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John Michael Greer ([personal profile] ecosophia) wrote2023-06-13 01:55 pm

Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 97

not the good guysAs 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, religions, 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 to do next?

(Anonymous) 2023-06-16 04:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Hey Erika,

Sorry for the confusion--

I'm the person who posted the excerpt from The Ninth Mouse's link.

I'm a different person.

I followed the link and it wasn't paywalled for me. there were links in it to other of his writings, and they were. So I guess each person can read one of his writings and then gets paywalled.

I posted an *excerpt* just to help you and The Ninth Mouse out.

I added my own small reaction at the end. But I'm not the person who originally linked it. So really, leave me out of this.

-The Other Anon

Re: What to do next?

(Anonymous) 2023-06-17 06:16 am (UTC)(link)
The essay wasn't paywalled for me either.

Sorry, I wouldn't have tried to share it if I knew people wouldn't be able to read it unless they paid - it's not that I really care if people charge for their wares, it's more that I'm NOT a salesman.

There's something about sales that I don't like. If you've ever had an old friend, who you've been stoked to hear from for the first time in ages, only to find that they're trying to get to join Amway or whatever, then you'll know what I mean. The products might be good, and the business might be legit, but the process. . . There's something creepy about the whole process that I just naturally recoil from.

I'm also surprised that there's a differential in access. It's a bit of a mystery to me. I don't know how these things work. Maybe it's country specific or something? Anyway, I know that some of Kingsnorth's stuff is free, and some isn't - that's how it is for me too.

Kingsnorth's essay is good, but so is the video in the link (sorry JMG, I know you're not a fan of video), which is available for free on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4IeuIg9nGY

It's pretty interesting. The blurb reads:
"From the left-brain right-brain divide to the metaphysics of magic, Dr Iain McGilchrist addresses the profound questions of living well. The esteemed thinker was in conversation with Freddie Sayers at the UnHerd Club on 20th April 2023."

McGilcrhist has written books too, including: 'The Matter of Things' there's a blurb about it on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matter_with_Things".

It looks like it could be a long and complex read at 1,500 pages and two volumes, but there might be more easily digestible stuff out there somewhere for free online that he's written.

The Ninth Mouse

Re: What to do next?

(Anonymous) 2023-06-19 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Any thoughts about my reaction to the essay? I'll repeat it here:

ISTM you could try to figure out what that "seed" was and still preserve the valuable parts without it. Isn't that what has happened during other ages of decline?