“FREE YOUR MIND”

Aristotle believed that a majority of humans were in fact slaves by nature. If we include slavery of the mind, then surely Aristotle comes close to the truth. We are narrative driven. We form crowds. We learn rhyme and rhythm. Individual autonomy, creativity and freedom of thought can be swept away by the hypnotic forces of mass narrative, murmuration and totalitarianism.  

Perhaps the only true freedom is freedom of the mind. It should be cultivated. While freedom of thought may be a right, it cannot be taken for granted. It needs to be protected from those who seek authority and power over others. Healthy scepticism should be taught from an early age. 

Enlightenment Period 

The Enlightenment Period will come to be recognised as one of the great misnomers. Our misguided clutch at mechanistic rationalism. What we truly seek lies with empathy, intuition and resonance. None of which can be defined in the language of mathematics. 

Observations of Galileo Galilei on pendular motion ( 1582 ) led to an optimistic period of discovery gained by logic. Rationalism was born. Yet it would take more than three centuries beyond this to discover that Galileo was not quite right. A series of pendulums actually fall into lock step. They synchronise.  Theoretical models cannot capture natural phenomena fully – they leave an unexplained remainder that is the very essence of life. 

Isaac Newton recognised that his mechanistic rational deductions could explain only a very limited scope of reality.  Later, several Nobel Prize winners have reached similar conclusions. Niels Bohr understood that poetry gives a better grip on reality than logic. Max Planck said that all matter is grounded in a conscious and intelligent mind ( Geist ). Rene Thom suggests that great scientists do not necessarily have exceptional logic or cognitive capacity, but rather an extraordinary ability to empathise with their field of study. The  apprentice must learn the rules. But to master the art, one must transcend regulation.  This is described by Stephen Hough, renowned concert pianist; first, keyboard practice must be careful and deliberate. But to obtain a great performance, one must somehow “ let go “. Empathy, resonance and intuition are required.  

The only true freedom is freedom of the mind. 

Whether large scale societal events played out between many minds or a contest held within the individual, some suggest the battle lines are drawn between left and right sides of the brain; the verbal centric dogma of the left hemisphere, pitched against often neglected non-verbal right hemispheric awareness, empathy and sensitivity. 

A culture bogged down with a schoolyard stage of reason is vulnerable to bullies. Global elites who have amassed power and control mainstream media narrative, have irresistible temptation to exploit us and harvest wealth. A new feudalism awaits in modern technocratic form.   

Governments, corporates and media puppets, all collude to push mass narrative and pull the strings of the enslaved public mind. 

Centralism and global governance. 

If you have trusted the establishment, feel free to blush. Countless numbers have gone before. In World War I, thousands of compliant young men were shuffled towards death in the trenches by foppish Prime Minister Asquith and an indifferent British elite .  

But as modern centralism has brought a new order of magnitude to the vast global stage, we should reflect on a number of serious, fundamental flaws. 

1. Accountability. Corporate elites with globalist agendas are unaccountable to the public. They operate beyond the ballot box. Decisions should be as local as possible, with the individual Doctor-Patient consultation counted amongst them. Local responsibility should be encouraged.
2. Advance of Knowledge, Hypotheses and Open Debate. Scientific knowledge advances as hypotheses are tested and met with critique. Diversity of activity and experimentation is an ideal. Emphasis on consensus works contrary to this. Modelling and Impact Modelling are key examples of failure to test hypotheses in open reality, and the failures thereof can be quite profound. Centralist trademarks include cancellation, censorship of debate or dissent and the use of propaganda to present an absolute consensus. All work against advance in medical knowledge.
3. Economic growth is inextricably linked to knowledge growth through innovation. Drive towards consensus is a significant economic threat.
4. Private Life. Erosion of rights to privacy and the censorship of open debate as well as brutal physical intrusive actions by security forces have all increased in the last two decades. They were overt and widely televised in the brutality of individual members of the police force in Victoria, Australia. As an outlet for societal fears and anxiety, demands for hyper-strict governance from within the population itself have also increased ( woke culture ).
5. 5. Government control can be harmful to health. Healthy humans can only tolerate a certain amount of control. Beyond this, a hostage situation arises.  When government is plain wrong, a centralised consensus of ‘ expert opinion ‘is the last thing that we need. Alternative voices and debate are required and should be encouraged.
6. 6. Perhaps most troublesome of all, totalitarianism, mass narrative and crowd-thought are used by globalist elite to engine their political trajectory.

The COVID 19 pandemic global management fits into a series of desperate societal responses towards objects of fear – terrorism (9/11), viruses ( SARS, etc. ), climate change.   

But the centre piece strategy for global elite governance is for each ordinary individual to see themself and their freedoms as an enemy of the very planet itself.   

The First Global Revolution, a key document published in 1991 by the Club of Rome, a Rockefeller funded global think-tank, addresses the identification of enemies. Military-industrial complexes are considered dependent upon the concept of an enemy to be able to continue in perpetuity. Individual humans are identified in this document as the enemy. Individuals who together threaten en masse the future of the planet, a central tenant of Agenda 2030.    

Under the guise of ‘Limits to Growth’ ( 1971 ), ‘Our Common Future’  (1987 ), and later to become the ‘green agenda’, ‘build back better’, ‘build back beaver’ (Boris Johnson) and  ‘sustainable development’ , the controlled demolition of wealthy western nations was to take place. 

A vast, global and communitarian programme of centralism in which reality as we have known it would be available only to an elite few. The reality-privileged. As such, the mind of each individual could be shamed into complicity and into compliance with the mandates and the diktats of an elitist agenda in order to save the planet. 

Awaken to Loss of Trust in Authority 

Real puppet masters are unavailable for election. Several tiers below, the sham fiasco of democracy is played out. Trust in globalist authorities is a very limited scope of mindset, akin to entrapment inside a matrix.   

Conclusion 

Utopian pursuit of rational control over the universe destroys the essence of life.  

Uncertainty is inherent in the human condition and indeed risk is a precondition for creativity and individuality.   

Every schoolchild should be taught to welcome and applaud counter narrative, embrace scepticism and explore alternative views. Before graduation, they should be able to recognise the dangers of group-think, mass narrative, propaganda, mainstream media and censorship.  

Freedom is a responsibility. And it is not ours to relinquish. 

The globalist elites want us in a hypnotic state, latched on to mass narrative with the grip of fear.   

But there is room for optimism. People have already started to lose interest in the vacuous content of the mainstream media, and search for independent voices. 

Science at its best is open-mindedness and curiosity. The ultimate achievement of such is a surrender – a form of humility – the realisation that ultimate knowledge lies outside and beyond the human mind. 

The real volte-face that society must learn is to shun rhetoric and to turn towards truth.   

THE END 

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Peter Rhodes  MA  MD  PhD  FRCA  FICM  is a graduate and post-doctorate of the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, and former Consultant Specialist in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Australia.

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