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.
In all fairness, Sierra Gray, the elderly grew up in a world where the medical community was to be trusted, where a years/decades long one-on-one relationship with your doctor was the norm. Trust had an opportunity to be established. That world no longer exists. I am not sure the transition has been noted by many of the elderly, at least not in my experience. Many of the 60+ older ones I know seem to still be of the mindset that if the doctor says it, then it must be adhered to without questioning, as in the old days.
And just for the record I am in that group, and while I remember clearly my trust-relationship with my doc of 30 years and long for those days, I still approach my days with eyes wide open. As for not just the elderly but for all age groups, there is none so blind as he who chooses not to see.
Excellent comment, Rust. I, too, lament the loss of trust. I spent my life in health care and experienced the decline from the 1980’s, after government and insurers started managing and regulating care. It was sold as a means of eliminating all the paperwork of filing for insurance reimbursements. In reality it turned my own patient care into a money mill driven by billing codes. As a rehab therapist I went from 50 minute sessions with each patient to 30, and then to 20. My employers pressured me to do what paid the best. Eventually I retired early to keep my integrity. Physicians began to leave private practice for similar reasons and joined groups or hospitals to survive. This only worsened the process.
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Sierra Grey, on my last visit with my old doc, he told me pretty much exactly what you have stated. I loved this man dearly, with my trust in him in treating myself and my children absolute. He called it as he saw it, no BS, and I never felt taken advantage of for useless tests or procedures. No obfuscations. He was a family man and conducted himself as such, and as a result I always felt my family's health was as important to him as his own. The same applied to his nurse who had been there for over 30 years!
I arrived to my very last appointment with him and the first thing I saw was a taped notice to the door stating that the practice was closing in one week and to please call for your medical records. When I got back to see him and asked what was going on (he was not quite at retirement age!), I saw a side of him I'd never seen before. He was OUTRAGED at the constraints placed on him by obamacare and what came before it, slowly creeping in on his autonomy as a physician, and he spared no words to describe just how he felt about it. He said to me, "If I can't practice medicine MY WAY, I am done with it! I am retiring even though I planned to work until I died" ....he had tears in his eyes and I did too, for him and his anguish.
I'm sorry for your loss of your career before you were ready. Such an overall sad place we all find ourselves in. Now I see a nurse practitioner who - although a very nice woman - is not half the physician my old doc was. I feel my care is sub par but after investigating the alternatives, I choose to stick with her. The days will soon be here when memories of the old ways of health care will no longer even exist.
Rust, as older people we experienced what healthcare can be and was. I was fortunate 7 years to find a concierge physician. For $225 a month my wife and I got excellent care, to include his cell phone number and instant communications. He was committed to good care, All was well until the vaccines. Being in California, I realized he would be in a difficult position with his client base. He recommended the vaccine and did not challenge my objections, but clearly was holding his cards close to his chest. He convinced me to at least be tested for antibodies. That was in April 2021. I have not been back since then but will use my next interaction as an evaluation of his ethics. If he is still pushing the vaccine, I will have to find a other provider. Like you, I may end up with a nurse practitioner or a physician assistant. I’ve known a few that were good, but they are less skilled than the better MDs. The sad truth is that this may be the best I can do.
Perhaps we have two distinct groups at play now. A younger cohort of “older adults/near elderly” 60-80, and elderly 80+. If there is a failure in societal leadership between these two, I would put it on the younger cohort. Their blind faith in the narrative can not be so quickly dismissed. Like most today, regardless of age, they have willfully taken the easy path…
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.
It's not only attention deprivation and focal deficits. If one veers away from main stream media, like I did years ago, it is quite time consuming finding new sources of information, and following them over a host of alternative platforms. Anyway, I'm a new sub to you on here :-) And happy new year!
So the risk is always there, right? Like opportunity cost: even if you think you're not paying for it, you are. But known risks get discounted -- almost forgotten. Let's touch back with the USA. We have a population that is increasingly co-morbid, poly-pharmaceutical dependent. For 2021, for a US population of estimated 332,915,073, we had an estimated 4,690,000,000 (4.69 billion) prescriptions filled. {Re links at end}.
The most recent breakdown by age, as we might expect older people to take more meds, is from 2012. Well, for the age range 0 - 18 years, the annual per capita prescription rate is 4.2. For 19 to 25 years, 5.2. We would expect younger people to be healthier -- increasingly, not a safe assumption. But from there the upward trend accelerates -- with an annual national prescription per capita rate of `only` 12.2.
So we now have Americans who are chronically medicated from womb to grave. Not even "cradle to grave": womb to grave. We have generations of poly-pharmaceutical dependent `citizens`. Well, good if this has made us happier and healthier. But by nearly all accounts, it has not.
The obesity rate has tripled over the past half century. Diabetes in the USA has gone from 1.05% of the population in 1961 to 10.5% in 2021. (A 60 year perspective). Diseases related to metabolic syndrome have been surging. Mental health issues, likewise.
It's not just we've surrendered control of our minds -- we've surrendered control of our bodies. I have no doubt that many of the deeply unhappy people junk-fooding and medicating themselves to death have no desire to change their lifestyles. I know this from members of my own family network, the "normals" unlike myself.
So part of the answer is bodily autonomy. Understand that the "normal" Western lifestyle based on convenience is in so many ways vastly dysfunctional and even destructive. This means reviving discredited notions like self-responsibility, eating real food that preferably you can source, and staying active.
Recognize this is a physical struggle, as much as a political or intellectual or ideological one. You only have freedom if and insofar as you practice it. Reject the learned helplessness propagated by the state, academia, and MSM: that nothing the individual does can matter, and instead you must subsume yourself to an ever-vanishing greater good. In truth, what you do an individual matters greatly -- to you.
What I find depressing is dealing with people who see no alternatives. Who at times openly hate their lives but will not make changes. Who `know everything` but are willing to DO nothing. Are they risk-averse? Obviously. To new risks. Their legalized drug-dependencies seem a huge part of the problem. Their shit-food habits, also. Their shit-spending habits, perhaps more so.
Take back control of your body. Otherwise, intellectual freedom seems little more than an illusion.
Very important points. The body fuels the mind. Normalizing so many illnesses including obesity via "body positivity" nonsense is all part of the social engineering. "I'm safe! I got the vaccine!" https://twitter.com/FatEmperor/status/1475575218714386436?s=20
What an utterly brilliant essay on where we find ourselves today - almost inconceivable but here we are.
‘I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain’. (Roy - BladeRunner)
I weep for what we have lost, or more precisely, given away.
As an early boomer, I finished my education through university before the 60's ended, and then spent a year of "post graduate" work in the jungle. It was then that I realized that the official narrative was a lie, and if the intervening 50+years have taught me anything, it is that the official narrative is ALWAYS a lie. It may just be a personal conceit, but I believe I've been to the mountain top for a long time now.
Just became aware of the Good Citizen yesterday through a link at LRC, and thought well enough of the mountain essay to subscribe and send the link to a couple of friend, one of those friends who really need a brain washing will get the link to this one also. Excellent writing that demands more than a casual read. I look forward to more. Hope you are not just preaching to the choir.
I am moved and inspired by this post and your last one. We truly are the protagonists we have been waiting for. Your writing is transcendent and I thank you.
Brilliant essay, I read carefully, liked, subscribed and shared. I will also reread several more times. I am the only person my age (66) that I know who takes no prescription medications. I am unvax and have never had a flu vaccine. I have lost several friends because I am unvax. One friend of 30 years says I live in an alternative reality because I do not watch MSM but instead search out brilliant folks such as yourself to read and study. I tried to explain to friends 2 nights ago the risk with at home tests (such as you described) and I got laughed at. I can't wait to read your previous essays.
Yes, your essay from atop the mountain was long, and in fact I saved it to read later ...
Having read it now, yes, the lies are everywhere, but so are the truths. Revelations is now at the top of my reading list. Fear is an effective weapon of the tyrant, but so to, their fear of loss of control is an effective weapon against them. I doubt though that the masses will suddenly awaken to a "new reality", but the hope that they will follow the knowing, as sheep can be led by any encouraging alpha, towards the light of a brighter future is what makes these discussions all the more valuable. Also so true, "permeance is the illusion of every age and every age is blinded by the illusion".
To insert myself into the essay I have left the forest, passed the treeline on my way to the mountain tops, assessing which one has the greatest vantage point.
As for this essay, this quiet klaxon of sanity, many thoughts spring to mind. Most are about the correctness of the observations, the complexity of the descriptive thoughts and the need for mental herd immunity from the decpticons of pop culture. I do not enjoy, but as with all unpleasant tasks that yield great rewards, I am anxious for the awakening rebellion against the evil that has metastasized throughout western civilization.
Like others I know, we are at times baffled and horrified by the behavior of our fellow citizens. Even when I sit down with one of the covidians and discuss events in a calm logical manner, reality doesn't penetrate. So many are attached so strongly to their feelings about events that reason is completely blocked. I've pretty much resolved to help only those worth helping. Other than that I'll just watch this entertaining dumpster fire shitshow and roast a few marshmallows.
I truly believe that much of what people are experiencing as far as symptoms could be related to ' Spraying' of our skies. It happens in my area regularly. Immediate change in weather within hour's. As well as these' Serums'!! Double whammy. Don't even get me started on our Food ' Engennering!
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.
In all fairness, Sierra Gray, the elderly grew up in a world where the medical community was to be trusted, where a years/decades long one-on-one relationship with your doctor was the norm. Trust had an opportunity to be established. That world no longer exists. I am not sure the transition has been noted by many of the elderly, at least not in my experience. Many of the 60+ older ones I know seem to still be of the mindset that if the doctor says it, then it must be adhered to without questioning, as in the old days.
And just for the record I am in that group, and while I remember clearly my trust-relationship with my doc of 30 years and long for those days, I still approach my days with eyes wide open. As for not just the elderly but for all age groups, there is none so blind as he who chooses not to see.
Excellent comment, Rust. I, too, lament the loss of trust. I spent my life in health care and experienced the decline from the 1980’s, after government and insurers started managing and regulating care. It was sold as a means of eliminating all the paperwork of filing for insurance reimbursements. In reality it turned my own patient care into a money mill driven by billing codes. As a rehab therapist I went from 50 minute sessions with each patient to 30, and then to 20. My employers pressured me to do what paid the best. Eventually I retired early to keep my integrity. Physicians began to leave private practice for similar reasons and joined groups or hospitals to survive. This only worsened the process.
Sierra Grey, on my last visit with my old doc, he told me pretty much exactly what you have stated. I loved this man dearly, with my trust in him in treating myself and my children absolute. He called it as he saw it, no BS, and I never felt taken advantage of for useless tests or procedures. No obfuscations. He was a family man and conducted himself as such, and as a result I always felt my family's health was as important to him as his own. The same applied to his nurse who had been there for over 30 years!
I arrived to my very last appointment with him and the first thing I saw was a taped notice to the door stating that the practice was closing in one week and to please call for your medical records. When I got back to see him and asked what was going on (he was not quite at retirement age!), I saw a side of him I'd never seen before. He was OUTRAGED at the constraints placed on him by obamacare and what came before it, slowly creeping in on his autonomy as a physician, and he spared no words to describe just how he felt about it. He said to me, "If I can't practice medicine MY WAY, I am done with it! I am retiring even though I planned to work until I died" ....he had tears in his eyes and I did too, for him and his anguish.
I'm sorry for your loss of your career before you were ready. Such an overall sad place we all find ourselves in. Now I see a nurse practitioner who - although a very nice woman - is not half the physician my old doc was. I feel my care is sub par but after investigating the alternatives, I choose to stick with her. The days will soon be here when memories of the old ways of health care will no longer even exist.
Rust, as older people we experienced what healthcare can be and was. I was fortunate 7 years to find a concierge physician. For $225 a month my wife and I got excellent care, to include his cell phone number and instant communications. He was committed to good care, All was well until the vaccines. Being in California, I realized he would be in a difficult position with his client base. He recommended the vaccine and did not challenge my objections, but clearly was holding his cards close to his chest. He convinced me to at least be tested for antibodies. That was in April 2021. I have not been back since then but will use my next interaction as an evaluation of his ethics. If he is still pushing the vaccine, I will have to find a other provider. Like you, I may end up with a nurse practitioner or a physician assistant. I’ve known a few that were good, but they are less skilled than the better MDs. The sad truth is that this may be the best I can do.
Perhaps we have two distinct groups at play now. A younger cohort of “older adults/near elderly” 60-80, and elderly 80+. If there is a failure in societal leadership between these two, I would put it on the younger cohort. Their blind faith in the narrative can not be so quickly dismissed. Like most today, regardless of age, they have willfully taken the easy path…
Are they truly elders? Where is the leadership, where is the wisdom? All I see is old children…
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.
It's not only attention deprivation and focal deficits. If one veers away from main stream media, like I did years ago, it is quite time consuming finding new sources of information, and following them over a host of alternative platforms. Anyway, I'm a new sub to you on here :-) And happy new year!
Welcome. Happy new year!
So the risk is always there, right? Like opportunity cost: even if you think you're not paying for it, you are. But known risks get discounted -- almost forgotten. Let's touch back with the USA. We have a population that is increasingly co-morbid, poly-pharmaceutical dependent. For 2021, for a US population of estimated 332,915,073, we had an estimated 4,690,000,000 (4.69 billion) prescriptions filled. {Re links at end}.
The most recent breakdown by age, as we might expect older people to take more meds, is from 2012. Well, for the age range 0 - 18 years, the annual per capita prescription rate is 4.2. For 19 to 25 years, 5.2. We would expect younger people to be healthier -- increasingly, not a safe assumption. But from there the upward trend accelerates -- with an annual national prescription per capita rate of `only` 12.2.
So we now have Americans who are chronically medicated from womb to grave. Not even "cradle to grave": womb to grave. We have generations of poly-pharmaceutical dependent `citizens`. Well, good if this has made us happier and healthier. But by nearly all accounts, it has not.
The obesity rate has tripled over the past half century. Diabetes in the USA has gone from 1.05% of the population in 1961 to 10.5% in 2021. (A 60 year perspective). Diseases related to metabolic syndrome have been surging. Mental health issues, likewise.
It's not just we've surrendered control of our minds -- we've surrendered control of our bodies. I have no doubt that many of the deeply unhappy people junk-fooding and medicating themselves to death have no desire to change their lifestyles. I know this from members of my own family network, the "normals" unlike myself.
So part of the answer is bodily autonomy. Understand that the "normal" Western lifestyle based on convenience is in so many ways vastly dysfunctional and even destructive. This means reviving discredited notions like self-responsibility, eating real food that preferably you can source, and staying active.
Recognize this is a physical struggle, as much as a political or intellectual or ideological one. You only have freedom if and insofar as you practice it. Reject the learned helplessness propagated by the state, academia, and MSM: that nothing the individual does can matter, and instead you must subsume yourself to an ever-vanishing greater good. In truth, what you do an individual matters greatly -- to you.
What I find depressing is dealing with people who see no alternatives. Who at times openly hate their lives but will not make changes. Who `know everything` but are willing to DO nothing. Are they risk-averse? Obviously. To new risks. Their legalized drug-dependencies seem a huge part of the problem. Their shit-food habits, also. Their shit-spending habits, perhaps more so.
Take back control of your body. Otherwise, intellectual freedom seems little more than an illusion.
Refs:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/261303/total-number-of-retail-prescriptions-filled-annually-in-the-us/
https://www.statista.com/statistics/315476/prescriptions-in-us-per-capita-by-age-group/
https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html
https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/statistics/slides/long_term_trends.pdf
https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/health-statistics/diabetes-statistics
https://usafacts.org/articles/obesity-rate-nearly-triples-united-states-over-last-50-years/
https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/library/features/diabetes-stat-report.html
Very important points. The body fuels the mind. Normalizing so many illnesses including obesity via "body positivity" nonsense is all part of the social engineering. "I'm safe! I got the vaccine!" https://twitter.com/FatEmperor/status/1475575218714386436?s=20
What an utterly brilliant essay on where we find ourselves today - almost inconceivable but here we are.
‘I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain’. (Roy - BladeRunner)
I weep for what we have lost, or more precisely, given away.
As an early boomer, I finished my education through university before the 60's ended, and then spent a year of "post graduate" work in the jungle. It was then that I realized that the official narrative was a lie, and if the intervening 50+years have taught me anything, it is that the official narrative is ALWAYS a lie. It may just be a personal conceit, but I believe I've been to the mountain top for a long time now.
Just became aware of the Good Citizen yesterday through a link at LRC, and thought well enough of the mountain essay to subscribe and send the link to a couple of friend, one of those friends who really need a brain washing will get the link to this one also. Excellent writing that demands more than a casual read. I look forward to more. Hope you are not just preaching to the choir.
Thank you. It must have been lonely up there for so long. But we can only hope it will be very crowded soon.
I'm new to The Good Citizen. I loved this post and look forward to the next one!
I am moved and inspired by this post and your last one. We truly are the protagonists we have been waiting for. Your writing is transcendent and I thank you.
Thank you. 🙏
Brilliant essay, I read carefully, liked, subscribed and shared. I will also reread several more times. I am the only person my age (66) that I know who takes no prescription medications. I am unvax and have never had a flu vaccine. I have lost several friends because I am unvax. One friend of 30 years says I live in an alternative reality because I do not watch MSM but instead search out brilliant folks such as yourself to read and study. I tried to explain to friends 2 nights ago the risk with at home tests (such as you described) and I got laughed at. I can't wait to read your previous essays.
Same. My friends are all too scared to even get together with me because I refuse to get poked. Sad to live in fear.
Greetings! You are not alone, we are many…
New to your website. Excellent writing! Keep up the good work.
This is Gold!!!!
So well said and so on the money
Yes, your essay from atop the mountain was long, and in fact I saved it to read later ...
Having read it now, yes, the lies are everywhere, but so are the truths. Revelations is now at the top of my reading list. Fear is an effective weapon of the tyrant, but so to, their fear of loss of control is an effective weapon against them. I doubt though that the masses will suddenly awaken to a "new reality", but the hope that they will follow the knowing, as sheep can be led by any encouraging alpha, towards the light of a brighter future is what makes these discussions all the more valuable. Also so true, "permeance is the illusion of every age and every age is blinded by the illusion".
To insert myself into the essay I have left the forest, passed the treeline on my way to the mountain tops, assessing which one has the greatest vantage point.
As for this essay, this quiet klaxon of sanity, many thoughts spring to mind. Most are about the correctness of the observations, the complexity of the descriptive thoughts and the need for mental herd immunity from the decpticons of pop culture. I do not enjoy, but as with all unpleasant tasks that yield great rewards, I am anxious for the awakening rebellion against the evil that has metastasized throughout western civilization.
Brilliant work! Happy New Year.
Like others I know, we are at times baffled and horrified by the behavior of our fellow citizens. Even when I sit down with one of the covidians and discuss events in a calm logical manner, reality doesn't penetrate. So many are attached so strongly to their feelings about events that reason is completely blocked. I've pretty much resolved to help only those worth helping. Other than that I'll just watch this entertaining dumpster fire shitshow and roast a few marshmallows.
I truly believe that much of what people are experiencing as far as symptoms could be related to ' Spraying' of our skies. It happens in my area regularly. Immediate change in weather within hour's. As well as these' Serums'!! Double whammy. Don't even get me started on our Food ' Engennering!