You write, "conspicuously diminished in their cognitive capacity." Brilliant analysis. The only factor that tops that observation may be, "Conspicuously diminished in integrity." Or, perhaps a level lower, "Diminished spiritual awareness."
I’m not sure that I would consider “spiritual awareness” lower than “integrity.” I think those two go together. One needs a moral compass to have integrity.
Had this very conversation with a friend at breakfast early today. It's not just an intelligence or ignorance gap. There's something very wrong with comprehension that spiritual and emotional intelligence gets at.
Definitely agree that there has been a dumbing down. Part of it is due to "social studies" being taught in favor over history. And I have seen in my coworkers and family members who have received the shots a definite loss in cognitive ability.
As well as a loss in critical thinking. It’s almost like they want to be fearful, that their lives are so lackluster that a CNN reporter makes so much sense to them when telling them to get vaccinated because “this virus will kill them”. How about taking a look at the vaccine, its origins, and oh, how about examining evidence of who the virus is killing and how? No, they say, CNN told me to get vaccinated so I will!
Gingerbread can you expand on your comment please? Are you saying you don't see "dumbing down" in your "very jabbed network". I too, am trying to understand what I'm observing. I'm not sure "they" were like that before and I just had the illusion of consensus?
Yes that is what I mean. I haven't seen dumbing down. But there is another issue that might muddy the waters for me. Before this whole covid disaster happened, I agreed with most family and friends. Now I DISagree with most family and friends. So I often do an internal eye roll and marvel about stupidity. So this shift could mean that I am unable to see dumbing down.
But there were more observations that I didn't share. I read about people who could list half a village full of people with blood clots, strokes, heart issues, turbo cancers and sudden deaths. I also didn't see any of that myself. Now, in 2024 I know of a few people with issues like that, but not anywhere close to what other people seem to have observed and experienced. So I wonder what other factors could play into this.
John, I must add that at the very beginning of 2020, what I discerned was that the most highly educated and ones in prestigious places of employment, especially the medical or research fields, were the most stupid people I have ever encountered. They had absolutely NO critical thinking abilities at all. It is indeed possible that the jab cognitively affected those that took it, but which came first? The gullible sheeplike stupidity or the jab?
They had been stupid for a long time and getting worse. It took COVID to expose them which is why it happened, God's plan to expose the rottenness and separate the wheat from the tares.
We have been slowly and increasing poisoned over decades, perhaps 150 years or so, but accelerating I would say since 2000. The increasing neuro-toxicity separates mind and body and chaos and stupidity follow.
I came to the same conclusion as you. It was more of the highly educated and successful people I know that were the most adamant about lockdowns, jabs, etc.
The leftists are positively giddy with the idea that the govt will control everyone and everything. Perhaps the jab did have something to do with it. But i have a feeling when they finally get what they’re screaming for, they won’t like it — and it’ll be too late for anyone to do much at that point.
I can't believe how 'smug' liberals have become smug in one-up-Manship to the point where winning has taken precedence over the real consequences of the issues at hand. They are taking a very short-term view, and their hubris has blinded them to the fact that they will have to live in the same prison as everyone else.
yes, but they are so happy that abortion and drugs will be legal - that nothing else matters. All Biden's votes were from pro-abortion druggies... makes me wonder if they aren't doing us all a favor in wanting abortion instead of having kids.
"I don’t know about the readers of this Substack, but in recent years, I have often encountered people who strike me as conspicuously diminished in their cognitive capacity—the defendant in the current matter before the Supreme Court being the most spectacular."
No, you had it right...they are all just plain stupid! And it starts at home! Then school's and colleges seal the deal. DAF! And their only arguments are...we shouldn't judge, who dictates what's right or wrong (2 year olds KNOW when something is not right to do!), or the comment made famous during the Scamdemic...you do you! Only they mean...WE DO AS THEY SAY! Remember at the beginning of the Scamdemic when it was everywhere...There will come a time when good men will have to do bad things...well we are here. In fact we are way past it!
I actually have said several times...when we all weren't in the streets pitching a fit after 2 weeks to slow the curve (since some of US KNEW DAY 1 IT WAS BS, but certainly by 2 weeks EVERYONE SHOULD have known!) and especially after it was 100% obvious election was stolen it's honestly too late now! Look how many illegal immigrants who hate our guts have been let in! Can you imagine how many lives would have been saved in November 2020 if those of us that KNEW would have stood up?! Remember that's when rona surged so medical malpractice REALLY killed people off to scare people into not voting in person!? I had a nurse friend then that told me it was in the flu shot and a nurse from CA that just moved in next door tell me the SAME thing! However, I knew then something was up! Walmart usually sets a table up towards the middle right of the store. Starting 2020 in September they had people set up RIGHT as you walked in! They usually didn't ask me if I wanted one unless I made eye contact or engaged. That year they asked EVERYONE who walked through the door! I wanted to yell out DO YOU KNOW WHAT'S IN FLU SHOTS BEFORE THE SCAMDEMIC EVER HAPPENED...SINCE YOU CAN'T PLAY WITH THE MERCURY IN A THERMOMETER HOW MUCH IS SAFE TO INJECT INTO YOUR BODY??? Now I just say if you don't trust the rona shot do you honestly trust any shot made BY THE SAME DAMN COMPANY?! Since they haven't been able to perfect the flu shots in 40 years are you okay with a shot that took 4 months to create and wasn't properly tested?! You don't see mysterious all the sudden illnesses and deaths in your previously healthy friends after getting the rona shots?!
I mean geez what's it going to take? A bomb dropped on their heads with a note that says...'VACCINES ARE MURDER WEAPONS THAT KILL YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM IF NOT YOUR HEART FIRST'!!!?
Am reading the "Indoctrinated Brain" by Dr. Nehls right now. It goes much deeper than his interesting interviews. Very chilling especially on the ease of indoctrination and the simple destruction of the autobiographical memory and where that leads. Think Desmet's theory on steroids and permanent. It leads basically to where we are now.
I confess to not being familiar with Nehls' "Indoctrinated Brain" but will def have to check it out. Have to say Mattias Desmet's Mass Formation work has come very much to mind while reading John's post and the comments here, and I absolutely feel the jabs (and compliance to submit to them) were themselves a key component in the larger process. I have observed massive cognitive decline among many I know, especially older cohorts, who were fully on board from the outset and, as noted by others among these comments, seemed to have little to no critical/analytical thinking capacity to bring to bear, including many "educated" and otherwise ostensibly intelligent individuals.
I don't think they are stupid and I don't think it is the shot. They are cunning and deceitful and well organized.
As the good doctor illustrates in his analysis which you were kind enough to forward, always follow the $. Too often, organizations and individuals become morally corrupted souls because of the sources of the $.
I don't do a great deal of social media but as I shifted into retirement just prior to the C19 debacle, I still maintained a LinkedIn account. No longer needed it but I began to post much of what Peter McCullough was revealing at the time about early treatment.
He made a great deal of sense. After three warnings from Ried Hamilton's cabal at LinkedIn, I was terminated due to violation of LinkedIn "community standards" as my posts were "misinformation. "
As someone with 40 years of history education I recommend reading the history of the medical science in the USA, because you are way off the mark. People whining now about the loss of freedom is a tad too late, don't you think?!
America was never the land of the free to begin with. Freedom was always an illusion and the constitution's a paper which sustained gullibility. Free speech is “free” until someone has an issue with it.
Just how free are we in the USA, supposedly the world’s freest nation? Mexican citizens enjoy far more freedom in choosing their cancer treatment than American citizens do.
America’s media is anything but free. There are many instances of censorship in America’s “free press" that far surpasses anything that the Soviet Union or communist China accomplished. The Western press’s awe-inspiring censorship of Mark Twain's and George Orwell's work are two examples.
More than two centuries ago, Adam Smith observed that every professional and trade organization is a conspiracy against the public’s interest, with its members attending to their mutual self-interest, not the public’s. Nothing has changed since his time.
Killing patients with violent and expensive medicine, while the gentle, inexpensive, and arguably far more effective medicines are outlawed, is a racket. Covid just exposed what has been ongoing for decades under the surface.
Outlawing books that tell me how to heal myself is racketeering activity. What the medical gangsters did to Rife, Hoxsey, Gerson, Ivy, Durovic, Privitera, Krebs, Koch, Crane, Warner, Keller, Ghadiali, Beard, Taylor, Wright, Brodie, Naessens, Burzynski, Halstead, Richardson, Thurston, Pixley, Bolles and many others are great crimes, nearly invariably done in the name of “protecting the public.”
Our society’s institutions are corrupt because people are corrupt. Plain and simple. No piece of paper or a new law can change that. The assumption that they can, reflects a deep disconnect and self-denial.
The reality is that regarding big issues of life and death, Americans appear to be one of the world’s least free people. Although their cage is seemingly invisible, and when they notice those bars once in a while, they think that they are there to keep the bad guys out, not to pen themselves in. So maybe it's about time to wake up and cease complaining because this isn’t going to get any better.
No, the vaccines aren't the cause. The SCOTUS has been usurping State powers from the beginning. History is littered, in every country of any size, with a "long train" of usurpations of power. And because these result in greater and faster corruption of the government, they end up resulting in dangerously optimistic utilitarian government policies, like ever-growing debt generation, that eventually require more and more draconian centralization of power in their opinion. And in fact, that's true according to their conception of the utilitarian good.
That's why they can never change course. They refuse to admit that utilitarianism of the kind they want is unattainable and would be unsustainable even if they achieved it for a moment. As the saying goes, the only thing men learn from history is that men never learn from history. We are
living in the time when the fall of the empire accelerates exponentially enough to be obvious to many people.
All the more reason to resist the insanity by every honorable means. But it won't make the debt and unfunded liabilities issues go away. From here on, things will be challenging one way or another. We live in a debt-based global economy. And the inflationary end-game has been accelerated by lock-downs (causing supply chain issues), greater redistribution of middle-class wealth and war (which will cause further supply chain problems). On top of that, they want us to have no carbon foot-print, eat poison, take tons of vaccines, etc.
Praying for us all. Because maintaining peace of mind through what's coming will require divine help.
There is no way you can conclude that. For one, the concoctions as well as lot number/batch disbursements have been completely hidden. Even the most scientific adept cannot get to the truth. The lies with all vaccines and polio and childhood jabs and autism and neurological damage have been covered for over 90 years.
All that is true. And more. I was just meaning that apart from that kind of evidence for those judges, we can infer from our knowledge of how they have judged unconstitutionally over and over already. No need to posit vaccines to explain why they rule the way they do. They act as legislators. That's why Jefferson, once he realized that the threat of impeachment of judges was a mere scarecrow, said our government was essentially an oligarchy since 5 people held legislative power and were not accountable to the people.
Hamilton admitted that if the SCOTUS gets away with usurpations, it is because there is complicity with the Congress, since the Congress has the power to impeach.
Obviously they can't get away with decisions that are ludicrous to the vast majority of the people. Yet, at least. But as the people corrupt or become inattentive, they can judge more and more wrongly and get away with it.
Oh, now our judges and government? That’s a whole other story and I completely agree with you. What Most people don’t understand or wish to believe, is that we cannot turn this thing back around. All nations are already bought out and controlled, including our own. If another “leader” gets in, he will temporarily correct the mess and be hailed, but it’s only for 3 1/2 times. Btw who are those 5 people of unaccountable power?
It only takes a 5-judge majority in every SCOTUS decision. So all this talk about democracy when 5 people can trump the constitution and State laws, and get away with it, falls flat.
I see, thank you for your tutorial! We are a nation that was created by our founders to have checks and balances, but what I find absolutely disgusting is that all the people, not Democrats or Republican childishness crap, are begging for a king to rule them. We are to be Self-governing!
I know. It's depressing. It seems that laziness, jealousy and envy are stronger than the desire to be free in way too many people. Politicians exploit it continually.
Many get away with it in the earlier years. But by the time an empire is reaching its end, it brings it all crashing down, but not just on themselves.
I don’t think you can blame the injections for stupidity. What I have noticed though is that friends who were always critical thinkers threw up their hands during Covid and just decided to trust the authorities and comply. It’s carrying forward. Fear is powerful!
I’ll disagree that people are “stupid.” I think there’s another element of human nature to look at called “shame.” Ideological elitists with bad intentions take over the most powerful positions in government, education, and media and push their agenda while getting rid of any objectors within their ranks. Then the media reports their theories as facts. People in polite society then read these “facts” in their newsfeeds and adopt a belief. Their human nature, which involves never to admit wrongdoing and thereby experience the shame of having been fooled, compels them to double and triple down rather than ever changing their minds. As someone who divorced my wife partially because she refused to vaccinate our kids, and then eventually changed my mind and apologized to her when the evidence she kept presenting became overwhelming, I know how much cognitive dissonance and shame-avoidance the human mind can go through when confronting evidence that goes against our established and “safe” points of view. You can fool some of the people some of the time.
Thanks John. I hope you are right about the perpetrators’ ignorance of history and/lack of intelligence, but I have to wonder if they are smarter than they get credit for. I wonder if they do indeed know the law and history. They know it so well that they are able to find the loopholes and circumvent the intent of the laws. They may only look stupid (or crazy) but the better terms might be cunning, diabolical…
You write, "conspicuously diminished in their cognitive capacity." Brilliant analysis. The only factor that tops that observation may be, "Conspicuously diminished in integrity." Or, perhaps a level lower, "Diminished spiritual awareness."
I’m not sure that I would consider “spiritual awareness” lower than “integrity.” I think those two go together. One needs a moral compass to have integrity.
Had this very conversation with a friend at breakfast early today. It's not just an intelligence or ignorance gap. There's something very wrong with comprehension that spiritual and emotional intelligence gets at.
Politicians are selected "to deliver the people to the will of the owners".
Favorable traits are "staying bought" and staying blithely on-message.
Discerning intellect would impair these critical traits in many cases.
;-(
Key word being "diminished;" we witness all around us a diminished humanity, a diminished species.
Definitely agree that there has been a dumbing down. Part of it is due to "social studies" being taught in favor over history. And I have seen in my coworkers and family members who have received the shots a definite loss in cognitive ability.
As well as a loss in critical thinking. It’s almost like they want to be fearful, that their lives are so lackluster that a CNN reporter makes so much sense to them when telling them to get vaccinated because “this virus will kill them”. How about taking a look at the vaccine, its origins, and oh, how about examining evidence of who the virus is killing and how? No, they say, CNN told me to get vaccinated so I will!
I read this more often, but I honestly don't see the same in my very jabbed network.
Gingerbread can you expand on your comment please? Are you saying you don't see "dumbing down" in your "very jabbed network". I too, am trying to understand what I'm observing. I'm not sure "they" were like that before and I just had the illusion of consensus?
Yes that is what I mean. I haven't seen dumbing down. But there is another issue that might muddy the waters for me. Before this whole covid disaster happened, I agreed with most family and friends. Now I DISagree with most family and friends. So I often do an internal eye roll and marvel about stupidity. So this shift could mean that I am unable to see dumbing down.
But there were more observations that I didn't share. I read about people who could list half a village full of people with blood clots, strokes, heart issues, turbo cancers and sudden deaths. I also didn't see any of that myself. Now, in 2024 I know of a few people with issues like that, but not anywhere close to what other people seem to have observed and experienced. So I wonder what other factors could play into this.
* "this shift" meaning, me having changed compared to my family and friends.
John, I must add that at the very beginning of 2020, what I discerned was that the most highly educated and ones in prestigious places of employment, especially the medical or research fields, were the most stupid people I have ever encountered. They had absolutely NO critical thinking abilities at all. It is indeed possible that the jab cognitively affected those that took it, but which came first? The gullible sheeplike stupidity or the jab?
They had been stupid for a long time and getting worse. It took COVID to expose them which is why it happened, God's plan to expose the rottenness and separate the wheat from the tares.
We have been slowly and increasing poisoned over decades, perhaps 150 years or so, but accelerating I would say since 2000. The increasing neuro-toxicity separates mind and body and chaos and stupidity follow.
I came to the same conclusion as you. It was more of the highly educated and successful people I know that were the most adamant about lockdowns, jabs, etc.
The leftists are positively giddy with the idea that the govt will control everyone and everything. Perhaps the jab did have something to do with it. But i have a feeling when they finally get what they’re screaming for, they won’t like it — and it’ll be too late for anyone to do much at that point.
I can't believe how 'smug' liberals have become smug in one-up-Manship to the point where winning has taken precedence over the real consequences of the issues at hand. They are taking a very short-term view, and their hubris has blinded them to the fact that they will have to live in the same prison as everyone else.
yes, but they are so happy that abortion and drugs will be legal - that nothing else matters. All Biden's votes were from pro-abortion druggies... makes me wonder if they aren't doing us all a favor in wanting abortion instead of having kids.
I want to say the world has gone 'crazy' but I think it always has been. Tech has just highlighted it more.
Spot on!!!
My girlfriend says the same thing, "It is the shot!"
At first I didn't think much about it, now I'm sure she is right.
"I don’t know about the readers of this Substack, but in recent years, I have often encountered people who strike me as conspicuously diminished in their cognitive capacity—the defendant in the current matter before the Supreme Court being the most spectacular."
No, you had it right...they are all just plain stupid! And it starts at home! Then school's and colleges seal the deal. DAF! And their only arguments are...we shouldn't judge, who dictates what's right or wrong (2 year olds KNOW when something is not right to do!), or the comment made famous during the Scamdemic...you do you! Only they mean...WE DO AS THEY SAY! Remember at the beginning of the Scamdemic when it was everywhere...There will come a time when good men will have to do bad things...well we are here. In fact we are way past it!
Actions taken in a self defense and opposing tyranny are not bad things.
Read about the battle of Athens.
https://www.americanheritage.com/battle-athens
The quicker those actions are taken, the better,
I actually have said several times...when we all weren't in the streets pitching a fit after 2 weeks to slow the curve (since some of US KNEW DAY 1 IT WAS BS, but certainly by 2 weeks EVERYONE SHOULD have known!) and especially after it was 100% obvious election was stolen it's honestly too late now! Look how many illegal immigrants who hate our guts have been let in! Can you imagine how many lives would have been saved in November 2020 if those of us that KNEW would have stood up?! Remember that's when rona surged so medical malpractice REALLY killed people off to scare people into not voting in person!? I had a nurse friend then that told me it was in the flu shot and a nurse from CA that just moved in next door tell me the SAME thing! However, I knew then something was up! Walmart usually sets a table up towards the middle right of the store. Starting 2020 in September they had people set up RIGHT as you walked in! They usually didn't ask me if I wanted one unless I made eye contact or engaged. That year they asked EVERYONE who walked through the door! I wanted to yell out DO YOU KNOW WHAT'S IN FLU SHOTS BEFORE THE SCAMDEMIC EVER HAPPENED...SINCE YOU CAN'T PLAY WITH THE MERCURY IN A THERMOMETER HOW MUCH IS SAFE TO INJECT INTO YOUR BODY??? Now I just say if you don't trust the rona shot do you honestly trust any shot made BY THE SAME DAMN COMPANY?! Since they haven't been able to perfect the flu shots in 40 years are you okay with a shot that took 4 months to create and wasn't properly tested?! You don't see mysterious all the sudden illnesses and deaths in your previously healthy friends after getting the rona shots?!
I mean geez what's it going to take? A bomb dropped on their heads with a note that says...'VACCINES ARE MURDER WEAPONS THAT KILL YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM IF NOT YOUR HEART FIRST'!!!?
"Willfully blind", perhaps? Not understanding things that would threaten one's employment?
I think this says it about right. Truly amazing how stupid we’ve become.
Am reading the "Indoctrinated Brain" by Dr. Nehls right now. It goes much deeper than his interesting interviews. Very chilling especially on the ease of indoctrination and the simple destruction of the autobiographical memory and where that leads. Think Desmet's theory on steroids and permanent. It leads basically to where we are now.
I confess to not being familiar with Nehls' "Indoctrinated Brain" but will def have to check it out. Have to say Mattias Desmet's Mass Formation work has come very much to mind while reading John's post and the comments here, and I absolutely feel the jabs (and compliance to submit to them) were themselves a key component in the larger process. I have observed massive cognitive decline among many I know, especially older cohorts, who were fully on board from the outset and, as noted by others among these comments, seemed to have little to no critical/analytical thinking capacity to bring to bear, including many "educated" and otherwise ostensibly intelligent individuals.
John-
I don't think they are stupid and I don't think it is the shot. They are cunning and deceitful and well organized.
As the good doctor illustrates in his analysis which you were kind enough to forward, always follow the $. Too often, organizations and individuals become morally corrupted souls because of the sources of the $.
I don't do a great deal of social media but as I shifted into retirement just prior to the C19 debacle, I still maintained a LinkedIn account. No longer needed it but I began to post much of what Peter McCullough was revealing at the time about early treatment.
He made a great deal of sense. After three warnings from Ried Hamilton's cabal at LinkedIn, I was terminated due to violation of LinkedIn "community standards" as my posts were "misinformation. "
I have a lack of confidence in SCOTUS.
We will see.
Orwell warned us.
As someone with 40 years of history education I recommend reading the history of the medical science in the USA, because you are way off the mark. People whining now about the loss of freedom is a tad too late, don't you think?!
America was never the land of the free to begin with. Freedom was always an illusion and the constitution's a paper which sustained gullibility. Free speech is “free” until someone has an issue with it.
Just how free are we in the USA, supposedly the world’s freest nation? Mexican citizens enjoy far more freedom in choosing their cancer treatment than American citizens do.
America’s media is anything but free. There are many instances of censorship in America’s “free press" that far surpasses anything that the Soviet Union or communist China accomplished. The Western press’s awe-inspiring censorship of Mark Twain's and George Orwell's work are two examples.
More than two centuries ago, Adam Smith observed that every professional and trade organization is a conspiracy against the public’s interest, with its members attending to their mutual self-interest, not the public’s. Nothing has changed since his time.
Killing patients with violent and expensive medicine, while the gentle, inexpensive, and arguably far more effective medicines are outlawed, is a racket. Covid just exposed what has been ongoing for decades under the surface.
Outlawing books that tell me how to heal myself is racketeering activity. What the medical gangsters did to Rife, Hoxsey, Gerson, Ivy, Durovic, Privitera, Krebs, Koch, Crane, Warner, Keller, Ghadiali, Beard, Taylor, Wright, Brodie, Naessens, Burzynski, Halstead, Richardson, Thurston, Pixley, Bolles and many others are great crimes, nearly invariably done in the name of “protecting the public.”
Our society’s institutions are corrupt because people are corrupt. Plain and simple. No piece of paper or a new law can change that. The assumption that they can, reflects a deep disconnect and self-denial.
The reality is that regarding big issues of life and death, Americans appear to be one of the world’s least free people. Although their cage is seemingly invisible, and when they notice those bars once in a while, they think that they are there to keep the bad guys out, not to pen themselves in. So maybe it's about time to wake up and cease complaining because this isn’t going to get any better.
Only a slave awaits to be saved.
No, the vaccines aren't the cause. The SCOTUS has been usurping State powers from the beginning. History is littered, in every country of any size, with a "long train" of usurpations of power. And because these result in greater and faster corruption of the government, they end up resulting in dangerously optimistic utilitarian government policies, like ever-growing debt generation, that eventually require more and more draconian centralization of power in their opinion. And in fact, that's true according to their conception of the utilitarian good.
That's why they can never change course. They refuse to admit that utilitarianism of the kind they want is unattainable and would be unsustainable even if they achieved it for a moment. As the saying goes, the only thing men learn from history is that men never learn from history. We are
living in the time when the fall of the empire accelerates exponentially enough to be obvious to many people.
All the more reason to resist the insanity by every honorable means. But it won't make the debt and unfunded liabilities issues go away. From here on, things will be challenging one way or another. We live in a debt-based global economy. And the inflationary end-game has been accelerated by lock-downs (causing supply chain issues), greater redistribution of middle-class wealth and war (which will cause further supply chain problems). On top of that, they want us to have no carbon foot-print, eat poison, take tons of vaccines, etc.
Praying for us all. Because maintaining peace of mind through what's coming will require divine help.
There is no way you can conclude that. For one, the concoctions as well as lot number/batch disbursements have been completely hidden. Even the most scientific adept cannot get to the truth. The lies with all vaccines and polio and childhood jabs and autism and neurological damage have been covered for over 90 years.
All that is true. And more. I was just meaning that apart from that kind of evidence for those judges, we can infer from our knowledge of how they have judged unconstitutionally over and over already. No need to posit vaccines to explain why they rule the way they do. They act as legislators. That's why Jefferson, once he realized that the threat of impeachment of judges was a mere scarecrow, said our government was essentially an oligarchy since 5 people held legislative power and were not accountable to the people.
Hamilton admitted that if the SCOTUS gets away with usurpations, it is because there is complicity with the Congress, since the Congress has the power to impeach.
Obviously they can't get away with decisions that are ludicrous to the vast majority of the people. Yet, at least. But as the people corrupt or become inattentive, they can judge more and more wrongly and get away with it.
Thanks for the opportunity to clarify.
Oh, now our judges and government? That’s a whole other story and I completely agree with you. What Most people don’t understand or wish to believe, is that we cannot turn this thing back around. All nations are already bought out and controlled, including our own. If another “leader” gets in, he will temporarily correct the mess and be hailed, but it’s only for 3 1/2 times. Btw who are those 5 people of unaccountable power?
It only takes a 5-judge majority in every SCOTUS decision. So all this talk about democracy when 5 people can trump the constitution and State laws, and get away with it, falls flat.
I see, thank you for your tutorial! We are a nation that was created by our founders to have checks and balances, but what I find absolutely disgusting is that all the people, not Democrats or Republican childishness crap, are begging for a king to rule them. We are to be Self-governing!
I know. It's depressing. It seems that laziness, jealousy and envy are stronger than the desire to be free in way too many people. Politicians exploit it continually.
Many get away with it in the earlier years. But by the time an empire is reaching its end, it brings it all crashing down, but not just on themselves.
Could these at least partly account for what strikes me as an acceleration of cognitive decline in recent years?
Er, yes. And, imho, we've seen nothing yet.
You may be onto something
I don’t think you can blame the injections for stupidity. What I have noticed though is that friends who were always critical thinkers threw up their hands during Covid and just decided to trust the authorities and comply. It’s carrying forward. Fear is powerful!
I’ll disagree that people are “stupid.” I think there’s another element of human nature to look at called “shame.” Ideological elitists with bad intentions take over the most powerful positions in government, education, and media and push their agenda while getting rid of any objectors within their ranks. Then the media reports their theories as facts. People in polite society then read these “facts” in their newsfeeds and adopt a belief. Their human nature, which involves never to admit wrongdoing and thereby experience the shame of having been fooled, compels them to double and triple down rather than ever changing their minds. As someone who divorced my wife partially because she refused to vaccinate our kids, and then eventually changed my mind and apologized to her when the evidence she kept presenting became overwhelming, I know how much cognitive dissonance and shame-avoidance the human mind can go through when confronting evidence that goes against our established and “safe” points of view. You can fool some of the people some of the time.
Impressive that she was so strong on the issue! And impressive that you looked at the evidence! Fortunate children.
Thanks John. I hope you are right about the perpetrators’ ignorance of history and/lack of intelligence, but I have to wonder if they are smarter than they get credit for. I wonder if they do indeed know the law and history. They know it so well that they are able to find the loopholes and circumvent the intent of the laws. They may only look stupid (or crazy) but the better terms might be cunning, diabolical…
I think they’re under demonic influence. That explains their persistence and apparent cleverness.
Yes, it's Beelzebub. No doubt about it.
I agree with you, Douglas.
Great Scruton quote and great photo, too!