Yes: totalitarianism begins in censorship/propaganda. It emphatically does not originate in the mechanistic thinking of the population, and I'll leave it to the reader to unravel which well-promoted psychiatrist tried to sell us on that proposition.
At bottom, censorship is able to thrive because science is broken. Lies have instead arisen in its place and people who question those lies are called 'anti-science,' 'anti-vax,' and/or 'conspiracy theorists.' These phrases serve to inhibit thought and questioning.
We must move beyond analysis of the problem and pray that court cases against censorship gain traction and teeth, while at the same time realizing that the controllers/conspirators may simply ignore everything anyhow and do whatever they want. We must enact laws that outright restrict the surveillance and medical coercion that might be used against us. The justification for the free refusal of medical mandates is simply that 'the science' is broken-- the corruption of the CDC and FDA and most of the medical journals has been well-documented since even before Covid-- and therefore no medical 'science' or 'data' should ever serve as justification for government policy. That means: no lockdowns, no vaccine mandates, no mask mandates. Nothing but a complete reversal of Jacobson v Massachusetts (which allowed medical coercion) based on ample evidence that those pushing the science and the data have in fact been pushing misinformation, thus the strictures of the authorities cannot be trusted. Yet the authorities want to attack those who call out the misinformation and turn the tables on them! This is Orwellian.
Chaos? Perhaps. Or perhaps people will be free to take whatever measures they judge appropriate.
Science is broken: numerous medical authors have given ample evidence of this. Climate science is now complete pseudoscience. Yet 'science' and 'data' are being used to whip us and frighten us.
We must push back in concrete ways and disarm those who would weaponize the idea of 'science' against we, the people, and use it to bludgeon us. At its heart in the legal landscape, this means a repudiation of the Jacobson decision. With regard to climate science, this means a repudiation of the IPCC based on ample evidence that its predictions of climate catastrophe have largely been based on (deliberately) confusing causation or else outright deception.
Truth is not at all like a lion. Truth is instead like a lamb that must be fiercely guarded and protected against all assaults, lest government of the people, by the people, and for the people should perish from the earth.
Excellent article. Totalitarianism (the total government control of thought and speech) is on the march all over the west. It's a disaster. It is still possible to find the truth, but only by wading through an ocean of mis/disinformation and that takes great tenacity and will that only few have. I fear for the future of my children and grandchildren.
Imagine my joy at finding this powerful piece appearing on RCP. May it lead to well deserved attention and exposure, and keep you writing for the decades it will take us to come to our collective senses.
Thank you - before reading your article I would not have a clear answer to this question: "WHY is free speech so important?" The light bulb just came on - it's to learn the truth about complex issues. Now I can articulate that free speech and truth are directly proportional. Thank you again!!
I can't get my brother to listen to any single scientist because google, wikipedia, NY Times, CNN, MSNBC now describe them as essentially right wing lunatics, conspiracy theorists, and well the Lancet too dismisses and diminishes. So, he won't even listen to questioning points of view.
'How many people know that one of the first critics of our maximalist approach to COVID was one of the most well-respected, frequently-cited scientists in the world, Stanford’s John Ionnidis?'
Having been a John Ioannidis admirer for many years, the shocking demonization of his first Covid opinion piece in spring 2020 was the start of my journey down the skeptical road.
'These risks were simply not communicated, except at the time of injection in the form of a long list of contra-indicated conditions.' I don't remember getting any list or seeing any access to a list when I got the original Moderna shots.
There's a reason that totalitarian governance has the largest body count throughout all of history of all forms of government. It's inarguable the unprecedented pandemic response for any western democratic governing system ever ventured into some level of authoritarianism to totalitarianism, censorship a key component. Inarguable. Only the degree down that spectrum is contested. And the deaths under the government-imposed mitigation protocols are consistent with this presentation of Death by Government regime types compiled by researchers in 1994. The further government goes towards totalitarianism, the higher the deaths by government. Democide. Predictable. And predicted. Democide.
Governments around the world coordinated a democide of their people. Democratic governments embraced totalitarianism, especially the censorship and propaganda campaigns that are hallmarks of totalitarianism. And now have the body count to show for it. That's growing.
Tremendous piece! Read it initially in Brownstone and then saw where you resided. The Newton I grew up in would never have been so subservient as the population now exhibits. Integrity, human rights, civil rights, open debate on important issues were all valued at one time. I believe I am still a liberal but everything seems to have flipped. The liberal values I adhered to and the great role models who fought for them are now...I don't even know if there is a word for it.
Just read this article on Brownstone, what a fantastic summary of the pervasive information censorship.
The line from you article "The polarization that has so demoralized us was a feature, not a bug, of the policies implemented by our politicians and bureaucrats." really sums up the propaganda.
Here in Victoria under the Dan Andrews regime this polarisation went between subtle and blatant but was always there.
We had a module on the 1918 pandemic at the Summit University "Buddha Class" in 1976. We also had, arranged by a General in our class, a private, whole class, tour of Cheyenne Mountain NORAD. (note "summit/cut" et al. has now, in part, been taken / subsumed by "the evil".)
The plan of "the evil", for a genetically engineered total control, dystopian future, taking of Earth for "their" only benefit, is yet well articulated within "The Teachings". "The Teachings" not yet made fully public as they were to be, as commanded from "above".
I had previously purchased a stock of 3M 8210+ N95 "masks", so that, at the start of this pandemic I was able to give Real masks to family, friends and neighbors. I quickly learned of homemade antiviral oral / nasal sprays - ie.12% Xylitol in plain filtered sterile water sprayed to saturation and nose blowing then a few .5% povidone-iodine solution 10% in homemade sterile "NeilMed" formula normal saline for before Real masking use. Before entry into "shared air" wearing of eye glasses, best with some side shielding, and use of home mixed antiviral .05% azelastine eye drops and / or .1% PVI in sterile saline sprays for eye protection. And the after masking / shared air encounter use of homemade antiviral 1% regular Johnson's baby shampoo in sterile homemade NeilMed formula "normal" saline for antiviral nasal flushing with NeilMed 8 oz. nasal flush bottle, mouth wash/gargle use and eye wash use from palm of well washed hand or eye cup (lots of blinking). Not hard to do once a routine has been established.
Our "protectors" decided years ago you would not have N95 masks at the start or other prevention knowledge. "they" also worked to ensure you would not have Real early treatment or Real in emergency room treatment or Real in hospital treatment or in Real in ICU treatment for covid. Fear must be maintained.
"You" would take a Mrna "vaccine" where years of previous tries to make a coronavirus vaccine all failed with the vaccinated animals having worse than placebo outcomes when subsequently infected and all previous tries to bring a "Mrna" product to market failed because of safety.
This to game regulatory pre approved status for the Mrna "platform". Complicity Cover Up - Big Bucks and genetic engineering "opportunities" easily manipulated into action with some ccp/pla tradecraft and stagecraft to fake a pandemic to release a unlimited war, economic war, stealth, 2 front, bioweapon attack. Front 1 infection / continuing lab created immune escape variant infection, front 2 inducement to use Mrna to create toxic whole spike as the countermeasure "vaccine" antigen.
REAL PREVENTION (N95 +++) WITH TREATMENT BACKUP MEANS NO PANDEMIC, NO BOGUS "LOCK-DOWNS", NO BOGUS "mask" MANDATES, NO SCHOOL CLOSINGS, NO MASSIVE NATIONAL DEBT INCREASE and no "gamed" regulatory pre approved status for the Mrna "platform".
"they" would not let this be.
My gmail "social" feed frozen and many ongoing youtube comments deleted or visible only to me since I commented to "dr been" on youtube about the reporter questioning at a Minnesota Department of Health "covid" news conference that revealed the early vaccine breakthrough cases truth which "they" knew about and had been hiding. drbeen emailed me for additional information - "bang" my gmail social feed frozen - to this date.
So true . . . and yet, once seen, so easy to sneak ahead of, to dismantle, to leave as a shadow that thinks it exists but fools no one ...
And yet, so many are still fooled ... believing immediate negative associations with certain names ... names of some of the most beloved, heroic humans to be alive today ...
Yes: totalitarianism begins in censorship/propaganda. It emphatically does not originate in the mechanistic thinking of the population, and I'll leave it to the reader to unravel which well-promoted psychiatrist tried to sell us on that proposition.
At bottom, censorship is able to thrive because science is broken. Lies have instead arisen in its place and people who question those lies are called 'anti-science,' 'anti-vax,' and/or 'conspiracy theorists.' These phrases serve to inhibit thought and questioning.
We must move beyond analysis of the problem and pray that court cases against censorship gain traction and teeth, while at the same time realizing that the controllers/conspirators may simply ignore everything anyhow and do whatever they want. We must enact laws that outright restrict the surveillance and medical coercion that might be used against us. The justification for the free refusal of medical mandates is simply that 'the science' is broken-- the corruption of the CDC and FDA and most of the medical journals has been well-documented since even before Covid-- and therefore no medical 'science' or 'data' should ever serve as justification for government policy. That means: no lockdowns, no vaccine mandates, no mask mandates. Nothing but a complete reversal of Jacobson v Massachusetts (which allowed medical coercion) based on ample evidence that those pushing the science and the data have in fact been pushing misinformation, thus the strictures of the authorities cannot be trusted. Yet the authorities want to attack those who call out the misinformation and turn the tables on them! This is Orwellian.
Chaos? Perhaps. Or perhaps people will be free to take whatever measures they judge appropriate.
Science is broken: numerous medical authors have given ample evidence of this. Climate science is now complete pseudoscience. Yet 'science' and 'data' are being used to whip us and frighten us.
We must push back in concrete ways and disarm those who would weaponize the idea of 'science' against we, the people, and use it to bludgeon us. At its heart in the legal landscape, this means a repudiation of the Jacobson decision. With regard to climate science, this means a repudiation of the IPCC based on ample evidence that its predictions of climate catastrophe have largely been based on (deliberately) confusing causation or else outright deception.
Truth is not at all like a lion. Truth is instead like a lamb that must be fiercely guarded and protected against all assaults, lest government of the people, by the people, and for the people should perish from the earth.
Excellent article. Totalitarianism (the total government control of thought and speech) is on the march all over the west. It's a disaster. It is still possible to find the truth, but only by wading through an ocean of mis/disinformation and that takes great tenacity and will that only few have. I fear for the future of my children and grandchildren.
You are a treasure, Emily Burns.
Imagine my joy at finding this powerful piece appearing on RCP. May it lead to well deserved attention and exposure, and keep you writing for the decades it will take us to come to our collective senses.
Thank you - before reading your article I would not have a clear answer to this question: "WHY is free speech so important?" The light bulb just came on - it's to learn the truth about complex issues. Now I can articulate that free speech and truth are directly proportional. Thank you again!!
I can't get my brother to listen to any single scientist because google, wikipedia, NY Times, CNN, MSNBC now describe them as essentially right wing lunatics, conspiracy theorists, and well the Lancet too dismisses and diminishes. So, he won't even listen to questioning points of view.
'How many people know that one of the first critics of our maximalist approach to COVID was one of the most well-respected, frequently-cited scientists in the world, Stanford’s John Ionnidis?'
Having been a John Ioannidis admirer for many years, the shocking demonization of his first Covid opinion piece in spring 2020 was the start of my journey down the skeptical road.
'These risks were simply not communicated, except at the time of injection in the form of a long list of contra-indicated conditions.' I don't remember getting any list or seeing any access to a list when I got the original Moderna shots.
There's a reason that totalitarian governance has the largest body count throughout all of history of all forms of government. It's inarguable the unprecedented pandemic response for any western democratic governing system ever ventured into some level of authoritarianism to totalitarianism, censorship a key component. Inarguable. Only the degree down that spectrum is contested. And the deaths under the government-imposed mitigation protocols are consistent with this presentation of Death by Government regime types compiled by researchers in 1994. The further government goes towards totalitarianism, the higher the deaths by government. Democide. Predictable. And predicted. Democide.
Death by Government
By R.J. Rummel, 1994
Index:
https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/NOTE1.HTM
Deaths by Regime Type (Democratic, Authoritarian, Totalitarian):
https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/DBG.TAB1.6.GIF
Power curve of Total Deaths by Regime Type:
https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/DBG.FIG1.7.GIF
Governments around the world coordinated a democide of their people. Democratic governments embraced totalitarianism, especially the censorship and propaganda campaigns that are hallmarks of totalitarianism. And now have the body count to show for it. That's growing.
Tremendous piece! Read it initially in Brownstone and then saw where you resided. The Newton I grew up in would never have been so subservient as the population now exhibits. Integrity, human rights, civil rights, open debate on important issues were all valued at one time. I believe I am still a liberal but everything seems to have flipped. The liberal values I adhered to and the great role models who fought for them are now...I don't even know if there is a word for it.
Brilliant article Emily
This is, hands-down, some of the best writing I've seen in a Team Reality stack. I am impressed!
Just read this article on Brownstone, what a fantastic summary of the pervasive information censorship.
The line from you article "The polarization that has so demoralized us was a feature, not a bug, of the policies implemented by our politicians and bureaucrats." really sums up the propaganda.
Here in Victoria under the Dan Andrews regime this polarisation went between subtle and blatant but was always there.
I’m so glad to hear that! I will keep an eye out for it!
We had a module on the 1918 pandemic at the Summit University "Buddha Class" in 1976. We also had, arranged by a General in our class, a private, whole class, tour of Cheyenne Mountain NORAD. (note "summit/cut" et al. has now, in part, been taken / subsumed by "the evil".)
The plan of "the evil", for a genetically engineered total control, dystopian future, taking of Earth for "their" only benefit, is yet well articulated within "The Teachings". "The Teachings" not yet made fully public as they were to be, as commanded from "above".
I had previously purchased a stock of 3M 8210+ N95 "masks", so that, at the start of this pandemic I was able to give Real masks to family, friends and neighbors. I quickly learned of homemade antiviral oral / nasal sprays - ie.12% Xylitol in plain filtered sterile water sprayed to saturation and nose blowing then a few .5% povidone-iodine solution 10% in homemade sterile "NeilMed" formula normal saline for before Real masking use. Before entry into "shared air" wearing of eye glasses, best with some side shielding, and use of home mixed antiviral .05% azelastine eye drops and / or .1% PVI in sterile saline sprays for eye protection. And the after masking / shared air encounter use of homemade antiviral 1% regular Johnson's baby shampoo in sterile homemade NeilMed formula "normal" saline for antiviral nasal flushing with NeilMed 8 oz. nasal flush bottle, mouth wash/gargle use and eye wash use from palm of well washed hand or eye cup (lots of blinking). Not hard to do once a routine has been established.
Our "protectors" decided years ago you would not have N95 masks at the start or other prevention knowledge. "they" also worked to ensure you would not have Real early treatment or Real in emergency room treatment or Real in hospital treatment or in Real in ICU treatment for covid. Fear must be maintained.
"You" would take a Mrna "vaccine" where years of previous tries to make a coronavirus vaccine all failed with the vaccinated animals having worse than placebo outcomes when subsequently infected and all previous tries to bring a "Mrna" product to market failed because of safety.
This to game regulatory pre approved status for the Mrna "platform". Complicity Cover Up - Big Bucks and genetic engineering "opportunities" easily manipulated into action with some ccp/pla tradecraft and stagecraft to fake a pandemic to release a unlimited war, economic war, stealth, 2 front, bioweapon attack. Front 1 infection / continuing lab created immune escape variant infection, front 2 inducement to use Mrna to create toxic whole spike as the countermeasure "vaccine" antigen.
REAL PREVENTION (N95 +++) WITH TREATMENT BACKUP MEANS NO PANDEMIC, NO BOGUS "LOCK-DOWNS", NO BOGUS "mask" MANDATES, NO SCHOOL CLOSINGS, NO MASSIVE NATIONAL DEBT INCREASE and no "gamed" regulatory pre approved status for the Mrna "platform".
"they" would not let this be.
My gmail "social" feed frozen and many ongoing youtube comments deleted or visible only to me since I commented to "dr been" on youtube about the reporter questioning at a Minnesota Department of Health "covid" news conference that revealed the early vaccine breakthrough cases truth which "they" knew about and had been hiding. drbeen emailed me for additional information - "bang" my gmail social feed frozen - to this date.
So true . . . and yet, once seen, so easy to sneak ahead of, to dismantle, to leave as a shadow that thinks it exists but fools no one ...
And yet, so many are still fooled ... believing immediate negative associations with certain names ... names of some of the most beloved, heroic humans to be alive today ...
https://substack.com/profile/137849242-mason-hunter/note/c-41865996?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=2a2l5m