Thanks! Did you read COVID is the Devil? That was one piece that I was thought was one of my best at the time, but I didn't have much of a readership back then...
Read it. Spot on throughout. Couldn't disagree with any of it. Thanks for the rec.
"So, as COVID winds down, keep this in your mind: Herd immunity will be achieved when the people have been herded. A new virus or other threat will emerge whenever the people get out of line." Yikes!
Glad you liked it! If you ever feel like a dark stroll down memory lane, I wrote another piece in the dark days of COVID called "Love Has Been Abolished", which you can find here: https://nevermore.media/2021/07/23/love-has-been-abolished/
Here's an excerpt: "The problem with the emergency is that it causes a narrowing of cognition. Only what is essential in here and now is worthy of consideration. The only thing that matters is the present moment.
This narrowing-down of human cognition is clearly a very effective way to prevent people from asking too many questions, and from thinking too much about the future and the past. But it is critically important that we do both.
We must start thinking about the past. Indeed, we must think about the past. What lessons does history have for us? We might do well to remember previous times in history when governments suddenly forbade people from hanging out with each other, for instance. Or other times in history when governments have printed massive amounts of money. It is possible to make certain predictions by looking for patterns in the lessons of history. Given the madness of our day and age also would do well to consider the wisdom of the past. What advice do the great thinkers of the past have for us as to how to navigate this era of spiritual confusion?
It is even more important to think about the future. What future are we envisioning for ourselves and for future generations? How are we going to achieve our goal of creating autonomous, self-sufficient communities that are independent of the state? Where exactly are we going? Where do we want to end up?
We have just lived through an extremely long emergency. We are coming out of shock. But we’ve got this. Our ancestors lived through the horrors of many wars, and we are still here. When it comes to survival, we are a planet of champions. And if we realize that it’s time to start using our minds, we will quickly wake up to the fact that the hour is late, and the omens are dire.
Once we shake ourselves out of the haze of denial, we will realize that we are in a battle for the soul of humanity, a battle of life and death, and we will suddenly become able to access psychic resources that we previously didn’t know that we had. You can never how fast you can run until a predator is chasing you. You never know how strong you are until you need to fight for your life. And you never know how cunning you can be until everything depends on it.
So, now, all you who understand what the fuck is going on, you need to recognize that the survival of everything that you love and value is at stake. Right now, the masses are sleepwalking towards a cliff, and if we do not wake them up, they will fall to their deaths. Currently, however, they are not conscious of their condition, and indeed will not welcome efforts to make them aware of their own condition of psychic slavery, much in the same way that someone who is drug-addicted or mentally ill will refuse to admit that they have a problem. They may refuse to listen to reason and may get defensive when you point out that what they believe doesn’t make logical sense. So far as I can tell, the only hope is to remind them of their humanity in some way. One way to do that through acts of kindness and compassion, through showing people that you care about them. Another way that comes to mind is through art.
And so, I issue a call to you who will read these words and understand their truth, and what is at stake: put out your antennae to the universe. Receive your inspiration. Channel your creativity. This can be done directly, through political language, or indirectly, through means which speak more directly to the spirit. Straight prose might disappear in a totalitarian society, but poetry can still sneak through. Anything that celebrates life or beauty or freedom or human connection is inherently subversive. Anything that activates the feeling one experiences in the appreciation of beauty serves to remind people of their humanity. Speak to the spirits of the bewildered herd. Call them back to themselves.
The time is now. The time has come to answer the call of the ages. If you’ve been holding back, waiting for something within you to activate your latent heroism, wait no longer, but resolve immediately to do what you know you need to do. The task is to be a voice of reason in the midst of this mass psychosis.. The task is to awaken the masses from the trance they are in, dispel the fear that is governing them, and remind them of what gives their lives meaning.
The task is also to weave everything that is going on into a story that gives them something to believe in. People are, for the most part, good. Believe me when I say this; I’ve seen dark sides of humanity, and I can tell you: People are basically good. They may be selfish, or apathetic, when they haven’t been given the love that they need to flourish, but I repeat: Most people are essentially good. They have to be tricked, goaded, and manipulated into doing evil. The unfortunate thing is that there are always the few who are obsessed with power, and, for millennia, those few have been developing techniques to trick people into doing evil. It is true that all humans have the capacity to do evil within them, and still I insist: People are basically good. When they realize that their survival depends upon it, you will see people come together in beautiful ways. When the occasion demands, people will commit heroic acts in defence of their loved ones, their community or even on behalf of an ideal they believe in.
For you see, human beings are forever in search of meaning and will not be at peace until they understand themselves within a story that gives their existence meaning. If the story that people believe in requires heroism of them, they will become heroes, for what one believes will surely manifest not only in one’s perceptions, but also in one’s actions. We are all living out our beliefs, day after day. If we are not the ones who are the authors of own life-stories, it means that we are living inside someone else’s stories.
The task of the revolutionary in this age of universal deceit is to awaken the heroism that dwells within us all. How, you ask? Through cognitive reframing, that is, recasting the stories that we tell ourselves and one another about what is happening on planet Earth currently. Why? Because human beings create meaning through story-telling. To know your place within the world, you must have some sense of who you are, where you come from, and where you are going. Without that, you are adrift in the world, a plastic bag tossed this way and that by the whims of the wind."
Reading stuff from this era now, I'm actually happy that things have actually returned to normal in a lot of ways. Maybe I was being over-dramatic...
Then I remember it's WWIII now and that the worst of the Great Reset may still be yet to come...
»A spaced congregation of the masked elderly waited, listening to organ music in Salisbury Cathedral, for their vaccination, in a rite of biomedical transubstantiation.« –
This sentence sent a cold shiver down my spine when I read it. I remember having a similar feeling as a child when I was involuntarily "allowed" to attend a communion service as a spectator in a church. I think that was the reason why I left the church for good at the age of 14. Thanks for the great article! I'm going to get Laura's book straight away, but I'm also looking forward to the continuation of your "series".
Israel-Palestine has been the issue where many of our allies on the pandemic and woke politics went to cancel culture and screaming just like the Woke leftists.
Ah well, such is life. We all enviably have a bad take on an issue or two (including me).
Someone should tell my local school board the taboo has fallen. They refuse to answer whether they keep gender ID a secret from parents like Michigan Department of Education teacher training materials recommended. Even when I gave them lots of citations to show my worries over the reasonably predicted harms. I live in a town where teenage girls with bodies damaged by testosterone work at the local Frosty boy & McDonalds. Where a local teacher was awarded being one of the best parasitic flatworms in the LGB snail. Those “we believe” signs pepper my neighbors’ lawns. My future homeschooling folder grows, and the silliest argument I had with hubs in 2023 was over whether I would make use of the gifted rainbow & unicorn themed onesies for the baby. (Heck nope).
If that is an option for what to do with ALL the medical/pharma gang and the scoundrels/fraudsters/terrorists in office and in universities for what they did during the ongoing OPERATION COVIDIUS I do support it!
"Nevermore has had a major focus on deconstructing propaganda since we started this project."
And how is that working out?
"in the dark days of the first COVID winter. As I scoured the net for people who were trying to make sense of the world’s sudden descent into collective insanity," if only you had met me back then!
"uman-to-uman transmission is always a positive thing... It might give umanity a chance to actually change!" from Jan 29, 2020! Those were the fun first days of the deployment of OPERATION COVIDIUS!
Excellent article. I didn't remember all of your previous article, "Covid is the Devil." The quotes are also excellent. Thanks for sharing it again!
Thanks! As far as I'm aware, I'm the only one comparing virology to demonology, but if you think about it, the two are remarkably similar!
Could it be that virology is simply demonology rebranded?
Yeah, the parallels are striking! And you've shown it in a way that would be hard to deny.
Pretty much what I had in mind. The article was darn fine, but the covid/devil analogy was even better.
That's some amazing writing!
Thanks! Did you read COVID is the Devil? That was one piece that I was thought was one of my best at the time, but I didn't have much of a readership back then...
No I didn't. The quote was so good I didn't want to risk watering it down.
I will read it.
Read it. Spot on throughout. Couldn't disagree with any of it. Thanks for the rec.
"So, as COVID winds down, keep this in your mind: Herd immunity will be achieved when the people have been herded. A new virus or other threat will emerge whenever the people get out of line." Yikes!
Glad you liked it! If you ever feel like a dark stroll down memory lane, I wrote another piece in the dark days of COVID called "Love Has Been Abolished", which you can find here: https://nevermore.media/2021/07/23/love-has-been-abolished/
Here's an excerpt: "The problem with the emergency is that it causes a narrowing of cognition. Only what is essential in here and now is worthy of consideration. The only thing that matters is the present moment.
This narrowing-down of human cognition is clearly a very effective way to prevent people from asking too many questions, and from thinking too much about the future and the past. But it is critically important that we do both.
We must start thinking about the past. Indeed, we must think about the past. What lessons does history have for us? We might do well to remember previous times in history when governments suddenly forbade people from hanging out with each other, for instance. Or other times in history when governments have printed massive amounts of money. It is possible to make certain predictions by looking for patterns in the lessons of history. Given the madness of our day and age also would do well to consider the wisdom of the past. What advice do the great thinkers of the past have for us as to how to navigate this era of spiritual confusion?
It is even more important to think about the future. What future are we envisioning for ourselves and for future generations? How are we going to achieve our goal of creating autonomous, self-sufficient communities that are independent of the state? Where exactly are we going? Where do we want to end up?
We have just lived through an extremely long emergency. We are coming out of shock. But we’ve got this. Our ancestors lived through the horrors of many wars, and we are still here. When it comes to survival, we are a planet of champions. And if we realize that it’s time to start using our minds, we will quickly wake up to the fact that the hour is late, and the omens are dire.
Once we shake ourselves out of the haze of denial, we will realize that we are in a battle for the soul of humanity, a battle of life and death, and we will suddenly become able to access psychic resources that we previously didn’t know that we had. You can never how fast you can run until a predator is chasing you. You never know how strong you are until you need to fight for your life. And you never know how cunning you can be until everything depends on it.
So, now, all you who understand what the fuck is going on, you need to recognize that the survival of everything that you love and value is at stake. Right now, the masses are sleepwalking towards a cliff, and if we do not wake them up, they will fall to their deaths. Currently, however, they are not conscious of their condition, and indeed will not welcome efforts to make them aware of their own condition of psychic slavery, much in the same way that someone who is drug-addicted or mentally ill will refuse to admit that they have a problem. They may refuse to listen to reason and may get defensive when you point out that what they believe doesn’t make logical sense. So far as I can tell, the only hope is to remind them of their humanity in some way. One way to do that through acts of kindness and compassion, through showing people that you care about them. Another way that comes to mind is through art.
And so, I issue a call to you who will read these words and understand their truth, and what is at stake: put out your antennae to the universe. Receive your inspiration. Channel your creativity. This can be done directly, through political language, or indirectly, through means which speak more directly to the spirit. Straight prose might disappear in a totalitarian society, but poetry can still sneak through. Anything that celebrates life or beauty or freedom or human connection is inherently subversive. Anything that activates the feeling one experiences in the appreciation of beauty serves to remind people of their humanity. Speak to the spirits of the bewildered herd. Call them back to themselves.
The time is now. The time has come to answer the call of the ages. If you’ve been holding back, waiting for something within you to activate your latent heroism, wait no longer, but resolve immediately to do what you know you need to do. The task is to be a voice of reason in the midst of this mass psychosis.. The task is to awaken the masses from the trance they are in, dispel the fear that is governing them, and remind them of what gives their lives meaning.
The task is also to weave everything that is going on into a story that gives them something to believe in. People are, for the most part, good. Believe me when I say this; I’ve seen dark sides of humanity, and I can tell you: People are basically good. They may be selfish, or apathetic, when they haven’t been given the love that they need to flourish, but I repeat: Most people are essentially good. They have to be tricked, goaded, and manipulated into doing evil. The unfortunate thing is that there are always the few who are obsessed with power, and, for millennia, those few have been developing techniques to trick people into doing evil. It is true that all humans have the capacity to do evil within them, and still I insist: People are basically good. When they realize that their survival depends upon it, you will see people come together in beautiful ways. When the occasion demands, people will commit heroic acts in defence of their loved ones, their community or even on behalf of an ideal they believe in.
For you see, human beings are forever in search of meaning and will not be at peace until they understand themselves within a story that gives their existence meaning. If the story that people believe in requires heroism of them, they will become heroes, for what one believes will surely manifest not only in one’s perceptions, but also in one’s actions. We are all living out our beliefs, day after day. If we are not the ones who are the authors of own life-stories, it means that we are living inside someone else’s stories.
The task of the revolutionary in this age of universal deceit is to awaken the heroism that dwells within us all. How, you ask? Through cognitive reframing, that is, recasting the stories that we tell ourselves and one another about what is happening on planet Earth currently. Why? Because human beings create meaning through story-telling. To know your place within the world, you must have some sense of who you are, where you come from, and where you are going. Without that, you are adrift in the world, a plastic bag tossed this way and that by the whims of the wind."
Reading stuff from this era now, I'm actually happy that things have actually returned to normal in a lot of ways. Maybe I was being over-dramatic...
Then I remember it's WWIII now and that the worst of the Great Reset may still be yet to come...
»A spaced congregation of the masked elderly waited, listening to organ music in Salisbury Cathedral, for their vaccination, in a rite of biomedical transubstantiation.« –
This sentence sent a cold shiver down my spine when I read it. I remember having a similar feeling as a child when I was involuntarily "allowed" to attend a communion service as a spectator in a church. I think that was the reason why I left the church for good at the age of 14. Thanks for the great article! I'm going to get Laura's book straight away, but I'm also looking forward to the continuation of your "series".
She was until she, alongside others, launched the 'October declaration'. Have no heroes, they'll inevitably let you down https://dailysceptic.org/2023/10/23/sign-the-october-declaration-to-show-your-solidarity-with-british-jews/
Israel-Palestine has been the issue where many of our allies on the pandemic and woke politics went to cancel culture and screaming just like the Woke leftists.
Ah well, such is life. We all enviably have a bad take on an issue or two (including me).
Inevitably I presume (?)
Someone should tell my local school board the taboo has fallen. They refuse to answer whether they keep gender ID a secret from parents like Michigan Department of Education teacher training materials recommended. Even when I gave them lots of citations to show my worries over the reasonably predicted harms. I live in a town where teenage girls with bodies damaged by testosterone work at the local Frosty boy & McDonalds. Where a local teacher was awarded being one of the best parasitic flatworms in the LGB snail. Those “we believe” signs pepper my neighbors’ lawns. My future homeschooling folder grows, and the silliest argument I had with hubs in 2023 was over whether I would make use of the gifted rainbow & unicorn themed onesies for the baby. (Heck nope).
Well, technically, the fact that you're willing to to confront them over their policies kind of does show that the taboo has fallen.
May I ask where you're located?
Rural-ish Michigan
https://open.substack.com/pub/iweothers/p/do-tattoo-to-h?r=1eqrx1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
If that is an option for what to do with ALL the medical/pharma gang and the scoundrels/fraudsters/terrorists in office and in universities for what they did during the ongoing OPERATION COVIDIUS I do support it!
"Nevermore has had a major focus on deconstructing propaganda since we started this project."
And how is that working out?
"in the dark days of the first COVID winter. As I scoured the net for people who were trying to make sense of the world’s sudden descent into collective insanity," if only you had met me back then!
"uman-to-uman transmission is always a positive thing... It might give umanity a chance to actually change!" from Jan 29, 2020! Those were the fun first days of the deployment of OPERATION COVIDIUS!
"As with all religions, your priests demand obedience and piety." Oh yeah https://postimg.cc/nX57cN70