Sep 9, 2022·edited Sep 9, 2022Liked by John Botica
John, I enjoy your posts but have to say that I'm not convinced by Mattias Desmet's argument about mass formation psychosis as to how we got here but I do agree with Charles Eisenstein, a writer who has a different theory about why so many in society complied with the totalitarian measures and is just as concerned about the ongoing safety mania gripping communities. If you haven't already seen it, he writes great SubStack essays and did a thought-provoking interview with the Epoch Times TV.
I just don't think there will be a Nuremburg type of trial for all the public officials and doctors who betrayed us. Remember the Thalidomide scandal? It took two doctors, working on opposite sides of the world, six years to convince the rest of the world that there was a crisis. I'll bet the doctors who had an inkling there was a problem when they saw babies with missing limbs just went along with everyone else. "Nothing to see here if no-one else is being held to account". Those two doctors were ostracised but they kept at it. That's where we are right now. We just have to keep at it, keep talking to people, spreading the message, keeping to our convictions and principles, because there's more trouble ahead and we just have to stay courageous and true to our principles.
A few billion are possibly gone already, or sterile future generations. Little do they know. I am not saying time will be short or pain will be small either way. The idea of giving in to win may have merit, the sooner we let them unleash their hell, the sooner it will fall apart. Pretty much what the white hats are proclaiming their strategy is.
To clear muddy waters let them settle. All it takes is time, no one has to do anything. The world will be ok eventually. Everything will become clear and the shit will sink to the bottom.
My mind imagines ideal justice served (something on par with The Catherine Wheel). Then logic gets the better of me and I fear you are correct-- Big Legal / well greased palms will make lawsuits disappear (not unlike the recent dismissal of Trump's suits against Killary and the Steele Dossier folks) and I worry that Stockholm Syndrome will prevail and the injured (those still able to sit up!) will fight tooth n' nail for their captors (and the medical maniacs and the psychopaths). Only they won't see them as anything but "public figures trying to do good works." I hope I'm wrong though!
Thanks. “Mass formation” is an agreement to stay safely locked within the protective environment of one’s own head. Keeping one’s head can be looked at in two diametrically opposed ways:
(1) keeping one’s head as in remaining locked safely inside, free to avoid any uncomfortable truth, able to reinforce misinformation/propaganda in an endless loop.
(2) keeping one’s head as in remaining within a realistic, logically sensible, observation of the observable truth or engaging in “common sense”.
#1 is mental illness, #2 is sanity. It is a choice.
John, I enjoy your posts but have to say that I'm not convinced by Mattias Desmet's argument about mass formation psychosis as to how we got here but I do agree with Charles Eisenstein, a writer who has a different theory about why so many in society complied with the totalitarian measures and is just as concerned about the ongoing safety mania gripping communities. If you haven't already seen it, he writes great SubStack essays and did a thought-provoking interview with the Epoch Times TV.
I just don't think there will be a Nuremburg type of trial for all the public officials and doctors who betrayed us. Remember the Thalidomide scandal? It took two doctors, working on opposite sides of the world, six years to convince the rest of the world that there was a crisis. I'll bet the doctors who had an inkling there was a problem when they saw babies with missing limbs just went along with everyone else. "Nothing to see here if no-one else is being held to account". Those two doctors were ostracised but they kept at it. That's where we are right now. We just have to keep at it, keep talking to people, spreading the message, keeping to our convictions and principles, because there's more trouble ahead and we just have to stay courageous and true to our principles.
A few billion are possibly gone already, or sterile future generations. Little do they know. I am not saying time will be short or pain will be small either way. The idea of giving in to win may have merit, the sooner we let them unleash their hell, the sooner it will fall apart. Pretty much what the white hats are proclaiming their strategy is.
To clear muddy waters let them settle. All it takes is time, no one has to do anything. The world will be ok eventually. Everything will become clear and the shit will sink to the bottom.
My mind imagines ideal justice served (something on par with The Catherine Wheel). Then logic gets the better of me and I fear you are correct-- Big Legal / well greased palms will make lawsuits disappear (not unlike the recent dismissal of Trump's suits against Killary and the Steele Dossier folks) and I worry that Stockholm Syndrome will prevail and the injured (those still able to sit up!) will fight tooth n' nail for their captors (and the medical maniacs and the psychopaths). Only they won't see them as anything but "public figures trying to do good works." I hope I'm wrong though!
Thanks. “Mass formation” is an agreement to stay safely locked within the protective environment of one’s own head. Keeping one’s head can be looked at in two diametrically opposed ways:
(1) keeping one’s head as in remaining locked safely inside, free to avoid any uncomfortable truth, able to reinforce misinformation/propaganda in an endless loop.
(2) keeping one’s head as in remaining within a realistic, logically sensible, observation of the observable truth or engaging in “common sense”.
#1 is mental illness, #2 is sanity. It is a choice.
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