ecosophia | Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 67

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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I was once interested in attending Burning Man, but after some investigation concluded that it’s basically a party for those who have at least a couple of thou to splurge in a week on an allegedly counter-cultural fiesta.

The same energy and resources could easily go into, say, constructing real housing for the very poor in those places where shanty towns have lately appeared, such as in Oakland CA, and also into legally defending it.

But that would bring participants into conflict with real estate interests, and this is a big no-no. This would require some serious backbone. That’s why the event is held in the middle of a desert. The whole point of Burning Man is that it *doesn’t* make a difference. Instead of helping to create a parallel culture, it’s basically one big wank.

So No, I’m not astonished to hear this.

It’s a bit dispiriting to realize that most of the allegedly creative people in society lack the gonads and freethinkery to actually be creative, but maybe that’s just the way it is when your civilization is heading down the chutes.

The 60s drugged-up music scene would have fit perfectly at BM. On 'Revolutionary Plateau 9-b' (turn left at the tin sculpture of an ayahuasca vine) at 3:30 The Doors.

Maybe Malcolm X not so much.

I've never heard it framed as a thing designed to specifically NOT make a difference. Wow. That nails it. Sort of 'peak consumer' dressed up in 'make a difference' costuming. It's not so different from Davos.

Murmuration

Now you've got my mind spinning with BM and Davos analogies.

BM. remote Nevada desert dry lake overrun with blowing gypsum dust. Lots of nudity, everything "free" after arrival but for water and ice. Hippy dippy wanna-be blissed-drugged-out commune dwellers and performance artists. All but one person I personally know who used to go regularly for the art or the commune vibes still does.

Davos. One of the highest Swiss Alpine resorts. Very remote but interestingly has outstanding line of sight to radio stations all over northern Europe. Hotels started for TB patients, next to cater to rich Europeans who could afford long summer and winter holidays while sitting out the frequent snowstorms in cozy bars, restaurants and hotel lounges, and for the most privileged at private luxury chalets or hotel suites. First popular winter sports were tobogganing and ice skating, the latter a sport designed mostly for personal display and flirting before it became a movie (Sonia Henie) & TV (Peggy Fleming) sport. Now it's famous for its see-and-be-seen display of wanna-be Big Boys for one week each winter at the WEF of those desperate to be part of the In-Crowd which is mostly only those who think schmoozing there will line their pockets and/or keep them in political power. Those with real power might go once or twice out of curiosity - especially the funded attendees - but never 3x.

I took a screenshot of a tweet originating from the account of Redbeard the Ruthful

ruthfulthe (tweeted August 25, not sure when I saw it or where).

'Remarkable that two of the great early playwrights were sons of bricklayers (Jonson & Middleton) and were each imprisoned for their work; equally improbable is anyone of that social background being in the arts today, or any modern poet writing anything worthy of imprisonment.'

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