The similarities between pre-WW2 Germany and 2021 in many places around the world were increasingly striking, in the political sense. And yet when I mentioned this, friends and family were offended. “What are you talking about? Nobody’s targeting Jewish people except white supremacists, and no one is targeting _any_ minority groups at all. This isn’t fascism! It’s about Staying Safe. On the other hand, the white supremacists are very scary, since nearly fifty percent of the country voted Republican, which is practically synonymous with Racist. What’s wrong with masks, anyway? They _might_ work! Just wear one and relax a little. Vaccines are coming and they are for those who believe in science. Meanwhile, everyone must quarantine to Show They Care. People are scared. I don’t understand why you don’t believe in science. Are you a covid denier? You are hurting my feelings!!!”
“No pure form of totalitarian government has ever existed.” This is so difficult to remember when we’re busy recreating abstract, purely totalitarian governments throughout history in our imaginations. THEN was so different than NOW which is a nuanced, complex, and Way Different Time and place! And so we can be blinded to the impure yet dangerous totalitarianism sprouting right under our noses.
A lot of people were waking up in 2021, even though the public squares of our time - social media - were diligently censoring and Slowing Down people who woke up too loudly, gaslighting and silencing by turns.
Oxford Dictionary: “gaslight - manipulate (someone) using psychological methods into questioning their own sanity or powers of reasoning.”
As I write this at the end of 2022, some estimated hundreds of millions of people around the globe are just learning that our gut feelings over the past three years were actually correct. It wasn’t an accident that so many of us were censored for “violating community standards.” Everyone I know who was injured (thankfully not debilitated or killed, like unlucky others) after receiving their fast-tracked mRNA vaccines has discovered that no one at the FDA, CDC, or Big Pharma is monitoring or acknowledging their symptoms, and their doctors are afraid to even discuss the growing issue of vaccine injury, due to fear of losing their licenses. Billions of people were certainly impacted by the way information concerning cheap, effective, simple treatments for respiratory viruses - including covid - just never popped up in google and other search results.
Not only are people being censored and shadow-banned and blocked by private companies like Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook et al, but it turns out that MANY branches of the federal government have been ordering up the algorithms, Successfully “Requesting” Big Tech’s Compliance with implementing same, orchestrating the gaslighting, curating our newsfeeds, paying off the legacy media, and censoring untold millions (billions?) of counter-narrative posts and people - from academics to doctors to politicians to ordinary Joes and Janes on the street - sometimes using “Russian Security Threat” as a conjured proxy. But largely, federal operators have halted any pretense. They - our USA federal government, including “public” “health” and “security” and “intelligence” agencies and the executive branch - have financed and are financing the enormous propaganda campaign specifically to manipulate us, and to serve the interests of those citizens who actually count (hint: not We The People).
It is difficult to contemplate the monied interests who encouraged (and still encourage!) our own friends and family to scapegoat and shame us, and to spit “Conspiracist!!!” in our faces…without yet again noting the similarities between Right Now and Totalitarian Governments down through the ages.
And they said it was all about Safe and Effective…
I believe we may accurately use the term Biomedical Fascism to describe the covid response.
So, have you felt exhausted and alone and cut off from your social networks and most shreds of community due to incredibly bizarre, seemingly-“everywhere”-narratives over the past three years? Well then, the good news is that many powerful organizations within the federal government and corporate America actually aimed to make you feel that way!
Yay. Isn’t modern technology grand. This is us, standing on the shoulders of giants.
Is this in any way acceptable? I shake my head involuntarily every time I consider the perverse situation and the improbability of any regulation even beginning to address the enormous, unconstitutional privacy and other concerns in our lifetime. I would be unable to believe it, except I’m getting highly practiced: the tip of the iceberg, as illustrated by The Twitter Files, is being ignored and ridiculed by “progressive” “liberal” “democratic” news outlets. I sometimes look like I’m having severe tics.
What took me so long to see it?
Walter Kirn: This is the novelist in me talking, the outright conspiracy theorist: just imagine, as a thought experiment, that all these techniques are being put into place for things you think are good. But, they’re all being put in place by your enemy, so that you’ll accept the structure of tyranny on the basis that it’s YOUR tyranny. And then we’ll flip it, and you will all be the victims of it. You who allowed it in the first place, because it served the agenda that you backed, served the politicians that were popular with you; you will now become its ultimate victim because the structure of policing and suppression and surveillance and censorship is now going to be passed in a suitcase to your worst enemy. And you approved of it. You let it be built. You cheered it on. You fucking fools. And if I were to write a terribly ironic, dark novel, that is the ending I would give it, if only as a warning of what’s possible…
Matt Taibbi: Americans have always tended to be pretty patriotic, hard-working for the most part - we’ve never been a terribly radical country. But they’re gonna make people radical with stuff like this.
Walter Kirn: Definitely. And those who aren’t radical, they are going to call radical, and treat them as though they were, until the perverse incentive is to be as bad as they say you are, because you’re going to have to defend more and more against a kind of slanderous onslaught. Maybe from your own family, maybe from the government, maybe from a corporation. And you’ll be a Suspect Person, and Suspect Persons start getting pretty ornery after a while, especially when they’re wrongly accused. To take a country that’s largely innocent and declare it guilty and then start treating it as though it were, is a recipe for inflammatory social events.
Wikipedia: “Libertarians seek to maximize autonomy and political freedom, and minimize the state's encroachment on and violations of individual liberties; emphasizing the rule of law, pluralism, cosmopolitanism, cooperation, civil and political rights, bodily autonomy, free association, free trade, freedom of expression, freedom of choice, freedom of movement, individualism and voluntary association. Libertarians are often skeptical of or opposed to authority, state power, warfare, militarism and nationalism, but some libertarians diverge on the scope of their opposition to existing economic and political systems.”
Amazing, as always❤️
I was describing a vaccine injury to a young friend - it happened to a college professor we both adore. The young student was shocked, like jaw-agape shocked. I quickly shared several more stories that I personally knew - friends and relatives ( Shingles, stroke, clots, AIDS-like immune system breakdown, tinnitus, menstrual irregularities to name a few).
“How could this be?” he asked.
And I thought, how could you NOT know?
We talked for a while, I sent him the stats from VAERS and world-wide numbers.
And I saw he had believed the narrative - never questioned the shot failures, never grasped the depth of the delusion he’d been served.
And then he did. The illusion vanished.
And it hit him hard. Visibly shaken, we parted.
So be patient with those who are in denial. My young friend was hit with undeniable evidence, and it was crushing.
It’s going to take much more to open the eyes of those in the inner circle you describe.
Keep writing, keep sharing. More are waking up every day. Thank you for being a warrior and helping the rest of us dare to face reality❤️
The Former-Believers have the most power to effect change. It’s improbable that a current believer can hear the Righteous, but they can hear a Former-Believer.
Sometimes a Righteous person can wake up a believer, like Isabel’s talking about.
But it’s the Former-Believers who are more likely to bridge the gap between Delusion & Reality.
So, I’ve been waiting for Big Names to publicly Recant in the digital town square.
Have you heard about Mr. Pride of Self, Dilbert creator Scott Adam’s apparent Prodigal Son moment?!?! 😂
I hope it’s true. The more Big Names that circulate on this 21st century analog to the printing press, the harder ‘n’ harder will it be for today’s Ruling Class to censor the information 👍🙂❤️
Thanks,
Gerald