"And in this lies yet another key insight into why some of us have had our worldview turned upside down by the flow of events and lies which we have all experienced since the beginning of 2020, while others have not."
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It's pretty crazy going out into the world and seeing people pretend like it's still 2018. They have no idea what's coming. (And also no idea what's happening right now!)
Not only has the dumbing of America been such a success as in the credit card expenditure of imported items to the countless shopping mall craze of commercial retail as a venue item to watch on the Stock market while the landscape of the farm fields and wooded terrain falls victims to more bulldozed flattened paved over earth and carries pollution into ponds and catch basins no wildlife could thrive in. We are buying our own demise by the ongoing pursuits of pleasures. Bigger/Bigger/ is definitely not Better/ Better. No Matter what it is.
Recently reported cocaine found in white house (a Gomer "surprise, surprise" here). Seem to recall hearing same in clinton time there. And j.f.k. had erotic proclivities similar to those of the infamous hunter b. so generations of hedonism in OUR house makes what you say hardly surprising, does it.
Every day brings another crazy, impossible to foresee event. Yet these are accepted, unquestioned as normal. I wonder how much of the population is gone under the spell?
My background growing up Jewish and female in the 1950's and '60's made me doubt a lot of what the authorities said was true. And then in the mid '70's, I was in charge of training all the ward clerks in a large Chicago training hospital, and during the time I spent on the floor I was appalled by a lot of what I saw. And, of course, there was the Vietnam war.
Then there was the hormone scandal, where a small, flawed study of hormones for menopausal women was used by Big Pharma to push hormones on women starting in the 1980's. When the NIH finally decided that women were worth studying 20 years later, they had to stop the study in the middle because so many women were developing serious heart problems.
I have worked with several good doctors and some pretty bad ones and learned the hard way about the bad ones. That's why I did my own research about the Covid vaccines, because too many medicos are too eager to just follow the hype and prescribe drugs instead of checking things out.
I have also avoided social media because I value my privacy and I knew enough about how lucrative big data is not to trust the promises of confidentiality. And I switched to duckduckgo.com as soon as I found out about it because it doesn't track and, later on during Covid, it didn't censor. I avoid TV like the plague that it is and check Yahoo so I can get an idea of what's being pushed and how people are responding to it
Censorship and yellow journalism aren't new, but with the internet they're far more pervasive. I used to tell my students not to believe anything just because it's written in black and white (pre-internet).
What's so dangerous this time out is that the vaccines are killing people and making them very sick. And because we can't know the long-term effects of the mRNAs, we can't know what's going to happen in the next 3-10 years. (The non-mRNAs are also causing all sorts of problems, because any vaccine created to fight a gain-of-function virus is going to be dangerously powerful.)
But the backlash has begun. Every time Yahoo publishes a story about Covid boosters or some new virus that the CDC is using to terrorize us, the comments are very pointedly negative. And, of course, the backlash against woke and LGBQT+ terrorism is getting more powerful every day.
I've lived in 6 different states and spent time with a wide range of people, and I have confidence that our brother and sister Americans will continue to figure out what's going on and take necessary action. We have Dr. Malone and other courageous souls telling the truth, and this does and will continue to make a difference. We are a resilient people and I know in my heart that we will make it through this very rough time.
A great overview of matters!! I too grew up in the 50's & 60's [born early 50's] in Australia. Unfortunately, seeing people I pass in the supermarket [some who are silly enough to still wear masks & even some who wear masks whilst walking in the wide open air spaces Australia has plenty of, I doubt very much these folks will "wake up" before its too late. They swallow the tripe they view on the MSM. Other places I shop or attend, like the Bank, makes me often feel we cannot place any faith or hope in the greater fellow Australians. Even seeing the Bank Tellers & the young female Bank Manager who pushed the "Pride Month" agenda with their hair colours, & nose loops, & eyebrow piercing etc, etc, plus decorating of a Branch of Australia's largest Bank in the "Pride Colours" makes me stop & wonder what hope is there for our future? If they think that is OK fine, but do not bring them to the Workplace, where they are dealing with many "normal thinking folks" who grew up in a much more civilized & respectful world. They should not push their agenda's on us!! These ladies often look terribly unkempt where once the Banking staff always presented as very neat & tidy. The bank has stopped issuing Cheque Books to ordinary citizens, even tho' we have been customers for 43yrs, holding a joint account. They don't like that I am withdrawing more cash money nowadays, & using our credit card as infrequently as possible. We already seem to be under the control of the Mr Big's of the world. We need a huge worldwide uprising of we ordinary citizen's to let them know we "Will Not" fall for their dictatorship!! It does concern us that when we join these different Substack's & our Credit Card is used to pay for the Subscriptions, or make a Donation to Institutions "they may not like" we may be sitting ducks to be compromised in what once was a good relationship with our Bank. WE also need to be strong in our approach to our Medico's, our Health Freedom, the ridiculous Mandates that cost the world huge Economic Loss, [plus personal loss if we don't follow the norm] digitisation, etc, etc, etc!! How do we convince those who are brainwashed to "stop & think & do more research?!" It's not too simple? God Bless you, & your Loved Ones.
Thanks for you blessing! As far as the young folks are concerned, just think about how our parents and their generation felt about males with long hair and females without bras and the wonderful hippie-style clothes we loved to wear.
I don't think we can force anyone to think--as a former teacher, I learned that the best way to get my students to think for themselves was to encourage them. So have a short conversation with a teller, not about anything "significant," but about something friendly.
We need to focus on what we share--our desires for friends and families and decent lives. If you can set that up with the people you meet, you'll be pleasantly surprised at the result.
I can assure you, I do try to be nicely friendly, & not controversial when being served by any of these folks. I apologize for not explaining this. Thank you Cindy!
When I was a teenager we used single words, no abvs. Good things were defined by one of these words Neat - Boss - Bitchin - Cool - Groovy. My sons' generation used Gnarly. Then came Bad meaning good.
Uhhh… You left out…If You are gonna be stupid, You gotta be tough, Wrecked, Over The Falls, That was Bitchin’, You can’t drink all day if You don’t start in the morning, Silly boy and see “The Friend of the Friendless” (Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand) and - “Mates look out for Mates” (uk). Ed
Duckduckgo did some underhanded things during the pandemic and isolated good information from users. https://www.startpage.com did not do such nonsense....
I hope you're right about the future and thanks for sharing your very interesting and strong healthcare background. BTW, you might try proton mail, to, in addition to duck. It's very similar and has many excellent features.
"But the history of large scale intelligence and psyops campaigns is littered with tales of unanticipated blowback." That is our hope..... Those who think themselves godlike often melt their wings in the heat of the sun.
And by a curious coincidence, on the same day the federal judge issued the ruling cited in the above post by Jean!
If you could be a fly on the wall tomorrow in any of the federal agencies affected by this ruling, do you think that you would observe shock by the affected federal employees? If so, do you think their shock would be ontological or existential, or both? I could be mistaken, but would lean toward existential. Would also guess they will be evading the shock by looking very carefully for loopholes (wormholes?) in the exceptions in the ruling permitting contact with social media companies to alert them of criminal activity or threats to national security .
I am not sure I have ever trusted the government, but my awakening happened in the Vietnam era. Daniel Ellsberg exposed the truth about the same time I came back home. More, I embraced the wisdom of James Madison many years ago, understanding that ‘in truth all men holding power ought to be mistrusted.’ Then 911, the premier’inside job’ until the scamdemic came along. I guess I’ve been a cynical bastard from young age.
Humans are conditioned to embrace the fantasies of Santa Clause and Easter Bunnies from very young ages, and organized religion plays on the same dynamics. So we’re conditioned to buy all sorts of falsehoods.
Since 911 have accepted that the majority cannot face unpleasant truths. Sadly it is part of the human condition. Understanding how we are incessantly brainwashed is a burden to bear, even though the truth will set you free. Alex Jones was right--there is a war on for your mind.
Since you were there you should know cronkite's reporting on the tet offensive was total bull. Point being it has been obvious for at least that long lamestream an unreliable source of news so find much of the present outrage a bit disingenuous. Seems a lot comes down to whose ox has been gored when.
I was a latecomer to Vietnam, June 1970. I perceived Cronkite as one of the good guys, a real journalist. Though I didn’t realize it at the time, those were the days of Operation Mockingbird, almost innocent compared to today.
Cronkite is put out there as an example of good reporting, but even he was influenced by the government drivel . He eventually came out against the war and thought we should pull anchor and get out.
Like you, Richard, 9/11 was my "Ontological Shock". Initially, I forgot the lesson I had learned from 9/11 and was sucked in to the Covid propaganda psyop. It took one podcast, the one with Bret Weinstein, Robert Malone, and Steve Kirsch, for me to realize that those pulling the strings were at it again. From that point on I viewed the Covid psyop as simply a slow motion version of 9/11. And I had learned in the aftermath of my 9/11 shock, that MOST people are not ready to be Ontologically shocked. Sadly, I expect the same now unless RFK, Jr., a longshot I know, can breakthrough the Matrix of lies and begin the process of truth and reconciliation on a world-wide scale.
Interesting concepts....which can be summed up as “ being a doubting Thomas”. As a healthcare professional bias is possible and known to be a factor in a diagnostic process is the difference between the flea internist or that general surgeon who always wants to hide behind the radiologist. Yet it is the neurosurgeons who interpret their own MRIs over the radiologist’s view. Of you are truly a 3 dimensional thinker then assess any set of circumstances becomes a second nature....and if done from the original set of COVID response it was obvious a false flag type circumstance was operative.... and as such rejecting most anything coming from Govt was imperative not to get sucked into their creative minefield. The degree of pre-planning on the psych-op scheming of so many groups reveals the depth of deceit and pure anti-USA bent is behind that green door. All agencies, NGOs and politicians who pushed the Govt narrative must not be exposed and purged if not they will do it again and again.
I would say they have been exposed, but the entire system is so corrupt, so much of it was in on it by way of the CARES Act on more, that the perpetrators will never be prosecuted. We are witnessing the slow motion collapse of the US, just like Rome in so many ways.
The parallels between the extinguishing of the roman empire and the looming demise of our Republic are appalling in as the lessons offered are there to see but flagrently ignored
Dang… In medicine, I saw that which You conveyed everday for quite some time. “You cannot find that for which You do not look” - “The cells do not lie”. (Ryan Cole, M.D.) Ed
I will be 80 next month and pretty sure I am older than most followers of Dr. Malone. My faith in all that I grew up believing in has been destroyed. I thank God that I was given the gift to recognize bull shit when they tried to force it on me. I rejected all vaccines because it was obvious they had no objective science behind their claims. A hoax beyond all comprehension.
Rock On!!! And Happy Birthday!!! I keep asking myself why do I keep making friends with “old people”? The answer is Wisdom, Knowledge and History. My Great Friend will be 95 this month.🔥 Ed
I too rejected the entire approach these Faucci pseudo-scientists desired to force upon this nation….and no doubt if I was not retired already I would have been fired for non-compliance with jab mandates. This was never about science it was mandates, power, compliance and herding people to the leftee’s common ideology under the “ covid umbrella”…and you can bet they are already planning another episode of the same. Power via total hoax and Media misinformation could not be so obvious…
I prefer the idea of "Ontological Shock" since it preserves my agency, and thus my sovereignty.
Yes, I have lived parts of my life based on "lies" I was told -- in a "child's universe". It was fun while it lasted. Then I grew up.....or so I thought.
Since all of this started, I've become like a child again but with grown up eyes. And much to the consternation of the Oligarchs and cultural marxists, people like me are still standing and we are much harder to fool.
John Denver’s song, “Some Days are Diamonds” has some penetrating prose in the phrasing, “now we all know the truth is hard to come by, and if I spoke the truth, that’s not quite true”. What does that mean? It means that the “truth”, the ultimate prize in the existential sweep stakes, resides in a different realm than words, in the principality of That Which Works, not “that which can be described”. It can be simplified even more: “Do what works; don’t do what doesn’t work”, from which can be derived, “truth” (reliably) works; “falsehood” (eventually) does not work. This is a very meagre guide post, but better than “obfuscation can lead to verisimilitude”.
Coming from a background where I am regularly exposed to totalitarian and tyrannical regimes in the Middle East (all of them, by the way, good friends of the West and steadfast allies of the US/EU), I saw the signs early on of previously, nominally "free" and democratic western governments operating as totalitarian/control regimes. I warned my friends in the west who are less accustomed to these matters and told them about the signs that were rapdily emerging in 2020-2021.
However, I too was shocked by the degree to which establishment media emerged as under that control. And this level of control could not have happened overnight with covidism. It must have had older roots. I was also astonished by the near-uniformity of compliance. No hint of objection or dialogue but "yes sir" across the board.
Big Tech was a different story. Multiple stories over the years about how they engineer "backdoors" for government agencies to break into otherwise secure/encrypted messaging made it logical that they would be cooperating. Also, because Big Tech does not have a journalistic tradition - but they are to all extents and purposes operating in the field - they were easier to co-opt. Whatever resistance some traditional journalism may have put up, did not exist in Big Tech.
So, perhaps more than "shocked", I was just very dissapointed. It makes me think there is something in the human psyche that makes most people tend to obedience and compliance, if only because it is easier and people are naturally lazy.
However, I am greatly heartened by the explosive growth of alternative media. Who heard of substack before 2021? If someone had told you 2 or 3 years ago, that a debate between Joe Rogan and Russell Brand was important for public discourse, and it attracted tens of millions of views, what would you have thought?
Great topic! Every day when we turn on the TV we are told (who is advertising on what station) what companies are with the Great Reset and what companies are willing to be daring. It's amazing, as we spend money also, but the vast majority of companies chose to stay on what they think is the safe lane. While some take money from George Soros et all and fly the transgender flag. These companies who chose the great reset know (I believe) that communism only has two groups of people; the slaves and the billionaires, and their company, no matter how big it is today will be wiped away ~ if they don't play along. The really silly think 'everyone will be the same ` hooray!' Yes, everyone will be a slave and a few, the master.
Scary what you say that if this lying on a big scale is not stopped soon, the chances of reconciliation ( and peace) may become unachievable. Thank you for this thought provoking article. I look forward to your emails in my inbox every morning. You are now my most popular substack author followed by Matt Taibbi
The USG DOJ/FBI's apparent protection of outright money laundering and treason of the Biden crime family is particularly catastrophic. If these alleged crimes are true and are covered up the entire Constitutional Republic of the US is at stake.
I was struck by how similar the ontological and existential shock descriptions in this article mirror my experience as a child of divorce before it became commonplace. As a child it was the betrayal of a belief system and complete devastation of one way of living without knowing what was going to happen to you. But, day by day, I made it through to now; perhaps not as well as what might have been if my family had remained intact, but it is what it is. The whole Covid plandemic has also been devastating but I wonder if I've had an easier time dealing with the upheaval, lies and unfulfilled promises because, for me, "Been there, done that". We'll get through this too, not in as good a shape as 'what might have been' if it hadn't happened, but we'll survive.
A "relative infant in the world of language"? I think not! I am learning so much from everything you write! I love language and the nuances and the potency. The depth to which you investigate words and language is a sign of intense interest and intellect. Now, back to digest more...
Love this post. You both used the tool as you explained the tool.
I have known about this “terminology trick” (the power of words) and hoped an influential person in the Medical Freedom movement would become a lexicogenesis. (Quite Ironically, I thought I was inventing that term but just Googled it and it already exists).
Lexicogenesis, what you’ve done here with “Ontological Shock” and “Scientism”. Not to trick people but because, as times change, we need new words which capture essay long definitions.
One of my biggest ontological shocks was how good people got so easily and severely manipulated by terms. For example: killing people. Generally accepted in the realm of “known” to be morally wrong ... until term “anti vaxxer” was invented and became synonymous with definition “people who deserve to die”. When I got discarded by friends and family, it WAS shocking. And frustrating because I knew the trick. I’ve been using it my whole life. Way back in college, my boyfriend and I went to the zoo. We had just bought a home. The rest of the block were senior citizens and they were very unhappy about how we maintained our yard. At the zoo, each animal had a plaque announcing it’s species. It was a pass out hot day. Walking in the sun was exhausting. We came upon a hill blocked by a section of overgrown grass. The section had one of those same plaques. It read: “Tall Grass”. Well no shit. However, because of the plaque, it left the impression that perhaps the weeds were some exotic intentional exhibit we were supposed to appreciate. There we were along with the crowd, double whammied for our paid admission, accepting the detour while hiking uphill in the sun. Yet, no one objected or complained because of the plaque. That’s when my boyfriend got the idea to avoid mowing the lawn by placing a similar sign out front in the yard. And why should I use my weekends dictating which plants should survive or die in the flower bed (aka “weeding”)? Why not simply place signs with their scientific plant name so the neighbors would stop complaining about how I let the previous owner’s beautiful flower beds go to pot.
After that, in my own personal lexicon, I have used the term “tall grass” to mean, a term used to manipulate behavior. I avoided being invited to baby and bridal showers, which is tall grass for “personal fund raiser” by declaring myself a “recluse”. In reality I didn’t want to build diaper cakes or buy wedding gifts twice. Later, when I lived in a multi unit old house, I was too cheap to pay for the drier and would hang my clothes in a shared community courtyard by announcing that I was “European”. Somehow, that gave me a special privilege no one else had and people would happily tolerate wet cloths occupying the space... because of “the European lady” that lived there. 🤔Seriously? I too was surprised it was that easy. Please don’t think horribly of me because of these confessions. I’m wearing a plaque that reads: “Street Smart”. Which, turns out, can help you survive a whole bunch better than “book smart”. And what I really hope is, that we all get a little smarter and bust people on their “tall grass bs” while at the same time recognize the value and need for appropriate lexicogenesis. It’s not the tool. It’s how we use it.
Great ideas! Thank you for showing us how to defend ourselves with the same tools used by the Manipulators and Betrayers and Traitors. You offer an approach other than abandoning words altogether. Another arrow in my quiver!
Just to clarify, I did these things when I was younger but wasn’t necessarily suggesting we fight fire with fire (manipulate the manipulators). Here’s the thing with tall grass: you’re supposed to mow it. Responsibility is a pain in the butt, but the sooner we all grow up and live in reality, the better off we’ll all be. That’s the other piece to this stack which is really good. Giving us language to help us understand that society in general has been avoiding living in reality. I too am guilty of being Peter Pan and went through the ontological shock (thank you Dr Malone) when I got the boot from Never Never land. Ultimately, I’m so glad it happened but yeah, there’s a process there I now have vocabulary for.
Very interesting essay. I don’t think anyone could have dreamed how deep the corruption went. It is a little hard to get your head around it. However, I would not say that I have experienced it as an ontological shock.
The truth is that the behavior of the elites driving this evil is quite consistent with what we have seen down through history. Unfortunately they have more sophisticated means at their disposal.
I use the word evil because there is something very inhuman involved in what we have witnessed with the mRNA shots. How can one fathom such crimes against humanity. Evil is the only explanation that works for me. Because I see it as evil a spiritual solution is required.
A spiritual solution requires faith that the Creator can and will help us defeat evil. Genuine faith is stimulated by the Creator and is far different than magical thinking. Multitudes of persons have testified to this experience of genuine faith.
A very real evil presence that exists outside our reality and beyond our immediate senses purposely foments the current behavior we see from the elites as it has for centuries. The answer is to counter the evil with genuine Spiritual truth. Nothing changes hearts and minds like an encounter with the Spiritual.
Tony, there are some who say we have lost our spiritual focus. This plane is our schoolroom and the lessons are tough. Yes, I have genuine faith that we are not alone, we are watched over and there is no death, only continuing Life and learning until we become the teacher and on and on...
You will note that I suggest that there is a real evil at work. In the world of spirituality, just as in the rest of our world, there are choices to be made. Poor choices, as we saw with the COVID response, lead to death and destruction. Good choices could have been made that would have led to life and wholesomeness. What we learn and what that learning leads to determines whether we find spiritual life or not. A loss of meaningful spiritual life, I would say, has led the U. S. A. to its present state.
"And in this lies yet another key insight into why some of us have had our worldview turned upside down by the flow of events and lies which we have all experienced since the beginning of 2020, while others have not."
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It's pretty crazy going out into the world and seeing people pretend like it's still 2018. They have no idea what's coming. (And also no idea what's happening right now!)
Not only has the dumbing of America been such a success as in the credit card expenditure of imported items to the countless shopping mall craze of commercial retail as a venue item to watch on the Stock market while the landscape of the farm fields and wooded terrain falls victims to more bulldozed flattened paved over earth and carries pollution into ponds and catch basins no wildlife could thrive in. We are buying our own demise by the ongoing pursuits of pleasures. Bigger/Bigger/ is definitely not Better/ Better. No Matter what it is.
Recently reported cocaine found in white house (a Gomer "surprise, surprise" here). Seem to recall hearing same in clinton time there. And j.f.k. had erotic proclivities similar to those of the infamous hunter b. so generations of hedonism in OUR house makes what you say hardly surprising, does it.
I think I'll do better with a nice cup of Peruvian Coffee every morning.
Sometimes it lasts all day! Recalling it was good to the last drop. hahaha
Randall, WOW, that was the best run on sentence I have ever read!
I think I accidently hit the red "PUSH IN CASE OF BRAIN LAG" Nitro's oxide button.
Hell of a weird quarter mile run.
I kept reading and reading and reading because I want to see how it ended!
Same here Shelley!
Neil Postman wrote about this in his seminal 1980's book "Amusing ourselves to Death". So prescient.
Every day brings another crazy, impossible to foresee event. Yet these are accepted, unquestioned as normal. I wonder how much of the population is gone under the spell?
Far too many!
My background growing up Jewish and female in the 1950's and '60's made me doubt a lot of what the authorities said was true. And then in the mid '70's, I was in charge of training all the ward clerks in a large Chicago training hospital, and during the time I spent on the floor I was appalled by a lot of what I saw. And, of course, there was the Vietnam war.
Then there was the hormone scandal, where a small, flawed study of hormones for menopausal women was used by Big Pharma to push hormones on women starting in the 1980's. When the NIH finally decided that women were worth studying 20 years later, they had to stop the study in the middle because so many women were developing serious heart problems.
I have worked with several good doctors and some pretty bad ones and learned the hard way about the bad ones. That's why I did my own research about the Covid vaccines, because too many medicos are too eager to just follow the hype and prescribe drugs instead of checking things out.
I have also avoided social media because I value my privacy and I knew enough about how lucrative big data is not to trust the promises of confidentiality. And I switched to duckduckgo.com as soon as I found out about it because it doesn't track and, later on during Covid, it didn't censor. I avoid TV like the plague that it is and check Yahoo so I can get an idea of what's being pushed and how people are responding to it
Censorship and yellow journalism aren't new, but with the internet they're far more pervasive. I used to tell my students not to believe anything just because it's written in black and white (pre-internet).
What's so dangerous this time out is that the vaccines are killing people and making them very sick. And because we can't know the long-term effects of the mRNAs, we can't know what's going to happen in the next 3-10 years. (The non-mRNAs are also causing all sorts of problems, because any vaccine created to fight a gain-of-function virus is going to be dangerously powerful.)
But the backlash has begun. Every time Yahoo publishes a story about Covid boosters or some new virus that the CDC is using to terrorize us, the comments are very pointedly negative. And, of course, the backlash against woke and LGBQT+ terrorism is getting more powerful every day.
I've lived in 6 different states and spent time with a wide range of people, and I have confidence that our brother and sister Americans will continue to figure out what's going on and take necessary action. We have Dr. Malone and other courageous souls telling the truth, and this does and will continue to make a difference. We are a resilient people and I know in my heart that we will make it through this very rough time.
A great overview of matters!! I too grew up in the 50's & 60's [born early 50's] in Australia. Unfortunately, seeing people I pass in the supermarket [some who are silly enough to still wear masks & even some who wear masks whilst walking in the wide open air spaces Australia has plenty of, I doubt very much these folks will "wake up" before its too late. They swallow the tripe they view on the MSM. Other places I shop or attend, like the Bank, makes me often feel we cannot place any faith or hope in the greater fellow Australians. Even seeing the Bank Tellers & the young female Bank Manager who pushed the "Pride Month" agenda with their hair colours, & nose loops, & eyebrow piercing etc, etc, plus decorating of a Branch of Australia's largest Bank in the "Pride Colours" makes me stop & wonder what hope is there for our future? If they think that is OK fine, but do not bring them to the Workplace, where they are dealing with many "normal thinking folks" who grew up in a much more civilized & respectful world. They should not push their agenda's on us!! These ladies often look terribly unkempt where once the Banking staff always presented as very neat & tidy. The bank has stopped issuing Cheque Books to ordinary citizens, even tho' we have been customers for 43yrs, holding a joint account. They don't like that I am withdrawing more cash money nowadays, & using our credit card as infrequently as possible. We already seem to be under the control of the Mr Big's of the world. We need a huge worldwide uprising of we ordinary citizen's to let them know we "Will Not" fall for their dictatorship!! It does concern us that when we join these different Substack's & our Credit Card is used to pay for the Subscriptions, or make a Donation to Institutions "they may not like" we may be sitting ducks to be compromised in what once was a good relationship with our Bank. WE also need to be strong in our approach to our Medico's, our Health Freedom, the ridiculous Mandates that cost the world huge Economic Loss, [plus personal loss if we don't follow the norm] digitisation, etc, etc, etc!! How do we convince those who are brainwashed to "stop & think & do more research?!" It's not too simple? God Bless you, & your Loved Ones.
Thanks for you blessing! As far as the young folks are concerned, just think about how our parents and their generation felt about males with long hair and females without bras and the wonderful hippie-style clothes we loved to wear.
I don't think we can force anyone to think--as a former teacher, I learned that the best way to get my students to think for themselves was to encourage them. So have a short conversation with a teller, not about anything "significant," but about something friendly.
We need to focus on what we share--our desires for friends and families and decent lives. If you can set that up with the people you meet, you'll be pleasantly surprised at the result.
I can assure you, I do try to be nicely friendly, & not controversial when being served by any of these folks. I apologize for not explaining this. Thank you Cindy!
Cindy, I appreciate your optimism and take on this. Life experience isn't always valued, sometimes it benefits the few. Thanks for sharing.
Some of the most reviled millennial derived expressions:
sharing
reach out
text me
LMFAO
IMHO
AWFL
ROTF
Friends with benefits
and so on.
When I was a teenager we used single words, no abvs. Good things were defined by one of these words Neat - Boss - Bitchin - Cool - Groovy. My sons' generation used Gnarly. Then came Bad meaning good.
Just thought I'd 'Reach out' and 'Share' Obe!
Uhhh… You left out…If You are gonna be stupid, You gotta be tough, Wrecked, Over The Falls, That was Bitchin’, You can’t drink all day if You don’t start in the morning, Silly boy and see “The Friend of the Friendless” (Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand) and - “Mates look out for Mates” (uk). Ed
Obe, I hope my using the phrase 'thanks for sharing " didn't offend your sensibilities from an older , wiser person.
Love the post! FWIW, DDG is problematic. Startpage is a bit less so...
Thanks for the praise, but I don't know what your abbreviations stand for?!?
FWIW- For what it's worth
Duckduckgo did some underhanded things during the pandemic and isolated good information from users. https://www.startpage.com did not do such nonsense....
I hope you're right about the future and thanks for sharing your very interesting and strong healthcare background. BTW, you might try proton mail, to, in addition to duck. It's very similar and has many excellent features.
Danny Huckabee
"But the history of large scale intelligence and psyops campaigns is littered with tales of unanticipated blowback." That is our hope..... Those who think themselves godlike often melt their wings in the heat of the sun.
OFF Topic: in case you haven't picked it up
Judge Delivers Major Blow to Biden Admin in Social Media Censorship
Case https://link.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/judge-delivers-major-blow-to-biden-admin-in-social-media-censorship-case_5373891.html?utm_source=andshare
Now I'm on to read this essay.
Interesting article, Dr M! Makes my brain hurt.
And by a curious coincidence, on the same day the federal judge issued the ruling cited in the above post by Jean!
If you could be a fly on the wall tomorrow in any of the federal agencies affected by this ruling, do you think that you would observe shock by the affected federal employees? If so, do you think their shock would be ontological or existential, or both? I could be mistaken, but would lean toward existential. Would also guess they will be evading the shock by looking very carefully for loopholes (wormholes?) in the exceptions in the ruling permitting contact with social media companies to alert them of criminal activity or threats to national security .
Will be interesting to see where this goes.
“It ain’t over til it’s over.” ~Yogi Berra
"Mischief, thou art afoot! Take what course thou wilt." - Marc Antony, also from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
It is great to get the ruling. Now the Biden admin will of course ignore it, until it is played further and further up.
I am not sure I have ever trusted the government, but my awakening happened in the Vietnam era. Daniel Ellsberg exposed the truth about the same time I came back home. More, I embraced the wisdom of James Madison many years ago, understanding that ‘in truth all men holding power ought to be mistrusted.’ Then 911, the premier’inside job’ until the scamdemic came along. I guess I’ve been a cynical bastard from young age.
Humans are conditioned to embrace the fantasies of Santa Clause and Easter Bunnies from very young ages, and organized religion plays on the same dynamics. So we’re conditioned to buy all sorts of falsehoods.
Since 911 have accepted that the majority cannot face unpleasant truths. Sadly it is part of the human condition. Understanding how we are incessantly brainwashed is a burden to bear, even though the truth will set you free. Alex Jones was right--there is a war on for your mind.
Since you were there you should know cronkite's reporting on the tet offensive was total bull. Point being it has been obvious for at least that long lamestream an unreliable source of news so find much of the present outrage a bit disingenuous. Seems a lot comes down to whose ox has been gored when.
I was a latecomer to Vietnam, June 1970. I perceived Cronkite as one of the good guys, a real journalist. Though I didn’t realize it at the time, those were the days of Operation Mockingbird, almost innocent compared to today.
Cronkite is put out there as an example of good reporting, but even he was influenced by the government drivel . He eventually came out against the war and thought we should pull anchor and get out.
He was declared the dean of the press core over his virtual apotheosis of the kennedy family during j.f.k.s funeral. From then on he could do no wrong
Like you, Richard, 9/11 was my "Ontological Shock". Initially, I forgot the lesson I had learned from 9/11 and was sucked in to the Covid propaganda psyop. It took one podcast, the one with Bret Weinstein, Robert Malone, and Steve Kirsch, for me to realize that those pulling the strings were at it again. From that point on I viewed the Covid psyop as simply a slow motion version of 9/11. And I had learned in the aftermath of my 9/11 shock, that MOST people are not ready to be Ontologically shocked. Sadly, I expect the same now unless RFK, Jr., a longshot I know, can breakthrough the Matrix of lies and begin the process of truth and reconciliation on a world-wide scale.
Yeh .... the Vietnam debacle did it for me too .
Interesting concepts....which can be summed up as “ being a doubting Thomas”. As a healthcare professional bias is possible and known to be a factor in a diagnostic process is the difference between the flea internist or that general surgeon who always wants to hide behind the radiologist. Yet it is the neurosurgeons who interpret their own MRIs over the radiologist’s view. Of you are truly a 3 dimensional thinker then assess any set of circumstances becomes a second nature....and if done from the original set of COVID response it was obvious a false flag type circumstance was operative.... and as such rejecting most anything coming from Govt was imperative not to get sucked into their creative minefield. The degree of pre-planning on the psych-op scheming of so many groups reveals the depth of deceit and pure anti-USA bent is behind that green door. All agencies, NGOs and politicians who pushed the Govt narrative must not be exposed and purged if not they will do it again and again.
...must NOW be exposed....?
I would say they have been exposed, but the entire system is so corrupt, so much of it was in on it by way of the CARES Act on more, that the perpetrators will never be prosecuted. We are witnessing the slow motion collapse of the US, just like Rome in so many ways.
The parallels between the extinguishing of the roman empire and the looming demise of our Republic are appalling in as the lessons offered are there to see but flagrently ignored
Appalling and appealing? Both maybe?
You are correct…really thought it was with a now when first composed…but alas I think you and others realized this mistake. Thanks
Honestly though it a typo. Happens to me all thr time--see.
Haven't heard the term "flea" to describe most internists of old in decades. It was apt but I'm not certain it applies anymore in most cases.
Dang… In medicine, I saw that which You conveyed everday for quite some time. “You cannot find that for which You do not look” - “The cells do not lie”. (Ryan Cole, M.D.) Ed
Edit - Who is John Galt? Pirate waiting. ED
I will be 80 next month and pretty sure I am older than most followers of Dr. Malone. My faith in all that I grew up believing in has been destroyed. I thank God that I was given the gift to recognize bull shit when they tried to force it on me. I rejected all vaccines because it was obvious they had no objective science behind their claims. A hoax beyond all comprehension.
Rock On!!! And Happy Birthday!!! I keep asking myself why do I keep making friends with “old people”? The answer is Wisdom, Knowledge and History. My Great Friend will be 95 this month.🔥 Ed
I too rejected the entire approach these Faucci pseudo-scientists desired to force upon this nation….and no doubt if I was not retired already I would have been fired for non-compliance with jab mandates. This was never about science it was mandates, power, compliance and herding people to the leftee’s common ideology under the “ covid umbrella”…and you can bet they are already planning another episode of the same. Power via total hoax and Media misinformation could not be so obvious…
I prefer the idea of "Ontological Shock" since it preserves my agency, and thus my sovereignty.
Yes, I have lived parts of my life based on "lies" I was told -- in a "child's universe". It was fun while it lasted. Then I grew up.....or so I thought.
Since all of this started, I've become like a child again but with grown up eyes. And much to the consternation of the Oligarchs and cultural marxists, people like me are still standing and we are much harder to fool.
And we do not quit.
John Denver’s song, “Some Days are Diamonds” has some penetrating prose in the phrasing, “now we all know the truth is hard to come by, and if I spoke the truth, that’s not quite true”. What does that mean? It means that the “truth”, the ultimate prize in the existential sweep stakes, resides in a different realm than words, in the principality of That Which Works, not “that which can be described”. It can be simplified even more: “Do what works; don’t do what doesn’t work”, from which can be derived, “truth” (reliably) works; “falsehood” (eventually) does not work. This is a very meagre guide post, but better than “obfuscation can lead to verisimilitude”.
Coming from a background where I am regularly exposed to totalitarian and tyrannical regimes in the Middle East (all of them, by the way, good friends of the West and steadfast allies of the US/EU), I saw the signs early on of previously, nominally "free" and democratic western governments operating as totalitarian/control regimes. I warned my friends in the west who are less accustomed to these matters and told them about the signs that were rapdily emerging in 2020-2021.
However, I too was shocked by the degree to which establishment media emerged as under that control. And this level of control could not have happened overnight with covidism. It must have had older roots. I was also astonished by the near-uniformity of compliance. No hint of objection or dialogue but "yes sir" across the board.
Big Tech was a different story. Multiple stories over the years about how they engineer "backdoors" for government agencies to break into otherwise secure/encrypted messaging made it logical that they would be cooperating. Also, because Big Tech does not have a journalistic tradition - but they are to all extents and purposes operating in the field - they were easier to co-opt. Whatever resistance some traditional journalism may have put up, did not exist in Big Tech.
So, perhaps more than "shocked", I was just very dissapointed. It makes me think there is something in the human psyche that makes most people tend to obedience and compliance, if only because it is easier and people are naturally lazy.
However, I am greatly heartened by the explosive growth of alternative media. Who heard of substack before 2021? If someone had told you 2 or 3 years ago, that a debate between Joe Rogan and Russell Brand was important for public discourse, and it attracted tens of millions of views, what would you have thought?
Great topic! Every day when we turn on the TV we are told (who is advertising on what station) what companies are with the Great Reset and what companies are willing to be daring. It's amazing, as we spend money also, but the vast majority of companies chose to stay on what they think is the safe lane. While some take money from George Soros et all and fly the transgender flag. These companies who chose the great reset know (I believe) that communism only has two groups of people; the slaves and the billionaires, and their company, no matter how big it is today will be wiped away ~ if they don't play along. The really silly think 'everyone will be the same ` hooray!' Yes, everyone will be a slave and a few, the master.
Trying to write a response
Scary what you say that if this lying on a big scale is not stopped soon, the chances of reconciliation ( and peace) may become unachievable. Thank you for this thought provoking article. I look forward to your emails in my inbox every morning. You are now my most popular substack author followed by Matt Taibbi
The USG DOJ/FBI's apparent protection of outright money laundering and treason of the Biden crime family is particularly catastrophic. If these alleged crimes are true and are covered up the entire Constitutional Republic of the US is at stake.
I was struck by how similar the ontological and existential shock descriptions in this article mirror my experience as a child of divorce before it became commonplace. As a child it was the betrayal of a belief system and complete devastation of one way of living without knowing what was going to happen to you. But, day by day, I made it through to now; perhaps not as well as what might have been if my family had remained intact, but it is what it is. The whole Covid plandemic has also been devastating but I wonder if I've had an easier time dealing with the upheaval, lies and unfulfilled promises because, for me, "Been there, done that". We'll get through this too, not in as good a shape as 'what might have been' if it hadn't happened, but we'll survive.
A "relative infant in the world of language"? I think not! I am learning so much from everything you write! I love language and the nuances and the potency. The depth to which you investigate words and language is a sign of intense interest and intellect. Now, back to digest more...
Love this post. You both used the tool as you explained the tool.
I have known about this “terminology trick” (the power of words) and hoped an influential person in the Medical Freedom movement would become a lexicogenesis. (Quite Ironically, I thought I was inventing that term but just Googled it and it already exists).
Lexicogenesis, what you’ve done here with “Ontological Shock” and “Scientism”. Not to trick people but because, as times change, we need new words which capture essay long definitions.
One of my biggest ontological shocks was how good people got so easily and severely manipulated by terms. For example: killing people. Generally accepted in the realm of “known” to be morally wrong ... until term “anti vaxxer” was invented and became synonymous with definition “people who deserve to die”. When I got discarded by friends and family, it WAS shocking. And frustrating because I knew the trick. I’ve been using it my whole life. Way back in college, my boyfriend and I went to the zoo. We had just bought a home. The rest of the block were senior citizens and they were very unhappy about how we maintained our yard. At the zoo, each animal had a plaque announcing it’s species. It was a pass out hot day. Walking in the sun was exhausting. We came upon a hill blocked by a section of overgrown grass. The section had one of those same plaques. It read: “Tall Grass”. Well no shit. However, because of the plaque, it left the impression that perhaps the weeds were some exotic intentional exhibit we were supposed to appreciate. There we were along with the crowd, double whammied for our paid admission, accepting the detour while hiking uphill in the sun. Yet, no one objected or complained because of the plaque. That’s when my boyfriend got the idea to avoid mowing the lawn by placing a similar sign out front in the yard. And why should I use my weekends dictating which plants should survive or die in the flower bed (aka “weeding”)? Why not simply place signs with their scientific plant name so the neighbors would stop complaining about how I let the previous owner’s beautiful flower beds go to pot.
After that, in my own personal lexicon, I have used the term “tall grass” to mean, a term used to manipulate behavior. I avoided being invited to baby and bridal showers, which is tall grass for “personal fund raiser” by declaring myself a “recluse”. In reality I didn’t want to build diaper cakes or buy wedding gifts twice. Later, when I lived in a multi unit old house, I was too cheap to pay for the drier and would hang my clothes in a shared community courtyard by announcing that I was “European”. Somehow, that gave me a special privilege no one else had and people would happily tolerate wet cloths occupying the space... because of “the European lady” that lived there. 🤔Seriously? I too was surprised it was that easy. Please don’t think horribly of me because of these confessions. I’m wearing a plaque that reads: “Street Smart”. Which, turns out, can help you survive a whole bunch better than “book smart”. And what I really hope is, that we all get a little smarter and bust people on their “tall grass bs” while at the same time recognize the value and need for appropriate lexicogenesis. It’s not the tool. It’s how we use it.
Great ideas! Thank you for showing us how to defend ourselves with the same tools used by the Manipulators and Betrayers and Traitors. You offer an approach other than abandoning words altogether. Another arrow in my quiver!
Just to clarify, I did these things when I was younger but wasn’t necessarily suggesting we fight fire with fire (manipulate the manipulators). Here’s the thing with tall grass: you’re supposed to mow it. Responsibility is a pain in the butt, but the sooner we all grow up and live in reality, the better off we’ll all be. That’s the other piece to this stack which is really good. Giving us language to help us understand that society in general has been avoiding living in reality. I too am guilty of being Peter Pan and went through the ontological shock (thank you Dr Malone) when I got the boot from Never Never land. Ultimately, I’m so glad it happened but yeah, there’s a process there I now have vocabulary for.
The correct response to people still living in Never Never Land is to refuse to indulge them by only ever using words honestly.
Very interesting essay. I don’t think anyone could have dreamed how deep the corruption went. It is a little hard to get your head around it. However, I would not say that I have experienced it as an ontological shock.
The truth is that the behavior of the elites driving this evil is quite consistent with what we have seen down through history. Unfortunately they have more sophisticated means at their disposal.
I use the word evil because there is something very inhuman involved in what we have witnessed with the mRNA shots. How can one fathom such crimes against humanity. Evil is the only explanation that works for me. Because I see it as evil a spiritual solution is required.
A spiritual solution requires faith that the Creator can and will help us defeat evil. Genuine faith is stimulated by the Creator and is far different than magical thinking. Multitudes of persons have testified to this experience of genuine faith.
A very real evil presence that exists outside our reality and beyond our immediate senses purposely foments the current behavior we see from the elites as it has for centuries. The answer is to counter the evil with genuine Spiritual truth. Nothing changes hearts and minds like an encounter with the Spiritual.
Tony, there are some who say we have lost our spiritual focus. This plane is our schoolroom and the lessons are tough. Yes, I have genuine faith that we are not alone, we are watched over and there is no death, only continuing Life and learning until we become the teacher and on and on...
You will note that I suggest that there is a real evil at work. In the world of spirituality, just as in the rest of our world, there are choices to be made. Poor choices, as we saw with the COVID response, lead to death and destruction. Good choices could have been made that would have led to life and wholesomeness. What we learn and what that learning leads to determines whether we find spiritual life or not. A loss of meaningful spiritual life, I would say, has led the U. S. A. to its present state.
Tony, No problem with the "evil at work" statement.
Tony says, "The truth is that the behavior of the elites driving this evil is quite consistent with what we have seen down through history."
Indeed, Democide is tagically common.
You may find this post interesting...https://open.substack.com/pub/anderdaa7/p/does-absolute-power-corrupt?r=slvym&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web