Non Pharmaceutical Interventions (NPI) were about control. Period. I said to a buddy way back in 2020 the way everybody is relinquishing the freedom our soldiers died to preserve is sickening.
I said it reminds me of that scene in “Stripes” when John Candy peeks out the back of the troupe carrier and is met with a couple of armed Czech soldiers. He then proceeds to hand over all the weapons from his entire battalion. Hand em over guys…
That’s what we did we just gave up over a germ and handed everything over to the enemy. Fucking cowards. And, masks? They’re just leftist attire. A gag. Fittingly appropriate.
The guy I said all this to had been my close friend for over 25 years. Always fancied himself a Conservative Patriot. We used to go to lunch and chat regularly. Now he refuses to speak to me.
I am angry and ashamed of myself that I let so much fear into my life because of something invisible and told to me by my tv set and the newspapers. I am grateful there were ordinary voices around trying to make people come back to their normal senses. It started with comments on articles and these commentators left links and a trail of breadcrumbs I followed. I had believed that my government and public health would never deliberately harm me, I was very wrong. So I always thank every single lone voice who spoke out at this time for I know they made a difference to people like me.
Don’t beat yourself up. That’s counterproductive. We all were faced with a very powerful manipulative force.
Had my life circumstances been different I may very well had fallen victim to it also. I’m no genius. I’m not holier than thou. I just happened to possess the tools to see it.
If someone such as yourself is strong enough to do a 180 and admit they were bamboozled, I say hurrah! I admire your strength and cheer your resolve.
Don’t feel ashamed for being reborn by truth. Good luck on your journey.
I’ll never trust them again. I won’t be mean, but when it happens again, and it will, I know who will cave to the lies and endanger the lives of the rest of us and our children.
Montanaoutlaw, I agree and Same here, most of my friends are now contrite and a few are just silent but feel rooked. It's hard not to gloat but I gotta tell them "it'll happen again, maybe you're awake now?" Btw, I spent many of my younger years in Montana off I-90 near the Idaho border. Many of my old neighbors didn't fall for the crap. During Cali's bullshit lockdowns I loaded up my youngest daughter and took her to a high school in Missoula that wasn't locked, but it's a college town and many of its residents caved. You might've noticed the same in your part of MT?
I grew up in Montana and I know that area well. I live in Hot Springs in the Black Hills of South Dakota, we moved here from Salt Lake City in 2019. Governor Noem didn’t force lockdowns, but the people here freaked out nonetheless, although not as bad as the rest of the country. I didn’t mask and didn’t frequent businesses that required it after they opened up.
Here is my second comment. I'm about your age. About 20 years ago my 9yo son wanted to take a fencing class. The description said that the class was open to anyone age 9 to 69. So I decided, impulsively, to sign up too.
The class was filled with about 60 kids, mostly boys, and a handful of parents like me.
The teacher was an Eastern European former Olympic champion. (we lucked out!) She was probably 69 years old, and had a heavy accent.
The first class she gave a quick but thorough overview of what we would be learning, and then handed out equipment and we began with the basics.
The second class was intense, as she walked around the room, CRITICIZING our form and behavior in an extremely Eastern European serious (harsh) manner. That day, when we got home, my son said to me, "whoa, what's up with the teacher. She's kinda mean." He was surprised by her, compared to his other teachers he was more used to.
I said, "well, she's an Olympic Champion; she has a lot to teach us, and I can tell she knows what she's doing. She also obviously wants her students to learn well, to learn the right techniques from the beginning. She is definitely strict, but is that necessarily a bad thing? Is her criticism personal, or is it to help you learn the right way to fence?" He thought about it, and he said, "I see what you mean. I want to learn fencing, and I think she's a good teacher."
The third class, guess what? Half of the kids didn't return. They dropped out, and I can only assume it was because they couldn't handle the criticism. But the rest of the class stuck it out, and we learned a ton. My son ended up loving the teacher, and you could tell that she was pleased with our progress. She continued to be very strict, but she would also smile if you did things correctly.
By the way, none of this criticism was personal; it was just very pointed and direct. That's how you learn.
I had a similar experience in college (early 80’s). I was fortunate to have a wonderful Polish woman for a piano teacher. She was a brilliant pianist who had escaped from communist Poland and was teaching in an American community college. She was tough and critical and very proud of you when you did things right. Then she’d give you a kiss on the top of your head!
As I’ve grown older I find myself reflecting often on this lack of physical and mental toughness and resilience in people around me - particularly in the younger generations. I cringe internally at the word “bullying” which is bandied about so readily these days. Don’t get me wrong - there is real bullying, and those bullies just need to be put down. But there seems to be a perpetual weakness in so many people these days - they have no ability to “suffer the slings and arrows”. How do they get through the day?
what a lot of "victims" do not understand is the part they play in being a target. Bullies are predators.
I'm commenting on this topic because you hit upon another very important nugget: part of the indoctrination to weaken us psychologically has been to inculcate a victim mentality (which is a close relative of blaming/projection).
The bully is not going to change; YOU have to change. The bystanders are not going to step in and save you, either. If you can figure out what makes you an attractive target, you are halfway there.
Relating what I just said back to constructive criticism (like a sports coach or piano teacher), many people confuse this type of criticism with "bullying," then blame the "bully" for their hurt feelings.
And yes, it is also true that some coaches and teachers ARE bullies. But you can't let one person destroy your life.
Being a target of abuse is horrible. I've been there. That's why I have learned so much, and put that behind me as some valuable life lessons. I'm not trying to "blame the victim" but empowerment is the only thing that works. Otherwise, people get stuck in the victim stage and never get over it.
On Fencing: A friend of mine took fencing in college. He said the very first thing they did was leg lunges, 500 per leg. I don't know if that was exaggeration or if they did it each lesson. His teacher was also Eastern European.
If you are American in the kitchen, what are you in the bathroom?
Hahaha not an exaggeration! that is EXACTLY what we started with. Those lunges. OMG those were so hard. But -- necessary. You don't know how weak you are until you have to put it to the test!
Snowflake generation... but that world is evanescing. Look at Europe today fighting for its identity and its existence.
Charlemagne, Charles Martel, Pippin, Don Juan de Austria, John Sobieski and the Winged Hussars must be disappointed; so much sacrifice to create a free Europe only to see it overrun by soft, irreligious, spoiled hedonists today.
Europe and the EU is a wonderful example of how important individual identities (and the different cultures of individual countries) are, how important sovereignty is. Small scale (individual people), large scale (individual states or countries). We have not only allowed our cultures to be subsumed by marauding invaders who are not content to stay put and fight or transform their own tyrannies (I know this is monumental) -- but we are doing it to ourselves, even. We annihilate our own individual identities and those of our children.... we are inviting and allowing it and we are offering assistance to the perpetrators of our own demise. It's time for people to get a clue.
I wish I were not so far along in my own life, but I will fight and teach others to fight. Killing off the generations that were not so soft and indoctrinated is, of course, part of the plan. But honestly? The ones who are sticking it out to the end.... we are a force to be reckoned with.
It’s the difference between those who want to be coddled by their coaches and those who have a commitment to their sport and team.
They paid her for her expertise and how she communicated it might be harsh but I’d rather have that than a marshmallow who just takes the money and doesn’t give anything in return.
Hi Mark! Long time. I just haven’t had much to add…. But I think I do here: “They” marginalized and canceled us. I mean on a personal level. They let their fear they “caught” from TV and MSM conquer their common sense. Even within families, we were marginalized and treated horribly. My doctor still calls me a “flat earther.” So, like the typical cupcakes they’ve allowed themselves to become, they prove they can dish it out, but they can’t take it. As JJ. Couey says: They are skilled TV Watchers.
It’s not just progressives, but almost the whole of the medical field that went along. Doctors as a rule, resist the urge to admit error, for obvious reasons( questioning authority, legal jeopardy, ego etc). We were supposed to be “ smart” and help our patients figure this out, but most went along like lemmings off the cliff. It doesn’t mean there were no doubts, but the pressure was intense, and only a few openly questioned these policies. I have very little faith in my own medical community after this, unless a loud mea culpa is expressed. Punishment of the ringleaders is necessary.
So many of the go-along to get-along crowd used their self-righteousness to beat others into submission. I imagine that false sense of superiority is too painful to relinquish by admitting you made a mistake.
This article of Mark's has really got me thinking. What is it about human beings that makes so many of us want to be thought of as "superior" to others? This is different from wanting to excel. We all have goals and a desire to achieve, but this does not have to come with the desire to "lord" it over others. Anyone have any thoughts about this?
These days, we live in a world devoid of discussions about virtue and vice, but they exist -- and vanity is one of the most destructive becomes it involves more than just the vain one...
Appeal to the vanity of "the people" with the power of the State to back it up? You get things like the "COVID" operation. Without the expressed vices of vanity and cowardice, which we saw manifest in spades throughout, that operation would have been wholly impossible.
It is the Post Vatican II period of "moral relativism".
- "I'm OK, you're OK", Dr. Spock,
- the Est Movement,
- hero worship,
- the Beatles, hedonism, drugging/escapism
- everyone gets a trophy (and no one gets spanked),
- "you can't judge me"
- "I'm spiritual but not religious"
"God is dead" only to be replaced by millions of other Gods in our egos or materialist constructivist progressives
All of this is designed to debase humanity, destroy Western Civilization, cull humanity and funnel all finances power to a corps of outright satanic or luciferian self-proclaimed "elites" and enslave those who survive the cull operation.
God has to be obliterated for this fantasy of theirs to come to fruition.
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Good one. I recognize exactly what you're talking about. The culture has changed, both at the individual level and, in general, the institutional level. Suffice to say, I used to teach now and then; I no longer do, and it is precisely for this reason.
To be human is to make mistakes, whether often or on occasion; being able to recognize and acknowledge (and depending on the context, sometimes, also ask forgiveness for) a mistake, learn from it, and then move on from it, is a crucial life skill. People who don't have this skill are a danger to themselves and to others.
This was great. Thanks for writing it. One comment here, and I'll write another comment following this one:
Here's why progressives can't deal with the hurt feelings (I'm way oversimplifying BTW): because of the slow-drip indoctrination at least over our lifetimes, accelerating with each succeeding generation, progressives are all about putting people into groups or boxes, even while they decry stereotyping. Their poor minds have been so bent into pretzels that they cannot see the contradictions and it's very uncomfortable to have it pointed out to them, because their identity is based upon being part of certain group(s). People who do not think in this way (not all conservatives, and others besides, and you'll see why in this sentence) consider people as individuals primarily, although obviously there are many groups we might belong to. But the individual is primary to the group.
The group is very self (group)-reinforcing, and if a person steps out from that, they "die" -- they cease to exist, can be ostracized, etc. Group identity is all-important. When people see themselves and each other as individuals, there is no threat (or greatly diminished) because the foundation of that person's identity is up to them, and can be strengthened or knocked down and rebuilt by criticism..... it is much easier to do that when it is all up to that one person and not the approval or disapproval of the group which has been absorbed into that person's identity.
Also, much easier (and back in the day much easier) when more people identified as individuals and saw the many examples of other individuals receiving criticism and dealing with it, and learning that it doesn't kill you.
A local dairy farmer friend, Ralph, had retired and was looking for something to do to get himself out of the house. The superintendent of schools suggested that he would make one hell of a bus driver, and the school system was in dire need of drivers, so Ralph gave it a go.
Ralph was old school, raised in the era of one room schoolhouses. when the teacher would mete out appropriate punishments to Little Johnny who would, in most cases, go home to another round of punishment. Things went well until one day a particular Little Johnny started acting out and causing trouble.
Ralph had enough and pulled the bus over and grabbed the little bastid by the collar, hoisted him up out of the seat and gave him a good talking-to.
Three days later, Ralph was no longer a school bus driver, and was threatened with an assault charge for trying to maintain order on the bus.
Obviously, Ralph had not kept up with the "advances in child development trends" over the years.
Looking at those "advancements" today will give one some insight into why today's young people act the way they do.
God help us if we have to depend on those people to defend this country when (not if) we are faced with a major threat.
Most, if not all, of my improvement as a human being has come as a result of recognizing that I was wrong about something, somehow, and that if my feelings were hurt by being wrong, I had to man up and correct my behavior anyway. And apologize for my mistakes, too, and make things right.
“I was wrong. I’m sorry. How can I make things right, and how can I do better next time?”
I feel absurd having to even type out something that seems so simple and obvious, but after the last few years maybe the whole world needs to go back to kindergarten and start over.
I think we are the last somewhat thougher generation. The kids nowadays are raised sissies. They cannot stand at the front door in the dark, hell I had to ride a bicycle or go by foot 2 miles in the pitch black dark in the morning and in the coming dark at night! If there is some wind or heavy rain the school closes. We had not one day in all the 15 years when we were allowed to stay home for bad weather, and when I worked, no presence no pay. The kids now are raised to sit still and obey orders, not to think for themselves, and to do exactly as the govt says. Look how little youth is among the farmer's protesters, that is about their food! It used to be students who stood up first. Now they greatly belong to the sheeple
I'm reminded of what you're saying every time I get behind a school bus that lets kids out, then goes to the house NEXT DOOR, stops again, to let more out. When I rode the bus, it never had two stops closer than three blocks or so. So wrong-headed, such pampering doesn't help the kids, it ruins them.
20 years ago living in the desert north of Tucson AZ, the children of the whole neighborhood went to the corner to wait on the bus. The kids here now at least cross the street, at first the did not even do that. There are 5 houses in our street, about a quarter mile or less !
Excellent points. I’m guessing we’ve all experienced the condescension from our pedigreed friends. The funny thing is, because I’m a long-term mainstream medical everything hater, I KNOW I’m smarter and more informed than them. I KNOW I’m (and have been) right. I read and study and when I’m done, I read and study some more. I never turn myself over to some authority and leave my brain at the door. We (my brother and me) knew right from the start that there was something fishy going on and certainly didn’t buy into the fear of a winter cold. Just because you went to college, it doesn’t make you smarter, in fact in many ways it makes you dumber. Just a crowd following dolt who’s probably still wearing masks.
The "we couldn't have known at the time" trope is such Bullshit. Mark deserves credit for his well documented and elegantly articulated clarity of vision from even early-on. The argument of we couldn't have know completely obliterates any supporting planks for "Dual-use" research. These things (including spike protein exposure incident cardio myopathy) were well studied and documented. As early as fall 2019 David Rubenstein's lionizing Fauci interview foreshadowing his up upcoming world tour stated clearly people should not be walking around in masks. My 1s sleepless night Plandemonium era reading was an MMWR Report on Pandemic Preparedness (vol 66, No.1). There was a very useful quartile graph for severity and tricks were as simple as decimal misplacement. Making Coronamania appear off the chart bad. But all of these things indicate there was a read-in, complicit collective of people who used ambiguity and obfuscation to fool the world via idiot feckless mainstream miscreant media who can't even tell that Ellis Island is still above water. The lie of the we didn't know in the beginning is among the biggest and best clues that it was never about health.
Aside from the fact that we could have, the "we couldn't have known at the time" trope reveals an insidious ethical foundation of moral interventionism that we have been brainwashed with for most of the past century. The idea is that morality mandates that "we" do whatever is best for the greatest number. It assumes unlimited power to govern, and the absence of any limit on how any individual or political minority can be handled in pursuit of a desirable end.
In practice, this means that a faction that can control public discussion, so that only their framing of an issue ever has the floor, can morally compel everyone else to commit any atrocity. This is an administrator-class moral theory, and it is regularly invoked in support of foreign wars, socialistic programs, and ultimately of perfect tyranny.
Without the assumption of moral interventionism, why would it even matter what we could have known at the time?
The traits you observe in progressives are systemic to the left. It is the reason they can pursue policies and ideologies even after they've been shown to be wrong, damaging, and lethal to others, and even themselves.
Pride is one of the few sins God does not forgive, unless the the perpetrator admits it and is contrite. As you point out, very few on the left can do so, for the the reasons you list. This is why they support policies that are destructive to everyone, including themselves and their love ones. To do otherwise would be to admit error (or sin) and they are not going to do so, no matter what.
Like you and others who read you, I and my family are unvaxxed and had to deal with family and others who were and criticized and even cut us off, because of it. One turbo cancer and one repeatedly requiring extensive hospital stays, with only margin improvement. We don't encage in "I told you so" comments, but neither do we tolerate any criticism. I sympathize with those who were forced to be injected, in particular the children and young adults; they trusted adults to protect them. The others, who condemned or attacked us, our attitude is that you reap what you sow and those people are reaping the whirlwind. There is some rough justice being delved out to them.
I saw many red flags at the beginning of the scamdemic.
I suffered a heart attack on April 3, 2020, so I had to ride 60 miles in an ambulance to get to a hospital that could deal with it. I was really concerned about the hospital being overwhelmed with Covid based on news reports, and people freaking out. The hospital was empty. After the bypass surgery, I found out that there was only myself and 2 others in ICU,, my nurse said there was only a couple of patients in the whole hospital. When I shared this information on social media, I was immediately attacked by the leftist crowd as a liar, because, you know, the talking heads on their tv wouldn’t lie to them. Considering the fact that anyone who bucked the narrative was vilified and mocked, it makes no sense that anyone would lie, especially when it was a personal experience. I lost respect for many in my family and friends who were reeled in by the media and the “health professionals” who were lying to their faces and that they would take the word of the media before someone who actually cared about them. The good thing is that I was introduced to people who I know can trust, and I know who I will never trust again with anything.
Non Pharmaceutical Interventions (NPI) were about control. Period. I said to a buddy way back in 2020 the way everybody is relinquishing the freedom our soldiers died to preserve is sickening.
I said it reminds me of that scene in “Stripes” when John Candy peeks out the back of the troupe carrier and is met with a couple of armed Czech soldiers. He then proceeds to hand over all the weapons from his entire battalion. Hand em over guys…
That’s what we did we just gave up over a germ and handed everything over to the enemy. Fucking cowards. And, masks? They’re just leftist attire. A gag. Fittingly appropriate.
The guy I said all this to had been my close friend for over 25 years. Always fancied himself a Conservative Patriot. We used to go to lunch and chat regularly. Now he refuses to speak to me.
I am angry and ashamed of myself that I let so much fear into my life because of something invisible and told to me by my tv set and the newspapers. I am grateful there were ordinary voices around trying to make people come back to their normal senses. It started with comments on articles and these commentators left links and a trail of breadcrumbs I followed. I had believed that my government and public health would never deliberately harm me, I was very wrong. So I always thank every single lone voice who spoke out at this time for I know they made a difference to people like me.
Don’t beat yourself up. That’s counterproductive. We all were faced with a very powerful manipulative force.
Had my life circumstances been different I may very well had fallen victim to it also. I’m no genius. I’m not holier than thou. I just happened to possess the tools to see it.
If someone such as yourself is strong enough to do a 180 and admit they were bamboozled, I say hurrah! I admire your strength and cheer your resolve.
Don’t feel ashamed for being reborn by truth. Good luck on your journey.
Our dear (liberal) friends refused to speak to us for years, and some family members.
Took a few years but they're talking again.
Pride is the toughest pill to swallow.
I’ll never trust them again. I won’t be mean, but when it happens again, and it will, I know who will cave to the lies and endanger the lives of the rest of us and our children.
This level of evil certainly bends society towards cynicism, chaos and division. It is demonic.
Montanaoutlaw, I agree and Same here, most of my friends are now contrite and a few are just silent but feel rooked. It's hard not to gloat but I gotta tell them "it'll happen again, maybe you're awake now?" Btw, I spent many of my younger years in Montana off I-90 near the Idaho border. Many of my old neighbors didn't fall for the crap. During Cali's bullshit lockdowns I loaded up my youngest daughter and took her to a high school in Missoula that wasn't locked, but it's a college town and many of its residents caved. You might've noticed the same in your part of MT?
I grew up in Montana and I know that area well. I live in Hot Springs in the Black Hills of South Dakota, we moved here from Salt Lake City in 2019. Governor Noem didn’t force lockdowns, but the people here freaked out nonetheless, although not as bad as the rest of the country. I didn’t mask and didn’t frequent businesses that required it after they opened up.
Here is my second comment. I'm about your age. About 20 years ago my 9yo son wanted to take a fencing class. The description said that the class was open to anyone age 9 to 69. So I decided, impulsively, to sign up too.
The class was filled with about 60 kids, mostly boys, and a handful of parents like me.
The teacher was an Eastern European former Olympic champion. (we lucked out!) She was probably 69 years old, and had a heavy accent.
The first class she gave a quick but thorough overview of what we would be learning, and then handed out equipment and we began with the basics.
The second class was intense, as she walked around the room, CRITICIZING our form and behavior in an extremely Eastern European serious (harsh) manner. That day, when we got home, my son said to me, "whoa, what's up with the teacher. She's kinda mean." He was surprised by her, compared to his other teachers he was more used to.
I said, "well, she's an Olympic Champion; she has a lot to teach us, and I can tell she knows what she's doing. She also obviously wants her students to learn well, to learn the right techniques from the beginning. She is definitely strict, but is that necessarily a bad thing? Is her criticism personal, or is it to help you learn the right way to fence?" He thought about it, and he said, "I see what you mean. I want to learn fencing, and I think she's a good teacher."
The third class, guess what? Half of the kids didn't return. They dropped out, and I can only assume it was because they couldn't handle the criticism. But the rest of the class stuck it out, and we learned a ton. My son ended up loving the teacher, and you could tell that she was pleased with our progress. She continued to be very strict, but she would also smile if you did things correctly.
By the way, none of this criticism was personal; it was just very pointed and direct. That's how you learn.
ps: sometimes the truth hurts. But would you rather live a pleasant lie?
Bingo
I had a similar experience in college (early 80’s). I was fortunate to have a wonderful Polish woman for a piano teacher. She was a brilliant pianist who had escaped from communist Poland and was teaching in an American community college. She was tough and critical and very proud of you when you did things right. Then she’d give you a kiss on the top of your head!
As I’ve grown older I find myself reflecting often on this lack of physical and mental toughness and resilience in people around me - particularly in the younger generations. I cringe internally at the word “bullying” which is bandied about so readily these days. Don’t get me wrong - there is real bullying, and those bullies just need to be put down. But there seems to be a perpetual weakness in so many people these days - they have no ability to “suffer the slings and arrows”. How do they get through the day?
what a lot of "victims" do not understand is the part they play in being a target. Bullies are predators.
I'm commenting on this topic because you hit upon another very important nugget: part of the indoctrination to weaken us psychologically has been to inculcate a victim mentality (which is a close relative of blaming/projection).
The bully is not going to change; YOU have to change. The bystanders are not going to step in and save you, either. If you can figure out what makes you an attractive target, you are halfway there.
Relating what I just said back to constructive criticism (like a sports coach or piano teacher), many people confuse this type of criticism with "bullying," then blame the "bully" for their hurt feelings.
And yes, it is also true that some coaches and teachers ARE bullies. But you can't let one person destroy your life.
Being a target of abuse is horrible. I've been there. That's why I have learned so much, and put that behind me as some valuable life lessons. I'm not trying to "blame the victim" but empowerment is the only thing that works. Otherwise, people get stuck in the victim stage and never get over it.
Yes I find many people are ‘lacking a spine’ to stand up to anything…and it really shows these past four years!
On Fencing: A friend of mine took fencing in college. He said the very first thing they did was leg lunges, 500 per leg. I don't know if that was exaggeration or if they did it each lesson. His teacher was also Eastern European.
If you are American in the kitchen, what are you in the bathroom?
European!
Hahaha not an exaggeration! that is EXACTLY what we started with. Those lunges. OMG those were so hard. But -- necessary. You don't know how weak you are until you have to put it to the test!
Snowflake generation... but that world is evanescing. Look at Europe today fighting for its identity and its existence.
Charlemagne, Charles Martel, Pippin, Don Juan de Austria, John Sobieski and the Winged Hussars must be disappointed; so much sacrifice to create a free Europe only to see it overrun by soft, irreligious, spoiled hedonists today.
Europe and the EU is a wonderful example of how important individual identities (and the different cultures of individual countries) are, how important sovereignty is. Small scale (individual people), large scale (individual states or countries). We have not only allowed our cultures to be subsumed by marauding invaders who are not content to stay put and fight or transform their own tyrannies (I know this is monumental) -- but we are doing it to ourselves, even. We annihilate our own individual identities and those of our children.... we are inviting and allowing it and we are offering assistance to the perpetrators of our own demise. It's time for people to get a clue.
I wish I were not so far along in my own life, but I will fight and teach others to fight. Killing off the generations that were not so soft and indoctrinated is, of course, part of the plan. But honestly? The ones who are sticking it out to the end.... we are a force to be reckoned with.
I agree…
It’s the difference between those who want to be coddled by their coaches and those who have a commitment to their sport and team.
They paid her for her expertise and how she communicated it might be harsh but I’d rather have that than a marshmallow who just takes the money and doesn’t give anything in return.
Oh I would love to learn ‘how to fence’😉😆
take a class. It's so much fun. And might come in handy one day; you never know.
Hi Mark! Long time. I just haven’t had much to add…. But I think I do here: “They” marginalized and canceled us. I mean on a personal level. They let their fear they “caught” from TV and MSM conquer their common sense. Even within families, we were marginalized and treated horribly. My doctor still calls me a “flat earther.” So, like the typical cupcakes they’ve allowed themselves to become, they prove they can dish it out, but they can’t take it. As JJ. Couey says: They are skilled TV Watchers.
You might want to consider a new doctor……
Hahahahahahahaha! Problem is, I grew up with him. Since High School. I don’t listen to him, and obviously, he doesn’t listen to me!
Then what is the point in seeing him?
Insurance co requires it annually.
Hey, this is a wild shot in the dark: you from Dehradun?
Not sure where Dehradun is….
It’s a city near Rishikesh in the foothills of the Himalayas.
It’s not just progressives, but almost the whole of the medical field that went along. Doctors as a rule, resist the urge to admit error, for obvious reasons( questioning authority, legal jeopardy, ego etc). We were supposed to be “ smart” and help our patients figure this out, but most went along like lemmings off the cliff. It doesn’t mean there were no doubts, but the pressure was intense, and only a few openly questioned these policies. I have very little faith in my own medical community after this, unless a loud mea culpa is expressed. Punishment of the ringleaders is necessary.
Our pediatrician that gave shots but didn't push them, suddenly retired early on in the pandemic.
Our internist also bowed out.
They had morals and saw the writing on the wall. My internist's replacement also quit after the tetanus shot she administered nearly killed me.
So many of the go-along to get-along crowd used their self-righteousness to beat others into submission. I imagine that false sense of superiority is too painful to relinquish by admitting you made a mistake.
100%. That's exactly what drove most in my part of the world (at the time).
This article of Mark's has really got me thinking. What is it about human beings that makes so many of us want to be thought of as "superior" to others? This is different from wanting to excel. We all have goals and a desire to achieve, but this does not have to come with the desire to "lord" it over others. Anyone have any thoughts about this?
IMO, it's a vice, it's a sin. Called 𝒗𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒚.
These days, we live in a world devoid of discussions about virtue and vice, but they exist -- and vanity is one of the most destructive becomes it involves more than just the vain one...
Appeal to the vanity of "the people" with the power of the State to back it up? You get things like the "COVID" operation. Without the expressed vices of vanity and cowardice, which we saw manifest in spades throughout, that operation would have been wholly impossible.
It is the Post Vatican II period of "moral relativism".
- "I'm OK, you're OK", Dr. Spock,
- the Est Movement,
- hero worship,
- the Beatles, hedonism, drugging/escapism
- everyone gets a trophy (and no one gets spanked),
- "you can't judge me"
- "I'm spiritual but not religious"
"God is dead" only to be replaced by millions of other Gods in our egos or materialist constructivist progressives
All of this is designed to debase humanity, destroy Western Civilization, cull humanity and funnel all finances power to a corps of outright satanic or luciferian self-proclaimed "elites" and enslave those who survive the cull operation.
God has to be obliterated for this fantasy of theirs to come to fruition.
Regardless, the Immaculate Hearts will triumph.
Exquisitely spot-on, NJ Election Advisor. Thank you.
"IMO, it's a vice, it's a sin. Called 𝒗𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒚. "
Out of curiosity, how did you manage to change the typeface for "vanity"? When typing in the reply box here, I don't see any controls or settings.
I use yaytext.com for bold and italics. It's an additional step of going to the site to type in the word or words, but I appreciate the emphasis it allows the writer to apply on platforms such as this. Here's a link: https://yaytext.com/bold-italic/
It takes you to the bold/italic page, but you'll see on the left hand side a whole list of other things you can do with your text.
Satan and his minions
Pride
Now that a few family members have cancer , I’ve been isolated even more. ….. crazier than crazy psyops .
Good one. I recognize exactly what you're talking about. The culture has changed, both at the individual level and, in general, the institutional level. Suffice to say, I used to teach now and then; I no longer do, and it is precisely for this reason.
To be human is to make mistakes, whether often or on occasion; being able to recognize and acknowledge (and depending on the context, sometimes, also ask forgiveness for) a mistake, learn from it, and then move on from it, is a crucial life skill. People who don't have this skill are a danger to themselves and to others.
This was great. Thanks for writing it. One comment here, and I'll write another comment following this one:
Here's why progressives can't deal with the hurt feelings (I'm way oversimplifying BTW): because of the slow-drip indoctrination at least over our lifetimes, accelerating with each succeeding generation, progressives are all about putting people into groups or boxes, even while they decry stereotyping. Their poor minds have been so bent into pretzels that they cannot see the contradictions and it's very uncomfortable to have it pointed out to them, because their identity is based upon being part of certain group(s). People who do not think in this way (not all conservatives, and others besides, and you'll see why in this sentence) consider people as individuals primarily, although obviously there are many groups we might belong to. But the individual is primary to the group.
The group is very self (group)-reinforcing, and if a person steps out from that, they "die" -- they cease to exist, can be ostracized, etc. Group identity is all-important. When people see themselves and each other as individuals, there is no threat (or greatly diminished) because the foundation of that person's identity is up to them, and can be strengthened or knocked down and rebuilt by criticism..... it is much easier to do that when it is all up to that one person and not the approval or disapproval of the group which has been absorbed into that person's identity.
Also, much easier (and back in the day much easier) when more people identified as individuals and saw the many examples of other individuals receiving criticism and dealing with it, and learning that it doesn't kill you.
Well stated!
A local dairy farmer friend, Ralph, had retired and was looking for something to do to get himself out of the house. The superintendent of schools suggested that he would make one hell of a bus driver, and the school system was in dire need of drivers, so Ralph gave it a go.
When I heard about it, it was one of these
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Ralph was old school, raised in the era of one room schoolhouses. when the teacher would mete out appropriate punishments to Little Johnny who would, in most cases, go home to another round of punishment. Things went well until one day a particular Little Johnny started acting out and causing trouble.
Ralph had enough and pulled the bus over and grabbed the little bastid by the collar, hoisted him up out of the seat and gave him a good talking-to.
Three days later, Ralph was no longer a school bus driver, and was threatened with an assault charge for trying to maintain order on the bus.
Obviously, Ralph had not kept up with the "advances in child development trends" over the years.
Looking at those "advancements" today will give one some insight into why today's young people act the way they do.
God help us if we have to depend on those people to defend this country when (not if) we are faced with a major threat.
"Looking at those "advancements" today will give one some insight into why today's young people act the way they do.
God help us if we have to depend on those people to defend this country when (not if) we are faced with a major threat."
TRUTH!!!
Most, if not all, of my improvement as a human being has come as a result of recognizing that I was wrong about something, somehow, and that if my feelings were hurt by being wrong, I had to man up and correct my behavior anyway. And apologize for my mistakes, too, and make things right.
“I was wrong. I’m sorry. How can I make things right, and how can I do better next time?”
I feel absurd having to even type out something that seems so simple and obvious, but after the last few years maybe the whole world needs to go back to kindergarten and start over.
Rather than kindergarten, may I suggest a hard slap upside the head? For certain stubborn individuals, more than one may be appropriate.
I think we are the last somewhat thougher generation. The kids nowadays are raised sissies. They cannot stand at the front door in the dark, hell I had to ride a bicycle or go by foot 2 miles in the pitch black dark in the morning and in the coming dark at night! If there is some wind or heavy rain the school closes. We had not one day in all the 15 years when we were allowed to stay home for bad weather, and when I worked, no presence no pay. The kids now are raised to sit still and obey orders, not to think for themselves, and to do exactly as the govt says. Look how little youth is among the farmer's protesters, that is about their food! It used to be students who stood up first. Now they greatly belong to the sheeple
I'm reminded of what you're saying every time I get behind a school bus that lets kids out, then goes to the house NEXT DOOR, stops again, to let more out. When I rode the bus, it never had two stops closer than three blocks or so. So wrong-headed, such pampering doesn't help the kids, it ruins them.
20 years ago living in the desert north of Tucson AZ, the children of the whole neighborhood went to the corner to wait on the bus. The kids here now at least cross the street, at first the did not even do that. There are 5 houses in our street, about a quarter mile or less !
Excellent points. I’m guessing we’ve all experienced the condescension from our pedigreed friends. The funny thing is, because I’m a long-term mainstream medical everything hater, I KNOW I’m smarter and more informed than them. I KNOW I’m (and have been) right. I read and study and when I’m done, I read and study some more. I never turn myself over to some authority and leave my brain at the door. We (my brother and me) knew right from the start that there was something fishy going on and certainly didn’t buy into the fear of a winter cold. Just because you went to college, it doesn’t make you smarter, in fact in many ways it makes you dumber. Just a crowd following dolt who’s probably still wearing masks.
The "we couldn't have known at the time" trope is such Bullshit. Mark deserves credit for his well documented and elegantly articulated clarity of vision from even early-on. The argument of we couldn't have know completely obliterates any supporting planks for "Dual-use" research. These things (including spike protein exposure incident cardio myopathy) were well studied and documented. As early as fall 2019 David Rubenstein's lionizing Fauci interview foreshadowing his up upcoming world tour stated clearly people should not be walking around in masks. My 1s sleepless night Plandemonium era reading was an MMWR Report on Pandemic Preparedness (vol 66, No.1). There was a very useful quartile graph for severity and tricks were as simple as decimal misplacement. Making Coronamania appear off the chart bad. But all of these things indicate there was a read-in, complicit collective of people who used ambiguity and obfuscation to fool the world via idiot feckless mainstream miscreant media who can't even tell that Ellis Island is still above water. The lie of the we didn't know in the beginning is among the biggest and best clues that it was never about health.
Mark's writing helped keep me sane during the insanity.
Aside from the fact that we could have, the "we couldn't have known at the time" trope reveals an insidious ethical foundation of moral interventionism that we have been brainwashed with for most of the past century. The idea is that morality mandates that "we" do whatever is best for the greatest number. It assumes unlimited power to govern, and the absence of any limit on how any individual or political minority can be handled in pursuit of a desirable end.
In practice, this means that a faction that can control public discussion, so that only their framing of an issue ever has the floor, can morally compel everyone else to commit any atrocity. This is an administrator-class moral theory, and it is regularly invoked in support of foreign wars, socialistic programs, and ultimately of perfect tyranny.
Without the assumption of moral interventionism, why would it even matter what we could have known at the time?
"Vaaaanity..."
"...is 𝒅𝒆𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒚 my favorite sin."
Says the Devil (Al Pacino) to lawyer Kevin Lomax (Keanu Reaves) in 1997 film, 𝑫𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒍'𝒔 𝑨𝒅𝒗𝒐𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒆.
The traits you observe in progressives are systemic to the left. It is the reason they can pursue policies and ideologies even after they've been shown to be wrong, damaging, and lethal to others, and even themselves.
Pride is one of the few sins God does not forgive, unless the the perpetrator admits it and is contrite. As you point out, very few on the left can do so, for the the reasons you list. This is why they support policies that are destructive to everyone, including themselves and their love ones. To do otherwise would be to admit error (or sin) and they are not going to do so, no matter what.
Like you and others who read you, I and my family are unvaxxed and had to deal with family and others who were and criticized and even cut us off, because of it. One turbo cancer and one repeatedly requiring extensive hospital stays, with only margin improvement. We don't encage in "I told you so" comments, but neither do we tolerate any criticism. I sympathize with those who were forced to be injected, in particular the children and young adults; they trusted adults to protect them. The others, who condemned or attacked us, our attitude is that you reap what you sow and those people are reaping the whirlwind. There is some rough justice being delved out to them.
Danny Huckabee
I saw many red flags at the beginning of the scamdemic.
I suffered a heart attack on April 3, 2020, so I had to ride 60 miles in an ambulance to get to a hospital that could deal with it. I was really concerned about the hospital being overwhelmed with Covid based on news reports, and people freaking out. The hospital was empty. After the bypass surgery, I found out that there was only myself and 2 others in ICU,, my nurse said there was only a couple of patients in the whole hospital. When I shared this information on social media, I was immediately attacked by the leftist crowd as a liar, because, you know, the talking heads on their tv wouldn’t lie to them. Considering the fact that anyone who bucked the narrative was vilified and mocked, it makes no sense that anyone would lie, especially when it was a personal experience. I lost respect for many in my family and friends who were reeled in by the media and the “health professionals” who were lying to their faces and that they would take the word of the media before someone who actually cared about them. The good thing is that I was introduced to people who I know can trust, and I know who I will never trust again with anything.