When I was seven years old, there was a TV ad for a brand of sneakers called PF Flyers. In a deep, confident voice, the TV announcer assured viewers that these shoes that had a “built-in action wedge” that would make you “run faster and jump higher!” The ad showed a cross-sectioned diagram of the wedge followed by a kid a few years older than I was who seemed to be running fast. It seemed so scientific.
I just sent the following to a friend immediately before your post arrived in my inbox…
“It’s not credible to believe that any proper scientific/financial advisor to any government could have accidentally failed to understand the consequences of transition to renewable energy, sanctions on Russian oil & gas, NPIs for a fake pandemic, unfettered illegal migration etc. And yet there’s a mass denial of reality by people who still want to cling to the vestiges of benevolent governance as the ship goes down.”
I remember my mom buying me those $100 Air Jordans with the pump as a reward for a good report card. $100 was a lot back in the 80s! They didn't make me jump higher, and I realized I needed to train my human pumps, aka my calf muscles. Now I train my brain to make spiritual slam dunks.
Great article, Mark. However, I would challenge you on one point: "the Scamdemicians have fulfilled their main political, economic and social objectives." I would argue that they have failed to achieve these objectives, or at least, only partially succeeded. Politically, the Scamdemic is one of the reasons why more and more people in Western Europe are rejecting the main stream political parties and media. There are protests all over the place here in Europe against the other key facet of the globalists' plan to enslave us all: "Net Zero". Economically, sure, our economies in the West are screwed, and the pandemic helped that along nicely. However, our economies were screwed long before 2019. Finally, socially, have they really succeeded in turning us in to fear-laden conformists who will willingly fall for the next Black Swan? Well, 70% of people are pathetic sheep with zero critical thinking skills. But the same thing was true 10, 100 or a 1000 years ago. Meanwhile, the other 30% have been woken up and radicalized like never before. Even here in Switzerland, were 60% of the population continually votes in referenda to KEEP the Covid regulations on the books, the government realises that the 40% of naysayers will make sure that the Covid fraud is never repeated. Oh, and did I mention that the government has just had to destroy 6m unused death shots because no-one - not even in ultra-conformist Switzerland - is taking them? The globalists will keep on trying with Disease X, Y, Z, or with "climate lockdowns", or with "The Russians are Coming!", but they will fail.
The Book of Proverbs repeatedly advises readers to gain wisdom and knowledge so that they can identify and avoid liars and evil people. I think it's important to be skeptical of anyone generally, though like you, I've been lied to or manipulated dishonestly by family, friends, and business associates when I do not verify first what they are saying. But I did not believe anyone regarding the Wuhan scam immediately because it made no sense and what the Faucis, etc said in January and February 2020 about it changed 180 degrees in March and later. So, I assumed there was some sort of deep state effort to destroy Trump and it was using the destruction of our country by the virus to do so. As you point out, unfortunately, they have largely gotten away with it.
The only lights in this darkness of continued death and destruction I see is that, in Australia, employers can be sued by vax injured or the estates of those killed by the injections for damages. The Brits have a fund that will pay those who are injured by the injections and in Japan, if you die or are injured within 90 days of an injection it is assumed to have been from the injections and there is compensation. But don't look to anyone to do anything about this genocide until the trial lawyers get involved with lawsuits for damages. While that won't put people in jail or at least get them fired, it will help some to get a small measure relief and justice. Just like the suits against the tobacco companies, who knew for generations they sold a product that would kill people eventually, largely destroyed them.
I wasn't sure what they were so I looked them up. You can still buy PF Flyers! :)
I don't remember too much about TV ads back then other than breakfast cereal, (the only thing I would think of asking for I guess). But I do remember poring over the ads in the teen magazines. If only I had that brand of lip gloss, oh how wonderful life would be....
I think that many people can easily conceive of lies when they understand that there is clear conflict of interest, e.g., a politician wanting your vote, a salesman selling you a junker, etc. But this was such an enormous conspiracy that it's really hard for people who don't delve in to understand the how and the why. I'm also weary. But my anger flares up every time I hear about another heart attack or turbo cancer ruining the lives of people I care about.
Ha! I remember those PF Flyer “Action Wedge” commercials.
Nothing’s changed. My sandwich looks nothing like depicted on TV or print ads. How do I know if there’s two scoops of raisins in my cereal? And what the hell constitutes a scoop anyway? Progressive couldn’t save me money on my car insurance although they collected a ton of my personal information before they said so.
In the 80s you were nobody without a horsey embroidered on your jeans or an alligator on your shirt.
Driving a Prius is likely to get you a nod from a hot chick more than a Ford Mustang.
We could go on all day. The bottom line is, we are a society bombarded and conditioned to accept and tell lies.
I worked with a young mother who told me that her teenage son was being helped in math by a teacher holding up flash cards. She unknowingly had a window behind her and the sunlight shined through the flash card so her son could read the answers on the back.
In my old fashioned mind I naively thought my coworker was leading to explain how she put a stop to her son’s shenanigans. You know since he wasn’t actually learning any math. But, no. Mom thought it was hilarious that her son was pulling the wool over the “stupid” teacher’s eyes. She not only approved of it, she thought her son was doing something great!
She was about 20 years younger than me. I remember thinking if she’s an indication of where we’re headed as a society we are truly screwed. And, here we are. But thanks for reminding me about those sneakers. I had forgotten all about what a big deal they were for a hot second in my formative years.
I admit, I was surprised at the people who fell into lockstep with the hokey pokey. People who seemed to know stuff and could read between the lines in other ways. Then I realized, they still believe in the mainstream medical world. They thought doctors cared and had their best interests at heart. That’s the difference. If you defer to the doctors for all your health care needs, then you’ve checked your brain at the door and you get what you get. I lost the doctor worship way, way back, so where my health is concerned, I study and learn all I can to use natural products to heal and improve my health. I study for things that may occur in the future so I’m not caught unaware and then make decisions in panic mode.
...happened on a sunny Tuesday morning in Sep in the year 2001.
Many times prior the crime syndicate and their bureaucrat lackeys foisted absurdities on us. JFK's official story is an absurdity. The obviously egregious non-reaction to Israel's attack on the U.S.S. Liberty is another. Yet those were more "local," leaving Americans untouched directly (or so believed) by those events.
Then NYC, Pennsylvania, D.C. One absurdity on top of another. Illogic abounding. Incompetence (at best) and criminal negligence by the basketful. Yet Americans? Bought that bullshit hook, line, and sinker. They castigated gleefully anyone who said otherwise or dared to point out all of the above. Oh -- and of course -- willingly and sanctimoniously sacrificed their own freedom without protest in order to be "safe" while applauding those who took that freedom.
So. Knowing the playbook, seeing the moves, hearing the bullshit in early 2020? No brainer, and sadly, full knowledge that the horde would buy yet again another load. Full knowledge that once that horde built up a head of steam there was no stopping it, only getting out of its way to the extent possible.
Here’s my theory: Taken as a whole, humans resent independence. They resent it in others and they resent it being required of themselves. A state of grudging, part-time rationality has been the default state of most humans for millennia. Beginning in 2020 such people were suddenly rewarded for indulging their craving to live unfocused lives. Their abandonment of reason didn’t require brainwashing or fear of a cold virus or false advertising or even the relentless, obvious lying from bureaucrats, doctors, and “scientists.” Yes, people were alarmed at first, but that’s not a full explanation for their absolute, *ongoing* refusal to think, for their rage when it was suggested that they should, and for their hatred and anger toward those who do. Being lied to doesn’t explain wishing social excommunication and death on people who wouldn’t follow floor arrows.
You and your readership weren’t the only ones who could immediately see the tyrannical handwriting on the wall. Some of the Branch Covidians grasped it explicitly, but even those who didn’t understood it in their cores and they chomped on it like bass because something in them responded eagerly to the opportunity. They threw off what had always felt to them like the shackles of independent, rational, functional adulthood and they regressed instantly to infantilized dependents. “No, you can’t go outside to play until you finish your spinach. No, you can’t go to a restaurant until you put on your muzzle.” None of it had to make rational sense or be scientific, truthful, or internally coherent. The infantilized don’t demand rationality, coherence, sanity, or truth from others, including their rulers, because distinguishing truth from lies and maintaining a relationship with reality is hard. It takes more than a few intermittent minutes or hours each day. It’s more than not driving through red lights or crossing streets without looking both ways. It takes mental effort and rigorous introspection sustained as the habit of a lifetime. It takes the conviction that ideas and truth matter. It takes integrity: the determination to uphold and act on what one says is true no matter how uncomfortable or socially unpopular that is.
Expecting people to punish the politicians who gave them a rationalization for their own evasions is like expecting a three year-old to put his mother on the naughty step because she gave him a bag of Oreos. The majority suspended reason because it was easy and felt good. They won’t demand accountability from themselves nor anyone else.
Mark, A telling (and as always, excellent) piece. But you must have been really impassioned writing this because a couple typos have crept in and that is unusual for you. I know you will want this to be perfect so note the following:
I can make no sense of the final sentence of this paragraph: "Because they can’t be ousted by voters, bureaucrats have had even more freedom to lie than do politicians. In the private sector, employers would have been fired those whom, like the bureaucrats, who lied during Coronamania."
Also, I think this sentence is missing a "rather": "And most judges are driven by politics and zeitgeists than by the law and facts."
Irrespective, everything you say all rings so true...but I still find it completely inexplicable. I hate to feel like a religious convert who cannot understand why all the rest of the world will not answer his/her door knocks since they have "the truth", but the fact is the Coronamania truth is clear and no one wants to hear. I keep hearing echoes of an oft-recited phrase of my youth: "What if they gave a war and nobody came?" Now I hear "What if the truth were told and nobody cared?" I have to believe that this, too, shall correct itself but the path to getting there remains obscure. Your writing reminds us all that we are not alone in our observations.
This article reminds me of a quote my Dad always told me as a kid. For half of my life, I thought my dad created the saying. It wasn't until I was in my thirties I realized it was Poe.
“Believe nothing you hear and only one half that you see.”
They’ve never been held accountable and they never will because they’ve successfully deployed chaff in the form of chaos at the border, wars abroad, 91 indictments, the Super Bowl, etc., etc. etc. Sadly, too many have confirmed, it’s a strategy that works.
I just sent the following to a friend immediately before your post arrived in my inbox…
“It’s not credible to believe that any proper scientific/financial advisor to any government could have accidentally failed to understand the consequences of transition to renewable energy, sanctions on Russian oil & gas, NPIs for a fake pandemic, unfettered illegal migration etc. And yet there’s a mass denial of reality by people who still want to cling to the vestiges of benevolent governance as the ship goes down.”
I remember my mom buying me those $100 Air Jordans with the pump as a reward for a good report card. $100 was a lot back in the 80s! They didn't make me jump higher, and I realized I needed to train my human pumps, aka my calf muscles. Now I train my brain to make spiritual slam dunks.
Great article, Mark. However, I would challenge you on one point: "the Scamdemicians have fulfilled their main political, economic and social objectives." I would argue that they have failed to achieve these objectives, or at least, only partially succeeded. Politically, the Scamdemic is one of the reasons why more and more people in Western Europe are rejecting the main stream political parties and media. There are protests all over the place here in Europe against the other key facet of the globalists' plan to enslave us all: "Net Zero". Economically, sure, our economies in the West are screwed, and the pandemic helped that along nicely. However, our economies were screwed long before 2019. Finally, socially, have they really succeeded in turning us in to fear-laden conformists who will willingly fall for the next Black Swan? Well, 70% of people are pathetic sheep with zero critical thinking skills. But the same thing was true 10, 100 or a 1000 years ago. Meanwhile, the other 30% have been woken up and radicalized like never before. Even here in Switzerland, were 60% of the population continually votes in referenda to KEEP the Covid regulations on the books, the government realises that the 40% of naysayers will make sure that the Covid fraud is never repeated. Oh, and did I mention that the government has just had to destroy 6m unused death shots because no-one - not even in ultra-conformist Switzerland - is taking them? The globalists will keep on trying with Disease X, Y, Z, or with "climate lockdowns", or with "The Russians are Coming!", but they will fail.
The Book of Proverbs repeatedly advises readers to gain wisdom and knowledge so that they can identify and avoid liars and evil people. I think it's important to be skeptical of anyone generally, though like you, I've been lied to or manipulated dishonestly by family, friends, and business associates when I do not verify first what they are saying. But I did not believe anyone regarding the Wuhan scam immediately because it made no sense and what the Faucis, etc said in January and February 2020 about it changed 180 degrees in March and later. So, I assumed there was some sort of deep state effort to destroy Trump and it was using the destruction of our country by the virus to do so. As you point out, unfortunately, they have largely gotten away with it.
The only lights in this darkness of continued death and destruction I see is that, in Australia, employers can be sued by vax injured or the estates of those killed by the injections for damages. The Brits have a fund that will pay those who are injured by the injections and in Japan, if you die or are injured within 90 days of an injection it is assumed to have been from the injections and there is compensation. But don't look to anyone to do anything about this genocide until the trial lawyers get involved with lawsuits for damages. While that won't put people in jail or at least get them fired, it will help some to get a small measure relief and justice. Just like the suits against the tobacco companies, who knew for generations they sold a product that would kill people eventually, largely destroyed them.
Danny Huckabee
As a Bible believing Christian, I'm happy that justice will be served. God is love, but he's also just. I'm glad it's His decision and not mine.
I wasn't sure what they were so I looked them up. You can still buy PF Flyers! :)
I don't remember too much about TV ads back then other than breakfast cereal, (the only thing I would think of asking for I guess). But I do remember poring over the ads in the teen magazines. If only I had that brand of lip gloss, oh how wonderful life would be....
I think that many people can easily conceive of lies when they understand that there is clear conflict of interest, e.g., a politician wanting your vote, a salesman selling you a junker, etc. But this was such an enormous conspiracy that it's really hard for people who don't delve in to understand the how and the why. I'm also weary. But my anger flares up every time I hear about another heart attack or turbo cancer ruining the lives of people I care about.
Ha! I remember those PF Flyer “Action Wedge” commercials.
Nothing’s changed. My sandwich looks nothing like depicted on TV or print ads. How do I know if there’s two scoops of raisins in my cereal? And what the hell constitutes a scoop anyway? Progressive couldn’t save me money on my car insurance although they collected a ton of my personal information before they said so.
In the 80s you were nobody without a horsey embroidered on your jeans or an alligator on your shirt.
Driving a Prius is likely to get you a nod from a hot chick more than a Ford Mustang.
We could go on all day. The bottom line is, we are a society bombarded and conditioned to accept and tell lies.
I worked with a young mother who told me that her teenage son was being helped in math by a teacher holding up flash cards. She unknowingly had a window behind her and the sunlight shined through the flash card so her son could read the answers on the back.
In my old fashioned mind I naively thought my coworker was leading to explain how she put a stop to her son’s shenanigans. You know since he wasn’t actually learning any math. But, no. Mom thought it was hilarious that her son was pulling the wool over the “stupid” teacher’s eyes. She not only approved of it, she thought her son was doing something great!
She was about 20 years younger than me. I remember thinking if she’s an indication of where we’re headed as a society we are truly screwed. And, here we are. But thanks for reminding me about those sneakers. I had forgotten all about what a big deal they were for a hot second in my formative years.
I admit, I was surprised at the people who fell into lockstep with the hokey pokey. People who seemed to know stuff and could read between the lines in other ways. Then I realized, they still believe in the mainstream medical world. They thought doctors cared and had their best interests at heart. That’s the difference. If you defer to the doctors for all your health care needs, then you’ve checked your brain at the door and you get what you get. I lost the doctor worship way, way back, so where my health is concerned, I study and learn all I can to use natural products to heal and improve my health. I study for things that may occur in the future so I’m not caught unaware and then make decisions in panic mode.
Great piece!
I just turned 70, and I too wanted, and eventually bought a pair of PF Fliers.
Thought they would allow me to run faster, leap tall buildings in a single bound...
Naaah, not as advertised...
The preview for this..."𝑫𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒎𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔, 𝒅𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒄𝒂𝒎𝒅𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒄, 𝒎𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆, 𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒍𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒔𝒂𝒘 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒗𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒔 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅𝒍𝒚-𝒘𝒊𝒔𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒌𝒆𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍, 𝒔𝒖𝒅𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒔𝒖𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒃𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒇. 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒏𝒂𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝒔𝒘𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒅 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒄 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒄𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒃𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒖𝒄𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒔, 𝒑𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒏𝒔, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒂 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝑷𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒎𝒂 𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒉𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒖𝒕, 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒔𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔 𝒐𝒃𝒗𝒊𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒍𝒚 𝒇𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒍𝒐𝒈𝒊𝒄 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒖𝒃𝒍𝒊𝒄 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒆𝒚𝒆𝒔."
...happened on a sunny Tuesday morning in Sep in the year 2001.
Many times prior the crime syndicate and their bureaucrat lackeys foisted absurdities on us. JFK's official story is an absurdity. The obviously egregious non-reaction to Israel's attack on the U.S.S. Liberty is another. Yet those were more "local," leaving Americans untouched directly (or so believed) by those events.
Then NYC, Pennsylvania, D.C. One absurdity on top of another. Illogic abounding. Incompetence (at best) and criminal negligence by the basketful. Yet Americans? Bought that bullshit hook, line, and sinker. They castigated gleefully anyone who said otherwise or dared to point out all of the above. Oh -- and of course -- willingly and sanctimoniously sacrificed their own freedom without protest in order to be "safe" while applauding those who took that freedom.
So. Knowing the playbook, seeing the moves, hearing the bullshit in early 2020? No brainer, and sadly, full knowledge that the horde would buy yet again another load. Full knowledge that once that horde built up a head of steam there was no stopping it, only getting out of its way to the extent possible.
People. "We" sure are "funny."
Here’s my theory: Taken as a whole, humans resent independence. They resent it in others and they resent it being required of themselves. A state of grudging, part-time rationality has been the default state of most humans for millennia. Beginning in 2020 such people were suddenly rewarded for indulging their craving to live unfocused lives. Their abandonment of reason didn’t require brainwashing or fear of a cold virus or false advertising or even the relentless, obvious lying from bureaucrats, doctors, and “scientists.” Yes, people were alarmed at first, but that’s not a full explanation for their absolute, *ongoing* refusal to think, for their rage when it was suggested that they should, and for their hatred and anger toward those who do. Being lied to doesn’t explain wishing social excommunication and death on people who wouldn’t follow floor arrows.
You and your readership weren’t the only ones who could immediately see the tyrannical handwriting on the wall. Some of the Branch Covidians grasped it explicitly, but even those who didn’t understood it in their cores and they chomped on it like bass because something in them responded eagerly to the opportunity. They threw off what had always felt to them like the shackles of independent, rational, functional adulthood and they regressed instantly to infantilized dependents. “No, you can’t go outside to play until you finish your spinach. No, you can’t go to a restaurant until you put on your muzzle.” None of it had to make rational sense or be scientific, truthful, or internally coherent. The infantilized don’t demand rationality, coherence, sanity, or truth from others, including their rulers, because distinguishing truth from lies and maintaining a relationship with reality is hard. It takes more than a few intermittent minutes or hours each day. It’s more than not driving through red lights or crossing streets without looking both ways. It takes mental effort and rigorous introspection sustained as the habit of a lifetime. It takes the conviction that ideas and truth matter. It takes integrity: the determination to uphold and act on what one says is true no matter how uncomfortable or socially unpopular that is.
Expecting people to punish the politicians who gave them a rationalization for their own evasions is like expecting a three year-old to put his mother on the naughty step because she gave him a bag of Oreos. The majority suspended reason because it was easy and felt good. They won’t demand accountability from themselves nor anyone else.
Mark, A telling (and as always, excellent) piece. But you must have been really impassioned writing this because a couple typos have crept in and that is unusual for you. I know you will want this to be perfect so note the following:
I can make no sense of the final sentence of this paragraph: "Because they can’t be ousted by voters, bureaucrats have had even more freedom to lie than do politicians. In the private sector, employers would have been fired those whom, like the bureaucrats, who lied during Coronamania."
Also, I think this sentence is missing a "rather": "And most judges are driven by politics and zeitgeists than by the law and facts."
Irrespective, everything you say all rings so true...but I still find it completely inexplicable. I hate to feel like a religious convert who cannot understand why all the rest of the world will not answer his/her door knocks since they have "the truth", but the fact is the Coronamania truth is clear and no one wants to hear. I keep hearing echoes of an oft-recited phrase of my youth: "What if they gave a war and nobody came?" Now I hear "What if the truth were told and nobody cared?" I have to believe that this, too, shall correct itself but the path to getting there remains obscure. Your writing reminds us all that we are not alone in our observations.
Thanks for doing this. It is important.
Losing that race in PF Flyers was a blessing of humility and discernment;
many folks who believed the Scamdemic liars on TV paid with their lives.
This article reminds me of a quote my Dad always told me as a kid. For half of my life, I thought my dad created the saying. It wasn't until I was in my thirties I realized it was Poe.
“Believe nothing you hear and only one half that you see.”
Edgar Allan Poe
They’ve never been held accountable and they never will because they’ve successfully deployed chaff in the form of chaos at the border, wars abroad, 91 indictments, the Super Bowl, etc., etc. etc. Sadly, too many have confirmed, it’s a strategy that works.
They lie because there are no repercussions and there is no ability in the general public to discern the lies. Hell, why not.