Here’s what I’m wrestling with. By now it is abundantly clear that most people (upwards of 80%) just want to be told what to do. Okay fine, but there are LOTS of people one could obey — RFK Jr., one’s pastor, one’s personal trainer, Brené Brown, or the historical example of Gandhi, to name a few.
However doing the right thing is NOT what excites most people. Rather, they want to be told what to do... so long as it is violent or evil. That’s where the frisson comes from and THAT’S what they want to obey.
I think that there is an evolutionary reason for this. In the competition within and between tribes, those inclined to follow violent leaders did better than those who did not. Over time, society selects for sociopathy (that’s why nearly every developed country these days is led by a sociopath). And as technology becomes more advanced, the scale of the harms inflicted by the sociopaths increases.
It seems that critical thinking is a recessive gene. Critical thinkers are feared because we remind society of what has been lost and what society lacks.
Isn’t that the Christian story — a decent guy comes along and says ‘hey, our values as a society are all in the wrong place, let’s be kind to each other instead.’ And the bougiecrats of that era were like ‘no, no, no we cannot have that’ and nailed him to a tree. And that story is UNIVERSAL, we can all relate to the notion of a society that rewards sociopathy and punishes decency (health, peace, gentleness).
Pharma understands the dark side of human nature better than anyone which is why they don’t even try to hide the villainy of Klaus Schwab, Bill Gates, Tony Fauci, Albert Bourla, Stéphane Bancel, and Rochelle Walensky. If anything they play it up, allowing them to dress in ridiculous costumes and having them be as evil as possible when they are on TV. These people were selected because of their sociopathy not in spite of it.
We point out endlessly the obvious harms from these shots. Our factual evidence is met with smirks from people who are addicted to the constant dopamine hit of doing the wrong thing.
So much of what we are trying to do in fighting to stop the iatrogenocide is about helping people to resist their natural inclination to obey sociopaths. It’s a surprisingly heavy lift.
Blessings to the warriors. 🙌
Prayers for everyone fighting to stop the iatrogenocide. 🙏
Huzzah for everyone building the alternative society our hearts know is possible. ✊
In the comments, please let me know your thoughts.
As always, I welcome any corrections.
My take, from my little corner of the room (Detroit) is that you are correct that most people want to be told what to do, but that desire to follow orders is most definitely not contingent upon "so long as it is evil." What I see in my daily life, including but also quite apart from the COVID nonsense, is that upwards of 90% of people follow the path of least resistance, regardless of who is leading, good or evil. Five per cent of the people here, or less, keep the quality of life here absolutely miserable for the rest of us, and five per cent are pushing back. Our responsibility lies in the fact that we have free will and that we could choose to empower ourselves and enlighten ourselves and not just follow any old leader, but it has become harder and harder with the ubiquitous nature of social media and a few dominant media outlets. Most information is controlled by a few sources, and those sources are indisputably (in my eyes) corrupt and beholden to evil.
I'd venture to guess that 95% of Detroiters have no idea of who RFK Jr is, even as we battle an epidemic of autism here in the black community. The few who have would be the white liberals from the University District, who are ashamed of him for having "betrayed" his family's legacy by putting on the tinfoil "anti-vax" hat, as they see it.
The good news is that a large percentage of people could be fairly easily swayed to support the side of goodness, fairness, justice, love etc were that what they were exposed to all the time. The bad news is that what we are actually consuming, relentlessly, voraciously, is a steady diet of lies, hate, divisiveness, fear-mongering, hero-worship and so on.
Another reflection, for what it is worth: no matter how egregious the behavior, no matter how brutal the conduct, no matter how obvious it is that someone is acting from an evil impulse and doing horrible things, whether in the context of Covid or not, once it becomes frequent and repetitive enough to become, by default, normalized, most reaction to the bad behavior will drop off to almost nothing and people will simply incorporate the new reality into their lives, and daily narrative. I think it is at the same time a defense/survival mechanism and also an inexcusable cop-out, but I understand where it is coming from.
I don't know where the answers lie, but I do know that most of us have the sum total of the world's accumulated knowledge hidden away in those little phones in our pockets, an access to knowledge unprecedented in human history; it is incumbent on us to make the most of it, in whatever way possible. You know...to whom much has been given, much will be demanded....
I am surrounded by bougiecrats every day and one of the key problems is that they seem unable to grasp that this country can be led by evil people (unless Trump, but not the norm in their minds). They also cannot understand the true character of Pharma in that they recognize that they are not saints, but they have no clue about the depth of evil. The same for the media and public health officials. They think they sometimes do shoddy work, but generally they are not bad people and want the best like you and me. They generally trust the government and the media at least somewhat. They just do not get that all of the bad shit you read about in history in not confined to history. We are not really more enlightened. The very same type of bastards run the show today, but they do it with more of a smile. They are basically clueless about the real world.