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When Shigalyov, one of the revolutionaries in Dostoevsky’s Demons, lays out his “system of world organization,” he admits that he got “entangled in my own data.” Confronted with the brutal logic of his idealism, he is forced to concede that his conclusion “directly contradicts the original idea from which I start.” His starting point, familiar to generations of revolutionaries, is the idea of “unlimited freedom.” Rather than taking Shigalyov to the Utopia he imagines, it leads him down a path that ends in “unlimited despotism.” Far from being disturbed by this unpalatable discovery, Shigalyov resolves his cognitive dissonance with a deepened sense of the correctness of his vision: “apart from my solution of the social formula, there can be no other.” The revolutionary agitator sees his ideals collapse into their opposite, but even this does not damage the certainty with which he clings to them.
A hundred years after the publication of Demons, a different group of revolutionaries stormed the gates of the ancestral home of Confucius in Qufu, China. In July 1966, Red Guards desecrated the graves of Confucius’s ancestors.
One might argue that Dr Brix and Fauci & Redfield succumbed to the temptation of tyranny. In any case, here is the back story of Dr Scott Atlas trying to present data & facts to time serving bureaucrats on the CVD task force in the White House:
A new book exposing the deep corruption of our medical system:
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How does it happen that so many smart, well-trained, hardworking, and dedicated physicians are misdirected by the commercially motivated “knowledge” produced by this self-serving system? Ironically, doctors are vulnerable to this misinformation precisely because they are taught to base their practice on the best scientific evidence published in peer-reviewed medical journals, respected clinical practice guidelines, and recommendations made by recognized medical authorities. But these trusted sources have become increasingly dependent on drug-company funding.
One of the best-kept secrets in all of health care — understood by few doctors — is that the peer reviewers, medical journal editors, and guideline writers, who are assumed to be performing due diligence to ensure the accuracy and completeness of the data reported from company-sponsored studies, do not have access to the real data from these trials. The published reports that doctors accept as fully vetted scientific evidence can be more accurately described as unverified data summaries prepared largely by or for the sponsoring drug companies.
Before M. Desmet's Psychology of Totalitarianism there was another Dutchman, Dr Joost Meerloo, who began studying "menticide" or thought control in 1930s. Here is how he begins his 1956 book Rape of the Mind:
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FOREWORD
And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul.
—Matthew 10:28
This book attempts to depict the strange transformation of the free
human mind into an automatically responding machine—a transformation
which can be brought about by some of the cultural undercurrents in our
present-day society as well as by deliberate experiments in the service of a
political ideology.
The rape of the mind and stealthy mental coercion are among the oldest
crimes of mankind. They probably began back in prehistoric days when
man first discovered that he could exploit human qualities of empathy and
understanding in order to exert power over his fellow men. The word “rape”
is derived from the Latin word rapere, to snatch, but also is related to the
words to rave and raven. It means to overwhelm and to enrapture, to invade,
to usurp, to pillage and to steal.
The modern words “brainwashing,” “thought control,” and “menticide”
serve to provide a clearer conception of the actual methods by which man’s
integrity can be violated. When a concept is given its right name, it can be
more easily recognized—and it is with this recognition that the opportunity
for systematic correction begins.
In this book the reader will find a discussion of some of the imminent
dangers which threaten free cultural interplay. It emphasizes the tremendous
cultural implication of the subject of enforced mental intrusion. Not only
the artificial techniques of coercion are important but even more the
unobtrusive intrusion into our feeling and thinking. The danger of
destruction of the spirit may be compared to the threat of total physical
destruction through atomic warfare. Indeed, the two are related and intertwined.
It seems to me that the biggest totalitarians these days are those who are spreading lies about Dr. Fauci.
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