New habits die hard
Having now come through an election cycle in which I ran a fool’s errand while also energizing myself ( I will return to the subject in future entries), I wait and wait for this city, this culture, these people, to come back from the dead.
I don’t mean Covid dead, I mean spiritually dead. I see before me a traumatized city and people, after 19 months of lockdowns, CNN watching, media haranguing, social isolation and dysmorphia, financial shock, loss of careers, more lockdowns, endless masking, sanitizer oozing everywhere, yet more lockdowns, with a steady diet of fear, division and anti science ideology. All this is driven by a Government using all of the above to force the populace into total submission and compliance with a vaccine mandate that, in itself, is proof of the underlying science - Political Science..
Remember nineteen months ago - “2 weeks to flatten the curve”?
Canadians have been hit hardest in a fashion. Their ability to recover spiritually is hampered by their innately timid, fearful, insecure, dependent and compliant natures. Not all , but certainly the vast majority of Canadians have drunk the kool aid and may never return - only time will tell. Perhaps this is what comes from a country that was founded by the losers of a revolution, aided by a brigade of Mounted Police.
The real sign of successful brainwashing is when the people - without the Government insistence - continue to uphold the superstitions and arbitrary rules long after the Government relaxes them. In the music business, musicians are desperately clinging to their masks, tests, distance and sanitizer, though the Government has removed these idiotic rules. In small businesses, the owners obediently ask for vaccine passports though there is no logic, and no law to force them to do so. In the streets, people walk like zombies after a holocaust, masks on their faces and fear in their eyes, moving sideways to avoid any proximal contact with fellow humans. And all this after they have enthusiastically rolled up their sleeves and taken the jab. Weren’t they promised that after the jab life would return to normal?
They forget that we are here as a species after more than 300,000 years BECAUSE of each, not DESPITE each other.
The ‘experts’ keep reminding families to screen all their members before seeing them, and certainly not to touch anyone. No mention is made of simple common sense habits, such as living a life of healthy habits, exercise, good nutrition, proper weight, social interaction and ample rest. I keep asking myself why this is so?
What began as a shock for most humans, has now found a sympathetic and compliant home in Canadian culture as the new habit, aka ‘the new normal’.
A virus finds its weakest host, and the virus of fear has found a welcoming home in Canada.
Young children with masks? People being fired for choosing to not take a medical treatment? Old friends, siblings, parents, husband and wives - estranged because of a cold virus? The hapless electorate re-electing a tyrannical and incompetent Government -who caused all of this damage - in a putatively ‘free’ election? Stalin would applaud the unopposed success of the totalitarian agenda.
My hope is that history will judge this similarly to the way it judges the witch trials of Salem and the Inquisition. My hope is that people somehow will wake up and become human again.
Only time will tell how hard will be the death of this Brave New World.