The More I Learn The Less I Trust
It's so much worse than we realized.
The greatest trick the devil ever played was convincing you he didn’t exist. Whether you think that turn of phrase originated with Charles Baudelaire (1864 in “Le Figaro”), Pastor William Ramsey (Spiritualism, a Satanic Delusion .. 1856), John Wilkinson (“Quakerism Examined” 1836), Verbal (TheUsual Supsects 1995), or a handful of other references, the meaning is the same. Evil does its best work once you convince people it doesn’t exist.
Relativism and cultural Marxism (and the identity politics neo-Marsxists) were friends of the Devil long before they vacationed on Epstein Island. Advocates. There is no good or evil, they say, and your attempt to claim otherwise is a projection of your wrong thinking on others and or colonialist cultural oppression, which has evolved into a blanket, broad expression of white supremacy.
Reading, math, and English are now acts of persecution or repression and tell me that’s not evil.
Sadly, most of the people making that argument or convincing others to spread it like a virus are powerful. They are connected, wealthy, and have little to fear from the cultural consequences of their preaching. The way open-border elites can look down their noses at those who bear the burden of their policies: middle and lower-income Americans, labeled as ignorant, bigoted, and xenophobic.
Narcissists. Assholes, colloquially - Devils trying to convince you the evil you see around you does not exist while claiming that evil is you. That they were our better angels.
The Pandemic era took that arrogance out a whole new door. It exposed the two-class mentality while exposing vast populations to its hypocrisy. They closed your business, took away your job, locked you down, forced you to embrace non-pharmaceutical interventions, and tried to coerce you into a pharmaceutical one. If you didn’t, they’d take everything from you. No work. No social life. You might not even be able to get medical attention.
It wasn't pleasant. Families and friends were destroyed in service to a long list of lies (they got caught in): Pelosi’s Hairdresser or Newsom dining habits. The evidence was abundant. That experience did, however, open millions of sets of eyes. People who would not have otherwise cared preferring to go about their lives realized that this was not to be allowed. That the pedestrian existence was not theirs to fashion but another thing their betters permitted, defined, and controlled, and it rightly pissed them off.
This has led to a renaissance. The mass formation psychosis evolved into something of an awakening, a reformation, and a responsible and legitimate distrust of institutions and those who defend them, especially as reality broke free. Why were rioters allowed to congregate without masks to start fires, loot, and assault people, but we couldn’t go to church, work, or school?
Distancing was made up - they inevitably had to admit - (based on a school paper by a 14-year-old, which they did not report). The vaccine did not prevent infection or spread. Masks don’t stop viruses, which was what all the research said before COVID-19. And yeah, maybe there were some side effects, which so many people have seen they can’t unsee.
The 2024 elections and the populist rise across the globe are evidence of the trend. People are looking at, listening to, and learning what THEY have been doing in our name and to us as a result of our systemic indifference—an apathy they have leveraged against us and now fight to defend by censoring people who dare to tell the truth.
The Devil's lies continue to emerge. The childhood vaccine schedule, for example, has ballooned, not because children need them but to enrich pharmaceutical companies that make them and then donate to politicians who enable all of it.
The regulators are in bed with the devil.
Russell Brand’s recent conversation with Aaron Siri is a good example of this. Siri shares the mind-boggling lack of interest in science or safety related to childhood vaccines in America (all vaccines these days). And the indifference of regulators who rubber-stamp what Big Pharma sends them. This practice, we hope, will end with Trump's return to the White House and his populist warrior nominees.
We saw this writ large during COVID, but that, it turns out, was merely more of what they’d been doing for decades, and now we can’t unsee it, and the evidence is sitting on the Government’s own websites.
I’ve been increasingly distrustful of the government since before I started blogging 16 years ago, but the more I do it, the less I trust them or any of the institutions we’re supposed to trust. I can’t do it anymore.
In this clip, Aaron Siri shows us the governments own evidence of the malfeasance and misfeasence that have overtaken the regulators.
One of the things that happened to me during COVID is that I started making a hard distinction between facts and data.
A fact is something I can verify: If I drop an item, it will fall to the ground. If I throw a switch creating an electric current, it will deflect a magnet. Stuff like that.
Data is something that is reported to me, that I have no way to verify. The number of people who died of X last year is Y. The number of transgender soldiers in the U.S. military is Z. Stuff like that.
I now no longer trust data at all, no matter who it comes from.
This breaks my heart a little, because the fact that government was able to enlist so many scientists as propagandists has destroyed my faith in science -- or more precisely, my faith in so-called scientists. (I still believe in the scientific method.)
But it's also a little bit liberating, because it means that I no longer have to take cost-benefit arguments seriously. They always come with numbers attached, and in the post-COVID world, an argument that depends on numbers can be dismissed. ('If the numbers were reversed, would you change your mind? No? Then STFU.')
Which means we can focus on moral arguments: Not what would be 'better' (for some group of people, at the expense of another group of people), but what follows from the moral premises we choose (e.g., that people have an absolute right to self-defense, have an absolute right to free speech, have an absolute right to be presumed innocent), even if they sometimes lead to results that we don't like.