Those who hide from the world due to their fear of suffering, suffer from their fear. There's no escape from suffering.
One of the other reasons, in addition to elite convenience, that we're trapped in the safetyist tyranny is that the neurotic ninnies who demand it are so damn loud. Their screeching drowns out the healthy, who are less inclined to yell. They have to be shouted down, mocked, shamed, made to feel low status. Until they shut up and leave the rest of us to get on with life.
"A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once." Shakespeare.
I would hazard a guess that I have died a few dozen times. And I thought I was not nearly as brave as I ought to be. But these folks seem to commit suicide constantly.
I would wager that this mind virus of safetism affects mostly, if not only, the affluent and the better educated (and the Karens who miss their nagging delegated powers). This also explains the required masks in the temples of health and science, hospitals.
I have to admit I am a user of high-visibility jacket, flashlight carrying guy when I'm out in the morning with my fur baby. But it's usually dark at 6:30 am where I live, north of the 49th, from November to January. I've seen many "Ninja pedestrians" literally camouflaged against the dark asphalt!
holy yikes! what was that deranged man talking about and what was he wearing on his head? and who voted for him??
i went with some out of town guests today to a historic house museum. two young women were OUTSIDE touring the grounds, both wearing MASKS. outside!! in march of 2023!!!!
when i got a bit closer to them to read the museum signs about the history of this particular garden (outside), they visibly backed away in fear of being less than 6' away from an unmasked person (me) while OUTSIDE.
i'm almost 70 (and not afraid of them) and i'd guess they were in their mid to late 20's, looked pretty healthy, not overweight. but TERRIFIED of normal basic human traffic patterns OUTSIDE.
Mar 12, 2023·edited Mar 13, 2023Liked by Chris Bray
I would venture, for those people, there's a strong triangular valence of piosity, safetyism and victimhood that orbits a nucleus of acquiescence by the majority, in a culture where even innocuous words can offend someone, but the imposition itself gives the very same people a false sense of meaning to their lives.
That is sort of out of body because it requires others to feed the crazies center of gravity; to feel important for living in mom's basement and having no real sense of accomplishment.
Their accomplishment is to avoid accomplishment by virtue of either acceptance or encouragement externally, with no effort. They can remain in a safe "virtual reality" of a mental state, where the void is filled by being a net "taker". They require this from without, because they lack a key to a healthy human mind and body:
Purpose
They seek getting their essence tickled outside of their body, because in our culture, its no longer acceptable for someone to feel shame and/or guilt for being a loser.
Mar 12, 2023·edited Mar 12, 2023Liked by Chris Bray
Another thought: These people may be the loudest, but even in California, are they the majority? If there were a referendum on masking, would it win? I can't remember whose Substack republished it, but there was a nice piece earlier this week about how groups that are a majority on Twitter are maybe 8% to 13% of the actual population, the same percentage that believe Paul McCartney is dead and Elvis is alive.
Wow. It's not at all like that here in my city in FL. Like, not at all. I would say it's too far the other way sometimes (if a homeless dude lights a fire on the porch of an abandoned building, literally nobody cares), but the choice appears to be lockdown or occasional homeless porch fires, so I'll take the latter.
I thought for sure the tweet from Dr Sho Jacobs was satire. Surely, this was a clever parody account. No way this could be a real-life adult human being -- and supposedly a doctor no less! -- saying this in 2023. So I clicked on it, and...holy shit. Most Monty Python sketches are less absurdly surreal than Western culture is today. Tell me how this ends? I don't know, but it can't end soon enough.
Not to shit on a point, but I’ve been carrying a compact and powerful flashlight in my pocket for almost 10 years now. When we lived in the suburban glow you described, I used it to cross streets and communicate with drivers who were paying more attention to their phones than pedestrians.
I’d also recommend a folding knife and pistol for every day carry.
You will find me pacing the house chanting ‘wallet, keys, phone’ until they are all accounted for before leaving the house, but the other three go on when the pants go on.
Mar 13, 2023·edited Mar 13, 2023Liked by Chris Bray
Absolutely! We get the government we deserve. We would have found it intolerable if medical "science" at the beginning of the pandemic said, "we don't think there is much we can do about a respiratory virus. Get plenty of rest, drink lots of liquids, as much fresh air and sunshine as you can stand. Get a hold of us if your symptoms get worse"
We wanted them to make it go away. We believed the horror stories that were obviously not true. We believed in therapies that don't work and can't work. It's who we are. The whole world is medicalized.
Chris, just the first 'tweet' reply by the masked one above was enough to seriously consider pouring petrol over my computer and lighting her up. Somehow she/they had 'ableist', 'anti-semetic' and 'trans' something in a single sentence. I think there was a rant about anti-vaxxers, also.
The foaming, rabid, mania hasn't gone away. The NPCs are like the dormant zombies in World War Z, just waiting for a hint of a micro-aggression, the presumption of gender, or a joke at the expense of Fauchi before they lurch into action and strike out at whatever is closest. They are beyond reason.
If the conditioning was going to wear off it would have worn off by now. With the drip feed of (morphine)fear through MSM/SM, I think we're going to be going to war with the numbers we have, not the numbers we'd like to have.
Regarding flashlights - and I'm sure this doesn't truly apply to your article - they can be a legal tool to help protect oneself in a particularly virtue-signalling area/state. A 6D Maglite can level the playing field against a methed up assailant. Once. Possibly. But better than nothing.
But I suspect that isn't the reason, based on the high-vis accessories.
That people are even touching masks - when it says on the BOX they don't protect from viruses - in 2023 has to be some kind of globally coordinated joke. A parody, surely? Marine mammals are not laughing.
I've really started thinking that the America Spirit is real and it is what they are trying to snuff out. When I speak with people from other countries, they say they came here for freedom. But after talking with them, it becomes obvious that most of them don't understand freedom at all and they don't want the responsibility that comes with it. What they really came here for was to replace a bad daddy with what they perceive to be a good daddy. Most of them are fine with being herded around and told what to do as long as good daddy makes them feel safe. We are not the same.
Those who hide from the world due to their fear of suffering, suffer from their fear. There's no escape from suffering.
One of the other reasons, in addition to elite convenience, that we're trapped in the safetyist tyranny is that the neurotic ninnies who demand it are so damn loud. Their screeching drowns out the healthy, who are less inclined to yell. They have to be shouted down, mocked, shamed, made to feel low status. Until they shut up and leave the rest of us to get on with life.
Karentocracy: government by the neurotic, for the neurotic
Let me get this straight...the gal with pink hair, green eye glasses and a black muzzle is a DOCTOR???? Lmfao!!!!
I’ll pass.
"A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once." Shakespeare.
I would hazard a guess that I have died a few dozen times. And I thought I was not nearly as brave as I ought to be. But these folks seem to commit suicide constantly.
I would wager that this mind virus of safetism affects mostly, if not only, the affluent and the better educated (and the Karens who miss their nagging delegated powers). This also explains the required masks in the temples of health and science, hospitals.
I have to admit I am a user of high-visibility jacket, flashlight carrying guy when I'm out in the morning with my fur baby. But it's usually dark at 6:30 am where I live, north of the 49th, from November to January. I've seen many "Ninja pedestrians" literally camouflaged against the dark asphalt!
Freedom and liberty are incompatible with safe spaces.
holy yikes! what was that deranged man talking about and what was he wearing on his head? and who voted for him??
i went with some out of town guests today to a historic house museum. two young women were OUTSIDE touring the grounds, both wearing MASKS. outside!! in march of 2023!!!!
when i got a bit closer to them to read the museum signs about the history of this particular garden (outside), they visibly backed away in fear of being less than 6' away from an unmasked person (me) while OUTSIDE.
i'm almost 70 (and not afraid of them) and i'd guess they were in their mid to late 20's, looked pretty healthy, not overweight. but TERRIFIED of normal basic human traffic patterns OUTSIDE.
scarred for life, no hope for them.
I would venture, for those people, there's a strong triangular valence of piosity, safetyism and victimhood that orbits a nucleus of acquiescence by the majority, in a culture where even innocuous words can offend someone, but the imposition itself gives the very same people a false sense of meaning to their lives.
That is sort of out of body because it requires others to feed the crazies center of gravity; to feel important for living in mom's basement and having no real sense of accomplishment.
Their accomplishment is to avoid accomplishment by virtue of either acceptance or encouragement externally, with no effort. They can remain in a safe "virtual reality" of a mental state, where the void is filled by being a net "taker". They require this from without, because they lack a key to a healthy human mind and body:
Purpose
They seek getting their essence tickled outside of their body, because in our culture, its no longer acceptable for someone to feel shame and/or guilt for being a loser.
Another thought: These people may be the loudest, but even in California, are they the majority? If there were a referendum on masking, would it win? I can't remember whose Substack republished it, but there was a nice piece earlier this week about how groups that are a majority on Twitter are maybe 8% to 13% of the actual population, the same percentage that believe Paul McCartney is dead and Elvis is alive.
It was you, Chris, who republished it :-)
https://oxfordsour.substack.com/p/subject-to-change
Wow. It's not at all like that here in my city in FL. Like, not at all. I would say it's too far the other way sometimes (if a homeless dude lights a fire on the porch of an abandoned building, literally nobody cares), but the choice appears to be lockdown or occasional homeless porch fires, so I'll take the latter.
I thought for sure the tweet from Dr Sho Jacobs was satire. Surely, this was a clever parody account. No way this could be a real-life adult human being -- and supposedly a doctor no less! -- saying this in 2023. So I clicked on it, and...holy shit. Most Monty Python sketches are less absurdly surreal than Western culture is today. Tell me how this ends? I don't know, but it can't end soon enough.
Not to shit on a point, but I’ve been carrying a compact and powerful flashlight in my pocket for almost 10 years now. When we lived in the suburban glow you described, I used it to cross streets and communicate with drivers who were paying more attention to their phones than pedestrians.
I’d also recommend a folding knife and pistol for every day carry.
You will find me pacing the house chanting ‘wallet, keys, phone’ until they are all accounted for before leaving the house, but the other three go on when the pants go on.
Absolutely! We get the government we deserve. We would have found it intolerable if medical "science" at the beginning of the pandemic said, "we don't think there is much we can do about a respiratory virus. Get plenty of rest, drink lots of liquids, as much fresh air and sunshine as you can stand. Get a hold of us if your symptoms get worse"
We wanted them to make it go away. We believed the horror stories that were obviously not true. We believed in therapies that don't work and can't work. It's who we are. The whole world is medicalized.
Very insightful article
Chris, just the first 'tweet' reply by the masked one above was enough to seriously consider pouring petrol over my computer and lighting her up. Somehow she/they had 'ableist', 'anti-semetic' and 'trans' something in a single sentence. I think there was a rant about anti-vaxxers, also.
The foaming, rabid, mania hasn't gone away. The NPCs are like the dormant zombies in World War Z, just waiting for a hint of a micro-aggression, the presumption of gender, or a joke at the expense of Fauchi before they lurch into action and strike out at whatever is closest. They are beyond reason.
If the conditioning was going to wear off it would have worn off by now. With the drip feed of (morphine)fear through MSM/SM, I think we're going to be going to war with the numbers we have, not the numbers we'd like to have.
Regarding flashlights - and I'm sure this doesn't truly apply to your article - they can be a legal tool to help protect oneself in a particularly virtue-signalling area/state. A 6D Maglite can level the playing field against a methed up assailant. Once. Possibly. But better than nothing.
But I suspect that isn't the reason, based on the high-vis accessories.
That people are even touching masks - when it says on the BOX they don't protect from viruses - in 2023 has to be some kind of globally coordinated joke. A parody, surely? Marine mammals are not laughing.
Peace.
I've really started thinking that the America Spirit is real and it is what they are trying to snuff out. When I speak with people from other countries, they say they came here for freedom. But after talking with them, it becomes obvious that most of them don't understand freedom at all and they don't want the responsibility that comes with it. What they really came here for was to replace a bad daddy with what they perceive to be a good daddy. Most of them are fine with being herded around and told what to do as long as good daddy makes them feel safe. We are not the same.