There has always been a hunger for new discoveries and revelations of the truth, but often, in the past, it took great effort to get past the “agenda”—there has always been an agenda. Think of the Daniel Ellsberg exposure of The Pentagon Papers as well as many pieces coming out of Viet Nam during the ‘60s by a group of idealist journalists covering the war there. None of these were popular publications with the editors (or the powers that be), and had their difficulty getting published, but they were not altogether censored.
Aug 24, 2022·edited Aug 24, 2022Liked by Todd Hayen, PhD, RP
One thing I have learned in the past few years is to pay special attention to those who are banned from Twitter, Facebook etc. I especially paid attention to Biden’s “dirty dozen - 12 most dangerous people in America. Possibly the intense censorship is backfiring??
Thanks for mentioning Julian Assange and Edward Snowdon. I so hope Julian lives to see the light of day. What heroes they are..
"domestic terrorism needs to be addressed [by DHS] the same way we've addressed the foreign terrorist challenge." All they need to do is connect "conspiracy theory" with "domestic terrorism" and we risk getting rendered to camps.
The main point that I took away from your piece is: "...sheep believe are trusted sources."
It's all about *Legitimacy*.
These past two years have been a crash course on logical fallacies. The one fallacy that's become the most relevant is Appeal to Authority. This is a tricky one. I remember, before Covid when my brother-in-law was the "crazy conspiracy theorist" (which is really saying something, since I'd been a 9/11 activist for almost a decade by then)...he would say things like, "well, you can't trust your doctor, just because he's a doctor...you can't trust a peer-reviewed paper just because it's peer-reviewed. I called BS on this statement and told him to come to *me* instead of a doctor if he got appendicitis. Boy was I wrong! The truth is we *can't* trust doctors just because they are doctors. We still need to do our homework, which is crazy because who has the time to learn about immunology?! Even *doctors* don't have time to learn about immunology and apparently only get about 2 hours-worth during all their years of training.
So, how do we negotiate this modern-world terrain, where we have to know enough to decide where we get our information? Because this is the question that might shed light on people and "facts" that the "sheep believe are trusted sources," and it's the only justification for the elite to burn books. The only way the establishment can burn books is if they call them dangerous (every despot's line), and *dangerous because they are *illegitimate*. This is why we don't hear CNN talking about ADE or antigenic sin or any number of actually dangerous concerns of the vaccine, because it would add *legitimacy* to the debate.
The one that struck me as quite revealing was the last about how CNN doesn't talk about ADE et. I have always pondered on the fact that whenever a sheep herder had the spotlight to beef up their vaccine, or the science behind mask wearing or whatever they NEVER delve into the science...the shrew side always does, and yeah, it takes some work looking up words and medical concepts, but these people really do back their comments with real science...the sheep side do not...consistently...good point.
I also liked the comments about "a doctor is good because they are a doctor"...when my first wife was sick with cancer (which eventually killed her) I was VERY active in her treatment, and I was astonished by what little so many of her doctors actually knew. She had one Harvard grad (actually the head of radiology at Harvard at some point) who diagnosed a certain condition she was experiencing wrong...I had done INTERNET research, the bane of all doctors, and "diagnosed" her differently...radically differently...I had to gently persuade him to change his mind (it was a delicate dance to coerce him into believing it was his own change in diagnosis). If I hadn't, she would have died within hours...this scared the bejeezus out of me...what the hell.
Wow! What a horrible experience. I'm so sorry for you. I wonder if that was your red pill moment. How did we fall into this ridiculous *credentialism*? I'm in the music world, and we know that the guy who sleeps and plays on the streetcorner in New Orleans is a better sax player than most doctoral candidates in music. Mark Twain was criticized and made fun of by Harvard for most of his life, until he became too famous. Then they wanted to offer him an honorary degree, which he declined. Anyway, thanks for sharing that.
Well, the point of credentials is a sort of passive vetting. For the most part it sort of works. But there are good mechanics, and then there are bad ones…there are good doctors with the same credentials, and then there are bad ones. It is tough. Actually that probably was my official red pill moment…although the first thing I remember I saw as funky was the JFK assassination.
Hey…music, eh? My first career was music…wrote music for film and television (and orchestrated and conducted) in Hollywood for 30 years…my aforementioned wife’s death changed the direction of my life…long story…
Hah! That's wild! I'm in musical theatre, pit musician, piano/conductor. Of course, I picked the one career path that is holding onto the proof-of-vax bs. I also wrote the intro song to Andy Steele's "9/11 Free Fall" which he ran for ten years...basically a techno track. That's so small compared to your work in Hollywood but I was soooo proud of it lol. I just noticed he switched to someone else's intro this past March...time to give him a call and see what's up.
Wow...so strange. I grew up around musical theatre, my step dad started and headed the musical theatre department at Shenandoah University...a quite successful program, after doing his stint in NYC. I at one time was headed to B'way but never was a good enough pianist...always had in my dream book to write a musical! So cool about your songwriting! Yeah, that is a very typical Hollywood thing to suddenly have your work pulled...sucks...
We need to give people opportunities for new affiliations. People do not usually go from one allegiance to nothing. Soviet citizens were offered liberalism and they took it. That offer has not worked in the Muslim world because they correctly see how decadent liberalism has become. Communist China gives its people just enough freedom to keep them from rebelling. North Korea uses the iron fist. Our governments use propaganda and need to belong. Thus, we would change hearts and minds by offering different propaganda and different affiliations.
75% of people are not critical thinkers nor do they have the capacity for abstract thinking (I may have guessed at this percentage but seem to remember something like this from graduate school). Most will move to the next powerful opinion when the current opinion is no longer perceived as cool.
One thing I have learned in the past few years is to pay special attention to those who are banned from Twitter, Facebook etc. I especially paid attention to Biden’s “dirty dozen - 12 most dangerous people in America. Possibly the intense censorship is backfiring??
Thanks for mentioning Julian Assange and Edward Snowdon. I so hope Julian lives to see the light of day. What heroes they are..
Barbara I know you've read this article before on Off Guardian.
I love that you pay attention to the very people the agenda tells you to avoid...that's great...who are the "most dangerous people in America"?
Joseph Mercola and Steve Kirsh are two I can recall .. both sharing the truth about the horrors around us since 2019..
Great article and links. That Unesco link is super creepy. Here's another one:
https://youtu.be/BTOW8iWoR2E?t=840
"domestic terrorism needs to be addressed [by DHS] the same way we've addressed the foreign terrorist challenge." All they need to do is connect "conspiracy theory" with "domestic terrorism" and we risk getting rendered to camps.
The main point that I took away from your piece is: "...sheep believe are trusted sources."
It's all about *Legitimacy*.
These past two years have been a crash course on logical fallacies. The one fallacy that's become the most relevant is Appeal to Authority. This is a tricky one. I remember, before Covid when my brother-in-law was the "crazy conspiracy theorist" (which is really saying something, since I'd been a 9/11 activist for almost a decade by then)...he would say things like, "well, you can't trust your doctor, just because he's a doctor...you can't trust a peer-reviewed paper just because it's peer-reviewed. I called BS on this statement and told him to come to *me* instead of a doctor if he got appendicitis. Boy was I wrong! The truth is we *can't* trust doctors just because they are doctors. We still need to do our homework, which is crazy because who has the time to learn about immunology?! Even *doctors* don't have time to learn about immunology and apparently only get about 2 hours-worth during all their years of training.
So, how do we negotiate this modern-world terrain, where we have to know enough to decide where we get our information? Because this is the question that might shed light on people and "facts" that the "sheep believe are trusted sources," and it's the only justification for the elite to burn books. The only way the establishment can burn books is if they call them dangerous (every despot's line), and *dangerous because they are *illegitimate*. This is why we don't hear CNN talking about ADE or antigenic sin or any number of actually dangerous concerns of the vaccine, because it would add *legitimacy* to the debate.
These are all incredibly good points...
The one that struck me as quite revealing was the last about how CNN doesn't talk about ADE et. I have always pondered on the fact that whenever a sheep herder had the spotlight to beef up their vaccine, or the science behind mask wearing or whatever they NEVER delve into the science...the shrew side always does, and yeah, it takes some work looking up words and medical concepts, but these people really do back their comments with real science...the sheep side do not...consistently...good point.
I also liked the comments about "a doctor is good because they are a doctor"...when my first wife was sick with cancer (which eventually killed her) I was VERY active in her treatment, and I was astonished by what little so many of her doctors actually knew. She had one Harvard grad (actually the head of radiology at Harvard at some point) who diagnosed a certain condition she was experiencing wrong...I had done INTERNET research, the bane of all doctors, and "diagnosed" her differently...radically differently...I had to gently persuade him to change his mind (it was a delicate dance to coerce him into believing it was his own change in diagnosis). If I hadn't, she would have died within hours...this scared the bejeezus out of me...what the hell.
Wow! What a horrible experience. I'm so sorry for you. I wonder if that was your red pill moment. How did we fall into this ridiculous *credentialism*? I'm in the music world, and we know that the guy who sleeps and plays on the streetcorner in New Orleans is a better sax player than most doctoral candidates in music. Mark Twain was criticized and made fun of by Harvard for most of his life, until he became too famous. Then they wanted to offer him an honorary degree, which he declined. Anyway, thanks for sharing that.
Well, the point of credentials is a sort of passive vetting. For the most part it sort of works. But there are good mechanics, and then there are bad ones…there are good doctors with the same credentials, and then there are bad ones. It is tough. Actually that probably was my official red pill moment…although the first thing I remember I saw as funky was the JFK assassination.
Hey…music, eh? My first career was music…wrote music for film and television (and orchestrated and conducted) in Hollywood for 30 years…my aforementioned wife’s death changed the direction of my life…long story…
What part of music are you in?
Hah! That's wild! I'm in musical theatre, pit musician, piano/conductor. Of course, I picked the one career path that is holding onto the proof-of-vax bs. I also wrote the intro song to Andy Steele's "9/11 Free Fall" which he ran for ten years...basically a techno track. That's so small compared to your work in Hollywood but I was soooo proud of it lol. I just noticed he switched to someone else's intro this past March...time to give him a call and see what's up.
Wow...so strange. I grew up around musical theatre, my step dad started and headed the musical theatre department at Shenandoah University...a quite successful program, after doing his stint in NYC. I at one time was headed to B'way but never was a good enough pianist...always had in my dream book to write a musical! So cool about your songwriting! Yeah, that is a very typical Hollywood thing to suddenly have your work pulled...sucks...
Hey let's write a musical! *Springtime for Fauci*
We need to give people opportunities for new affiliations. People do not usually go from one allegiance to nothing. Soviet citizens were offered liberalism and they took it. That offer has not worked in the Muslim world because they correctly see how decadent liberalism has become. Communist China gives its people just enough freedom to keep them from rebelling. North Korea uses the iron fist. Our governments use propaganda and need to belong. Thus, we would change hearts and minds by offering different propaganda and different affiliations.
75% of people are not critical thinkers nor do they have the capacity for abstract thinking (I may have guessed at this percentage but seem to remember something like this from graduate school). Most will move to the next powerful opinion when the current opinion is no longer perceived as cool.
Wow...I never thought of any of this...superb points...