Delusional Shrews

Are most shrews crazy? Meaning: are most of US crazy? Are we really what the sheep think of us? —tinfoil hat wearing nut jobs? What actually makes a person “crazy?” I am in a profession that is given the task of determining the presence of “mental illness” in the people who pay for our services. In my profession we don’t use the term “crazy,” of course. And we also have a plethora of “diagnostic conclusions” to choose from—depression, anxiety, bi-polar, sociopath, even schizophrenia and other more serious maladies. Some of these conditions are easy to pin on people. Most people realize they are depressed or anxious and don’t need to be formally assessed. Some of the more complex illnesses need a bit more scrutiny to label. But what does a label really mean?

Many in my profession do not like the use of “medical model” diagnoses. I am one of them. I think some of the mental illness “inventories” are useful in extreme cases. These labels do all have consistencies about them that can save a lot of time when treating something that falls clearly into a certain set of criteria. But much of the diagnostic practices in mental illness, unless the illness is extreme, is dubious at best.

One of my “favorite” classifications is “magical thinking.” This is where us shrews would fit in if we were being psychologically assessed, albeit a false conclusion in most cases. “Magical thinking” is where a person believes their thoughts can create an effect in the material world without any material causation. Many people believe we create our own reality, and in my book, this doesn’t make them “crazy.” Then we have “correlation without causation.” This might be another false description of “shrew think” if a lot of thought wasn’t given to it. In my opinion, “correlation without causation” is more of a sheep thing. But, of course, it depends on who you talk to.

It might be easier to just drop all shrews into a psychosis bucket. This is where a person cannot discern what is real from what is not real. Of course, you do have to be careful how you define the word “real” to make this one stick. But without getting too complicated, this is where lots of sheep-types want to place “misinformation.” For obvious reasons to us, the mainstream likes to say that all the hoopla over the dangers of the vaccine, and the inefficiencies of masks and whatever, are made by people who cannot discern fact from fiction—these are the science deniers (since obviously science is the final arbiter of truth). The irony is that this assumption is about as far from the truth as one can get.

From my rather informed understanding of “crazy” I really cannot see any shrews being crazy. Even the ones at the very bottom of the rabbit hole. In the old days it was rather easy to spot kooky people with kooky ideas. I’ll pick on one type for a moment. How about the guy in a white robe with a long beard standing on the street corner holding a sign that says, “The End is Nigh.” This guy is the archetypal nut job. At one moment you might see him with his sign waving it at passersby, and the next moment you might see him at the end of a deserted alley having a heated argument with a garbage can. He is probably crazy. Although, truthfully, I am not so sure if I would be too quick to label him. The shamans of indigenous cultures are typically the ones who would talk to garbage cans, and the other members of the tribe were also aware that these guys and gals did possess rather interesting, and useful insights. Still, in our modern culture we would not typically trust this type to help us make important decisions.

There are not many shrews whom I have found that fall into this category. The shrews at the bottom of the rabbit hole have some pretty extreme ideas, but they also have some pretty robust evidence to back up their ideas. They also almost invariable have sound minds, proving that fact with advanced degrees (sorry, I do believe degrees from reputable Universities at least show intellectual discipline) as well as long careers in areas that require a functional mind. Sometimes the evidence that support their theories is indeed scant, or unorthodoxly acquired, but that has never really meant much in the real world. Every great invention or scientific discovery has gone through the phase of scant and dubious evidence.

As we move up the rabbit hole and encounter such folks as Dr. Peter McCollough, Dr. Pierre Kory, Dr. Robert Malone, et al, there is less and less “far out-ness” to their ideas, or their evidence. It is all pretty solid. And we are supposed to think of these people as crazy? For everyone in the limelight who I name here, there are thousands of others who pretty much believe the same things and have come to the same conclusions—and we are supposed to believe that they are crazy too and should not be listened to? The media certainly treat them as if they are crazy. And if you ask sheep who have their eyes glued to the media, they will tell you the same.

Needless to say, it is easy for us to believe these marginalized folks, being who we are. But what about the bottom of the hole? What about those people? The David Ickes, the Todd Callenders, the Celeste Solums, and even the Vanden Bossches? And wow, there are LOTS more than this. If you are a follower of this level of information you could name dozens more. Are they crazy?

One reason in the past that people become popular touting odd and off the wall ideas was because there was some monetary value in being a weirdo. There was monetary gain being the only person out there saying we were going to be attacked by Martians before the year was out, or some other strange, mysterious, event was about to happen. I won’t name any of these people here, but I am sure you know who I am talking about. Maybe a few of the bottom of the rabbit hole folks are like this, but I honestly don’t think there are many, if any. Most of the people I listen to have pretty compelling evidence for their theories.

I find it impossible to believe that all of these people are suffering from some diagnosable malady such as psychosis. Psychotic people just can’t put two and two together reliably, let alone complex reasoning and scientific analysis. The people we are listening to certainly may be wrong in their conclusions, but they are not nuts.

There also is a possibility that some, or all, are controlled opposition. People placed amongst us with bogus, and outlandish theories, to discredit us (“you believe that?”) or send us on wild goose chases digging further and further down dark and dead ended rabbit holes. Even the “official information” could be bogus, released as intentional red herrings for the same purpose. Obviously it is important to vet sources with the utmost care and scrutiny.

So, what about the other side, the sheep side, are they crazy? The Faucis, the Bidens, the Walenskys, the Bourlas to name only a few. No, they are not. They know exactly what they are doing. They may be pathologically evil, but they are not dolts, crazy, or nuts. Being a liar for a purpose does not make you crazy.

What about the sheep masses? Well, there’s where you’ve got me. I’ve written about this mystery many times. I can say I agree with Desmet’s ideas about mass formation, and also believe that the vaccine possibly has had some effect on the mental functioning of recipients. Here we are dealing with something else, something actually more formidable, and discussion about the masses is beyond the scope of this single article.

Some of the stuff that is floating around in Shrewdom is pretty frightening, and as this article states, I do not believe this stuff is coming from demented and malfunctioning minds. That makes it all the more frightening and all the more important that we give it our careful attention. It would be easy to get off the hook proclaiming that these shrews are delusional. Unfortunately, nothing about these times is easy.