Many of the central tenets of progressivism are actually autistic traits
'The world is overwhelming' so it leads to a desire to control all inputs including weather, speech, and other people
I. Introduction
Doggonit! I wish I hadn’t seen this. Because once you see it you cannot unsee it.
It occurred to me this morning that many of the central tenets of progressivism are actually autistic traits.
As I see it, vaccine injury creates the biological basis that leads to certain political beliefs that then lead to more vaccine injury in a vicious cycle.
We are not just dealing with an ideology. We are dealing with people who have been physically and neurologically changed by toxic injections. That’s one reason why our appeals to science, logic, and reason rarely get traction.
So many people are neurologically injured by vaccines right now that the worldview that stems from this neurological injury becomes a LOGIC that propels the actions of left political parties throughout the developed world. What appears like centralized coordination in a grand conspiracy may actually just be millions of people who all share the same type of neurological injury. (Or it could be a grand conspiracy that also benefits from widespread neurological injury.)
II. The logic that stems from vaccine injury
This thought has been coming to me for a while. One early clue was the realization that trans and autism overlap (people who are trans are 3 to 6 times more likely to be autistic than people who don’t have sex dysphoria). Since autism is usually vaccine injury then the higher rate of trans people with autism suggests that trans may be a vaccine injury too. A Midwestern Doctor has just written the definitive (thus far) article on the links between vaccination, human connection, autism, and sexual orientation.
But I think what’s happening is so much larger than that.
I don’t do many interviews these days because of my health challenges. But I was interviewed last Friday by a young activist, Jeremiah Hosea, who hosts a radio program in NYC called The Bassline. Jeremiah had done a ton of research on me and he asked questions that really got to the heart of the matter. Early in the interview he asked me to define autism.
I gave the standard DSM-5 definition and then said that this is inadequate and explained the lived experience of autism and also described how, for people with autism, the various senses (touch, sight, hearing, smell, taste, empathy, and so many more) are often turned way up to the point of being painful or turned way down to the point of seeming nonexistent. (The discussion starts at the 16 minute mark of the podcast).
Okay but look at the official definition of autism from the DSM-5:
A. Persistent deficits in social communication and social interaction across multiple contexts…
B. Restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior, interests, or activities, as manifested by at least two of the following:
Stereotyped or repetitive motor movements, use of objects, or speech (e.g., simple motor stereotypes, lining up toys or flipping objects, echolalia, idiosyncratic phrases).
Insistence on sameness, inflexible adherence to routines, or ritualized patterns of verbal or nonverbal behavior (e.g., extreme distress at small changes, difficulties with transitions, rigid thinking patterns, greeting rituals, need to take same route or eat same food every day).
Highly restricted, fixated interests that are abnormal in intensity or focus (e.g., strong attachment to or preoccupation with unusual objects, excessively circumscribed or perseverative interests).
Hyper- or hyporeactivity to sensory input or unusual interest in sensory aspects of the environment (e.g. apparent indifference to pain/temperature, adverse response to specific sounds or textures, excessive smelling or touching of objects, visual fascination with lights or movement).
Now think about the central tenets of modern progressivism:
‘We must control the weather. There is a right way for the weather to be and this is not it. The state should set the temperature like a thermostat on the wall by controlling the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. We must force people to stop eating meat, ban nitrogen fertilizer, ban gasoline powered cars, and put particles in the atmosphere to deflect the sun.’
‘We must control all speech. There is one truth, it is black & white and known by the powers that be. Anyone who deviates from this one truth is engaged in harmful misinformation and they must be stopped or we’ll all die. The state and any agents that they designate are the protectors of truth. Rachel Maddow, Chris Hayes, Anderson Cooper, Terry Gross, and Ezra Klein know the truth and anything that contradicts what they say is misinformation that must be censored.’
‘We must control all bodies. Bodies can carry disease and this must be corrected with endless vaccines. Vaccines do not harm anyone ever and even if they do it is better than disease. Some people are born into the wrong bodies and this must be corrected. Surgeries and hormones do not harm anyone ever and even if they do it is better than suicide. Bodies die which is why technologists are working to upload our consciousness into the cloud so that we can live forever.’
‘We must enclose the air and kill all viruses and bacteria [even though they are essential to life on the planet]. The air is dangerous, viruses are dangerous, bacteria is dangerous, water is dangerous, surfaces are dangerous, and people are dangerous (life itself is dangerous) which is why we must use hand sanitizer and masks and stand six feet apart and not leave the house if possible. By all means get vaccinated. Those who ignore these common sense rules are putting our lives at risk because they are not as caring and knowledgeable as us.’
Justice sensitivity runs throughout modern progressivism as well. Every issue is the issue and everything is genocide except the iatrogenocide. Universities have also become autistic progressive laboratories with safe spaces for students and faculty can be fired for saying upsetting things.
These ideas contradict two and a half centuries of theory and best practices in politics, law, and public health. Modern progressives’ rigid insistence on control is a hallmark of autism and a complete rejection of liberalism (that used to define the Democratic Party).
But I hasten to add — this actually makes a ton of sense if we look at it from their perspective. If one’s senses are turned way up to the point where they are painful, of course one wants to control all inputs. For me it’s sound, I have dog ears that can hear a creaky air conditioner motor 100 yards away — through walls, trees, glass windows, etc. So I’m always trying to control and reduce the sounds around me (turning things off, telling other people to turn things off, being angry at people when they fail to turn things off, sitting in the sweltering heat because I turned everything off, frequently changing locations to try to find a better spot for my ears, etc.). I can also tell you to the decibel how much sound a particular lighting fixture is emitting. Needless to say this makes me difficult to be around. Now multiply that tendency across all of the different senses and several million people (or even several hundred million people) who all have similar difficulties and you’ve got a widespread yearning for an ideology of control.
Now let’s go one step further. When I present the official DSM-5 definition of autism at academic conferences there is always a bit of nervous laughter and invariably someone will say, “That sounds like a lot of academics I know. Hahahahaha.”
The definition of autism sounds like a lot of academics we know because academia selects for high-functioning people on the spectrum.
Medicine, the sciences, and the tech industry in Silicon Valley select for high-functioning people on the spectrum too.
And who is implementing the control of speech via censorship, control of the weather via these crazy high tech schemes, control of bodies, attempts to control the air, and the narrative that supports all of this? High-functioning people on the spectrum in science, medicine, technology, and academia.
We can say with certainty that progressivism is now inflected with autistic tendencies. But I think it’s bigger than that. Progressivism is now driven by vaccine injury. I think that explains the weird ideological shifts that we’ve seen in progressivism (from liberalism to totalitarianism) over the last decade.
Obviously I’m uncomfortable with this seeming parallel between vaccine injury and totalitarianism. But I’m actually trying to say something a bit more subtle than that. I think that people who are in pain and overwhelmed are drawn to the order and calm of systems where “the trains run on time.” The current powers that be have exploited this to advance Global High Tech Pharma Fascism. But one could also imagine more egalitarian models that serve this purpose like Japan where there is a premium placed on kindness, decorum, and efficiency.
III. What about Republicans?
I think the Trump phenomenon is a sign of widespread vaccine injury in society too. Trump just says whatever the heck he wants without regard for social norms and one-third of the country goes wild for this and feels seen and heard for the first time.
That’s not normal either.
Republicans’ inability to effectively use their House majority and their failure, thus far, to respond to the obvious threat of the WHO Pandemic Treaty also suggest widespread neurological injury amongst the leading national Republicans.
But I cannot seem to work out the rest of it. Are Republicans somewhat LESS vaccine injured (owing to fewer shots overall) than Democrats or are Republicans DIFFERENTLY vaccine injured than Democrats or some combination thereof?
Since there is a distribution curve of vaccine injury across a population one could hypothesize that people self-segregate, politically, based on their type of injury. Perhaps those whose senses are turned way up gravitate toward Democrats (to control everything) and those whose senses are turned way down gravitate toward Republicans (with a novelty-seeking President who provides endless excitement)?
In an earlier era (the 1950s) it was the opposite — Republicans sought order and calm and Democrats were novelty-seeking. So perhaps the patterns of vaccine injury have changed over time (they have, in an earlier era Republicans were more likely to be vaccinated but since John F. Kennedy, Democrats are now among the most vaccinated people on Earth).
IV. What is to be done?
No one in the legacy media is capable of having this conversation. Neither the Democratic nor the Republican party are capable of having this conversation let alone addressing this crisis. Even Robert Kennedy Jr.’s campaign is too timid thus far to propose the steps that would stop this widespread poisoning of society (although his VP, Nicole Shanahan, is Covid-vaccine injured and he would likely appoint excellent people to head DOJ, HHS, NIH, etc.).
The bottom line is that vaccine injury is so widespread that it has radically warped ideology in ways that threaten the future of our country and the planet. We absolutely must stop the poisoning of society, arrest and prosecute the people who did this to us, and then detox and rebuild our bodies and society from the ground up.
Blessings to the warriors. 🙌
Prayers for everyone fighting to stop the iatrogenocide. 🙏
Huzzah for those who are building the parallel society our hearts know is possible. ✊
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In the comments, please share your thoughts on how vaccine injury may be reshaping ideology on both the left and right of the political spectrum (or anything else that is on your mind).
As always, I welcome any corrections.
Toby. You're a bright guy. I think you're a very good "data jock" for lack of a better term. Your heart is in it.
But I just don't see it. This, of course, could be my failing. Three of my family members are intense progressives and very smart people. One was the valedictorian at Yale. I am virtually certain to be on the autism spectrum. My second and third grade pictures show me wearing the same shirt. When I got older, I asked my mom about it. "That was because you insisted on wearing the same shirt to school every day for about 2 1/2 years. I washed it in the sink and hung it in your room every night.". There are dozens of other characteristics that fit the bill exactly and some that definitely do not. Most autistic people are not athletic. I have always been very athletic (lettering in 3 different varsity sports in college - two of them I had not played until I got to college- and golf wasn't one of them. I later played professional golf for 15 years after not playing for 30 years and this was while I was a full-time plastic and then cardiac surgeon. I have some extreme abilities in some academic subjects1580 on the SAT, and 99th percentile on all medical exams among, first, medical students, then, surgeons. One year, I got the highest score in the entire US and Canada. I can draw like the wind blows for some reason. Always could. I paid for MIT and medical school counting cards while I was teaching physics at USC at age 21. Other things that are very unusual starting with my thinking patterns. I almost never see things the way other people see them. It has been the great blessing and the great curse of my life. Believe me, I've tried to think like other people many times to make my life easier and have failed miserably. Lots more to tell you about me if you're interested.
My point with all this is, I am as different as different can be from the progressives I mentioned at the top. We don't have anything in common. I just don't see any commonality between someone like me who is on the autism spectrum and progressives. It turns my stomach to listen to them. I wrote a blistering reproach to Emily Oster and devoted an entire chapter to her cruel idea of declaring a pandemic amnesty (that, by the way is shared by Drs. Bhattacharya, Atlas, Kulldorff and I believe Dr. Malone as well).
Think of my stances on all the major issues wrt Covid vs. those of progressives. Some of my positions have not been recognized by the greater medical community still! But I can prove them. I have figured out something that everyone in the world still has wrong (even PhDs in the field... as if that mattered- most were wrong on everything). You'll read about it in Part II of my upcoming 5 books that together make up, "SANCTIONED: The COVID Murders. The first part will be out in book form in 2 weeks. Anthropogenic Climate Change is another example of where the progressives have it all wrong. I can debunk it and shut them down in 4 sentences.
I know you're a thoughtful person so I must be missing something.
Toby, I hold you in the highest esteem, and I hope this doesn't offend you but I cannot think of another way to say this.
THIS IS EFFING GENIUS.
You are a genius. I'd bet money on your insight. Big sigh of relief. It makes so much sense.
(Ps I had my special kindergarten class today.)
Yes, 10 times yes.