I picked this up from R.S. McCain, and that decided the timing, sometimes I’m a team player, but that doesn’t matter. The Ricochet article he links below, I had already read earlier this week, thanks to Audre. I was flabbergasted and amazed at the depth and detail of Darren Beattie’s report. Yes, it is long, good articles often are, it is also detailed and frankly horrifying, just thinking that our countrymen have fallen for this shoddy operation.
Darren Beattie has a piece at Revolver talking about how the Biden administration is trying, without much success, to convince Democratic voters to let go of the COVID-19 panic narrative to which they are clinging like a toddler with a security blanket: Masks are useless, children are not at risk, schools should be open, et cetera. [Do read the link in this paragraph. Neo]
All of this is just common-sense stuff that skeptics have been saying since mid-2020, but because Democrats and their media allies have devoted so much effort to portraying skeptics as villains — you’re “anti-science” if you oppose drastic measures to fight COVID-19 — the people who voted for Biden refuse to accept the message now that the administration is ready to “move on” from the panic. Beattie writes:
The Biden Administration wants its rank-and-file followers in public schools, colleges, and hospitals to calm down. Instead they remain as paranoid as ever. It is entirely possible that this will continue for all of 2022, or even longer. Covid and its variants aren’t going away. To the extent they were ever effective at all, vaccines appear to lose their potency with every new booster campaign. The virus remains as mild for most people as ever, but constant testing means that even the healthiest progressives have worked themselves into a permanent state of fear and paranoia.
This has fascinating ramifications for leftism itself. Through Mass Formation Psychosis, the ruling class left seems to have finally memed its true believers into a pattern that it can’t talk them out of. For two years, they sowed panic by promoting the cult of the mask, the cult of the lockdown, and the cult of the vaccine. Now, they can’t suppress the cults they have created. Similarly, they ignited a “racial reckoning” in 2020 and are now powerless to stop the frenzy of murder and crime that this “reckoning” unleashed in every major city.Recall that people are trying to de-platform Joe Rogan for hosting Dr. Robert Malone, who has popularized the “Mass Formation Psychosis” theory to explain public reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Well, here’s some news for you: They can’t de-platform everybody.
If all of us with access to digital platforms — bloggers, columnists, people on Twitter and Facebook, etc. — will unite behind this idea, we can defeat these censors and make it impossible for them to suppress the idea.
Therefore, I propose that this Thursday, Jan. 27, be declared “Everybody Blog About Mass Formation Psychosis Day.” The objectives:
- Call attention to the censorship campaign by which COVID-19 panic brigades are attempting to suppress criticism. If you look at the Google results, you’ll notice that the first page of results (which is all that most Googlers ever see) is dominated by “fact checks” and people endeavoring to “debunk” Mass Formation Psychosis as a “conspiracy theory.” This obviously reflects manipulation of the Google algorithm in an attempt to support censorship of Joe Rogan and others.
- Explain what “Mass Formation Theory” really means. There is nothing outlandish about the theory that Dr. Malone has outlined. When the “dominant narrative” is promoted by politicians and major media organizations — when they’re all on the same page, so to speak — most people will believe what they’re being told and react the way they’re instructed to react. The theory is a bit more complex and nuanced than can be summarized in a sentence or two, but the basic idea isn’t at all crazy or “extremist,” no matter what the self-declared “fact checkers” claim.
- Most critics of COVID-19 policy are not “anti-science.” This has been the problem with public reaction to the pandemic from the start. Various “experts” (including Dr. Anthony Fauci and the science/medical commentators on TV news outlets) presented themselves as having all the answers to COVID-19, and advocated restrictive policies as the One Right Way to fight the virus. Because these experts were presented as being the voices of “science,” anyone who criticized the restrictive policies was implicitly accused of being “anti-science.” This involved an appeal to a common prejudice among college-educated people, who cherish a self-image of being on the side of enlightenment, and who view themselves as engaged in a war against ignorance. To such people, it was easy to see Dr. Fauci as a heroic knight doing battle against the dragon of “anti-science.”
Now is the time, the very day for us to swamp the whole internet with what we have learned. As Stacy wrote above, what you or I think about the vaccines doesn’t really matter, I haven’t been jabbed, nor thanks to living in the mostly Free State of Nebraska have I ever worn a mask. But I have never thought that anyone should substitute my judgment (or anyone else’s) for doing their own research and making their own decisions. And that is far more important than any of us, our right to freely decide on what will be done to us.
As I wander the internet reading what people think, especially in Anglophone countries, one thing I notice is so many of them, from Scotland to the Antipodes, think their rights are gifts of the government, Well, what the government giveth, the government can damned well taketh away.
We Americans know better, Thomas Jefferson wrote it for the ages when he wrote so long ago.
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.
See my point? What our Creator, whatever you call him, gave you, no man, no government, can take from you, morally, you can’t even surrender them yourself. And what but the Right to Life is it to decide what the appropriate medical treatment is for you?
As I watch, people, on the internet, read those words, often for the first time, and see, in ridiculously oversimplified videos, what our Founders went through to make them stick, almost every one of them, from Russians to Nigerians to New Zealanders, get this look of awe on their faces at what the Americans did. For us, it is merely history, for them, it is the dawning of an entirely new vision of the world.
It is true, we Americans are the ‘Keepers of the Flame’ of that bonfire of Liberty that burns in that ‘Citte on the Hill’. We have been so for 246 years now. We have never flagged or failed (although we have occasionally been a bit dilatory).
At an earlier crisis, the half-American Prime Minister of Great Britain braced his people to defend Western Civilization, with these words:
What General Weygand called the Battle of France is over. I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilization. Upon it depends our own British life, and the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, “This was their finest hour.”
On that day in 1940, Britain and her Empire were actually quite strong, able to hold off the Axis, in a hot war, until Pearl Harbor. They still, I judge, have that stubborn will, but not the resources, so now it is us, we were very weak in 1940, but are now and have been for 70 years, very strong in all areas, who have inherited the leadership that has led men and women to freedom, since at least, when Alfred was King. Where we lead, others, many of whom have long known us, will follow.
The last two paragraphs of the Revolver article make it very clear.
This has fascinating ramifications for leftism itself. Through Mass Formation Psychosis, the ruling class left seems to have finally memed its true believers into a pattern that it can’t talk them out of. For two years, they sowed panic by promoting the cult of the mask, the cult of the lockdown, and the cult of the vaccine. Now, they can’t suppress the cults they have created. Similarly, they ignited a “racial reckoning” in 2020 and are now powerless to stop the frenzy of murder and crime that this “reckoning” unleashed in every major city.
The Globalist American Empire is losing control of its own followers. And if it can’t control them, how much longer can it hope to control you?