The medicine I believe in stemmed from Hippocrates: the Father of Medicine...it was simple, but true. "Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity." This has been replaced with... "Wherever the art of money is loved, enter the profession of medicine." It appears that many doctors today go into the profession of medicine, because of the money. It was not this way years ago. There was a real doctor-patient relationship. The cost of the education, the government paperwork, and other things turned the whole field into this fiasco today. The core of the problem: People have lost the balast they need to remain stable. Trusting in man and not seeking guidance from our Creator.
An incredible, impactful essay. You've covered every corner of the current Amerkan dilemma. I have experienced most of them. If we had a real free media, this essay should be everywhere.
Education, for the last 50 years, it has eroded to a state of complete irrelevance.
It has been helped by the mindless captured MSM in all its different disguises. A pillar of a Republic, Education is injured and recovery will be tough.
Urban warfare is brutal. The history of it has a repeating pattern. The attacker and the defender both take innocent civilian lives who have been caught within the struggle. Sometimes, when the defenders do not wear military uniforms, it's quite difficult for the attacker to know who is who! History is full of examples.
I used to be very convinced about the form of government I favored. But after doing Vipassana meditation (dhamma.org), it became clear to me that any form of government is only as good as the people who inhabit the government and the society it governs. Ashok the Terrible was the cruel warrior king of a large portion of India. When he discovered Buddhism (while the Buddha's enlightenment practice was still extant) he renounced violence. His country went through a period of enlightenment. Same form of monarchical government, but different leadership and a flowering of the society.
The USA government and society has been infiltrated by anti-democratic, say fascistic, amoral psychopathic elements who use the trappings of democracy with no intent to fullfill the spirit. The results of our democracy will only change when the people change, either replaced or internally changed.
Many of these problems could be lessened by people working to improve their personal courage. That would make it more difficult for evil and corruption to prosper. Easier said than done, but worrying more about God than man helps. Also, if you take the cowardly path you become cowardly. If you take the courageous path you become courageous.
I commend you on having the time, energy, and research skills to write such important and lengthy essays while still supporting what I imagine is a busy practice!
Highly thoughtful article. I agree with many ideas here and I’m a huge fan of the Doc! He’s carefully trying to balance sensitive topics. I would like to expand on some of the economic and political ideas here.
First a couple definitions. A capitalist, or “free market,” system is one in which the prices of goods and services are determined by consumers and the open market, in which the laws and forces of supply and demand are free from any intervention by a government, price-setting monopoly, or other authority.
Max Weber’s definition of the state is “an entity that has a monopoly on the legitimate use of force within a given geographical area.” This can mislead people into thinking that the state is the only or even the primary reason for security and order.
The "state" is by its very nature aggression. It can’t exist without out (for example, it has to tax directly or indirectly to exist and grow). It extracts and redistributes. It doesn’t produce.
There is a common mistake underlying almost all political discourse - a constant focus on the misleading reference to "left" and "right." There is no left and right. They are arbitrary and ever changing definitions of the political spectrum and should be completely ignored. All the "isms" being categorized into the "left" and "right" spectrum create confusion and obfuscate the true nature of politics and government. It's actually simple. The state (defined as a non-voluntary government) cannot exist without aggression / violence. It doesn't produce anything and therefore it cannot trade voluntarily for resources. It extracts through taxation (which is coercion, which is a form of aggression). The spectrum that should be applied in analyzing human interaction (and therefor politics - which is governance involving the state) is one that measures the amount of aggression applied in an interaction between individuals or entities. The spectrum spans from extreme statism to pure individual freedom. All the "isms" are just various forms and amounts of state aggression against individuals. For example, Anarcho-capitalism and Libertarianism fall on the individual freedom side of the spectrum (none to a little statism). Dictatorship, monarchy and communism fall on the other end of the spectrum - extreme statism (a few people use aggression / violence to control others). Fascism is when the state and private sector collaborate (see the Twitter files). We need to stop talking about the "left and right" and start identifying acts of aggression. If it's not a voluntary trade or act, then aggression is involved (e.g., force, coercion, violence, theft, etc). For example, drafting someone into the army is an act of state aggression. We are taught as children to not steal and be respectful of one another (e.g., don't take your sister's toy without asking politely) and we expect to treat each other as individuals and neighbors in the same manner. However, it's incredible that we don't hold the state to the same standard! We willingly allow the state to coerce us into confiscating our wealth. We allow the state to tax, fine, incarcerate, threaten and pillage individuals in order to maintain the power of the state. If we had all the taxes we paid over decades, we could have individually used that wealth and voluntarily directed it to those we each determined need it. There is no need for the state, but politicians constantly preach how they are going to "protect" you and "help" others. It's all a con. The state is just people like the rest of us, but with special powers. Everyone in this country needs to learn about the true nature of the state and stop using "left" and "right" to categorize and defend positions. We need to identify the specific acts of aggression and stand against them. Until we do, the state will continue to grow unabated and wreak havoc on this country. We are moving from individual freedom toward more statism. We are not necessarily "socialist," but there are many government entities and policies that are "socialist" in nature. But forget the term "socialism" and focus on the acts of aggression. For example, printing money is a state monopoly power that dilutes our purchasing power. The state has the power to print money and spend it wastefully. We as individuals are thrown in jail if we print money (it's called counterfeiting when free people do it). This is why the state is going after Trump so hard. The state sees that he's an anti-statist (especially against the military industrial complex), so the state is using its legal power (aggression) to defend itself against his freedom movement. The CIA and FBI are doing the same thing as they are powerful divisions of the state. I'm not defending Trump (he's also a statist on some issues). It's just an example of the state's power and how it uses it to control others. Julian Assange is a better example. He reported on the state's evil aggressions and the state went after him aggressively. He hasn't had a fair trial and has been in jail for over 10 years. I highly recommend this book for everyone in the country: https://mises.org/library/anatomy-state. The state does not represent the people. The state no longer follows the Constitution and does not defend individual freedom. The state doesn’t lead to violence; the state is the manifestation of institutionalized violence (aggression). Allow me to anticipate what you will be told when you explain this to those who don't understand this concept. They will say, "Ah ha! I got you. If there is no state, there will be anarchy!" The response is simple. First, anarchy is not violence. Anarchy is a latin term that means "denial of the state." Don't let anyone trick you and associate anarchy with violence. Anyone who argues that statelessness leads to violence is self-defeating if the proposed solution is to establish the state. That is the logic few in this country understand. Anarcho-capitalists do not claim that a truly free and voluntary market will not include aggression. There will always be bad actors in a free market. But to argue that we need to form a monopoly state as a solution is ludicrous. This is explained in this article by Robert Higgs, "If Men We're Angels, The Basic Analytics of the State versus Self-government": https://www.independent.org/publications/article.asp?id=1982. The summary of this logical position is that there will be less aggression in a stateless society than in one controlled by the state (especially over time as the state grows). So the conclusion we all need to come to is that we need to shrink the state. Think about the extremes. Do you want a king or dictator telling us all what to do? Do you want a small group of people running a Communist system (BTW the communist leaders were rich) telling us what to do? Or do you want pure, individual freedom and then deal with any aggression voluntarily in a collaborative manner where you will at least have a choice? The more individual freedom we have, the more choices we have at our disposal to flourish and to defend ourselves from the aggression of others.
Healthy government is an oxymoron. Many think that the system would be fine if we just had the right people in office. Hasn't history sufficiently shown that is a hopeless form of optimism? Government is coercion and force and attracts those with a pathological need to control others. Democracy is certainly not the answer. Our founding fathers recognized the fact that it leads to mob rule and tried to prevent this through a system of "checks and balances". I don't believe one can find the word democracy in any of the founding documents---the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, or even the constitution. I recommend the book "Democracy: The God that Failed" by Hans Herman Hoppe. An optimal society would be grounded in individual freedom and rights of private property---little or no government required. The practice of medicine would benefit from following the same principles.
Thank you, AMD, for your continued writings on your thoughts. There is so much in this article! NAPman discussed something that I believe is incredibly important that I would like to reinforce. People identify themselves as "Republican,", "Democrat," "Independent," etc. I have thought for a long time that if more people can start discussing issues and how we are ALL being manipulated, and to discuss that at some times in history the "Republicans" were the biggest liars, and other times it is the "Democrats." Let's try to help people understand who really are the bad guys and the point is to seek Truth, not argue to support our position. In my opinion, most of these "elected" officials start out or end up being puppets for the Deep State/Globalist/Tyrants. Maybe, if we try to help people understand this, we can move the bar a little. Maybe. It is difficult when social media is being used to brain wash the public. I don't know if it is proven, but I believe the brain's system can be trained and changed and effectively re-wired. I believe that is what is happening. I am wondering if AI is not just done with a chip. It is being done all the time, through this manipulation. Many people are now, shall we say, artificial intelligence. This would explain the stupidity we are seeing. People have literally been re-wired and cannot see the hypocrisy they promote. "My body, my choice!" shouted by the same people who then said "you must take the Covid jab!" It seems they have been so re-wired that they cannot see how this makes no sense. Seems like the old horror movie, "Invasion of the Body Snatchers."
A lot to think about! The apparent solution to the Gaza condition is to push it into the sea. Musk I believe wants to use X as an educational tool. Medicine ignores the root causes of the compounding health issues generated By Big Agra, Big Food, and Big Chemo. They benefit with ever expanding demands on a closed allopathic medicine model that discredits any other form of treatment. The subterfuge, miss direction and manipulation of medical science to create the Covid con demonstrates that the informational systems have been corrupted. We need to exit from the road being traveled. I pray Musk is leading the way.
The concept that every form of government has it's pros and cons is important. And a good government design tends to become corrupted over time. We humans are doomed to "cycles".
Both Jews and Palestinians can united over their love of the land and the human need to have equal rights of all the people living there. Right now, Israel is still in a phase of colonisation which means that Palestinians have lesser rights. An unbearable situation for them. Israel does not value the lives of their citizens in all situations. The Hannibal directive says that the IDF will rather kill Jewish Israelis when captured by Palestinians than negotiate. Many families of hostages are protesting their own government's lack of willingness to prioritize the freeing of the hostages. The IDF is so trigger happy in Gaza that they killed three Israeli hostages who were freed and were walking towards IDF soldiers speaking Hebrew. Maybe this behavior is a consequence of the total disregard shown towards Palestinians.
Thanks for taking the time to address this important subject, and for your thoughtful observations. I think the analogy between socialism (or any control-based social system) and modern medicine is a good one, but actually both socialism and industrial capitalism are systems built on separation from the cosmos, nature and each other. Both have an element of truth in them, yet both, when applied in a pure fashion, tend to destroy the society in which they are employed.
I believe that the future if we want to evolve healthier forms of government is, as you say, to rebuild the 'soil' of society, rather than trying to devise perfect systems and impose them on the populace. Increasing community and social connection, strengthening individual autonomy and responsibility, empowering local communities, promoting civility (M. Scott Peck has a great book on this), and promoting nuanced, respectful dialogue to achieve solutions (what is known in Game Theory as the Game B approach) are all important parts of this.
However there is also a form of social structure that I believe represents an enlightened synthesis of the best parts of capitalism and socialism/communism. It is called Social Threefolding, and was introduced by Austrian visionary mystic, philosopher and educationalist Rudolf Steiner in the early 20th Century. In this approach, society is seen as comprised of 3 spheres that are independent yet interlinked: the spiritual/cultural sphere, the political/rights sphere and the economic sphere. Steiner was at pains to emphasise that this wasn't another abstract system, but a picture of the social organism that humanity was evolving towards, and that was gradually emerging, albeit with resistance from various regressive forces and powers.
In a society based on social threefolding, the cultural sphere is guided by the principle of liberty - people must be free to choose for themselves what to think, say, learn and believe. The censorship of the past 4 years is anathema to this approach. On the other hand, the rights/legal sphere is guided by the principle of equality - all citizens are valued and respected for their inherent humanity, and none is given special powers or privileges. Finally, the economic sphere is guided by the principle of fraternity or co-operation. People flourish best when they can collaborate to meet their material needs, but this must be a free collaboration and should not be controlled by the state. Thus decentralised economic systems such as farmers markets, community supported agriculture, LETS and community co-operatives are all very much in alignment with this approach. So it can be seen that social threefolding is based on the principles of the French Revolution: liberty, equality and fraternity, and each has its place in a flourishing community and society. The problem comes when the spheres are mixed together, or one sphere is allowed to dominate the others. In the USA and many Western countries, it is the economic sphere that has become dominant, to the detriment of the other spheres.
The beauty of social threefolding is that it can be begun at a small scale: in a business, school or community organisation. It can start at the grassroots, rather than having to be imposed from above. And for many - certainly for me - it makes intuitive sense.
Thank you for this highly original and richly thought-provoking essay.
You mentioned the Israeli documentary about the jab injured. It is indeed a very important documentary, it was made early on, and then heavily, very heavily censored.
Relatedly:
AVITAL LIVNY is the initiator of the testimony Project, Israel
AVITAL LIVNY: When the vaccinating— so-called vaccinating, sorry, that's the terminology that I'm using because I'm dealing with people that use it and I have to talk to them even though I don't think of it as vaccines anymore— but when it started in Israel, soon after, I think, two months or three months after, I already started hearing about people experiencing side effects, people that I know around me. The numbers went up as time went by. And I also started noticing people on FaceBook posting posts telling about what happened to them after getting the shots. And the dozens became hundreds, and yet in the Israeli media there was nothing. Everything is perfect, no side effects.
And also I noticed that whenever somebody posted a post telling about what he experienced, the side effects he experienced, he immediately got comments like "Fake News," "Lies of Unvaccinated People," "Anti-Vaxx People," and I knew right away that the only way to stop this, and to bring the truth out, is only with video testimonies because once you see the person's face, speaking from his heart about his tragedy, in your guts you know when it's not fake. You know.
But all the organizations that were involved at the time with the testimonies and with collecting the details and the data, when I contacted them they told me that it was impossible to get people to testify on camera since they were afraid. So I waited. I was hoping that somebody will do it. But eventually when I saw that the Israeli government is not stopping, that they're not going to investigate any of those reports and, on the contrary, they went full power ahead and started giving the shots to the 16 and 18 year-old teenagers, as a mother of two, I decided that I have to try and do it myself.
I went inside private groups on FaceBook of people who got injured from the vaccine, this was the title of the groups, and started going over, there were already thousands of testimonies there, posts, comments. I went over thousands of them and contacted hundreds of them though Messenger, introducing myself and telling them about the project that I was going to do. But almost all of them didn't want to do it, they were too afraid to come out with their stories.
And Ilana [Ilana Rachel Daniel, previous speaker https://rappeh.org.il/en/biography-ilana-rachel-daniel/ ] mentioned it before, you have to understand that the atmosphere in Israel since the so-called vaccination started is so violent, so toxic. A lot of hate, fear. Families are falling apart, getting divided between vaccinated and unvaccinated, and no wonder since, as Ilana told you our own prime minister, the incitement against the unvaccinated is unbelievable. And he was caught on camera saying, at the beginning of his being prime minister, he was saying that the unvaccinated people are like people going on the street with a machine gun spraying a deadly virus all over. And as she said, he was saying, when they started giving the shots to children in schools, "I want the parents of the vaccinated children to fight with the parents of the unvaccinated children."
So, no wonder people were afraid for their jobs, of what their colleagues and friends would say, and they didn't want to come out with their stories. So in order to give them a sense of confidence and safety, I gave them my word that I will not publish anything before I have at least 40 testimonies.
Three and half months later, the project was ready. It became a heartbreaking documentary of an hour and seven minutes. It was released five months ago, already translated to 15 different languages. Only in our website it was, it got more than 2 million views. And still, on the Israeli media, nothing. The majority of the Israeli people never heard of the testimonies project. You get the feeling that they want to shut it down, they want no one to know of the side effects.
As Ilana said, there was this post of the Israeli Minister of Health, they deleted thousands of comments of people saying what happened to them, instead of reaching out to them and checking the information.
Not a lot of people know but in Israel, there is no normal system, until not long ago, there was no normal effective system to collect data and reports of side effects, unlike the American VAERS [Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System]. People who, most of the people don't even know that they should or are supposed to report. And the people from my project when they tried to send in a report they told me it was impossible At the time you had limitation of words, and you could only choose from several side effects. So if you had something different you couldn't put in the report. And the most important thing, no transparency. So you have no idea what happened to your report, you cannot see other reports and compare data. The whole idea of transparency in the American system, the VAERS, is that researchers, doctors, scientists, they can go inside the data, they can do their statistics and see if there are patterns. In some of the side effects indicate, that this is probably this is from the vaccination, from the shot. In Israel, we are the laboratory of the world but we don't have a system like that.
And in the American VAERS it's mostly doctors who send in the reports. In Israel, a woman in my project, her name is Esty, she got heart problems, she asked her doctor, "Are you going to report this?" he told her, "It's not my job to report. If you want, go ahead and report it." Most of the doctors are not willing even to write on the same page on the injury, where they're supposed to put the data, that that this person two days ago had also he got the Pfizer shot. They're not willing to write it down. So as I said, you have the feeling that they try to shut it down.
We need to get rid of the 'representative' part of our democracy, as that is the weak point in the system, concentration of power in any form corrupts.
Direct democracy is the answer, and the same way the internet has transformed the spread of ideas, so it could catalyse the spread of a pure, party-free government of the people.
The Reps are reduced to managers, and will attract less sociopaths and more polymaths to those roles.
Issue based internet voting is just a database from a logical perspective. What it needs is an informed populus and the government run education system is diametrically opposed to that.
Building a self sustainable governmental decision making system is child's play, convincing humanity to live without training wheels much harder
Here is a piece written in 1993 (31 years ago ) with how the medical system in the United States Evolved and why it is so broken today from the financial side. I believe it will be of help to you.
The medicine I believe in stemmed from Hippocrates: the Father of Medicine...it was simple, but true. "Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity." This has been replaced with... "Wherever the art of money is loved, enter the profession of medicine." It appears that many doctors today go into the profession of medicine, because of the money. It was not this way years ago. There was a real doctor-patient relationship. The cost of the education, the government paperwork, and other things turned the whole field into this fiasco today. The core of the problem: People have lost the balast they need to remain stable. Trusting in man and not seeking guidance from our Creator.
An incredible, impactful essay. You've covered every corner of the current Amerkan dilemma. I have experienced most of them. If we had a real free media, this essay should be everywhere.
Education, for the last 50 years, it has eroded to a state of complete irrelevance.
It has been helped by the mindless captured MSM in all its different disguises. A pillar of a Republic, Education is injured and recovery will be tough.
Urban warfare is brutal. The history of it has a repeating pattern. The attacker and the defender both take innocent civilian lives who have been caught within the struggle. Sometimes, when the defenders do not wear military uniforms, it's quite difficult for the attacker to know who is who! History is full of examples.
Thank you for all you do. You are amazing.
I used to be very convinced about the form of government I favored. But after doing Vipassana meditation (dhamma.org), it became clear to me that any form of government is only as good as the people who inhabit the government and the society it governs. Ashok the Terrible was the cruel warrior king of a large portion of India. When he discovered Buddhism (while the Buddha's enlightenment practice was still extant) he renounced violence. His country went through a period of enlightenment. Same form of monarchical government, but different leadership and a flowering of the society.
The USA government and society has been infiltrated by anti-democratic, say fascistic, amoral psychopathic elements who use the trappings of democracy with no intent to fullfill the spirit. The results of our democracy will only change when the people change, either replaced or internally changed.
Many of these problems could be lessened by people working to improve their personal courage. That would make it more difficult for evil and corruption to prosper. Easier said than done, but worrying more about God than man helps. Also, if you take the cowardly path you become cowardly. If you take the courageous path you become courageous.
I commend you on having the time, energy, and research skills to write such important and lengthy essays while still supporting what I imagine is a busy practice!
Highly thoughtful article. I agree with many ideas here and I’m a huge fan of the Doc! He’s carefully trying to balance sensitive topics. I would like to expand on some of the economic and political ideas here.
First a couple definitions. A capitalist, or “free market,” system is one in which the prices of goods and services are determined by consumers and the open market, in which the laws and forces of supply and demand are free from any intervention by a government, price-setting monopoly, or other authority.
Max Weber’s definition of the state is “an entity that has a monopoly on the legitimate use of force within a given geographical area.” This can mislead people into thinking that the state is the only or even the primary reason for security and order.
The "state" is by its very nature aggression. It can’t exist without out (for example, it has to tax directly or indirectly to exist and grow). It extracts and redistributes. It doesn’t produce.
There is a common mistake underlying almost all political discourse - a constant focus on the misleading reference to "left" and "right." There is no left and right. They are arbitrary and ever changing definitions of the political spectrum and should be completely ignored. All the "isms" being categorized into the "left" and "right" spectrum create confusion and obfuscate the true nature of politics and government. It's actually simple. The state (defined as a non-voluntary government) cannot exist without aggression / violence. It doesn't produce anything and therefore it cannot trade voluntarily for resources. It extracts through taxation (which is coercion, which is a form of aggression). The spectrum that should be applied in analyzing human interaction (and therefor politics - which is governance involving the state) is one that measures the amount of aggression applied in an interaction between individuals or entities. The spectrum spans from extreme statism to pure individual freedom. All the "isms" are just various forms and amounts of state aggression against individuals. For example, Anarcho-capitalism and Libertarianism fall on the individual freedom side of the spectrum (none to a little statism). Dictatorship, monarchy and communism fall on the other end of the spectrum - extreme statism (a few people use aggression / violence to control others). Fascism is when the state and private sector collaborate (see the Twitter files). We need to stop talking about the "left and right" and start identifying acts of aggression. If it's not a voluntary trade or act, then aggression is involved (e.g., force, coercion, violence, theft, etc). For example, drafting someone into the army is an act of state aggression. We are taught as children to not steal and be respectful of one another (e.g., don't take your sister's toy without asking politely) and we expect to treat each other as individuals and neighbors in the same manner. However, it's incredible that we don't hold the state to the same standard! We willingly allow the state to coerce us into confiscating our wealth. We allow the state to tax, fine, incarcerate, threaten and pillage individuals in order to maintain the power of the state. If we had all the taxes we paid over decades, we could have individually used that wealth and voluntarily directed it to those we each determined need it. There is no need for the state, but politicians constantly preach how they are going to "protect" you and "help" others. It's all a con. The state is just people like the rest of us, but with special powers. Everyone in this country needs to learn about the true nature of the state and stop using "left" and "right" to categorize and defend positions. We need to identify the specific acts of aggression and stand against them. Until we do, the state will continue to grow unabated and wreak havoc on this country. We are moving from individual freedom toward more statism. We are not necessarily "socialist," but there are many government entities and policies that are "socialist" in nature. But forget the term "socialism" and focus on the acts of aggression. For example, printing money is a state monopoly power that dilutes our purchasing power. The state has the power to print money and spend it wastefully. We as individuals are thrown in jail if we print money (it's called counterfeiting when free people do it). This is why the state is going after Trump so hard. The state sees that he's an anti-statist (especially against the military industrial complex), so the state is using its legal power (aggression) to defend itself against his freedom movement. The CIA and FBI are doing the same thing as they are powerful divisions of the state. I'm not defending Trump (he's also a statist on some issues). It's just an example of the state's power and how it uses it to control others. Julian Assange is a better example. He reported on the state's evil aggressions and the state went after him aggressively. He hasn't had a fair trial and has been in jail for over 10 years. I highly recommend this book for everyone in the country: https://mises.org/library/anatomy-state. The state does not represent the people. The state no longer follows the Constitution and does not defend individual freedom. The state doesn’t lead to violence; the state is the manifestation of institutionalized violence (aggression). Allow me to anticipate what you will be told when you explain this to those who don't understand this concept. They will say, "Ah ha! I got you. If there is no state, there will be anarchy!" The response is simple. First, anarchy is not violence. Anarchy is a latin term that means "denial of the state." Don't let anyone trick you and associate anarchy with violence. Anyone who argues that statelessness leads to violence is self-defeating if the proposed solution is to establish the state. That is the logic few in this country understand. Anarcho-capitalists do not claim that a truly free and voluntary market will not include aggression. There will always be bad actors in a free market. But to argue that we need to form a monopoly state as a solution is ludicrous. This is explained in this article by Robert Higgs, "If Men We're Angels, The Basic Analytics of the State versus Self-government": https://www.independent.org/publications/article.asp?id=1982. The summary of this logical position is that there will be less aggression in a stateless society than in one controlled by the state (especially over time as the state grows). So the conclusion we all need to come to is that we need to shrink the state. Think about the extremes. Do you want a king or dictator telling us all what to do? Do you want a small group of people running a Communist system (BTW the communist leaders were rich) telling us what to do? Or do you want pure, individual freedom and then deal with any aggression voluntarily in a collaborative manner where you will at least have a choice? The more individual freedom we have, the more choices we have at our disposal to flourish and to defend ourselves from the aggression of others.
Healthy government is an oxymoron. Many think that the system would be fine if we just had the right people in office. Hasn't history sufficiently shown that is a hopeless form of optimism? Government is coercion and force and attracts those with a pathological need to control others. Democracy is certainly not the answer. Our founding fathers recognized the fact that it leads to mob rule and tried to prevent this through a system of "checks and balances". I don't believe one can find the word democracy in any of the founding documents---the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, or even the constitution. I recommend the book "Democracy: The God that Failed" by Hans Herman Hoppe. An optimal society would be grounded in individual freedom and rights of private property---little or no government required. The practice of medicine would benefit from following the same principles.
Thank you, AMD, for your continued writings on your thoughts. There is so much in this article! NAPman discussed something that I believe is incredibly important that I would like to reinforce. People identify themselves as "Republican,", "Democrat," "Independent," etc. I have thought for a long time that if more people can start discussing issues and how we are ALL being manipulated, and to discuss that at some times in history the "Republicans" were the biggest liars, and other times it is the "Democrats." Let's try to help people understand who really are the bad guys and the point is to seek Truth, not argue to support our position. In my opinion, most of these "elected" officials start out or end up being puppets for the Deep State/Globalist/Tyrants. Maybe, if we try to help people understand this, we can move the bar a little. Maybe. It is difficult when social media is being used to brain wash the public. I don't know if it is proven, but I believe the brain's system can be trained and changed and effectively re-wired. I believe that is what is happening. I am wondering if AI is not just done with a chip. It is being done all the time, through this manipulation. Many people are now, shall we say, artificial intelligence. This would explain the stupidity we are seeing. People have literally been re-wired and cannot see the hypocrisy they promote. "My body, my choice!" shouted by the same people who then said "you must take the Covid jab!" It seems they have been so re-wired that they cannot see how this makes no sense. Seems like the old horror movie, "Invasion of the Body Snatchers."
A lot to think about! The apparent solution to the Gaza condition is to push it into the sea. Musk I believe wants to use X as an educational tool. Medicine ignores the root causes of the compounding health issues generated By Big Agra, Big Food, and Big Chemo. They benefit with ever expanding demands on a closed allopathic medicine model that discredits any other form of treatment. The subterfuge, miss direction and manipulation of medical science to create the Covid con demonstrates that the informational systems have been corrupted. We need to exit from the road being traveled. I pray Musk is leading the way.
The concept that every form of government has it's pros and cons is important. And a good government design tends to become corrupted over time. We humans are doomed to "cycles".
BTW BIG THANKS as always to one of my eternal heroes, AMD!
Both Jews and Palestinians can united over their love of the land and the human need to have equal rights of all the people living there. Right now, Israel is still in a phase of colonisation which means that Palestinians have lesser rights. An unbearable situation for them. Israel does not value the lives of their citizens in all situations. The Hannibal directive says that the IDF will rather kill Jewish Israelis when captured by Palestinians than negotiate. Many families of hostages are protesting their own government's lack of willingness to prioritize the freeing of the hostages. The IDF is so trigger happy in Gaza that they killed three Israeli hostages who were freed and were walking towards IDF soldiers speaking Hebrew. Maybe this behavior is a consequence of the total disregard shown towards Palestinians.
Thanks for taking the time to address this important subject, and for your thoughtful observations. I think the analogy between socialism (or any control-based social system) and modern medicine is a good one, but actually both socialism and industrial capitalism are systems built on separation from the cosmos, nature and each other. Both have an element of truth in them, yet both, when applied in a pure fashion, tend to destroy the society in which they are employed.
I believe that the future if we want to evolve healthier forms of government is, as you say, to rebuild the 'soil' of society, rather than trying to devise perfect systems and impose them on the populace. Increasing community and social connection, strengthening individual autonomy and responsibility, empowering local communities, promoting civility (M. Scott Peck has a great book on this), and promoting nuanced, respectful dialogue to achieve solutions (what is known in Game Theory as the Game B approach) are all important parts of this.
However there is also a form of social structure that I believe represents an enlightened synthesis of the best parts of capitalism and socialism/communism. It is called Social Threefolding, and was introduced by Austrian visionary mystic, philosopher and educationalist Rudolf Steiner in the early 20th Century. In this approach, society is seen as comprised of 3 spheres that are independent yet interlinked: the spiritual/cultural sphere, the political/rights sphere and the economic sphere. Steiner was at pains to emphasise that this wasn't another abstract system, but a picture of the social organism that humanity was evolving towards, and that was gradually emerging, albeit with resistance from various regressive forces and powers.
In a society based on social threefolding, the cultural sphere is guided by the principle of liberty - people must be free to choose for themselves what to think, say, learn and believe. The censorship of the past 4 years is anathema to this approach. On the other hand, the rights/legal sphere is guided by the principle of equality - all citizens are valued and respected for their inherent humanity, and none is given special powers or privileges. Finally, the economic sphere is guided by the principle of fraternity or co-operation. People flourish best when they can collaborate to meet their material needs, but this must be a free collaboration and should not be controlled by the state. Thus decentralised economic systems such as farmers markets, community supported agriculture, LETS and community co-operatives are all very much in alignment with this approach. So it can be seen that social threefolding is based on the principles of the French Revolution: liberty, equality and fraternity, and each has its place in a flourishing community and society. The problem comes when the spheres are mixed together, or one sphere is allowed to dominate the others. In the USA and many Western countries, it is the economic sphere that has become dominant, to the detriment of the other spheres.
The beauty of social threefolding is that it can be begun at a small scale: in a business, school or community organisation. It can start at the grassroots, rather than having to be imposed from above. And for many - certainly for me - it makes intuitive sense.
Thank you for this highly original and richly thought-provoking essay.
You mentioned the Israeli documentary about the jab injured. It is indeed a very important documentary, it was made early on, and then heavily, very heavily censored.
Relatedly:
AVITAL LIVNY is the initiator of the testimony Project, Israel
Watch: The Testimonies Project (Israel)
https://www.vaxtestimonies.org/en/
[NOTE: Transcriber B's update April 12, 2024: The website for the documentary is looking very glitchy. Here is an alternative to watch it on rumble:
https://rumble.com/vumoey-the-testimonies-project-vaccine-injuries-israeli-documentary-2022.html]
Avital Livny Giving Evidence About Testimony Project In Israel To Grand Jury Day 6 02/26/22
https://rumble.com/vw0vo1-avital-livny-giving-evidence-about-testimony-project-in-israel-to-grand-jur.html
TRANSCRIPT - BRIEF EXCERPT
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AVITAL LIVNY: When the vaccinating— so-called vaccinating, sorry, that's the terminology that I'm using because I'm dealing with people that use it and I have to talk to them even though I don't think of it as vaccines anymore— but when it started in Israel, soon after, I think, two months or three months after, I already started hearing about people experiencing side effects, people that I know around me. The numbers went up as time went by. And I also started noticing people on FaceBook posting posts telling about what happened to them after getting the shots. And the dozens became hundreds, and yet in the Israeli media there was nothing. Everything is perfect, no side effects.
And also I noticed that whenever somebody posted a post telling about what he experienced, the side effects he experienced, he immediately got comments like "Fake News," "Lies of Unvaccinated People," "Anti-Vaxx People," and I knew right away that the only way to stop this, and to bring the truth out, is only with video testimonies because once you see the person's face, speaking from his heart about his tragedy, in your guts you know when it's not fake. You know.
But all the organizations that were involved at the time with the testimonies and with collecting the details and the data, when I contacted them they told me that it was impossible to get people to testify on camera since they were afraid. So I waited. I was hoping that somebody will do it. But eventually when I saw that the Israeli government is not stopping, that they're not going to investigate any of those reports and, on the contrary, they went full power ahead and started giving the shots to the 16 and 18 year-old teenagers, as a mother of two, I decided that I have to try and do it myself.
I went inside private groups on FaceBook of people who got injured from the vaccine, this was the title of the groups, and started going over, there were already thousands of testimonies there, posts, comments. I went over thousands of them and contacted hundreds of them though Messenger, introducing myself and telling them about the project that I was going to do. But almost all of them didn't want to do it, they were too afraid to come out with their stories.
And Ilana [Ilana Rachel Daniel, previous speaker https://rappeh.org.il/en/biography-ilana-rachel-daniel/ ] mentioned it before, you have to understand that the atmosphere in Israel since the so-called vaccination started is so violent, so toxic. A lot of hate, fear. Families are falling apart, getting divided between vaccinated and unvaccinated, and no wonder since, as Ilana told you our own prime minister, the incitement against the unvaccinated is unbelievable. And he was caught on camera saying, at the beginning of his being prime minister, he was saying that the unvaccinated people are like people going on the street with a machine gun spraying a deadly virus all over. And as she said, he was saying, when they started giving the shots to children in schools, "I want the parents of the vaccinated children to fight with the parents of the unvaccinated children."
So, no wonder people were afraid for their jobs, of what their colleagues and friends would say, and they didn't want to come out with their stories. So in order to give them a sense of confidence and safety, I gave them my word that I will not publish anything before I have at least 40 testimonies.
Three and half months later, the project was ready. It became a heartbreaking documentary of an hour and seven minutes. It was released five months ago, already translated to 15 different languages. Only in our website it was, it got more than 2 million views. And still, on the Israeli media, nothing. The majority of the Israeli people never heard of the testimonies project. You get the feeling that they want to shut it down, they want no one to know of the side effects.
As Ilana said, there was this post of the Israeli Minister of Health, they deleted thousands of comments of people saying what happened to them, instead of reaching out to them and checking the information.
Not a lot of people know but in Israel, there is no normal system, until not long ago, there was no normal effective system to collect data and reports of side effects, unlike the American VAERS [Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System]. People who, most of the people don't even know that they should or are supposed to report. And the people from my project when they tried to send in a report they told me it was impossible At the time you had limitation of words, and you could only choose from several side effects. So if you had something different you couldn't put in the report. And the most important thing, no transparency. So you have no idea what happened to your report, you cannot see other reports and compare data. The whole idea of transparency in the American system, the VAERS, is that researchers, doctors, scientists, they can go inside the data, they can do their statistics and see if there are patterns. In some of the side effects indicate, that this is probably this is from the vaccination, from the shot. In Israel, we are the laboratory of the world but we don't have a system like that.
And in the American VAERS it's mostly doctors who send in the reports. In Israel, a woman in my project, her name is Esty, she got heart problems, she asked her doctor, "Are you going to report this?" he told her, "It's not my job to report. If you want, go ahead and report it." Most of the doctors are not willing even to write on the same page on the injury, where they're supposed to put the data, that that this person two days ago had also he got the Pfizer shot. They're not willing to write it down. So as I said, you have the feeling that they try to shut it down.
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Wonderful article, as always.
We need to get rid of the 'representative' part of our democracy, as that is the weak point in the system, concentration of power in any form corrupts.
Direct democracy is the answer, and the same way the internet has transformed the spread of ideas, so it could catalyse the spread of a pure, party-free government of the people.
The Reps are reduced to managers, and will attract less sociopaths and more polymaths to those roles.
Issue based internet voting is just a database from a logical perspective. What it needs is an informed populus and the government run education system is diametrically opposed to that.
Building a self sustainable governmental decision making system is child's play, convincing humanity to live without training wheels much harder
Dear AMD
Here is a piece written in 1993 (31 years ago ) with how the medical system in the United States Evolved and why it is so broken today from the financial side. I believe it will be of help to you.
https://www.americanheritage.com/how-americas-health-care-fell-ill
love your pieces.