“We’re first corralled by fear, then penned by panic. Thus trapped, we’re sheared of wealth and freedom. It isn’t by mistake.”
We are living in dark times, our future threatened by growing social, psychological, and financial stress due to overwhelming fear of the COVID-19 virus. It’s easy to fall into the pits of despair when life is bleak and the future uncertain.
“We’re first corralled by fear, then penned by panic. Thus trapped, we’re sheared of wealth and freedom"
It’s said extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures and our governments have certainly taken extraordinary steps to combat the threat of COVID-19. We are living through the most oppressive non-wartime conditions of our lives and enormous psychological pressure is being applied to compel compliance. Hey, give up your rights and freedoms and accept financial ruin or you are responsible for killing your fellow citizens. Does this truth feel right to you?
Imagine, if you dare, the COVID-19 affair as a template for future government action, which as we see, is the wholesale curtailing and suppression of freedom. Justified or not, the fact our liberties are under assault can’t be denied. Whether COVID-19 is a natural born killer, or a lab created assassin, the lesson is that the threat of pandemic is enough for officials to suspend civil liberties and demand we accept unbearable social and economic harm.
If we are living through a war between good and evil, a battle between liberty and tyranny, on whose side is fear? Given what we are currently going through, what future has freedom in a perpetually fearful world? If you were on team tyranny, now knowing how powerfully effective fear is for controlling people, would you not weaponize it? Of course, you would.
Am I suggesting that fear has already been weaponized and that our ensuing panic has purpose? Yes, the game is the theft of our wealth and freedom in the form of taxes, aid, war, and lockdowns. However, it isn’t all gloom and doom, there is a brilliant light at the end of this disturbingly dark tunnel. The path won’t be easy, because the powerful never willingly give up power, but the struggle will be well worth the fight.
The great pandemic panic of 2020 has unleashed people’s inner tyrants
The great pandemic panic of 2020 has unleashed people’s inner tyrants, and some have embraced their newfound power with more vigour than others. Lord Acton’s adage, “power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely”, is playing out in real time. The intoxicating impact of power on the weak or corrupt is impossible to miss, proving why a free society needs a constitution that explicitly restricts it.
The “Karens” of the world have been emboldened beyond belief, their fear-fuelled sanctimony driving them to scream furiously at strangers who refuse to comply with draconian edicts. Or worse, to snitch on neighbours who dare to step outside to play with their children, or walk in a park, or disobey decrees in any way, shape, or form. “Karens”, although suffering from power fever, are mostly benign.
Politicians can do real harm, however, and they have leapt at the chance to play saviour. They moved rapidly to “stop the spread” of the virus, shutting down huge sections of the economy while declaring rule after rule. Piling on with arbitrary, and often contradictory, diktats.
And while there does seem to be a correlation between party/ideology (progressive) and the demand for full compliance of ridiculous rules, politicians of all stripes have acted in haste without ever questioning the need for draconian solutions.
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Destroyed businesses, jobs, savings, and financial security
Here in Alberta, we’re told to stay away from the massive, and incredibly beautiful, 140,000 plus acre Peter Lougheed Provincial Park. This nonsense is presented as a common-sense solution. I have news, the 6-foot social distance rule is also pathetic, but the panic you see in people’s faces when you encroach inside that magic circle is palpable. How damaged is their psyche? How about our collective psyche?
Our leaders, after causing considerable financial harm in order to save us from COVID-19, are now throwing money at us to save us from the havoc they’ve caused. Where does this money come from? Their actions have destroyed businesses, jobs, savings, and financial security and then, to once more play the saviour, have decided we’ll all be better off being deeper in debt. And they expect thanks!
When you think about it, our “leaders” are misnamed, they’re really followers. The mainstream media pump out a continuous stream of panic porn as a signal for politicians to jump, and the greater the terror they’re able to twist out, the higher politicians leap. Right now, they’re pole vaulting.
We the people run nothing, we the sheeple bleat and take it. Hopefully, that is about to end.
The Great Awakening and exposing the mainstream media as the enemy
We’re told shutdowns, lockdowns, and banning all the things is necessary to save lives, that to disagree and disobey puts peoples’ lives in danger. In other words, it’s our civic duty to give up our rights. That smells wrong to a lot of people, so it’s no surprise groups are beginning to protest the loss of those rights.
Any objective observation of our world ends with the conclusion that liberty is under direct and sustained assault. Obviously, this situation didn’t develop overnight, which means we’ve been at war for a time without even knowing we were in a fight, which explains why we’re losing. As Sun Tzu said, “If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”
The extraordinary totalitarian response to COVID-19 will cause people to question the direction we’re headed. As we tug on the threads of pandemic deceit, we will unravel the narrative and expose the mainstream media as the enemy. That knowledge, societal recognition of the enemy, is the beginning of the “Great Awakening”, the light that cracks the darkness.
We will know the enemy, and by learning the strategies, tactics and techniques used against us, we’ll better know ourselves. That, by Sun Tzu’s standards, is when we start winning.
Logical Chaos Plus Emotional Terror
We all understand that an ignorant and fearful populace is much easier to exploit and control than a knowledgeable and fearless one. So, for team tyranny, the fastest route to power is the ability to manufacture an ignorant and fearful people, and the only way to manage that is to control the message.
The strategy can be summed up as, “logical chaos plus emotional terror equals control”. Knowing the strategy allows us to identify the enemy’s tactics and techniques.
For example, censorship. It is now being sold as a crucial tool for weeding out misinformation. However, its sole purpose is to prevent people from learning facts that counter the narrative. As the narrative is built on deceit, censorship, by necessity, buries the truth. Censorship is tyranny, tyranny is evil, therefore, censorship is evil.
The media’s real goal is political action. They start with a claim, some version of we’re all going to die, then present it as fact until belief sets in. That “fact” then forms the basis for every discussion, allowing them to push people and policy in a desired direction. The validity of the claim is never discussed.
We see this with COVID-19 coverage. It is becoming apparent that pandemic model death predictions were horror fiction because COVID-19’s actual mortality rate is tiny by comparison. Model predictions were hyperinflated by bogus mortality rate assumptions. The spurious predictions generated the fear that drove drastic, oppressive political action. We know the models were wrong, yet their failures remain unchallenged. Instead, they’re still treated as common knowledge. This is not an oversight, it’s a tactic.
What is the purpose of padding COVID-19 death counts other than to support the initial narrative? What is the rationale for attacking effective Hydroxychloroquine based treatments? Why the talk about recurrence except to sustain fear? Why the persistence we remain in isolation? Why the need to wait for vaccines except to maintain the new status quo? The game is all about ignorance and fear—ours.
Once we wake up to the reality of our enemy, we will apply our newfound knowledge to prior narratives like climate change (another model scam), gun control, and Trump (who knows the enemy) is a Russian asset. Our growing awareness that deceit, fear, and panic are purposeful tools used to strip us of wealth and freedom will destroy the last vestiges of trust we have in the media.
The media overreached and are about to lose their power. We should expect them to get nastier and meaner as that reality draws nearer. It will be the last proof we need of who they truly are.
Tyranny is about to lose its tongue.
Mark Gray hails from the Kirkland Lake, Ontario area and has spent over 30 years as an Analyst/Developer in Big IT, mostly in Calgary’s Oil-And-Gas Sector. Creator of an non-partisan, analytical methodology that seeks out and identifies Bias and Deceit embedded in weaponized information.
“We’re first corralled by fear, then penned by panic. Thus trapped, we’re sheared of wealth and freedom. It isn’t by mistake.”
We are living in dark times, our future threatened by growing social, psychological, and financial stress due to overwhelming fear of the COVID-19 virus. It’s easy to fall into the pits of despair when life is bleak and the future uncertain. 
