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Ninsuna's avatar

It was even more delicious when the majority of that audience of Covidian New Yorkers reacted with awkward silence, haha.

John Smith's avatar

Woody Harrelson captured it.

If you frame it like a movie, you can see how transparent the scam is. Sometimes you need analogies to break through the hold the current messaging has.

I had similar thoughts and coalesced them here: https://infogame.substack.com/p/my-lessons-from-the-pandemic

In summary

1. People's identity as an educated and 'good citizen' must be protected above all else, including the truth

2. Some people would rather see their own kids die than admit they were wrong

3. Fear shuts off your intelligence

4. The job of the intelligentsia is to act as the ideological enforcer of power

5. People only speak in a language they understand. It may be a crude language but that's what they have.

6. No honor among coronamaniacs.

7. Marketing dictates the techniques used to manipulate people. Interpret everything in a crisis in that light. It is basically actions to manipulate you to ensure your loyalty to a desired outcome (or product).

8. If you survived this, you are a special person. Don't forget what you embody.

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