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Terry T's avatar

There must be something in those jabs that switches on early training In credulousness of all things Cold War hated and scary. I have close friends and relatives who view themselves as dissidents who share the deep skepticism of official narratives regarding JFK onwards and are aware of deep state involvement in destabilizing cultures and governments including that of the USA, were appalled by the US congressional church commission findings regarding the horrible things done by intelligence agencies, big business/pharma depredations, and even question the official 9-11 narrative plus forever wars. BUT they've vehemently bought into the entire so-called Russiagate, Covid, and Eukeranian narratives. And I mean Totally.

Without irony they’ll admit the government has lied about everything all these years but now they’re telling the truth. And big pharma is unquestioned, three letter agencies good.

I never thought I’d see such a thing. To the point where the actual people I know who protested the Vietnam war and protested against Reagan’s social spending cuts and neutron bomb funding are now pro war, deep state loving, civil rights denying automatons.

My conclusion is that people have unconsciously succumbed to forming a deep and dysfunctional personal relationship with internet technology and the cable news cycle. That as a manipulative corporate/governmental intercessionary is guiding people through what’s essentially a post hypnotic state between social media “boosters” until the real world and real relationships become an untrustworthy source of feedback. The susceptible are blind to the hypnosis and the hypnotist. The unsusceptible see the hypnotic suggestions for the fiction they are, and by extension see the room full of entranced people even if the hypnotist is hiding out of view in the shadow. We don’t have to know everyone who is perpetrating this to see the ruse.

That, to me, explains the odd feeling that we don’t recognize our friends and loved ones as if they’ve been victimized by a cult or sect. On an industrial scale the deep state turned half the population into Patty Hearst!

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Nancy Monahan's avatar

I disengaged with friends of over 30 years since trying to censor all conversations for their comfort was not a real friendship. With one of my daughters we have agreed to disagree on all things Covid and have maintained our relationship but it feels less authentic than it did before. I don't think either my friend or daughter will ever admit that they were wrong.

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