I find Mattias' ideas very interesting, but I would caution on the idea of subjective truth. Perhaps subjective experience would be a better idea. The idea of truth being inaccessible through language is... something that would require a lot of thought to consider even what exactly that means (and I don't currently have time to study and…
I find Mattias' ideas very interesting, but I would caution on the idea of subjective truth. Perhaps subjective experience would be a better idea. The idea of truth being inaccessible through language is... something that would require a lot of thought to consider even what exactly that means (and I don't currently have time to study and think about that).
What was the difference between those who fell easy prey to the narrative and those who did not? I would say critical thinking. The wake up call for all people should be... critical thinking - in every way possible, in every aspect of their lives. Those most susceptible to the narrative are those who specifically consider themselves "science and data based," which is likely fueled by a psychologically rewarding underlying pretense. The power of group-think is powerful and the understanding by the members of the group that they are reinforcing each other instead of increasing their chances of being correct through other confirmation needs to be recognized.
(As an aside, I would say people can reduce their anxiety through meditation, breathing techniques, and journaling/building new cognitive-emotive paradigms to deal with stress and build strength, self-discipline, and effective and moral behaviors and attitudes.)
The pandemic was easy to solve. Didier Raoult was reporting substantial reductions in hospitalizations and death with hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin. Zelenko improved on the protocol using additional medicines. Fareed-Tyson had their own HCQ-based protocol and had no deaths and no hospitalizations within a high comorbid population if treated early - 7,000 patients ultimately. All of these protocols were known in March of 2020 with additional results from other physicians and researchers coming in daily. If any of these protocols had been put in place in an official way and the results tracked tracked over a large enough patient base, we would have known in 2 weeks (the approximate time it took to go to the hospital) - at which point, the pandemic would have been over. The fact this is true shows how utterly bad relying on group-think and outsourcing critical thinking is.
I find Mattias' ideas very interesting, but I would caution on the idea of subjective truth. Perhaps subjective experience would be a better idea. The idea of truth being inaccessible through language is... something that would require a lot of thought to consider even what exactly that means (and I don't currently have time to study and think about that).
What was the difference between those who fell easy prey to the narrative and those who did not? I would say critical thinking. The wake up call for all people should be... critical thinking - in every way possible, in every aspect of their lives. Those most susceptible to the narrative are those who specifically consider themselves "science and data based," which is likely fueled by a psychologically rewarding underlying pretense. The power of group-think is powerful and the understanding by the members of the group that they are reinforcing each other instead of increasing their chances of being correct through other confirmation needs to be recognized.
(As an aside, I would say people can reduce their anxiety through meditation, breathing techniques, and journaling/building new cognitive-emotive paradigms to deal with stress and build strength, self-discipline, and effective and moral behaviors and attitudes.)
The pandemic was easy to solve. Didier Raoult was reporting substantial reductions in hospitalizations and death with hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin. Zelenko improved on the protocol using additional medicines. Fareed-Tyson had their own HCQ-based protocol and had no deaths and no hospitalizations within a high comorbid population if treated early - 7,000 patients ultimately. All of these protocols were known in March of 2020 with additional results from other physicians and researchers coming in daily. If any of these protocols had been put in place in an official way and the results tracked tracked over a large enough patient base, we would have known in 2 weeks (the approximate time it took to go to the hospital) - at which point, the pandemic would have been over. The fact this is true shows how utterly bad relying on group-think and outsourcing critical thinking is.