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LOCKDOWN LUNACY: the thinking person’s guide
I should feel myself both uncaring and grossly negligent if I did not republish this. There is a link to the original complete post. Switch off the TV/radio for a while and read this instead. đ
“New blog post: LOCKDOWN LUNACY 2.0: Second wave? Not even close.
By J.B. Handley
For anyone willing to look, there are so many facts that tell the true story, and it goes something like this:
Knowing what we know today about COVID-19âs Infection Fatality Rate, asymmetric impact by age and medical condition, non-transmissibility by asymptomatic people and in outdoor settings, near-zero fatality rate for children, and the basic understanding of viruses through Farrâs law, locking down society was a bone-headed policy decision so devastating to society that historians may judge it as the all-time worst decision ever made. Worse, as these clear facts have become available, many policy-makers havenât shifted their positions, despite the fact that every hour under any stage of lockdown has a domino-effect of devastation to society. Meanwhile, the mediaâwith a few notable exceptionsâis oddly silent on all the good news. Luckily, an unexpected group of heroes across the political landscapeâmany of them doctors and scientistsâhave emerged to tell the truth, despite facing extreme criticism and censorship from an angry mob desperate to continue fighting an imaginary war.
My goal is to engage in known facts. You, the reader, can decide if all of these facts, when you put them together, equate to the story above.
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– https://jbhandleyblog.com/home/lockdownlunacy
INSTITUTIONALISED
A mask is just a mask.
A kiss is just a kiss.
(A lie is just a lie.)
Institutionalised
Institutionalised: apathetic and dependent
The formula of futile diligence; fear and false security.
Through ignorance, people follow other people; we cling and stick together. By being
institutionalised, we stop thinking for ourself and learn the formula.Â
We want to be where âitâsâ at, not realising weâre already where âitâsâ at.Â
We adopt behavioural patterns to surviving in the group. That is, however, the key that locks us into this institutionalised relative reality.
Relative reality is created by consciousness relating and reacting to reflections on the wall of consciousness. This entrapment has become our second nature; we bind ourselves to collective thinking. It doesnât matter which side we take, we are still involved with the reflections on the wall and so, we become a type instead of theprototype; the original. Our first nature.
When realised, our ultimate reality of pure awareness / pure consciousness is free and belongsâŚ
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HOW TO SURVIVE BELIEF
So simple.
How To Survive Belief
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Stop believing and know
How many, in this crazy world, believe in something or other? We live our lives in a belief-reality, and donât even question this dream world. We werenât born believing, were we? A belief is someone elseâs ideas, someone elseâs world.
We adopt beliefs and run with them, trying to outshine othersâ beliefs, while both of these are empty of any real existence. This is futile diligence. We live by âperhaps thisâ, and âperhaps thatâ, living and dying in total ignorance. We have merely been playing with other peopleâs toys, without asking why â and even the toy makers cannot help themselves.
A.I. (and its handlers)
knows more about us than we do.
We supply the information,
and it sees our habitual patterns,
predicts our movements,
adjusts our reactions and thinking.
We ignore the fact that we do not have an originalâŚ
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Going Within and Beyond Fear ~ In 2020
Remember: “Fear is the mindkiller”.
PLEASE NOTE THAT YOU NEED TO GO TO THE ORIGINAL POST WHERE THERE IS ANOTHER IMPORTANT YT VIDEO WHICH HASN’T SURVIVED THE REPOST.
Going beyond the FearâŚ
Lorie Ladd speaks from her heart, as I speak from mine. Her words and those of Tina Turners can say it much better than I can, I hope you can spend ten minutes of your time, listening to each of their wordsâŚ.  As I share a new message from Lorie and an old one from Tina Turnerfrom a post I made in 2016.
May each of us Hold Peace and Love within our Hearts.
As we reach out in Love to all in need of LOVE.
May we Unite in LOVE as we Join as ONE
And may that Song of LOVE remain within your hearts
As we go beyond those who would instil Fear into it.
đ Love and Blessings, to All đ
Throw Sand In The Gears Of The Machine – Caitlin Johnstone: Reposted from elsewhere
Humanity will continue along its self-destructive trajectory until the masses use the power of their numbers to force real change. Humanity will not use the power of its numbers to force real change as long as itâs being successfully propagandized not to do so. The oligarchic propaganda machine is therefore the primary barrier to our transition from our self-destructive patterns into a healthy collaborative relationship with each other and with our ecosystem.
So throw sand in the gears of the machine. If enough of us throw enough sand, we can cause the whole thing to break down.
Kill public trust in the mass media by exposing their lies at every opportunity, from whatever platform you can gain access to. Anywhere you can find an audience, whether itâs an audience of one or ten thousand, kill public trust in the establishment propaganda engine.
Amplify solid voices, arguments, narratives and facts that those in power donât want amplified. Wherever you see something healthy that makes them squirm, give your energy to it and help it get as much traction as possible.
Make them uncomfortable. Push the powerful until theyâre forced to push back, exposing themselves. Get the machine to overextend itself into the light where it can be seen by everyone. Create movement, and when that movement opens up gaps in the matrix, do everything you can to shove as much truth as possible through those gaps.
Improvise. Move, pivot and circle with the ever-shifting narrative matrix in real time. Donât attack in the same place for too long. When the narrative managers start pouring their energy into protecting a given story, move to another location like a boxer who strikes the body to get the opponent to drop their hands, leaving them open to a knockout blow.
Find weak points in the armor of the machine, and focus your firepower there. If thereâs a narrative the propagandists are guarding against especially aggressively and effectively, donât waste your energy bashing your head against it. All you have to do is wake the public up to the fact that the plutocratic media are not trustworthy; it doesnât matter which of their lies you expose to do that, so just grab whatâs available.
Be creative. Propagandists are motivated by base desires like power, money and esteem, so they have no access to their own creative depths like we do. They have no inspiration, and people will naturally find them far less interesting than those who do. The more we can force the battle to be contested on this ground, the more wins weâll rack up.
Be funny. Humor always works best when itâs punching up and exposing the powerful, not opposing change and protecting power. This is why narrative managers are not funny. We are. Use that.
Always be attacking. Donât wait for the establishment to do something gross and then react defensively to its offensive maneuvers, proactively attack it and put the bastards on the back foot. Constantly seek out things to mock, criticize, highlight and remind people of that the manipulators want unseen. The more you can force them to play defense the less energy theyâll have to attack, and the more openings theyâll leave as they try to get you off of them.
Make a constant study of how they fool people, so you can draw peopleâs attention to how theyâre being fooled. Make a constant study of how you fool yourself, so you can understand how psychological manipulation really works.
Keep working on yourself. The more psychologically healthy and lucid you are, the more useful you are in this fight. The more inner spaciousness you have, the more creativity and spontaneity youâll have to fight the manipulators in a free-form improvisational way. The more lucid you are, the more clearly you can see the machine.
Keep fighting. Donât stop. Why would you stop? We either win this fight or resign ourselves to extinction/dystopia (whichever comes first). Fight like any other organism whose life is being threatened by any other predator. If you need to lay down and give up, lay down and give up. Then once youâve felt the ground beneath you and how thereâs nowhere to fall, get back up and keep fighting.
We have so very, very much untapped potential, and there is so very, very much going on that we do not yet understand. Despair is an irrational position on a battlefield of unknown surprises with an army of unknown power. Keep fighting, and watch and see.
Humanity will either awaken from its propaganda-induced trance or it wonât. When you have a loved one who wonât leave an abusive relationship, all you can do is show them what youâre seeing as tactfully as possible and then give them the freedom to find their own way out. When you have a species that is being pushed along a self-destructive trajectory by plutocratic propaganda built in service of plutocratic agendas, all you can do is show them theyâre being lied to and give them the opportunity to transcend the lies.
Keep fighting, keep pushing, and watch and see. We absolutely have the freedom to pass this test. Whether we pass it or not remains to be seen. All we can do is keep throwing sand in the gears.
the quiet space
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POSTCARD#383: Bangkok: Switch off the TV and switch off the media in my head, their weapons of mass distraction that blind and deafen the population. Leave it alone, disengage from all things hateful before it starts burning down the house. Enter the quiet space and the silence is deafening, random notes of birdsong far away and beneath that, a deep quietude. Itâs so remarkably neutral, I feel Iâm sometimes not here at all. Seated on the sofa, watching my own breathing, I need to clear the mind of self, starting with the word âselfâ itself.
Focus on nothing, despite the tendency to think of nothing as something. Nothing becomes both subject and object⌠whatâs happening? I am not here, incognito perhaps, concealed in a makeshift identity. I donât really know, it all seems to vanish as each new day dawns and deletes the memory of the previous day, an hourâŚ
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Not being paralyzed
Not to worry …
Someone asked me, âArenât you worried about the state of the world?â I allowed myself to breathe and then I said, âWhat is most important is not to allow your anxiety about what happens in the world to fill your heart. If your heart is filled with anxiety, you will get sick, and you will not be able to help.â Yes, there is tremendous suffering all over the world, but knowing this need not paralyze us. If we practice mindful breathing, mindful walking, mindful sitting, and working in mindfulness, we can try our best to help.
Thich Nhat Hanh
The Emperor’s New Clothes
Oct 9
Posted by Ben Naga
“The vote-shaming engines have predictably kicked into high gear in America as the presidential election approaches, with shitlib pundits like Bill Maher doing their part to paint third-party voters as the most toxic people in the world.
Which is of course ridiculous. I have no strong opinions about how Americans should vote in November, but it’s obvious that in terms of toxicity third-party voters are not on the list of people who are worthy of criticism. The dire situation humanity now finds itself in under the leadership of the US hegemon is not the fault of a small fringe faction which doesn’t want to support oligarch-coddling ecocidal warmongers, it’s the fault of those who help preserve America’s oligarchic ecocidal warmongering status quo.
Contrary to the stock template lines that establishment spinmeisters are regurgitating to bully the left into submission, here are 21 things which are in fact a lot more crazy, selfish, stupid and privileged than voting third party:
1. Supporting a two-headed one-party system in the most powerful government on earth which has plagued our planet with endless war and ecocide and marched humanity to the brink of extinction.
2. Continuing to support a political system which is wholly owned and operated by the wealthy, leaving zero effective influence over US policy in the hands of ordinary Americans and immense influence in the hands of the very rich.
3. Continuing to support a system which consistently deceives the American people into consenting to oppressive neoliberal exploitation at home and bloodthirsty neoconservative warmongering abroad, both of which always hurt the most impoverished and disadvantaged groups worst.
4. Continuing to support a two-headed one-party system where one head always pushes as far to the right as possible when in power and the other head never moves things back leftward even one iota when it is.
5. Continuing to support a political establishment which rehabilitates war criminals like George W Bush, Bill Kristol, David Frum and John Bolton while demonizing anyone who refused to vote for a warmonger.
6. Supporting a political party which has been consistently attacking Donald Trump from the right on foreign policy, pushing him to escalate cold war tensions with Russia further and further and shrieking hysterically if he makes the slightest move toward deescalation anywhere.
7. Supporting a political party which is designed to co-opt all leftward populism and railroad it into support for an establishment which promotes war and oligarchy while depriving Americans of the same social safety nets afforded to everyone in every other major country on earth.
8. Supporting a party which claims to support press freedoms while cheerleading Trump’s extradition of Julian Assange, a move which if successful will cripple press freedoms around the globe and make it impossible to hold the world’s most powerful government to account.
9. Supporting a political party which has spent Trump’s term galvanizing its base around the psychopathic CIA and J Edgar Hoover’s minority-oppressing, left-punching FBI while doing everything it can to stamp out any leftist zeitgeist within its ranks.
10. Continuing to support a mass media structure which works every day to deceive Americans into supporting their own impoverishment while weapons of war are spread across the planet at massive expense.
11. Supporting a political establishment which promises slow, incremental change and actually delivers no change whatsoever while our species slides off the cliff of extinction, taking out the most impoverished and marginalized first.
12. Pretending foreign policy just doesn’t exist, or if it does exist pretending Joe Biden isn’t a lifelong warmonger who has spent his entire campaign attacking Trump for being insufficiently hawkish in most spheres of international conflict.
13. Ignoring the fact that both parties are working in support of world-threatening cold war escalations against both Russia and China, a multifront campaign whose complexity increases the probability of something going cataclysmically wrong even more than the last cold war.
14. Pretending a party that’s done exactly nothing for America’s disempowered communities isn’t directly responsible for the poverty, police brutality, mass incarceration, exploitation and oppression those communities face today.
15. Pretending a return to how things were before Trump’s presidency wouldn’t just be a return to the conditions which created Trump’s presidency.
16. Pretending Obama, who destroyed Libya, devastated Syria, facilitated the rape of Yemen, intervened in Ukraine, maintained and expanded all of Bush’s most depraved policies and did nothing for the people who elected him, was a good president.
17. Continuing to support a political system where everything keeps getting worse no matter which oligarchic puppet Americans elect.
18. Putting your head in the sand and pretending everything will be fine once a Democrat is in charge, again.
19. Supporting a novelty joke party with fake primaries which are always rigged to ensure victory for the safest oligarchic puppet instead of pushing for something resembling actual democracy.
20. Promoting the lie that if you just keep doing something that has never, ever worked, this time it might produce different results.
21. Lulling people back to sleep when the only thing that can help ordinary people is for them to start waking up and using the power of their numbers to force drastic, revolutionary change.
Itâs easy to advocate incrementalism when youâre not living hand to mouth. Itâs selfish to think that acting on climate change can be rolled out over many decades so as not to upset the corporate donors of your favorite politicians. Itâs the height of entitlement to close the door to progressives inside the Democratic Party and then throw a shit fit when they vote for another party. Itâs hypocritical to hyperventilate about election-rigging Russians while secretly, and then openly, rigging primaries against progressives.
Supporting the continued existence of a fake two-party system which advances exploitative agendas hurts the most vulnerable populations in America and in the entire world. Acting self-righteous because you actively support that system while spitting on the people who are trying to change it is selfish, is stupid, is hypocritical, and is a mark of extreme privilege.”
– Caitlin Johnstone
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2020/09/29/on-vote-shaming-21-ways-supporting-the-us-establishment-is-worse-than-voting-third-party/
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