It’s come to this, hasn’t it? The dystopian New Normal forces have pushed the issue, right to the brink of annihilation. Rights to speech, press, assembly, free movement, religion and informed consent have all been laid on the slaughter slab, along with unknown millions of human casualties. Every premise one might take for granted in a humanist society has been shattered in a singular blitzkrieg.
All of this was done in the name of hypothetical lives. When actual lives were at stake, the urgency was considerably less. Every measure of “protection” was directed at saving imaginary individuals from a potential outcome, at the expense of flesh-and-blood patients in need of competent treatment.
Lockdown was the epitome of this. Universal quarantine is the equivalent of placing a thousand people on house arrest, without any basis to believe any are the culprit, on suspicion of a single killing, which hasn’t happened yet and would be an accident anyway, and then repeating this pattern ad infinitum.
It wouldn’t be so bad if these measures worked, but the hypothetical people died anyway, under conditions that suggest a different suspect entirely. We are told the problem is the unacceptable people who won’t comply. Without the anti-maskers, or the unvaccinated, or doctors who actually treat the sick, the hypothetical people would all be saved.
We are ruled, too, by hypothetical figures: the expert who is always right, the politician who represents their constituents; the scientist who has proven their opinion. When they break out Dear Leader or Big Brother, it will be merely a style upgrade. We have been ruled by wooden puppets all along.
So, naturally, our first demand is that real human beings shall enjoy greater rights than imaginary people. Terrible things happen when imaginary people are privileged over real ones, like stabbing your friend for Slender man or burning a witch for Jesus. We have nothing against people who don’t exist, but they have to stop making rules for the rest of us.
All other rights emanate from this one. Whenever the rights of flesh-and-blood individuals, with skin in the game and autonomy derived from Nature, are disadvantaged in favor of vacuous so-and-sos, your existential rights are under assault.
When we are coerced to take an injection, or wear a face-diaper, it is not merely an inconvenience to be endured for the sake of others. There are no others to benefit from this ineffective action. We are being denied our existential rights, and those who made these rules know this quite well, for they have no intention of recognizing any sort of innate right to exist.
This right exists, regardless, by virtue of eminent domain. I art, therefore I am.
Indeed. Totalitarian takeover, disguised as pandemic response.
https://imagined.com/blog/totalitarian-takeover-disguised/