The Bargain
Jan. 4th, 2022 10:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kimberlysteele"For now, the public arena is entirely occupied by the mass formation psychosis that first erupted around Donald Trump and then shifted to Covid-19." -James Howard Kunstler, Clusterfuck Nation blog
Coronatarianism and the MRNA vaccine as the Savior of the religion of Progress was the alchemical product of Trump Derangement Syndrome. The worship of Progress was the result of many generations of people born in the previous millennium who sold what few youthful ideals they had to sell. As a kid who grew up in the 1980s, I remember being quite alone in my disgust of consumerism. Generation X was not idealistic. When Millennials came up behind us, they longed for 1980s prosperity, conveniently forgetting the horrible nihilism that settled on the land like a caul when Reagan took office. Millennials were the first generation to chase material prosperity completely divorced from ideals.
This era is permeated with a spirit of moorlessness. Families are uprooted and atomized. It is not uncommon to have close relatives who live 21 hours away by plane. The lifestyle chased by the moorless and the rootless is one of exotic fetishism: the grass is perceived as greener in the other country. It's a wendigo. The big house in the suburbs is not enough. Eventually it will be replaced by the even larger house in the more exclusive neighborhood.
All Hail the 1980s
Right now, the upper middle class is a drama that is playing out against the backdrop of cheap oil going away. Panic is the unspoken truth everywhere in uptown worlds. There is a constant shell game of Hide the Poverty and Hide the Arbitrage. I say this yet I am as guilty as any of enjoying cheap goods from China, the West's favorite place to employ when trying to hide from falling standards of living. I still shop at Dollar Tree.
"Something I was considering the other day, if this is some sort of divine retribution, is it going about it's business by asking us how much are we willing to give up in order to continue to live our high powered, high consumption lifestyles? Will you even submit your body to injected mutilation so you can keep shopping, keep going on holidays, keep eating out etc? This madness seems to be uniquely targeting the most overdeveloped countries, and perhaps there is something redistributive in that." -Anonymous, Open Covid Post at Ecosophia.dreamwidth.org, 12/29/2021 at 3:13am
The Deal is Struck
Demons make easy bargains with the panicked and the desperate. The deal in the 1980s was to trade sensible decline for partying like it's 1999. The 1990s were the 80s on steroids. It saw the birth of the McMansion trend and the blossoming of propagandized wars for profit. The 2000s were the age of the bubble, especially real estate, with a pop at the end. No lessons were learned, and so here we are living out the aftermath of the 2010s, the decade when psychosis and derangement became the average state of the human mind.
The class of people who never stopped chasing 1982 (this includes my generation, who should have known better, as well as Boomers, Millennials, and some not-so-bright Zoomers) struck the bargain.
"Just give me a little more plane travel and I'll stick carcinogenic ethylene oxide up my nose. Let me into the arena where I can sponge the energy of the Satanic Hollyweird celebrity and I'll submit my body to a dangerous experiment. Just a few more years in my climate controlled palace where I eat strawberries and avocados in winter and hire teams of young Hispanic men to care for my yard in summer and I'll sacrifice the long term health of my children, and very possibly their ability to reproduce."
The people who consider themselves the most educated and informed have had ample opportunity to see the writing on the wall. Screaming la la la and clapping hands over the ears has been a popular strategy for the last two years when confronted with evidence that Covid isn't all that dangerous or that MRNA vaccines are extremely dangerous, but it's no excuse. At this point, anyone who has gotten the vaccines has made their bed and they are now forced to lie in it.
There are a lot of people, most of them men, who have died suddenly after their booster after two solid years of cursing the unvaccinated. Their karma was to get off easy. Compare the fate of Instagram personality Queen City Dom, a lovely young woman who has been crippled and saddled with excruciating pain after getting only one dose of the Pfizer vaccine. Even worse is Maddy Garay, a 13 year old who took part in the Pfizer trials for children and will most likely never walk again. The horror stories abound on social media for anyone who isn't deliberately trying to avoid the information. Even the most cloistered can find the hashtags #realnotrare and #protectyourfamily.
I believe the suffering of the MRNA vaccine-injured is the collective fault of those who got the vaccines early and enthusiastically with little to no pressure, like one of my husband's friends. If there is a die off as my Ogham have predicted, the die off will be their fault. Guilt is often used to manipulate and that is not my goal here. I'm saying there are consequences for not showing some spine when it matters. Consequences exist.
Just because one vaccinated person seemingly gets away scot free does not absolve them from karmic consequences in this life or the next. This is my perception and I could be wrong. I believe the karma of shutting out what you don't want to hear, willful ignorance, is nasty. The karma of knowing your decisions will hurt, maim, wreck, and kill others but doing it anyway is awful. I used to be atheist only seven years ago and I did not believe anyone had to live out the consequences of their actions. This was much of what fueled my atheist rage. The sense that there is karma leaves me less angry but far more uneasy.
Easy to Sicken, Hard to Kill
I believe this era is unique in the kind of corrupt, grifting rackets it produced. Nowhere is racketeering more pronounced than in allopathic medicine. Medicine in its current form cannot possibly last. Doctors spend their entire careers treating one body part or at best one body system (podiatrist, dentist) and never so much as dabble in understanding the human body as a whole. Metastasized hospital buildings hulk and glower over the landscape, financed by predatory pharmaceutical and insurance grift. Every person entering and leaving the etherically malnourished hell of medical facilities has a pathological fear of death and dying. The detached masses of white coated professionals with their heads in the clouds are absolutely terrified of any manifestation of DIY, earthy, pragmatic approaches to health... or just life in general. They feel much safer in their etherically stripped, deadened environments of staggering ugliness and waste. Hospitals are the epitome of etheric death. Any healing that takes place in a hospital is a testament to humans being easy to sicken but hard to kill. The modern hospital is an etheric abortion. There can be no healing when you treat the land like this and it is obscene even to pretend.
Legions are starving to death on the etheric plane while remaining well-fed on the material plane. They are driven by discontent because of their detachment from the spirit of home, the spirit of food, and the spirits of other humans. Costco is no substitute for a warm hearth and a meal cooked with love. Shutting off the voices that suggest the bargain was a bad one is easier than looking at the deal with its consequences stretching for many lifetimes into the future.
no subject
Date: 2022-01-05 12:25 pm (UTC)I myself liken a hospital to a car dealer, they aren't there to help you, not really.
As far as karma goes, it all goes back to thinking (or lack of) behind the decision. You get it because you were too trusting of the wrong people? Because you were scared? Because everyone else was getting it and you learned early on the harsh lessons of standing out? Karma is what you learn and sometimes people learn the darndest things...
no subject
Date: 2022-01-05 07:55 pm (UTC)Your upcoming book
Date: 2022-01-05 08:46 pm (UTC)You mentioned occasionally that you‘re working on a book about etheric homekeeping (or something along those lines - I‘m sure you know which book I‘m referring to… ;-) ).
Are there any news on that?
Milkyway
Re: Your upcoming book
Date: 2022-01-07 03:54 am (UTC)Re: Your upcoming book
Date: 2022-01-09 04:20 pm (UTC)That book wouldn‘t happen to also magically clean bathrooms and get kids to tidy up their stuff? Asking for a friend… ;-)
Milkyway
Bravo!
Date: 2022-01-06 12:18 am (UTC)Not only that, but as a Hellenic Polytheist, I was delighted to hear your Orphic hymns set to music. This has really brought them alive for me!
So, just wanted to say 'Bravo'!
Jason (in Cornwall, UK)
Re: Bravo!
Date: 2022-01-07 03:54 am (UTC)