tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6823159586957336552024-03-13T09:11:57.508-07:00Clueless HonkyClueless Honkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06655284653621810752noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-682315958695733655.post-38114229450243524222023-07-13T16:48:00.004-07:002023-07-13T16:48:52.353-07:00Moved to Substack<p> Clueless Honky has moved on over to Substack.</p><p>Come on over to see what's new: <a href="https://cluelesshonky.substack.com/">https://cluelesshonky.substack.com/</a></p><p>Thanks.</p>Clueless Honkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06655284653621810752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-682315958695733655.post-65565199851612918772023-05-30T13:55:00.298-07:002023-06-07T12:48:44.719-07:00Admittance<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Clueless Honky just moved to Substack. Please check out this post there:</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">https://cluelesshonky.substack.com/p/admittance</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I welcome comments. I request that you only comment at Substack. This will ensure that everyone can see and respond to your comments. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Thanks.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Can we stop
pretending now? Can we admit out loud now that people we
know and love were hurt, and some killed, by the Covid
jabs?</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;">I understand you may not <i>want </i>to admit that. <i><b>But now it can no longer be denied</b></i>:</p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><br /></p>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2076-393X/11/5/991"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>IgG4
Antibodies Induced by Repeated Vaccination May Generate Immune
Tolerance to the SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein</b></span></span></a></span></div>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">This article was
published in the <b>peer-reviewed scientific journal</b> “Vaccines” on
May 17<sup>th</sup>, 2023. The title does
not say it all. So I’ll quote the last two sentences of its Abstract:</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">“<span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">emerging
evidence suggests that the reported increase in IgG4 levels detected
after repeated vaccination with the mRNA vaccines may not be a
protective mechanism; rather, it constitutes an immune tolerance
mechanism to the spike protein that could promote unopposed SARS-CoV2
infection and replication by suppressing natural antiviral responses.
Increased IgG4 synthesis due to repeated mRNA vaccination with high
antigen concentrations may also cause autoimmune diseases, and
promote cancer growth and autoimmune myocarditis in susceptible
individuals.”</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Repeated mRNA jabs not only <i>increase </i>long-term<i> </i>susceptibility to Covid, but may
also <i>cause autoimmune diseases</i>, and <i>promote </i>both <i>cancer</i> growth and
<i>myocarditis </i>due to the immune system dysfunction that results from the jabs. </b></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">This is shockingly bad news. </p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">Our immune systems have the unenviable job of continually determining what is <i>us</i>, and what is <i>not us, </i>and to attack and dispel anything inside of us that is <i>not us</i>. </p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">It turns out that directly injecting genetic material (mRNA) into people's arms, with the mRNA hiding in lipid nanoparticle packages that sneak the mRNA into cells, thereby tricking our own cells to mass produce patented spike proteins - that somehow this confuses our immune systems so they can't properly distinguish what is <i>us</i>, and what is <i>not us!</i></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">Immune systems can no longer distinguish Sars-CoV2 or cancer cells as needing to be attacked. Alternately, in the case of autoimmune diseases, the result is the opposite. Our immune system somehow mistakes our own heart tissue (Autoimmune Myocarditis) or nervous system (Guillain-Barre Syndrome) as <i>not us</i>, and begins to attack it - attack <i>us</i>. </p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">This article from the peer-reviewed journal Vaccines goes into great detail on the exact bio-chemical pathways involved behind this immune system dysfunction - specifically a dramatic increase in the prevalence of IGg4 antibodies relative to our other antibodies.</p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">This is one of those things that, often times, you can only
find out about a novel drug after long-term testing. This is why we
<i>DO</i>
long-term testing <i>before</i>
mass-marketing drugs to millions or billions of people. To see if things like this show up.</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">Will the harms from the immune system dysfunctions of people
who took repeated mRNA jabs overshadow the medical harms of Covid
itself? Only time will continue to tell.</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">Are our
health officials even keeping statistics for all-cause hospitalization
and all-cause mortality for jabbed versus un-jabbed folks?</p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">Anyone? Anyone at all?</p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">Regardless, what are
we to do about all the immune system
dysfunction which <i>now may exist within the</i> <i>majority of our population</i>?</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">Overall, we need to respond how we responded to most health emergencies <i>before </i>Covid - By having an open conversation between clinical doctors and researchers about the medical details behind the problem, and by amassing as much clinical experience as possible on what actually works.</p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">FYI: there are no known medical procedures to successfully heal previous heart damage from myocarditis. One could - potentially (?) - heal ones immune system dysfunction, which could stop any <i>further </i>damage to ones heart, but any existing damage one may have is <i>with you</i> <i>for the rest of your life</i>.</p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></p><p style="line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0in;">Admittedly, I do not know how to write what I need to say next. I have a huge mixture of feelings about it. What I do know is that I have to get it out now as honestly as I can. </p><p style="line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0in;">I apologize somewhat for writing much of this to "you". "You" may apply to you. "You" may not apply to you. Take it how you may.</p><p style="line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></p><p style="line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0in;">What can <i>you </i>do as an individual to respond to this horrible tragedy? </p><p style="line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0in;">My recommendation is that if you were one who supported the jab mandates, if you supported doctors and nurses getting fired over refusing the jabs; to find at least one of those doctors or nurses who were fired, and apologize to them personally.</p><p style="line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0in;">And don't stop there, if you are someone with means, financially support that person to research what works best to heal the mRNA-induced immune system dysfunction.</p><p style="line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0in;">And don't stop there either, but actively support the open cultural conversation of all doctors and researchers working to heal this dysfunction within all who took the jabs.</p><p style="line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">Remember, this horrible news about the Covid jabs causing an immune system dysfunction is <i>not</i> why the jab
mandates were wrong. The mandates were wrong because they willfully
ignored <i>this</i><i> very </i><i>possibility </i>which exists with <i>all novel drugs.</i></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">You <i>knew </i>that it was
inhumane to force a person to take a novel drug for which nobody
knew the long-term consequences.</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">For goodness sake,
these are the very first words of the Nuremberg Code: “<i>The
voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential</i>.” </p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">The Nuremberg Code was a set of ethical principles about medical
experiments that grew out of the Nuremberg Trials of the Nazis after
WWII.</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">A novel drug is by
definition a medical experiment, since nobody knows the long-term
consequences of that drug. A person <i>must</i> grant their consent
to <i>any</i> medical experiment.</p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">You knew this since
the Nazis. But somehow you forgot, and you supported mandates for novel drugs. Not just that, you took it a
step further, and also <i>went along with the demonization </i>of those who refused to take the novel drugs.</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">You fell for
propaganda that pierced deep inside you and hit you right in your
care bone.</p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">You fell for propaganda that told you that "caring people" get jabbed, and that to not get jabbed is to not care for others. You were hit right there, <i>deep in your care bone</i>.</p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">You fell for a
narrative that said that in order to be a caring person, not only did
<i>you</i> need to take a
novel drug for which nobody knew the long-term consequences, but that you also
needed to demand the firing of doctors and nurses - </p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">who had
dedicated their lives to study and practice <i>medicine</i>, who had
finished medical school with six figures of debt with a specific plan to repay that debt by <i>working as a doctor or
nurse</i>, who had literally risked their lives taking care of Covid
patients <i>for over a year</i>, who most certainly had been exposed to
Covid and had <i>natural immunity,</i></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">- if
<i>they </i>refused to take the novel drug! As if <i>you were in a better position to know whether
they should take the drug than they were!!!</i></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">And because some people, specifically soldiers, are people that can’t simply “quit” their jobs, you quite literally <i>forced</i> many soldiers to take the jab <i>against their will!</i></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">And perhaps even worse than all of that, you supported the censoring and shutting down of the
cultural conversation that could have potentially spared the
long-term health of <i>your own immune system and those of whom you love</i>.</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">I pray you do not fall for such horrific
propaganda again.</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">I want to err on the side of extra clarity here:</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">The fact that the
jabs were indeed <i>not</i>
“safe and effective” is <i>not</i>
what made the mandates immoral. That just made it even <i>more</i>
<i>tragic</i>.</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">The fact that the
<i>entire mRNA platform</i> for the jabs was completely novel is <i>not</i>
what made the mandates immoral. That just made it even <i>more</i>
<i>tragic</i>.</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">As the Nuremberg Code states, a person <i>must</i> consent to <i>a</i><i>ny</i> medical
experiment. <i>All </i>novel drugs are medical experiments. A mandate for a novel drug <i>is a crime against humanity</i>. <i>Period</i>. </p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">We humans need to get very
clear on how propaganda can hit us in the care bone.
Because it will certainly happen again. (<i>Is happening
all the time now!</i>)</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">Care-Bone Propaganda
is not the last nor only propaganda trick used against us.</p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">It’s just the predominant and most effective propaganda trick used against us <i>right now</i>.</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">Be mindful. We must maintain
any coherency we can muster right now.</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">The place for mainstream corporate media is in the compost pile. <i>Let it rot.</i></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">Again, I
want to err on the side of extra clarity here:</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">Never mandate a novel drug again. </p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">Never shut down our
cultural conversation about a novel drug again. </p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">Never assume that people you don’t know are deplorable and
don’t care about anybody else – just because someone tells you so. Particularly if the person telling you has a huge conflict of interest. </p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">Thanks.</p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">And thank you for your time
and attention. Take care.</p>Clueless Honkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06655284653621810752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-682315958695733655.post-15028937918932790132022-05-22T09:44:00.024-07:002022-08-24T09:42:03.874-07:00"Caring for Others" as Psy-Op<p></p><p class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">I trust that you all do indeed care for
others. But I'd like to talk about how “caring for others” can be
used as a Psy-Op. Please let me explain.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">The US is less than 1/23 of the world’s
population, yet we consume almost 1/3 of the world’s energy and
almost 1/3 of the world’s manufactured products. And we have
consumed this for many decades.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">The US has the 6<sup>th</sup> <i>worst
</i>debt-to-GDP ratio out of the 100 most populated countries in the
world. And a good portion of our GDP is of the porn, video games, and
soda pop variety, if you know what I mean.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">The US’s debt-to-GDP ratio is on the
verge of being at the level where the IMF would come in and force
austerity measures onto a country (discontinuing public services such
as Social Security and Medicare, and forcing the private sale of
public property). </span>
</p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">Of course, what has kept this from ever
happening to the US is the reality of the Petrodollar, the US
Dollar’s global reserve currency status, our roughly 750 foreign
military bases, our 11 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, and the
<i>interrelationships</i> between all of the above.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">But never mind all of that. There is no
need to educate ourselves about any of these complex realities, nor
of their effects on so many people in this world.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;"><a name="__DdeLink__1169_713684157"></a>
<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">The key thing here is for us to keep
demonstrating our care for others by towing the official line.
Whatever the official line happens to be in the moment.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">For the last couple of years, the
official line focused mostly on Covid-19. </span>
</p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">Never mind that we hastily released and
then quickly mandated jabs of a novel gene-therapy (that had only
been rarely used before, and only on terminally-ill patients) in order to treat a
respiratory virus.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">Never mind that those jabs trick human
cells to produce toxic spike proteins.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">Never mind that coronavirus spike
proteins, ACE2 receptors and furin cleavage sites are all in the world's patent
literature predating the emergence of Covid-19.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">Never mind that Uttar Pradesh, a state
with 2/3 the population of the US in an area smaller than Oregon, had
a huge and well-publicized “spike” in Covid cases, but then
became Covid-free <i><span style="text-decoration: none;">before</span></i> they ramped up their vaccination program - conclusively proving that
vaccination was clearly not the only way through the pandemic.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">The key thing here is for us to keep
demonstrating our care for others by towing the official line.</span></p><p class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">Never mind that nobody has a time machine
that can return to us from 10 years in the future to tell us how
all-cause mortality, all-cause hospitalization, and all-cause illness
played out in the jabbed versus the un-jabbed. Never mind that
absolutely <i><span style="text-decoration: none;">no one</span></i>
can therefore conclusively say whether or not those jabs were “safe
and effective”. Maybe they were. Maybe they weren’t. Never mind
that despite not knowing the long-term effects of the jabs, that we
jabbed children and pregnant women. Never mind that we <i>forced </i>these
jabs on many millions of people.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">Never mind that some of the poorest and
least vaccinated countries in our world are the ones that had the
least health problems with Covid.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">Never mind that all the world’s
countries are now signing treaties with the WHO agreeing to hand over
their sovereignty to the global pharmaceutical complex during the
next pandemic. Never mind that this is the same pharmaceutical
complex that just a few years ago everybody knew could not be
trusted.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">The key thing here is for us to keep
demonstrating our care for others by towing the official line.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">And now the official line focuses mostly
on Ukraine.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">Never mind that Ukraine has a deep and
complex geopolitical history, and is guaranteed to have a complex and
pivotal geopolitical role well into the future considering its
location on the world island.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">Never mind that Russia has had a naval
base in Crimea for longer than the US has been a country. Never mind
that after the US-backed Coup in Ukraine in 2014, roughly 95% of Crimean
residents voted to be part of Russia rather than stay part of
Ukraine.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">Never mind that the two provinces
(oblasts) in the Donbass (Luhansk and Donetsk), after the 2014 Coup,
have been engaged in a civil war with Ukraine after they voted to
become republics independent of Ukraine, and for the last 8 years have been
officially and openly requesting Russia’s help in their struggle to
gain their independence.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">Never mind that the whole East and South
of the Ukraine has strong and deep ties to Russia (not just the
Crimea, Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts, but all of the oblasts along the
entire Black Sea coast all the way into Odessa and beyond Ukraine’s
borders into Transnitria in Moldova). Never mind that the majority of
the population in all of this region are ethnic Russians who speak
Russian.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">The key thing here is for us to keep
demonstrating our care for others by towing the official line.</span></p><p class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">Never mind that NATO is not just a
defensive alliance, but is also an invasive alliance - for example,
its invasion of Libya in 2011. Libya posed no threat to any NATO
country. NATO said it invaded for “humanitarian” reasons. Before
the NATO invasion, Libya had one of the highest per capita incomes in
Africa. One of the lowest levels of income inequality. One of the
highest literacy rates. One of the best health and education systems.
Since the invasion, Libya has had open-air slave markets. Libyan
parents have placed themselves and their children on rubber rafts
with only their clothes on their backs, to make their way across the
Mediterranean to foreign countries who speak foreign tongues, because
they knew that was their best option for their future. </span>
</p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">The key thing here is for us to keep
demonstrating our care for others by towing the official line.</span></p><p class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<br />
</p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">Never mind that the Ukrainian war that
began with the US-backed 2014 Coup could have been ended <i><span style="text-decoration: none;">at
any time</span></i> by doing 3 simple and very reasonable things:</span></p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">1) Recognizing that Crimea is part of
Russia</span></p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">2) Recognizing that Luhansk and Donetsk
are independent of Ukraine</span></p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">3) Agreeing that Ukraine never joins NATO</span></p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">The key thing here is for us to keep
demonstrating our care for others by towing the official line.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">Never mind that Zelensky was elected as
Ukrainian President by overwhelming majority primarily because of his
campaign promise of peace, to end the ongoing Ukrainian Civil War. He
chose not to follow through on these campaign promises which
originally got him elected.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">Never mind the Minsk Agreements</span></p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">Never mind the $54 <i>Billion </i>dollars the US
has spent mostly sending arms to Ukraine since Feb 24<sup>th</sup>,
2022. Never mind that this is over 2/3 of the annual Russian military
budget. Never mind that it would have cost <i>nothing</i> to simply
encourage Ukraine to abide by the Minsk Agreements.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">Never mind that despite all of the
weapons delivered, and all the corporate and social media assurances
that Russia is losing this war, that dang, Russia will likely win
this war regardless of what anybody says or how much money we spend.
So the longer we prolong the war, the more people will die for
nothing.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">The key thing here is for us to keep
demonstrating our care for others by towing the official line.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">Never mind that despite all of the
economic sanctions against Russia made with the express intention of
crippling the Russian economy and bringing about Regime Change in
Russia, that Russia has increased revenues from energy sales despite
selling less volume, and that the Russian Ruble is stronger today
than before the invasion. Not to mention the fact that Putin enjoys
more popular support in Russia now than any present Western leader
does in their own country.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">The key thing here is for us to keep
demonstrating our care for others by towing the official line.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">Never mind that all of the economic
sanctions against Russia will continue to blow back harder onto the
West. This increasing blow back will inevitably lead to much cold and
potentially famine next winter for many millions, but least of all
for Russians.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">The key thing here is for us to keep
demonstrating our care for others by towing the official line.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">I certainly don’t want Ukrainians to
die in a stupid war. We had an easy and reasonable way to prevent
that war, by encouraging Ukraine to follow the Minsk Agreements. We
missed that chance. We had an easy and reasonable way to stop it soon
after Russia began its full-on invasion in February 2022. We missed
that chance too.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">I don’t know how to take seriously any
Western leader that keeps blowing these chances, and instead keeps
escalating this conflict so that we can fight to the last Ukrainian,
just to show them how much we care.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">Is supporting the economic sanctions
against Russia really the best way to demonstrate care for others?
Or is it a slow and convoluted way for the West to commit
civilizational suicide?</span></p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">Is escalating this complex Ukrainian
conflict into World War III and/ or global thermonuclear war really
the best way to demonstrate care for others?</span></p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">Let’s all just sit and meditate on that
last question.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><i>How insane are we if we even have to
ask that last question?</i></span></p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">Is “caring for others” one of the
most effective Psy-Ops of all time?</span></p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">How about we all care for others in our
own way?</span></p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">How about we stop demonizing others who
care in different ways?</span></p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">I love you all, and trust that you care
for others. Whether or not you agree with me on any of the above does
not affect my love for you <i>at all</i>.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">P.S. For decades I said that the only
difference between the USSR and the USA was that the USSR <i>started
out</i> being run by just one company (the Communist Party), while
here in the USA, we were simply taking longer to get there. In my
opinion, that’s mostly why the USSR collapsed first.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="https://rumble.com/vwe9ou-who-rules-the-world-.html"><span style="font-weight: normal;">This
is also a large part of why WE are collapsing now.</span></a></u></span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;">
(</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">T</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">he
dancing in this linked video </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">i</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">s
a genius way to get around the Tik-Tok algorithms, and get the
message out </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">that we are now
essentially being run by one company.</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">) But never mind - well..., you know the drill by now.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">P.S.S. We can choose to have an American
Evolution where we reel our Empire back in before it collapses, and
do so in a responsible way that promotes world peace and stability
into the future.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">Or we can choose to continue to follow
the Neocons while they stumble from one foreign-policy debacle after
another as they desperately try to maintain US uni-polar hegemony
over the world.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">It’s embarrassing really. But remember:
the key thing here is for us to keep demonstrating our care for
others by towing the official line!</span></p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Watch
how much these folks care: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZol2ywFYUQ">TV
War Experts are Paid Shills for Weapons Manufacturers</a></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
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</p><br /><p></p>Clueless Honkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06655284653621810752noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-682315958695733655.post-69801428562305493772022-03-27T05:26:00.012-07:002022-03-27T07:26:09.017-07:00Exit Strategy<p><span style="font-family: "Liberation Serif"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Part of the horrible tragedy that we unleashed on Iraq stemmed from the lie that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. While another part of that horrible tragedy stemmed from the fact that when our leaders began the conflict, they had no realistic exit strategy.</span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-74436436-7fff-9638-2fc3-cf962bc02a5c"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Liberation Serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As the corporate media keeps pushing the narrative that the escalation of the Ukrainian conflict is the only possible path forward, I pray that everyone is paying close attention to what our leaders are stating the “exit strategy” is this time around.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Liberation Serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So what are our leaders saying is our exit strategy in this conflict with Russia?</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Liberation Serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Anyone? </span></p><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Liberation Serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I want to build on an analogy started by Lee Camp: imagine you oversaw a boy egging on his younger brother, who is just a toddler, to yank the family cat’s tail hard over and over. At some point, the cat turns around and gives the toddler a good clawing that he won’t forget. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Liberation Serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As an adult, what do you do? In addition to soothing the toddler, you also need to impress upon the toddler how he needs to stop yanking the cat’s tail. But the biggest thing you need to deal with is the older brother who started the whole mess.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Liberation Serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hold on. That’s us.</span></p><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Liberation Serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I realize that every day it becomes harder and harder to simply admit that Russia has legitimate national security concerns. It becomes harder to admit that we assisted a coup in Ukraine in February 2014. It becomes harder to admit that we have been providing military assistance to a civil war in the Donbass region of Ukraine, right on Russia’s border, for the last 8 years. It becomes harder to admit that we refused to take Ukraine’s membership in NATO off the table. It becomes harder to admit that both the US and NATO have a history of attacking sovereign countries.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Liberation Serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It becomes harder to remember such basic wisdom from the movie, The Princess Bride: “Never get involved in a land war in Asia.”</span></p><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Liberation Serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My favorite quotes of last two weeks:</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Liberation Serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“The U.S. is f’d because they think windmills are oil. Solar is oil. Gas is oil. Gas is propane. Diesel is gas. And all run through the same pipelines that take up no land corridors and are run by magic elves who live in a money tree.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Liberation Serif"; font-size: x-small; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- by Dr. D., a regular commenter on The Automatic Earth, on 3/25/2022</span></p><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Liberation Serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“We’ve heard of suicide by cop. This is suicide by WWIII.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Liberation Serif"; font-size: x-small; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- by Gottlieb, a commenter on Moon of Alabama, on Ukraine Open Thread 3/24/2022</span></p><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Liberation Serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Oh! Maybe that’s our exit strategy. Civilizational suicide by WWIII. The final exit.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Liberation Serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I guess that will take care of it.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Liberation Serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Liberation Serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Take care everyone.</span></p><div><span style="font-family: "Liberation Serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Liberation Serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">P.S. I tried to keep this blog short this time. But if you're looking for more depth, please see Scott Ritter's March 23rd interview by the Grayzone: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSkpIq3T-Zc">Grayzone- Ritter</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Liberation Serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Remember, Ritter was the one that told the truth that there was no credible evidence for Iraqi WMD. He deserves a listen.)</span></div></span>Clueless Honkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06655284653621810752noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-682315958695733655.post-21797397262577274822022-03-13T12:38:00.123-07:002022-05-15T13:55:52.608-07:00One Big Backstory Behind Everything<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The modern economy in a nutshell</span></h3><span style="font-family: times;"><br /><span>1) Debts are spiraling out of control everywhere </span></span><div><span style="font-family: times;">2) Modern economies work by <u>servicing</u> debts – paying back investors in full, plus a profit<br />3) Cheap & Profitable Energy is required to service almost all debts in modern economies <br /> (Specifically - Energy that is <u>both</u> Cheap to consumers <u>and</u> Profitable to producers)<br />4) Cheap & Profitable Energy is slowly and inexorably depleting. More and more so every day<br />5) Debts are spiraling out of control everywhere</span><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span><span><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Let’s pretend that in your factory, 25 people are responsible for executing one process. You can buy a machine for $5 million that will replace those workers. You don’t have $5 million. So you borrow $5 million to install the machine and fire those workers. You pay back your investors over time with interest (their profit) and you also profit from not having to pay over $1 million every year in employee costs. Your workers lost their livelihoods. But you and your investors profit over time. That’s the modern economy in a nutshell.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The iron ore to make the steel for the machine was mined and transported using Cheap & Profitable Energy (C&PE). The ore was turned into steel using C&PE. The Steel was transported and then made into the Machine using C&PE. The Machine was transported and installed in your factory using C&PE. The Machine runs everyday on C&PE. The products the machine makes are transported to your customers using C&PE. At every step of the way, C&PE is required to service the debt.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We are not running out of energy, per se. We are running out of Cheap & Profitable Energy which is critical for modern economies to function. The lowest hanging fruit has mostly been picked over. This spells conflict. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is, of course, an overly simplistic account. For more in depth analyses about how critical C&PE is to all modern economies, see Tim Watkin’s </span><a href="https://consciousnessofsheep.co.uk/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: navy; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Consciousness of Sheep</span></a><span style="color: #00000a; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, or Gail Tverbergs’ </span><a href="https://ourfiniteworld.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: navy; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Our Finite World</span></a><span style="color: #00000a; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Chris Martenson, John Michael Greer, James Howard Kunstler, Richard Heinberg, and a host of others have also been talking about these issues for decades.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The dependence of modern economies on Cheap & Profitable Energy - and its decline as debts simultaneously spiral out of control everywhere - is one big backstory behind everything. Our media, our academic institutions, and indeed our entire culture are failing us by not informing us of this critical backstory.</span></p><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Food, Fertilizer & Russia</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">C&PE is also required for producing fertilizers for industrial agriculture, to grow the food most humans eat. Specifically, almost all fertilizers for industrial agriculture are produced using Natural Gas.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Regarding fertilizer, we need to talk about Russia. Some say it has a small economy, no bigger than Spain’s in terms of GDP. However, this only confirms how useless GDP is for understanding geopolitics.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The modern global economy works by undervaluing the most valuable things in life – Energy, Food, Fertilizer, Timber, and Human Labor. This is how we get more things! (In our backwards modern economy). These are much more pivotal than GDP for understanding geopolitics.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What does Russia produce for the global economy on a massive scale? </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You guessed it. Energy, Food, Fertilizer, and Timber. Russia’s input to the global economy only looks small because we have trained ourselves to economically </span><span style="color: #00000a; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">undervalue</span><span style="color: #00000a; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> the most valuable things in life.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For example, Russia produces over 60% of the world’s ammonium nitrate, a primary nitrogen (N) fertilizer. Russia is also a major producer of phosphate (P) and potash (K) fertilizers. NPK are the three primary plant nutrients that make up our food. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">No fertilizer. No food. No fertilizer. Famine. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Winter Wheat harvest throughout the Northern Hemisphere looks to be very bad this year. Argentina’s Corn harvest looks to be very bad this year. Argentina is the world’s second</span><span style="color: #00000a; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> largest Corn exporter.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Planting time in the Northern Hemisphere for all major crops except next year’s Winter Wheat is during <u>the next few months</u>. Fertilizer and Natural Gas prices are sky high right now. <u>Too high, perhaps, to even justify planting</u>. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Heck, they were already high </span><span style="color: #00000a; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">before</span><span style="color: #00000a; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> the Russian invasion of Ukraine. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><div><span><span><br /></span></span></div><div><span><span><b>Russia, Ukraine, and the Corporate Media</b></span></span></div><div><span><span><br /></span></span></div>Is Corporate Media highlighting that </span></span>the continuing conflict in Ukraine brings with it the huge potential for food price hikes and/or global famine that are unprecedented in the modern world?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Does corporate media (including NPR) say <u>anything </u>that doesn’t benefit the Military Industrial Complex that Eisenhower so famously warned us about in his last presidential address </span><span style="color: #00000a; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">to the American people (linked <u><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyBNmecVtdU" target="_blank">here</a></u>)?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #00000a;">If nothing else, why is Scott Ritter not on the news every night to, </span><u>at the very least,</u><span style="color: #00000a;"> debate the dominant Military Industrial Complex narrative with all of the numerous Pentagon-appointed talking heads? Who is Scott Ritter? He </span></span><span style="color: #00000a; white-space: pre-wrap;">was the UN's Chief Weapons Inspector during the build up to the Iraq war. He told the truth then that there was no credible evidence for Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq. </span><span style="color: #00000a; white-space: pre-wrap;">He has a wealth of information and insight into the present Ukrainian tragedy.</span></p></span></span></div><div><span><span style="color: #00000a; font-family: times; font-size: medium; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: #00000a; white-space: pre-wrap;">I highly recommend watching this interview with Ritter (linked <u><a href="https://leecamp.com/former-un-inspector-scott-ritter-on-what-the-hell-is-happening/" target="_blank">here</a>)</u>. He gives some important historical Ukrainian backstory 15 minutes in. He references the </span></span><span style="color: #00000a; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cheap & Profitable Energy </span><span style="color: #00000a; white-space: pre-wrap;">cards Russia has <u>yet</u> to play in this conflict 31 minutes in. If nothing else comes from you reading this blogpost, I pray that you find time to listen to the last 8 minutes (from the 31 minute mark until the end). Note how emphatic Ritter is about how important energy is to this conflict. And he's not even delving into fertilizer and its outrageously important role in this conflict.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #00000a; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #00000a; white-space: pre-wrap;">History has proven that if we had listened to this man 20 years ago, we could have prevented untold tragedies in Iraq and throughout the Middle East. And now corporate media can't give him a hearing? </span></span></div><div><span><span style="color: #00000a; font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #00000a;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">We need a mainstream news that regularly interviews people like Ritter, instead of just more generals who sit on boards of weapons manufacturers who stand to profit from the escalation of this conflict. We need a mainstream news that informs us of crucial historical information such as the fact that Russia has had a naval base in Crimea for longer than the US has been a country. But don't hold your breath on the corporate media actually informing you of such crucial information.</span></span></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #00000a;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #00000a; white-space: pre-wrap;">No amount of low-quality alternative media can justify this state of affairs in our mainstream news - the corporate media. Alex Jones does not justify this state of affairs. On the contrary, I will argue that the <u>abysmal quality of corporate media</u> is what gives rise to so much low-quality alternative media. People are desperate to hear media that simply acknowledges a few things they know to be true. In that justifiable desperation, so much low-quality alternative media is born. </span><span style="color: #00000a;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater. If you are looking for alternative views on what’s happening in Ukraine, you could do a lot worse than the following:</span></p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.moonofalabama.org/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: navy; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Moon of Alabama</span></a><span style="color: #00000a; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><a href="https://www.theautomaticearth.com/the-automatic-earth/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: navy; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Automatic Earth</span></a><span style="color: #00000a; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><a href="https://thesaker.is/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: navy; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Saker</span></a><span style="color: #00000a; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: navy; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Reminiscence of the Future</span></a> <a href="https://tomluongo.me/">Gold, Goats 'N Guns</a></span></p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All of these sites reveal many important facts and perspectives not aired in corporate media about the unfolding Ukrainian tragedy. This isn’t to endorse any or all of their opinions, but simply to highlight perspectives you’re almost guaranteed to miss on corporate media. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">May we all choose to understand different views and risk learning something new, versus tacitly supporting censorship of dissenting views. </span></p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Please realize that whatever perspectives you may read on the above linked websites, and whatever view you may have about those perspectives, may very well turn out to be completely irrelevant - relative to walking blindly into a global thermonuclear war, or having millions upon millions of people starve over the next year or so.</span></p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All wars are hell. </span></p><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><h3 style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">An Exercise in Empathy</span></h3><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Our empathy should, of course, be extended to the citizens of Ukraine in this tragedy.</span></p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And as we sit on the edge of WWIII and/or an </span><span style="color: #00000a; white-space: pre-wrap;">unprecedented </span><span style="color: #00000a; white-space: pre-wrap;">mass starvation event, it would also serve to empathize with our so-called “enemy”.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So let’s turn the tables for a moment with a little thought experiment in which Russia and the US switch roles, and in which Canada takes on the role of Ukraine. I ask here, "What would we have done if we were in Russia's shoes?" </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Imagine that in 2014, Canada switched to a Russia-friendly government. This did not happen at the ballot box, but came from an uprising backed by force of arms. </span><span style="color: #00000a; white-space: pre-wrap;">Since then, Canada has had a small but very deadly civil war between the new Russia-friendly central government and some Canadian provinces on the US border with American-majority populations. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Imagine that an Agreement was reached between the US and Canada to end the Civil War in the American-majority provinces, an agreement in which Canada agreed to officially recognize the independence of those provinces. But then Canada never officially recognized their independence, but instead continued the war against the American-majority provinces, right on the US border.</span></p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Imagine that there was increasing talk during the last 8 years that Canada was going to officially join a Russia-centric international military alliance. Regardless of the talk, Canada indeed received substantial military training and weaponry directly from Russia and their military alliance throughout.</span></p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Imagine that during the last 8 years, US presidents had used every opportunity to announce to the world that they would not tolerate Canada joining the Russia-centric international military alliance, that Russian weapon sales to Canada must stop, and that the civil war must end and the American-majority provinces be recognized as independent.</span></p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Imagine that all diplomatic efforts to stop the deadly civil war against the Americans living in Canada had failed. All diplomatic efforts to stop Russia’s flow of arms into Canada had failed. All diplomatic efforts to get Canada to agree to not join the Russian military alliance had failed. And to the contrary, Canada kept openly requesting to join Russia’s military alliance, which Russia openly supported.</span></p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Imagine on top of all of the above, that on February 19</span><span style="color: #00000a; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="vertical-align: super;">th</span></span><span style="color: #00000a; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, 2022, the Canadian Prime Minister gave a speech at an international security conference saying that, in effect, Russia-friendly Canada was considering pursuing the development of nuclear weapons.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What would the US do in such a situation? Answer honestly. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I personally have not been able to figure out how the US would effectively stop such a provocation without the use of force, if we stood in the same shoes as Russia did throughout the last 8 years.</span></p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Likewise, I have not yet heard anyone explain how Russia was supposed to have </span><span style="color: #00000a; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">effectively</span><span style="color: #00000a; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> stopped such a provocation without the use of force. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I am open to someone explaining that clearly.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There is no shame in recognizing that Russia, a country that was invaded by and then repelled both Napoleon's Grand Army and Hitler's Wehrmacht, has legitimate national security concerns. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: black; font-family: times; font-size: medium; white-space: normal;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">That recognition, by no means, requires ignoring any of Russia’s past or present atrocities. It simply admits that a country we are inclined to now view as an “Enemy” does indeed have legitimate concerns. And that the horribly tragic situation on the ground would be dramatically improved by acknowledging those legitimate concerns. More than likely it's the single most effective thing we can do to keep from escalating this horrible tragedy into an even worse one.</span></p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /><br /></span><h3 style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Biological Research Facilities”</span></h3><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You probably have seen by now the infamous clip of the </span><a href="https://odysee.com/@W0ndrC:d/ukrainian-biolabs:c" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: navy; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Senate conversation between Senator Rubio and Victoria Nuland</span></a><span style="color: #00000a; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">? (Nuland was the US representative on-the-ground during the Ukrainian 2014 Maidan Revolution)</span></span></p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There has been an incredible amount of digital ink spilled over this conversation already, but I feel like the key question here keeps getting obscured in all of the hub-bub online. So let’s highlight that again.</span></p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nuland stated unequivocally that Ukraine has “Biological Research Facilities” which “we are now concerned that Russian forces may gain control of”. </span></p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It is deeply fascinating to watch Rubio and Nuland walk the tightrope of dismissing “Russian propaganda” about how Russia “has uncovered a plot by the Ukrainians to release biological weapons in the country with NATO’s coordination” while simultaneously openly acknowledging that, indeed, Ukraine did have “Biological Research Facilities” that are of serious concern if they fall into Russian hands.</span></p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is the key question</span><span style="color: #00000a; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Why would there be any “concern” if these “facilities” were only conducting “biological research”? Such “concern” only makes sense if there was some dangerous offensive-in-nature, bio-warfare, or gain-of-function research going on. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If all that was being researched was simply defensive in nature, let’s say, then wouldn’t it be the same as what every regional country was also researching? Then Russia wouldn’t be coming across anything they didn’t already have in their own labs, and would know perfectly well how to deal with it. </span></p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Do people think that Russia doesn’t also have its own biological labs researching dangerous pathogens in their region? That they don’t already have samples of every potential biologic concern in the region, and know perfectly well how to deal with them? Really? This is the country whose rockets transport US astronauts to and from the International Space Station. </span></p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I hope you see what I’m getting at. My central worry isn’t just that there are numerous Pentagon funded “biological research facilities” in the Ukraine, per se. It’s certainly possible that all of this could very well be benign and/or beneficial. My central worry is that Nuland has a “concern” that the research material in those labs might fall into enemy hands. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What is in those Pentagon-funded labs that’s so dangerous that it causes such “concern”?</span></p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I certainly don’t know. I sure hope someone at the UN Security Council with access to actual evidence can get to the bottom of this, as they are now reviewing the matter. </span><span style="color: #00000a; white-space: pre-wrap;">If Russia is lying out their teeth, well then this is their “Iraq has Weapons of Mass Destruction” moment. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If, and this is a HUGE “IF”, it turns out that the Pentagon helped to conduct gain-of-function research in those Ukrainian labs, as Anthony Fauci’s NAIAD, with grants funneled through Peter Daszak’s Eco-Health Alliance, helped fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan labs, all of which happened during a time when the US had placed a moratorium on all gain-of-function research - well, any shred of credibility that the US still has on the world stage will be destroyed for the foreseeable future. I’m not even sure any psy-ops by corporate media and/or WWIII could keep the lid on that one. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We Americans need to acknowledge that this “evidence” for “bio-weapons labs” on Russia’s borders, as vague, murky and questionable as it all is, is at least as good as any of the “evidence” the US presented the UN Security Council in 2003 to justify our invasion of Iraq. May we therefore refrain from getting on a moral high horse, potentially hindering any real resolutions, especially when so much is at stake. </span></p><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>How to Stop the War in Ukraine</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I support Ukraine by suggesting that they end this conflict by simply agreeing to Russia’s demands, that Ukraine:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span></span><br /><span>1) Amends their constitution to prohibit them from ever joining NATO<br />2) Officially recognizes Crimea as part of Russia<br />3) Officially recognizes Luhansk and Donetsk as independent</span></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If Russia would still except these terms, I do believe this would be best for Ukraine and for the world.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span><br style="color: black; white-space: normal;" /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What <u>exactly</u> makes these demands non-negotiable? This war would be over if they were agreed to.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What, or who </span><span style="color: #00000a; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">exactly</span><span style="color: #00000a; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> prevented Ukraine from agreeing to these demands BEFORE the Russian Invasion? The Russian invasion would very likely not have happened if they were agreed to.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What, or who </span><span style="color: #00000a; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">exactly</span><span style="color: #00000a; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> prevents Ukraine from agreeing to these demands <u>right now</u>?</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As we are pondering these questions, may we keep in mind that regardless of what happens, as world events increasingly go haywire, we need to remember two crucial things:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1) That there is a big backstory behind everything - debts are spiraling out of control simultaneously with Cheap & Profitable Energy depleting. We only scratched the surface here in this post of how relevant this backstory is to the unfolding Ukrainian tragedy. Let alone how relevant it is to so many other tragedies washing ashore.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2) That corporate media cannot be trusted to give the full story. </span></p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The future will likely not make any sense without keeping these both in mind.</span></p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /><br /></span><h3 style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My Favorite Quotes about the Ukrainian Tragedy</span></h3><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’ll finish by sharing my two favorite quotes since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. One came from commenter “Black Cloud” on an article the Saker published on March 3</span><span style="color: #00000a; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="vertical-align: super;">rd</span></span><span style="color: #00000a; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, 2022:</span></span></p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“The Russians are playing chess. The West is playing with itself.” </span></p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’m not convinced of the first part of that quote. The second part appears pretty solid though. </span></p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><div><span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The second quote is from Caitlin Johnstone:</span></p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #00000a; font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“It’s 2022, and people still believe that the US is pouring weapons into a foreign country to protect freedom and democracy. That’s like being 57 and still believing in the Tooth Fairy.”</span></p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /></span></div></div>Clueless Honkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06655284653621810752noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-682315958695733655.post-58909475209891336422021-11-28T10:52:00.001-08:002021-12-01T03:30:05.381-08:00Paul Kingsnorth's "The Vaccine Moment, part one"<p> Hello,</p><div>I was on the verge of writing another blog post this last week, "inspired" (if it's possible to use that term in this context) by the unfolding events in Northern Territory, Australia. However, I recently came across this beautifully written piece by Paul Kingsnorth: "The Vaccine Moment, part one".</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://paulkingsnorth.substack.com/p/the-vaccine-moment-part-one">https://paulkingsnorth.substack.com/p/the-vaccine-moment-part-one</a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>It says just about everything I was hoping to say at this moment, so I am very thankful for the author taking the time and beating me to it. He does a much better job at it than I could have done.</div><div><br /></div><div>I highly recommend it. If you can find the time, please check it out. </div><div><br /></div><div>Note: It's come to my attention that many people cannot access the essay, as it is behind a paywall. Usually, Substack allows visitors to access and read an article before committing to subscribe to a writer. Which, of course, makes sense. For some reason, that isn't working for this article, or at least not for numerous people that have contacted me about this.</div><div><br /></div><div>So I'm going to openly commit a huge party foul here and copy and paste it here below in its entirety. If you like the post, I strongly encourage you to support Paul Kingsnorth through Substack and otherwise. I just don't want anyone to be forced to pay to read a controversial post with which they may disagree.</div><div><br /></div><div>You can also take this as my act of civil disobedience against Substack - which, for the most part, I wholeheartedly support. I find it frustrating that while Patreon allows a minimum pledge of $1/ month to writers, that Substack's minimum pledge is $5/ month. I guess that many people would rather support 20 writers at $1 a month, than 4 writers at $5/ month. (Or the equivalent to whatever people's monthly budget for supporting independent voices may be).</div><div><br /></div><div>Once again, if you find the post valuable, please support Paul Kingsnorth. So here it is:</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="post-header" style="background-color: #f2f2e3; color: #33332b; font-family: Lora, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><h1 class="post-title short unpublished" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, #1a1a1a); font-family: var(--font_family_headings, var(--font_family_headings_preset, "SF Compact Display", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol")); font-weight: var(--font_weight_headings_preset, bold); line-height: 52px; margin: 0.378em 0px 0px;">The Vaccine Moment, part one</h1><h3 class="subtitle" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: var(--print_secondary, var(--print_secondary_on_web_bg_color, var(--print_secondary, #757575))); font-family: var(--font_family_headings, var(--font_family_headings_preset, "SF Compact Display", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol")); 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height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-height: 594px; max-width: 823px; width: 728px;" width="823" /></a></figure></div><p style="color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, #1a1a1a); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><em>This is the first installment of a two-part essay on the virus and the Machine. Part two follows next week, after which normal service will be resumed.</em></p><div><hr style="background: var(--border_subtle); border: 0px; height: 1px; margin: 48px 0px; padding: 0px;" /></div><p style="color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, #1a1a1a); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Perhaps it’s because I’m English, or perhaps it’s my age, or perhaps it’s just blind prejudice, but when I wake to the news that the Austrian government has interned an entire third of its national population as a ‘danger to public health’, a chill runs down my spine. </p><p style="color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, #1a1a1a); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><em>Austria</em>, I think to myself. <em>Ah</em>.</p><p style="color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, #1a1a1a); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">I look at the news photos of armed, masked, black-clad police stopping people in the streets to ask for their digital papers, and I read stories of others arrested for leaving their own house more than the permitted once a day, and I hear Austrian politicians intoning that those who refuse to accede to the injection are to be shunned and scapegoated until they acquiesce. Then I watch <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9io1MZz_7E&t=104s" rel="" style="text-decoration-line: none;">interviews</a> with ‘ordinary people’, and they say that the ‘unvaxxed’ had it coming. Some of them say that they should all be jailed, these enemies of the people. At best, the ‘anti-vaxxers’ are paranoid and misinformed. At worst they are malicious, and should be punished.</p><p style="color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, #1a1a1a); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">A few days later I wake up to some more news about Austria: from next year, everyone in the country will have a covid vaccine <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/19/austria-plans-compulsory-covid-vaccination-for-all" rel="" style="text-decoration-line: none;">forced into them by the state,</a> overriding their right to what certain people, who have gone very quiet recently, used to call ‘bodily autonomy.’</p><p style="color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, #1a1a1a); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Then I look across the border at Germany. I see that in Germany, politicians are also considering interning the ‘vaccine hesitant’, and are currently discussing forcing vaccination upon every citizen. By the end of the winter, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/22/austria-re-enters-covid-lockdown-as-europe-battles-virus-surge" rel="" style="text-decoration-line: none;">says</a> Germany’s refreshingly honest health minister, Germans will be ‘vaccinated, cured or dead.’ There is apparently no fourth option. </p><p style="color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, #1a1a1a); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">They have been busy in Germany. Recently they <a href="https://www.rtl.de/cms/hamburg-ein-zaun-als-grenze-und-gluehwein-nur-fuer-geimpfte-und-genesene-4870367.html" rel="" style="text-decoration-line: none;">put up fences</a> in Hamburg to separate the Bad Unvaxxed from the Good Vaxxed at the Christmas markets. Outdoors. Perhaps they will also provide the Good people with rocks to throw across those fences. When I see cartoons like the one at the top of this page, which recently appeared in a mainstream German newspaper, I think that this may not be far off. Here, the man on the sofa has bought himself a first-person shooter game in which he can having fun killing unvaccinated people. It will be, says the cartoonist, ‘a big hit under the Christmas tree.’<a class="footnote-anchor" href="https://paulkingsnorth.substack.com/p/the-vaccine-moment-part-one#footnote-1" id="footnote-anchor-1" rel="" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 0; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: super;">1</a><br /><br /><em>Ha ha ha,</em> I think<em>. Germany. Fences. Internment. Forced injections. Armed police. Scan your code. Kill the unvaxxed.</em></p><p style="color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, #1a1a1a); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><em>Ha ha ha.</em></p><p style="color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, #1a1a1a); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">I am watching all this from Ireland, the country which has the highest adult vaccination rate in Western Europe, at over 94% of the population. At the same time, curiously, we have some of the highest covid infection rates in Western Europe too. The government has not been able to explain this fact, but it is a trend that has recently manifested in some other highly-vaccinated places too: Gibraltar, Israel, West Flanders. High levels of vaccination do not seem to correspond with low-levels of disease; often quite the opposite.</p><p style="color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, #1a1a1a); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">In other parts of the world, strange things are happening too. Africa, for example. Africa’s population is the largest, fastest-growing and materially poorest of any continent. Few governments there can afford to supply their people with the pricey corporate vaccines which we in the West have staked our nations on. Only 6% of Africa’s population is vaccinated, and national healthcare systems barely exist in many places, yet the WHO <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2021-11-19/scientists-mystified-wary-as-africa-avoids-covid-disaster" rel="" style="text-decoration-line: none;">describes</a> the continent as ‘one of the least affected regions in the world’ by the virus. In fact, the richer, more ‘developed’ parts of the world seem to be suffering worst from the pandemic.</p><p style="color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, #1a1a1a); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Nobody seems to be able to explain any of this, but that hasn’t changed the official direction of travel. Certainly in Ireland, the script remains the same. For six months we have been living with vaccine apartheid, with the ‘unvaxxed’ excluded from much of society, but it hasn’t worked. Rates of infection are shooting up as winter arrives - as you might expect with a respiratory virus. We were all told recently to work from home, and another lockdown is on the cards. A midnight curfew has recently been imposed on pubs and nightclubs. This is odd, as only vaccinated people have been allowed into them for months, and we have repeatedly been assured that vaccinated people are safe to be around.</p><p style="color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, #1a1a1a); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">In an honest society, all of this would have been subject to robust public debate. We would have seen scientists of all opinions openly debating on TV and radio and in the press; views of all kinds aired on social media; journalists properly investigating reports of both vaccine successes and vaccine dangers; serious explorations of alternative treatments; public debates about the balance between civil liberties and public health, and what ‘public health’ even means. But we have not seen this and we will not see it, for debate, like dissent, is out of fashion. The media here in Ireland has not asked a critical question of anyone in authority for at least eighteen months. Google’s algorithms are busy <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2021-08-05/google-curating-covid-search-results-algorithm-project-finds/100343284" rel="" style="text-decoration-line: none;">burying</a> inconvenient data, while the social media channels from which most people receive their worldview are removing or suppressing critical opinions, even if they come from virologists<strong> </strong>or <a href="https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/08/23/does-the-fda-think-these-data-justify-the-first-full-approval-of-a-covid-19-vaccine/" rel="" style="text-decoration-line: none;">editors of the British Medical Journal. </a></p><p style="color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, #1a1a1a); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Day after day, I have been waking and wondering: <em>what is going on?</em></p><div><hr style="background: var(--border_subtle); border: 0px; height: 1px; margin: 48px 0px; padding: 0px;" /></div><p style="color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, #1a1a1a); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Internment. Mandatory medication. Segregation of whole sections of society. Mass sackings. A drumbeat media consensus. The systematic censoring of dissent. The deliberate creation by the state and the press of a climate of fear and suspicion. What could possibly justify this? Perhaps the combination of a terrible pandemic which killed or maimed large percentages of those it infected, and the existence of a safe and reliable medicine which was proven to prevent its spread. This, of course, is what we are said to be living through. This is the Narrative. </p><p style="color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, #1a1a1a); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">But it is clear enough by now that the Narrative is not true. Covid-19 is a nasty illness which should be taken seriously, especially by those who are especially vulnerable to it. But it is nowhere near dangerous enough - if anything could be - to justify the creation of a global police state. As for the vaccines - well, let's just acknowledge that vaccination has become a subject which it is virtually impossible to discuss with any calmness or clarity, at least in public. As with almost every other big issue in the West today, opinion is divided along tribal lines and filtered through the foetid swamp of anti-social media, to emerge monstrous and dripping into the light.</p><p style="color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, #1a1a1a); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Often, in an argument, what people think they are arguing about is not the real subject of disagreement, which is deeper and often unspoken, if it is even understood. So it is here. The divisions that have opened up in society about the covid vaccines are not really about the covid vaccines at all: they are about what vaccination symbolises in this moment. What it means to be 'vaxxed' or 'unvaxxed', safe or dangerous, clean or dirty, sensible or irresponsible, compliant or independent: these are questions about what it means to be a good member of society, and what society even is, and they are detonating like depth charges beneath the surface of the culture.</p><p style="color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, #1a1a1a); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">This is not to say that the surface disagreements don’t matter. They do. There are plenty of good reasons to be concerned about these medications and their enforced use. Here we have a <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/research-and-innovation/en/horizon-magazine/five-things-you-need-know-about-mrna-vaccines" rel="" style="text-decoration-line: none;">novel technology</a>, never before used at scale or for this purpose, used to create a series of vaccines which have been rolled out to millions before their clinical trials are even complete. This is an unprecendented situation - as is vaccination for a respiratory virus in the middle of a pandemic, which some people with serious expertise <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJZxiNxYLpc&t=2128s" rel="" style="text-decoration-line: none;">warn</a> may worsen the sitution rather than end it. The companies manufacturing these things are making equally unprecedented hourly profits, and their long histories of <a href="https://www.deconstructingconventional.com/post/18-reason-i-won-t-be-getting-a-covid-vaccine" rel="" style="text-decoration-line: none;">dishonesty and cover-ups</a>, plus the fact that they are legally immune from any liability for problems arising from these vaccines, makes it impossible to take seriously their assurances of safety. And when we witness an active state/media <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/seriously-yall-stop-it-fda-asks-people-to-stop-taking-animal-dewormer-to-treat-covid-19/ar-AANEewB" rel="" style="text-decoration-line: none;">campaign</a> <em>against early treatment</em> of a disease - the precise opposite of what every doctor is taught at medical school - along with a refusal to report any of the <a href="https://www.vaxtestimonies.org/en/" rel="" style="text-decoration-line: none;">mounting</a><strong> </strong>evidence of <a href="https://charleseisenstein.substack.com/p/elements-of-refusal" rel="" style="text-decoration-line: none;">short-term side-effects</a>, it ought to be clear that something is happening which cannot be explained by the story we are being told.</p><p style="color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, #1a1a1a); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">For all these reasons and more, I have not been vaccinated against covid, and I don’t plan to be. This does not make me ‘anti-vax’ - a category that is designed to feed into the ongoing culture war narrative which separates the good from the bad people, and leads both sides in that war to demonise the other. I am not against vaccination, and I certainly wouldn’t imagine I had a right to tell others what to do with their bodies. I don’t believe that the available covid vaccines are ineffective - though they do not do what they were sold to us as doing - and I can see plenty of reasons for people, especially vulnerable people, to take them if they choose.</p><p style="color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, #1a1a1a); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">I expect that readers of this essay could argue with me about my decision if they felt like it, and I expect I could argue back. This is what much of the world has been doing sine these vaccines arrived on the scene. We could all throw peer-reviewed studies that we don’t really understand at each other, and they would all miss the mark because the vaccine is not the point. The point is what it symbolises - and what it is being used to build.</p><p style="color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, #1a1a1a); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">I am a writer. I know how to construct stories. I know what makes them succeed or fail, and I have a nose for when a story does not hang together. The covid Narrative is just such a story. It doesn’t fit together, even on its own terms. Something is wrong. The surface tale does not reflect what lies beneath. And what lies beneath is what interests me now.</p><p style="color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, #1a1a1a); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">We live in an apocalyptic time, in the original sense of the Greek word <em>apokalypsis</em>: revelation. What is happening on the surface is revealing what has always lain beneath, but which in normal times is hidden from view. All of the action now is in the underworld. Beneath the arguments about whether or not to take a vaccine that may or may not work safely, glides something older, deeper, slower: something with all the time in the world. Some great spirit whose work is to use these fractured times to reveal to us all what we need to see: things hidden since the foundation of the modern world.</p><p style="color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, #1a1a1a); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Covid is a revelation. It has lain bare splits in the social fabric that were always there but could be ignored in better times. It has revealed the compliance of the legacy media and the power of Silicon Valley to curate and control the public conversation. It has confirmed the sly dishonesty of political leaders, and their ultimate obeisance to corporate power. It has shown up ‘The Science’ for the compromised ideology it is.</p><p style="color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, #1a1a1a); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Most of all, it has revealed the authoritarian streak that lies beneath so many people, and which always emerges in fearful times. In the last month alone I have watched media commentators calling for censorship of their political opponents, philosophy professors justifying mass internment, and human rights lobby groups remaining silent about ‘vaccine passports.’ I have watched much of the political left transition openly into the authoritarian movement it probably always was, and countless ‘liberals’ campaigning against liberty. As freedom after freedom has been taken away, I have watched intellectual after intellectual justify it all. I have been reminded of what I always knew: cleverness has no relationship to wisdom.</p><p style="color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, #1a1a1a); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">I have learnt more about human nature in the last two years than in my preceding forty-seven. I have learnt some things about myself too, and I don’t especially like them either. I have noticed my ongoing temptation to become a partisan: to judge and condemn those on the other side of the question - those sheeple, those malicious enemies of Truth. I have noticed my tendency to seek out only sources of information which confirm my beliefs. Revelation is never comfortable.</p><p style="color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, #1a1a1a); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Most of all, though, what the covid apocalypse has revealed to me is that when people are frightened, they can be easily controlled.</p><p style="color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, #1a1a1a); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><em>Control</em>: this is the story of the times. Across the world we are seeing an unprecedented claim to control staked by the forces of the state, in alliance with the forces of corporate capital, over your life and mine. All of it converges on the revealed symbol of our age: the smartphone-enabled QR code that has, with frightening speed and in near-silence, become the new passport to a full human life. As ever, our tools have turned on us. Another revelation: they were never our tools to begin with. We were theirs.</p><p style="color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, #1a1a1a); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Amongst the vast flock of contested facts that wheel around this virus like a murmuration of starlings, darkening the skies and addling the mind, one stands out. It is the single fact that blows a cathedral-shaped hole in the strategy being pursued by governments at present, and which offers a glimpse into the crypt. It is the fact that these vaccines, whatever their efficacy in other areas, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/28/covid-vaccinated-likely-unjabbed-infect-cohabiters-study-suggests" rel="" style="text-decoration-line: none;">do not prevent transmission of the virus</a>.</p><p style="color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, #1a1a1a); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">This single fact - which has long been known but is barely ever mentioned - blows apart the case for vaccine passports, segregation, lockdowns of the 'unvaxxed' and all such similar measures. Even if you believe (or pretend to) that this virus is dangerous enough to justify the radical new forms of authoritarianism which have emerged around it - and I certainly don’t - those forms will fail anyway if both vaccinated and unvaccinated people can spread it; which we know they can.</p><p style="color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, #1a1a1a); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">What, then, can be the justification for the system of technological control and monitoring which has arisen around us with curious speed and smoothness over the last year? And what could explain the strangely similar language in which the world's governments explain and justify this system, which so many have adopted in similar ways with similar technologies in similar timeframes? That the 'unvaxxed' are a danger to society, and that the 'vaxxed' must be protected from them is the pretext. But as we are seeing on the ground in Ireland, the pretext is baseless.</p><p style="color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, #1a1a1a); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">If we were operating, as we pretend to be, from the ground of reason - if we really were 'following <a href="https://paulkingsnorth.substack.com/p/do-what-thou-wilt" rel="" style="text-decoration-line: none;">The Science</a>' - then we would be dismantling these systems at this point. Instead we are moving deeper into them. We are being herded into a future in which scanning a code to prove you are a safe and obedient member of society will be a permanent feature of life, as unquestioned as credit cards and driver’s licences. We are moving towards enforced mandatory vaccination of entire populations - including <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/health-57766717" rel="" style="text-decoration-line: none;">children</a> - and prison sentences for those who refuse. By winter’s end, we could be living in a world in which the state has taken full charge of our bodies, and our only chance of remaining active members of society is to submit to their every instruction, and agree to permanent digital monitoring to prove our compliance. </p><p style="color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, #1a1a1a); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Eighteen months ago, anyone suggesting that this would be the direction of travel when this virus arrived in town would have been dismissed as a paranoid David Icke fanboy. But over that eighteen months we have moved smoothly from ‘two weeks to flatten the curve’ to ‘mandatory injections to avoid <a href="https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/two-year-jail-terms-loom-for-health-order-breaches-under-pandemic-laws-20211026-p59349.html" rel="" style="text-decoration-line: none;">prison</a>.’ We have normalised this, and accepted it. We have not asked questions. Those who have dissented have been censored, silenced, bullied and abused.</p><p style="color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, #1a1a1a); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Even as I was writing this essay, the situations in Germany and Austria were eclipsed by news from Down Under. This weekend, the Australian army began <a href="https://gript.ie/aussie-military-trucks-transfer-covid-patients-to-quarantine-camp/" rel="" style="text-decoration-line: none;">shifting</a> covid-infected people into state-run camps. Parts of the Northern Territories of Australia have entered a ‘hard lockdown’, in which nobody can leave their house for any reason at all except for urgent medical treatment. Those who have contracted the virus, or simply been in contact with someone who has, will now be forcibly ‘transferred’ by soldiers to a government-run camp where they will be held until the state decrees they are safe enough to be released. </p><p style="color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, #1a1a1a); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">These ‘mandatory supervised quarantine facilities’ have been used to quarantine incoming travellers for the last year. Now they are being used to 'contain' Australian citizens. You can watch this measure being announced by the government <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-aGQx-lTOI" rel="" style="text-decoration-line: none;">here</a>. You can see another Australian politician fulminating about the ‘unvaxxed’ and what he would like to do to them <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hIKhtCB8PA" rel="" style="text-decoration-line: none;">here</a>. If after this you are not filled with foreboding, then I don’t know what to say to you. </p><p style="color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, #1a1a1a); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">My own sense of foreboding is deepening daily. Beneath the surface, down in those depths, I am far from the only one who can see what is emerging. The Narrative does not hang together, the story does not gel, but it is doing its job nonetheless. It is being used to summon forth and justify an unprecedented authoritarian technocracy which is hemming us all in with no consent, no debate, and no right to opt out. </p><p style="color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, #1a1a1a); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">In a short but momentous two years, this is who we have become. We in the West, who have spent decades, if not centuries, lecturing the rest of the world about 'freedom', and sometimes trying to bomb them into accepting it. We who invented this thing called 'liberalism'; we who are now burying it. It didn't take much, did it, for our words to be revealed as hollow?</p><div><hr style="background: var(--border_subtle); border: 0px; height: 1px; margin: 48px 0px; padding: 0px;" /></div><p style="color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, #1a1a1a); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Nearly a decade ago, I wrote an essay called <em>The Barcode Moment</em>. It’s collected in my book <a href="https://www.paulkingsnorth.net/confession" rel="" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist</a>, but you can also read the original version, in three parts, <a href="https://dark-mountain.net/the-barcode-moment-part-1/#comments" rel="" style="text-decoration-line: none;">here</a>, <a href="https://dark-mountain.net/the-barcode-moment-part-2/" rel="" style="text-decoration-line: none;">here</a> and <a href="https://dark-mountain.net/the-barcode-moment-part-3/" rel="" style="text-decoration-line: none;">here</a>. It was about the advance of intrusive technologies, and the question it posed was: <em>where will you draw your line?</em> I was trying to work out for myself the answer to this question, which has nagged at me for years.<em> </em>At what moment does the direction of travel of the Machine become so obvious, so intolerable, so frightening, that you can no longer acquiesce? What is the breaking point? For some people it was smartphones. For others it might have been social media. These days I think that the really smart people stepped off the carousel at dial-up modems and went quietly into the woods. </p><p style="color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, #1a1a1a); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">That essay was easy to write compared to this one. Ten years ago, I shivered at the sight of Google’s new <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Glass" rel="" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Glass</a> technology, which in retrospect was an early shot at a prototype <a href="https://theconversation.com/what-is-the-metaverse-a-high-tech-plan-to-facebookify-the-world-165326" rel="" style="text-decoration-line: none;">metaverse</a>, and wrote about what it might portend. It turns out that it’s a dozen times easier to write about a future of technological control that might be around the corner than it is to write about it as it manifests around you. </p><p style="color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, #1a1a1a); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">But this is what is happening today. Over the last six months I have been writing about the evolution of the vast grid of technological control that I call <a href="https://paulkingsnorth.substack.com/p/blanched-sun-blinded-man" rel="" style="text-decoration-line: none;">the Machine:</a> where it came from, what powers it, how we manifest it in our culture and in our individual lives. Over the next few months, I was planning to write about how it manifests in the here and now, in our politics, society and culture. I will still be doing that, but I find myself being overtaken by events. By the time I finish writing these essays, we will be living in a very different world to the one we lived in when I started them. We already are. </p><p style="color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, #1a1a1a); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">The covid pandemic has proven to be the perfect controlled experiment for the rollout of the next stage of the Machine’s evolution. This is the missing piece of the jigsaw puzzle without which the rest cannot be deciphered. The Narrative does not make sense until we understand that we are watching a new, radical form of techno-authoritarianism unfold before our eyes. It is not an accident, and it is not temporary. In the EU, Smartphone-enabled vaccine passes have been <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/health/sites/default/files/vaccination/docs/2019-2022_roadmap_en.pdf" rel="" style="text-decoration-line: none;">on the cards since at least 2018</a><strong>.</strong> The entire pandemic scenario was <a href="https://centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/" rel="" style="text-decoration-line: none;">wargamed</a> less than a year before it happened. The technology was ready, and the tightening of the ratchet long anticipated. All that was needed was a trigger event. As I wrote in my last essay here, the future in a collapsing society is a combination of both <a href="https://paulkingsnorth.substack.com/p/intermission-the-machine-stops" rel="" style="text-decoration-line: none;">breakdown and clampdown.</a> So it begins. </p><p style="color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, #1a1a1a); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">No ‘conspiracy theory’ is required for this to be true. It doesn’t mean that the virus is not real or dangerous, or that Bill Gates wants to inject you with microchips (well, he might, but that’s a separate conversation ...) No hidden cabal of people needs to be in control. The people who are in control - or at least, who aspire to be - are out in plain sight, and have been for years, and most of us either don’t notice or don’t care. We are too busy playing with the toys they make for us. And what is the line between Them and Us, and how blurred is it?</p><p style="color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, #1a1a1a); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">What we are seeing is the Machine doing what it always does; what I have traced through its history for the past six months. It is taking advantage of events to cement its dominance. It is colonising our societies and our bodies and our minds. It is replacing nature with technology, and culture with commerce. It is making us parts in its operational matrix, and it is using our fear to justify its tightening grip. When we are afraid, we welcome control, we welcome authoritarianism, we welcome strong leaders who will save Us by excluding Them. We willingly give up our freedom for safety, and end up with neither. Our fear leads us by the hand towards the next stage of our long journey away from Earth and into artifice; away from human freedom and into the digital net.</p><p style="color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, #1a1a1a); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Perhaps you think this sounds exaggerated. Hysterical, even. Just a few months ago I might have agreed. A year ago, I almost certainly would. But a year ago I had not seen what I have seen now. I had not seen the smartphone passports, the QR scanners, the meek public compliance, the deliberate whipping up of <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/bennett-lockdown-over-the-high-holidays-depends-on-vaccination-levels/" rel="" style="text-decoration-line: none;">fear and hatred</a> by political leaders. I had not seen the mandatory vaccination orders. I had not seen the camps.</p><p style="color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, #1a1a1a); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Next week I will write more on what I see happening, and where it is heading. But for now, it is enough to say that my personal Vaccine Moment has arrived. Where once I was on the fence, now I am firmly off it. Even if I were to be convinced that these vaccines worked safely, I could never get myself a vaccine passport and acquiesce in the technological segregation of society. I could never scan my code without shivering. I cannot participate in this.</p><p style="color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, #1a1a1a); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">We all have a breaking point, and we all should, because this is the means by which our human intuition screams to us that something is wrong. This is mine. I will not go along with what is happening. I will not validate what is emerging. I will resist it. I will take my stand.</p><p style="color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, #1a1a1a); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">What has been interesting about just the last few days, as I have struggled with how to express myself here, is that huge numbers of people have taken to the streets to say the same thing: <em>enough</em>. As the pressure builds, the explosions begin. Following widespread walkouts and strikes in the USA in recent weeks, hundreds of thousands of people across Europe have begun to <a href="http://www.indymedia.ie/article/108071" rel="" style="text-decoration-line: none;">take to the streets</a><strong> </strong>to oppose the closing-in of the technium. Few of these vast demonstrations have been reported in the mainstream media - another of those facts which, if the world was what it pretends to be, would ring alarm bells, but which we have become inured to in the age of the <a href="https://paulkingsnorth.substack.com/p/under-the-spreading-walnut-tree" rel="" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Spectacle</a>. </p><p style="color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, #1a1a1a); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">But something is happening out there. It’s as if the Vaccine Moment is some kind of thoughtform, drifting through the air, settling on millions of us at once like soft rain. Or perhaps it is more that a fog has suddenly cleared. Perhaps more and more people are coming to see that what is happening now is the Rubicon of our age. Nothing will be the same after this, and it is not intended to be. 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One side can’t seem to acknowledge that, despite their waning effectiveness, there still remains a short-term benefit from the jabs regarding hospitalization and death. Another side can’t seem to acknowledge the depth of short-term adverse reactions that so many experience, or that the long-term adverse effects of the jab and the forthcoming boosters remain a huge unknown. <br /><br />However, I wish here to reach through all of that confusion, obfuscation, and divisiveness and speak directly and specifically to the still-accelerating roll-out of the Mandates & Passports. In other words, if you want to continue to try to convince others to get jabbed, have at it. May we all figure out how to speak to each other like human beings, acknowledging each other's valid concerns.<br /><br />But since the roll-out of the Mandates & Passports continue like a run-away steam-roller, I will continue to escalate my push-back against them. I am too scared and too angry not to. Here’s my push-back against the Mandates & Passports:<br /><br /><br />The Tolerant Class endorses the firing of nurses and doctors who less than a year ago were hailed as “Heroes”. Nurses and doctors who literally risked their lives in order to care for others when a poorly understood but highly contagious disease was spreading throughout society.<br /><br />The Tolerant Class endorses even firing those nurses and doctors who can prove they have natural immunity. Because the Tolerant Class is “following the science”.<br /><br />The Tolerant Class endorses blaming the un-jabbed for spreading Covid when there’s at least as much evidence that the jabbed are also spreading the disease. Once again, that’s “following the science.”<br /><br />The Tolerant Class endorses upending our longstanding cultural norms around medical privacy.<br /><br />The Tolerant Class endorses upending our longstanding cultural norms around informed consent.<br /><br />The Tolerant Class endorses casting aside the precautionary principle.<br /><br />The Tolerant Class strenuously ignores the world’s most successful strategy against Covid to date, the State of Uttar Pradesh in India, which went from having skyrocketing cases to being effectively Covid-free in a matter of months, with only half the vaccination rate of the US. The Tolerant Class continues to ignore this so they can continue to prove that they care for the good-of-all by mandating jabs.<br /><br />The Tolerant Class believes, as Thomas Harrington said, “that hearing someone utter a critique against an ideological construct that another person told them was good and correct is much more problematic than forcing someone to be injected with an experimental drug under the threat of losing their livelihood.”<br /><br />At least the Tolerant Class isn’t Racist or Homophobic.<br /><br /><br />In the State of New South Wales in Australia, it is illegal for an un-jabbed person to visit another person in their own home. It is illegal for an un-jabbed person to go outside with more than one other person. These are actual laws on their books. No joke.<br /><br />In the German State of Hesse, supermarkets can now legally block entry to the un-jabbed. No joke.<br /><br />In Israel, your vaccination pass is no longer valid if you have only had two jabs. You have to already have had the third jab in order to participate freely in society. No joke.<br /><br />All over the world, personal QR Codes for proof-of-vaccination for entry to all sorts of places are being completely normalized. All over the world.<br /><br />Keep in mind that the Chinese have a digital social credit system where someone with a bad social credit score can be banned from traveling, working, banking, and entering contracts. In other words, if an authority figure deems you a threat in any way, you can be digitally disappeared with a keystroke.<br /><br />How many steps away is a QR code Jab-Pass to enter a grocery store from the Chinese Social Credit System? If we were honest with ourselves, we’d have to admit that it is essentially the same. Digitally disappearing your political enemies is only one keystroke away.<br /><br />Please take just one second here and imagine that your political enemies are the ones with this power in the future. Imagine it is <u>their </u>keystroke.<br /><br />Please take just one second here and realize that none of the powers that the Government took in the Patriot Act were walked back in the intervening years. In fact, since then, they instead lied to our faces and told us that they weren’t spying on each and every one of us. Even though they were. And are. You know this.<br /><br />Folks, things are moving very fast. Our fear of death is feeding the death-eaters.<br /><br />Let us not sleepwalk foolishly into a totalitarian dystopia while mistakenly thinking that we’re taking every step proving how much we care for other people, trying to clarify that at least we’re not like all of those racist, homophobic deplorables.<br /><br /><br />Here’s a helpful poem from Martin Niemoller, a Lutheran Minister, Junior Officer and Early Nazi Supporter:<br /><br />First they came for the Communists,<br />and I didn’t speak up,<br />because I wasn’t a Communist.<br />Then they came for the Jews,<br />and I didn’t speak up,<br />because I wasn’t a Jew.<br />Then they came for the Catholics,<br />and I didn’t speak up,<br />because I was a Protestant.<br />Then they came for me,<br />and by that time there was no one<br />left to speak up for me.<br /><div><br /><br /><img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/dOd1KCEmfAchvxxi4tFuc2rKXtXzNsbpGS1OGTmQXuNyLJiykviwbV-yF0RK1FkSb9ZqS7jjA4kZ7KwHGnNB-jnX7v_UDjrNCE-lB1jr2miXLDO_1eSqKQI_qyFfVfJfXekgnPlT" /><br /><br /><br />The following are actual signs that hung in Berlin in the 1930s and 1940s. They are included in the “Places of Remembrance” Memorial in the Bavarian Quarter, Berlin, Germany. It would serve us well to review them, and to note the chronological order:<br /><br />“All local government offices in Berlin must immediately suspend Jewish teachers in public schools.” April 1, 1933<br />“Jews are excluded from sports groups.” April 25, 1933<br />“Jews are expelled from all choral groups.” August 16, 1933<br />“Jews may not use the public beach at Wansee.” August 22, 1933<br />“Jewish authors are forbidden from all literary activities in Germany.” March, 1935<br />“Excursions by Jewish Youth Groups of more than 20 are forbidden” July 10, 1935<br />“Jewish veterinarians may not open practices.” April 3, 1936<br />“Jews may not receive academic degrees.” April 15, 1937<br />“Aryan and non-Aryan children are not allowed to play together.” 1938<br />“Jews may not be members of the German Red Cross.” January 3, 1938<br />“Jews may not own or run retail shops or mail order businesses.” November 12, 1938<br />“Jewish children are expelled from public schools.” November 15, 1938<br />“Jewish publishing houses and bookstores are to be dissolved by the end of the year.” December 1938<br />“General Employment Ban for all Jews.” January 17, 1939<br />“Jewish communities are responsible for clearing the rubble at synagogues which have been destroyed. Reconstruction is forbidden.” March 24, 1939<br />“Jews are not permitted to leave their apartments after 8 p.m.” September 1, 1939<br />“Telephone lines to Jewish households will be cut off.” July 29, 1940<br />“Jews in Berlin are only allowed to buy food between four and five o’clock in the afternoon.” July 4, 1940<br />“First mass deportation of Berlin Jews.” October 18, 1941<br />“The emigration of Jews is forbidden.” October 23, 1941<br />“First deportations directly to the death camp at Auschwitz.” July 11, 1942<br />“All files dealing with anti-Semitic activities are to be destroyed.” February16, 1945<br /><br /><br />First they came for the Un-Vaccinated,<br />and I didn’t speak up,<br />because I was Vaccinated.<br />Then they came for those without the First Booster Shot,<br />and I didn’t speak up,<br />because I had my First Booster Shot.<br />Then they came for those without their Second Booster Shot,<br />and I didn’t speak up,<br />because I had my Second Booster Shot.<br />Then they came for me,<br />and by that time there was no one<br />left to speak up for me.<br /><br /><br />If you have somehow made it this far in this post, the first thing I want to say is thank you.<br /><br />The second thing I want to say is please understand that NPR is Mainstream Media. You’ve probably heard that NPR is heavily funded by the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation. Well, that’s one of the Johnson’s of well known Johnson’s & Johnson’s - one of the 3 manufacturers of the Covid jabs here in the US. That is more than a small conflict of interest. You may want to take everything they say with a grain of salt. And we know who owns the rest of the Mainstream Media.<br /><br />The third thing I want to say is that it’s past time to bring up Mass Formation, a phenomenon of mass psychology that is essentially mass hypnosis. This historically led to the solidification of horrible totalitarian regimes such as the Nazis in Germany or the Bolsheviks in the Soviet Union. I highly recommend looking into the writings and interviews of Mattias Desmet, a professor of psychology at the University of Ghent in Belgium who has studied Mass Formation for the last ~20 years.<br /><br />Mass Formation can happen in any society when four cultural conditions are met: 1) widespread social isolation, 2) widespread lack of sense-making in people’s lives, 3) widespread free-floating anxiety, 4) widespread psychological discontent.<br /><br />The following is from Mattias Desmet when interviewed recently by Reiner Fuellmich. It is worth quoting at length.<a href="https://ratical.org/PandemicParallaxView/EyeOfTheStorm-ProfMattiasDesmet.html"> https://ratical.org/PandemicParallaxView/EyeOfTheStorm-ProfMattiasDesmet.html</a>:<br /><br /><i>"Free-floating anxiety is the most painful psychological phenomenon someone can experience. It’s extremely painful. It leads up to panic attacks, to all kinds of extremely painful psychological experiences. What people want in this situation is something to connect their anxiety to. They’re looking for an explanation for the anxiety. And now, if this free-floating anxiety is highly present in a population, and the media provide a narrative, which indicates an object of anxiety, and at the same time, describe a strategy to deal with this object of anxiety, then all the anxiety connects to this object and people are willing to follow the strategy to deal with this object, no matter what the cost is. That is what happens in the beginning of mass formation.<br /><br />Then in a second step, people start a collective and heroic battle with this object of anxiety. And in that way, a new kind of social bond emerges and a new kind of sense-making. Suddenly life is all directed at battling the object of anxiety and in this way, establishing a new connection with other people. And that, the sudden switch of a negative state, a radical lack of social connection, to the opposite, to the massive social connection that is experienced in a crowd. This sudden switch leads up to a sort of mental intoxication. That’s what makes mass formation, or crowd formation, the exact equivalent of hypnosis. All people who have been describing, who have been studying, mass formation, such as Gustave Le Bon, William McDougall, and Elias Canetti have remarked that mass formation is not similar to hypnosis; that mass formation is exactly equal to hypnosis. Mass formation is a sort of hypnosis.<br /><br />What happens is that at that moment, when people experience mental intoxication, it doesn’t matter anymore whether the narrative is correct or wrong, even blatantly wrong. What matters is that it leads up to this mental intoxication. And that’s why they continue to go along with the narrative, even if they could know by thinking for one second, that it is wrong. That is the central mechanism of mass formation. And that makes it so difficult to destroy it. Because for people, it doesn’t matter when the narrative is wrong. And what we try to do is we all try to show constantly that the narrative is wrong. But for people that’s not what it is all about. It’s all about the fact that they don’t want to go back to this painful state of free-floating anxiety.<br /><br />What we have to realize, if we want to change this state of affairs, is that the first thing we have to do is acknowledge this painful anxiety. To think about why we got in the state of lack of sense-making, lack of social bonds, free-floating anxiety, the massive psychological discontent, and try to tell people, now we don’t need a Corona Crisis to establish a new social bond. We have to look for other ways to deal with the psychological problems that existed before the Corona Crisis and try to find other solutions. We don’t need this kind of mass phenomenon to solve the problems.<br /><br />Mass formation is actually a symptomatic solution for a real psychological problem. In my opinion, this crisis in the first place is a large societal and psychological crisis much more than a biological crisis, let’s say. From this state of mental intoxication you can explain all the rest of the phenomenon of totalitarianism. The mental intoxication leads to a narrowing of the field of attention. It makes people only see what is indicated by the narrative.<br /><br />For instance, people see the victims of the Corona virus, but they don’t seem to see at the cognitive level, the collateral damage of the lockdowns and all the victims that are claimed by the lockdowns. They are also not able, at an emotional level, to really feel empathy for the victims of the lockdowns. That is not because they are very egoistic. No, it’s just an effect of this psychological phenomenon. And it’s definitely—even as a consequence of mass formation, people do not get egoistic at all. But rather, to the contrary, mass formation focuses your attention so much on one point that you can take everything away of people—their psychological and physical well-being, their material well-being—you can take it away and they will not even notice it.<br /><br />That’s one of the major consequences of mass formation. It’s exactly the same as hypnosis, as classical hypnosis. When a hypnotist—during hypnosis someone’s attention is focused on one point, you can cut in his flesh, the person will not notice it. That is what happens all the time. When a hypnosis is used as a kind of an anesthesia during a surgical operation, a rather simple hypnotic procedure is sufficient to make people completely insensitive to pain. You can, without any problem, cut in their flesh. Even under some circumstances you can perform an open heart operation in which the surgeon cuts straight through the breastbone and the patient will not notice this. That shows us that the focusing of attention is so strong, both in mass formation or in hypnosis, that people are really insensitive to all the personal losses they experience as a consequence.<br /><br />Another consequence, that is very typical for totalitarian states, is that people become radically intolerant for dissonant voices. Because if someone tells another story, if someone claims that the official story is wrong, then this person threatens to wake the people up and they will get angry because they’re confronted with the initial anxiety and the initial psychological discontent. So they direct all that aggression at these dissonant voices, at the other voices. And at the same time, they are radically tolerant for their leaders, for the people who pronounce the mainstream narrative. These people can actually cheat and lie and manipulate and do everything they want, but they will always be forgiven by the crowd because the crowd seems to think that they do it for their own sake. That’s also part of the mechanism of mass formation."</i><br /><br /><br />Widespread Isolation: <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Check <br />Widespread Lack of Sense-making: <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span> Check<br />Widespread Free-floating Anxiety: <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> <span> </span></span>Check<br />Widespread Psychological Discontent: <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span> Check<br />Object of Anxiety (the Un-Jabbed) Focused on by Media: <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span> Check<br />Media-Focused Strategy to Deal with Object of Anxiety: <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Check<br />Collective and Heroic Battle Against Object of Anxiety: <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Check<br />Hypnotic Attachment to Narrative Even When Contradicted by Evidence: <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span> Check<br />Blindness to Pain Inflicted on Others and even Oneself: <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Check<br />Radical Intolerance to Dissonant Voices: <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Check<br /><br />At this point, you don’t need me to tell you that this isn’t looking so good.<br /><br />And on top of all of that, or perhaps better said, below and foundational to all of that, our world is at a crossroads, a tipping point of not being able to carry on as it has before in just about every dimension of our lives.<br /><br />We simply can’t continue going into debt to create a bunch of stuff that we don’t really need, using resources that we are running out of, thereby filling the world with all kinds of “illth”.<br /><br />“Illth” is the opposite of wealth. (As John Michael Greer defines it, “to have ‘illth’ is to be burdened by things you don’t need or want, things that harm your well-being or prevent you from doing what you like.”)<a href="https://www.ecosophia.net/the-negative-sum-economy/"> https://www.ecosophia.net/the-negative-sum-economy/</a><br /><br />So as Mattias Desmet says, “We have to look for other ways to deal with the psychological problems that existed before the Corona Crisis and try to find other solutions.”<br /><br />In that vein, I’m going to get off this laptop now and go do something else.<br /><br />As the last thing before I go, I’m going to link to a recent paper by Thomas Harrington published by the Brownstone Institute called “The Frightened Class”, analogous to what I’ve ironically called in this post “The Tolerant Class”. His paper is the source for the first quote in this post. <a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/the-frightened-class/">https://brownstone.org/articles/the-frightened-class/</a><br /><br />The Brownstone Institute recently brought on Martin Kulldorff, the epidemiologist from Harvard, as their Senior Scientific Director. They already had Jay Bhattacharya from Stanford as a Senior Scholar. I wish they would also bring on Dr. Harvey Risch, from Yale, as a Senior Scholar. You’ve probably heard of Harvard, Stanford and Yale. Have you heard of these doctors? I encourage you to check them out. While you can.<br /><br />And when you’re ready, get off the device. Not before you’re ready. But when you’re ready.<br /><br />Thank you so much for your time and attention.<br /><br /><br /><br /></div>Clueless Honkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06655284653621810752noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-682315958695733655.post-87460640715511389202021-09-18T07:45:00.179-07:002021-10-31T08:22:21.813-07:00Shall We Make a Deal?<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now that we are a few more weeks into the accelerating Covid-Jab Mandates & Passports, let's check in to see how we’re all doing. </span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-59bb31d7-7fff-aedc-d3f5-00fe157a4b73"><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Personally I know folks who got coerced to get the jab. Not out of fear of Covid, but out of the fear of losing their jobs, their health insurance, and/ or their retirement. They have kids, so they couldn't take the risk of losing this security for their family. So they went against their own best overall sense of things, they went against their best intuition, and they took the jab.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">People are being </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">coerced</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> into taking a jab to which <u>nobody knows the long-term consequences</u>.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It is not my concern about whether or not </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">you</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> did or did not take the jab. I respect that that is up to you, and no-one else. The ones closest to you, the ones that you love and that love you, should have some say. But, in the end, it is your choice, and yours alone.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I am, however, growing increasingly frustrated that our society is somehow normalizing the </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">coercion</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> of others to take the jab.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To stress again, I continue to share my own personal reasons to not take the jab <u>not </u>to get you to question the jab, but to get you to <u>question the Covid-Jab Mandates and Passports</u>. Whether or not you agree with any of my personal reasons to refuse the jab, I pray that you can begin to see how an intelligent person can make an informed and respectable choice to not take it. And that everyone is entitled to make their own choice.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There is only one argument that I have heard that I believe comes even </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">close</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to having any validity in regards to the coerced Covid injections. And that is that society needs to reduce the impacts on our healthcare systems from Covid. And that in the short-term, the jabs do seem to suppress symptoms. So the argument goes that a higher percentage of jabbed people within our population could potentially relieve some stress on our over-burdened health-care systems in the short-term. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Of course, this argument is undermined </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">incredibly </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">by the notion that we should fire healthcare workers for not getting jabbed. If our health-care systems are over-burdened, the very last thing we should even consider is firing employees that have been working hard on the front lines of Covid for the last year and half. In a sane and decent society, this would be a obvious choice. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To which the mainstream narrative responds: “but the un-jabbed are the ones who are responsible for the bulk of transmission and for the evolution of the variants. Of course we don’t want un-jabbed health-care workers.”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If someone can show me </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">actual</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">scientific</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">evidence</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> of this narrative being even remotely true, please do let me know. Otherwise, please drop it.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you don’t want to believe me when I say that the Jabbed can transmit the virus, maybe you’ll listen to Fauci: </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP9iHyj1uiU" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dr. Fauci on COVID-19 spread: Vaccinated people who have an... infection are capable of transmitting</span></a></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Let’s get this straight: what Fauci is saying is that the Jabbed are less likely to show symptoms, but if infected, are <u>just as contagious</u> as the Un-Jabbed. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But if they are less likely to show symptoms, does it not also follow that they are <u>less likely to know they are infected</u>? </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So let’s just think about this for a second.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Let's say that two nurses have been infected with Covid. One jabbed. One un-jabbed.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The un-jabbed nurse is showing symptoms. The jabbed nurse isn’t.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Therefore the un-jabbed nurse is more likely to know that they are sick. That nurse is </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">more</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> likely to stay home, start the early treatment protocols, try to get better, and <u>therefore not infect anyone else</u>.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Which nurse do you want treating you for a broken leg in a hospital? </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Personally, I want the un-jabbed nurse taking care of me, as they are more likely to know if they are infected. They are more likely to know if they are contagious. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Which do you want taking care of you in a hospital?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Please note that this last thought experiment doesn't just apply to nurses who may take care of you in a hospital, but to each and every individual that you meet.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As far as the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">burden on our healthcare system, I have a friend who is an ER doctor in a hospital in KY, who notes how overwhelmed their hospital's care systems are right now because of Covid. I do understand that. And I do not want to contribute to this problem.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The first thing to say here is that it is </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">way</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> past time to talk about Covid early treatment options - the type of treatments that helped prevent many states within India from descending into a medical catastrophe: </span><a href="https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/lucknow-news/33-districts-in-uttar-pradesh-are-now-covid-free-state-govt-101631267966925.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/lucknow-news/33-districts-in-uttar-pradesh-are-now-covid-free-state-govt-101631267966925.html</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Uttar Pradesh is an incredibly densely populated state within India with </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">~2/3 the population of the entire US in an area smaller than Oregon. They are </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">now <u>close to being Covid-free</u>. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Less than 35% of their population has received at least one dose of the jab. This is </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">almost half</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> of the US’s present rate of 64% having received at least one dose. Yet, with these comparatively low jab-rates, they have almost become <u>Covid-free</u>. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How is that possible? We were told that <u>everybody</u> had to be jabbed for Covid to disappear here so we can all go back to normal. Isn't <u>that</u> now the mainstream narrative (after a number of "moving-of-the-goal-posts")?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Is the US Mainstream “News” even asking questions about Covid-free Indian states - just a few months after the same "News" was insisting that India was a sign of what is to come for us - warning us all that this </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">proved</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> that we all had to hurry up and get jabbed?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is one possible explanation for Uttar Pradesh's reduction in Covid: </span><a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/lucknow/uttar-pradesh-government-says-ivermectin-helped-to-keep-deaths-low-7311786/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/lucknow/uttar-pradesh-government-says-ivermectin-helped-to-keep-deaths-low-7311786/</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Does the mainstream narrative have a <u>better</u> explanation for Uttar Pradesh's success with Covid other than </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">this Indian state's</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> use of Ivermectin as prophylaxis and early treatment? Does <u>anyone</u> have a better explanation?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On the contrary, both our Mainstream "News" and our "top medical authorities" simply <u>ignore</u> the success with Covid that many Indian states have achieved, and </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">instead </span><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">they <u>demonize</u> Ivermectin. They are putting lives at risk with this </span></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">embarrassing</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">reckless </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">behavior. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">I'm not going to say that is is as embarrassing and reckless as the whole "Iraq has Weapons of Mass Destruction" fiasco only because it's so hard to compare, and because it's perhaps too early to tell how full-blown this catastrophe will be in its wake.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If we <u>truly</u> wanted to reduce the burdens on our healthcare systems, we would:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><ol style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stop firing healthcare workers based on their jab status.</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Adopt widespread use of Covid Early Treatment protocols to keep people out of our hospitals.</span></p></li></ol><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">These are the top priorities in reducing the burden on our healthcare systems. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">However, I am still willing to go one step further here. I </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">am willing to make a deal:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As an un-jabbed person, I am willing to forego the use of any hospital or emergency care facility if I get sick from Covid and need medical help.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But the deal would be</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: that if the situation here in the US follows England's trend, where Covid becomes less and less a disease of the un-jabbed, and it eventually got to the point where it was more a disease of the jabbed - that <u>those jabbed</u> are</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> also willing to forego the use of any hospital or emergency care facility if <u>they</u> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">get sick from Covid and need medical help in such a potential future.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">They would only have to forego care if there was evidence that the tables truly had turned, and that the hospitalizations and deaths of the jabbed were higher than their representative proportion of the country.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Before making that deal, I recommend that everyone really pores over the data coming out of England that is available to all. I’ve added the most recent data that was just released by Public Health England on Friday September 17th, 2021 to my previous chart.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Spot any </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">trends</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">? What do you say? Shall we make a deal?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img height="424" 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width="686" /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">The data for the chart above comes from Public Health England’s regular Technical Briefings “SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Concern and Variants Under Investigation”. Table 5 data from Briefings #17, #19, #21, #22, & #23 was entered into the following spreadsheet to 1) segregate out the most recent data, and 2) to calculate percentages: </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RuOGJIE6YjX6AY_VOVJ9rf7F3qTKxfByyuvIA4-VDXU/edit?usp=sharing" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;">PHE Data through #23</span></a></span><p></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I would imagine that seeing the <u>trend</u> in the chart </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">above </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">would make someone question whether or not to get jabbed </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">at all</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. But once again, </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">that choice should be entirely up to you</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Within most specific age brackets in England other than the youngest few, there is still a benefit from getting jabbed in regards to lessening hospitalization and death. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Someone might see that benefit and choose to get jabbed. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On the other hand, someone might see that short-term benefit, and weigh it against the potential short- and long-term risks that come both from the jab and from the subsequent boosters that seem to be coming down the pike. (Israel is <u>already</u> talking about their citizens getting their <u>fourth</u> jab). </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">What are the long-term consequences of </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">getting multiple boosters? </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Once a</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">gain, <u>nobody knows</u>.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Someone might also weigh the short-term benefits of taking the jab now against what seems like a very clear trend-line for the longer-term risks that England's data reveals.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Personally, I choose not to get jabbed. I choose not to hand over the future of my immune system to the pharmaceutical industry. I choose to go the route that many poor nations and states around the world have gone, and use early treatment protocols if I get sick.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you don't want to do the same, if you choose, or have chosen, to get the jab, <u>that is completely fine with me</u>. I am not trying to get you to question <u>your decision for yourself</u>. I recognize that this is a very complicated choice to make. All of the risks and benefits have to be weighed relative to one's own very personal medical history. </span></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">However, what I very much want you to question is our society’s increasing normalization of coercing others to take the jab</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. That has to stop. </span></p><p align="left" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14pt;"><span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">It
is </span></span><span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">past
time</span></span> <span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">to
question the mainstream narrative</span></span><span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. </span></span></span></span></p><p align="left" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14pt;"><span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">It
is now time for us to take a stand for people's right to
choose - regardless of what choice we make.</span></span></span></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Health and happiness to you all.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thanks for your time and attention.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Take care</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">P.S. I welcome fact-checks, but please don't bother sending me some "fact check" that you took one minute to google and then only took seconds to actually read, and somehow missed that the "fact check" is two and half months old - so <u>not relevant at all</u> to the data to which I include in my chart on England's recent Delta Hospitalizations and Deaths.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">P.S.S. Also please note that if you want to convince me to get jabbed, go ahead. Just note that I am setting a higher bar here for you than that. You don't need to convince me that I should get jabbed. You need to convince me that it is somehow OK for <u>everyone to be coerced</u> to get jabbed. Please understand that it's the higher bar you need to meet here. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And regarding Ivermectin in India, I am also setting a higher bar for you. You need to not only seed doubt that it was Ivermectin that reduced Covid harm in Uttar Pradesh, you need to 1) prove what otherwise accounts for their success in treating Covid, and 2) <u>prove</u> that it's not worth <u>at least trying</u> here. It was tried in a state with 2/3 of the US population with success and no drawbacks. Therefore the onus is on you to prove that it would </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">somehow </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">be dangerous or otherwise different to try it here. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">With all of that said, have at it.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Please do feel free to comment. I request, however, that you comment here on this blog-post, and not to my personal email or on facebook (faceplant). This will allow more people to follow the threads. I will moderate the comments to ensure an open, fair and courteous conversation, because I see what happens elsewhere on the internet and I am not so insane as to think it couldn't happen here. </span></p><br /></span><div><br /></div>Clueless Honkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06655284653621810752noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-682315958695733655.post-18239056350964174642021-09-05T13:56:00.014-07:002021-10-31T07:10:19.469-07:00The Mainstream Narrative is Putting Lives at Risk<span id="docs-internal-guid-1a347b0d-7fff-3e88-1998-14de10438a89"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now that the US FDA has fully approved the Pfizer vaccine, and vaccine mandates and passports are accelerating down the pike, I want to provide some friendly push-back, if I may.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To be clear, I respect each and every one’s right to make medical decisions for themselves. These are confusing times with a lot of confusing information out there. On top of that, each individual has their own unique medical conditions. So individual cost/ benefit analyses are very personal matters. I offer no push-back on anyone’s decision of whether or not to take a Covid vaccine. Your decision is completely your business.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">However, the more our society mandates these vaccines that use a novel technology with no long-term testing, and the more our society requires Covid vaccination passports for people to simply meet daily needs, the more and more I will push-back. Promise.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So here’s my friendly version of push-back:</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hold on</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Doesn’t the mainstream narrative say that all of the vaccine-hesitant are “putting lives at risk”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But is it not the mainstream narrative which has:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">* suppressed information about early treatment protocols for Covid*, and told people to stay home without treatment until they struggle to breathe (by when the majority of damage from Covid has set in);</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">* suppressed information about how strong the signal around BMI is for the potential of Covid harm, the </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">only</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> stronger signal being that of age (which nobody can do anything about);</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">* considered </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">firing</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> doctors and nurses who have been working tirelessly for one and half years on the front lines of treating people with Covid, working this whole time without a vaccine, but now firing those same doctors and nurses for not getting a vaccine;</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- is the mainstream narrative not the one “putting lives at risk”?</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hold on</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Doesn’t the mainstream narrative say that all of the vaccine-hesitant are ignorant?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But now it’s telling us that there are a significant number of doctors and nurses who have been on the front lines of treating Covid patients for a year and half, and that </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">many of them</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> are refusing to get vaccinated? Does that mean </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">those doctors and nurses</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> are ignorant? Ignorant of what? Does that even make any sense?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And the administrators who want to fire those doctors and nurses, and leave themselves short-staffed to handle a continuing pandemic, </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">those</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> are the smart ones in the room?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Is this not disrespectful to the point of defying common decency? Does the mainstream narrative not have it backwards about who is being ignorant here? Is the mainstream narrative not the one “putting lives at risk”?</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><u>Why do I remain Vaccine-Hesitant?</u></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You may ask, why do I personally continue to be so vaccine-hesitant despite all of the abundant evidence for how successful the Covid vaccines are at reducing symptoms in the short-term?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you did ask that, thanks.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My reasons for being Covid vaccine-hesitant are all about </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Time</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Time</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and yes, also about </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Time</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I believe that <u>Time </u>is the board for this evolutionary game we are caught in. The Covid vaccines may indeed reduce symptoms in the short-term, but it is the medium and long-term which captures my interest.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Within my last blog post, “Homo Narritivus”, I laid out some surprising information about what happened in India just a few months after our narrative managers were so clamorous about the rise of the Delta variant there. Feel free to check that post out and then look into what is happening in India yourself.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Since that post, I will simply add a stress here that it would serve anyone to look into how </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">different</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> states within India have put into place </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">different</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Covid protocols, and how those different states within India have fared with those different protocols. So have at it.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I admit, however, that the data from India can seem a wee bit murky. So in this post, I won’t talk about India any more. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Instead, I will talk about England, because it is the best example to explain my vaccine-hesitancy in relation to the Medium-term outlook within </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Time</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. So here goes:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My Main Medium-Term Reason for Vaccine-Hesitancy at this point:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’ve been looking at the numbers for England – a highly developed nation with over 68 million people with a national health-care system with excellent record-keeping that regularly updates their data. Their numbers should matter. And I should add – England is a country that was a little ahead of us here in the US in their push to vaccinate against Covid-19. So their numbers can be downright instructive regarding what’s to come for us.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">England’s total hospitalizations and deaths of the fully vaccinated are substantially increasing </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Over Time</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. By “fully vaccinated”, I specifically mean those who have had two doses of Covid vaccine for over 14 days. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I am using data from Public Health England's (PHE) regular "SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Concern and Variants under Investigation in England" Technical Briefings, all of which are publicly available online. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 445px; overflow: hidden; width: 720px;"><img height="445" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/DSkZsfhGJzsJd5ioL_gxed-KMss2QlOHIvDqQCTQ8jCHAqMSEsMfNiDg1YyxTVR8mx2xyU7iZJi-kADTwZLEGi7MK61O4VJYKrWnvVRrsJJtv5L2wLTbwggufbjNnem-bczIrGs3=s0" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" title="England - Residents with 2 Doses of Covid Vaccine > 14 Days" width="720" /></span></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hospitalizations*:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PHE data </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">through</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> June 21, 2021 shows <b>11%</b> of Covid- Delta hospitalizations were fully vaccinated.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PHE data </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">through</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> July 19, 2021 shows <b>21%</b> of Covid- Delta hospitalizations were fully vaccinated.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PHE data </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">between </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">July 19</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 0.6em; vertical-align: super;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and August 15, shows <b>40%</b> of Covid-Delta hospitalizations were fully vaccinated.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PHE data </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">between </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">August 15</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 0.6em; vertical-align: super;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and August 29, shows <b>49%</b> of Covid-Delta hospitalizations were fully vaccinated.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is the crux of the problem: </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">too much data</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> these days fails to </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">segregate</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> the most recent data from past data (There’s </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Time</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> again). So it fails to provide an accurate picture of change. This failure has been, and will continue to be, deadly. We are dealing, in my opinion, with a fast moving situation. So data that does not reflect the changing conditions can kill us.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So therefore, to recap, the percentage of Covid- Delta hospitalizations in England who were fully vaccinated </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">is rapidly increasing over Time</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and is already almost equal to the percentage of English who are fully vaccinated.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Deaths:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Through</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> July 19, <b>49%</b> of all Covid-Delta deaths were fully vaccinated.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Between</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> July 19 and August 15, <b>62%</b> of all Covid-Delta deaths were fully vaccinated.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Between</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> August 16 and August 29, <b>68%</b> of all Covid-Delta deaths were fully vaccinated.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So therefore, the percentage of Covid- Delta deaths in England who are fully vaccinated is and has been very high - higher than the percentage of English fully vaccinated, and yet it too is increasing <u>over Time</u>.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Base-Rate Fallacy?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We don’t want to fall into the base-rate fallacy, so we need to compare these percentages to the overall percentage of England’s population that was fully vaccinated over 14 days. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One needs to note here that a lot of reporting in the media about “% vaccination numbers” <u>excludes </u>those under 18. But the PHE Hospital data <u>doesn’t </u>exclude those under 18, so we won’t either.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">NHS Data says 34.0 million people in England had two doses by August 15, 2021.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Worldometer says the Population of England as of July 10</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 0.6em; vertical-align: super;">th</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 2021 was 68.25 million.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Summary about England:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Therefore <b>50%</b> of England was fully vaccinated for over 14 days by August 29, 2021.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The fully vaccinated were responsible for <b>49%</b> of the hospitalizations and <b>68%</b> of the deaths due to Covid-Delta for the two weeks ending Aug 29. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What is going on here?! Check out the above graph. Do you see what is happening <u>Over Time</u>?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Am I getting something wrong with this data? Investigate it yourself. This is impeccable data from a country of over 68 million people! We will likely never get better data than this. Please use it.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Do governments not collect this kind of data in order to inform official policy? </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Because this is alarming.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To me, this data begs us to question the use of Covid vaccines for anyone but those facing the most severe risk from Covid. But as I said at the beginning, each person’s risk/ benefit analysis is personal.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But without any doubt, this data screams for us to stop vaccine mandates, vaccine passports and vaccine shaming immediately!</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Some of My Long-Term Reasons for Vaccine Hesitancy:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There is so much to say here. But after the above, nothing should </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">need</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to be said. But I will give a few reasons anyways.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">First, a new study shows that not only does the evolving virus look poised to acquire complete resistance to all existing “wild-type” spike vaccines, but that the virus could easily mutate </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Over Time</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in such a way so that the existing vaccines could potentially </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">enhance</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> the disease (this is known as ADE - Antibody Dependent Enhancement).* (FYI: this paper is a pre-print, so not peer-reviewed. So who knows? We’ll see.)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> this did happen, it would make any disasters our ERs are presently experiencing seem like a cake-walk. Let’s pray that it does not happen.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Second, there are incredibly important reasons to test vaccines </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Over Time</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> for multiple years – as we </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">always</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> used to do. It can take </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">years</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> for unexpected side effects to show up. I know many billions of our public tax dollars were spent on mRNA technology R&D. And even more billions of dollars in private profits are now being made from the Covid vaccines.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But there are simply too few previous long-term case studies of mRNA technology being actually used medically on humans </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">at all</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Let alone for a vaccine. The primary previous use of medical mRNA on humans was with late-stage cancer patients, who would understandably be more willing to take a risk with a novel therapy. The scientific community used to have respect for the “precautionary principle”. Remember that? I don't see it much anymore.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Third, there are incredibly important reasons that we followed in the past, where we would never roll out a vaccine into an active outbreak when that vaccine only reduced symptoms, but did not provide sterilizing immunity.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If all you do is reduce symptoms, but allow infection and transmission to continue, then you are providing an evolutionary playground </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Over Time</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> for the pathogen to adapt around the vaccine in </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">every</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> vaccinated individual. That’s a very bad idea. However, that is exactly what we are doing with these novel vaccines. And “adapt around” is what the viruses have done and will continue to do. We would never have attempted it in the past, but I guess it’s OK now just so long as society can continue to blame the variants on the un-vaccinated.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If there was even the slightest bit of laboratory evidence that the existing vaccines could </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">potentially</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> but </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">realistically</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> <u>enhance </u>this disease over time, we should stop even thinking about mandatory vaccinations right now and </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">completely</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> rule out that possibility.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But alas, there is a bit of evidence. See the scientific paper linked to at the very bottom. (Once again, I admit it is not yet peer-reviewed.)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">However, if there was even the slightest bit of evidence from the real world – from a developed country with impeccable data for millions of people that shows that, <u>Over Time</u>, fully vaccinated people have rapidly increasing hospitalization rates, and that overall </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">already have</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> significantly higher death rates than the un-vaccinated, then we should stop even thinking about mandatory vaccinations right NOW!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But alas, there is </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">plenty</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> of evidence. Admittedly, I’m not clear on what better evidence you might need than England’s. Please check out all of the data for yourself in the links and spreadsheet below. Don’t trust my numbers? Fine. Dig through the publicly available source data yourself. It jumps out at you.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If, after investigating this evidence, you feel like you still want to take the vaccine to reduce your short-term symptoms, then go ahead. I still respect your right to make your own medical decision for vaccines utilizing novel technology for which there is no long term testing. Your analysis of the risk/ benefit ratio for you is just that – your analysis for you. We will all have to live with the consequences of our decisions on this.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wrap Up</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In my opinion, we cannot vaccinate our way out of this. I will, however, openly admit that the new mRNA technology is very clever. It is very clever indeed.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">However, it seems crazy to me that we think we are going to win this evolutionary race by utilizing this clever new technology of ours. We can’t provide enough existing vaccines to a significant portion of the globe right now, try as we might. But we are to somehow believe that we are going to be able to race to manufacture global levels of updated booster shots invented on-the-fly playing whack-a-mole with the continuing rapid mutations from an evolutionary sprinter like Covid? Uh-huh. Right.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In my opinion, a bunch of people are racing to reduce their symptoms in the short-term by taking vaccines utilizing a novel technology. That might work out for them. It might not. My guess, informed by the very best data we have at hand, is that time is not on their side. The virus bats last.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I could be wrong. Of course I could be wrong! This is the future we are talking about here. The future is notoriously hard to predict. We all could be wrong about everything we’ve ever said (the most likely option really).</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But after reading all of this (and thank you so so much if you actually made it all the way through – really, really thank you), if you still want to shame others who make a different analysis as you as being ignorant or selfish, and if you want to </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">force </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">them to go along with you by threatening their job or their right to shop for food – well then I truly hope that you can </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">clearly </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">see why an intelligent person might </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">just </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">want to tell you to go shove it.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Are you OK with vaccine mandates being rolled out everywhere? Are you OK with Vaccine Passports being rolled out more and more?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Please do your part to Stop the mandates and passports. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thanks for your time and attention.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Health and happiness to you all. I mean that. Take care, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">P.S. None of the above is to say that I as an un-vaccinated person might not get sick from Covid and be permanently harmed. Or even die. I might. I know that’s true. This certainly isn’t the Black Plague, and it’s certainly not the common cold either.</span></p><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hey, you made it totally to the end! Amazing. Just amazing. Thanks again.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Here’s a very short story and a “poem” just for those special few. It too is about Time. Consider it a “bonus track”, if you will:</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When I was 21, I was working on a compost pile on my campus’ organic vegetable farm. One minute I was feeling fine. The next minute, I was deathly ill. With excruciating effort I walked the trail through the woods to the main campus, got on a bus, walked a block home, and completely passed out in bed. I was totally </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">out</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. I don’t think I’ve ever felt so sick in my life.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After a few hours, I woke up, still feeling horrible. I reached out from my bed and grabbed a piece of paper and a pen. While laying on my belly with my head over the edge of the futon that was on the floor, I wrote down the following. Immediately after writing, I passed back out again until the next morning, when I woke up feeling fine, like nothing had ever happened:</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Killing Time</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We kill Time</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">but Time is where the sun is</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">how far away you are from camp</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">how prepared you are to spend the night huddled and alone</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Time is having not much longer to sleep, for day comes</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">close on the heels of a slivered moon rising in the night</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Eternity dreams</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Eternity dreams too within the smallest of moments</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">not only at the edges of this great expanse of time</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Time is our greatest gift, because it is from time</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">from the smallest of moments bubbling forth</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">which we draw our own powers to give</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Our use of the world is a giving</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">make no mistake</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a giving of our attention, our respect, our care</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Convenience kills</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Convenience kills what eternity dreams</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Behind all of the plastic trash on all of the plastic shelves</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">packed full within a hollowed out place-less-ness</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">lies only our fear that we have nothing left to give</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Get the science straight</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">barely behind that final fear</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">our black hole awaits</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All right, so there are voices, inner and outer,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">telling us we have nothing left to give</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">that our care will never be able to flesh itself out</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">that we feel alone because we deserve it</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">that the holes in our guts are too horrible to look at</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">let alone cross</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and since we deserve loneliness</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">we would have to cross totally alone</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All right, so now we know how the disease spreads</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">so now we recognize the voice of a forked tongue</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">so now we can remind one another</span></p><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">* “hospitalizations” in this post always means someone previously tested for Covid who entered an ER and was admitted overnight. FYI: I’m using as the “Hospitalization” data the rows entitled “Cases where presentation to emergency care resulted in overnight inpatient admission (exclusion)”. This row </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">excludes </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">data from patients who were first diagnosed with Covid </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">after</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> entering the hospital. Someone could also run the numbers on the adjoining row that includes that data. I haven’t yet. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">*“The SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant is poised to acquire complete resistance to wild-type spike vaccines”;</span><a href="https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.22.457114v1.full.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.22.457114v1.full.pdf</span></a> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">(This is admittedly a pre-print, and not yet peer-reviewed. And admittedly, the paper is pointing to in-vitro work, and not in-vivo. This is the paper that points to the fact that in a lab they have seen a mutation that could realistically cause ADE in humans, but they don’t use that acronym. Once again, the virus bats last). </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Early Treatment Protocols per the FLCCC Alliance, (Front Line Covid Critical Care Alliance), for just one example.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><u style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">DATA:</u></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My spreadsheet I used to compute percentages, with links to original source data:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AQgsHB6PBaw8-5g-eAKdhsurj9nEeIKp9YRhBrF18_Q/edit#gid=0" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PHE Data</span></a></p><div>Ooops. I thought that link would work for everyone. I just found out that it doesn't. Sorry about that.</div><div>Try this link. Hopefully it works for everyone:</div><div><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AQgsHB6PBaw8-5g-eAKdhsurj9nEeIKp9YRhBrF18_Q/edit?usp=sharing">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AQgsHB6PBaw8-5g-eAKdhsurj9nEeIKp9YRhBrF18_Q/edit?usp=sharing</a></div><div>If you want me to send this to you as an Excel spreadsheet, just let me know. I've tried to copy and paste it at the bottom as best as I know how right now. </div><div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><u>COMMENTS NOTE</u>: So I've received multiple comments and emails that attempt to cite "Fact Checks" that "dispute" my conclusions. Before sending me a comment with such a linked "Fact Check", please read the following:</span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">All such “Fact Checks” cited were written <u>over</u> two months ago.
The latest data-set they refer to is from June 21<sup>st</sup>, 2021.
This was the data summarized in PHE Technical Bulletin #17
“SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Concern and Variants Under Consideration”.</p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">This is the data
represented by the <u>F</u><u>irst</u> set of bars on my graph. I
used that data-set as <u>the reference point</u> by which we can spot
the subsequent trend.</p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">The rest of my graph
represents the data as published by PHE <u>over the last two months</u>
for which we have data, as documented in the last 5 PHE
Technical Bulletins - #18, #19, #20, #21, & #22.
</p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">If you read my
post, you will notice that “<span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="color: #666666;">My
reasons for being Covid vaccine-hesitant are all about </span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="color: #666666;"><u>Time</u></span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="color: #666666;">
</span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="color: #666666;"><u>Time</u></span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="color: #666666;">
</span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="color: #666666;">and
yes, also about </span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="color: #666666;"><u>Time</u></span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="color: #666666;">.”</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">After that sentence,
I capitalize and underline the word <u>Time</u> in my post over 10
times. I attempt to stress how important <u>Time</u> is to
understand what is going on in this fast moving situation.</p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">It seems rather
common for folks to spend <u>a couple of minutes</u> “googling” a
fact check, but then to not take <u>one minute</u> to see if that
“fact check” <u>truly</u> disputes any <u>actual</u> fact they
were trying to check.</p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">Considering what’s
at stake here, I recommend that we try to not do that.</p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">I spent a lot of
time creating this spreadsheet that I shared at the end of my blog:
<a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AQgsHB6PBaw8-5g-eAKdhsurj9nEeIKp9YRhBrF18_Q/edit?usp=sharing"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="color: #2288bb;"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Trebuchet MS, Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 7pt;">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AQgsHB6PBaw8-5g-eAKdhsurj9nEeIKp9YRhBrF18_Q/edit?usp=sharing</span></span></span></span></span></a>
</p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">I created it for two
reasons. 1) was to be able to segregate out the most recent data from
the previous data. As I stated in my blog - “<span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="color: #666666;">This
is the crux of the problem: too much data</span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="color: #666666;">
</span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="color: #666666;">these
days fails to segregate</span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="color: #666666;">
</span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="color: #666666;">the
most recent data from past data (There’s </span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="color: #666666;"><u>Time</u></span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="color: #666666;">
</span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="color: #666666;">again).
So it fails to provide an accurate picture of change.”</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">And 2) was to be
able to calculate percentages.</p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">All of the data
entered into the spreadsheet came straight out of the PHE Technical
Bulletins #17, #19, #21, & #22. The spreadsheet gives the actual
page numbers for each of the bulletins I used data from.</p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">Will the US follow
the trend from England - w<span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">here
every week the pandemic becomes less and less a “pandemic of the
un-vaccinated” and more and more a “pandemic of the vaccinated”?
Who knows?</span></span></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Liberation Serif", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Israel
is also good to look at regarding what the future has in store.
Israel was even ahead of England in their roll-out of the jabs. They
are already talking about the Fourth jabs.</span></p><p style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Liberation Serif", serif; font-size: 12pt;">What
is the cumulative effect of jab after jab? Again, who knows? That
</span><u style="color: #222222; font-family: "Liberation Serif", serif; font-size: 12pt;">also</u><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Liberation Serif", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> has no long-term testing. Think about that.</span></p><p style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u style="color: #222222; font-family: "Liberation Serif", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Whether
or not you want to take that risk is up to you.</u></p><p style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Liberation Serif", serif; font-size: 12pt;">I
personally choose not to hand over the future of my immune system to
the pharmaceutical industry.</span></p><p style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Liberation Serif", serif; font-size: 12pt;">And
this is my main point: </span><u style="color: #222222; font-family: "Liberation Serif", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Nobody making a choice as I am should be
discriminated against, fired, or culturally shamed for making a
different informed choice than another.</u></p><p style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Liberation Serif", serif; font-size: 12pt;">And
yet that seems to now be the rule of the day.</span></p><p style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #666666;">“</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Othering”
people like that is a slippery slope. History tells us that it
doesn’t always work out so well.</span></span></p><p style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Liberation Serif", serif; font-size: 12pt;">I
have no intention of letting th</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Liberation Serif", serif; font-size: 12pt;">is new
cultural</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Liberation Serif", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> “Othering” continue without
providing push-back </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Liberation Serif", serif; font-size: 12pt;">w</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Liberation Serif", serif; font-size: 12pt;">ith
</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Liberation Serif", serif; font-size: 12pt;">heart and with</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Liberation Serif", serif; font-size: 12pt;">
facts.</span></p><p style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Liberation Serif", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Thanks
</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Liberation Serif", serif; font-size: 12pt;">for your time and attention.</span></p></div><div><br /></div><div>Addendum on 10/31/2021: Corrections and updates to both the spreadsheet and chart included in this blogpost are included in the next blogpost - "Shall We Make a Deal?" https://cluelesshonky.blogspot.com/2021/09/lets-make-deal.html</div><div>Further information regarding the corrections can be seen in the Comments for that post.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RmwAuh11quA/YTVjDO4T1LI/AAAAAAAAA-8/mEBRww36SHYCcgPFCdjjlhwM1OrPHq-pgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1771/PHE%2BData%2B1%2Bpng.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1771" data-original-width="1494" height="780" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RmwAuh11quA/YTVjDO4T1LI/AAAAAAAAA-8/mEBRww36SHYCcgPFCdjjlhwM1OrPHq-pgCLcBGAsYHQ/w658-h780/PHE%2BData%2B1%2Bpng.png" width="658" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ne3cT2y5j9c/YTVkWBRdWsI/AAAAAAAAA_E/GUFjunu7hGcR5XRFv4rcaHa9wR-sVqceACLcBGAsYHQ/s1771/PHE%2BData%2B2%2Bpng.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1771" data-original-width="1494" height="795" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ne3cT2y5j9c/YTVkWBRdWsI/AAAAAAAAA_E/GUFjunu7hGcR5XRFv4rcaHa9wR-sVqceACLcBGAsYHQ/w660-h795/PHE%2BData%2B2%2Bpng.png" width="660" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></span>Clueless Honkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06655284653621810752noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-682315958695733655.post-65974318898707345652021-08-06T05:18:00.080-07:002022-10-26T20:04:26.025-07:00Homo Narrativus<br /><h2 style="text-align: center;"><b>“Homo Narrativus”</b></h2><div><br /></div><div>Our species’ present name, “Homo sapiens” (“Wise Hominid”), is more than a little misleading. “Homo narrativus” (“Hominid of Narrative”) is dramatically more appropriate.<br /><br />We are the hominid that perceives and engages the world through narrative. Please let me explain.<br /><br />I once saw a presentation where 10 playing cards were flashed on a screen for a fraction of a second, one at a time. The presenter told the audience to raise their hands if they could identify the cards. During the first round, no one could ID any of the cards.<br /><br />The cards were then each flashed again for a slightly longer fraction of a second. Now, a <u>couple</u> of people raised their hands for 8 of the cards. But nobody could ID the other 2.<br /><br />The cards were then each flashed again for an even slightly longer fraction of a second. Now, <u>most</u> people raised their hands for 8 of the cards. Still, nobody could ID the other 2.<br /><br />Once again, the cards were each flashed for an even slightly longer fraction of a second. Now, <u>everyone</u> raised their hands for 8 of the cards. But still, nobody could ID the remaining 2 cards.<br /><br />So the presenter flashed each of those two remaining cards over again, for slightly longer times. After a couple of extra rounds, still <u>nobody</u> could ID those 2 cards.<br /><br />The presenter stopped here. And he asked, can anybody tell me absolutely <u>anything</u> about <u>either</u> of these 2 cards? Nobody could. Everyone in the room was looking around at each other wondering “what is going on?”<br /><br />Finally, on the next round for those two cards, slightly longer, a few people laughed. They got it.<br /><br />The two cards that were so hard to see were cards that “don’t exist”. A 3 of <u>Red </u>Spades. A Jack of <u>Black </u>Hearts.<br /><br />The craziest thing in this situation was that absolutely nobody in the room could say <u>anything</u> about either card. For the 3 of Red Spades, nobody knew it was a 3. Nobody knew it was Red. Nobody knew it was a Spade. We literally could not <u>see</u> it at all. The same was true for the Jack.<br /><br />This was <u>after</u> a couple of rounds of longer exposures after <u>everyone</u> had easily identified the other 8 cards.<br /><br />We all had a narrative in our minds. There are 52 cards. In four suits. Two suits, Hearts and Diamonds, are red. The other two suits, Spades and Clubs, are black. Each suit has an Ace thru 10 and three face cards….<br /><br />The reality of those 2 cards we experienced that day, however, did not fit our narrative. So we literally <u>were blind</u> to them. We had to <u>experience them for much longer than we did the normal cards for us to begin to see them at all</u>.<br /><br />This is why it is so crucial for us rename ourselves Homo narrativus. For two huge reasons:<br /><br />1) Renaming ourselves will help us admit to ourselves we perceive and engage reality through narrative - that narratives frame our perceptual field. That's mostly good, and is why it evolved. Narratives allow us to make sense of what otherwise would be overwhelming amounts of chaotic information. <br /><br />2) The "shadow" side of this, unfortunately, is that we are blind at first to anything that doesn't fit our narrative. Anything that doesn't fit our narrative is literally Non-Sense. We usually won't sense it until we run into it.</div><div><br /></div><div>Renaming ourselves "Homo narrativus" will therefore help remind us to regularly question our narratives so that we can catch our inevitable blind spots <u>before</u> we run headlong into disaster and tragedy.<br /><br />The famous scientist Richard Feynman captured this so well when he said in regards to science:<br /><blockquote> “Learn from science that you must doubt the experts. As a matter of fact, I can also define science another way: science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.<br /><br /> When someone says that science teaches such and such, he is using the word incorrectly. Science doesn’t teach it. Experience teaches it. If they say to you that science has shown such and such, you might ask ‘How does science show it – how did the scientists find out – how, what, where?’<br /><br /> Not science has shown, but this experiment, this effect, has shown. And you have as much right as anyone else, upon hearing about the experiments (but we must listen to all the evidence), to judge whether a reusable conclusion has been arrived at.”</blockquote><div>"Experts" frame their perceptual field through narrative too. They also have blind spots that can only be overcome through actual experience. Like everyone else, they too can fall into the trap of only engaging what their narrative already "knows". Thus they won't get to run into their own blind spots.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>We <u>modern</u> human's lives are different than our ancestors in so many ways, but one of the biggest is the extent to which we affect, and are affected by, so much that is beyond the horizon of our lived experience. If nothing else, simply because of trade - by the incredible reach of what we produce and consume. </div><div><br /></div><div>Therefore, we are unable to experience so many of the affects that come from our own blind spots. Those affects are literally happening beyond our horizon. We don't get to "run into them".</div><div><br /></div><div>Theoretically, that's one of the main reasons why we have "News". So that someone else can go over there beyond the horizon of our lived experience and bring back perceptions of what we are affecting, and what is affecting us - what we otherwise wouldn't get to experience personally.</div><div><br /></div><div>But the modern media, the "News", are in the same predicament as the rest of us. They frame their perceptual fields through narrative - to make sense of the infinite amount of chaotic information out there beyond the horizon. Otherwise it too would be Non-Sense.</div><div><br /></div><div>So the modern media are, in effect, our culture’s narrative managers. And just like us, they too have blind spots.</div><div><br /></div><div>Unfortunately, trade has all kinds of repercussions other than just creating the need for News. Trade also creates all kinds of concentrations of influence. (I am consciously using the word "influence", and not "power" here).</div><div><br /></div><div>With <u>any</u> concentration of influence, however, come conflicts of interest. </div><div><br /></div><div>Let's put all of this together. Human perception is framed through narrative, with its forthcoming blind spots. Trade creates a need for News, which is also framed through narrative, also with its forthcoming blind spots. But trade also creates massive conflicts of interest.</div><div><br /></div><div>If we are going to be modern humans with Trade - with all of our affects on, and affects from, the world beyond our lived experience, then we will always have News. The News will always have blind spots. And the News will always have conflicts of interest. That is simply part and parcel of the trade.</div><div><br /></div><div>So it is <u>especially</u> and <u>precisely</u> when those who are, as we say, "presently in power" (our governmental authorities) and the News <u>both</u> increase their consensus so intensely, so <u>vociferously</u>, that we must <u>stop</u>, <u>give pause</u>, and <u>deeply question their narrative</u>.<br /><br /><br />Please remember that our narrative managers sold us a narrative that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. Iraq did not. Yet, <u>enough</u> Americans believed that manufactured narrative to blindly allow our country to invade a sovereign nation. I do pray that we as a country can sit with that more deeply some day. <div><br />Now, our narrative managers are selling us a narrative that the Delta variant is going to get us all, and that our <u>only</u> option is to <u>force</u> everyone to get a vaccine utilizing novel technology that has had no long-term testing. They are recommending employers to force Covid vaccinations. They are recommending that businesses require proof of vaccination for entry. Our government is on the cusp of <u>forcing</u> vaccinations among all of our military personnel, those who have volunteered to risk their lives to defend our country – those, ironically, who are not free to refuse an order by simply getting another job.</div><div><br /><br />Do you remember months ago (I write this on August 5th, 2021) when our narrative managers were all screaming about the Delta variant starting to spike in India? It was one of the first countries to have a surge of Covid cases of the Delta variant.<br /><br />Our narrative managers sold us a narrative that India would descend into a medical hell, and that this was a window into our own future if everybody here in the US <u>didn’t hurry up and get vaccinated.</u><br /><br />Now, our narrative managers don’t seem to talk as much about India any more. I was curious as to why. I did a little research:<br /><br />India had a total of 25,388 deaths from Covid during July 2021.<br /><br />This was down <u>dramatically</u> from 120,770 deaths from Covid during May 2021.<br /><br />Covid-related deaths in India in July would be equivalent to 6,347 deaths in one month in the US (because the US Population is ¼ of India’s).<br />Multiply that by 12 months to get the equivalent annual US deaths if an equivalent level of ongoing medical harm was happening here in America – and that would total 76,164 deaths.<br /><br />Of course, no one can minimize the tragedy of that many deaths. But I urge us to take this number into context. This is roughly the number of Americans that die each and every year from drug overdoses.<br /><br />You might say, “but Covid creates all kind of medical harm besides just death”. </div><div><br /></div><div>But, of course, the same is also true for drug addiction. Not all of the medical harm from drug addiction comes solely from fatal drug overdoses.<br /><br />You might say, "well that must prove that India did an incredible job of rolling out the Covid vaccines."<br /><br />However, as I quoted the famous scientist Richard Feynman earlier, and I’m paraphrasing just a little bit here - 'Don’t listen to what the "Science" has shown, listen to what the experiment, the effect, the <u>experience</u> has shown.'<br /><br />By the very <u>END </u>of July 2021, the month for which I just gave data, India was <u>just then</u> <u>reaching</u> 25% of it’s population having at least one dose of vaccine. </div><div><br /></div><div><u>India rapidly and dramatically reduced their mortality rate BEFORE they significantly raised their vaccination rate!</u></div><div><br />So, experience in India shows that vaccinating every individual in a country is <u>clearly not the one and only way to handle Covid</u>. This fact alone is more than enough to have us <u>stop</u>, <u>take a pause</u>, and <u>question the narrative</u> that our government agencies and mainstream media are selling us. Thank you very much India.</div><div><br /></div><div>So how did India so rapidly and so dramatically reduce Covid mortality?<br /><br /></div><div>Why are our narrative managers not even asking this question?<br />Why have <u>we</u> not been asking this question?<br /><br /></div><div>Perhaps most importantly, if the News you trust - the ones who warned so loudly months ago that India <u>proved </u>that we all had to <u>hurry up and get vaccinated;</u> the ones who demonized anyone daring to think twice about taking a vaccine using novel technology that has had no long-term testing - if the News you trust is not attempting to explain now how their narrative doesn't fit the actual experience on the ground in India <u>at all</u>, well then maybe it's time to question their narrative. </div><div><br /></div><div>Maybe it's time to look elsewhere for News on Covid-19.</div><div><br /><br /></div><div>I’m going to tell another short personal story about the centrality of narratives to our humanity, and then I’m going to wrap this up. Thanks for hanging in there. I know this is a long post. Please take your time with it. Breathe. It’s going to be OK. Or it won’t.<br /><br /><br />A couple of years ago, I was driving home late at night on the freeway after being with my mom in the hospital. It was dark, rainy and foggy. I was driving my recently purchased Chevy Volt, so I was fortunately high-mileage-ing it – I had taken my foot off the gas to coast over a mountain pass on my way home.<br /><br />I say fortunately, because all of a sudden, at the very top of the pass, all of those huge concrete barricades that usually separate the opposing lanes of traffic were all directly in front of me! In a neat line perpendicular to the road! There were no flashing lights. There were no brightly colored “Detour” signs. There were no brake lights from cars ahead to warn me.<br /><br />I slammed on my brakes and was able to stop just in time to keep from slamming into the concrete wall crossing the freeway.<br /><br />I had absolutely no narrative to make any sense of this. I started looking around as best as I could, which wasn’t very well due to the darkness, rain and fog. I could just barely make out the top of the canopy of a huge oak tree that was laying on its side just on the other side of the concrete barricade.<br /><br />I thought for a split second “maybe that’s why they put up this barricade, to keep us from running into this tree that fell over” - before I realized that this made no sense.<br /><br />There were no warning signs. But this is a freeway for goodness sake! The whole point of a freeway is <u>unimpeded flow</u>. The only times you’re on a freeway where there isn’t unimpeded flow, there are bright and colorful signs and/ or lights.<br /><br />I began to think, did I somehow zone out while driving home and take an unintended exit, and I’m no longer on the main freeway? But that didn’t make sense, because there are only a few freeway exits from the hospital and all of them immediately “T” into a stop sign. That’s clearly not where I was.<br /><br />Admittedly, I began to wonder if I had somehow mysteriously popped into a parallel universe. I’m not sure whether I had ever believed or cared about parallel universes before. But in that moment, it felt more credible than anything else.<br /><br />And that’s when it happened. Everything began to fall away for me. I mean everything. In the dark, rain and fog, without any narrative, I had no idea where I was. I no longer trusted my senses. I had no idea who I was.<br /><br />Thank goodness, at that point, something deep inside me welled up, and said very clearly “GET OUT!!!”<br /><br />Enough wits came back to me to then realize that yes, I needed to move. So I backed up a bit, steered right, and drove slowly parallel to the barricades. I got to a small concrete curb directly in front of me. I worried that my low-riding car might get hung up on the curb. Should I back up and drive out the way I had come? In order to get around the curb?<br /><br />But thankfully, I heard within another “GET OUT!!!”, so I quickly drove over the curb – just barely in time to hear a very loud screeching noise and look up in my rear-view mirror to see a car which had already slammed on its brakes, slide sideways at high speed into the concrete barrier right behind me.<br /><br />At exactly that moment, my entire rear windshield was covered in mud. I could no longer see anything behind me.<br /><br />I was still extremely disoriented and confused. I thought for a second that I should get out and try to help. But then I heard another “GET OUT!!!”<br /><br />I drove forward. Finally the barricade to my left ended and I was able to drive around it and the oak tree and down the shoulder back onto the freeway. Almost immediately a large fleet of emergency vehicles with their sirens and lights blaring came up the other side of the freeway from the town below.<br /><br />I learned later that a huge landslide had happened at the pass. That a large mass of mountain had slid over the freeway and knocked all of those concrete barricades perpendicular into my lane. The concrete curb I had encountered separated the three lanes of traffic on my side of the freeway from the two truck lanes where truckers pull off to the right to stop and read the warning signs about the steep grade below.<br /><br />I had simply been the first driver going my direction to come across the landslide.<br /><br />It turns out there was a car full of people that had been travelling the other direction that were actually caught in the landslide and that had fortunately been able to call 911.<br /><br />That night, I lacked a narrative to make sense of what was happening to me. I had no idea where I was. I had no idea what anything was. And it almost killed me.<br /><br />Maybe something about that also saved my life. I don’t know. Maybe both are true.<br /><br /><br />I want to share a very worthwhile distillation of the two primary narratives about Covid-19 that I came across recently. These aren't the only narratives about Covid out there, but they do predominate.<br /><br />I saw this post July 27th on the internet news aggregator site “The Automatic Earth”. It was a post called “A Tale of Two Narratives”, actually a re-print from a comment from one of the site's regular readers.<br /><br />It is certainly worth re-printing here in this post about “Homo narrativus”, the hominid of narrative:<br /><b></b><blockquote><b>The Mainstream Narrative</b><br />– It is not known where Covid 19 originated but the most likely origin is the transmission from an animal to humans<br />– Covid 19 has killed 600K people in the US<br />– Trump botched the Covid 19 response costing many lives<br />– Many deaths were preventable if we’d tested, masked, tracked and locked down better<br />– Vaccines are good and have eradicated polio, measles, whooping cough and other diseases<br />– Vaccines against Covid 19 are safe and effective and have saved many lives with only minor, acceptable adverse reactions<br />– There are no effective treatments for Covid 19 besides the vaccines<br />– Covid is spread by droplets and aerosols from infected people, both symptomatic and asymptomatic, and can be spread through momentary casual contact both indoors and outdoors<br />– Children and young adults are at risk from Covid 19 and can spread the disease and should take the same precautions and measures as adults<br />– We need to do whatever it takes to defeat Covid 19 including frequent testing, mass vaccination, continued lockdowns and wearing masks<br />– The best information comes from the CDC, FDA and NIH<br />– The mainstream media warns us of the dangers of Covid 19 but unfortunately many do not take these warnings seriously<br />– As usual, conspiracy theorists and nut-jobs abound<br />– Anti-vaxxers are against all vaccines and now also against the Covid 19 vaccines<br />– Anti-vaxxers have believed phony information disseminated by scurrilous, right wing charlatans<br />– These people cost many lives and are the reason Covid still spreads and mutates<br />– They are responsible for continued lockdowns and the further decimation of the economy<br />– They are selfish, evil and anti-science<br />– The Covid 19 response is all about trying to get us back to normal as quickly as possible<br /><br /><b>The Counter Narrative</b><br />– Covid 19 was most likely created in a lab in China or the US<br />– Covid 19 kills people but far fewer than the official count<br />– Almost all officials in government have botched the Covid 19 response, costing many lives<br />– Most deaths were preventable if we had investigated and deployed early treatments including vitamin D, zinc, hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin<br />– Vaccines are good and have eradicated polio, measles, whooping cough and other diseases<br />– The Covid 19 vaccines however are not actually vaccines but gene therapy and have not been adequately tested<br />– The Covid 19 vaccines have serious side effects including death and other as yet unknown consequences which are not being investigated and are suppressed by the media<br />– We need to defeat Covid 19 and the best way to do this is through early outpatient treatment with known, effective drugs and known drug protocols for hospitalized patients<br />– Covid 19 is primarily spread by aerosols from symptomatic and pre-symptomatic people, mostly in indoor situations with poor ventilation where peoples spend a long time together<br />– Children and young adults are at low risk from Covid 19 and need take fewer precautions and measures but should be treated with drug protocols if infected<br />– Masks, distancing and lockdowns are mostly ineffective<br />– The best information comes from front line doctors who actually treat patients and experienced researchers who have no financial interest in big pharma<br />– The CDC, FDA and NIH are largely compromised because of their association with and funding by drug companies<br />– The mainstream media is also compromised by their association with big pharma and the government<br />– The truth about Covid 19 is suppressed and labeled conspiracy theory in order to support the mainstream narrative<br />– People who insist that the vaccines are the only way to fight Covid 19 have believed lies told to them by the MSM from big pharma and a corrupt medical establishment<br />– The vaccine narrative has cost many lives and ineffective vaccines are responsible for the continued spread and mutation of Covid 19<br />– The fallacious mainstream narrative is responsible for all lock downs and the decimation of the economy<br />– The people who push the mainstream narrative are evil and anti-science; The people who believe this narrative are naive, dogmatic and anti-science<br />– The Covid 19 response is all about money, power and control</blockquote><br />Unfortunately, in the US, the two narratives noted above have mostly (but not perfectly) been drawn down the lines of the two primary political parties. The “Blue Tribe” has mostly been sold the “Mainstream” narrative. Some parts of the “Red Tribe” have evolved the “Counter” narrative.<br /><br />In a nation as politically divided as we are, this is most unfortunate. For the sake of clarity here, I will say that I mostly see the two tribes as caught up in a bizarre 5th dimensional game of “Good Cop, Bad Cop” (each assuming that their party is the "good cop" and the opposing political party is the "bad cop") that is destroying the fabric of our culture - at a crucial time when our civilization is already beginning to come apart at the seams because we are, in essence, caught dazed and confused in the dark, rainy fog while up against a concrete barrier perpendicular to our long-standing path of travel. <br /><br />In other words, I overall refuse to take sides. I know plenty of amazing, beautiful people on both sides of the political divide, and I mostly want everyone to get over the distracting game of “Good Cop, Bad Cop” as soon as possible. I believe that there are very important matters at hand that need addressing that are getting lost in the feud. In particular, the concrete barriers perpendicular to our path of travel. But I'll leave that for other posts.<br /><br />That said, I’m not pretending our species as a whole can deepen into the space-time of nothingness and as a whole receive some deeper message to help us “GET OUT!!!” of our present and unfolding predicaments. I’m not even pretending that our species can or should live without narrative. Quite the contrary.<br /><br />What I do believe is that we can, at the very least, re-name ourselves Homo narrativus – the hominid of narrative.<br />We can admit that we perceive and engage the world through narrative.<br />We can regularly choose to look for our blind spots and question our narratives.</div><div><br />We can remember that, in the past, when our most powerful narrative managers were the most <u>vociferous</u>, this was a sign for us to pay extra close attention – a sign that we needed to stop, take a pause, and question the narrative.<br />We can remember that disasters often happen when we miss those signs, and stumble blindly ahead.<br /><br /><br /></div><div>Why are our “Mainstream” narrative managers not exploring how India so successfully reduced their fatality rate before the effects of the vaccines could possibly have played a significant role? While they simultaneously push the vaccines so aggressively, <u>demonizing anyone who dares to think twice about them</u>?!!!<br /><br />How did India so rapidly and so dramatically reduce their Covid mortality before they had any significant vaccination rates?<br />Can we do the same here in the US?<br /><br /></div><div>I don’t personally know for sure the answer to those questions about India. But I do have some clues.<br /><br /><br />My guess is that a higher percentage of folks who believe the “Counter” narrative have a better idea how to answer those questions than those who believe the “Mainstream” narrative. That’s my guess. Maybe neither narrative helps us see the experience for what it is.</div><div><br /><br />My final question is this:<br /><br />Do we really want to force all of the folks that have signed their lives over to our military to take a vaccination utilizing novel technology to which NOBODY knows the long-term effects? To force the very folks who literally can’t refuse to take an order?<br /><br />That is a betrayal of trust with our own soldiers that our country may not survive.<br /><br />And since that position is being so strongly advocated by the “Blue Tribe” right now, by those who so believe the “Mainstream” narrative noted above, I will make this request right here <u>very specifically to all of you</u> who ascribe to that narrative:<br /><br />Stop.<br />Take a pause.<br />Question the narrative.<br />See if you can answer the question about India.<br />See if those that hold the Counter Narrative, or other narratives, might have some clues about India.</div><div><br /></div><div>If it turns out that the News you trust is actually untrustworthy, then look elsewhere. </div><div>Remember, Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction.</div><div><br /></div><div>In this post, there is a clue as to one alternative place you could look for Covid News that is intelligent and big picture.<br /><br /><br />P.S. It’s probably also a good idea to keep a close eye on Israel too. Israel was one of the first countries to vaccinate the majority of its population. How is that working out? Is there any evidence of ADE beginning to happen? What is ADE?</div><div><br /><br />Thanks for your time and attention.<br /><br />Here's where I got the India statistics:</div><div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_COVID-19_pandemic_in_India_(January%E2%80%93May_2020)">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_COVID-19_pandemic_in_India_(January%E2%80%93May_2020)</a></div><div>I got total death # from April 30th, 2021 and May 31st, 2021 and calculated the difference to get total death # for May.</div><div>I got total death # from June 30th, 2021 and July 31st, 2021 and calculated the difference to get total death # for July.</div><div><br />India's vaccination rate I got from August 5th, 2021 on <a href="https://geographicinsights.iq.harvard.edu/IndiaVaccine">https://geographicinsights.iq.harvard.edu/IndiaVaccine</a><br />I didn't know how to get the information from just July 31st, 2021, so I used the real-time data on August 5th. </div><div><br /> </div></div>Clueless Honkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06655284653621810752noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-682315958695733655.post-44656696498281105522018-09-23T19:54:00.001-07:002021-01-20T14:53:04.220-08:00American Political Shit Storm - Category II <b>American Political Shit Storm - Category II</b><br />
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If you think America is politically divided now, just you wait. With so many Americans talking past each other as though the other was a despised enemy, our country's political shit sandwich will most likely upgrade to at least a Category II Shit Storm. Perhaps worse.<br />
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So I want to speak to folks on my side of the political continuum. I want to stress that I wish they had read the following article by David Wong about the Trump phenomenon before the election of 2016, listened to the two linked podcasts of interviews with Wong (one right before and one right after the election), and taken to heart the seriousness of the issues involved.<br />
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Unfortunately, my side of the political continuum has instead been wasting huge amounts of time and energy:<br />
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1) Fantasizing that Trump will be impeached (to leave us with President Pence! Yeah!),<br />
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2) Doubling down on proclaiming that large swaths of our fellow citizens are simply ignorant and racist and have absolutely nothing valuable to say. It is certainly true that ignorance and racism has been part and parcel of our country from day one. And it is certainly true that President Trump presents himself as both. That, however, in no way excuses demonizing masses of people that we don't actually know. Heck. Demonizing masses of people that we don't actually know is part of what we don't like about racism. Right? So let's just stop it. OK? And,<br />
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3) Going on and on about how horribly aggressive Russia was - Facebook posts, leaked (true) emails, fake political rallies - OH MY!!! I have two simple things to say about all of this:<br />
A) If only we Americans could say that this was the worst we had ever done in interfering with other countries' self-determination. But alas. We cannot. We have done far, FAR worse.<br />
B) America has, thru NATO, placed tanks on Russia's borders - a country that was invaded by (and stopped) both Napoleon and Hitler. Let's remove our tanks from their borders before continuing to whine about Russia attacking us with Internet Trolls. OK?<br />
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So instead of continuing to double down on these 3 political dead-ends, let's attempt to actually understand how we got to this political moment. These are the links to the David Wong article and interviews:<br />
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Article: <a href="http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-reasons-trumps-rise-that-no-one-talks-about/">http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-reasons-trumps-rise-that-no-one-talks-about/</a><br />
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1st Podcast Interview (before election): <a href="http://www.cracked.com/podcast/trump-country-what-media-doesnt-want-you-to-know/">http://www.cracked.com/podcast/trump-country-what-media-doesnt-want-you-to-know/</a><br />
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2nd Podcast Interview (after election): <a href="http://www.cracked.com/podcast/what-f2A2Ak-just-happened-election-autopsy/">http://www.<span class="il">cracked</span>.com/<wbr></wbr><span class="il">podcast</span>/what-f2A2Ak-just-<wbr></wbr>happened-election-autopsy/</a><br />
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The interview/ podcasts are overly long, but well worth it in the end.<br />
Remember, we're looking at what will likely be at least a Category II Shit Storm. We've got to get a grip on what's going on here. These links will definitely help with that understanding.<br />
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Here is the County Election Map of the 2016 Election (Holy cow!): <a href="https://brilliantmaps.com/2016-county-election-map/">https://brilliantmaps.com/2016-county-election-map/</a><br />
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Now that you've read the article above and listened to the podcasts (you've done that, right?), please continue.... <br />
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The Electoral College creates an over-representation of rural voters. This is how Trump won the 2016 election, by winning the rural vote hands down despite losing the popular vote by millions. The Electoral College is an outrageously undemocratic institution that was born from our aristocratic founders. Now that we have cleared that up, I've got something crazy to say:<br />
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I am in full support of the Electoral College continuing to exist for quite some time.<br />
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If America has had affirmative action for generations to attempt to level the playing field tilted by our racist past, then we can certainly continue the Electoral College for a couple more generations to attempt to level the playing field tilted by our long-standing prejudice against rural people.<br />
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If rural folks are going to supply the great majority of our food, our wood products, and our energy, then it seems only fair that they should have a larger say than the folks who have no earthly idea where our food, wood, and energy come from and who somehow look down upon the folks that do.<br />
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If we don't like the political ramifications of that, well then I pray we can find constructive approaches to reckon with our long-standing prejudices against rural people.<br />
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Doing a deep dive into where our food, wood, and energy come from is certainly one constructive place to start. Let's get to it.<br />
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Thanks.<br />
Take care.<br />
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<br />Clueless Honkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06655284653621810752noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-682315958695733655.post-85449322617804192642018-04-15T09:43:00.000-07:002018-04-15T09:44:58.074-07:00Post 10: Invisible Flying Monkeys & $70 Trillion of Debt<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><b>Invisible Flying Monkeys &
$70 Trillion of Debt</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Let’s
say I’m President of the United States.</span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Let’s
say I send a letter to four countries with the greatest levels of
proven oil reserves*: Venezuela – 301 billion barrels, Saudi Arabia
– 266, Iran – 158, and Iraq – 142. (These four countries have
just over half of the world’s proven reserves). My letter says: </span>
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">
“<span style="font-size: small;">All of your oil is now our
oil. We now own every last drop of it. Don’t resist. If you even
try to resist, you’ll be attacked by an army of invisible flying
monkeys who work for us for free. So don’t even think about it.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Let’s
assume that every drop of that oil can be drilled and transported to
market at absolutely no cost. We’ll assume that our army of
invisible flying monkeys will take care of all of that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Let’s
say that we sell every one of those barrels at market for $80/
barrel. (Which is above what it is selling for now, and is above
average for the last 20 years).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Well,
we’ll have just </span><span style="font-size: small;">made</span><span style="font-size: small;">
$69.5 Trillion – </span><span style="font-size: small;">almost
enough to pay off</span><span style="font-size: small;"> the
total US Debt (the sum total for all government, personal, and
business debts). </span>
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Total
US Debt is on </span><span style="font-size: small;">track</span><span style="font-size: small;">
to </span><span style="font-size: small;">top</span><span style="font-size: small;">
$70 Trillion on April 22</span><sup><span style="font-size: small;">nd</span></sup><span style="font-size: small;">
2018 – Earth Day.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Let’s
review: we’ll pretend that we own half of the world’s oil; we’ll
pretend we can get it to market for free; and we’ll pretend that we
can sell it all in one instant for an above average price. With all
of that, we’ll be just shy of covering our nation’s debts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">So
what I’m saying is this: in 2020, vote Clueless Honky for
President!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>At
least I have a plan!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">*Excluding
Canada and her tar sands, which would be in 3</span><sup><span style="font-size: small;">rd</span></sup><span style="font-size: small;">
place with 170 billion barrels.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Real-Time
Debt Counter: </span><span style="color: blue;"><u><a href="http://www.usdebtclock.org/"><span style="font-size: small;">www.usdebtclock.org/</span></a></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Proven
Oil Reserves:
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_proven_oil_reserves">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_proven_oil_reserves</a></span></div>
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<br />Clueless Honkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06655284653621810752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-682315958695733655.post-10134423293348713462016-10-18T20:16:00.000-07:002019-08-22T18:04:05.327-07:00Post 9: Two Choices?<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Two Choices?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">As Americans, we can choose to be screwed by a red, white
and blue elephant. Or we can choose to be screwed by a red, white and
blue donkey. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Roughly half of Americans prefer the donkey - because
they feel that the elephant just screws them too hard. Whereas roughly the
other half of Americans actually prefer the elephant - because, well, the
donkey is a little squirrelly, if you know what I mean.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">But, one way or another, we’re all getting screwed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">We are stuck within a strange, twisted game of Good Cop/ Bad
Cop. Where roughly half of Americans actually believe the Democrats are the
Good Cops. And the other half of Americans actually believe the Republicans are
the Good Cops.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Hmmm. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Despite all of the hullabaloo around this dangerous game of
Good Cop/ Bad Cop Screwing, certain trends always continue. Certain realities
never get mentioned. Certain questions never get asked. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">I’m done with this game.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">We know our political system is like a drinking water system
contaminated with shit. And we know it’s going to take a lot to clean it up. Voting
for politicians is, at best, an attempt to clean some pipes here and there. But
all our efforts to clean some pipes are in vain if, each and every day, more
shit gets dumped into our drinking water system as a whole.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">What is the water that flows through this system? Wealth,
power, and human interests. This is the flow of politics. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">What is the shit we dump into our drinking water day after
day? Our confusion of debt for wealth.
We all spend money every day. This is without a doubt the most political thing we do – it is dramatically more impactful than voting. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">When we spend money, we assume that our money is a symbol for
wealth. When in actuality, our money is not a symbol for wealth. It is a symbol
for debt. Every dollar is a symbol of a debt – payable with interest – to a
private bank. <u>Literally</u>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">What
is wealth? Wealth is not a <u>thing</u>. Instead, I assert that wealth is an integrated ecology of: happiness, healthy communities and ecosystems,
fertile soil, clean air and water, wild and domestic diversity, knowledge of one’s
place and of one's past, healthy integration of generations so a culture can
remember itself, exquisite adaptations to natural and cultural landscapes, the
energy and skills required to take care of ourselves without poisoning or
exploiting other people and places, and the time and space necessary to
adequately gawk at the mystery of existence. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">What is debt? Please, check out <a href="http://www.usdebtclock.org/index.html">http://www.usdebtclock.org/index.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Note that Donald Trump was correct in saying that under
Obama, the US almost added as much National Debt (Federal Government) as all previous presidents
combined. What he didn’t say was that the same was true under Bush II. In fact,
just before Reagan, the National Debt was under $1 Trillion. It is now over $20 Trillion. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Folks, there are no Good Cops in this strange, twisted political game.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Why do I think this matters? Because the primary requirement
for a debt-based economy is affordable concentrated energy. For example – “You want a loan for a machine that will replace lots of expensive workers? No
problem. That debt will pay for itself over time - as long as there is affordable energy to make,
run, and service that machine”. Well, we stumbled upon huge amounts of
affordable concentrated energy over a century ago. We call them fossil fuels.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Well, we’ve now picked the lowest hanging fruit of the fossil
fuels, and we are increasingly left with harder to get to, and harder to drill
for, fuels. Oil and Natural Gas may be mostly affordable to U.S. consumers right
now, but it is continually less affordable at present prices to those producers
trying to get loans for Arctic or deep sea or fracked energy exploration.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">As the exploration budgets of big energy producers slowly
disappear, we head into a future of energy price volatility, where the price
will fluctuate between being unaffordable to consumers and then again being
unaffordable to producers. One day, it will be unaffordable to both consumers
and producers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">But likely, long before that day, the debt-based economy will
have imploded by simply being unable to service its debts without the steady input of affordable energy. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Our debts are going through the roof while the true wealth of
the world is increasingly disappearing. Wow, who would have guessed? When every dollar we use is a symbol for an actual debt - payable with
interest - to a private bank? Go figure. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Let’s use money as a symbol for wealth, and stop using it as
a symbol for debt. Let’s stop shitting in our drinking water. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">I do know this won’t fix all of our problems. Parts of our
political plumbing will remain contaminated for quite some time, and other
parts will surely be contaminated by other sources over time. But why continue
to knowingly shit in our drinking water each and every day? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">What do we want? Money as a representation of debt? Or money as a representation of wealth?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">In the meantime, you can vote for whoever you want. I do really
mean that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">I, for one, am going to vote for the one political party that
has as part of its </span><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">platform: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> "</span><span style="color: #4c4e56; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Democratize
monetary policy to bring about public control of the money supply and credit
creation. This means nationalizing the private bank-dominated Federal Reserve
Banks and placing them under a Federal Monetary Authority within the Treasury
Department. </span><span style="color: #4c4e56; font-size: 12.5pt;">Prohibit private banks
from creating money, thus restoring government's Constitutional authority." </span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c4e56; font-size: 12.5pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">That’s from the Green Party Platform. <a href="http://www.jill2016.com/platform">http://www.jill2016.com/platform</a> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">So,
personally, I’m voting for the first woman president of the United States –
Jill Stein.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Are you new to the issue of debt-based currency? I recommend
Bill Still’s great documentary <u>The Secret of Oz</u> as a good place to start: <o:p></o:p></span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sboh-_w43W8" style="font-size: 16.6667px; text-align: center;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sboh-_w43W8</a></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Deplorables<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">I likened both Trump and Clinton as Bad Cops out to screw us.
And I then only brought up one political issue – monetary policy – that usually
doesn’t even see the light of day. So I fully expect a backlash from folks along
the lines of “how in the world could you not vote for so-and-so? Can’t you see
how deplorable the other so-and-so is?”, which would, of course, have missed
the entire point of my last post. But I’m expecting it nonetheless.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">So I might as well go ahead and begin to explain why I think Clinton
is deplorable as well. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Why only Clinton? I am going to assume that if you made it
this far in this writing, you probably already understand what makes Trump deplorable.
If I’m wrong on that account, I’d be fascinated to know what makes you tick
politically. Really. But I’m assuming that most readers are already on that
page, so let me flip that page over. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">For now, I’ll focus on Clinton’s foreign policy, which is virtually
indistinguishable from Bush II’s. There are more refugees in the world today
than at anytime since WWII. And no small part of that fact is because we keep
reducing to rubble large sections of what were otherwise relatively modern and
relatively wealthy countries – Iraq, Syria, and Libya – in the name of regime
change. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">I didn’t appreciate it when we were fed a pack of lies by
Bush II about how brutal a dictator Saddam Hussein was and about his
theoretical weapons of mass destruction, and that this was why we had to invade
Iraq. Sure, Hussein was a bastard. Nobody disputes that. But does anybody doubt
that invading a relatively modern country that had incredible amounts of
just-below-the-surface ethnic, tribal and religious tensions was a complete
disaster?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">The answer to that question is that yes, there are those that
actually think the invasion of Iraq was a great idea. You should know that they
are very strong supporters of Clinton -
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/07/25/robert-kagan-and-other-neocons-back-hillary-clinton/">https://theintercept.com/2016/07/25/robert-kagan-and-other-neocons-back-hillary-clinton/</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">I surely thought most Democrats thought these kinds of policies
were disastrous in 2008. But I guess that was then and this is now. It somehow
was wrong for the Republicans to enact regime change, turn cities to rubble, unleash
civil wars and destroy other people’s lives, but it is just fine for Democrats
to do it. (Think Syria, Libya, and Ukraine here.) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">As far as Syria and Libya go - sure, Assad and Gaddafi are/were
bastards. Once again, nobody disputes that. But also, once again, we’re talking
about relatively modern countries with incredible amounts of
just-below-the-surface ethnic, tribal, and religious tensions. You can’t just
depose a strong leader and pretend everything is going to go all right.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Mind you, these are policies in which Clinton finds no
remorse, but, on the contrary, brags about. “We came, we saw, he died” is her
line about Gaddafi in Libya.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">And then there is Syria, which of course brings us to their
primary ally, Russia, with whom Clinton seems excited to start a war, ignoring that
Russia is a nuclear and military powerhouse. Democrats used to ridicule Bush II
for not having an “exit strategy” in our invasion of Iraq. But who in the hell
is asking what the “exit strategy” is for a potential real (not cold) war with
Russia? Have we gone crazy? Maybe somebody should exhume both Napoleon
and Hitler and ask those otherwise highly effective conquerors how that might
turn out. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">We backed a coup in the Ukraine against an elected
government, and installed a NATO friendly government, and began involving NATO
forces there. Once again, are we crazy? Napoleon’s and Hitler’s armies marched
through the Ukraine on their way into Russia. Of course Russia is not going to
put up with that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">All right, let’s step back a second. So you say that Putin too
is a bastard, and look, he took over Crimea. Yes, that’s all true, but consider
this – Crimea is a majority Russian ethnic land, that voted by overwhelming
majority to return to Russian governance. Crimea was “given away” by former
Soviet leader Kruschev to the Ukraine decades ago. This would be as meaningful
as a US president “giving away” Washington D.C. to Maryland. Heck, the Ukraine
was a Republic within the United Soviet Socialist Republics at that time.
Kruschev never envisioned the USSR collapsing and Russia losing its influence over
Crimea. Crimea has been under Russia's sphere of influence for longer than the U.S. has been a country.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Look at the whole Ukraine thing this way: imagine that the Russian Intelligence service was
behind a coup of an elected government in Canada. Russia then installed a
Russia-friendly regime in Canada, and began making military pacts with the new
regime and sending in “military advisors”, and amassing tanks along our northern border.
How would you feel about that?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Think what you want. But at the absolute very least, ask yourself, why
are these questions not being asked more within our government and mainstream
media? Why is it that it’s mostly the fringe (both right and left) online media
that usually bring up these very valid questions and concerns? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">But before you rush to answer that, please go back eight
years in time, two presidential election cycles, and ask yourself the exact same
question – why was there not more questioning about our invasion of Iraq? Why
did our entire mainstream media take at face value all of the lies about Hussein and his WMD?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">OK. Now come back to present time, and answer those same questions
about Russia, Ukraine, Syria, and Libya. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Our government and our mainstream media often act as if they
are in collusion, that they have a set agenda, and that they will push their
agenda regardless of any issues of morality or sanity, regardless of what people
think, and most certainly, regardless of who people vote for.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">
</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">There are so many reasons I find Hillary deplorable. A
foreign policy that justifies and brags about destructive regime change and that
flirts with world war is just my first reason. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In the meantime, let me make a couple of recommendations:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">1) If this is your first visit to the site, please read the posts in the order they are numbered. They might make sense reading them out of order. But goodness knows, they'll make a lot more sense in the order they were intended to be read.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">2) If you're looking for other blogs worth reading, let me kindly recommend two blogs by one author, John Michael Greer, that are not only highly valuable, and incredibly well thought out and written, but are also highly pertinent to the subject matter of the Clueless Honky.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Greer's weekly blog is Ecosophia: <a href="https://www.ecosophia.net/">https://www.ecosophia.net/ </a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">His monthly blog is the Well of Galabes: <a href="http://galabes.blogspot.com/">http://galabes.blogspot.com/</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Well of Galabes was started just this last year (2014), and is only done monthly, so it is worthwhile to go back to its beginning and start reading from there. Even if it seems like it's not up your alley, I'd recommend really giving it a concerted effort. His unfolding description of the magical traditions is the best I've ever read, and is certainly causing this clueless honky to really sit with my own understanding of the story of the Sorcerer's Apprentice.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">My own use of the term "magic" within this blog, and how I believe it applies to all ancient and modern forms of technology - this is most certainly not what Greer means by the term "magic". There are huge important differences between magic and technology, and likewise important reasons to maintain them as separate and distinct concepts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And yet, however, there also seems to be some strange similarities. Perhaps I'm forcing them under the same word "magic" because of my incredible affinity for the story of the Sorcerer's Apprentice, and because of how much I find this story to be a strong and clear message/ warning from our ancestors.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And perhaps I am not forcing the issue. Most of the earliest scientists whose insights led to many of the modern technologies of the industrial revolution were also practitioners to some degree of some ancient magical tradition. We are heirs to whole worlds of linguistic confusion, and the subjects of magic and technology seem particularly ripe with these "gifts".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It is likely that clueless honky postings in the near future will have nothing to do with these questions about the strange relationship between magical and technological traditions, but I guess I just wanted you to know that these questions are afoot. Maybe you too can catch sight of them sneaking around.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Thanks for your time and attention. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">take care,</span><br />
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magical spells to work appropriately; the spell has to be grounded – meaning
that the magical spell has to return the power back to the source. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Where the radiance from the heavens, either from our star the Sun during
the day, or from the Sun’s neighbors at night – where this radiance falls and
meets the earth, either on land or on water – here at the marriage of heaven
and earth we find the source of our lives, and the source of life itself. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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mostly overlooked aspect of life that can perhaps help us understand more about
magic. I know that this might seem strange, but I want to talk about bacteria.
Because bacteria are literally invisible to us, bacteria are far too easy to overlook
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about 3.5 to 4 billion years old. And they believe that for the majority of that time, for
almost 2 billion years, bacteria were the only living beings on Earth. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">These are admittedly realms of time beyond our ability
to imagine – and for the majority of this unimaginable time on Earth, the only
living beings were those that would be unnoticeable to our present senses. Part of me would like to
stop this post right here, and just have everyone meditate on that simple fact.
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evolve (the eukaryotes – which include protozoa, fungi, plants and animals)?
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which literally means “creation through symbiosis” – in this case, symbiosis
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">The first eukaryote evolved from two bacteria
in such an intimate relationship with one another that one got subsumed into
the other and became an organelle. As if they made a deal. ‘Look’, one said,
‘I’ll take care of the whole energy production business, with ATP and all, and
you take care of all the other functions of the cell.’ We call these ancient ones
“mitochondria”, and they now take care of energy production within all
eukaryotic (non-bacterial) cells. We all inherit our mitochondria from our mothers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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precursors to all modern plants, scientists believe there was a protist – a
single cell organism with an organelle such as mitochondria as I’ve just described
– in intimate relationship with a cyanobacterium (a photosynthetic bacteria)
and it was such an intimate relationship that the same thing once again
happened – symbiogenesis. The cyanobacteria got subsumed into the
protist and became an organelle. These organelles, or ancient ones, became what
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bacterium, or an amalgamation of bacteria which joined forces to create more
complex cells.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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the 5 kingdoms of life like they did when I was in high school, but
about 3 kingdoms, two of which are bacteria (the eubacteria and the archea
bacteria). The third kingdom is everything else – the eukaryotes, which includes
the plants, animals, fungi, and protists – each of which used to be classified
as their own kingdom. The point of this
change was to emphasize that all animals, plants, fungi, and protists are actually
more alike one another than the eubacteria and the archea bacteria are alike
one another, or alike the eukaryotes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">These bacterial kingdoms are themselves arguably
like big super species, or super organisms. What I mean here is that
historically the definition for a species is a group of organisms that can
produce fertile offspring by having sex with one another. Well, for a long time, we assumed that
bacteria didn’t have “true” sex. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">Well, although it is true that bacteria
reproduce asexually by simply splitting into two, it turns out that all
bacteria are still having “sex” with one another all of the time. Biologists call it “horizontal” or “lateral
gene transfer”. Bacteria regularly go up to one another and swap genetic
information; they swap snippets of their DNA with each other. So it turns out that
we call bacterial “species” are more like temporary “habits” within this one big bacterial super-organism. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">Bacteria themselves continue to play an
absolutely crucial role in the ongoing lives of supposedly “higher”
organisms. Take the soil food web, for
example. For those unfamiliar with the
soil food web, I think the best way to describe it is to point out that for an
average plant, 1/4 of all the sugars the plant creates through photosynthesis are
“leached” out of the plant’s roots into the surrounding soil. When biologists first realized this, they
were astonished that a biological system could have evolved that was that leaky
and inefficient. But then they realized that it wasn’t inefficient at all –
that the plants’ leachate feeds huge populations of beneficial bacteria and
fungi, upon which a whole microbial ecology - “the soil food web” - grows. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">Why would a plant trouble itself with
cultivating a “soil food web”? It turns out that bacteria and fungi are experts
at releasing organic acids that break down earthen particles and extract
nutrients from them; that bind soil particles together and create the humus
that gives soil a crumbly structure, and that magically allows for both good
water retention and water drainage, essential for plant health. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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all of the other microorganisms that eat them like protists and nematodes have
to eat a lot of bacteria and fungi to get the carbon they need, so then the
protists and nematodes wind up “pooping” out the excess nutrients in soluble plant-available form right there by the roots of the plants – exactly what the plants
need. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">It has been pointed out that it’s almost like
the plants are “farming” this microbial ecology all around their roots, in order
to achieve all these many benefits. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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average human body contains more than 10 times as many bacterial cells as it
does "human" cells: (</span><a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=strange-but-true-humans-carry-more-bacterial-cells-than-human-ones"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt;">http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=strange-but-true-humans-carry-more-bacterial-cells-than-human-ones</span></a><span style="font-size: 12.5pt;">) Try reading this linked article, and then ask
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ones that gave birth to our oxygen atmosphere.
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">What are bacteria but little spheres of flesh?
And what is flesh but the 5<sup>th</sup> element? Flesh is characteristically
different from the other four elements – earth, air, water and fire – and is actually
the weaver of the 4 elements, the conversation holder between the inside and
outside of organisms. And what is on the
outside of any one bacterium is the whole cosmos, which includes all of the
other bacteria. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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other bacteria is, once again, the whole cosmos, which includes all of the
other bacteria, including the bacteria previously mentioned. And what’s on the outside of each of those
bacteria is the whole cosmos, including the two previously mentioned. And so
on, and so on. There is this crazy way
in which flesh really is all one. “Inter-subjectivity”, phenomenologists call
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">For us animals, we need to remember that flesh
is not just our skin, but all those organs where the inside and outside of us meet,
greet, converse and explore – our eyes, our ears, our nostrils, our mouth, our
entire gastro-intestinal track, our lungs, our sexual organs – this is the
conversation holder between the inside and outside of us. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">Too often we assume that our flesh is just our
skin, and that “who we are” is simply what is on the inside of our skin. I
would argue instead that “who we are” is the ongoing conversation between the
inside and outside of our flesh. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">So much of modern physics has pointed out that
what we call “matter” is barely even there, that when you break it all apart;
matter is almost all empty space. This
has led entire legions of “new agers” and the like to proclaim that reality is
but a dream. But what I want to say is –
No, no. A dream is what each and every one of us does within us. Reality is
instead an ongoing conversation amongst all of us. And I for one am definitely including
bacteria and all other life forms in the definition of “us”. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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is the question: Is there some aspect of the cosmos that has not yet been
unfolded, expressed, made manifest? If
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<span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Money as Wealth</span></b></span></div>
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<span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">In my last two posts, I gave some examples of how everyday technologies such
as writing, agriculture, time-keeping, and money all have within them some
"mirroring" or "reflecting" quality to them. I went further into a broad analysis of
money, and how we have mistakenly been using money as a reflection of debt
instead of as a reflection of wealth as we had previously thought.</span></span></div>
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<span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">My exploration of money
may have brought up two questions for you. First question: Is this honky crazy
for even thinking that our entire culture is going to go back to the drawing
board to completely re-work how we create and use money? </span></span></div>
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<span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">This is a great question.
And to be honest, no, I don’t think it is very likely that this is going to
happen anytime soon. </span></span></div>
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<span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">However, I don’t think using money as a reflection of debt is likely to continue for very much longer without us walking our way into a horrible civilizational
collapse. The viability of debt-based money goes hand in hand
with a world awash with cheap energy, cheap food, and cheap timber.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And since cheap food and cheap timber are
themselves contingent upon cheap & profitable energy, cheap & profitable energy is truly the linchpin that allows debt-based money to continue to function. </span></span></div>
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<span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">In other words, if cheap & profitable energy goes, so does cheap food, cheap timber and debt-based money along with
it. And it is becoming an increasingly safe bet to claim that we are
experiencing the first stages of cheap & profitable energy’s departure from our lives. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">So sure, we can hold on to
our debt-based currency system if we’re scared of confronting the political and
economic powers that keep it locked in place – if we’re OK with sacrificing any
kind of viable and attractive future for ourselves and our children. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">I’m a little sorry for
stating such sweeping opinions without having laid the groundwork to fully explain
and justify them. I hope you can forgive me in the moment, for laying such
groundwork is one of the many aims of this series of posts, and we are only
just beginning. For now, please just let me tie these sweeping opinions back
into the story of the Sorcerer’s Apprentice and say the following:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">We are now at the point
in the story where all of our accumulated miscast and ungrounded magical spells are
beginning to completely spiral out of control. We can kick back and assume that
the Sorcerer will soon return to cast the one overarching spell to put
everything back aright. Or we can commit ourselves to returning the power back
to the source by using our magical spells consciously with gratitude.</span></span></div>
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<span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Does this mean that we have to
wait for our central bank to re-create itself before we start using money with gratitude in our
own individual lives? No. We can begin that anytime. But eventually, we will have to unite to address this
deeper root – of not only how we use money as individuals, but how we all
create money together as a culture. And honestly, the sooner we address it, the better.</span></span></div>
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<span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">The second question: Even
if we were going to start over and begin to use money as a reflection of wealth
instead of debt, then that begs the question, what is wealth? </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">This is another great
question. I will always assert that wealth is an integrated ecology of:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>happiness, healthy communities, healthy ecosystems, fertile soil, clean air, clean water, knowledge of place, knowledge of one's
past, healthy integration of generations so a culture can remember itself,
exquisite adaptations to natural and cultural landscapes, the skills and
disciplines of taking care of ourselves without poisoning or exploiting other
people and places, and the time and space necessary to adequately gawk at the mystery
of existence. </span></span></div>
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<span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Of course, how we each
define wealth and just how exactly our culture should go about spending new wealth into
our country is open for debate. But this is exactly the debate that our country
should be having right now. What technologies, using what methods, in which
locations, at what scales? But right now isn't the time or place to go further into
those debates. What I am saying here is that unless we get clear on the
"money as debt" vs. "money as wealth" issue, our debates
will never amount to any lasting solutions.</span></span></div>
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<span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">In other words, I am not saying that changing our money from a debt-based to a wealth-based system will solve all of our problems. Not at
all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am saying, however, without solving our debt-based money problem, then we will be extremely challenged in providing any lasting solutions to anything. And since we all live on a small planet falling through space,
we might want to give it a minute or two of our attention and thinking.</span></span></div>
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<span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Right now, the important
thing is, the next time you overhear a debate about economics, and there are a
lot of them these days, listen to it anew. More than likely, both sides of the
debate are assuming the continuation of our debt-based money system - where
money is created as debt, for the benefit of a few. We had decades of a
cold war and many real wars between communism and capitalism, yet neither side of
this war between economic paradigms ever questioned the validity of debt-based
currency. Yes, there may continue to be very differing “sides” to current
economic “debates”, but they are all different paths that lead to the same
black-hole. Think instead about the options for a money system where money is
created as wealth, for the benefit of all.</span></span></div>
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<span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">If you’re interested in
exploring more about this subject, I’d recommend an excellent documentary
called <u>The Secret of Oz</u>, by Bill Still.</span></span></div>
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<span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swkq2E8mswI">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swkq2E8mswI</a></span></span></div>
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<span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">And also check out the
American Monetary Act by the American Monetary Institute. </span></span></div>
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<span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.monetary.org/intro-to-monetary-reform">http://www.monetary.org/intro-to-monetary-reform</a></span></span></div>
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<span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">A bill similar to the
American Monetary Act was introduced on Sept 21<sup>st</sup>, 2011 before the
House of Representatives by Dennis Kucinich and John Conyers. In that congress,
it was HR2990, and was called the NEED Act.</span></span></div>
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<span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Since then, long term Representative
Dennis Kucinich was gerrymandered out of his congressional seat by his own Democratic
Party.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Admittedly, I had only
intended to mention money in my last post as yet another example of a magical
spell that we don’t usually see in that light. And as another example of how
magical spells often have some kind of mirroring or reflecting quality to them.
And perhaps as another example of how “mirroring” and “reflecting” aren’t
really quite the right words for what I’m talking about yet.</span></span></div>
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<span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">The issues surrounding debt vs. wealth-based currencies was a little like a tractor beam pulling me into the Death Star. I do want to go further into these issues eventually. But for now, I want
to zoom back out again and remember that in order for any of our magical spells
to work appropriately; they have to return the power back to the source. A magical spell has to be <u>grounded</u>.</span></span></div>
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<span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">I’ve stated before that I
believe the “source” is the marriage of heaven and earth. Well, there is a
funny thing that happens on the ground here at the marriage of heaven and earth
– namely Life. And next week, I want to focus on a mostly overlooked aspect of
life that can perhaps help us understand more about all of these magical
mirrors.</span></span></div>
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<span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Until then, take care,
and happy new year.</span></span></div>
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<span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Check out the next
Clueless Honky Blog post for more. </span></span></div>
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<span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Thanks for your time and
attention</span></span></div>
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magical spells embed a mirror within them – money. Money is a potent magical
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Abracadabra, give me a spool of black poly pipe. Let me summon additional
weight to the momentum of processes that led to this cheeseburger, to this
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">But where is the gratitude in always
choosing the cheapest price? And yet we do it time and time again, summoning
more and more weight to the momentum of processes which have taken on a life
and mind of their own, that only serve themselves, and that never return the
power back to the source.</span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Who can provide goods and services for
the cheapest price? Sure, it sometimes is those who are the most innovative,
the least wasteful, the hardest working and/or most intelligent.
But let’s be honest. Very often it’s those who operate on the hugest economy of
scale, who are able to externalize the most actual costs, and/or pay the lowest
wages. We know this.</span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Some folks look upon the horror of
hugely centralized, corrupt powers in this world, and complain that Obama is a
communist, or that Bush is a fascist, but I instead say that we are a bunch of
clueless honkies unaware of continually waving the magical spell of money
around, and every day we summon into the world more and more centralized,
corrupt powers.</span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Who can provide food for the cheapest
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tops off of the Appalachian Mountains to scrape out the coal into rail cars,
that’s who. </span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">There’s no need to go and blame the
farmers, or the loggers, or the miners of this world, when it is all of us,
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economic treadmill where only the most exploitative and destructive can
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nothing for us to feel guilty about. We all do it to some degree. More and more
of us will feel pressed to do it more and more as the coming economic
contractions roll in. We will simply have to be more coherent with our magic.</span></span><br />
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">We thought we were using money as a
mirror or reflection of wealth for all of this time, but alas, it turns out
instead that we have been using money not as a reflection of wealth, but of debt.
And so we have therefore been confusing debt for wealth for longer than anyone
can remember. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">What I mean is this – the only way that
money comes into being in any country in the modern world is as a
representation of debt. Money is created out of thin air, mostly as debt with
interest – either as debt to a private central bank who just issued the money,
or as simply a loan by a private bank, under the terms of fractional reserve
banking. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Before getting too lost down the rabbit
hole of fractional reserve banking and central banking practice, the pivotal
point I am trying to address here is that every dollar (or other currency) is
created as debt by a private bank – a debt payable with interest to that
private bank. Now there are some obvious logical fallacies in this system -
such as the fact that the creation of that new dollar now requires more money
than is presently in circulation to be able to pay back both the principal and
interest. So where does the money come from to be able to pay back that interest?
Well, you guessed it. More money created as more debt, with more interest.
That’s simply not a system with a bright future. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">That's definitely not "returning the power back to the source". But is instead returning the power back to a narcissistic ego. Talk about taking on a "mind of its own."</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">However, my point remains that this is
not how it has to be. We don’t have to create money as debt with interest,
payable to private banks. Money could simply be created as a mirror or
reflection of wealth.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">What would this look like? Well, it
could look like more things than I myself can imagine, so I’m almost hesitant
to say an example, for fear that this one example would get pigeonholed as the
only possibility, and the whole notion dismissed out of hand.</span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I will suggest some actual examples in
future posts, but for now let me focus on an even larger point, and say what
surely appears to be a crazy suggestion at first: governments can print money
out of thin air and spend it on the creation of sustainable infrastructure
throughout society.</span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">“Whoa, whoa, whoa!” – Most people say.
You just can’t go and print money out of thin air! Money would become worthless
if you just printed it out of thin air!</span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Well, the first challenging pill to
swallow is that this is exactly how money is already created.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">The second challenging pill to swallow,
at least for Americans, is just how much money our country’s private central
bank has recently been printing out of thin air. To put the amount in
perspective – if you spent $1 million every day since Jesus was born, you would
not have spent as much money as our central bank has printed out of thin air in
the last 9 months. They call it “quantitative easing”. It’s a nice phrase. Look
it up.</span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">And what have they done with this money?
They have primarily bought toxic mortgage-backed securities from the
too-big-to-fail banks. This becomes even more fascinating when you realize that
our central bank itself is basically a quasi-private cartel comprised primarily
of the too-big-to-fail banks. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Not only does this remove losses from the
big bank’s books for the bad bets they made during the housing bubble (bets on
bets, actually, with all of their derivative hocus-pocus), it also creates an
across-the-board inflation for the currency which increases prices on
everything. But this inflation also works in the interest of the
too-big-to-fail banks because it counters the deflation of the housing market’s
bubble bursting, thereby also decreasing their losses for their bad bets in the
housing market.</span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">It is very easy to spin out of control emotionally
around all of these issues and jump to all kinds of blame and conspiracy
theories. </span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">If I may, I want to reach beyond all of
that, and simply make one simple statement and ask one simple question. The
statement – this sad state of affairs is simply the unbelievable accumulation
of miscast, ungrounded magical spells that have now unfortunately taken on a
life of their own.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And have they ever.</span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">The question – what if printing money out
of thin air isn’t the problem? Could it be done in a grounded way, in a way
that returns the power back to the source?</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Instead of the money being printed by
private banks, who require it all to be paid back with interest, and who spent
it to erase all of their own bad bets; what if we instead printed it as
governments, as groups of people, to create sustainable infrastructure
throughout our society? </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Not only would the money not have to be
paid back with interest, it would not have to be paid back at all. What I mean
is this – if the money was spent in a manner that increased the overall wealth
of the country equal to the amount of money that was created – then there would
be no inflationary repercussions. In other words, not only would there be more
money in circulation, there would also be more wealth for which that money was
a mirror or reflection, so therefore there would be no inflation. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">What do we want: money as debt, or money
as wealth?</span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Check out the next Clueless Honky Blog for more.</span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Thanks for your time and attention.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Magical Mirrors </span></b></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Since
the Sorcerer isn’t coming back to clean up the mess that we sorcerer’s apprentices
have made over the millennia by miscasting magical spells, we will have to re-dedicate
ourselves to our apprenticeship, and begin using our magical spells
consciously, casting circles so as to orient ourselves, and also grounding our
spells by always returning the power back to the source, with gratitude</span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Yeah.
Yeah. But what in the world does that mean? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">That’s a great question to which I can’t
pretend to have all of the answers. </span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>For
starters though, it’s very important to remember that we are not only
sorcerer’s apprentices, but clueless honkies as well, who have largely exported
the effects of our actions out beyond the horizon of our lived experience. For
most of us, we never sense the clear-cuts, the mountain top removal, the
sweatshops, and the ocean acidification that our lives conjure into being. So
to keep it simple, the best first step is to bring the effects of our actions
back into our daily lives as much as possible. Then we’ll be able to see how to
fold more and more gratitude back into these processes as the role of cheap & profitable energy in our lives slowly wanes.</span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>As
important as it may be to flesh out all of the details of how we might meet our
needs in the future both with gratitude and without cheap & profitable energy, in my experience,
it is much easier to say than to do. While it will make up the bulk of detailed
work we face in the next few generations, and will be the subject matter of
many future posts; for right now, I want to zoom out as far out as we can, and
see if anything interesting comes into focus from taking a very broad look at magic.</span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Before
beginning that, if you’re having a level of cognitive dissonance from my
continual use of the term “magic”, that’s understandable. Just remember that
for now, my present definition of magic, “to call or summon into existence what
was previously only potential”, can be seen as just another way to name what we
usually call technology. I am not saying that all magic is technology. However,
I am saying that all of what we call technology qualifies for what I’m calling
magic.</span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
first thing about magic that I want to point out is that within each magical
spell we humans have picked up, there seems to be some kind of mirror, or
reflection, embedded somewhere within the spell. As you’ll see, “mirror”, and “reflection”
aren’t really the perfect words for what I’m talking about. But for now they
will serve the purpose. I’ll give a few examples of what I mean. </span></span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> I’ll start
with a very old and basic form of magic – specifically the magical spell of
writing, since that is the technology most immediately at hand. </span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">When we write, we use hand-prints to
leave marks on a mostly flat surface, marks which tell a story of somewhere
else in time and space. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Writing is but a mirror, or reflection,
of the age-old practice of reading animal tracks. Animal tracks are, of course,
foot-prints that leave marks on a mostly flat surface, marks which tell a story
of the past. (Hmm, a big buck elk passed through here this morning.)</span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">A syllabary, of which this Roman
alphabet I’m using right now is one, takes the magic of writing up a notch.
Writing originated long before syllabaries, and like Chinese Kanji or Egyptian
hieroglyphics, was originally pictograms – or pictures for each word. So the
written word for moon was a drawing of the crescent moon, and the
written word for water was a drawing of a wave. Each pictogram was a mirror, or
reflection, of humanity’s experience of the natural world.</span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">A syllabary, on the other hand, offers a
mirror, or reflection, of an entirely different sort. A syllabary is a
reflection not of our experience of the natural world, but is a mirror or reflection
of our own voice. We literate humans who use syllabaries, as a general rule,
<u>hear ourselves speak in our own heads when we read</u> – because that’s actually
what we are reading, a series of mirrors or reflections of our own voice.
Syllabary writing creates a self-referential mirroring, or feedback loop,
within the writer’s and reader’s own mind.</span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">This mirroring has had profound effects
on the recent evolution of our world, because it has had profound effects on
the evolution of human consciousness. As the dawn of computers recently opened
a completely new “cyberspace”, many ages ago writing, and in particular
syllabaries, opened up mental spaces that were completely new in their day. </span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Within this new mental space, humans
could then place images, and arrange and re-arrange these images in hypothetical
scenarios in a way never before possible. Once again, I am not saying that
humans without syllabary writing or humans without writing at all cannot think
hypothetically. I am saying that the difference in degree between humans with
and without writing and syllabaries is so great that it, in effect, almost
becomes a difference in kind.</span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">We can even place images of our own
hypothetical self on this mental feedback loop. The slowly solidifying image of
our own self within this feedback loop is what we have grown to call the modern
ego. Once again, it is not to say that illiterate people do not have egos.
(Syllabary writing was certainly not the first self-referential mirroring or
reflection to occur within the human mind). It is just to say that the degrees
to which illiterate people have egos is drastically different than the degree
to which we syllabary writers and readers have egos.</span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Much of what I have written above about
writing can be found either in David Abram’s <u>The Spell of the Sensuous</u>,
or in Walter J. Ong’s <u>Orality & Literacy</u>. Both are very worthwhile
reads.</span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">It can sometimes be easy to make hasty
conclusions about all of this material, sometimes even succumbing to thinking
that writing is therefore good, or bad. I recommend trying to understand it instead
under the framework that I am recommending for understanding all technologies –
that we are all sorcerer’s apprentices, and that all of the magical spells we
pick up and use must be used with gratitude (returning the power back to the
source) – or else they take on a life of their own.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">With language, or writing in particular, think of a lie as an example of "not returning the power back to the source". A lie does not honor or give thanks to the truth. Each of us had told a lie at some point. Did it not somehow take on a mind of its own?</span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">How about agriculture as a magical spell?
Agriculture was and continues to be an entrance into mirroring symbiotic relationships
with other species. For example, the ancestors of the Maya entered into such a
relationship with Zea teosinte, the ancestor of modern corn. Before corn’s
domestication, teosinte was kind of a scraggly plant that only grew in specific ecosystems. It had the potential to unfold and be red,
yellow, blue, white and rainbow colored corn varieties. It had the potential
to be dent, flint, flour, sweet and pop corn varieties. It had the
potential to be grown in northern climates, as well as be planted a foot deep
in Southwestern US desert soils to sprout upwards into the sun, and yet still
have its roots deep down toward the moisture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> But t</span>hese were only potentials. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Before corn’s domestication, the Mayan
ancestors had the potential to unfold three different forms of
writing, numerous different calendars – some of which are as accurate as any we
have today, and a very high civilization. These were only potentials.</span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Within the relationship between teosinte
and the Mayan ancestors, there was a mirroring, a seeing deep into one another
as there is a seeing between lovers. And in this mirroring, these potentials
were witnessed, and teased out into the light of day.</span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">The technology, or magic, of time-keeping too has
mirrors, or reflections, embedded within it. The clock-face is a mirror,
or reflection, of the original keepers of time - the celestial bodies. The clock-face
overall is a circle, representing the cosmos. The 12 numbers around its rim mirror
the 12 houses of the Zodiac that stretch across the band of the Milky Way that
wraps around the cosmos from the perspective of our solar system. The hour hand
mirrors the sun. The minute hand mirrors the moon. For every “twelve” times the
moon travels through the twelve houses of the Zodiac, the sun travels once. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Well, to be honest, actually, it’s not
twelve times but 13.36 times the moon travels through the Zodiac for every time
the sun travels once. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(And 12.36 cycles
of full moon to full moon per sun cycle). But alas, not even the mirroring of
lovers is perfect. Nor should we expect any mirroring to be. </span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">(We can expect too much of our symbols,
it would be good to remember.)</span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Check out the next Clueless Honky Blog for more.</span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Thanks for your time and attention.</span></span></div>
Clueless Honkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06655284653621810752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-682315958695733655.post-51523394030686229602013-11-15T05:07:00.006-08:002023-05-13T19:44:36.989-07:00Post 3: The Sorcerer's Apprentice<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12.5pt;"> I’d like to start where we finished last
time – with a new definition of magic: </span></span>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt;">To call or summon into existence what was
previously only potential; to breathe together with Mystery.</span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>And this applies to any and all
magical technologies: fire, language, flint knapping, agriculture, writing,
mathematics, money, metallurgy, history, alphabetic writing, roads, the
printing press, the calculus, time keeping, fossil fuels, Portland cement,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>internal combustion engines, electricity,
telephones, radios, television, flight, computers, among many others.</span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Agriculture, writing, mathematics,
metallurgy and money were a pantheon of very powerful magical spells that
thousands of years ago gave birth to (or conjured) complex new ecologies we now
call civilization. This pantheon gave birth to civilization, but not
necessarily to empire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was the use of
these magical spells in ungrounded, ungrateful ways, in ways that didn’t return
the power back to the source that, once again, caused each magical spell to
take on a mind of its own.</span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>What I personally call “empire” is
the unbelievable accumulation of miscast, ungrounded magical spells that have
now unfortunately done just that - taken on a life of their own. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And have they ever. "Empire" is the institutionalization of ingratitude. We will always behave occasionally with ingratitude, or else, we'd have nothing to learn from. It is when our ingratitude becomes institutionalized that gives birth to empire.</span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>So how do we bring empire to its
end?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, we re-dedicate ourselves to
our apprenticeship, and begin using our magical spells consciously, casting
circles so as to orient ourselves, and also grounding our spells by always
returning the power back to the source, by giving thanks. </span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Tracking the history of the
unfolding of magical spells and of miscast spells, and telling ourselves a
story of how we will bring empire to its end – a story so coherent as to unfold
as a map for our troubled future – to that end, I dedicate the rest of this
project.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt;">Now, however, before returning to the
original three cosmological questions (who are we, where are we, and why are we
here), I’d like to make some ridiculously sweeping statements.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now seems like the time to make it even more
plainly clear where I’m personally coming from in this evolving writing.</span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><br /></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I propose that for us humans, the source
is the marriage of heaven and earth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Where the radiance from the heavens, either from our star, the Sun,
during the day, or from the Sun’s neighbors at night, falls and meets the
earth, either on land or on water – here at the marriage of heaven and earth is
the source of our lives. </span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I propose that our lives here at the
marriage of heaven and earth have meaning and purpose.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I once heard an indigenous elder say that the
meaning of life can simply be stated in two words: <u>give thanks</u>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Grounding a magical spell”, or “returning the
power back to the source” are simply other ways of saying “giving thanks”.</span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The purpose of life is to reflect
and dramatize the cosmos back to itself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I propose that every species on earth has a role of reflecting some
otherwise un-manifest aspect of the cosmos back to itself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The role of the human being is not to simply
reflect back an aspect of the cosmos, but instead to reflect back the whole
freaking thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are the primate that
stepped out of the forest out into the open, aligned our spines with the axis
of the marriage of heaven and earth, faced the horizon, and just gawked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It brought tears to our eyes and laughter to
our mouths, and somehow, still does. We are indeed apprentices to the source. </span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Who are we?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are the sorcerer’s apprentices. </span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Where are we?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are in the sorcerer’s study – at the
marriage of heaven and earth. </span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Why are we here?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are here to apprentice in magic, so as to
reflect and dramatize the cosmos back to itself, to learn how to participate in
and unfold the mystery. </span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><br /></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Once again, “The Sorcerer’s
Apprentice” is the candidate I propose for a frame story that can provide a
comprehensive narrative framework for an evolving Open Source Cosmology, that
in and of itself could contain numerous, and on the surface seemingly unrelated,
stories.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are tribes that have
stories that take five days to tell.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My
dream is for us to craft our own creation story that we look forward to taking
5 days off every year just to tell and hear. </span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><br /></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt;">Open
Source Cosmology</span></b></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><br /></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>So how are we going to create such a
creation story?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m certainly not going
to do it by myself, simply because of a lack of talent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most of what I have to personally offer is
mostly explanatory, and not allegorical.</span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Even if one person was talented
enough to pull it off, my sense is that this is not the time for a Moses or a
messiah to lay it all down for us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That’s too much like waiting for the Sorcerer to come back and clean up
our mess.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So we’re going to have to do
it together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I’ve been dreaming of this project
for quite some time, and have never been able to make a bit of headway because
of having what, for a long time, seemed like two mutually exclusive
desires.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1) To encourage deep clarifications
and discussions on all of these cosmological issues.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2) To discourage the type of stubborn
fighting that can come from the likes of fundamentalists who are hell-bent on
convincing all others of their own perspective.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Where I was getting stuck was in
assuming that there had to be an open source process that continually had one
“most finished” or “most edited” version out in front (like a “Wiki”).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The breakthrough for me was talking to a
friend, Harlan, who said he was working on a web-based computer platform for open
source collaborative creative projects that is called “Fork This”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The idea was that the platform would allow
multiple parallel versions of a creative project to develop simultaneously.</span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I thought, “Perfect!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I remembered having heard John Trudell speak
back in the early 90’s, and one thing he would always say in his introductions
was “And, if you disagree with anything I might say, then well, that’s just
what it is - a disagreement.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Meaning -
I am here to say some really intense stuff, but I’m not attached to convincing
you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Likewise, don’t be attached to
convincing me of your perspective.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If we
disagree, so be it.</span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>For example:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>with my presentation of the Sorcerer’s
Apprentice above, you may have found yourself disagreeing with my perspective that
“humans are the primate that stepped out of the forest out into the open and
faced the horizon…”, because you don’t believe in evolution.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the contrary, you may have disagreed with
my perspective that “every species on earth has a role of reflecting some
otherwise un-manifest aspect of the cosmos back to itself”, because you believe
in evolution, but don’t believe that anything that seemingly “intentional” has
a part to play in the process.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or from
even another angle, you may have disagreed with my perspective that the role of
the human is to “reflect back the whole freaking thing”, because you believe
that dangerously places humans in too “privileged” or “superior” a status
within the web of life.</span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>That’s all great.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You probably have good reasons to see it the
way that you do, and likewise do I. And I want to re-emphasize, those are
precisely the conversations and clarifications that I want to encourage in this
process.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But if after clarifying our
perspectives, we still disagree, then “Fork This!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You go your way, and I’ll go mine.</span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In addition to a “Fork” function, the
“Fork This” platform would also have “Diff” (difference) and “Merge”
functions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Diffs” would allow
collaborators to see at a glance the difference between two parallel versions of
a work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And of course, “Merges” would
allow different parallel versions to merge back together.</span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>My sense is that as many of the
different parallel perspectives each get to unfold themselves, and delve deeper
into their cosmological source, that many of the differences that may have so
starkly called for a “Fork This” early on in the process, may turn out to be,
in hindsight, not so critical.</span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>On the other hand, after further
elaboration and clarification, many of the cosmological differences between people
may turn out to be absolutely critical.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Alas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt;">Check out the next Clueless Honky Blog for
more.</span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt;">Thanks for your time and attention.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
</div>Clueless Honkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06655284653621810752noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-682315958695733655.post-72359254515157171392013-11-07T07:20:00.016-08:002023-07-22T19:22:12.503-07:00Post 2: Creation Story<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Look. You can believe anything you want. This is just the story I
tell myself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not because it is provably
true, but because it is a useful map of meaning that explains the most number
of things which are provably true.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">To be clear, I have no interest in wiping out the last remaining
regions of Mystery from my map of the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But I am interested in getting my bearings straight as best as I can as
we move forward into what could prove to be very difficult times.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">My dream is for this story to become a seed crystal that grows
into an Open-Source Cosmology that transcends my or anyone else’s personal
blind-spots and limitations. One requirement then for such a story would be
that it not only answers the cosmological questions (who are we, where are we,
why are we here), but also maintains enough “wiggle-room” for each individual
to offer and unfold their own unique contribution, from their own relationship
with Mystery. </span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Fortunately, there is a story that meets these requirements, at
least to my own satisfaction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Fortunately, I didn’t have to create it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It’s a story most folks already know to some degree.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In essence, this is a new & old story
about magic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And here is where we
encounter our first frustration, our first stumbling block.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t get me wrong. I enjoy a Harry Potter or
Lord of the Rings book or movie as much as the next person. But we’ve got to
start admitting that these types of ongoing cultural narratives continually
trick us into making dangerous assumptions about magic – assumptions that keep
us from realizing the usefulness of this story – not to mention the usefulness
of magic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">We have continually been tricked into assuming that magic is about
the “supernatural”, and the “pretend”. My ancient (1980) New World Dictionary
definition of magic:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“the use of charms,
spells, and rituals in seeking or pretending to cause or control events or
govern certain natural or supernatural forces; sorcery.” </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Well, let’s remove any assumptions
about magic being “supernatural” or “pretend”, and try again:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“methods that seek to cause or control events
or govern certain natural forces; sorcery.”</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> Hmm. Besides the last word, "sorcery", that definition sounds exactly like the definition for "<b>technology</b>". </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Now, I chose to keep the word
“sorcery” in this revised definition because it leads exactly back to the new & old story
to which I have been alluding so far: the Sorcerer’s Apprentice.</span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Even Disney has provided us with a popular, relatively modern
version, <u>Fantasia</u>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><b>The Sorcerer's Apprentice</b> <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
</span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The sorcerer's apprentice is in the sorcerer's study one day,
believing the Sorcerer to be gone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Out
of curiosity, he starts thumbing through all the big magic books.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He takes no time to read the introduction,
the footnotes, or the epitaph. He takes no time to undergo the appropriate
training, the learning of discipline, the humbling apprenticeship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He goes straight for the juicy spells.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">In his unbridled ignorance, he uses the power of the spells almost
as amusement, but specifically - to forego his chores of carrying water up from
the well. “Chop wood, carry water” – have often been understood by traditional
peoples to be some of the most sacred human tasks - from which we cannot be
absolved.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Any magician could have told the apprentice to take heed of the
age old practices of 1) casting a circle - appropriately orienting oneself as
being in one of the infinite centers of the cosmos; and 2) grounding the spell
- paying heed to the power of the source, and giving the appropriate thanks and
acknowledgment to that power - in essence, returning the power back to the
source.</span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">He casts a spell so that the broom will do the work for him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The spell works wonderfully for a while. But
only for so long before it spins out of control.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He had not cast a circle, so he did not know
where he was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And he had not ground the
spell, so the powers that were raised had no place to return, and therefore
developed a mind of its own. And this "mind of its own" spells more and more trouble.</span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">But no problem, he thinks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He'll just cast a new spell (or simply resort to brute force) to fix the
problems caused by the first miscast spell.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Once again, everything seems great for a while. But he had not grounded
this spell either, so it inevitably spins out of control as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This goes on and on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The ensuing chaos happens after shorter and
shorter lapses of time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sorcerer's
apprentice scurries around more and more, pulling another and another spell out
from his sleeve.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is starting to become
painfully evident that he is not going to be able to keep this up for much longer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">We have been led to believe that this is where the Sorcerer
returns to find his home falling into fracturing chaos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Sorcerer then casts one powerful
over-arching spell that puts a stop to all of the miscast spells and brings his
home back into harmony.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The apprentice
looks up sheepishly with a new found humility. The End.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">My sense is that this ending is a lie because the Sorcerer is not
going to come back and clean up our mess.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>My sense is that the Sorcerer will never come back. And the reason he’ll
never come back is because the Sorcerer never left.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Sorcerer is the Source. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I challenge anyone to name anything, including nothingness itself, which is not the
Source of our lives. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">How can the Source leave?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Once again, I am proposing that we
will need to rid ourselves of all assumptions that magic is about the
“supernatural” and the “pretend” to fully benefit from what this story has to
offer. So let’s return to our revised definition of magic:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“methods that seek to cause or control events
or govern certain natural forces; sorcery”. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Well, that’s almost another way of
saying “technology”. So why do I persist in continuing to use the word “magic”
and “sorcery”, instead of just using the word “technology”?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I’ll stick with the word “magic” because I believe that we can
exorcise from it all notions of the “supernatural” and “pretend”, but still
maintain the essential sense of mystery, and the sense of working with great
powers, and more than anything else - the sense that when we use magic
inappropriately, when we fail to ground our spells by not returning the power
back to the source through gratitude, that the magic we unleash <b>takes on a mind of its own</b>, as in the story of the Sorcerer’s Apprentice.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>One could even argue that the word
“conjure” is a better word than “magic”. “Conjure” is from the Latin conjuro
which means to swear together (as in an oath), or to conspire (which itself
literally means “to breathe together”).</span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>So I’d like to offer up a new
definition of magic: to call or summon into existence what was previously only
potential; to breathe together with Mystery.</span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Check out the next Clueless Honky
Blog for more.</span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Thanks for your time and attention.</span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">(I ask
readers who are practitioners of actual magical traditions to bear with me for
a little while here on this evolving train of thought. Perhaps a long while. Thanks.)</span></span></div>
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Clueless Honkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06655284653621810752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-682315958695733655.post-14513416459289452482013-10-31T14:45:00.004-07:002023-05-13T20:58:24.636-07:00Post 1: Honky<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Honky</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">One day, I began calling
my friends “honky”. And all of a sudden, I had a new habit. Admittedly I don’t
even remember why I started. Something was perhaps attractive about somehow reclaiming such a horribly harsh
word. Maybe I was just trying to be stupid - always a favorite pastime of mine.
But “why” was, and still is, not the point. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Much later, when I was hanging
out with my family, my uncle overheard me call my brother “honky”, and he
said “Oooh. You don’t want to be using that word.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">“Why not?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">“Well, do you know where
it comes from?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">“No”.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">So this is what he told me.
I don’t know if it’s really true, and actually I don’t care, because it was and is
priceless.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">He told me that back in
the Old South, when a man was looking for love – the kind you have to pay for,
but he was too poor to hire a white prostitute, he would drive down to a poor
black neighborhood. He wouldn’t get out of his car, because he knew the
brothers on the street would kick his ass. So he would pull up in front of the
prostitute’s house, and stay in the driver’s seat, and honk and honk on his
horn, until she came out and got in the car with him, and they drove away. That’s
where the term “honky” comes from.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">“Wow”, I said, “you’re
right. That is horrible.”</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">But then, after a few
days, I thought, “Hold on. That’s the <u>Perfect </u>word.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">That’s how so many of us obtain
so many of the objects of our desires. We drive down into the poorest of the
world’s neighborhoods. We’re afraid to get out of our cars, so we stay in the driver’s
seat, and honk and honk on our horns until the object of our desire gets in,
and we drive away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Except that these days,
for the most part, we’re not even aware that we’re doing it. It’s like we’re not
only Honkies, we’re Clueless Honkies. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">I began to realize that
the Clueless Honky is like a club, but the strangest club of all time. It’s not
a club that you have to get admittance into, but a club you have to get
admittance <u>out </u>of.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">In the sense that the first step to
get out of the club is to admit that one is in the club.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">(Hand in the air). Hello,
I am Chris Farmer. And I am a Clueless Honky. I eat food that I don’t know
where it comes from. I am heavily addicted to the fractional distillation of
petroleum. I wear clothes and shoes and use electronic gadgets that are made very,
very, very far away.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">How did I get myself into
this mess where my life is dependent on things to which I just don’t know how
to give thanks?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Well, that’s not an easy
question to answer. But over time, this is what I’ve come up with:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">I noticed how we humans are
such creatures of story. And I began wondering if we got in this mess because
we lack a coherent enough creation story. And by creation story, I mean one of
those Big stories that for eons people told themselves, and that answered the
really big questions in life – who are we as human beings, where are we, and
why are we here – and that, in essence, explains how we are connected to the
source of our lives.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Because it sure seems to
me that to have unwittingly become a clueless honky, I must have lacked a clear
sense of who I was, where I was, and why I was here. I must have lacked a clear
sense of my connection to the source of my life. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">To get another
perspective on how this plays out – how lacking a coherent creation story –
plays out, I want to go back a couple of hundred years and look at an
intellectually and morally luminous person we’ve all heard of – Thomas
Jefferson.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Now, Jefferson found
himself in a similar predicament – that of his life being dependent on things
to which he didn’t know how to give thanks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">As is well known,
Jefferson was the author of the Declaration of Independence which included
these famous words: “We hold these truths to be self evident- that all men are
created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable
Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.“</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">As is less well known,
Jefferson was also the author of <u>Notes on Virginia</u>, actually the only
book he ever published. These, too, are his words: “The blacks, whether
originally a distinct race, or made distant by time and circumstances, are
inferior to the whites in the endowments of both body and mind.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">What allowed, and
continues to allow, this kind of confusion, these kinds of ridiculous
justifications for the unjustifiable, even from one such as Jefferson?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">I wondered, if your
creation story doesn’t help you make sense of the tricky stuff in life, well
then, you just start filling in the blanks, so to speak, and you wind up
creating ridiculous justifications for the unjustifiable, instead of dealing honestly
and directly with the tricky stuff. And that’s what we’ve been doing for longer
than anyone can remember. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">And then, as time went by
and as technology allowed, we hid – or exported – the unjustifiable way out beyond
the horizon of our lived experience. Or, in other words, we made a slow transition
- from slaveholders to Clueless Honkies. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">And I also wonder whether
or not the creation stories that we do have within our culture – I wonder if
they are too infected with “guilt, sin, and blame” – what John Trudell called the “Trinity of the Chain” – for them to ever do us any good. Because it’s
almost unbearable to deal honestly and directly with anything we feel guilty
about, or that we’re blaming others for, and so we therefore never truly learn
from the big mistakes our species is prone to make.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">So I propose that it’s
time that we create a new creation story – a story that can help us “admit”
ourselves out of the Club of the Clueless Honky.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">I’d love to go ahead and recommend
three design parameters for just such a creation story. First design parameter – my dream
is that it would be a “frame” story that could hold an infinite number of
stories within it. Kind of like the “1001 Arabian Nights”. Maybe not quite as
explicit as where the main story is of a woman telling one unfinished story
night after night. But, nonetheless, where the main story could fit an almost
infinite number of individual’s open-sourced stories within its broad central
theme. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Second, the main frame
story would actually already exist and would already be at the least somewhat familiar
to most folks, like it was some kind of sleeper story that just needed to be
slightly tweaked and awakened to reveal its full potential. Doing this –
revitalizing an old story - would avoid any kind of potential cult of personality
surrounding the author of any new creation story.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Third, the frame story
would answer not only who we are, where we are, and why we are here, but would also
elucidate our connection to the source of our lives in such a way that it would
answer, without resorting to any guilt, sin, and blame - how did we become such
Clueless Honkies, and how do we get ourselves out of this stupid club?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">I have a suggestion
for just such a story that would meet all of these design parameters.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Check out the next
Clueless Honky Blog post for more. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Thanks for your time and
attention</span></div>
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