It is an odd number, 385. It feels like the old Iran hostage crisis, except that we’re counting the days of our own captivity. Since mid-March of last year – really since the beginning of last year, which is why I designate today the 385th – we’ve been hostages to the Covid narrative: living by the Covidian calendar, traveling by the Covidian map, measuring with the Covidian yardstick (6 feet) and the Covidian clock (it has no hands), and engulfed in a social atmosphere drenched in the Covidian spirit (fear and confusion). 

 

We’re pretending it’s 2021, that there is a viral pandemic, and that there was an election last November; today, we pretended that we were inaugurating a new American president. You can be sure that in the times of Covid, the new administration will not have a message of hope, but a message of soap – how to cleanse oneself not only of Covid, but of wrong thinking, wrong speaking, wrong reading, wrong writing, wrong seeing, wrong hearing, wrong grouping, wrong seeking (and, in another day or so, I will show you wrong arithmetic, in the Covid numbers).

 

The true significance of course is that this is all occurring among a free people; a people who in theory know their freedom is something natural, spontaneous, God-given and self-evident (not to mention Constitutionally protected). But while they are also a people who will defend to the death their freedom if you try to violently rip it out of their hands, they are still unequipped to defend that very same freedom when they’re being peaceably deceived into handing it over voluntarily. How can that be?

 

There are two levels to this problem. One is that free people tend to be decent; when faced with lying, but smiling, back-stabbing scoundrels who sense the free person’s decency and feel nothing but contempt for it, the decent people keep giving the scoundrel the benefit of the doubt. (It’s no coincidence that making sure “not to hurt people’s feelings” has become the new Supreme Virtue.)

 

The fourth paragraph of the Declaration of Independence sums it up beautifully. Here, one finds an extraordinary list of grievances; abuses to which people let themselves be long subjected before they finally say, “Enough already!”:

 

While the colonists were setting the bar pretty darn low, the point is, there was still a bar:

 

In the case of the thirteen colonies, it may have been the taunt of new taxes on documents, stamps and tea that finally set them on fire. But it was the backlog of anger and frustration that provided the “wood” with which their freedomfire finally got ignited and then productively unleashed.

 

The problem today is similar, but a little different. We’ve equipped our society with the capacity to defend itself against an invading army of Nazis and Imperialists, but we’re unequipped for the slow, “rising tide” of fascism. As each little wave has rolled in, people still do not know to look past the smiling face, comforting tones, paternalistic pleas and seductive platitudes of the enemies of freedom, and to instead shift their gaze toward the contradictions.

 

When they are told they must lockdown to “flatten the curve” for a couple of weeks, and then a couple of more weeks, and then just a couple of more weeks, and then 9 months later they still haven’t birthed that baby, people show they don’t even know how to call it out for what it is – “a lie!” – let alone take collective action to push it back, reclaim the lost territory and then, “provide new Guards for their future security”.

 

Filling this gap in self-defense, against the soft-sell fascist plague, is a vital task, and something I’m hoping we can contribute to with our own group in this next self-corrective stage in the history of armored humanity. Institutions were formed, and laws drafted and implemented, to stop or prevent the overt spread of sadistic aggression, enslavement and involuntary surrender of freedom committed by a people or group of nations. The same has yet to be done, however, to identify and prevent the organized plague of covert sadistic aggression, self-enslavement and the voluntary surrender of freedom.

 

Part of the evidence for this is the fact that if you call somebody a “Nazi”, it is taken very seriously; if you call somebody a “Communist”, you’re laughed at for entertaining fantasies about “Reds under Beds”; the Nazi is the overt brute, the Communist the covert brute, i.e., the sneak. They both have the same goal. Always keep in mind the old saying, “the Nazis will kill you for their own good; the Communists will kill you for your own good”, when they’re not convincing you to kill yourself, especially when considering the role of the CCP in these absolutely insane lockdowns. (1-3)

 

But there is another confounding component to this gap. It relates to a profound insight that Dr. Wilhelm Reich articulated over three quarters of a century ago in his famous book the Mass Psychology of Fascism, and that’s that dictators don’t take power; masses of people give their power away based upon their own incapacity for freedom - a problem that finds expression in a simultaneous longing for and fear of freedom. Coupled with that, as long as they are provided a scapegoat upon which they can vent the resulting frustrations and disappointments, all will be well.

 

While this is still true, its expression has changed a bit. People now question fascist tendencies in politicians and are waking up to scientific skullduggery. But they still uncritically bow to medical and Public Health officials and their doomsday proclamations. In other words, while waking up within some areas of life, it is still in the mass character structure to specifically surrender to the “doctor” or to the “State”, responsibility for one’s own health generally, but one’s “immune system” in particular (in the form of masking, distance, injections); all in the name of pursuing a scapegoat – “the virus” (and of course those who refuse to comply).

 

Public Health officials, drug/vaccine manufacturers and members of the Global Elite, long ago just “took charge” and no one said “no”. I submit there is an unspoken agreement between buyer and seller here. Public Health officials of the world, particularly those posing simultaneously as doctors and scientists, are salespeople; they are actors in a big commercial that is selling you a product – the Covid-19 Narrative. And they are empowered by masses of people to do so.

 

The white coats and the lab coats are just costumes; the “discoveries”, “claims” and “numbers” are ad copy; the “bodies”, sadly, are nothing more than raw material to justify manufacturing the product. So when Neil Ferguson comes along (for the third time in 20 years) and says, “There’s going to be two million deaths in the next two months”, and then a week later revises it down and then down again and doesn’t get fired for incompetence, maybe from the point of view of science he’s getting it wrong, but from the point of view of marketing he’s getting it exactly right. So nobody cares! People buy (and live) the product. So what if the price you pay is your freedom?

 

And so here we are, on January 385th, with the Covidian Calendar on the wall and the Covidian Map in the GPS, navigating the Covidian space/time continuum where motion in the universe is neither absolute nor relative, but confused, paralyzed, immobilized and in most cases even clueless. The symbol of the Covidian deity is a deer in the headlights, with goggles on its eyes, plugs in its ears and a mask on its face, standing six feet away from itself.

 

So where is the hope?

 

Mr. Global – as Catherine Fitts aptly names the Global Monster – cannot tolerate anything spontaneous. People point to greed and power as the problem, but these are subsets; they are branches of a third, much deeper, way more powerful force, and that’s the unconscious need to crush freedom. “Spontaneity” is the essence of the “living” in nature; it is the very thing that makes life alive. Connected to "freedom" and "free will", it is the thing that enables us to act effectively in the moment, to solve crises, to satisfy our basic human needs, and to assemble and congregate with those with whom we share a mutual attraction or interest.

 

When the Global Monster sees people talking freely, whether person to person, group to group, or nation to nation, “he” gets nervous (what if they’re talking about him!); when “he” sees people assembling spontaneously, whether it’s individuals or whole nations, based on shared interests, reciprocal excitement and mutual satisfaction, and whether for a relationship or a project or just for fun, “he” needs to get in there and regulate it (otherwise he feels irrelevant); when “he” sees people expressing themselves in print, he worries “he” didn’t vet the sources or proofread all the drafts (too much “free-flow” in the “free-flow of information”!); when “he” sees people in houses of worship, it makes him feel unimportant (why aren’t they worshiping him!); and forget petitioning with grievances – that’ll be taken as a criticism of “his” manner of doing things.

 

The fact is, to solve a crisis, you do not take people's freedom away; you unleash it. Freedom to speak, think, assemble, publish, worship and petition is the gateway to creativity - even in an alleged health crisis. This spontaneous impulse toward correct solutions and taking charge of one's life makes the control freaks crazy. When the Monster sees freedom, he needs to choke it, stomp on it and then put it in his mouth and eat it. Without eating your freedom, he’d starve to death, because he can’t satisfy or tolerate those spontaneous, life-sustaining emotional impulses within himself.

 

And that’s the key.

 

It’s because the Global Monster feeds on freedom that our most effective weapon is non-compliance. i.e., his starvation. And I’m not just talking about not wearing a mask, although that is certainly part of it. We are talking about an historically new situation, where sociopaths now have a completely global reach and influence – relatively speaking, and unbelievably, there is a mask on nearly every face on nearly every street in nearly every nation. People need to stop complying with the entire Covid narrative – testing, vaccinating, masking, distancing and lockdowns – return it to the “store” and stop living as though it were real.

 

But many people can’t “stop complying” any more than you can tell someone with an addiction to just stop eating, shopping or self-medicating. I’m not saying it’s an addiction – for some it is – but if you’ve been married to the Covid narrative, it’s serving an emotional function. You can't just stop it; you have to make it unnecessary. Not to mention, it’s a horrible feeling to realize you've been taken advantage of, and have made choices you never would have otherwise made if you hadn't been lied to.

 

So there are knee jerk reactions to truths about Covid and messages like this one, especially when on some level you've known all along something isn’t right.

 

Having said all that, there are also the fence sitters. These are the people we want to reach. They know something is wrong, but their fear keeps winning out; when pressed, they buckle and comply. But they really don’t want to! They hate it. But they don’t know what to do about it. They’re choking on the Covidian atmosphere of fear and confusion – especially with a mask on!