ecosophia | Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 66

As we proceed through the second year of these open posts, it's pretty clear that the official narrative is cracking as the toll of deaths and injuries from the Covid vaccines rises steadily and the vaccines themselves demonstrate their total uselesness at preventing Covid infection or transmission. It's still important to keep watch over the mis-, mal- and nonfeasance of our self-proclaimed health gruppenfuehrers, and the disastrous results of the Covid mania, but I think it's also time to begin thinking about what might be possible as the existing medical industry reels under the impact of its own self-inflicted injuries.

So it's time for another open post. The rules are the same as before:

1. If you plan on parroting the party line of the medical industry and its paid shills, please go away. This is a place for people to talk openly, honestly, and freely about their concerns that the party line in question is dangerously flawed and that actions being pushed by the medical industry et al. are causing injury and death. It is not a place for you to dismiss those concerns. Anyone who wants to hear the official story and the arguments in favor of it can find those on hundreds of thousands of websites.

2. If you plan on insisting that the current situation is the result of a deliberate plot by some villainous group of people or other, please go away. There are tens of thousands of websites currently rehashing various conspiracy theories about the Covid-19 outbreak and the vaccines. This is not one of them. What we're exploring is the likelihood that what's going on is the product of the same arrogance, incompetence, and corruption that the medical industry and its tame politicians have displayed so abundantly in recent decades. That possibility deserves a space of its own for discussion, and that's what we're doing here.

3. If you plan on using rent-a-troll derailing or disruption tactics, please go away. I'm quite familiar with the standard tactics used by troll farms to disrupt online forums, and am ready, willing, and able -- and in fact quite eager -- to ban people permanently for engaging in them here. Oh, and I also lurk on other Covid-19 vaccine skeptic blogs, so I'm likely to notice when the same posts are showing up on more than one venue.

4. If you don't believe in treating people with common courtesy, please go away. I have, and enforce, a strict courtesy policy on my blogs and online forums, and this is no exception. The sort of schoolyard bullying that takes place on so many other internet forums will get you deleted and banned here. Also, please don't drag in current quarrels about sex, race, religious, etc. No, I don't care if you disagree with that: my journal, my rules.

With that said, the floor is open for discussion.

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...cynicism is an Old World indulgence because it is a passive, sedentary response dripping with effeminate effete "do me" entitlement.

it doesn't create because the act of creation is antithetical to real cynicism.

so then it's often armor. for a child's broken heart.

but when you feeling an adult, full of one's own AGENCY, you have a sense of honor. a code of conduct for yourself.

and when i died as i was and wanted to suicide, the moments i glimpsed how LOVED i was an wanting to die was coming in THEIR faces, i saw it... i saw myself as a petulant, "Who do you think YOU are?"

because Americans or maybe all of us in the west, we had all these "High Expectations." to become what? the best CFO in a company?

the dream has been rancid a long ass time.

anyhow, i wanted to die because I WANTED IN. i WANTED TO BELONG. and when i couldn't have it all -- be myself and not be the token -- i lost it all... but gained EVERYTHING.

that's why i cannot advocate this enough, this Living Suicide thing.

so i wanted to die because i was cynical about how fixed everything was and how soulless and cheap everyone in the book biz was and art and music... everything i loved...

and we'd ALL long since whored ourselves out.

to make a buck.

how you gonna go against in a world where we can't afford to live in our own countries anymore????

so then i watched the birds in Rudy's mom's bird bath and realized how much James loved me and how much i had and i was SUICIDAL because i had such "High Expectations" for myself?

EW! i had worms! this American Dream got wormy.

anyhow, i realized i was being an absolute BITCH.

i'd like to say that was that, i got it. no way. illusions and dreams leave stains and echos and i'd relapse because the reality of going on crappy job interviews on craigslist is its own rung in hell.

so it took me a few years to mourn who i was how i thought it was supposed to go, but when i awoke as the more recent Me, i now see how the cynic is like going on a road trip with Eyore.

during these Apocalyptic times, pick your side kicks and best friends with much care.

i've found that when i've got a temporary mild case of cynicism, i myself DO the thing i'm accusing others of falling short of. and LO! does that put it in perspective AND it actually reinforces my IDEALISM and ROMANTICISM because like the old adage about for every ONE cockroach you see, there are 50 more YOU DON'T SEE behind the wall... THAT is how i multiply my own romance and idealism exponentially. because if I can come clean about something horrible i've done, THEN OTHERS DO IT, TOO!

(i've used the same rationale to forgive myself for weird fantasies, too, so buyer beware of buying what i'm pitching you)

and to pick up on Mark's (?) requoting of was it Maya Angelou? "pay attention when people show you who they are"

I DO! i love that quote from long ago because i live that way and use it ALL ways.

so cynics actually are telling you that they are dead weight and never really actually create anything new out of nothing AND they don't surprise themselves by forcing themselves to step up to much of ANYTHING (hence the cynicism).

cynics are very much in a beta "show me tell me" position instead of DOING.

you may be cynical as a famous or wealthy entrepreneurial person who attracts whores eunuchs and fawns, but i tend to think those are just the fake cynics because people who build and create will also habitually keep looking for romance and purity like strung out gamblers they won't QUIT.

so those are fake scratch'em cynics who're romantics maybe to a fault or in extreme.

so that's my take on why cynicism is like acid to any future where we're creating our own way out of now way. / we have to vibrate to a certain chord to even envision SEE it... VIBE it.

(smile)

there. that's my take on why cynicism is HELLA played out.

plus, cynics can't shtup for nothing. / this is a new era of warmth and romance and cuddling. everyone's been too damn nasty too long. time to hold hands first since no one can look at EYES anymore. the young masked cashier at trader joe's said she gets anxious when she looks in anyone's eyes.

from here on out, as a writer and artist, i hope to make cynicism look as appealing as being farted on by someone you don't like, in a closed car driving through greely, colorado.

x

erika

"i hope to make cynicism look as appealing as being farted on by someone you don't like, in a closed car driving through greely, colorado."

There must be a story there? :-). Not a lot of reasons to drive through Greeley, Colorado...

As for the Angelou quote, I think it depends on whether one interprets it in a "ser" or "estar" sort of way. In terms of seeing people as they are rather than as I want them to be, yes. In terms of suggesting that people can be permanently defined (and therefore dehumanized) based on their beliefs or actions in the moment, not so helpful.

As for the Angelou quote, I think it depends on whether one interprets it in a "ser" or "estar" sort of way. In terms of seeing people as they are rather than as I want them to be, yes.

this is that player lover stuff where you see where the person is NOW and also whether you see if it's worth it or not to go in and pull out this POTENTIAL, and if you can stick around afterwards or not.

i see it as a creative question.

but the cynic is not ellipses as much as a period full stop. nowhere for ME to go or even bother to take them.

erika

Hey, all cynics deserve a right of reply. Yes, it's me again! :-)

Firstly, farting is a natural and healthy process that indicates your bowels are functioning normally, although excessive aromas suggest that you might want to moderate the curry, beer and mushy green peas in your diet. Nb. Sly farting in combination with an innocent look is a significant social skill.

Secondly, it's well worth reviewing the work of Paul Chefurka captured here http://www.paulchefurka.ca. He went on a voyage of discovery to uncover why we collectively do the self-destructive things we do. After that voyage he became a Buddhist teacher - very apposite.

He puts it much better than me:

"I no longer see any point in singling out individual aspects of the human experience for special attention or criticism. Population growth, climate change, global corporatism, chemical pollution, resource depletion, species extinctions, ocean overfishing and acidification, global financial instability, mounting social disparities and injustices are all merely symptoms of a system that has been out of control for centuries (despite our earnest attempts to convince ourselves otherwise.) We have no choice left - or perhaps we never really had any other choice - but to ride the dragon until the human overshoot corrects itself, as overshoots always do.

The silver lining I see is that all the pressures coming from this process of correction can be useful goads toward personal self-development. "In all matters, strive to do the right thing." What does this mean to each of us? What does mindful living in the midst of the whirlwind entail, what does it require of us in terms of personal growth, in the development of wisdom and self-awareness? How might each of us resolve our alienation - from each other, from our societies, from nature, from our own place in the universe? How may we find the re-connections that are essential if we are to emerge from this tumultuous, careless human adolescence into individual and collective adulthood? These are deep questions for dark times."

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"Overshoot, what overshoot?" says Wily E. Coyote, as he runs frantically in mid-air. You're just being cynical again.

you can do You however you want; i'm just not RIDIN' with you.

(smile)

erika

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