Wizard of Oz
An allegory for the charlatan origins of misplaced trust…from traveling snake oil salesman to fraudulent market economy
Tin man: industry with a heart;
Strawman: logical fallacy manipulation;
Cowardly lion: black ops and deceitful national intelligence;
Dorothy: public duped by the chaos (eg. of unbridled industry) to accept a promise of return to splendid yet safekeeping family serenity.
It can be painful or dangerous to express your beliefs or principles. And sometimes for not courageously defending yourself. I get this awareness from first hand experience going all the way back to my employment at Borders in Michigan; but also get it from my dad who stubbornly stood up for indoor non-smoking rights in Michigan's State Lottery department where he was once threatened with a gun as well as nearly being transferred to the upper peninsula.
Today I find myself losing friendly relations because I can't sit quietly while our American medical community has been gradually captured and subverted by financial conflicts of interest and thus medical education and the standard of care for patients have lost their way. It's not just remorse for the loss of the family doctor's home visit or even the retirement of the old guard—it's the attitude of the front line. How dare one question your doctor or even reveal one's knowledge of physiology or that one actually reads peer reviewed studies and understands them. Gas lighting of such patients is becoming endemic. Sit quietly and let your primary care white coat poke and prod and prescribe and be happy about it!
Well, I don't sit quietly. And therefore I get rushed out of the exam room as if I indeed have a communicable disease—the diseased however is the physicians' ethos, a culture of authoritarianism, of "I paid dearly for this position so don't cause me grief!"
Grief indeed! I grieve for the gaslit. I grieve for the vaccine injured. I grieve for the censored and unemployed doctors, nurses and scientists who stood up for "where there is risk there must be choice!" I grieve for the children who have been and will be marred by a foul government policy of revolving doors and kowtowing to the pharmaceutical companies even after they've proven their real intent with opioids—take their money and destroy their resolve and eventually their lives!
Government has enjoyed bribes long enough. It's time for Americans to wake up and get in their face!!
A few words about the inflammatory phrase "conspiracy theory" used to denigrate someone's judgement.
In the case of references to manufacturing companies that rely on the privilege of intellectual property (patents & ingredients) protections it would seem justified for them to defend their necessity for secrecy in order to maintain their business. It becomes problematic however and even suspicious when such manufacturers go to great lengths to silence critics or claims of negligence—much like a tyrant disposes of the opposition.
One might wish to compare the board room too to a cabal as it regularly meets to manage their financial future.
Whom else other than social media shall we appeal to with our conjecture? Is it surprising one might "go there"?
How else does one test his/her uncomfortable observations? Or must we reveal our suspicions at all if not to excavate similar or contrary observations of others? Can these attempts to expose some hidden truths result in anything other than retribution? Ridicule would appear to be the most common result when conspicuous circumstances stand alone without direct causal evidence to support allegations of corruption or harmful intrigue.
It would seem both the alleged criminal minds and the supposed "theorists" are in a state of mutual hyperbole and mischaracterization.
Sadly, misleading connotations and foul intent are everywhere monkey-wrenching the many public debates with their steely implements provided conveniently by the logical fallacy tool-box—worse still is how deeply embedded in American privileged culture is this worship of elitist institutions such that noxious ideas smell of lilac and African violet and sycophants pass as gardeners.
I think transparency necessitates going further back than immediate personal experience of any particular troublesome professional event—to textbook publishers & med schools for example. Graduates are forced to trust them for the sake of their own claim to authority and respect, & thus their professional lives are beholding to industrial interests & therefore their ethics are in jeopardy (conflict of interest).
ie., the pharmaceutical industry could care less about the front line's emotional responses to the challenge of representing the faceless face of a business modeled healthcare industry!
The anxiety then of the growing numbers of scientists who support for example informed consent re vaccination is the result of the "sounds-like-a-personal-problem" attitude of a business that expects only complacency, not the legitimate skepticism of a scientist.
All businesses (especially including proprietary science stakeholders) do not like scrutiny & will fight it ruthlessly without compunction—for a business is not a "natural person" & therefore has no more emotion than igneous rock! We free thinkers, independent academics and scientists however will eventually break through this monied crust with a molton force. True science evolves. It cannot remain stagnant anymore than a tectonic plate.
Re nurses against getting the COVID vaccine:
Most of them (including physicians and parents by the way!) likely have witnessed vaccine injury (prior to the COVID pandemic) and some have testified to this fact in interviews—specifically re the MMR and HPV vaccines so I'm not surprised at all. Watch VAXXED & VAXXED2.
...and yet so many youtube videos over the last year or so have disappeared (not deleted by me) from my saved youtube videos on this topic of professional testimonies critical of vaccine schedules and ingredients. Certainly proprietary pressure is responsible for the censure.
Microchip fears are truly ludicrous! But a reluctance to VOLUNTEER to participate however seems justifiable. I've listened to so many professional testimonies re vaccine ingredients and injury PRIOR to the "pandemic" so the non-conformity of a 30-45 percentage of nurses does not surprise me.
The issue for those in general though who distrust the pharmaceuticals, the WHO, the CDC and the physicians promoting vaccination, is the proprietarily subverted "science" if not criminal negligence. The Promoters' use of the terms "anti-vaxxers" & "anti-science" mischaracterizes this valid criticism....
The term "conspiracy theorists" as well relies on logical fallacy. It avoids defending a conflict of interest, & the valid issues of proprietary gain vs the precautionary principle & legitimate skepticism of science.
Ultimately this professional conformity divide is at root the line created by the unresolvable "greater good" vs "right of the individual to prefer self-preservation" presumption of a dominant argument.
That is, An absolute balance between "duty" and "freedom of choice" is unsustainable. Arguing for experimenting on an entire population then is indefensible!
The brain/mind is the field/force that completes the forces (currently described by physicists) by a spiral logic that comprises beyond human comprehension the numinous dimension of combining the forces any better than saying nothing is more perfect than apical evolution yet nothing is more beautifully self-destructive than our species! WE COMPLETE THE INVOLUTION OF LIFE ON EARTH!
Entropy is sublime. And that's as close as I may ever get to "elucidating" what I'm thinking in words beneath everything else that comes out of my mouth.
In that sense while assuming sustainably preserving life on Earth should be fundamental to everything we say or do—all our means, our technologies are counter-productive.
How's that for fatalism!
I am not entirely opposed to vaccination per se. I am however opposed to vilifying those whom are not willing to ignore the risks and therefor decline the inoculation. I also choose to trust naturally acquired immunity rather than say let's make the entire race dependent upon artificial means... how far, in other words, do we detach ourselves from the earth? How trustworthy are technologies that forgo a fundamental connection for the sake of an appearance of order and homogeneity?
So, yes, one might misconstrue my criticism of technology as anti-science—I am after all an old countercultural miscreant who at one time in is life advocated Earth First means (such as "monkey-wrenching") of combatting the plunder and pollution of the environment—but in fact I lean towards inclusive sound science that starts with the premise don't rely on logical fallacies to further isolate human endeavors in a wishful ignorant bubble. Humanity is the weakest link in the web of life and vaccines as they are currently relied upon will not restore for us a position that was no more secure than it is presumed it will ever rise to! We are not meant to escape death after all; and the greater we ever believe ourselves to be the lesser we become stewards of our planet's entirety of living beings
