My little sister, the mass murderer
My little sister, the mass murderer
Being a victim does not make you innocent
Let me make something very clear: my little sister is a very nice person. Honestly. She loves children; she spent her whole life working in kindergartens. She has two diplomas, a distinguished career with recognitions, awards and trade journal articles. She retired from her accomplished career just a few months ago, but to me, she is still my little sister. She is far more accomplished, credentialed, rewarded and appreciated than I ever was. She was the pride of our mother, not I.
She has a big heart; she is caring and helpful. Unfortunately, she also wants to make the world a better place. She wants to be on the right side of history, she wants to belong, she wants to associate with the right kind of people. She was a good communist growing up and today, like a good liberal, she is committed to the ideals of progressive liberalism. She is a committed supporter of the EU, the UN and the Western postmodernist consensus.
She is not a thinker; she is a feeler. She is not burdening herself with the big issues of the world, she is taking cues from the people she trusts (and I am not one of those).
She is frighteningly poorly informed, but once she got the cues from her trusted sources, she is very capable advocating them. She is great with slogans, FUD stories and virtue signaling.
In simpler terms: my little sister is the brainwashed supporter of the ‘Volonté Générale’.
I could probably venture to guess that every one of you reading this has more than one like her in your extended family. Poorly informed, highly emotional supporters of the ideas pumped into their heads by the propagandists. Ideas that give them a sense of belonging and a cause to identify with. Ideas that make them feel virtuous and safe in the middle of the herd.
All of which would be fine, if it was not for the consequences. What if they champion a cause that kills people? A cause that creates mayhem and misery? What if they champion a cause that was created on fundamentally immoral principles, or implemented through immoral practices?
A few of the participants of the Wannsee conference depicted in Conspiracy were of the opinion that Germany should be Judenfrei, but were not really comfortable with the idea of mass murder. The counter argument was made that it is impossible to deport them, because NOBODY was willing to accept them! Germany is doing a favour to the world by killing them. They are just solving a difficult problem that nobody seems to be willing to solve. This raises a few moral questions.
Is the reluctant acceptance of an immoral position a mitigating circumstance?
On the other hand, shouldn’t the Americans, Canadians and all the other nations that rejected Jewish refugees share some responsibility for the holocaust?
Let me recommend another movie, Transatlantic, a Netflix miniseries, set in Marseilles 1940-41 dealing with the subject of Jewish refugees trying to flee Europe. Heroism and morality can get very complicated.
Take another look at the pyramid! Assigning blame and guilt on the top four levels are easy, although it gets more complicated as we move down.
What is the principal crime of the chief propagandists (Goebbels, Fauci, Blinken)? The creation of the propaganda narrative, or the manipulation of the masses? Which one of the steps is more damaging: the creation of the lies, or their propagation? Can you blame the liars for YOUR stupidity of believing them?
Can you blame the bullies for YOUR submission?
What makes one guilty? The knowledge of doing wrong? What if you don’t know that you are wrong? What if you honestly think that you are doing good by helping Germany to become Judenfrei, your country fully vaccinated, and Putin defeated? Once the dust settles, once it becomes undeniable that you were wrong, shouldn’t you feel at least some responsibility for the carnage you supported?
I do not want to stretch the Holocaust/WWII analogy any further, but I had to use it to drive home the point that questions have consequences, as they may lead to uncomfortable answers.
Stupidity, fear, mass formation psychosis are not acceptable excuses.
Being a victim does not make you innocent.
Especially if you are victimized only by your own fears, stupidity or intellectual laziness and a desperate desire for the safety of the herd.
Just like in World War II, the dictators, their henchman, their minions, administrators, propagandists and censors carry the brunt of the blame for the crimes against humanity. Those who trust, believe and support them are their accomplices.
The real criminals could not exist without the active support of their brainwashed acolytes and the tacit support of the willfully blind.
The fear-porn projects cannot exist without their all-too-ready buyers; without the all-too-ready disposition to be afraid, without the need for a plan to assuage their insecurities.
The projects cannot exist without the flag wavers and torch bearers, without the Karens, without the virtue signaling obedience, without the submission to the arbitrary edicts, without the regurgitation of the most outrageously stupid propaganda.
The projects cannot exist without the support of the corrupt, fake and mostly self-appointed experts, but they are just as dependent on the blood-thirsty cheerleaders wishing for the death of the unvaccinated and the disobedient. And Putin, of course.
As I keep rereading the past few paragraphs, I think that I should tone it down a little, while on the other hand, I am also thinking that I may be not blunt enough to drive my outrage home.
I personally know people who would refuse medical care to the unvaccinated and wish that someone would kill Putin. And they all do it with a certain moral posturing. As if they considered their murderous righteousness praiseworthy. You can see some celebrities doing it here. I don’t have videos of my personal conversations, but these celebrities could have easily been their role models.
Let me say it again: my little sister is a really nice person. But I still consider her complicit to mass murder. She is still in full defense of all the Covid measures, narratives and policies.
She would also refuse to entertain the idea that the conflict in the Ukraine should be settled with negotiations. She thinks that the Russians are losing, the heroic Ukrainians should keep on fighting ‘till a final victory and NATO should provide them with help for as long as necessary. At whatever cost.
I don’t know what will it take for her to come around on either subject. When she will have no choice but to accept reality, she, and everybody like her, will take the
position of not asking or hoping but demanding an ‘amnesty’ because she (they) simply didn’t know. Even though I told her, or at least I tried, before I gave up facing her righteous shrieking. I don’t know if she, or any of them, will ever reach an “Are we the baddies?” moment.Some people knew from day one, that something was seriously fishy with the Covid narrative.
The same people knew from day one that something was seriously fishy with the Ukraine narrative. As time goes on, they (including myself) are proven right on just about every point we were making from the beginning.
It’s not that the truth was not out there for all to see, it’s only that the willfully blind refused, sometimes very aggressively, to see it. It was more comforting to believe the propaganda in the safety of the herd.
So yes, my dear little sister, and a frightening number of my acquaintances are complicit in mass murder.
I just have to learn to live with that.
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Further reading (from this blog)
The pyramid of guilt (part one of this series)
The anatomy of fear porn utopias
an exploration of propaganda
Worthwhile reading and watching
Psychological Tricks | What Is Mass Formation Psychosis?
A great conversation with Mattias Desmet
Zork that is poignant.
Two days ago my wife asked me, “You know, because of your views you have lost four very good friends (she lists four families we have known for years and gone on multiple holidays with). Is that a price you are willing to pay?” My response, “Yes.”
It's painful nonetheless.
Thank you for capturing an important facet of my day-to-day experiences and reflections. I think you make an important suggestion -> that we (who saw through the fake narratives) will have to take the lead in sorting out how we relate to our friends and loved ones who did not see thru the narratives, especially those who took up the more malevolent views about dissenters, noncompliers, and adversaries. I find myself hanging back, hoping that they will start to understand what happened and what role they played. The reality, as you suggest, is that very few ever will - and it’s up to me to sort out if or how we will relate to each other in the present.