Patents
Prove COVID Fraud
and
Illegal Dealings
Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola Fact Checked
October 17, 2021
STORY AT-A-GLANCE
· In the early 2000s, David
Martin, Ph.D., founder of M-CAM International, started finding large numbers of
patents that violate biological and chemical weapons laws
· In 1999, Dr. Anthony Fauci
funded research to create “an infectious replication-defective recombinant
coronavirus.” In 2002, Ralph Baric, Ph.D. and colleagues at the University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill, filed a patent on recombinant coronavirus, and
within a year, we got the world’s first SARS outbreak
· Since 1999, at least 4,000
patents involving coronavirus have been filed, including patents detailing key
features of the so-called “novel” SARS-CoV-2 virus
· The 2001 anthrax attack,
which came out of medical and defense research, led to the passage of the PREP
Act, which removed liability for manufacturers of emergency medical
countermeasures
· The funds for entitlement
programs and pensions will dry up by 2028, at which point the drug industry
will go bankrupt as well. With a burgeoning population that is sick from the
COVID jabs, we need to prepare new systems to care for each other
In this
interview, we continue our coverage of the COVID “plandemic” by speaking to
David Martin, Ph.D., who has done a phenomenal job uncovering the paper trail
behind the virus now known as SARS-CoV-2. As it turns out, this is not a novel
virus at all, as patents and government grants detailing key features of the
virus go back two decades.
Martin finished
his doctorate at the University of Virginia in 1995, after which he was hired
on to the medical school faculty in radiology and orthopedic surgery. In 2006,
he set up the first medical device clinical trials organization for the
University of Virginia — a company called IDEAmed — which conducted medical
device clinical trials for U.S. Food and Drug Administration submission. So, he
has an extensive background working with FDA clinical trials.
Monitoring Biological
Weapons Violations
In 1998, he
founded another company called M-CAM International, which is focused on finding
ways to bring intellectual property into conventional finance. M-CAM also
started auditing the U.S. patent system at the request of the U.S. Congress.
In the early
2000s, M-CAM worked with the Senate Banking Committee and was a contractor for
the United States Treasury to expose white collar criminal activity around
intellectual property and tax fraud. In doing that work, Martin also discovered
something else.
“Quite
alarmingly, we found an enormous number of patents [detailing] biological and
chemical weapon violations,” Martin says. “That was not something we
were looking for. I let people know this was not something we set out to find.
This is something that landed in our lap.
I developed a
technology a decade earlier called linguistic genomics, which is a means by
which you can look at unstructured text data and find the metaphoric meaning
inside of what is being communicated. As you can imagine, if people of ill
intent are trying to do something, they often hide what they're doing in plain
sight, but they use language that is not conventional.
So, when you
find a patent, for example, on a blast-resistant pathogen from a
rocket-propelled grenade — did you hear what I just said? ‘A blast-resistant
pathogen from a rocket-propelled grenade.’ Does that sound like it's a common
way to inoculate a population or does that sound like [a bioweapon]?
And so, finding
a number of bioweapons patents, we started taking into account some very
serious things. I published once a year the literal global phonebook of every
biological and chemical weapon violation that took place anywhere in the world.
[It tells you]
the who, the where, the who funded it, what their addresses are. It was … used
by U.S. law enforcement, intelligence communities and elsewhere around the
world to track things that were being done inappropriately. And, it was in 1999
[that] we started detecting that there seemed to be an alarming event around
coronavirus, which we're going to get into.”
Coronavirus Identified as a
Potential Vaccine Vector
As explained by
Martin, in 1999, the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
(NIAID), headed by Dr. Anthony Fauci, identified coronavirus as a possible
vaccine vector.
At the time,
the disclosed rationale was to try to come up with an HIV vaccine, and to that
end, Fauci, in 1999, funded research to create “an infectious
replication-defective recombinant coronavirus.”
In 2002, Ralph
Baric, Ph.D. and colleagues at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,
filed a patent on recombinant coronavirus, and within a year, we got the
world’s first SARS outbreak.
The Real Tony Fauci
For more
background on Fauci, be sure to read Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s book “The Real
Tony Fauci,” which details how Fauci’s promotion of AZT during the 1980s ended
up killing hundreds of thousands of people. And the pattern we’re seeing with
coronavirus is basically a repeat of previous behavior. Martin says:
“It’s important
to realize that at the time [in 1984 when Fauci became director of the NIAID]
we were transitioning from an STD environment in which syphilis and gonorrhea
and those types of STDs were the things that we were concerned about …
HIV became a
political and social hot potato because it was associated in many respects with
lifestyle branding, and as a result it became a political issue to essentially
identify a class of the population that could be the basis for research without
consideration.
The notion by
Fauci was that people with HIV had already made decisions that somehow entitled
them to less humanity. As a result, the clinical trials around developing both
management techniques as well as potential treatments … were done in a very
reckless fashion. Numerous people died in [those] clinical trials, and by the
way, still are …
He has been
obsessed about this HIV situation as a platform to, essentially, use humans
that he determines to be some form of sub-human for clinical trials. It is a
horrific blight on the United States’ medical establishment that we have been
willing to allow this to go on in the name of science, in the name of health
promotion, since 1984, without any significant disruption or check.”
The First SARS Outbreak
The first SARS
outbreak occurred in late 2002 going into 2003 in China. Curiously, before
Baric’s team invented and patented a recombinant infectious
replication-defective coronavirus, no one had ever heard of SARS.
“I'm not
drawing a causal relationship,” Martin says. “I'm making an observation that
humans and what we call coronavirus seem to have cohabitated this earth for
hundreds of thousands of years.
And then we
manipulate that [virus] in 1999. We start playing around with putting it into
different animals and different human cell line models, and then in 2003, we
have SARS. Like a lot of other things, it's an observation worth noting.
What makes the
observation more problematic, obviously, is this was happening during the
unfortunate results of the 2001 anthrax attack, which as you know came out of
federal labs …
[It] became
very clear that this was not [due to] a bad actor, per se. This was medical and
defense research gone bad that got into the public and people died. But the
real benefit, if you will, of the anthrax attack was the passage of the PREP
Act.”
Anthrax Attack Provided
Desired Liability Removal
Inside the PREP
Act we now have the carte blanche removal of liability for manufacturers of
medical countermeasures. As noted by Martin, the PREP Act has “made
pharmaceutical companies much more capable of instilling terror in the
population, coercing a population into taking an untested measure, and doing so
with absolute impunity.”
Curiously,
while Martin’s annual report on bioweapons patents was, with only a few
exceptions, appreciated and used by agencies around the world, when it comes to
the information he has amassed on coronavirus, not a single agency anywhere in
the world has been willing to address it.
“No one … seems
to be willing to look at the fact that beginning in 2016 we started seeing very
alarming language being used, which was ‘coronavirus poised for human
emergence.’ This was in patents, but also in scientific publications. And when
you start referring to a coronavirus allegedly poised for human emergence,
after the World Health Organization has declared SARS eradicated, there's
something desperately wrong with that picture.”
Racketeering and Organized
Crime
The biggest
alarm bell was published February 12, 2016, by EcoHealth Alliance president
Peter Daszak1 who,
according to Martin, has been “the money laundering agent” for gain-of-function
research coronaviruses after the U.S. implemented a moratorium on that kind of
research in 2014. Rather than close it down, this research was simply moved
over to China instead. In 2015, Daszak stated:2
"To
sustain the funding base beyond the crisis, we need to increase the public
understanding of the need for medical countermeasures, such as a pan influenza
or a pan coronavirus vaccine. A key driver is the media and the economics will
follow the hype. We need to use that hype to our advantage to get to the real
issues. Investors will respond if they see profit at the end of the
process."
That statement
was made by Daszak in 2015, and was published in the spring of 2016. The
statement “set off alarm bells very loudly within my organization,” Martin
says, “because when you have somebody who is promoting gain-of-function
research, and clearly blurring the line on what is even legal … saying we need
‘media to create the hype’ … and ‘investors will follow if they see profit’ …
that doesn't sound like public health.
To me, that sounds
like organized crime. That sounds like racketeering, and we need to raise this
issue.”
What the Coronavirus
Patents Show
In all, since
2002, some 4,000 patents have been filed on the genome, vaccines and detection
of coronavirus. According to Martin, this is alarming, “because you don't file
patents on something that you don't intend to commercialize.” Evidence of
intended commercialization can also be found by looking at the dates of certain
patents by certain companies.
April 28, 2003,
the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention filed a patent on the
genome of the SARS coronavirus. Five days later, Sequoia Pharmaceuticals
received a $935,000 grant and filed U.S. Patent 7151163 for a treatment for
that same virus. How can you file a patent for the treatment of a virus that
was only discovered five days earlier?
“That sounds
like an inside job,” Martin says. “Because you cannot have a pathogen
identified and a cure for it in five days, when all of the information was held
from the public, because when the CDC filed its patent on the genome of
coronavirus, it paid to keep that patent secret.
So, somebody
somewhere knows that this thing was going to turn out to be a moneymaker … The
proliferation of proprietary controls around SARS Coronavirus probably exceeds
at least by two or three times most other pathogens …
Dana Farber had
a monoclonal antibody patent system that came out of three NIH grants. Their
patent 7750123 on the monoclonal antibody for SARS-Cov treatment took place in
2003.”
So, while we’ve
been told that SARS-CoV-2 is something we’ve never seen before, there are 4,000
patents and patent applications that say otherwise. The same can be said for
the testing and the COVID shots. For example, Pfizer filed the first S1 spike
protein vaccine patent on coronavirus in 1990 — 30 years ago.
“Regardless of
what part of the story we look at, the patent record is full of thousands of
patents where commercial interests funded by NIAID and the National Institutes
of Health have been building the economic cabal around coronavirus. This is not
a new thing. It hasn't been a new thing.
And
regrettably, we're being told continuously that somehow or another there's
something novel about this experience, despite the fact that every single part
of what we are told is being detected with PCR … the injections, every single
one of those things has been known and isolated for over 30 years.”
How Did We Get Here?
How did we get
to a point where taxpayers are funding research on pathogens that are being
designed to sicken and kill us, only to drive profits into the drug industry
and all these various patent holders, which include the government itself?
In large part,
it goes back to the implementation of the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980, which allows
the beneficiaries of federal grants to file patents on work derived from
federally funded research. The idea was that the economy would benefit by allowing
scientists to be entrepreneurs first, rather than simply publishing their
research.
This piece of
legislation has undermined health care by bringing the patent office, the FDA
and CDC into an unholy trinity that serves and promotes private pharmaceutical
concerns. So, what we have now is an insidious funding loop. Martin explains:
“Corporations
and pharma lobby to get people elected. Once they're elected, the lobbyists
flow an enormous amount of money into the various NIH programs. In the case of
NIAID, since Fauci took over [in 1984], $191 billion have gone through his
fingers. Now, is that because he's successful?
No, as a matter
of fact, under his watch, allergies and infectious diseases have increased over
60 times. Yet somehow or another, he's still the director of a failed [agency]
that's gotten $191 billion to solve a problem that is getting worse every
single year.
If it was a
company, we would have fired him. The problem is, it's not a company. It’s a
money laundering agency. It moves public funds through the hands of a federal
agency into the research laboratories, which ultimately are going to conduct
research that is then licensed back to the benefactors, which are the
pharmaceutical companies that paid to get people into office in the first place.
So, this is a
revolving door problem, and the Bayh-Dole Act created an insidious incentive
that said that the only research that was going to be conducted was going to be
research that ultimately would flow back to the pharmaceutical industry and create
juggernauts, where the risk of R&D was taken by the public and the benefit
for that R&D was taken by the private. That's a horrible thing, and that is
exactly what Fauci has run.”
Why Did Fauci Pick Moderna
as Vaccine Frontrunner?
Martin also
points out that Fauci has also lied to Congress about the NIAID’s financial
interests in drugs. During this pandemic, Congress and the Congressional Budget
Office asked for an accounting of NIH-owned patents where they have potential
commercial interest in the drugs being produced. Fauci did not disclose any of
them. Instead he lied and said there are none.
“The evidence
is stacked a mile long,” Martin says. “Moderna stands alone as
the only recipient of NIAID funding that fails to comply with the law and fails
to disclose the federal government’s interest in their intellectual property.
Despite the
fact that everyone knew Moderna failed to disclose the federal government’s
interest in its research, Fauci picked Moderna to be the frontrunner for an
untested, commercially unsuccessful and entirely unproven mRNA vaccine
technology in the spring of 2020.
There was no
rational justification for that, and there would have been less rational
justification, given the fact that Moderna is on record as having violated the
federal law, the Bayh-Dole Act, 141 times at the time they were picked to be
the winner.
This is a known
fact, but it was overlooked entirely, and not a single law enforcement agent
anywhere in the United States has decided that having a criminal organization supply
a product sounds like a bad idea.”
Violations of Law
Everywhere
Since the
beginning of this pandemic, the number of rules, laws and regulations that have
been broken in the name of public health boggle the mind. Even laws that are
absolutely clear and in no way ambiguous are being broken. For example, under
Code of Federal Regulations Title 21, section 50, no one can be forced or
coerced into a clinical trial of an experimental medical product, even if it’s
a pandemic countermeasure.
“It's black and
white, and this clinical trial does not end until 2023 in the first best
instance. So, there is no such thing as an approved or even authorized use of a
[COVID ‘vaccine’] that can be compelled on the population,” Martin says.
And yet they’re
bribing, threatening and coercing people everywhere. The drug companies also
violated basic principles by eliminating all of the controls and giving the
test vaccine to everyone in the trials, leaving us nothing against which to
compare side effects. They also do not have an independent investigational
review board, or the statutorily required approval processes for the protocol.
The companies
themselves decided to modify their protocols midstream, which simply isn’t how
it’s done. Basically, we do not have an actual clinical trial on these COVID
shots, because so many of the basic principles of clinical medical research
were violated.
Collapsed Judicial System
Has Put Big Pharma in Charge
The federal
government is also violating the False Claims Act by telling you the COVID
shots are safe and effective, when the studies are still years from being
completed, and have been undermined in all the ways just mentioned.
“What we have
is a situation where the deaths are actually considered to be
acceptable,” Martin says. “I don't know what world you have
to come from to find that term even remotely speakable. I think the utterance
of that phrase is horrific … We are killing people willfully, and we are doing
it with impunity in the name of what we call a love affair with science.
The only
problem is we've desecrated science in the process because it turns out that
when I did randomized double-blind, placebo-controlled trials, you know what I
had to do? I had to keep the populations blinded. I had to keep it placebo-controlled
for the whole clinical trial. And the reason I had to do that is because that's
what the statute requires.
This entire
process has been willful acts of harm to humanity. And the only hope we have is
a very small note in the Department of Justice opinion that took place under
the Trump administration, which says that if this was based on felony acts,
then the entire emergency use authorization and all its benefits would
collapse.
In other words,
if we can show that a felony has occurred — racketeering, lying to Congress,
the public coercion … [and] in the Fauci dossier3 I outline dozens
of felony violations — [it] would bring this entire thing to its knees, because
the moment the PREP Act protection falls away from Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson
& Johnson, AstraZeneca and others, I can guarantee you [Fauci] will not be
promoting a vaccine.
If they are
liable for a single injury or death, they'll pull the plug on what they know to
be unsafe. That requires law enforcement to do its job. And somewhere there has
to be a prosecutor who's willing to do their job … Right now, I genuinely do
not think we have three tiers of government. I don't think there is a
Department of Justice.
The judiciary
is functionally gone … When we allow the judiciary to be an arm of the
executive [branch], then what happens is we've actually lost the three-tiered
structure of government. And, as a result, the system collapses. The judiciary
was the only thing that was explicitly independent. We don't allow judges to
get sponsorship in campaign finance. We don't allow judges to be elected.
We appoint
them, we go through an approval process. We do all sorts of things to try to
make sure the judiciary is independent. So, the only risk to the pharmaceutical
industry, the only risk to an executive out of control, was the judiciary.
By collapsing
the judicial system in the United States, we have effectively made the
government a servant of its benefactors — and that is the pharmaceutical
industry.”
How Will It End?
With what
appears to be a near-total collapse of the judicial system, it looks like we’re
on a straight path to global tyranny, with no routes of escape. Martin,
however, believes there may be a way out, but it will require action on behalf
of rational individuals blessed with foresight. He explains:
“You have to
have currency to buy off politicians. Back in 2008, when we had the global
financial crisis … we instituted a policy that [will] functionally
bankrupt our entitlement program (Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid) in
2028 [or 2033] …
The best math
we have is that the annuities and pension programs of the United States
functionally run out of their trust fund in 2028. What does that mean? Well,
one of the things that people overlook is there's an unholy alliance between
the insurance companies and what we call health care.
Insurance
companies are long-dated asset holders. These are the people who have to have
money today to cover issues in the future. That's what a long-dated asset
holder is. The problem is that the Federal Reserve and the European Central
Bank and other central banks have suppressed the value of the return on funds,
so the funds are running out of money faster than expected …
You know as
well as anybody else that for a politician to stand up and say, ‘I'm going to
abolish or significantly alter Social Security’ is the death knell to any
political aspiration. Tiny problem. But whether they say it or not, the trust
fund runs out of money in 2028.
Now, here comes
the kicker: So does the pharmaceutical industry because it turns out that the
money that's going into that system is actually paying for the drug dependency
of this country.
And if we go
all the way back to 1604 — to the establishment of the British East India
Company and the establishment of the Virginia Company — we'll realize that the
400-plus-year tradition that we have, where we have built nation states on the
back of the drug trade, is coming to its end.
The good news
for all of us is it's going to end around 2028, because we have a convergence
that they didn't figure out how to cover up. The convergence is that the people
with the money, the big pharmaceutical players, are the beneficiaries of a
system that is going to bankrupt itself by virtue of their actions.
This is the
brontosaurus that ate too much because it was the biggest dinosaur. And the
great news is they have the brain the size of a pea, just like the
brontosaurus. They are not smart. And the best thing we have going for us furry
humans is that we actually are nimble.
Now, does that
mean that we are not going to have an ounce of pain through the process?
Absolutely not. There is social disruption that we can't even imagine on the
horizon in 2026, 2027 and 2028, because 86 million people will lose what they
thought was going to be their retirement funds.
When we see
that number now go to 100 million people, and the 100 million people are sicker
because of what we've injected today … those people who are going to require
greater health care then are going to be faced with a bankrupt system incapable
of supporting their life and their livelihood. And that is the death knell of
this story.
The best news
about this is we have time if people of good conscience get together and say,
‘We're not going to let that apocalypse arrive because we have time to start
building communities that actually care for each other. We have time to start
building accountability structures.
We have time to
start doing things that bring our social fabric together so that when that
system collapses, we can come back to a rational view of what life and liberty
and the pursuit of happiness is’ because, until we can reclaim the sovereignty
of our health, we cannot celebrate the sovereignty of our life.”
What About the 2030 Agenda?
By now, you’ve
probably heard of the World Economic Forum’s Great Reset agenda, which includes
the transition to a Central Bank Digital Currency. With that, they can abolish
the dollar and “reset” the entire global economy that is now tottering on its
last leg. However, even here there may be kink in the plan that can save us.
“Like a good
[James] Bond villain, he's actually ignorant of history,” Martin says. The
reason Martin remains optimistic that the Great Reset doesn't have a chance at
all to succeed is because there’s no way the global public will embrace an
all-digital system that can be annihilated by an electromagnetic pulse or
electromagnetic disruption.
This year
alone, we’ve seen internet failures, power outages and digital finance hacks
that would leave people stranded without a single penny were they reliant on an
all-digital financial system.
“The digital
currency illusion is the most bizarre and pathetic Dr. Evil plan anybody's ever
concocted,” Martin says. “The fact of the matter is the digital
currency craze is one of those fantastical illusions that unfortunately has a
single-point failure.
We live in a
world where actors of both anarchist intent, and very, very laudable privateers
and pirates are more than happy to make sure that digital currency never sees
the light of day because they will, in fact, hack, crack and disrupt every
system out there.
And so, I look
at the whole Great Reset as great theater … But the entire illusion is being
run because they're out of ideas. And … when the incumbency is out of bad
ideas, they try desperately to force you into a behavior that you would not
otherwise accept. All you have to do is just say no. Just don't play along.”
The Financial Incentive for
Depopulation
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLe8eyESFq0&t=1s
Is it possible that the COVID jabs might cause premature death and be an intentional form of depopulation? Well, since we’re following the money, there’s certainly a financial incentive for such a scenario. As noted by Martin, if you’ve made financial promises to people who are closing in on retirement, the fewer there are of them the better.
“The financial
interest for depopulation is a thoroughly compelling argument,” Martin says. He
recently reviewed this argument in a lecture given at the Church of Glad
Tidings in Yuba City, which you can view above.
In short,
having people live long enough to tap into their Social Security benefits and
live to the full maturity of their life insurance policies is problematic with
respect to the financial collapse that is looming.
Based on these
financial realities — which certainly are not advertised or publicly discussed
— there’s clearly an economic incentive to shrink the population and get rid of
as many people as possible before 2028. Unfortunately, based on previous lipid
nanoparticle and mRNA trials, the chance of a mass casualty event is high.
“There is no
question … they jumped over animal trials for a very important reason,” Martin says. “We've
been told it was to save time, but it wasn't to save time.
It was to put
this particular pathogen into humanity, so that a lot of people suffer and
ultimately die of effects that we could have picked up if we had done it the
traditional way, which is seven to eight years of safety studies, before we
decide to put it in the arms of humans.
That's not what
we did. And if we look at the safety data from animal studies on mRNA, and on
the lipid nanoparticle, there is no question that there is going to be a fatality
increase because of this …
But the concern
I have, [which may be] more egregious [than] the death … is the malingering
morbidity, people who will require around the clock medical care is going to be
a drain that will infect our economy so deeply that we may not recover.
Because if we
have people who have to stay at home with children who are sick, if we have
people who have to care for elderly parents who are sick, if we have people who
are caring for a spouse or a family member who are sick, that means we do not
have the ability to enjoy life and liberty. And the fact is that I think we're
going to have a bigger morbidity than mortality event.”
Now, as if all
of that weren’t enough, Martin has also discovered CRISPR patents that describe
how they can “clip” the effects of mRNA/DNA-based vaccines from people. He
believes they may be building a pathogen set that is then introduced into the
population so that they can later introduce a more expensive technology that
can fix what was broken. This, unfortunately, could mean survival may be based
on your ability to pay.
Were There Excess Deaths
Due to COVID-19?
To backtrack
for a moment, while we’ve been told COVID-19 caused excess deaths in 2020, one
way to double-check that is to look at the number of life insurance policies
paid. And in 2020, there were actually fewer life insurance policies paid out
than normal, according to Martin.
“Whose numbers
are you going to believe? Are you going to believe the CDC who's trying to pump
and dump this terror campaign of people dying, and therefore you need to have
your mask on, you need to socially distance, you need to vaccinate?
Or are you going
to believe the numbers from the people who actually pay claims when real human
life ends? It turns out that if you look at the audited financial statements of
the world's largest life insurance companies, we can find no excess death
evidence. Is COVID so smart that it only kills the uninsured? Is that what
we're supposed to believe?”
Live Consciously, Aligned
With Health
In closing, I,
like Martin, believe we can survive this and keep our freedom. But we must act.
Individually, every single person needs to take actions that are in line with
pro-life and liberty morals and ethics. As suggested by Martin, spend your
money on certified organic foods and locally grown foods to help build a
healthier food system.
Spend time with friends and family and share information. Start building a sense of community again, in whatever way makes sense to you. When you make a purchasing decision, analyze whether you’re supporting the evil being perpetrated, or choking its money supply. We need to start building micro-economies that can later grow into alternative economies. We need to start building support structures for when the financial and health care systems break.
“The fact is we
are in a very unique moment in human history, and it probably is as close to
the story of Joseph in Egypt as you can get. You know the seven fat years and
then the seven skinny years? Well, guess what? We have a couple of fat years
left. You know what we should be doing?
We should be
investing in our networks of relationship. We should be investing in our
networks of community. We should be building those resilient fibers that hold
us together because we know that there is a famine coming. And we are in a
unique position right now to actually do something about it.
So, start with
yourself. Make sure that what you put into your body is aligned to your health.
Make sure that what you do with your body is aligned to your health. And then
as you do that, invite other people into living a life that in fact models that
behavior, so that we start building communities of consciousness. And as we
build those communities, we will start building currencies of consciousness ...
There are a
bunch of ways that we can solve these problems, and we can do it using the
market. We can do it using our consciousness, but we need our consciousness, we
need our community, and we need our currency to be organically aligned to
humanity again.”
How to Break the Propaganda
Cycle
Doing the
things mentioned above will also further another task at hand, which is to
break the propaganda cycle. The key, really, is to simply live your life as
healthily and joyously as possible, so that people around you can see there are
others out there who aren’t living in fear. Eventually,
they’ll start seeing they actually have a choice.
“Listen, propaganda cannot stand against the truth
of a life well lived,” Martin says. “It can never
stand against that truth. What we're trying to do is the wrong energy. We're
trying to confront irrationality with rationality. But what we need to be doing
is being persistent in showing up and living in a way that people look at it
and say, ‘I'll have what she's having.’
This is your ‘Harry Met Sally’ moment. This is that
restaurant scene. This is your moment to be a person who outlasts the half-life
of the propaganda reflex. And I've seen way too many people try to engage
energetically in the debate where they enter into conflict and it destroys
their well-being.
Don't be the miserable angry one. Be the one at the
table who is the one worth looking at and going, ‘I'll have what he's having.
I'll have what she's having.’ Live a life that is desirable, and you'll see
propaganda become emasculated instantaneously …
All the time while Gov. [Ralph] Northam here in
Virginia was telling us that we could not have gatherings, we continued our
workshops. We had our table full of 15, 20, 25 people, and our official policy
was that if you signed up for our workshop, for the time you were in our home
we adopted you as family, because the legal exemption in Virginia was that
family didn't count.
So, we adopted
everybody for the week. We had every kind of cousin, uncle, aunt, brother,
sister, child, granny. It was all family. We went through the entire shutdown
having a table full of fellowship. And you know what? Everybody in the
neighborhood said, ‘I'd love to have what they're having.’"