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John Michael Greer ([personal profile] ecosophia) wrote2023-06-27 12:40 pm

Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 99

Great ResistAs 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: The Good and the Ungood

(Anonymous) 2023-06-27 11:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks for this, I keep seeing this binary stuff recently.

"If you want people to cooperate and build community, get them to think of themselves as part of a unary; if you want them to quarrel and resist change, convince them they’re on one side of a binary; if you want them to make change, make them think of their community and their world as a ternary."
https://www.ecosophia.net/getting-beyond-narratives/

Martin F

Re: The Good and the Ungood

(Anonymous) 2023-06-28 04:27 pm (UTC)(link)
That's a great JMG quote!

Pallid Gaseous Worm

Re: The Good and the Ungood

(Anonymous) 2023-06-28 06:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow, thanks Martin for pointing this essay out and of course to JMG for writing it. Even though it's about environmental activism, it is so relevant to today's multiple crisis.

Whether it's a ternary or unary we need to move to, I'm not sure, but it seems clear we need to avoid this strong pull to make everything binary.

We seems to have a ternary model where we see the 'evil' elites are manipulating the hapless masses who believe the manipulations of the BS MSM machine, and we are the heroic bearers of truth trying to 'red pill' the masses. And once we succeed in attaining a critical mass of 'red pilled' normies, we will unite and the 'evil' elites will pay for their crimes.

Or is it perhaps we see ourselves in a binary of vexxers vs no-vexxers? The ultimate goal to eliminate the other?

Or should we move to a unary and acknowledge that the multiple crisis of Western Civ today was brought about by the actions of all Western Civ. Accept that these problems are our collective problem and we need to come together to solve it without divisions?

Lots to ponder here.