You are being conditioned to view your freedom as selfishness
Suddenly YouTube and the Internet are filled with articles telling us to stop being selfish and surrender our freedoms to the elites
Since the CCP virus pandemic began, we as the American public have been inundated with admonitions to social distance, wear our masks and “be respectful of others” in fighting off the disease. Self-appointed “mask police” feel free to confront non-mask wearers in public places and yell, scream and shame them for “being selfish” in not surrendering to the lies and just putting a damn mask on.
The fact that, from the very beginning, the efficacy of masks — other than the N95 used in hospitals — has been in question seems to have escaped these unwitting Fascists. In fact, a debate has been going on in the medical community for over 50 years as to whether even the high-density surgical masks are truly effective in stopping virus particles. The general consensus is, they probably are not and that they aren’t even safe for some people to wear.
Despite that solid research evidence, the social media giants have acted with swift justice to banish anyone suggesting masks don’t work. Facebook, Twitter and Instagram recruited WebMD to justify their unscientific claims that those members and page owners making such claims were distributing “misinformation.” WebMD has not responded to ACV requests for comment on their stance in the face of existing research.
Just last month, one of the nastiest attacks on those of us who either were against masking from the beginning or see no point in wearing masks when we’ve been fully immunized appeared online, posted by The Gauntlet. a website that, if printed on paper, could legitimately be called “a rag” suitable for lining parrot cages. Their ultra-liberal, Fascist Left Democrat friendly writers would go out into the streets wieldinig pitchforks and torches tracking down anti-maskers if they didn’t have a cushy gig criticizing from afar.
Why did masks become such a point of contention during the CCP virus scare?
Masks very early on became a symbol of forced compliance for the Fascist Left. If they could get a majority of Americans to adopt the symbol of surrender — one that strips away the identify and indivduality, making them look like everyone else in the “unwashed masses” — the Fascists now in control of our nation figured they could get us to do anything that represents a surrender of our freedoms.
Masks have been used by the Fascist Left as muzzles, as they attempt to slowly strip away our freedoms, much like a dog having his chain shortened by one link a day until he has no movement available to him at all. (Photo Illustration: Jan Turcma/ACV)
It was never about the CCP virus. It was about control. Now they are ready to attack the rest of our freedoms, hoping we, like compliant sheep, will surrender those as well.
A man called Adam Serwer wrote for “The American Project” exactly 10 years ago that freedom as defined by most of us is, essentially, adolescent folly. He is a huge fan of Dr. Michael Gershon, a progressive who has long championed the type of liberalism that has become the political identity of our Fascist Left Democrats. It is Gershon who gave Serwer the quote that led his article in April 2011.
“If Objectivism seems familiar, it is because most people know it under another name: Adolescence. Many of us experienced a few unfortunate years of invincible self-involvement, testing moral boundaries and prone to stormy egotism and hero worship. Usually one grows out of it, eventually discovering that the quality of our lives is tied to the benefit of others. [Ayn] Rand's achievement was to turn a phase into a philosophy, as attractive as an outbreak of acne.”
This is what our dear leaders in Washington, at least on the Fascist Left side of the aisle, think of most the American public. We are young fools, adolescents who have been unable to harness our “invincible self-involvement” to see a need for “the greater good,” which, of course, they define. We cannot be trusted to make rational decisions, so they will have to make those decisions for us.
Serwer’s article is appearing in a great many places today, the weapon that supposedly neutralizes the philosophy of true conservative populists, Trump supporters, people who believe in the sanctity of personal freedom and in the framework of the Constitution as the founding document of the greatest country in the world.
It is apparent from reading Serwer, progressives are clueless as to what freedom actually is in this United States of America. They view it as selfish, and they want to undermine it, curtail it, eventually cut it off from accepted thought. Their perception is that individual, free thought is dangerous, given they believe the society of the whole is far more important than our individual rights.
They miss the point.
Aristotle claimed man could not exist without society, but also stated that we are so deeply tied to who we are individually that we find ourselves in conflict with society on a regular basis. (Photo Illustration: David Simms/University of Missouri School of Behavioral Psychology)
Society enables us to order our perceptions, and it allows us to make sense of the world at large. Our most basic processes of rationalization, communication, and interaction are molded by society and behavioral fine tuning. Aristotle contended that, as a political animal, man could not exist without society, that without it he would cease to be human. The irony is that, even with society so deeply tied to who we are as people, we recognize freedom as a departure from these ties and celebrate its principle.
Freedom, for most of us, means an independence from the operations of mass society and the pressures it instills. Freedom is the state of being aware of one’s own place in the world, taking responsibility for it, and deciding for one’s self how best to act: striving for authenticity.
This ability to be authentic may be accessible to different people in different degrees. However, it is widely accepted that, as humans, we all have some ability to be authentic. If this is true, it stands to reason that freedom exists on more than one level and can be experienced in different degrees. In any event, we accept that freedom is real.
Society, then, has only provided us with a set of tools. Society is not the essence of human existence in and of itself. This is the mistake progressives make. They assume that no one will want to function individually, but must attach themselves to a whole, a greater self — something that gives them purpose and meaning.
What they fail to grasp is that we can, and we often do, wish to live without society’s influence. Maslow said we self-actualize, that we achieve basic physical, emotional and spiritual needs, that we achieve meaning and purpose through individual accomplishment and, once those very real needs a met, self-actualization occurs. Living independently, holding to a sense of reality and truth, enjoying healthy relationships, having a spontanity and creative — these things make us free.
These are things we cannot achieve through a commual, the whole-is-more-important-than-its-parts mentality. But that is what the Fascist Left wants to impose.
When we accept that human beings are more than dependent parts of a giant sociological body, necessary and important questions arise. If so much of our consciousness is ordered by society at large, where and how does freedom exist? Where does personal freedom begin? How is freedom related to free will? We must recognize and answer these questions in our own lives before we can claim to be free. If we cannot explain to ourselves where our personal freedom lies, then we cannot be sure that it exists at all.
The Fascist, violent Left is trying subtlety, requiring face masks, etc. to slowly chip away at our freedom, but will resort to overt action as they see the public is not buying into wearing masks and living in fear forever more. (Photo: Rhonda Davinski/Portland News)
Ironically, the same system that is responsible for the great many forces working to “constrain and coerce” us has also given us the tools we need to reject these forces or mitigate their effects on us. When we turn to self-reflection and begin to realize where society has influenced and continues to influence our lives, we begin to know where its jurisdiction ends. The dictates of society in human consciousness end where we are able to reflect on our inner selves, and recognize the dictates for what they are: External influences.
This consciousness of self that we may develop as individuals in freeing ourselves is a virtual no-man’s land. It is the space existing between blind irrational adherence to invisible forces, as our current Fascists-in-power would have us do, and true freedom which our realm of self-determination, productivity, creativity and self-actualization.
To recognize the influences that society has over oneself is to also recognize a part of oneself that is beyond our immediate reach. When an individual does this, he has become aware of the location of his self, but this is not the same as having actually acquired freedom.
In fact, freedom is not a permanent state of consciousness. It is not acquired at all but rather accessed by the individual who knows its location. Its location is what concerns us at this point; since we have determined where the dictates of society end, we can move on to the next of our necessary questions: Where does personal freedom begin?
It begins and ends with us as individuals, period. No one, according to our Constuttion, is allowed to dictate to us any limitations on our speech, worship, thought, assembly with others or our right to expect government to be responsive to us. No one can restrict our right to keep and bear arms, the right that protects the first five herein. No one can make us incriminate ourselves, no one can for us to bear witness against ourselves, and our federal government’s purpose is for our national security and to regulate national and international commerce. That’s all. They have no further say in our lives.
These freedoms, liberties and rights are God-given, according to our Founders and Framers. The Fascist Left despises that truth. They have used masks to attempt to dissuade us from being empowered by our freedoms. They have attempted to undermine our inalienable rights. Worse, we are letting them.
It is time to demand our freedoms. If they will not recognize our right to them, then perhaps it is time to change governments. Again. We’ve done it before. This government is rapidly proving they do not deserve to our permission to govern. They are supposed to be our servants, not the other way around.
That is another thing they have forgotten.