Anonymous ID: 7d71d8 Dec. 11, 2021, 7:32 p.m. No.15179363   šŸ—„ļø.is šŸ”—kun   >>9387 >>9394

A Leftist Gets Red-Pilled

 

"Paul Kingsnorth: why I changed sides in the vaccine wars"

 

"Paul Kingsnorth sees the vaccine wars as symptomatic of a bigger division between two fundamentally different world views: he calls them ā€œthesisā€ and ā€œantithesis.ā€ When it comes to Covid, ā€œthesisā€ is the establishment viewpoint: that lockdowns are needed to contain the virus, masks work, vaccines are safe, and people who question them are wrongheaded or worse. When Covid-19 first struck, Kingsnorth took the ā€œthesisā€ viewpoint.

 

But over the last few months, his perspective changed. As he writes in todayā€™s UnHerd, the crystallising moment arrived when he woke up to the news that the Austrian government had ā€˜interned an entire third of the populationā€™. This move, he writes, sent a ā€˜chill down my spineā€™.

 

The ā€œantithesisā€ view can be summed up as: lockdowns are not needed, masks do not work, the safety and efficacy of the vaccines are being oversold, vaccine passports will not only fail but further segregate society, and in the near future we can expect Giradian scapegoating of the unvaccinated. In other words, we are positioned on the precipice of a slippery slope that leads towards increasingly draconian biopolitical control measures, the grip of which is unlikely to release even once the pandemic is over.

 

In a conversation with Freddie Sayers on this weekā€™s UnHerdTV, he explains this division and the bigger epistemological divides it reveals. ā€œPeople are arguing about vaccines,ā€ he says, ā€œbut theyā€™re really under the surface arguing about what kind of person you are if you have taken these things, whether youā€™re a good or a bad person, or clean or unclean oneā€.

 

In Kingsnorthā€™s view, each of us has a line that cannot be crossed. And his has now been reached."

 

00:00 - 01:30 - Introduction

01:30 - 05:33 - Paul Kingsnorth explains the vaccine wars and their meaning

05:33 - 08:35 - The thesis and antithesis positions of the COVID debate

08:35 - 13:45 - Is the COVID debate a threat to the elite, like Brexit and Trump?

13:45 - 15:32 - Fear as a controlling device

15:32 - 18:51 - What does 'freedom' really mean?

18:51 - 20:23 - Where are we headed?

20:23 - 22:26 - Kingsnorth on what heā€™s learned in the last two years

22:26 - 25:05 - Where about ā€˜liberal democracyā€™?

25:05 - 30:45 - Are the antithesis group yearning for religious meaning?

30:45 - 34:09 - What are the values we should be talking about?

34:09 - 34:37 - Concluding thoughts

 

https://youtu.be/N_uAwsVn10Y

Anonymous ID: 7d71d8 Dec. 11, 2021, 7:37 p.m. No.15179394   šŸ—„ļø.is šŸ”—kun   >>9409

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>"we are positioned on the

 

PRECIPICE

 

of a slippery slope that leads towards increasingly draconian biopolitical control measures, the grip of which is unlikely to release even once the pandemic is over."

 

https://youtu.be/N_uAwsVn10Y