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My Speech at the U.S. Senate

MATTIAS DESMET

Last Monday, I had the honor of being invited by US Senator Ron Johnson to engage in a panel discussion held at the U.S. Senate, titled ‘Federal Health Agencies and the COVID Cartel: What Are They Hiding?'. ...

Kant believed the tradition of Enlightenment would produce a new citizen who could think for himself, but until now, the opposite turns out to be true: it produced the ideal citizen of the totalitarian state, which Hannah Arendt defined as a citizen who cannot distinguish between reality and fiction.

After the communist and fascist totalitarianism of the twentieth century, we currently witness the emergence of a technocratic and transhumanist totalitarianism. It manifest in the typical way totalitarianism does: as a diabolic pact between the elite and the masses. ...

The rationalist view on man and the world also had some unexpected psychological effects at the level of the population: the focus on rationally understanding the outward appearance of phenomena alienated people from inner experiencing and the ethical dimension of life and disconnected the human being from its fellow human beings and from nature around it.

These two evolutions, the emergence of an elite that uses propaganda and a lonely and disconnected population, reinforced each other. The lonely state is exactly the state in which a population is particularly vulnerable for propaganda. In this way, a new kind of masses or crowds emerged throughout the last two centuries: the so-called lonely masses. This process of mass-formation makes people radically incapable of taking a critical distance of the narratives spread through media, it makes them radically willing to self-sacrifice and it makes them radically intolerant for dissonant voices (think about the aggressive censorships of dissonant voices during the coronacrisis and throughout the 2020 US elections).

As society falls prey to propaganda, it becomes ever more clear that there is an urgent need for what the ancient Greeks called Parrhesia or sincere speech. From a psychological point of view, it can be argued crystal clear that Truth Speech both inhibits mass-formation (and hence also totalitarian systems which are always based on mass-formation) and the root cause of mass-formation, which is the disconnectedness and loneliness.

This is the point I make: it’s time for a metaphysical revolution, a revolution, which, essentially, at the psychological level, boils down to this: the switch from a society ruled by lonely masses in the grip of propaganda to a society guided by a group united through sincere speech.

Belonging

What’s striking to me about Covid is that, at the end of the day, most people fall in line to support empire, no matter how ruinous it is to themselves or others.

I think it’s 80/20. 80% of people will side with empire no matter what. And 20% of people are capable of thinking for themselves.

A tragedy disguised as a farce

Covid was the first genocide in history where people were like, “Woo hoo, I get to genocide myself today, let’s go!” Three years later as their friends are dropping dead left and right they’re still like, “Woo hoo, 9th booster, just had a stroke, bladder cancer, and cardiac arrest, let’s go!” ...

Universal truths

I’m struck by this fatal contradiction at the heart of modern progressivism.

On the one hand, following Foucault, they argue that there are no universal truths, only individual perspectives.

On the other hand, following Pfizer, they argue that junk science vaccines are a universal truth that must be mandated for the whole population.

My hunch is that progressives never really believed the postmodern claim to no universal truths.

Postmodernism is just a crowbar to destabilize the truth claims of one’s opponents.

Underneath it all progressives are deeply authoritarian and believe that they have a monopoly on truth and thus have the right and responsibility to rule over others.

Underneath it all progressives are deeply authoritarian and believe that they have a monopoly on truth and thus have the right and responsibility to rule over others.

Yet for many people forgetting that this ever happened is mandatory. Criminals cannot be held accountable. The records must be destroyed.

Some days ago I was video chatting with a friend of mine who was born in Italy, but who has family in California. She made a green card for America in 2022 and is currently living in San Diego. In her case I knew that she must have taken the Covid jabs to come to America. We talked about anything and everything unrelated for a few hours. I told her about my upcoming trip to Thailand and my woes in getting my husband a visa to come to the USA. She seemed curious and skeptical at some point in my talking. There must be something really wrong for it to be taking this long. Finally I came out and said it.

“They require the Covid vaccines for him to come. I think those things are dangerous and should be banned.”

This made her nervous like I’d just ripped off some duct tape on her mouth. “Well you have to take those! I got them and I’m perfectly fine!” Somehow we’ve normalized the idea that they can inject anything at any time and that’s just the way life is. I could tell she didn’t want to think about it anymore than a woman likes to recall being raped.

I explained that I knew many people who took the %$##@$% jabs who seemed perfectly fine, but that this alone does not justify playing Russian roulette with other people’s bodies. The conversation ended nervously not too long afterwards. One side is trying to hold the criminals to account and to make sure we never forget. The other side is desperate to move on from it. They don’t even want to think about it. Too many were complicit.

Too many were complicit.

Yesterday, I cross-posted an article by physician Dr. Clayton J. Baker, who pointed out that many medical schools still require Covid vaccines and/or boosters. The author identified the real reason that probably explains this mandate:

“There is likely an underlying and utterly non-medical reason these mandates persist. A covert screening process, often used in large corporations’ Human Resources departments, appears to be taking place—this is an effort to weed out any and all individuals who do not passively comply with all regulations, however invasive or unnecessary they may be.”

This article made me realize how similar compliance or obedience tests are being administered in institutions throughout society.

In the vaccine example, the goal is not to protect the health of medical students, who, after all, face zero risk of dying from Covid (but do face a greater risk of death if they are vaccinated).

The vaccine mandate for medical students is an effort to ensure any doctor capable of independent thinking will not be allowed to practice medicine. It’s an effort to ensure the bureaucrats will control healthcare in the future and that this control will not be challenged by any contrarians or mavericks.