A Simple Man's Virus
Appeals to (non) Authority and Prognostic Ritual.
Hi!
I'm no scientist.
My certified knowledge is limited to a Lower Certificate in English, a Driver's License and whatever Greek High School has to offer.
I twice quit my studies. Felt better not being surrounded by assholes and their enablers/followers. Teacher, student and bureaucrat alike. Tried at both public and private institutions.
Wasn't a bad student. In fact I was among the best I've met in many fields, without studying much for school.
I highly doubt I was born smart. I was born in an extended family of avid readers, cursed or blessed with being the first child of my generation. Learned to love reading very young. Made me different.
I can be a rather slow thinker, and I blame anxiety for that.
I can be a rather slow thinker, and I also blame critical thinking skills for that. I mostly blame what made me different for those skills.
Among my former social circles and friends, the majority seemed to lack foresight, let alone honesty. People that used to mock me once, or others who were clearly annoyed by my thoughts, felt smart repeating my points years later.
Kept going on for years. Still happens to this day. Acceptable discourse always has to move far slower than reality. It’s in the programming.
Then "Covid" came. The microaggressive Cassandra-meets-Diogenes in me was wrong. I was expecting something more gradual, not an all out assault on humanity.
Time for rapid extended reading then.
New subjects need new knowledge. Old knowledge gets rusty when neglected. Took almost a couple of months to start making sense of this. As with most complex things, it will never fully make sense. I’m ok with that.
That said, I'm sure there was no viral pandemic. At least in the literal sense.
I'm fairly sure there was no new virus either. I'm leaning towards no viruses in general, at least in the way described by mainstream virology. There’s much more... but let’s get back to the point I’m trying to make.
I'm no scientist.
I'm no doctor.
Do they know better? Sometimes they do. Some of them are now dead or suffering vax injuries.
Can the heretic be wiser or smarter than the pious cleric?
Perhaps I was just paying more attention. I wasn’t that afraid of being excommunicated. I’ve learned much from history and a bit from life. Fear makes us stupid. Like my frequent - and fear related - anxiety can make me slower. Like my fear makes me stupid the (thankfully not too many) times it takes over.
I'm no doctor.
Most importantly I’m not approved.
It doesn't matter if I can (scientifically in a lot of cases) disprove much of what the overlords have taught you. Or point to you where you can do it yourself. Or even state the obvious: their sellswords use brute force; their hired mouths dirty tactics. They could instead just prove us, the heretics, wrong. They don’t.
It doesn't matter.
You insist I should be your MOMMY (or do you prefer DADDY?) before you listen.
I’m serious. Let me explain:
You want me to equip you with an alternative fairy tale. Help you sleep at night like the spoiled child you are. Create a new scientific consensus with answers for you to have faith in, first. Given that, you might consider taking me seriously. Till then I’m guilty of sacrilege.
I’m also guilty of a different sin, virus (poison):
I’m divisive; I split the “movement”.
I can confess to that, if we’re talking about the movement of thoughts in your head. That cannot be good, right?
It leads to more unknown horrors.
No I can't fight off your growing existential dread. Nor defeat your real world enemies for you. Welcome to my world, motherfucker. Show me you're living your best life. YOLO your way out of slavery. Help me to help you to help us. In some way?
