Understood, I had to fight and wrestle with the system and finagle exemption paperwork, and re-negotiated agreements etc to keep my 100% remote out-of-state IT career job because of the mandated jab. But I came to expect nothing less for a coastal elite-liberal institution. I had to check my emotions and all that, but realizing they were a poster boy example of institutionalized mass formation psychosis, I shrug it off and become like water. That's just me at this stage I guess.

In the meantime, as the yawning gap between reality and their narratives continue, I'm not personally convinced that some sort of mass "payback" is the solution to make sure this never happens again. At least any sort of payback that concerns a nobody like me. My two hopes are:

• Political candidates getting elected that will come up with and push for new legislation to curb government overreach in the name of public health crisis / "federal emergency" or whatever.

• Being a sales person for reality, at least to everyday folks who make up the mass of society and, in many many more cases than we would give credit for, truly believe they speak and act in good faith while they are operating under the spell of mass formation psychosis. Even doing what is so obviously harmful and damaging to the rest of us. That's the nature of psychological hypnosis. Being an effective sales person means understanding how these folks think about the world around them, as muddy as that thinking is, and being open to address their views and concerns in non combative ways. Winning them over if possible, one by one.

Of course there are objectively legally definable traitors and criminals that have helped orchestrate this 2 year+ shit show, but those are not the ones I'm likely to interact with on social media or face to face.

Just my .02

Understood, I had to fight and wrestle with the system and finagle exemption paperwork, and re-negotiated agreements etc to keep my 100% remote out-of-state IT career job because of the mandated jab. But I came to expect nothing less for a coastal elite-liberal institution. I had to check my emotions and all that, but realizing they were a poster boy example of institutionalized mass formation psychosis, I shrug it off and become like water. That's just me at this stage I guess.

In the meantime, as the yawning gap between reality and their narratives continue, I'm not personally convinced that some sort of mass "payback" is the solution to make sure this never happens again. At least any sort of payback that concerns a nobody like me. My two hopes are:

• Political candidates getting elected that will come up with and push for new legislation to curb government overreach in the name of public health crisis / "federal emergency" or whatever.

• Being a sales person for reality, at least for the everyday folks who make up the mass of society and, in many many more cases than we would give credit for, truly believe they speak and act in good faith while they are operating under the spell of mass formation psychosis that is so obviously harmful and damaging to the rest of us. Being an effective sales person means understanding better how these folks think about the world around them, and being open to address their views and concerns in non combative ways. Winning them over, one by one.

Of course there are objectively legally definable traitors and criminals that have helped orchestrate this 2 year+ shit show, but those are not the ones I'm likely to interact with on social media or face to face.

Just my .02