A short editorial
I'm on the fence, kinda torn. On the one hand I think the government (federal, and many states) did a bad job of being consistent in COVID-19 messaging and that fed into a lot of people's paranoia and government mistrust. We really don't need people gathering together to protest social distancing, and part of me thinks they are just pawns doing the bidding of Big Oil who desperately needs us to start consuming gasoline at a breakneck pace again.
But on the other hand I'm deeply troubled by the censoring of alternative points of view, particularly on YouTube. In fact, a lot of the early censoring was aimed at people who were merely factually reporting on the developing situation in China, back in December and January. There are too many ulterior motives to shake a stick at.
Normally I'm pro-radical, anti-authoritarian, and highly suspicious of the government and giant corporations, but here I can see the damage that this mindset is creating. To me, that's the worst part of it all, that I'm not sure what to think about it.
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It’s hard to know if we are coming or going with the ground
constantly shifting beneath us.
"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" ~Orwell, "1984"
The uncertaintuy will
be with us for sometime. Check and double check all sources until you are satisfied with the "truth" you are getting.
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
It's tough to say
The internet is most peoples go to source of information. Other hand, it's the tower of babel. Mainstream media has lots of pictures and verbiage, but little content or conscience. Newspapers...ownership is everything as to what gets covered. Most pundetry is probably hackery.
I don't know what to think either, but I cross off those sources that tell, yell and try to shame me into doing what they tell me. They at least should try to lie convincingly to me.
seems many forms of damage are encouraged
by the many mechanisms of the propaganda machines
healing a damaged mindset comes with questioning everything
I think the scarier aspect is to go along just to get along
the pressure to acquiesce and 'get in line' gets stronger
as the plays get weirder.
Good luck
question everything
Yes, Acquiescing is Even Worse
Of all the right wing memes I've seen, the one that really rang true was this:
COVID-19 Is Conditioning Us To Believe That Demanding Freedom Is Selfish
“He may not have gotten the words out but the thoughts were great.”
Not being sure is a step up
from assuming something is the case just because a newspaper headline or someone the MSM deems an authority says it is.
Agree with Raggedy Ann that it's best to check and double check sources.
It's easy to dismiss opinions or claims that depart from the authorized memes but it's a useful exercise to consider whether they could be true and, if so, what the implications might be. How would that fit (or not) in context of other things we know or can discover?
That dismissing out of hand things that seem wild or inconceivable on their face is not a good idea is confirmed by the fact that we are currently in a situation that would, to most people, have been considered wild and inconceivable just six months ago.
The extremes to which censorship is being carried is truly scary - it's hard to know whether it is driven by the hubris of those controlling the media or a measure of their desperation to prevent the truth about the elites' nefarious actions and agenda from being exposed. Probably some bizarre combination of both - I seriously doubt it's because they have the serfs' best interests at heart.
If the concern was really the truth, the media would not be resorting to censorship and personal attacks but would encourage debate and let good information counter bad, but that is not what is happening. Witness the extreme lengths to which they have gone to censor Dr. Judy Mikovits and the Plandemic documentary about her experiences and books "Plague" and more recent "Plague of Corruption". The documentary itself is taken down from Youtube any time it pops up, and also any interviews with her. Despite this the books are best sellers and the Plandemic video gone international, with versions in Portuguese, Greek and possibly others by now. About the only domestic site it is up on is Brighteon.com (associated with Natural News). Facebook will not even allow links to Brighteon and Natural News is completely banned from all major social media except Gab (AFAIK).
Mikovits interviewed by Mike Adams here
All this suggests that there is some there there that the PTB really don't want people to be aware of. Naturally, that doesn't mean everything Mikovits or others have to say is all correct, either.
Another concerning area is hydroxychloroquine and other possible therapeutic interventions against COVID-19. That's a topic for an essay in itself. For the moment though, just consider the uproar over Trump disclosing the he's taking HCQ as a prophylaxis against COVID. In the MSM he is universally condemned and ridiculed for it - consider, for example late night
useful idiotcomedian Jimmy Kimmel's take on the subject: "Does Trump Have a Death Wish?" and the hundreds of negative (to Trump) comments. He's a liar/dangerous/idiot/suicidal... People commenting claiming to be medical workers who say no one is doing this and no one recommends it.Except for that, if anyone cared to look, they could find that:
Which means Trump was correct in saying that frontline workers have been using HCQ prophylactically . The above article is from March 23 and a large-scale trial to make HCQ available on a mass basis starting with a large percentage of 100,000 people locked down in some of India's worst slums was scheduled to begin in mid-April:
full article here
More of the sort of thing we are being "protected from" - Dr. Ivette Lozano Md. Dallas TX
Fit to print
Katharine Graham's quote, "News is what someone wants suppressed. Everything else is advertising" seems to come to mind here. Of course, other news-folks have made similar statements.
What if the statement went:
News is what someone wants suppressed. Everything else is propaganda.
GenZ (and other sleepwalkers) wake up?
Fascinating article on some epiphanies that social media
"influencers" have apparently been experiencing in the course
of the COVID hysteria - questioning the official narratives instead
of pushing designer crap and Brazilian butt-jobs - and how this
is prompting a panicked response among the MSM...
I've quoted a bit, but recommend going to the article so you can
see the tweets, Reddit and Instagram posts as they appear to fully appreciate.
From Information Liberation:
Uh, oh....
Whoops, aren't these about the last people you'd expect to be going off the mainstream reservation?
All this in the face of ever more strident warnings about the dangers of "conspiracy theories" and ever escalating censorship...
Well, as the author of the article observes:
Indeed.