Lukas Lion has a new song/video—1984-PART TWO. It was taken down from YouTube so he has posted the complete version to Instagram. iamlukaslion. Check it out before it’s deleted. It is a continuation from the original 1984.
Martha! I had no idea this piece was published at TBP until your comment here, so thank you for letting me know! Did you recommend it to JQ, or did he pick it up on his own from Lew Rockwell, I wonder? In any case, happy to see it there.
I have had a lovely email exchange with Austrian Peter, whose “Letters from Great Britain” columns my husband often reads to me, so it was a delight to welcome him here!
I appreciate you’re monitoring TBP on my behalf and keeping me apprised as needed. My husband reads me the best TBP articles (loved the beautiful piece by The Feral Irishman at https://www.theburningplatform.com/2022/01/07/you-never-know-what-awaits/ yesterday, BTW), but I have no desire to dive back into the commentariat mosh pit there after my last exhausting exchange fending off Hitler fanboy Holocaust deniers and trolls. I know Stucky wants me to alert him to my new articles via the comments, but I simply don’t have time to keep schooling the rabid and toxic ignoramuses there, so I would be grateful if you are willing to point JQ to any new articles you think would be a good fit for TBP. Give Stucky a warm hello from me, in any case :-)
Peter has also kindly offered to post my pieces, although he doesn’t do images or videos, so we decided to see if JQ posts first before he does text-only versions.
Thanks again for your wonderful support and friendship!
Good morning...The Nazi energy is alive and well. I have been following it for some years now as the origin fascinates me. I just did an update on my personal blog regarding the Knights Templar that may interest you. They are alive and will in this timeline and riding in the inner worlds. Michael St. Clair was nice enough to recognize this piece on his Twitter feed this last week.
We will get through this ...and this energy: once clearly sourced: will be removed from this reality. To date: it's been a bit elusive even for the most skilled of us in the inner worlds. But the underpinnings have been removed in most to all regards.
and this for the vaxxxd rebuttals...I am attempting to keep everything in one place for easy reference for folks since we will never get this information from MSM around the world.
GoAlive has also been sharing some interesting findings about the Nazi connections in the comments at that post (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-an-agree-to-disagree-relative/comments). Also ties into eugenics, obviously. This is a topic I hope to research more in-depth for a future article but have too many other articles clambering for attention in the meantime ;-)
And: to the Holocaust Museum...as a Chicagoan, I just shook my head. The liberals here have lost any and all sense of rationality. Even the Art Institute let go seasoned docents as 'too white'. Fortunately the backlash was massive. Lightfoot does not have a chance in hell of being re-elected. Even the blacks here cannot stand her. We are all waiting this insanity out...for those who have not moved out of the city yet.
Gigi, I sincerely sympathize with you and the rest of the Chicagoans having to suffer under Lightfoot’s jackboot!
I don’t know how close you are to the Illinois Holocaust Museum and whether you know enough people who would be interested, but I have been wishing someone would organize a protest there highlighting their Untermenschen policies and maybe get some media attention. If you know of anyone who might be up to the challenge, please keep me posted, and I’ll share about it at my blog :-)
That would not be me. Due to my work, I keep a rather low profile and do not go out in this city. I only started posting again this last year on my blog. The irony is lost on no one, however. It will take care of itself. Gigi
I still read and comment there as "Ghost" but onceuponatime, alongtimeago, I posted there as "Maggie." Until I got into a nasty fight with a couple other folks there and used language the big boys didn't know girls understood. I am 60 years old and grew up in the rural midwest: I learned locker room language in junior high. It was a prerequisite to high school.
Anyway, I am not anti-TBP at all, Quinn is doing the best a guy can with that sort of following. I'm glad those of us able to donate do so and am glad he makes it public. Last year's contribution probably opened eyes in blogworld. I wonder if anyone tracks viewership of "all" the blogs and forums yet? I'm sure the quantum computers coming soon will figure out a way to distort that information to serve the WEF's agenda, too.
I like following this interesting neurobiologist who was fired from a research position at the University of Pittsburgh for telling truth to viewers and students on a YouTube channel called JC on a Bike. He got a big following and the Administration told him to stop teaching biology about coronaviruses from his bicycle rides around Pittsburgh. I found him early because my country neighbor, Geneva, had a son living in Pittsburgh then (moved to Florida last year). I seached online for "Corona Virus in Pittsburgh" so I could tell her whether there was a bad outbreak near her grandchildren and ended up with Dr. Jay Couey, aka JC on a Bike, riding around Pittsburgh with a camera, showing slides and talking about viruses and gene therapy masquerading as vaccinations, aka Transfection.
MAA? Today was bowling date day with my husband, so I did not get to outline the new one. I do have the other. I cannot tell you how worried I am that JC has hit upon the crime of the century committed by our bureaucracy following Ollie North's lead. It doesn't matter who distributes the money, it only matters who knows where the money is distributed.
JC has followed the grant money NIH controls and found a nasty truth worth repeating.
Aww, sweet, and NO rush whatsoever as I am battling nonstop deadlines for at least another couple of weeks. Bowling date with your husband sounds fun :-)
All I can say is you're doing a damn fine job, Margaret, so keep doing it!! You truly make a difference - my bet many times in people you'll never know about, maybe you will, but the thing is ripples happen, truth gets passed along and you are one hell of a purveyor! Don't let anyone stop you - of course you won't - and stay on course. I for one am thrilled to be part of your discourse here and look forward to the seeds of truth taking root more and more. Happy New Year!!! xo
You always know just what to say to inspire and spur me on, Navyo! Haha, you know by now no one can stop me now that I’ve started 😆 The bigger challenge is figuring out when to sleep ;-)
I am grateful to have you as part of the discourse and this dear community, Navyo. I also encourage everyone to check out the delicious satire at your own blog!
Thanks so much for the recommendations!! And here we are in '22. Doesn't it feel suspiciously like 1922? As for cheers, as I said to el gato malo, I was trying to find a bottle of Omicrônne for days but had to settle for bored eau.
One thing I really enjoy about your writing is the way you inspire critical thought in the way you present your material. So here's what I thought. Haha. As a "Boomer" (and I can't stand that term but it is what it is), I still remember a time when news was mostly released in the newspaper, magazines, radio and, of course, TV. Your post reminded me of how *even I* (I like to pride myself on not being mislead... usually) was bamboozled and mislead into believing certain things in my life *without* the internet and without fact checkers! I won't list all of the ones that "got me" here, but I will let you know when it ended: The OK City bombing. How did I figure out that something just didn't seem right *without* fact checkers or internet access? Thinking and "gut feel" along with the MSM and *editorials* in newpapers. I don't mean to bogart your post here my friend, so apologies. I think I am just sharing that the misinformation, "fact checkers" and all of the things we are experiencing now have pretty much always been with us and we all have, at one time or another, fallen prey to them. I wish I could point to "the" thing that prompted me to realize that *everything* must be questioned no matter what, but I can't. If I could bottle whatever happened and sell it I'd be as rich as "Doctor" Gates. But, if I was to guess, I would say it was maturity, time and my ever-present willingness to learn. I know that times are a bit different now, but people find the truth in their own time and in their own way. The unfortunate part of that in today's climate is we don't really have the time to wait... I hope my comment made sense and sincere apologies for it's length. But the comment is (a short version) of what your post made me reflect upon. Thanks for another great one!
Hearing that my writing inspires critical thought is one of the best compliments I could imagine, Rob! Thank you for not only that but for also sharing the fruits of your thought :-)
I appreciated hearing your perspective as a Boomer (a generation that, honestly, I’ve found far more awake than Millennials; I’m a Gen Xer so didn’t suffer the same degree of brainwashing as younger generations ;-)
Don’t be too hard on yourself about falling for past propaganda—especially when you didn’t have access to the Internet and the information that was previously shielded from us by the media/government priesthood!
Thank you for sharing your awakening moment, and “maturity, time and my ever-present willingness to learn” are crucial to seeing through the manipulation!
What does it say about the state of the mind of those who can be presented with an unassailable point and yet fail to see the reasoning behind it? I keep coming back to the poor state of the American diet. Long before poison jabs we were poisoned by our food. Of course, there are the social programming techniques, there is mind numbing tv, there is the corporate sponsored university system (which puts blinders on many), censorship and all the other ploys that have been rolled out for this REELY BEG SHEW (as Ed Sullivan called his show). But what if diet plays a role in making all of that more insidious as well?
You make excellent points, Kyle, and I absolutely believe diet/nutrition plays a role in the dumbification of the populace along with making them more susceptible to disease. It’s a win-win for BigPharma, Big Brother, and their lavishly rewarded colluders!
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I believe it does! I studied nutrition and then went to chef school. I’ve always nourished in the belief : You are what you eat. I have no prescriptions, I exercise, I eat only good food and quit alcohol 10 years ago. Bring it on.
Yes it was a galoot! And thus ends my first comment on this great substack. First visit here I think. I'm from Missouri too, and I used to refer to our current governor as "Gomer Hitler" but now I'm strangely in accord with some of his policies, 'cuz the rest of the world got so weird. For example, his "vax mandates imposed by the Feds aren't welcome here" policy.
In addition to your being one of the most engaging authors out there, I've admired your patience and ability to produce a wealth of evidence in such quick order. In case you're not doing so already, I encourage you to always archive pages as these conversations progress (I use archive.today more than wayback machine). For reaching quiet by-standers reading along, maybe evidence of memory-holing will prove to be a bright, red flashing neon sign when other flags rush on by.
Here's a free audio version of "The Politics of Obedience", in two parts, read by John Lothe, an exceptional reader whose voice is reminiscent of James Earl Jones:
Thank you, pearl, for your gracious comment and wise advice. I cannot archive these specific exchanges since they’re on a private platform that requires a login, but I have taken screenshots for posterity, particularly since the censors have a tendency to disappear my comments.
How wonderful to know about the John Lothe rendition of “The Politics of Obedience”—that must be magnificent if he sounds like James Earl Jones!
I can relate to the problem that you can't get traction with the scientific approach to discussion and debate, because facts and data are automatically rejected as "disinfo".
But does it work any better, to focus on human rights issues? The New Normie comeback is that no one needs to suffer from discrimination, except those who willfully, persistently reject the vaccine "truth".
Want your rights back? Just take your shot.
Oh wait, wouldn't the Christians have said the same thing to the Jews? Just believe the Gospels (and reject any disinfo in your philosophy books), take the baptism and be saved? At least the baptism usually wasn't toxic.
Right, New Normies have been preprogrammed to flee in terror from anything that comes from a non-authorized source. Menticide paired with mass hypnosis is astonishingly effective at shutting down critical, independent thought.
Except for the most rabid Covidians (which admittedly is a sizable group), they do appear to be more open to discussing the dangers of tyranny and discrimination. That said, they pretty much all come down on the side of fearfully clinging to safety over freedom. Their shameless cowardice would make the founders of this country weep with embarrassment and despair.
I honestly don’t know if it’s possible to penetrate their delusional alternative reality because they do not respond to reason, logic, facts, data, or even calls for compassion. That said, I know those are the hopelessly indoctrinated 30% Prof. Mattias Desmet describes, so I am actually targeting the middle 40% of swing thinkers who still may be salvageable. My hope is that even if I fail to persuade the people I’m directly arguing with, my statements may prick the minds, hearts, and consciences of those silently observing.
Perhaps the deceased spirit of liberty together with all those condemned to death and misery (via AIDS, Covid, etc.) by Fauci will become revenants and haunt him, all the way to his death-bed. Thereafter, he will be further reckoned for his murderous actions.
RS, indeed—may the orphans and beagles Dr. Mengelfauci tortured and murdered join with the millions of other human beings he has pharmacided in rising up and delivering vengeance to the fullest extent of justice and beyond.
Morning Margaret Anna. Excellent and thought-provoking piece, as usual; thank you.
Though I admire your optimism and your efforts to reach the potential 40 percent who are on the fence, I continue to believe that even many of those people are ultimately unreachable. There's a reason they're on the fence, and the competition between "authoritative" voices in media and government and our "fringe" voices in alternative media tilts heavily in favor of the former, even (especially?) with this group. If it didn't, many or most of them would come off the fence and join us, given that the facts and compassion are more compelling on "our" side. That that does not happen more often argues for our inability, thus far, to reach them. We need to remember that the people whom we are trying to reach are the same people who are helping to build concentration camps to house us, the unvaxxed masses, and we know what happens to people once they are confined in camps. All the while we are trying to bring them back to "normal," they are laying the foundations and erecting the walls and fences that will be our prisons. Heaven help us if we wait too long.
Take care and thanks, again, for continuing to write.
Thank you, Joe, and I do empathize with your cynicism. I think you may be right regarding the 30% who are True Believers—especially after watching the latest brilliant entry from Academy of Ideas: “Is Government the New God? – The Religion of Totalitarianism” (https://academyofideas.com/2021/12/is-government-the-new-god-the-religion-of-totalitarianism/), which contains the following harrowing example of menticide:
“Other reports tell of political officials and party followers who cried out ‘Long Live Stalin!’ as they were being taken out to be shot by the Soviet Secret Police.”
I can easily see Covidians screaming “Long Live Fauci!” even as they’re on their death bed suffering cardiac issues, strokes, blood clots, autoimmune disease, Guillain-Barré syndrome, and any other of the infinitely expanding list of injuries following injection.
That said, I AM hopeful about the middle 40%—especially after Dr. Peter McCullough’s and Dr. Robert Malone’s one-two punch appearances on Rogan, reaching 50 million mainstream viewers and introducing them to truth bombs that are lighting up the web. Malone made “mass formation psychosis” go viral, despite Big Tech’s efforts to manipulate and throttle the search results.
People are waking up to the fact that they’ve been subjected to a mass hypnosis campaign of unprecedented proportions, and once they realize that, they will never trust their MSM captors again and will start to question everything they’ve been bamboozled into believing over the past two years.
I desperately hope you are right, Margaret Anna. But my negative world-view tells me that even if many or even most of "the middle 40%" do wake up, even that might not save us from the terrifying totalitarianism which is well underway worldwide, right now.
I know, Truthbird. But we outnumber TPTB by an exponential degree, and they are already getting nervous about the number of people awakening around the world. A tipping point is coming, and once that happens, the rest of the 40% will follow as they tend to go with the majority. All we can do is try, regardless.
I agree with you. At least about "all we can do is try." And I'm aware that my strongly negative world-view makes it difficult for me to imagine goodness prevailing over evil. In any case, I can't sit at the computer any longer! I'm going outside now for a walk in the sunshine and cold air.
Thanks for prompting me to subscribe to Academy of Ideas - I'm subscribed on YouTube, but visit the website from time to time, always hovering on the cusp of becoming a member, but failing to carry through. Your mention pushed me over the edge. Not the first time you've sparked my interest to follow you down the rabbit hole, as you like to say. Wishing you a Happy, Healthy, Prosperous New Year, Writing and Fighting for Truth! Your work is a valuable resource for all who seek knowledge and the encouragement you so ably provide.
Wonderful to hear you are supporting Academy of Ideas! They are doing yeoman’s work in exposing the totalitarianism, propaganda, and abuses of power on exorbitant display today.
Always happy to nudge you down the rabbit-hole ;-) 🐇
Thank you for your warm wishes, HUMDEEDEE, and I wish you and your beloveds a joyful, inspiring, and courageous new year marked by toppling tyranny, saving lives, and restoring our liberties!
I wanted to link the demo which has better lyrics in my opinion but it seems to have disappeared from YouTube. I also found an old interview where he discusses it and it seems that he figured out the concept of inverted totalitarianism before Sheldon Wolin coined the term and that’s what the song is about - the less openly oppressive form of totalitarianism that instead tries to control your thoughts through the media to make you do what they want you to do.
Great to know and thanks for the link, Moon Diamond!
Bummer about the demo disappearing. Fascinating to hear about Elfman’s insight into inverted totalitarianism! Sheldon’s book on that is in my Audible library, and I’ve been trying to get to it for ages. So many books, so little time! Thanks for the reminder to bump it up in the queue.
The "1984" song that always goes through my head when it feels like 1984 is the one by Spirit (the late Randy California and all of those). Title is _1984! The thing that is unforgettable for me is the guitar solo, but hey that is Randy California. But the words and the mood are threatening, as the world is now. Song from around 1969. Their song "Mechanical World" is of a similar mood. It's just a masterpiece, to me anyway. From a little prior, 1967. Sunshine hippie days in The Canyon? They lived there and then but lived somewhere else too.
I’m so glad you appreciated that, Oh Susanna, and I agree! He just recently released “1984 PART 2.” I heard it on Spotify but didn’t find a video at the time. I just searched and discovered it had been removed from YouTube for “violating the terms of service”—how apropos 🤣
Fortunately, I found it on Odysee. I haven’t even had a chance to watch it yet but wanted to share right away:
Yes I followed a link he posted below the first song to listen to part 2 as well. How incredibly apropos indeed, YouTube like a good Ministry of Truth has no sense of irony 😆
The corporate media is captured by the "security" [sic(k)!] state, as Glenn Greenwald makes abundantly clear by his recent article(s) here on Substack:
Love Glenn Greenwald, although I’m still waiting for him to respond to my request to clarify his position on the injection (I know he’s strongly anti-mandate but has not been vocal about the eugenicide ;-)
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I have that same concern, and have expressed it in my comments in response to articles on his Substack. But maybe he's looking into it. How much you wanna bet that he'll write at least one, if not more, major article(s) completely getting on the anti-eugenicide and anti-mRNA-"vaccines" bandwagon, especially once the evidence of the increasing mass adverse reactions and deaths becomes more mainstream, or he hears the truth about it from other alternative and/or independent media and realizes just how correct the truthtellers are about it?
Glenn is so busy that I don't see how he does all that he does. He must have bottomless energy reserves, that's for sure [and he likely has (a lot of?) help]. I wouldn't doubt that he may very likely be working on a expose about it, on the side, in his "spare time", while he's concentrating primarily on the other great work he does. Yet I hope he soon gives the truth about Covid and the "vaccines" the concentration and primary attention that it deserves; and, because of the expanding disease and mortality rates due to same, it needs more than anything else RIGHT NOW!
People need to be warned and have it recommended to them in no uncertain terms that they must NOT get jabbed with these "vaccines"; or, if they already have been, to STOP getting ANY MORE OF THEM! So, I hope Glenn completely wakes up on this topic very soon, if he hasn't already.
Thank you for echoing those concerns. I hope if he hears it enough, he’ll give it the attention it demands and go on record with his views accordingly.
Agreed on all counts! I cannot fathom when Glenn sleeps, eats, gets dressed, or even goes to the bathroom because I can scarcely find time to do any and I have a microscopic fraction of the audience and responsibilities he has!
I suspect the only way the Covid Cult true believers will ever wake up is when enough of them become EXTREMELY sick and are profoundly, gruesomely, catastrophically injured by the endless booster shots they'll inevitably be taking.
I wrote "extremely" in capital letters because almost everyone I know who took the first two covid injections experienced adverse reactions to them, yet none of them (other than myself) admitted it! They are so thoroughly brainwashed they actively refused to see the connection.
I welcome this. I know that is cruel. (At least I'm honest, right?)
I'm very angry at the fact that I've been "canceled" by my entire family because they can't deal with the fact that I became extremely sick and have significant lasting injuries due to the Pfizer poison. At this point the very thought of interacting with them feels toxic to me. They hate me (they consider me a domestic terrorist because I'm against vax mandates) and I hate them back (they are despicable, wildly enthusiastic fascists). I don't expect to ever see any of them again, and that's fine with me.
MAA, as always, your articles are both thought provoking and accurate. Thank you!
I would like to add a couple of personal reflections.
A while back, someone I used to consider a friend, with whom I went to school, made a comment over something I said on his FB page concerning vaccinations. As someone who publicly boasted he couldn't wait to get his jabs, of course, he didn't agree with me and he cited a fact-checker that supposedly debunked my argument. My reply was that I felt my critical thinking skills were adequate for my needs and that I had no need to subcontract my thinking to an unknown entity proclaiming to be an expert.
The other comment I would make, because it is pertinent to the subject of your article, is spurned by yet another conversation with the aforementioned person.
Again, on the subject of vaccination with unproven experimental treatments, he said "Unlike you, I prefer hitching my cart to the majority view and yours is definitely in the minority!" I had to reply "Oh yes, the pathetic minority. It's a fact that 1% of people have it all, 20% live comfortably, and the remaining 79% live on a month-to-month basis. Obviously, the 1% have got it all wrong."
I'm not a member of the 1% and I don't like what they have done but, the fact remains that the majority (or mainstream) view is NOT necessarily the path to the truth.
Thank you so much for your kind words, Anthony, and I appreciate hearing your personal reflections!
Your discussion with your friend sounds like the satirical comment I made to Ampleforth about it being “exhausting having to apply our critical thinking skills to multiple sources of information in our efforts to distinguish propaganda from facts. How much easier it is to outsource our thinking to politicians, megacorporations, and allied media.”
The problem is, that is exactly how the Covidians feel, which is what has gotten us into this catastrophe to begin with. When did critical thinking skills become extinct in the majority of the populace? No doubt it was a combination of (intentional) educational neglect paired with the hypnotizing impact of television/media/entertainment/social media.
I think your percentage argument could be bolstered by the finding that only a tiny minority of a group are capable of mustering the courage to stand up to authoritarian orders to commit harmful and even murderous acts. This is discussed extensively in “Ordinary Men” and also was discovered in Milgram’s “Obedience” experiment (see my “Letter to a Colluder: Stop Enabling Tyranny” for details: https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-a-colluder-stop-enabling).
In every historical instance of totalitarianism, only a sliver of the population had the moral fortitude to call out tyranny and refuse to comply, often at grave risk to their careers, financial security, friendships, and even lives—much as the heroes I celebrate in “Profiles in Courage” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/profiles-in-courage-dr-tess-lawrie) experience today.
Check out the quotes I shared from “They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933–45” and “Ordinary Men” in these respective tweets at the Illinois Holocaust Museum (along with the original posts for context) for hypocritically enacting Nuremberg Laws against the unvaxxed:
Sebastian Haffner’s “Defying Hitler” further reinforces the rarity of the individual who commits to resist fascism, despite the entire force of culture pressing down on him to comply.
I know which group I want to be in. I know which group I *am* in.
P.S. See also my Recommendations Roundup #1 for “They Thought They Were Free” quotes in a more digestible and complete format:
"When did critical thinking skills become extinct in the majority of the populace? No doubt it was a combination of (intentional) educational neglect paired with the hypnotizing impact of television/media/entertainment/social media."
Undoubtedly. With the individual concerned (my Ampleforth), I pointed out that we had both been part of our school's debating society and reminded him that the way that worked was with 2 teams reporting on a particular subject. Their reports were diametrically opposed. One was telling the truth, ONLY ONE! In order to ascertain which team was telling the truth, we were permitted to ask as many questions as we felt necessary in order to come to a conclusion.
In other words, 2 versions of the story were required for us to be able to use our critical thinking skills. And that is what is missing in today's reporting!
Censorship, fact-checkers, the fake news label, and ridiculous insults (science denier, anti-vaxxer, conspiracy theorist, etc.) have replaced the "other side of the story".
I have just cancelled my afternoon's appointments so I can devote time to reading the links you have provided. ;)
I'm sure your links will not disappoint although I'm addicted to your own scribblings. In you, I have found my mental match! ;)
My bio, despite being rather short due to substack's character limit, is accurate. The psychologist in me allowed me to pull apart all the BS and what I found made me venture much further. Discovering Margaret Anna Alice was only a matter of time...
I’d like to make a public service announcement encouraging anyone on Twitter to call out the colossal hypocrisy of the Illinois Holocaust Museum’s new papers-please policy (https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/kitten-corner-immersive-education/). I have posted the following tweets on this thread (https://twitter.com/ihmec/status/1476934101420716034):
Your new exhibit titled “Forever Again” takes performance art to a whole new level of meta.
If this is not a satirical demonstration of ignorant and hypocritical discrimination against “disease-spreaders,” see https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-a-colluder-stop-enabling to brush up on the history you are repeating.
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Maybe you should listen to what a Holocaust survivor thinks about your execution of “Forever Again”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjUOHGY2K14
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“If you sow hatred, the universe echoes back!
Radiate love. The universe echoes back!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OutYNwpbKw
Lukas Lion has a new song/video—1984-PART TWO. It was taken down from YouTube so he has posted the complete version to Instagram. iamlukaslion. Check it out before it’s deleted. It is a continuation from the original 1984.
Thank you, Hello300! I learned about that from another commenter in this thread, and it is equally awesome! I recommended it to Mark Crispin Miller along with the original “1984,” and he just shared it here: https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/more-great-songs-for-this-movement
Margaret Anna! I have been watching your post at tbp from afar after that odd attack I suffered from probably the usual suspects. I do not understand the vitriol aimed at you there, but am currently in a little reparte with Austrian Peter in UK and am hoping he will visit your site here for some most excellent discussion and debate. https://www.theburningplatform.com/2022/01/06/dispatches-from-the-new-normal-front-the-ministry-of-truths-war-on-misinformation/#comment-2510606 should take you to my comment there...
Martha! I had no idea this piece was published at TBP until your comment here, so thank you for letting me know! Did you recommend it to JQ, or did he pick it up on his own from Lew Rockwell, I wonder? In any case, happy to see it there.
I have had a lovely email exchange with Austrian Peter, whose “Letters from Great Britain” columns my husband often reads to me, so it was a delight to welcome him here!
I appreciate you’re monitoring TBP on my behalf and keeping me apprised as needed. My husband reads me the best TBP articles (loved the beautiful piece by The Feral Irishman at https://www.theburningplatform.com/2022/01/07/you-never-know-what-awaits/ yesterday, BTW), but I have no desire to dive back into the commentariat mosh pit there after my last exhausting exchange fending off Hitler fanboy Holocaust deniers and trolls. I know Stucky wants me to alert him to my new articles via the comments, but I simply don’t have time to keep schooling the rabid and toxic ignoramuses there, so I would be grateful if you are willing to point JQ to any new articles you think would be a good fit for TBP. Give Stucky a warm hello from me, in any case :-)
Peter has also kindly offered to post my pieces, although he doesn’t do images or videos, so we decided to see if JQ posts first before he does text-only versions.
Thanks again for your wonderful support and friendship!
Good morning...The Nazi energy is alive and well. I have been following it for some years now as the origin fascinates me. I just did an update on my personal blog regarding the Knights Templar that may interest you. They are alive and will in this timeline and riding in the inner worlds. Michael St. Clair was nice enough to recognize this piece on his Twitter feed this last week.
We will get through this ...and this energy: once clearly sourced: will be removed from this reality. To date: it's been a bit elusive even for the most skilled of us in the inner worlds. But the underpinnings have been removed in most to all regards.
https://www.gigibelser.com/post/the-knights-templar
and this for the vaxxxd rebuttals...I am attempting to keep everything in one place for easy reference for folks since we will never get this information from MSM around the world.
https://www.gigibelser.com/post/moving-on-vcxxxd-ramifications-2022
I suspect you might follow Clif High on BitChute...if not, a good idea to do so.
Thanks for your work!! Gigi
Thank you for the fascinating comment, Gigi, and yes, I have been gradually learning more about the Nazi connections to the present-day democide. In my “Letter to an Agree-to-Disagree Relative” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-an-agree-to-disagree-relative), I linked to an article titled “Schwab Family Values” (https://unlimitedhangout.com/2021/02/investigative-reports/schwab-family-values/) you may find interesting in that regard.
GoAlive has also been sharing some interesting findings about the Nazi connections in the comments at that post (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-an-agree-to-disagree-relative/comments). Also ties into eugenics, obviously. This is a topic I hope to research more in-depth for a future article but have too many other articles clambering for attention in the meantime ;-)
And: to the Holocaust Museum...as a Chicagoan, I just shook my head. The liberals here have lost any and all sense of rationality. Even the Art Institute let go seasoned docents as 'too white'. Fortunately the backlash was massive. Lightfoot does not have a chance in hell of being re-elected. Even the blacks here cannot stand her. We are all waiting this insanity out...for those who have not moved out of the city yet.
Gigi, I sincerely sympathize with you and the rest of the Chicagoans having to suffer under Lightfoot’s jackboot!
I don’t know how close you are to the Illinois Holocaust Museum and whether you know enough people who would be interested, but I have been wishing someone would organize a protest there highlighting their Untermenschen policies and maybe get some media attention. If you know of anyone who might be up to the challenge, please keep me posted, and I’ll share about it at my blog :-)
Thanks, Gigi!
That would not be me. Due to my work, I keep a rather low profile and do not go out in this city. I only started posting again this last year on my blog. The irony is lost on no one, however. It will take care of itself. Gigi
Burning Platform is excellent. I am a serious fan and student of The Fourth Turning.
I still read and comment there as "Ghost" but onceuponatime, alongtimeago, I posted there as "Maggie." Until I got into a nasty fight with a couple other folks there and used language the big boys didn't know girls understood. I am 60 years old and grew up in the rural midwest: I learned locker room language in junior high. It was a prerequisite to high school.
Anyway, I am not anti-TBP at all, Quinn is doing the best a guy can with that sort of following. I'm glad those of us able to donate do so and am glad he makes it public. Last year's contribution probably opened eyes in blogworld. I wonder if anyone tracks viewership of "all" the blogs and forums yet? I'm sure the quantum computers coming soon will figure out a way to distort that information to serve the WEF's agenda, too.
I like following this interesting neurobiologist who was fired from a research position at the University of Pittsburgh for telling truth to viewers and students on a YouTube channel called JC on a Bike. He got a big following and the Administration told him to stop teaching biology about coronaviruses from his bicycle rides around Pittsburgh. I found him early because my country neighbor, Geneva, had a son living in Pittsburgh then (moved to Florida last year). I seached online for "Corona Virus in Pittsburgh" so I could tell her whether there was a bad outbreak near her grandchildren and ended up with Dr. Jay Couey, aka JC on a Bike, riding around Pittsburgh with a camera, showing slides and talking about viruses and gene therapy masquerading as vaccinations, aka Transfection.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1267220837?t=01h56m06s
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1267220837?t=01h56m05s
LOL... in fact? I'll say it again.
MAA? Today was bowling date day with my husband, so I did not get to outline the new one. I do have the other. I cannot tell you how worried I am that JC has hit upon the crime of the century committed by our bureaucracy following Ollie North's lead. It doesn't matter who distributes the money, it only matters who knows where the money is distributed.
JC has followed the grant money NIH controls and found a nasty truth worth repeating.
Aww, sweet, and NO rush whatsoever as I am battling nonstop deadlines for at least another couple of weeks. Bowling date with your husband sounds fun :-)
Is the JC discovery along the lines of what Dr. David Martin has revealed about the patent trail (https://archive.org/details/the-fauci-covid-19-dossier/page/n1/mode/2up) or something new? Sounds intriguing, regardless.
Thanks, Martha!
All I can say is you're doing a damn fine job, Margaret, so keep doing it!! You truly make a difference - my bet many times in people you'll never know about, maybe you will, but the thing is ripples happen, truth gets passed along and you are one hell of a purveyor! Don't let anyone stop you - of course you won't - and stay on course. I for one am thrilled to be part of your discourse here and look forward to the seeds of truth taking root more and more. Happy New Year!!! xo
You always know just what to say to inspire and spur me on, Navyo! Haha, you know by now no one can stop me now that I’ve started 😆 The bigger challenge is figuring out when to sleep ;-)
I am grateful to have you as part of the discourse and this dear community, Navyo. I also encourage everyone to check out the delicious satire at your own blog!
Happy New Year backatcha, and cheers! 🥂
Thanks so much for the recommendations!! And here we are in '22. Doesn't it feel suspiciously like 1922? As for cheers, as I said to el gato malo, I was trying to find a bottle of Omicrônne for days but had to settle for bored eau.
It does indeed—although I think we’ve already blown through that decade and are at 1932 now ;-)
*lol* I did see that comment and found it hilarious 😆🍾
P.S. My uncle found Omicrônne last week and is now enjoying natural immunity for life!
funny.
Beautifully put❤️
One thing I really enjoy about your writing is the way you inspire critical thought in the way you present your material. So here's what I thought. Haha. As a "Boomer" (and I can't stand that term but it is what it is), I still remember a time when news was mostly released in the newspaper, magazines, radio and, of course, TV. Your post reminded me of how *even I* (I like to pride myself on not being mislead... usually) was bamboozled and mislead into believing certain things in my life *without* the internet and without fact checkers! I won't list all of the ones that "got me" here, but I will let you know when it ended: The OK City bombing. How did I figure out that something just didn't seem right *without* fact checkers or internet access? Thinking and "gut feel" along with the MSM and *editorials* in newpapers. I don't mean to bogart your post here my friend, so apologies. I think I am just sharing that the misinformation, "fact checkers" and all of the things we are experiencing now have pretty much always been with us and we all have, at one time or another, fallen prey to them. I wish I could point to "the" thing that prompted me to realize that *everything* must be questioned no matter what, but I can't. If I could bottle whatever happened and sell it I'd be as rich as "Doctor" Gates. But, if I was to guess, I would say it was maturity, time and my ever-present willingness to learn. I know that times are a bit different now, but people find the truth in their own time and in their own way. The unfortunate part of that in today's climate is we don't really have the time to wait... I hope my comment made sense and sincere apologies for it's length. But the comment is (a short version) of what your post made me reflect upon. Thanks for another great one!
Hearing that my writing inspires critical thought is one of the best compliments I could imagine, Rob! Thank you for not only that but for also sharing the fruits of your thought :-)
I appreciated hearing your perspective as a Boomer (a generation that, honestly, I’ve found far more awake than Millennials; I’m a Gen Xer so didn’t suffer the same degree of brainwashing as younger generations ;-)
Don’t be too hard on yourself about falling for past propaganda—especially when you didn’t have access to the Internet and the information that was previously shielded from us by the media/government priesthood!
Thank you for sharing your awakening moment, and “maturity, time and my ever-present willingness to learn” are crucial to seeing through the manipulation!
Oh man here we go…how am I gonna outdo these comments!
*lol* Not to worry—just your sugary, cinnamon-dusted sweet presence here is enough, Sirka! 🎂🍩🍰
Phew!
Thanks, RobD for "bogarting" the post a bit. I plan to do so as well as soon as I read the other intriguing comments here.
What does it say about the state of the mind of those who can be presented with an unassailable point and yet fail to see the reasoning behind it? I keep coming back to the poor state of the American diet. Long before poison jabs we were poisoned by our food. Of course, there are the social programming techniques, there is mind numbing tv, there is the corporate sponsored university system (which puts blinders on many), censorship and all the other ploys that have been rolled out for this REELY BEG SHEW (as Ed Sullivan called his show). But what if diet plays a role in making all of that more insidious as well?
You make excellent points, Kyle, and I absolutely believe diet/nutrition plays a role in the dumbification of the populace along with making them more susceptible to disease. It’s a win-win for BigPharma, Big Brother, and their lavishly rewarded colluders!
I believe it does! I studied nutrition and then went to chef school. I’ve always nourished in the belief : You are what you eat. I have no prescriptions, I exercise, I eat only good food and quit alcohol 10 years ago. Bring it on.
Top shelf writeup! Keep up the fight.
Thanks so much, Frederick! Love Yosemite Sam, BTW :-) He was the favorite cartoon character of a father figure of mine during childhood.
Was my father’s favourite character as well!
My favorite as well! Why you long eared galote!
😹
Actually, I think it was "Galute!" But, it could be my Missouri accent.
Yes, that looks more like it. Thanks
I will have you know I spent several happy minutes looking for this!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYPdQIcygsc
Oh my head hurts! 😀
Yes it was a galoot! And thus ends my first comment on this great substack. First visit here I think. I'm from Missouri too, and I used to refer to our current governor as "Gomer Hitler" but now I'm strangely in accord with some of his policies, 'cuz the rest of the world got so weird. For example, his "vax mandates imposed by the Feds aren't welcome here" policy.
Hello Number 6. I'm here somewhere between Bollinger, Madison and Perry County in the suburbs of the sticks.
Margaret Anna Alice, I just subscribed. Thank you for sharing your incredible intelligence..and kindness.
Awww, thank you so much for your touching words, Duchess, as well as your wonderful support! 🙏
In addition to your being one of the most engaging authors out there, I've admired your patience and ability to produce a wealth of evidence in such quick order. In case you're not doing so already, I encourage you to always archive pages as these conversations progress (I use archive.today more than wayback machine). For reaching quiet by-standers reading along, maybe evidence of memory-holing will prove to be a bright, red flashing neon sign when other flags rush on by.
Here's a free audio version of "The Politics of Obedience", in two parts, read by John Lothe, an exceptional reader whose voice is reminiscent of James Earl Jones:
Part 1:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/ahJ046y8RMk/
Part 2:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/supg_NTrpzQ/
Thank you, pearl, for your gracious comment and wise advice. I cannot archive these specific exchanges since they’re on a private platform that requires a login, but I have taken screenshots for posterity, particularly since the censors have a tendency to disappear my comments.
How wonderful to know about the John Lothe rendition of “The Politics of Obedience”—that must be magnificent if he sounds like James Earl Jones!
I can relate to the problem that you can't get traction with the scientific approach to discussion and debate, because facts and data are automatically rejected as "disinfo".
But does it work any better, to focus on human rights issues? The New Normie comeback is that no one needs to suffer from discrimination, except those who willfully, persistently reject the vaccine "truth".
Want your rights back? Just take your shot.
Oh wait, wouldn't the Christians have said the same thing to the Jews? Just believe the Gospels (and reject any disinfo in your philosophy books), take the baptism and be saved? At least the baptism usually wasn't toxic.
Right, New Normies have been preprogrammed to flee in terror from anything that comes from a non-authorized source. Menticide paired with mass hypnosis is astonishingly effective at shutting down critical, independent thought.
Except for the most rabid Covidians (which admittedly is a sizable group), they do appear to be more open to discussing the dangers of tyranny and discrimination. That said, they pretty much all come down on the side of fearfully clinging to safety over freedom. Their shameless cowardice would make the founders of this country weep with embarrassment and despair.
I honestly don’t know if it’s possible to penetrate their delusional alternative reality because they do not respond to reason, logic, facts, data, or even calls for compassion. That said, I know those are the hopelessly indoctrinated 30% Prof. Mattias Desmet describes, so I am actually targeting the middle 40% of swing thinkers who still may be salvageable. My hope is that even if I fail to persuade the people I’m directly arguing with, my statements may prick the minds, hearts, and consciences of those silently observing.
Perhaps the deceased spirit of liberty together with all those condemned to death and misery (via AIDS, Covid, etc.) by Fauci will become revenants and haunt him, all the way to his death-bed. Thereafter, he will be further reckoned for his murderous actions.
RS, indeed—may the orphans and beagles Dr. Mengelfauci tortured and murdered join with the millions of other human beings he has pharmacided in rising up and delivering vengeance to the fullest extent of justice and beyond.
Wow. May your thought become a shot heard 'round the world.
Morning Margaret Anna. Excellent and thought-provoking piece, as usual; thank you.
Though I admire your optimism and your efforts to reach the potential 40 percent who are on the fence, I continue to believe that even many of those people are ultimately unreachable. There's a reason they're on the fence, and the competition between "authoritative" voices in media and government and our "fringe" voices in alternative media tilts heavily in favor of the former, even (especially?) with this group. If it didn't, many or most of them would come off the fence and join us, given that the facts and compassion are more compelling on "our" side. That that does not happen more often argues for our inability, thus far, to reach them. We need to remember that the people whom we are trying to reach are the same people who are helping to build concentration camps to house us, the unvaxxed masses, and we know what happens to people once they are confined in camps. All the while we are trying to bring them back to "normal," they are laying the foundations and erecting the walls and fences that will be our prisons. Heaven help us if we wait too long.
Take care and thanks, again, for continuing to write.
Thank you, Joe, and I do empathize with your cynicism. I think you may be right regarding the 30% who are True Believers—especially after watching the latest brilliant entry from Academy of Ideas: “Is Government the New God? – The Religion of Totalitarianism” (https://academyofideas.com/2021/12/is-government-the-new-god-the-religion-of-totalitarianism/), which contains the following harrowing example of menticide:
“Other reports tell of political officials and party followers who cried out ‘Long Live Stalin!’ as they were being taken out to be shot by the Soviet Secret Police.”
I can easily see Covidians screaming “Long Live Fauci!” even as they’re on their death bed suffering cardiac issues, strokes, blood clots, autoimmune disease, Guillain-Barré syndrome, and any other of the infinitely expanding list of injuries following injection.
That said, I AM hopeful about the middle 40%—especially after Dr. Peter McCullough’s and Dr. Robert Malone’s one-two punch appearances on Rogan, reaching 50 million mainstream viewers and introducing them to truth bombs that are lighting up the web. Malone made “mass formation psychosis” go viral, despite Big Tech’s efforts to manipulate and throttle the search results.
People are waking up to the fact that they’ve been subjected to a mass hypnosis campaign of unprecedented proportions, and once they realize that, they will never trust their MSM captors again and will start to question everything they’ve been bamboozled into believing over the past two years.
I desperately hope you are right, Margaret Anna. But my negative world-view tells me that even if many or even most of "the middle 40%" do wake up, even that might not save us from the terrifying totalitarianism which is well underway worldwide, right now.
I know, Truthbird. But we outnumber TPTB by an exponential degree, and they are already getting nervous about the number of people awakening around the world. A tipping point is coming, and once that happens, the rest of the 40% will follow as they tend to go with the majority. All we can do is try, regardless.
I agree with you. At least about "all we can do is try." And I'm aware that my strongly negative world-view makes it difficult for me to imagine goodness prevailing over evil. In any case, I can't sit at the computer any longer! I'm going outside now for a walk in the sunshine and cold air.
That sounds like a brilliant remedy ☀️💨
You are my best friend, Margaret Anna. Love your wisdom, brilliance, and humor.
Thanks for prompting me to subscribe to Academy of Ideas - I'm subscribed on YouTube, but visit the website from time to time, always hovering on the cusp of becoming a member, but failing to carry through. Your mention pushed me over the edge. Not the first time you've sparked my interest to follow you down the rabbit hole, as you like to say. Wishing you a Happy, Healthy, Prosperous New Year, Writing and Fighting for Truth! Your work is a valuable resource for all who seek knowledge and the encouragement you so ably provide.
Wonderful to hear you are supporting Academy of Ideas! They are doing yeoman’s work in exposing the totalitarianism, propaganda, and abuses of power on exorbitant display today.
Always happy to nudge you down the rabbit-hole ;-) 🐇
Thank you for your warm wishes, HUMDEEDEE, and I wish you and your beloveds a joyful, inspiring, and courageous new year marked by toppling tyranny, saving lives, and restoring our liberties!
Danny Elfman wrote a song about 1984 for Oingo Boingo too:
https://youtu.be/p4hTUYkF0qw
I wanted to link the demo which has better lyrics in my opinion but it seems to have disappeared from YouTube. I also found an old interview where he discusses it and it seems that he figured out the concept of inverted totalitarianism before Sheldon Wolin coined the term and that’s what the song is about - the less openly oppressive form of totalitarianism that instead tries to control your thoughts through the media to make you do what they want you to do.
Great to know and thanks for the link, Moon Diamond!
Bummer about the demo disappearing. Fascinating to hear about Elfman’s insight into inverted totalitarianism! Sheldon’s book on that is in my Audible library, and I’ve been trying to get to it for ages. So many books, so little time! Thanks for the reminder to bump it up in the queue.
The "1984" song that always goes through my head when it feels like 1984 is the one by Spirit (the late Randy California and all of those). Title is _1984! The thing that is unforgettable for me is the guitar solo, but hey that is Randy California. But the words and the mood are threatening, as the world is now. Song from around 1969. Their song "Mechanical World" is of a similar mood. It's just a masterpiece, to me anyway. From a little prior, 1967. Sunshine hippie days in The Canyon? They lived there and then but lived somewhere else too.
Welcome, Number6, and thanks for the recs—listening to “1984” now and just added it to my “Resistance Art” playlist!
Thanks for sharing that Lukas Lion song, he's brilliant.
I’m so glad you appreciated that, Oh Susanna, and I agree! He just recently released “1984 PART 2.” I heard it on Spotify but didn’t find a video at the time. I just searched and discovered it had been removed from YouTube for “violating the terms of service”—how apropos 🤣
Fortunately, I found it on Odysee. I haven’t even had a chance to watch it yet but wanted to share right away:
https://odysee.com/@lukaslion:f/1984part2:8
Yes I followed a link he posted below the first song to listen to part 2 as well. How incredibly apropos indeed, YouTube like a good Ministry of Truth has no sense of irony 😆
Happy to hear you discovered it on your own—I’m glad you mentioned him, or I would have missed the video!
So very unironically true!! 😂
The corporate media is captured by the "security" [sic(k)!] state, as Glenn Greenwald makes abundantly clear by his recent article(s) here on Substack:
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/nbc-news-uses-ex-fbi-official-frank
[sic(k)] is clever, too!
Love Glenn Greenwald, although I’m still waiting for him to respond to my request to clarify his position on the injection (I know he’s strongly anti-mandate but has not been vocal about the eugenicide ;-)
I have that same concern, and have expressed it in my comments in response to articles on his Substack. But maybe he's looking into it. How much you wanna bet that he'll write at least one, if not more, major article(s) completely getting on the anti-eugenicide and anti-mRNA-"vaccines" bandwagon, especially once the evidence of the increasing mass adverse reactions and deaths becomes more mainstream, or he hears the truth about it from other alternative and/or independent media and realizes just how correct the truthtellers are about it?
Glenn is so busy that I don't see how he does all that he does. He must have bottomless energy reserves, that's for sure [and he likely has (a lot of?) help]. I wouldn't doubt that he may very likely be working on a expose about it, on the side, in his "spare time", while he's concentrating primarily on the other great work he does. Yet I hope he soon gives the truth about Covid and the "vaccines" the concentration and primary attention that it deserves; and, because of the expanding disease and mortality rates due to same, it needs more than anything else RIGHT NOW!
People need to be warned and have it recommended to them in no uncertain terms that they must NOT get jabbed with these "vaccines"; or, if they already have been, to STOP getting ANY MORE OF THEM! So, I hope Glenn completely wakes up on this topic very soon, if he hasn't already.
Thank you for echoing those concerns. I hope if he hears it enough, he’ll give it the attention it demands and go on record with his views accordingly.
Agreed on all counts! I cannot fathom when Glenn sleeps, eats, gets dressed, or even goes to the bathroom because I can scarcely find time to do any and I have a microscopic fraction of the audience and responsibilities he has!
I suspect the only way the Covid Cult true believers will ever wake up is when enough of them become EXTREMELY sick and are profoundly, gruesomely, catastrophically injured by the endless booster shots they'll inevitably be taking.
I wrote "extremely" in capital letters because almost everyone I know who took the first two covid injections experienced adverse reactions to them, yet none of them (other than myself) admitted it! They are so thoroughly brainwashed they actively refused to see the connection.
I welcome this. I know that is cruel. (At least I'm honest, right?)
I'm very angry at the fact that I've been "canceled" by my entire family because they can't deal with the fact that I became extremely sick and have significant lasting injuries due to the Pfizer poison. At this point the very thought of interacting with them feels toxic to me. They hate me (they consider me a domestic terrorist because I'm against vax mandates) and I hate them back (they are despicable, wildly enthusiastic fascists). I don't expect to ever see any of them again, and that's fine with me.
Noice, Margaret!
Thanks for the new word to me.
Danke schön, Barry! I assume you mean verboten? Always happy to introduce people to new words, in any case :-)
You quoted me verbatim....
Danke. Did not see schon with it before.
I love words and puns.
Me, too 😆
Oops, not that kind of me, too 😹
LOL!
MAA, as always, your articles are both thought provoking and accurate. Thank you!
I would like to add a couple of personal reflections.
A while back, someone I used to consider a friend, with whom I went to school, made a comment over something I said on his FB page concerning vaccinations. As someone who publicly boasted he couldn't wait to get his jabs, of course, he didn't agree with me and he cited a fact-checker that supposedly debunked my argument. My reply was that I felt my critical thinking skills were adequate for my needs and that I had no need to subcontract my thinking to an unknown entity proclaiming to be an expert.
The other comment I would make, because it is pertinent to the subject of your article, is spurned by yet another conversation with the aforementioned person.
Again, on the subject of vaccination with unproven experimental treatments, he said "Unlike you, I prefer hitching my cart to the majority view and yours is definitely in the minority!" I had to reply "Oh yes, the pathetic minority. It's a fact that 1% of people have it all, 20% live comfortably, and the remaining 79% live on a month-to-month basis. Obviously, the 1% have got it all wrong."
I'm not a member of the 1% and I don't like what they have done but, the fact remains that the majority (or mainstream) view is NOT necessarily the path to the truth.
Thank you so much for your kind words, Anthony, and I appreciate hearing your personal reflections!
Your discussion with your friend sounds like the satirical comment I made to Ampleforth about it being “exhausting having to apply our critical thinking skills to multiple sources of information in our efforts to distinguish propaganda from facts. How much easier it is to outsource our thinking to politicians, megacorporations, and allied media.”
The problem is, that is exactly how the Covidians feel, which is what has gotten us into this catastrophe to begin with. When did critical thinking skills become extinct in the majority of the populace? No doubt it was a combination of (intentional) educational neglect paired with the hypnotizing impact of television/media/entertainment/social media.
I think your percentage argument could be bolstered by the finding that only a tiny minority of a group are capable of mustering the courage to stand up to authoritarian orders to commit harmful and even murderous acts. This is discussed extensively in “Ordinary Men” and also was discovered in Milgram’s “Obedience” experiment (see my “Letter to a Colluder: Stop Enabling Tyranny” for details: https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-a-colluder-stop-enabling).
In every historical instance of totalitarianism, only a sliver of the population had the moral fortitude to call out tyranny and refuse to comply, often at grave risk to their careers, financial security, friendships, and even lives—much as the heroes I celebrate in “Profiles in Courage” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/profiles-in-courage-dr-tess-lawrie) experience today.
Check out the quotes I shared from “They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933–45” and “Ordinary Men” in these respective tweets at the Illinois Holocaust Museum (along with the original posts for context) for hypocritically enacting Nuremberg Laws against the unvaxxed:
https://twitter.com/MargaretAnnaAl1/status/1477540060299862016
https://twitter.com/MargaretAnnaAl1/status/1477549032029388804
https://twitter.com/ihmec/status/1476934101420716034
https://twitter.com/ihmec/status/1477293543060230144
Sebastian Haffner’s “Defying Hitler” further reinforces the rarity of the individual who commits to resist fascism, despite the entire force of culture pressing down on him to comply.
I know which group I want to be in. I know which group I *am* in.
P.S. See also my Recommendations Roundup #1 for “They Thought They Were Free” quotes in a more digestible and complete format:
https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/recommendations-roundup-1-predicting
"When did critical thinking skills become extinct in the majority of the populace? No doubt it was a combination of (intentional) educational neglect paired with the hypnotizing impact of television/media/entertainment/social media."
Undoubtedly. With the individual concerned (my Ampleforth), I pointed out that we had both been part of our school's debating society and reminded him that the way that worked was with 2 teams reporting on a particular subject. Their reports were diametrically opposed. One was telling the truth, ONLY ONE! In order to ascertain which team was telling the truth, we were permitted to ask as many questions as we felt necessary in order to come to a conclusion.
In other words, 2 versions of the story were required for us to be able to use our critical thinking skills. And that is what is missing in today's reporting!
Censorship, fact-checkers, the fake news label, and ridiculous insults (science denier, anti-vaxxer, conspiracy theorist, etc.) have replaced the "other side of the story".
I have just cancelled my afternoon's appointments so I can devote time to reading the links you have provided. ;)
That is an excellent debate tactic and would certainly teach people critical thinking skills, skepticism, data evaluation, and heterodox thinking!
Wow, I’m honored that you would cancel your appointments to read my links—I hope they don’t disappoint!
(BTW, I like the reference to Alice in your bio :-)
I'm sure your links will not disappoint although I'm addicted to your own scribblings. In you, I have found my mental match! ;)
My bio, despite being rather short due to substack's character limit, is accurate. The psychologist in me allowed me to pull apart all the BS and what I found made me venture much further. Discovering Margaret Anna Alice was only a matter of time...
Haha, aww, why thank you, Anthony 😌 There is never a shortage of rabbit-holes to venture down ;-) 🐇
LOL! (With you, not at you.)
Some argue that it is not only fear, but guilt. A guilt unnoticed, but that cripples people's will to stand up for themselves.
Excellent point, DB—I believe many remain in denial so they don’t have to acknowledge their collusion (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-a-colluder-stop-enabling).