Coronavirus Journal, Part 2
As an editor with an online business, I should be well positioned to survive in this changed economic landscape; though in practice I have seen a dramatic reduction in work coming my way since February. It has been interesting to notice, though, a shift in the topics addressed. A study in China celebrates how some businesses, from restaurants to realtors, are quickly adapting to capitalize on the opportunity to shift to online offerings. Another client, full of enthusiasm, has developed an online education resource.
Ads and posts cropping up in social media embody this trend too. They encourage us to embrace the “new normal” by diving into virtual courses and cultural engagement. Taking a step back, it’s just a logical extension of where the culture was heading anyway: with social media coming to replace real live social interaction.
The impulse to adapt, to accept and move on, to get over it (resistance to change) and get on with it (the new world order) has an appeal. It’s a positive-thinking, affirmative-action frame of mind. It aligns with the spiritual comfort of resting content and merging with “all that is.”
In bypassing resistance, are we heading for a future whose consequences we will regret? Will I find my peace at last in the Millennial mode of conducting social interactions exclusively with thumbs and eyes fixed on a tiny screen, my worldview shrunk to a bubble with radius equal to my height and no more?
Resistance takes many forms. It can be repressed, lodged deep in the cells and psyche, lingering into troubled dreams and slow disease. It can stew unexpressed, as passive aggression or bitter cynicism, or find brief release in impolite outbursts. Alone or with others of like mind, it can scheme to enact somehow in the world a plan of defense, or of enlightened improvement. It can even ferment into explosive jihad, psychic breakdown, revolution.
To my mind, resistance must be tempered with compassion. I have to respect others’ choices to go along with the program, even if they themselves have been programmed. Yet I will demand the same respect in return. Being in a majority does not give it a monopoly on rights, or on truth. At the same time, I must accept the price of the territory of resistance—suffering, for the sake of the truth my resistance represents. Gandhi paid the full price because he was the face of resistance writ large.
Conscious resistance is not the easy path. The easiest path is to remain unconscious, either resisting or accepting, according to how one is preconditioned to do so. In that sense, I admit my personal predisposition to resist. Becoming conscious, I reach for the ability to accept and adapt. Accepting what is, I let stress go and bring peace to my life. Plus, it’s a stay-out-of-jail-free card. And adaptation, after all, is essential to survival.
But there is more to survival than one’s creature needs for safety and security. Resistance to injustice and propaganda, to manufactured “truth” and artificial reality, is more than a matter of personal survival. It’s a matter of principles, of what we stand for and what we are living for. Accepting “what is” fully means exactly not bypassing the reality of resistance, nor the reasons why it persists.
Are we really going to be content in the long-term, confined to our personal spaces wired to everyone else and “all that is”—but not even wired, just linked by invisible energy spectra jostling our cells into unnatural states of excitement and modification?
Where will our primal resistance go, then? Our primate pleasures, our presence in nature and in each other’s loving company?
Is this brave new world the one we decide to accept now and indefinitely? Or do we awake in that live human self craving real connection, and reclaim it forever?
Part 3. The Good News…
The apparent power in the world depends on mass hypnosis based on secrecy and lies. To expose it is to nullify its power, as the spell is broken forever.
We can choose at every moment what to believe.
Nature is still there to show the way home.
Further reading:
The Fight for Freedom (Coronavirus Journal, part 1) by Nowick Gray
A Litany of Subversion (Coronavirus Journal, part 4) by Nowick Gray
Under Advisement (Coronavirus Journal, part 5) by Nowick Gray
Corona: creating the illusion of a pandemic through diagnostic tests by Jon Rappoport
The Big Picture and the Battle Ahead: Two Reviews by Nowick Gray
Quarantine reading list (curated alternative news)
* * * * * Recommended listening * * * * *
The Creation of a False Epidemic – with Jon Rappoport
Top Doctor Exposes Everything the Deep State is Trying to Hide on CV – with Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai
