The Great Madness

Guest Post by The Zman

Has the world gone mad? It certainly seems that way to some of us. Even the most cynical never imagined the government shutting down the country for fear of a virus, but it has suddenly become the new normal. The cynical, if they thought of it at all, would have thought the opposite. Instead of a great lock down, the response would have been for the beautiful people to insulate themselves from harm, while abandoning the rest of us to the plague. Instead, we have all gone mad together.

Not everyone has got the fever, that is this panic fever, not the one caused by the Chinese coronavirus. Our world is now firmly divided into two camps. There are those fully invested in the great panic over the virus and there are those who look at the other camp, gobsmacked by what appears to be a general madness. Those in panic look at the rest of us the same way preppers look at normal people. They just assume the gods will strike us down for doubting the virus.

Of course, the people in the skeptic camp could be the ones suffering from some form of madness that prevents them from seeing the threat. The trouble is, the great plague is not exactly lighting up the scoreboard. America has tested over 600,000 people suspected of having the virus. Over 500,000 tested negative. Of the positives, 12,000 needed hospital care. In a country of over 320 million people with 200,000 empty hospital beds at any one time, that’s not much of a crisis.

Yet, despite the numbers, formerly sober-minded people continue to carry on as if there are bodies in the streets. Steve Sailer, a man not known for excitability, is calling this virus a great adversary of the human race. Greg Cochran has completely lost his marbles over this thing. Geneticist and HBD enthusiast Razib Khan is in hiding, convinced the end times are upon us. In fact, the whole HBD community is a click away from fleeing to Antarctica to wait out the end of civilization.

Of course, part of the panic, a symptom of that particular virus, is a set of abracadabra phrases that have become so common they seem like something from a secret society, understood only by the initiates. The duller sorts chant about “exponential growth” while others talk about “the hospitals being overwhelmed.” That’s why we have to “flatten the curve” and “slow the spread.” These incantations are to chase away doubt and reinforce the belief that people are dying in the streets.

The dying in the streets bit is not much of an exaggeration. A popular bit of folklore now among the panicked is some version of the anonymous ER doctor or nurse relaying how they are overwhelmed and letting people die in the hallways. This urban legend turned up in China, Washington, Italy, New York and now New Orleans. Formerly sensible people now pass these whoppers around on-line, never bothering to think that maybe they are being fed a just-so story by people seeking attention.

One emerging aspect to the madness is the moral dimension. The HBD crowd seems to have been hardest hit. They spend a lot of time contemplating nature and their fellow man’s refusal to respect it. Part of what is driving them now is a sense that nature is going to finally exact some revenge. In other words, this panic is part of a strange revenge fantasy, where they are finally vindicated by biological reality. This sudden sense of moral purpose has made them immune to reason.

Another aspect to this general panic, unrelated to the virus itself, is a different type of revenge fantasy. Many people are cheering the collapse of the economy and civil life on the mistaken belief that what emerges from the rubble will have them at the top of the social hierarchy. This is a phenomenon shared across the political spectrum. It seems to be most popular with young people unhappy with the status quo and far too caught up in purge fantasies to be reached with facts and reason.

Probably the most salient aspect to this panic is the role of women. As has been noted too many times to count, the West is now a gynocracy. It is not a matriarchy, as women have stopped bearing children and stopped caring about children. Look around and you see childless women in positions of authority all over the West. In fact, these are women who reached their status by rejecting every aspect of womanhood. The West is now a world run by middle-aged childless women.

Anyone who has been around women in a crisis has observed a strange phenomenon among childless adult females. Some switch gets flipped in a crisis where their protective instincts get misdirected at the adults in the room. This part of their nature was never allowed to mature in the raising of children, so it comes bursting forth in an incoherent desire to help when their help is not needed. They become like mother ducks loudly herding the brood to safety.

For a society run by such women, every crisis is met with demands that everyone shelter in place. Notice how over the last few decades that public officials no longer call for volunteers or tell people to pitch in and work together. Such independent action violates the frightened female’s sense of duty to her brood. Instead, mild weather events now close the schools and force people to work from home. This virus scare is every middle-aged women’s Hunger Games moment.

Mass panics are a known phenomenon. The general panic that took place in France between July 22 and August 6 1789 is known as The Great Fear. It was a period of rural unrest, driven by both a grain shortage and rumors of an aristocrats’ “famine plot” to starve the peasants. The exact reason for this panic is in dispute. Ergotism is a favorite reason for those with a certain sense of humor, but most historians consider it one of the primary causes of the French Revolution.

At some point, the bloom comes off this lock-down rose once people start to feel the real cost of listening to madmen. People will remember that the same folks who swore Boris and Natasha had used their mind control devise to install Trump in the White House are the many of the same people peddling this panic. Necessity will force a lot of people to stop going along with what they have suspected from the start is nothing more than a mass panic. Soon, this all comes to an end.

Like the Great Fear, the Great Madness will leave a mark, or at least it should leave a mark on our society. You never can be sure about these things, as the West seems to be unusually immune to learning from these events. Two centuries ago The Great Fear meant the end of the feudal order and eventually a revolution. It was not the sole cause of the revolution, maybe not the main cause. It was certainly an example of how the old order was no longer able to maintain order.

It is too soon to know what this panic means for us. Perhaps it further undermines the legitimacy of the system and the people that profit from it. Perhaps it sets off social changes that slowly transform our society in ways we have yet to imagine. Maybe the fever breaks and this event, like the Russian hoax, gets forgotten. Given what most likely awaits on the other side of the lock-down, it is hard to imagine this great madness being forgotten. There’s always a price to be paid for following madmen.

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flash
flash

If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.
Camille Paglia

“THE GENTLELADY IS OUT OF ORDER!’

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Coalclinker
Coalclinker

When they started designing cars to suit the innate laziness of many women, that’s when they became electrical nightmares and nearly impossible to keep up. Have you seen the mechanism of any 4X4 made in the last 30 years? Women didn’t like pulling levers or getting out to lock in the hubs. They sure don’t like standard shift or having to roll up a car window.

yahsure
yahsure

Our society has dumbed down enough that we now need cars that drive themselves. I guess it frees up both hands so people can text.

flash
flash

Never discount the importance of selfies… it’s who we are.

(EC)
(EC)

You guys are funny, it proves you don’t have to be black to engage in Afro-humor.

Mygirl...maybe

yeah, ONLY women dislike stick shifts and roll down windows. Your misogyny is duly noted. Now, what other worldly problems can you blame on women?

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer

How much of her spit and saliva you think she was able to deliver into the foam microphone hood? Here she is, wearing the latex gloves, a bottle of hand sanitizer on the desk next to her and she’s screaming, spittle flying into the same microphone every other person is going to be gum humping for the rest of the session. How unobservant do you have to be to miss that? A houseplant would warn you if it could talk.

Am I the only sane person left (present company excepted)?

Mygirl...maybe

There has been a great and grave disservice done to young women. They have not been taught manners, proper speaking decorum nor do they know how to modulate their voices. Shrieking at high pitch not only irritates, it also antagonizes those whom one presumes they hope to sway. Witness AOC and her flailings about. Classless and clueless are no ways to behave.

Mygirl...maybe

Yep, then again, please explain Joe Biden. He’s got man hands and hairy legs that kids like to love.

RiNS

Spot on Zedman!

ursel doran
ursel doran
SmallerGovNow

Wouldn’t that be great? Hope the author is right in his assessment… Chip

SeeBee
SeeBee

“Our world is now firmly divided into two camps.”

One of the many issues today. It’s not always either/or. Many people subscribe to an If/then outlook. It’s not always one coin with two sides. This simple assertion does not take into account many people who do not subscribe to either camps.

yahsure
yahsure

I think many are more in the middle on this stuff.

Mobius
Mobius

Like threads on a wingnut, the truth is usually somewhere in the middle.

(EC)
(EC)

That sounds like circular logic, Stripper. The X-files said the truth is out there, not in the middle.

Coalclinker
Coalclinker

The Zman hit the nail on the head with this article. I for one can’t understand peoples’ panic stemming from an agitprop press that has never told the truth, and never will until they’re all lined up and shot, and then start it all over anew. I haven’t seen dead people laying around. So many people are fucking morons due to their herd animal mentality.

gman
gman

“can’t understand peoples’ panic stemming from an agitprop press”

well, for some, especially preppers, it’s because they wanted to believe it. they’ve been looking forward to The End Of The World ™ because it’ll finally be their time to be somebody important, but it’s been over ten years, all their hoarded stores are deteriorating, they’re getting old and cranky, and they fear it’s going to take too long and they’re going to miss out on “spicy time” when they can parade with their tricked-out ar15 down the streets being the “sheepdogs” and practicing “exact and precise culling” of all their problems.

so the headlines said “COVID19 IS COMING!” and they all said “YEAH!”

yahsure
yahsure

The virus sure brings out people who say retarded things like its not as bad as the Flu. Or that its nothing to worry about. Or it’s a plan to enslave the country. Many articles here on TBP follow this pattern.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Sooo… with that thought… how many dead should we expect?? As I am one of those “retarder people”

gman
gman

“how many dead should we expect?”

over 3 million (in the u.s.).

‘course, we get over 3 million each year anyway ….

splurge
splurge

Probably not enough, for a while.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Since we already live in a Technocracy, the answer is obvious:

Ask the expert:

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/dr-fauci-were-going-have-millions-cases-and-between-100k-200k-deaths

A couple weeks ago, I guesstimated (with no expertise whatsoever) that this virus would be about two to three times as bad as a bad flu season. With nearly 80,000 flu deaths in 2018 (that no one but the dead gave a shit about) I figured about 250,000 deaths.

I said that this was bad, but was no cause for panic or quarantines or shutting down the entire economy.

I was mocked by the panic-stricken who did – and have continued to – insist that 250 million people would get the virus and there’d be 7 to 15 MILLION dead as a result. And it’s not just the elderly (And, OH, you’ll see each and every de minimus case of a young, healthy person dying of CV shouted from the rooftops by the fear-porn infected MSM). And people who recover will get re-infected and the deaths will go on indefinitely. And it’s exponential growth, dontcha know. (So why has even Cuomo said the cases should peak in 2-3 weeks? Exponential growth doesn’t “peak”. It goes on forever. One day one-sixteenth of the country is dead, and four days later the entire earth is a lifeless husk. We’re ALL GOING TO DIE!!)

It’s panicked fear-mongering like that that led to a shuttering of businesses across the country (and world) in the aftermath of the long-awaited popping of the stock market bubble. This, in turn has led to a new, and more enormous, round of “stimulus” to bail out the too-big-to-fail industries. Oh, and an insulting $1k to people who have been bankrupted and PUT out of work. They didn’t LOSE their jobs and small businesses. Those jobs and small businesses were TAKEN from them, on the basis of the fears of panic-mad germophobes.

As I’ve also said, this is a NO-LOSE situation for those imposing this shut-down and the sheeple demanding it and meekly complying with it. If it peaks naturally, and would have without the overblown response, they can always say “See, quarantines, and “social-distancing”, and dust-masks, and handwashing WORKED! We were successful. Our response was the right one, and we saved the world from mass death!”

There will never be a downside, nor opportunity to disprove the necessity of the response. It will be Obama’s “jobs created or saved”. Instead, it will be lives “saved” with no way to know whether they’d have been “saved” even without the response. Thus, forever bullshit.

If you trust the “experts”, Yahsure, (and we know you do) then this will peak at 100k to 200k deaths. Whether one considers that “no big deal” for one bad year’s death toll in addition to the other 2-3 Million deaths nationwide, is up to interpretation.

As to whether it’s a “plan” enacted to enslave the country — like “lives saved” — we’ll probably never know. However, it IS an opportunity to FURTHER ENSLAVE the country. If you can’t recognize that, it’s a wonder you read TBP.

I’m reminded of that old Depeche Mode song:

“Sheeple are sheeple,
So why should it be,
That they can’t be enslaved unlawfully …”

gman
gman

“the panic-stricken”

panic-excited.

gman
gman

“Sheeple are sheeple,
So why should it be,
That they can’t be enslaved unlawfully …”

in judaism, it’s “lawfully” ….

Mygirl...maybe

yes

Coalclinker
Coalclinker

With a supposed mortality rate of 10% you should see dead or dying people laying on the ground. You should be standing on a street corner and witness people collapsing on the sidewalk. You should see of lots of coughing and gagging people constantly blowing their nose. I’ve seen neither, and no one else I know has either.

Toujours Pret
Toujours Pret

“The West is now a world run by middle-aged childless women”
In this current world where all sorts of twisted spells are cast to destroy the heart, mind and spirit of humanity I have to ask:
How many of these women were born male?

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer

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flash
flash

David Bowie’s granddaddy ?

(EC)
(EC)

Ann Coulter’s dad.

Mygirl...maybe

That’s a man…..

gman
gman

“Even the most cynical never imagined the government shutting down the country for fear of a virus”

(laugh) yeah, this one took all the preppers by surprise. they prepared for concrete events – hurricane, war, inflation – but nobody thought to prepare for sheer mindless stampede.

ApoloDoc
ApoloDoc

Once again, z-fool is speaking concerning that of which he knows not. By your idiotic claim of the Nawlin’s doc being a fake, you have really put your foot in it. He has been well-vetted and his experiences are consistent with what are being reported by many physicians, nurses, and other staff.

As a physician, I am glad that you are seeking to scam out a living by posting your own drivel online. Those gullible or vulnerable enough to actually send money to you deserve what they get.

mike
mike

Sorry, but I have to say I fully agree with ApoloDoc here.

(EC)
(EC)

Mike the Dike’s endorsement is not a good sign.

Mygirl...maybe

It’s dyke and zman is full of shit…again. All the world’s ills are created by middle aged women? Really? Talk about mommy issues. Then he disses the NO ER doc without actually going to the original site where the comment (it was a comment) was posted, he does no research and yet speaks with authority on the doc being a fake. Like, Zman, you fraud, prove the NO doc as a fake.

Then he spews the usual drivel about no masses of dead bodies littering the streets so it can’t be real. It’s like he has watched one too many zombie movies and believes them. The Italian video was a fake, hell, it’s all a fake, a hoax, he’s positive because he’s a doctor, a medical expert, he’s been to NO personally to check out the scene, ditto NY and he has PROOF beyond any assailable doubt that the virus is a hoax created by childless middle aged women. Pfft. Pathetic and even more pathetic are those who applaud this idiot.

flash
flash

POS MDs have killed far more people than Corana chan ever will . I wouldn’t trust one far as I can piss , and with my prostate, that ain’t very far.

mike
mike

Hey bullshitter, have you also sworn to yourself that you will never take any kind of (modern) medication, for the rest of your life?

flash
flash

Drug dealers MD’s make the medication now or is their job only to prescribe (i.e push ) it ?
Unlike low IQ knob polishers like yourself, I read the warnings on all medication , which is why I currently don’t take any.
You really are too stupid to be on this board. Don’t you have another provocateur jobs , your Deep State whore masters need you to be working on?

gman
gman

” I read the warnings on all medication , which is why I currently don’t take any.”

? those are written by lawyers. you get your medical care from lawyers?

Mygirl...maybe

Well, I’m no fan of pharmacological drugs and yet, if I am in a medical crisis I will indeed take those drugs. Those drugs have saved my life on a few occasions. So go ahead and eschew drugs, it’s your right to do so but don’t pretend to know it all or have all the answers and especially don’t denigrate those who have to take drugs to survive.

mike
mike

So give us a simple answer, super-high IQ prodigy:
Is it YES or NO, that you will never take any kind of (modern) medication, for the rest of your life?

(EC)
(EC)

Apile O’ Croc, I enjoyed this article and found it very well reasoned and exposited.

I recall a hypnotist’s act where the row of subjects passed a vibration from hand to hand down the row.

Despite claims that peoples are different; some smarter, some dumber, the reactions to this virus have all been the same – people are passing the shaking hand act down the line.

Is it a force of nature or of economics? Are we obligated to close down the economy because China did so or because the virus forces us to do so? I had written to La Maggie long ago, circa Feb, that China closing its economy was like the world’s economic aircraft losing an engine. It took a bit longer to sense that catastrophic failure here because all was quiet on the western front.

We may end up chasing China. We can’t get ahead of her because she needs to be active in the world economy. Those who claim this is the end of globalism are reading things wrong. It’s just the beginning.

(EC)
(EC)
Ghost

Will send a full update… an amazing day of rock tossing in the cemeteries.

(EC)
(EC)

Who the heck tosses their rocks in a cemetery?

Anonymous
Anonymous

Tossers.

Mygirl...maybe

Some people get their rocks off in cemeteries….

Mygirl...maybe

The article confirmed your biases, didn’t it. Generally when that happens people will think the article is grand. As to ending globalism? Nope, I agree, it is just beginning…One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them, One ring to bring them all. and in the darkness bind them.

John Galt
John Galt

All i know is many here are trying to have one degree of separation of knowing someone, anyone, that has covid. Seems only leaders, prime ministers, hollywood actors, sports stars, all the elites are saying they are infected but none in the hospital and no updates. They just claimed to have it. Seems they are all in cahoots in a clinton narrative. This is all overhyped. They think they can use it for the mail in ballot this november is all…..get all the dead people and illegal votes by ballot stuffing….if they said you had to mail in a copy of your drivers license by exec order to vote by mail this would be over tomorrow…..

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