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Fuelling enmity between nominal citizens is integral to governance in the post-liberal democratic Sado-Malthusian regime. Politically licensed animosity provides some with the opportunity to show their loyalty to the status quo, while others get the psychic income from the expression of contempt for designated scapegoats and pariahs.

The unvaccinated include many self-directed types or people who feel no such need for approval from the regime.

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Dec 11, 2022Liked by Winston Smith

At one point during this pandemic, the vaccinated were so vehement and nasty that many would have physically turned on the unvaccinated if given the nod by the government. Many suggested refusing medical treatment to the unvaccinated. Just shows how sick and compliant many people are, and how they would willingly carry out the punish on those who exercised their freedom and right to refuse a faulty medical treatment.

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I wrote about this study back in March when it was a pre-print:

https://jackanapes.substack.com/p/the-ugly-demonization-of-the-unvaccinated

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Dec 11, 2022Liked by Winston Smith

I'm continuously amazed by what passes for legit science these days. Plain common sense obvious at cursory glance masquerades as deep insights 😏

The findings square perfectly well with the fundamental attitude 'live & let live' that only one side espouses 🤷 One may want to also consider more balanced personalities whose sensibilities spread more evenly across six key vectors in Haidt's moral matrix. Or bring into picture the highly relevant dichotomy of Sowell's un/constrained visions, for that matter.

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Dec 11, 2022Liked by Winston Smith

I learned from the pandemic response how the meaning of freedom is distorted when fear is the most prominent factor. Victor Frankl writes about this and his experience in Nazi concentration camps. What little freedom we have left is consumed by a desire to be safe and secure, which leads to demonizing others, or in the case of Frankl, he observed people willing to denounce others to save themselves.

Freedom becomes the power to decide for the many what must be done to others to keep the collective and the self safe.

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And in other news, the sky is blue and water is wet.

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They will use any means and any reason to divide us against ourselves.

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They will use any means and any reason to divide us against ourselves.

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The government told them to hate us.

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