Your work always elicits unexpected realizations from me. You are very compelling! You know, Mark, they say with age comes wisdom. It may just be me, but over the last 20 or so years, I've seen much less wisdom and much more vanity out of our seniors. Not a happy observation at all. I hope I'm just looking in the wrong places.
I know many Boomers who fell very hard for the Scam. I was very disappointed by their gullibility. Having been around for five-plus decades, hadn't they seen enough media hype? Why didn't they ask: why would the worst virus in history suddenly emerge?
Most of all, I was angry about the Boomers' disregard for the harm the lockdowns and school closures would cause and did cause to the young, Why didn't Boomers remember how important it was for younger people to be with others?
Exactly. I’m a late stage boomer. I couldn’t believe all my fellow boomers who always proclaimed “question authority,” now took the man’s word (even the Orange Man’s word). When I was in grade school during the pandemic of 1968-1969, I went to school, my dad went to work, we put men on the moon, and the hippies (later to grow up to be these old Boomers) partied at Woodstock. Come 2020, they hid under their bed and wanted all the young to give to their lives for these cowards. I’m still so angry.
I was in high school during that same time period you mentioned. There was never any fear from the Hong Kong flu. The reason was it was not hyped up on the media or by dishonest politicians. Comparing life during the Hong Kong flu to the Covid flu (it is not a disease like people say) is like night and day!
I'm in your age range too and we just kept on trucking.
Walked to school in Chicago during blizzards. The only buses on the northside were CTA buses. No yellow ones and we walked or rode bikes everywhere.
The other thing we didn't have in the 50s and 60s was a schedule of vaccines like kids get today. We had the standards. DTP, MMR, Smallpox, Polio and THAT WAS IT.
We may have had a few drops of poison then but kids today get 72 jabs.
It's mind boggling. The amount of chronic illnesses is very sad to see. Kids today are on so many meds for every little thing. But it's all adding up to be a slow death ride for them. I know this because I volunteered in 2023-24 at a youth camp in northern Michigan. One week the camp had 125 campers. I observed at least half or more of that entire group show up to the nurses table after meals to get their meds dispensed from plastic bags.
I befriended the nurse (a man) and he told me he's been doing camp nurse gigs for 20 years. In his observation these medicated children has increased by leaps over that time frame.
RFK,Jr can not do enough in my opinion to get this drug culture shut down.
Additionally, the rate of obesity at this camp was astounding as well. The food served at the camp was primarily CARBOHYDRATE based. Add to that all the meds and its no wonder we have a fat society.
Last week I traveled to LAX through ORD and couldn't believe my eyes. Walking through the airport concourses, sitting on jets, being squished by the flight attendants butt as they walk down the aisles. It's a world of fat people. It's not healthy in the least.
Well said Marc. I think all of those experiences made us tougher. And like you i am astounded at the high rate of obesity and illness especially for the kids (there was rarely an obese kid in the 1960s. And who knew any kid with a peanut allergy?). Things certainly were not perfect back in those days but i am actually i glad to have grown up in that time period.
My old priest friend, Father Driscoll, would be maybe 85 or 90 today, was allergic to peanuts as long as he could remember - and he had a very sharp mind.
Yes I know which is why I brought up how we used to react to “pandemics.” We as a society threw out the pandemic guidelines when the Scamdemic came around.
B/C most people are full of baloney. The "Question Everything" was just a meme (before there were memes) to get kids to smoke weed, experiment and be iconoclasts.
When Eric Clapton called out the poison juice he was derided. What a shock - joke's on you Slowhand.... we just wanted the drugs!
I am still bewildered by the gullibility then, and how -- to this day -- no one will talk about it to even begin to clear the air or try to approach some type of closure. It's still unfolding.
And yes, increasingly I am surrounded by illness and death. Some are old and might have died anyway, and who knows. Quite a few cancer scares. Other vague and bewildering ailments. So much damage has been done -- to children, to relationships, to civility in general and to veracity in particular.
We still have way too many misguided and evil people in charge.
Dani Richards - one of my old friends is a covidmaniac. She does refuse to talk about it. Also refuses to read anything that does not support the covid biases. And she isn't the only person I know like that. It's disheartening.
I'd click the ♥️ but it would be misleading. So I'll just comment.
My 93 year old mother, is an avid vaxxer (and all things medicine). She can't believe I wouldn't take the jab. She's had them all since it first came out in 2021 and yet, she's still alive. How has she not been injured by now? She also gets flu shots and pneumonia vaccines. How is she still alive?
She's a bulldog. But, one day the next booster will get her.
In spite of all that she won't listen to anything that smacks of anti-vaxing.
Even all my grandkids are basically unvaxxed (they are home-schooled) and they are extremely healthy kids.
I have friends who are covidmaniacs. They get every new booster that hits the street.
I know. Some people are amazing. I'm about to be 84. I didn't have the shots, but have been surrounded by people who have. Is shedding a reality? I have a-fib from chemo and that still plagues me 18 years later. I see folks who've gotten all shots and boosters doing OK. Sometimes I think they are doing better than I. That scares me. I have also seen people younger than I get sick very often. And a few dedicated covidians have died. So maybe it's all random???
When these Boomers tell me there is no good music being made now and continue listening to the same old Blue Oyster Cult and Led Zeppelin songs, that explains to me why they can’t turn off lying legacy media or tune out venal politicians.
IMO awesome new music is one of the few good things about living in today’s world.
Too many Boomers, like many of my high school classmates (69) who not only took the jab but also took positions against the unvaxxed that I found astonishing and appalling with zeal.
One guy in particular I had to call out for his attitude that read like a German during the run up to the holocaust advocating that the human debris, the jews, ought to be wiped from the face of the earth. And of all people this disgusting attitude he'd adopted coming from a Jew himself no less, just completely blew my mind.
His position was at the time that anyone who was not jabbed, or who refused the jab should not be allowed to receive medical treatment if that person were to come down with the illness.
He was displaying his evil ignorance on his Facebook wall and so I happened to catch his little grisly wish that all non-vaxxers should basically fall sick and die.
I bet he stomped on Charlie Kirk's memory as well. But since I unfriended him I don't see his shameful posts anymore.
So yes Boomers are notoriously closet commies, having grown up in the 60s and then proceeded to go to state schools for their BAs and MAs, got jobs in globalist corporations, sucked up the WEF poison and came into retirement lauding the likes of Fauci, Biden, Pelosi and the whole cosmic circus that is liberalism (otherwise known as former Chicago Democrats).
My mother and sister are big vaxxers. Sadly, I was visiting mom (93 yrs old) two weeks ago and she went and got another booster jab. Now, why hasn't she fallen ill with injuries and passed on. Apparently it really is a big game of Russian Roulette afterall.
Big, Boomering, Brother isn’t monolithic Goliath, he’s lots & lots of little Davids, divided, like The Narrator & Tyler Durden were divided. e. Pluribus unum.
Those broken bits of two birds in the bush flock together into big clubs that, contra Carlson, they are, always have been, & always will be members in goody-goody standing in.
But the Boomerang comes back round for all of them, all “gens” X marks the same spot, all X stage left, right, center, thru trapdoors, via trampolines & gun muzzles & syringes, in every in/conceivable way & direction.
Nobody gets out alive & too many can’t wait to get out.
Square pegs in round holes? No. Square axles in round wheels in cylindrical silos spinning like stolen by hijackers because were.
Tyler D & The Narrator hijack each other & call it a life, but call being hijacked by consumerism not a life.
Hijackers write the histories & hijacked commit those to memory & call it learning.
There’s no place like Stockholm, there’s no place like Stockholm … Oh, no pretty momma what you gonna do in those shoes? Just keep tapping — being tapped by — those heels.
In The Dressmaker the hero, all set to ride off into the sunset with the heroine he has won, & in a bid to rid her, finally & for all, of her lurking suspicion that she is cursed, says “Jumping off a silo is for little boys. Dropping into silos, that’s for men!” & proceeds to do just that.
Unlike the first time he performed the feat, when the silo was partially filled with wheat (& mice & men as represented by the man), this time — curses! — the wheat has been replaced by sorghum.
Having never jumped into a silo of either I will concede the necessary suspension of disbelief that wheat floats a body up & sorghum sinks a body down & that the heroic silo base jumper in this wide spot in an Australian road town somehow didn’t know the float had been traded for the sink that sunk the happy birds of a feather ending … because the hero “drowned” (suffocated) in that sinking feeling sorghum.
Well, tie all that imagery to this punchline:
I remember “learning” (remember, remember the fifths of rotgut-like committing to memory…including, very much so, to enteric brain memory … remember Joe Tex’s tune*?) that the usual suspect rich, emphasis “filthy,” bastards would build silos to absorb as much of, if not all of, harvest glut — @lowest prices of season aka supply/demand — for to store-hold-sit on all that grain as it ripened into gold in/when dead of winter said to ordinary wo/men “Let them eat cake!” & make them pay as much caked on extortion-price as possible for the privilege of those just desserts.
And the punchline to that gauntlet of punches line was the invention, by compassionate missionaries, of the futures markets for to enable/empower farmers to end-run hedge-lock prices for their production that wouldn’t see them ground into serflour by the granite greed-wheels of the filthy “elites.”
Cue the tune about futures so bright those farmers had to wear shades … right?
Reservoir Dogs.
*I GUTcha, uh-huh, huh
You thought I didn't see ya now, didn't ya? Uh-huh, huh
You tried to sneak by me now, didn't ya? Uh-huh, huh
Now gimme what you promised me, give it here, come on
All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a silo alone.
Gonzo was right:
“We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely—at least, not all the time—but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
Thoreau weren’t no Buddha — & I ain’t too sure ‘bout Buddha, either:
There are a thousand hacking at the grains of evil to one who is striking at the Pisa Silo foundation.
Symptom-level machination is make-work, which is the appearance of work, sloth in work camouflage, free-lunchers in sheep suits.
At “the top” worst of the worsted wool bespoke suit wearing guidos fine-weaving billions on their bribery rolls of eye woolens.
One important gut check re Gonzo:
A narcissist is one who likes themselves very much despite not having earned that self-esteem, self-respect. Anything can be gamed & everything is. Rule proving exceptions exist as notes in the margins.
So aim small, miss small, but DIY because the Agent-Principal Problem app, is Narrator/Durden machineman in action that misses even when it hits & never fails to shoot itself in the face again & again & again.
I've found the generational pattern concepts in The Fourth Turning helpful in understanding this. The Boomers seem to only rarely display the reflectiveness of the preceding Silent generation, and of their own parents. A lot of what we associate with old age has become less typical in America, with the emphasis on self expression and perpetual adolescence that reigns with the Boomers (who, like some others, take the prosperity they've enjoyed as evidence of their own superiority rather than appreciating the society, the destruction of which they've been gleefully supporting to support their own moral vanity).
As a soon to be 76er, you’re looking at too many paid old protesters, or old Democrats, or old hippies. I am not any of these labels, thankfully, and have a high level of common sense to know fear mongering when I see it. I’m unvaxxed and saw through the charade from the earliest days. It was so obvious that it was political and propaganda. Biden took the ‘crisis’ and mandated it so Dems could control their agenda.
I’m only three years behind you, and I too am not ‘vaxxed’ and saw through the charade right away.
But so many people in our “age range” did not. They fell in line like sheep, got the “C*V*D vaxxinations” and now are in cognitive decline, with serious cases TDS. They are a now part of the NoKings and Indivisible “protest” movements, standing out on the street corners of ‘blue’ cites and ‘burbs’, with lame signs about the “dictator Trump”, his “destruction of democracy”, the “poor illegal migrants” he has ICE “rounding up” and putting into camps”, and all the “poor people who are losing their healthcare benefits”. It’s so pathetic.
it's also kind of lonely. Of course, have friends of all ages (this is aimed at everyone, BTW) -- but there is something special as we age, about having friends in your own age cohort who experienced the same things through the years. "Yes, I remember when....." rather than "Yes, I heard about that in history class" or whatever. Our age peers are being literally killed off and menticided. It's kind of sad.
There're a lot of "good liberal" older middle aged folks, not really as mellow as they they think are, but representing they think is the nice liberal position.
The sad thing is that a whole bunch of otherwise intelligent people still believe all the hype and are STILL TAKING THE SHOT. Some of these are in my family and I love them. But, still, I cannot even talk to them on this subject. Luckily most of my family understood the scam early, but it worries me because some of the college age ones were given the shot in order to go to school. How much damage was done will probably never be calculated.
Mark, That's a stunning exchange with Barnett! Thank you for this excellent encapsulation of the two views of Covid, and for always being clear-eyed throughout the Scamdemic. Lori
Naomi Wolfe says the vaxed show a certain type of brain loss/damage where they are incapable of deep analysis. Surely this would have surfaced publicly by now if true? Although I wonder why so many still don’t see the truth about covid and the lies. Maybe they or we all were so traumatized by it all, kinda like Stockholm Syndrome so the abused side with their abusers? We, who saw through the lies, were traumatized too but since we didn’t get suckered/forced/terrified into taking the vaccine, we could maintain a semblance of sanity and look at it objectively.
Funny how people think viruses/pandemics and politics/finance don't go together.
One of the primary aspects of the Covid Operation was to open up new markets for Pharmaceuticals.
It is impossible to underestimate the value that Pharma and the medical cartel bring to large financial investment firms. Pharmaceuticals and the "health management system" in the US is currently the largest sector of the US economy.
It is also impossible to overstate how severe the economic crash of 2019 was for the Pharma Industry.
It's worth noting that in the USA, disease management pumps almost $4 trillion/yr into the economy. "Health management" has replaced war as the world's primary money spinner, the elites need continuing large-scale health crises to keep the economy going. The cure du jour is the “vaccine”- especially after the last five years (though in reality this was all pre-planned years back to make it so) as not only does the “vaccine” have indemnity but now, thanks to the Covid Con, no longer do these products need to go through costly Phase 3 trials.
The problem facing Pharma is that they need new diseases (which they create with their products) and a steady stream of blockbuster drugs to continue their Ponzi schemes. Vaccines play an enormous role in this as they are one of the largest ROI "drugs" in the Pharma playbook and come with full legal protection.
Without "blockbuster" drugs the Pharma Industry essentially falls apart. The plan is for the mRNA "vaccine" cash cow to be much bigger than Covid. The plan is for the mRNA "vaccines" and drugs to be Pharma's new "medical" and business model and launch an entirely new Bio-Tech wave of financialized "disease management."
Another aspect of this part of the Covid Operation was to codify "regulations" which allow Pharma to sidestep lengthy and costly clinical trials with the new "downloadable" mRNA "Pharma model" as they are deemed no longer necessary with this "new" delivery system.
A move towards an mRNA-based vaccine model would ‘allow’ the Industry to achieve this goal of ‘blowing up the system’, opening up the door for the mRNA delivery systems to become Pharma’s new ‘vaccine model and subsequent cash cow. With the mRNA delivery system each ‘new’ vaccine could utilize a similar mechanism against any viral pathogen in existence- updated quickly and at minimal cost. Once approved and accepted in the market they can plug the technology in and start going down the list. New “mRNA vaccines” to be created for ‘emerging’ diseases similar to a Windows update, with all regulations and trials wiped out in the blink of an eye.
Much of this fraud has already been legalized by governments who are completely controlled and betrothed to large financial interests who are heavily invested in Pharma and have a significant portion of their fortunes tied to the fate of Big Pharma and the “disease management” system.
Michael Crichton warned/told us what the future held. AI, wasn’t it utilized to get 5 billion to take that experimental vaccine? Didn’t his book ending end with creating something that overtook humanity and couldn’t be stopped once started?
Changing minds is hard - especially about core beliefs and/or if it goes against what everyone around you believes and/or if you're incentivized to believe certain things.
As a personal anecdote, some years ago I slowly changed my diet from the standard recommendations (low fat, high fiber, lots of fruits/veg, etc) to now a mostly carnivore diet high in fatty beef. One key influence on me was Gary Taubes' "Good Calories, Bad Calories". Not saying this book has all the answers but it clearly showed how most of what we were told about healthy diets were lies or at least not demonstrated by good science. It made me angry but it still took me a long time to fully change my mind and go against the grain (pun intended) with regard to how I eat. Since then, I've changed 2 minds about diet who now recognize I'm not crazy and also have gone more carnivore. In one case, it was someone trying to debunk me but finally changed his mind after reading everything I sent him. In the other case, it was curiosity about my "crazy" dietary beliefs that led to looking in to the matter. (Note: I don't have all the answers and wasn't trying to convince anyone how they should eat)
The point is, it took me a long time to fully change my mind as it went against everything I'd been told my whole life and it went against what the "experts" said and what everyone around me believed. Having been through that experience, I'm more open to changing my mind based on new, credible information even if it goes against all prevailing "wisdom".
Most people have not gone through this experience and drift through life never having to change a core belief unless forced to. This makes it hard to get through to people like Bob but it also highlights the importance of people like Mark continuing to write about this topic. A seed of doubt planted in someone's mind today may lead them to rethink some core beliefs (covid, government, vaccines, etc) later. Just because you always believed something and everyone you know believes it, doesn't make it true.
I am not a lawyer. But I think it's a mistake to assume that people who become lawyers are motivated by truth, even "dialectical truth", leave alone deeper truth or even science-before-five-minutes empirical truth. My observation is that a lot has to do with social power, and many political players are lawyers by training.
Heterodoxy will get you professionally excluded or make your head explode (literally, these days) in Washington DC. Not surprising this deceased man was a good little member.
As an aside, unemployed lawyers start revolutions, back in the 1800s and also now.
Not all, obviously. Mark seems a genuine seeker, and he also has a classical moral grounding. So I'm not trying to slander, just to point out a facet.
I think Bob may have now learned all these truths, and is being tortured by them. Hopefully he is just in Purgatory and has an opportunity to still be purified of these and other sins.
Sorry, if there were such a thing as "purgatory", Christ's sacrifice on Calvary's cross was unnecessary. Jesus came once as Saviour. He told the Pharisees if they did not repent, they would die in their sins. Today is the day of salvation. Choose life. Read the Bible for yourself, with close attention to the Book of Acts.
We come and go. Truth endures and is everlasting. Sadly we cling to deception and disinformation loving it more than life itself. Maybe that's the real tragedy. It is certainly the dark side of free will. Thank you Mark for another great article.
I think what many people love more than life itself is their status in this life. That's why most people will never question authority and will cling tightly to conventional wisdom and the status quo. What most people fear is being outcast, which is why the demonization of the unvaccinated was so successful in forcing compliance.
I think most people are raised to obey authority and to seek the approval of others. They find security in following a conventional path. They have no experience or practice of independent thinking, considering the way most were raised and the rote lockstep of our education system.
"Hi, Mark. I could not disagree more with your premises. The steps you *criticize* saved tens of thousands, if not millions, of lives. Sorry."
So what, Mr. Book Agent? Your job is to sell books that interest readers, not books that interest you. Oh no! *Criticism!* What next? Thoughtful discussion? Oh the horror!
Eight months have passed since we lost my millennial daughter (31) to breast cancer by way of Moderna. Boomers and millennials were so easy to manipulate. This man was on a long list of fools.
Anti-social 'social media' propaganda was Military Grade. So many were tricked. I am so sorry. Our 30 something daughter did not die, but she disowned us completely because we called it all a scam. We still have hope that she will wake up one day.
I don't know. Your Bob sounded exactly like my neighbor Bob: utterly convinced the snipes were real. He gave me a stern talking-to about the 20% fatality rate. Of course I'm still here and he dropped dead in front of his wife six months after he held out his arm, so...
Another gem, Mark!
The smug ignorance and pomposity of Barnett’s responses to you are galling and indicative of widespread heads up asses syndrome.
"Ostensible literary and political popularity are often inversely correlated with truthfulness."
Starts as early as the third grade for some.
You could also change the words, or add others (between ostensible & popularity) like:
Religion
Finances
Social status
Medical Dogma
Military might
Doesn't matter how smart, strong, agile, financially backed, etc. you are;
Sheep going to be Sheep regardless
Thanks Mark for yet another great read.
Agree.
Your work always elicits unexpected realizations from me. You are very compelling! You know, Mark, they say with age comes wisdom. It may just be me, but over the last 20 or so years, I've seen much less wisdom and much more vanity out of our seniors. Not a happy observation at all. I hope I'm just looking in the wrong places.
Thanks, Steve.
I know many Boomers who fell very hard for the Scam. I was very disappointed by their gullibility. Having been around for five-plus decades, hadn't they seen enough media hype? Why didn't they ask: why would the worst virus in history suddenly emerge?
Most of all, I was angry about the Boomers' disregard for the harm the lockdowns and school closures would cause and did cause to the young, Why didn't Boomers remember how important it was for younger people to be with others?
Exactly. I’m a late stage boomer. I couldn’t believe all my fellow boomers who always proclaimed “question authority,” now took the man’s word (even the Orange Man’s word). When I was in grade school during the pandemic of 1968-1969, I went to school, my dad went to work, we put men on the moon, and the hippies (later to grow up to be these old Boomers) partied at Woodstock. Come 2020, they hid under their bed and wanted all the young to give to their lives for these cowards. I’m still so angry.
I was in high school during that same time period you mentioned. There was never any fear from the Hong Kong flu. The reason was it was not hyped up on the media or by dishonest politicians. Comparing life during the Hong Kong flu to the Covid flu (it is not a disease like people say) is like night and day!
Exactly Kate!
I'm in your age range too and we just kept on trucking.
Walked to school in Chicago during blizzards. The only buses on the northside were CTA buses. No yellow ones and we walked or rode bikes everywhere.
The other thing we didn't have in the 50s and 60s was a schedule of vaccines like kids get today. We had the standards. DTP, MMR, Smallpox, Polio and THAT WAS IT.
We may have had a few drops of poison then but kids today get 72 jabs.
It's mind boggling. The amount of chronic illnesses is very sad to see. Kids today are on so many meds for every little thing. But it's all adding up to be a slow death ride for them. I know this because I volunteered in 2023-24 at a youth camp in northern Michigan. One week the camp had 125 campers. I observed at least half or more of that entire group show up to the nurses table after meals to get their meds dispensed from plastic bags.
I befriended the nurse (a man) and he told me he's been doing camp nurse gigs for 20 years. In his observation these medicated children has increased by leaps over that time frame.
RFK,Jr can not do enough in my opinion to get this drug culture shut down.
Additionally, the rate of obesity at this camp was astounding as well. The food served at the camp was primarily CARBOHYDRATE based. Add to that all the meds and its no wonder we have a fat society.
Last week I traveled to LAX through ORD and couldn't believe my eyes. Walking through the airport concourses, sitting on jets, being squished by the flight attendants butt as they walk down the aisles. It's a world of fat people. It's not healthy in the least.
Wasn't like that in 1969, was it?
Well said Marc. I think all of those experiences made us tougher. And like you i am astounded at the high rate of obesity and illness especially for the kids (there was rarely an obese kid in the 1960s. And who knew any kid with a peanut allergy?). Things certainly were not perfect back in those days but i am actually i glad to have grown up in that time period.
My old priest friend, Father Driscoll, would be maybe 85 or 90 today, was allergic to peanuts as long as he could remember - and he had a very sharp mind.
Yes I know which is why I brought up how we used to react to “pandemics.” We as a society threw out the pandemic guidelines when the Scamdemic came around.
B/C most people are full of baloney. The "Question Everything" was just a meme (before there were memes) to get kids to smoke weed, experiment and be iconoclasts.
When Eric Clapton called out the poison juice he was derided. What a shock - joke's on you Slowhand.... we just wanted the drugs!
I am still bewildered by the gullibility then, and how -- to this day -- no one will talk about it to even begin to clear the air or try to approach some type of closure. It's still unfolding.
And yes, increasingly I am surrounded by illness and death. Some are old and might have died anyway, and who knows. Quite a few cancer scares. Other vague and bewildering ailments. So much damage has been done -- to children, to relationships, to civility in general and to veracity in particular.
We still have way too many misguided and evil people in charge.
It was all a money-transfer scam. All jabcines are: make you sick and collect payment, then offer a "cure" and drain the rest of your savings.
Win-win.
Create problem
Create fear to stoke the flames
Then offer 'the one and only' solution
Then mandate it
Win-win?
Not sure, but absolutely for those running the table.
Dani Richards - one of my old friends is a covidmaniac. She does refuse to talk about it. Also refuses to read anything that does not support the covid biases. And she isn't the only person I know like that. It's disheartening.
I'd click the ♥️ but it would be misleading. So I'll just comment.
My 93 year old mother, is an avid vaxxer (and all things medicine). She can't believe I wouldn't take the jab. She's had them all since it first came out in 2021 and yet, she's still alive. How has she not been injured by now? She also gets flu shots and pneumonia vaccines. How is she still alive?
She's a bulldog. But, one day the next booster will get her.
In spite of all that she won't listen to anything that smacks of anti-vaxing.
Even all my grandkids are basically unvaxxed (they are home-schooled) and they are extremely healthy kids.
I have friends who are covidmaniacs. They get every new booster that hits the street.
Oofdah!
I know. Some people are amazing. I'm about to be 84. I didn't have the shots, but have been surrounded by people who have. Is shedding a reality? I have a-fib from chemo and that still plagues me 18 years later. I see folks who've gotten all shots and boosters doing OK. Sometimes I think they are doing better than I. That scares me. I have also seen people younger than I get sick very often. And a few dedicated covidians have died. So maybe it's all random???
Hot lots are spread geographically
Look up Wyeth Pharma (now Pfizer) poisoning kids in Tennessee
When these Boomers tell me there is no good music being made now and continue listening to the same old Blue Oyster Cult and Led Zeppelin songs, that explains to me why they can’t turn off lying legacy media or tune out venal politicians.
IMO awesome new music is one of the few good things about living in today’s world.
THANK YOU!!
Enough already
The good old days weren’t always good
But they weren't always bad either. lol
Too many Boomers, like many of my high school classmates (69) who not only took the jab but also took positions against the unvaxxed that I found astonishing and appalling with zeal.
One guy in particular I had to call out for his attitude that read like a German during the run up to the holocaust advocating that the human debris, the jews, ought to be wiped from the face of the earth. And of all people this disgusting attitude he'd adopted coming from a Jew himself no less, just completely blew my mind.
His position was at the time that anyone who was not jabbed, or who refused the jab should not be allowed to receive medical treatment if that person were to come down with the illness.
He was displaying his evil ignorance on his Facebook wall and so I happened to catch his little grisly wish that all non-vaxxers should basically fall sick and die.
I bet he stomped on Charlie Kirk's memory as well. But since I unfriended him I don't see his shameful posts anymore.
So yes Boomers are notoriously closet commies, having grown up in the 60s and then proceeded to go to state schools for their BAs and MAs, got jobs in globalist corporations, sucked up the WEF poison and came into retirement lauding the likes of Fauci, Biden, Pelosi and the whole cosmic circus that is liberalism (otherwise known as former Chicago Democrats).
My mother and sister are big vaxxers. Sadly, I was visiting mom (93 yrs old) two weeks ago and she went and got another booster jab. Now, why hasn't she fallen ill with injuries and passed on. Apparently it really is a big game of Russian Roulette afterall.
Credulity’s the credential. Social proof. Silos.
Big, Boomering, Brother isn’t monolithic Goliath, he’s lots & lots of little Davids, divided, like The Narrator & Tyler Durden were divided. e. Pluribus unum.
Those broken bits of two birds in the bush flock together into big clubs that, contra Carlson, they are, always have been, & always will be members in goody-goody standing in.
But the Boomerang comes back round for all of them, all “gens” X marks the same spot, all X stage left, right, center, thru trapdoors, via trampolines & gun muzzles & syringes, in every in/conceivable way & direction.
Nobody gets out alive & too many can’t wait to get out.
Square pegs in round holes? No. Square axles in round wheels in cylindrical silos spinning like stolen by hijackers because were.
Tyler D & The Narrator hijack each other & call it a life, but call being hijacked by consumerism not a life.
Hijackers write the histories & hijacked commit those to memory & call it learning.
There’s no place like Stockholm, there’s no place like Stockholm … Oh, no pretty momma what you gonna do in those shoes? Just keep tapping — being tapped by — those heels.
In The Dressmaker the hero, all set to ride off into the sunset with the heroine he has won, & in a bid to rid her, finally & for all, of her lurking suspicion that she is cursed, says “Jumping off a silo is for little boys. Dropping into silos, that’s for men!” & proceeds to do just that.
Unlike the first time he performed the feat, when the silo was partially filled with wheat (& mice & men as represented by the man), this time — curses! — the wheat has been replaced by sorghum.
Having never jumped into a silo of either I will concede the necessary suspension of disbelief that wheat floats a body up & sorghum sinks a body down & that the heroic silo base jumper in this wide spot in an Australian road town somehow didn’t know the float had been traded for the sink that sunk the happy birds of a feather ending … because the hero “drowned” (suffocated) in that sinking feeling sorghum.
Well, tie all that imagery to this punchline:
I remember “learning” (remember, remember the fifths of rotgut-like committing to memory…including, very much so, to enteric brain memory … remember Joe Tex’s tune*?) that the usual suspect rich, emphasis “filthy,” bastards would build silos to absorb as much of, if not all of, harvest glut — @lowest prices of season aka supply/demand — for to store-hold-sit on all that grain as it ripened into gold in/when dead of winter said to ordinary wo/men “Let them eat cake!” & make them pay as much caked on extortion-price as possible for the privilege of those just desserts.
And the punchline to that gauntlet of punches line was the invention, by compassionate missionaries, of the futures markets for to enable/empower farmers to end-run hedge-lock prices for their production that wouldn’t see them ground into serflour by the granite greed-wheels of the filthy “elites.”
Cue the tune about futures so bright those farmers had to wear shades … right?
Reservoir Dogs.
*I GUTcha, uh-huh, huh
You thought I didn't see ya now, didn't ya? Uh-huh, huh
You tried to sneak by me now, didn't ya? Uh-huh, huh
Now gimme what you promised me, give it here, come on
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulnXy7ZHHj0
‘Pologies to Pascal:
All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a silo alone.
Gonzo was right:
“We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely—at least, not all the time—but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
Thoreau weren’t no Buddha — & I ain’t too sure ‘bout Buddha, either:
There are a thousand hacking at the grains of evil to one who is striking at the Pisa Silo foundation.
Symptom-level machination is make-work, which is the appearance of work, sloth in work camouflage, free-lunchers in sheep suits.
At “the top” worst of the worsted wool bespoke suit wearing guidos fine-weaving billions on their bribery rolls of eye woolens.
One important gut check re Gonzo:
A narcissist is one who likes themselves very much despite not having earned that self-esteem, self-respect. Anything can be gamed & everything is. Rule proving exceptions exist as notes in the margins.
So aim small, miss small, but DIY because the Agent-Principal Problem app, is Narrator/Durden machineman in action that misses even when it hits & never fails to shoot itself in the face again & again & again.
You're right, Mark.
I've found the generational pattern concepts in The Fourth Turning helpful in understanding this. The Boomers seem to only rarely display the reflectiveness of the preceding Silent generation, and of their own parents. A lot of what we associate with old age has become less typical in America, with the emphasis on self expression and perpetual adolescence that reigns with the Boomers (who, like some others, take the prosperity they've enjoyed as evidence of their own superiority rather than appreciating the society, the destruction of which they've been gleefully supporting to support their own moral vanity).
I'm gonna chew on that a few more times.
Bravo Demeisen! Seems like they've given ego free reign.
As a soon to be 76er, you’re looking at too many paid old protesters, or old Democrats, or old hippies. I am not any of these labels, thankfully, and have a high level of common sense to know fear mongering when I see it. I’m unvaxxed and saw through the charade from the earliest days. It was so obvious that it was political and propaganda. Biden took the ‘crisis’ and mandated it so Dems could control their agenda.
I’m only three years behind you, and I too am not ‘vaxxed’ and saw through the charade right away.
But so many people in our “age range” did not. They fell in line like sheep, got the “C*V*D vaxxinations” and now are in cognitive decline, with serious cases TDS. They are a now part of the NoKings and Indivisible “protest” movements, standing out on the street corners of ‘blue’ cites and ‘burbs’, with lame signs about the “dictator Trump”, his “destruction of democracy”, the “poor illegal migrants” he has ICE “rounding up” and putting into camps”, and all the “poor people who are losing their healthcare benefits”. It’s so pathetic.
it's also kind of lonely. Of course, have friends of all ages (this is aimed at everyone, BTW) -- but there is something special as we age, about having friends in your own age cohort who experienced the same things through the years. "Yes, I remember when....." rather than "Yes, I heard about that in history class" or whatever. Our age peers are being literally killed off and menticided. It's kind of sad.
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Truly.
In 1968 a friend an I went to UIC to hear Timothy Leary speak on a Saturday afternoon.
My friend died young. Leary of course is gone. And I'm still standing.
But for the grace of God there go I.
Thankful and irritated by the shear amount of ignorance people like to harvest. The fields are brown and ready for a new crop of stupid.
There're a lot of "good liberal" older middle aged folks, not really as mellow as they they think are, but representing they think is the nice liberal position.
We’ve been looking for wisdom in all the wrong places.
The sad thing is that a whole bunch of otherwise intelligent people still believe all the hype and are STILL TAKING THE SHOT. Some of these are in my family and I love them. But, still, I cannot even talk to them on this subject. Luckily most of my family understood the scam early, but it worries me because some of the college age ones were given the shot in order to go to school. How much damage was done will probably never be calculated.
The people who get the covid boosters are having a steady decline in their health and never put 2 and 2 together.
So true. It is slow acting I hear. The road to the end might be long and drawn out.
Thankfully, I'm not in that cohort.
Spot on, says unvaxxed homeschooled 80yr old I, unapologetically viagra-free randy womaniser, on HCQ+Zinc since March 2020.
And both digital currency and digital ID must remain up von der Layen's arse.
MY, MAN!
He was Based before it was cool...
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Great points. Helping the DC Swamp to be even more devilish is not my idea of a successful career.
Exactly.
But he got plenty of photo ops with celebrities.
Great wall art at the funeral.
BTW: Did those celebs show up for the funeral? Was there free lunch included?
These guys...
You would think that anyone who gets the disease they were supposedly "vaccinated" against would wake up, but no such luck for humanity.
Kept them out of the hospital!
The shifting narrative.
Then they said it protected them from breakouts.
Mark, That's a stunning exchange with Barnett! Thank you for this excellent encapsulation of the two views of Covid, and for always being clear-eyed throughout the Scamdemic. Lori
Thanks, Lori.
Most of the rich and famous had a big Scamdemic blind spot. Others were in on the joke.
Naomi Wolfe says the vaxed show a certain type of brain loss/damage where they are incapable of deep analysis. Surely this would have surfaced publicly by now if true? Although I wonder why so many still don’t see the truth about covid and the lies. Maybe they or we all were so traumatized by it all, kinda like Stockholm Syndrome so the abused side with their abusers? We, who saw through the lies, were traumatized too but since we didn’t get suckered/forced/terrified into taking the vaccine, we could maintain a semblance of sanity and look at it objectively.
I listened to Wolf make a long speech about a month or so ago. She came on strong. Very much appreciate her.
Funny how people think viruses/pandemics and politics/finance don't go together.
One of the primary aspects of the Covid Operation was to open up new markets for Pharmaceuticals.
It is impossible to underestimate the value that Pharma and the medical cartel bring to large financial investment firms. Pharmaceuticals and the "health management system" in the US is currently the largest sector of the US economy.
It is also impossible to overstate how severe the economic crash of 2019 was for the Pharma Industry.
It's worth noting that in the USA, disease management pumps almost $4 trillion/yr into the economy. "Health management" has replaced war as the world's primary money spinner, the elites need continuing large-scale health crises to keep the economy going. The cure du jour is the “vaccine”- especially after the last five years (though in reality this was all pre-planned years back to make it so) as not only does the “vaccine” have indemnity but now, thanks to the Covid Con, no longer do these products need to go through costly Phase 3 trials.
The problem facing Pharma is that they need new diseases (which they create with their products) and a steady stream of blockbuster drugs to continue their Ponzi schemes. Vaccines play an enormous role in this as they are one of the largest ROI "drugs" in the Pharma playbook and come with full legal protection.
Without "blockbuster" drugs the Pharma Industry essentially falls apart. The plan is for the mRNA "vaccine" cash cow to be much bigger than Covid. The plan is for the mRNA "vaccines" and drugs to be Pharma's new "medical" and business model and launch an entirely new Bio-Tech wave of financialized "disease management."
Another aspect of this part of the Covid Operation was to codify "regulations" which allow Pharma to sidestep lengthy and costly clinical trials with the new "downloadable" mRNA "Pharma model" as they are deemed no longer necessary with this "new" delivery system.
A move towards an mRNA-based vaccine model would ‘allow’ the Industry to achieve this goal of ‘blowing up the system’, opening up the door for the mRNA delivery systems to become Pharma’s new ‘vaccine model and subsequent cash cow. With the mRNA delivery system each ‘new’ vaccine could utilize a similar mechanism against any viral pathogen in existence- updated quickly and at minimal cost. Once approved and accepted in the market they can plug the technology in and start going down the list. New “mRNA vaccines” to be created for ‘emerging’ diseases similar to a Windows update, with all regulations and trials wiped out in the blink of an eye.
Much of this fraud has already been legalized by governments who are completely controlled and betrothed to large financial interests who are heavily invested in Pharma and have a significant portion of their fortunes tied to the fate of Big Pharma and the “disease management” system.
Michael Crichton warned/told us what the future held. AI, wasn’t it utilized to get 5 billion to take that experimental vaccine? Didn’t his book ending end with creating something that overtook humanity and couldn’t be stopped once started?
It is my understanding that the Healthcare sector is the second to the largest ‘job sector’ of the economy in the USA.
Changing minds is hard - especially about core beliefs and/or if it goes against what everyone around you believes and/or if you're incentivized to believe certain things.
As a personal anecdote, some years ago I slowly changed my diet from the standard recommendations (low fat, high fiber, lots of fruits/veg, etc) to now a mostly carnivore diet high in fatty beef. One key influence on me was Gary Taubes' "Good Calories, Bad Calories". Not saying this book has all the answers but it clearly showed how most of what we were told about healthy diets were lies or at least not demonstrated by good science. It made me angry but it still took me a long time to fully change my mind and go against the grain (pun intended) with regard to how I eat. Since then, I've changed 2 minds about diet who now recognize I'm not crazy and also have gone more carnivore. In one case, it was someone trying to debunk me but finally changed his mind after reading everything I sent him. In the other case, it was curiosity about my "crazy" dietary beliefs that led to looking in to the matter. (Note: I don't have all the answers and wasn't trying to convince anyone how they should eat)
The point is, it took me a long time to fully change my mind as it went against everything I'd been told my whole life and it went against what the "experts" said and what everyone around me believed. Having been through that experience, I'm more open to changing my mind based on new, credible information even if it goes against all prevailing "wisdom".
Most people have not gone through this experience and drift through life never having to change a core belief unless forced to. This makes it hard to get through to people like Bob but it also highlights the importance of people like Mark continuing to write about this topic. A seed of doubt planted in someone's mind today may lead them to rethink some core beliefs (covid, government, vaccines, etc) later. Just because you always believed something and everyone you know believes it, doesn't make it true.
I am not a lawyer. But I think it's a mistake to assume that people who become lawyers are motivated by truth, even "dialectical truth", leave alone deeper truth or even science-before-five-minutes empirical truth. My observation is that a lot has to do with social power, and many political players are lawyers by training.
Heterodoxy will get you professionally excluded or make your head explode (literally, these days) in Washington DC. Not surprising this deceased man was a good little member.
As an aside, unemployed lawyers start revolutions, back in the 1800s and also now.
Not all, obviously. Mark seems a genuine seeker, and he also has a classical moral grounding. So I'm not trying to slander, just to point out a facet.
D, I know, from years of experience, that not all lawyers look at both sides. But litigators should: it's what we do.
Maybe Barnett didn't do much litigation. Or maybe he was in on the scam.
I think Bob may have now learned all these truths, and is being tortured by them. Hopefully he is just in Purgatory and has an opportunity to still be purified of these and other sins.
Sorry, if there were such a thing as "purgatory", Christ's sacrifice on Calvary's cross was unnecessary. Jesus came once as Saviour. He told the Pharisees if they did not repent, they would die in their sins. Today is the day of salvation. Choose life. Read the Bible for yourself, with close attention to the Book of Acts.
I disagree
We come and go. Truth endures and is everlasting. Sadly we cling to deception and disinformation loving it more than life itself. Maybe that's the real tragedy. It is certainly the dark side of free will. Thank you Mark for another great article.
I think what many people love more than life itself is their status in this life. That's why most people will never question authority and will cling tightly to conventional wisdom and the status quo. What most people fear is being outcast, which is why the demonization of the unvaccinated was so successful in forcing compliance.
I think most people are raised to obey authority and to seek the approval of others. They find security in following a conventional path. They have no experience or practice of independent thinking, considering the way most were raised and the rote lockstep of our education system.
"Hi, Mark. I could not disagree more with your premises. The steps you *criticize* saved tens of thousands, if not millions, of lives. Sorry."
So what, Mr. Book Agent? Your job is to sell books that interest readers, not books that interest you. Oh no! *Criticism!* What next? Thoughtful discussion? Oh the horror!
Exactly, CWS.
I guess the idea is that he has enough money and doesn't care if he loses a chance to reach a group of book buyers who might disagree with him.
Besides, those who opposed the lockdowns and shots are crazy and dangerous,
Or something like that.
Eight months have passed since we lost my millennial daughter (31) to breast cancer by way of Moderna. Boomers and millennials were so easy to manipulate. This man was on a long list of fools.
Suzanne, I feel terrible that that happened to your daughter.
Suzanne, my deepest condolences.
Anti-social 'social media' propaganda was Military Grade. So many were tricked. I am so sorry. Our 30 something daughter did not die, but she disowned us completely because we called it all a scam. We still have hope that she will wake up one day.
"Naive." That's funny coming from someone who chomped like a bass on the biggest con in human history.
I thought the same thing.
Unless he was in on the whole thing and was just playing along.
Nah, he got snookered.
I don't know. Your Bob sounded exactly like my neighbor Bob: utterly convinced the snipes were real. He gave me a stern talking-to about the 20% fatality rate. Of course I'm still here and he dropped dead in front of his wife six months after he held out his arm, so...
Another great article Mark.
Thanks, Joe.
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