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Sierra Grey's avatar

As an elderly man, I have many memories. Of all the groups who should see the dangers, one would expect the elderly to be resistant to this grand psy-op. Yet, my peers appear to be as susceptible to fear as younger generations, and they are easily manipulated by white lab coats and promises of immortality by vaccines. They are filled with memories of cold and flus as part of life. They lived through the Hong Kong Flu and even attended Woodstock in the midst of it. It surely shows the power of the current mass manipulation, that even my generation can be some easily fooled.

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The very ones who are in desperate need of a message of hope such as this one, thanks in part to our "education system" are incapable of parsing a sentence of this complexity, much less an essay of this magnitude: "The intentional aim of collectivizing risk, and transferring it as an individual choice for assessment to one that must consider the risk tolerance of others in society by assuming the worst case outcome based on the potential of an invisible ubiquitous threat whose dangers require an abundance of absurd caution (mostly useless theatre) be exercised to alleviate the neurotic feelings of others from this hypothetical imaginary and invisible harm is one of the most insidious aspects of our present moment and half as comprehensible as this sentence I just wrote."

As a "person of age" I yearn for the days when essays rose to this level. I sent your mountains essay out to several younger ones in my circle and I have yet to get a response from any of them. Comprehension at this level is all but non existent any longer, especially in the under 40 (50?) crowd. Everyone has phones to be their memory, why bother storing anything in your brain? I make it a point to know from memory every phone number of importance to me, partially as an act of rebellion against this brave new world. And I will never carry a "smart phone". I'm thoroughly enjoying your essays and felt a response was in order. Thank you.

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