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Reality engineering requires three components: institutional power to create the narrative, social pressure to enforce it, and the deliberate persecution of anyone who challenges either. The COVID era provided the perfect case study in how this machinery operates - and revealed how performative activism serves as its most potent enforcement mechanism.

Every major element of the official COVID narrative has been proven false: The origins of the virus, the validity of PCR tests, the suppression of early treatments, the denial of natural immunity, the so-called "safety and effectiveness" of vaccines, and the utility of masks, lockdowns, and vaccine passports. Yet those who questioned any part of it faced unprecedented ostracism and persecution. ...

When the real crisis arrived, this strategy found willing accomplices in a culture already primed for performative virtue. The height of this hypocrisy revealed itself during the pandemic, exposing not just empty virtue signaling, but active participation in one of the most egregious civil rights violations in recent American history. As millions changed their profile pictures and posted solidarity symbols for social justice, these same voices fell silent - or worse, actively participated in the persecution of two distinct groups: the unvaccinated and the vaccine-injured.

they will deny it until something breaks.

but when it breaks, they will need someone to blame apart from themselves. it will be a matter of self preservation.

my guess: it jumps to the pharma cos and executives.

"we wuz lied to! we're victims too!"

it’s just the low energy path.

the biden admin could hold it back.

trump, RFK, makary, bhattacharya: they are going to push it forward.

The way to think about a lib is: the lib is a zombie with a chip in the back of his head. The chip responds to prestige signals from a variety of public and private antennas. All these antennas need to be attritted. The protocol needs to be reverse-engineered. New antennas, all responsible to the new regime, need to be configured and powered. Generally, the new signal should be stronger than the old one. Then, you own the libs.

At any given time, only a small percentage of the population is sick (or at least that’s how it used to be).

The biggest profits come from giving a drug to the entire population in the name of preventive care — vaccines and now statins.

By pathologizing natural human emotions, the makers of psychopharmaceuticals also seek to sell treatments to nearly the entire population.

https://oldschoolcounselor.substack.com/p/a-sick-and-corrupt-society

At any given time, only a small percentage of the population is sick (or at least that’s how it used to be).

The biggest profits come from giving a drug to the entire population in the name of preventive care — vaccines and now statins.

By pathologizing natural human emotions, the makers of psychopharmaceuticals also seek to sell treatments to nearly the entire population.

If it isn't clear we have been psychologically manipulated for at least the last 10+ years now, there's no hope for you.

Once the vast majority of Americans bought the foundational viral lies and agreed to stay home and the CARES Act gave away $1.9 trillion to subsidize lockdowns and school closures, masks, tests and enhanced unemployment, Coronamania was a fait accompli. It took firm, extended hold.

Much of the past five years have been a very bleak period that has sharply lowered my esteem for most of my countrymen and women. I still can’t believe how simple-minded, fearful and conformist others have been. Above all, I’ve been disgusted by the selfishness of the laptop class, with its disregard for younger people who deserved to live the vital, interpersonally-intensive life that people under 30 used to enjoy. Though I guess my disappointment in others reveals my own prior deficits of understanding. ...

These cheesy images were enough to con most people into believing that SARS-CoV-2 was a universally lethal microbe. The majority deferred to government officials who asserted, without proof, that a respiratory virus could be eliminated via lockdowns, masks, tests and later, shots. ...

Most of the Covid gullible not only bought the government’s lies; they also hectored everyone around them to obey the government, ostensibly to save humanity from a virus, even though that virus threatened almost no one. Doing so made the self-deputized Corona Stasi feel sophisticated and virtuous. ...

Scamdemicians will quietly go about their dishonest government business and act as if the lockdowns, school closures and mask, test and jab mandates never happened. Some will disingenuously and self-servingly continue to gaslight the public by insisting that the lockdowns, masks, tests and shots “saved millions of lives” and that “we must strive to prevent the next pandemic.”

Most of the populace won’t ever question what happened from 2020-23 because doing so would show that they realize they were duped. Most people would rather ignore or deny reality than confront or reveal their gullibility. They prefer to protect their egos.

I was a lifelong Democrat. I thought most conservatives were ignorant or evil or lying. I believed almost everything written in the New York Times, The New Republic, and the Atlantic. I was horrified when conservatives criticized the authorities. Every criticism I saw: I thought all of it was motivated by animus, resentment, self-interest, or ignorance.

Whatever truth there might have been in the criticism, I saw as a mere "half-truth": an exploitation of this or that cherrypicked fact being weaponized. Why did I see it in terms of weaponization? Because I was biased: I saw liberal establishment institutions and figures as fundamentally good, so all criticism of them was automatically interpreted as being in bad faith.

Didn't the critics know that these institutions or figures were fundamentally good? If they didn't, they were ignorant. If they did, they were evil. It was that simple. This meant that any legitimate criticisms would just be dismissed, as if bouncing off of an impenetrable bulletproof shield.

This all changed once I started writing about the pandemic. Soon people started talking about me the way I once thought about conservatives. This led to a complete identity collapse as I came to understand that my old worldview was hateful and ignorant, that I hadn't understood what I had been judging.

I cannot forget the hearing that led to my dismissal from medical school a year after I started writing. During the hearing, people talked about me as if I wasn't human. My behavior was interpreted in the worst possible light. Complete fabrications were created. Nobody was concerned with the truth, only horrified at my apparent "unprofessional behavior", which was really a mirror of their unprofessional behavior directed at me. They structured the hearing to make it virtually impossible for me to speak and explain that what was being said was a lie. And nobody seemed to have any problem with this. Why? Because I was bad. If I am bad, then every mistreatment and every violation of the school's own policies became justified. A person who is bad does not deserve any rights. They only deserve punishment.

But the thing I remember most was the allusions to my social media activity. They said, "Kevin is driven by resentment from his childhood." I wasn't. I was on good terms with my parents. They alleged that I needed psychotherapy to deal with this trauma. It was a completely fake story that they had constructed about me, to demean me, to marginalize me, to try to explain the views I had expressed: that something terribly wrong had happened during the pandemic. They couldn't imagine that I might have legitimate points. So they reduced me to the same kinds of psychological caricatures that I once reduced conservatives to in my own mind.

When I was dismissed, I was broken. But I had help from friends who helped me understand what happened. And I came to realize that a hysteria had overtaken the left. I spent a lot of time reading about show trials, about witch trials, and so on. I also connected with people who had experienced similar things and came to realize that something similar had happened to hundreds of physicians around the country. My story wasn't unique. It was all the same story over and over again.

I cannot believe the person I once was. I cannot believe that I could exist like that. I still don't understand how I could be like that, or how millions of people in this country could continue being like that. It disturbs me greatly.

One thing I know is that whatever this thing is that is driving people crazy needs to be destroyed. It is hostile to civilization and to our humanity. It causes us to dehumanize each other and try to destroy each other. It is the very same monstrous thing that I once attributed to conservatives. But it had been inside me, and I could now see it inside others. This is something I still grapple with.

"If only it were all so simple. If only there were evil people somewhere
insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them
from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts
through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of
his own heart?" - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn