{"id":228548,"date":"2021-02-26T08:15:02","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T08:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=228548"},"modified":"2021-03-01T08:08:37","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T08:08:37","slug":"former-cdc-director-american-society-never-going-back-to-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=228548","title":{"rendered":"Former CDC Director: American Society Never Going Back to \u2018Normal\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ben Bartee \u2013 The Daily Bell Feb 25, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n

In the beginning, to counter the public backlash, Anthony Fauci and Co. took a conciliatory tone. They assuaged Americans\u2019 well-founded concerns. Eager to quash growing discontent, the medical establishment spent 2020 on a rhetorical tightrope:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got to have a delicate balance of carefully and prudently going towards normality and opening up at the same time that we contain and not allow these surges.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

-Anthony Fauci, July 2020<\/em><\/p>\n

Over and over, Fauci and Co. promised the lockdown of the economy and social life would be imminently lifted once the emerging virus was contained. The lockdowns were \u2014 in their original rollout and PR framing \u2014 temporary, emergency measures to prevent imminent loss of life.<\/p>\n

What a difference a year makes.<\/p>\n

The ruling class, via the corporate press that services it, has now dramatically altered the parameters of the lockdowns:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe ease with which the coronavirus spreads, the emergence of new strains and poor access to vaccines in large parts of the world mean Covid-19 could shift from a pandemic disease to an endemic one, implying <\/em>lasting modifications to personal and societal behavior<\/em><\/strong>.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

-Wall St. Journal, Feb 2021<\/em><\/p>\n

Former CDC director Thomas Friedan \u2013 via the nominally \u201cconservative\u201d Wall Street Journal\u2013 dropped the shoe that the grassroots right has warned would drop since the lockdowns began:<\/p>\n

\u201cGoing through the five phases of grief, we need to come to the acceptance phase that our lives are not going to be the same. <\/em>I don\u2019t think the world has really absorbed the fact that these are long-term changes<\/em><\/strong>.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

-Thomas Friedan, CDC Director, Feb 2021<\/em><\/p>\n

Friedan and the WSJ are here to ensure that you absorb that lesson, internalize it, and, ultimately, regurgitate it to cull others. In this way, the prisoner erects his own prison \u2013 of his own volition.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe nature of psychological compulsion is such that those who act under constraint remain under the impression that they are acting on their own initiative. The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free. That he is not free is apparent only to other people.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

-Aldous Huxley<\/em><\/p>\n

Not a day has passed since early 2020 that the corporate media has not gone to great lengths \u2014 alternating between shaming, threatening, and dangling phantom \u201ccarrot\u201d rewards for compliance in our faces \u2013 to aggressively market safety<\/em> during the pandemic. Everything they do is for safety<\/em>, they are diligent to emphasize.<\/p>\n

Their motivations are not, in Anthony Fauci\u2019s and Joe Biden\u2019s carefully crafted narrative, to atomize the population by keeping them in perpetual fear by way of the well-trodden psychological tactic of stress-induced Pavlovian conditioning<\/a>, hence facilitating greater social control. Rather, it\u2019s for safety<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Protecting safety, after all, is what heroes<\/em> do.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

How convenient, then, that those who oppose heroes are villains<\/em> \u2013 even a small child can process and internalize the narrative. The corporate media\u2019s strawman \u2013 the filthy, illiterate MAGA riff-raff flaunting science on a mission to genocide grandmothers \u2014 is fully erect.<\/p>\n

Moving forward, the stage is set to mete out social justice. Cue the outrage \u201cjournalism.\u201d Just look at these degenerates<\/em>, read the chyrons and faces of news actors.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, your teenager\u2019s boyfriend or girlfriend cannot come over during the pandemic,\u201d the CNN headline<\/a> reads. It\u2019s just another in a long, lone line of continual reminders to the subjugated classes that nothing will ever return to the way it was before March 2020.<\/p>\n

Visiting your boyfriend or girlfriend is what disgusting MAGA mouth-breathers do. It\u2019s literally violence<\/em>, in the refrain of the social justice movement.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a tough time to be young and in love,\u201d says San Francisco therapist Jessica England.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a tough time to be anything, now that we\u2019ve assumed the role of Pavlov\u2019s salivating dogs, begging for food under the watchful eye of the ruling class.<\/p>\n

Most everyone knows about Russian psychologist Ivan Pavlov and his contributions to the behavioral sciences \u2013 most notably, that animal behavior is highly open to conditioning.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Pavlov\u2019s real practical revelation to the ruling class, though, was the concept of fear conditioning<\/a> and its remarkable ability to suspend the analytical and decision-making capacity of its victims.<\/p>\n

Replace \u201cfood<\/em>\u201d with images and descriptions and predictions of mass suffering. Replace \u201csalivation<\/em>\u201d with \u201cfear<\/em>.\u201d In continual states of heightened fear-induced stress, Pavlov concluded, the animal paralyzed by fear is even more susceptible than usual to manipulation and misdirection \u2013 anything to neutralize the perceived threat and extinguish the fear.<\/p>\n

If fear won\u2019t induce compliance, more material tactics will \u2014 the oligarchs have endless levers to pull.<\/p>\n

Moving forward, assuming you resist the Pavlovian fear conditioning, your deplatformed avatar will have no voice on social media (the new town square). Whether you nominally retain Constitutional protections of \u201cfree speech\u201d \u2013 the constant refrain of the woke mob to justify corporate censorship \u2013 will be functionally irrelevant to your ability to express yourself.<\/p>\n

Beyond your digital erasure, your physical movement will be limited \u2013 no plane rides for the unvaccinated! Your children will be removed from government school. You won\u2019t find gainful employment.<\/p>\n

How far will the shunning go? The corporate press now regularly floats the idea of denying medical care<\/a> to people who refuse a COVID vaccine. \u201cConservative\u201d French PM Jean Castex proposed legislation to bar the unvaccinated<\/a> from using public transportation.<\/p>\n

They will squeeze, squeeze, squeeze. The pressure \u2013 social, economic, and physical \u2013 will not relent.<\/p>\n

Turn the page:<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018All right then,\u2019 said the Savage defiantly, \u2018I\u2019m claiming the right to be unhappy.\u2019<\/em>
\n\u2018Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent; the right to have syphilis and cancer; the right to have too little to eat, the right to be lousy; the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen tomorrow; the right to catch typhoid; the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind.\u2019
\nThere was a long silence.
\n\u2018I claim them all,\u2019 said the Savage at last.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

-Brave New World<\/em><\/p>\n

Become the Savage.<\/p>\n

Ben Bartee is a Bangkok-based American journalist with opposable thumbs.<\/em><\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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