The Great Santini is a compelling cinematic character sketch of Bull Meechum, a fictional American fighter jet pilot during peacetime: a warrior without a war and therefore a misfit in polite society. At the movie’s end, Bull is killed when his jet catches fire during a practice flight. Before his aircraft crashes, Bull skillfully, heroically maneuvers the plane away from peoples’ homes, saving lives.
A tremendous retrospective look at the Covid phenomenon Mark, superbly written.
It’s tempting to think and hope that we have come out the other side, at last. I really don’t feel like we have. We, by which I mean those outside of the Substack community whom I regard as having critical thinking skills, are ready to embrace the next scam. Lessons have not been learned by what seems like the majority. As you have set out, refusal to acknowledge that they were misled by government and the media means that we have simply proved to those who seek to dominate that we are endlessly gullible. We will willingly submit to the next and the one after.
I don’t think Covid should be viewed as distinct from a lot of seemingly unconnected dots. If we were able to join the together we would see that Covid was simply one part of a systemic strategy to effect global change. Climate, race, illegal migration, digital IDs, ‘freedom’ passports, CBDCs, social credits, trans and other anti-family based ideology, Islamism, debt, inflation, energy costs, food, fertiliser, Ukraine, China, wokism, . These phenomena are not happening in isolation. If we can accept that things don’t just happen, they are made to happen then we have a chance to at least begin to understand that we are being encouraged, coerced, forced towards something that we would not voluntarily accept. And that is a scary thought that we need everyone to be awake to.
The UK is just as bad, though thankfully, we don't have Biden.
I have previously noted that I now have (almost) no faith in the medical profession, though there undoubtedly many amazing people still actually saving lives.
The last two years have been a real eye opener for me and I am still seeing people waking up to some realisation of what has gone on.
I have little to no faith in most peoples ability to think critically, or even think at all.
Not even the supposedly highly educated and intelligent people, who blindly went along with and even defended all of the tyranny, so sadly, I've stopped caring.
The mainstream media needs to be forcibly destroyed and never allowed to publish their lies again.
All politicians who openly supported this evil, should be sacked and maybe jailed for their wilful destruction of the countries they were supposed to serve.
The puppet masters should all be publicly hanged.
I realise that none of these things will happen, so my only response going forward is an absolute refusal to do anything that the government or media tells me to do.
I am supremely grateful for you, putting your thoughts out on this substack, and for the many others similarly writing.... including the comments sections. If it weren't for all of you doing this, my mental health would be much worse. This platform came along at the nick of time for me.
Everything you say checks all of the boxes of what I have been thinking and feeling..... but it is the vast number of subscriber-commenters that truly help. I want to say thank you to all of you for letting all of us know we are not alone.
Survival instinct: I became aware of this in myself, while trying to navigate this maze of the scamdemic. I wanted to survive and survive with my sanity and hope intact. I also want my social and family circle to be intact, my employment to be intact, my world to be intact. But as each of these things were impacted severely, it's been a constant assault.... without a single other person I know in real life feeling as I do, there has been no one to turn to, aside from the internet commenters. By dipping into these substacks daily, I've been able to encourage myself to continue. A sanity lifeline.
You might think from this that I've always been a person of fragile mental health. Not so! This is a result of this scamdemic hitting from all sides, relentlessly. I am fighting to survive., and determined to do so. Intact -- not crushed by this ultimately. Maybe even to come out stronger on the other side of it -- "living well" as the best revenge sort of thing. But honestly, preferably, to transcend this evil, destructive madness and maybe hit a more enlightened, compassionate spiritual/mental point with many valuable lessons learned from this "test"..... not there yet!
One thing I noticed in myself was the deterioration of some of the tools in my mental/spiritual health toolbox. One you mention is susceptibility to peer pressure. I've always been an independent thinker but NOT a loner. So, relationships are important to me, but throughout my life, my loved ones have generally accepted and loved me for myself, and I love and enjoy all of them for who they are, and have felt that we enrich each other's lives. The scamdemic interfered with that: I naturally tried to tell them not to take these experimental injections, by saying at first "don't -- might be dangerous" -- then next, "maybe you should WAIT and see.... don't be first in line...." then "I'm waiting.... I haven't taken mine YET" and as this all rolled out from about April until September, then heated up in October and November of 2021, the pressure from my loved ones, my employer, my community ratcheted up to eleven. They became hostile to ME, accusing me of all kinds of far-right wrongthink, and being brainwashed by the Russians. They distanced themselves from me. When I realized I was faced with everyone and the societal structure around me being the insane asylum, I -- for survival reasons -- shut up and became silent, for the most part. I stopped going places where proof of vaccine was required. I told people that "I can't get the vaccine -- it's contraindicated for me" which is truthful, but it is not a complete truth. (It's contraindicated for EVERYONE.)
So this peer pressure thing.... it's a continuum, and I learned where my line is, and I could not be (and still can't be) the crusader hero I would love to be, because I am still to some degree afraid of losing every single relationship in my life.... and it feels like a survival pressure. That I need to pretend a bit, to go along to get along, in order to survive.
This is a sort of confession. I wish I could be the better person that would make America wonderful, but I do not feel like I am capable of doing that all by myself. I know I would feel more capable if I had even one person in my life to do it with. And I hope that I can find some of these people in real life, and begin to regain the "tough, independent" person I once was and would still like to be.... not operating in survival mode.
I’ve been amazed at how inhumane, unsympathetic, selfish, and truly barbaric many of my fellow human beings are. I live in a neighborhood that, because of my speaking out about the atrocity of the scandemic response, considers me someone to avoid. I’ve been very hurt by this, but I’ve recently begun to feel better for having taken a stance against what’s been done. Thank you for affirming that thought.
Yes, yes and YES! Everything, and I mean everything you said is true. However, I would extend this to all of humanity and not just Americans. Still, Americans have a history of freedom, self-sufficiency and a belief in God, to have known better. Yet, here we are.
I believe this whole she-bang is the result of the secularization of society. Everything we are seeing stems from no belief in a higher being or life after death. We all go poof when we die, so I don't want to die! That's it in a nutshell. I shall write a post about it sometime.
What we see is the fruit of 100 years of progressive action. We have become a nation of selfish, ignorant, gullible people. Without eliminating a majority of the federal government, improving education for our young people and transparency and honesty in the medical/pharmaceutical complex, our future as a united country seems bleak. Even the military and faith organizations are abandoning the fundamental reasons for them to exist. At some point we have to tell the woke crowd to pound sand and try to restore sanity to our culture. Right now we are adjusting the world to focus on climate and the damage from those actions will make Covid look like chump change. The foundation for the green actions was laid decades ago without any questions asked. I hope there will be serious, thoughtful discussions about climate and that Substack readers don’t just blindly accept as truth what they have been told. Utopia doesn’t exist and cannot be created. Our best hope is to hold together as a law abiding people with no rulers or special interest group dictating to the majority. It remains to be seen if America can survive the current pandemic of madness.
These are the facts laid bare…and it’s not a pretty picture. I’m often reluctant to “go there” about such a large swath of our fellow citizens but at some point we have to face the magnitude of the mental illness and character deficits that surround us.
BTW, just started Mattias Desmet’s “The Psychology of Totalitarianism.” Affirms your central thesis.
‘It was obviously scientifically unsound to begin…’
Never mind scientifically, but observationally. Where were all the sick people? I don’t mean hospital cases or the moribund, but the sort of people we observe each Winter particularly if there is a ‘nasty’ Cold or ‘flu bug ‘going around’. We see people in our own homes, among friends and neighbours, absentees from work too sick to leave home or their beds.
With such a fast spreading, serious virus affecting the whole population, there should have been millions at home, in bed, away from work during January to April 2020 and that would have been abundantly obvious, particularly with the economic disruption it would have caused.
Instead there was a noticeable absence of sick people. So why did hardly anyone notice?
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Clear concise summary of the global psychosis, now embedded in the minds of the many as truth where it will reside forever as a foundational unexamined assumption priming them for follow-on aberrations and forever separating them from the rest of us who were not hoax infected.
Since the uninfected tribe will likely not interbreed with those infected by the Narrative, we are witnessing the dawn of a new species.
Interesting to note that the countries most severely affected by corona mass psychosis were the liberal rich Western societies on one side, and the totalitarian-leaning South Americas on the other. (China, of course, is a psycho world in itself). People who live 'undeveloped' poorer countries have more finely tuned survival sensors and are better able to discern 'b=*llsh** fiction from real threats to their lives.
It is my belief that this corona mass psychosis is a stark manifestation of the ongoing decline of the West. Any civilisation that grows rich enough and liberal enough for people to lose touch with physical reality (exhibit no.2: 'gender-fluidity') and to lose their individual and group survival skills will develop all sorts of psychosis/mental issues and will eventually rot and collapse. The decline of Rome started long before the Goths came along.
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"Sheep with a mean streak"! I'm laughing. Wouldn't that make a pack of wolves? Well, I guess at least with wolves you see the threat from afar.
Also like the theory that masks are symptoms of dependence on SSRIs and tranquilizers.
If I've lost affection for anything it's for "scientists", the crowd following bozos who have to anoint every finding with "safe and effective".
Love of country, for me, is like love of family. It doesn't mean I think we're perfect or even all that good. But they're family/countrymen. I've traveled enough to realize there are evil stupid people everywhere. What's happened with covid is a real awakening to a govt -medical-pharma complex that's completely out of bounds. A lot of people in the US know that. The rural county I live in has a lot of independent thinkers. They aren't fancy people, they live under the MSM radar, they don't poke Big Brother with a stick. When I go visit Metro DC I see the contrast with the urban over-educated sheep. The backbone of the US is the bumpkins.
Sadly, I believe you can take all those bullet points and expand upon them with respect to many other countries. My experience in Italy has not been entirely dissimilar and, while I have often said that 30 years of police service mean I am generally no longer surprised by what people do, the consistency with which they continue to do it can be really wearing.
Moreover, the entire affair has revealed some alarming aspects to the functioning of the state.
I hope that link leads you to the English language version of an interview given by prominent lawyer Alessandro Fusillo. It describes, much more eloquently than I can, the situation here from March 2020 to the present.
For my own part, the expected letter from the state asking me why I have not had the shots arrived two weeks ago. Following some legal guidance I replied, within the required timeframe, merely that, being recovered, there was no sound clinical reasonfor me to do so.
We shall see now where the process takes us.
In the meantime, keep up the good work. Your missives continue to provide light and encouragement.
Happy independence weekend!! Trying to look on the bright side, this was a watershed experience for me and I feel liberated. While I absolutely agree with your harsh criticism listed here, if it hadn’t happened I might not be as free from delusions as I am now. So there’s that. Meanwhile, the virtue signaling, passivity and historical illiteracy are my personal pet peeves. But now I am free to cut ties with anyone who displays these inadequacies! ❤️🤍💙
OMG Mark, best post ever (so far)! Sadly, it captured my feelings exactly about the country & the “sheep w/ a mean streak” (loved that line - so true).
I still feel deeply traumatized & depressed by the whole thing, in very large part because of just what you pointed out - how weak & mentally ill a majority of this country is. And if you don’t think our enemies are seeing it & salivating too….
I have real concerns that all of it will be coming back, just in time for midterms which is conveniently about annual cold-flu season. There are already “hints” - Biden buying millions of doses of a “new” vaccine; the FDA approving the poison for infants & toddlers, the European Union green lighting vax “passports” for future use, etc.
I think “they” are so close to realizing the great reset wet dream that they are not going to give up on it so easily. Based on your words here, do you think we are already too far down the NWO rabbit hole?
A tremendous retrospective look at the Covid phenomenon Mark, superbly written.
It’s tempting to think and hope that we have come out the other side, at last. I really don’t feel like we have. We, by which I mean those outside of the Substack community whom I regard as having critical thinking skills, are ready to embrace the next scam. Lessons have not been learned by what seems like the majority. As you have set out, refusal to acknowledge that they were misled by government and the media means that we have simply proved to those who seek to dominate that we are endlessly gullible. We will willingly submit to the next and the one after.
I don’t think Covid should be viewed as distinct from a lot of seemingly unconnected dots. If we were able to join the together we would see that Covid was simply one part of a systemic strategy to effect global change. Climate, race, illegal migration, digital IDs, ‘freedom’ passports, CBDCs, social credits, trans and other anti-family based ideology, Islamism, debt, inflation, energy costs, food, fertiliser, Ukraine, China, wokism, . These phenomena are not happening in isolation. If we can accept that things don’t just happen, they are made to happen then we have a chance to at least begin to understand that we are being encouraged, coerced, forced towards something that we would not voluntarily accept. And that is a scary thought that we need everyone to be awake to.
Thank you for an excellent article Mark.
The UK is just as bad, though thankfully, we don't have Biden.
I have previously noted that I now have (almost) no faith in the medical profession, though there undoubtedly many amazing people still actually saving lives.
The last two years have been a real eye opener for me and I am still seeing people waking up to some realisation of what has gone on.
I have little to no faith in most peoples ability to think critically, or even think at all.
Not even the supposedly highly educated and intelligent people, who blindly went along with and even defended all of the tyranny, so sadly, I've stopped caring.
The mainstream media needs to be forcibly destroyed and never allowed to publish their lies again.
All politicians who openly supported this evil, should be sacked and maybe jailed for their wilful destruction of the countries they were supposed to serve.
The puppet masters should all be publicly hanged.
I realise that none of these things will happen, so my only response going forward is an absolute refusal to do anything that the government or media tells me to do.
I am supremely grateful for you, putting your thoughts out on this substack, and for the many others similarly writing.... including the comments sections. If it weren't for all of you doing this, my mental health would be much worse. This platform came along at the nick of time for me.
Everything you say checks all of the boxes of what I have been thinking and feeling..... but it is the vast number of subscriber-commenters that truly help. I want to say thank you to all of you for letting all of us know we are not alone.
Survival instinct: I became aware of this in myself, while trying to navigate this maze of the scamdemic. I wanted to survive and survive with my sanity and hope intact. I also want my social and family circle to be intact, my employment to be intact, my world to be intact. But as each of these things were impacted severely, it's been a constant assault.... without a single other person I know in real life feeling as I do, there has been no one to turn to, aside from the internet commenters. By dipping into these substacks daily, I've been able to encourage myself to continue. A sanity lifeline.
You might think from this that I've always been a person of fragile mental health. Not so! This is a result of this scamdemic hitting from all sides, relentlessly. I am fighting to survive., and determined to do so. Intact -- not crushed by this ultimately. Maybe even to come out stronger on the other side of it -- "living well" as the best revenge sort of thing. But honestly, preferably, to transcend this evil, destructive madness and maybe hit a more enlightened, compassionate spiritual/mental point with many valuable lessons learned from this "test"..... not there yet!
One thing I noticed in myself was the deterioration of some of the tools in my mental/spiritual health toolbox. One you mention is susceptibility to peer pressure. I've always been an independent thinker but NOT a loner. So, relationships are important to me, but throughout my life, my loved ones have generally accepted and loved me for myself, and I love and enjoy all of them for who they are, and have felt that we enrich each other's lives. The scamdemic interfered with that: I naturally tried to tell them not to take these experimental injections, by saying at first "don't -- might be dangerous" -- then next, "maybe you should WAIT and see.... don't be first in line...." then "I'm waiting.... I haven't taken mine YET" and as this all rolled out from about April until September, then heated up in October and November of 2021, the pressure from my loved ones, my employer, my community ratcheted up to eleven. They became hostile to ME, accusing me of all kinds of far-right wrongthink, and being brainwashed by the Russians. They distanced themselves from me. When I realized I was faced with everyone and the societal structure around me being the insane asylum, I -- for survival reasons -- shut up and became silent, for the most part. I stopped going places where proof of vaccine was required. I told people that "I can't get the vaccine -- it's contraindicated for me" which is truthful, but it is not a complete truth. (It's contraindicated for EVERYONE.)
So this peer pressure thing.... it's a continuum, and I learned where my line is, and I could not be (and still can't be) the crusader hero I would love to be, because I am still to some degree afraid of losing every single relationship in my life.... and it feels like a survival pressure. That I need to pretend a bit, to go along to get along, in order to survive.
This is a sort of confession. I wish I could be the better person that would make America wonderful, but I do not feel like I am capable of doing that all by myself. I know I would feel more capable if I had even one person in my life to do it with. And I hope that I can find some of these people in real life, and begin to regain the "tough, independent" person I once was and would still like to be.... not operating in survival mode.
I’ve been amazed at how inhumane, unsympathetic, selfish, and truly barbaric many of my fellow human beings are. I live in a neighborhood that, because of my speaking out about the atrocity of the scandemic response, considers me someone to avoid. I’ve been very hurt by this, but I’ve recently begun to feel better for having taken a stance against what’s been done. Thank you for affirming that thought.
Yes, yes and YES! Everything, and I mean everything you said is true. However, I would extend this to all of humanity and not just Americans. Still, Americans have a history of freedom, self-sufficiency and a belief in God, to have known better. Yet, here we are.
I believe this whole she-bang is the result of the secularization of society. Everything we are seeing stems from no belief in a higher being or life after death. We all go poof when we die, so I don't want to die! That's it in a nutshell. I shall write a post about it sometime.
27 months ago I believed people would resist the mark of the beast. Now I know they will stand in line to get it.
What we see is the fruit of 100 years of progressive action. We have become a nation of selfish, ignorant, gullible people. Without eliminating a majority of the federal government, improving education for our young people and transparency and honesty in the medical/pharmaceutical complex, our future as a united country seems bleak. Even the military and faith organizations are abandoning the fundamental reasons for them to exist. At some point we have to tell the woke crowd to pound sand and try to restore sanity to our culture. Right now we are adjusting the world to focus on climate and the damage from those actions will make Covid look like chump change. The foundation for the green actions was laid decades ago without any questions asked. I hope there will be serious, thoughtful discussions about climate and that Substack readers don’t just blindly accept as truth what they have been told. Utopia doesn’t exist and cannot be created. Our best hope is to hold together as a law abiding people with no rulers or special interest group dictating to the majority. It remains to be seen if America can survive the current pandemic of madness.
These are the facts laid bare…and it’s not a pretty picture. I’m often reluctant to “go there” about such a large swath of our fellow citizens but at some point we have to face the magnitude of the mental illness and character deficits that surround us.
BTW, just started Mattias Desmet’s “The Psychology of Totalitarianism.” Affirms your central thesis.
‘It was obviously scientifically unsound to begin…’
Never mind scientifically, but observationally. Where were all the sick people? I don’t mean hospital cases or the moribund, but the sort of people we observe each Winter particularly if there is a ‘nasty’ Cold or ‘flu bug ‘going around’. We see people in our own homes, among friends and neighbours, absentees from work too sick to leave home or their beds.
With such a fast spreading, serious virus affecting the whole population, there should have been millions at home, in bed, away from work during January to April 2020 and that would have been abundantly obvious, particularly with the economic disruption it would have caused.
Instead there was a noticeable absence of sick people. So why did hardly anyone notice?
Clear concise summary of the global psychosis, now embedded in the minds of the many as truth where it will reside forever as a foundational unexamined assumption priming them for follow-on aberrations and forever separating them from the rest of us who were not hoax infected.
Since the uninfected tribe will likely not interbreed with those infected by the Narrative, we are witnessing the dawn of a new species.
Interesting to note that the countries most severely affected by corona mass psychosis were the liberal rich Western societies on one side, and the totalitarian-leaning South Americas on the other. (China, of course, is a psycho world in itself). People who live 'undeveloped' poorer countries have more finely tuned survival sensors and are better able to discern 'b=*llsh** fiction from real threats to their lives.
It is my belief that this corona mass psychosis is a stark manifestation of the ongoing decline of the West. Any civilisation that grows rich enough and liberal enough for people to lose touch with physical reality (exhibit no.2: 'gender-fluidity') and to lose their individual and group survival skills will develop all sorts of psychosis/mental issues and will eventually rot and collapse. The decline of Rome started long before the Goths came along.
"Sheep with a mean streak"! I'm laughing. Wouldn't that make a pack of wolves? Well, I guess at least with wolves you see the threat from afar.
Also like the theory that masks are symptoms of dependence on SSRIs and tranquilizers.
If I've lost affection for anything it's for "scientists", the crowd following bozos who have to anoint every finding with "safe and effective".
Love of country, for me, is like love of family. It doesn't mean I think we're perfect or even all that good. But they're family/countrymen. I've traveled enough to realize there are evil stupid people everywhere. What's happened with covid is a real awakening to a govt -medical-pharma complex that's completely out of bounds. A lot of people in the US know that. The rural county I live in has a lot of independent thinkers. They aren't fancy people, they live under the MSM radar, they don't poke Big Brother with a stick. When I go visit Metro DC I see the contrast with the urban over-educated sheep. The backbone of the US is the bumpkins.
Excellent piece, Mark, as usual!
Sadly, I believe you can take all those bullet points and expand upon them with respect to many other countries. My experience in Italy has not been entirely dissimilar and, while I have often said that 30 years of police service mean I am generally no longer surprised by what people do, the consistency with which they continue to do it can be really wearing.
Moreover, the entire affair has revealed some alarming aspects to the functioning of the state.
https://english.pravda.ru/opinion/152598-italy_covid/
I hope that link leads you to the English language version of an interview given by prominent lawyer Alessandro Fusillo. It describes, much more eloquently than I can, the situation here from March 2020 to the present.
For my own part, the expected letter from the state asking me why I have not had the shots arrived two weeks ago. Following some legal guidance I replied, within the required timeframe, merely that, being recovered, there was no sound clinical reasonfor me to do so.
We shall see now where the process takes us.
In the meantime, keep up the good work. Your missives continue to provide light and encouragement.
Happy independence weekend!! Trying to look on the bright side, this was a watershed experience for me and I feel liberated. While I absolutely agree with your harsh criticism listed here, if it hadn’t happened I might not be as free from delusions as I am now. So there’s that. Meanwhile, the virtue signaling, passivity and historical illiteracy are my personal pet peeves. But now I am free to cut ties with anyone who displays these inadequacies! ❤️🤍💙
Without a doubt that was The Absolute Best summary of the last 2 years that I have read.
OMG Mark, best post ever (so far)! Sadly, it captured my feelings exactly about the country & the “sheep w/ a mean streak” (loved that line - so true).
I still feel deeply traumatized & depressed by the whole thing, in very large part because of just what you pointed out - how weak & mentally ill a majority of this country is. And if you don’t think our enemies are seeing it & salivating too….
I have real concerns that all of it will be coming back, just in time for midterms which is conveniently about annual cold-flu season. There are already “hints” - Biden buying millions of doses of a “new” vaccine; the FDA approving the poison for infants & toddlers, the European Union green lighting vax “passports” for future use, etc.
I think “they” are so close to realizing the great reset wet dream that they are not going to give up on it so easily. Based on your words here, do you think we are already too far down the NWO rabbit hole?