Falsehood Flies, Truth Limps After It
Note to a demoralized reader
In 1710, Jonathan Swift noted in The Examiner:
Besides, as the vilest Writer has his Readers, so the greatest Liar has his Believers; and it often happens, that if a Lie be believ’d only for an Hour, it has done its Work, and there is no farther occasion for it. Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it; so that when Men come to be undeceiv’d, it is too late; the Jest is over, and the Tale has had its Effect…
I just thought of this when I read the comment of a demoralized reader lamenting that the Rogues I noted in my earlier post had all gotten away with their villainy. To quote the commentator:
…they have all made bank, has their careers flourish and gone on with their lives unperturbed by the “resistance.” Meanwhile…the medical freedom fighters sell their supplements, keep the echo chambers raging and the beat goes on. What’s the point, John?
It’s true what the commentator wrote, but the human condition has always been this way. As I remarked in my reply to her comment:
The German doctor, Fritz Lickint, published a persuasive meta-analysis in 1929, demonstrating the link between tobacco smoking and lung cancer. Sir Austin Bradford Hill published an even more powerful study demonstrating this link in 1950.
In 2002, Philip Morris placed informational inserts in 28 major newspapers in the United States (including the New York Times and USA Today) stating: “We agree with the overwhelming medical and scientific consensus that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer, heart disease, emphysema, and other serious diseases in smokers.” If this is any guide, it may take between 50-70 years before we get a full, public acknowledgement of the COVID-19 vaccine fraud.
Like all worthwhile things in life, the business of telling the truth and educating our fellow man is NOT easy, and the benefit may not be realized till long after we are gone. To put it in a religious context, Paul was executed in Rome around 64 A.D., while the Emperor Constantine converted to Christianity in 312. Paul apparently never complained or lost faith.
The human condition is like a boxing match. To become a great boxer, you have to learn to savor the fight itself, and not just the victory.
I personally will never forget that Dr. Wen who was put forward by CNN as a stereotypical Chinese child prodigy genius who is now a doctor who we should listen to. She was promoting tyrannical methods to force the bioweapon injections on unsuspecting people. She also just happened to be on the scene of the Boston marathon bombing causing some to suspect her being a crisis actor. She backtracked on masking children after her own child suffered ill effects. No one should ever take advice from this moral dimwit again. Her and people like her should be shunned at a minimum going forward.
Ahh John, you presume I don’t continue the fight. I very much do…at great cost to myself.
Why? Because I have young daughters and do not have the luxury of time and not seeing safety secured and sanity restored in another lifetime.
Do I relish the fight? No. Why….I gain nothing and lose everything in this fight. Do you get that? I am not Malone or Kirsch or others caught up in their hero status and need to be the newest and best expert on the block. I am not seeking fame or fortune. I am not in search of a hero to worship.
I am an American trying to live her best life by tending her children and community in healthy and honest ways. Spare me your political counsel and historical perspectives. I am also a student of law and politics, and a victim of big pharma.
Part of my point was….after 3-4 years what is gained by reading on substack daily about the lies?
To me it has begun to feel like fast food meals….may seem appealing and tasty when eaten (read) but in the end, it amounts to nothing. Only serves to satisfy a craving briefly and leaves one strangely unsatisfied and actually more unhealthy. The clock is running and the powers that be go forward unabated. There isn’t even a chunk in their armor. So noticeable is the lack of progress…time to reconsider the point of the supposed freedom of speech on substack. Have we been herded into cul de sacs while the agenda progresses?
Convince me otherwise. How about you do a substack on the wins that we have seen over the past 3-4 years where the needle has been not only moved but the general public has an awareness for the harm done and an accounting and correction of that harm.
You see….I am in the trenches daily, speaking my mind, trying to educate people, alienated from friends and family….and I see near zero progress.
I see lots of denial and people wish to just move on….and if I make it too uncomfortable with facts or truths…the ones who wish not to see (most) or be held to account become just like they were during covid…willing to walk away from you rather than have their lives or world views disrupted. But we are winning….sure…
So…I fight the battle, but I don’t relish it.
It does nothing to enrich my life or relationships…so why should I relish it?
Maybe if I needed to be a hero or made money and fame for being in the fight I might relish it. But I just want to be free to live my life and be left alone by those who claim “to know best.” I fight on…but do not suffer under any illusion that we are winning. Nor will I be lulled into thinking the medical freedom fighters are going to win the day. Winston Smith knew the score.
As Emily Dickinson wrote…”Hope” is the thing with feathers that perched in the soul.
How do we maintain and feed that hope is perhaps the greatest challenge we face in these times. I personally think if this war is to be won….it will be, as always, won by the men and women in the trenches that do not relish the fight and have suffered great losses….and have nothing left to lose, except that “Hope” perched in their soul that they are willing to defend with their dying breath.
I read a post yesterday that resonated by a father….I will try to find it and return and post it.