Dear friends,
About six months ago I gave a speech at the European Parliament in Brussels, a few months prior to my speech at the European Parliament in Strasbourg. While I have shared the video recording of the latter speech here, for one reason or another, I neglected to share the recording of my (two-part) speech in Brussels. I do so now. You can find the videos below.
In my speech, I argue that it makes no sense to try to force medical treatments down the throats of the population (as was done during the corona crisis). First of all, such shouldn’t happen for ethical reasons. Not even if the majority of the population wants it. As the French philosopher and politician Tocqueville said in the 19th century, a democracy is not merely a form of government where the majority rules; it is a form of government where the majority rules while respecting the fundamental rights of minorities. And one of the most important of these rights is the right to self-determination – especially when it comes to medical treatments.
Beyond this ethical argument, there are also several intellectual arguments that could be presented. In my speech, I mention only one, namely the importance of the patient’s subjective appreciation of a treatment. A substantial portion of the effectiveness of medical treatments, up to 80% or even more, is caused by the so-called placebo effect. In his book The Powerful Placebo, Arthur Shapiro even claims that “the history of medicine equates to the history of the placebo effect in treatment”.
Undoubtly, different researchers will come to different conclusions regarding the power of the placebo effect. And for reasons I won't delve into now, I don't advocate for replacing most treatments with placebo versions, despite the strength of the placebo effect. But what the placebo clearly demonstrates is that the very nature of the human being necessitates that medical treatments always be tailored to the patient’s singular preferences and characteristics. In my opinion, that is what characterizes healthcare in a truly human society: the full respect for the unique psychological and physical characteristics of every patient.
I gave this speech in the context of the power grab the WHO is attempting to achieve through a series of amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR). If successful, this power grab would allow the Director-General of the WHO to declare a state of medical emergency on his own authority. And this in turn would pave the way for global institutions, without any democratic legitimacy, to impose top-down medical treatments on the population. That’s why I spoke out at the European Parliament and that’s why I think we should all speak out – whether you look at it from an intellectual, pragmatic or ethical point of view, such medical practices have no place in a truly humane and enlightened society.
Read Matthias’s book and you will be wiser. It will help you understand why the vast majority of our friends, family and acquaintances believed and continue to believe the lies told by the establishment about Covid and the entire Plandemic artifice. You will also understand why this majority in fact becomes hostile when you question their beliefs on Covid and label you a heretic, a science denier and an egotist with no social conscience.
Mattias is right. Though in different ways using different methods of knowing, both Ivan Illich & David Bohm warned us decades ago about what was to come.
The Antichrist is the liberal fantasy of the “institution” wearing the mask of “care” while presuming to do better for people what we can do for each other - ‘love thy neighbor as thy self.’
The inevitable “demolition” of the counterfeit “greater good” began to accelerate in 2011 as documented in Google Trends
“We live, therefore, according to Illich in an apocalyptic time, a time of revelation. Declining confidence in modern institutions, he said, expresses not the end of Christianity, but the unveiling of that mysterious evil that came into the world with Christianity. This evil was identified by the writers of the New Testament as Antichrist, an evil, that they claimed, would ripen within the church as the intimate and ever-present possibility of a betrayal of the gospel by those who would falsely claim to speak in its name. The Antichrist, in other words, was precisely that perversion about which Illich has been trying to speak. Only now, he says, its consequences lie fully revealed.”
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We survive the inevitable collapse of all institutions by nurturing conviviality with each other while discarding the rational materialist worldview. Indeed, the Universe is not made of matter, it’s made of what matters. It’s made of meaning.