Blundered into this rather good blog post via a wormhole from Ecosophia site. The thrust of the piece, if not some of the specifics, is provocative. I’ve seen similar ideas, expressed rather less articulately, in quite a few places: submitting to inoculation is collaboration with an evil cult.
Or, as the author more carefully expresses it:
Nothing is certain with regard to the future of Covid-19 or the vaccines, but what is certain to me is that we are in the grip of a collective insanity driven by the last desperate gasps of the religion of Progress in the face of resource limits and impending decline. I do not wish for the vaccines to cause harm to those I love, but I do in a sense hope that they fail just enough to break the power of the sacrament, to deal a mortal blow to the religion of Progress.
Ties up closely with the view which John Michael Greer has been arguing for years: that ‘PROGRESS!!’ is a religious faith: a myth, in the original literate meaning of the word; and - moreover - one which is getting it’s comeuppance from always-uncompromising reality right now, as the effects of the new era of the Long Descent begin to bite unignorably.
As others of Mark’s commenters point out, there are a number of orthodox articles of faith scattered through his essay which are all rather questionable; vaccines ‘eradicated’ small-pox and polio, for example. Though you might not have noticed through the constant pro-vax propaganda hosed over us all, right through our upbringing, this has never been a unanimously agreed proposition. The evidence debunking the vaccine faith is copious and undeniable.
These pieties notwithstanding, a good essay though. The basic idea is right, I think: the ‘PROGRESS!!’ myth is on the skids. It will be discarded finally, as human society copes with the profound changes to our lives that are built in to the Long Descent. I suppose we should try to work up some compassionate sympathy for the massed Musks and Kurzweils of the world, as they watch their rapt faith destroyed by reality. It isn’t going to be easy for them.
Too right - I would go further and question whether vaccines ever ‘eradicated’ anything at all. I also have a problem with the comic-book idea that we get ill as a result of invasion by invisible hostile particles that get past our bodies’ version of Iron Dome in the first place, never mind the utter bollocks of ‘variants’.
Yep! Personally, I’d endorse all those doubts. I think the modern vaccine story, like the ‘cannabis the hellish dangerous drug’ story, was concocted for reasons nothing to do with truth and honest science, and entirely about vicious capitalist profit grubbing.
Faced in the near future with a choice between what’s currently called naturopathic or ‘alternative’ medicine, and vaccines, I’d opt for the former every time. Never been vaxed myself, nor have any children or animals under my care, yet we all throve mightily on that different regimen: “Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.”