Dear Friends,
It seems to me, 2020 was one big Milgram test of humanity… that we failed. In every case we bowed to arbitrary authority, all they need do is claim, science, and we come like dogs to roast chicken. The cases of people obeying the most absurd arbitrary and cruel edicts are as terrifying as they are informative. The folly is not contained to the US it has spread across the planet. In Canada, if a child in a school gets the Wuhan flu, all the kids are to go home, and quarantine in their room, not coming out even to eat with the family, for 14 days. There are heartbreaking reports from parents about hearing their child cry alone in their room, because they were lonely. Imagine that? A parent, so obedient to assumed authority, they torture their own child. Like I said, we failed our Milgram test.
In the 1960s a researcher, Stanley Milgram, concocted an experiment in obedience. He told the volunteers that it was about learning. They would meet another “volunteer” and would “randomly” be selected to “teach.” A “researcher” would be standing there with a white coat and clipboard, looking very official. He or she would ask the other “volunteer” questions, and if answered wrong, the real volunteer would be ordered to push the button. Which they had been told would give the other “volunteer” a mild but increasing electric shock. 65% of the test subjects would push the button, when the other was pleading for mercy and even after they had apparently died. While that experiment in human obedience was enlightening, horrifying and discouraging, the one run in 2020… was terrifying.
In 2020 we accepted obvious lies, just because the liars wore white coats, carried clipboards and looked very official. When hydroxychloroquine emerged as a treatment, the medical establishment went into overdrive trying to discredit it. That treatment has since been proven to be safe and effective in early treatment. Making the medical establishment responsible for a multitude of needless deaths. Ivermectin is another very effective, and safe, treatment for covid 19, as it turns out. Yet doctors have been discouraged from prescribing it, or hydroxychloroquine, by the political class. Pile the mask absurdity, shut down of churches, the untested experimental biological agent we are expected to take, and walking on dry sand is bad but wet sand is okay, and you have an epic Milgram experiment.
The cost humanity has had to pay for this Milgram experiment cannot be counted. People’s businesses have been ruined by officially sanctioned rioting, educations permanently set back by the government monopoly school system, people laid off because of the arbitrary shutdowns, suicides by extroverts because of the government ordered isolation, drug overdoses due to the hopelessness instilled by the relentless fear mongering, opportunities lost as well as the corrosion of our aggregate mental health. That cost is somewhat balanced by the drastic increase in the fortunes of the psychopaths that run the show. Their corporate cronies have also become exponentially more wealthy, powerful and dangerous. All at the cost to us mentioned above… very progressive.
We turned out to be far more compliant than our malevolent overlords could have dreamed. While Milgram found the number to be 65%, in 2020 it turned out to be 80%. In some places everyone is wearing a mask, everywhere, even alone in their cars. They are future death camp guards for the 20% of us who think for ourselves. If you are one of the 80% who let professionals do your thinking for you, don’t rest easy yet, because the slaughter never stops. Since despots need an enemy they create them. So, while you may not be the enemy today, because your mind is like wet toilet paper, you may not be so lucky tomorrow, and you participated in extinguishing those who would have stood up for you. Like sergeant Hans Schultz, we will be the butt of jokes, without sympathy… for complying to absurdity.
Sincerely,
John Pepin
