Subject: Re: For the woke libtards here
I watched part 1 all the way through (at 1.5x speed).

Well done! Like I said, I'm old and decrepit, so can only make it at 1.25x speed. ;-)

And also a very nice summary of the video. If I may toss in one comment -

2) A calamity that strikes those most trapped in the fear loop and provides them a "teachable moment" that upends their economic and social situation so completely they are forced to recognize reality and replace time and energy spent lying to themselves within their doom loop with actual work required for basic survival.

Of course the real tragedy with either of those outcomes is that they are not limited in their impact to those whose thinking led to the calamity. The calamity effects everyone.

In our instant case today, I think it's possible for this second kind of calamity to be one that affects less than everyone. At least affects others on a smaller scale. For example, being convicted of a crime - perhaps trespassing would be a good example - becomes a personal calamity more than a societal calamity. But the effects will be felt by more than just the convicted person. It will affect their family, friends, co-workers. And that calamity can be sufficient to provide the needed teachable moment to get them out of the feedback loop in which they have been trapped. A few weeks in prison will do that to many people. Not all, of course, but many.

The downside is that such personal level calamities are not sufficient to break the fear loop on a societal level. Those who do not suffer the calamity can simply console themselves by deciding those who are caught in the calamity were imposters to the cause and/or not sufficiently strong and therefore not deserving of being saved. They simply move from "inside" to "outside" in the thinking of those remaining true to the cause.

I could name names - as I'm sure you could as well. But that's something you're trying to avoid at the moment, so I will refrain. Thinking about those names provides examples of people who have successfully made it out of the fear loop and re-engaged in a more rational view of the world.

The question we will still have to wait and see is how big a calamity it will take to get out of this current round of wide-spread fear loop thinking. Can we get there with enough of my "individual" scale calamities? Or will it really take a societal scale calamity?

--Peter