I’m afraid I am with Mencken and Stone. I fail to see why we need the CDC or NIH. But then, I worked with both and got a massive lesson in BS management. To turn this around, we‘d need a lot more readers as opposed to Tik Tok and YouTube followers. Somehow, I do not foresee that happening as frankly I have difficulty prying people away from their phones for more than a nanosecond. I have heard the craziest things and when I ask where the source of information came from, I often receive, “YouTube” as a response. My outlook is no longer quite as optimistic as it once was.
You know, I’d like to add that years ago, my father was in the music industry. One of the artists he said was “genius” was Thomas Dolby, a computer genius sort, and of She Blinded Me With Science fame. Mr. Dolby released an album entitled The Golden Age of Wireless. Just so it is on record, somewhere, I think it is exactly the opposite. It may well be the downfall of our species. I literally just heard moments ago that “there is a second sun. It will arrive to torch the earth and that is why all the elites are going underground.” When I asked where my roommate heard that, and I did preface my query with, “please tell me that you are not quoting some random person on YouTube”, a source on YouTube was exactly the response. I think now pretty much most people are confused. And that may just be the intent. A resounding NO to the Golden Age of Wireless. The irony that I am using wireless tech to convey this message is not at all lost on me. I will be returning to the Innernet as it is about all I can handle but I wanted to thank you for writing Dissolving Illusions. It was a pivotal book. Take care.
I agree that confusion is the intent, the chaotic thinking that can come from it blunts and delays effective action. We are all surrounded by confusing and at times unhinged messaging, it can be borne out of stupidity or malign intent but both are equally damaging.
Thanks. I am finally out of words. For a voracious reader, that’s a big deal. I cannot talk people off of emotional cliffs based upon YouTube content, though. I do not have the energy for that. I don’t have most of the digital accoutrements most people have because I was in research. No TV, I don’t carry a cell phone so I often have no idea what people are reacting to at any given moment. I finally understand why people go live away from the madness. I don’t want to live my life in a constant soap opera.
"What most Americans know they have learned from movies and TV. Hardly any Americans read books, much less serious ones. Back in those days when I was a university professor, I recall a lecture I gave on the Russian revolution. A student interrupted me and said, “that’s not the way [it] happened in the movie.”
"At first I thought he was making a joke, but he was serious. He was challenging my explanation based on years of study with a Hollywood movie".
I read 2-3 books per week. I am definitely a “weirdo” in that case. I’m very freaked out, though, because I now see a person walking in my neighborhood with his dog in a backpack so he has both hands free to hold his phone. I’m not even kidding. We have crossed a rubicon. The dog is on his back….wow.
I read a couple of his books. I’ve learned that, no, people are not joking. Arranging my facial expression to accommodate such statements as PCR has encountered is not anything I am good at.
So while everyone was prematurely rejoicing that RFK kicked out the previous vaccine team, he's installed 8 new ones. All pro vaccine. Just like him.
RFK has said he supports the childhood schedule. He openly and loudly encouraged people to get the measles vaccine recently.
Why on earth would you think he's against them?
IF he's really serious, it would be declared that vaccines are no longer required to get into schools, jobs, into the country, etc. If you wanted to get them - great! Inject yourself to your hearts content. If you didn't want to get them - great! He would also publish the data gathered from the National Vital Statistics showing all infectious disease dropped to nearly 100% BEFORE the introduction of vaccines on the CDC website. This information should go viral. Publish those charts!
The choice should always be the individuals. Not someone else forcing you to inject foreign highly toxic substances against your will
Inactivated viruses. 🙄 I can't believe I ever fell for the virus lie (or germ "theory" for that matter). I started getting wise to it around 2006. I figured out the PCR scam in 2015 and broke free from the spell once and for all. Unfortunately, it was too late for my precious daughter. My faith says to forgive the doctor who injected her, but I can't even forgive myself. 😢
The HHS has gone into negative territory in the approval rating for me. Sorry, I know we are supposed to be patient and give RFK a chance but he has been on the front lines of this nonsense for a long time and should understand he can take more specific actions to reverse the vaccine trends...like making all mRNA poisons illegal, TODAY and dismantling the prep act.
I come from the holistic world and have been against vaccination my entire adult life. I’ve read a number of recent substacks from various medical freedom scientists who take a more optimistic positive view. Some of them, including some science journalists, have talked about how entrenched the vaccine cult is and how mammoth a task it will be to defeat it. Sadly negative posts also invite many pharma supporters to heap on their criticisms. My view only.
I appreciate this posting. I see that Dr. Peter Breggin and Ginger Breggin on their Substack are calling for RFK Jr to immediately resign from his HHS Secretary position because he allowed the authorization of the new COVID-19 Vaccine, mRNA (MNEXSPIKE) from the Moderna pharmaceutical company.
"To make matters much, much worse, Kennedy has now released a statement on X that reassures people that there is nothing, absolutely nothing, to worry about surrounding the FDA approval of the latest mRNA vaccine. Never mind the lack of a placebo control group or an FDA Vaccine Committee Review. Never mind that there’s no prohibition against giving it to pregnant women. Never mind, there is no restraint whatsoever on continuing the slaughter of old people, who are disproportionately the ones already being killed and most harmed."
From my study so far there are legitimate questions regarding the classification of "COVID-19 disease" as a "virus" and whether viruses even exist and legitimate questions regarding whether these "vaccines" "stop the spread" of the disease, that is, questions regarding "contagion" of the "COVID-19 disease."
All I know is the trust that we the USA people now have of the medical and science institutions is greatly diminished due to the way the "COVID-19 pandemic"" was sold and distributed and inflicted on we the people through the media.
I’m afraid I am with Mencken and Stone. I fail to see why we need the CDC or NIH. But then, I worked with both and got a massive lesson in BS management. To turn this around, we‘d need a lot more readers as opposed to Tik Tok and YouTube followers. Somehow, I do not foresee that happening as frankly I have difficulty prying people away from their phones for more than a nanosecond. I have heard the craziest things and when I ask where the source of information came from, I often receive, “YouTube” as a response. My outlook is no longer quite as optimistic as it once was.
You know, I’d like to add that years ago, my father was in the music industry. One of the artists he said was “genius” was Thomas Dolby, a computer genius sort, and of She Blinded Me With Science fame. Mr. Dolby released an album entitled The Golden Age of Wireless. Just so it is on record, somewhere, I think it is exactly the opposite. It may well be the downfall of our species. I literally just heard moments ago that “there is a second sun. It will arrive to torch the earth and that is why all the elites are going underground.” When I asked where my roommate heard that, and I did preface my query with, “please tell me that you are not quoting some random person on YouTube”, a source on YouTube was exactly the response. I think now pretty much most people are confused. And that may just be the intent. A resounding NO to the Golden Age of Wireless. The irony that I am using wireless tech to convey this message is not at all lost on me. I will be returning to the Innernet as it is about all I can handle but I wanted to thank you for writing Dissolving Illusions. It was a pivotal book. Take care.
I agree that confusion is the intent, the chaotic thinking that can come from it blunts and delays effective action. We are all surrounded by confusing and at times unhinged messaging, it can be borne out of stupidity or malign intent but both are equally damaging.
Thanks. I am finally out of words. For a voracious reader, that’s a big deal. I cannot talk people off of emotional cliffs based upon YouTube content, though. I do not have the energy for that. I don’t have most of the digital accoutrements most people have because I was in research. No TV, I don’t carry a cell phone so I often have no idea what people are reacting to at any given moment. I finally understand why people go live away from the madness. I don’t want to live my life in a constant soap opera.
"I think now pretty much most people are confused. And that may just be the intent".
For what it's worth, I think it's probably just lots of people desperately scrabbling to supplement their meagre incomes (if any).
"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity".
- Hanlon's Razor (see Wikipedia's "List of Eponymous Laws").
"You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity".
- Robert A Heinlein (“Logic of Empire”)
Thanks. I might just be out of words at this point. If I had a dollar for every time I have heard, “I don’t read”, I’d be incredibly wealthy.
"What most Americans know they have learned from movies and TV. Hardly any Americans read books, much less serious ones. Back in those days when I was a university professor, I recall a lecture I gave on the Russian revolution. A student interrupted me and said, “that’s not the way [it] happened in the movie.”
"At first I thought he was making a joke, but he was serious. He was challenging my explanation based on years of study with a Hollywood movie".
- Paul Craig Roberts https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2021/07/06/western-civilization-has-been-destroyed-by-diversity/
I read 2-3 books per week. I am definitely a “weirdo” in that case. I’m very freaked out, though, because I now see a person walking in my neighborhood with his dog in a backpack so he has both hands free to hold his phone. I’m not even kidding. We have crossed a rubicon. The dog is on his back….wow.
I read a couple of his books. I’ve learned that, no, people are not joking. Arranging my facial expression to accommodate such statements as PCR has encountered is not anything I am good at.
So while everyone was prematurely rejoicing that RFK kicked out the previous vaccine team, he's installed 8 new ones. All pro vaccine. Just like him.
RFK has said he supports the childhood schedule. He openly and loudly encouraged people to get the measles vaccine recently.
Why on earth would you think he's against them?
IF he's really serious, it would be declared that vaccines are no longer required to get into schools, jobs, into the country, etc. If you wanted to get them - great! Inject yourself to your hearts content. If you didn't want to get them - great! He would also publish the data gathered from the National Vital Statistics showing all infectious disease dropped to nearly 100% BEFORE the introduction of vaccines on the CDC website. This information should go viral. Publish those charts!
The choice should always be the individuals. Not someone else forcing you to inject foreign highly toxic substances against your will
Those who like vaccines consider RFK jr an anti-vaxxer. They are anxious not to be deprived of their poisons. Bunch of loonies.
As long as they maintain their insanity it is a struggle to demolish the vaccines lie once and for all.
He's definitely not anti vax. They have nothing to fear from him
Inactivated viruses. 🙄 I can't believe I ever fell for the virus lie (or germ "theory" for that matter). I started getting wise to it around 2006. I figured out the PCR scam in 2015 and broke free from the spell once and for all. Unfortunately, it was too late for my precious daughter. My faith says to forgive the doctor who injected her, but I can't even forgive myself. 😢
The HHS has gone into negative territory in the approval rating for me. Sorry, I know we are supposed to be patient and give RFK a chance but he has been on the front lines of this nonsense for a long time and should understand he can take more specific actions to reverse the vaccine trends...like making all mRNA poisons illegal, TODAY and dismantling the prep act.
I come from the holistic world and have been against vaccination my entire adult life. I’ve read a number of recent substacks from various medical freedom scientists who take a more optimistic positive view. Some of them, including some science journalists, have talked about how entrenched the vaccine cult is and how mammoth a task it will be to defeat it. Sadly negative posts also invite many pharma supporters to heap on their criticisms. My view only.
I'm ashamed of humanity for going along with the pieces of shit manipulators that promoted this bullshit.
No wonder why we have a genocide now that isn't stopping.
No wonder why they mostly went along with covid.
What's next? Believing Kennedy and other manipulators are for real?
https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/not-for-sale-an-open-letter-to-hhs?utm_campaign=posts-open-in-app&triedRedirect=true
I appreciate this posting. I see that Dr. Peter Breggin and Ginger Breggin on their Substack are calling for RFK Jr to immediately resign from his HHS Secretary position because he allowed the authorization of the new COVID-19 Vaccine, mRNA (MNEXSPIKE) from the Moderna pharmaceutical company.
"To make matters much, much worse, Kennedy has now released a statement on X that reassures people that there is nothing, absolutely nothing, to worry about surrounding the FDA approval of the latest mRNA vaccine. Never mind the lack of a placebo control group or an FDA Vaccine Committee Review. Never mind that there’s no prohibition against giving it to pregnant women. Never mind, there is no restraint whatsoever on continuing the slaughter of old people, who are disproportionately the ones already being killed and most harmed."
https://gingerbreggin.substack.com/p/rfk-jr-blatantly-supports-the-deadly?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=731509&post_id=165357577&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=x5n7&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
From my study so far there are legitimate questions regarding the classification of "COVID-19 disease" as a "virus" and whether viruses even exist and legitimate questions regarding whether these "vaccines" "stop the spread" of the disease, that is, questions regarding "contagion" of the "COVID-19 disease."
All I know is the trust that we the USA people now have of the medical and science institutions is greatly diminished due to the way the "COVID-19 pandemic"" was sold and distributed and inflicted on we the people through the media.
It's a “Meltdown at Madame Tussauds” as Steve Taylor would say.
https://open.spotify.com/track/7MaEUqd82YxNzuD3Iv1gma
It seems that our collections of favourite quotations overlap a good deal - which I feel is an encouraging sign.
I'll see your I. F. Stone quote and raise you
"All governments lie, but disaster lies in wait for countries whose officials smoke the same hashish they give out".
thank you
Excellent. I think a good rule of thumb for life is: do not trust any government related institution, at all, ever.