Totalitarianism and the Covid Cult

Part 2 - Doctrine

Ideology as Reality

Totalitarianism seeks to force reality to conform to its insane visions. Thus, Arendt (1962, p. 392) characterises totalitarianism as an “experiment in constantly transforming reality into fiction,” an “experiment [...] against reality.”

According to Meerloo (1956, p. 123), “The totalitarian mind [...] has a contempt for reality [...] The totalitarian mind does not observe and verify its impressions of reality; it dictates to reality how it shall behave, it compels reality to conform to its fantasies.”

The erstwhile Czech dissident, Václav Havel (1985, p. 32), wrote that, under totalitarianism, ideology “becomes reality itself [...] the virtuosity of the ritual becomes more important than the reality hidden behind it.”

Similar principles are operative in cults. According to Hassan (1990, pp. 78-79), “There is no room in a mind control environment for regarding the group’s beliefs as mere theory, or as a way to interpret reality or to seek reality. The doctrine is reality [and it] becomes the ‘master program’ for all thoughts, feelings, and actions.”

As the programme for totalitarian control on a global level has emerged during the 21st century, the attempt to dictate reality has once again become manifest. Noting NATO commander Wesley Clark’s phrase “control over the narrative,” the former Professor of International Economy, Kees van der Pijl (2023, p. 2), observes that military power today “relies to a large extent on projecting an imposed worldview.” Importantly, he adds,

Because the power of the ruling class is directly at stake here, this prescribed reality is not optional; it is forcibly imposed, a sacred truth that cannot be questioned, “taboo.” Those who deviate from it risk social isolation, just like in a primitive community.

All those who have lost their careers or been otherwise marginalised as a result of speaking out against the manifest evil of the Covid era will doubtless understand this, as will those who suffered a similar fate for speaking out against the official “9/11” narrative. Meanwhile, politics, media, and the education system all carefully adhere to the prescribed version of “reality.”

Considers the infamous words of President George W. Bush’s Senior Adviser, Karl Rove, in 2004:

We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors [...] and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do. (cited in Suskind, 2004)

For the better part of two decades, the “global War on Terror” was “reality,” notwithstanding all the deception and false flag terrorism used to sustain it. Officially, it remains “reality,” although the focus largely shifted away from terrorism following the initiation of the “Covid-19” operation in 2020.

In the Covid era, Broadberry (2022) observes, there was “little distinction between [...] reality and illusion. It’s not so much that people have been robbed of their ability to decipher between these two, it’s that facts have been reoriented into fiction and fiction into facts.”

In keeping with the history of totalitarianism, the official reality of “Covid-19” was fiction, while counter-narratives that came close to the truth were branded as fictional “conspiracy theories.”

Today’s “global-capitalist totalitarianism,” Hopkins (2021) argues, “doesn’t have an ideology, technically, or, rather, its ideology is ‘reality.’” Thus, the “pathologized official narrative” of “Covid-19” proved “more powerful (and insidious) than any ideology,“ functioning, as it did, “not as a belief system or ethos, but rather, as objective ‘reality,’” which cannot be argued with or opposed politically.

How is it possible that Western societies have come to accept fictions as “reality” on the totalitarian model? Trauma-based mind control goes a long way to explaining it. In Monarch mind control, for instance, “The majority of traumas are real events, but the scripts that are given after the trauma are fictional” (Wheeler & Springmeier, 2008, p. 42). In other words, trauma can be harnessed to make the victim believe in fiction.

“9/11” was a real and traumatic event, yet the 9/11 Commission Report is largely fiction (Griffin, 2005). The “Covid-19 lockdowns” were real and traumatic, but the narrative that a virus was to blame was fiction.

“In this [Covid] theatre of the absurd,” Broadberry (2022) observes, “people acclimatise to fiction because it’s easier than confronting uncomfortable truths.” Indeed, most people probably do not want to face the reality that they are the quarry in the Omniwar being waged against them.

Totalitarian Pseudoscience

Totalitarianism cares only for power, not science.

Under totalitarianism, Arendt (1962, p. 384) writes, the regime’s “ideological lies are supposed to be believed like sacred untouchable truths” and are “surrounded by a carefully elaborated system of ‘scientific’ proofs,” e.g. of “the inferiority of the Jews or the misery of people living under a capitalist system.” The reputation of leading scientists in the Soviet Union was traded upon “for entirely unscientific purposes,” forcing those scientists “into the role of charlatans” (Arendt, 1962, p. 345).

The logical extension of this is to be found in Nineteen Eighty-Four, where O’Brien claims “When we are omnipotent we shall have no more need of science” (Orwell, 2001, p. 243).

Similar holds true of emergent global totalitarianism today and its ideological lies. The public is expected to believe, for instance, that “the science is settled” and that the truth about “climate change” and “pandemics” is beyond dispute — all on the say so of “reputable” scientists who have been turned into charlatans by their abject service to power.

In reality, the “scientific proofs” used to sustain the lies turn out to be nothing but heavily funded pseudoscience used to indoctrinate the public (Nordangård, 2024). “Heavily funded” here means hundreds of institutions being funded over many decades to promote certain agendas, thereby creating the illusion of “consensus” among seemingly independent organisations, all staffed by so-called “experts.”

The Science™, a pseudo-scientific bastardisation of real science, lay at the heart of the Covid cult. “Follow The Science™,” “The Science™ says,” “settled science,” “scientific consensus,” etc. served as cult mantras, and were propagated by governments and the legacy media around the world.

Implicit within the idea of “settled science” is that “nobody has a reason to dispute either the science or the remedial actions that are specified to fix some perceived problem” (Wood, 2018, p. 12). In other words, “settled science” is a propaganda term used to close down democratic debate and contestation.

Real science, however, is never settled. It is about evidence and truth, not belief and consensus. The best-selling author, Michael Crichton (2003, p. 5), made the point well in his rejection of “global warming”:

Let’s be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science, consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus.

In a democracy, “scientific consensus” should never form the basis of political decision making, for power is thereby handed to those manufacturing the “consensus.”

Do Not Question

In totalitarian societies, the official doctrine must not be questioned. In Nazi Germany, for instance, “strength of certainty was celebrated,” while “doubt, questioning, and awareness of uncertainty were disparaged as shameful, harmful, and worthy of marginalisation” (Haque et al. 2012, p. 474).

Similarly, the fundamental tenets of a cult must not be questioned: there is a “prohibition (whether or not explicit) against the questioning of basic assumptions” (Lifton, 1989, p. 427).

The cult’s “ultimate moral vision” for the ordering of human existence is, by the same token, “ultimate science,” and whoever dares criticise it is not only immoral, but also “unscientific” (Lifton, 1989, p. 427).

During the “Covid-19” debacle, The Science™ was not allowed to be questioned. Governments and the legacy media, for instance, took to “marginalising or excluding any scientific opinion not in agreement with their preferred policy” (Cayley, 2020).

Attempts to exercise scientific scepticism were met with censorship, intimidation, and harassment. In the words of retired Pathology Professor John Lee, “A lot of what people have come to regard as clear scientific consensus over the last year is nothing of the sort. The voices of scientists with different views have simply not been heard” (HART, n.d.).

Serious scientists, Brownstone’s Jeffrey Tucker (2021) noted, “wake up daily wondering why we live in a world in which the denial of science has become required doctrine, and why they are being forced to choose between their principles and their income and profession.” In Arendt’s terms, they must choose whether or not to become charlatans willing to promote pseudoscience for the good of their careers.

Do Not Believe Your Lying Eyes and Ears

A key part of the indoctrination process involves getting victims to believe the doctrine, the myth, over the evidence of their own five senses. According to Meerloo (1956, pp. 135-136), for example,

The task of the totalitarian propagandist is to build special pictures in the minds of the citizenry so that finally they will no longer see and hear with their own eyes and ears but will look at the world through the fog of official catchwords and will develop the automatic responses appropriate to totalitarian mythology.

Arendt (1962, p. 351) writes that in a totalitarian society, the masses “do not believe in anything visible, in the reality of their own experience; they do not trust their eyes and ears but only their imaginations,” which have been captured by propaganda.

Orwell writes in Nineteen Eighty-four,

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed — if all records told the same tale — then the lie passed into history and became truth. (Orwell, 2001, p. 33)

Cult indoctrination, too, involves “the subordination of human experience to the claims of doctrine.” When fused with “totalist sacred science,” those claims can appear so compelling that they “simply replace the realities of individual experience” (Lifton, 1989, pp. 430-1).

“Covid-19” indoctrination was so strong that most people failed to recognise that the artificial reality constructed for them through propaganda did not match the evidence of their own lived experience. As one open-eyed commentator observed in June 2021,

We’re essentially living in a kind of virtual reality where our lives and indeed the world around us [are] shaped by media narratives, which come from the agendas and psychological operations developed by think tanks and transnational organisations like, for example, the United Nations and the World Economic Forum. People make decisions, not based on their own experience [but rather on] some mainstream media news article they read on their smartphone. (Cullen, 2021)

Another commentator tweeted “The laptop class of complicity theorists [has] systematically displaced reality with a hyperreal narrative from corporate media that denies empiricism & celebrates groupthink” (Austin, 2022).

Another observed that people “know what their senses and rationality are telling them, yet they still follow mainstream media and politicians” (Ransom, 2020).

Another referenced “the mental bombardment that has left many unable to think logically, critically, or see what is in front of their eyes. Why after 18 months do you trust your television more than your own life experience?” (Icke, 2021).

The all-cause age-standardised mortality rate in England and Wales in 2020 was lower than during any year between 1970 and 2008, and only the tenth highest year of the twenty-first century (ONS, 2021). Contrary to propaganda involving “emergency hospitals” and “makeshift mortuaries,” most people seemingly could not see that the “deadly pandemic” was not generating excess mortality. Even though their loved ones, friends and neighbours were not being carried away in body bags, they did not trust their own lived experience.

Iain Davis, building on his previous work on vaccines (Davis, 2019), identified the emergence of a

vaccine cult, based upon the scientifically illiterate delusion that all vaccines always save lives. Convinced that only they understand “real science,” they no longer need to apply any and can viciously attack all that do, because they are crazy anti-vaxxers. (Davis, 2020)

Indeed, no one was allowed to question the vaccine cult’s highly dangerous “safe and effective” mantra.

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