Be it an epidemic, a ‘foreign adversary’ or apocalyptic climate change, the elites will always find a way to keep us scared.
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt once said: “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Regardless of how you feel about your New Deal, those words hold a timeless truth that I hope more Americans today will take the time to consider.
America was founded by men who risked their lives in pursuit of freedom for all. Our founding fathers stood up to the might of the Crown when they formed the States, knowing full well the possible repercussions if they failed. They also knew that to be free, you must be fearless. You have to believe that freedom is worth fighting and even dying for. You have to believe that you are a sovereign being created by God and that your rights come from God, not from the government. If you believe this, as they did, you have the foundation to create something truly wonderful. How low have we fallen?
The United States in 2022 looks more like a giant asylum inside a circus than a country of the brave and free. Sometimes I wonder if the majority of my fellow citizens still believe in freedom, or are so fearful and shocked that they have forgotten what that word means. I see young people in the prime of their lives walking around Los Angeles wearing three layers of masks because they heard on TV that it will keep them safe. Shoulders always slumped, heads always bowed. I see people wearing surgical masks while driving alone, locked in their cars.
We’ve had over two years, multiple vaccinations, a host of well-documented early viral treatments, and it’s still not enough. Everything is sanitized, every teller is behind a plexiglass barrier, and every germ is now seen as a threat. Everyday phrases like “See you later” y “Take care of yourself” have been replaced by “Stay safe.” It’s almost as if security is the new American pastime, replacing baseball. Or worse yet, security is the new religion. To quote Nabokov, “The poison was in the wound, and the wound always remained open.” And that is exactly what our fearful new citizenry has been subjected to: a massive wound of national fear, inflicted by our own government, whose lust for power has unleashed a monster. That monster creates and feeds on fear, churning out more and more fresh poison with every news headline.
It does not begin or end with Covid-19, nor with epidemics in general. Lock up because monkeypox is coming! Along with the West Nile, Zika and Covid variants numbers 5, 6 and 10,000. Oh, and the world is going to end in ten years due to climate change, just like it almost ended ten years ago, and ten years before that. Better stop driving! (So the global elite can fly more private jets and buy yachts, of course.) And you should definitely be afraid of (insert foreign country) and oh my god, what if aliens attack? The bombardment never ends. And we’ve been living like this for years and years. It’s hard not to be affected. If you are an American reading this and you live in a big city, ask yourself this: When was the last time you felt happy and carefree?
Why would our government and its media lackeys do this to their own people? Simple. To control us. A fearful population will agree to almost anything, as we witnessed at the onset of Covid-19 and the countless small businesses that were crushed by the closures. When we are controlled by fear, we are easy to divide and conquer. And they got what they wanted. Neighbors ratted out neighbors, calling the police over a simple house party (or, in my neighborhood, a family gathering to grieve after a funeral). All driven by instilled fear, all devoid of human empathy.
Americans were already facing crises on a national level that affected our mental health long before covid. Just look at how obsessed we are with Hollywood, social media and the new breed of ‘influencers’. We have endless pharmaceuticals for anxiety and depression, and an epidemic of porn addiction. We are dealing with an opioid crisis and the delusional idea that one can change their sex or choose one of 78 genders. All of this doesn’t bode well for a healthy and functioning society, but when you add in a hysterical media and a ruling class working together to instill fear, you have a direct path to total destruction of a nation. I fear that if we fail to collectively, as a nation, control this (manufactured) fear, that is where we are headed.
Fearful people are not only easy to control, they are unable to function in a normal human way. Humans need to be with other humans, not isolated or communicating through phones and computers. We are highly social creatures designed to take risks, try new things, learn, create, and explore. We can’t do that if we suspect everyone is a threat to personal health, or believe we’re on the brink of nuclear war, or fear food shortages, or can’t afford things. we need to live. When we get to this point, we begin to develop mental illnesses, addictions, and neuroses like the ones I described above.
A president who I think was much wiser than Roosevelt taught us that, “Freedom is never more than a generation away from extinction.“It is worth defending our God-given human rights and not giving in to fear, which only serves to enslave us. Freedom is still worth fighting for, and it’s not as hard as it sounds. Step One: Turn off fear porn.