This multi-post essay, or series, will consist of six or so parts—this part lays out its assumptions and purposes. In the first part, I presented the main hypothesis, that the remaining 20s will either prove to be a time of Repentance, or one of Repression.
In the second, I quoted “el gato malo,” of the substack “bad cattitude,” saying a tipping point is coming soon, one wherein many mainstream voices will be forced to admit the existence of the widespread vax-harms. I sure hope he is right, and if he is, this essay series will become unnecessary.
But I’m writing this because I think we’re in uncharted territory of opinion/media dynamics, in which our expectations about scandal have to be revised. Metaphors we often use for these situations, like “tipping point,” “sinking ship,” and “dam about to break” may have to be ditched. For we are beginning to see how a program of indefinitely maintained denial, proceeding shamelessly in the face of all evidence, might operate. If the cover-up (which for many persons has involved a sincere self-delusion morphed into a pretense/gaslight) has “worked” for two years now, why not two more, ten more, or for life? We can grasp the basic motive for millions of implicated persons, mostly elites, to try out an unprecedentedly extended bluff if they think they can get away with it.
Thus, the repression I am thinking about is and would be governmental, and if that is our path, it would get successively worse, at some point becoming an abandonment of democracy and liberalism. The central fear of this series is that the indefinite extension of the present pretenses, official news black-outs, and half-innocent states of ignorance, will at some point drive those desperately reliant upon them for the preservation of their careers and reputations into embracing despotism. Nor, to repeat a point made in Part I, are there signs of an inner-strength residing in any large citizenry across the globe, including in the American one, sufficient to predict that such an implementation of despotism would provoke significant counter-revolution.
But the repression also is and would be psychological: a widespread pattern of mentally-ill denial, of repressed thought-processes, and of pretense so brazen that it both mimics and partakes in mental illness. I do concede that the kinds of denialist and bogeyman-centered mass-opinion delusions I am alarmed about are to some degree perennial features of democratic civilizations; but I insist that modern citizenries have been falling for them at a greatly accelerated rate since about 2014, and that this has been most vividly seen in the set of issues/injustices I label and analyze as the Covid/Vax Disaster.
Sheer denial and abject hatred continue to dominate moments when actual discussion about the Disaster is forced into the notice of our “leaders” and “experts”—witness the frothing-at-the-mouth quickness by the usual American media suspects to denounce anyone who asked the most obvious questions about Damar Hamlin’s collapse, and witness what should go down in history as one of the most patently idiotic instance of high-toned political bullying ever, the denunciation of UK MP Antony Bridgen by Prime Minister Sunak and most of the “Conservative” Party, as “anti-Semitic,” for Bridgen’s daring to demand investigation into the vax-harms and speaking of them as a the worst disaster since the Holocaust.
You might say that what my hypothesis asks us to consider is whether those two recent episodes of insane yet organized authority-speak should be regarded as a.) the dying gasps of an order in its last days, as “el gato malo” would hold, or, b.) early markers of what will become the everyday pattern of our life under Orwellian Potemkin-Democracy if not enough of us resolve to stand against it now.
My hypothesis is a pretty grim one, because as we will see, the requirements for an adequately widepread and serious repentance will be fairly high. Not impossibly high for political life, i.e., not as high as “what an orthodox Christian denomination would demand of its members in terms of repentance,” but that will be a discussion for later.
Premises of my Repentance or Repression Hypothesis:
What does one need to accept, or at least posit as reasonable grounds for debate, if one is to take my Repentance or Repression Hypothesis seriously? Here are nine premises.
One: the Covid/Vax Disaster Is a Closely-Linked Set of Human Injustices to Other Humans—Aspects of It Remind Us of a Natural Disaster, but It Is Man-Made.
Most now see that the virus was concocted (and that that evil act was at very least enabled by US scientists connected to Pharma and/or DOD) but even if surprising evidence were to emerge that led us to take the natural-origin hypothesis seriously again, it is clear that key insitutional decisions and subterfuges made the both the biological and socio-economic impacts of the virus far worse than they otherwise would have been, even prior to the worst sin of all, the formulation and promotion of the deadly vaxxes. This is why, whenever possible, one shoud avoid calling the overall Disaster “the pandemic,” or “Covid.” Man is to blame here at every step, not nature; and, the Disaster is a bundled one.
Two: The Covid/Vax Disaster Is Not the Only Such Massive Disaster of Injustice and Public Delusion Leading Our Societies towards Despotism.
Other candidates include Woke, the Administrative State, insustainable public debt, etc. See my last piece, which quotes Claremont leader Ryan Williams at length, from a major statement wherein he speaks of the last six or so years as a “rolling constitutional crisis” for America that involves all of these calamities and more (but amazingly, wherein he studiously avoids mention of the Covid/Vax Disaster).
Three: There May Be a Root Disaster that Drives All of These, but Analysts Do Not Have to Agree on That to Come to a Common Understanding of the Covid/Vax One.
Candidates would include Historicist Progressivism, “Managerialism,” Apostasy from Biblical Religion, internet dynamics, etc. But my point is that conservative analysts do not have to agree on, say, what might tie together the Woke riots/cancellations, the utter disgrace that is the Biden administration, and the Covid/Vax Disaster, to agree about the main features of the latter.
And after all, while no-one should listen to the mainline Dem progressivists on this, there are and will be old-school-liberal explanations of what deeper trends brought about the Covid/Vax Disaster, democratic-socialist explanations, etc. Temporary political coalitions to expose and punish the agents of “Covidianism” and vax-madness, formed by citizens with different core commitments, should be tried; thus, coalitional statements that articulate an agreed sense of the main aspects of the Covid/Vax Disaster will be needed.
Four: It Is the Culminating and Decisive Disaster--Efforts to Talk around It Strengthen Repression.
Admittedly, if a massive nuclear war, or a set of extended hot civil wars, broke out, that would be a worse culminating disaster. As would be a total economic crash. (And, as would be the concotion and release of a worse Frankenstein-virus.)
What I stress here, however, is the Covid/Vax Disaster’s decisive/central character at present. Consider the fact that our Free-Speech Scandal and the Covid/Vax Disaster Are Linked at the Hip. The betrayal-of-the-First-Amendment patterns, which were evident prior to the disaster in the university and corporate cancellizations and propaganda campaigns of 2014-2019 Wokeness, only became operationalized in government direction of social media companies, by means of “pandemic” justifications.
There is a lot to say on this, but here I will repeat my broken-record warning to the “professional conservatives,” Trumpism-friendly ones included, who remain silent about the key vax-harm aspect of the Disaster: your silence is aiding the overall turn from Free Speech!!! Repent already!
Five: There is No Way That the Minimal Thresholds for Disaster Status Have Not Already Been Met.
If you think the number of already-occurred fatalities from the mRNA meds is merely in the neighborhood of what has been reported to VAERS, you are delusional, even though that would still indicate around 30,000 U.S. deaths, and that these “vaccines” are the most dangeous ones, and the most dangerous ones by very very far, of all vaccines kept tabs on since VAERS began. Had Pfizer, Moderna, the CDC, and the FDA not been utterly corrupt organizations, they would have halted them as early as March 2021—evidence from the trials and early roll-out, evidence which all four of these organizations knew about, had already plainly signalled disaster.
Rather, we are almost certainly above 200,000 U.S. deaths, which likely means above a million world-wide; as likely, if not more, we are somewhere in the 400,000 to a million range of U.S. deaths. (BTW, the disability numbers seem to be around 3 to 5 times higher than the death numbers.)
The evidence for this is found in some several-hundred pieces, many of them published on Substack, which have come to light over the last year-and-a-half. Again, begin poking around the websites of Doctors4CovidEthics, the Brownstone Institute, and the Disaster-focused substacks I listed here, especially the ones by Steve Kirsch, Igor Chudov, and Eugyppius. Don’t neglect the youtube work of the Darkhorse Podcast or Dr. John Campbell, nor the Rumble-available films Died Suddenly and Anecdotals.
Here is one of the more dramatic of the recent summations of evidence, especially focused on excess all-cause mortality numbers, from the essential Mark Crispin Miller. Miller also collects some info on damage to fertility in it, and the evidence there remains scary, with 10-13% drops in live births in all of the substantially vaxxed countries, and endless lists of harms to the human reproductive systems, especially the female ones.
Six: The Disaster Centers on Physical Poisons, but It Also Reveals Spiritual and Institutional Ones. It Shows that Three Quarters of our Elites Are Corrupt.
There are several levels of corruption here. A) there is the corruption of top actors who made and orchestrated the key decisions, decisions which expended or risked the lives of millions for the sake of profit, career/agency-protection, and at worst, for “mad scientist” and “philanthropath” motives, perhaps even including a plot involving population-culling. See my list of the seven deadly Covid/Vax Disaster sins to think about who these people are. B) the corruption of criminal negligence, committed by an officer of an organization directly charged to investigate or monitor public health safety, and this certainly includes all sections and personnel of major media on the relevant domestic beats, and all higher editors. C) the similar corruption of those more indirectly charged with monitoring duty who neglected it, including nearly all federal-level and state-level political representatives and executive officials, Democrat or Republican, all directors of hospitals and health-insurance, and arguably, horribly, all medical doctors and pharmacists who refrained from speaking out also. Or maybe the docs and pharmacists belong to the next category, D), which is the corruption of those in institutional positions to aide or initiate organized resistance against bad Covid/Vax policies who did not, and this includes nearly all corporate, government, and university adminstrators at mandate-happy institutions, and arguably all professors at schools that required students to vax for continued education, and all primary/secondary teachers that voted with their unions to extend mask-mandates and closures after 2020, harming the learning-development of entire cohorts of children. I could go on, sector after sector. E) there is the corruption of citizens with little or no institutional power who supported mob-like injustices, who snitched on neighbors, shunned dissident family-members and friends, voted for or voiced support for proven Covid-tyrants, etc. I am not speaking about those who believed the Covidian narrative and followed the rules to protect themselves and society, but who nonetheless did not call for unjust actions to be done to their fellow citizens, nor joined in hateful denunciations of dissidents.
Note also that at levels B, C, and D, there are in many instances, most notoriously regarding the news corporations, Fox included, where the corruptions are linkable to massive infusions of Pharma or government money. Yale is another example.
I am aware that these are two breath-taking paragraphs. But I do not write them to shock—I regard this as the plain reality of our situation. Serious guilt, often of the “Good-German” kind laid out by Maragaret Anna Alice, is very widespread. In some groups, it is nearly ubiquitous. I’d say that any person you see on a major channel, or above the lower tiers in an organizational chart, can be guessed to have about a three-quarters likelihood to be guilty, at least at levels C or D. Corrupt. Refused to stand-up, even hesitantly or weakly, when basic rights were on the line. When lives were. In almost all cases they had months and months, even years, to reconsider any sins of commission or ommission they had been involved in. And most of them remain in the mode of pretending normality to this day!
To see and admit the Covid/Vax Disaster is to also see and admit that our society is radically corrupt, and must have been for at least a decade or two prior. There is no other way the cowardly duty-abdication in the higher and middle ranks could have been so commonplace when the test came. The implications of this go way beyond Covid-policy and the mRNA vax-harms. With these elites, failure after failure, and injustice after injustice, is our destiny in nearly every policy field.
Seven: The Repentance or Repression Hypothesis Can Be Neutral on the Question of the Safety of Pre-mRNA Vaccines.
For obvious reasons, many of us are now more open to taking the arguments of the pre-2020 anti-vaxxers seriously. But that openness is in not logically required by a recognition of the Disaster, nor by a mediation on its implications.
Eight: The Repentance or Repression Hypothesis Can Be Neutral on the Question of Whether the Repentance Needed Must be Grounded in Biblical Religion.
In other posts I have mentioned the existence of secular thinking on various forms of civic repentance and forgiveness, and the book Forgiveness: A Philosophical Exploration, by Charles Griswold, as an example of this. I accept that I should at times converse in this mode with my fellow citizens about the civic repentance we so desperately need. No-one should be surprised, however, that I believe that a turn to the Divine Man of Forgiveness, Jesus Christ, and a reliance on His Atonement, will be necessary for most of those guilty of Covid/Vax Disaster sins to confess them in a way that can bring about adequate societal healing.
Nine: The Repentance or Repression Hypothesis Can Be Neutral on the Question of the Whether a Big Conspiracy, or, a Corrupt Dynamic of Our Institutions, Is the Efficient Cause of the Disaster.
This difference is the one that most divides the dissidents, aka the “medical freedom movement,” and increasingly, I am sorry to say, one notices unfair attacks from both sides of this issue upon the other. See the Robert Malone lawsuit for examples of both. I will not wade further into this here, other than to warn my academic friends that in the coming years, we will be obliged, as a matter of simple decency to our fellow citizens who have been systematically lied to on most all Disaster-connected questions, to join calls for thorough investigation of theories we regard as quite wild, and, to ourselves make some involved efforts to discern which “conspiracy theorists” are decent and sensible, and which seem likely to be charalatans or agents.
In any case, while at present I do not think any of the “Grand Conspiracy” theories about the WEF doing it, or DARPA/Deep-State doing it, etc., are correct, I would insist that even if one of them does turn out to be right, the Corrupt Dynamic factor remains in play and is extremely important to think about and to make plans for attacking, as it is the main thing which will have made the nefarious plot, whatever it is, possible. And if left in play, will make the next Disaster, whatever it is, inevitable! The general corruption of our elites and of the processes for appointing them must be frontally addressed. We must not permit focus on top elite villains to obscure the needed firings/punishments of, as well as the repetance actions undertaken by, the more mid-level and lower-rung elites who enabled the villainy. Call them the “elites next door.” The Repentance our societies must make lest they succumb to endless Repression, centers upon the choices they will make over the next few years.
Fabulous essay. Thank you!
Strong diagnosis, appropriately strong prescription. Fortiter, frater.