Your daughter was part of the "mass formation" Mattias Desmet has talked about. They are not the prime movers of totalitarianism, but they are certainly enablers. I count myself lucky that I was not faced with a choice such as yours, though I've been shunned by many former friends. I'd like to believe I would have made a principled choice and that they would now be reuniting with me.
My stance has definitely impacted some relationships, especially at work where my coworkers are mostly 30s and 40s liberals in tech/e-commerce.
But I had to make a different choice with my family because I'm was not so certain that we'd reuninte easily or in short order. I wasn't willing to make the sacrifice. I do not feel weak for it and stand by it.
As with masking, I'd prefer that everyone be left to make their own choice but, where a potentially ill, definitely smelly and weird-looking old man might be putting his face in the pretty little face of her firstborn infant child and exposing the vulnerable child at risk - while simultaneously being force-fed The Way of The Bien Pensant - I understand why she held that position, and willingly honored it.
Well you guys got your Efriends on Gato's Stack. Else some schools were Forcing returning students to mask up upon return from "Covy illness" (you know, positive fake test and all), and I asked the administrator if that reminded her of "The Scarlett Letter". Blank Stare. Don't other me Bro! (or my kids).
This is the pandemic of ironies. That the "educators" would be the least educated, and that healthcare professionals would continue to adopt the very policies that do not work. I could see an Applebees having lucite barriers indefinitely, but a doctor's office? And yet...good times everyone...this is the way things are.
I was not and do not judge you. As I wrote, "I'd like to believe...," but there's no telling what my choice would have been. Fortunately, no close relatives took that stand.
I hadn't thought so. Sorry for careless attention to phrasing.
I understood your "I'd like to believe" completely and my response was essentially affirmation of your statement: I, too, wish I could stand on principle, and I could easily and non-aggressively engage True Believers, and they'd make statues in my honor.
But, alas, I, like you, are mere Only Human. We're just carbon-based bipedal life forms descended from apes.
- sorta twisted Douglas Adams, "Hitchhiker's Guide" quote
Your daughter was part of the "mass formation" Mattias Desmet has talked about. They are not the prime movers of totalitarianism, but they are certainly enablers. I count myself lucky that I was not faced with a choice such as yours, though I've been shunned by many former friends. I'd like to believe I would have made a principled choice and that they would now be reuniting with me.
My stance has definitely impacted some relationships, especially at work where my coworkers are mostly 30s and 40s liberals in tech/e-commerce.
But I had to make a different choice with my family because I'm was not so certain that we'd reuninte easily or in short order. I wasn't willing to make the sacrifice. I do not feel weak for it and stand by it.
As with masking, I'd prefer that everyone be left to make their own choice but, where a potentially ill, definitely smelly and weird-looking old man might be putting his face in the pretty little face of her firstborn infant child and exposing the vulnerable child at risk - while simultaneously being force-fed The Way of The Bien Pensant - I understand why she held that position, and willingly honored it.
--
"You will obey me while I lead you
And eat the garbage that I feed you
Until the day that we don't need you
Don't go for help, no one will heed you
Your mind is totally controlled
It has been stuffed into my mold
And you will do as you are told
Until the rights to you are sold"
- Zappa and The Mothers, "I'm the Slime"
As it ever was.
Well you guys got your Efriends on Gato's Stack. Else some schools were Forcing returning students to mask up upon return from "Covy illness" (you know, positive fake test and all), and I asked the administrator if that reminded her of "The Scarlett Letter". Blank Stare. Don't other me Bro! (or my kids).
-Edit- for typos
It hurts that an edumacator wouldn't get the Scarlett Letter reference.
It's the whole reason we make kids read the freaking book - to caution us against Witch Hunts.
This is the pandemic of ironies. That the "educators" would be the least educated, and that healthcare professionals would continue to adopt the very policies that do not work. I could see an Applebees having lucite barriers indefinitely, but a doctor's office? And yet...good times everyone...this is the way things are.
I was not and do not judge you. As I wrote, "I'd like to believe...," but there's no telling what my choice would have been. Fortunately, no close relatives took that stand.
I hadn't thought so. Sorry for careless attention to phrasing.
I understood your "I'd like to believe" completely and my response was essentially affirmation of your statement: I, too, wish I could stand on principle, and I could easily and non-aggressively engage True Believers, and they'd make statues in my honor.
But, alas, I, like you, are mere Only Human. We're just carbon-based bipedal life forms descended from apes.
- sorta twisted Douglas Adams, "Hitchhiker's Guide" quote
Energy science research can get you into trouble....
Please read, i feel endangered.:
https://arcanus.substack.com/p/the-suppression-of-energy-science
https://arcanus.substack.com/p/the-christ-psyop
Energy science research can get you into trouble....
Please read, i feel endangered.:
https://arcanus.substack.com/p/the-suppression-of-energy-science
https://arcanus.substack.com/p/the-christ-psyop