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“scared witless” is a phrase for a reason.

fear and panic, yours and others, change everything. fear alone is enough to shut down rational faculties. group level panic and the social pressures of herd following behaviors blow this into the stratosphere.

suddenly, no matter how smart you were 5 minutes ago, you’re now a blithering idiot.

suddenly, no matter how independent you thought you were, the lightning flashes, the sky tears open in thunder, and before you know it you’re just another panicked sheep in the herd stampeded by the storm.

all these things you prized about yourself are gone. it’s like one of those nightmare dreams where you remember you have an exam in a class you never read the books for.

your functional final comes and oopsie




... i believed i would be brave and free thinking and rational. but i wasn’t.

and i suspect it’s why so many “smart people” are struggling to adapt to the world post panicpalooza.

this is bitter pill to take.




"i was too afraid to buck peer pressure" feels like weakness.

rational people can admit they were wrong. but admitting you chickened out and surged with the sheep when you self identify as a "free thinker" is more fundamental.

it poses a more intrinsic threat to self image and self-regard.

it’s a form of narcissistic blow to the idea that you are self-governing. it makes you wonder if you can trust yourself.

and it makes you feel like a coward, the admission of which is very hard. being wrong is just a failure of an idea.

being scared stupid feels like a personal failing.

it's why so few want to face it especially if they acted badly, treated others poorly, engaged in or advocated their mistreatment, or hectored and harangued others out of misbegotten terror tyranny.




people will go to great lengths to not remember it that way. it’s just too damaging. whole memories get revised and whole paradigms of thought get overturned.

i suspect most people are going to be OK, but the amount of copium going around in the “intellectual” class is jarring.

"i was wrong because i was smart and brave and the people who wound up right were lucky and craven" is the most self-defeating form of rationalization.

it's not only the coward claiming they were the lion but calling the actual lions simps.

mostly, i suspect they are not mad about being wrong and endlessly touchy because some others were right.

mostly, i suspect they are mad at themselves because deep down in the scratchy dark dissonance of their subconscious, they know that they wound up on the team they did not want to and they do not like this about themselves.

and that one hurts.




... these outcomes seem especially galling for the self styled “smart” people. they look at those they deem their inferiors and say “how did you outperform me time and time again lo these three long years?” and the answer is simple:

because this was not a test of pure intellectual horsepower. few of the ones that matter are.

a panicked 99th percentiler can be easily out thought by a middle of the pack player who has retained rationality and independence, especially in times when the pack is being urged to self-harm. ...

i have all the sympathy in the world for those who are changing their minds and saying "i was wrong" and "i panicked" and "i failed the milgram and asch and stanford experiments."

that shows capacity to grow and it’s a demanding road.

and this was a seriously hard test with a low pass rate.




...




(people like Scott Adams) have not "joined team rationality." they have just found new means to rationalize not doing so and are just once more caving to dominant social pressure.

they are not following the data, they are following the crowd.

everyone changed jerseys and so they are doing so as well.

keep your eye on them.

they'll change back the minute the next thing frightens them.

The Left-Wing Identity Crisis
Twitter’s open discourse a catalyst for mass public-awakening ...

There is a seismic shift happening amongst the normies. There is a growing resistance to MSM narratives in mainstream and Left-wing circles, particularly on Twitter, which has huge influence that bleeds into all the other platforms as well.

The accumulation of irregularities in the MSM narratives, are taking their toll on the sheep. The current combination of the Biden Docs scandal, the jabs not being “safe and effective” as promised, and the growing body of evidence that C19 was human engineered; has caused a sort of identity crisis amongst the Left.

Their entire personas revolved around masks, covid vaccines, and Trump being a criminal. Now they are being forced to rationalize that the “anti-vaxxers” and “conspiracy theorists” were right, and turns out Biden and the DNC are criminals. The pillars of their identity are slowly being proven to be a farce, and it’s breaking the cohesion of the Left and their followers. ...

This result is largely due to the public conversation being had, made possible by Elon freeing Twitter of Left-wing algorithm and bot manipulation. The normies are no longer shielded from public discourse like they were before. The comment sections are flooded with counter-arguments to MSM lies. Conservative voices are seeing increased exposure due to no longer being shadow-banned, and it’s making dividends in public perception. ...

Some opted to fight, lashing out as a defense mechanism in response to their fear, amplifying the severity of their hatred for the Conservatives, creating more bulletin-board material for the Right.

In conclusion, Elon’s intervention into Twitter’s nefarious criminal activity not only exposed unprecedented levels of corruption within the government and private enterprise; it paved the way for truth and logic to reign supreme via public discourse, which resulted in a consistent stream of organic mass normie-waking, followed by the current watershed of awakening.

This outcome is what Elon means when he preaches “Vox Populi, Vox Dei” (The voice of the People, is the voice God). Allow the People to speak freely, and truth will out. The plan is working.

The same could be said of all of these tropes: Does anyone believe them anymore? This is not news. It is a last-gasp attempt to squeeze more juice out of a dehydrated lemon. These messages were potent fear generators two years ago. But with each use, the charge becomes weaker.

The script has worn itself out. These tropes are now tired and ineffective. The fear-pushers seem unaware that the message has lost its effect, but do not have anything else to offer. The tell is not that they publish articles like this. It is how much these pieces show that they don’t know that the game is over and they have lost.

Most of the species fell for it. They believed everything, and went into deep panic. Many still haven’t come out. To this day you see people driving alone wearing masks, which they’ll no doubt continue wearing until enough plastic fibres seep into their lung tissue from their life-saving facial filters that they die from COPD. Most have come to their senses somewhat, but they still lined up in droves to get their armful of magic science juice.

The consequences of that mass experiment in horizontal gene transfer are still being worked out. They don’t look good. The hideous implications are beginning to dawn on the globalists’ experimental subjects, and the mood is turning ugly. As well it should.

Meanwhile, those who were most vocal in their support for injecting the entire human species with a novel genetic potion, who demanded this be done whether people wanted it or not because omigod there’s a virus won’t someone please think of the old people! are having their psyches shattered in real time by cogdis slamming like a pickaxe through their self-image as the smartest good little boys and girls in the room, and the nasty reality that they were wrong, about everything ... while those awful, ultra-extreme-alt-right-wing QAnon conspiracy theory-believing malinformation-spreading hate-speaking sexist misogynist racist homophobic epistemological terrorists were, well. You know. Correct. ...

Having passed through this purifying inferno, you now know your inner strength of spirit with certainty. Before this, you might have suspected, or hoped, that your soul would be made of such an adamantine alloy, but you couldn’t know.

Now you do.

Perhaps we should thank the tyrants for stealing these years from our lives; after all, they made us what we are now. Personally, I think we should thank them with gibbets and gallows, but I’m old school that way.

“Unless this virus turns into Ebola, I’m never getting boosted again.” -
@DavidSacks

“It’s ineffective.” -
@Chamath

“Speak to your doctors, not 4 VCs.” -
@Jason

“Just remember, vaccine manufacturers have a business to run and politicians have to get reelected.” -
@Friedberg

I think that the fundamental need that is satisfied in the crowd is that people want to belong to a collective. People want to transcend themselves, they want to be freed of the limits of their own individual existence, without realising it. That’s what you do in a crowd. People suddenly . . . usually — before the large scale mass formations of modern times — people were in the grip of an extreme individualism. They got sick of it. And then suddenly, without knowing it, they had only one desire: to sacrifice themselves in order to belong to a collective, to sacrifice themselves for the collective. So an emerging mass and totalitarianism usually means that extreme individualism suddenly changes and switches to extreme collectivism. In one way or another, in modern times, many people have a hard time keeping the balance between individualism and collectivism. That’s what is needed, as a human being, to live a life worthy of a human being, to not be too individualistic, but also not to be too collectivistic, because in both instances there is something destructive at the level of your humanity.

Becoming vaccinated was the easy choice, not the hard one. There was never any evidence it was the sensible choice and it could be argued - and this may seem harsh - that if you were determined to be part of the group, wilfully and determinedly deaf to any counter-argument or even call for caution, absolutist in your own belief in you virtue and knowledge, irrationally frightened of death, unthinking, superficial and glib, fearful of other people’s opinion of you, filled with desire/fear to comply with the powerful for safety or favour, then becoming vaccinated was the only choice. But these are not exactly admirable qualities.

At no point was there evidence that these experimental vaccines were safe. The explanations on TV were nonsensical (why inject yourself with a substance that caused your body to make the very thing you’d spent a year manically avoiding). Why believe them? Why take it? What vaccinated people should do, in my opinion, is find out why they took that vaccine, as a matter of urgency. Why they allowed themselves to believe in a narrative that made Swiss cheese look as solid as the Berlin Wall.

To start asking the very government that damaged you, the corporations, the doctors and nurses - who should have known better - to start listening to you seems to be a little bit degrading. It’s an ‘Everybody else’s fault but mine!’ attitude. It’s not a case of ‘blaming the victim’. It’s a case of asking, when you are a being bullied, how long do you stay in an abusive relationship and not take responsibility for your staying? It’s asking the bully to be nice, instead of taking on the onus of hitting them on the nose.

Given the pain caused, no one wants to add to the suffering. Yet, unless people are prepared to be accountable for their role, however large or small, in all of this, then we not only learn nothing, we cannot move forward. If we cannot move forward, we’ll be back here again soon enough.

There comes a time near the end of every PSYOP when the PSYOP has achieved its objective, or as much of its objective as it is going to achieve, and is becoming increasingly recognizable as a PSYOP, and so the focus shifts to damage control, and erasing the PSYOP from official history.

This is a crucial stage of the PSYOP, because, at this point, a significant percentage of the public have realized that they’ve been thoroughly mindfucked, and many of them are none too happy about it. Some of them are starting to ask awkward questions, like “why were we deceived and coerced by our governments, global health authorities, and the state and corporate media into submitting to a series of experimental ‘vaccinations’ that appear to be killing and injuring a lot of people?” Or “why are we occupying and torturing the residents of a Middle-Eastern country that never attacked us, and never had any intention to attack us, and which posed no threat to us whatsoever?”

At this point, it is way too late for those engaged in conducting the PSYOP to continue to deny the facts and gaslight the masses. That won’t work anymore. So, it is time to do some limited hangouts, and some whitewashing, and a little sleight-of-hand, and just generally confuse and distract the public, and send them off on various wild goose chases, while the official history of the PSYOP is written. ...

The point is, the PSYOP that we have all been subjected to for going on the last three years is not going to be exposed, ever. The damage control and memory-holing will continue, and the misdirections and limited hangouts will continue, and the whitewashing of corporations like Twitter and the corporate media and “papers of record” will continue, and the Covid-PSYOP will be erased from history, like the WMDs-PSYOP was erased from history … and people will get used to their “vaccinations,” like they got used to taking off their shoes at the airport.

The 'pandemic plan' has been the cooker for well over a hundred years,

Vaxxed and boosted UCSF chair of medicine, 65, says he'll wear KN95 mask FOREVER in large gatherings, busy supermarkets and on public transport - but insists face covering won't impede his quality of life
Dr. Bob Wachter, the chair of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), earlier this month shared his current COVID approach
The professor, who is fully vaccinated, said he intends to keep wearing a KN95 face mask in crowded indoor spaces and on public transport

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11694771/UCSF-chair-medicine-65-says-hell-wear-KN95-mask-FOREVER-large-gatherings.html

Vaxxed and boosted UCSF chair of medicine, 65, says he'll wear KN95 mask FOREVER in large gatherings, busy supermarkets and on public transport - but insists face covering won't impede his quality of life
Dr. Bob Wachter, the chair of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), earlier this month shared his current COVID approach
The professor, who is fully vaccinated, said he intends to keep wearing a KN95 face mask in crowded indoor spaces and on public transport

Vaxxed and boosted UCSF chair of medicine, 65, says he'll wear KN95 mask FOREVER in large gatherings, busy supermarkets and on public transport - but insists face covering won't impede his quality of life
Dr. Bob Wachter, the chair of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), earlier this month shared his current COVID approach
The professor, who is fully vaccinated, said he intends to keep wearing a KN95 face mask in crowded indoor spaces and on public transport

Students of political history have often marveled that the Anglo-Irish statesman, Edmund Burke, made all of his accurate predictions about the French Revolution in 1790. Burke foresaw that the Jacobins would grossly mismanage everything and then resort to terror when none of their harebrained schemes worked. He predicted the bloody fiasco would end with the accession to power of a military commander.

Three years after Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France was published, the Reign of Terror began. Nine years later, Napoleon Bonaparte came to power through a combination of subterfuge and soldiers with fixed bayonets.

How did Burke make these predictions? He knew history and he understood human nature. He therefore saw that the Jacobins had no idea what they were doing. None of their abstract schemes acknowledged the complex reality of human affairs. Their entire conception of reality was ideological, not practical, and they insisted on imposing it with fanatical zeal.

Precisely the same is true of the Vaccine Syndicate that ran the official Pandemic Response. Its leaders are votaries of the COVID-19 Vaccine Cult, and all of their policies were in the service of getting a needle in every arm. Their monolithic policy totally ignored the complex reality of the problem.

Those familiar with history (and medical history) could see by April of 2020 that “The Science” constantly invoked by our government health agencies was an ideological construct—an Orthodoxy—and not true science. True scientific inquiry was conducted by doctors in the field who had the courage to treat the illness instead of waiting for the heralded “vaccine.”

Kevin Bass’s Newsweek is a good start. May the rest of the Official “Follow the Science” Establishment get out their forks and knives and start eating crow.

No science or history knowledge was required. It was simple: no long term studies, minuscule death rate, change of definition of vaccine, the body language and messaging was inauthentic. It was bizarre. Suddenly it’s ok to bribe people to take an experimental therapy? Remote workers mandated to take it? All one needs is common sense.

https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/let-the-crow-eating-begin

https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/let-the-crow-eating-begin

Ceffer says

https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/let-the-crow-eating-begin

Weren't the Jacobin leaders executed?

While there are people who thought the injection was safe at the beginning and have come to learn otherwise, there is no one who thought the injection was dangerous at the beginning who thinks that it is safe now.

Perchance to Dream

(v1) Our daughter’s lost for evermore
She took the shot, fell to the floor
We followed all instructions to the tee
No explanation’s in the air
No questions asked, no one dares
It’s best we stop this foolish inquiry

(Chorus) No more doubts, yes we’ve been sold
Safe and effective we’ve been told
Time for us to take this for the team
She went to sleep
Oh just a teen
Did not wake up, or so it seems
Where’s the rub?
Perchance to dream

(v2) We were told you must have faith
In order to ensure she’s safe
But now she’s gone, we’re feeling all this pain
The doctors claimed it’s nothing new
We’re at a loss, they have no clue
It’s just a mystery they can’t explain

(Chorus) No more doubts, yes we’ve been sold
Safe and effective we’ve been told
Time for us to take this for the team
She went to sleep
Oh just a teen
Did not wake up, or so it seems
Where’s the rub?
Perchance to dream

(Bridge 1) No it’s wrong to speculate
The hour’s past, it’s way too late
Shut your mouth and never speak again
Don’t attack our sacred jab
For if you do, our hearts you’ll stab
Our mind’s made up, so you just
must pretend

Bridge (2) I deny what you suggest
Another lie, based on a guess
How can you question our authorities?
There’s no connection to this shot
Decency first, have you forgot?
No connection, no possibility

Verse instrumental

(Chorus) No more doubts, yes we’ve been sold
Safe and effective we’ve been told
Time for us to take this for the team
She went to sleep
Oh just a teen
Did not wake up, or so it seems
Where’s the rub?
Perchance to dream

(Coda) She sleeps so well
But do you care?
No more talk of these nightmares
Do you understand just what we mean?

All we know she’s left her mark
As we remain in the dark
Where’s the rub?
Perchance to dream

Yes, maybe the right tack to take is "You tried to do the right thing, but you were lied to. So your good will was abused and your good intentions ended up causing harm because of bastards like Pfauci and Bourla."

it’s fascinating the way the world can go from “what was always known” to “that which everyone knew was the wrong thing” in such rapid progression.

you can toss 1000 years of science, philosophy, and ethics right out the window the minute you get scared. fear is the antithesis of rationality. it’s the drive to “do something right now” and people desperate for this course are easy marks for the guy with the shouty voice on the big white horse. ...




and we are now seeing it everywhere.

ask any doctor in 2019: “should people who have already had a disease get vaccinated against it?” and they would have told you “no.”

this was and is obvious.

vaccines are not magic, they just train your immune system. if recovering from the virus cannot teach it (and almost certainly better) then a vaccine cannot either. no one argues that we use vaccines because they provide better immunity. we use them seeking to provide immunity at lower risk. this whole “vaccinated immunity is superior to immunity acquired by recovery” is entirely made up nonsense that never had any basis whatsoever in biology.

this is all coming out now. ...

we are recovering from this bizarre excursion into immunological inversion that suddenly took hold of damn near every health agency on earth.

and make no mistake, the “there is no herd immunity/durable immunity from recovery” was the endless refrain of the health moppets. ...

this was not public health, it was product advertising based on known and knowably false premises.

there is just no other way to spin it.

they deliberately changed the definitions of everything to push this narrative.

it was not an accident.

this was a campaign. ...

and this was hyped into a savage storm of fear messaging and social pressure.

again, it was not an accident.

this was policy. they hired experts and influencers alike to make it so. ...




... even those who saw through this mostly failed to stand fast enough. you have to nip this in the bud. the minute they tell you something crazy, there must be mass non-compliance.

once they get the ball rolling with “2 weeks to flatten your resolve” the game is kind of over. they have the momentum.

you get to keep the rights you will fight for, and the fight must be early and instant. ...

we have not seen the last of them and rest assured, they will find a way to try this again.

and then as in 2020, fear will be their weapon.

fear will be the mind killer they use to run roughshod over rationality and turn the demos once more into the mob.

and this is why you should stop believing them.

it’s also why our newly forged networks are so important. standing alone is hard. people fare poorly in isolation, in alienation. people alone are easy to scare. people together may draw resolve from one another.

and this is why our networks and not theirs must stand paramount is we would stay free. cultivate them and your connectedness.

unless, of course, you’d like to take this ride again…

Yes, maybe the right tack to take is "You tried to do the right thing, but you were lied to. So your good will was abused and your good intentions ended up causing harm because of bastards like Pfauci and Bourla."

And maybe for maskers, you could appeal to the same fear that kept them wearing a mask in order to get them to stop: "Hey, that mask is harming your health by getting you to breathe micro-fibers deep into your lungs along with mold spores that form on the mask, as well as reducing your oxygen intake. It's going to kill you if you keep wearing it."

Why are those in power so focused on tearing humans down, telling them that they're killing grandma or the planet?

emails from HI DOH which pushed VX on 9 mos-19mos children