“Only the experience of change and close attention will convince us to think and direct ourselves differently. Only when the experience of change causes us to discredit and inhibt the accustomed pattern, which now appears invalid to us, will we be able to accept the new pattern in habit or second nature.” Moshe Feldenkrais
My best advice on how to win the battle for hearts and minds of the undecided masses against mandatory vaxxes, is not to lose them through unforced errors. We are a fringe minority with deviant views, who can only win through concerted efforts to secure our Natural Right to Refuse Medical Treatment. For whatever reason.
They rarely call you an influencer when you’re too far ahead of your time. Then you’re a kook, tin foil hat, grassy knoll patsy for misinformation. Embrace the image, wait for the fat lady to sing Send in the Clowns. Can’t argue your way out of people thinking you’re crazy by pushing baggage in shopping carts. Instinctively they know, behind the door of perfectly dangerous and ineffective vaccines, is a Pandora’s Box of forbidden truths. You won’t lure them down the Rabbit Hole, swearing it’s only an abyss.
Our most popular substack influencers have wandered off point, belabored side issues, casting demon nets over disagreements, ventured beyond the pale. When our enemies don’t ignore us entirely, they use our disputes as wedges. Their primary weapon is a bludgeon whacking at our anti-social, paranoid tendencies. They’ve cast a butterfly net for anti-vaxxers as conspiracy theorists, flat earthers and MAGA hatters who endanger the Greater Good.
Our arguments aren’t parsed, or evidence considered except by true believers and AI spies. Easy to imagine that blogging into an echo chamber is strength in numbers. As the Free Speech Kettle closes around us, we’re liable to end side by side in a cattle car. Jeremy Betham, who promoted Utilitarian Greater Good policies, designed the Panopticon, a prison where inmates could be observed at all times. Presumably for those who endangered the GG. Today’s tech surveillance society is magnitudes more intrusive than 1984’s telescreen,
Entertaining delusions of persuading the majority without disciplined tactics and strategy seems to permeate fringe movements. An evangelism of Lost Causes. We haven’t bridged the fissures of the ”news” glacier with epidemiological graphs, e-mail evidence or law suits, while globalist genocide is ridiculed on Stanford’s Philosophy Talk show about conspiracy theorists. Not the news junkie I was as a Free Press journalist, still devour an omnivorous information diet, including antidotes to disinformation dyspepsia by tuning with nature and somatic sensations.
News programs across the electromagnetic spectrum, ether and print, from fiercely independent to state funded, continue to feature “infectious diseases experts” preaching the dogma of masking, testing, keeping up to date with vaccinations. Evidence of inefficacy can’t derail that locomotive. Trained manipulators gaze into our glazed eyes, claiming covid injections had “robust safety tests” and more is better. Newscaster spells charm the masses with a neural network interweave of illogical conjectures, experimental expectations and strange obsessions.
Rare mainstream admissions about the failures of the injections helpfully explain why “it makes sense that vaccinated people are making up a greater share of fatalities…so continued boosters are needed to continue to prevent illness and death.” This wasn’t how they were sold, so long ago an architect of the Plandemic can’t recall what he did when.
Many sympathize with the Angel of Death, since they can’t remember much After Covid. Bit of a blur. Luckily I kept a journal of dated information downloads posted online. Pandemic Panic: Writing from the Inside, free to subscribers.
China’s lockdown protests were drooled over as the people’s revolt against autocratic tyranny, without a taste of irony about their frothing coverage of Canadian Truckers against vaxxports, Swedish public health policies, Great BarringtonDeclarations, shoved down the Memory Hole.
Did I do enough? Showed up to protest in the summer of 2021, when our congressional representative attempted to hold a vaxxed only community meeting. Dozens gathered in defiance of the hive mentality, then invaded the agora of this Medical Political Monopoly. Made the evening news, unlike the static Save the Elks protesters there. Unfortunately, take away image of an overreaching Freedom Female ripping the mask off an irate attendee, destroyed our primary principle of personal freedom.
Got to be a quid pro quo. I defend your right to stumble along with abysmal health habits, you defend mine to refuse medical treatments with or without informed consent. I can educate you about the errors of your ways, you can ridicule me for mine, but neither can ban our right to choose.
If people asked my opinion, told them NOT! Few asked, fewer changed their decision to get jabbed. Told friends and family, coworkers and familiars. Crafted obscure online posts, letters to local print papers and elected officials. Dropped links into chat sidebars during Zoom hearings of our “public health” doctor. Until I got blocked. She’s still pushing boosters in a county where 74% of deaths from Covid-19 since July 1, 2021 were among the fully vaccinated, including 1 or 2 boosters.
Could I have been more persuasive if less enigmatic? Reason is rarely involved in changing hearts and minds. Mental habits are more fixed than lifestyles. Rational choice theory is bunk in economics and home economics. Sometimes a koan can cause enlightenment, where sheer reason and logic scrabble like crabs in a hot tub. Emotions drive our choices.
Friends who believe in chemtrails or naturopathic medicine eagerly lined up for the double taps, dazzled by the science. Swallowing pixie dust communion wafers.
Personal tragedy should be a gamechanger. Recently I visited an older, previously fit friend in the hospital from extreme arrhythmia and myocarditis. He scoffed through his mask when I warned him two years ago that I’d be dancing on his grave. Was that persuasive? Apparently not.
Doctors searched vainly for Virus X as cause, sent him home with beta blockers to slow his erratically beating heart. Still doesn’t blame the jabs, although he recently learned the Mrna jabs can cause “mild” myocarditis in “young men.” No longer young at heart, though.
*Awareness Through Movement: Easy to Do Health Exercises to Improve Your Posture, Vision, Imagination and Personal Awareness, Moshe Feldenkais, Harper and Row, 1972
Amazingly, most people, somewhere along the line, learned not to trade away their dimes for nickles.“Show me on the doll where Dr. Fauchi touched you, Honey.”