My blog says it’s about everyday magic.
These days the magic is so extreme that it’s turned surreal!
Controlling the narrative was a concept I thought I brought with me from the former communist Yugoslavia. We all know how heavily the communist machine works. Turns out, every system works supported by that same machine.
Only here, it’s wrapped in shinier paper.
The package is quite simple. You have a ruling party that over the decades has developed a support system of acceptable rules disseminated by a web of media and judiciary. Basically. Their competition / opposition is so weak and, no matter what promises they make, they always turn pretty much the same way as their predecessors.
So this keeps going on and on. Eventually, people lose sense of what the real differences are and start believing what the majority believes. Add to that a constant campaign about political correctness, plus a natural need for people to flow down the stream and feel they belong to the same main group, you get a perfect soil to plant ever so subtle control.
I met a stranger today, and after a couple sentences, he says he is beginning to get tired of this isolation and quarantine. He is meeting with his extended family after work, no matter what.
“This is way too fishy what’s going on”, he says.
And I realised, I’m not the only one who feels the same.
It was almost too easy to get us all locked up.
As if somebody just screamed “Virus!”, and we all ducked and froze.
The whole world froze!
At first, it was kind of making sense. Protect the elderly, The invisible threat of people not having symptoms overnight became so intense that we forgot that only yesterday we were walking and dealing with the same people we now avoid so fearfully! We stopped visiting with our family members the next morning, although we were hanging with them every day before that and nobody was in a senior’s home or even travelling recently.
The idea of not overwhelming our healthcare system with predictions that EVERYONE will be infected very soon seemed very real. And kept being repeated day after day. Nobody was even wondering how it is that we, as one of the top ten richest countries in the world, have to depend on China for protective face masks. Put aside the surreal fact that we didn’t make them, but we didn’t even have enough!
And then the respirators. We needed hundreds of thousands, even millions, as predictions kept coming about millions who will need them. But none of that materialized. And, I know, you will say because we all followed the rules, and we are all in this together.
That may be true, but still, a question remains, why were we not ready?
Are we going to be not ready for the next one that is just around the corner? Inevitably.
Today I had to go to the Saint Paul’s hospital in Vancouver for a heart test that was postponed because of the pandemic. The hospital was eerily empty. The medical staff had only me to deal with. There were empty beds everywhere. There were only four of us I counted walking the hallways.
It just didn't make sense to me.
As I am, obviously if you’ve just read this far, one of those who don’t slide down the stream with everybody, at least not all the time, I tend to look for other information, for other points of view, so I can make the most sense of everything. These days it’s extremely hard to even have a different opinion! And control of information is becoming surreal too.
There was a video on u t.u.b.e a few days ago with two doctors from California who own seven medical practices. The local media was interviewing them, and if you were patient enough to watch the whole thing, you’d be at least puzzled, if not shocked by the amount of facts these guys were presenting and questioning. The data they were presenting was completely opposite from the main narrative. The video got viral and in a day got over a million and a half views.
It got deleted!
Because it was presenting an “alternative” view of reality that didn’t fit the acceptable narrative.
Now, you can think whatever you wish about the video if you have watched it, agree or disagree, but you have to be suspicious about this kind of control. To me, it was clear that somebody didn’t like the truth they were exposing, but even if you don’t believe it, don’t you think it’s too much to remove the freedom of deciding what YOU want to believe?
There was another example, even more blatant. A video about a woman, a doctor, who is exposing, fact after fact, from her own experience that included a five day jail time just because she was having a different point of view and exposing the corruption of the leading medical expert who has been all over the news on a daily basis since this started. The video keeps getting deleted although people keep reposting it!
You may say it’s conspiracy theory, it’s lies, it’s this and that, and that’s ok. But we should all agree that it’s not ok to censor different points of view. This is scary. You are not allowed to say anything that contravenes what the majority thinks.
You will be bullied into submission.
You will be forced to go into the closet with your ideas.
What’s even scarier to me is how willingly people accept all of that control.
One of the most recent examples of controlling the narrative was with our Premier who openly supported a corrupted corporation, and after some short time he started refusing to talk about it and answer questions that kept coming. This was very strategically done so the talk about it all had subsided just in time with the election.
Which he won again!
The machine knows exactly what to do and how much. They perfectly know how busy everybody is so not many people have time nor desire to dig deeper then the newspaper titles. They know how to manipulate the interpretations of whatever their opposition does. They serve their agenda, and they are ready to accuse anybody of exactly what they are actually doing behind the curtain.
And I don’t know what the solution for this is. Are we all lost? Is there a way out? Can we actually get out of all of this? Not just the pandemic, but the subtle control that keeps gripping.
I just know it’s not right.
It’s way beyond magical.
It’s getting grotesque.
And I pray people will wake up.
Wake up with the music I still hear.
From the balconies of the better world.
These days the magic is so extreme that it’s turned surreal!
Controlling the narrative was a concept I thought I brought with me from the former communist Yugoslavia. We all know how heavily the communist machine works. Turns out, every system works supported by that same machine.
Only here, it’s wrapped in shinier paper.
The package is quite simple. You have a ruling party that over the decades has developed a support system of acceptable rules disseminated by a web of media and judiciary. Basically. Their competition / opposition is so weak and, no matter what promises they make, they always turn pretty much the same way as their predecessors.
So this keeps going on and on. Eventually, people lose sense of what the real differences are and start believing what the majority believes. Add to that a constant campaign about political correctness, plus a natural need for people to flow down the stream and feel they belong to the same main group, you get a perfect soil to plant ever so subtle control.
I met a stranger today, and after a couple sentences, he says he is beginning to get tired of this isolation and quarantine. He is meeting with his extended family after work, no matter what.
“This is way too fishy what’s going on”, he says.
And I realised, I’m not the only one who feels the same.
It was almost too easy to get us all locked up.
As if somebody just screamed “Virus!”, and we all ducked and froze.
The whole world froze!
At first, it was kind of making sense. Protect the elderly, The invisible threat of people not having symptoms overnight became so intense that we forgot that only yesterday we were walking and dealing with the same people we now avoid so fearfully! We stopped visiting with our family members the next morning, although we were hanging with them every day before that and nobody was in a senior’s home or even travelling recently.
The idea of not overwhelming our healthcare system with predictions that EVERYONE will be infected very soon seemed very real. And kept being repeated day after day. Nobody was even wondering how it is that we, as one of the top ten richest countries in the world, have to depend on China for protective face masks. Put aside the surreal fact that we didn’t make them, but we didn’t even have enough!
And then the respirators. We needed hundreds of thousands, even millions, as predictions kept coming about millions who will need them. But none of that materialized. And, I know, you will say because we all followed the rules, and we are all in this together.
That may be true, but still, a question remains, why were we not ready?
Are we going to be not ready for the next one that is just around the corner? Inevitably.
Today I had to go to the Saint Paul’s hospital in Vancouver for a heart test that was postponed because of the pandemic. The hospital was eerily empty. The medical staff had only me to deal with. There were empty beds everywhere. There were only four of us I counted walking the hallways.
It just didn't make sense to me.
As I am, obviously if you’ve just read this far, one of those who don’t slide down the stream with everybody, at least not all the time, I tend to look for other information, for other points of view, so I can make the most sense of everything. These days it’s extremely hard to even have a different opinion! And control of information is becoming surreal too.
There was a video on u t.u.b.e a few days ago with two doctors from California who own seven medical practices. The local media was interviewing them, and if you were patient enough to watch the whole thing, you’d be at least puzzled, if not shocked by the amount of facts these guys were presenting and questioning. The data they were presenting was completely opposite from the main narrative. The video got viral and in a day got over a million and a half views.
It got deleted!
Because it was presenting an “alternative” view of reality that didn’t fit the acceptable narrative.
Now, you can think whatever you wish about the video if you have watched it, agree or disagree, but you have to be suspicious about this kind of control. To me, it was clear that somebody didn’t like the truth they were exposing, but even if you don’t believe it, don’t you think it’s too much to remove the freedom of deciding what YOU want to believe?
There was another example, even more blatant. A video about a woman, a doctor, who is exposing, fact after fact, from her own experience that included a five day jail time just because she was having a different point of view and exposing the corruption of the leading medical expert who has been all over the news on a daily basis since this started. The video keeps getting deleted although people keep reposting it!
You may say it’s conspiracy theory, it’s lies, it’s this and that, and that’s ok. But we should all agree that it’s not ok to censor different points of view. This is scary. You are not allowed to say anything that contravenes what the majority thinks.
You will be bullied into submission.
You will be forced to go into the closet with your ideas.
What’s even scarier to me is how willingly people accept all of that control.
One of the most recent examples of controlling the narrative was with our Premier who openly supported a corrupted corporation, and after some short time he started refusing to talk about it and answer questions that kept coming. This was very strategically done so the talk about it all had subsided just in time with the election.
Which he won again!
The machine knows exactly what to do and how much. They perfectly know how busy everybody is so not many people have time nor desire to dig deeper then the newspaper titles. They know how to manipulate the interpretations of whatever their opposition does. They serve their agenda, and they are ready to accuse anybody of exactly what they are actually doing behind the curtain.
And I don’t know what the solution for this is. Are we all lost? Is there a way out? Can we actually get out of all of this? Not just the pandemic, but the subtle control that keeps gripping.
I just know it’s not right.
It’s way beyond magical.
It’s getting grotesque.
And I pray people will wake up.
Wake up with the music I still hear.
From the balconies of the better world.
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