No Matter How Far You've Gone Down a Wrong Road?

TURN BACK!

Note: I’ve added a p.s. to this musing since I first posted it. It’s just above the section about concrete in our brains.

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I've been collecting pithy and inspiring quotations for decades now.

Right now? This is my message for the day.

The week.

The month.

The year??

“No matter how far you’ve gone down a wrong road, TURN BACK!” – Source unknown

It's the message I would give to a number of people I can think of in my personal life who, it seems to me, might need to hear it.

Let's just say I know several people (some of whom, I might add, I love very dearly) who would likely benefit from contemplating these very simple words.

It could improve their health – even save their lives!

And/or their children's health/lives.

It’s never too late to become more curious about the way certain things are done in our society!

To embark on some research.

It's never too late to learn more about how we have all been deeply manipulated by the constant use of propaganda (in any & all cultures or groups) aimed at hoodwinking entire populations – for decades & perhaps centuries, even. The posting Media Memes can be pretty eye-opening for anyone new to the insidious nature & use of media propaganda.

It's never too late to begin questioning the entire edifice of the so-called "health care system" & to begin treading an alternate path. The posting Bullshit All The Way Down is helpful in laying bare the corruption & collusion among the “health” care establishment & mainstream media & political & academic establishments – vis-a-vis the entire horrendous Covid debacle/scam/psyop.

It's never too late to begin questioning beliefs about vaccines that we've taken for granted all our lives ... maybe because we inherited them from our parents? From the wider culture too, of course. Not to mention endless repetition over decades of that slick & oft-repeated PR phrase "safe and effective" ... speaking of propaganda. It took me 63 years to begin my own questioning! Sheesh. But ... hey. better late than never! My posting Why I’m an Anti-Vaxxer lays out how I wound up becoming "anti-vaxx" at such an advanced age.

p.s. A good way to get up to speed really fast on the issues around vaccines? Read a vaccine monograph or "insert" (insert is what it's called in paper form, which doctors' offices receive in the boxes of vaccine vials). Read it all the way through - focusing especially on the section usually called 'Adverse Reactions' that you'll find a few pages in. Yes, I know, your MD never offered you one of these ... which is kind of a big red flag right there ... don't you think? Monographs are available online. Here's a link to an MMR vaccine monograph. Please DO check it out! (plenty more here) As I say, this will get you well on the road. So-called "vaccine hesitancy" will no longer seem at all mysterious.

Concrete in Our Brains??

There are sooo many things we each come to take for granted in our lives. If we're not very careful, our brains can become a little like concrete. Or maybe sewage sludge. Yuk. I just love the sound of that phrase, though.

Fun quote:

“I can’t understand why people are afraid of new ideas, I’m afraid of the old ones.” – John Cage

And yes, I know, old habits die hard!

“Habit is habit, and not to be flung out the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs, one step at a time.” ~ Mark Twain

Charles Darwin said

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the one most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”

Surely it makes sense to use our lives to learn – & grow (i.e. evolve) ... and heal?

“Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.” – Karen Kaiser Clark

It seems very doubtful to me that we can do this very readily with brains full of concrete (or sewage sludge).

This Posting

Since it seems that, much as I would like to, I cannot convey this message directly to some of the people I believe really badly need to hear it, I'm putting it here, as a posting.

Who knows.

Maybe someone who reads this will be able to make some kind of use of it. Sure hope so!!

Janet

p.s. a word about "the herd." And about being able to admit when we've been wrong about something.

Human beings are herd creatures. I've come to believe we are wired that way. It was the fascinating book Rogue Primate, by John A. Livingston (published in 1994) that convinced me our species has a built-in "compulsion to comply." I wrote about this about a year into the Covid era on my other site, here. Here's a 1-page extract from Rogue Primate with some helpful bits - just ignore my messy underlinings:

Having the feeling of really belonging to a tribe is very important to us. Very satisfying! I've belonged to a few different "tribes" over the now-seven decades of my life. Belonging is super important! (Sometimes leaving a particular tribe becomes necessary, also. Been there, done that.)

I think, along with our deep need to belong, we each have a real horror of being "wrong" about something. Think how reluctant most of us are to admit we've made a mistake about this or that. Ai-yi-yi. As if the world will fall apart for admitting we were misinformed about something. Have changed our mind on a matter large or small. Such silliness. (Such ego!)

The way I see it, we're all wrong about stuff plenty. I know I have been, & I think most of us, if we're being honest, have been too. For some reason, I don't usually mind admitting it ... though like all of us, I don't exactly relish looking, or feeling, stupid. But … it turns out the world does not in fact fall apart around my ears when I acknowledge I've been misguided about this thing or that, & have learned some new information that’s caused me to change my mind. My views.

Key things I think we all need to watch out for?

Excessive naivete. Excessive trust in so-called “experts.” Being too trusting. Putting people – or whole classes of people – up on pedestals. No. More. Pedestals!

And as for “authorities?”

“Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.” – Albert Einstein

Sometimes we really just gotta stop going down those damn wrong roads...