Cogito, ergo sum —  I think, therefore I am?

Do you have the feeling that your government doesn’t want you to think? Do you have a feeling that your government wants you to just obey?

QUESTION: Which is more important to you: political/social opinion or your own independent thoughts?

John F. Kennedy said,

“Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”

Are you driven by opinion or thought? Opinion is like an opioid. It takes away our ability to think rationally about ourselves and what’s going on around us.

If we don’t think then we don’t exist. Thinking is not comfortable for many, it seems.

Cogito, ergo sum is more than a Latin phrase, it’s an imperative that makes us freemen and freewomen.

In his dystopian novel 1984 George Orwell wrote,

Orthodoxy means not thinking–not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

Have we as a people given in to orthodoxy?

Pandemic or PANICdemic

We are asking these questions because we are finding that information (i.e. the scientific truth about the pandemic and its vaccines) is being filtered and has become opinion (a PANICdemic).

We’re worried that independent thoughts are being blocked by those who don’t want to have you and I think for ourselves.

Plato wrote, “No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.”

George Orwell, in his dystopian novel 1984, wrote,

“Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.” 

Howard Rotberg wrote,

“Any strong ideological belief carries with it a risk of denying those facts that do not support the ideology.”

Are we the people being driven by ideology rather than thought?

Are we experiencing a pandemic or a PANICdemic where reason has been replaced by reaction and science by politics?

Is truth dead or just cancelled?

Thought and The Cancel Culture

The cancel culture is designed to keep us from thinking and forcing us to embrace the “ideology of opinion.”

Cancel culture or “call-out culture” is a nuevo form of ostracism in which someone is thrust out of social or professional circles – whether it be online, on social media, or in person. Those subject to this nuevo ostracism has then, by definition, been “cancelled.”

If you don’t comply, if you don’t embrace the current ideologies of diversity, inclusion and equity you will be ostracized and cancelled.

Don’t think, just obey is the mantra of the cancel culture. Thinking is a crime against the state. Even worse, if you confront the state you can be arrested, imprisoned and even tortured until you comply.

It’s happening to those who were in Washington, D.C. on January 6th, 2021. It’s happening to parents who express concerns about what their children are reading and learning in public school classrooms. It’s happening to ordinary American citizens who want to leave their homes to go shopping but don’t have a vaccine passport in states like New York.

The Bottom Line

John F. Kennedy said,

“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.”

The cancel culture’s myths are Diversity, Inclusion and Equity. It is a myth that one can be diverse and equal at the same time. Inclusion is a myth as well. For you see equal people are not free and free people are not equal. Diversity is not a condition, it is a tool for the cancel culturalists to gain power over others.

Diversity, inclusion and equity are unrealistic myths in a free society. These can only be imposed by edict in a totalitarian state.

It is critical for the anti-cancel culture warriors to never give up, never surrender. When they go low, we keep the high ground. When they want to fundamentally change our God given rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, we must live free or die.

You will be banned on social media, lose friends, be attacked by others in public and even physically attacked on the streets during a peaceful protest.

This is war! A war of lies vs. truth. A war of opinion vs. thinking. A war of good against pure evil.

America is now in a battle between freedom of individual choice and thought or living under the boot of big government for ever.

The opposite of Diversity, Inclusion, Equity (DIE) is Liberty, Integrity, Valor, Earnestness (LIVE)!

Thought trumps opinion. Just remember that!

Think for yourself and your family as we approach the 2022 mid-term elections.

As John F. Kennedy said, “If not us, who? If not now, when?”

©Dr. Rich Swier. All rights reserved.

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