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Mass Psychosis
I watched a presentation on mass psychosis last night. It came with cartoons attached- and the cartoons energized the rather dry language and made it caper. I found it on a YouTube site called After Skool- which has lots of excellent material: illustrated talks by people like Terence Mckenna, Sadhguru, Alan Watts, Graham Hancock and even our very own Russell Brand. They make learning fun. Every institution of learning should employ a cartoonist to draw smart, funny pictures on the white board while the professor holds forth. It would cut absenteeism no end...
Anyway, mass psychosis. The After Skool video shows us how our tyrants are doing their very best- what with their pandemics and their wars and their lies and their censorship- to push us into that malleable and unthinking state of mind- and that they're meeting with some success- but also that there's a lot of push back...
Anyway, mass psychosis. The After Skool video shows us how our tyrants are doing their very best- what with their pandemics and their wars and their lies and their censorship- to push us into that malleable and unthinking state of mind- and that they're meeting with some success- but also that there's a lot of push back...
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What's happening in Ukraine might be straight out of the Nineteen Eighty-Four playbook—except that the novel never actually addresses whether the war in Eastasia is real. And the war in Ukraine is definitely real.
And the pandemic was real. I know of identifiable human beings who died from it and at least one family member whose life was dramatically changed by it.
The hard thing is really focusing on the facts rather than the narrative spins. To that end, I would say that Russell Brand's narrative about what's going on in the world now is every bit as much an example of mass psychosis as the White House press secretary's narrative.
It doesn't become the truth simply because it goes against the prevailing conventional wisdom, as I'm sure you know. 😀
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The facts, insofar as they can be ascertained, only take us so far. I don't doubt the fact of the pandemic, but how did it start? How well was it managed? Was the reporting of it accurate? Who profited from it? What are the future implications?
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Well, I've always believed the virus escaped from a lab. Occam's Razor, you know. 😀
Who profited from it?
The drug companies. 😀
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