I have a close friend who is currently planning a trip to Mexico. He is a super sheep and is “Vaxxed to the Max.” In Canada we have this dorky totalitarian system of mass control called ArriveCAN. Basically it is a digital ID sort of app that documents, and thus controls, entry into Canada. Originally it was used to govern the movement of vaxxed and unvaxxed travellers (and punish the unvaxxed) and thus controlled citizens and residents (and visitors as well once people were allowed to visit again) arriving into Canada, (thus the ingenious name, “ArriveCAN”). This spiffy little app installed on your smart phone keeps tabs on the carrier’s compliance with various requirements such as multiple PCR tests at particular times before, after, and during quarantine, random phone calls to ensure quarantine requirements are met, and daily check-ins to be sure you have not attempted to escape your private, state-mandated, prison, much like an invisible ankle bracelet with the same monitoring required of accused or convicted prisoners.
In the book Escape From Freedom by Erich Fromm, he writes:
"...when other political parties were abolished and the Nazi party "was" Germany, opposition to it meant opposition to Germany. It seems that nothing is more difficult for the average man to bear than the feeling of not being identified with a larger group."
I think you are right Todd…..people don’t have a clue what it means to lose their freedoms and live under a Totalitarian regime. They are living in blissful ignorance truly believing that our government is honest and pure and looking out for our best interests. When we truly believe this, there is no “seeing” what is going on around us, with the vaxxed getting sick, the vaccine not being safe or effective, the government methodically crashing our economy and attempting to censor any dissident voices and squash free speech. I remember looking for a certain book on my shelf one day and was 100% certain it was a blue book…..I couldn’t find it. Another day I came across it, right in the middle of my book shelf - it was red……I couldn’t see it because my mind believed it was blue, even though right in front of my eyes it perched. I think this, combined with Mass Formation and the desire for security and comfort and a sense of belonging, make the perfect internal environment for “not seeing”. We have been manipulated and conditioned from our day of birth by these Globalists. All I can say is, we will all suffer in some way through what is about to happen, but we the Shrews will be more prepared and more likely to survive it. Meanwhile, our freedoms are so very precious and we need to keep speaking up about all of these crimes against humanity. And not get lost in our own fears and hopelessness along the way.
This may sound like a strange thing to conclude from someone who is on the right but I do not believe so many people are going with the Covid 19program because they do not value freedom. I believe this has always been about the need to belong and as importantly the desire to "other" people who are not in their club. This is the aspect that I believe my friends on the conservative or libertarian or just the common sense side of things have missed. Your friend, or the average Jessica have a strong need to belong. probably more that you or me. As an iconoclast and rebel I have less need to belong but I do recognize this is a universal need and I feel it too. These people saw the Covid 19 threat as something to rally around together as a tribe of good people fighting an invasive force. As importantly, they saw the noncompliant (represented by the Trump conservative in the US and the truckers in Canada) as evil people who were risking the lives of the good tribe. This is a powerful good feeling. Mass Formation takes hold because so many people are lonely for connection.
I have that same feeling, although those people are not my people and their governments are no longer my governments. In fact, I despise most of these people for hating me. I will forgive them when they accept what they have done by being so wrong about everything and trying to impose that wrongness on me.
When I watched the truckers and the freedom protesters in Ottawa and marching around the country, I observed that same sense of unity. This is what I believe we are missing when we criticize the Covid cult as sheep. They are a human tribe. We need to build and grow our own tribe and try to take some of these salvageable people with us. According to Mattias Desmet, we cure Mass Formation by providing better outlets for connection and othering.
Without an alternative for belonging people have nowhere to go. A man is not an island. He thrives in a community. Thus as I said in the beginning of all of this, I believe Trump should have "out-nationalized the socialists" on this issue. Same in Canada. A nationalist leader needs to emerge to re-capture the real spirit of Canada, that of course includes enlightenment principles like freedom and the rule of law, but would also activate some other Canadian sensibilities like courage, sense of adventure, loyalty, and manliness, just to name a few. Incidentally, these are traits of western man generally, and they are what made our once excellent nations thrive.
Trudeau may be a communist ass but he is rallying HIS troops. They love what he is doing. We need to rally our troops.
I hope this all makes sense. I enjoy your writing.
You'll be happy to know that i refused to take a pcr test before arrive canning back home in April. They slapped me with my second 5750 fine for that. I also refused to use the arrivecan app. They threatened to fine me for that but decided not to. Maybe it was my attitude..... telling them I'd be fighting that in court as well as the first ticket. You've got to laugh. Apparently, 750 of the fine was for my victims..... what a howl! Thanks for the article and for the notion of shifting our response towards humour.
In the book Escape From Freedom by Erich Fromm, he writes:
"...when other political parties were abolished and the Nazi party "was" Germany, opposition to it meant opposition to Germany. It seems that nothing is more difficult for the average man to bear than the feeling of not being identified with a larger group."
I think you are right Todd…..people don’t have a clue what it means to lose their freedoms and live under a Totalitarian regime. They are living in blissful ignorance truly believing that our government is honest and pure and looking out for our best interests. When we truly believe this, there is no “seeing” what is going on around us, with the vaxxed getting sick, the vaccine not being safe or effective, the government methodically crashing our economy and attempting to censor any dissident voices and squash free speech. I remember looking for a certain book on my shelf one day and was 100% certain it was a blue book…..I couldn’t find it. Another day I came across it, right in the middle of my book shelf - it was red……I couldn’t see it because my mind believed it was blue, even though right in front of my eyes it perched. I think this, combined with Mass Formation and the desire for security and comfort and a sense of belonging, make the perfect internal environment for “not seeing”. We have been manipulated and conditioned from our day of birth by these Globalists. All I can say is, we will all suffer in some way through what is about to happen, but we the Shrews will be more prepared and more likely to survive it. Meanwhile, our freedoms are so very precious and we need to keep speaking up about all of these crimes against humanity. And not get lost in our own fears and hopelessness along the way.
Just watched a clip from George Carlin.. who is NOT a sheep! Doesn’t exactly speak to loss of liberty but he sure does not abide by the sheeple rules!
https://youtu.be/X29lF43mUlo
This may sound like a strange thing to conclude from someone who is on the right but I do not believe so many people are going with the Covid 19program because they do not value freedom. I believe this has always been about the need to belong and as importantly the desire to "other" people who are not in their club. This is the aspect that I believe my friends on the conservative or libertarian or just the common sense side of things have missed. Your friend, or the average Jessica have a strong need to belong. probably more that you or me. As an iconoclast and rebel I have less need to belong but I do recognize this is a universal need and I feel it too. These people saw the Covid 19 threat as something to rally around together as a tribe of good people fighting an invasive force. As importantly, they saw the noncompliant (represented by the Trump conservative in the US and the truckers in Canada) as evil people who were risking the lives of the good tribe. This is a powerful good feeling. Mass Formation takes hold because so many people are lonely for connection.
I have that same feeling, although those people are not my people and their governments are no longer my governments. In fact, I despise most of these people for hating me. I will forgive them when they accept what they have done by being so wrong about everything and trying to impose that wrongness on me.
When I watched the truckers and the freedom protesters in Ottawa and marching around the country, I observed that same sense of unity. This is what I believe we are missing when we criticize the Covid cult as sheep. They are a human tribe. We need to build and grow our own tribe and try to take some of these salvageable people with us. According to Mattias Desmet, we cure Mass Formation by providing better outlets for connection and othering.
Without an alternative for belonging people have nowhere to go. A man is not an island. He thrives in a community. Thus as I said in the beginning of all of this, I believe Trump should have "out-nationalized the socialists" on this issue. Same in Canada. A nationalist leader needs to emerge to re-capture the real spirit of Canada, that of course includes enlightenment principles like freedom and the rule of law, but would also activate some other Canadian sensibilities like courage, sense of adventure, loyalty, and manliness, just to name a few. Incidentally, these are traits of western man generally, and they are what made our once excellent nations thrive.
Trudeau may be a communist ass but he is rallying HIS troops. They love what he is doing. We need to rally our troops.
I hope this all makes sense. I enjoy your writing.
You'll be happy to know that i refused to take a pcr test before arrive canning back home in April. They slapped me with my second 5750 fine for that. I also refused to use the arrivecan app. They threatened to fine me for that but decided not to. Maybe it was my attitude..... telling them I'd be fighting that in court as well as the first ticket. You've got to laugh. Apparently, 750 of the fine was for my victims..... what a howl! Thanks for the article and for the notion of shifting our response towards humour.