Remember who the real enemy is...

Recent articles in The Guardian remind us that arrogance plus platform can be a very dangerous combination. Defend yourself with skepticism and humility.

Wednesday, June 5th, 2024

When most people pick up a newspaper, a magazine, or subscribe to an online “source” of news, they often arrive with a presupposition that the content has value because the professional writer is doing a good job (thus is employed and/or read by many) and - therefore - can be trusted.

I wish the above wasn’t true. We should never assume accuracy or truth in anything that we read. It’s always a possibility, but never a guarantee. Yet, I have noticed that many people who think they are “out of the box” thinkers actually retain this poor habit.

For myself, this is not the case. Whoever you are, I always arrive as a reader with my right to evaluate your content (and disagree or agree) firmly in place. Which is why I am sharing the link to this article published by Dr. Robert Malone.

While I do not entirely agree with his personal slant on the topic, I am very concerned about the referenced content published by The Guardian.

But first, a quick side story…

Before she transitioned to her next life, in January of 2023, my Mom and I got along very well. One way we dodged arguments that plague so many other families was by accepting our differences of opinion. She respected my opinions that diverged from her own because she’s patient that way, and I’m fairly assertive about my right to have my own opinion. My decision to respect her, however, arose from one specific experience I’d like to share with you today.

Long, long ago, when I entered into my first bout of veganism (which was 100% and lasted roughly three years), I challenged my Mom’s decision to eat meat. In particular, she’d been vegetarian for years, when I was very young, and I couldn’t understand why she’d “gone back to eating meat.” She remained patient with me and my passion, explaining that she could tell her body needed meat, she felt better with meat in her diet, and so on. I was in my early 20s, and like most at that age, I was not entirely accepting of her answers.

However — that all changed when, at the age of 25, I became pregnant with my first child. Around the fourth month of pregnancy, I found myself in the Safeway meat department. That day, I went home with eight steaks!

Please note, I grew up on beef heart meat which we either broiled whole or ran through a meat grinder to make into a cheaper version of hamburger. In fact, I have never liked steak. I definitely didn’t know how to cook steak. And, my primary memory of “steak” was chunks of meat I couldn’t chew and had to spit out before I choked on them. (Sorry, but it’s true.)

Despite this, my body demanded steak. And so, home I went, my veganism at an end.

From that experience I learned one lesson very well. Never assume you know what another person’s body needs. In other words, never assume your own opinion is universally appropriate for everyone else. Have some damn humility!

Which brings me to this Substack by Dr. Robert Malone and the referenced content being published by The Guardian. To say I am deeply disappointed and disturbed is not too strong of a statement. Many people who read The Guardian do so with a high level of trust. Making them far less likely to question what they read.

To the rational, independently thinking, and carefully, skeptical reader — the narrative gist of The Guardian’s message (bigotry, fear, othering, and distrust) is BLATANT. But to the institutionalized, overly trusting reader? They are primed and ready to accept the call to arms, believing whatever narrative they’re fed with blind confidence and unquestioning loyalty.

How sick must a society be, for its healthiest, most independent, free thinking, “live your best life” people to be called out, as if these positive aspects are a negative?History, of course, suggests this isn’t anywhere close to a new idea. Consider Mao’s Revolution, specifically the Cultural Revolution where people with successful careers and a high level of education were targeted, tortured, and killed in front of rabid mobs made up largely by those self-identifying as the “proletariat.”

Rather than claiming that healthy people are dicks with an increased risk of adopting fascist views, how about we acknowledge the following:

In a world under the spell of an organized corporate pharmaceutical narrative, where endless sickness and lifelong treatment (for a pretty penny) is becoming the norm — it is clear that people who question this ubiquitous mantra will NATURALLY also be more inclined toward questioning other elements of the status quo.

For this, we ought to thank them!

If we, in the West, were still a healthy society, we would celebrate those who accept responsibility for their health. This is the truest path toward improved societal health!

To instead — paint these people as fascists — is such an ugly, low blow. But, even worse! It could work. It could be effective. It could further crack our civilization into even smaller, sharpened shards of opposing minorities at each others throats. It is just one more evil distraction.

As Haymitch said to Katniss in The Hunger Games:
“Remember who the real enemy is…”