wow nothing has really changed. I like the term "Sheeple" better. There is definatly an effort well thought out to exhaust us all the awake too.. Sometimes I just want to not care anymore but is that healthy? If you have principals then they win ?!
Using the fishing analogy is brilliant and accurate. It is the wearing down of people's spirit that they are after. I hadn't heard of the rat experiment. We are all experiments, no matter what side of the fence we play on. Compliance was a success in their eyes because apparently it was less than 20% of folks like us who pushed back. There is no victory with those in the sheep corner and definitely not with the people controlling the experiment. As one person I know has said, "I am all out of hopium".
As the years go by, I think it is interesting to look back on articles written during the height of the Covid nonsense...I may be "republishing" more of these...a lot of my readers probably never saw them when they first came out.
Thanks so much for "republishing." I believe I'm one of those who never saw the article before. The uncertainty due less to failing memory than to the shock and intensity of what was imposed on us at the time, avidly reading everything as the last shred of trust in the integrity of our systems (administrative, media, judicial, educational, et al.) evaporated through the fibres of people's masks and as loved ones fell prey to the fear, obedience, and prescribed castigation.
The essay seems as though it was written today.
Coming back from vacationing in the south, the customs agent letting us through despite a slightly over-large container of moisturizing cream, a few people still wearing masks, among other signs, I felt we were on a slackened leash. They were being nice. The agent himself relieved to be human again. How will they reel us back in? Enough people have wizened up that "the powers that shouldn't be" (Corbett) will at least have to rack their brains to figure out the next war of terror on us. The Epstein affair has gone a long way to discrediting the entire ruling class, unless it's successfully reduced to a cynical shrug.
Thanks again for this brilliant little piece (yes, the fishing analogy is perfect).
Thanks so much for the comment, Ron. Where south did you go?
I think the most interesting observation, and other people have made it to, is that article seems “as though it was written today.” Although much of that time does seem to be in the distant past, the fundamental truths about it all are still with us, and in some way worse now than then. I fear complacency the most, which is of course part of the expectation.
Your question “how will they reel us back in?” Is a perplexing one. We ain’t seen nothin’ yet, and all those we THINK are awake, will fall back to sleep immediately…just wait and see. Another even more deadly pathogen that will actually kill millions, alien attacks, nuclear war (fake of course, or partially fake false flag) they have plenty of room to up the ante without any of it being “as it seems”…
Ross, I agree that the essay could have been written today. That tells us that we are still in the clutches of the craziness. We just think we are free-r. :)
According to a reliable source: the book "The View of the Shrew" (Vol 1), this was indeed your first article on Substack. It is curious however, that you talk about sheep in a way that presumes all your readers know what you are talking about. I seem to have a memory of you "sort of" defining the terms "shrew" and "sheep" in your first few articles. I can be wrong, of course.
Your analogy with the skilled fisherman is right on.
The term "sheep" was being used a lot back then! I think most people knew what it was implying..."shrew" however, was totally made up by my sister and I.
Yes, I DID write an article explaining the terms...
Yes! Reading again that article, I see in my own comment that I already knew what a sheep was. You set the definition of shrew. According to the article the co-inventor of the term was your sister Charla (not Carla, right? It is not a typo). Tell her I already like her.
wow nothing has really changed. I like the term "Sheeple" better. There is definatly an effort well thought out to exhaust us all the awake too.. Sometimes I just want to not care anymore but is that healthy? If you have principals then they win ?!
I don't think "not caring" is a healthy option. If we can control our reaction, that is good enough. That's hard too.
There ya go.
Most excellent article! As good today as it was then. And by all means, please do republish.
Thank you...
Good one. Just as true today as it was then. People are lining up to get covid boosters to support Fauci, I read somewhere. Hope it isn't true.
If it is true, that is utterly wild.
Using the fishing analogy is brilliant and accurate. It is the wearing down of people's spirit that they are after. I hadn't heard of the rat experiment. We are all experiments, no matter what side of the fence we play on. Compliance was a success in their eyes because apparently it was less than 20% of folks like us who pushed back. There is no victory with those in the sheep corner and definitely not with the people controlling the experiment. As one person I know has said, "I am all out of hopium".
As the years go by, I think it is interesting to look back on articles written during the height of the Covid nonsense...I may be "republishing" more of these...a lot of my readers probably never saw them when they first came out.
Thanks so much for "republishing." I believe I'm one of those who never saw the article before. The uncertainty due less to failing memory than to the shock and intensity of what was imposed on us at the time, avidly reading everything as the last shred of trust in the integrity of our systems (administrative, media, judicial, educational, et al.) evaporated through the fibres of people's masks and as loved ones fell prey to the fear, obedience, and prescribed castigation.
The essay seems as though it was written today.
Coming back from vacationing in the south, the customs agent letting us through despite a slightly over-large container of moisturizing cream, a few people still wearing masks, among other signs, I felt we were on a slackened leash. They were being nice. The agent himself relieved to be human again. How will they reel us back in? Enough people have wizened up that "the powers that shouldn't be" (Corbett) will at least have to rack their brains to figure out the next war of terror on us. The Epstein affair has gone a long way to discrediting the entire ruling class, unless it's successfully reduced to a cynical shrug.
Thanks again for this brilliant little piece (yes, the fishing analogy is perfect).
Thanks so much for the comment, Ron. Where south did you go?
I think the most interesting observation, and other people have made it to, is that article seems “as though it was written today.” Although much of that time does seem to be in the distant past, the fundamental truths about it all are still with us, and in some way worse now than then. I fear complacency the most, which is of course part of the expectation.
Your question “how will they reel us back in?” Is a perplexing one. We ain’t seen nothin’ yet, and all those we THINK are awake, will fall back to sleep immediately…just wait and see. Another even more deadly pathogen that will actually kill millions, alien attacks, nuclear war (fake of course, or partially fake false flag) they have plenty of room to up the ante without any of it being “as it seems”…
Ross, I agree that the essay could have been written today. That tells us that we are still in the clutches of the craziness. We just think we are free-r. :)
According to a reliable source: the book "The View of the Shrew" (Vol 1), this was indeed your first article on Substack. It is curious however, that you talk about sheep in a way that presumes all your readers know what you are talking about. I seem to have a memory of you "sort of" defining the terms "shrew" and "sheep" in your first few articles. I can be wrong, of course.
Your analogy with the skilled fisherman is right on.
The term "sheep" was being used a lot back then! I think most people knew what it was implying..."shrew" however, was totally made up by my sister and I.
Yes, I DID write an article explaining the terms...
https://www.shrewviews.com/p/sheep-and-shrew?utm_source=publication-search
(weird how Substack removes the photos at the head of these old articles...)
Yes! Reading again that article, I see in my own comment that I already knew what a sheep was. You set the definition of shrew. According to the article the co-inventor of the term was your sister Charla (not Carla, right? It is not a typo). Tell her I already like her.
Yes, Charla. Charla is a super shrew, the only one in my family who is...THANK GOD FOR CHARLA