“A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.” ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
Science trained PhD here and I’m at a loss to explain how Richard is able to cogently understand and explain the scientific method better than my peers with science PhDs who are all cheerleading for the SAGE “experts”. Since this whole mess started I’ve come to realise that the only “science” that matters to them is the version that suits their inner technocratic superiority complex.
I had been considering getting vaccinated for my own personal reasons. Asked a few people for help to make that decision, they attacked, harassed, shamed, and insulted me for daring to not have gotten it already. Called ableist, racist, and other slurs. Some people are so controlling yet so bad at discourse they can turn people who agree with them against them. Can only imagine how demoralising it is to consistently snatch defeat from the jaws of victory and still keep pushing on with the same failed techniques. Authoritarians who were once liberals can't afford to admit they've become authoritarians, and that denial will lead to worse and worse outcomes for everyone.
@Unexpected Amy I’ve experienced similar aggressive reactions from friends who recently cancelled me because I haven’t been vaccinated, even though I had Covid and have similar immunity to them. They are liberal and becoming rabid and authoritarian but can’t see it. Just as you and Richard said. Crazy, scary divisive times.
I have had your experience since I decided not to vaccinate my children now 16 & 19. It requires strength from out part to stay true to our decision without caring about the good opinion of others.
I am sorry that happened to you. I am seeing this shaming coming from all sides. To me this is what is the hysteria. The polarization and the illusion of sides. We need compassion and unity more than anything.
I feel for what you guys are going through . As a former soldier I can’t imagine being put in the situation the govt has put your soldiers in. Its pretty horrible .
Canada is horrible too except for one province. They have admitted there is no return to normal even after 90 percent has double V the masks will stay on. What's with the colonies lol. I never thought we could survive without hockey but they found a way...propaganda and beer.
Growing up in a chaotic home I know this "body taking over" feeling. You act on instinct, fight/flight/freeze sets in, and your executive functions are reduced.
Could it also be the fear generated by realising that WE are the adults now, yet have clearly not collectively grown into that role as we should have? - Ergo, there's nobody left to guide or save us, & yet we have no idea how to do so for ourselves?
Interesting angle and I really think it has legs to it. We’re responding with terror and indignation in the face of a problem we are no longer strong enough to shoulder properly? Perhaps something like that…
I’m 40 years old and I’ve only just begun introducing myself to my children’s classmates as _Mr. Hulson._ I feel like the lead character in the story, _Rebecca,_ where she finally has enough about hearing about the former Mrs. DeWinters and exclaims, “I am Mrs. De Winter now!” I’m of the generation who has a name for actually taking on the responsibility of life: “adulting.” Much of the misery of my life was owing to my need to look to other adults to rescue me, rather than the pain of stepping into my own adulthood. Yeah, your idea’s got legs.
Taking that idea further - us - as in humans as a whole - getting to this point would be 99.999% in the lap of America. I'm American, so.... I feel entirely free to dis my own country. The U.S. has really twisted civilization and society into something it was NEVER meant to be. We have this culture where everyone is supposed to be happy and friendly all the time. Ok, that's nice, but it's also very fake. You end up suppressing your emotions. If you are at all sensitive, you get bullied and harassed for it - that is NOT acceptable in America. Well, it wasn't in the 70's. Then there is the whole men are strong, women support their man thing. Who says I want to support a man? Maybe I want a man to support ME and I'll make the big bucks? I actually did when I was married, lol. Finally, I have to mention that consumerism, advertising, propaganda, public relations and psyops all began right here in the good ole U.S. of A. We know psychological tools. We MADE them and cranked them out for the rest of the world to use. Propaganda.... sure that was around a long time before the U.S. We just perfected it. Our propaganda is so good, we don't think we HAVE any propaganda. Lmao!!!! Excuse me - but how else do you think Biden got elected? He was hand selected and PUT in office by media manipulation. It was brilliant, I'll give them that. People saying he's got dementia. Really? Talk about people who parrot whatever they hear from someone else. As for what is said by the MSM - I'm operating under the assumption that it's ALL propaganda at this point. Better to err on the side of caution. I stopped watching any MSM over two years ago. It's all race-baiting and fear-mongering, all the time. Nope. Got better things to do. Like watching Richard's videos!! ☺️
Thanks for this Richie. I never thought when I started with you back in 2012 we’d be living under the circumstances we are now. I feel so much further ahead than most around me. Grateful for your dedication to TRUTH to POWER. So happy I found you 9 years ago, your like a distant brother and I find that comforting in this day. 🧜♀️✌️
Too late is when you are dead. We are not dead yet and we still have some time to get it right. First, let's start fixing our own lives! Richard can help us to understand, but not fixing for us.
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I literally just ended therapy sessions with my current therapist for this very reason. I was put under so much pressure by a job coach - he was trying to incept my brain to go down a path that has never worked for myself in the past. And somewhere along that way, transference occurred between myself and my therapist. Not only was I reacting as if I needed her approval to a situation that would have been best for myself that she didn't agree with, but she was assuming that I was doing what I was doing as if I was trying to please her. In fact, I had stopped sharing things with her due to a long standing personality conflict between herself and myself. And while transference had been used as a therapy method in the past, from what I understand, it was the only option available at the time. It's also not much more than a short term solution from my perspective. Once I realized that was occurring, I knew the healthiest thing I could do was to make the choice for myself, to let go. I want something healthier in my life. And I want to make sure the validation I do receive isn't based on desperation.
My therapist wants me to see that my "paranoia" about the outer world is just that- my "paranoia". As she is thrilled about her new System-bestowed bribe that she can work from home on Tele+ health and be "$afe" from the scary world and still be paid by insurance. Sure she may have had a valid point in other days, yet sometimes.they tptb really are out to get ya! Lol . No common ground on that one.
@@gardens2b7 I hear you. It sucks. As I was ending my session, my therapist was trying to talk me into continuing with her. Using scare tactics like I could be waiting a long time for another therapist to talk too, and how it's so difficult to start over from scratch. I told her I knew the risks when I made my decision and I was totally okay with it. I even had to end up playing therapist at the end of the conversation to quell her obvious insecurity about a client rejecting her. Rejection is a part of life. And I'm not the one being paid here...
When a therapist helps reparent you, it is difficult not to give them undue power. I would have a third child right now if not for her influence and fear of not pleasing her when she sided with my ex husband's wishes. The wound has yet to fully heal years later. I am so happy you took your agency back and had that courage because we cannot let other people, whatever their titles or expertise or even compassion, make our decisions for us.
I always enjoy the way that you lay out these very important ideas. We can't let society become an idiocracy. People who do absolutely no research on any given topic are definitely the most certain of their position and their narrative. They engage in black and white thinking and are quick to insult anyone who presents them with an alternative view and actual data to counteract their beliefs. It is beyond frightening what is happening. Over the last couple of years it has become quite clear that we are living in dystopia. Good is bad and up is down. The fact that speaking up with common sense has become a brave act is a bad sign. You and I are in the last generation that grew up without the internet and cell phones, I worry for what will be lost in humanity because of this. Please keep posting and fighting the most noble fight, the fight for human consciousness.
This development started earlier. Democracy favors anxious politicians, they are overwhelmed, and react accordingly with control. In an ongoing process, the population is being regulated more and more strictly. Nobody really thinks about what would happen if the legislator simply did nothing? At least only the most urgent and necessary? For the first time in generations, we would have the security of simply living our lives
People have been treading water too long. They’ve made a trade with the nanny state, freedom for the burden of responsibility and sense of failure. Sad sad times
My 88 yr old. staunch catholic mother insists, as she watches the news, that evil is taking over. No, mom, I don’t think it is. I feel we’re evolving beyond the ignorance that allowed the “evil” that has been allowed to occur all along.
The evil is in its death throes as we figure it all out . It’s more visible now that ever, but all we need to do is say no to it , all of us , in the most definitive way.
@@NCrdwlf I agree. I see so much about the toll the pandemic has taken on people, and understandably so. But I’d really like to see comments on personal positives that people have taken from this state of pause that we were forced into. For me, I experienced a sense of loneliness and depression that shocked me. It also came on the heels of trying to eliminate a lecherous narcissist from my life (which was how I found Richards channel). But it also gave me the space I so badly needed for introspection and to learn. The insights I’ve had time to be enlightened by have been invaluable.
I read these replies and feel a glimmer of hope. We need to talk to each other more. We've been separated had fear driven into us and told who are enemies are. We need unity and compassion more than anything. I am seeing some of it as people I know begin to talk to each other in person. Listen to each persons story and stop perpetuating lies that these people are this and those people are that. Whatever story line you believe you need to question it!
“A warrior may worry and think before making any decision, but once he makes it, he goes on his way, free from worries or thoughts; there will be a million other decisions still awaiting him. That’s the warriors way.
Thank you Richard. Beautifully diplomatic as only you could do and so true. It even has the learned anxiously clawing through their research papers, trying to defend the rights of others against those who seem to think they are above the law they are teaching.
Truly remarkable speak. So comforting that there are still humans that speak clearly and concisely. You are definitely a gem and humanity would benefit with more of your kind.
Another excellent, perceptive and helpful analysis. I don’t know what happened to Richard Gannon since last year but he has become my new go-to guy on RU-vid. He’s preaching, and few will hear, but some of us are heeding the signs of the times and heading out of the madness.
What I love more about you than anything is that you are always going to be true to yourself. I'm glad that your conscience and your intuition always leads you to make the best decisions. Anyway, things have become so tyrannical. People are afraid to reveal their identities and speak their conscience for a fear of character assassination and memory holing. What we are seeing is not America. We thought it was bad then. Well just keep watching...
Thank you Richard I could not agree more. I find it sad watching people I know just completely consumed with terror become rabid Karen's and being consumed by this fear. The scary part is they will not entertain any information that could bring comfort or even question the status quo. We have had a few get together and it is as if people have selective memories,almost as if they have curated who they were before the pandemic and who they are now. I find it frightening watching people panic during conversations that veer towards topics they deem dangerous they literally will walk away just in case someone accuses them of not being woke. I am a woman in my fifties I have always followed my own mind based on many different areas of Exploration I often find my ideas are shocking and controversial to those around me. I try to explain myself but it has frightened them and they can no longer hear me. Richard I love your little philosophy shorts they give me ideas to dig into and my mind loves that.
Glad I had an epiphany about 4 years ago, someone brilliant sent me quite alot of pychological essays and papers about narcissism, frightening some times as it was my life word for word in places, I cried alot got angry, shouted , but it was the best thing I have ever done, not scared anymore
Thank you Richard for your calmness & succinctness. I will be sharing this with many others who are awake to what is the current state of play - love n light people 💞🙏
Iv been watching Graham for a couple of years now about abusive relationship. When all madness started it was very clear what monster driving this Madness. Thank you very much for your amazing work
Thank you. Please keep these coming! Your words help a lot. They are life giving and they offer messages of strength that I can share with those I love.
There is not only the fear but the fool lurking inside as well. Our reality is built on 'thought' and that has a self destruct mode built into it. Today our lives are dominated by thought, thinking , that conditioning never takes a holiday, is rarely silent, quiet. Even when listening to someone , do you really listen when the internal dialogue is chattering. Do you listen through your own noise. That is not listening. With thought comes 'time and control' enters into your consciousness. You've had times when you have been engrossed in something you love doing and suddenly thought butts in and the first thing you do is look at what time it is . And thought says , my God where has the time gone. I'll finish here.
Well done, Richard! I am so grateful and joyful that I found your channel. You’ve helped reshape my personality and boundaries in my recovery. Thank you. You’ve made a positive impact on my life since I got clean.
Thank you Richard! There are only a handful of RU-vid channels with absolute common sense amid this craziness. Yours is definitely a healthy refuge, and a breath of fresh air. 😊
Thanks for bringing the Titanic metaphor to this discussion. "Like rats in a sinking" is the analogy that comes to my mind when I look around me lately.
This is an amazing analysis, just when I think I've heard it all, Richard comes out with a new and even more in depth perspective!! Richard, you've opened my eyes and enabled me to feel compassion for my fellow humans going through this horrible time. The compassion asuages my heart, I was feeling so heavy and heartbroken after being screeched at and clawed at by someone I really love deeply, they want me to just do as I'm told and stop being a stupid flat-earther, because I'm killing people by not takin injection. Anyway, I now see where this is coming from and can feel so much love and compassion, because I as well am terrified and it is understandable that they would claw at me. Thank you Richard for making my life better!
Ah yes, but then there's those of us when faced with oblivion accept fate calmly , either continuing to play music as the ship goes down or scream into the face of death as we jump into the cold icey depths head first! Lol
H’mm - I don’t feel much in control of my life but i’m not trying to control others. I think it may be more to do with self awareness, and knowledge..? All of my friends & people in my family who are strongly pro-govt and govt controls - actually seem to be well in control of their lives. Good jobs, productive, efficient, high personal discipline, financial successful .. but they lack self awareness, aren’t v knowledgeable with psychology, political or history, the immune system or vaccinations and maybe aren’t as empathetic as I am. They are more narcissistic as well as far as I can tell. Also they are not fearful of things - because they deny that bad things are happening. They have concerns about what the govt tells them to be concerned about (global warming or covid) but they think the govt has good solutions for that so they are not especially worried. I’m the one that is fearful. Because I don’t believe or trust the govt and I can see where everything is logically heading as it has a number of times before in history.
Those are the results, of mentally not educated people! It will get worse. I can feel it in my bones... But heroes are created in difficult times. So, I have faith that everything that happens now, happens so things can get better.🙏🏻
I’m in the UK. I’m a bit of a misanthropic old lady. But during lockdown and inwards wearing a mask and that, I find myself saying hello to strangers on the street.
And because a poor decision is time consuming and unless you are 8 years old with a probable lifetme in front of you. Each decision you make determines the path for the rest of your life and may have a strong influence on the lives of your loved ones.
"The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else." - Ernest Becker. Another great video. 👏🌟 You are a blessing. Truth to Power . *✌️whistles mockingjay call 😙* 😁😉
@@epictetus9221 What do you know about these new vaccines? Their elements, their mechanisms. Here in Russia the rest of Soviet education let us doubt any propaganda and investigate the problem ourselves. What is the cell, DNA, matrix RNA, what for they use the special vector protein etc. By the way all virus theory has many questions. You can see some publications by German microbiologist Stefan Lanca f.e. Look for information about cytokine storm. There will be many victims of it.
