The Result of Two Years of Unprecedented? Fuhgettaboutit!

10/7/2022

As an event, the birdemic is unprecedented. For starters, the vast majority of the planet has never been locked down in unison before. The bulk of the global population has also never been subjected to such an extended and relentless campaign of propaganda and coercion -- not even during war time.

I could go into further detail, but I am sure readers of this blog vividly remember the evil they witnessed and experienced. It is only natural to assume that everyone remembers everything about the birdemic regardless of whether they "believe" in it or not.

After all, the outbreak is in the very recent past. Moreover, it remains a lingering issue in many parts of the world, including the city of my birth where the New York City Department of Education recently fired 850 teachers and teaching aids for the unforgivable sin of being unpecked.

Yet some people don't remember. For example, one of my students professed to have completely forgotten about the bans and restrictions governments around the world imposed on the unpecked. As far as she was concerned, it never happened. And it took her several minutes to recall the discriminatory policies the Hungarian government had forced upon the unpecked segment of the country's population.

A colleague claims the "safe and effective" mantra of the pecks had nothing to do with protecting people from the virus. In his memory, the peck was always "only" about mitigating the severity of the disease.

I could go on, but I think I've made my point.

The takeaway? It very much appears that for an ever increasing number of people, the birdemic is yesterday's news. As such, it is quickly being disremembered and consigned to oblivion.

Though I am sure that this sort of quick forgetting is the standard modus operandi for many during mortal life, I get the sense that much of this disremembering is disingenuous.

I could be wrong, but I think most people do remember -- they just want to forget that they do.

10 Comments

lea

10/8/2022 04:53:38

It seems like literally anything is 'easier' than admitting you were wrong or worse, fooled. After more than a year of intermittent and haphazard, yet sometimes very intense research and notetaking on this and many related subjects, i still dont quite get it.

There are undeniable parallels to 2001 and perhaps the speed at which 'new troubles' have been introduced, but that does not explain everything (while that period requires some dense explaining itself that needs to be omitted here).

The key difference being though, that this was much more (up, close and) personal in many ways. Is this the legacy of people like Bernays and related institutes performing a grand psychological experiment? And to what end, on whose behalf?

As often, i have my 'seven-league boots' firmly strapped on, its necessary when a single topic touches on so many others.
Historically, memories have probably not been this short for millenia, which plays a part. I wrote about phones and the tube regarding all that, the full story to be omitted too. But that STILL does not explain everything here. Can cognitive dissonance simply be that strong or does it perhaps function in a far more complex manner than we thought it did? I have a theory about instantly induced trauma that relates, which probably has been combined with more 'traditional methods' as described by Joost Meerloo and Hannah Arendt.

It could be a larger part of the answer, since trauma is the method of choice for cult initiation, and i believe to a significant extent that is what we have witnessed. Perhaps alot of people have sub-consciously sensed this, and are justifiably (yet sub-consciously?) terrified. While trauma can lead to healing, that usually involves a 'natural process', not anything remotely like this. While cults (f.e cargo cults) can be harmless and basically intense forms of tribalism coupled with local beliefs, they can take the shape of the darkest periods in presumed history such as the Inca's before they fell.

Might have to blog myself at some point to expand on -omitted- ;)
Thanks as always Francis and please back this wonderful place up at some point.

Francis Berger

10/8/2022 19:05:08

@ lea - Good points. I get the sense that people have a natural tendency to just want to live their lives without worrying too much about the bigger picture. I don't think this is bad or wrong. On the contrary, I think it is good to focus primarily on your immediate surroundings and the beings therein because that all comprises an individual's "concrete", physical reality. That is what we are meant to focus on in mortal life. However, I think it's rather revealing that the powers-that-should-not-be want to make it impossible for people to do just that. To use a colloquial term -- they are always in your face.

The birdemic marked the pinnacle of that sort of ubiquitous and intense interference into the ordinary lives of ordinary people. The average person was not at the liberty of just blocking it out.

In this sense, I think people just want to get back to "focus on my life", but I doubt the powers will allow that for any extended period of time. They're still interfering, and they will continue to do so. Thus, forgetting about the birdemic serves no one but the powers.

bruce charlton

10/8/2022 10:28:58

"It very much appears that for an ever increasing number of people, the birdemic is yesterday's news. As such, it is quickly being disremembered and consigned to oblivion. "

I agree. Consequently, such people have learned Nothing from the most extraordinary year for at least half a century.

JMSmith

10/8/2022 14:07:44

This is part of a wider amnesia. If it were not for the residual mask-wearers, they could start gaslighting us about the whole Covid roadshow. Maybe that is the next step. Mention Covid and nice people just look at you with a mix of puzzlement and worry on their faces. But, as I say, it is part of a wider amnesia that serves to normalize the present. This town has a street festival on the first Friday of the month, and we walked over to it last evening. More than a few people who looked like the bad guys in a dystopian movie. On the way over we passed one of the many houses that go whole-hog on halloween decorations. This includes a twelve-foot skeleton, very realistic severed human limbs hanging from a tree, a realistic facsimile of charred remains in a fire pit, and other foul grotesques. There was a time when Halloween was about small children going door to door asking for candy. Mention that and nice people just look at you with a mix of puzzlement and worry on their faces.

10/8/2022 19:09:09

@ JM - Yes, and the wider amnesia extends all the way to forgetting about God. Concerning people who adorn their houses with terrifying and macabre decorations at this time of year. . . well, I really don't know what to say about people like that without resorting to all sorts of colorful and derogatory language.

Epimetheus

10/8/2022 16:44:53

There's an unspoken fear of retribution in the air. "Let's just forget about it guys! Let's not talk about it. Let's just move on!"

10/8/2022 19:13:23

@ Epi - I've thought about that, but I don't know. Do you really think politicians, medical experts, doctors, cops, or anyone else is afraid of retribution? They may be. If they are, I don't see it. Then again, the forget-about-it attitudes might be a sign of that. So, I'm seeing it but not registering it as such.

If it's not too much trouble, could you expand on your comment a bit? Perhaps expand on where you sense this unspoken fear?

Lady Mermaid link

10/9/2022 02:35:11

Briefly off topic; My maternal grandfather passed away yesterday. He's been estranged from my family (long story), but I would appreciate it if you would pray for his soul. He was baptized in the Catholic faith; but he had not been observant. Thank you.

I don't think people have truly forgotten the events of the past two years. While things have eased off from the craziness of 2020, things have not fully returned to "normal". It's hard to put into words. Yes, the masks and peck mandates are gone for now. However, there is a sense of lethargy in the air. Customer service is sloppier than ever. Employees don't seem to be motivated to do their best at work. Shortages for weeks if not months are starting to become the norm. Inflation is hitting hard. I have already been told in my line of work to expect a shortage of Thanksgiving turkeys this year.

There is a sense that something has permanently changed. It feels like the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy after the chaos of the French Revolution. Yes, the monarchy returned, but Ancien Regime was forever lost. I wonder if modern western society has already collapsed in a sense. It's hard to explain; but it truly feels like something ended in 2020. Collapse doesn't necessarily mean a Hunger Games apocalyptic scenario.

10/9/2022 09:51:01

@ Lady Mermaid - I'm sorry for your loss. I shall pray for your departed grandfather.

"There is a sense that something has permanently changed."

Almost everything has changed permanently.

On the level of demonic agendas, they seem to have abandoned "none are safe until all are safe" for "none are green and sustainable until all are green and sustainable". As far as I can tell, the green agenda is still a part of the Ahrimanic control and scam operation, but a Sorathic surge is popping up in the machinations of the green and sustainable actions. Simply put, the Ahrimanics are undermining their own infrastructure.

At the level of everyday life and everyday people -- I get the sense people are in a haze of denial and confusion. Most have learned nothing.

But there is great opportunity in the present time, and I believe the world is in a better place spiritually then it was two-three years ago (even though it is in a worse place materially -- at least in the West).

The Ahrimanic vision for global control is showing signs of crumbling, which, from a spiritual perspective, is good. Unfortunately, this makes way for Sorathic destruction, but I think it is easier to spiritually oppose that sort of destruction than it is to oppose the mass enslavement the Ahrimanics are/were planning.

Anti-Gnostic

10/9/2022 23:32:46

"It's hard to explain; but it truly feels like something ended in 2020."

2020 was a watershed moment, no question.

We had to lock down the country and wreck the economy to normalize mail-in voting, ballot harvesting and drop-boxes.

So Trump could not be re-elected.

2020 was the year the State decided that voting would not be allowed to change the government. The government and its related institutions became wholly captured, incapable of reform or any critical introspection; institutional Christianity ceded praxis to the secular State; conservative political philosophy bankrupted; the One God was driven out by the egalitarian No-God just as, previously, the One God drove out the many gods (we are watching the founding of a new religion).

All in 2020.

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