Aug 5, 2022·edited Aug 5, 2022Liked by Mark Changizi
I agree. I believe it comes down to people fear death way too much, and people have less faith than they used to.
People, in general, didn't have faith in their immune systems, didn't have faith in doctors being able to treat everyone (media did feed that pushing overcrowded hospital messages), they don't have faith in humanity, they don't have faith in themselves or a faith in God. Having faith in just one of those things would have led to so much less fear because fear is a lack of faith that things will turn out alright eventually.
We had people who actually thought they could get to 100% vaccination rates (or really close to it) because of their lack of faith everywhere else they turned the vaccine into an idol, thinking it would save us all. We had people who thought we could get to 0 COVID deaths, as if old people weren't going to die any longer. Of course some of their deaths would be from COVID. It doesn't mean COVID was horrible, just means that was the one disease getting past the immune system.
People have horrible cost-benefit analysis skills. They thought that a lockdown was worth it because they couldn't see all of the things that would go wrong (food supply shortages, children being abused, suicides skyrocketing, etc). People projected their fears onto other people so the hypochondriacs thought everyone was afraid as they were and couldn't see why people would want to risk being exposed.
If I had any way to teach this to the world, I would focus on increasing people's acceptance of death (not to be terrified of it), promote cost-benefit skills, remind people that others are willing to risk things they won't and should be allowed to do so, and try to build up people's faith in doctors and themselves and their immune system. Good messaging on that might have helped a lot.
People had no faith that doctors could come up with early treatments (instead they waited for the vaccine), and it is wrong that the scientific community and news tried to say those treatments like Ivermectin should be feared. They also downplayed or rejected Vitamin D and Zinc suggestions.
If people felt like they had some control and could DO something themselves, personally, they wouldn't have been so afraid. If they could take vitamins, minerals, exercise, etc, they wouldn't have feared what other people were doing nearly as much or at all.
Maybe they didn’t purposely engineer the mass hysteria, but they did purposely engineer the polices out in place at the behest of those hoping the lockdowns would enable a new “world order” borrowing as much from the Chinese model as they thought the Western populace could stomach, with billionaires and the “experts” in their massive orbits driving the policies: https://michaelpsenger.substack.com/p/the-dragnet-in-lombardy-italy-patient
I understand you are trying to take a measured interpretation, Mark, but you seem to be ignoring the glaring neon lights that governments did not even bother to try and hide, such as the UK’s Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) intentionally crafting a fear campaign and the July 2020 Yale University study conducted to determine the most effective messaging for manipulating people’s emotions, among hundreds of other hiding-in-plain-sight examples of globally orchestrated consent engineering:
• “A State of Fear: How the UK Government Weaponised Fear During the Covid-19 Pandemic” by Laura Dodsworth
The behavioral psychologists have deployed Bernaysian/Pavlovian techniques crafted after a century’s worth of experimentation. They know exactly how to manipulate the manipulable public and have a captured media and Big Tech happy to implement their programming on a global scale.
-Populism based on fear-mongering (the left doesn't admit it also partakes)
-Policy (governments, WEF, NATO, NAFTA, etc)
I think our analytical problem comes from our inability to distinguish between these forces.
In an ideal democracy, governments were to empower "the people" against royalty/aristocracy. In our democracy, governments play a shill game between royalty (see Forbes list of billionaires) and the population.
The "people" do not have "agency". This is demonstrated by the very small percentage of lone wolves in our society. The vast majority of people are captured by their church/party.
Corporations do not drive profit through sheer luck and "empowered" consumers. Corporations drive profit through marketing. Desires and consumerism are social constructs, constructed by corporations to drive their profits. Very few humans are immune to these forces, and we don't usually have any say in public.
Today, governments serve only corporate/billionaire interests, because in the end, money is always, and will always be, the greatest driver.
Lockdowns/restrictions are capitalistic. They enrich millionaires and billionaires, while the rest of society struggled.
Progressive media serve Capital, but with woke marketing, happily ever after. Conservative media serve Capital, but with "anyone can/should get rich" marketing, happily ever after. Media creates the fear narrative (for profit) and the sheeple, the vast majority of society, drink the Koolaid, whatever it is. The funny part is the first community to use the expression of "drinking the Koolaid" are now the most captured by the Medical Industrial Complex's Koolaid.
The "holomodor" is a lie. There was a famine but it was due to crop diseases and bad weather. It was not confined to Ukraine. It coincided with the drive for collectivization of Soviet agriculture but famine was as old as Russia. There has been none since due to natural causes.
The Nazi invasion led to millions of deaths due to starvation but that's ok since it can't be blamed on Communists.
As for the Great Leap Forward, in what way did that amount to a deliberate campaign of starvation? What objective was to be served? Some factual analysis would help.
I agree. I believe it comes down to people fear death way too much, and people have less faith than they used to.
People, in general, didn't have faith in their immune systems, didn't have faith in doctors being able to treat everyone (media did feed that pushing overcrowded hospital messages), they don't have faith in humanity, they don't have faith in themselves or a faith in God. Having faith in just one of those things would have led to so much less fear because fear is a lack of faith that things will turn out alright eventually.
We had people who actually thought they could get to 100% vaccination rates (or really close to it) because of their lack of faith everywhere else they turned the vaccine into an idol, thinking it would save us all. We had people who thought we could get to 0 COVID deaths, as if old people weren't going to die any longer. Of course some of their deaths would be from COVID. It doesn't mean COVID was horrible, just means that was the one disease getting past the immune system.
People have horrible cost-benefit analysis skills. They thought that a lockdown was worth it because they couldn't see all of the things that would go wrong (food supply shortages, children being abused, suicides skyrocketing, etc). People projected their fears onto other people so the hypochondriacs thought everyone was afraid as they were and couldn't see why people would want to risk being exposed.
If I had any way to teach this to the world, I would focus on increasing people's acceptance of death (not to be terrified of it), promote cost-benefit skills, remind people that others are willing to risk things they won't and should be allowed to do so, and try to build up people's faith in doctors and themselves and their immune system. Good messaging on that might have helped a lot.
People had no faith that doctors could come up with early treatments (instead they waited for the vaccine), and it is wrong that the scientific community and news tried to say those treatments like Ivermectin should be feared. They also downplayed or rejected Vitamin D and Zinc suggestions.
If people felt like they had some control and could DO something themselves, personally, they wouldn't have been so afraid. If they could take vitamins, minerals, exercise, etc, they wouldn't have feared what other people were doing nearly as much or at all.
Maybe they didn’t purposely engineer the mass hysteria, but they did purposely engineer the polices out in place at the behest of those hoping the lockdowns would enable a new “world order” borrowing as much from the Chinese model as they thought the Western populace could stomach, with billionaires and the “experts” in their massive orbits driving the policies: https://michaelpsenger.substack.com/p/the-dragnet-in-lombardy-italy-patient
I understand you are trying to take a measured interpretation, Mark, but you seem to be ignoring the glaring neon lights that governments did not even bother to try and hide, such as the UK’s Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) intentionally crafting a fear campaign and the July 2020 Yale University study conducted to determine the most effective messaging for manipulating people’s emotions, among hundreds of other hiding-in-plain-sight examples of globally orchestrated consent engineering:
• “A State of Fear: How the UK Government Weaponised Fear During the Covid-19 Pandemic” by Laura Dodsworth
• “Emotional Manipulation in the Vaccine Messaging” (https://meredithmiller.substack.com/p/emotional-manipulation-in-the-vaccine)
The behavioral psychologists have deployed Bernaysian/Pavlovian techniques crafted after a century’s worth of experimentation. They know exactly how to manipulate the manipulable public and have a captured media and Big Tech happy to implement their programming on a global scale.
There are three forces at play:
-Capitalism/the Medical Industrial Complex
-Populism based on fear-mongering (the left doesn't admit it also partakes)
-Policy (governments, WEF, NATO, NAFTA, etc)
I think our analytical problem comes from our inability to distinguish between these forces.
In an ideal democracy, governments were to empower "the people" against royalty/aristocracy. In our democracy, governments play a shill game between royalty (see Forbes list of billionaires) and the population.
The "people" do not have "agency". This is demonstrated by the very small percentage of lone wolves in our society. The vast majority of people are captured by their church/party.
Corporations do not drive profit through sheer luck and "empowered" consumers. Corporations drive profit through marketing. Desires and consumerism are social constructs, constructed by corporations to drive their profits. Very few humans are immune to these forces, and we don't usually have any say in public.
Today, governments serve only corporate/billionaire interests, because in the end, money is always, and will always be, the greatest driver.
Lockdowns/restrictions are capitalistic. They enrich millionaires and billionaires, while the rest of society struggled.
https://www.forbes.com/billionaires/
Progressive media serve Capital, but with woke marketing, happily ever after. Conservative media serve Capital, but with "anyone can/should get rich" marketing, happily ever after. Media creates the fear narrative (for profit) and the sheeple, the vast majority of society, drink the Koolaid, whatever it is. The funny part is the first community to use the expression of "drinking the Koolaid" are now the most captured by the Medical Industrial Complex's Koolaid.
So... "engineered" ?
Everything is "engineered", for profit and power.
sure, but it's not exhaustive of all root cause either, someone 'could' have had motive (who, did they?)
what was the driver behind event 201? the coincidence is most unfortunate
The "holomodor" is a lie. There was a famine but it was due to crop diseases and bad weather. It was not confined to Ukraine. It coincided with the drive for collectivization of Soviet agriculture but famine was as old as Russia. There has been none since due to natural causes.
The Nazi invasion led to millions of deaths due to starvation but that's ok since it can't be blamed on Communists.
As for the Great Leap Forward, in what way did that amount to a deliberate campaign of starvation? What objective was to be served? Some factual analysis would help.