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Adam,

Thank you for this well written and incredibly insightful two-part series which I finally had the opportunity to read. You provide a clear understanding of our present psychological dilemma and what direction we might take towards extricating ourselves from this complex and carefully woven web of fear, evil, and deception. This, I believe, is something that will take decades to dissipate, or as long as it takes for the natural resources needed to maintain the physical infrastructure and technological tentacles of control to finally evaporate and crumble.

My biggest fear has never been the powers that be, but the compliant masses, the willfully ignorant and willing participants ready to send anyone to the gallows who chooses to make the personal decision not to fall in lockstep with the official state narrative.

The last five years of lockdowns underscores this psychological and sociological phenomenon. I have had (and I’m sure this is true for many) total strangers shout me down on the street for not wearing a mask. I have witnessed shoving matches at restaurants aimed at people refusing to submit to a temperature check at the door by a handheld temperature reader pointed at their forehead. The utter insanity . . .

This type of behavioral “mass formation” is best described in Professor Mattias Desmet’s book, The Psychology of Totalitarianism. A great read.

I believe our collective insanity as a species is fueled by our fear of existence. This is something I attempted to detail in my essay: We Are Not Animals!

Excerpt:

In the last of his seminal books, Escape from Evil, a piercing psychological analysis of human aggression, American cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker writes:

Because he [man] knows he is mortal, the thing he wants most to deny is this mortality. Mortality is connected to the natural, animal side of his existence; and so man reaches beyond and away from that side. So much so that he tries to deny it completely. As soon as man reached new historical forms of power, he turned against the animals with whom he had previously identified—with a vengeance, we now see, because the animals embodied what man feared most, a nameless and faceless death.

Link:

https://followthesilence.substack.com/p/we-are-not-animals

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Manatee's avatar

I really enjoyed reading your article. Insightful, resonating… Will have lots to think on the rest of the day. Thanks

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