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John Michael Greer ([personal profile] ecosophia) wrote2022-11-15 01:05 pm

Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 67

elephant in the roomAs 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.  

Re: What might be possible - inspiration

(Anonymous) 2022-11-15 08:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Two other thoughts.

First, in light of the dark summer of love comments near the end of the last post. There was incredibly immense darkness inhabiting and emanating from SF in the 60s and 70s. Maybe as dark as it ever got, anywhere on earth, outside of LA. It’s not lost on me that this is the exact time when a figure emanating such blinding light as Chadwick set up shop in the same area.

Second, if a ‘parallel society’ website was created, as a semi-educational, semi-inspirational, semi-networking space, what would be important to include?

Murmuration

Re: What might be possible - inspiration

(Anonymous) 2022-11-15 10:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Would you mind reposting the link to Chadwick? I revisited the previous thread and can't find it.

Re: What might be possible - inspiration

(Anonymous) 2022-11-16 02:35 am (UTC)(link)
Oh! It's in this link. Talk about creating a problem for myself. Looking for something that wasn't there(previous thread).
Like Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places LOL.

Re: What might be possible - inspiration

[personal profile] lukedodson 2022-11-16 05:15 pm (UTC)(link)
I'd be intrigued to take a look at this thread on the Summer of Love - I searched through the last Open post but I couldn't find it.

Re: What might be possible - inspiration

(Anonymous) 2022-11-17 11:40 am (UTC)(link)
This

https://ecosophia.dreamwidth.org/205826.html?thread=36577538#cmt36577538

?

Re: What might be possible - inspiration

[personal profile] lukedodson 2022-11-17 04:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks!

Re: What might be possible - inspiration

(Anonymous) 2022-11-16 02:08 am (UTC)(link)
I posted some more on the Summer of Love in one of last week's 666 comments.

As for any "parallel" society I've been thinking a lot about Asimov's "The Foundation" Trilogy. Those who try to predict and influence the future, like Hari Seldon from the Foundation always get rolled by the expected rise of the unpredictable "mules." Besides writing sci-fi, Asimov was a biochemist and a big fan of Sherlock Holmes stories and Gilbert & Sullivan's comic light operas. Life is so G&S topsy-turvy....

Or, as one economist said, trying to controlling the markets is like trying to control the wides and the tides.

Instead, I try to surf the waves.

W.R.

Re: What might be possible - inspiration

(Anonymous) 2022-11-17 10:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Perhaps more so than other points of the USA, and I wouldn't doubt it. When I went to Canada the summer of 69'' for what I assumed would be forever the 'neutrality' in the air was shocking.

Over time Canada has lost the '50% different than the states' it had then but I recall walking around in shock responding to what seemed lighthearted and ten paces removed from the American madness.