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The Bland Acceptance Of Totalitarian Absurdity

12/4/2021

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One of my biggest struggles over the past twenty months or so has been coming to terms with the common man's bland acceptance of totalitarian absurdity during the birdemic.

Case in point, the recently implemented 2G+ birdemic rule in Austria. At some point during the birdemic, the Austrian government and many of the country's institutions implemented a discriminatory 3G, red light/green light QR-code pass system that was meant to bar untested unpecked individuals from nearly everything. Within this restrictive framework, an individual had to prove he was either pecked, recovered, or negative (by displaying the results of a recent, time-limited test) in order to attend a public performance or enter certain venues.  

After Austria declared open war on the unpecked last month, the 3G model quickly began to shift to a 2G policy, which means only the pecked and the recovered who can prove their status via a digital code will be allowed certain "privileges". The unpecked, on the other hand, will be left out in the cold.

Well, that 2G policy is quickly transforming into a 2G+ policy for most venues, as outlined in a recent announcement by theaters in Vienna (code words added):


Dear ladies and gentlemen,

As you have probably already read in the media yesterday, the City of Vienna is planning to tighten the Birdemic measures again as of next week.

For events with 25 or more people, the »2G+« rule will apply. This means that even if you are - as is the case with well over 90% of our visitors every evening - fully pecked by a double peck, have already had your third booster peck or have been recovered you will also have to present a valid PCR test, no older than 48 hours, when attending one of our performances.  The date of the test is valid, not the date of the result.

Unfortunately, we do not know exactly when these measures will come into effect. Should this happen at very short notice, we could therefore find ourselves in the situation of not being allowed to admit you in spite of a valid ticket and proof of 2G (»pecked-recovered«) in the evening.

There is nothing we can do about this other than ask you to keep an eye on further developments. Of course, we will inform you again as soon as any new details become known to us.

We deeply regret these circumstances, but we cannot influence them. We hope for your understanding.

Detailed information on the current birdemic measures can be found here. 

Your team at the Vienna State Opera

I'll give you a minute to wrap your head around the overarching "logic" supporting these latest measures. Good luck!

Anyway, I found the "there is nothing we can do about this" and "we deeply regret these circumstances, but cannot influence them" lines to be quite revealing in terms of how the bland acceptance of totalitarian absurdity operates at the ground level. 

It basically translates into something like this:

"We, the team at the Vienna State Opera, fully understand that all of this has become mind-numbing, cosmic-level bullshit, but we are too cowardly and too wedded to the System to feel any motivation to do anything about it.

Nonetheless, we also know that you, our cherished patrons, are likewise too cowardly and too wedded to the System to do anything besides blandly accept the continued implementation of this degrading, dehumanizing, absurd bullshit; hence, if we want the opera to be open at all, we'll all just have to suck it up, play along, and keep hoping for that return to normal we were promised so long ago."

Well, in addition to many other things, I have reached the conclusion that the bland acceptance of totalitarian absurdity equals the total surrender of all human dignity and self-respect. 

I don't know how else to think about it at this point. The common man appears quite content to blandly accept anything and everything the totalitarians choose to dump on him.

​And when I say anything and everything, I do mean anything and everything.  
19 Comments
Todd
12/5/2021 04:53:05

Fascinating. Pure terrorism.
The fact that Western man and woman puts up with this is supremely disappointing.
Evidently the aim is to cause those who thought they would have privileges (the pecked) blame the unpecked.

It's also psychology-lab / satanically devised brilliance: total gaslighting. You thought that compliance would lead to privilages.
Oops!
This could lead to mass psychosis and absolute dysptopia. Oh, too late.

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Francis Berger
12/5/2021 09:48:33

@ Todd - I'm curious to see how much more absurd this can get.

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Ingemar
12/5/2021 06:46:23

I thought of this hypothetical exchange you can use.

VirusCultist: "Take the Peck and join us or else we'll make your life a living hell!"

NonCultist: "You already live in hell. Why would we want to join you?"

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Francis Berger
12/5/2021 09:49:24

@ Ingemar - Quite right.

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Hari Seldon
12/5/2021 07:31:13

It's odd how no amount of argumentation or evidence moves the needle with people. None of the people I know who accepted lockdowns and mandates in March/April 2020 have expressed any regret or remorse about their position since then. Predictably, they are totally blasé about the new peck mandates, even though they may be required to flash digital health credentials everywhere they go. Their attitude reminds me of those experiments where parts of the brain are disabled with magnets. Maybe someday I'll understand.

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Francis Berger
12/5/2021 09:52:53

@ Hari - The levels of bláse can't be overemphasized. They really can't. I really do believe most common people will put up with virtually anything. I see no limits.

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Heather Shaler
12/5/2021 15:41:37

It's really something. There is truly nothing you can say or do to wake anyone if they don't want to. My husband is being fired a week before Christmas after nearly two years of working from home. I thought the sheer absurdity and evil of it might wake people up (why right now at Christmas? After two years of being made to work from home, which was, by all accounts, going swimmingly? For a peck mandate that would have been unthinkable two years ago?) Of course, we're not surprised and planned accordingly, but I thought it might wake up people who claim to love us and have our best interests at heart, people who personally only know of one or two mild birdemic cases, and ought to have seen ages ago that it was all a sham. But no, they blandly accept our predicament, and if there's any reaction at all, it's a vague sense that we must deserve it. Their reactions hurt far more than the loss of income. I was chilled by how dead they seemed. It reminded me of your post "I see spiritually dead people."

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Francis Berger
12/5/2021 17:58:19

@ Heather - I am sorry to hear about your husband's predicament. I went through something similar recently.

"But no, they blandly accept our predicament, and if there's any reaction at all, it's a vague sense that we must deserve it."

That's been my personal experience as well. Quite revelatory.

Having said that, I think it's important not to become overly bitter, resentful, or don a victim mentality. (I'm not suggesting you or your husband have done this, merely making a general suggestion to other readers.)

In my own case, my dismissal hurt in obvious ways, but when I think about it a bit, I come to the realization that I don't want to work for an organization that operates in such a manner. The problem is, most of them do. Nonetheless, I am fortified by the hope that something else - something perhaps better - will come along. And even if it doesn't, I know my choices are not confined to this-world outcomes.

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Heather Shaler
12/5/2021 19:07:25

You're quite right, Francis.

Todd
12/6/2021 14:33:06

Heather,
Forgive me for giving legal and procedural advice that you didn't ask for, but I have studied this stuff a bit.
Sounds like your husband did not quit. Good. He'll have grounds for a wrongful termination lawsuit.
Did he demand a religious exemption, as provided for by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1965 (if you are in the USA)?
Assuming he did (and it's never too late to send that demand), then he has even more grounds for an appeal and lawsuit.
See Peggy Hall's Healthy American youtube channel and site. She's got lots of amazing info. Also consider approaching a good employment law attorney, or Liberty Counsel, etc.
Good luck. I'm sure you will be fine. Blessings.

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Whitney
12/5/2021 16:47:13

Blasé is right! You know you can tell someone that over two dozen soccer players collapsed or died on the field last year and they'll just say how odd. No curiosity at all. It is the most bizarre thing it's like you're talking to sleepwalkers

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Francis Berger
12/5/2021 17:58:58

@ Whitney - Yes, and thus intensifying the absurdity of it all.

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Jeannie Catherine Clare
12/5/2021 17:26:26

Austrians are not blandly accepting totalitarian absurdity.

Within only the past few days, thousands of Austrians march In protest against the mandatory jab.

Even mainstream propaganda media is beginning to leak the Truth.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/04/world/austria-vienna-covid-protest.html

https://newseu.cgtn.com/news/2021-12-02/Nationwide-protests-against-vaccine-mandate-in-Austria-15FlPd45wBi/index.html

Soros, Gates, Fauchi, Klaus Schwab, Tedros, et al. -- all the dark pushers of the 'great reset' into a global totalitarian government -- are being exposed to the Light of Truth. And they cannot withstand that Light!

Worldwide, a powerful revolt against unspeakable Satanic evil is rising and becoming ever more powerful. The voice of the people cries out, for the Good of All Humanity.

The Great Awakening _is_ occurring.
Thanks be to God!

"And this is my prayer:
that your love may increase ever more and more
in knowledge and every kind of perception,
to discern what is of value,
so that you may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ,
filled with the fruit of righteousness
that comes through Jesus Christ
for the glory and praise of God."
~ Phil 1:4-6, 8-11

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Francis Berger
12/5/2021 18:09:48

@ Jeannie - Yes, I am aware of the protests, and I hope the non-compliance has an effect.

I personally believe the peck mandate push will fail - one way or the other, but that doesn't negate the fact that most Austrians have indeed blandly accepted totalitarian absurdity in much the same servile manner the majority of people in other countries have blandly accepted totalitarian absurdity.

I lost my job in Austria because my employer doesn't merely accept the totalitarian absurdity, but positively and enthusiastically endorses it. And there is a lot of that in Austria and elsewhere.

As a people, the Austrians are facing a crucial test now. The outcome of individual and collective choices in response to this test will determine much, not just for Austria, but for the rest of the world as well.

Let's hope this marks the beginning of the end of the absurdity.

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Jeannie Catherine Clare
12/5/2021 19:26:29

@ Francis

Amen! May the protests mark the beginning of the end of this unspeakable absurdity.

Where I live, in the SF Bay Area of California, I am surrounded by 'good' people who line up for one jab after another, and now all the boosters. I Dare Not Speak My Truth in my neighborhood, or in my church.

Me, I will forevermore refuse the peck mandate. And, because of this, I have lost former best friends, business colleagues, all but one of my family....

So I turn to scripture for comfort and for Courage.

Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them. (Ephesians 5:11) For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. (John 3:20)

Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. (Romans 12:21) Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. (Romans 12:9)

The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness will never overcome it! Thanks be to God.

Mike Bryant
12/5/2021 19:30:00

My brother who is a lorry driver confirmed that you have to flash your QR code in Germany to get in anywhere he also said they had a similar system in France but they just ignore it.
Maybe the teutonic mind is more conformist and therefore there is more chance of this working in Austria/Germany hence all this nonsense being tried there first.

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Francis Berger
12/5/2021 20:02:53

@ Mike - That's a good point, and there may be some truth in it. As I mentioned above, though the opposition to the peck agenda is fierce in Austria, that opposition currently only represents about 30% of the population. I would estimate another 10-15% that have followed the peck agenda are now having second thoughts. But the rest? Nothing more than bland acceptance. That may change in the comings days and weeks, but I'm not holding my breath.

My personal experience with the border crossing between Austria and Hungary before the Austrian government went full totalitarian was that the soldiers would simply glance at whatever paper you showed them and just wave you through. I once tried to show them a work paper, but was simply waved through. It was only afterward that I realized I had shown the soldier the back of the paper, which was blank!

I don't know what the situation is now as I have no reason to go to Austria anymore.

Anyway, the checking of papers was much stricter at my former workplace. I had to upload documents and in order to pass through their green pass system. They demanded QR codes and QR coded documents, but I uploaded only non-QR coded papers. That worked for a while, but after they adopted a 2G+ system, I had no way forward and was summarily fired for "not complying with the institution's necessary safety protocols."

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Max Overhead link
12/5/2021 21:11:57

I had always thought that the "liberal" ideas of my family were absurd, but now that they have become weaponized they are not just absurd but also dangerous. Their beliefs are their business and I do not care to influence them one way or another, but God help anyone, family or no, that attempts to dictate my beliefs.
When my mother left this Earth, I was at Peace, because a week before she had told me that she had had a full life and was ready to go. That was the night that I mourned.
The same is happening with my family currently. Barring me from their homes, from family vacation, Thanksgiving and Christmas, boasting of having booster shots whilst pregnant. I mourn them now because by their actions they have signaled that they have finished living. If I see them this year (outdoors, of course, they won't let me in) I will give each of them one bar of homemade coconut oil lye soap. More I do not care to do, and I think that gift is perhaps too generous. I am trying to remain civil, but the reality is that their beliefs support the barring of the "unpecked" from society are anything but civil. Their beliefs support starving those who oppose their beliefs "for the greater good". Cancel culture has reached its apogee.

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lea
12/6/2021 13:18:46

I had this long thesis and framework in development regarding 'EC' (Effective Communication), it was interesting, going places, exploring alot if not all relevant scientific doctrines, and rendered ultimately pointless before completion.

Something of a life's work rendered pointless, quite a bummer i guess. But that also provided clarity like never before; not everyone has an active role in the things to come. Maybe that includes myself but at least i tried, at least i offered opinions and sometimes even genuine insight.

At least i saw what this game was about, discussed it, found people that wanted to do the same, felt the same, recognized the spiritual death all around us that needed some counterweight, and did my tiny part to provide that along with all of you great folks. While shooting short of my potential potentiality by cosmical lengths, i can earnestly say i was not an NPC. There is still some time left but something or someone is telling me it is short now. The pecks are not quite the mark yet, but something is coming that fully represents it soon-ish, definitely within our lifetimes. The choice between natural life and artificial life is extremely important, i can feel it resonate from our planet throughout the universe in advance. Ahriman is making his stand here and we are the ones to choose differently.

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