Guest Post by Addison Reeves
It’s just two weeks. It’s just staying three feet apart. It’s just staying six feet apart. It’s just not going outside. It’s just not giving handshakes. It’s just working from home. It is just non-essential businesses that are closed.
It’s just bars. It’s just restaurants. It’s just theaters. It’s just concerts. It’s just dancing. It’s just intramural sports. It’s just choir.
It’s just non-essential medical services that you have to give up. It is just non-essential items that you are not allowed to buy. It’s just not being able to exercise. It’s just gyms. It is just the closure of your business for a while. It is just not making money for a while. It is just not being able to pay your bills for a little while.
It’s just a minor inconvenience. It’s just not being allowed to carpool. It’s just not socializing for a while. It’s just a mask. It’s just not traveling for a while. It’s just not hugging people for a while. It’s just missionary sex that is risky.
It is just not seeing your family and friends for a while. It’s just not visiting your grandparents temporarily. It’s just your grandparents not having visitors for their safety. It’s just one birthday you have to sacrifice. It’s just one Thanksgiving alone. It’s just one Christmas without your family. It’s just two birthdays you had to sacrifice. It is just not celebrating any milestones for a year and a half.
It’s just temporary. It’s just a safety measure. It is just your ability to pay cash. It is just contact tracing. It is just a health screening. It is just a temperature check. It is just a scan of your face. It’s just a minor loss of privacy.
It is just one semester. It is just two semesters. It is just one year out of your child’s life. It is just one more semester. It is just a high school graduation.
It’s just the birth of your grandchild that you missed. It is just not being able to be there for your relatives when they are ill or dying. It is just not having a funeral. It is just in person that you cannot grieve with your loved ones. It is just not getting to attend religious service. It is just not getting to practice some parts of your religion.
It is just misinformation that is being censored. It is just conservatives that are being censored. It is just some of the science that is being censored. It is just the people who have the opposing opinions that are banned online. It is just the opposition that the White House is targeting for censorship. It is just bad opinions that are being censored.
It’s just the economy. It is just small business owners who are suffering financially. It is just poor people who are suffering financially. It is just people of color who are suffering financially. It is just financial suffering. It is just a few small businesses that had to close permanently. It is just a few big businesses that closed.
It is just not going farther than a few kilometers from your house. It is just a curfew. It is just a permission slip. It is just being alone for two weeks. It is just being socially isolated for one year.
It is just one vaccine. It is just one set of booster shots. It is just regular booster shots every six months. It is just another two weeks. It is just one more lock-down. It is just once a week—twice tops—that you will have to prove that you are fit to participate in society. It is just the unvaccinated that will be segregated from society. It is just a medical test.
Pretty simple, no?
Just fucking do it.
But when you add up all the “justs,” it amounts to our entire lives.
For over a year and a half and counting, we have been robbed of the ability to live our lives fully, to make meaningful choices for ourselves, and to express our values the way we see fit.
It is “just” the inability to express our humanity and the total negation of our very selves. All of these measures have served as a prohibition of expressing outwardly one’s valid and complex internal reality. This kind of suppression of self does violence to one’s very soul.
All of these supposedly little and supposedly short-lived “justs” have transformed us into totalitarian states from which there appears to be no endpoint.
In New York City, California, Australia, etc., the people have permitted government such control over our daily lives that we have to ask it for permission to control our bodies, to move freely, to practice religion, to educate our children ourselves, to protest, etc.
Soon Biden, Trudeau, and other world leaders are going to clamp down on our ability to express ourselves and to associate with each other online so that we can no longer question, object to, or organize against government action. It is the destruction of democracy.
It astounds me that my Progressive friends — the same ones who claim to support “social justice” — are welcoming a fascist society in which government crushes any opposition and individuals cannot make choices about their own lives.
I will not comply because I do not want to live in the society that is being created by extraordinary submissiveness to government. I do not want to be complicit in this era’s atrocities.
What is the point of living if one merely exists to obey the elite to one’s own detriment? Is it even living if one lacks the agency to direct one’s life? I’ve already submitted in contradiction of my values to a shameful extent. One might say, “Well, what’s one more compromise,” but it won’t be just one more compromise. It will be just the next cut in a slow death by a thousand cuts.
Submitting only validates tyrannical displays of power and ensures that there will be more such displays in the future.
And what does one get for compromising? Merely your continued membership in a society that will only have you if you immolate yourself and become nothing more than a reflection of the desires of the ruling class.
If you cannot be truly yourself in a society, is that society worth clinging to? I think not. As much as leaving the stability of my comfort zone terrifies me, staying in it means continuing to silence and shrink myself for a disingenuous feeling of acceptance. In that way, it is more of a discomfort zone.
Each time I expressed my fears about the future direction of society, my friends said “it won’t happen.” Each time it did happen, they shrugged their shoulders and reminded me that compliance was an option.
At this point, if the government were to cart me away to an internment camp (which is not a completely far-fetched notion and which has happened in the past) for being a dangerous dissident I am certain that my friends and family would watch it happen and say it was my fault for not complying.
They are no longer capable of recognizing the humanity of the opposition or of questioning government.
I will not submit because I don’t want to live in a world in which my supposed allies would happily see me persecuted by the government.
I will not comply because the political climate has become so censorial, authoritarian, and generally toxic that my viewpoints will never be represented in the political process here. Without representation, my values and beliefs will be violated again and again by a polity that sees any deviation from itself as invalid. Thus, my compliance will provide zero assurance of any better treatment in the future.
I will not bend because I am not a conformist.
I will not give in because I do not want to reward government manipulation and coercion.
I will not surrender because I could die at any moment, and I do not want my final memories to be ones of craven submission to tyranny and the resultant misery and self-loathing.
I will not comply because it is not the government’s first intrusion on my body, mind, and spirit; and if we comply, it will definitely not be the last. All I will accomplish by my compliance is validating the government’s claim on my body and life.
I am not submitting because this is war, and I am not handing the enemy its victories.
I will not comply because the reward for compliance will still be being treated as a second class-citizen by society.
I won’t acquiesce because I am a conscientious objector.
I will not cede because the measures are unnecessary and the only practical effect will be to increase government power.
I don’t comply because I do not want to be a mere slave in the future version of the world they are creating, doing only what I am told to do and having to beg for access to the necessities of life that I am entitled to as a living being on this earth.
I will not yield because their religion is not my religion, and I refuse to worship a false idol.
I will not capitulate because I do not want to betray my ancestors and predecessors who fought for me to be free.
I will not surrender because freedom is more important than convenience and ease.
I will not comply because if I did I would be filled with rage against society, resentment towards my friends and family, and self-loathing that would eat me alive. I would become bitter and closed-hearted, and I don’t want that for myself.
All of this is why I won’t “just fucking do it.”.
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“For those of us who wish to help return sanity to an insane world, the first step is to bring order to our own minds and to live in a way that provides inspiration for others to follow.
It is not for nothing that our age cries out for the Redeemer Personality, for the one who can emancipate himself from the grip of the collective psychosis, and save at least his own soul, who lights a beacon of hope for others, proclaiming that here is at least one man, who has succeeded in extricating himself from the fatal identity with the group psyche.”
Carl Jung
How do we stop the descent into totalitarianism?
Counter propaganda with truth. Use ridicule to delegitimize the ruling elite. Form parallel structures. Provide active resistance.
Exactly right. Form parallel structures. Provide active resistance.
The group psyche, we may not want war as much as it wants us, time will tell! Truth always will bear out, much to the powers that be trying to stop it. It’s going to be one wild ride!
Warning: You are entering the second Bolshevik Revolution. There is no voting our way out of it. Prepare accordingly… Chip
so the GOPee is Bolshevik? No, just your garden variety authoritarians, very little ideology behind. Same outcome.
MAGA is like Von Mannerheim, fighting the Soviets, killing them and driving them out of newly independent Finland in 1918. GOPe is Kerensky, soon to be in exile thousands of miles away.
If it goes hot I would use RINOs for lead elements in attacks to get rid of them because you know when the time comes they will eagerly sell us out once more. Beyond that they have zero value to us.
Actually there is a way to vote yourself out of it,you just need to vote with the appropriate box.
The box that starts with “C.”
The “C”word,as in a crude/derogatory term for woman?
Eh………..,OK.
Ammo box.
Entering? It is in its final stages. It started in the USA around a hundred years ago.
EXCELLENT Post… Chip
The truly free individual will not submit nor support such tyrannical measures. If they are thrown in jail or into a FEMA camp they will still be free.
While naming Kali and NYC, perhaps we should include Dallas, NC, and Alabama.
I’m in NC and my portion of the state isn’t too bad, currently. I’m in the Piedmont area. I don’t go out a whole lot, but when I do, people are still mostly maskless and seem to be going on about their business. In spite of the CDC calling for mask mandates again, I see very few businesses requiring them.
I’m in SW NC…in the mountains and most masked up. Sometimes we were the only ones in WMT or other big boxes w/o the holy rag. BTW, this country and adjoining ones voted 70% or more for Trump. Very surprising to us.
Where on earth did you get the idea that we here in Australia ever gave our federal and state governments “permission” to do any of that? Oh, right… from media reports that throw it in as an untested assumption, just like the idea that Australians were in favour of gun bans (I attended both pro and anti gun ban rallies to see for myself, so I know there were about three times as many against the bans, though you wouldn’t have known it from the media). Now track down how many protests against lockdowns keep coming up, say by looking at sites like melbournefreedomrally.com, and see if you still think that they are being done with permission. What is being done is being done without permission, by force and fraud, and that may backfire in time.
To bad your guns are mostly gone…you might have been able to resist ….unless 90% didn’t comply with the gun ban .
Again, who told you the guns are mostly gone? Media reports, by any chance?
Probably between 5% and 35% of guns didn’t get turned in back then, with guns nearing the ends of their useful lives making up most of those that were. Now, twenty or so years later, the bulk of the useful ones out there have come in through informal channels since then, what with the ageing of past stock. That is, the newer ones are anything from outright illegal to qualifying for legal use but available for other use without a government OK in practice. But that means that those channels are now functioning, even though there hasn’t yet been the sort of need that would have built up stocks.
But regardless, there is still real resistance here, though so far only through civil disobedience. Which is what I was telling you.
The following, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_buyback_program#Australia, may interest you:-
That means that the buyback cost a little more than 72% of what was projected. Even if it was so efficient that it wouldn’t have led to budget overruns, that still means that about a quarter of the guns were never turned in. That figure rises if the buyback was inefficient, if the projections left out any sorts of guns (as they might, with guns that were illegal anyway), if there were significant fixed costs (say, in the administration of it all), and so on. Over and above that, if either buybacks or lockdowns “worked” there wouldn’t have been any point in trying them again because they would have achieved their intended outcomes. As against that, the government could have been so efficient that it achieved all it wanted well under budget. So I ended up with a general range for guns not bought back, that could be useful as a starting point for further enquiry or to bring out certain aspects of the issues. I have no idea why you think that the actual figure should be as high as 90% for it to matter.
So Lawrence of Australia, are you OK with your government having been stolen from you? Any plans on helping with the backfire?
Not “of” but “in”. As a philosophical anarchist, not only do I think that all governments are always like that from the get go anyway, but also that anything that replaces any of them will inevitably have the same original sin. The only variation is where a government is on its trajectory. So there never was any government that was stolen from anyone, just a government that was into stealing all along and is now running with it. But the saying “the only good government is a bad government that is in a hell of a fright” reflects how blowback sometimes make a government behave better, out of fear rather than from principle – and that may come before too late.
As to what I might do myself – well, the only overt thing would be to remind people of the lessons of history. Only a damned fool would overtly do more. Giving warning differs from making threats, in that the one who only warns isn’t part of what makes the danger, and so is not at fault for causing it like the one who threatens it.
People need to keep repeating this to combat the brainwashing.
It shouldn’t astound you. They never cared about “social justice”. Social justice isn’t even a thing. It is a loose collection of platitudes and buzzwords that liberals promote to feel good about themselves, belittle other people, and to try and add meaning to an otherwise meaningless existence.
No, they will welcome tyranny with open arms as long as it targets their political opponents. They aren’t ‘liberal’ in any true sense of the word. They practice a new orthodoxy, but it’s still orthodoxy. The cheering and smug self-satisfaction about censorship tells you all you need to know.
Stop believing their marketing and look at their words and actions.
Don’t dismiss it so lightly. They have been writing and improving on it for a hundred years and it is a political weapon, not the ravings of madmen. The ravings of madmen are the useful idiots trying to apply the weapon.
If this Great Mind Rape has done nothing else, it shows that they will stop AT NOTHING to get a submissive population. Most people are too far gone, psychologically.
This is a great study into multigenerational mind control.
“Most people are too far gone, psychologically.”
It certainly looks that way from watching what the MSM laughingly claims is “the news” — but I don’t think that is true. We normal thinking people have been cowed into being silent strictly because the news keeps telling us that we are a minority. The truth is, we are still in the majority. If we were a minority, they wouldn’t have had to steal the election.
Let me repeat that for emphasis. IF WE WERE A MINORITY, THEY WOULDN’T HAVE HAD TO STEAL THE ELECTION.
Absolutely, SOME people are too far gone (one of my brothers is over the edge), but MOST people still retain some sense and will act that way when they understand they are not outnumbered.
“IF WE WERE A MINORITY, THEY WOULDN’T HAVE HAD TO STEAL THE ELECTION.”
BUMPER STICKER!
It’s just a pinch of incense.
Outstanding reference, Iska.
It’s just a little Green Tip…don’t worry Master .
Tour de Force!
Auntie’s best reason: because FUCK YOU!, that’s why.
ANd prepared to back it up.
You, sir, perhaps without knowing it, have just gone nearly full zen.
Bravo! Great declaration there my friend!
Auntie et al you made made day, laughed till it hurt, zen indeed. TY!