When you put belief-identification before truth bad things happen. A strong soul is one that is not afraid to abandon falsity.
thefreethinker.substack.com
This sums it up brilliantly for me.
Unfortunately some people who would benefit from reading it don't appear to have the skills.
Some excerpts;
This my side vs. your side stuff is a dead giveaway that the parties involved really don’t care a lickspittle about the truth. If they did, they would realize there are no “sides” except the fictional ones we invent in our minds; there is only truth, and in an ideal world, we’d all be on one “side”, striving for it together. But alas, here we find ourselves, in this world of My Fiction vs. Your Fiction, with one fiction trying to “win” over the other.
(Side note: my girlfriend remarked to me yesterday that “it feels like we’re not living in reality”. Exactly. Any time we’re on these subjects, we are in the land of make-believe, fighting demons brought into being by insane conjurers.)
Secondly, he persistently uses the labels “vaxxer” and “anti-vaxxer”, which is another huge giveaway, and underlies much of the problem we’ve had throughout the pandemia years.
By now, we’ve all heard some people tell us they took their shots because they were “vaxxers” (or worse, because they were “not anti-vaxxers”).
This means that for some people, the confirmation of their identity (or the avoidance of the “villain” identity) is a more important motivator than looking into facts, evidence, listening to arguments, being open to reason, or paying attention to what’s actually going on.
Which serves pharma interests nicely, doesn’t it?
By adopting the identity “vaxxer”, like most identity-labels, it effectively means you’re tying on a blindfold. You’re declaring yourself Uncritical with regards to any pharma product that calls itself by the magic label “Vaccine”.
It doesn’t have to be safe, it doesn’t have to actually protect you against anything, people can be screaming warnings about it—you will not see or hear any of this. You’ve created the mental conditions where such perceptions are impossible. Your adopted identity requires you to be in headlong support of it, come what may.
This is why “misinformation” is seen as a threat. It threatens the mental fiction. Cue the rise of highly partisan, paid “fact-checkers” to keep everything on narrative, and prevent such facts from ever seeing the light of day. Cue the federal agencies dictating to social media companies which people are not allowed to spread facts. Cue the Ministry of Truth.
Now, people have been trained to see people as just their beliefs, (“oh, you’re just a conspiracy theorist”, “oh, you’re just one of those right-wing extremists“, etc.) and so see disagreement with someone as threatening their existence.
This is why some people have a compulsive need to exercise power over others. The desire to control others, of course, comes from a place of fear and weakness. Every bully (or dictator) is secretly terrified. The exercise of force over others is pre-emptive: everyone is coming to get them, so they better get everyone else first.
www.fiercepharma.com
