1. The Sound of Silence What is the sound of one hand clapping? This ancient Zen koan is not actually meant to be answered but to stimulate new ways of thinking. However, in the post-coronavirus social context, that sound is deadly silence. You need both hands in order to generate the sound of applause. You need two hands to do most jobs. What’s the relevance of this today? According to a Fox News report, “nearly 70% of employers worldwide are having a difficult time filling vacancies…” [1] The
Jun 24, 2022·edited Jun 24, 2022Liked by Sean Arthur Joyce
Thankyou for such a comprehensive and wide angle view -from Canada even! I found my way to subscribe here via an older issue of “pandemic papers” found in a nutrition store in North Van. Your writing is very good. I think perhaps I visited your table at a vancouver rally in February (?). Your comment about the possibility of an intended health care collapse may be on the mark. It’s a radical statement but makes sense if we acknowledge that Health care is the single highest cost item (and rising) on federal governments’ budget in the over/developed world. That also makes healthcare by big tech and the vaccine-makers the biggest cash cow to wrestle from all-too-willing governments, eager to cut costs, eliminate the elderly at an earlier age.
As a Canadian I am of course concerned at a very basic level that our “leaders” have fucked up so royally, but that was to be expected. I am more concerned how Canadians en masse have flocked to embrace such BS from corporate media, big pharma and big gov’t with a level of uncritical ignorance that has boggled my mind for over two years- smart people, my radical artists friends, (normally) critical people. This makes us sitting ducks for future oppressive measures, so much that we won’t even know what hit us. I wouldn’t even call it compliance, as that suggests a kind of grudging acquiescence. I think there is a disease, now visible to eyes that can see, of an unhealthy trust in government. Perhaps it’s because we have had reasons to trust in the nanny state for so long now, even to the point of smugness vis a vis our US neighbours…and newer immigrants are just so glad to be free of former states of poverty and oppression that they are high among the blind. The propagandists won this hands down. But as Matthias Desmett writes, it only takes 10% of the population ( and some years) to keep finding ways to lift the veil off the face of tyranny, after things get worse. Years of cognitive dissonance. Cheers!
Thankyou for such a comprehensive and wide angle view -from Canada even! I found my way to subscribe here via an older issue of “pandemic papers” found in a nutrition store in North Van. Your writing is very good. I think perhaps I visited your table at a vancouver rally in February (?). Your comment about the possibility of an intended health care collapse may be on the mark. It’s a radical statement but makes sense if we acknowledge that Health care is the single highest cost item (and rising) on federal governments’ budget in the over/developed world. That also makes healthcare by big tech and the vaccine-makers the biggest cash cow to wrestle from all-too-willing governments, eager to cut costs, eliminate the elderly at an earlier age.
As a Canadian I am of course concerned at a very basic level that our “leaders” have fucked up so royally, but that was to be expected. I am more concerned how Canadians en masse have flocked to embrace such BS from corporate media, big pharma and big gov’t with a level of uncritical ignorance that has boggled my mind for over two years- smart people, my radical artists friends, (normally) critical people. This makes us sitting ducks for future oppressive measures, so much that we won’t even know what hit us. I wouldn’t even call it compliance, as that suggests a kind of grudging acquiescence. I think there is a disease, now visible to eyes that can see, of an unhealthy trust in government. Perhaps it’s because we have had reasons to trust in the nanny state for so long now, even to the point of smugness vis a vis our US neighbours…and newer immigrants are just so glad to be free of former states of poverty and oppression that they are high among the blind. The propagandists won this hands down. But as Matthias Desmett writes, it only takes 10% of the population ( and some years) to keep finding ways to lift the veil off the face of tyranny, after things get worse. Years of cognitive dissonance. Cheers!