A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Hand Over
December 8, 2025 Leave a comment
When we hear someone say crazy things, we might say “Yeah, right” and shrug it off. But when a group of people say crazy things and a group of people agree with said crazy things, we wonder “What in the world is going on?”
Objective reality – the existence of things as they are – is obvious to everyone. And so are the values, accumulated over several millennia, of what is true and of what works and what hasn’t. But not everyone accepts the obvious and the values based on time proven objective reality. Some see themselves as Progressive in rejecting both.
Today’s academic, artistic, media, and political elites, a vanguard of Progressive Groupthink, reject the existence of things as they are and do so within the safe space of their ranks thereby creating an illusion of invulnerability and inherent morality. Members of this vanguard suppress dissenting opinions and avoid critically evaluated alternatives so as to maintain the group’s shared illusion of unanimity.
The vanguard’s conformity is maintained with mind guards – the media reports “right thinking” about a matter – and with self-censorship of deviations from shared beliefs and with shared views of the enemy – those who present a reality contrary to the groups’ notion of reality.
When we hear the vanguard’s irrational take on what is going on in the world, its roiling Doublethink, its name calling and shunning of voices outside its collective choir, and its dysfunctional decision-making which objective reality tells us will result in disastrous, dehumanizing, and even deadly outcomes, we ask “Where is this coming from and where is this going?
Those of us who keep an ear to the ground in order to hear what is approaching will answer “History is repeating itself.”
The objective reality of the murderous totalitarian regimes of the last century, which Progressives willfully ignore to promote their glorious future of equality via the same means, will help us understand the denial-of-reality collaboration of today’s intelligentsia – those who hold to one way of thinking – and their quest for total domination of the body, mind, and soul with Progressive Groupthink.
Specifically, Russian Soviet history will help us understand the conformity dynamic behind today’s intelligentsia. For this understanding I turn to one of the most informed scholars of the Russian history of ideas as communicated in its literature: Northwestern Professor Gary Saul Morson.
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In Morson’s magnum opus Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter Morson details how politics and literature, in the writings of realists, idealists, and revolutionaries, played against each other during the Soviet period.
He describes Soviet thinking that rejected the realism and the real people depicted in nineteenth-century Russian fiction and required that reality be written to include “not only of the observable present but also the inevitable future in the making” and with Socialist Realist heroes – utopianism made flesh.
Writers of Russian realism – Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Solzhenitsyn, and others – wrote about what they saw and experienced. They are the “wonder” in the title. They represented the world as it was in their writings about the Gulag, mass starvation, torture, unspeakable violence, about how people thought about and dealt with what was going on, and about how many succumbed to the imposed Soviet mindset.
Russian realist authors confronted those of the “certainty,” those who wrote redefined reality in terms of the “observable present and the inevitable future in the making” and in terms of “positive heroes.”
The “positive hero” was to set an example for the reader’s behavior. A Soviet cosmonaut, for one example, became a “positive hero.” A cosmonaut’s space trip was seen as science, materialism, and atheism triumphing over the transcendent values held in the U.S., the enemy of the Soviet Union.
The “certainty” writers followed the lead of the embodiment of “certainty” – Vladimir Lenin. Lenin mocked his opponents’ self-characterization as ‘seekers’ of truth. He held that dialectical materialists do not seek truth; they already possess it. And so, the party-minded “positive hero” refused dialogue, refused to see any alternatives to the Marxist-Leninist-materialist-atheistic “truth” espoused by the party, the representatives of Karl Marx’s class-struggling proletariat.
From Wonder Confronts Certainty:
“The Soviets would label fidelity to present facts “bourgeois objectivism.” It was the best that could be expected from the age of realism, but must give way to socialist realism, which shows the ideal world inevitably coming. The socialist realist author was expected to focus on the people of the future, “positive heroes” exhibiting complete “Party-mindedness.” True positive heroes do not have bring their thinking into accord with the party, a process requiring effort; they exhibit Party-mindedness so thorough that no effort is required”
“Party-mindedness”, we learn from the writings of Russian realist authors, was propagated through the means of propaganda, show trials, random arrests, and the constant terror that there might be any hint, any innuendo, any false statement that would convict one of not being party-minded.
The “party-mindedness” of the 20th century Russian intelligentsia, its conformity to only one way of thinking, is replicated today.
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Here’s Morson in his Touchtone article Beyond Belief: Literary Reflections on Thoughtless Conformity:
“I happened to witness two professors waiting for an elevator. To make conversation, one voiced an opinion on some political question to see if the other agreed. When she did, they chattered away on a dozen other topics with perfect assurance that they agreed on those, too. Evidently, their beliefs came as a package. Subsequently I noticed this way of thinking many times, as I imagine many of my readers have.
The process works something like this: a person first chooses the group with whom he wishes to identify and then adopts its opinions. He believes as strongly in gun control, let us say, as he does in supporting Planned Parenthood, defunding the police, and banning fossil fuels. It is evident that no arguments or evidence can shake his opinions on any of these topics because arguments or evidence had nothing to do with why they were adopted.
To be sure, a person who thinks this way can cite facts and reasons to justify his opinion, but they have been acquired in the same way as the opinion itself. They are the same reasons others in the group have learned to give. I used to find it eerie to hear repeatedly the same arguments expressed in the same phrases, as if I were listening to a recording rather than to highly educated people who imagined that, unlike their intellectual inferiors, they had arrived at opinions rationally and would change them as evidence warranted. I thought of Jonathan Swift’s observation that no one was ever talked out of an opinion he was not first talked into.”
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Reading Morson’s article, I was reminded of the easy-going liberal mindset of the Stiva Oblonsky character in Tolstoy’s Russian realism novel Anna Karenina.
Behind Stiva’s smile, his self-possessed mannerisms and hedonism is what Tolstoy described as “the liberalism of the blood.”
From the novel:
“Stepan Arkadyevitch took and read a liberal newspaper, not a radical one, but one advocating the viewpoint maintained by the majority. And even though neither science, nor art or politics held any particular interest for him, he firmly maintained the same views on all these subjects that were maintained by the majority and by his paper, and he changed them only when the majority changed them, or, better put, he did not change them at all; they imperceptibly changed within him . . .
“And so liberalism had become a habit of Stepan Arkadyevitch’s, and he liked his newspaper, as he did his cigar after dinner, for the slight fog it diffused in his brain.”
Stiva, we learn in in the novel, does not recognize his conscious when it speaks to him. And that is aided by his living-in-the-moment forgetting. He did not want to remember any unpleasant thing.
Self-deception and romantic ideology play key roles in Anna’s life.
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Czeslaw Milosz, Polish American poet, novelist, translator, critic, and diplomat, is best known for The Captive Mind (1953). His essay collection focuses on intellectuals, specifically poets and other writers.
As Charles Haywood writes in his 2019 article The Captive Mind (Czeslaw Milosz), [Milosz’s] “book shows how mental gymnastics, rather than coercion, caused writers under Communism to adhere to Communism. Thereby, indirectly, it congratulates writers who believe their minds free from such, or other, contortions.
“The West incorrectly sees “might and coercion” as the reasons those in Eastern Europe submit to Communism. But, rather, unwilling to face either physical or spiritual death, many choose instead to be “reborn” through taking these metaphorical pills, because “[t]here is an internal longing for harmony and happiness that lies deeper than ordinary fear or the desire to escape misery or physical destruction.” Intellectuals, and artists especially, do not want to be “internal exiles, irreconcilable, non-participating, eroded by hatred.” So they swallow the pills and adopt the “New Faith” (a term Milosz uses throughout the book) which offers the intellectual the certainty he is both correct and virtuous, and therefore gives him a sense of belonging, gives him a feeling of being “warm-hearted and good . . . a friend of mankind—not mankind as it is, but as it should be.”” (Emphasis mine.)
Returning to Morson’s article about package thinking, Morson relates
“What really matters, [Czeslaw} Milosz explains, is “the intellectual’s feeling of belonging.” His defining “characteristic is his fear of thinking for himself.” For this reason, as well as to prosper, he must root out all the old ways of thinking. Milosz describes a phenomenon with which university people are all too familiar, the always incomplete process of teaching oneself to say the right things (in the right words), and avoid saying the wrong ones, so that one never makes a slip entailing ostracism or worse. Of course, the best way to do this is to get oneself actually to share the prescribed views. Milosz describes how
after long acquaintance with his role, a man grows into it so closely that he can no longer differentiate his true self from the self he simulates, so that even the most intimate of individuals speak to each other in Party slogans. To identify self with the role one is obliged to play . . . permits a relaxation of one’s vigilance. Proper reflexes at the proper time become truly automatic.”
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One obvious feature of our culture’s downward trend toward mindless conformity is critical thinking’s easy alternative: clicking on a machine to receive packaged thoughts.
Why think when packaged thoughts are there for the clicking? And why expand one’s personal bandwidth when you can reaffirm your tribal identity with a click?
Why research and consider a range of ideas and thoughts when clicking on machine AI is ready to do away with mystery and your curiosity, wonder, and impatience? And why think outside package thinking when life is short – shortened by every minute clicking on a machine.
Why read classic literature to gain wisdom, insight, and understanding from other people in other places and in other times, when you can click on a remote for package thinking entertainment.
Have you bought into the globalist, academic, secular and progressive (GASP) package (a feature of Wikipedia) that censors alternative views as “extremist” or “fringe theories” or “conspiracy theories” or “racist?”
Did you buy into the globalist open borders “welcoming the stranger” package where millions of unvetted illegal invaders entered the country as simple or criminal or terrorism opportunists? Did you accept the package thinking that allows third world invaders into our country to replace American workers and American values and do all manner of harm to its citizens as empathy, as what Jesus would do? Take a look at the strangers welcomed: Arrested: Worst of the Worst | Homeland Security And, there’s this: They Called It ‘Compassion’ — But it was Child Trafficking – American Thinker
Are you buying into the central planning democratic socialism package where everyone, except certain individuals who hold more power and privilege, must be made equal no matter the human cost? Are you buying into the central planning democratic socialism package and willfully forgetting the objective reality of the horrors of socialism/communism? Are you willfully handing over your life, your thoughts, to “Party-mindedness”?
Did you accept the “don’t question the science” COVID package thinking of mandates, masking, social distancing, vaccine passports, isolation camps, vaccine efficacy, and of COVID’s origin lies? America’s COVID Response Was Based on Lies
Likewise, did you not question the package thinking of “climate experts” who announced their verdict that the world would end if we didn’t act now. Not long ago, woven into almost every weather report on local and mainstream media when major weather events (floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, droughts, and wildfires) occurred was the narrative that climate change was behind them – without ever mentioning large-scale natural phenomena such as solar cycles, ocean currents and volcanoes that have been affecting weather for many millennia.
The Green New scam was behind Biden’s $93 Billion Crony Climate Heist. Will declassifying carbon dioxide (necessary for all of life) as a pollutant and the end of carbon dioxide regulation mean the end of the Green New scam? Are we now seeing The End of the Green New Scam? | The Rude Awakening? Matt Ridely thinks so: The end of the climate cult – The Spectator World
(A climate expert I trust: https://judithcurry.com/about/)
Do you go along with the package thinking of the [John] Rawlsian theory of ad hoc justice that, for example, releases someone arrested 40 times, is not considered a “criminal” because of their minority status, and is released by a judge back onto the street where he sets a woman on fire?
Do you buy philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s notion that “Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains” – the package thinking that says that people are entirely products of their environment, of their society, of their age, and that’s why they do what they do. Therefore, they are not responsible for what they do because of external influence. That’s the package thinking behind the Rawlsian theory of justice and behind the executions and horrors of the French revolution working to change social environment.
Have you agreed with the insurrection thought package being espoused by The Seditious Six imploring military service members to “refuse illegal orders” thereby implying that orders coming out of the Trump administration are considered illegal by them and therefore military service members should disobey their commanding officer and join the club of the “Party-minded.” Remember, package thinking has only one train of thought – gaining and maintaining power over reality.
Have you agreed with the insurrection package thinking espoused previously by NYT’s op-ed columnist David Brooks? Do the values of your party-minded package thinking allow you to hamstring a DEMOCRACY! elected president with the rulings of party-minded federal court judges that will be overturned. Do the values of your party-minded package thinking justify the deep state, in the labyrinth of government, to sabotage the efforts of a Democratically elected President?
Do the values of your package thinking allow you to call for uprisings by any means necessary, to burn down buildings, to destroy property, to destroy businesses, to steal, do violence on others, to defund the police, to create pipe bombs, to assassinate? To ignore your conscience?
Did you accept the “Danger to our Democracy” thought package the media delivered during the last presidential election cycle? It should be obvious from the likes of David Brooks, that the “guardians of democracy” are the ones who want to tear it down.
Have bought into the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) playbook that conforms and coerces everyone to identify with Soviet style party-mindedness package thinking?
Have bought into viewing everything including humans through the lens of materialism?
Have you bought into package thinking so as to not be considered an outsider? Have you bought into conformity for conformity’s sake?
Is censorship the worst thing that can happen to a people? Or, is it “Party-mindedness?”
When we hear someone say crazy things, we might say “Yeah, right” and shrug it off. But when a group of people say crazy things with the smug air of certainty and people agree with said crazy things, we wonder “What in the world is going on?” and “Where is this coming from and where is it going?”
What happened in Russia didn’t stay in Russia. And a mind is still a terrible thing to hand over.
What happened in Russia didn’t stay in Russia . . . Britain Is Lost | ZeroHedge
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You can put your ear to the road and hear what is quickly approaching. Download and listen to the following podcasts:
London is falling – or has it fallen already?
Liz Truss, the 56th prime minister of the United Kingdom, in her very first episode of The Liz Truss Show discusses how bad things are in Britain with a mass migration and economic doom loop – and how to defeat the deep state who have let this happen
https://justthenews.com/podcasts/liz-truss-show/london-falling-or-has-it-fallen-already
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Interview with Professor Gary Saul Morson on Tolstoy, Faith, Package Thinking, and The Importance of Critical Thinking
Professor Gary Saul Morson shares his thought-provoking definition of an intellectual—someone who seeks truth independently, values ideas for their own sake, and stands apart from identity-driven thinking. Whether discussing classic Russian Literature or analyzing modern society, Professor Morson is one of the most insightful and consequential scholars of our time. Discover how this interview, and its exploration of timeless topics, can inspire bold, principled leadership and innovation within today’s business environment.
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The Moral Imagination – Michael Matheson Miller
Gary Saul Morson Ph.D.: Thinking Like Lenin
Vladimir Lenin’s ideas are alive and well today: Party-ness, politics as win-lose, zero-sum game, Who-Whom, rejection of truth, ideology, violence, philosophical materialism, adherence to lying.
Ep. 15: Thinking Like Lenin, with Gary Saul Morson
Is Hope Naïve in a World Like Ours? | Esau McCaulley & Gary Saul Morson at Northwestern
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Quotes:
In the long run my observations have convinced me that some men, reasoning preposterously, first establish some conclusion in their minds which, either because of its being their own or because of their having received it from some person who has their entire confidence, impresses them so deeply that one finds it impossible ever to get it out of their heads. Such arguments in support of their fixed idea … gain their instant acceptance and applause. On the other hand whatever is brought forward against it, however ingenious and conclusive, they receive with disdain or with hot rage – if indeed it does not make them ill. Beside themselves with passion, some of them would not be backward even about scheming to suppress and silence their adversaries. I have had some experience of this myself. … No good can come of dealing with such people, especially to the extent that their company may be not only unpleasant but dangerous. Galileo Galilei
If the Brave New World cannot insert a square peg into a round hole, it will redefine “roundness” until a perfect fit results.
-Jerome Meckier, from Aldous Huxley: Satire and Structure
…a sense of unity is opposite of a sense of uniformity. Uniformity, where everyone “belongs”, uses the same cliches, thinks alike and behaves alike, produces a society which seems comfortable at first but is totally lacking in human dignity. Real unity tolerates dissent and rejoices in variety of outlook and tradition, realizes that it is man’s destiny to unite and not divide… Unity, so understood, is the extra dimension that raises the sense of belonging into genuine human life.
-Northrop Frye, from The Bush Garden
Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something. -Plato
“The past is our always-available counterculture, and it’s a rich one. Every minute you spend attending to something not-immediately-present, you are helping to build a counterculture.” ― Alan Jacobs
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Links:
Why are intellectuals — those whose thinking is supposed to be most refined — so susceptible to totalitarianism? Gary Saul Morson offers three explanations from the treasury of Russian literature.
https://tomklingenstein.com/mind-forgd-manacles-why-intellectuals-conform/
The greatest depiction of woke totalitarianism was written 150 years ago in Russia
Anti-Communism Week has been marked for November 2025. Writer-producer Julie Behling’s documentary “Beneath Sheep’s Clothing” warns of communism’s devastation: “Globally, communism claimed the lives of approximately 150 million people in the 20th century.”
‘Beneath Sheep’s Clothing’: Communism’s Capture Of America | ZeroHedge
Totalitarian governments cannot afford that its citizens remain autonomous persons. This poses a threat to their quest to consolidate power. Individual liberty threatens the theoretical, utopian foundations of promising the re-distribution of goods, and equality; communism ultimately fails to re-distribute the essence of human nature.
10 Habits of Mind to Avoid Ideological Thinking
Everyday Habits That Reveal a Low IQ (Backed by Psychology)
Everyday Habits That Reveal a Low IQ (Backed by Psychology) – YouTube
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Added 12-15-2025:
Sam Faddis (formerly with the CIA) sits down to talk about the reality of the ongoing Marxist revolution in America.
Cindy Wity 
When Trust Goes Bust
August 24, 2026 Leave a comment
Public trust. Is it engendered or eroded when elites, experts, and egos generate and double down on “dead right” narratives that distort and even deny reality leading to deception, disorder, dysfunction, and even destruction of life and do so for dubious and decidedly power-hungry and vainglorious ends?
You know the answer but here are few recent examples that answer this question:
Public trust in higher education eroded when Claudine Gay, the first black woman to become a (DEI-hire) president of Harvard, was forced out over plagiarism allegations after only seven months in the post.
And again, public trust in higher education eroded when elites at Cambridge University failed to do its due diligence and DEI-hired the youngest Black professor in the university’s history and described the plagiarist as a “respected scholar.”
Public trust in the Supreme Court eroded when the Joe Biden-nominated and DEI-hired Ketanji Brown “black girl magic” Jackson, a woman who would not define what a woman is and does not understand the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, was seated on the highest court in the land.
Public trust in the Supreme Court eroded when the Barack Obama-nominated Sonia “wise Latina” Sotomayor, a vocal political partisan and a woman who “gruesomely compared babies in the womb to being brain dead during oral arguments,” was seated on the highest court in the land.
Public trust in major institutions and professions, and especially the legal profession meant to support the rule of law, erodes as female participation increases and feminine patterns of behavior are applied: “prioritizing the feminine over the masculine: empathy over rationality, safety over risk, cohesion over competition.”
Public trust in a brand eroded when a company’s female marketing executive ignored customers and partnered with a trans-activist to suit a woke agenda and almost single-handedly destroyed the brand.
Public trust in a brand eroded when a company’s female CEO ignored customers and redesigned the company’s logo to suit a woke agenda causing shares of the company’s stock to drop like a rock as customers vowed to never step foot in the store again.
Public trust in the church and church leadership eroded when Sarah Mullally, another preachy Progressive who is a self-declared feminist and supporter of LGBTQ+ rights and activism and who has strongly backed asylum and migration, was elected Archbishop of Canterbury on January 28, 2026.
Public trust in the church and church leadership and the transcendent eroded when The Church of England covered the interior of the oldest cathedral in England in graffiti in order to represent the world to the world.
Public trust in climate experts eroded with the climate alarmism claims of Al Gore and with the scientific consensus predictions of climate doomsdays that never happened.
Public trust in the media and journalism eroded with the fawning over the DEI picks Claudine Gay, Ketanji Brown Jackson, and fabulist Jason Arday, and with the whack-a-doodle nonsense of climate experts.
Public trust in the MSM erodes every day with its talking heads calling people “election deniers,” (nee “COVID science deniers” and “climate science deniers”) for questioning the integrity of the 2020 election – “the most secure election in history” – and for questioning anything that comes out of their mouth.
Public trust in scientific authority has gone bust with the exposure of a public health official with a God complex – the man, the myth, and the legend who calls himself “the science” . . . the vainglorious Anthony Fauci.
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The misanthropic handling of COVID by public health “experts” caused public trust to go BUST . . .
When medical freedom was ignored. . .
When Americans weren’t fully informed about natural immunity. . .
When Americans weren’t allowed fully informed consent about the COVID vaccine. . .
When Americans weren’t fully informed about adverse events from COVID vaccinations from each of the three vaccines— Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson. . .
When siblings who had received the COVID jab to keep their jobs now have serious physical issues and the siblings who hadn’t received the jab have none. . .
When pregnant women weren’t fully informed about the possibility of a miscarriages following the COVID vaccination. . .
When Americans weren’t informed about the prophylactic benefits of hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin so that an mRNA vaccine with a spike protein could be rolled out and tested on the public . . .
When the FDA and the media ridiculed the use of Ivermectin for treating COVID by saying “You are not a horse” . . .
When the unvaccinated were made social pariahs and scapegoats and their livelihoods threatened for not taking the mRNA vaccine for a flu-like virus that has over a 98% survival rate . . .
When service members in all branches of the military who refused the vaccine were discharged and lost pensions, military housing and medical benefits for their families. . .
When, during lockdowns, Black Lives Matter was OK’d to gather and march for a political social justice cause but churches could not gather. . .
When anyone – especially Jennifer Nuzzo, a Johns Hopkins epidemiologist – thought that a mass protest would bring an end to “systemic racism” . . .
When schools, businesses, and churches closed but not liquor stores and cannabis shops during the 14 days “to flatten the curve” . . .
When “two weeks to flatten the curve” extended into months during the spring of 2020, and schools remained closed for the following year and most students had to endure virtual learning as teachers’ unions demanded that schools remain closed . . . (See PDF below.)
When children, who have a 99%+ COVID survival rate, were made to take the untested vaccine . . .
When the “science was settled” and science shapeshifter “Fauci routinely replaced one narrative with another, contradicting what he had previously insisted was true” . . . (See PDF below.)
When the highfalutin Anthony Fauci “became the “’infallible leader’ whose words could never be questioned and whose lies were turned into a functioning reality” . . . (See PDF below.)
When a man so full of himself – a Mao of a man with a diary instead of a Little Red Book – was given totalitarian authority over science and public health . . .
When Mao’s mass murder legacy based on “political power grows out of the barrel of a gun” became Fauci’s gain-of-function mass murder legacy based on “personal power grows out of the needle of a syringe.”
“There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.” – John Adams
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If I had one-trillionth the ego of Princess-Diaries Anthony Fauci and one-trillionth the gall of the talking heads of legacy media and of the politicians and celebrities who worshipped Fauci and themselves worshipping him, I would say “I told you so” about that pompous ass. But I’ll let the record speak for itself.
In a December 29, 2020 post My Unmasked Hero, I wrote
“Are you angry yet?
“Why is Anthony Fauci, a media hog, goal post mover, and dangerous buffoon, telling us how we should live our lives?
“Why are hydroxychloroquine and alternative COVID19 treatments blacklisted? Do you think Big Pharma and Big Tech oligarchs and their foundations have something to do with that?
“Did you know that “the country’s lockdowns were meant to emulate those carried out by the Chinese Communist Party – modeled to strip civil liberties and exert authoritarian control over citizens?
“Why are all deaths reclassified as COVID-19 deaths?
“Why are healthy people being masked and locked down?
“No more studies are required. I am angry (and mask less)!”
My Unmasked Hero does not refer to Anthony Fauci.
My Unmasked Hero refers to a woman who stands her ground in a CVS store when being confronted by an employee and customer about being maskless. The woman adamantly declares that she is “done” with being a sheep and blindly following COVID-19 orders that restrict her freedom:
“I am a healthy person. I am not crazy.”
“I’m not saying COVID’s not real. I’m just saying, I’m not sick. I’m not sick and asymptomatic spread has been shown to be a myth, so why am I going to be treated like a sick person?
“Do you know that there have been fewer deaths in [2020] than in [2019]? All they’ve done is recategorize all the deaths. This is not what they’re telling us it is. It’s a lie. This is a lie, I’m telling you.
“It’s a lie and everyone’s buying it. And it will go on, and on, and on as long as they feed us this lie and we comply with it, and I am done. Tonight, I’ve reached a breaking point, I’m done. I know I’m not reaching any of you in here, I don’t care.”
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Thousands of people from all over the world read my posts during COVID. With dozens of posts I warned readers about the fiendish Dr. Faustus Fauci and about his scientism sorcery.
I warned readers in dozens of posts and short stories about the authoritarian ways people were being dealt with under Fauci’s flip-flopping-keep-the public-on-the hook public health decrees.
I warned readers about the effects of lockdowns, mask mandates, social distancing, and about vaccination requirements that included vaccine passports and a possible roll out of a digital social credit system to control the public.
In my April 11, 2021 post Are We to Be Their Playthings? I noted the disdain for the unvaccinated in a NYT article (White Evangelical Resistance Is Obstacle in Vaccination Effort): “Distrust of scientists has become part of cultural identity, of what it means to be white and evangelical in America.”
And, I asked
“So, we are to trust Anthony Fauci, who with Francis Collins of the NIH, was behind the gain of function experiments gone awry in Wuhan China? Are we to trust scientism – scientific claims devoid of empirical evidence and debate and derived from ideology?”
I warned readers in an October 17, 2021 post about the adverse effects of the COVID vaccine. Here’s an updated summary: (UPDATED) Exclusive Summary: Covid-19 Vaccine Concerns | Sharyl Attkisson
In my September 26, 2020 post Tales from the Lockdown Crypt I warned about the increase of suicides and opioid overdoses due to COVID lockdown policies. And I posted The Great Barrington Declaration:
“As infectious disease epidemiologists and public health scientists we have grave concerns about the damaging physical and mental health impacts of the prevailing COVID-19 policies, and recommend an approach we call Focused Protection.”
I warned readers about good people being canceled on social media and in MSM for speaking out.
I warned readers about the CDC-planned quarantine camps (for a flu-like virus!).
I warned readers about the NIH’s devious Dr. Francis Collins colluding with Fauci to create the gain-of-function virus and to hide its Wuhan lab origins.
I warned readers about the untested COVID vaccine and the suppression of any talk of natural immunity by public health officials under the back-room direction of the self-enamored Fauci. We now know that lockdowns were enforced and any talk about natural immunity was delayed so that the vaccine might be rolled out.
I wasn’t alone in my warnings about the dangerous effects of the untested vaccine:
Fauci Privately Said Covid Shot Could Be Associated With Miscarriage Before Publicly Claiming “No Red Flags” | Evie Magazine
Fauci Privately Flagged Miscarriage Risk Before Telling Pregnant Women There Were ‘No Red Flags’ | ZeroHedge
Fauci privately raised miscarriage risk from mRNA vaccine dose two | Fox News
‘Error in Judgment’: Former CDC Director Says it Was ‘Mistake’ to Recommend Covid Vaccine to Pregnant Women
On November 7, 2021 I provided a document which says . . .
We conclude that the claims made using these data on the safety of exposure of women in early pregnancy to mRNA-based vaccines to prevent COVID-19 are unwarranted and recommend that those policy decisions be revisited.
In my January 2, 2022 post Mysteries of the Known Knowns I asked
“Why are we being used as lab rats?
“How is it that government entities demand our accountability about all things COVID BUT the manufacturers of the vaccines are NOT held accountable for what they dispense? If the risks are not discussed, how can there be informed consent?”
And
“If it can’t be questioned, is it science?
Bureaucrat overlord Anthony Fauci has effectively declared “I am the Way, the Science and the Life. No one comes to COVID freedom except by me.””
And
“Is COVID Absolutism behind the Current Psychic Epidemic?
“How is it that countries with the majority of their populations vaccinated are in panic mode? Why are there calls for more panic, lockdowns, passports, and mandates? Is science, logic or even altruism behind this? OR, is the desire to create a new social order under totalitarian control behind creating a fear-based populism?
“Why are people going along with the manufactured panic? Why do “the masses whole-heartedly accept everything that Dr. Fauci or other national and global health officials proclaim”?
“Why the collective psychosis?”
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On March 5, 2023 I posted this video:
In a May 19, 2024 post I wrote:
“As we saw during COVID, the collusion of science and state powers forms a dangerous mix. We were told and made to “trust the science” about masks, lockdowns, social distancing, and the COVID vaccine for a flu virus that was 99.9 % survivable for healthy adults who were not very elderly.
“The elites of public health central planning lied to us about immunity so that the vaccine could be pushed by the medical-industrial complex. They told us lies about hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin so that the vaccine could be pushed by the medical-industrial complex. They told us lies about the origins of COVID to protect the medical-industrial complex that created a gain-of function virus.”
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I warned readers about scientism – the deadly admixture of science and politics to produce the transfer of power into the hands of a few elites. And now that Anthony Fauci’s diaries and emails and texts have been exposed, COVID scientism can be described as the deadly witches’ brew of science and egotism.
Anthony Fauci epitomizes what the elites and experts of the Ruling Class, of Progressivism, of socialism and communism are capable of: draconian measures to ensure compliance to massive egos
Long time readers will know that I have warned against the totalitarian impulse so prevalent in misanthropic group above. For, they deem the public as eggs for their glorious omelets.
As a reminder, the nature of totalitarian ideologies include
Simple, Irrefutable Beliefs (the “science is settled”)
Promise of Utopia (“two weeks to fatten the curve” & “vaccinations will stop COVID”)
Blame and Persecution (“the unvaccinated are the cause of increased cases and the need for continued lockdowns”)
Concentration of Power (Fauci: “I am the science.”)
The Means Displace the Ends (the Big Pharma-sponsored Pravda media censoring opposing voices and posting daily death counts to produce mass fear and compliance with COVID scientism)
The Illusion of Perfecting Humanity (“We’re all in this together.”)
The above is taken from Totalitarian Ideologies 101: We need to start teaching students to recognize totalitarianism so they can resist it. (See PDF below.)
With this post and the many I’ve written, I am pointing out that there is information that the Pravda media (MS NOW, CNN, NYT, etc.) never gave the public, information that would have engendered public trust and saved lives.
History and current events reveal that anything can be rationalized when politics is everything and power its ultimate goal. Public trust erodes when elites, experts, and egos generate and double down on “dead right” narratives that distort and even deny reality leading to deception, disorder, dysfunction, and even destruction of life and do so for dubious and decidedly power-hungry and vainglorious ends.
“All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust, and that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to the one great Master, Author, and Founder of society.” – Edmund Burke
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Claremont Institute Senior Fellow Angelo Codevilla had this to say about America’s Ruling Class — And the Perils of Revolution:
“This dismissal of the American people’s intellectual, spiritual, and moral substance is the very heart of what our ruling class is about. Its principal article of faith, its claim to the right to decide for others, is precisely that it knows things and operates by standards beyond others’ comprehension . . .
“Because ordinary people will pervert reason with ideology, religion, or interest, science is “science” only in the “right” hands. Consensus among the right people is the only standard of truth. Facts and logic matter only insofar as proper authority acknowledges them . . .
“That is why the ruling class is united and adamant about nothing so much as its right to pronounce definitive, “scientific” judgment on whatever it chooses . . .
“The fact that the “hockey stick” conclusion stands discredited and Mann and associates are on record manipulating peer review, the fact that science-by-secret-data is an oxymoron, the very distinction between truth and error, all matter far less to the ruling class than the distinction between itself and those they rule.”
https://spectator.org/americas-ruling-class
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“When the anointed say that there is a crisis this means that something must be done —and it must be done simply because the anointed want it done.”
― Thomas Sowell, The Vision Of The Annointed: Self-congratulation As A Basis For Social Policy
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“Despotism has so often been established in the name of liberty that experience should warn us to judge parties by their practices rather than their preachings.”
—Raymond Aron, The Opium of the Intellectuals
(Replace “liberty” with the Left’s “crisis of Democracy!” and you will understand what they are after.)
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Doc>>> Totalitarian Ideologies 101
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I Read 1000 pages of Fauci Diaries. It’s Bad. | Dr. Vinay Prasad
In late July, Senator Rand Paul publicly released over 1,000 pages of notes that Fauci had kept—on a government server—during his time as Covid-19 czar, between 2019 and 2022. Shortly thereafter, Fauci was forced to testify before the Senate, on July 29. Then in early August, Paul and fellow Republican senator Ron Johnson released a set of texts, obtained from Fauci’s government-issued cell phone, between him and other health officials. In the following weeks, the “Fauci Diaries” sparked a new debate over Dr. Fauci’s legacy.
The pages, as well as Fauci’s testimony and subsequently released text messages, revealed an alarming gap between what Fauci told the public and what he told others privately and admitted to himself—about the virus’s possible origins, concerns over vaccine safety for pregnant women, the effectiveness of boosters, the efficacy of school closures, and more.
Dr. Vinay Prasad is a hematologist-oncologist who broke early with conventional wisdom on how to handle the pandemic and later became the FDA’s top vaccine regulator. He has also read the Fauci diaries in full, and he’s here to break down every revelation.
I Read 1000 pages of Fauci Diaries. It’s Bad. | Dr. Vinay Prasad – YouTube
COVID: The Cover-Up & Crimes Against Humanity with Sen. Ron Johnson
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Nothing to hide . . . but the truth.
Damning clip of Fauci that makes Swiss cheese of his ‘Fifth Amendment’ scheme… – Revolver News
Chaos Agent: Anthony Fauci Represents A System That Needs To Be Cleansed | ZeroHedge
Tim Robbins tells Joe Rogan — ‘Ivermectin cured me during Covid.’
Anthony Fauci’s Fifth Amendment Strategy May Not End the Investigation | The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
The Princess Diaries of Anthony Fauci – The American Conservative
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Jeffrey Tucker interviews Dr. Naomi Wolf, author and early public intellectual who first raised the alarm in May 2021 about COVID injections and severe menstrual disruptions in women. They discuss her rapid cancellation, the Missouri v. Biden discovery showing CDC and Biden administration officials circulating her tweet as an example to suppress, the FDA’s attempt to seal Pfizer documents for 75 years, and the crowdsourced work of 3,500+ doctors and scientists through Daily Clout that uncovered high miscarriage rates, ovarian and placental damage, and drops in sperm counts buried in those documents. (Emphasis mine.)
Sounding the Alarm on Women’s Health: Naomi Wolf on the COVID Shots & Cancellation
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Republicans make their first move against Fauci… – Revolver News
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Flattening the Fauci Ego Curve:
Legal Experts Explain How States Can Hold Fauci Accountable
Anthony Fauci and the Collapse of Scientific Authority
Fauci’s Personal Diary Just Got Released and It’s Brutal – Self-Absorbed, Fame-Seeking, Celeb Worshiping, Power Mad Liar
Anthony Fauci Celebrated ‘Flattering’ Press Stories in Diary
Check out some of these Fauci quotes, incredible.
Rand Paul has everything organized here, including Dr. Baric.
This entire diary thread is wild.
BOOM: Ugly truth about Jake Tapper just revealed, thanks to Fauci’s private diary entries… – Revolver News
Journalists Are Still Defending Fauci Because They Spent Years Dehumanizing Covid Dissidents Based On His Lies
Fauci’s Diary-Uh: ‘Science’s’ Biggest COVID-Era Lies Thus Far – PJ Media
Vinay Prasad: Anthony Fauci’s Vaccine Deceptions
Watters: Fauci knew he BLEW IT
BREAKING: Dr. Anthony Fauci pleads the Fifth Amendment in Senate hearing bombshell…
The Rise and Fall of Anthony Fauci › American Greatness
Watch: Fauci shakes uncontrollably while reading his opening statement…
Dr. Anthony Fauci testifies at Senate hearing on COVID-19 origins…
Rand warns Fauci he’s playing with fire…
The Ivermectin Question Heard ‘Round The World…
Fauci told on himself…
Never forget what this man did…
Revolvers 5-year-old investigation on Fauci still holds today…
The Ivermectin Question Heard ‘Round The World…
Never forget what this man did…
Mike Benz explains why Fauci pleaded the Fifth and how it can’t save him…
These Newly Released Texts Prove What a Monster Fauci Really Is – PJ Media
A Romp through the Fauci Diaries: Fame Turns to Shame
Top 27 Revelations in the Fauci Diaries | The Epoch Times
Fauci In Hiding As ABC Censorship Bombshell Explodes | ZeroHedge
Ex-ABC News Reporter: Fauci Whined and Killed Our COVID Story
An unanswered first-order question from the COVID-19 pandemic is this: Why was America’s pandemic doctrine in 2020 apparently so lacking after nearly forty years under Dr. Anthony Fauci’s leadership and after spending more than $60 billion preparing for the next inevitable outbreak? (Emphasis mine.)
Fauci And The Pandemic Playbook That Wasn’t – American Thinker
In May 2021, Janet Woodcock, the Acting Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), sent an email to Dr. Anthony Fauci, then director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), and Dr. Francis Collins, then director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director, expressing concern about the large number of adverse events she was hearing about following COVID vaccinations. . .
Woodcock said she had personally received reports from people, including many healthcare professionals, experiencing hard to classify adverse events that were not being captured by existing surveillance systems like VAERS.
She said all three of the vaccines— Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson—were resulting in these injuries. (Emphasis mine.)
In May 2021, Acting FDA Commissioner Emailed Fauci With Concerns About COVID Vaccine Injuries, Said ‘No One Takes Them Seriously’ › American Greatness
[David] Morens and his co-conspirators also used his Gmail account to share nonpublic information from the NIH about COVID-19 and “back-channel” information to an unidentified senior NIAID official, who appears to be Anthony Fauci, the institute’s former director, according to court filings.
David Morens, former NIAID adviser, pleads guilty in COVID-19 records scheme – CBS News
Fauci diaries, released by Sen. Rand Paul, touch on COVID origins and tense relationship with Trump – CBS News
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“That’s the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don’t care, individuals do.”
-Mark Twain, A Tramp Abroad
“The mania for giving the Government power to meddle with the private affairs of cities or citizens is likely to cause endless trouble, through the rivalry of schools and creeds that are anxious to obtain official recognition, and there is great danger that our people will lose our independence of thought and action which is the cause of much of our greatness, and sink into the helplessness of the Frenchman or German who expects his government to feed him when hungry, clothe him when naked, to prescribe when his child may be born and when he may die, and, in fine, to regulate every act of humanity from the cradle to the tomb, including the manner in which he may seek future admission to paradise.”
-Mark Twain, Official Physic
Day of Reckoning
We do not need more intellectual power; we need more moral power. We do not need more knowledge; we need more character. We do not need more government; we need more culture. We do not need more law; we need more religion. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen. . .. If the foundation be firm, the superstructure will stand.
Calvin Coolidge, Vice presidential address at Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts, June 19, 1923
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Jane Austen’s Fight Club
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