From deranged,dysfunctional Blighty: I have just read your splendid article,which rang so true for.me.
For 30 months or so,I have resisted the control creep,the pettifogging diktats,the awful masks and the vaccine jabberwocky,as I call it.
Yet friends,,relatives and acquaintances have dutifully obeyed,.worn masks,eagerly adopted all the mad distancing rules and had all the jabs.
Two have recently succumbed: one to a bad dose of flu and the other,currently in fortress NZ,to the dreaded covid,yet neither questions 'the science'.
The awful masks are still around,especially in GP and dental practices,but as the extent of the collateral damage is.now too great to ignore,the Net Zero fantasies and their disastrous consequences are now in poll position for another round of mendacious control creep and nudging.
The covid faithful are now persuaded that a climate crisis is upon us,conveniently overlooking the fact that COP27.is. a farcical display of double standards,hypocrisy and hot air.
I feel alienated, frustrated and adrift as I observe the steady decline of our society and the 'creative destruction' now being inflicted on a still largely gullible.public.
Finally,two very good.neighbours.have just moved back to Melbourne.
Before they left I said to the husband-with irony-that I'd always looked.on Australia as the Land of the Free. He agreed.
The nonchalance with which the words, ‘during lockdown...’ or ‘during the third lockdown...’, or ‘then covid hit....’, roll of the vast majority of peoples tongues, like it was just a part of normal life, constantly astounds and angers me. I think, unfortunately, that most people live their entire lives in some sort of cartoon, a meme, mostly written and pre-packaged (for the consumer’s convenience) by the cabal of government, large corporations and media; doing, saying and thinking what they are told to, without question, thereby gaining meaning as part of something bigger. The more challenging and constantly difficult alternative is to always think for oneself, question, seek and create a world of one’s own significance.
Nov 15, 2022·edited Nov 15, 2022Liked by Richard Kelly
Thanks Richard, your writing is helpful. I have been hoovering up any and all comparisons to previous crimes against humanity to try to understand my friends and family's role in this one. Just how much was I dehumanised in their eyes? Would this allow them to repeat the Rwandan Genocide? Can facts, figures, human kindness and common sense overcome mind bending cognitive dissonance and propaganda? So far, the best I can hope for is even an admission that 'theses are terrible times'. As it stands, my last communication on this topic to most family and friends was their full support of persecution, discrimination, division. They appear still completely blind to the deaths, injuries and related malevolence. Sadly, as your article suggests, it seems they would do it all again in a heartbeat to live a 'cartoonish normal life'.
From deranged,dysfunctional Blighty: I have just read your splendid article,which rang so true for.me.
For 30 months or so,I have resisted the control creep,the pettifogging diktats,the awful masks and the vaccine jabberwocky,as I call it.
Yet friends,,relatives and acquaintances have dutifully obeyed,.worn masks,eagerly adopted all the mad distancing rules and had all the jabs.
Two have recently succumbed: one to a bad dose of flu and the other,currently in fortress NZ,to the dreaded covid,yet neither questions 'the science'.
The awful masks are still around,especially in GP and dental practices,but as the extent of the collateral damage is.now too great to ignore,the Net Zero fantasies and their disastrous consequences are now in poll position for another round of mendacious control creep and nudging.
The covid faithful are now persuaded that a climate crisis is upon us,conveniently overlooking the fact that COP27.is. a farcical display of double standards,hypocrisy and hot air.
I feel alienated, frustrated and adrift as I observe the steady decline of our society and the 'creative destruction' now being inflicted on a still largely gullible.public.
Finally,two very good.neighbours.have just moved back to Melbourne.
Before they left I said to the husband-with irony-that I'd always looked.on Australia as the Land of the Free. He agreed.
https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/covidiocy/2022/11/the-problem-with-the-covid-narrative/
An excellent article by a renowned Australian pathologist
The nonchalance with which the words, ‘during lockdown...’ or ‘during the third lockdown...’, or ‘then covid hit....’, roll of the vast majority of peoples tongues, like it was just a part of normal life, constantly astounds and angers me. I think, unfortunately, that most people live their entire lives in some sort of cartoon, a meme, mostly written and pre-packaged (for the consumer’s convenience) by the cabal of government, large corporations and media; doing, saying and thinking what they are told to, without question, thereby gaining meaning as part of something bigger. The more challenging and constantly difficult alternative is to always think for oneself, question, seek and create a world of one’s own significance.
Thanks Richard, your writing is helpful. I have been hoovering up any and all comparisons to previous crimes against humanity to try to understand my friends and family's role in this one. Just how much was I dehumanised in their eyes? Would this allow them to repeat the Rwandan Genocide? Can facts, figures, human kindness and common sense overcome mind bending cognitive dissonance and propaganda? So far, the best I can hope for is even an admission that 'theses are terrible times'. As it stands, my last communication on this topic to most family and friends was their full support of persecution, discrimination, division. They appear still completely blind to the deaths, injuries and related malevolence. Sadly, as your article suggests, it seems they would do it all again in a heartbeat to live a 'cartoonish normal life'.