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It is no longer acceptable for individuals or businesses to say they are just “following orders.” The orders are irrational and unscientific, and masks (and vaccine mandates) are much more about psychology and in-group membership than about epidemiology. For those caught up in the Covid fervor, it is a moral mission to discriminate against those not showing sufficient zeal to the Covid cause. They relish identifying the unclean enemy, demanding they display obeisance, and humiliating and rejecting those who refuse. On its surface it’s about epidemiology, but the real factors are human psychology and social group dynamics.

Pfizer, Moderna, etc., ARE our version of Phalanx. They have been rushed to market because there was a need. The need was SOMETHING to make people feel safe, to feel protected. They needed a pacifier, a security blanket, and big pharma was more than happy to provide something that has given fragile minds and failing hearts a soma, a placebo, a lullaby that they can sing to themselves to try to go to sleep at night.

The fact is, all these vaccines have done is delay the larger terror and sow a division into the fabric of humanity, the likes of which we’ve never seen. This fairy tale of a vaccine has indeed become much more of a nightmare, and more and more people are waking up out of that terror each day.

Right now, your friends and family believe in a modern day, actual version of Phalanx. I’ve literally heard people talk about it being like a suit of armor, a bio-shield to repel the horrors of the Rona. I believe that as the vaccines continue to fail spectacularly and epically, the hate and terror from those who have been duped, for those who truly believed they were getting a suit of armor, will only increase and mutate into something dangerous.

We are already seeing waves of it. Be prepared for a tsunami as more and more data comes out, and stand firm in your convictions. If you can, love those who will wake up and see their errors. Help them to heal and do your best to assuage their fears. You know how benign Coronavirus has now become, and you also know that early treatment, a robust immune system, and common sense are much more of a phalanx against this boogeyman than anything these vaccines can provide.

The terror is real, the failure is almost complete, and the time is now for us to change the narrative.

One of the key things that Desmit says is that people who are in mass formation are there because of something in their old lives. Free floating anxiety, the sense of impending doom, feeling lost and purposeless…this is the fertile ground that those seeking control sow into.

This explains why these people, people we know and love, have doubled and tripled down on a narrative, even when that narrative is proven false. It doesn’t matter if “the leader” lies or how much evidence is presented to them, because here’s the stark truth…

THEY NEVER WANT TO GO BACK TO THEIR OLD LIVES.

Mass formation represents a new life. It gives them purpose, definition, community. It represents, in some convoluted way, freedom. But it’s not the freedom and you and I probably agree on. It’s a false offering of security, disguised as freedom. And sadly it seems, many people would rather choose the perception of security over true freedom. ...

But I feel what our next phase needs to be is to clearly illuminate the Endgame. We need to start pointing all of the data, all of the dots, in one coordinated effort, towards the realities of what the Endgame actually means.

We need the mass formed to start to viscerally FEEL what the logical ends to a digital passport are.

We need them to look at their children and understand that horror when their child is ripped from their arms because they’ve decided a 7th booster in 2 years is too much for a little body to properly process.

We need to paint the stark reality of what a global, digital, transhumanistic world actually looks like, over and over, through as many mediums as possible.

Senior Editor at The Nation "barely holding on" because her TWO-YEAR-OLD is too young for the Covid vaccine ... but "mass formation psychosis" totally isn't real

The vaccine is being treated as a mystical state or collective substance that incorporates people into the collective body. Vaccination now is like a sacrament, a transubstantiation ritual; through the vaccine we are receiving the body of the state into our body and therefore joining the community.

the dangers of propaganda to propogandists
stare too long into the big lie and the big lie stares back into you

we have all seen the big lie in action and the effects of its relentless repetition and of the ruthless suppression of any narrative but THE NARRATIVE.™

we have seen what it does to those at which it is aimed.

but what of the liars themselves, for if the endless hearing of a tale can so ingrain it into the perceived reality of the listener, what must its interminable narration do to the storyteller?

telling is more potent persuasion than hearing. performative repetition will flat out brain wipe you.

you depart from consensus reality and move to something entirely hallucinatory. it’s how you wind up sounding like melissa above and literally lose the plot to the point where you’re expecting plaudits and attagirls for telling parents that they should stop feeling possessive of their children and surrender them to the collective.

every time you say it, you believe a little more.

this is not a toxin you can handle without getting contaminated yourself; it’s intellectual polonium.




people who have ideas can change their mind. people who are their ideas face a crisis of personal identity when their ideas are challenged and experience what feels like personal destruction when their ideas fail. so they fight like cornered animals to keep such ideas alive and they think they are the good guys when they do it even and especially after it has turned them into something altogether monstrous.

this “collectivism” and the totalitarian-fascist structures it uses to impose itself is not just “another way of looking at things.” it’s a form of mental illness rooted in a narcissistic spiral of self delusion. always has been. and it will always manifest this way.

it has led, from hitler to mao and stalin to the khmer rouge, to the greatest mass murders in the history of humanity and all were done “for the greater good.”

castro and chavez alike thought they were helping. and at the time, many believed them.

and it can happen again. it can happen here. everybody wants to think it can’t, but jeez guys, take a look around…

the whole notion of forcing submission for the collective weal is rooted in dangerous delusion and this is why only deeply dangerous people do it.
it’s based on a simple and pervasive lie: we know what’s good for you and we are going to give it to you, by force if need be, for your own good.

but everything about this is wrong.

there is no common good in any but a purely abstract sense.

it cannot be measured or ascertained.

it cannot be known. it is not knowable.

it’s a pure fiction rooted in aggregation fallacy.

it’s also an ego trap.

the very idea that there is such a thing as “the common good” and that you happen to know what it is represents such a seductive self-delusion that those fixated upon and transfixed by it become prone to manifold additional hallucinations.

it selects for and feeds a loop of projection, narcissism, and violence. and it ALWAYS gets out of control. ...

it’s not even about the idea itself anymore. it’s about a wounded narcissistic leviathan curled up around its own pain at the destruction of its identify lashing out at anything that gets close enough.

that is not a pleasant place for anyone.

and this is where we are.

once you see the pattern, you’ll see it all around you.

people who may even have started off meaning well have told so many lies of such surpassing wrongness that they have become their lies, woven them into the weft and warp of their identities, and used them as the basis for the aggregation of power.

and as the truth comes out, they feel attacked to their very core and devolve into some sort of self-righteousness singularity.

they cannot be reasoned with.

they are past reason.

there is no data that will convince them, no cunning new way to look at it that will help them see it at last.

they are on complete tilt and every new “fact” that proves them wrong makes them more fervent and aggressive in their faith because feeling it slip away feels like ego annihilation.

these people are sick, and it makes them dangerous. ...

this is not authority.

this is not the common good.

this is derangement and jumped up officiousness putting on airs of serving the imagined collective welfare as a pretext to rule you.

and its 15 minutes are done.

Why are Most People Cowards? Obedience and the Rise of Authoritarianism

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/americans-with-phds-are-most-reluctant-to-get-vaccinated-against-covid/ar-AANjRHh?source=patrick.net



I don't quite know the explanation for this. I think of PhD's as the most conformist, being the most "educated", but maybe they have also learned a bit of heathy skepticism.

https://dailysceptic.org/macron-says-no-vaxx-no-citizenship-as-france-unveils-new-stricter-vaccine-passports/?source=patrick.net

The vaccine is being treated as a mystical state or collective substance that incorporates people into the collective body. Vaccination now is like a sacrament, a transubstantiation ritual; through the vaccine we are receiving the body of the state into our body and therefore joining the community.

they are on complete tilt and every new “fact” that proves them wrong makes them more fervent and aggressive in their faith because feeling it slip away feels like ego annihilation.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/americans-with-phds-are-most-reluctant-to-get-vaccinated-against-covid/ar-AANjRHh?source=patrick.net



I don't quite know the explanation for this

Patrick says

they are on complete tilt and every new “fact” that proves them wrong makes them more fervent and aggressive in their faith because feeling it slip away feels like ego annihilation.

Like when you wear a surgical mask for two years and don't get sick and then when they tell you the masks don't work, instead of breathing freely, you put on an n95 to further restrict the oxygen getting to your brain.

I have heard elsewhere that one very common emotion among the vaxxed whose eyes are opened to reality is shame. That's a tough emotion to deal with, both for them and for those of us to whom they confess it. It's difficult to watch someone experiencing shame; there's little we can do to help them deal with it, and the pain is almost palpable. Better that they wake up and deal with the shame, if that's what they all feel, than for them to remain asleep.

Better that they wake up and deal with the shame

Patrick says

Better that they wake up and deal with the shame

That's what's nice about being a psychopath or sociopath: NO SHAME! and also reduced fear of consequences.

Do any of the older folks (50+) on PatNet remember that early '80's TV miniseries "The Wave"?

From IMDB (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083316/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_4):

An experiment in an American High School where students learn how easy it is to be seduced by the same social forces which led to the horrors of Nazi Germany. Based on a true story.

It's surreal, and Nietzschean in its prophesy (History repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce). Needless to say, we're living through the farce.

I have heard elsewhere that one very common emotion among the vaxxed whose eyes are opened to reality is shame. That's a tough emotion to deal with, both for them and for those of us to whom they confess it. It's difficult to watch someone experiencing shame; there's little we can do to help them deal with it

Boomers using kids as human shields

The offspring of the Greatest Generation — the Baby Boomers — have become the Worst Generation and are now poisoning children in the misguided hope that it will help them to live longer (it will not).

Is this because there are puppeteers guiding the mass delusion, introducing these beliefs because they know we’re susceptible to believing them?

No. That would be to entirely miss the point.

Cooties find their way into how in-groups stereotype out-groups in many, most or all societies not because there is a super-cagey cabal creating the perfect narrative.

Rather, the moral here is that these beliefs get selected for over time because they fit our innate preconceptions so well. The mainstream narrative ends up fitting the physics of cooties — as it often does for out-groups — because societies evolve, and the beliefs that conform more closely to our instinctive biases get selected for.

Cooties, cooties everywhere because humans humans everywhere. It’s convergent evolution. Covid hysteria stumbled its way, as all societies do, to treating the out-group in similar, cooties-driven ways.

It’s all there. The narcissism, the relentless fear and hysteria (now totally unmoored from anything actually happening), the emotional self-indulgence, the moral certainty, even towards the end a glimmer of self-awareness: I couldn’t have written a better parody had I tried. You have here the archetypal Corona hystericist, an increasingly obscure species consisting mostly of upper middle-class, morally self-superior insular urbanites – the kinds of people who Trust the Science, buy overpriced granola at the Biomarkt, and derive their opinions from the very state media organs that have spent the last two years carpet bombing our culture with Corona fear porn.

People like this woman spent 2020 and the first part of 2021 being afraid, but then they got vaccinated, and when that didn’t kill the virus, they got angry. They got angry because the virus didn’t go away even though they really really wanted the virus to go away, and because the press and politicians told them that all of this was the fault of the unvaccinated. The article goes into a little more detail about this woman’s anger, not only at her husband, but at all of the unvaccinated – anger at them over their noncompliance, deepened by her powerlessness to make them receive vaccination.

The ‘Science’ of Manipulation: Researchers Craft Messages of Guilt, Shame to Foster Vaccine Compliance
There’s an entire field of research dedicated to developing messaging designed to persuade “vaccine-hesitant” individuals to get the COVID-19 vaccine — and none of it has anything to do with facts.

The Best and the Brightest(TM)

I’m struck by the parallels between the failures of The Best & the Brightest(TM) in the Vietnam War and now in the Covid War.

They begin with high-minded ideals (perhaps).

But their attempts to quantify progress create structural incentives for barbarity. In Vietnam it was body counts in the Covid war it’s vaccine counts.

Eventually as the original goal (winning) slips from their grasp, they throw up their hands and regress into savagery:

“Kill ‘em all and let God sort ‘em out.” —Generals in the Vietnam War

“Vaccinate ‘em all and let God sort whether these things are safe and effective.” —the FDA in the Covid War

This really is a class war.

What few people realized before the invention of the internet was that most bourgeois gatekeepers were always illegitimate. They weren’t smarter, better, nor more talented than the rest of us. Our society was a series of cartels within cartels within cartels.

With the introduction of broadband and then ubiquitous mobile phones, the peasants were able to find each other and compare notes about the various cartels we were living under. Social media gave us a megaphone. Barriers to entry came down. True talent started to emerge. Avenues emerged to challenge power and people started pointing out that the various emperors have never had any clothes. The gatekeepers could no longer control the narrative, the facts, nor the public. And those who had always held the reins of power throughout the developed world started freaking out.

So the gatekeepers instinctively reached for digital book burning and poisonous injections, propaganda, demagoguery, surveillance, and totalitarianism — their every action motivated by defending their crumbling class position. Society must be defended. It’s the hiss that fills every CNN broadcast and every utterance from the mouth of Leana Wen, Michael Osterholm, and Peter Hotez. It’s Gollum hissing my precious as he gazes lovingly upon the idolatrous ring. It’s the mantra of the fascists and the justification that they will use to do literally anything to stay in power. It’s the idea that we must smash.

The ruling class makes the laws.

The laws create massive tension and unrest in the population.

The ruling class uses the media to turn a minority group into the scapegoat for all of society's problems.

The citizens blame and attack each other, instead of their government.

The ruling class gains more wealth, power, and control over society. As the 99% get weaker and more poor.

Divide and conquer 101.

The reason this causes me some considerable trepidation is two-fold: first of all, I am profoundly worried about the mental health of those who were deceived, and what the psychological consequences will be for them as they are confronted with the truth in a way that they can’t dismiss, ridicule, or deny. It’s extremely difficult for any of us to admit we were duped, because it’s such a huge threat to our self-perception and our ego. As Mark Twain so astutely observed, it’s much easier to dupe someone in the first place, than to convince them thereafter that they’ve been deceived. That’s why the “normies” are so absolutely impervious to any amount of evidence that their beliefs are wrong, but, when it comes to the point that all the mainstream channels, all politicians, scientists, doctors, and media talking heads, converge on a narrative-flip and confirm everyone’s been duped – well, denial won’t be an option any more, for anyone, and I don’t know how the collective national psyche is going to process that, because such a monumental, horrifying act of deception has never, to my knowledge, been perpetrated on a people before.

but, when it comes to the point that all the mainstream channels, all politicians, scientists, doctors, and media talking heads, converge on a narrative-flip

The jazz clubs were slow to reopen last summer, and then only on weekends, badly patronized due to mass media induced fear throughout the country. We started playing monthly house concerts in our loft apartment, hoping to play our new repertoire to maybe 10 people, throw in some vino, make a night of it. From the first concert we had more people than we’d ever hoped, and it continues. We played our first house concert of the year this last Saturday and could have filled the place three times over. People are desperate to live their lives again. The unvaccinated are in good company here. And never has a drop of wine been spilled, a glass been broken or a toilet seat been peed on. By now even those who had been holding out for the safer Novavax have decided it’s just not necessary, or worth it. An underground network of Free Spaces, the Volná Zóna, has sprung up, and we’ve discovered a whole new world of pubs, eateries and venues which we never would have considered before, filled with smiling, maskless, people.

Narrative is the use of “facts” to create an alternative “truth.” It’s a lie protected and advanced by recognizable facts, usually presented by an accepted or presumed authority figure. Both the “facts” (which may or may not be accurate) and the authority figure combine to bypass the amygdala—the part of the brain responsible for fear, suspicion, and anger. Persuasion psychologist Robert Cialdini identified authority as one of the six principles of persuasion.

Cialdini likes to cite a study from the 1970s. Researchers placed a handwritten sign on the night-drop box of a bank saying, “Out of Order: Place Deposits in Bag.” Beneath the sign was a canvas back with a metal frame to hold it open.

Would people really drop their cash deposits in a canvas bag?

In one treatment, the bag was left alone. In a second, a man in a suit stood a few feet away. In a third, a man in a rented security guard costume stood a few feet away.

No one left a deposit envelope in the unguarded bag. A few left it next to the man a business suit. Everyone who came by left their bags in the treatment with fake guard.

The guard made no pretense of protecting the bag. None of the subjects asked if he was there to guard the deposits. They simply dropped the night deposit envelopes and carried on.

Such is our blind obedience to authority, real or perceived.

The note on the bank’s night-drop box was a lie, of course. Just like most of the pandemic narrative. And, like the researchers in the 70s, the designers of the Covid narrative relied on our knee-jerk response to authority. Instead of a man in a guard costume, DARPA used Dr. Anthony Fauci, not to bypass the amygdala, but to redirect it.

It’s possible to bypass the amygdala in a neutral mind (hypnosis), but if the person is already scared—if the amygdala are already twitching, attempts to “talk down” the frightened person will only increase their fear response. With a fearful person, you always double down on their fear—and redirect it. Like I wrote a few days back:

People who are scared believe they have good reasons to be scared. If you deny the validity of their fear, they see you as an idiot who doesn’t recognize the danger staring you in the face.

Scared people are attracted to scary things. They want to be scared. Over many years of practice, their minds have determined that the absence of the big scary thing happening is evidence that fear, worry, and conformity work. They see a causal relationship between their feelings of terror and disaster avoidance. Therefore, if you ask a scared person to stop being afraid, you’re asking them to trigger a disaster, at least in their minds.

No. The way to win over a fixed-mindset Useful Idiot: begin with a scary story—the more dangerous, the better.

Where do you think I learned that technique? It’s what the government has been doing since March 2020. Think back to that DARPA project, the Narrative Network. It’s obvious what was meant by “narrative.” But what was the “network?”

How about CNN, the New York Times, Johns-Hopkins Medical School, and University of Washington. The World Health Organization.

How many times did you hear the word “pandemic” in the first two weeks of March?

It was natural and proper to have some fear of the Coronavirus. We should always approach the unknown with caution. But the known facts in March 2020 did not support the narrative that emerged the second week of that month.

As Alex Berenson writes in Pandemia:

On March 16, the Imperial College report, Neil Ferguson’s masterpiece, came out. I read it that night. Reread it. Reread it again. I kept coming back to the table on page 5, the one that had estimates of the infection fatality ratios by age. At the top of the table:

Age 0–9, 0.002%—2 deaths in 100,000 infections.
Age 10–19, 0.006%—6 deaths in 100,000 infections. (Both of those estimates were probably high.)
At the bottom: Age 80+, 9.3%–9,300 deaths in 100,000 infections.
I had known the elderly were more vulnerable to Covid than the young. I hadn’t had any idea how much more. This gold-standard report said the oldest people were thousands of times as likely to die as the youngest.

I could almost feel the scales dropping from my eyes.1

The very report that triggered the lockdowns (its conclusions were shared with governments before it was released on the 16th) proved the lockdowns were unnecessary. But you didn’t hear that part, because no one read is aloud. It was “the quiet part.”

We were afraid. They wanted to manipulate us. How do you manipulate a frightened person whose amygdala are all aglow?

You double down on their fear.

A sizeable chunk of the population still thinks the passports would be nice, but this is mostly because they want to uphold their priviledges as vaccinated Good Citizens.