Much has been hypothesized on why some of us can clearly see the forest AND the trees, but there seems to be no definitive answer.
My simple hypothesis, is "fear".
Now, I'm not talking about the fear one might have in a real life or death situation, for that will be there for all of us who are not psychopaths, it is what you do with that fear that makes you "brave", or "cowardly".
What do you base your decisions upon, & how do you view your own outlook on life?
When something unexpected crops up in your life, what emotions do you feel first, & how would you describe your response(s)?
Does it distress you, & you are "afraid" of what the consequences may be? Or is it that you choose the easy out - to just go along to get along, or do you ignore, or even run from the issues or decisions, because you fear any step, in any direction?
Or, does it cause you concern, the seeking of knowledge or differing opinions (are you a curious person?!), the weighing of options, & then a positive
response to tackle
the issue(s) & figure them out -
"to beat them".
I believe this is mostly innate in
our makeup, as throughout
history, there has always been a small subset of men & women who have stood against the
tide, come what may, & it is
many of these courageous
souls that we still remember today, & that helped march civilization in a better direction.
In our own Revolution, we only had the support of roughly 21-23% of the population, & just 3%
stepped forward to fight, & to take other actions, thereby putting their Lives, Fortunes, & Sacred Honors on the line!
Standing against the tide has
never been easy, for as G.
Washington once said: "Tis
better to be alone, than in poor
company."
We are the fortunate ones, & tho
we may sometimes suffer for it,
would any of you want it any
other way? Not I! 😉
This simple theory of mine can
be extrapolated upon or
disagreed with, & I know it doesn't answer all the questions. However, I look
You know how some people feel the discomfort of using muscles they haven’t used before and assume they’ve injured themselves? So they quit exercising. I think that many people feel their brain working at trying to figure out if what they are seeing and hearing makes sense, and they mistake the intense activity in their head for, what, a stroke, maybe? And they stop thinking.
Some call it dissonance. I don’t know. But they back away from the process of deduction
So the CDC has decided to investigate whether there is a causal link between vaccines and childhood autism. I guess we’ll find out if this is meaningful or another tap dance.
Of course public enemy #1 the media is all spun up about the study, insisting the link has already long been disproven.
"I need sane friends now more than I need the chance to reminisce about goofy stuff we did together in our teens and twenties. And my newer friends who can think critically lead more interesting lives, have accomplished more than my old friends and can laugh and make me laugh just as well." Amen 🙏
Eagerly expecting posts about countries I considered during the Scamdemic. If things had gotten worse I might have taken the step. So glad you have the opportunity to visit these beautiful places! Saw plenty of mouth-dropping tube films!
Anxious to hear about your trip- being in Az I used to frequent Mexico a lot. I haven’t been there in ages- but will love to hear about your reasons why you love going where you go.
Are you the one that wrote the spunky comments to articles in the Tucson Weekly in early 2020? If so, I would have liked to meet you back then. Except for talk radio, I thought this town had gone crazy.
I have written comments to TW before, but not in the last five years- what was the topic? I quit reading it years ago...wasn't even worth picking up at Bookmans when we stopped by.
Right back at you Mark, thank you for being you! And give my regards to Ellen. I thought of her in regards to the breastfeeding conversation in the most recent comments section.
I look forward to your post about El Salvador. I have only been in El Salvador/San Salvador on an eight hour layover from Los Angeles to San Jose Costa Rica in the early 90’s. We arrived in San Salvador in the early morning hours, were bussed to a nice hotel in the City with a pool. My friend and I got a room to get a bit of sleep, then we went to have lunch and spend the afternoon at the pool. This was at the end of the ‘civil war’ that had been going on for a few years. We passed truckloads of armed soldiers on our way into the city from the airport.
At the end of the day we’re were transported back to the airport to catch our flight to San Jose Costa Rica. I had planned to travel around CR. I rented a car and drove out to the west coast. This was way before all the eco-tourism sprouted up in CR. There was basically few hotels and as a single woman traveling alone, there were few places that would even rent me a room.
After living in Mexico and Guatemala, Costa Rica just wasn’t doing it for me. It lacked any indigenous culture and heritage (the food and artesanías especially) that was so prevalent in southern Mexico and Guatemala. The country just “felt so white” to me. After a week I returned the car, changed my ticket and flew to Guatemala to spend the next week of my two week Latin America vacation.
Six months previous to this trip I had spent a 2 months living at the coast in Oaxaca and then traveling by bus through San Cristobal de Las Casas, Chiapas down into Guatemala, where I spent another 4 months living in the small town of Panajachel, on Lago Atitlan.
I have not had any desire to return to Costa Rica, but I do know the beaches of El Salvador are quite lovely, and the country is still quite affordable. So I’ll be interested to here your musings.
As far as how the C*V*D thing went down in Mexico, the Mexican people in general are fairly compliant, which I think links back to the ‘patron/haciendado’ mentality. They fell in line, got the Shots, were required to wear masks going out to stores and restaurants. The resort towns and cities of Mexico backed off the Vaxx requirements to travel and the requiring of masks, before other cities did. They needed the foreign tourist dollars.
I, too, enjoy my travels in Latin America. I put down the phone, engage with locals, avoid American tourist areas as best as possible, take local transportation options like bus, small boats and long hikes, only planning arrival and departure times and accommodations. The rest is on the fly, word of mouth flexibility and exploration. The stuff of life and understanding a different culture and society you can't get in a preplanned American tourist bubble.
I look forward to reading your experiences related to pandemic. I have my connections in Puerto Rico and Colombia I maintained a little contact with these past five years, but not enough to get into as much as I'd have liked even when in PR a few months ago, it was just a quick business trip.
I'm curious about what you may have learned about the pandemic experience as it relates to compliance. My understanding of Latin American culture, sociology is that it is very informed by obligation to family. Familia is much more important there than in the US by my experience. The appeals to "protect Grandma" by the social engineers have a greater likelihood of landing in Latin societies than others. Por Familia is a powerful motivator.
Germanic, Nordic, English culture and sociology is more obedience based. Do as you're told. Obey. It's the law.
Asian cultures are moved more by sense of community, collective obligation. Especially in China where collectivism has been indoctrinated for nearly 75 years. Japan is more based in "honor" in a family and community. Obedience is the honorable thing to do.
I think these types of cultural and sociological differences are important to understand. Not only for fear-based campaigns, but also for our system of jurisprudence. Natural Law v. Positive Law. Positive Law is more of a Germanic construct widely adopted in northern Europe and North America. Informed by the Frankfurt School of social engineering. Do as you're told. It's the law. Whether or not it makes sense in natural law, the natural world, has any basis in common sense or one's relationship with God and the natural world it's the law, man's law. Requiring obedience. Or pay the penalties for disobedience.
I think Natural Law, as US founders and jurists interpreted the Constitution for the first 150 years of our nation's existence is far superior. The trade-offs lost to Positive Law jurisprudence exist, but my beliefs and values for a better society are better protected under Natural Law. Positive Law produces mass societal obedience to authority, no matter what the consequences, people don't stop to think for themselves, or for their families, their communities, their faith in God; they just obey. And the likelihood for mass atrocities become exponentially worse. My .02. And relates to international cultural and sociological experiences of the pandemic rules that differ by types.
These are good points. I should have asked people there about these. I regret that I didn't think about that b/c my view is/has always been that the whole thing was a Scam.
I did, too. From the very start. Tomorrow I'll be starting a mostly daily series on my Stack subsection "Vulpes Vetus Libertatis" I call "Diarium Vulpis ex Quinque Annis Ante." It was March, 10, 2020 when I first gave my voice to the pandemania/plandemic/scamdemic. Trying to push back on the unhealthy and unwarranted fear-based insanity I saw growing around me to the point I could no longer be silent.
My series will share my social media comments I made at the time, on the same exact day five years earlier, unvarnished, often confrontational, sometimes profane, usually well-informed and well-sourced references. And often prophetic. I hope you'll give it a read, but respecting your Stack to not link directly here.
😁 My comment was a light hearted note that you called yourself the Old Fox of Liberty, but left the old (vetus) out of your next turn of a latin phrase. (I got my Medicare Card last month, so now I am officially "vetus"! 😂)
I am no scholar of latin, but I enjoy the strength, humor, & sagacity I often learn from the quotes I find, & use them when I can.
I recently needed to purchase more personal checks, & as they give you a line for free after your address, I used this one: Semper Certa Bonum Certaman! - Always Fight the Good Fight!
I purchased some practical bling for one of my wife's pistols - some purple, pinky finger magazine extenders, & had them inscribe Amat Victoria Curam on them - Victory Loves Preparation!
A medical terminology class in the early '80s gave me a whiff of the joys of latin, & while I've never formally pursued it, I've never lost the joy of it.
Great article again, thank you. I think the reason why some people resisted the covid scam doesn’t rely on one feature alone, that being fear. I think its a mixture of past experience including education, the ability to stay relatively calm in the face of state sponsored terrorism and extreme propaganda, the ability to think critically like looking outside and determining that, contrary to what we saw coming out of China, there were no people dropping down dead in the streets, and lastly, one of our greatest abilities of all should we wish to use it, intuition. Also, if we looked, we could see very early on the whistleblower nurses and doctors who courageously raised the alarm about the vaccine side effects they were seeing. Fear can grip people, narrowing their focus of attention on one source only, in this case the MSM. And here we are. Countless dead and injured, all unnecessarily. I have no doubt that the real culprits for whom I personally consider to be responsible for this crime will not be held to account. Not in this jurisdiction anyway. But they will in the next.
Glad that you were able to get out and about again. Looking forward to hearing the rest of the story...
If all goes according to plan for me and my family, we will be back living in the States in August! Unfortunately, in the Boston area :( Any tips or clues on how to survive and where to live would be greatly appreciated!
I think people are basically the same everywhere when it comes to compliance. 75% bend the knee, 25% at least question if not outright resist. I've worked with and among a fair amount of non US people over the years. Their attitudes range from "OMG, you'd get fired in a second if a US HR person heard you say that" to "Could you kiss the boot any harder? Sheesh!"
I have a few bandannas from Western Union El Salvador. That's the closest I've gotten.
But what is it Mark that allowed us to resist the mass hysteria, ignore the shaming, protect our families and stand up to tyranny?
I’ve kept almost all of my Branch Covidian friends and family but I won’t lie, we feel effects from shedding from Repeat Jabbers
Safe travels and keep on punching (just no jabbing)
I have the same question but it can be asked about many topics; climate change, minimum wage, socialized medicine, transgenderism, so many things.
The $1 Billion Dollar question!
Much has been hypothesized on why some of us can clearly see the forest AND the trees, but there seems to be no definitive answer.
My simple hypothesis, is "fear".
Now, I'm not talking about the fear one might have in a real life or death situation, for that will be there for all of us who are not psychopaths, it is what you do with that fear that makes you "brave", or "cowardly".
What do you base your decisions upon, & how do you view your own outlook on life?
When something unexpected crops up in your life, what emotions do you feel first, & how would you describe your response(s)?
Does it distress you, & you are "afraid" of what the consequences may be? Or is it that you choose the easy out - to just go along to get along, or do you ignore, or even run from the issues or decisions, because you fear any step, in any direction?
Or, does it cause you concern, the seeking of knowledge or differing opinions (are you a curious person?!), the weighing of options, & then a positive
response to tackle
the issue(s) & figure them out -
"to beat them".
I believe this is mostly innate in
our makeup, as throughout
history, there has always been a small subset of men & women who have stood against the
tide, come what may, & it is
many of these courageous
souls that we still remember today, & that helped march civilization in a better direction.
In our own Revolution, we only had the support of roughly 21-23% of the population, & just 3%
stepped forward to fight, & to take other actions, thereby putting their Lives, Fortunes, & Sacred Honors on the line!
Standing against the tide has
never been easy, for as G.
Washington once said: "Tis
better to be alone, than in poor
company."
We are the fortunate ones, & tho
we may sometimes suffer for it,
would any of you want it any
other way? Not I! 😉
This simple theory of mine can
be extrapolated upon or
disagreed with, & I know it doesn't answer all the questions. However, I look
forward to any & all responses!
As always, thanks for your writings Mark,
E
Thanks, E.
And thanks for what you write.
Short answer: a moral compass.
My cousin said, “Why can we see it, but they (her friends) can’t?!?” for a long time
It is mind boggling.
Many people watch too much TV and are fearful followers.
You know how some people feel the discomfort of using muscles they haven’t used before and assume they’ve injured themselves? So they quit exercising. I think that many people feel their brain working at trying to figure out if what they are seeing and hearing makes sense, and they mistake the intense activity in their head for, what, a stroke, maybe? And they stop thinking.
Some call it dissonance. I don’t know. But they back away from the process of deduction
So the CDC has decided to investigate whether there is a causal link between vaccines and childhood autism. I guess we’ll find out if this is meaningful or another tap dance.
Of course public enemy #1 the media is all spun up about the study, insisting the link has already long been disproven.
"I need sane friends now more than I need the chance to reminisce about goofy stuff we did together in our teens and twenties. And my newer friends who can think critically lead more interesting lives, have accomplished more than my old friends and can laugh and make me laugh just as well." Amen 🙏
Seconding that- thank you and all of you out there for being you too ❤️❤️❤️
Eagerly expecting posts about countries I considered during the Scamdemic. If things had gotten worse I might have taken the step. So glad you have the opportunity to visit these beautiful places! Saw plenty of mouth-dropping tube films!
Anxious to hear about your trip- being in Az I used to frequent Mexico a lot. I haven’t been there in ages- but will love to hear about your reasons why you love going where you go.
Are you the one that wrote the spunky comments to articles in the Tucson Weekly in early 2020? If so, I would have liked to meet you back then. Except for talk radio, I thought this town had gone crazy.
I have written comments to TW before, but not in the last five years- what was the topic? I quit reading it years ago...wasn't even worth picking up at Bookmans when we stopped by.
It was March 2020 as I recall. You seemed to pick up at the beginning that the shut down for Covid was nonsense if that was your comment.
Like I said I haven't written to the Weekly in ages- but I agree that the shut downs and all the other crap that came with "covid" was idiotic.
Right back at you Mark, thank you for being you! And give my regards to Ellen. I thought of her in regards to the breastfeeding conversation in the most recent comments section.
Momo = awesome.
Means a lot, coming from you.
Thank you for being you, Mark. ❤️
Will be so interested to read what you see and hear during your time in Latin America.
Welcome Back !
I look forward to your post about El Salvador. I have only been in El Salvador/San Salvador on an eight hour layover from Los Angeles to San Jose Costa Rica in the early 90’s. We arrived in San Salvador in the early morning hours, were bussed to a nice hotel in the City with a pool. My friend and I got a room to get a bit of sleep, then we went to have lunch and spend the afternoon at the pool. This was at the end of the ‘civil war’ that had been going on for a few years. We passed truckloads of armed soldiers on our way into the city from the airport.
At the end of the day we’re were transported back to the airport to catch our flight to San Jose Costa Rica. I had planned to travel around CR. I rented a car and drove out to the west coast. This was way before all the eco-tourism sprouted up in CR. There was basically few hotels and as a single woman traveling alone, there were few places that would even rent me a room.
After living in Mexico and Guatemala, Costa Rica just wasn’t doing it for me. It lacked any indigenous culture and heritage (the food and artesanías especially) that was so prevalent in southern Mexico and Guatemala. The country just “felt so white” to me. After a week I returned the car, changed my ticket and flew to Guatemala to spend the next week of my two week Latin America vacation.
Six months previous to this trip I had spent a 2 months living at the coast in Oaxaca and then traveling by bus through San Cristobal de Las Casas, Chiapas down into Guatemala, where I spent another 4 months living in the small town of Panajachel, on Lago Atitlan.
I have not had any desire to return to Costa Rica, but I do know the beaches of El Salvador are quite lovely, and the country is still quite affordable. So I’ll be interested to here your musings.
As far as how the C*V*D thing went down in Mexico, the Mexican people in general are fairly compliant, which I think links back to the ‘patron/haciendado’ mentality. They fell in line, got the Shots, were required to wear masks going out to stores and restaurants. The resort towns and cities of Mexico backed off the Vaxx requirements to travel and the requiring of masks, before other cities did. They needed the foreign tourist dollars.
These are good points. I should have thought to ask people there about why they complied.
Enjoy. I’m glad someone gets to travel Lol
Ellen and Mark, safe and fun filled travels . 🙌🏼🤗
I, too, enjoy my travels in Latin America. I put down the phone, engage with locals, avoid American tourist areas as best as possible, take local transportation options like bus, small boats and long hikes, only planning arrival and departure times and accommodations. The rest is on the fly, word of mouth flexibility and exploration. The stuff of life and understanding a different culture and society you can't get in a preplanned American tourist bubble.
I look forward to reading your experiences related to pandemic. I have my connections in Puerto Rico and Colombia I maintained a little contact with these past five years, but not enough to get into as much as I'd have liked even when in PR a few months ago, it was just a quick business trip.
I'm curious about what you may have learned about the pandemic experience as it relates to compliance. My understanding of Latin American culture, sociology is that it is very informed by obligation to family. Familia is much more important there than in the US by my experience. The appeals to "protect Grandma" by the social engineers have a greater likelihood of landing in Latin societies than others. Por Familia is a powerful motivator.
Germanic, Nordic, English culture and sociology is more obedience based. Do as you're told. Obey. It's the law.
Asian cultures are moved more by sense of community, collective obligation. Especially in China where collectivism has been indoctrinated for nearly 75 years. Japan is more based in "honor" in a family and community. Obedience is the honorable thing to do.
I think these types of cultural and sociological differences are important to understand. Not only for fear-based campaigns, but also for our system of jurisprudence. Natural Law v. Positive Law. Positive Law is more of a Germanic construct widely adopted in northern Europe and North America. Informed by the Frankfurt School of social engineering. Do as you're told. It's the law. Whether or not it makes sense in natural law, the natural world, has any basis in common sense or one's relationship with God and the natural world it's the law, man's law. Requiring obedience. Or pay the penalties for disobedience.
I think Natural Law, as US founders and jurists interpreted the Constitution for the first 150 years of our nation's existence is far superior. The trade-offs lost to Positive Law jurisprudence exist, but my beliefs and values for a better society are better protected under Natural Law. Positive Law produces mass societal obedience to authority, no matter what the consequences, people don't stop to think for themselves, or for their families, their communities, their faith in God; they just obey. And the likelihood for mass atrocities become exponentially worse. My .02. And relates to international cultural and sociological experiences of the pandemic rules that differ by types.
These are good points. I should have asked people there about these. I regret that I didn't think about that b/c my view is/has always been that the whole thing was a Scam.
I did, too. From the very start. Tomorrow I'll be starting a mostly daily series on my Stack subsection "Vulpes Vetus Libertatis" I call "Diarium Vulpis ex Quinque Annis Ante." It was March, 10, 2020 when I first gave my voice to the pandemania/plandemic/scamdemic. Trying to push back on the unhealthy and unwarranted fear-based insanity I saw growing around me to the point I could no longer be silent.
My series will share my social media comments I made at the time, on the same exact day five years earlier, unvarnished, often confrontational, sometimes profane, usually well-informed and well-sourced references. And often prophetic. I hope you'll give it a read, but respecting your Stack to not link directly here.
Would love to read it. I promise not to steal any of it.
Please send me a link.
Thanks.
Thanks for the edjumication in your first comment!
While I am no latin expert or speaker, shouldn't your latin read:
"Diarium Vulpis VETUS ex Quinque Annis Ante"? 😉😂
I appreciate your writing, will find your substack, & I suspect others here will also do so, maybe even including Mark!
E
My Latin is Brave AI-consulted, not my own study. I'm open to renaming it based on counsel from someone who's studied it.
I look forward to your thoughts and reaction to my often impertinent rejection of the narrative in real time!
😁 My comment was a light hearted note that you called yourself the Old Fox of Liberty, but left the old (vetus) out of your next turn of a latin phrase. (I got my Medicare Card last month, so now I am officially "vetus"! 😂)
I am no scholar of latin, but I enjoy the strength, humor, & sagacity I often learn from the quotes I find, & use them when I can.
I recently needed to purchase more personal checks, & as they give you a line for free after your address, I used this one: Semper Certa Bonum Certaman! - Always Fight the Good Fight!
I purchased some practical bling for one of my wife's pistols - some purple, pinky finger magazine extenders, & had them inscribe Amat Victoria Curam on them - Victory Loves Preparation!
A medical terminology class in the early '80s gave me a whiff of the joys of latin, & while I've never formally pursued it, I've never lost the joy of it.
Great article again, thank you. I think the reason why some people resisted the covid scam doesn’t rely on one feature alone, that being fear. I think its a mixture of past experience including education, the ability to stay relatively calm in the face of state sponsored terrorism and extreme propaganda, the ability to think critically like looking outside and determining that, contrary to what we saw coming out of China, there were no people dropping down dead in the streets, and lastly, one of our greatest abilities of all should we wish to use it, intuition. Also, if we looked, we could see very early on the whistleblower nurses and doctors who courageously raised the alarm about the vaccine side effects they were seeing. Fear can grip people, narrowing their focus of attention on one source only, in this case the MSM. And here we are. Countless dead and injured, all unnecessarily. I have no doubt that the real culprits for whom I personally consider to be responsible for this crime will not be held to account. Not in this jurisdiction anyway. But they will in the next.
Glad that you were able to get out and about again. Looking forward to hearing the rest of the story...
If all goes according to plan for me and my family, we will be back living in the States in August! Unfortunately, in the Boston area :( Any tips or clues on how to survive and where to live would be greatly appreciated!
I think people are basically the same everywhere when it comes to compliance. 75% bend the knee, 25% at least question if not outright resist. I've worked with and among a fair amount of non US people over the years. Their attitudes range from "OMG, you'd get fired in a second if a US HR person heard you say that" to "Could you kiss the boot any harder? Sheesh!"
I have a few bandannas from Western Union El Salvador. That's the closest I've gotten.