time than last.
Thanks Kenaz, I agree with you. The key metric to me is that 80% of the idiot masses got the first death jab but only 20% got the booster, showing the much declining effectiveness of this particular media narrative, so I am skeptical that they will try to revisit COVID like they did previously. But you never know...
I'm sure they'll milk COVID for all it's worth, but the next big scare will have to be something different. Given how COVID closely followed Event 201 I fully expect the next virus will be of the cyber variety - i.e. a real life Cyber Polygon. I'd not be surprised if just as CBDC's come online the global banking system happens to get 'hacked' and all our money disappears. We'll be 'saved' by the introduction of a UBI for all - paid in WEF Good Behavior Tokens (FedCoin/BISCoin). Once you work your way back from the WEF's stated goal of a Great Reset and realize that there is no way in Hell they are going to achieve this with the consent of the public, it is clear their planning must necessarily include events of such magnitude.
I agree the next big one will be different, and it could well be Cyber Polygon. They like to hit the masses where its fresh and it hurts, and the public has already developed a scab toward this approach. It could also be direct involvement in Ukraine and/or war with China, or a controlled Redneck Rebellion (as justification for a massive crackdown), or a stealth censorship of the entire internet (as Sundance argued recently), or something else. I believe that globohomo has a lot of contingencies mapped out -- all they do is conspire against the masses -- and they use AI analysis to determine what the best course of action is to further their goals.
Interesting essay.
I would like to deepen the waters here by mentioning in passing a few observations.
Back when he was in the public eye, Karl Rove gave a speech or two for journalists which was characteristically blunt. He repeated often enough that he was involved in 'creating reality'.
Early on in Covid the MSM switched from terrorizing their audience with deaths to cases, which vastly increased their count. The credulous didn't even notice the switch.
Gates plastered his face all over the TV, acting worried and telling everyone what was needed was a vaccine, yesterday.
I spoke with a few average Americans, and I directly observed that the belief in Covid was universal within my own sample group, and further the general impression on Gates was very positive, despite the fact that he was always smirking and snickering whenever he talked virus and vaccines.
The faith in the disease remained very strong, with the masked lock downs producing a segment of the population empowered to abuse and demand compliance. I saw this self righteous subgroup as convinced of their moral position. They enjoyed playing their new role of mask cop, and the greater mask wearing public approved.
What I concluded from this was an undeniable fact. The public firmly believed and participated in their belief. They acted and reacted according to this herd like consensus, finding agreement with the crass symbolism of the mask. From this point, it was a given that the public would inject themselves with reckless abandon.
What we have is an event that went beyond mere media influence, to a feature of life that was directly and personally participated in. Covid reality swept through the weak cognitive functioning of society to become the new threat to rally against, and if you weren't with us, you were against us.
From my perspective, the new advances in frequency technology, in cognitive science, in neurological psychology help the actors to shape a powerful narrative that completely bypasses any natural defense. I'm currently working on a piece that covers this in a hopefully effective format, no idea when it will be done.
In the meantime, it certainly appears that the general populous has learned nothing from their latest dive into herd mentality. They continue to inject themselves, have re-adopted the mask, and move unquestioning back into the 'I'm with Covid' camp.
Some, A very few, realize the last injections didn't work to protect them, but in the case of new injections, will their faith in the narrative override their own experience? Time will tell.
I just want to point out that the "reality-based community" quote you cited, often attributed to Karl Rove, traces back to a book by Ron Suskind, in which he quotes an unnamed White House official.
I mention this because I've always wondered who said it, but Karl Rove as the source is pure speculation.
Not a "reality based community."
It was Rove telling journalists all they can do is follow and try to explain while he and his cohorts "create reality".
Suskind attributed this quote to an aide in the W administration. Here it is, from Suskind's book:
The aide said that guys like me were 'in what we call the reality-based community,' which he defined as people who 'believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.' [...] 'That's not the way the world really works anymore,' he continued. 'We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors...and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do'.
Karl Rove denies saying this and claims the quote is fictitious; Suskind maintains it is real and won't disclose the source.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality-based_community
Lol.
I wish I still had the piece and the link that covers this point, from I believe a Gould & Fitzpatrick piece discussing imperialism. Rove made all kinds of obnoxious quotable assertions during his career, and at this point, even if he mined someone else for the idea, I have no evidence that he didn't say it.
Regardless of the responsibility shirking that characterizes modern American politics, it should be more than evident that every effort is made to create themes and narratives to control perception, inquiry, and debate. The entire event of COVID serves as a great example of this.
Therefore, whether or not Rove admits to the quote isn't the real issue, is it? The perception that is intended for the public is that events just happen, and the people in power bravely and amazingly respond to these events on behalf of the public. Most people believe this, because that is the narrative we are all conditioned to believe.
However, as we can see going way back, events such as wars, pandemics, and depressions don't spontaneously arise-they are orchestrated. The Rove quote is accurate to this truth regarding such events. So, we can fret over the details, or we can understand the greater landscape these details dwell in, the choice is yours.
William Casey, like most of the CIA directors from Dulles to Burns, was a member of the liberal-fascist Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) which has controlled the US govt and the media since WW2. Allen Dulles, who ran the CIA "Operation Mockingbird", was a CFR director for 40 years. See charts: swprs.org/the-american-empire-and-its-media/
The CFR network includes major corporations, foundations, NGOs. and captured govt agencies. CFR members on the "Biden team" include the secretaries of State, Treasury, Defense, Commerce and 'Homeland Security'. Also the CIA director, Fed chairman, and dozens more. See lists: cfr.org/membership/corporate-members
Thanks for the thought-provoking rant! Especially: "the media conducts their highlighting or downplaying, they decide how intensely to push the issue and for how long, then the globohomo-backed politicians act on that media pressure to conduct the goals of the Rothschild & co. central bank owners, and then establishment historians, teachers and professors inscribe these false narratives as facts and brainwash the next generation to believe it wholeheartedly. There is a complete, closed feedback loop from narrative creation and dissemination to political change to social shaping as the demonstration of oligarchical power, with no outside influence. The right has no such loop, nothing even slightly close to it; it can whine and point out the hypocrisy of the left or of globohomo or whatever, but because there is no path for the right toward power or money or putting their perspective into power with it (with no control over the DOJ, FBI, court system, legislature, mainstream media, Federal Reserve, universities, public schools, social media companies, etc), eventually the right gets tired of discussing it and spinning their wheels with no change and, quiet and dispirited, but not having learned the lesson, they move on to toothlessly criticizing the next globohomo narrative. A total loss, toothless and ineffective."
And the great newspaperman quote from 1883.
Rather than be blackpilled by these realizations, I focus on the progress we are making with the non-NPC minority. Ever more of them now have the Central Bankers and the pathocracy gathered around them clearly on their maps, and see the war being waged upon us.
Meanwhile, though NPC is a fun poke at the seeming zombie narrative-believers among us, perhaps reaching them is not as hopeless as it currently appears, given insights like https://thefreethinker.substack.com/p/why-the-narrative-refuses-to-die
Hi Jerome, nice link, thank you for sharing. I agree with it, there is nothing comforting that comes from free-thinking, it is scary to feel alone and outside of the herd -- but that's why it's important to support each other in communities such as Substack. I agree that there is a greater awareness about the nature of globohomo and how horrendously awful it is, and hopefully that awareness continues to develop. Of course globohomo has, is and will continue to put its boot on our faces to use hard power instead of soft power to enforce their rule, but perhaps even that can be said to be progress, because the use of hard power is always more costly for the regime than the use of soft power.
I really enjoyed this piece, it brings out the disorientation that a lot of us feel as we realize how much news was always just propaganda. Still, I wonder whether there's some optimism to be found in another answer you could offer the NPC interlocutor. During COVID the best objections seemed to me to depend on critical thinking, like for example that it was said of a vaccine which had only briefly been in existence had no long-term side effects. Likewise with Ukraine, in life as in international affairs, the big guy usually beats the little guy, so when someone tells you that you should go all in on the little guy something is not as it seems, and if you don't know what's going on you're probably the mark. Critical thinking of this sort doesn't require any qualifications at all.
Thanks Hugh, I agree with you that we should always try to use our discernment and reasoning abilities and not rely on others. For me, I knew early on COVID was a scam because (1) in February 2020 the Diamond Princess cruise ship showed that mortality rates were at maximum (with no special care) 1% of those infected, and all for people over the age of 70; (2) the coincidental timing, which was leading up to a national election that globohomo was desperate for Orange Man to lose using any means necessary; (3) the COVID tests could not tell the difference between the flu and COVID, and incidents of flu dropped to zero in 2020; (4) meta studies showed that mask use was completely ineffective, and (5) every mRNA vaccine trial throughout the past couple decades were cancelled due to extreme side effects exhibited during the trials. Anyone should have been able to look at these facts and come to the same conclusion, but the lack of basic reasoning ability for most people is still shocking...
Oh man, I had forgotten about how the flu took a year off. I remember a guy piously explaining this to me, and I couldn't resist asking him whether he also believed that Clark Kent always happened to step out of the room shortly before Superman arrived. I guess this sort of thing is the best evidence against the egalitarian worldview (I think we disagree here, but I pin it on Enlightenment nonsense rather than on Christianity).
Of course nothing happens if it doesn't enter our personal conscioussness. That's why we all live in our private individual world which is a tiny filtered version of the real world. Secondly, it is an almost entirly mental unreal world we concern ourselves with. But our fears and desires pull us towards it.
With all due respect for the quality of your work, I don't think substacks like 2nd Smartest Guy in the World are good references, this person (or group) uses figures and numbers in a way that is either irrational or stupid...no credibility at all...just look at the article you linked at, he talks about "billions" when the very article mentions explicitely 2.5% of the total, which would mean 160 millions even if we were to assume that 8 billions got jabbed....and for having read his substack for a few months, I can telleyou he has done that repeatedly
Hi Jordan, I wasn't linking those as an endorsement of any particular theory, merely as a snapshot and representation of how various Substack authors continue to post about the COVID-vaccine-as-deadly narrative.
I would argue that COVIDism is harder to attack than transexualism. As you say, the latter is rooted in the egalitarian values of liberalism, but the former is founded on the mode of thinking that allowed liberalism itself to come into being; Enlightenment rationalism. Belief in the capacity of rationalism and science to deliver us from all the evils of this world is the fundamental basis of all secular liberal thought. Experts are the high priests of this new faith – Scientism and trust in these priests’ wisdom is absolutely fundamental to the liberal’s world view. The truth; that the people behind the WEF have corrupted scientific institutions to such an extent that whole areas of science have become weaponized forms of social control is impossible to accept, as it would shake the very foundations of their belief system.
As far as the media goes, I liken mass media messages to the shadows on the wall of Plato’s Cave. However, unlike Plato’s Utopian conception the cave we in fact inhabit is Goebbels’ Cave – one in which the shadows are manipulated by powerful dictator kings – the intent being to keep us mental prisoners and discourage us from leaving the narrative prison. We few who have escaped Goebbels’ Cave and seek to return to save others are declared ‘conspiracy theorists’ for suggesting we live in a cave at all. And we returnees still risk at least metaphorical death (de-personing/cancellation) at the hands of the other prisoners. In this cave the puppet masters project images on the wall encouraging the prison population to de-person and cancel heretics – i.e. anyone daring to deviate from The Narrative of the cave.
If you stare at the wall of shadows you are never going to see anything else. The first step is to cease ‘consuming’ mainstream news altogether. Until internet censorship becomes all pervasive finding whatever scraps of truth you can there is the only route out of Goebbels’ Cave – a process requiring much time and dedication. Sadly politics of any kind is not going to help. It must be appreciated that modern technocratic governments have delegated most meaningful decision-making to the high priest Experts already – viz. COVID policy. We live in a post political age where the democratic process is just more shadows on the wall. Arguments about whether you sit on the right or the left of the cave are irrelevant. The technocrat shadow makers control the whole political system via military grade psyops.
You are right that a mass cave escape would only be possible through a competing media apparatus kick starting a dissident feedback loop of narrative-to-power. Trump either did not understand this or was simply unable to change anything. Anyway, since at least Kant one of liberalism’s most powerful weapons is the accusation of anything it cannot tolerate as being ‘irrational’. Going forward I think dissidents need to turn this around and embrace the term. Paradoxically, the more science is weaponized and the more people lose faith in it as a route to salvation, the more the false religion of liberalism is undermined. Science is based on one mode of thought, true religious faith on another altogether – one that is immune to accusations of irrationality.
Science was fine while guided by religious (Christian) values. But the modern, secular scientific promise of earthly salvation is value-free. It should not therefore be surprising that a subtle but tremendously important reversal has taken place. The Enlightenment principal of science and technology guided towards the betterment of mankind has been perverted. We are now told we must adapt to technological progress (e.g. AI) – no matter where that leads! It is clear that our would be technocratic overlords have the intention of using science and technology to enslave and destroy mankind (it is called ‘transhumanism’). If I am irrational in pointing out that this plan is pure evil then so be it, I offer no defense and don’t need one. No amount of rationalizing and science will shake my faith that humanity is synonymous with good and transhumanism with evil. In fact I’ve seen science itself described as the biblical Katechon. Heidegger believed that only a God could save us and I find it increasingly hard to disagree.
http://www.ditext.com/heidegger/interview.html
I was recently listening to Fox news hosts talking about covid policy. They all seemed to agree, masks don't work, lockdowns don't work, the jabs won't prevent you from spreading covid - but the jabs will keep you safe.
Presumably conservatives will have their day when the experts lose to empire...