Wake up fighting? — Caitlin Johnstone and Didier Raoult on rebelling against foolish consensus

© 2020 Peter Free

 

23 August 2020

 

 

Regarding developing the mindset that is necessary . . .

 

. . . for fighting stupidity and wrongdoing.

 

Wisely sourced anger and impolitic impoliteness are arguably useful Truth-telling cudgels.

 

Sticking it, in visible fashion, to The Scheming Nasties is the point.

 

One cannot do this from positions of self-disarmed weakness.

 

 

Caitlin Johnstone repeatedly makes the primary case

 

Recently she wrote that:

 

 

“Forgiveness” is a concept that is constantly exploited by manipulative abusers.

 

If anything our world suffers from an overabundance of forgiveness: toward murderous power structures, toward lying news media, toward rapacious oligarchs and cronyistic politicians.

 

Don’t forgive them.

 

I’m distrustful of anyone who prattles on about the importance of forgiveness, because those who do so tend to do it because they have a vested interest in the concept.

 

They’re usually either an abuser themselves, or an abuser’s brainwashed victim defending their indoctrination.

 

Remember, all abusive relationships have “forgiveness” as a central tenet, because without forgiveness of abuse there could be no ongoing relationship.

 

It’s as true of global power structures as it is of domestic partnerships.

 

© 2020 Caitlin Johnstone, Don’t Forgive Bastards: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix, CaitlinJohnstone.com (15 August 2020)

 

 

I agree . . .

 

. . . having grown up under physically and emotionally abusive circumstances myself.

 

Oppression is much more easily seen with lenses generated by painful backgrounds like Johnstone's and mine.

 

 

Didier Raoult (of hydroxychloroquine COVID fame) makes an indirectly parallel point . . .

 

. . . about Mass Thoughtlessness's enslaving hand.

 

In May this year, he told Paris Match that:

 

 

To follow the herd, no brain is needed, legs are enough.

 

The homogeneity of thought is a purely mechanical and mathematical phenomenon called the standard deviation: the larger the sample, the smaller the standard deviation.

 

In human societies, it's the same: the more humans you have, the less they think differently.

 

The “politically correct”, the “compliant thinking” are only a mass effect, to be avoided, even if it is difficult to resist!

 

The only thing that worries me is self-esteem.

 

I am wary of popularity. When too many people find you great, you have to start doubting.

 

© 2020 Emilie Blachère, Entretien exclusif avec Didier Raoult : "Je suis un renégat", Paris Match (09 May 2020) (here Google-translated into English)

 

 

The moral? — Don't swallow the propaganda that smothers us every day

 

Reject its chains.

 

When masses of people insist on marching in the same direction — upon gloriously unproven evidence — they are almost always wrong. That's because most of us are ignorant, uninquiring, stupid or nasty.

 

Being allegedly rude and presumptuous in opposing these Tides of Ill is often necessary.

 

From a meditatively clear and continually clarified core, wake to become a charade-deflating voice.

 

There is no soul-merit in respecting oppressors. Metaphorically, chew their throats out. Meekness does not inherit the Earth.