Ann, wow. It astonishes me that people could suddenly get new diseases, injuries, and side effects out of blue and STILL refuse to make the glaring connection!!
It reminds me of this quote from the latest brilliant entry from Academy of Ideas: “Is Government the New God? – The Religion of Totalitarianism” (https://academyofideas.com/2021/…
Ann, wow. It astonishes me that people could suddenly get new diseases, injuries, and side effects out of blue and STILL refuse to make the glaring connection!!
“Other reports tell of political officials and party followers who cried out ‘Long Live Stalin!’ as they were being taken out to be shot by the Soviet Secret Police.”
Substitute “Long Live Fauci!” and you’ll see why reaching the true believers feels so hopeless.
As Christopher Browning notes in “Ordinary Men” of Milgram’s observations:
“In Milgram’s experiments, ‘overarching ideological justification’ was present in the form of a tacit and unquestioned faith in the goodness of science and its contribution to progress.”
Ann, wow. It astonishes me that people could suddenly get new diseases, injuries, and side effects out of blue and STILL refuse to make the glaring connection!!
It reminds me of this quote from the latest brilliant entry from Academy of Ideas: “Is Government the New God? – The Religion of Totalitarianism” (https://academyofideas.com/2021/12/is-government-the-new-god-the-religion-of-totalitarianism/):
“Other reports tell of political officials and party followers who cried out ‘Long Live Stalin!’ as they were being taken out to be shot by the Soviet Secret Police.”
Substitute “Long Live Fauci!” and you’ll see why reaching the true believers feels so hopeless.
Scientism is the new religion, in my opinion.
Agreed! Although I’d spell it $cientism.
As Christopher Browning notes in “Ordinary Men” of Milgram’s observations:
“In Milgram’s experiments, ‘overarching ideological justification’ was present in the form of a tacit and unquestioned faith in the goodness of science and its contribution to progress.”
See my “Letter to a Colluder: Stop Enabling Tyranny” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-a-colluder-stop-enabling) for more relevant quotes from Browning as well as Milton Mayer’s eerily applicable “They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933–45.”
Right. Also touched on this in my “Letter to an Agree-to-Disagree Relative” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-an-agree-to-disagree-relative) in my link from “megalomaniacal self-styled gods” to Schwab Family Values (https://unlimitedhangout.com/2021/02/investigative-reports/schwab-family-values/), which traces his Nazi origins.