What is compelling; what forces you to (or what forces force
you to) act, react or do nothing either as love or fear, either in the strength
to help and hope—or not….
Some years ago, I wrote a novel entitled In the Lessening;
dystopian, the plot centers around a tribe or village forging its
future after much has been lost in the lessening….
In some postings to follow, I will refer to the backstory of
this novel; a section in the book’s end that offers some detail of the events
and conditions prior to and in the lessening. Sure, another dystopian story, but in this
this, a positive profile of courage among what seems a powerless people
compared with the oppressive, subterranean system of Metropolis or
“Metro”.
Presently in reality, many are experiencing a compelling
cause to fear from COVID and all variety of information and data disseminated
to the international public.
What is to be made of COVID? Should I fear it or
more so those who are using this virus to condition nations to obey, conform
and comply—or else _____!
As to the effect and impact on the public, I have never
witnessed a more compelling cause than COVID; one that substantially supersedes
all previous “crisis” in terms of response, perceived and publicized risks, and
the exploitation of an event in the seizure of yet more political or state power.
Aids or HIV is an only example of a contagion (blood borne) that has (and
does) impact society much more than COVID, past and present given the
statistics, yet the response was no where near as dramatic or extensive.
Compulsion can be a subdued, a subtle force that
paradoxically produces what is thought “choice” rather than demands or orders,
working first to implant or instill fear(s)—not on reality but perception— and
then second, elicit or evoke that desired, a so-called “decision”, deceptively underwritten
with unction. This compulsion is like
“a cutter” that believes the pain and bleeding is more a relief and respite
than an act of self-mutilation or destruction. Others may see this act of
cutting and bleeding for the danger it poses while the cutter, a victim first of
delusions let alone deeds.
The nature of psychological
compulsion is such that those who act under constraint remains under the
impression that they are acting on their own initiative. The victim of
mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his
prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free. That he is not free
is apparent only to other people. His servitude is strictly objective.
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New
World
But then, who are the “other people” for as it seems,
much of the public is duped; socially-spaced, masked and cowered rather than
courageous—or at least comfortable enough not to give a care.
It is when the comfortable, or pleasure, passes that the
cutter or the conditioned may realize their delusions, deceived and
dying under compulsion.
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