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adjunctprofessoremerita's avatar

Thank you for another wonderful essay, Tessa.

I breathed a sigh of relief reading your positive comment re Fuellmich. I have been inspired by the Corona Committee and have wondered how their work might be extended.

Nuremberg was not perfect but was important. It furthered our understanding of justice as new categories had to be found to meet reality. “Crimes against humanity” (rather than war crimes) had to be conceptualized.

It seems we are in a parallel situation, as we don’t yet have the categories to even describe what is happening, let alone hold the perpetrators accountable. The attack on natural immunity (individual and collective), for instance, clearly genocide under the 1948 Charter, but not explicitly articulated as anywhere, as far as I know.

The lockdowns, digitization, control of the food system…all crimes against humanity.

I wonder what kind of rights need to be articulated and then politically protected. Hypothetically, even some inhabiting the propaganda narratives might agree, in principle at least, that children should be not be subjected to electromagnetic behavior modifications.

Has consent of the governed has gone with informed consent?

If so, is the biomedical experiment now the model of global politics? A global Nazi concentration camp? Is this something beyond capitalism?

According to Hannah Arendt, the goal of totalitarianism is total domination, which always means total control of everything everywhere. Besides a quest for global domination and the destruction of mediating institutions, it means a war on individuality, freedom, spontaneity, conviction, originality.

I see this war on individuality and freedom in the experiments presently being promoted.

What kind of rights and protections would make it crystal fucking clear that it is not okay to do anything to living creatures that may jeopardize their individuality, creativity or spontaneity?

One small question: is the profit motive what is driving things here? You mention “corruption” as inevitable whenever a corporation or some such can profit. I don’t necessarily disagree given capitalism as I know it, but possibly the motivations are something different, possibly to be considered on their own.

It is a special type who not only believes “everything is possible,” but also thinks we should rush out and do all of it, right away.

What is the motivation to turn the globe into an unregulated biomedical experiment? Might there be things eviler than capitalism, eviler than the profit motive? Perhaps the desire for total domination? Or maybe they are the same, not sure.

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Frieda Vizel's avatar

The thing about these programs to control the brain, implant memories and so on... I do believe that while scientists are full of hubris, funding, ego and bullshit, they are also mainly wrong about how humans function and what the brain is.

They believe our brains are largely computers and out of this premise, they build hypothesis and experiments. And they think humans can be controlled a lot like computers, with a button, a click, an upgraded software. I do think most of them simply believe they are “improving” the mechanics of man, and that this is what the project of academic research is set out for. That is to say, I do believe these nerds in labs (not talking about the billionaires who have money to throw around) are operating out of plain stupidity and careerism and lack of common sense, not some plot to take over the world.

But they are wrong, and that’s something we need to keep in mind. The technologies of transhumanists can create a tremendous amount of suffering, but we don’t need to believe every bullshit study that promises god-like powers to be conferred by science. I’ve recently gotten into reading about the field of psychology and criticism of electroshock therapy. For eons, psychiatrists have claimed this absurd, shocking, barbaric treatment somehow stimulated this region or that region and cured people from depression. Did they really know? Did they have any clue what they are doing? Depression has only gotten worse as the curse have been administered more aggressively. And for all the serotonin and dopamine bullshit they peddled, convincing us we are made of chemicals and transmitters, people remain deeply pained.

Because humans suffer, it’s the condition of life. I think I remember reading that Freud believed the field of psychotherapy was about making unbearable pain into bearable pain. You can never CURE unhappiness. But the scientists claim you can, as they claim many things. They are full of it. I am highly dubious about any of their mice studies and all the dystopian powers they say they are developing. Much of it will probably go the way of the electric car.

That’s not to say they won’t do enormous harm. Just like with the pharma industry of psychiatry, their stupid narratives about brains-as-computers might be full of bullshit, but it is still terribly dangerous and must be exposed. But we shouldn’t ascribe godlike power to the works of these utter fools, or else we’ll fall prey to buying the lies that they sell to themselves and to us.

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