What They Said: Boris Pasternak
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“The main misfortune, the root of all evil to come, was loss of the confidence in the value of one's own opinion. People imagined that it was out of date to follow their own moral sense, that they must all sing in chorus, and live by other people's notions, notions that were crammed down everybody's throat.”
“I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.”
Hi Celia, This sentiment from Pasternak has significant resonance for me in looking at what we’ve been subjected to in recent years, even well before the emergence of the faux pandemic. A couple of years ago, in penning my first observations about Covid specifically and our response to the draconian measures enforced by our politicians and the medical establishment, this was the key theme I embraced in the resultant narrative. Had I been aware of this quote, I could well have name-checked Pasternak in the same context. The following provides the gist, or summary.
👉 🗣 ‘[Doubt] is the only human activity capable of controlling power in a positive way’. — John Ralston Saul, Canadian philosopher.
👉 🗣 ‘There’s no adequate protection against psychic epidemics, which are infinitely more devastating than the worst of natural catastrophes. The supreme danger which threatens individuals [and] whole nations is a psychic danger.’ — Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist.
👉 🗣 ‘When belief systems are contradicted by facts, beliefs are rarely renounced…More often they’re reinterpreted and thereby reinforced. Humans are more interested in preserving an internally coherent worldview than in testing their view of things against events. Nearly always, faith trumps facts.’ — John Gray, British philosopher.
*EXTRACT: ‘…Such diverse musings by Ralston Saul, Jung and John Gray (see above) are crucial to our fuller understanding of what’s taking place at present. They’re further, critical to providing an insight into the implications of ignoring the portents therein. In the Age of Covid — with doubt amongst the populace an increasingly rare commodity — it seems clear we’re not only ‘over’ doubt as an instinctive response to the machinations of our political, economic, technocratic, financial, media, and intellectual power elites.
To the extent we do embrace doubt, we’re doing so inwardly, not outwardly. In the wrong direction as it were! Which is to say, it is our own judgment — our innate common sense — we more readily apply such doubts to than [to] those who govern us and who we all too readily presume are acting in our best interests. In its place, we’re substituting a misplaced trust in authority. It is to them we accord by default the benefits of such doubts.
These wielders of great power known and unknown, elected and unelected, public and not so, for whom the quaint old chestnut ‘with great power comes great responsibility’ is both anathema and risible, are aware of this. As such, they knowingly and with malice aforethought, leverage — politicise, weaponise and/or monetise — our (self) doubts, our fears, insecurities, anxieties, even our primal instincts against us in the direct and indirect service of their own nefarious agendas and their own individual and collective self-interest….‘
One more thing. Appreciated your contribution to the recent Fauci documentary. 👍🙏 Best, GM
*With a Lie this Large (The Psychic Dangers of our Infected Minds)
https://gregmaybury.substack.com/p/with-a-lie-this-large
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A voice to counter the narrative.
A way to fight.
I’m no investigative journalist, or scientist, or genetic engineer… but we’re in a war, and every fighter makes a difference.