I grabbed the long version for print out and later reading; and now I know a bit more about you.
"Anthropologists could have ...." - ah! - you must find this really quite devastating on a personal level - to see how your discipline revealed itself to be such tools of the Rulers (after all). I did graduate work in sociology at a Canadian university - probably when you were in elementary school - and the anthropologists were totally bad ass - take-no-prisoners anti colonialists an on and on - they hated the sociologists (probably not too strong a term!). So what happened between then and now?!
And it happened everywhere to everyone to every discipline. I recall, right at the beginning, March 2020, Giogio Agamben taking a principled stand against the Covid Operation. He was ready; he had been writing about states of exception for nearly two decades. You are no doubt aware of him - I think have seen echos of that concept here.
And so I waited for some ground swell of push back and opposition from the Universities but only watched them shut down and then rush to mandate - everything! -masks to vax.
So, there's Agamben (from whom I haven't seen recent work ) - and .... well, you! - there must be some others. Presumably your colleagues at Zero Anthropology among them
Agamben is 80 and looked fairly frail in 2020. You have more time - and much more work ahead of you - good luck!
Now that I have read it.... You seem to leave it as an exercise for the reader to fill out your schema of "Anthropologists could have been concerned/worried/(furious!) about ...." Here is my top suggestion: Any social scientist (or intelligent person) could have been concerned about the willful destruction of social trust. Social trust is one of the most valuable things that humans as a collective possess - rather like oxygen: you only notice it when it's gone. Principle element of that assault: terrorize people with the notion of "asymptomatic carriers". Result: (a personal anecdote) a colleague I have worked with for 30 years who knows me to be blessed with perfect health literally runs from me in terror after a chance hallway meeting (Apr 2020). Result: Thanksgiving 2020 - a family reluctantly agrees to enjoy dinner - but only outside (in the cold) distanced and masked. Result: Holiday Season 2021 - Covid test centers are crushed with demand: friends and families organizing events require in effect, government certification that guests are safe and pose no danger.
And this is a population only a minuscule portion of which in December 2019 could have given any account of the concept of "asymptomatic carrier". That is some gauge of the audacity of the crime that has been committed: every single person poses a mortal danger to every other single person. The notion would have seemed unfathomable in 2019.
This perhaps takes us some distance from the "informed consent" theme of the essay. Still, I never had the opportunity to consent to be terrorized. And, in the event, I declined - I did in specific circumstances give in on masks but I never social distanced - I let the terrified ones dash away and yell.
It remains to be seen what impact the loss of social trust will have. I worry particularly about the 3-5 year olds whose parents refused to touch them for 10-16 months when they were toddlers. That is just a single aspect of the vast experiment we are living through.
Great piece on ZA, Max. I'll try to share it around. Betrayal seems to be a rather large theme these days, doesn't it? It seems that the Ivory Towers of Academia we once new and loved(?) have thrown their lot in with unmitigated ambient evil and morphed in to Towers of Babble.
Can't help but remind myself of this lyric from the late Leonard Cohen:
And up through the system the worlds are withdrawn
I cannot find a source for this. All the coverage of emails talks about the lab leak, and masks, but no mention of the "vaccines" or their being experimental. If I missed it, can you find it please?
It's straight from the emails themselves. Which I read - all 3284 pages. I would have to dig for it. I don't think I've ever seen it written or covered by anyone. I just recall emails where Fauci and others refer to them as 'experimental'. Same with the masks. He was asked by people if they should mask up and he said no. The juicy parts were redacted of course.
Ok, but I also have the emails, and I just can't find it, at least not by using "experiment" or variations of the word as a search term. This would be a big deal.
Try in the thread with Kristian Anderson. Now my memory is failing me. Moderna itself described it as experimental as well I believe. It's an open secret really.
No word containing "experiment" appears even once. Lots of talk about trials of course, but no statement from Fauci calling the Covid "vaccines" experimental. Broader searches of online sources reveal the same absence--apart from a single one from the NIH in January, 2021.
I just want to be clear and precise, because I don't want to misquote him and then get slammed for "misinformation". You might have been thinking of someone else.
Not sure how to use that site. But Kristian Anderson was in the original email leaks. He's the scientist who wrote an email to Fauci saying the virus didn't appear to come from nature but quickly reversed course after likely getting a grant for his research. When this came out, he nuked his Twitter account at the time but has since come back.
I got them from ICAN back when they came out. It could have been someone in a thread referring to them as such - this was last year so memory is foggy. I took screen shots so maybe I'll go in and look at them. We were supposed to write about all this for Fearless but we simply had no time.
I grabbed the long version for print out and later reading; and now I know a bit more about you.
"Anthropologists could have ...." - ah! - you must find this really quite devastating on a personal level - to see how your discipline revealed itself to be such tools of the Rulers (after all). I did graduate work in sociology at a Canadian university - probably when you were in elementary school - and the anthropologists were totally bad ass - take-no-prisoners anti colonialists an on and on - they hated the sociologists (probably not too strong a term!). So what happened between then and now?!
And it happened everywhere to everyone to every discipline. I recall, right at the beginning, March 2020, Giogio Agamben taking a principled stand against the Covid Operation. He was ready; he had been writing about states of exception for nearly two decades. You are no doubt aware of him - I think have seen echos of that concept here.
And so I waited for some ground swell of push back and opposition from the Universities but only watched them shut down and then rush to mandate - everything! -masks to vax.
So, there's Agamben (from whom I haven't seen recent work ) - and .... well, you! - there must be some others. Presumably your colleagues at Zero Anthropology among them
Agamben is 80 and looked fairly frail in 2020. You have more time - and much more work ahead of you - good luck!
Now that I have read it.... You seem to leave it as an exercise for the reader to fill out your schema of "Anthropologists could have been concerned/worried/(furious!) about ...." Here is my top suggestion: Any social scientist (or intelligent person) could have been concerned about the willful destruction of social trust. Social trust is one of the most valuable things that humans as a collective possess - rather like oxygen: you only notice it when it's gone. Principle element of that assault: terrorize people with the notion of "asymptomatic carriers". Result: (a personal anecdote) a colleague I have worked with for 30 years who knows me to be blessed with perfect health literally runs from me in terror after a chance hallway meeting (Apr 2020). Result: Thanksgiving 2020 - a family reluctantly agrees to enjoy dinner - but only outside (in the cold) distanced and masked. Result: Holiday Season 2021 - Covid test centers are crushed with demand: friends and families organizing events require in effect, government certification that guests are safe and pose no danger.
And this is a population only a minuscule portion of which in December 2019 could have given any account of the concept of "asymptomatic carrier". That is some gauge of the audacity of the crime that has been committed: every single person poses a mortal danger to every other single person. The notion would have seemed unfathomable in 2019.
This perhaps takes us some distance from the "informed consent" theme of the essay. Still, I never had the opportunity to consent to be terrorized. And, in the event, I declined - I did in specific circumstances give in on masks but I never social distanced - I let the terrified ones dash away and yell.
It remains to be seen what impact the loss of social trust will have. I worry particularly about the 3-5 year olds whose parents refused to touch them for 10-16 months when they were toddlers. That is just a single aspect of the vast experiment we are living through.
Great piece on ZA, Max. I'll try to share it around. Betrayal seems to be a rather large theme these days, doesn't it? It seems that the Ivory Towers of Academia we once new and loved(?) have thrown their lot in with unmitigated ambient evil and morphed in to Towers of Babble.
Can't help but remind myself of this lyric from the late Leonard Cohen:
And up through the system the worlds are withdrawn
From every dominion the mind stood upon
And now that it's over and now that it's done
The name has no number, not even the one
LC~ It's Torn
Even in the Fauci leaked emails he and others referred to them as 'experimental'.
Hello. McFly!
I cannot find a source for this. All the coverage of emails talks about the lab leak, and masks, but no mention of the "vaccines" or their being experimental. If I missed it, can you find it please?
It's straight from the emails themselves. Which I read - all 3284 pages. I would have to dig for it. I don't think I've ever seen it written or covered by anyone. I just recall emails where Fauci and others refer to them as 'experimental'. Same with the masks. He was asked by people if they should mask up and he said no. The juicy parts were redacted of course.
Ok, but I also have the emails, and I just can't find it, at least not by using "experiment" or variations of the word as a search term. This would be a big deal.
Try in the thread with Kristian Anderson. Now my memory is failing me. Moderna itself described it as experimental as well I believe. It's an open secret really.
I am not familiar with Kristian Anderson and would not know about any thread, or where it is--but it also doesn't matter:
The full text of Fauci's emails, in plain text format, is available here:
https://archive.org/stream/fauci-emails/fauci-emails_djvu.txt
No word containing "experiment" appears even once. Lots of talk about trials of course, but no statement from Fauci calling the Covid "vaccines" experimental. Broader searches of online sources reveal the same absence--apart from a single one from the NIH in January, 2021.
I just want to be clear and precise, because I don't want to misquote him and then get slammed for "misinformation". You might have been thinking of someone else.
Not sure how to use that site. But Kristian Anderson was in the original email leaks. He's the scientist who wrote an email to Fauci saying the virus didn't appear to come from nature but quickly reversed course after likely getting a grant for his research. When this came out, he nuked his Twitter account at the time but has since come back.
I got them from ICAN back when they came out. It could have been someone in a thread referring to them as such - this was last year so memory is foggy. I took screen shots so maybe I'll go in and look at them. We were supposed to write about all this for Fearless but we simply had no time.