Thursday, July 17, 2025
During COVID, millions of trained doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals around the world were faced with an opportunity to receive information from two sources.
The first was the mainstream narrative—which was inescapable. The second was a variety of off-narrative sources, which were being suppressed but still leaked through and remained available to those willing to look.
It was a choice: bury your head in the narrative-sand, or pull your head out, rub the sand from your eyes, and look around.
Some doctors did just that—and they discovered that long-held beliefs in their own lives were being shattered, questioned, vigorously challenged, and disproven in real time, right in front of them.
These doctors are an excellent example of what happens when a person changes their mind about a deeply held belief. Usually, when someone does this, they are surrounded by an ongoing narrative—an ideological mantra—encouraging them to maintain the belief they were given.
What, then, could cause a person to change an opinion they have held for years or even decades, while still living in an environment that relentlessly pushes the old belief down their throat?
The answer is the whole point of life.
Something truly important, belief-shattering, worldview-altering, and shocking, entered their mind, their experience, their life.
And their understanding of the world — changed!
People do not casually set themselves up for scorn, ostracism, division, career destruction, and the many other harms that can occur when one challenges the status quo.
In other words, these people are beacons of light.
They show us that there is a reason to question our own beliefs. They are evidence that our beliefs — carefully prepared and served to us on a platter in our youth, reinforced throughout our formative years and college experiences — those beliefs that pour down like rain, float through society like wind, and lie underfoot like earth?
They are human constructs. And, they were generated by people with vested interests in convincing society to believe what they want us to believe.
Sometimes, our beliefs will be accurate. Other times, they will be Kool-Aid mixed with gelatin and hardened into thousands of shapes that resemble food—but are neither nourishing, healthy, nor real.
If you still hold the same beliefs today that you held when you were younger, ask yourself this:
Am I still in the process of learning, exploring, questioning, discovering—skeptical enough that I am capable of finding something that resembles the truth?
Or…
Am I tired? Comfortable? Have I decided to let someone else think for me?
Am I overly attached to my ideas?
Do I live in a culture where I would be discarded, if I questioned the group consensus?
Am I scared of the consequences of standing out?
Do I believe that my friends, coworkers, neighbors, and family members would turn their backs on me if I stepped out of line?
All of those things are symptoms of totalitarianism — a creeping social contagion that wears many masks.
It can look very different from one continent to the next, from one nation to the next, and from one civilization to the next.
But its result is the same: self-silencing bystanders who would rather cover their eyes and ears and live in a fantasy than risk using their own minds to question what they’ve been told.
People no longer able to explore the world freely, with a mind that is not clouded, coerced, or leashed by others.
Is that you? Or the people you love? And if so, what are we to do about it?
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