ratherblather
psychiatric help 5¢, the doctor is in
Reader since 2019, finally felt like my frontal lobe developed (or regressed) enough to try posting. Casual student of continental philosophy and psychoanalysis. My views aren't real. I'm almost certainly on my lunch break.
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ratherblather
psychiatric help 5¢, the doctor is in
3d ago
Agreed, the Republicans I've seen who have political ambition either seem to be jockeying for Trump's favor or attempting to distinginguish themselves from him to try and steal the torch of party leader. Either way, Trump is still the locus of Republican energy and the lions share of political action these days seems to be done in reference to him, not just for its own sake.
ratherblather
psychiatric help 5¢, the doctor is in
3d ago
Those are definitely externalities that I considered, but even when taken together I don't think they encompass precisely what OP is objecting to. Nor do they illustrate the reasons behind OP's apparent discontent.
As a newer account with the fervor to post and fill my profile page, I initially was tempted to excise this post point-by-point, explaining where my thoughts differed. However, after starting to write, I realized I'm in the same camp as TitaniumButterfly - there is a notable lack of specificity here. I am not sure what ideological camp or viewpoint you're claiming to advocate, given your language avoids the usual COVID buzzwords. It seems you expect us to know what you're referring to by "enemy doctrines" and "grim smiles of doctrinaires," but they're blowing right over my head. I can sort of see what tea leaves you're gesturing to. I just don't know what you mean exactly. A good place to start might be explaining your conclusion so I can reason backward.
...the Vaccine Moment was a malevolent, planned, opportunistic structural attack on a segment of Western Society.
- Malevolent, how? Malevolent because of the direct medical consequences of using "genetic technology"? Malevolent because it showed that the technocratic establishment was able to shape public will given the right cause? I can tell you generally disapprove of the way that scientific authority was wielded during the pandemic, but what do you believe the negative consequences of the COVID reaction are, exactly?
- Planned, how? Information about COVID was very scare and contradictory at the beginning. The global population was incredibly scared and confused and looking toward authorities for some guidance. Those authorities did not want to find themselves without that guidance. They did not want to appear incompetent. I find it much more likely that the response to the pandemic was one that was necessarily imperfect due to the political and biological realities of pandemic life and the incredible demand for solutions. If it was planned, what aspects do you believe were coordinated and for what goal?
- Structural, how? The structures that led to the rollout of the vaccine were largely in place prior to the pandemic and I don't believe they've been dramatically changed since. Perhaps you mean structural in terms of our social relationship to science. What do you mean by structure - even in the Foucaltian sense?
- Which segment of Western society? Why that segment in particular, why Western society, rather than the world? The entire world experienced the pandemic, most countries had inconsistent and fraught COVID responses, and large portions of the world received exported American vaccines.
I'm not being intentionally glib here, I just haven't participated in COVID discourse in quite a long time so I'm failing at the word association game you're trying to play.
ratherblather
psychiatric help 5¢, the doctor is in
9d ago
As another note on relative trust, I think it's worth acknowledging that the historical red tribe distrust of government lies, to some extent, in the lack of ownership felt toward said government. The idea that red tribers distrust government came to prominence in response to Obama and the establishment-type neocon Republicans that worked with him, further inflamed by the Biden admin's poor communication and media backsliding during COVID. Now that the government is presently controlled by the MAGA movement (whether or not it has been influenced or consumed by the establishment notwithstanding), most red tribers trust the parts of said government run by "their guy." One of Trump's major electoral talking points in 2016 was how he was going to topple the establishment and speak truth to power, and while that sentiment has waned somewhat on his second term, there is still enough of that energy in the MAGA base that official government narratives tend to be accepted.
Too many no-no words meant the sub was at risk of deletion, iirc. Much easier to respect the spirit of the community off-site where we could set our own standards for what content needs moderated.
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