As I get older and have seen one 'existential' crisis after another, it seems to me that we are are an audience addicted to watching a merry-go-round at a house of horrors (perhaps it should be called a terror-go-round). It seems to be a relentless procession of terrifying boogeymen going round and round. A new one enters stage-right as the current one fades stage-left.
As I mentioned in my previous post... we are currently watching Fearsome Fallout make his triumphant return as Fauci Flu departs.
I have been pondering the question... "Why is the public so willing to believe in doomsday boogeymen?" Honestly... it's almost like believing that WrestleMania is real.
A Case Study - The Fauci Flu Boogeyman
By most accounts, life was pretty good in the 21st and seemed to be getting better. Americans lost interest in Scary Scarcity decades ago and the exaggerated claims of Calamity Climate Change had worn out their welcome. America had become energy independent for the first time in three generation. Why would anyone just accept that the Fauci Flu was an existential threat to humanity?
Seriously, why would anyone be alone in their car with a mask on and have their 13 year-old kid locked in the trunk because someone at his school had COVID ??? This is serious mental derangement (and I'm not making it up).
It occurred to me that Hollywood has been mentally preppping us to anticipate a devastating global plague for more than a generation. We pay to be entertained and, in the process, we become convinced that a massive, devastating pandemic is not only plausible but imminent.
Contagion, from 2011, envisioned a devastating airborne, respiratory virus that spreads from bats to humans in China. Sound familiar??
Here's a short list of pandemic horror movies (there have been dozens more but these are the best known).
- Outbreak 1995
- Contagious 1997
- Virus 1999
- 28 Days Later 2002
- I Am Legend 2007
- Quarantine 2008
- Contagion 2011
- Flu 2013
- Pandemic 2016
- Patient Zero 2017
It is my theory, after more than 30 years of watching apocalyptic pandemic scenarios, the public was conditioned and ready to expect The Big One. They were ready to believe the WHO and the CDC when COVID came along and do whatever they were told.
As Klaus Schwab has said, the COVID Pandemic was/is a Golden Opportunity to reset the world. The WEF and their many minions/allies did not let COVID go to waste. They intentionally inflated it to a level 11 panic. neoterra.us/blog/sustaining-liberty-the-great-reset
That's my theory and I'm sticking to it. Tomorrow, I'll explore the many movies of Climate Change catastrophe.
Let me know what you think.