I will never forget the contempt with which my oncologist treated me after I told him that I had no intention of doing chemo/radiation. I will also never forget that 8 years ago my younger sister was coerced into doing chemo/radiation by her employer or they would deny her disability income. She did not survive her 'treatment'. I grieve her still.
Being a dissident is hard. Most of the time you're alone against many. I was lucky that I had some support but I don't blame people who were under they most intense social, emotional and economic pressure you could imagine. I'm so grateful for my small tribe of resisters both online and offline who helped to hold the line against this psy-op that is still ongoing.
I am so sorry your sister became a victim of the Medical-Pharmaceutical-Complex, Signme Uplease. I congratulate you on having the courage to defy the “experts” and have survived as a result.
I am continually grateful we dissidents have found one another. As dark as this period has been, the beacons of light have illuminated the twilight and inspired others to shine their light as well:
Kudos for trusting your instinct and not caving to elitist medical tyranny. My mother truly believed that the physician who prescribed the most medication, particularly novel drugs warning of a panoply of contraindicated side effects worse than the ailment, including death was the most qualified. The more diagnostic irradiation, the more erudite and patient oriented the “ godly healer”. The more severe the diagnosis, the more educated the healer. That one certainly earned his/her creds! Such caring led my mother to believe her forays to the doctor’s office were social visits. The referrals for yet another CT scan, chest x-ray,PET scan and five more newly marketed pharmaceuticals were gifts.
Two years and 23 chest scans later, a small mass on her right lung was discovered. One might think she’d be horrified. Terrified. Instead, she felt validated. These “l experts” were so caring and devoted , they found a tumor! Because so thorough we’re they!
What was the recommended treatment? Removing the lung, of course. Followed with radiation therapy. There was absolutely no getting through to her. I forced her to speak with my personal physician. A wonderful woman. She asked that my mother bring her medical files.When we arrived and the doc looked at the files, I really thought she was going to stroke out.She was horrified. She was very averse to unnecessary diagnostics and novel pharmaceuticals. She was a purist. Stick with tried and true. The less expensive, the better. The least invasive procedures, the better. Get a second opinion. A third before making a drastic decision. One of my clients was a radiation oncologist who ironically moved on to laser spots treatment. She was a real pro and patients who had small lesions that had not yet metastasized yielded great results.My mom wasn’t interested. Better to have the lung removed. She never fully recovered from the surgery.Six months and 12 radiation treatments later, a spot appeared on her remaining lung. Then it was chemo and radiation. Then it was terminal and the thoughtful doctor prescribed a “ life extending” miracle drug.36k per treatment. Insurance didn’t cover it.She had every adverse symptom and was suffering so, she couldn’t finish the prescription. Three months of hospice care later, her mind gone, dosed to comatose on morphine, she passed. It was the most hideous, dehumanizing and sadistic treatment of a trusting human being imaginable. Unimaginable, actually.The Fauci Treatment that 19,000 innocent, trusting HIV/AIDS infected human lab experiments succumbed to. He withheld the cheap, safe,off label sulfa antibiotic, Bactrim. The single medication effective in treating the rare PCP pneumonia AIDS afflicted patients invariably succumbed to. Suffocating to death.
And the sadistic torturer and mass murderer, Dr. Mengele Moreau Faustus is revered by the masses. Worshipped. Thank you Lord Faustus! Thank you for destroying everything once held sacred by conscientious humans. And special thanks to all who were well aware of Faustus’ 45 years of ineptitude, ego, corruption, graft, coverups,psychopathy and failing upwards who cheered him on… rewarded him with Presidential Medals Of Honor, money, lavish praise,stolen patents for products invented by others. Thank you Presidents Bush, Obama, Biden. Thank you corrupt, complicit bastards Pence, Mitch,Andrea Mitchell, Dick Cheney, Liz Cheney, Robert Mueller,Mike Bloomberg,Victoria Nuland, Chris Wray,Chris Christie,David Gergen, Mark Milley , Esper,Condi,Susan Rice,Samantha Powers,Clinton, Lesley Stahl, Petraeus, Nicole Wallace, Karl Rove, Gottlieb, Kadlec,Woodward, Bernstein, Anderson Cooper , Azar,Ari Fleischer,Doug Schoen,Cofer Black, Bill Barr, Richard Burr, Brennan, Blinken, Haberman,Lindsey Graham, John Roberts,Leahy,Panetta,Austin,Pelosi, Schumer, Magic Johnson, Elton John, Zeke Emanuel, Kirby, David Geffen, Wolf Blitzer, Matthew Modine, Swoozie Kurtz, , BD Wong, ,George Takei,David Corn, Scott Weiner,JB Pritzker, David Sirota, Jan Wenner,Huff-Po, Daily Beast, NYT and everybody who knew and acted in complicity. Either by silence, consent or gleeful , supportive activism. And fuck you, Trump. This happened under YOUR watch! Own it!
Goodness, Gail. Thank you for sharing your mother’s harrowing story. I am so deeply sorry for what she suffered—despite your heroic efforts to save her from her trust in those who lucratively tortured her to death. It is all the more tragic that her experience is emblematic of the fateful path so many others have resolutely traipsed down.
It’s the first time I’ve made a public statement. The pain and anger have been bottled up for so long. Your friend’s story caused a dam to burst. Ten years of combustion.
I have a 68yo sibling going thru one thing after another after taking the clot shot 3 or 4 times. He has had a second bypass operation, first one was 14 yrs ago, now diabetes and daily shot for that, and last fall prostate cancer and that removed, now going to have radiation for that. I am hoping for the best while expecting nothing but the worst. Thank you for sharing your story. And thank you too MMA.
Anger is fuel for justice. Use it to help prevent the travesty of medical violence inflicted on your mother from happening to other vulnerable people. I'm so very sorry for your mother's suffering and for your loss. I have my own story of medical malpractice with my mother, too. It's seems women are lab rats to many of these doctors. I'm blessed to have a truly aware and enlightened doctor who never prescribes without seriously discussing alternatives. But when they were appropriate he would and does. We talk extensively about the state of medical care so much that I consider him a friend and ally. He plainly stated (though not publicly to my knowledge) that I should not take the shot. For that, i respect him. I just wish more doctors were more public with their positions.
Stories like this are uplifting, except for the death of a loved one who has been taken down by their medical treatments. I know of only one or two who have survived cancer after radiation/chemo out of dozens.
And wishing you an exuberant well deserved Happy Stackaversary MMA....everything about you and your writings is unique. We are enthralled when you take up your pen, xo
You hit the nail on the head if you made the connection between NEVERMORE and NEVER AGAIN.
During the darkest days of the COVID nightmare, it did feel like the exact political conditions which prevailed in 1930s Germany were predominant, so it wouldn´t have felt appropriate to call our publication NEVER AGAIN. What we wanted to point out was that the exact thing we were taught to be wary of was happening before our eyes, and we needed to stop it. Hence, NEVERMORE!
Vera Sharav spoke very poignantly on this topic. As a holocaust survivor she has gravitas that is difficult to argue with. She has also done the research and followed those who were complicit but never punished, like IBM and Ford and sees some of the same players running the same playbook. Evil has been around since the beginning and knows what works. Fortunately Our Father in Heaven, the Author of Truth, allows us to see it for what it is. Now, what do we do with that knowledge?
Thank you for being a light in some very dark times. I always appreciate your perspective and kind words.
You're incredibly skilled at painting a clear picture for people to look at the world differently. I have no doubt that you've inspired many to keep going when it hasn't been easy, I can personally attest to that.
MAA, I’d like to ditto the above as I’m not very eloquent and Gabriel nails it perfectly!! Thank you and much appreciation and love from the free state of Texas.
MAA your work will resonate in future decades with the same power as Camus and Arendt (and the spirit of the Repo Man soundtrack)
can i give a plug for john c.a. manley, who wrote what I believe is the first lockdown novel, much ado about corona....with a cover by jordan henderson
nymusicdaily, your comments always floor me. Thank you for your abiding faith in my work and being a part of this journey. (And I knew you’d appreciate the soundtrack :-)
And absolutely, please plug away—how appropriate that the book has a Jordan Henderson cover! Thank you for alerting me to it.
In the early dark days of 2020, it was a Winter Oak essay which alerted me to the essential evil of what was happening and how what was happening was just part of a long history of the attempt by corporations in league with government and public institutions to stifle the human spirit and suck all joy from our lives, all spontaneity, creativity, enterprise and freedom. I knew these monsters, from within. I had always known them. My spirit and my soul knew them, but it took Paul's essay for me to consciously recognise them.
So thank you for this. We are all of us part of a shining web which resonates and makes profound and unexpected connections each time we move to express ourselves in writing or via spoken words. Even our thoughts, unspoken and unwritten, resonate across this shimmering web.
Nothing wrong with being a peaceful anarchist. Nothing at all. The powers that be have never shown they know how to govern the world or any of us for that matter.
We are lucky to have the likes of you here on substack along with so many others who bring us truth everyday we would never hear about via MSM. So I guess we are lucky we all have Substack too.
Thank you and Happy Stackiversary, may you have many more to come!
Thank you, dear Laura, and “Harold & Maude” was one of my favorite films as a teenager and introduced me to Cat Stevens! Now, the two are forever intertwined for me.
Dear Laura, I hate to burst your Cat bubble, but he is now called Yousef Mohamed and he was banned from the US due to his calling for the murder of an English citizen for writing a work of fiction. Komani issued a fatwa suborning the murder of Salman Rushdie for the satanic verses and Cat also stated publicly the same thing. He claims he was coerced into it but if any religion cannot take criticism in the form of fiction, then just how defensible is it? He called for the murder of a writer who is an English author so not so much love of the cat, just his lyrics. For me it was like I found out that my favorite actor was a Nazi. I would find it hard to look at them again.
Yes, that was a tragic development, and to me, they are two different people. I can still appreciate Cat Stevens and his music while mourning the menticided fundamentalist he became.
Yes Jack. I’m aware of that sad fact. And like MAA said, they are two different people. I too mourn what he has become. I also feel as you do. Such a betrayal. 😢
I saw him in concert when I was 17. He was NOT an entertainer. I was so disappointed.
Very sad Laura and MAA, like you , his music was great , timeless , tragic turn . Thanks MAA for lighting the way to truth ! “Menticided Fundamentalist “.... perfect term. Thanks again MAA and congratulations!
We are either freedom lovers or those who support tyranny. No wonder our country is divided--these two groups cannot coexist, one must be destroyed. Long live freedom.
What an absolute treat.I will reread and re-listen.
"Eventually, after layer after layer of artifice has been peeled away, we will see the horrible truth about the psychopathic mafia and the physical and psychological slavery they have imposed on us for so long."
"Once we have understood this, we will all know what to do next."
🎯 We will. Shedding those layers has to come first. And because we are shedding layers with identities once attached, (I am a Democrat for instance) when we've shed all the layers, we are not the same people we were when we started. What do humans with a 'core' identity - freed from illusions - look like? We're gonna find out.
Many many thanks that you spend your time doing what you do, Margaret-Anna. It's always a lift, and you've introduced me to more writers. Best to you.
Thank you for being among those that allowed me to retain my sanity throughout the hurricane of insanity that enveloped the world in 2020.
I am not exaggerating. The sense of isolation as the madness spread throughout The People's Republic of Silicon Valley, which then evolved into outright demonization and calls to deny "people like me" freedom of movement, medical care, and even to ship us off to parts unknown, especially by people I'd known and worked with for years, was extremely difficult to endure.
Engaging with you in gato's comment section, and then reading and watching your work as it has evolved to the point where you are taking your rightful place among the true intellectuals of our time has been gratifying, inspiring and uplifting.
You have the intestinal fortitude of a Rhodesian Ridgeback and the pen of a prose Edna St. Vincent Millay, and have truly risen to the occasion. Good on you.
Wow, libertate. These words are tremendously meaningful coming from you, whom I think of as a Stoic rooted in the wisdom of your rich literary and philosophical repertoire.
I am forever grateful for your enriching quotations, delectable sense of humor, and faithful support. Thank you for being here and playing a significant role in helping me do this work.
Well done, that was an uplifting read in a time of bleakness.
This idiocracy becomes more insane by the day. People around me are hopelessly mentally ill, as they are perfectly adjusted to our abnormal society - to paraphrase Aldous Huxley.
Keep up the good work MAA. Sane voices in an insane world grow louder, more noticeable, and are increasingly important to have around.
I had to search for the word 'Apocaloptimist' with a non-google search engine to find out what it meant, I've learned something new. As well as Huxley's interview that was a hidden gem from me until now, thanks.
Margaret, you may be able to help me with something please. I've just posted a Thai translation of the World Council for Health's spike protein detox leaflet. I tried submitting it via their online form but got blocked due to using a VPN, I think.
I thought you might be in contact with Tess Lawrie and possibly be able to send her this - they have many languages available to download this flyer on their site, so it'd be great to have Thai added too (the Thais are getting boosted into oblivion here). Here's the post:
I should be able to find your email on my mailing list. Is it okay if I share that with the translations coordinator so she can connect with you directly?
Oki doki, go ahead and share my email with the translation coordinator. The credit goes to my Thai wife - I just sit in as a human dictionary to help her decipher some of the more complex medical vocabulary. I'll ask her nicely if she can crack on with translating "Mistakes Were NOT Made" as well as the Better Way Charter. 🤝
I have to say that most of you who quote Huxley do not know who he was! The entire family were and are eugenics pushers as are the current world controllers trying to inject us to death. I suggest some reading to clarify. The Modern Anglo-Dutch Empire; Its Origins, Evolution, and Antihuman Outlook by Robert Ingraham. Murder by injection by Eustice Mullins and take a look at the Corbett report by James Corbett as his archive of documentaries on these subjects is extensive. The history we all received in school was a lie. Ye shall know the truth and the truth will make you mad.!
Thank you for the references, Jack. I am aware of Julian’s position on eugenics but have never seen evidence of Aldous’s apart from guilt-by-association accusations. The entire body of his work is bent on exposing such grim potentialities, and he passionately reminds us that “the price of freedom is eternal vigilance.”
That said, if there does turn out to be evidence of this accusation, it does not negate the value of his words, which were extraordinarily prescient and included not only warnings but also proposed solutions such as:
“Only a large-scale popular movement toward decentralization and self-help can arrest the present tendency toward statism.”
—Foreword to the 1946 edition of Brave New World
I previously stated my position on refusing to throw away the baby with the bathwater in this footnote:
“Quoting individuals here and elsewhere throughout my work does not constitute endorsement of the individual, their actions, or their beliefs. I separate the quotations/art/creation from the speaker/artist/creator and appreciate wisdom where I can find it, even if the source is suspect. If their words are instructive and help us understand a concept more deeply, I am not going to throw them on the rubbish heap of Cancel Culture.
“As I write in my poem, You Can’t Cancel Me:
“I may quote or reference someone you disagree with;
Yes, we should distinguish Aldous' views from those of his brother. They weren't the same person!
Aldous warned of a possible future in which “democracy” and “freedom” would remain the catchwords of the status quo, but in which at the same time “the ruling oligarchy and its highly trained élite of soldiers, policemen, thought-manufacturers and mind-manipulators will quietly run the show as they see fit”.
To prevent this happening, he suggested we should “break up modern society’s vast, machine-like collectives into self-governing, voluntarily co-operating groups, capable of functioning outside the bureaucratic systems of Big Business and Big Government”.
I will never forget the contempt with which my oncologist treated me after I told him that I had no intention of doing chemo/radiation. I will also never forget that 8 years ago my younger sister was coerced into doing chemo/radiation by her employer or they would deny her disability income. She did not survive her 'treatment'. I grieve her still.
Being a dissident is hard. Most of the time you're alone against many. I was lucky that I had some support but I don't blame people who were under they most intense social, emotional and economic pressure you could imagine. I'm so grateful for my small tribe of resisters both online and offline who helped to hold the line against this psy-op that is still ongoing.
Thank you for all your excellent work Margaret.
I am so sorry your sister became a victim of the Medical-Pharmaceutical-Complex, Signme Uplease. I congratulate you on having the courage to defy the “experts” and have survived as a result.
I am continually grateful we dissidents have found one another. As dark as this period has been, the beacons of light have illuminated the twilight and inspired others to shine their light as well:
https://www.bobmoran.co.uk/downloads-1/beacons-download
Kudos for trusting your instinct and not caving to elitist medical tyranny. My mother truly believed that the physician who prescribed the most medication, particularly novel drugs warning of a panoply of contraindicated side effects worse than the ailment, including death was the most qualified. The more diagnostic irradiation, the more erudite and patient oriented the “ godly healer”. The more severe the diagnosis, the more educated the healer. That one certainly earned his/her creds! Such caring led my mother to believe her forays to the doctor’s office were social visits. The referrals for yet another CT scan, chest x-ray,PET scan and five more newly marketed pharmaceuticals were gifts.
Two years and 23 chest scans later, a small mass on her right lung was discovered. One might think she’d be horrified. Terrified. Instead, she felt validated. These “l experts” were so caring and devoted , they found a tumor! Because so thorough we’re they!
What was the recommended treatment? Removing the lung, of course. Followed with radiation therapy. There was absolutely no getting through to her. I forced her to speak with my personal physician. A wonderful woman. She asked that my mother bring her medical files.When we arrived and the doc looked at the files, I really thought she was going to stroke out.She was horrified. She was very averse to unnecessary diagnostics and novel pharmaceuticals. She was a purist. Stick with tried and true. The less expensive, the better. The least invasive procedures, the better. Get a second opinion. A third before making a drastic decision. One of my clients was a radiation oncologist who ironically moved on to laser spots treatment. She was a real pro and patients who had small lesions that had not yet metastasized yielded great results.My mom wasn’t interested. Better to have the lung removed. She never fully recovered from the surgery.Six months and 12 radiation treatments later, a spot appeared on her remaining lung. Then it was chemo and radiation. Then it was terminal and the thoughtful doctor prescribed a “ life extending” miracle drug.36k per treatment. Insurance didn’t cover it.She had every adverse symptom and was suffering so, she couldn’t finish the prescription. Three months of hospice care later, her mind gone, dosed to comatose on morphine, she passed. It was the most hideous, dehumanizing and sadistic treatment of a trusting human being imaginable. Unimaginable, actually.The Fauci Treatment that 19,000 innocent, trusting HIV/AIDS infected human lab experiments succumbed to. He withheld the cheap, safe,off label sulfa antibiotic, Bactrim. The single medication effective in treating the rare PCP pneumonia AIDS afflicted patients invariably succumbed to. Suffocating to death.
And the sadistic torturer and mass murderer, Dr. Mengele Moreau Faustus is revered by the masses. Worshipped. Thank you Lord Faustus! Thank you for destroying everything once held sacred by conscientious humans. And special thanks to all who were well aware of Faustus’ 45 years of ineptitude, ego, corruption, graft, coverups,psychopathy and failing upwards who cheered him on… rewarded him with Presidential Medals Of Honor, money, lavish praise,stolen patents for products invented by others. Thank you Presidents Bush, Obama, Biden. Thank you corrupt, complicit bastards Pence, Mitch,Andrea Mitchell, Dick Cheney, Liz Cheney, Robert Mueller,Mike Bloomberg,Victoria Nuland, Chris Wray,Chris Christie,David Gergen, Mark Milley , Esper,Condi,Susan Rice,Samantha Powers,Clinton, Lesley Stahl, Petraeus, Nicole Wallace, Karl Rove, Gottlieb, Kadlec,Woodward, Bernstein, Anderson Cooper , Azar,Ari Fleischer,Doug Schoen,Cofer Black, Bill Barr, Richard Burr, Brennan, Blinken, Haberman,Lindsey Graham, John Roberts,Leahy,Panetta,Austin,Pelosi, Schumer, Magic Johnson, Elton John, Zeke Emanuel, Kirby, David Geffen, Wolf Blitzer, Matthew Modine, Swoozie Kurtz, , BD Wong, ,George Takei,David Corn, Scott Weiner,JB Pritzker, David Sirota, Jan Wenner,Huff-Po, Daily Beast, NYT and everybody who knew and acted in complicity. Either by silence, consent or gleeful , supportive activism. And fuck you, Trump. This happened under YOUR watch! Own it!
Goodness, Gail. Thank you for sharing your mother’s harrowing story. I am so deeply sorry for what she suffered—despite your heroic efforts to save her from her trust in those who lucratively tortured her to death. It is all the more tragic that her experience is emblematic of the fateful path so many others have resolutely traipsed down.
It’s the first time I’ve made a public statement. The pain and anger have been bottled up for so long. Your friend’s story caused a dam to burst. Ten years of combustion.
😭💔🤗
You’re the coolest.
I have a 68yo sibling going thru one thing after another after taking the clot shot 3 or 4 times. He has had a second bypass operation, first one was 14 yrs ago, now diabetes and daily shot for that, and last fall prostate cancer and that removed, now going to have radiation for that. I am hoping for the best while expecting nothing but the worst. Thank you for sharing your story. And thank you too MMA.
Oh, dear Lord....
Your outburst of anger directed at ALL the right people was deeply satisfying to read.
May your Mother RIP, you named them all..... and you did everything you could, so rest easy knowing that.
Anger is fuel for justice. Use it to help prevent the travesty of medical violence inflicted on your mother from happening to other vulnerable people. I'm so very sorry for your mother's suffering and for your loss. I have my own story of medical malpractice with my mother, too. It's seems women are lab rats to many of these doctors. I'm blessed to have a truly aware and enlightened doctor who never prescribes without seriously discussing alternatives. But when they were appropriate he would and does. We talk extensively about the state of medical care so much that I consider him a friend and ally. He plainly stated (though not publicly to my knowledge) that I should not take the shot. For that, i respect him. I just wish more doctors were more public with their positions.
Anger is (can be) fuel for justice. I like that! For one thing: it's a good few steps up the emotional ladder from depression.
Healing, peace, and love to you, Gail.
“Being a dissident is hard. Most of the time you're alone against many.” Keep holding the line, there are many still who support your ideals.
Stories like this are uplifting, except for the death of a loved one who has been taken down by their medical treatments. I know of only one or two who have survived cancer after radiation/chemo out of dozens.
I’d love to hear your story! Do you have a substack?
I never used it. Need to get my act together.
Grieving with you. Stay strong.
Nevermore indeed !
And wishing you an exuberant well deserved Happy Stackaversary MMA....everything about you and your writings is unique. We are enthralled when you take up your pen, xo
Thank you so much, wendy, and as long as I have breath, I shall never set it down! 🖋
Happy stackiversary! Thank you for fighting the good fight with us 💕❤️💕
Thank you, Toxicanadian, and it is my profound honor to do so! 🛡🙌
💕🤜🤛💕
Seriously, think how far Substack has gone in the last two years
Isn’t it wonderful to see it blossom like this? (although I think you mean how far it has come, as opposed to how far it has gone ;-)
Incredible. Congrats to you MAA!
I sort of meant it's "reach". But yes, how far it has come.
Haha, no worries, I know what you meant, I was just teasing since the connotations of “gone” made me laugh :-)
Teasing is good in my book!...:)
I figured you wouldn’t mind since you have such a good sense of humor :-)
Oh, it'll be much more intense, than merely anarchy, if they try to bring back masks and the rest of the nonsense.
NEVER AGAIN!
NEVER FORGET! NEVER FORGIVE! NEVER AGAIN!
NEVERMORE!
You hit the nail on the head if you made the connection between NEVERMORE and NEVER AGAIN.
During the darkest days of the COVID nightmare, it did feel like the exact political conditions which prevailed in 1930s Germany were predominant, so it wouldn´t have felt appropriate to call our publication NEVER AGAIN. What we wanted to point out was that the exact thing we were taught to be wary of was happening before our eyes, and we needed to stop it. Hence, NEVERMORE!
✊
NEVERMORE!!!
Vera Sharav spoke very poignantly on this topic. As a holocaust survivor she has gravitas that is difficult to argue with. She has also done the research and followed those who were complicit but never punished, like IBM and Ford and sees some of the same players running the same playbook. Evil has been around since the beginning and knows what works. Fortunately Our Father in Heaven, the Author of Truth, allows us to see it for what it is. Now, what do we do with that knowledge?
Thank you for being a light in some very dark times. I always appreciate your perspective and kind words.
You're incredibly skilled at painting a clear picture for people to look at the world differently. I have no doubt that you've inspired many to keep going when it hasn't been easy, I can personally attest to that.
What a moving comment, Gabriel, and it is heartening to know I have played some small role in your meaningful contributions.
MAA, I’d like to ditto the above as I’m not very eloquent and Gabriel nails it perfectly!! Thank you and much appreciation and love from the free state of Texas.
Howdy, Butterfly2510, and thank you for your gracious words!
MAA your work will resonate in future decades with the same power as Camus and Arendt (and the spirit of the Repo Man soundtrack)
can i give a plug for john c.a. manley, who wrote what I believe is the first lockdown novel, much ado about corona....with a cover by jordan henderson
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/much-ado-about-corona-john-c-a-manley/1141363425
nymusicdaily, your comments always floor me. Thank you for your abiding faith in my work and being a part of this journey. (And I knew you’d appreciate the soundtrack :-)
And absolutely, please plug away—how appropriate that the book has a Jordan Henderson cover! Thank you for alerting me to it.
thanks MAA, coming from you that means a lot
Here's to the best, Margaret Anna Alice!
May 5 is my three-year Stackiversary.
Thank you, Frederick, and wow—congratulations on your upcoming three-year Stackiversary! 🎊
In the early dark days of 2020, it was a Winter Oak essay which alerted me to the essential evil of what was happening and how what was happening was just part of a long history of the attempt by corporations in league with government and public institutions to stifle the human spirit and suck all joy from our lives, all spontaneity, creativity, enterprise and freedom. I knew these monsters, from within. I had always known them. My spirit and my soul knew them, but it took Paul's essay for me to consciously recognise them.
So thank you for this. We are all of us part of a shining web which resonates and makes profound and unexpected connections each time we move to express ourselves in writing or via spoken words. Even our thoughts, unspoken and unwritten, resonate across this shimmering web.
What a powerful comment, Jaime, and I’m sure Paul will be very moved to read this!
Yes, thank you Jaime. That's really gratifying to hear. You're right - it's the shining light of our with-energy that will see us through.
MAA, you are such an inspiration to me! Thank you for all you do!
And I am so thankful you will keep doing it...Happy Stackiversary!!!
Aww, thank you for your sweet words and spirit, Bianca, and it is a joy to have you as a reader!
Nothing wrong with being a peaceful anarchist. Nothing at all. The powers that be have never shown they know how to govern the world or any of us for that matter.
✌️✊
We are lucky to have the likes of you here on substack along with so many others who bring us truth everyday we would never hear about via MSM. So I guess we are lucky we all have Substack too.
Thank you and Happy Stackiversary, may you have many more to come!
Thank you for your beautiful words, KellyG, and I do feel lucky and grateful, indeed! 🍀
Happy Stackaversary MAA - I am grateful for you and your masterful prose. God bless you.
PS. Cat Stevens was my fave as a teenager. 🎵Oh baby baby it’s a wild world. 🎵
Oh how prophetic that was!
Thank you, dear Laura, and “Harold & Maude” was one of my favorite films as a teenager and introduced me to Cat Stevens! Now, the two are forever intertwined for me.
Haha, amen to prophetic!
Dear Laura, I hate to burst your Cat bubble, but he is now called Yousef Mohamed and he was banned from the US due to his calling for the murder of an English citizen for writing a work of fiction. Komani issued a fatwa suborning the murder of Salman Rushdie for the satanic verses and Cat also stated publicly the same thing. He claims he was coerced into it but if any religion cannot take criticism in the form of fiction, then just how defensible is it? He called for the murder of a writer who is an English author so not so much love of the cat, just his lyrics. For me it was like I found out that my favorite actor was a Nazi. I would find it hard to look at them again.
Yes, that was a tragic development, and to me, they are two different people. I can still appreciate Cat Stevens and his music while mourning the menticided fundamentalist he became.
Yes Jack. I’m aware of that sad fact. And like MAA said, they are two different people. I too mourn what he has become. I also feel as you do. Such a betrayal. 😢
I saw him in concert when I was 17. He was NOT an entertainer. I was so disappointed.
Very sad Laura and MAA, like you , his music was great , timeless , tragic turn . Thanks MAA for lighting the way to truth ! “Menticided Fundamentalist “.... perfect term. Thanks again MAA and congratulations!
We are either freedom lovers or those who support tyranny. No wonder our country is divided--these two groups cannot coexist, one must be destroyed. Long live freedom.
Beautifully stated, Ruth. Here’s to freedom! 🙌
Exactly. At this point there's no shades of grey.
Make no mistake, the Left has already launched thousands of terrible ships. Destination; totalitarianism.
I will also add, most Republicans are not our friends.
Unipartheid.
What an absolute treat.I will reread and re-listen.
"Eventually, after layer after layer of artifice has been peeled away, we will see the horrible truth about the psychopathic mafia and the physical and psychological slavery they have imposed on us for so long."
"Once we have understood this, we will all know what to do next."
🎯 We will. Shedding those layers has to come first. And because we are shedding layers with identities once attached, (I am a Democrat for instance) when we've shed all the layers, we are not the same people we were when we started. What do humans with a 'core' identity - freed from illusions - look like? We're gonna find out.
Many many thanks that you spend your time doing what you do, Margaret-Anna. It's always a lift, and you've introduced me to more writers. Best to you.
You cut to the quick with those incisive observations, Kathleen. And I do think Susan tapped into what we are in our unfettered essence: FREE!
Grateful to have you as a reader, fellow word warrior, and friend, Kathleen.
The feeling is fully mutual.💕
Thank you for being among those that allowed me to retain my sanity throughout the hurricane of insanity that enveloped the world in 2020.
I am not exaggerating. The sense of isolation as the madness spread throughout The People's Republic of Silicon Valley, which then evolved into outright demonization and calls to deny "people like me" freedom of movement, medical care, and even to ship us off to parts unknown, especially by people I'd known and worked with for years, was extremely difficult to endure.
Engaging with you in gato's comment section, and then reading and watching your work as it has evolved to the point where you are taking your rightful place among the true intellectuals of our time has been gratifying, inspiring and uplifting.
You have the intestinal fortitude of a Rhodesian Ridgeback and the pen of a prose Edna St. Vincent Millay, and have truly risen to the occasion. Good on you.
Happy anniversary Margaret.
Wow, libertate. These words are tremendously meaningful coming from you, whom I think of as a Stoic rooted in the wisdom of your rich literary and philosophical repertoire.
I am forever grateful for your enriching quotations, delectable sense of humor, and faithful support. Thank you for being here and playing a significant role in helping me do this work.
Well done, that was an uplifting read in a time of bleakness.
This idiocracy becomes more insane by the day. People around me are hopelessly mentally ill, as they are perfectly adjusted to our abnormal society - to paraphrase Aldous Huxley.
Keep up the good work MAA. Sane voices in an insane world grow louder, more noticeable, and are increasingly important to have around.
As an Apocaloptimist, I am happy to hear you found it uplifting, Nicholas.
Have you seen Huxley’s brilliant Mike Wallace interview? I quote it extensively in this piece if you’d like to savor some morsels:
• “Letter to the German Bundestag” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-the-german-bundestag)
I had to search for the word 'Apocaloptimist' with a non-google search engine to find out what it meant, I've learned something new. As well as Huxley's interview that was a hidden gem from me until now, thanks.
Margaret, you may be able to help me with something please. I've just posted a Thai translation of the World Council for Health's spike protein detox leaflet. I tried submitting it via their online form but got blocked due to using a VPN, I think.
I thought you might be in contact with Tess Lawrie and possibly be able to send her this - they have many languages available to download this flyer on their site, so it'd be great to have Thai added too (the Thais are getting boosted into oblivion here). Here's the post:
https://open.substack.com/pub/nicholascreed/p/spike-protein-detox-summary-leaflet?r=16xjwn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
I am certain WCH would be thrilled and grateful to learn you have translated their guide into Thai!!
Would you be willing to translate Mistakes Were NOT Made (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/mistakes-were-not-made-an-anthem) into Thai? You can see the other languages that have been translated so far here:
• “Mistakes Were NOT Made: Translations & PDFs” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/mistakes-were-not-made-translations)
I know WCH is also looking for people to translate their Better Way Charter (https://worldcouncilforhealth.org/better-way-charter/) if you are interested in that little project.
I should be able to find your email on my mailing list. Is it okay if I share that with the translations coordinator so she can connect with you directly?
Thanks so much, Nicholas!
Oki doki, go ahead and share my email with the translation coordinator. The credit goes to my Thai wife - I just sit in as a human dictionary to help her decipher some of the more complex medical vocabulary. I'll ask her nicely if she can crack on with translating "Mistakes Were NOT Made" as well as the Better Way Charter. 🤝
Wonderful and much gratitude to you and your wife, Nicholas!
I have to say that most of you who quote Huxley do not know who he was! The entire family were and are eugenics pushers as are the current world controllers trying to inject us to death. I suggest some reading to clarify. The Modern Anglo-Dutch Empire; Its Origins, Evolution, and Antihuman Outlook by Robert Ingraham. Murder by injection by Eustice Mullins and take a look at the Corbett report by James Corbett as his archive of documentaries on these subjects is extensive. The history we all received in school was a lie. Ye shall know the truth and the truth will make you mad.!
Thank you for the references, Jack. I am aware of Julian’s position on eugenics but have never seen evidence of Aldous’s apart from guilt-by-association accusations. The entire body of his work is bent on exposing such grim potentialities, and he passionately reminds us that “the price of freedom is eternal vigilance.”
That said, if there does turn out to be evidence of this accusation, it does not negate the value of his words, which were extraordinarily prescient and included not only warnings but also proposed solutions such as:
“Only a large-scale popular movement toward decentralization and self-help can arrest the present tendency toward statism.”
—Foreword to the 1946 edition of Brave New World
I previously stated my position on refusing to throw away the baby with the bathwater in this footnote:
“Quoting individuals here and elsewhere throughout my work does not constitute endorsement of the individual, their actions, or their beliefs. I separate the quotations/art/creation from the speaker/artist/creator and appreciate wisdom where I can find it, even if the source is suspect. If their words are instructive and help us understand a concept more deeply, I am not going to throw them on the rubbish heap of Cancel Culture.
“As I write in my poem, You Can’t Cancel Me:
“I may quote or reference someone you disagree with;
“I may quote or reference someone *I* disagree with.” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/my-war-missive-from-a-fallen-veteran#footnote-1-83583324)
Yes, we should distinguish Aldous' views from those of his brother. They weren't the same person!
Aldous warned of a possible future in which “democracy” and “freedom” would remain the catchwords of the status quo, but in which at the same time “the ruling oligarchy and its highly trained élite of soldiers, policemen, thought-manufacturers and mind-manipulators will quietly run the show as they see fit”.
To prevent this happening, he suggested we should “break up modern society’s vast, machine-like collectives into self-governing, voluntarily co-operating groups, capable of functioning outside the bureaucratic systems of Big Business and Big Government”.
See: https://orgrad.wordpress.com/a-z-of-thinkers/aldous-huxley/