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The Joker – A Premonition

Jeffrey A. Tucker / January 19, 2022 / Media, Psychology, Society / 7 minute read

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The Joker is not just one man, not just a crazy person, but the instantiation of the insane and morbid dangers associated with persistent personal failure backed by a conviction that when there is a fundamental conflict between a vision and reality, it can only be solved by the creation of chaos and suffering. As unpleasant as it is, The Joker is the movie we needed to see to understand and then prepare for the horrors that this unchecked mentality can and did unleash on the world.

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A Partial List of the Myriad Abuses That Facemasks Inflict on Our Children

Aaron Hertzberg / January 19, 2022 / Masks, Psychology / 20 minute read

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Facemasks are a radical and unnatural impingement on normal physical, mental and emotional functioning. Over time, this can change your personality – such as making you less social, less outgoing, more suspicious, decreased tendency or desire to be kind and so on.

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Five Ways That People Refused to be Fooled by Lockdown Madness

Paul Frijters,

Gigi Foster,

Michael Baker / January 18, 2022 / Philosophy, Psychology / 8 minute read

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Various kinds of people stood apart from the herd at the outset, while some escaped it after it formed. Here we try to describe the main pathways to escape from the madness. We do this only partly out of intellectual curiosity: such an exercise also provides clues as to which of those still in thrall to lockdown orthodoxy might be close to liberating themselves, and what is needed to complete their unshackling.

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The Antisocialization of Our Nation

Megan Mansell / January 14, 2022 / Masks, Philosophy, Policy, Psychology, Society / 6 minute read

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We antisocialized ourselves, fully withdrew from random commingling, and in a way filtered ourselves from society. Life lost its luster when expected to test or inoculate oneself with something with no longitudinal safety assessments in order to live a life anything close to what we once took for granted.

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The Psychological Cruelty of Denying Natural immunity

Jeffrey A. Tucker / December 30, 2021 / Philosophy, Psychology, Public Health, Vaccines / 8 minute read

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Take away the knowledge of natural immunity, and thus the realization that there can be a better life on the other side of sickness, and you leave people with existential emptiness and a lasting sense of despair. No one can live that way. No one should have to.

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The Medical Objectification of the Human Person

Robert Freudenthal / December 3, 2021 / Philosophy, Psychology, Public Health, Society / 8 minute read

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The pandemic has turbocharged this process of medical objectification. We are no longer individuals, with unique desires, responses, wishes and drives, but rather are primarily considered by policy makers to be infection risks. Once we are primarily objects, rather than diverse human beings, it then becomes legitimate for medical procedures to be mandated, mask wearing to be forced, or our movements to be tracked and traced.

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The Violence of the Mandate Intensifies the Psychology of Trauma: A View from New Zealand

Paris Williams / November 24, 2021 / Philosophy, Psychology, Public Health / 24 minute read

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New Zealanders find themselves caught within a vicious dynamic—two heavily polarised threat responses, with each group seeing the ‘other’ as a selfish and threatening enemy that must somehow be neutralised, and with many members on each side feeling as though they are in a fight for their life.

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Why Are So Many Choosing a Life in a Cage? ~ Dr. Julie Ponesse

Julie Ponesse / November 22, 2021 / Philosophy, Psychology, Public Health, Society / 11 minute read

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“Today, we face substantial rewards for compliance; if we comply with the government’s pandemic response measures (masking, distancing, lockdowns, and now the ever-increasing and nebulous vaccine rollout), we are granted the conditional privilege of reentrance into society; and the penalties for failing to comply? being bullied, shamed, excluded, cancelled, even fined or arrested.”

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The Damage of Masking Children Could be Irreparable

Eric Hussey / November 3, 2021 / Psychology, Public Health, Society / 15 minute read

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Given the development of abilities to discriminate faces and nuances in faces and emotions that show in faces, based on specific face-discrimination neurology in a specific area of the brain, what year-long (and growing) period of time do you want to take the risk of impairing by surrounding children with masked faces while limiting social interaction?

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The True Meaning of Masking

Robert Freudenthal / October 30, 2021 / Masks, Philosophy, Policy, Psychology, Public Health, Society / 9 minute read

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If we are people in a society with an authoritarian structure, where our ability to participate and do the things we wish to do every day are conditional on the approval of government, then our way of relating with power structures is no longer one of “We are all in partnership together” but one of “behavioural correction.” In such a system the mask becomes a tool for enacting that behavioural correction.

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Psychiatry Will Not Save Us from Lockdown Harm

Robert Freudenthal / September 28, 2021 / Policy, Psychology, Public Health, Society / 6 minute read

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The solution to distress that is caused by closed services, missed education, lost income, poverty, debt, or coercive public health interventions is not to be found in psychiatric services – and particularly not in psychiatric services whose treatment options have been restricted to pharmacology only approaches.

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