ecosophia | Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 75

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 uselessness 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 can honestly say I've never seen silent-era film memes. You are breaking new ground, but I think it might not have much impact with today's audience.

Just want to say these silent film memes are great fun! That, and they are a welcome reminder that there is a Past. Of late, it seems our history is getting annihilated.

Valerie

Maybe. On the other hand it might be so off the wall.......in a cool way......that it grabs the younger crew.

You may be right. During the 'stay at home' period there were a lot of videos made of young people listening to music made before they were born and they filmed themselves reacting to what they heard. Many of them had a whole new world of music opened up to them and were greatly impressed that the music was made with no computer aid, just using, y'know, voices and musical instruments. I would hope that a lot of silent films are crazy enough to catch the attention of the young. For a single example, think of the genius of Buster Keaton in the tornado scene in the 1928 film 'Steamboat Bill'. It's like a weird fever dream and astonishing to think such scenes were made with no green screens, just careful planning. The tornado scene: https://youtu.be/j8tIRYH3qxk

Don't get me started on Laurel and Hardy...

Meant to mention this. It's a comment below this delightful piece about L&H - https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/oct/11/tea-and-buns-with-laurel-and-hardy-the-day-i-met-my-comedy-heroes.

"As a student in the 90s, I worked part-time on Saturday at a cinema in the west-end of Glasgow. Saturday mornings meant the Kids Club which normally consisted of 100 hyperactive children running through the aisles and multiple popcorn fights. It didn’t matter what film was showing – Toy Story, Bug’s Life – the kids never, ever paid attention. On arrival one Sat morning, the manager told me that he was going to try something different – a Laurel and Hardy film. Yikes, I thought, expecting the kids to have torn the screen to shreds long before the film ended. Later, I was in the office and it occurred to me that there wasn’t the usual din from the screening room downstairs. I made my way down, peered through the door and heard absolute silence. There were 100 children’s faces lit up in the dark completely entranced, eyes never leaving the screen. To this day, I’ve never seen anything like it. Great art’s timeless."

I have hope for those old film memes.

Great art’s timeless

Yes! That was the secret message of the memes ...Transcriber was making an Art Move... some will just see todays' memes transplanted and shrug... others will remember and go OH YEAH...

E

Yes, good observation Erika.
Art Movie.

Art movies of stills.
Still art movies.

:-)

thanks Transcriber.

a haiku:

try paying in cash
most can't compute the exchange
comedy ensues

those old times people would run circles around the current crop of tech-addled know-nothings-without-my-phone's.

yeah, we're set for when the power goes out for a few hours, so long as it's not too long to charge the phones.

once we can't charge the phones, this shale gets serious.

;-)

I like your haiku :)

We don't have traditional health insurance, so all medical type stuff gets paid in cash. Been there often.

These are related:
Height of payment confusion
Doctor's uselessness

Great story about the kids. Even the 90s there was a greater attention span pre-cellphone. Perfect story and outcome. Will check out the article.

Man was I sorry when that madcap scene ended. Sheer beauty. What great absurdity + physical comedy.
I loved the music! It lent an urgency and emotions to the scene I've seen previously but not with such drama.
Thanks for this.

Sal the Agorist

sallymayweather
and other meme 're-generators'

I'd bet would spread these far and wide on Twitter if you were so inclined.

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