Don’t let your guard down

Far too many people on our side are feeling a sense of optimism, that somehow the tide is turning in our favor, and that the entire lockdown/mask/vax edifice will come crumbling down in the near future. They are partying prematurely. I want that to happen, and I do see the signs that a shift is taking place among millions of people who are now awakening to the reality of approaching authoritarianism. But I feel a deep unease. Something fundamental has changed irrevocably in the world. A primitive collective capacity for bottomless cruelty has been awakened, and the upper class knows it. They are busy exploiting it, using this moment to drag the modern world into a new Dark Age of their own design. Instances such as the one below are just the most visible sign of this collective cruelty. Never underestimate the thing we are dealing with. The State, an ancient evil intertwined with us as a species, its code seared onto our DNA. The State is within us, an evolutionary artifact that our primitive nature unceasingly seeks to see rebuilt. Never believe that it doesn’t have many more tricks up its sleeve. A crippled economy, a populace desperate and angry, policies in place that prevent the economy from self-healing, something is coming to a head. We are in the eye of the storm, and we now are entering a truly dark winter, one entirely self-inflicted. This government-made crisis will be used by government as pretext for something awful. We are being dragged towards something, and we are not doing enough to bring movement to a complete stop.

One thing that this age of 4G narcissism has accomplished is that it has revealed just how low we can go as a species. We get a front row seat to all sorts of behavior that we would never have believed anyone capable of.

Beyond freakish

Imagine being this middle-aged moral husk of a man, taking a selfie, and urging others to do to their kids what he’s done to his. A level of zero-point, gutter narcissism that far too many people operate at. This is the Freudian death drive in full flower. A terminal cultural rot that has festered for decades. This is the result of millions of people raised with no regard for character development. Generation upon generation who have had their most base, hedonistic instincts stimulated, with no regard or attention given to the development of more human qualities. Hedonism and vanity is exalted, and here is the result.

The metaverse will make you forget the chains you’ll wear

So strange to me how quickly the cyberpunk world of fiction is becoming a reality. I don’t like the message and intent behind this push to build up these digital realities and then herd everyone into them as quickly as possible. This looks like another digital drug designed to addle the mind to a degree that no one hooked up to it would much care about hard-to-understand topics like public policy. Go to work, go home, plug in, zone out. For the rest of your life. They’ll make it so easy for you, too. Just watch how our phones will suddenly be equipped with AR/VR capability once this “metaverse” is established.

UK study shows fully-vaxxed individuals spread virus just as easily as unvaxxed

From The Guardian: “The results suggest even those who are fully vaccinated have a sizeable risk of becoming infected, with analysis revealing a fully vaccinated contact has a 25% chance of catching the virus from an infected household member while an unvaccinated contact has a 38% chance of becoming infected…

..The analysis further suggests that whether an infected individual is themselves fully vaccinated or unvaccinated makes little or no difference to how infectious they are to their household contacts.”

So the vaccine is worthless as a tool to stop the spread of COVID-19, as well as to prevent infection. Does it prevent severe illness? Maybe for a few months. Maybe not. But this emerging research should bury the reckless and ridiculous talking point that my being vaccinated somehow protects others. It doesn’t. At what point will it be publicly admitted that these vaccines, receptacles of public hysteria and cult-like faith, are worthless?