The evolutionary neuroscientist Jaak Panksepp published an interesting book about what he called "affirmative neuroscience". In the book he outlines the basic emotional responses that all animals share. Two of those are particularly noteworthy right now--Fear and Rage.
He attributes the rage response to an evolutionary history of animals needing to escape when they're trapped by a predator. I think the covid fraud keeps triggering the rage response in a portion of the population--like me.
Another portion of the population is constantly afraid and is hiding from the covid behind a totally ineffective mask, or is hiding out in their house. I saw a guy at the grocery store yesterday getting a curbside pickup and he was wearing a mask in his car. It's safe to assume he's afraid.
Which response is going to win? I think the rage response will win. Right now, the frightened people have empowered governments to enact all sorts of insane measures. The rage response keeps building and building, though. If only 10% of the population is in the raging "live free or die" category, they still vastly overwhelm the government's forces. The fearful people really don't matter, even though they're a majority of the population.
So that's what it'll come down to, will the live free or die people inflict their will on the local governments, or will they just keep going along with their captivity? There's signs the dam is starting to crack already. Once it breaks, the government will probably need to retreat and drop the covid nonsense, or will have to wage a war, effectively, on its own people. That's happened in the past (see Whiskey Rebellion), but this time around it would be significantly different than putting down an isolated uprising.
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