The world in a brain fog

 

We are told that, at least in the state of Washington, health officials predict a rise in Covid cases from another variant called “Eris.” Not that either health officials or the population in general is taking it too seriously, yet. After all, it is just another “gift” the world has been given by the Chinese, but at least this time they have to take some of their own medicine. We don’t really know how many people are infected in this country or elsewhere; who “tests” for colds or flus anyways? You just “know” you have it.

I got my two shots initially, but I suspect I did contract the Omicron—legs feeling weak, fuzzy reading vision and a tension headache that just wouldn’t quit unless I slept for 16 hours. We are told by the NHS that many people suffer “brain fog” for a short or a long time as an aftereffect: “poor concentration, feeling confused, thinking more slowly than usual, fuzzy thoughts, forgetfulness, lost words and mental fatigue.” I have to admit that some of those describe me these days. I am one of those people who has to put their keys in a place where they know they will find them without having to think about where they put them.

But for some people, “brain fog” occurs naturally, such as afflicted the person who posited this question on Quora:

This person is probably not unlike a man who thought he had me figured out as I was leaving a convenience store with a cup of coffee in one hand and my phone in the other. I was completely immersed in my own business, but this guy kept beeping his car, once, twice, three times—apparently to get my “attention.” I finally turned toward where the noise was coming from to take a look at this jerk with a long beard “fashionable” among “Nordic” types, and observed that he apparently had been staring after me the whole time waiting for me to turn around. He beeped the car again to make his “point”: that he was just some ignorant Nazi moron trying to shoe-horn me into his paranoid, stereotypical white nationalist worldview.

Unfortunately, brain fog also is present with some people who can’t help but to make “contributions” to other people’s stereotypes, thanks to the “culture” that enabled it. I'm not going to leave Hispanics out of this time. Full-blood indigenous people may occupy the lowest rung on the social ladder in Latin American countries, but in my opinion are the least deserving of prejudice in this country, as they by nature labor without complaint. On the other hand (and of course I'm guilty of generalization saying this) while “Euro-elites” are just full of shit, I try not to get into “discussions” with “mestizo” males because if offended they try to demean your “manhood” with stupid sexual inferences that are both juvenile and stereotype-confirming.

The women, on the other hand, are sometimes divas and drama queens, although not the kind that necessarily devolve into violence as on that ridiculous The Creep Squad show which really does show you how hip-hop “culture” should be left in the “family” and not be a bother to the rest of us. I remember a conversation with a Hispanic former co-worker who whined and wailed about her hips hurting, and she had just put in her two-week notice. What? Why don’t you see a doctor, I asked. She moaned about how she would be fired if she missed work. Who told you that, I asked. You have medical insurance, why not use it? You are not going to be fired if you have to see a doctor, and you’ve got sick pay. 

I don’t who she was talking to before, probably to other drama queens with their sob stories whining about how unfair the world is to them. Unfortunately she talked to a sensible person too late, because the supervisor told me later she had pulled this stunt before, and this time she wasn’t going to be “rehired.”

Meanwhile “brain fog” seems to afflict both accusers and the mainstream media in the metal band Rammstein case in Germany. The latest is an accusation against band member “Flake,” by a woman who claims that “something” must have happened to her after she allegedly went to bed with him, because she woke up with a sore tummy. The “accuser” claims she has had sex lots of times and doesn’t remember having a sore tummy before. 

People actually take this as a “serious” accusation? At least the German news agency DW is forced to admit that the accused can ignore the handful of annoying loudmouths who gather to protest at sold-out concerts, because unlike in the U.S., in Germany one is presumed innocent until proven guilty, and “Flake” and Till Lindemann haven’t been charged with anything, officially.

And why should they be? None of the accusations thus far amount to a “crime.” A few women who were invited to the band’s after show parties claim that they what?—didn’t “consent” to be one who might be asked if they wanted to have a roll with Lindemann? What the hell does that mean? Even those who claimed they were personally approached and said “no” admitted that they were not pursued further. Now it is a “crime” to even inquire for “consent”? If something isn’t a “crime” under the previous “standard,” then the media just moves the posts so it is a “crime.” In matters of right or wrong, it is just make things up as you go along time.

The person who started all of this, I believe her name is Shelby, is by the video and witness evidence a spaced-out attention-seeker who apparently was offended when Lindemann told her to take a hike. On social media, she acts like an immature teenager for whom even the suggestion of “sex” is something “yucky.” And because the mainstream media actually took this idiot seriously, other women came out of the woodwork looking for the own 15 minutes of infamy with similar stories of feeling “devalued.” 

It is speculated that it was a gang of radical feminists who broke into Lindemann’s home recently and trashed it; personally, I don’t view these fanatics as legitimate members of any political philosophy any more than are far-right extremists: they are merely offered “shelter” in whatever political party needs their votes.

But probably no one is more lost in brain fog than Amber Heard supporters, and that includes the mainstream media generally, and for the present Netflix in particular, which has an upcoming “documentary” on the Depp-Heard trial that will “recontextualize” the trial, meaning the “misogyny” behind the social media’s examination of Heard’s lies and fake evidence. It demands that we shed "tears" for Heard, when in fact this vindictive fraud deserves none at all.

Numerous YouTubers who followed the case since Heard first concocted with the help of the ACLU that Washington Post op-ed, and whose suspicions of Heard’s stories were confirmed by those audios that Heard shills simply refuse to either acknowledge the importance of, will be under a full-frontal attack by filmmakers who have promoted Heard’s side of the case for years without a shred of doubt, even after the verdict that found that Heard had defamed Depp with actual malice on all three counts.

There doesn't seem to be anything “new” in this "documentary"; it is just pushing the same tired line the mainstream media has tried and failed to push for years, which underlines its own failure to sway public opinion. The MSM in its gender-biased arrogance never anticipated the possibility of Depp winning the case and Heard being found guilty; people naturally wanted to know why, and this kind of thing doesn't illuminate anything but the MSM's desperate effort to "redeem" it's lost credibility. 

So far the MSM continues to avoid examining the reasons why a jury would find, based on the evidence presented, that Heard had defamed JD with actual malice. There is no effort to examine why people wouldn’t trust the mainstream media that won't tell them the truth, giving them no choice but to look for it elsewhere. The MSM got it wrong, and now they want to discredit those who got it right? Not going to work. Besides, who decided that women are always the victims and never the victimizers anyways? It's an issue of power, and how it is used and abused.

And I tell you something else: it doesn't take any "courage" to jump on bandwagons, as many people did in the Depp case. Exposing injustice in unpopular cases is the true measure of your commitment to justice, as demonstrated by Colonel Kurtz in the Marilyn Manson case, and Frank Valchiria in the Andrew Tate case.

So far, there is just this Law & Crime overview of the trial which billed itself as the “only unbiased” examination of the Virginia trial...

 

...that fittingly ends with Heard’s infamous words on audio, laughing at the notion that anyone would believe that Depp was the victim of domestic violence. We live in a society where “loss and insecurity” among males is blamed on their own “psychological issues”—and not on a “cancel culture” society where their every move seemingly is “scrutinized” and punished if deemed "hurtful" by women. 

Of course we have to come to grips with the fact that “brain fog” could happen on a national scale. The belief in a “stolen” election which led to the January 6 insurrection for example, although attempts to lift the fog now include the indictment of Trump and 18 others in Georgia for conspiracy to overturn the election. Meanwhile, in Florida voters have been inflicted with brain fog on a massive scale, where people have literally chosen, by voting for far-right "culture war" politicians, to allow the passage of laws to take away their right to have a right, just as the Germans did in giving the Nazis control of thought and action.

Thus we see fascist governor Ron DeSantis exercising his authoritarian powers in denying the freedom of thought and action in Florida. In the case of Andrew Warren, who DeSantis fired from his elected position of state prosecutor last year after signing a statement supporting abortion rights, the Brennan Center for Justice deemed the action “a wholesale disrespect for democracy” and reflected “a basic misunderstanding of the prosecutor’s role and improperly interfere with prosecutorial discretion and independence.”

The Florida State Supreme Court, which one local newspaper called the far-right’s “court of its dreams,” refused to hear the case in order to reinstate Warren despite a federal court ruling that Warren's freedom of speech rights were violated. DeSantis took this as permission to engaged in another political stunt last week against the Orlando prosecutor’s right of discretion by “suspending” her simply because her beliefs conflicted with his own far-right philosophy.

I wonder how Covid “brain fog” effects people already with it in its “natural” form like this. We have seen cases where people actually died after insisting it wasn’t “real.” It would be nice to believe this is all a nightmare we just hope people will wake up from, but as we see so often, certain people prefer a nightmare fog world as long as they believe it is only others who are harmed by it. But such people living in even a "religious" fog should take note of what Thomas More said in The Man For All Seasons:

“Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake!”