The Thralldom of Safety
In 2022 we will no longer be enthralled by corporations and the letter agencies they control. We are millions strong, and we are through being slaves to fear propaganda.
“Enthralled” has a meaning most people are probably unaware of. We tend to think it means “spellbound” or “fascinated”.
But the word also has an insidious side.
To be a thrall means to be so spellbound with someone that you cannot see the evil they are doing to you. It means they’re controlling your behavior with your participation.
To be a thrall means to be a willing slave.
Why do we even need a word for this? Why would anyone be a willing slave?
Earlier today I came across this YouTube comment that, I think, hits the “why” dead on the head:
“I’m reminded of an argument I had with someone a couple of years back regarding people keeping animals such as wolves or tigers as pets. I pointed out that these animals are not meant to be pets because for one thing, they roam giant territories that make their cages look like the equivalent of a closet in comparison, neither do they get much mental or physical stimulation from spending their lives in cages. They need to be free in order to thrive.
“Well, the person I was arguing with insisted that they have a better life in captivity because they have everything served to them. They don’t need to hunt, they don’t need to worry about protecting themselves against other predators and if they get sick, they are taken care of. According to this person, freedom was a small price to pay in order for these animals to have a “good life”.
“If there is one thing I have learned during this plandemic, it is that a lot of people would be happy to spend the rest of their lives living in a closet, as long as they are safe and have their needs taken care of… for these people, the virus has been a blessing and a dream come true. It’s for this exact reason that they are embracing this tyranny and calling anyone questioning it “crazy”. They can’t fathom why anyone wouldn’t want to be nannied from cradle to grave.”
(Niko (2021). Re: Thought The Pandemic Was BAD?! This Is What’s NEXT! [Video file]. Retrieved from:
Yep, thank you Niko, that about says it. This is exactly how a populace becomes enthralled.
When humans submit to fear, we forget we are like the tiger and the wolf, who thrive in freedom. We forget that we need to roam, and hunt, and experience risk in order to be what we are. We even forget that we need to gather with loved ones and see their faces and experience their touch. We forget joy. We forget everything that makes us us. Instead, we flee toward the thralldom of Safety.
It’s simple. Want to enthrall your populace? Make them fear.
First, our world leaders became enthralled.
Then, our media became enthralled.
Finally, we watched, heartbroken, as our friends and loved ones became enthralled. Fearful, they closed their doors to us, and called us crazy for questioning it.
From the perspective of the corporations and the government letter agencies they control, it all went like a precognitive dream, everyone falling into lockstep exactly as foreseen.
Except for those of us who never fell under the spell. The fear rolled off of us like water off an oily pelt.
Thus, we became the problem. The troublemakers.
We saw early on that we were all being geared up to eventually accept the Product™.
We saw a Yale study in July 2020 (yes, that early) on how to best manipulate the public into accepting the Product™ (before the product even existed, or so we are meant to believe).
We saw the “emergency” go into uncontrolled proliferation mode, from two weeks, to months, to years, and we remembered the insight:
“Emergencies have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded — and once they are suspended it is not difficult for anyone who has assumed such emergency powers to see to it that the emergency persists.”
F. A. Hayek, Law, Legislation and Liberty, Vol. 3, 1979.
We saw that masks and lockdowns and forbidden gatherings were a form of leverage, bargaining chips to be used later, traded back for compliance. “You may ignore this restriction, and feel blessed Normality again, if, of course, you accept the Product™.”
We saw the people rushing to put the Product™ into their bodies, and celebrating it, thinking they’d been saved, thinking Normality was being restored, ignoring the alarming safety signals, dismissing anyone who raised such signals as cranks and “conspiracy theorists”.
We pointed out that for people aged 18 to 50 for whom the virus is not a statistical threat, to risk these shots was insane, and the rush of this demographic to get jabbed could only be explained by the massive “you are a good citizen” brainwashing. We pointed out that this was brand new tech and rushed-to-market to meet a maniacal, slavering demand, as well as to score political favor, and that maybe, just maybe, was not justified by any epidemiology. We pointed out that making some people sacrifice their health and life in order to be “good citizens” was a manipulative form of control.
We were labelled and shot down.
We watched in dull horror as the corporations and lawmakers turned their scopes on kids under 18, despite the massive potential harm involved (here’s a list of 148 studies which say so), and 16,000 doctors declaring their opposition to doing so, and we pointed out that this could only be explained by downright evil. The people lined up their kids, and we were ignored. (Although thankfully, perhaps influenced by an internal parental instinct, the uptake is low, around 25%.)
In a textbook reversal, we were told that it was we, the skeptical, who were “the brainwashed”. But brainwashing, we pointed out, implies someone benefitting from the brainwashing.
So, on the one hand, we have people being convinced by the millions that the virus is a deadly plague that’s going to wipe us all out unless we accept The Product™ into our bodies, which if widely done, makes the manufacturer and all the stakeholders richer by trillions, and gives the powerful an eternal lever with which they can control over our lives and behavior. Hmm.
On the other hand, my “brainwashing” consists of hearing that the virus is not as deadly as is being portrayed and that, for most people, our natural immunity is adequate to handle it. (And is backed by 140+ studies.) Hmm, again.
Cui bono?
People are waking. Too many people are being harmed. Too many people are seeing that the Product™ doesn’t work as advertised.
If you shout “Safe and Effective! Safe and Effective! Safe and Effective!” enough times, it starts to take on the hollow ring of “duck and cover”. Safe for whom? Not for everyone, obviously. Effective for whom? Not if case numbers by far and away eclipsing the pre-vaccine days are any indication.
“New variant!” has become a meme, a joke. People are cancelling their Boosters for Life™ subscription plans.
The desperation and the lies and the profits are showing.
It’s not like we weren’t warned. The thralldom of our times has been foretold, sprinkled throughout our films and literature. Our collective consciousness has been warning us, for decades.
In Game of Thrones, the people of King’s Landing become enthralled by the Sparrows, a new religion which sweeps over the populace, promising salvation from their misery, and induces them to commit acts of violence, persecution, betrayal (even, and as the story portrays, especially, against family), imprisonment, re-education/brainwashing, physical and mental torture, and execution for acts and beliefs which the Sparrows deem sinful.
In the Matrix, we saw most of humanity living in a perpetual dream state which powered their AI masters, which a rebellious few escaped by taking the “red pill”, waking and pursuing truth instead.
Orwell described a dystopian future in which propagandistic messaging about an invisible enemy was enough to keep the people enthralled, in fear, compliant, obedient, oblivious to the evil being done to them. Willing slaves. What Orwell never portrayed (and probably hoped) was that some observant people would see right through this sham and never let it happen to them.
And there is an older story, Plato’s famous Cave allegory, about a group of prisoners held in thrall by a shadow puppet show cast on the wall of the cave, which they believe to be reality. In the allegory, a single prisoner breaks free of the thralldom and discovers there is an exit to cave and an entire previously undiscovered world outside. When he tries to return to the cave and free the other prisoners, his eyes have adjusted to sunlight and he cannot see. The other prisoners perceive the blindness of the freed man and assume it is harmful to leave the cave, and choose to remain in the safety of its confines.
This, to Plato, was a reason to keep the populace in thralldom. They don’t like the reality outside the cave. They prefer to be kept. Safe, distracted, coddled.
True for many. For too many.
But for some of us, the continual show of shadow puppets is an affront to our minds. We see through it. We are aware that we are prisoners, and we refuse to stay in the cave any longer. We see that a life of “safety” is neither safe, nor is it a life, in any meaningful way.
One by one, we are emerging from the cave. The thralldom is coming to an end.
This year, 2022, is the year we reject the corporate control of government, media, and our loved one’s minds. Be compassionate and patient as you administer the red pill. Gently pull them out of the cave, even if they do not want to come.
Perhaps then we will embrace one another again, in forgiveness and unity, and look back on the previous two years as a mass hypnosis nightmare that we finally woke out of, a shadow puppet show teaching us to huddle in compliance and the illusion of safety, which we ended by shaking off the thralldom, and stepping out into light and love and clear-sightedness.