My fellow retards,
In this thread phon/ongod will pay respect to the master stroke unraveling of the US government by the ever-present, always ambiguous; “they”.
For this iteration “they” starts with a literal ancient cult.
I swear by Apollo Healer, by Asclepius, by Hygieia, by Panacea, and by all the gods and goddesses, making them my witnesses, that I will carry out, according to my ability and judgment, this oath and this indenture.
To hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers, and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture; to impart precept, oral instruction, and all other instruction to my own sons, the sons of my teacher, and to indentured pupils who have taken the Healer’s oath, but to nobody else….
Modern renditions lack the ancient Grecian starkness and panache.
Significant historical successes help the cult grow vast. It serves enough good to be seen as such by society, which grants the cult a legally enforced monopoly on the practice of healing sickness and injury. Apparently only doctors get to sell you drugs and call it medicine.
The cult spends so much on advertisement that their commercials become a trope. A generation spends their entire life under the impression that health is something obtained on a doctor’s order. The doctors say “eat the corn, it’s the foundation of a balanced diet” and “eat the corn sugars, but only sparingly because it’s not poison, it’s a treat!”. The kids grow unhealthy, ineffective, dependent on the cult to survive.
Maybe the cult starts to calcify around the organs of power. Close with the courts and politicians who regulate their industry, with the broadcast media who run their ads, the financiers and the banks and the insurers and pretty much everyone at some level because in the US, who other than phon/ongod and some illegals doesn’t have a doctor?
It is not for phon/ongod to say what is right and wrong, just to read the wind and waves for sake of those caught up in the chop, unable to see or make sense of things.
The US still isn’t certain that real fats and meats make for a healthy diet. They still sell their kids to the pharmaceutical cartel because it’s what the doctor and the school and the insurance make easy. They pretend fat is fit, boy is girl, and health comes from a store.
Is this the result of mostly decent people of mostly average intellect who hear the smarter people up the chain say something and they ride that? How many layers of this exists before you reach the person who actually does the thinking?
Quick recap: A cartel headed by cultists has monopolized the art of healing drug dealing and built a wide-band influence network that uses mass-media to propagandize the masses, kickbacks and donations to target unfluential politicians and scientists, and trickles down by regulation and protocol to reach individuals through their personal physicians.
Assume you are in command of this organism. Assume you feel zero moral obligation toward the humans it operates on. Assume parasitic intent.
Would you think to fund development of a rapidly-evolving virus and release it on the world?
Would you think to lobby governments to waive your liability and adopt your hastily-developed palliatives?
Would you think to use your media connections to generate hysteria and suppress news about unwanted side effects?
Sickening but rational.
Now return to your own head.
When you see them spend public funds on an ad that shows a 9 year old who claims to be excited to get their second shot, even though kids almost entirely do not catch or spread the virus, would you think?
When you see a treatment that was supposed to be an ironclad vaccine got downgraded to “maybe protects you, get another booster just to be sure” ad infinitum, would you think?
When you see the people in admin set treatment protocols which overrule doctors at bedside and make dying patients take them to court, would you please think already?
At what point between “mindlessly call the Nobel-prize winning (generic) drug horse paste” and “herd those noncompliant swine into the delousing chamber” does one stop and look around for a punchline? Is it harder to tell whether to laugh when everyone’s wearing a mask? Will kids who spend a significant chunk of their formative years around the mostly-masked tend to be very good at reading and sending eye expressions, or will they just turn out autistic?
Phon/ongod supports patients right to privacy in their medical decisions. A robust P2P payment system is a tool that can be wielded to disintermediate asshole-run systems across all ranges of society.
My targets for the marketcap of PHONON DAO remain unchanged though I’m moving the timing up a bit- $1b in three months and $12b in 12 months. This is equal to $26 and $320 per GRID. I would add on the high end I can see $300b marketcap in 3 years (or $8000/GRID).
New prediction: Jack Dorsey’s SquareBlock will try to buy GridPlus due to the innovation of the Lattice1. More than $1b will be offered.
[Not financial advice – for entertainment purposes only]
A “vaccine” always one step behind
allegedly “free” on the taxpayer dime.
Ambiguous fear keeps the peons in line
for the powers that be things are running just fine.
phon/ongod out.