As IF Times

Recently, revelations about the number and efficacy of vaccines taken by people have finally been called to question.  For several generations, vaccines of all kinds were foisted on the public, who generally acquiesced to the ‘wisdom’ of the medical industry.  The Covid nonsense woke up the public and suddenly the revelation that children were obliged to take, in some cases over 72 vaccines as compared to only about 4 in the early 60’s, came under renewed scrutiny.  These statistics are sobering.  Populations become de-sensitized to the abnormal.

We’ve become acclimatized to other things as well. It occurred to me that a big chunk of our modern lives now are consumed with maintaining records or logs of some kind with all kinds of organizations, without us even realizing it. Everyone and I mean everyone in the world (with access to a smartphone or computer) is obliged to maintain a password of some kind. Losing or forgetting this password leads to all kinds of inconveniences and aggravation disrupting our daily lives.  That’s the least of it.

In reality, to function in today’s society, there are passcodes and checks on every aspect of our lives.  Banking; Netflix; Spotify; Amazon; health clubs; loyalty cards; government services; airlines; etc. etc.   My own survey reveals that I need passcodes to enter over 100 different sites and services. We become indoctrinated to believe that this is just part of life.

Even going to McDonald’s these days can be an IQ test, since there are often electronic kiosks to enter your order in place of communicating with a real person.  You are prompted for your membership identity first.  Someone decided that having machines with member requirements were more efficient than telling a human that you want a big mac. Let’s not even to mention the byzantine hoops of government websites and services one has to navigate if you want some kind of government agency information.  May God have mercy on anyone who is the subject of a government clerical error on a form that needs to be fixed.

But those are just nuisance inconveniences. The real oppression comes in the form of fees, taxes and costs… simply to exist.  A quick Google search reveals that the average American pays over 97 distinct taxes including of course, the hated income and property taxes.

From the time you are born, there are fees and costs for you to exist.  Someone has to pay for the hospital costs and I understand that there is even a movement to implement a ‘birthing tax’ on newborns. From that point forward, your entire life is spent in pursuit of making enough money to pay taxes and fees just to be a human.  A massive lucrative industry exists just to guide people on how to keep the money they earn and shield themselves from taxes.  Nowhere else in the animal kingdom are animals required to pay just to live.  If you are fortunate enough to have anything left to leave to your family after a lifetime of paying taxes, then surprise, surprise, there are death and estate taxes.

All of this is tied to the exponential reach and growth of government over our lifetimes. If I wanted to enumerate all the taxes and fees that have been introduced in the past 50 years, it would be an exhaustive list and not really the point of this discussion. Suffice to say, you’d be hard pressed to cite a case of a removal of any given tax or fee once implemented.  Thus, taxes tend to stack up like vaccines doses as people accept them without questioning them.

People have now become accustomed to the mountain of taxes and fees foisted upon them without adequate justification.  It’s accepted as the cost of living. It’s like the new normal of 20% minimum tipping at restaurants. People may complain, but they go along to get along. Never ending taxes and fees are like parasites eating at the body, subtly but surely.   Politicians know this innately.  They will never have the pressure of having to justify their spending bills because public pushback is tepid and passing.  What’s more, they have the ability to vote themselves raises…because of the price increases that they cause.  Thus, people’s fight for simple existence is really against those supposedly charged with their care!

In the animal world, most species have to worry about the dangers posed by other animals for their survival.  Only in the human world is the most dangerous animal their own species, slowly pecking them to death without them even being aware.  The best analogy is the one about the frog being unknowingly boiled in increasingly warmer water.  It seems as if humans are in a lot of hot water.

As most are keenly aware, it’s summertime in the northern hemisphere.  As should be evident, there will always be days of uncomfortably high temperatures in summer as there are stretches of uncomfortably cold and or wet conditions in the winter.  Is this abnormal?  What is abnormal?

The answer is; it depends who you ask. You will find ‘studies’ from all and sundry parties invoking their views on this.  But all that is irrelevant.  The salient thing to know, is that we can moderate our environment to make these weather swings habitable.  It’s called technology.  It’s called human progress.

The advance and harnessing of new technologies and discoveries has made previously hostile environments, habitable.  It has enabled humans to create, to build and to advance their societies. It is what separates the human species from the rest of the animal world who are entirely at the mercy of their environment.  The fact that this self-evident reality is disavowed by so many in our time is emblematic of just how pervasive mental disorders have affected populations.

Of course there are societies which eschew to a large part, the advances of modern technology. The Amish and Mennonites prefer to remain attached to their ways of doing things, preferring to live in the same fashion as their ancestors, ignoring most modern machinery and devices. The Amish take it more seriously as they don’t even use electricity.  These are choices these societies make to live in their way.  The Muslim world have their own, much more oppressive dictates for their people.  As closed societies within a larger free society, they can do as they wish.

In the larger society, people are less likely to be as principled.  They prefer to benefit from the conveniences created by technology in order to live more comfortably…which is the whole point of technological progress.

At the moment, an oppressive heat wave has enveloped much of Europe as temperatures soar to over 110 degrees Fahrenheit for extended periods.  Unlike North America, European cities are not generally equipped with air conditioning, thus, living is not only uncomfortable, it’s dangerous for much of the elderly and the very young.  More than 1300 deaths have been attributable to excess heat in this particular heat wave according to the WHO.

It would make sense that those who purport to value human lives would find some means to stop these preventable tragedies. And you’d be wrong.  Governments there are doing the exact opposite.  In the UK, people are being fined for using their air conditioners.  In France, your neighbors need to agree to allow you to install an air conditioner for your flat.  The social media post above shows the mentality of those who are so bereft of common sense that death is preferable to comfort.

Somehow, the acceptance of self-destructive behavior in the guise of social awareness has officially crossed the line into mental illness.  In any free society, people are allowed to inflict self harm…as supposedly free thinking individuals.  Heck, in Canada, it’s officially supported by the government.

When the urge to impose your views on others or worse to mandate them as government policy, then the society is no longer free.  It has then devolved into a giant HOA with self righteous ninnies making the rules. We all witnessed this on a global scale with the COVID fraud.

The existence of people eager to impose their will on others is not a new phenomenon.   Every society has their own rules of expected conduct and behavior.  Every religion has their codified standards of social interaction.  Every bikers’ club, every bowling league can make up their own rules.

None of this is odd.  What is odd is that in our lifetime, people feel that they have the right to coerce others NOT in their group to abide by rules made up by them.   What’s more odd is that people fall in line. The line graph of ‘tolerance’ for other communities has gone from urging people to wear pride buttons to now requiring them under duress of ostracization.  We’re now at the point of the graph of not letting people get relief from deadly heat because, you know, the planet.  Peak absurdity is that people in a society are encouraged to meekly accept the behavior of aggressive ideologues against their very existence…with the support of governments.  We now even witness white people protesting…against white people!

We now experience alien cultures imposing their views on their host nations going as far as demanding, demanding that host nations bend to their values.  There has been no instance in history of any civilization willingly ceding their sovereignty and culture without a fight, though many European nations now aspire to break that pattern.  Men would defend their societies, to the death if necessary to preserve what they hold dear.  Only male sensibilities will preserve a nation.  In fact, the founding of an entire nation, the most successful one ever, America, was founded on this very principle.  What’s changed in our lifetime is not the emergence of  tyrants of all stripes;  it’s the emergence of the meek and effete in host societies.  It’s the acceptance of surrender to long held values created by people attuned to reality. There has never been a successful society governed by the meek.  Any society unwilling to push back against threats to their very existence is unsustainable.