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Jan 2, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

As an elderly man, I have many memories. Of all the groups who should see the dangers, one would expect the elderly to be resistant to this grand psy-op. Yet, my peers appear to be as susceptible to fear as younger generations, and they are easily manipulated by white lab coats and promises of immortality by vaccines. They are filled with memories of cold and flus as part of life. They lived through the Hong Kong Flu and even attended Woodstock in the midst of it. It surely shows the power of the current mass manipulation, that even my generation can be some easily fooled.

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Jan 2, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

The very ones who are in desperate need of a message of hope such as this one, thanks in part to our "education system" are incapable of parsing a sentence of this complexity, much less an essay of this magnitude: "The intentional aim of collectivizing risk, and transferring it as an individual choice for assessment to one that must consider the risk tolerance of others in society by assuming the worst case outcome based on the potential of an invisible ubiquitous threat whose dangers require an abundance of absurd caution (mostly useless theatre) be exercised to alleviate the neurotic feelings of others from this hypothetical imaginary and invisible harm is one of the most insidious aspects of our present moment and half as comprehensible as this sentence I just wrote."

As a "person of age" I yearn for the days when essays rose to this level. I sent your mountains essay out to several younger ones in my circle and I have yet to get a response from any of them. Comprehension at this level is all but non existent any longer, especially in the under 40 (50?) crowd. Everyone has phones to be their memory, why bother storing anything in your brain? I make it a point to know from memory every phone number of importance to me, partially as an act of rebellion against this brave new world. And I will never carry a "smart phone". I'm thoroughly enjoying your essays and felt a response was in order. Thank you.

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It's not only attention deprivation and focal deficits. If one veers away from main stream media, like I did years ago, it is quite time consuming finding new sources of information, and following them over a host of alternative platforms. Anyway, I'm a new sub to you on here :-) And happy new year!

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So the risk is always there, right? Like opportunity cost: even if you think you're not paying for it, you are. But known risks get discounted -- almost forgotten. Let's touch back with the USA. We have a population that is increasingly co-morbid, poly-pharmaceutical dependent. For 2021, for a US population of estimated 332,915,073, we had an estimated 4,690,000,000 (4.69 billion) prescriptions filled. {Re links at end}.

The most recent breakdown by age, as we might expect older people to take more meds, is from 2012. Well, for the age range 0 - 18 years, the annual per capita prescription rate is 4.2. For 19 to 25 years, 5.2. We would expect younger people to be healthier -- increasingly, not a safe assumption. But from there the upward trend accelerates -- with an annual national prescription per capita rate of `only` 12.2.

So we now have Americans who are chronically medicated from womb to grave. Not even "cradle to grave": womb to grave. We have generations of poly-pharmaceutical dependent `citizens`. Well, good if this has made us happier and healthier. But by nearly all accounts, it has not.

The obesity rate has tripled over the past half century. Diabetes in the USA has gone from 1.05% of the population in 1961 to 10.5% in 2021. (A 60 year perspective). Diseases related to metabolic syndrome have been surging. Mental health issues, likewise.

It's not just we've surrendered control of our minds -- we've surrendered control of our bodies. I have no doubt that many of the deeply unhappy people junk-fooding and medicating themselves to death have no desire to change their lifestyles. I know this from members of my own family network, the "normals" unlike myself.

So part of the answer is bodily autonomy. Understand that the "normal" Western lifestyle based on convenience is in so many ways vastly dysfunctional and even destructive. This means reviving discredited notions like self-responsibility, eating real food that preferably you can source, and staying active.

Recognize this is a physical struggle, as much as a political or intellectual or ideological one. You only have freedom if and insofar as you practice it. Reject the learned helplessness propagated by the state, academia, and MSM: that nothing the individual does can matter, and instead you must subsume yourself to an ever-vanishing greater good. In truth, what you do an individual matters greatly -- to you.

What I find depressing is dealing with people who see no alternatives. Who at times openly hate their lives but will not make changes. Who `know everything` but are willing to DO nothing. Are they risk-averse? Obviously. To new risks. Their legalized drug-dependencies seem a huge part of the problem. Their shit-food habits, also. Their shit-spending habits, perhaps more so.

Take back control of your body. Otherwise, intellectual freedom seems little more than an illusion.

Refs:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/261303/total-number-of-retail-prescriptions-filled-annually-in-the-us/

https://www.statista.com/statistics/315476/prescriptions-in-us-per-capita-by-age-group/

https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html

https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/statistics/slides/long_term_trends.pdf

https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/health-statistics/diabetes-statistics

https://usafacts.org/articles/obesity-rate-nearly-triples-united-states-over-last-50-years/

https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/library/features/diabetes-stat-report.html

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Jan 2, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

What an utterly brilliant essay on where we find ourselves today - almost inconceivable but here we are.

‘I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain’. (Roy - BladeRunner)

I weep for what we have lost, or more precisely, given away.

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Jan 2, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

As an early boomer, I finished my education through university before the 60's ended, and then spent a year of "post graduate" work in the jungle. It was then that I realized that the official narrative was a lie, and if the intervening 50+years have taught me anything, it is that the official narrative is ALWAYS a lie. It may just be a personal conceit, but I believe I've been to the mountain top for a long time now.

Just became aware of the Good Citizen yesterday through a link at LRC, and thought well enough of the mountain essay to subscribe and send the link to a couple of friend, one of those friends who really need a brain washing will get the link to this one also. Excellent writing that demands more than a casual read. I look forward to more. Hope you are not just preaching to the choir.

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Jan 2, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

I'm new to The Good Citizen. I loved this post and look forward to the next one!

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Jan 2, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

Life in the asylum: ( the UK): Blair, the architect of Open Borders- no need to inform the public- the war in Iraq, attempts to derail Brexit and , most recently, expedient denunciations of those of us who have refused the dubious benefits of vaccination, has been knighted in the New Year's honours list.

Public anger is growing ,reflected in a Change.org petition.

School children in secondary schools will once more be gagged and absences in both public and private sectors caused by the test fest are spreading, with predictable consequences.

Sneezing and blowing one's nose now require urgent recourse to costly PCRs and LFTs : isolation the most likely outcome.

The doom mongers of SAGE hàve also been knighted, presumably for services rendered.

So, where is wisdom, where is self reliance, where is personal responsibility, where is independent thought and rational analysis?

We cannot cancel death, we cannot live forever in a state of vegetative safety and we need to wake up and cast off the bondage.

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Jan 2, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

I am moved and inspired by this post and your last one. We truly are the protagonists we have been waiting for. Your writing is transcendent and I thank you.

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Jan 3, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

Brilliant essay, I read carefully, liked, subscribed and shared. I will also reread several more times. I am the only person my age (66) that I know who takes no prescription medications. I am unvax and have never had a flu vaccine. I have lost several friends because I am unvax. One friend of 30 years says I live in an alternative reality because I do not watch MSM but instead search out brilliant folks such as yourself to read and study. I tried to explain to friends 2 nights ago the risk with at home tests (such as you described) and I got laughed at. I can't wait to read your previous essays.

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Jan 2, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

New to your website. Excellent writing! Keep up the good work.

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Jan 2, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

This is Gold!!!!

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Jan 2, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

So well said and so on the money

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Jan 2, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

Yes, your essay from atop the mountain was long, and in fact I saved it to read later ...

Having read it now, yes, the lies are everywhere, but so are the truths. Revelations is now at the top of my reading list. Fear is an effective weapon of the tyrant, but so to, their fear of loss of control is an effective weapon against them. I doubt though that the masses will suddenly awaken to a "new reality", but the hope that they will follow the knowing, as sheep can be led by any encouraging alpha, towards the light of a brighter future is what makes these discussions all the more valuable. Also so true, "permeance is the illusion of every age and every age is blinded by the illusion".

To insert myself into the essay I have left the forest, passed the treeline on my way to the mountain tops, assessing which one has the greatest vantage point.

As for this essay, this quiet klaxon of sanity, many thoughts spring to mind. Most are about the correctness of the observations, the complexity of the descriptive thoughts and the need for mental herd immunity from the decpticons of pop culture. I do not enjoy, but as with all unpleasant tasks that yield great rewards, I am anxious for the awakening rebellion against the evil that has metastasized throughout western civilization.

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Jan 2, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

Brilliant work! Happy New Year.

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Jan 3, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

Like others I know, we are at times baffled and horrified by the behavior of our fellow citizens. Even when I sit down with one of the covidians and discuss events in a calm logical manner, reality doesn't penetrate. So many are attached so strongly to their feelings about events that reason is completely blocked. I've pretty much resolved to help only those worth helping. Other than that I'll just watch this entertaining dumpster fire shitshow and roast a few marshmallows.

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