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Would I have them again if I could go back in time? Honestly I don’t think I would personally.

As the great Theodore Dalrymple (who really should be on Substack) once noted of a sister revolutionary ideology:

"Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to." ...

George Floyd and COVID lockdowns were of a piece, the former a pretext for granting a license to pillage on the part of the clients of managerialism and the latter a flexing of its power to control. Note that the latter in no way hindered the former; in Schmidtian terms, the managers decided the exception. When Joe Biden’s puppeteers ascended to authority, it must have seemed to progressives like everything would be set right in the world. But that was not to be the case, and what happened is key to understanding why those same progressives have largely stopped fighting Trump.




... The purity spiraling didn’t cease; if anything it just kept going. DEI took on a life of its own. The queering of every aspect of life accelerated with dizzying speed. Advances in AI began threatening the laptop jobs that form the backbone of the progressive economy And perhaps most importantly, immigration skyrocketed, along with related crime, when the system bothered to count it. At their very moment of triumph, things actually began to look more bleak.

Not for the people at the top, of course; they were making out like bandits. But for those forced to return to the office, life was not great. Consider the subway ride to work. You leave an apartment- the rent of which has doubled since assuming tenancy- and walk down sidewalks festooned with stumbling derelicts, hoping not to be accosted. You enter the station and pay, being among the minority who do so, and enter a train car that reeks of urine and marijuana. Then the dreaded moment comes- one of those vagrants, barely coherent but with unmistakable menace- begins ranting at the passengers. You watch him scream at an old man, then a mother with her young child, but you ignore it. Then he moves in your direction. You stare at the floor as he yells, not daring to make eye contact, as though he was some great sovereign and you his cringing subject. When he moves on, you breathe a sigh of relief, but only for a moment, because it’s here that the some inkling of a realization finally hits you.

That bum is there for a reason. Your boss put him there; the same guy who forces you to type in a cubicle instead of your living room gave millions of dollars to politicians and prosecutors to ensure that there would be people like this harassing you on the train every day. What does he get out of it? He gets to humiliate you. He gets to differentiate himself from you by inflicting upon you public abuse from a class of person he’s abjured from his own world. And you helped him do it.

This doesn’t provoke any kind of deep introspection on your part, of course. Your progressive education and moral malleability have long rendered that largely impossible. But you do know one thing- something has gone very bad in the world. You’re not the one who’s supposed to feel humiliated, that MAGAt is! He’s cheering on his Drumpfenführer even after the people you voted for keep banning him from social media and charging him with crimes. And even as your life keeps getting more confusing, crowded, expensive, and dangerous, Trump keeps beating everything the system throws at him, including being shot. You get summoned to HR for racial microaggressions; Trump tells a room full of black journalists that Kamala Harris is an Indian. He’s winning. You’re losing. And then he gets elected.

You begin to look at things a bit differently. Your life, such as it is, is about feeling a sense of superiority to your declassee fellow whites. This means hating Trump, obviously, but not necessarily stopping him. Consider the case of Daniel Penny. If the incident and trial had transpired in 2017, Penny’s conviction would have been a forgone conclusion, which you would have fully supported. By 2023, after enough of those train rides, you wanted whoever that screaming bum was dead. You would never say it out loud, of course, but you secretly actually wish you could have witnessed Penny choke the life out of that miserable creature who had you cringing like a slave. Getting rid of train bums is now official regime policy, and though you are required to hate it, you do not feel it in your heart.

... feeling silly for crying in
the airport after seeing a
MAGA hat, but 4 other
women were crying too
grief has no timeline.
action is coming

narrator: action was not coming.

this movie seems to be on auto repeat all over social media right now. it’s astonishing the breakdowns and breakage that seem to have been triggered by two weeks of “the donald.”

leaving aside the rightness or wrongness of all this opinion and histrionic hurdy-gurdy, i find the overall pathology fascinating.

i also think it likely means something very different than most are inclined to assume.

why is becky from vassar not only having this meltdown, but forensically documenting it in full living color online for all the world to see? this seems an odd response to “hurt.”

so what drives this?

my sense is that this is not just “i’m upset” it’s performance art as manipulation. sure, some of it is tribal virtue and issue signaling, but mostly it looks to me to be a sort of bat signal to guilt trip people into helping the more machiavellian of the theater kids.

it’s a natural human impulse to want to help those that look scared or hurt. it’s part of the goodness of many humans.

but it’s also a weakness that can be preyed upon, used to advantage.

and i think we’re seeing a lot of that.

the ability to manipulate others while claiming virtue and status for so doing attracts cluster B traits like rotting fruit attracts wasps.

this performative fragility has weaponized empathy and for a time, this has proven a very effective tactic of passive aggressive emotional grifting.

the issue is that past a certain point, people simply stop caring about you and your endless needy demands for the world to order itself around your right not to be offended as the cornerstone and non-negotiable demand of your sense of well being and security. ..

when the very people accusing you of "lacking concern" are actually playing upon your concern and using it to manipulate you, you eventually wise up.

it snaps into focus that this was never a damsel in distress, it was a long con.

Financial analysts have been unwilling to acknowledge the role of Pfizer and the enormous numbers of deaths and disabilities experienced by working age Americans in the jobs reports. The reason for this is that all of them are injected with the ticking time bomb, and they will have injected their children. It would be inconvenient, to say the least, to accept that they have poisoned themselves.

Now that the PR and Advertising campaign is no longer hammering the barnyard animals with fear messaging, and some of them have made a vague connection between injecting Operation Warp Speed and very bad health outcomes, uptake of the boosters has waned. ...

If they want the jobs reports to improve going forward, what needs to happen is they must reignite the PR and Advertising campaign and try to convince more barnyard animals to get another booster. I highly recommend that they rebrand flu cases as Covid 7.0 and ramp up the use of Remdesivir and Midazolam to murder more barnyard animals generating mass fear.

If they are able to succeed - again - the job openings will quickly surge along with vax injuries and deaths. Throw in more mass murder at the hands of the two treatment drugs and the result will be a strong economy and renewed prosperity for all!

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

we are reaching the cognitive breakage point where the intensity of belief required to sustain the hallucinatory universes that many people have occupied simply cannot stand up to any more collisions with reality.

as the evidence against it mounts, the magnitude and implausibility of dogma needed to protect a false world view starts to rise in an exponential fashion.

such a rise rapidly overwhelms people, seemingly out of nowhere because the last 2 doublings are 75% of the cognitive burden and so you go from "barely holding it together" to "wildly, ostentatiously out of control" all at once.

buckle up, you're going to see a lot of this.

for a great many people who have been isolated in a great many echo chambers, the bumpy part of re-entry to reality is starting and the self appointed "moral majority" coming to terms with the fact that it was never either of those things is going to cause mass scale breakage.

you're going to see this kind of attack, threat, vandalism, and rage because when the stories they have told themselves become too absurd to sustain, it's the only outlet left to externally validated zealots whose external referents have long been fantasies. ...

the intensity of belief goes vertical as a self defense mechanism and and there is simply nothing one can call such a thing save madness. ...

but the sorts of folks they are setting off and who are burning tesla dealers and teslas do not. their minds have snapped and it’s no coincidence that it’s all the same people who simped for covid lockdowns and jail for the jabless. this is who they are, the low identity shock troops of “the party of love” (in the most orwellian sense) and their cynical handlers handling them. ...

the big difference between now and 2020 is the feds and states are not going to stand for it a second time. trump failed hard on the BLM riots. he let it get out of control. the states let it get out of control. everyone was too disoriented and intimidated.

seems unlikely this time.

The racketeering operation was perfectly illustrated in the DOGE’s recent deconstruction of USAID. That agency worked as a gigantic money laundering matrix to pay Democratic Party activists for the sole purpose of maintaining and expanding the party’s power — its ability to push American citizens around, control our lives, tell us how to live, how to think, and, ultimately, in the Covid-19 scam, telling us to take our shots, get lost, and die. Pitifully, a lot of those vaxx victims were the Democratic Party’s own rank and file, which shows you how psychotically suicidal the Democratic Party became.

By and large, it was conservatives who avoided the vaxxes because they were able psychologically to entertain the evidence that Covid was a nefarious set-up and that, month-by-month, the vaxxes were proving to be both ineffective and harmful. Democrats, in their Woke fugue state, could not do that. Even today, they insist that their vaxx injuries are “long Covid” and would be worse if not for the additional boosters they took. Poor dumb bunnies.

they literally think this is a "messaging" problem and that if they just explain it in a more pedantically patronizing fashion this time, we'll all come to our senses and learn to love obeying them.

they are iron bar sure they are both right and righteous. evidence does not matter. opinion does not matter. ends justify means and we, your betters, those who matter, are sure that our ends are good.

this is how you construct an atrocity mill, a totalitarian, authoritarian system that lives out the beating nightmare heart of CS lewis’s famous admonition:

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.... To be cured' against one's will... of states which we may not regard as disease is to be those who have not put on a level of yet reached the age of reason... to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals."
-C.S. Lewis

surely by now the truth of this maxim must be manifest to most who just lived through the times covidian and the leaping grab for the brass ring of globalist domination of money and commerce and production and ethics that came with their milspec fusillade of propaganda and tyranny backed by endless, even ostentatious moral opprobrium and inversion?

they saw the world as an ant farm to be ordered. ...

they start with a vision, one of which they are iron bar sure. it’s their mission, the path right and righteous from which no right-thinking sapient may diverge. so sure are they of doctrine and dogma that should you deviate from their gospel, it’s taken as proof that you are, in fact, not right thinking. this is because you are either too stupid or too evil to understand.

the first instinct is to explain again, message harder, use smaller words to make the case so your little pea brain will get it. surely, if we could just bring our enlightened discourse down to a level that the grubby commoners may grasp, they will accede to our obvious rightness! “we can teach them!” ...

this is how we flip to “manufacturing consent.” you get fake science bought bespoke to justify the unjustifiable. you get propaganda to proselytize it and legions of talking point insufferable complex hucksters to ensure the saturation bombing of the big lie told everywhere and always. you embed your ideas into everything, every channel, every vector and education. you make it seem impossible to disagree and convince those who do that they are alone and alien. you construct a vast intellectual prison of solipsistic silence enforced by cancel culture in which dissent is too frightening to engage in. it’s the society scale abilene paradox of preference falsification where everyone pretends to be woke or willing to become poor to change the weather because they think that everyone else is. this is the classic bolshevik/menshevik tactic to make a minority appear a majority.

it’s seen as necessary, even vital, the “noble lie” to serve greater truth and if we have to mislead you to make you see that we’re correct, so be it. (after all, it’s for your own good.)

this commences the slippery slope where the more they lie, the more they feel they need to lie and the more justified they feel in doing so.

it becomes an entire recursive worldview.

lauren powell jobs (steve job’s widow) who never created anything of note uses her vast inherited wealth to purchase “the atlantic” and use it to "take over the cultural narrative to amplify our work." ...

covid was the great sorting hat and it built a massive new alliance of the forgotten center who just wanted liberty and to be left alone, the orthogonal axis of “liberty vs authoritarian” that exists independent of left and right and belies the increasing irrelevance of that distinction in an age of uniparties bending the far right and far left of the political horseshoe into a circle where google touches halliburton and cheneys go democrat.

new outlets like substack emerge. twitter changes hands. we the people speak and find that we are the majority and that we are well and truly pissed.

obviously, those in power do not like this. it threatens them.

disdain and contempt for the commoners builds. the attitude turns toxic, adversarial, one of capture and conquest. ...

the seemingly tolerable long-games of “we need to dominate the world to save it” around climate scams, DEI, bad medicine and worse healthcare, CBDC’s, and “fascists for freedom” falsity were exploded by the acute vision of just how far these people were willing to go under covid. they ravaged the whole world, its lives and livelihoods, its business and education. “freedom has been suspended. if you comply, perhaps you can earn it back.”

anyone who falls for that one was born to be a slave.

the spectacle of “the good guys from the west” turning their actual military info-war teams on their own populations to grab and validate control was a sight unseen since the 1930’s.

they will never get the stink of it off.

In 2022, I interviewed a Priest in Perth who confessed to me, in the confessional, that over one hundred parishioners had confessed to him that they had vaccine injuries, but none would report them.

The reason?

They did not want to be seen as anti-vaxxers. If the pain got too bad, Long Covid was the way to retain the status they’d earned by taking the shot. ...

The strategy to be in the running for more funding.

It was the strategy for climbing in front of those who didn’t comply.

What if, to many, life is not about integrity, but about status, and status is and always has been a game? ...

What if the majority of people were never asleep? I have often thought this.

What if, on the morning we were awoken by vaccine mandates, we were all offered a choice?

The Tribe is turning Left. We are taking with us all the jobs, committees, sports clubs, the lot. If you want to play or even just watch, you will have to take this jab, numerous times.

Whereas our side, all we had to offer the indecisive public was the game plan of writing freedom on a piece of core flute before joining us in the streets, where together we could get pepper sprayed.

Most of those I’ve interviewed, who said no, claim an inner voice told them to decline—a Spiritual Coach, perhaps— And we listened to this coach, while others evaluated the scales of circumstance:

My soul vs. my job, my house, my kids, my career, my ambitions, and chose to risk it.

That must have been very hard.

I have spoken to vaccinators who told me about how people, grown men, were in tears as they jabbed them, and most people looked up to them and said, “I don’t want this.” It was at that moment when they must have seen the old rules of life, informed consent and the like, had been trashed.

They weren’t just in a new game now, but a new world, where integrity meant compliance. Silence. ...

So all those who played along not only compromised their health by welcoming this dangerous shite into their veins, but they compromised their souls to do so. ...

The road before us, our culture, has fallen dark. This is because the spark in many Australians has been doused by the feeling that they not only betrayed themselves, but something older and far deeper.

But that is not the truth.

If there is a God, then the glue he uses to connect us all is Love.

And the other, darker force, hate, is used to try to challenge and corrode this love.

But after all our endless wars, famines, and genocides, when children are born, and first begin to draw pictures people that we can comprehend, they draw houses, families, and hearts. They draw love.

We are not slaves unless we choose to be slaves, and new plays and new roles, in which you can rediscover your true light and shine, are accessed through finding the courage to make a new choice.

If there is no fact in the universe to learn other than this, then I hope one day that you realise that the freedom to be you—your greatest, unwarped gift—is still there within you.

I know you can feel it yearning to stretch its limbs and breathe; I guess all you have to do is reevaluate the stage you are on, and if there is nothing on the boards but endless bills and long hours in a job you don’t like, then perhaps instead of handing over more of your precious power and time, to them, as you continue to get fatter, you could wake up and join us.

For weirdly, most of us know that we are on the right path; we can feel it. It’s profound.

It gives us a great sense of purpose and drive.

Ironically though, we don’t know where we are going. Such is the exhilaration of being free.