It’s among the many Orwellian peculiarities of the last two years that any honest discussion of the toll of lockdowns in the New York Times or its elite media counterparts is reserved for lockdowns in China. According to the New York Times, whereas lockdowns in China ruined the economy, lockdowns in America saved the economy. Whereas lockdowns in China frayed social relationships, lockdowns in America brought us together. Whereas lockdowns in China led to deaths “from other causes — disease, old age or suspected suicide,” lockdowns in America only saved lives. Whereas lockdowns in China punctured the Chinese dream, lockdowns in America were the embodiment of the American dream.
If the truth about the history of so-called "covid" is written accurately, it will mark one of the most damaging and destructive events in world history: due to government overreach, health departments with agendas, a media that no longer cared about the truth and chose scaring people for ratings over saving lives. What a sick, frothing mess. While Klaus and Gates have a Cheshire cat grin on their demonic faces.
There is little hope for America's future as long as millions continue to buy the NY Times. Successful societies know how to recognize propaganda. Our problem isn't the Times, or Twit or Face or the others. The problem is our neighbors who read and believe them. We need interventions, starting local.
OK. Exactly what will we do to prevent this from ever happening again? Survivalist bunkers won't help. Homeschooling the kids won't help. Shaking our fists across the vast panorama of likeminded Substack commenters won't help. Voting for the same class of morons, regardless of their labels, won't help.
Tell me what will, and please stay out of Neverland while coming up with useful answers.
(I appreciate what you do and that you've been warning everyone for awhile now. Now tell me what we do, going forward.)
Yep. Here's a quick review of 'Snake Oil' or a recommendation at least.
Read it. It's wonderful, powerful, shocking, easy to read, habit forming. But it's also fearfully terrible and ugly because it tells the truth of how things are.
Here's an extract from early on, heads up a chapter, very apt right now I think, it is a quote from C S Lewis:
"For if crime and disease are to be regarded as the same thing, it follows that any state of mind which our masters choose to call ‘disease’ can be treated as crime; and compulsorily cured. It will be vain to plead that states of mind which displease government need not always involve moral turpitude and do not therefore always deserve forfeiture of liberty. For our masters will not be using the concepts of Desert and Punishment but those of disease and cure… The new Nero will approach us with the silky manners of a doctor, and though all will be in fact as compulsory as the tunica molesta or Smithfield or Tyburn, all will go on within the unemotional therapeutic sphere where words like “right” and “wrong” or “freedom” and “slavery” are never heard… Even if the treatment is painful, even if it is life-long, even if it is fatal, that will be only a regrettable accident; the intention was purely therapeutic… But because they are ‘treatment,’ not punishment, they can be criticized only by fellow experts and on technical grounds, never by men as men and on grounds of justice. – CS Lewis, The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment, 1949"
NYT: Something Was Lost in Lockdown in America—err.. China
If the truth about the history of so-called "covid" is written accurately, it will mark one of the most damaging and destructive events in world history: due to government overreach, health departments with agendas, a media that no longer cared about the truth and chose scaring people for ratings over saving lives. What a sick, frothing mess. While Klaus and Gates have a Cheshire cat grin on their demonic faces.
There is little hope for America's future as long as millions continue to buy the NY Times. Successful societies know how to recognize propaganda. Our problem isn't the Times, or Twit or Face or the others. The problem is our neighbors who read and believe them. We need interventions, starting local.
Brilliant, simply brilliant.
OK. Exactly what will we do to prevent this from ever happening again? Survivalist bunkers won't help. Homeschooling the kids won't help. Shaking our fists across the vast panorama of likeminded Substack commenters won't help. Voting for the same class of morons, regardless of their labels, won't help.
Tell me what will, and please stay out of Neverland while coming up with useful answers.
(I appreciate what you do and that you've been warning everyone for awhile now. Now tell me what we do, going forward.)
Yep. Here's a quick review of 'Snake Oil' or a recommendation at least.
Read it. It's wonderful, powerful, shocking, easy to read, habit forming. But it's also fearfully terrible and ugly because it tells the truth of how things are.
Here's an extract from early on, heads up a chapter, very apt right now I think, it is a quote from C S Lewis:
"For if crime and disease are to be regarded as the same thing, it follows that any state of mind which our masters choose to call ‘disease’ can be treated as crime; and compulsorily cured. It will be vain to plead that states of mind which displease government need not always involve moral turpitude and do not therefore always deserve forfeiture of liberty. For our masters will not be using the concepts of Desert and Punishment but those of disease and cure… The new Nero will approach us with the silky manners of a doctor, and though all will be in fact as compulsory as the tunica molesta or Smithfield or Tyburn, all will go on within the unemotional therapeutic sphere where words like “right” and “wrong” or “freedom” and “slavery” are never heard… Even if the treatment is painful, even if it is life-long, even if it is fatal, that will be only a regrettable accident; the intention was purely therapeutic… But because they are ‘treatment,’ not punishment, they can be criticized only by fellow experts and on technical grounds, never by men as men and on grounds of justice. – CS Lewis, The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment, 1949"
china, I mean the US, is a shithole.