Think for Yourself

Think for Yourself

Are we in Mass Psychosis? Or a Great Awakening?

The answer may be both. Which means the world is about to get really interesting...

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James Edward Taylor
Feb 20, 2022
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The awakened and the enthralled

I usually can’t stand it when someone begins a statement with: “There are basically two types of people…”

But sometimes it’s infuriatingly true.

When it comes to our ongoing state of pandemia, it seems to hold: there are those who blindly accept what they hear, and those who question it.

Right versus left, vaxed and unvaxxed, class, race… all those divisions, I think it is now beyond obvious, are deliberate misdirection.

The real divide (or maybe “gulf of understanding” is a better way to think of it) is between the enthralled and the critical thinkers.

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