19 Comments
User's avatar
тна Return to thread
charles's avatar

The sustaining force behind this covid mania is widespread sociopathy, with everyday sociopaths identifying with the aggressors.

Everyone, no matter how evil, believes that they are in the moral right.

Expand full comment
charles's avatar

I want to expand upon this because I'm overcaffeinated this morning.

Sociopaths are unhappy people who seek to dominate. Sociopaths can be found in all walks of life. Yes, a serial killer is a sociopath, but a sociopath can also be a milkman, a surgeon, or -- hard to believe -- a politician.

There will always be sociopaths, but as a result of the breakdown of the traditional units of order -- family (nuclear and extended), church, local benevolent organizations -- our society has far more sociopaths than just a generation or two ago.

Coming out against the unvaxxed is a way for these everyday sociopaths to try to satisfy their aggressive impulses (although such impulses can never be satisfied, but that is for another time). They see the state dominating and terrorizing people, and they like it. They want to be a part of that dominating and terrorizing.

That is what is driving them, which is why you cannot persuade them with arguments.

Expand full comment
jacquelyn sauriol's avatar

Been sending out emails lately calling myself a 2nd class citizen to family and friends. Somewhat effective.

Expand full comment
MarCan's avatar

I posted this link above, but just in case you missed it, check this out. TheyтАЩre not going to change. Every generation and every conflict will be forced to deal with these miscreants and malcontents

https://pushingrubberdownhill.com/2021/12/09/make-grim-examples-of-them-all/

Expand full comment
charles's avatar

Sobering article.

I hope that it does end badly for them, but I am afraid it is going to end badly for us. Regardless of the eventual outcome, the die has been cast, even if we did not cast it. There is no reasonable option at this point other than to fight.

During this struggle, contemplate what Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. wrote in his previous book: "From my youngest days I always had the feeling that we were all involved in some great crusade, that the world was a battleground for good and evil, and that our lives would be consumed in that conflict."

One thing this struggle has blessed us with: moral clarity.

Expand full comment
BPKitten's avatar

Yes, and has been since the beginning of the Earth, sadly, re the battleground for good and evil.

Expand full comment
MarCan's avatar

AgreedЁЯСНЁЯЩП

Expand full comment
Surviving the Billionaire Wars's avatar

Arden is a product of WEF/Klaus Schwab. As are Trudeau, Macron, Leanna Wen, Nicki Haley & others. We need to study his list of proteges & expel & keep them out of public office. To borrow from the woke: bamn!

Expand full comment
Michele's avatar

I would also argue that the extreme softness of our (western) lives has increased the sociopathic (don't know much about this as a subject and can't claim any expertise) and/or the aggressive tendencies.

As in, there is an actual level of friction that is needed in life--both physically (think lifting weights to get stronger) or emotionally, intellectually, logistically, etc. So much of society has been trying to de-frictionize every corner of life for the last couple decades (or forever, maybe), that I wonder if there isn't a reservoir of untapped OOMPH that, like you say, is coming out against the unvaxxed, in vehement opinions and rash statements (I have acquaintances who say "hey, if they [the unvaxxed] all die, life will just be better for the rest of us"). There is an unmet desire to EXERT that the cushy-living person who just plays on their phone all day--ordering this and that, delegating the daily exertions of mere living to the lesser folk that work in warehouses, on farms, building houses, mopping floors, etc., who thinks sweat is only legit if it is in a fancy gym or in an expensive pair of sneakers or yoga pants--exercises in their casual hate/shunning/shaming/bad-mouthing/virtue-signalling. And they've learned to not only disdain actual, healthy friction, but to fear it.

But it's not enough. Which you also said.

Nice post.

Expand full comment
BPKitten's avatar

I think you are right. Consider pressure on a "system", too - it's going to blow at some point.

Expand full comment
Argos's avatar

Yes and scary to realize that the state is egging them on.

Expand full comment
John Henry Holliday, DDS's avatar

That's what frightens me the most. The unvaccinated, like Jews in 1930s Germany, are being associated with being disease carriers.

As someone wrote above, this is no accident. Pray and prepare for what is coming.

Expand full comment
MarianneK's avatar

Yes, it's part of the de-humanizing like was done to the Jews process. If they can frame you as 'less' or 'dirty' or 'other' then it's much easier to treat you like an animal.

Expand full comment
ThePossum's avatar

The cowardly state has weaponized its citizens to become woke warriors using COVID as the catalyst. And the citizens who wear the woke mantle are righteous, arrogant and stupid, guaranteeing their malevolence.

Expand full comment
Kateinhi's avatar

Some thot-provoking pointsтАж The narrative has the corner mkt on fear.

Expand full comment
MarianneK's avatar

You are right. They are high on the power and "righteousness" they have.

Expand full comment
Rosemary B's avatar

Thank you for using your overly caffeinated brain and sharing your wisdom. My head thinks it is still on my pillow, even as I am tread milling. Happy Monday

Expand full comment
jacquelyn sauriol's avatar

No one is the antagonist in their own story....forget which author, a woman, said this...

Expand full comment