See here. Liberal writer Naomi Wolf has written a powerful essay on her estrangement from other liberals in connection with the virus. She is amazed that feminists who were so suspicious of Big Pharma would suddenly drop all their critical faculties and accept their word on the safety of the vaccines. Of course, anyone (like me) who has watched in amazement as feminists said and did nothing about, say, the trafficking of girls in Rotherham isn’t too surprised.
Still, this is worth repeating:
As the months passed, friends and colleagues of mine who were highly educated, and who had been lifelong critical thinkers, journalists, editors, researchers, doctors, philanthropists, teachers, psychologists — all began to repeat only talking points from MSNBC and CNN, and soon overtly refused to look at any sources - even peer-reviewed sources in medical journals — even CDC data — that contradicted those talking points. These people literally said to me, “I don’t want to see that; don’t show it to me.” It became clear soon enough that if they absorbed information contradictory to “the narrative” that was consolidating, they risked losing social status, maybe even jobs; doors would close, opportunities would be lost. One well-educated woman told me she did not want to see any unsanctioned information because she was afraid of being disinvited from her bridge group. Hence the refrain: “I don’t want to see that; don’t show it to me.”
This same idiocy was recently noted by Roger Simon (here):
In a personal survey of those who have most willingly and unquestioningly accepted the vaccines (if that’s what they are), worn masks, and lived obediently under lockdowns as if that were the only way to survive, I have met absolutely none who have read the works of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Alex Berenson, or Dr. Scott Atlas, or heard the lectures or seen the readily available videos by the likes of Drs. Robert Malone, Peter McCullough, Harvey Risch, or Vladimir Zelenko, not to mention many others, including the august group that signed the Great Barrington Declaration. Many don’t even know what it is or even that it exists. They certainly haven’t read the statement, although it’s only a few pages.
As I have pointed out endless times before, we live in a golden age for getting alternative information. Getting alternative information in the past meant reading obscure and possibly subversive magazines. Or else it meant looking at foreign newspapers and magazines. But I used to have to wait at least a week for my university’s library to get foreign newspapers into their collection, or else I had to listen to the broadcasts of foreign stations on my shortwave radio, and that was assuming that no odd interference from sunspots or whatever would cause too much static to hear anything. Yet, today these people absolutely refuse to step outside of the most conventional news sources. It’s what we would expect from people in flyover land, except that now it’s people in flyover land who are developing their own alternative sources while the elites stick with the “tried-and-true.”
Well, future historians (if there are any and if they are reasonably objective) may be able to explain it better than I can.
