It's Gonna Be Messy

But Humans Win

I realize I’ve had an expectation I carry around that doesn’t ever get met. Like an itch you can’t scratch.

A something’s got to give feeling always looking for evidence that something in fact, has.

It was based on a pile of assumptions; an unwritten recipe that mixed in “X” amount of lies exposed + “Y” amount of normalcy bias reduced, blended in with an official investigation here and a sprinkle of high-profile exposure there and and voila, we’d get nearly everyone on the same page.

Most of us who’ve known for years now that a deranged, Dr. Evil level experiment was unleashed on the world have had to adjust our expectations.

If it was me writing the script on how this all ends, it’d be far more satisfying.

I definitely underestimated normalcy bias. Even when we know things are wrong there’s comfort in acting as if we don’t.

Scary ingredients like clear global coordination and bioweapon ‘jabs’ (still being marketed!) don’t fold easily into the batter of our daily bread, does it? We find comfort in what is familiar and we don’t relinquish that easily.

Sure, big shocks loosen a manufactured version of reality and its hold on us, but I’ve watched how easy it is to mold ourselves back into those old patterns and just get on with it.

I understand. Life and its doings come down to many small things and the practical stuff goes on even if that happens in a backdrop of ever encroaching tyranny. There’s pleasure in our daily rituals so I’m not diminishing that. Where we find comfort, joy, and sustenance is not something to casually let go. It’s more a matter of orienting them in our clearly changing landscape and in not denying what’s happening.

Choosing happiness in a dystopia is a revolutionary act.

I no longer think there is going to be a defining moment that announces the tide has sufficiently turned - Hurray! humans have won. (Maybe you never did?)

They’ll be no V-Day celebrations, no global broadcast announcing the baddies have surrendered having acknowledged their defeat.

What we have here is an ongoing muddled mess with twists that will encourage and turns that will discourage.

A long slow slog.

Something won’t give but a series of many smaller things will, again and again. until at some point - maybe only recognized in retrospect - our world is put back to something resembling sanity.

I don’t like dragged out muddled things with questionable endings. We’ve all seen movies like that - that leave the audience in ambiguous suspense. Wait, did he die? Are they still getting together? Does everyone know what happened?

I hate that.

But exactly that multiplied by a very large number, is what we’ve got - doubt, uncertainty and confusion. No clear cut, here’s what happened narrative that we can all agree on.

Even among those in search of the truth, the filters we look through are so varied, the identity-snags and cognitive biases so ubiquitous, it’s difficult to find consensus among ourselves.

No single person is writing the script, we all are, and I have a feeling it isn’t coming together in a way where we all leave the theatre in agreement about what it was we just watched.

Yet there are signs of encouragement in the mudded mess: The latest Rasmussen poll was promising. (If ‘promising’ is appropriate to discussing deaths and illness.)

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 53% of American Adults believe it is likely that side effects of COVID-19 vaccines have caused a significant number of unexplained deaths – up from 49% a year ago – including 30% who think it’s Very Likely. Thirty-six percent (36%) now don’t say a significant number of deaths have been caused by vaccine side effects, including 16% who believe it’s Not At All Likely. Another 11% are not sure. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

I know it’s just one poll but still.

I read this piece from The Daily Reckoning by Jeffrey Tucker

Whereas most of the population aspires to live a better life, we cannot shake the sense that someone out there who has more power than the rest of us aspires for us to be poorer, more miserable, more afraid, more dependent and more compliant.

After all, we are just barely shaking off the most grandiose experiment in universal human control in the historical record, the attempt to micromanage the whole of everyone belonging to the human race in the name of gaining control over the microbial kingdom.

I’m glad he sees us (barely) shaking it off. But more glad he think most of population has a sense of an oppressing force. Details aside, agreement on that alone is helpful.

It would be easy to conclude - when mask-usage appears to be on the rise - that the Covid narrative is still holding. It’s more likely though that the remaining believers are simply more obvious in their masks and have no issue verbalizing their beliefs.

They don’t fear being cancelled, becoming suspect, or attacked.

(Yet.)

Whereas the growing numbers who do question, may not be comfortable speaking up; they have no clear identifier and have not yet found their voice.

He writes:

Coincident with the pandemic restrictions came the triumph of woke ideology, the intense push for EVs, a wild ramp-up in weather paranoia with the discovery that climates change, a rampant gender dysphoria and denial of chromosomal reality, an unprecedented refugee flood that no one in power is willing to mitigate, a continued attack on gas including even stoves and a host of other inane things that are driving rational people to the brink of despair.

So, while some of these newly disenchanted might still be under the Covid spell, there are so many concerning trends happening in our country, it doesn’t matter. If Covid didn’t convince you something is really wrong, chances are something else did.

It’s no longer just a wobbly stone or two that needs some fixing, the whole foundation on which our republic sits is falling apart. (Fortunately the ground beneath it is just fine. Go right ahead and plant something.)

He asks:

The (Covid) effort petered out over time but how in the heck does anyone with ruling-class power expect to maintain any credibility after such a destructive experiment?

It’s a good question, and as this recent Gallop poll indicates, they are in fact losing credibility as far fewer Americans are willing to identify with the ‘ruling’ class, at least when viewed through a political party lens. (We know it’s a global group without loyalty to country.)

Another good sign.

Tucker makes the point in his essay that not complying is the way forward and I fully concur. I would add to that the need to speak up.

However painfully slow, the pivot from As If world (going along with things as if they are normal) to What If world (asking the uncomfortable questions that ultimately unravel it, while opening the space for something new) is happening.

The concluding paragraphs from Tucker’s piece:

Something is going on, something malevolent. The battle of the future really is between them and us but who or what “them” is remains opaque and too many of “us” are still confused about what the alternative is to what is happening all around us.

Noncompliance is an essential start regardless. That crowded elevator, assembling spontaneously in open defiance to the blasting signage, is a sign that something in the human longing to be free to make our own decisions still survives.

There are cracks in the great edifice of control.

He hits on a key point that while a malevolent something exists, it remains for most, unclear who or what that is and in that confusion the question of what to do about it, hinders action.

Confusions side, we know enough.

We can see the drivers behind the agendas pushing poisons and 15 minute cities and digital ID’s. The UN hasn’t exactly been subtle, their unelected partners in crime - the WEF and WHO among others - are not hiding.

Our government’s agencies (too many to list) all have left their fingerprints on an - only recently - unthinkable crime.

We don’t actually have to know all the individual players, to take a stand.

When the next crises comes - whether in the form of a plague, cyber attack or aliens - our resolve will be tested. We’ll find out how many of us really have learned the lessons of Covid and refuse to comply with the inevitable solutions that will be offered.

When they tell you no grocery shopping without a digital ID, what will you do?

We may be finding out.

We already know ‘they’ only have the authority we extend them. We simply don’t acknowledge their mandates and illegal laws. We don’t give them our money, shop in their businesses, repeat their lies. We don’t support our enslavers.

We don’t stay silent.

We’re at the point where we don’t have a choice other than to make clear choices about what we do and don’t want.

More and more Americans understand this. More Americans are buying guns. And while I share that trend with mixed emotions - I don’t doubt the growing angst that’s informing their decision.

Perhaps it’s time for us resistors to tyranny to become more obvious to each other, and in an unthreatening way, to those who still remain unaware.

Maybe something we can wear - not over our faces - something that simply and clearly signals we are aware of the threat and we won’t be going along.

Not a political statement - like a MAGA hat - that will inevitably (and irrationally) trigger. (Besides, I hope we’re seeing pass the political parties illusion).

No, we need a far more basic, human identifier.

Perhaps a t-shirt that says Humans Win on it? - which is my sister’s idea and she’s even had some of them made so that’s a biased but still good idea! (They came out great btw. Here’s one:

Or a Humans Win hat? (What do you think, sis?)

(If you are someone with experience in making and/or marketing t-shirts, and would be interested in getting these out in the world, let me know and I can connect you with her. I helped initially, but getting a website with shopping features and everything else connected to that, was beyond our skill set and consumed more time than we were willing to invest.)

The brilliance of a unifying message on an article of clothing is multi-layered. Without having to say a word, we send a positive human-friendly message, but one that will open up questions to those who don’t grok the threat. (Gently.) It will register immediate recognition with those who do get it, and so offers the possibility of connecting with others in your neck of the woods.

A win-win.

Humans Win implies an ongoing battle yet also predicts a positive outcome. It’s inclusive and inviting; anyone who comes across it can choose to ignore it or ask a question.

I think it is a timely idea and yes, this is also a shameless, (and sincere) plug.

We are writing the end of this chapter together, whether we know it or not.

There is already plenty we disagree on, there will be much more going forward. Doesn’t it make sense to find broad agreement where we can? A unifying message we can all get behind?

I think so. Let me know what you think in the comments.

Thanks for reading.

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