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John Visher's avatar

Here’s a question for the vaccinated. Were you more afraid of the disease or the state? Some of them were deathly afraid of the disease. Some were terrified of losing freedom to travel, shop, etc. A giant tyrannical state and a mysterious microscopic collection of atoms are very different adversaries that people were fighting with the same crappy weapon.

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Stegiel's avatar

Man is isolated, alone, lied to from cradle to grave, nurtured by barbarians and mis-educated by mis-educators, bombarded by ads, lies, propaganda, sound surrounds them, silence forgotten and thinking outside the sandbox rare. H. L. Mencken says the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. In this situation a hero is demanded. "Joe DiMaggio a nation turns it's lonely eyes to you boo hoo hoo."

Socrates-in the Meno, 77b-78b: Those that desire bad things do not know that they are truly bad; otherwise, they would not desire them. They do not naturally desire what is bad but rather desire those things that they believe to be good but that are in fact bad. They desire good things even though they lack knowledge of what is actually good.

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