Thank you for this thoughtful piece, Greg. You make important points, especially your central contention, that not reorienting one’s opinions in response to fundamentally different information, because one knows that they will be unpopular, will steadily eat you up.

I’m aware of several people who I am certain do know of the enormous fraud that has the equivalence of - as I term it - “Virus Lie + Contagion Lie = Vaccine Lie”, but continue to pretend that nothing has changed from the status quo ante and also ignore the implication that if this huge deception has been proven to have been happening for longer than many decades, everything we thought we knew must now be in doubt.

Why they do this, I don’t pretend to know. Possibly they belong to the group knowingly assisting in the enslavement of humanity. I realised with a shock a year or so ago that many of those ranged against us sincerely believe in a fully controlled, technocratic society on grounds such as “protecting the planet from the ravages of selfish humans”. Others may be receiving money or other incentives to maintain mainstream lies. Some may have shrunk from debating the truth for reasons of remaining within the tribe. A psychologist told me in 2020 in a comment that, in their opinion, “Many people would rather die with the herd than to leave the herd”, which is shocking to contemplate for those of us who are unafraid of iconoclastic ideas.

I like Tim West’s slightly mischievous and rather clever lampooning of germ theory, “That there’s nothing smaller than a Fauci which can harm you”. Having absorbed the staggering truth that there is “a thin smear of humanity” which has hated the majority of us who consider us “useless eaters”, which has existed through many generations, perhaps forever, I have experienced the joy of the lifting of the unconscious threat of invisible agents of illness and the most profound insight that our health is very much in our own hands.

I now regard those I collectively call “the Useless Eliters” as misguided beyond belief, mostly deeply malevolent and lacking a shred of empathy for others. I have had my judgment on people I have known completely dashed, observing them take the wide path of remaining with the official narrative, despite being provided with unequivocal evidence of a huge deception. Some have even told me that they know the official narrative is false, but are not willing to confront it. These cowards are not who I thought they were. Others, including relatives, one of whom has a PhD in a field of biological sciences who, when confronted with evidence that we were being lied to in 2020/21, took the only logical way out, deciding that the actual manuscripts from well known journals had been hacked by conspiracy theorists. I disengaged at that point and have had no further contact.

One of the most problematic attitudes I’ve encountered is the sense some have that “digital totalitarian takeover is inevitable” and so resistance is useless. I don’t think I’m in denial is having a different opinion. In evidence I offer the following: the extraordinary censorship and smearing of those who are merely sharing evidence that we’re being manipulated and the routine pushing of systematic propaganda. In addition, there is a large number of actors online who demonstrate qualities consistent with being agents of the Useless Eliters. None of this would be necessary if their ultimate victory was inevitable. I think that there is evidence that Great Resets have been perpetrated before. But I think this is the first to occur during a time in which mass communication has never been easier. A nearly simultaneous Great Reset is presumably harder than being able to stage it region by region. I don’t think there’s anything inevitable about a rapid & comprehensive totalitarian dictatorship.

Thank you again for writing on this important topic.

Mike