"Fear suppresses curiosity" - that explains so much of the COVID era. No matter how smart someone is, they can be scared into believing and obeying just about anything. Propaganda and tribal reinforcement really work, especially while they continue to perfect the delivery systems. I don't share your hope, but i do hope your hope wins out :) Time's running short, though...
I think it also explains the Woke. And how they can be so easily manipulated. Pride, also, can keep people from admitting when they've been hoodwinked. There are people who have said "I was wrong about COVID and the jab" But too few have apologized for calling us killers and for being so willing to put us in concentration camps.
Also I would like to apologize for supporting the Patriot Act. I was so wrong and my country is paying a huge price because of those of us who supported that fascist law.
I often hear coincidence theorists mask their fear behind "well, I'm just not smart enough/expert enough in xyz field to understand it. And the experts in the field are."
I've asked a commercial architect if he thought the WTC buildings fell through gravity (answer: "yeah, of course.")
My dear friend, a phd and data scientist, was upset that I was "mis-understanding" the CDC all-cause mortality data in mid 2020. (Because I'm not a data scientist, you see. She never looked at it.)
Our culture of specialization has led people to think they don't need to use common sense.
Yes. I have had identical face to face conversations with architects, engineers and physicians. It's rare educated person who can confront the reality that they may not know as much as they thought on the spot. Most walk away shaking their head without realizing that they simply do not have a counter argument. They have been taught to dismiss dissenters.
As a native New Yorker and someone who had worked in Lower Manhattan and commuted through the World Trade Center, I questioned instantly the nonsense that planes made those Towers "collapse." How absurd...
I joined Boston 9/11 Truth soon after its founding by a man who is my friend to this day. We brought Richard Gage to the Boston area. At one point during his painstaking presentation of the facts of Building 7, I raised my hand to comment. Without intending to be mean or denigrate his work, I simply said, "Facts don't matter." That caught Richard off guard and heads in the room turned to look at me...This has to be 17, 18 years ago now?
I have held to that -- that facts don't matter. They do, of course, but only after the 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 in people's heads start to crack...The story comes first, followed by a search for facts to make sense of a flaw in the story.
Experience with vitriol, insult, "dissing" from friends, colleagues, and the whole country regarding Sep 11 made predicting the conduct of the majority toward the COVID operation a piece of cake. I tried a little bit in the beginning, even just asking questions like, "Well, what are the symptoms? What makes them untreatable, especially by this area's (Boston) doctors?"
My fellow Americans were having none of it. We left the area after nearly 30 years. We packed our stuff and left, likely never to return -- except maybe for family weddings or funerals.
P.S. I would argue that there is no need for fearlessness. In fact, that is impossible -- and unwise. What is needed is the reactivation of virtue -- one, in particular. That virtue is courage. We're all "entitled" to be afraid, but 'tis a vice indeed to demand that others cater to our cowardice. Doing so acts to the detriment of 𝒂𝒍𝒍 that is good and decent and 𝒂𝒍𝒍 that makes life worth living.
I don't think so. They want to be in the group that has it right. The idea that the orthodoxy could be wrong about such big topics is inconceivable to them. This is no different than saying that they are deeply programmed.
This is why when pushed with logical arguments and information that would upend their narrative they will retreat, rationalizing that they maybe a little confused but higher ups in their collective would be able to defend their position. This is a certainty for them, so why even waste their time checking?
Here I am speaking for most of them. There will be the odd person in that group that is ready to take the next step. Those are the ones we must reach.
Which is why the most deluded folks (Covid, 9/11, etc) often have advanced degrees or are successful professionals. They are part of the system, the establishment, and they can't fathom that their entire reality construct could be based on lies and manipulation.
Great article. You do a wonderful job of pointing out the implausibility of the coincidence theories we’ve been fed. The narrative is helpful for seeing the big picture of a peace president murdered by a pro war regime, and the manipulation it has exerted via 9/11 & Covid. Bobby was in my mind as I read. Thanks
Great piece. So straight forward & concise. The question for me is always how do we get this information to people outside of our bubble? As you have said, they are afraid and therefore not curious.
That's a job for all of us. I have endeavored to find a balance between being measured and provocative in my writing. The hope is that readers will find one or two people in their own circles that may be willing to consider what I am offering. That's the only way these kinds of ideas can spread.
Whether intentional or not, the strategy to ignore and mock people who interpret what we are told with healthy skepticism and distrust has resulted in more shrill and extreme content coming from our "side". This deepens the divide. Divided we cannot stand against the behemoths who are behind this illusion.
Sometimes it is better to offer some bread crumbs so that someone on the other side can take a few baby steps into clarity rather than hit them with the most disquieting parts of the real story. In the end we cannot carry people upon our shoulders. People have to take the steps themselves.
“We who can see coincidence theories for what they are—cloaks over the eyes of the fearful which simultaneously serve to hide the machinations of powerful interests that create the calamities and perpetuate fear—must realize that ours is ultimately a message of liberation and not of disdain and frustration.”
Coincidence Theorists are hypnotized. The CIA obviously knows quite a lot about hypnosis. We need to understand it too. Vulnerability to hypnosis is built in to our language. See "The Bug in our Thinking: https://www.hughwillbourn.com/book - also on Amazon.
Coincidentally, I've been thinking about the people I've met on Pico Island, the Azores. They're kind, open, intelligent, but all of them are vaccinated. Even the organic farmers from Belgium. My attitude toward them is hard to define; puzzled, doubting, alienated For them there's nothing to worry about, no awareness of their ignorance. The same attitude about using pesticides on their vegetable plots and the cell towers in their villages. Those of us who do worry are on another...island.
In the shown table. Add the « yes » to the « not shure/may be » and you get at worst 1/3 beeing awake or on the verge of seeing. This is a lot. Close to the critical mass required to tip the boat I would think
I really appreciate your articles. Keep going. Thanks.
Love reading your stuff, man.
Excellent post, as usual. 👍🏻👍🏻
"Fear suppresses curiosity" - that explains so much of the COVID era. No matter how smart someone is, they can be scared into believing and obeying just about anything. Propaganda and tribal reinforcement really work, especially while they continue to perfect the delivery systems. I don't share your hope, but i do hope your hope wins out :) Time's running short, though...
I think it also explains the Woke. And how they can be so easily manipulated. Pride, also, can keep people from admitting when they've been hoodwinked. There are people who have said "I was wrong about COVID and the jab" But too few have apologized for calling us killers and for being so willing to put us in concentration camps.
Also I would like to apologize for supporting the Patriot Act. I was so wrong and my country is paying a huge price because of those of us who supported that fascist law.
Fabulous article.
I often hear coincidence theorists mask their fear behind "well, I'm just not smart enough/expert enough in xyz field to understand it. And the experts in the field are."
I've asked a commercial architect if he thought the WTC buildings fell through gravity (answer: "yeah, of course.")
My dear friend, a phd and data scientist, was upset that I was "mis-understanding" the CDC all-cause mortality data in mid 2020. (Because I'm not a data scientist, you see. She never looked at it.)
Our culture of specialization has led people to think they don't need to use common sense.
Yes. I have had identical face to face conversations with architects, engineers and physicians. It's rare educated person who can confront the reality that they may not know as much as they thought on the spot. Most walk away shaking their head without realizing that they simply do not have a counter argument. They have been taught to dismiss dissenters.
As a native New Yorker and someone who had worked in Lower Manhattan and commuted through the World Trade Center, I questioned instantly the nonsense that planes made those Towers "collapse." How absurd...
I joined Boston 9/11 Truth soon after its founding by a man who is my friend to this day. We brought Richard Gage to the Boston area. At one point during his painstaking presentation of the facts of Building 7, I raised my hand to comment. Without intending to be mean or denigrate his work, I simply said, "Facts don't matter." That caught Richard off guard and heads in the room turned to look at me...This has to be 17, 18 years ago now?
I have held to that -- that facts don't matter. They do, of course, but only after the 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 in people's heads start to crack...The story comes first, followed by a search for facts to make sense of a flaw in the story.
Experience with vitriol, insult, "dissing" from friends, colleagues, and the whole country regarding Sep 11 made predicting the conduct of the majority toward the COVID operation a piece of cake. I tried a little bit in the beginning, even just asking questions like, "Well, what are the symptoms? What makes them untreatable, especially by this area's (Boston) doctors?"
My fellow Americans were having none of it. We left the area after nearly 30 years. We packed our stuff and left, likely never to return -- except maybe for family weddings or funerals.
P.S. I would argue that there is no need for fearlessness. In fact, that is impossible -- and unwise. What is needed is the reactivation of virtue -- one, in particular. That virtue is courage. We're all "entitled" to be afraid, but 'tis a vice indeed to demand that others cater to our cowardice. Doing so acts to the detriment of 𝒂𝒍𝒍 that is good and decent and 𝒂𝒍𝒍 that makes life worth living.
Is it, at it's core, simply: these professionals want to be in the in-group? Dissenters are the out-group?
I don't think so. They want to be in the group that has it right. The idea that the orthodoxy could be wrong about such big topics is inconceivable to them. This is no different than saying that they are deeply programmed.
This is why when pushed with logical arguments and information that would upend their narrative they will retreat, rationalizing that they maybe a little confused but higher ups in their collective would be able to defend their position. This is a certainty for them, so why even waste their time checking?
Here I am speaking for most of them. There will be the odd person in that group that is ready to take the next step. Those are the ones we must reach.
Which is why the most deluded folks (Covid, 9/11, etc) often have advanced degrees or are successful professionals. They are part of the system, the establishment, and they can't fathom that their entire reality construct could be based on lies and manipulation.
God Bless You for your beauty and courage to speak truth to power.
An important article, one of the best I have read, to put intuition into focus.
🙏 great summary of occurrences that we deserve answers to
Great article. You do a wonderful job of pointing out the implausibility of the coincidence theories we’ve been fed. The narrative is helpful for seeing the big picture of a peace president murdered by a pro war regime, and the manipulation it has exerted via 9/11 & Covid. Bobby was in my mind as I read. Thanks
Great piece. So straight forward & concise. The question for me is always how do we get this information to people outside of our bubble? As you have said, they are afraid and therefore not curious.
That's a job for all of us. I have endeavored to find a balance between being measured and provocative in my writing. The hope is that readers will find one or two people in their own circles that may be willing to consider what I am offering. That's the only way these kinds of ideas can spread.
Whether intentional or not, the strategy to ignore and mock people who interpret what we are told with healthy skepticism and distrust has resulted in more shrill and extreme content coming from our "side". This deepens the divide. Divided we cannot stand against the behemoths who are behind this illusion.
Sometimes it is better to offer some bread crumbs so that someone on the other side can take a few baby steps into clarity rather than hit them with the most disquieting parts of the real story. In the end we cannot carry people upon our shoulders. People have to take the steps themselves.
Amen to that
Excellent, concise article! I guess, I'm not a "coincidence theorist".
“We who can see coincidence theories for what they are—cloaks over the eyes of the fearful which simultaneously serve to hide the machinations of powerful interests that create the calamities and perpetuate fear—must realize that ours is ultimately a message of liberation and not of disdain and frustration.”
Superb!
Coincidence Theorists are hypnotized. The CIA obviously knows quite a lot about hypnosis. We need to understand it too. Vulnerability to hypnosis is built in to our language. See "The Bug in our Thinking: https://www.hughwillbourn.com/book - also on Amazon.
Coincidentally, I've been thinking about the people I've met on Pico Island, the Azores. They're kind, open, intelligent, but all of them are vaccinated. Even the organic farmers from Belgium. My attitude toward them is hard to define; puzzled, doubting, alienated For them there's nothing to worry about, no awareness of their ignorance. The same attitude about using pesticides on their vegetable plots and the cell towers in their villages. Those of us who do worry are on another...island.
It's the ongoing alienation with which I struggle -- on a daily basis.
Detachment works well, even if sensitive to other people.
In the shown table. Add the « yes » to the « not shure/may be » and you get at worst 1/3 beeing awake or on the verge of seeing. This is a lot. Close to the critical mass required to tip the boat I would think
Really excellent breakdown, thanks.