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Warren Ross's avatar

Another enthralling interview. I was particularly taken by Catherine and CJ's minor disagreement. For CJ, people are committing to their conditioning willingly in order to be allowed to get on with their lives as opposed to being under the sway of propaganda. Of course, there are degrees in this but it seemed to me he was describing the bulk of the population or at least 50%.

For Catherine, people have been propagandised and operate outside CJ's world of conscious compromise.

I have been able to view people in both groups, as I guess many of us have, and I think CJ and Catherine are both right to a degree. I spent a large part of today with someone who appears to fit into both groups. I played some of the interview this afternoon and as they watched it they gnawed on their fingernails; something they hadn't done all day and was a behaviour against their norm.

I've met people who know they are making a compromise on one level, say on the masks and injections (CJ's group), but are under the veil of propaganda on climate change (Catherine's group). There are degrees of understanding for all of us and I am guessing most us are on a Compromised---> Propagandised spectrum.

CJ spoke of someone in the compromiser group getting reinforcement of the wisdom of their compromise that keeps them locked there. Some media trope reinforces for them the wisdom of their position. For example, as my friend today watched the framework laid out in this interview, they were reinforced by the notion people did actually die from Covid-19 so it wasn't complete lie, so they rationalised. We managed to unpick that trick but there is not always someone there to challenge a Big Media inserted lie.

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Susan's avatar

The part 2 was stellar! Having Catherine speak in ‘so I can understand ‘ language great move. Thanks.

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