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Excellent points. We of European heritage often put on airs of being superior to all those darker-skinned "primitive" people, but the willingness of so many to be pushed around by "leaders", even to the point of following orders to kill innocents, does not reflect well on us.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately it's not just you folks. You're really going to like Part III!
DeleteI really liked this article. Im one of the non followers and have been from a very young age. By the time I was 15 I loathed our government and "the system". I've fought against it my whole life. My parents were strict followers, dont ask questions. But I was full of questions and it caused conflict to where I was thrown out at 15. My brain could not comprehend blindly following orders from "authoritarian adults" and because the government said so. It also couldn't fathom keep your mouth shut and do what you're told. There is a difference between bad behavior and an aversion to authority altho most will tell you if your not obeying you are demonstrating bad behavior. 2020 nailed it. When the government said lockdown, I said NOPE! I packed up my camping gear, loaded my kayak, and paddled to an isolated island. I spent 6 weeks out there, alone. Never wore a mask, fought with the DMV over masks when I went to renew my tags and won, walked past the mask nazis of Walmart not even acknowledging their outstretched hands full of masks, and never took a single dose of vaccine. The collective obedience blew my mind. The cognitive dissonance blew my mind. Suddenly it was like everyone around me was in a daze, a heavy fog, zombified, all critical thinking skills nullified. It seemed as if they had perpetrated a mass cover spray of lithium over the earth.
ReplyDeleteThat took a lot of moxie, as they used to say -- and you were also correct:
DeleteThanks for the interesting article and links to other writers. We all go to compulsory indoctrination camps as children, which teach two things well to all children -- obedience and belief in what authority figures tell us. Few can escape the engrained beliefs and most will mock those who challenge those beliefs. "Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
ReplyDeleteYou may not need to read Part III - - - but you'll probably want to anyway - - -
DeleteAnonymous because I don’t do google…I’m also one of those. This condition has gotten me into trouble with work situations, and has rarely won me friends. I so appreciate your article, as our history is so horrifying, but it’s also vitally important to understand reality. I’ve been aware of some of it, but not nearly with the thick bloody ongoing thread as you’ve described. Thanks for opening my eyes a bit wider.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your time and input - - -
Delete"the thick bloody ongoing thread" as you graphically put it isn't just the US government of course, it's government in general. But, I'm afraid, That Thing That Lives in Washington D.C. is currently the worst. And it claims me so I feel responsible.
The original design -- The U.S. Constitution -- was pretty damn good but as Mr. Bastiat observed -- and many others recognized -- "When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it."
lrw.
Thanks for that relevant contribution to the discussion, Clyde!
DeleteI am one of those who does their best to resist, but two points: one, sometimes it is impossible (so much was closed and restricted where I lived for so long, and so many jackbooted enforcers pushed obedience muzzles, AND censorship made it difficult to find anywhere that was successfully resisting, it was difficult to find places TO resist.
ReplyDeleteSecond, you have to actually *survive* to duccessfully resist. Otherwise you are just one more body for the authoritarian thugs to bury (or burn).
My preference is to use "malicious compliance" whenever I can pull that off. And codewords and sneakiness when I can't.
Condolences for where you lived! AND we're headed there here in the formerly free USA. I really like "malicious compliance" -- and codewords and sneakiness. Good ideas already - - -
ReplyDeleteHealth, happiness, & long life,
lrw
PS Where DID you live -- if you feel safe revealing that?
Unless you want to live as a nomadic hunter-gatherer, you accept civilization with its myriad of flaws. Civilization is a process which humans will probably never master. Currently we don't have leader in most endeavors who have authority based on merit, but people follow them regardless.
ReplyDeleteHey Quinn!
DeleteWe don't need much government -- and with the original U.S. Constitution, we didn't have much and did just fine. But as quoted above, Mr. Bastiat explains how things go wrong - - -
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it."
The question is, what do we do about it?
lrw
Excellent essay. I have been researching, studying and pondering the civilized social structure my entire adult life. Certainly, human beings did not evolve to live in crowded, non-productive urban ghettos amongst hordes of strangers.
ReplyDeleteInteresting question. I have always lived by my own rules, which are roughly the same as the ten commandments; never bowed to the covid nonsense, puzzled by the majority who did. But I never thought to pose the question you just have. I shall be interested in part 111.
ReplyDeleteExplanation, easy:
ReplyDeleteFeedback Model of Intelligent Choice:
https://www.nazisociopaths.org/modules/article/view.article.php/c1/33
Our ancestors were not smarter, just less indoctrinated with little or no human predators / rulers in their environments, until ….
Freedom is what we (intelligent creatures) naturally converge to unless otherwise terrified (to dissent).
Other epiphanies, my site, enjoy…
Regards;
Bill Ross
System Design & Deconstruction Engineer
Milgram was a fraud, he hid the data which showed about half the people saw through the experiment and that the ones who didn't see through it were far more defiant than those who had figured out it there were no shocks. The Stanford Prison experiment was an even bigger fraud, the guards were coached to behave the way they did and it was scripted.
ReplyDeleteIt's still a good essay with valid questions, just thought I'd let you know that these studies were almost all jiggered with back then to get the results the authors of the studies were looking for.
Still there is little doubt that we have been conditioned starting from childhood to go along to get along. I wish we could still do these type of social psychology experiments just to see how things have changed. Would more people "fail" the Milgram experiment today?
To this day at 70+ Huck Finn is still my hero and Mark Twain my Saint.
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