I'm the poster of the above comment, and I just had another thought about what the common thread in many of the list items might be.....
What if a lot of it comes down to pattern-recognition skills?
Many people have been abused, or lied to by the medical industry, or encountered some other authoritarian system, or studied history/sociology/political science/psychology, or seen a psy-op before - but not everyone recognizes it when they see it again. In fact, many of us were shocked that people went back for more shots after being injured by the first (or got shots despite past negative experiences with the medical-industrial complex), or dumbfounded that academics couldn't see the sorts of things they'd supposedly studied happening in real life right in front of them, or that people with medical backgrounds couldn't look at the real data and SEE what was there, or surprised by how many artists and "rebels" who claimed to be questioners didn't question when it mattered, or people who claimed to have faith didn't have any when faith was finally truly needed, etc. The fact is, having seen, experienced, and/or learned about something wrong and crazy only helps if you have the pattern recognition skills to spot it again the second time around.
Many people seem to lack the fundamental ability to see a long-standing pattern when it crops up in a new context, and it seems like the people who saw through Cootie-palooza were very often the ones who could say, "I've seen this before in a different context; the details are different, but I recognize the same PATTERN in a different setting."
Re: The Epiphany (A reflection thread on pandemic choices)
What if a lot of it comes down to pattern-recognition skills?
Many people have been abused, or lied to by the medical industry, or encountered some other authoritarian system, or studied history/sociology/political science/psychology, or seen a psy-op before - but not everyone recognizes it when they see it again. In fact, many of us were shocked that people went back for more shots after being injured by the first (or got shots despite past negative experiences with the medical-industrial complex), or dumbfounded that academics couldn't see the sorts of things they'd supposedly studied happening in real life right in front of them, or that people with medical backgrounds couldn't look at the real data and SEE what was there, or surprised by how many artists and "rebels" who claimed to be questioners didn't question when it mattered, or people who claimed to have faith didn't have any when faith was finally truly needed, etc. The fact is, having seen, experienced, and/or learned about something wrong and crazy only helps if you have the pattern recognition skills to spot it again the second time around.
Many people seem to lack the fundamental ability to see a long-standing pattern when it crops up in a new context, and it seems like the people who saw through Cootie-palooza were very often the ones who could say, "I've seen this before in a different context; the details are different, but I recognize the same PATTERN in a different setting."