As I promised in my last article, I’m sharing my sense-making with you by informally listing (and briefly commenting on) some of the articles and videos that I’ve come across recently; only the ones I especially resonate with or learned something new and significant. My intention is to assist us all, including myself, in making sense of these confusing times, in building bridges across divides, and in discovering what is being revealed.
The above image is what came to my mind during a part of this excellent interview with Paul Kingsnorth. He speaks of these times as being apocalyptic in the literal sense of that word, which is to reveal or “pull the lid off something.” In other words, Covid has shown us many things about our society that we could afford to avoid before. Or as he more poetically states in his article in UnHerd, (here is the version in his Substack) “it has lain bare splits in the social fabric that were always there but could be ignored in better times.” The judgement card in the Tarot depicts naked men, women, and children rising from their graves as Gabriel blows his horn - this often signifies being called to respond to what is being revealed, while reminding us that ultimately none of us can avoid judgment.
If you only click on one link from this article, I highly encourage one of those links above, depending on whether you prefer videos or articles. I love how Kingsnorth talks about the Covid vaccine debate as having fallen into “the ruts of the culture wars” - how sadly true, and how well-put. This is someone who, like me, has essentially “switched sides” from the “Thesis” establishment position on the Covid response to the “Antithesis” position. So if you’d like to gain insight into my personal stance and how I’ve gotten here, that interview and/or article may shed some light on the sense-making I’ve been doing. It certainly helped me to hear and read thoughts I’ve had, and questions I’ve been trying to raise, articulated by a clear-headed writer in a direct, succinct way. The way he spoke about the need for new unifying stories in society, and about spirituality towards the end of the interview really resonated with me, and also reminded me of some of Charles Eisenstein’s writing. I also learned a new word, one that is quite useful: Rubicon, which is a line that, once crossed, commits a person irrevocably.
A main point that Kingsnorth makes is that encroaching authoritarianism, you might even say tyranny, is a real concern. He points out measures in Germany, Australia, and highlights how “the Austrian government has interned an entire third of its national population as a danger to public health” and that maliciousness towards the unvaxxed is a “new form of class hatred that is somehow acceptable in the age of cancellations and hyper-sensitivity.” For those who find it doubtful that we’re watching a totalitarian system implement itself (if we were, we would know it, right?) I highly recommend asking yourself how you would know? Would corporate media, our health institutions, or the government tell you? That linked article by my friend Raelle Kaia can support you as you explore that question.
Another point that Kingsnorth makes is that most of us are massively underqualified to be debating by throwing peer-reviewed articles at each other, and that really the issues at stake are much deeper and broader. Nonetheless, I find a bit of data to be grounding. I also think it’s important to get a good variety of media in your diet so that it’s not all curated for you and feeding one side of the narrative. To that end, I’ll share some data you won’t find on CNN or other mainstream media sources.
Here is an excellent video just released by Chris Martenson exploring the data on all-cause mortality in 2020 and 2021. And here’s the latest article from Mathew Crawford exploring disturbing details about the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System, VAERS. I believe both of those links raise serious questions that should be explored and debated openly.
Thank you for reading - please subscribe and share your thoughts and revelations below. And of course, share this short article with anyone who you feel may be interested or open to it. May we continue to open our minds to one-another, listen to each-other’s fears as Kingsnorth recommends while holding compassion in our hearts and finding those new, unifying stories to tell. Perhaps together we can move beyond fear and a greater truth will be revealed.