I know others who are good people but who are in an extreme information bubble (i.e. they may not even be on social media at all, so they don't see how extreme the narrative control has become in the past 2 years).
Good point. I'm sort of a hybrid between a Virtual and a Physical in terms of employment.
Many people saw the dangers very clearly from the outset. I wasn't one of them and was a relative latecomer in early 2021. Most of these people in my own personal sphere who saw the dangers accurately (and often irritated me at the time) judged that the severity of the pandemic was less than the outsized response, which would crush the economy and civil rights (a much greater danger than mild excess death rates).
As a loosely defined sort of libertarian, I was hardly oblivious to that potential danger, but I thought the emergency measures would be temporary and the pandemic was more severe than it turned out to be. So in my personal case it can be partly put up to naivete and the fact that I never thought governments would use a natural disaster to grab such an immense amount of power. (Obviously this raises the point that many were onto the lab leak hypotheses early... I did not outright dismiss this hypothesis, but waited awhile to form a judgment because there are dozens of “emerging infectious diseases” which have seemingly appeared from nowhere since the 80s.)
There are probably many complex things going on. Another thing I’ve seen in people who are “awake” (not woke) to the dangers of all of this as a springboard for totalitarianism is that they are not afraid to take public and unpopular stands on issues, or to be socially ostracized.
I’m an armchair psychology junkie and very interested in how our childhood trauma shapes who we become as adults. Almost more than anything else, the people I see who have become strident opponents of what is going on weren’t afraid to stand against the crowd as children.
I know others who are good people but who are in an extreme information bubble (i.e. they may not even be on social media at all, so they don't see how extreme the narrative control has become in the past 2 years).
Good point. I'm sort of a hybrid between a Virtual and a Physical in terms of employment.
Many people saw the dangers very clearly from the outset. I wasn't one of them and was a relative latecomer in early 2021. Most of these people in my own personal sphere who saw the dangers accurately (and often irritated me at the time) judged that the severity of the pandemic was less than the outsized response, which would crush the economy and civil rights (a much greater danger than mild excess death rates).
As a loosely defined sort of libertarian, I was hardly oblivious to that potential danger, but I thought the emergency measures would be temporary and the pandemic was more severe than it turned out to be. So in my personal case it can be partly put up to naivete and the fact that I never thought governments would use a natural disaster to grab such an immense amount of power. (Obviously this raises the point that many were onto the lab leak hypotheses early... I did not outright dismiss this hypothesis, but waited awhile to form a judgment because there are dozens of “emerging infectious diseases” which have seemingly appeared from nowhere since the 80s.)
There are probably many complex things going on. Another thing I’ve seen in people who are “awake” (not woke) to the dangers of all of this as a springboard for totalitarianism is that they are not afraid to take public and unpopular stands on issues, or to be socially ostracized.
I’m an armchair psychology junkie and very interested in how our childhood trauma shapes who we become as adults. Almost more than anything else, the people I see who have become strident opponents of what is going on weren’t afraid to stand against the crowd as children.