For just a split second, when Fauci was extolling the virtues of double masking, I thought, "Well, this will be the bridge too far. This will cause even the simplest of minds to stop and ask, WTF?!" But alas, it was not to be. I couldn't begin to count the number of sheep I saw double-masking (or the sheepiest of sheep who were double-masking inside their own cars with windows rolled up). No, I fear it is far too late. While there are certainly a large portion of the population who have woken from their slumber of ignorance, the majority still lie comatose in their beds of oblivion never again able to walk amongst the well-informed, logic-reasoning, critical thinkers.
This is such a great description of people not thinking or not questioning. I am slowly forgetting some of the craziness of the early years and shrewviews helps me to remember. So wish I had kept a journal. It is important to remember every detail… not to stay angry but to KNOW.
Where I come from in Oz 🇦🇺 there was a street culture, whereby everyone in the street & down the road looked out for each other ( some better than others). That fanned out across the Suburb, into the local schools, sports clubs, etc. The local government members were well known, the Publican was a pillar of society, the local copper's were involved in the local sports teams & were respected & we learnt about OUR country & OUR constitution & we would fight for it. Then, slowly , slowly, woke, even BEFORE it was called that nonsensical name, crept in, end of story.
You describe the way it "should be." Lots of reasons why it isn't that way anymore...again, it is shocking that people do not see how simple the destruction of society has been. Most people complain about it, but few people know what happened, and if they do, few believe it.
"The “authority” we have developed a symbiotic relationship with is a parasite and is intentionally trying to kill us. This is the part people refuse to look at."
I think this is the really key part Todd - I know lots of very smart, well educated members of the professional/managerial class who apply careful logical reasoning in all areas of their personal and professional lives every day but just can't get past this basic point, often for emotional or intra-class solidarity reasons I think. If you start your chain of logical thought from the (imho false) premises that the authorities in the West are fundamentally trustworthy people doing their best in difficult circumstances, scientists always focus on finding the truth and have no conflicts of interest etc., then none of the shrew worldview makes much sense. Perhaps those of us who have been diving down these particular rabbitholes for several years now underestimate how hard it is for most people - however smart - to really internalise conclusions about our "leaders" that are this dark. I think it's as much a question of temperament and willingness to look evil full in the face as it is of intellect, at least for many of the very bright sheep I know.
For a very long time I looked at what was happening as a result of greed, ignorance or whatever. Then as time rolled on there was only one explanation that made sense. Something sinister was behind it all. A discovery that has broken my heart…but not myself.
A colleague of my husbands just can't believe that our Government would be against us! "Why would they do that?" And my brothers will not accept the notion of gain of function. "Impossibly cruel, Who would do such a thing!" It has been a shocking revelation that the institutions that were once revered are captured by the very wealthy and insidiously manipulative elites. Government and all it's alphabets (FBI,CIA,CDC,), judges, law enforcement, doctors, health care at large, universities, the media, even comedians...somebody stop me! I could go on forever. How to change such vast corruption is unfathomable.
Gain of function is a very common scientifically accept procedure. The purpose behind it is to get ahead of the virus game...create in the lab versions of viruses that are only found in animals that will infect humans so they can then learn how to treat it once it naturally mutates to a version that can infect humans. It was outlawed, finally, in the US a while back. Of course this "reason" isn't really what it is about. It is a bioweapon technique to find a weapon to use on the enemy...a virus we have developed an antidote for, but the enemy has not...insane stuff. And yes, the US and other countries have been in the bioweapon business for a long time...and that is no secret.
And every government in world history has been against its citizenry, only until the US's grand experiment came to be in 1776 did that change, only quickly to devolve into what it is now. Even that early government was "against the people" if you included the poor, blacks, the marginalized, the uneducated as "the people"...anyway, big topic...
I think I cover a bit of what you say here in that as well. I agree with you 100%, this "trust" the sheep have for authority, and government, and their basic belief these people could never consciously harm them is probably the BIGGEST thing standing in their way of seeing truth.
How people got to this point of trusting is beyond me...who has ever 100% trusted government? Sure, they SHOULD be trustworthy, but how many times have they proven not to be? Sure, it would be difficult for any of these people to believe that their government and elected officials are consciously trying to kill them. But you don't have to go that far to understand that something is rotten in Denmark here, and that it very well could be the government that is rotten.
Hi Todd, my first time reading your articles and my gratitude for this interesting one.
“How people got to this point of trusting is beyond me...”
I suggest it is due to the tactic of the state taking the position of the mother. People who do not achieve adulthood and therefore still rely on inate trust rather than independent evaluation; they need a mother figure. The education and entertainment systems foster this transition.
Yes I did read it - and it described most of my professional and social circle ;0). I'm not sure it's about 100% trust, so much as an assumption that more often than not people in power are trying to do the right thing and that the system itself is "basically" trustworthy, even if there are a few bad apples out there. There's a big dollop of naivety and maybe wishful thinking there from (as you say in that article) people for whom the system is working pretty well who have never had to confront some of the harsher realities, and who have always been rewarded for compliance. If I'm honest I would probably have put myself in that category too until relatively recently, so I don't even claim any moral superiority.
Most of my articles are very black and white due to their simple, and brief, nature. The point is made, and no attention is given to exceptions and bell curve outliers.
Of course there are good people out there, of course there are politicians who intend to do their best, and actually do for a large portion of the time. But the agenda is huge, and typically it swallows up those innocents. The individuals who set out to do good, get enveloped by "associates" ...their "team"...and that formulation creates an entity of sorts (an egregore?)...anyway, you know the picture, you describe it all very well in your comments...thanks for reading!!
Yes agreed - and I think one of the weird paradoxes at institutional level is how you can have organisations that are essentially psycopathic but populated largely by good, kind, decent people - I've worked in them.
Maybe an overlap in your excellent article but at a basic level shrews think for themselves rather than “ adopt “ the mainstream narrative ( on any issue including Covid ) I wonder how much shrewdom comes from the way you are parented. My parents never told me what to do nor solved any of my problems ( adjusted for age appropriatness ). We were left with figuring things out for ourselves . Folks mainly don’t do that so much - easier to adopt the mainstream narrative and comply accordingly.
Exactly the way I was raised! “You wanna car? Get a job. You wanna go to college? You’d better get a scholarship or a job. You want your own apartment? Have at it, it’ll be good experience, don’t ask for any money.” I can only speak for my generation (I’m 70) but most of my friends were raised the same way and it didn’t kill any of us to make our own decisions and find our own way to independence. Today’s young people? I just shake my head. And I lump in a lot of the 40-50 year olds in there too. Most of the ones I know are helpless airheads.
I don't recall even knowing my parents HAD money when I was a kid. So it never crossed my mind that they would provide me with a nickel for anything, cars, school, even clothes after I left the house. I was never angry about it, never resentful, nothing. Money was not something that I ever felt they owed me. (And I grew up pretty poor).
When I was living with them, clothes, food, etc. I readily received, and even birthday and Christmas gifts...but never CASH. So when I left, it never even occurred to me that they were not subsidizing me...I just never thought of it. (I am 68)
Mom and Dad reminded us kids often that money was tight. We ate a lot of macaroni and hotdogs, always at home and never ate out. I never thought we were poor, I thought everyone lived the same way. That’s why I was so determined to get a job and be self supporting. It’s what I thought grownups did. I was out of the house and in my own apartment at 19. Looking back on it I wouldn’t change a thing.
There also simply were not the choices we have today...the material acquisitions were limited back then (there just wasn't as much stuff to buy!) and the line separating what we needed to survive, and what we just "wanted" for pleasure and for ease of living was set very low...meaning, we didn't need cell phones, 10 televisions in the house, four cars, designer clothes, etc. etc. to feel like we were minimally "set."
Today what young people think they "need" to be happy and content is astronomical compared to what we needed to feel happy and content back in the day.
I speak to young men in my practice who are still living at home at 25 years old or older...they won't leave because "they can't afford it." "Do you know how much money a one bedroom apartment is these days?" they lament. They insist on living at the standard they live now in mom's huge house with all of the amenities.
I don't buy it...a few generations back young men were moving out of the childhood home and living in boarding houses with dozens of other young men...they were lucky if they had their own private bed to sleep in...sharing the room with a few other guys, a bathroom with dozens more, etc. Maybe this cost them $2 a week...but when they were making less than $10 a week, that was a hell of a lot of money.
A neighbor has a 25 year old daughter still living at home. I’m told she makes over $80k a year but says she won’t be able to finance the lifestyle she wants until she’s making at least $120k. So until that time she says she’s going to remain at home. I don’t get it. Mom and Dad have already paid for her college education and bought her a car. What is she doing with her money?
Oh my you are right ! Me too ! Additionally it is such a confidence builder to succeed and accomplish on your own . My daughter was raised during a particularly busy period of my life AKA no hovering …she is a shrew and is one of the most accomplished people I know.
I think clearly the way kids are parented today will create whole generations of sheep. It is hard to tell what made shrews in older generations...or even in the generation that includes adults today (over 30). I have not yet met a shrew younger than 30, although I am certain there are some around. They are either hard core sheep (the under 30's) or just totally indifferent and know nothing about what is going on.
What you describe here about your childhood probably is a "shrew formula"...but there are many over-30-folks out there who had similar childhoods who are not shrews...go figure.
Well, that is only from my own personal and professional experience...and I take that back, I do have one client that is under 30 that is a shrew...I am sure there are more...anyone out there know of any??
Well, I did a head count of relatives, ie: nieces, nephews and their off-spring. Tallied up at : Sheep = 19, Shrews = 1 (mostly). I thought it was just me because I'm in CA. But no, some are in NC, NY, CO, OR, MA. City dwellers though. Thanks for having me look, Todd! An eyeopener. Wonder what this will shake out to look like in another 50 years. Fingers crossed and a candle lit.
Another great article and I agree 100%. I believe there have always been sheep and maybe sheep have always been the majority of the population; maybe I’ve just never become fully aware of it until the covid scamdemic opened my eyes. I find it frightening to look back on how willingly the masses not only complied with things like mask mandates, but how sheep took it upon themselves to become mask enforcers by verbally confronting random strangers in public and in some cases physically assaulting those who would not comply. And what’s still worse for me to contemplate is that these same sheep whom have demonstrated they have no critical thinking/logic based reasoning have emptied their brains of these skills so that they might have more room to contemplate who Taylor Swift is dating, who is competing on Dancing With the Stars, what is the latest trend in getting your nails done and what color electric vehicle to buy. Maybe I was naive to believe the majority of people were smarter than me. I don’t think it so much anymore.
I just completed a rather snarky article titled "Planet Stupid" which addresses some of the stuff you mention here...it will be out next week I think, or maybe the next.
Let’s not forget that history (what was written about what actually happened) shows us the origins of the parasitical propaganda agenda, created to control large swaths of humanity. It’s not new. We must acknowledge that evil was on earth from the very beginning, with the same power-hungry agenda that got it booted from the cosmos in the first place.
Autocratic rulers, then religious autocratic rulers, with evil stirrings in their ears, saw a perfect opportunity to convince lesser educated subjects, busy trying to survive in the dirt, that they, their masters, held the sacred knowledge, and thus established themselves and their subsequent puppets as “the experts”.
However, because not all subjects were sheep and easily herded into lock-step; (shrews have always been around), the PTB (powers that be) developed more convincing methods to hang onto their power, to the extent of elimination of the dissenting voices. This is the greatest tool of evil, but one that has to be used judiciously and convincingly so as not to alarm the sheep but rather get their buy-in that it’s for “the common good” to put down rebellion of those that would disturb the sheepdom utopia.
The most powerful propaganda tool for holding power over their subjects became the church, the masters’ most convincing puppets, preaching threats of going to hell, and imprisonment for blasphemy of “God”. Thus began the “talking heads of the media to the masses, providing cover for the puppet masters to work their maniacal deeds in secret. This power hold quickly flowed into all aspects of human life. Usury (lending money and subsequent debt) was also discovered as a way to entice, then entrap people and puppet institutions further into the web of the power brokers. Thus an even larger swath of humanity became ensnared and forever enslaved to the evil overlords. This weakening of critical thinking, over centuries, separated most of the sheep from the shrews, but the PTB had to instill even more mechanisms to continue to enlarge the sheepdom utopia, thus welfare and entitlement programs were developed, ensuring more power through the enslaved, to echo the propaganda and create division among society.
The PTB, which had over time enlisted, through entrapment of all types, the political voices, the experts in all areas, education systems, etc., have simply continued expansion of their web of power brokering.
Even us shrews are susceptible to the marketing/propaganda by the puppets of the evil PTB, given cover by the so-called marketing by experts; it’s hard to resist getting caught up in the rush to own or rent (through credit card enslavement debt) the next great thing that promises convenience and pleasure.
All of it, from the beginning of earth’s time, has been manipulated by the base-level evil force to weaken resistance to our critical thinking/logical reasoning and further enslave larger groups of subjects in their ultimate quest to rule humanity. We are dangerously close to seeing evil triumph on the board game earth.
Yes, the system we are describing has always been around. I would say due to technology and advancements in human cleverness the evil system we see today has pretty much taken over. It has finally reached its peak of efficacy.
Not meaning to sound too religious, but I think what finally allowed it to get the foothold it has gotten is its success in eliminating god from the average person's worldview. This was a huge accomplishment, and although the elimination is not complete, it has gone deep enough to make quite a bit of difference.
Even in the past, I do not believe humans were sophisticated enough to truly understand what God is (are they now? some are...) but I do think belief in a higher power did have some effect in reigning in evil...but maybe not, maybe the world was so small, and so difficult to circumnavigate, evil just didn't have the opportunity to infiltrate every nook and cranny of humanity the way it does now. Who knows...
Our schools no longer tech us how to think but only what to think. young minds that are told that failure is always someone else's fault. My parents told me that failure was only the process for finding all the ways of not doing a chore. Their only rule was never say " I cant" It is up to us to provide the path that is easiest that allows us time to do other things. I grew up in SW Detroit. one of the poorest sections of Detroit. a two bedroom bungalow that didn't have central heat or a hot water tank only a bath tub, no showers. in fact we had no phone, no car, no carpeting, We also had no bars on our windows or doors. our seniors could walk without fear of assault. we all played outside each day. we had one roller skate we shared among our friends taking turns. we had no TV or toys. we made up games to play. school was unlike today. 50 kids per class. it was still quiet and the teacher had control. I will confess I was never good at many subjects like English and constructing a sentence. other subjects like science and Art, as well as all the mechanical shops we had. Setting me on the path to the trade I chose as Electrician. with only a high school education I was able to have my own company and can enjoy the fruits of my labors. Today kids believe they can succeed without government help. when they fail don't worry gov. lowers the standards. Showing all that if you are Negro or a woman you are inferior and gov. must lower the standards for you to succeed. Insulting? I should hope so but many believe that it is governments job to insure that you get a job. what that job is is now limited to what government says you are fit to do. What is so frustrating is that people believe it. When they dont get hired it is because of raciest feelings, not because they lack the skills that gov. run education failed to provide. Do yourself a favor and look up the word raciest. you will find it was created so it would generate the hate that the word prejudice wouldn't provide. In this way gov. divided us into ever smaller groups to prevent us from gaining any political advantage. Take a moment and look for yourselves. we are separated by race, religion, gender, education, patriotism, and even sports. each told that only their views are correct and any others are only working to suppress you. I as a contractor hired a young man just graduated from high school. we had a problem because he couldn't fill out my job application form. Why? he couldn't read or write. because he was a prized football star he was passed from grade to grade to benefit the school not the student. why couldn't they give him a special tutor? They had one goal. Themselves first. it has become the same with government. we are nothing more than the deep pocket that provides them with money to spend. they keep us ignorant so we cant organize any opposition. When I was young we had many races and nationalities living together without stress other than to pay our bills. when one of us found ourselves in trouble it was the community who came together for the one. we knew the names of the many for blocks around. today I ask do you know the names of your neighbors two houses away? or on the next block? we have come to depend on Gov. to solve all our problems and that is why we are now the sheeple. We are told to donate to charity's to help the poor. start looking into who gets the money. you may find the people running it has large wages with many relatives enjoying large lifestyles. This practice extends to governments from the city's, counties, states and federal. as proof I ask all to look at the net worth of these politicians before they were elected and today. let it influence the way you vote. not just promises made that are never delivered . All I ask is that you start looking at what Gov. actually does and then take action, not accepting the inevitable.--------- I, Grampa
The so called elite are very good at conjuring tricks. Creating the illusion of consensus by redefining censorship. Promoting ludicrous tales of fake fear to control thought. Gender fluidity insanity. Going to the doctor to see if you are sick, instead of going when you actually are sick. Believing a machine that finds an incidentaloma even when you feel perfectly fine. The epitome of the madness to me is the belief that having no symptoms is a symptom. Brilliant re-writing of reality!
Yes, they are really good at that, but their task is a lot easier than it should be. Of course it has taken decades to get us all primed to accept their "tricks"...
I am still not thoroughly convinced this is all "man's doing." Meaning that EVERYONE, including the "elite" could be under a metaphysical spell. Brainwashed by some evil entity. OR, as Icke suggests, alien life forms (reptilian).
I am not convinced this is entirely “human” either.
But, as Solzhenitsyn said—“the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either—but right through every human heart.”
Blindly following a dictate coming from the media, govt, whatever—-doesn’t absolve anyone from the responsibility to question, discern, and use logic.
Good morning Todd, I look at logic reasoning as common sense but it isn't very common anymore. You are absolutely right - far too many people are now used to others making decisions for them and many have elevated 'them' to being so much smarter, intelligent, experts in their field, blah - blah - blah which fits perfectly into their agenda and even those who don't know they are part of the agenda. :( I have always questioned things that don't make sense and this plandemic smelled at first sniff for me.
I think back to the beginning of this Covid thing and I am so surprised I bought it for about a week or so. With all the crap they are doing out there, it did not seem implausible that one of their bioweapons escaped, or more specifically, the Chinese purposely released it. It was the whole mask/shutdown/distancing thing that started my head itching and my hand scratching. By the time the bogus vaccines were about to be released, I was a full fledged shrew (before that actually, I don't remember the exact date.)
Still, I bought it for a while...and I am ashamed!!
Don’t be ashamed. I think more of us bought into it for a short while than we care to admit. I bought into it for about a week but kept asking questions and became more and more suspicious when I saw questioning was not allowed. Questions led me to search online for answers where I discovered alternate news sites with critical thinkers that have obviously been here long before Covid. So don’t be ashamed at all. Be glad you’re awake
I think my blindness lasted for about a week as well. Then so many "that doesn't make sense" things hit me. Then I saw stuff from Yeadon, and people like that...I don't think it took long...
No need to feel shame Todd - you woke up with a thud. Can others say the same? The foolishness that rolled out was beyond crazy and yet people bought it. Remember when you could initially go into a restaurant, masked up of course, but then when you sat down at your table, you could take it off. I pictured these fools who created all this BS to be sitting and admiring their gag, and laughing their asses off. I just couldn't penetrate people's minds to break that one down. Most bought that and then it kept steam rolling through with other things as we all well know.
As I have said before, I have always been skeptical of the mainstream narrative...in nearly everything, current government, medicine, politics, history, archeology. I started the shrew journey long ago. But for whatever reason I typically did not apply it to EVERYTHING. I did believe the major parts of government, and people (I am the most disappointed with the people) were benevolent...at least in their conscious intention. Now I know better, it is freeing, but it is also very sad and frightening.
For just a split second, when Fauci was extolling the virtues of double masking, I thought, "Well, this will be the bridge too far. This will cause even the simplest of minds to stop and ask, WTF?!" But alas, it was not to be. I couldn't begin to count the number of sheep I saw double-masking (or the sheepiest of sheep who were double-masking inside their own cars with windows rolled up). No, I fear it is far too late. While there are certainly a large portion of the population who have woken from their slumber of ignorance, the majority still lie comatose in their beds of oblivion never again able to walk amongst the well-informed, logic-reasoning, critical thinkers.
This is such a great description of people not thinking or not questioning. I am slowly forgetting some of the craziness of the early years and shrewviews helps me to remember. So wish I had kept a journal. It is important to remember every detail… not to stay angry but to KNOW.
The percentage of people who still believe that masking was the way to go I believe would astound all of us.
Where I come from in Oz 🇦🇺 there was a street culture, whereby everyone in the street & down the road looked out for each other ( some better than others). That fanned out across the Suburb, into the local schools, sports clubs, etc. The local government members were well known, the Publican was a pillar of society, the local copper's were involved in the local sports teams & were respected & we learnt about OUR country & OUR constitution & we would fight for it. Then, slowly , slowly, woke, even BEFORE it was called that nonsensical name, crept in, end of story.
If only…
You describe the way it "should be." Lots of reasons why it isn't that way anymore...again, it is shocking that people do not see how simple the destruction of society has been. Most people complain about it, but few people know what happened, and if they do, few believe it.
"The “authority” we have developed a symbiotic relationship with is a parasite and is intentionally trying to kill us. This is the part people refuse to look at."
I think this is the really key part Todd - I know lots of very smart, well educated members of the professional/managerial class who apply careful logical reasoning in all areas of their personal and professional lives every day but just can't get past this basic point, often for emotional or intra-class solidarity reasons I think. If you start your chain of logical thought from the (imho false) premises that the authorities in the West are fundamentally trustworthy people doing their best in difficult circumstances, scientists always focus on finding the truth and have no conflicts of interest etc., then none of the shrew worldview makes much sense. Perhaps those of us who have been diving down these particular rabbitholes for several years now underestimate how hard it is for most people - however smart - to really internalise conclusions about our "leaders" that are this dark. I think it's as much a question of temperament and willingness to look evil full in the face as it is of intellect, at least for many of the very bright sheep I know.
For a very long time I looked at what was happening as a result of greed, ignorance or whatever. Then as time rolled on there was only one explanation that made sense. Something sinister was behind it all. A discovery that has broken my heart…but not myself.
A colleague of my husbands just can't believe that our Government would be against us! "Why would they do that?" And my brothers will not accept the notion of gain of function. "Impossibly cruel, Who would do such a thing!" It has been a shocking revelation that the institutions that were once revered are captured by the very wealthy and insidiously manipulative elites. Government and all it's alphabets (FBI,CIA,CDC,), judges, law enforcement, doctors, health care at large, universities, the media, even comedians...somebody stop me! I could go on forever. How to change such vast corruption is unfathomable.
Gain of function is a very common scientifically accept procedure. The purpose behind it is to get ahead of the virus game...create in the lab versions of viruses that are only found in animals that will infect humans so they can then learn how to treat it once it naturally mutates to a version that can infect humans. It was outlawed, finally, in the US a while back. Of course this "reason" isn't really what it is about. It is a bioweapon technique to find a weapon to use on the enemy...a virus we have developed an antidote for, but the enemy has not...insane stuff. And yes, the US and other countries have been in the bioweapon business for a long time...and that is no secret.
And every government in world history has been against its citizenry, only until the US's grand experiment came to be in 1776 did that change, only quickly to devolve into what it is now. Even that early government was "against the people" if you included the poor, blacks, the marginalized, the uneducated as "the people"...anyway, big topic...
Did you read "Following Orders"? https://www.shrewviews.com/p/just-following-orders
I think I cover a bit of what you say here in that as well. I agree with you 100%, this "trust" the sheep have for authority, and government, and their basic belief these people could never consciously harm them is probably the BIGGEST thing standing in their way of seeing truth.
How people got to this point of trusting is beyond me...who has ever 100% trusted government? Sure, they SHOULD be trustworthy, but how many times have they proven not to be? Sure, it would be difficult for any of these people to believe that their government and elected officials are consciously trying to kill them. But you don't have to go that far to understand that something is rotten in Denmark here, and that it very well could be the government that is rotten.
Hi Todd, my first time reading your articles and my gratitude for this interesting one.
“How people got to this point of trusting is beyond me...”
I suggest it is due to the tactic of the state taking the position of the mother. People who do not achieve adulthood and therefore still rely on inate trust rather than independent evaluation; they need a mother figure. The education and entertainment systems foster this transition.
Maybe food for another article.
Yes I did read it - and it described most of my professional and social circle ;0). I'm not sure it's about 100% trust, so much as an assumption that more often than not people in power are trying to do the right thing and that the system itself is "basically" trustworthy, even if there are a few bad apples out there. There's a big dollop of naivety and maybe wishful thinking there from (as you say in that article) people for whom the system is working pretty well who have never had to confront some of the harsher realities, and who have always been rewarded for compliance. If I'm honest I would probably have put myself in that category too until relatively recently, so I don't even claim any moral superiority.
Most of my articles are very black and white due to their simple, and brief, nature. The point is made, and no attention is given to exceptions and bell curve outliers.
Of course there are good people out there, of course there are politicians who intend to do their best, and actually do for a large portion of the time. But the agenda is huge, and typically it swallows up those innocents. The individuals who set out to do good, get enveloped by "associates" ...their "team"...and that formulation creates an entity of sorts (an egregore?)...anyway, you know the picture, you describe it all very well in your comments...thanks for reading!!
Well said!
Yes agreed - and I think one of the weird paradoxes at institutional level is how you can have organisations that are essentially psycopathic but populated largely by good, kind, decent people - I've worked in them.
Maybe an overlap in your excellent article but at a basic level shrews think for themselves rather than “ adopt “ the mainstream narrative ( on any issue including Covid ) I wonder how much shrewdom comes from the way you are parented. My parents never told me what to do nor solved any of my problems ( adjusted for age appropriatness ). We were left with figuring things out for ourselves . Folks mainly don’t do that so much - easier to adopt the mainstream narrative and comply accordingly.
Exactly the way I was raised! “You wanna car? Get a job. You wanna go to college? You’d better get a scholarship or a job. You want your own apartment? Have at it, it’ll be good experience, don’t ask for any money.” I can only speak for my generation (I’m 70) but most of my friends were raised the same way and it didn’t kill any of us to make our own decisions and find our own way to independence. Today’s young people? I just shake my head. And I lump in a lot of the 40-50 year olds in there too. Most of the ones I know are helpless airheads.
I don't recall even knowing my parents HAD money when I was a kid. So it never crossed my mind that they would provide me with a nickel for anything, cars, school, even clothes after I left the house. I was never angry about it, never resentful, nothing. Money was not something that I ever felt they owed me. (And I grew up pretty poor).
When I was living with them, clothes, food, etc. I readily received, and even birthday and Christmas gifts...but never CASH. So when I left, it never even occurred to me that they were not subsidizing me...I just never thought of it. (I am 68)
Mom and Dad reminded us kids often that money was tight. We ate a lot of macaroni and hotdogs, always at home and never ate out. I never thought we were poor, I thought everyone lived the same way. That’s why I was so determined to get a job and be self supporting. It’s what I thought grownups did. I was out of the house and in my own apartment at 19. Looking back on it I wouldn’t change a thing.
There also simply were not the choices we have today...the material acquisitions were limited back then (there just wasn't as much stuff to buy!) and the line separating what we needed to survive, and what we just "wanted" for pleasure and for ease of living was set very low...meaning, we didn't need cell phones, 10 televisions in the house, four cars, designer clothes, etc. etc. to feel like we were minimally "set."
Today what young people think they "need" to be happy and content is astronomical compared to what we needed to feel happy and content back in the day.
I speak to young men in my practice who are still living at home at 25 years old or older...they won't leave because "they can't afford it." "Do you know how much money a one bedroom apartment is these days?" they lament. They insist on living at the standard they live now in mom's huge house with all of the amenities.
I don't buy it...a few generations back young men were moving out of the childhood home and living in boarding houses with dozens of other young men...they were lucky if they had their own private bed to sleep in...sharing the room with a few other guys, a bathroom with dozens more, etc. Maybe this cost them $2 a week...but when they were making less than $10 a week, that was a hell of a lot of money.
Anyway...I am babbling...you get the picture.
A neighbor has a 25 year old daughter still living at home. I’m told she makes over $80k a year but says she won’t be able to finance the lifestyle she wants until she’s making at least $120k. So until that time she says she’s going to remain at home. I don’t get it. Mom and Dad have already paid for her college education and bought her a car. What is she doing with her money?
Oh my you are right ! Me too ! Additionally it is such a confidence builder to succeed and accomplish on your own . My daughter was raised during a particularly busy period of my life AKA no hovering …she is a shrew and is one of the most accomplished people I know.
👍👍👍👍🏆🏆🏆GOOD JOB, Mom!!
I think clearly the way kids are parented today will create whole generations of sheep. It is hard to tell what made shrews in older generations...or even in the generation that includes adults today (over 30). I have not yet met a shrew younger than 30, although I am certain there are some around. They are either hard core sheep (the under 30's) or just totally indifferent and know nothing about what is going on.
What you describe here about your childhood probably is a "shrew formula"...but there are many over-30-folks out there who had similar childhoods who are not shrews...go figure.
Not many shrews under 30? Terrifying, really!
Well, that is only from my own personal and professional experience...and I take that back, I do have one client that is under 30 that is a shrew...I am sure there are more...anyone out there know of any??
Well, I did a head count of relatives, ie: nieces, nephews and their off-spring. Tallied up at : Sheep = 19, Shrews = 1 (mostly). I thought it was just me because I'm in CA. But no, some are in NC, NY, CO, OR, MA. City dwellers though. Thanks for having me look, Todd! An eyeopener. Wonder what this will shake out to look like in another 50 years. Fingers crossed and a candle lit.
God willing we will even be here in 50 years.
Another great article and I agree 100%. I believe there have always been sheep and maybe sheep have always been the majority of the population; maybe I’ve just never become fully aware of it until the covid scamdemic opened my eyes. I find it frightening to look back on how willingly the masses not only complied with things like mask mandates, but how sheep took it upon themselves to become mask enforcers by verbally confronting random strangers in public and in some cases physically assaulting those who would not comply. And what’s still worse for me to contemplate is that these same sheep whom have demonstrated they have no critical thinking/logic based reasoning have emptied their brains of these skills so that they might have more room to contemplate who Taylor Swift is dating, who is competing on Dancing With the Stars, what is the latest trend in getting your nails done and what color electric vehicle to buy. Maybe I was naive to believe the majority of people were smarter than me. I don’t think it so much anymore.
I just completed a rather snarky article titled "Planet Stupid" which addresses some of the stuff you mention here...it will be out next week I think, or maybe the next.
Looking forward to it as I do all of your articles
Let’s not forget that history (what was written about what actually happened) shows us the origins of the parasitical propaganda agenda, created to control large swaths of humanity. It’s not new. We must acknowledge that evil was on earth from the very beginning, with the same power-hungry agenda that got it booted from the cosmos in the first place.
Autocratic rulers, then religious autocratic rulers, with evil stirrings in their ears, saw a perfect opportunity to convince lesser educated subjects, busy trying to survive in the dirt, that they, their masters, held the sacred knowledge, and thus established themselves and their subsequent puppets as “the experts”.
However, because not all subjects were sheep and easily herded into lock-step; (shrews have always been around), the PTB (powers that be) developed more convincing methods to hang onto their power, to the extent of elimination of the dissenting voices. This is the greatest tool of evil, but one that has to be used judiciously and convincingly so as not to alarm the sheep but rather get their buy-in that it’s for “the common good” to put down rebellion of those that would disturb the sheepdom utopia.
The most powerful propaganda tool for holding power over their subjects became the church, the masters’ most convincing puppets, preaching threats of going to hell, and imprisonment for blasphemy of “God”. Thus began the “talking heads of the media to the masses, providing cover for the puppet masters to work their maniacal deeds in secret. This power hold quickly flowed into all aspects of human life. Usury (lending money and subsequent debt) was also discovered as a way to entice, then entrap people and puppet institutions further into the web of the power brokers. Thus an even larger swath of humanity became ensnared and forever enslaved to the evil overlords. This weakening of critical thinking, over centuries, separated most of the sheep from the shrews, but the PTB had to instill even more mechanisms to continue to enlarge the sheepdom utopia, thus welfare and entitlement programs were developed, ensuring more power through the enslaved, to echo the propaganda and create division among society.
The PTB, which had over time enlisted, through entrapment of all types, the political voices, the experts in all areas, education systems, etc., have simply continued expansion of their web of power brokering.
Even us shrews are susceptible to the marketing/propaganda by the puppets of the evil PTB, given cover by the so-called marketing by experts; it’s hard to resist getting caught up in the rush to own or rent (through credit card enslavement debt) the next great thing that promises convenience and pleasure.
All of it, from the beginning of earth’s time, has been manipulated by the base-level evil force to weaken resistance to our critical thinking/logical reasoning and further enslave larger groups of subjects in their ultimate quest to rule humanity. We are dangerously close to seeing evil triumph on the board game earth.
So incredibly said!
Thank you both.
So superbly written! Thank you for this!
Yes, the system we are describing has always been around. I would say due to technology and advancements in human cleverness the evil system we see today has pretty much taken over. It has finally reached its peak of efficacy.
Not meaning to sound too religious, but I think what finally allowed it to get the foothold it has gotten is its success in eliminating god from the average person's worldview. This was a huge accomplishment, and although the elimination is not complete, it has gone deep enough to make quite a bit of difference.
Even in the past, I do not believe humans were sophisticated enough to truly understand what God is (are they now? some are...) but I do think belief in a higher power did have some effect in reigning in evil...but maybe not, maybe the world was so small, and so difficult to circumnavigate, evil just didn't have the opportunity to infiltrate every nook and cranny of humanity the way it does now. Who knows...
I agree with fortheloveofFreedom
Our schools no longer tech us how to think but only what to think. young minds that are told that failure is always someone else's fault. My parents told me that failure was only the process for finding all the ways of not doing a chore. Their only rule was never say " I cant" It is up to us to provide the path that is easiest that allows us time to do other things. I grew up in SW Detroit. one of the poorest sections of Detroit. a two bedroom bungalow that didn't have central heat or a hot water tank only a bath tub, no showers. in fact we had no phone, no car, no carpeting, We also had no bars on our windows or doors. our seniors could walk without fear of assault. we all played outside each day. we had one roller skate we shared among our friends taking turns. we had no TV or toys. we made up games to play. school was unlike today. 50 kids per class. it was still quiet and the teacher had control. I will confess I was never good at many subjects like English and constructing a sentence. other subjects like science and Art, as well as all the mechanical shops we had. Setting me on the path to the trade I chose as Electrician. with only a high school education I was able to have my own company and can enjoy the fruits of my labors. Today kids believe they can succeed without government help. when they fail don't worry gov. lowers the standards. Showing all that if you are Negro or a woman you are inferior and gov. must lower the standards for you to succeed. Insulting? I should hope so but many believe that it is governments job to insure that you get a job. what that job is is now limited to what government says you are fit to do. What is so frustrating is that people believe it. When they dont get hired it is because of raciest feelings, not because they lack the skills that gov. run education failed to provide. Do yourself a favor and look up the word raciest. you will find it was created so it would generate the hate that the word prejudice wouldn't provide. In this way gov. divided us into ever smaller groups to prevent us from gaining any political advantage. Take a moment and look for yourselves. we are separated by race, religion, gender, education, patriotism, and even sports. each told that only their views are correct and any others are only working to suppress you. I as a contractor hired a young man just graduated from high school. we had a problem because he couldn't fill out my job application form. Why? he couldn't read or write. because he was a prized football star he was passed from grade to grade to benefit the school not the student. why couldn't they give him a special tutor? They had one goal. Themselves first. it has become the same with government. we are nothing more than the deep pocket that provides them with money to spend. they keep us ignorant so we cant organize any opposition. When I was young we had many races and nationalities living together without stress other than to pay our bills. when one of us found ourselves in trouble it was the community who came together for the one. we knew the names of the many for blocks around. today I ask do you know the names of your neighbors two houses away? or on the next block? we have come to depend on Gov. to solve all our problems and that is why we are now the sheeple. We are told to donate to charity's to help the poor. start looking into who gets the money. you may find the people running it has large wages with many relatives enjoying large lifestyles. This practice extends to governments from the city's, counties, states and federal. as proof I ask all to look at the net worth of these politicians before they were elected and today. let it influence the way you vote. not just promises made that are never delivered . All I ask is that you start looking at what Gov. actually does and then take action, not accepting the inevitable.--------- I, Grampa
Yes indeed. The elites will take the Power, thank you very much. And you plebes- get Identity Politics. Enjoy!
The so called elite are very good at conjuring tricks. Creating the illusion of consensus by redefining censorship. Promoting ludicrous tales of fake fear to control thought. Gender fluidity insanity. Going to the doctor to see if you are sick, instead of going when you actually are sick. Believing a machine that finds an incidentaloma even when you feel perfectly fine. The epitome of the madness to me is the belief that having no symptoms is a symptom. Brilliant re-writing of reality!
Yes, they are really good at that, but their task is a lot easier than it should be. Of course it has taken decades to get us all primed to accept their "tricks"...
I am still not thoroughly convinced this is all "man's doing." Meaning that EVERYONE, including the "elite" could be under a metaphysical spell. Brainwashed by some evil entity. OR, as Icke suggests, alien life forms (reptilian).
I am not convinced this is entirely “human” either.
But, as Solzhenitsyn said—“the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either—but right through every human heart.”
Blindly following a dictate coming from the media, govt, whatever—-doesn’t absolve anyone from the responsibility to question, discern, and use logic.
Thanks for staying on this like you do.
Good morning Todd, I look at logic reasoning as common sense but it isn't very common anymore. You are absolutely right - far too many people are now used to others making decisions for them and many have elevated 'them' to being so much smarter, intelligent, experts in their field, blah - blah - blah which fits perfectly into their agenda and even those who don't know they are part of the agenda. :( I have always questioned things that don't make sense and this plandemic smelled at first sniff for me.
I think back to the beginning of this Covid thing and I am so surprised I bought it for about a week or so. With all the crap they are doing out there, it did not seem implausible that one of their bioweapons escaped, or more specifically, the Chinese purposely released it. It was the whole mask/shutdown/distancing thing that started my head itching and my hand scratching. By the time the bogus vaccines were about to be released, I was a full fledged shrew (before that actually, I don't remember the exact date.)
Still, I bought it for a while...and I am ashamed!!
Well Todd... it's nice to know you're human... otherwise, with your articles being so awesome, I might feel overwhelmed 🙂
Thank you...and I am definitely human. I do and think a lot of typically stupid human things.
Don’t be ashamed. I think more of us bought into it for a short while than we care to admit. I bought into it for about a week but kept asking questions and became more and more suspicious when I saw questioning was not allowed. Questions led me to search online for answers where I discovered alternate news sites with critical thinkers that have obviously been here long before Covid. So don’t be ashamed at all. Be glad you’re awake
I think my blindness lasted for about a week as well. Then so many "that doesn't make sense" things hit me. Then I saw stuff from Yeadon, and people like that...I don't think it took long...
No need to feel shame Todd - you woke up with a thud. Can others say the same? The foolishness that rolled out was beyond crazy and yet people bought it. Remember when you could initially go into a restaurant, masked up of course, but then when you sat down at your table, you could take it off. I pictured these fools who created all this BS to be sitting and admiring their gag, and laughing their asses off. I just couldn't penetrate people's minds to break that one down. Most bought that and then it kept steam rolling through with other things as we all well know.
As I have said before, I have always been skeptical of the mainstream narrative...in nearly everything, current government, medicine, politics, history, archeology. I started the shrew journey long ago. But for whatever reason I typically did not apply it to EVERYTHING. I did believe the major parts of government, and people (I am the most disappointed with the people) were benevolent...at least in their conscious intention. Now I know better, it is freeing, but it is also very sad and frightening.
I agree. It's the people that leaves one feeling a tad hopeless and sadder still when they think we are the nut cases lol.