Some observations:
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I am more hesitant to post content in public spaces because I do not always have energy to do deep research needed to debunk fact-checking responses.
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I am more cautious about what I post, as I don't enjoy being publicly shown to have made an error (which many readers will assume to have occurred if I don't reply to factcheck type criticisms)
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As a result, I am slowing down. Sure, some things which would be in the public interest to be publicised are getting past me, but the quality of the posts I am making publicly is going up.
Ditto everything above for face to face conversations.
Basically the "fact-checking" and censorship is making me carefully double-check my conclusions before making any kind of public statement. If others are doing the same, this means that the quality of argument being presented from the side of those who question the mainstream narrative is being consistently improved and strengthened.
I think this explains the recent media debacle around Ivermectin. It is getting increasingly difficult for them to create the illusion of fact-checking, and as a result they are panicking and getting careless. This is making even more people start to pay attention. For example, my sister has started to research Ivermectin following conversation with me. (She is very trusting and has taken the Vax. All her information sources are mainstream). This weekend I was able to show her that almost everything she had read about Ivy in the mainstream is unreliable at best, and deliberately fradulent at worst. As a result I see the early signs of her beginning to question what she is being told.
So my take-away from this is, let us recognise the opportunity in the censorship, and just keep making it harder and harder for them to debunk the increasingly coherent and compelling arguments mounting against the media narrative. I still believe that Ivermectin is the key to unlocking the conspiracy around vaccines, covid, the election, and all the other malfeasance that lead up to what are increasingly looking like pre-meditated crimes.
Well, I appreciate you pointing out the silver lining and I think you're right.
My mom (because of my step-father) pretty much has MSNBC blasting 24/7 in their house and her car stereo always set to NPR. She reads only and almost all of the left wing corporate sites. She keeps veering between calling me a conspiracy theorist and assuring me that everyone coming to Thanksgiving "will be vaccinated" and then saying things like "I've never felt as hopeless about the future as I do now" and "Maybe other people felt this way, the Jews in 1930s Germany, the Africans on slave ships, the Native Americans when the colonizers arrived...". I went over to see her for about a half hour yesterday and as soon as I started talking about the Israeli data she changed the subject and when I pointed out what she'd done, she admitted it. She says, "I don't trust any governments anymore." I say, "Ok, but you trust Pfizer?" She used to sit in the house all day with the tv blasting and has been spending more and more time outside, reading novels, gardening, free from the propaganda.
I really think more of them are questioning things than they let on, that many of them are staying silent out of fear and that the cognitive dissonance must be absolutely exhausting, sapping them of the mental energy needed to formally step over that cognitive line.
God knows it isn't easy for any of us to face up to the task ahead of our societies... Many people in my life have been brought up to think that there is nothing that can be done, and so they HAVE to distract themselves from the overwhelm of realising how wide and powerful the net surrounding us all is.
I actually don't even want my sister to be aware of everything I'm aware of. It would seriously stress her out. But she's a very honest person at heart, and I can see it's bothering her that there might be something corrupt going on.
I try to give something concrete that she can do - for example, making sure she sticks up for the rights of those who have made different choices to her - not supporting mandates, segregation etc by voting with her wallet... She already doesn't pay much attention to current affairs, but I think realising how and why the media is owned by powerful interests is something we all need to really get our heads around. She said yesterday that she was realising that perhaps it hadn't been a wise thing to just trust those in authority, and that made me even more angry with those responsible. Because not only has she been decieved, now she is beginning to think that is her fault. I really don't believe individuals can be blamed for trusting those who are supposed to be trustworthy.
I will pray for your mum to find peace and hope in amongst the worry. We do have hope, because truth always wins in the end. God is not mocked.
Excellent posts here, pede. You reminded me of Galatians 6. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Galatians%206&version=NIV
You're doing a great job of being gentle with your family. Better than I have with mine for sure. Thank you for giving me some points to think on (both in the Word and the world).
As ever, no-one says it better than God :) Thanks for this friend.