Life Under Segregation
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Urban_Lily
 December 22 2021
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    It began with fear... then coercion and now we live with "soft" apartheid. Everything looks the same but nothing is really what it used to be.


    Over the weekend, I attended another freedom rally in my city. The crowd was a large one and there were many young families present. While I was queuing for some food later, I had an extended exchange with a father in his 70s and his adult daughter about the state of things related to Covid. It was a long wait and there was time to go down a few rabbit holes.I was impressed yet again by how well-informed this new fledgling community is. Again I questioned the effectiveness of these gestures of resistance afterwards but I, in part, like to think I'm doing something to draw the line somewhere. Do I have the courage of my convictions to make the effort? At the very least, I can't be party to the official narrative nor should I resign myself with an attitude of despair and passivity.


    The next day at church, someone mentioned that they had gone to the same rally and then later on made their way to restaurants nearby for a bite, two of which refused them entry because they didn't have the "right" documentation.


    Now that living under segregation has finally sunk in, I've only just begun to see with my own eyes how insidious it is. It isn't just the messaging and the deception. What's really hit home is how the powers-that-be deploy your community (or the people you thought were your community) to apply peer pressure to achieve conformity. First it's the conversations to make you feel your place as "the outsider". Then comes the gaslighting ("conspiracy theories", "misinformation", "we should just follow the experts"). Finally the threat of being ripped apart from one's nearest, dearest and immediate community can be enough to pressure someone into acting against their conscience. The entire process has undoubtedly subtle and incremental. It's come right out of the totalitarian playbook and it's evil.


    Whenever I think of how they've managed to split the Christian community over this, I am ashamed. We haven't learnt anything from history.


    I observed something similar while watching Terrence Malik's A Hidden Life (a 3 hour long biopic of Franz Jagerstatter, an Austrian Catholic farmer who became a conscientious objector during WW2). His entire village turned against him first before he ended up in Tegel Prison experiencing routine beatings by his Nazi captors. There's a startling scene in which the audience is positioned in Jagerstatter's point of view as he's receiving blows from the prison guards and witnessing first-hand the inhuman brutality being meted out. One recoils in horror as if one is the target of the attacks.


    Until recently I've generally believed in the efficacy of vaccines. I'm more highly vaccinated than most I imagine because I've made trips to remote areas in third world countries. These days, I'm much more sceptical about vaccines in general just because it's been shoved down our proverbial throats with impunity. As a result I've gone to places and read things I didn't used to. Robert F. Kennedy Jr's book, The Real Anthony Fauci started that ball rolling and since then I've seen information in various places casting doubt on the glorious history of vaccines as a medical miracle.


    Incompetence is no longer a sufficient explanation for what's going. It hasn't for a long time. When the levers of power are actively suppressing useful information and narrowly promoting a single therapeutic without concern for real human lives, this can't be chalked up to stupidity or mere mishandling. There has to be something far more sinister at work.




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