1 June 2021
If you watch the sheeple defending their masters’ orthodoxies for a few decades, you’re apt to notice some patterns emerging. Even when armed with mountains of evidence and unassailable reason, the responses are predictable.
It starts: “You’re crazy! That’s impossible! You’re making that up! You’ll believe anything that Tjump (or I’ll-bomb-ya) says! If I’ll-bomb-ya (or Tjump, or one of his toadies) says it, it can’t possibly be true.”
As the evidence adds up and the façade cracks, it evolves: “Sure, it may be possible, but Dr Nozitol™ says it isn’t. What do you know about it? Are you a doctor (or structural engineer, or economist, or tax collector or other criminal)? Okeh, maybe it’s feasible, but it’s still a stretch, and Dr Nozitol™ still says…”
Once the lie becomes unsustainable, and their masters move on to new crimes, the bleats begin to yield to the yawns: “So what? That’s old news, time to move on. Everybody knows that.”
And finally: “Yeah? So? I knew that all along.”
correspondent BV (not Lee) wonders: what is it that bothers the anti maskers so much about Maskers masking themselves? So much hate toward them from the “We are the REAL HEROES for REFUSING to wear masks” crowd…..
correspondent SW wonders what BV is talking about.
And I wonder… Who are these “anti maskers?”
I may not golf but I’m not anti golfing.
And I generally don’t consider myself to be particularly heroic, either (I joined the Air Force, after all), even if my refusal to endure the vertical waterboarding did cost me my job. Some might consider my present masklessness more foolish than heroic, and as a certified coward (see USAF, above) I’m not about to dispute that, either.
I’m not “bothered” by people wearing masks, though I am often frustrated, as they are denying me potentially useful non-verbal information.
But that’s their prerogative.
Besides, I don’t know their personal histories. They may be as well motivated to mask up as I was in order to meet my preemie baby in the neo-natal ICU, or as I might be in order to protect my frail ol’ Granny.
I certainly don’t object to “them” the way some have objected to me.