The Insanity of the Woke

“So you see, when war comes to one’s village, one’s doorstep, it isn’t tragic and impersonal any longer. It is just an excuse to vomit private hatred.” ~ The Scapegoat, Daphne du Maurier

“I don't have any friends. I mean, I know people. They're just assholes I stay alive with. I don't have any friends. I used to have them. Used to watch football on Sundays. Went to church. I know I did. But I can't picture it anymore. It's funny how you don't even notice the time go by. Horrible shit just stacks up day after day. You get used to it.” ~ Martin, The Walking Dead, No Sanctuary

It’s a dark world when conversations we used to listen to in The Walking Dead become part of the everyday norm:

“I was out with girlfriends last night who are concerned that I am unvaccinated… I was told I would likely die during the fourth wave with the rest of the unvaccinated.”

“My name is Carlos. I live in Australia. I’ve been banned from leaving. I may soon be banned from eating at restaurants, travelling by plane, train, attending functions, work, gym, and participating in society, because I refuse to convert to the new official ideology.”

“I second guess myself every day now on who is truthful and who is full of shit! putting effort into trying to figure it out is truly exhausting!!”

A guy called The Architect gives the only advice that seems to make sense anymore: “Focus on what your gut tells you…then go from there.”

Focus on your gut.

But everyone’s gut is different.

The unvaccinated: “The vaccinated are shedding on us!”

The vaccinated: “The unvaccinated are infecting us!”

In the science fiction masterpiece, The Three-Body Problem, Liu Cixin says, “To effectively contain a civilization’s development and disarm it across such a long span of time, there is only one way: kill its science.”

In the book, this is the solution of aliens seeking to invade Earth and take over the planet. But it could equally be said of the elite of Earth seeking to disarm and demoralize the masses to the point where they are so exhausted they will accept any new recommendation from their masters, so long as it promises a moment of safety.

Every time I think I’ve read it all, I read something else that blows my mind.

I saw this recent article Letting Ourselves Go, Even Now That We’re in Public Again, where a “writer reflects on how gaining weight during the Covid pandemic reminded her to accept herself even more.” She describes how during the pandemic her “hips and butt have widened,” her “belly unfurls in waves,” and her “arms are thicker.”

With pride she says “I’ve eaten when I wanted to, moved when I wanted to. I’ve listened to my body’s requests for rest.”

As a trainer who is well familiar with America’s obsession with image and diets, I get it. I am against diets and hate the pressure put on both women and men to conform to what the media has told us is a perfect body image.

HOWEVER, the disconnect in this essay and in the woke world in general is breathtaking. It is NOT GOOD to let yourself go. Instead of recognizing that it’s time get healthy, she says “now that I’m fully vaccinated, and as I’ve peered out my front door and emerged into the world, I’ve also started to feel the weight of other people’s gazes.”

It’s not her responsibility to take care of her body. Instead, she doubles down on having pride in her “fatness,” confident in the advice of new “experts” who tell her “how, if we gained weight, that was our bodies protecting us and helping us survive a global pandemic. These authors say we should thank our bodies rather than abuse and condemn them.”

I’m sorry but that’s just ridiculous.

As with all woke culture, it’s other people’s fault if someone like this woman suffers from anxiety or shame. She writes, “Some researchers even argue that weight stigma is a primary driver of the so-called ‘obesity epidemic,’ citing a range of studies showing that experiences of discrimination and internalized weight stigma cause weight gain.”

No, it’s not discrimination and internalized weight stigma that causes weight gain. Unless it is due to some underlying health condition, it’s due to being lazy and not eating right. And okay, sure, we all might head for that tub of ice cream when we feel depressed, but we all should know deep inside that it is not the right thing to do and that, if we make a habit of it, that’s what it will be: a habit. And a bad one.

How has it happened that we now do the exact opposite of common sense and feel proud about it?

This is why we accept masking our children eight hours a day, depriving them of everything that our common sense tells us they need: fresh air, interaction with others, developing their individuality.

No, no, no. This is the crux. No more individuality.

We are being tortured, brainwashed, abused. And, apparently, at least according to what mass media is telling us, we are loving it.

Remember those long ago heady days of the BLM protests? Remember “CHOP,” the autonomous zone in Seattle? How everyone came together to support Black Lives? Almost everyone I knew on Facebook immediately, without any research, turned their profile stories black in solidarity. If you didn’t, you were a racist. Remember the riots that weren’t riots at all? Nothing to see here, as journalists stood in front of burning buildings.

Fear of exclusion turned billions of seeing eyes blind. Everyone wanted to be on the woke train. Critical thinking went out the window. But it had been flying away for quite a while already. People’s brains were ripe for the picking. Us and Them. Righteous indignation. Everyone who blackened their Facebook story thought they were doing something to right the wrongs of our white supremacist society.

Wearing stoles of kente cloth, our leaders got on their knees…and then could hardly get up again.

But who were they really getting on their knees to? Not to us, the people they supposedly served. Not even to the memory of George Floyd, although that is what they claimed. No. They were bowing down to the masters above them in the first public display. Our athletes, our celebrities followed suit.

It was the beginning of what I call the new Global Unity Religion where those who displayed their obeisance were absolved of guilt.

So much guilt.

How to deal with all that guilt?

When I was nine years old I was under a lot of pressure to say the “sinner’s prayer.” In our Plymouth Brethren church, that was what you had to do. The age of nine is the age of reason, when you understood right from wrong. If you haven’t asked Jesus into your heart by that point, people take notice, they ask questions. It becomes very concerning.

By the age of nine I must have asked Jesus into my heart a hundred times. I did it secretly at night when I went to bed. What if the Rapture came while I was asleep and I woke up and everyone in my family was gone except for me? Such thoughts terrorized me.

I did it after I committed a terrible sin, like eating a cookie when I was told I shouldn’t. I could never be good enough, no matter how hard I tried. I couldn’t be saved if I kept on sinning! Surely I hadn’t believed enough the last time I prayed. I better do it again.

I even did it once at a Billy Graham crusade. I was too shy to go down to the front, so I prayed along with the sinner’s prayer, but at the end, I felt even worse. If I was truly serious I would have acknowledged my sin publicly like all the others who got up out of their seats. I was hopeless. The crusade I went to looked just like the picture below. It was incredible.

One night, I was so desperate for peace of mind, I got up out of bed and raced down the long hall to my dad’s study where he worked late on his books. It wasn’t the first time I had visited him. Often, I worried about things most other kids my age didn’t think about. Like, why were there so many starving children in the world? Why did God create a world of such suffering? If he was all-powerful, surely he could have done a better job.

My dad never sent me away. He always comforted and assured me that God loved us and knew what he was doing. Man had chosen to turn his back on God. So he had sent his only Son to die for our sins. That’s how much God loved us.

I was determined that this was going to be it. I was going get saved that night. I poured out my heart to my dad, telling him I wanted to be a Christian. I was ready. We both kneeled down and he helped me pray, asking God’s forgiveness and accepting Jesus into my heart. When I was finished, I waited for some feeling, some change that would let me know, yes, this time, it had happened. I had believed enough. God had heard me. And for a few moments, the feeling was there, and I was ecstatic with happiness.

I raced back down the hallway and leaped into bed, always fearful of the creatures who might be hiding under it. As I lay there, I felt the spiders of doubt weaving their webs again in my heart. No, I needed to fight them off. But they were relentless.

I’ve never been able to get fully get rid of doubt. I’ve never been able to make that impossible leap from faith to knowledge. What I’ve done is come to accept this as a reasonable state of mind. I was being pressured to do something that went against my instincts. Anyone who is honest will accept that humans are destined to live by faith on this planet. We don’t really know anything. Doubt, questions, frustrations are bound to arise.

But then, how do we find comfort in an uncertain world? We are creatures who were made to worship. I don’t like admitting that because I am a rebel. I see those Democrat leaders on their knees and I cringe. I refuse to bow to anyone or anything. You can put me on the rack and I won’t give in.

And yet, this is the truth and I know it deep inside. And over the course of my life I have come to see the beauty of it.

I’ve said over and over in my essays and will continue to do so because it’s important, that we must not lose sight of our stories. It is through our legends, our fairytales (the real ones), our mythology, our study of our sacred texts, that we find our center. When we abandon them we are cut adrift.

The “woke” culture is finding great success in dismantling all of it. The emptiness created inside our spirits is then easily filled by this Global Unity Religion. The religion of “science.”

And yet, as with all upside-down woke ideology, it is really anti-science. For, in its arrogance, it has taken all the beauty and mystery away.

Enrico Medi, chair of geophysics, University of Palermo, describes God in a perfect melding of science and faith:

“The being - I am speaking scientifically – which has caused things to be identical at a distance of billions of light-years, exists. And the number of identical particles in the universe is 10 raised to the 85th power…Do we wish then to take in the song of the Galaxies? If I were Francis of Assisi I would say: O Galaxies of the immense heavens, give praise to my Lord, for He is omnipotent and good. O atoms, O protons, O electrons, O bird-songs, O blowing of the leaves and of the air, in the hands of man as a prayer, sing out the hymn which returns to God!”

William D. Phillips, a Nobel Laureate in physics, fellow of the Joint Quantum Institute of the University of Maryland and the National Institute of Standards and Technology has this to say:

“Many good scientists have concluded from these observations that an intelligent God must have chosen to create the universe with such beautiful, simple, and life-giving properties. Many other equally good scientists are nevertheless atheists. Both conclusions are positions of faith…I find these arguments suggestive and supportive of belief in God, but not conclusive. I believe in God because I can feel God’s presence in my life, because I can see the evidence of God’s goodness in the world, because I believe in Love and because I believe that God is Love.”

I never knew these men personally. But I know what they are saying is true. I know it instinctively. The further one goes into science, if one is honest, the more one has to acknowledge the hand of design.

Everyone who believes in the Global Unity Religion parrots the words “follow the science,” “listen to the experts,” displaying their disdain for those who dare rely on common sense or insist on researching from other, “questionable” sources. The woke feel quite justified in demanding of the doubters, with all the clueless superiority of a buffoon, “Are you an expert? What’s your credentials?”

All the while refusing to accept how many credentialed scientist, doctors, writers, have been silenced. Refusing to reflect with any nuance on history and what this might tell us.

The vaccine has become the embodiment of salvation. It cleanses and makes us whole. But there are still those pesky sinners who refuse to confess. And their sin taints us all. Their insistence on individuality rather than the global good has weakened the power of vaccine.

The cries for sacrifice grow ever louder.

It is the sinners fault that the virus is still among us. Not only that, but their irrational refusal to accept salvation is endangering the gods’ plans to combat climate change. Evil white supremacists—every one of them! They’re attitude threatens to bring about a civil war.

In a piece titled Too stupid to live, Leonard Pitts Jr tells us:

“We face not one, but three simultaneous existential emergencies, and while each is distinct, it’s time we understood that, ultimately, they are not different threats at all, but rather different manifestations of the same threat. Meaning that the insurrection crisis, the COVID-19 crisis and the climate-change crisis are really, at bottom, just facets of a misinformation crisis.

“Who knew it would cleave this country — this planet — like an axe, splitting the informed off so decisively from the proudly misinformed, the adherents to crackpot theories and screwball beliefs that would have been laughed off the public stage in 1963 but that, in 2021, find strength in numbers and validation online? And that now emerge as a clear and present danger.”

The vaccinated are intelligent. The unvaccinated are stupid.

The vaccinated have been kind. Longsuffering. Forgiving. They’ve given the unvaccinated numerous chances to repent. They’ve done all they could to educate them.

Now, humans are running out of time. New variants are spreading. The planet is choking on our selfish misdeeds. Never mind that the “experts” have brought this on us, and continue to do so with new, ever more grandiose ideas to save our world.

Never mind all of that!

It’s the idiots fault. They leave us no alternative. We must:

Kill them all.

If they are gone, the planet will right itself. The gods will be appeased.

“I'm ready right now to blow you all sky high,” says the Joker in The Dark Knight to groups of terrified people floating in boats. “Anyone attempts to get off their boat, you all die. Each of you has a remote... to blow up the other boat. At midnight, I blow you all up. If, however, one of you presses the button, I'll let that boat live. So, who's it going to be: Harvey Dent's most wanted scumbag collection, or the sweet and innocent civilians? You choose... oh, and you might want to decide quickly, because the people on the other boat might not be so noble.”

When war turns from an existential threat in other countries into a very clear and present danger on our own doorstep, “it becomes an excuse to vomit private hatred.

Suddenly, all those reasons why your neighbor annoyed you turn sinister. You’ve heard they aren’t vaccinated—well, that explains it. It goes without saying, therefore, that they must be white supremacists. Dangerous insurrectionists.

But actually, surveys show that minority groups are the most hesitant to get the COVID-19 vaccine. As well they should be, knowing the history of how the experts have experimented on them in the past.

Forget about minorities. They don’t fit the profile. How about this:

“White, Male, Rural Conservatives’ Won’t Get Vaccinated to Avoid ‘Placating the Left’: Tennessee’s Former Vax Chief.” Ah, that’s much better. We are allowed, even rewarded for vilifying white guys. But now that we feel comfortable tarring and feathering a class of people, where does it go from there?

In every neighborhood there will be someone who isn’t liked. The quiet weirdo who everyone suspects is a child molester. The immigrants who have too many people living in their house. The Christians who refuse to send their kids to public school. None of them are vaccinated. Well, there you are. They are all dangerous.

If someone has to die, better them than me.

This isn’t some dystopian totalitarian government horror story. We are here, right now, living the Joker’s madness.

Schwartzenegger tells the unvaccinated to “screw your freedom”:

"There is a virus here — it kills people. And the only way we prevent it is get vaccinated, get masks, do social distancing, washing your hands all the time, and not just to think about 'well my freedom is being kind of disturbed here.' No, screw your freedom."

"Yeah, you have the freedom to wear no mask — but you know something? You're a schmuck for not wearing a mask. You are supposed to protect your fellow Americans around you."

What could be more un-American than disobeying The Terminator? “Come with me if you want to live.”

Never mind the news coming out of Israel where the Majority of Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients at Hospital in Israel Are Fully Vaccinated. That’s the fault of the unvaccinated too. Never mind that the vaccines’ efficacy isn’t what it was promised to be. Never mind that we will need to roll up our sleeves—how many times a year? Or that vaccines are being developed to “eradicate” the flu. Why not put money into public health programs to eradicate the causes of cancer, diabetes and heart attacks?

Become a country of exercisers and healthy eaters. Shut down the fast food restaurants and open inexpensive healthy alternatives for the poor.

As we should say to the woman who wrote about “letting herself go,” shouldn’t this be our answer? But nobody in power, nobody behind these vaccines wants a healthy public. No matter how obvious the answer is, we must fill people with more drugs.

We’re in this together. Get the vaccine!

Yet, Paski has informed us that the Biden administration is not mandating COVID vaccines for White House staff. And Obamas 60th birthday bash was low COVID risk because of the 'sophisticated, vaccinated crowd' who attended. None of his guests had to submit to the indignity of swabs up their noses, nor did they have to present vaccine passports. However, you can be sure that the two hundred servants waiting on Obama’s close circle of friends that included Oprah and Tom Hanks and, oh, you can guess the rest, had to be masked and no doubt tested up the wazoo.

The followers of this cult are okay with watching their gods have fun while they all practice self-flagellation on command. Because, you know, if we could just get rid of those anti-vaxxers, we could party like them, too. We could be that sophisticated if we were given the chance. We’re vaccinated. It’s all those anti-vaxxers who are holding us back.

A contributor to the Daily Beast makes some suggestions in Here’s How We Handle People Who Refuse to Get COVID Vaccines

“This is what freedom looks like. Reliable proof of vaccination will enable individuals, businesses, churches, and other organizations to make these decisions for themselves—and for their customers and members to make their decisions as to whether or not to attend. For myself, if given a choice, I won’t set foot in a museum, go to a show, eat at a restaurant, shop in a grocery store, or pray at a synagogue with unvaccinated people either.

“And the only ethical way forward is for me to have that choice. If anti-vaxxers can choose not to get vaccinated, I need to be able to choose to avoid them. Otherwise, we’re back to moral asymmetry. They can endanger my life, but I can’t do anything about it.

“…in some totalitarian dystopia, the government could take choice out of the equation by requiring everyone to be vaccinated. But we don’t live in that world. In a free country, people get to choose. But all people get to choose. Both the unvaccinated, and the people who want to live our lives without fear of catching COVID-19.

“And as a bonus, I suspect that when enough businesses and other public places go ‘vaxx-only,’ that may incentivize some of the unvaccinated to change their behavior. If they can’t get into a baseball game, a graduation, a diner or a veterinarian’s office, they might find themselves re-examining their opinions about the vaccine.”

Oh, no, the vaxxed aren’t advocating some crazy totalitarian dystopia. They would never suggest the government “take choice out of the equation.” How offensive is that?

They are just going to punish the sinners into submission. And rightly so.

The Los Angeles City Council unanimously voted Aug. 11 to prepare an ordinance that will require people to show proof of at least partial COVID-19 vaccination to enter public indoor spaces in the city, including restaurants, bars, gyms, entertainment venues, and retail stores.

Councilmember Mitch O’Farrell called choosing not to get vaccinated against COVID-19 “immoral,” saying some people choose to “listen to some delusional rant on Twitter.”

Resident Elizabeth Elliott, who called into the meeting to give public comment, disagreed with O’Farrell on both the ethical and economic impact of the ordinance, saying it is “unethical to force” people to inject a vaccine into their body.

What no one has mentioned publicly yet, because this is a slow slide into hell and people are still on their moral high horses, is that this trend will progress to the unvaxxed not being able to buy food, own a car, a house.

It seems righteous. What those moralizers don’t get is that once everyone is on board with the program, those in control the system can make you do anything they want.

As the Joker says: “They need you right now, but when they don't, they'll cast you out—like a leper. See, their morals, their ‘code’…it's a bad joke, dropped at the first sign of trouble. They're only as good as the world allows them to be. I'll show you, when the chips are down, these—ah—’civilised people’? They'll eat each other. See, I'm not a monster. I'm just ahead of the curve.”

Imagine, having to make such a choice. How unfair that would be. We shouldn’t have to do that. Image the solution being to put millions of healthy unvaccinated people into internment camps indefinitely, because they might catch a virus with a 99.9% average survival rate.

Imagine?

It’s being set up to happen.

Have you heard of the “Shielding Approach?” I wouldn’t have believed it until I read it for myself.

It’s right there, plain as day, on the CDC’s website. “The shielding approach suggests physically separating high-risk individuals from the general population to prioritize the use of the limited available resources and avoid implementing long-term containment measures among the general population.”

It talks about “green zones established at the household, neighborhood, camp/sector or community level depending on the context and setting. They would have minimal contact with family members and other low-risk residents.”

Separating the elderly, the infirm, and who else? Oh, let’s add on the mentally ill, why not hyperactive children, and definitely parents who put their children in private schools where they are indoctrinated with white supremacy.

Great idea. What could possibly go wrong? Imagine one person getting sick in a place like that and how the sickness would spread. But how obvious it must be to anyone with any common sense that they aren’t really concerned about keeping these undesirables safe. They want them dead.

This is how they are going to “heal the planet.”

Years ago I used to have a recurring dream. I dreamed that I was standing at the top of a big hill. The moon was shining and below me, far away was a dark forest. As I stared, I saw a woman running out of the forest, wearing a white shift, hair flowing behind her.

I stood transfixed, as I watched her coming closer. Soon she was close enough and I gasped, realizing the woman was me. Her face wore an expression of terror and as she raced past, she cried, “The wolves are coming!”

I kept standing there. What should I do? Then, I saw the wolves. They burst out of the forest. Surely, they would devour me if I didn’t run, too. And yet, I stood still. What if I ran? I would be running forever and ever and eventually they would catch me. I could never far enough or fast enough. With all my resolve, I faced the wolves. They came upon me…and passed right by. I felt the wind of their movement, I heard their growls, I saw the saliva dripping from their bared teeth. But they did not touch me. They didn’t even see me.

I thought, am I invisible? But then I realized, no. It was the wolves who were invisible. They were all my fears manifest. And if I had run from them, they would have stayed on my back. By acknowledging and accepting them, they lost their power over me and I was free.

It was all part of my training, I suppose. In the days, when I was learning to fight.

Nothing is really all that complicated. We know instinctively what is right and what is wrong. But our “hearts are deceitful,” we are easily swayed. That is why, I say again, we must practice the basics. We must remind ourselves of who we are and our history.

That, as William D. Phillips says:

“I believe in God because I can feel God’s presence in my life, because I can see the evidence of God’s goodness in the world, because I believe in Love and because I believe that God is Love.”

I don’t expect everyone to agree with me. But for those who don’t, I hope you will see some truths in what I say. You can believe whatever you want, just realize you don’t actually know.

Yes, a scientist can say he or she believes in God without any concrete proof. Why? Because science melds perfectly with faith and intuition. And intuition isn’t a “female” thing, as some folks like to say. The greatest strategists rely on a perfect blend of instinct and intelligence.

The gods who rule our world have very good instincts. They know this is true. They just don’t want you to know it.

Again, in that masterpiece The Dark Knight, we have this conversation:

Natascha: But this is a democracy, Harvey.

Harvey Dent: When their enemies were at the gates, the Romans would suspend democracy and appoint one man to protect the city, and it wasn't considered an honor it was considered a public service.

Rachel Dawes: Harvey, the last man that they appointed to protect the republic was named Caesar and he never gave up his power.

Harvey Dent: Okay fine...you either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

Acting the villain can be a lot of fun. Actually being one is another matter entirely. It's real and we can see it all around us The lines are being drawn. We need more heroes.

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