Creating a World of Distrust

Guest Post by Todd Hayen

I remember a time when people were left to their own devices when determining what to pay attention to and what to ignore.

Remember “Bat Boy?” A strange Weekly World News (sister tabloid to the National Enquirer) creation set to terrorize and dismay. Did anyone really believe this? I doubt if many did. Some did, I’m sure, but what can ‘ya do?

I remember wondering about it. I was still young and impressionable (actually, I still wonder about it, I guess I am old and impressionable now). The operative word here is “wonder.” No government agency told me I was not allowed to wonder if something was “true” or not. I figured that out on my own. Why is this good?

Well, for one thing, you would have to be a nutcase to allow the government, or any authoritative power, to tell you what you were allowed to wonder about. Secondly, wondering is healthy. It hones your senses; you figure stuff out on your own. There is nothing more powerful than having to figure something out on your own. It takes something called “thinking”—which seems to be in low supply these days.

I just saw a meme with two heads speaking to one another. One head is visibly angry and is saying something like, “look at this!!!” holding up a cell phone. The other head says, “oh yeah, let me tell you what I think of that.” The angry head says, “shut up idiot!! You are not an expert!!” There’s more to it than that, but that’s enough to make my point.

Expert? Since when do you have to be an expert to have an opinion?

Sure, if you were in an operating room witnessing a brain surgery and the surgeon moves a scalpel in a certain way and you yell out, “excuse me, Dr. Surgeon, uh, I think you might want to cut THAT instead.” And the surgeon says, “shut up, idiot!! You are not an expert!!” MAYBE that would be ok…but…who knows?

I have a real life experience similar to that little story.

When my first wife was dying of cancer, something went horribly wrong with her Port-A-Cath (a device surgically placed in your chest for easy administration of chemo). She got very sick, and had some rather obvious symptoms. I scoured the Internet for clues, and thought I had figured out that the Port-A-Cath was plugged up with a blood clot.

We went to see her Harvard-educated oncologist who immediately diagnosed her condition as accelerated cancer growth at the site of the Port-A-Cath. I said, “no way!” and was told, albeit in different words, “shut up idiot! You are not an expert!” I realized what I was dealing with and to make a long story short, I manipulated my way around his ego and got him to change his diagnosis to “blood clot on the Port-A-Cath.” And I made it seem like he came up with it himself, not me. It saved her life.

So…never underestimate a non-expert idiot.

What does this mean? Yes, there ARE experts, and then there is just useful insight. I believe we have been maliciously trained to ignore the latter, and pay attention only to the former. But it gets worse. Who determines who the experts are? You guessed it. The “state.” Yahoo…now we’re happy.

“Science” has also been made into the state’s impenetrable god figure that only certain “experts” actually understand. The former “Science Czar” Fauci is one of these “Science Priests.” Only he, and a few like him with a similar appointed position, can determine what science is.

So rather than yelling “Fauci-denier” we hear “science denier.” Definitions of certain words, such as “vaccine” and “immune” among several others, have been conveniently changed in order to fit the “New Science.” So now no one can utter anything, no opinion, no alternative insight, nothing, if it disagrees with the hierarchy now set in place.

It is interesting how much disdain is projected on “normal people” making comments about sacrosanct “determinations” handed down from the priests on high. And anything anyone says, if it is convenient to do so, can be disregarded as “non-truth” depending on the “expert status” of the speaker. Back when talk of vaccines was all the rage, I got into an argument with a “vax-cultist.” He was claiming that no vaccine, including the Covid shot, is fully safe and effective (duh). “Who says it is!” he blurted out. Wow, he walked right into that one. I suggested a few names, particularly the President of the United States, Joe Biden—“the vaccines are safe and effective.”

His response? “Biden is not a virologist, he is not an expert, so no one should listen to him.” What?? I said the same about Bourla, CEO of Pfizer, who claimed the vaccines were never meant to stop transmission. My friend’s response? “Bourla is a business executive, not an expert on vaccines.” What?? This is what we were up against—and for the most part, still are.

But where did all this start? Surely in the Bat Boy days people were not so gullible to need “experts” to tell them if Bat Boy was real or not. (Well, some people were I guess.) The point again is that we made these determinations ourselves once upon a time. Sure, we often referred to experts for things that mattered, like brain surgery. But we did not think there was only one expert in the whole world. We got second opinions. We even got opinions from friends and family. We listened to different viewpoints, different insights. Sure, we would not ask Uncle Bob to wield the knife if surgery was imminent, but we might listen to his experiences if he at one time had a similar surgery.

Yes, there are things in the world that are far too complex for us to figure out on our own. But you might be surprised those examples account for a very small number of things we personally have to deal with. And for the most part, our concerns about complex systems like microwaves, 5G, jabbing with strange medicines, among many others, more often than not turn out to be correct. A common sense question like “if this vaccine is brand new, how DO they know what will happen in five years?” is quite appropriate to ask, you don’t need to know anything more complex than that. Hearing as an answer, “don’t worry, we know what we are doing,” has never, ever, been reassuring.

I think this deliberate process into a “non thinking” world has been slow and steady, and a study of this phenomenon would take a book full of research to completely flesh out.

The Western educational system is a good place to start, and the hypnotization of the Western medical system that has been fully monetized, and manoeuvred by powerful forces, since the beginning of the 19th Century is another. It is a formidable problem of which we are currently seeing the devastating results.

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13 Comments
Bob
Bob
July 15, 2023 7:26 am

My grandma and my aunt used to almost breathlessly rush to the grocery store and buy those papers. Then they would read the cover to cover, swap them and read those, too. I cautiously ask/told them one time that, “You know those aren’t true stories.” Both adamantly agreed with me. So I ask WHY did they buy them. “because they are fun to read,” the said.
People love to be fooled as long as they know they are being fooled. The will accept being lied to if the source is good natured and not too serious about the misdirection. I go to certain “conspiracy theory” websites today that are full of stories that are quite obviously made up nonsense. The plot lines always fail and the websites never issue a retraction when they do fail. But the BS stories are fun to read so I always come back for more. The websites that lie for malicious reasons are a different matter all together.

Booger
Booger
July 15, 2023 7:39 am

Wait! Bat boy wasn’t real?

Aodh MacRaynall
Aodh MacRaynall
  Booger
July 15, 2023 11:42 am

ignore these arse-‘oles. they think the earth is round!

Anthony Aaron
Anthony Aaron
  Aodh MacRaynall
July 15, 2023 11:48 am

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k31
k31
  Anthony Aaron
July 15, 2023 3:18 pm

They can’t, because of the ice wall. The ice wall had to be put there because of the cats.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Anthony Aaron
July 15, 2023 9:25 pm

If the Earth were, not was, flat . . .

k31
k31
  Booger
July 15, 2023 3:17 pm

I never bought those, but I always read the covers while standing in line. It seems Bat boy was so successful he kept coming back.

Anonymous
Anonymous
July 15, 2023 8:34 am

Isn’t it funny how asking “Are you an expert?” about a particular question always yields the same answer as asking, “Do you have a vested financial interest in answering the particular question in a particular way?”.

Guest
Guest
July 15, 2023 9:31 am

Technocracy. Rule by experts.

Anonymous
Anonymous
July 15, 2023 9:35 am

Always check the hot sheets – Agent K M.I.B.

k31
k31
July 15, 2023 3:17 pm

The longest going government sponsored propaganda campaign in America is trust in authority and credentialism.

KaD
KaD
July 15, 2023 4:38 pm

Days Of Lot: The Floodgates Of Moral Pollution Have Been Thrown Wide Open

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12299393/Portland-surgeon-dubbed-Dr-Frankenstein-reveals-drawbacks-genital-ops-trans-adolescents.html

Anonymous
Anonymous
July 16, 2023 7:47 pm

If there never was a “bat boy,” then how, exactly, could Covid 19 ever transfer from bats to humans?

They say it is better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool, than to open it and prove it.