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Jan 5, 2022Liked by eugyppius

I like this blog not only because of its rational nature but because of the subscriber comments. You've managed to collect a group of followers who are true thinkers. Most comment sections these days are full of snark, vulgarity, and misspelled words. I enjoy the responses as much as the original blog. Thanks, Eugyppius, for facilitating important discussion that is useful, intelligent and reasoned. I usually don't even feel worthy to comment but greatly appreciate the information you deciminate. Keep up the good work.

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My own formative years during the Reagan 80's were spent reading and re-reading everything Ayn Rand wrote. Let's just it out loud: we are living Atlas Shrugged. As the end-game draws near, where 300 million people with no foundation in rational thought, let by sociopaths who are only skilled at manipulating, are unable to keep up with the demands of an industrialized society built by men & women with rock-solid belief systems who sacrificed for future generations. You'll see abominations like what has happened with the deadly experimental gene therapies down to 24 hour traffic jams on common freeways (it's snowed here in the US since the pilgrims landed). The worst is yet to come and will multiply with increasing velocity and violence. We have became a notion of lazy , spoiled idiots, managed by a purely evil idiocracy.

The failure of IDEAS is what has spawned this mess. Without the bedrock of reason and freedom driving us, anything is possible. Event 201 is a symptom, not the cause.

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I didn't comment last time because there were 200+ responses already, but today I might be able to get a word in:

These posts are excellent. They've helped me gather my own thoughts about what's going on and have strong explanatory power. Rival theories depend too heavily on unproven premises.

Don't worry about copping blowback. Call it as you see it. Some of the top rated comments irritate me because the whole article might have been written as a response to it. People read but don't take in. It's fine to disagree but at least address the specific points made.

We've all fallen into mass psychosis on both sides. Vaccines are either the saviour or a plot to murder us all. Leaders saved us, killed us by not being tyrannical enough, or plotted in their thousands to enslave us right from the start.

Everybody calm down. There are good points here and I'm 80% convinced Eugyppius is right. Accepting nuance is not a step backwards for 'our side', it is reason, a thing we used to value.

*ducks*

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Jan 5, 2022Liked by eugyppius

Great analysis. The only disagreement, and there has to be some disagreement :) is that the pandemic seems to be heavily monetized. Hospitals and nursing homes are getting mega bucks for a covid label, covid treatments and covid deaths. They have no interest in this ending. The media is supported by the drug industry, and certainly they have no interest in this ending.

There are all sorts of people getting attention that they normally would never get, what will they do when the spotlight isn't on them any longer?

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Jan 5, 2022Liked by eugyppius

Intriguing perspective on the matter. I would be very happy if your analysis, that this is now being driven by hysteria rather than being stage-managed by our ruling elites, is true as it makes the challenge seem less insurmountable.

That said, the Covid passports strike me as something being pushed purposefully and with a specific direction in mind.

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Jan 5, 2022Liked by eugyppius

" The tone is still tentative here and there, because the primary force driving lockdowns is the vast, distributed consensus of the middle bureaucratic managerial ranks. This is a dangerous force even for politicians and wealthy oligarchs to confront, and they’ve approached it carefully."

Here, in the US, we refer to this as the "deep state". The unelected, expanding, myopic administrative machine that by day earnestly populates the DMV, TSA, HHS, FBI, NSA, IRS, etc. By night, they are our neighbors. "Good Germans", all of them.

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Jan 5, 2022·edited Jan 5, 2022

As an identified auto-didact and lifelong iconoclast, I've spent the bulk of my sentient years as the proverbial canary in the coalmine. Sadly, life insists on remaining linear, so the largest lessons have had the unfortunate tendency of arriving in single file.

The most valuable of them by FAR was the moment where I lost "faith" in the medical industry in my mid-20's, followed immediately by the discovery that the best "medicine" was what you put in your mouth at "mealtime", as well as the manufactured fallacy of mealtime (and so many others).

What that grueling stretch taught me was critical, after having my immune system trashed by well-meaning, pill-pushing physicians with zero nutritional knowledge : each individual must experience (and survive) their own personal "radicalization" moment, before any awakening is possible.

Mine/ours (me and the wife) was edible. Followed by realizing -- and accepting, then acting on -- the simple, fundamental truth of personal responsibility for EVERYTHING in our lives. Reclaiming "quality control" in all things. It gave sayings like "physician heal thyself" and "do no harm" rich new meaning.

Invested years studying and (un)learning the well-funded tenets of formal "nutrition" and discovering a tawdry history of industrial and institutional meddling and marketing stretching back over a century. Already hip to similar historical arcs in other disciplines, the patterns were very familiar.

To top it all off, the wife and I are both familiar with vaccine injury, personally and peripherally. Our stance on the latest genocidal impulse emanating from the upper reaches of systemic power is rooted in these experiences. The malicious policies advancing on each and every one of us are beyond insulting when viewed in context. It's difficult NOT to interpret a genocidal impulse.

Her family actually hid two of their own from the "Einsatzgruppen" for nearly a decade. One unquestionably damaged by a polio vaccine at age six, the other most likely a developmental DDT casualty in the early "better living through chemistry" years.

Sadly, such powerful individual lessons are nothing in the apocalyptic battle for hearts and minds so long dominated by well-funded industrial propaganda and the mewling minions who worship at the triumvirate altars of "Science", "Capital" and "Progress".

Our radicalization moment was nearly three decades ago. Over that span, we've personally helped a few close friends -- those with functioning critical minds -- step off the Lazy Susan of industrial "health and nutrition". All are still thanking us to this day, some now more radical than ourselves.

Thirty years down the road and both sporting fully functional immune systems, it's clear to us that the Machine can no longer be sated consuming us one-by-one or in small handfuls. We're reaching truly ghastly levels of blood sacrifice. The blanket othering of critical thought is also tragically familiar, not to mention hugely ironic from our outpost on a rural German farm.

It's hard to cultivate hope when one possesses something akin to "prescience", based on forty years of reading ALL sides and honing one's mental blade.

It's hard to retain hope in the face of colleagues and family with FAR more formal education utterly beholden and incapable of recognizing the basest reality when pointed out, then unable to acknowledge accurate predictions made months/years earlier coming to pass again and again and again.

When hindsight is eliminated, all that remains is the future conflict you allude to above. Is it inevitable...? Unfortunately, if history any sort of guide, the answer appears to be yes.

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Jan 5, 2022Liked by eugyppius

Thank you for thinking through these issues with rigor and clarity. The conspiracy question has nagged at me endlessly. On the one hand, the covid hystericists reject any criticism of lcokdowns or vaccines or any of their other agendas with the snarky comment: “you sound like a conspiracy theorist!” On the other hand, no high leveling planning by global alites can ever explain why people I have known for decades have suddenly become seized by this mania and seem ready to accept horrible things I never would have believed. You manage to cut the chord nicely.

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I agree with you because I've worked for 17 years in a vast federal bureaucracy, which I liken to carousel that never stops spinning. Although many different people will hop on and off off it, and you can sometimes swap out the lions for tigers, no one is actually in charge and it can't be stopped. I also live in Vermont which is the perfect example, at a state level, of a state controlled by urban upper-class intellectuals. They have vaccinated 60% of the little kids here -- by far the most of any state. Whatever for? They seem to believe this virus is literally Ebola. They seem to be smart people, but why are they so impervious to new information? Why can't they learn and adapt? Why are they biased towards catastrophe? They believe in the vaccines, but they don't "trust" the vaccines. They believe that the vaccines stop transmission, but they also believe they "don't work 100%" and so still demand all the other NPIs and boosters as well. It's like they used all their so-called brain power and education to "pick" an ideology to follow and then after that point they put their brain back on the shelf.

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A good analysis. Anyone who tells you they're certain of something like this and that you must be too, in either direction, is either deluded or malicious. That goes for the drones declaring that “Covid doesn't discriminate” and “It definitely came out of a wet market” as much as it does for those telling you it's definitely a grand conspiracy stretching back decades. The most likely history is roughly as described above: a mess of petty conspiracies and plots within a vast ocean of hysteria and ignorance.

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Jan 5, 2022Liked by eugyppius

I look forward to eugyppius' tomes; unfortunately, most people, in fact, the vast majority will say "TL;DR". And that is unfortunate. But his most compelling point is the following: "...I think it’s essential to develop a counter-narrative that is politically neutral and accessible to ordinary people,.."

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George Carlin said "imagine how stupid the average person is then realize half of all people are stupider than that." These are the millions of people in our institutions and bureaucracies making the decisions that affect our lives the deepest. And if some of them are actually smarter than average, they are surrounded by stupid people or they serve stupid people.

Think about the people that work in schools or libraries. They make these decisions.

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"So yes, the inception of this involved a lot of planning. Now, however, the initiators are no longer in the driver’s seat. " In my opinion, the initiators are still providing the script, especially when it comes to the unvaccinated who are demonised by Macron, Trudeau, Morrison, Jacinta Ardern; right on cue, they make their chilling statements.

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Jan 5, 2022·edited Jan 5, 2022Liked by eugyppius

What many people fail to realize is that in many respects this is much much more dangerous than if it were a Bond-type villain scenario. There is no central commanding force that you can talk to, defeat, or even surrender to on suitable terms

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My daily consumption of information gets a bit blurry. Your writing generally helps to clarify. I appreciate your positive efforts and think your conspiracy thoughts are correct. Thank you!

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Jan 5, 2022·edited Jan 5, 2022Liked by eugyppius

I strongly agree with your main point. Even things that may have started as 'conspiracies' eventually develop a method of their own (emergent behavior). This can be a bit disturbing to those who favor the comic-book image of a diabolical evil genius or organization controlling all this. But it's gone long past that point. We are in the world of the mob and NO ONE has control. You can take away the favorite targets (Fauci, WEF, Bill Gates, George Soros etc) and that will no longer change things.

And ant colony is made up of ants with very simple programming, but the colony itself is remarkably successful and adaptable, really the colony should be considered an animal in its own right.

The beast has emerged, and it is us.

Added one more thought: I think this is WHY the government(s) are digging in their heels. To admit mistake at this point will result in unpredictable behavior and possible political or societal collapse.

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