Dear @ChrisLynnHedges:
Your famous remark - “We live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, govs destroy freedom, media destroys information, religion destroys morals, and banks destroy the economy" - needs an update.
With the covid clusterfuck we have seen how:
-- Scientists destroy science
-- Pro-vaxxers foster anti-vax-ism
-- Public health authorities foster public ill-health
-- Human rights leaders deny human rights
-- Leftists enthusiastically advocate fascist policies
The covid clusterfuck has added new dimensions to your original remark, very very BIG ones, and has done so with incredible speed.
So it is all the more remarkable that you've chosen not to speak out about these things.
We should add to the list:
-- Dissenting pundits studiously fail to dissent
(This is a very real phenomenon, and I am not talking only about Chris Hedges, but the entire class of left "dissenters" of which he is a prominent representative.)
Read their statement. It is telling that it is littered with signal phrases that indicate the writers have very little knowledge, and never bothered to study in depth (or perhaps even at all) before drafting it.
Example:
"vaccines...protect our most vulnerable, such as children"
This is one place where vaccine hesitancy (minimally!) is well justified; for the risk, it would be crazy to mass-vaccinate children. Total all-time covid deaths, ages 5-11: **94**. cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/…
Example:
"dispel mistrust and misunderstanding of vaccine science"
You do not have to investigate long before realizing that there is a great deal to mistrust in what we've been told about these vaccines, starting with the statements of leading politicians (e.g. Biden, "if you
Really good interview. Paul Kingsnorth puts his finger on the deeper issues underlying the current covid wars. If you don't have time to listen to the whole thing, might I suggest listening to:
1: Kingsnorth's opening statement, 1:30-7:00
2: Key bottom lines, 27:30-30:30
... but if you listen to those two passages, you'll probably wind up listening to the whole thing, which is to the good. It is worth it.
Scrolling through the (twitter) responses to Kingsnorth's views, I note many violently rejecting him and denouncing him as "anti-vaxxer" and the like. Which is truly crazy. They are missing the point and demonstrating only that they are incapable of grasping what he is saying.