Dec 29, 2023·edited Dec 29, 2023Liked by Dr. Maximilian C. Forte
I think your concern is warranted, and should be considered seriously. I'm a bit more optimistic than you on people's ability for reform resistance when the next "disaster" hits, but I wholeheartedly agree that many useful things have been needlessly lost.
I've wondered how much it is always like this. Is the "first mover advantage" so strong that all movement's inevitably fall this way?
I am thinking that "health freedom" was just not strong enough as a glue to bind so many different parties, for longer than a crisis lasted. Once restrictions were lifted, it seemed as if everyone started to part ways. Personally, I think the competition between Malone and McCullough is ultimately driven not by who gets to be "the leader" of this dissolving movement, but who gets to be the next head of the FDA should Trump be re-elected.
Personalities and egos have taken over. We have Malone vs. Ruby, which has taken an acutely nasty turn in the last 24 hours--even worse than before. Then Malone vs. Yeadon. Malone vs. Paul Alexander. Chris Sky has come out as a rabid Jew-hating fascist, stripped of invitations to take part in the Republican Reawaken America Tour, and barred from entering the US--Israel vs. Gaza has probably become the most divisive issue now, the final nail in the coffin. It all looks really bad, and I am personally extremely sad to learn that when Trudeau called some of us Nazis, that he was actually partly right. It means Trudeau, at a distance, knew more about the people I was associating with up close--and that really has me disappointed about my own failings.
Thanks for this post. I was wondering what happened to you. I, too, have been immersed in multiple camps, though perhaps not in the same way as you. I’ve been struggling to set up my own substack but have been too overwhelmed trying to keep up with the deluge of information and conflicting perspectives. I’m still hoping to set it up. It will not be about who or what is right, but about how to tell who to trust about what, and why you might be able to trust them.
Your attitude seems to me to be a little like what happens when foreseeing one’s own looming death - hopes dissipating in the recognition of the inevitable. Yet, there may be a few things that still can be done: mitigating disaster is something worth doing even though the disaster cannot be stopped.
I cannot say that you should continue to publish here, for only you can know what’s best for you to do. But I can say that if you disappear I will miss you, and that I would like to see some of that backlog.
I think your concern is warranted, and should be considered seriously. I'm a bit more optimistic than you on people's ability for reform resistance when the next "disaster" hits, but I wholeheartedly agree that many useful things have been needlessly lost.
I've wondered how much it is always like this. Is the "first mover advantage" so strong that all movement's inevitably fall this way?
I am thinking that "health freedom" was just not strong enough as a glue to bind so many different parties, for longer than a crisis lasted. Once restrictions were lifted, it seemed as if everyone started to part ways. Personally, I think the competition between Malone and McCullough is ultimately driven not by who gets to be "the leader" of this dissolving movement, but who gets to be the next head of the FDA should Trump be re-elected.
Personalities and egos have taken over. We have Malone vs. Ruby, which has taken an acutely nasty turn in the last 24 hours--even worse than before. Then Malone vs. Yeadon. Malone vs. Paul Alexander. Chris Sky has come out as a rabid Jew-hating fascist, stripped of invitations to take part in the Republican Reawaken America Tour, and barred from entering the US--Israel vs. Gaza has probably become the most divisive issue now, the final nail in the coffin. It all looks really bad, and I am personally extremely sad to learn that when Trudeau called some of us Nazis, that he was actually partly right. It means Trudeau, at a distance, knew more about the people I was associating with up close--and that really has me disappointed about my own failings.
Thanks for this post. I was wondering what happened to you. I, too, have been immersed in multiple camps, though perhaps not in the same way as you. I’ve been struggling to set up my own substack but have been too overwhelmed trying to keep up with the deluge of information and conflicting perspectives. I’m still hoping to set it up. It will not be about who or what is right, but about how to tell who to trust about what, and why you might be able to trust them.
Your attitude seems to me to be a little like what happens when foreseeing one’s own looming death - hopes dissipating in the recognition of the inevitable. Yet, there may be a few things that still can be done: mitigating disaster is something worth doing even though the disaster cannot be stopped.
I cannot say that you should continue to publish here, for only you can know what’s best for you to do. But I can say that if you disappear I will miss you, and that I would like to see some of that backlog.
Many thanks for these words, much appreciated.