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 ### The Dialectic of Togetherness
 
-This one was especially treacherous and seems to have had an effect which remains to this day. We had to be apart in order to be together for if we were apart when it was necessary we could be..come to be together in a manner which is closer than ever before, both because we'll have a new understanding and appreciation for how precious it is to be together, but also because we'll have each contributed to transforming the conditions to make togetherness possible again (not to mention, absence makes the heart grow fonder!). By being apart, we show that we care about each other's well-being and that we understand the historical process of achieving what is necessary for the benefit of one another.
+This one was especially treacherous and seems to have had an effect which remains to this day. We had to be apart in order to be together for if we were apart when it was necessary we could come to be together on a higher level than before. In putting aside our selfishness and taking the step to be apart now, we transcend our previous shortcomings which contribute to the atomization of man and society and demonstrate capacity and willingness to achieve unity in a way which preserves and prolongs the lives of others. Instead of being separate and atomized, we are coming together and prioritizing the health of all people as a whole.
 
-We also show that we are willing to make sacrifices as individuals. We can quell the desires of our immediate wants and come to understand that everyone's success is potentiated in the greater collective. Making decisions to prioritize one another's health and safety shows and sets the example of empathy which, in due course, allows us to reach a higher level of togetherness.
+Through this process of becoming physically separate but consciously aligned, we achieve new understanding and appreciation for how precious it is to be together while we'll each have contributed to transforming the conditions to make togetherness possible again. Not to mention, absence makes the heart grow fonder!
 
-Conversely, seeing one another during the high risk period will have the opposing effect. In choosing to be together at that time, we'd be ignoring the risks and consequences of the situation, and this would lead to cognitive dissonance which disrupts the flow and precludes us from having a complete and fulfilling interaction. Being together when it's potentially harmful and being aware of the associated risks reinforces the practice of selfishness which isolates us and makes us unsympathetic to the real needs of our fellow humans.
+By being apart, we show that we care about each other's well-being and that we understand the historical process of achieving what is necessary for the benefit of one another.
 
-After having gone through this great intellectual, physical, metaphysical and spiritual challenge, we'll transcend the limitations which had rendered us so dull and callous before, and overcome the atomization of our technologically preoccupied lives.
+The pandemic is a challenge for us as a species, and our ability to erect the hope of an improved form of togetherness rests on our ability to prove authenticity to ourselves and each other, which makes the project of a great vision for humanity possible. In being separate, we are actually behaving, perceiving and feeling the essence of togetherness, as opposed to allowing us to return to selfish desires which keep us from connecting with one another.
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+In quelling our immediate wants and coming to understand that everyone's success, including our own, is potentiated through the greater collective, we set an example of empathy and embody it in our very actions, making us more symbiotically compatible and resilient against the dangers of this world. What seems like a sacrifice as an individual is actually a blessing to each of us.
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+Conversely, seeing one another during this high risk period will have the opposing effect. In choosing to risk one another's health by coming into close contact when it's not yet safe to do so, we find ourselves ignoring the risks of the situation and pretending to enjoy one another's company while fostering cognitive dissonance which disrupts the flow and precludes us from having the fulfilling interactions we truly need. Being together when it's harmful while being aware of the danger reinforces the practice of selfishness, isolates us and makes us unsympathetic to the real needs of our fellow humans.
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+After having gone through a great intellectual, physical, and even spiritual challenge, we'll transcend the limitations which had rendered us so dull, callous and prone to bringing catastrophe upon ourselves and overcome the atomization of our technologically-preoccupied lives.
 
 ### The Dialectic of Consent
 
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 Since the dialectic involves a default state of nature to which one cannot consent, and a process of composing the intentional solution with specificity, any hesitancy or dragging of feet is portrayed as the denying of other people's consent.
 
-Not only that, but the sate keeps the process of knowledge-construction and, by extension, consent, free of contamination by the elements that you are otherwise most susceptible to such that you would otherwise have the worst capacity for consent. In fact, the process of contaminating knowledge production is itself a phenomenon which is like a viral threat, demonstrating the multiple levels of complexity at which this issue is having to be dealt with. The whole ordeal of infectious disease is so complicated beyond even those areas of discourse that you are aware of that you would otherwise be completely overwhelmed with the complexity of it all. The state helps to fix the process of dialogue which otherwise eliminates opportunity for consent.
+Not only that, but the state keeps the process of knowledge-construction and, by extension, consent, free of contamination by the elements that you are otherwise most susceptible to such that you would otherwise have the worst capacity for consent. In fact, the process of contaminating knowledge production is itself a phenomenon which is like a viral threat, demonstrating the multiple levels of complexity at which this issue is having to be dealt with. The whole ordeal of infectious disease is so complicated beyond even those areas of discourse that you are aware of that you would otherwise be completely overwhelmed with the complexity of it all. The state helps to fix the process of dialogue which otherwise eliminates opportunity for consent.
 
 Of course, this is all hocus-pocus dialectical nonsense whereby your consent has been demolished through a specious and sophistic faculty of aufheben. Not only is your fundamental capacity for consent being overlooked, supplanted and destroyed, but the censorship, corrupt incentives and threats to professionals through totalizing entryism makes it so that even the information generated to be salient with the institutional narratives is itself corrupt and something which, when presented to you at face value, impossible to give intelligent and reasonable consent to.
 
+#### Eco-Socialist Spin on Consent
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+Many of the previous generation who subscribed to the green "revolution" framed in a more Neo-Liberal formulation will see themselves as environmentalists and scientists built on naive realism extending from the lineage of naturalism who must now "undo" the mistakes of an overzealous form of industrial capitalism rabidly pursuing elite status through profit-motive. For them, their idea of a noble and pristine natural state of the environment is something which was corrupted by the selfish inclinations of their less green and less educated neighbours and, as such, their understanding about the conditions which can be consented to is that, just as they explain extreme weather conditions as all being the result of the fall of man, so too can the pathogens of the environment now be thought of in that way, including any and all common infection which runs the risk of inducing detrimental effects, even undetected, beyond that of any common respiratory illness we've been subjected to.
+
 ### Dialectic of Fascism
 
 To remember what the Dialectic is, especially in modern times, it's worth looking again at that quote by our seminal Critical Theorists, Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno:
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 As the basis of the rationale for the denial of rationale is indicated through the proposition that the domains of knowledge available to persons are made as such through identity, the logically consequent proposition is that there are now a set of pre-approved identities which will serve as the foundation of family and that, if these are not fulfilled in the environment of an enclave of members with shared heredity, that they will be supplanted, at least from the perspective of the initiates, with persons presenting identities from other domains. In all cases you will find that those who are of the mind to have accepted the initiate language and external loyalty to entities outside of the family of shared heredity, that there are also going to be sources of communion and socialization from which they hope to mediate the threat of atomization and exclusion, and that this is presented to them through profession, other friendships and, in many cases, celebrities. You will find, almost faithfully, that these initiates are heavily interested in pop culture and will attend many pop events almost as a source of ritual for psychological and even spiritual fulfillment.
 
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 ## Drive Towards Infection-Free Environments
 
 One of the consequences of the priming of fear towards the threat of infection, both prior to Covid with Hollywood films like "Contagion", and then through the early phases of the Covid-era, was the emergence of rhetoric which presupposed that any amount of infection by any pathogen at all was something that was should strive to eliminate as a species. That this particular pathogen was harbouring such an inexplicable degree of harm that it's time to consider that humans and human society should evolve such as to eradicate the threat of even incidental, nominal and miniscule occurrences of infection which aren't accompanied with noticeable symptoms.
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 !TODO: Disambiguate the above.
 
 What is the drive towards the idea of a society which must be free of the threat of infection? Do we know that an infection-free society would be a good thing? Some possibilities include:
-- [x] Survival instinct
-- [] Fear of contamination
-- [] Control freaks
-- [] Perfectionism
-- [] Cultural conditioning towards hygiene
-- [] Purity as aesthetic
-- [] Moral of cleanliness
-- [] Transcendence
+- [] Transcendence !TODO: still need this one
 
 The drive towards the idea of a society which is completely free of the threat of infection has many aspects, and much historical precedent. Certainly, there are factors worthy of consideration, at least insofar as the motivations are concerned, which indicate, at some level, positive characteristics about human beings. But, when seeking an absolute outcome which is not only outside the reasonable conception of reality, but also an outcome which cannot be reliable ascertained as a positive or net-good for our species and which is, more likely, a net-negative and possibly even catastrophic outcome, we can begin to hypothesize how best to frame these motivations.
 
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 When the very notion of freedom changes from something universally applicable as a default modality of human life, if even as something to be valued in theory, to that which extends from the fulfillment of objectives as indicated by someone who necessarily perceives their social surroundings as one in which the powers of state enforcement are available at their fingertips, it shouldn't be considered intelligent to expect anything other than an ongoing transition of society towards something which is always more tyrannical. To add the element of the threat of disease, if even as just part of the rhetoric, then the expectation should be for such an approach of tyranny to be accelerated.
 
-#### Pathologizing
+#### Inducing Pathology
 
 We've given people a huge chance to control their environments, peer groups, workplaces, communities, organizations, friends, partners, families and essentially anyone with whom they have disagreements, particularly of how this topic became embedded in every moment and aspect of everyone's lives and because of how propaganda, social media and an interdisciplinary-focused academia that was inebriated with Social Justice.
 
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 ### Perfectionism
 
-For some, it's easy to dismiss the severity of something if all our children become critically conscious and so on. If even the children are being made to participate with and be subjected to something, then surely it must be safe. And even if it were not safe, it would be a sacrifice that all would be committing to together, thus we have good reason to feel encouraged en route to a perfection which, if it were ever attained, would likely be something developed, supported or at least maintained by the state and, as such, it would stand to reason that protections for unknown threats become easier to ignore under the prospect of a perfect way to live as administered by the state.
+Perhaps, for some, it's easier to avoid contemplating whether there is a risk involved for their children, particularly if it's being recommended, advocated and even demanded that you administer it to your child. It's easy to delegate the difficult question of evaluating the plausible ramifications when you can consider that, as all children are being made to participate and be subjected to something, then surely that increases the likelihood that it must be safe. And even if it were not safe, it would be a sacrifice that all would be committing to together, contributing to our shared strength and knowledge, and thus we have good reason to feel encouraged as we are en route to a perfection which, if ever attained, would likely be something developed, supported and maintained by the state.
 
 TODO: Need to complete this
 
-## History
+## Historically-Oppressed Virus
+
+### Vacation
+
+Back in 2022, after having been locked down for longer than one could remember, and having gone through a period of undulating, tyrannical policies including vaccine passports, masking, destruction of businesses and the economy, curfews (in many parts of the country), and restrictions on travel and even movement between cities and provinces, we were finally ready to take a vacation. Perhaps a year earlier, we had even considered that should we ever find ourselves able to take a vacation from Canada and, given the recent actions of the Canadian government, and the manner in which those actions were met with a combination of glee, manic enthusiasm, apathy and hopeless withdrawal by the Canadian citizenry, that it may possibly be one of the last vacations we are able to take (at least legally). At this time, however, it was already Christmas of 2022, and the echoing effects of the Canadian Freedom Convoy had made many of us more hopeful about the possibility of changing the tone and culture of the west such as to make a steady march towards totalitarianism less feasible, at least for the more immediate future.
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+We made our way to the Dominican Republic, with our child, and without having to be struggled over the lack of proof of vaccination at the Canadian airport, and were finally able to enjoy some family time in the sun. It was wonderful for health, vitality, and the capacity to prime ourselves for a more inspiring outlook towards the future.
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+As usual, I found the resort gym on the first day that we had arrived, as I quite enjoy training in new gyms, enjoying better recovery and having a level of activity which helps mitigate some of the delicious alimentary endeavours that the resort might offer.
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+At the gym, I saw another similarly-aged man who training with a respectable degree of effort, and we pleasantly introduced ourselves. He was a professor of oncology at university in the US and we had plenty of health and medicine related topics to discuss while attempting the maintain the pace of our workouts. I was actually quite impressed with how open minded he was about cancer research and the degree to which metabolism may play a role in certain cancers, and we delved into other related subjects, in close proximity to one another as we aerosolized or bodily fluids, came into contact with the same surfaces of the same gym equipment, and likely introduced one another's immune system to artifacts of the other's recent environments.
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+Before long, however, he began lamenting on the crazy right wing nutcases in America, likely assuming I despise any of the non-academic, non-intellectual and non-elite professional classes as he now seemed to, and their support of Donald Trump who, as a political figure that was not adequately championing the cause of addressing climate change (I am summarizing the professor's perspective), had played a hand in causing the pandemic. Yes, it was his opinion (though he might have said that it was an undeniable fact) that climate change had made the conditions of the world so unnatural that a freakish and defiled monstrosity of nature had manifested itself in the form of a coronavirus of unprecedented capacity to menace humanity, almost as a vengeful act of Gaia, and hurled itself at us in order to make us pay for our collective misdeeds.
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+I was soon done my workout and went to offer him a cordial shake of my hand before I returned to my family in time for our dinner plans, only to find that he just left my hand hanging. In fact, he almost seemed mortified as though I might cause him a trip to hospital for intubation in an undeveloped country - how horribly selfish of me! I support the blood sweat and tears that his skin had absorbed off the leather and vinyl gym surfaces was more to his liking than something more direct as my well-callused paw.
+
+### Climate Historicism
 
-For the Covidist, the event of a pandemic of international concern is seen in its historical context. It is an event preceded by the struggle, historical conditions and tension which led to this event unfolding. The fact of its sociopolitical, human and biological significance is clearly indicative that its human and social precedents gave rise to it, informed it, and so on. All this logically confers that it must be seen as relevant and a stage en route to a better world, if any sort of better life were ever to be made a possible reality (history is what makes a reality possible).
+Scientists, politicians, economics and social justice activists all speak about "Covid" not simply on the basis of it being something which occurred that profoundly affected the world and humanity, but as some sort of an inevitable outcome based on the precedence of human activity which stood before it. For the Covidist, the event of a pandemic of international concern is seen in its historical context. It is an event preceded by the struggle, historical conditions and tension which led to this event unfolding. The fact of its sociopolitical, human and biological significance is clearly indicative that its human and social precedents gave rise to it, informed it, and so on. For example, it would be stated that our industrial activity and selfish consumerism yielded the climate change which caused unusual ecological developments, such as the creation of this virus. It would be said that capitalism leveraged the crisis in order to produce disaster capitalism and all the incentives and behaviours which come along with it. All this logically confers that it must be seen as relevant and a stage en route to a better world, but only if we are willing to use it as the right motivator to finally put an end to certain behaviours which we mistakenly believe we're at liberty to participate in.
 
-Our hopes and dreams both have been prevented from being realized through this, yet our hopes and dreams are being imagined because of this event. If even we could be liberated, we will find that this event, whether now considered as making such liberation more difficult or more possible, is an aspect of the liberatory process and is something which shaped, formed and etched out the shape of that liberated structure.
+Our hopes and dreams both have been prevented from being realized because we instead created this calamitous outcome, yet our hopes and dreams are being imagined because of this event. If even we could be liberated, we will find that this event, whether now considered as making such liberation more difficult or more possible, is an aspect of the liberatory process and is something which shapes, forms and etches out the shape of that liberated structure.
 
-Again, all of this is perfectly congruent with our set of properties which make the imagining, desire and expectation for a collectivist, transcendence of reality possible:
-- SAFKT
-- Stop And Find Knowledge Together
-S: senses
-A: abstraction
-F: frame
-K: knowledge (of death)
-T: time
+!TODO: compare against Covid-era notes.
 
-## Interlude #TODO: Move this and the next section?
-Do we remember why we are talking about these subjects again? Indeed, people have become unable to communicate with one another, with the entire process becoming rife with lies, manipulation and abuse.
+## Our Metaphysical Question
+!TODO: Move this and the next section?
 
-And why is that? Is this some type of cultural conflict? Is it simply social and human evolution?
+It's worth restating the purpose in elucidating these issues which is to address the fact that people have become unable to communicate with one another, as the entire process as become rife with lies and manipulation through abuse of language. Though the issue appears as a cultural conflict whereby a transformation of the culture has taken place thus producing fractionated sub-cultures within nation, community, institution and even family, but that is too much of a superficial way of looking at it. Though it's true that aspects of social transformation present themselves in social environments, and even that there have been ideologically-driven efforts to induce and exacerbate conflict in many of the institutions which have the deep and long-lasting effects, the underlying issue has more to do with our common capacities and the banality of evil..
 
-It is a religious war over the fundamental nature of reality, as experienced by human mind. It is transformation vs transcendence. Eternal vs imminent. Acceptance vs rejection. Gratitude vs bitter resentment of the existing order.
+Might it just be superficial because the social changes mirror an evolution in human thought or form? No, the proclivity towards these things is something we haven't evolved away from, though one might say that our intellectual developments have given us better toolsets with which to mitigate these tendencies.
 
-Of course, none of these descriptions or enumerations can ever completely capture and express the phenomenon in question, which is not a theory on a model, and this is precisely why we must avoid and resist the inclination of any person to make laws or policies which presuppose a complete understanding or moral determination about any person based on their proclaimed political affiliation, observable physical characteristics, genetic sequence, or other encoded representation of someone's material form, beyond denoting one's actions.
+It is a war over what to do about the question of the perceived fundamental nature of reality as experienced by human mind. It is transformation vs transcendence. Eternal vs imminent. Acceptance vs rejection. Gratitude vs bitter resentment of the existing order.
 
-Some might remark critically on my overly emphasized focus on Marx, o even Hegel and I would first respond that I am delighted to see healthy skepticism and would hope it's being applied quite consistently in elucidations of our socio-political, philosophical and metaphysical pronouncements.
+Some might call it a religious war or, perhaps more palatably, a war of faith. Others would prefer to call it a war of epistemology. Perhaps the best framing would be to call it a war of ethics on the basis of what can and cannot be known about reality, the mind of others, and even one's own mind. That is to say, the difference between a philosophy or a mode of action which extends from a claim about the imminent is that it imposes a demand for agreement about that which needn't be proven, and this is a fundamental breach of ethics.
 
-The truth is that the phenomena and behaviours we seem to be faced with shouldn't be laid at the feet of any one villain and mystery man. I have said repeatedly that these issues arise not from a previous thinker or system of thought having been formalized. On the contrary, these are the msot basic means by which we make our view of reality and our lives actionable.
+Of course, none of these descriptions or enumerations can ever completely capture and express the phenomenon in question, which is not a theory on a model, and this is precisely why we must avoid and resist the inclination of any person to make laws or policies which presuppose a complete understanding or moral determination about any person based on their observable physical characteristics, genetic sequence, or other encoded representation of someone's material form, beyond denoting one's actions. One might even extend that statement to include one's proclaimed political affiliation, though it would fall short as certain political doctrines do, in fact, put forward those presuppositions and moral determinations, such as Communism requiring everyone to do the work of bringing about increasing Socialist environments, or Nazism enforcing a racial hierarchy through a rationale which ostensibly claims that it's necessary in order to save civilization.
 
-## Story
-The collectivist inclination is one of an incomplete story needing to be brought to resolution. An individualist inclination, however, is one where the story is an ongoing exploration of reality as unknown because that pursuit is itself already worthwhile. The conclusions to such a story are more open-ended in that the ultimate achievement needn't necessarily be imminent and within the reach of this reality:
-- divinity awaits
-  - predicated on one's actions in reality
-  - something which always either awaits or is perfectly on-going by virtue of the true structure of existence
-- if no divine aspect of reality exists then the individualist already understands, if even only intuitively, that a human's view of reality most accurately being perceived at the level of an individual is the correct one and that this is something to be expressed and negated at any given moment.
+Yet still, even in this description, it would be facile to say that the doctrines most of us know are worthy of rejection are the product of poor or manipulative thinkers who were afforded the power to mislead the rest of us. The truth is that the phenomena and behaviours we seem to be faced with shouldn't be laid at the feet of any one villain and mystery man. Though the formalizing of certain human proclivities may have arisen from or been presented by a previous thinker or public persona, those proclivities themselves are artifacts of the basic means by which we make our view of reality and our lives actionable.
 
-### Hero's Journey
-The individual's story is naturally the hero's journey as every person understands the notion that something good follows something difficult, something requiring sacrifice, something which causes one fear and for which there is an obstacle to overcome, and that the benefit in facing adversity needn't even be the most typical of material reward. That is, it needn't be a tangible material commodity itself. In spite of the possibility of one receiving no clear material reward, humans have an ingrained sense that doing the difficult will yield some sort of benefit to themselves, if even just through the fact of being consolidated to accept and approach yet more difficult scenarios. The skill of understanding that one can persevere and benefit.
+## Human Narrative as Story
+
+### Collectivist Story 
+
+The collectivist inclination is one of an incomplete story needing to be brought to resolution. Though this sounds like the fulfillment of something specified in myth which has perpetuated itself historically such as to be romantic or endearing enough to maintain a lineage through the cultures and minds of man, it's actually something much more basic and universal. The collectivist inclination, a natural tendency of human mind, is borne completely through the application of syntax to delusion. That is to say, when a human being makes a false determination or assumes a false premise about reality, it may very well go unnoticed for everyone, including that same human, unless it is expressed in syntax. When that delusion is formed in language and made communicable, the seed of the collectivist cult is born.
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+Now, with the seed of delusion able to be delivered to another potential cult participant, all that is required for the existence of a collective is the originator believes their falsity is understood and believed by another human. At this point, the evidence of its truth is that the syntax was delivered, cognized and reflected as a true aspect of reality. It's not actually a problem whether the other participant truly understands, or even truly agrees, just so long as no contradiction has yet been expressed. Should that not occur, or even until that time that it does occur, we have the concept of a collective consisting of those participants who have the knowledge of reality in this form, which is an incomplete representation, founded upon delusion, and the implicit purpose of the collective is now to maintain the integrity of this fragment of existence. As things become more complicated, and more is invested into the delusion, the strength of angst driving the need to fulfill the adoption of the collective can intensify with the implied endpoint of an eschatological solution becoming more clearly articulated in the sheer desire of those who participate in explicit adoption of the belief.
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+We can see almost immediately that this story-based interpretation of desiring an immanent collectivist solution is analogous to the gnostic plight as a pathological mode of being in hopes of overcoming the embodied sensation which comes from interpreting one's life in spacetime.
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+An individualist inclination, however, is one where the story is an ongoing exploration of reality as unknown because that pursuit is itself already worthwhile. The conclusions to such a story are more open-ended in that the ultimate achievement needn't necessarily be imminent, in fact to believe so would be a form of hubris unbecoming of the inclination, and instead the individual wonders about the potential for gifts which may or may not be within the reach of reality. Divinity may await, and it may be predicated on one's actions in reality, thus it makes sense to make decisions and perform actions which have a greater chance of being in line with what a human mind would believe as being valuable beyond the matter of this universe. In a sense, one might say that this is tantamount to the concept that truth is not something ascertained as something relative consequent to human experience, as is quibbled over between those arguing in favour of a religious morality versus those claiming a scientific one, but something which we choose to have faith as being extant simply on the basis that there is something beneficial in human life to be derived in doing so. If there is a divinity, it is something which always either awaits or is perfectly on-going by virtue of some structure of the real and objective.
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+If no divine aspect of reality exists then the individualist already understands, if even only intuitively, that a human's view of reality most accurately being perceived at the level of an individual is the correct one and that this is something to be expressed and negated at any given moment and, as such, is precious.
+
+### Individual Story: Hero's Journey
+
+The individual's story is naturally something at least approximately equivalent to the hero's journey, as there is no choice but to perceive the reality one is faced with, and this must proceed through senses which can only correspond with one single person. When combined with the knowledge of death, this is already the recipe for moving temporally towards a great challenge whereby the only manner of offsetting something naturally feared are the discoveries made on that way.
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+Every person understands the notion that something good follows something difficult, whether through simple time and effort, or the complex equation of confrontation. Something requiring sacrifice and something which causes one fear and for which there is an obstacle to overcome is intuitively interpreted as providing benefit. That it necessarily incorporates an element of facing adversity doesn't come with the promise of a material reward. That is, the reward needn't be some tangible material commodity in and of itself and in spite of the possibility of one receiving no clear material reward, humans have an ingrained sense that doing the difficult will yield some sort of benefit to themselves, if even just through the fact of learning that we can accept and consolidate yet more difficult scenarios and developing the skill of understanding that one can persevere.
 
 The child's mind also sees the world through story and narrative and this, along with contextualizing observations. Though it isn't necessarily the case that it's seen as one discrete and simple story, but that:
 - experience feels like a story
 - stories which one encounters feel natural and sensible, because of a linear progression through action potential and event of action, being sequenced with a discernible, higher level narrative to be drawn from it (regardless of whether the semantics and aspects of the conditions and its entities make real-life sense)
 
+It might not seem that way to an outside observer, as the syntax and capacity for providing a robust framework are limited, but they aren't inhibited in expressing their understanding of an event or behaviour in the ways that an adult, who wishes to scrutinize the degree to which it sounds reasonable, might be. In effect, the child will continuously impose narrative over their experience and corroborate it with details appealing to the sensory along with key words which convey their focused motif.
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 Theirs is more exploratory to as the hero, but, without a formed opinion as to the nature of what that constitutes; with a process of continued exploration and object classification through the assistance of others more adept who have some system to draw from. They needn't be versed in any particular system in order to participate and have one adopt the conceptions of the formal system. They need only learn language which relates to the subject at hand and which, in discourse, confirms, refutes or expands the content of that subject.
 
 #### Hero Cognition
-This confirmation approach is used most heavily by children anytime a cognition occurs in the form of recalling some object reference - even if it is far off from reality, and an affirmation from the parent; even as a misunderstood response - will most certainly cause the child to believe the cognition itself. This reinforced cognition will be something easily attached to and difficult for the child to move on from without a new cognition being made to supplant it.
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+This confirmation approach is used most heavily by children anytime a cognition occurs in the form of recalling some object reference, even if it is far off from reality, and an affirmation from the parent, even as a misunderstood response, will most certainly cause the child to believe the cognition to be legitimate. This reinforced cognition will be something easily attached to and difficult for the child to move on from without a new cognition being made to supplant it, though provisioning such a replacement cognition is itself not very difficult.
 
 If the child is confronted with something distinctly cognizable for which there is a cognitive reference, the reference will generally be uttered and may be done so repeatedly in an effort to receive confirmation that the child is operating successfully. If the child receives confirmation of an absolutely absurd declaration (because, for instance, the adult is distracted and provided the confirmation erroneously), the child will happily take on the new association and will even continuously proclaim this declaration. This isn't to say that the child would not come to question such an association in due time, but that the absurd proposition intrinsic to the declaration will fail to induce any qualms, distress, anxiety, cognitive dissonance, and so forth. It will be readily accepted in the immediate, because the complexity associated with having to classify something has no reason to be adopted - any seemingly free, simplification which is neutral to one's view is easily adopted and if it also reinforces one's view or enhances one's standing, particularly where one conceives of themselves as holding a position or orientation for which one's commitment is tenuous in a way which is not simply raw, intellectual curiosity towards knowledge (drive for intellectual supremacy, is not what is entailed here).
 
 TODO: Piaget and complex reduction
 
 ## The Dialectics of Covidism
-- Separate to be together
+
 - Public health is your personal health
 - Natural immunity
-- Consent
 - Freedom
 - Disgust
 - Victimhood
 
 ### Disambiguation
-#### Togetherness
-- We are not together unless we are apart
-- Deatomize -> we were atomied but now we've found the right reason to come together
 
 #### Freedom
-- Freedumbers destroy our freedom
-  - It's dumb to value freedom - true freedom comes from structure, order and authority: the freedom to have a role by virtue of the state
+
+##### Freedumb for the Freedumbers
+
+How did we get to the point of people actively mocking those who attempt to fight for something which, conceptually-speaking, applies to absolutely everyone? It would necessarily be the case that you would have something to fear. What might those fears be?
+
+##### Unfreedom
+
+There has definitely been plenty of narrative supplying a dialectical attack on freedom in the form of proclaiming that those who advocate for freedom are actually just destroying freedom and  chasing their selfish inclinations. But it goes a step further, in saying that they are the tip of the spear, so to speak.
+
+Firstly, some of the more ridiculous points that have been repeatedly disseminated have said something like that the advocacy of the Freedom Convoy, and those who support them, is actually their demand to have constraints put on the public. This is often elaborated as things which include the banning of vaccination, the closing of hospitals, the dissolving of a functional government (both formally and informally), the banning of face masks (either by making it forbidden to wear them, or by some set of actions which lead to them becoming unavailable in the country).
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+Next, we have claims that their actions are all centered around disrupting social services, making routes unnavigable, exhausting supplies and breaking the supply chain. There is something to be said for the breaking of supply chains, but that wasn't in the sense of them destroying those chains themselves, but in going on strike because of the conditions that were being imposed on them through a central authority. This is classic worker advocacy and, given that all of their critics are generally in favour of unions, and even the type to speak of unions romantically, it's somewhat perturbing to see, though predictably so, that the socialists who love unions hate them when they're advocating for freedom, liberty, personal choice, and so on.
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+Lastly, there was quite a bit of rhetoric being used to put out the idea that the truckers had been captured and were being controlled by the Russians, Russian intelligence, or any villainous country or organization that had managed to place their tendrils in the minds of these pitchfork-wielding hicks who somehow learned to drive a truck without crashing it every time. These are insane conspiracy theories, of course, because regardless of whether there are international interests at play who wish to disrupt the affairs of other societies, that is something which is an evergreen problem, and which latches onto every opportunity for conflict possible, including this one. Regardless of whether this is a real problem, it's not being treated in a serious manner if it's only supposed that certain people can be affected by influence, if it explains all the motives for any of the participants, and if it's used to completely disregard the possibility that some of the players may have honest and authentic inclinations which may not yet be properly understood.
+
+##### Fear of Freedom
+
+Freedom isn't an easy proposition, especially if you've never had to fight for it, or if you've never been exposed where the denial of freedom is something palpable and clearly cognizable to you. The mind is always working through the set of sense apparatuses in order to obtain a viable field of vision and a proposition for action. Most of that process is one of simplifying complexity in order to make the body and environment something actionable.  A situation where the body and the spirit are being made to wade through the bizarre complexity of being and align the focal point with the potential for action and modification or conformation to the shapes and levers of the world. To interface with it, if you will, and find the best way to proceed in one's survival. If one doesn't have this capacity available to them, they become overwhelmed in the complexity to such a point that it becomes grotesque and overbearing.
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+True freedom is the threat of chaos, unfortunately, but it's something that, based on the nature of man having freedom to act and choose and have a focal point that the person directs and focuses through, is a natural inclination and, when freedom is sufficiently denied, you'll be hard pressed to find a human who does not react with great valiance and courage. It's just wired into us.
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+Without coming to that point, however, many will fall into the simplicity, of believing there is a prescribed protocol for all actions and environments and that, by adhering to the to an external authority and conforming to it, you and it come to be an extension of one another and, as such, you are given certain assurances and benefits that you might otherwise miss out on. This external authority functions to take the place of what would also be symbolized as the Father Figure or a God, which is comforting and stabilizing, if even only superficially and immediately.
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+If you are particularly prone to negative emotion, then the urge to choose this option of operating becomes all the more natural, as deciphering and acting on your own behalf is distressing,especially when you're being told by all messaging apparatuses to panic and be on edge.
+
+##### Exclusion: Punished for Freedom
+
+The threat of exclusion rears its head again as one recognizes that the source of self-justifying violence and power has a point of origin. Having that in mind makes it more difficult for anyone to find the motivation to hold the entity represented at that point of origin to account, but some acquiesce more easily than others.
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+With a seemingly omnipotent force representing the morals and ethics of the environment, it seems so big and makes you feel so small. It's best to remain invisible, and even a coward, and assuming such a stance impels one to have hope and faith that they will be spared of any of its possibly tyrannical effects.
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+Even more complicating is that one intuits and finds evidence from one's peers that all other subjects of the shared social surroundings claim allegiance to the source of centralized power. In fact, if one seems to fall out of line with the currently represented code of that power, one runs the risk of being mocked, ridiculed and even vilified. It even becomes complicated to learn other people's thoughts, especially once they seem to be incongruent to the social fabric extending from and surrounding that authority, as the state has already told you what people believe and why. If, for instance, you were to agree with some of those forbidden views, you run the risk of incurring cognitive dissonance, complicating your life and that of your loved ones, and other people might even be willing to pretend to be of the appropriate sensibility expected of them, just to maintain social cohesion and their current momentum towards their goals and expectations. It's best to remain safe in one's bubble of conformity.
+
+##### Real Freedom: The State
+
+In music, and particularly in jazz improvisation, it is said that you need some structure in order to liberate yourself. This might be something as simple as knowing the "shells" of the harmonic progression, which are generally the 3rd and 7th tone relative to the root in some harmonic configuration, in order to outline the tonality. With the movement of these voices outlining how the music unfolds, there really are no limits to what sorts of ideas you can come up with as your mind, fingers and rest of the body dance to your heart's delight!
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+With guard rails from the state to help you move through the tempest of an angry planet, you can finally find your place to express yourself, choose an identity, perform a role and entertain yourself. Without that structure, you are let flailing all over the place with no discernible direction. The structure gives you a path forward away from the doldrums of the stupor of crippling depression that one falls into when disabled through inaction in a sea of chaos. 
+
 - Freedom to choose -> no coercion
 - Freedom ideology
 
-#### Consent
-- Cannot consent to a tainted world
-- Unknown adaptation vs studied/intentional treatment
-- Others cannot consent to your presence
+##### Freedom to Choose
+
+One of the loveliest parts of this dialectic has been to have those drawn into the cult assert that there's no such thing as force, violence or coercion except in the form of holding someone down and penetrating them with a needle. Anything up to that point is fair game and can be classified as the experience of having freedom; freedom from coercion, freedom of choice, freedom of autonomy, and so on.
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+Indeed, the very same people who will assert that failure to enunciate sounds precisely as prescribed is a form of "literal violence" which is tantamount to partaking in "genocide" of an entire "class of people" are the same ones who will tell you that forcing you out of employment, subjecting you to a continuous barrage of messaging from the vertically stacked message apparatus of the corporatized state and every branch of entertainment continuously telling you that you deserve to be condemned, to be exiled, to be cast out of your family, to be denied medical treatment, to be denied access to purchase goods and services, to be denied the freedom to leave your home or even your room, and that you deserve to suffocate in an agonizing death which no one should even so much as feel one iota of sympathy for is not a form of force or coercion, but simply the experience of going through informed consent so you can make an easy decision about your life and personhood with a clear mind.
+
+And then there's also the wonderful fallback of plausibly denying state-sanctioned coercion because there was no official law to forcibly inject anyone. Even forgetting the phase of forcing people to show proof of vaccination before they enter into certain public areas or businesses, there were jurisdictions which, for a time, enforced lockdowns on only the portion of their citizenry that was unvaccinated, such as Austria. Another claim to fame for Austria, and quite in-line with its pedigree of treating different classes of people as fully-human and sub-human, was the decision to impose fines on people who refuse to take the vaccine. In some places, such as Greece, this was done for elderly persons who had not been injected (even taking it out of their pensions), while other places, like Austria, attempted to do this with everyone as a whole, with fines of up to €3,600.
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+Such policies would be referred to as progressive and enlightened by public health advocates, politicians, and other subsets of Totalitarian fear-mongering cult initiates who would repeatedly claim that vaccines are the only way to "end the pandemic" with many of them, to this day, likely claiming that there was never any cessation to the ongoing pandemic which continues to torment us. Politicians who make such inflammatory statements are given a generous platform, completely void of any substantive criticism, such as Canadian Member of Parliament Jean-Yves Duclos, who served as the Federal Health Minister until mid 2023, who said that the "provinces could make vaccination mandatory". Indeed, "you're so lucky we aren't directly pointing the barrel of a gun to the head of your loved ones, forcibly restraining you, and using an 18 gauge needle just to make sure you feel the thrill of saving the lives of your countrymen. We are so nice to you!".
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+Honestly, could you imagine those who claimed there was no coercion not approving of a state-sanctioned campaign to utilize greater degrees of force, including fines and imprisonment, in order to get to each and every vaccine-refusenik? Shy of a few exceptions, the vast majority would unquestionably approve any proposition to escalate force for conformity.
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+Remember, these are the people that rationalize every step of their encroachment on other people's life by predicating their argument on unwritten and unspoken social contracts, who conflate failure to use language as genocide, who invent terms like cultural genocide to equivocate with terms which otherwise indicate enslavement, death and murder, and who claim that every human being has the right to every possible form of implement and assistance which might somehow reduce the amount of work they might have to do for themselves, not even just even for their survival, but even for their leisure and recreation. But when faced with a non-conformist, they express nothing but a wall of disdain and disgust, wishing for no single potentiation of survival to be extended to the "other".
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+Most people are not farmers and do not have the means to produce their own food. Mandating the administration of a medical treatment under even just the threat of loss of employment threatens someone with their very survival, the erosion of the health of themselves and their loved ones, the prospect of starvation and loss of productivity, and the inhibition of the development of their children. Imposing loss of access to resources and the facilities of society creates a class system and imposes hierarchical structural force on other human beings, which is in line with the projections about an oppressive world that the advocates of such a process are constantly proclaiming. It is clear that the messaging and policies intended to quell "vaccine hesitancy" are promoting and encouraging loss of health, vitality, years lived and death in those who do not agree with whatever is demanded of them, and to think that this isn't a form of force or coercion is dishonest, hateful and psychopathic.
 
 #### Disgust
-- Cleanliness / disgust sensitivty
+- Cleanliness / disgust sensitivity
 - Normally Far-right
   - Only unsensible persons woul put others at risk
   - Aversion to entropy and the unknown