Personal sovereignty is being in control of ourselves - our bodies, our minds, and our emotions.
Since plenty of scholars with expertise in law and health are chiming in on the implications of the WHO proposals to expand its authority so as to declare public health emergencies and use its power to dictate public policy and medical treatment on a global scale that would strip sovereignty from nations and bodily autonomy from individuals in an authoritarian/totalitarian power grab, I won’t go into that detail.1
However, I would like to weigh in on the narcissistic profile using a historical metaphor.
HISTORY:
Centuries ago, the Catholic Church insisted that only the clergy should read and interpret the Bible - that the common man was incapable of making correct interpretations of the Bible without the Church’s authoritative input. Frankly, the Catholic Church still discourages its congregation from reading the Bible, emphasizing accepting its teachings from the pulpit and Papal Decree as the Word of God. Moreover, the Catholic Church traditionally has used the carrot and the stick to gain acceptance by promising eternal happiness free from suffering for those who obey and threatening everlasting agony in the fires of hell for those who do not toe the line.
The nobility was closely allied with the Church in feudal times, and that partnership was very beneficial to both. The church-nobility partnership is reminiscent of today’s “public-private” partnerships between government and industry.
The Gutenberg printing press and Martin Luther changed that world.2 And as people became more educated and achieved a degree of financial independence that wasn’t tied to landowners and share-cropping, they began to feel more in control of their own lives. It may have been more illusionary than actual, but the perception was empowering. It was empowerment and belief in personal and bodily autonomy that resulted in the abolition of Jim Crow in America and Apartheid in South Africa.
Personal autonomy and bodily autonomy are sovereignty on an individual level.
SOVEREIGNTY: Complete independence and self-government.
TODAY:
Social Media giants and the WHO are rolling back the clock. Through the collusion of public-private partnerships involving governments across the world and large industry cartels, Facebook and its ilk are committing perspecticide3; they are invalidating fact and opinion that is counter to the sanctioned narrative by delivering “fact checks” that are nothing more than narcissistic word salad4.
The hoi-poi are again being told that it is incapable of understanding or correctly interpreting documents. We are being told we must accept the Word of Power. And the new carrot and the stick are stickers and prizes for those who vaccinate and shunning and loss of jobs for those who do not comply. The public health messaging is akin to modern feudalism as it pressures people to relinquish their personal and bodily autonomy to the power structure.
Cajoling and coercion are not consistent with medical consent.
We can call it propaganda, authoritarianism, totalitarianism, or whatever else seems to fit. However, at its most basic level, when any individual or power structure strips, or attempts to strip, people of their individual human rights to make up their own minds, own their own emotions, and chose their own actions, then that is slavery.
Narcissists and psychopaths ultimately want nothing less than to exert total control over their targets. Compliance with their demands is what feeds their false-self, their fragile ego which is an immature, egocentric, superhero construct of perfection - a grandiose identity. Sadly, enough is never enough for these antagonistic personalities. They will destroy everyone, everything and even themselves in service to their fever dreams of omnipotence. 5
Medical Consent: “In no case should a collective community agreement or the consent of a community leader or other authority substitute for an individual’s informed consent.” - UNESCO documents on Medical Consent in Bioethics and Human Rights, Article 6, Section 3 (2005)
We are each entitled to read what we want to read, as it was published without filtering or edits, whether it is a work of literature or scientific studies. Similarly, with exceptions or redactions to protect national security, we are entitled to see government documents relevant to decision-making. We are each entitled to live a life of human dignity, with the freedom to partake fully in the economy and social life of our communities without a caste system that includes discriminatory restrictions. We are each entitled to chose our medical treatments based on unfiltered information regarding any and all options that include honest communications and risk assessments with honest and non-coercive input from our doctors.
We are all entitled to live our lives freely in a world that is not dominated by tyrants.
“When government and business agree, people suffer.” - Italian aphorism
"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.” - Benito Mussolini
Maggie Russo is the author of “Dance with the Devil: Love in the Age of Covid”
“What the WHO Is Actually Proposing” by Davi Bell. Brownstone Institute. March 3, 2023.
“Exclusive: WHO Proposals Could Strip Nations of Their Sovereignty, Create Worldwide Totalitarian State, Expert Warns” by Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D. Children’s Health Defense. January 13, 2023.
The German goldsmith, Johannes Gutenberg, invented a movable printing press around 1440. He began printing bibles which quickly put acquisition of those books within reach of the merchant class. Martin Luther printed his Ninety-Five Theses in Latin in 1517. They were translated to German in 1518. Thus began the Reformation that rejected papal authority. Ironically, some of Luther’s views may have fostered antisemitism, anti-Catholic sentiment, and the rise of the German Nazi party.
Perspecticide: The psychological tactics employed by an abuser that invalidates the victim’s perspective or worldview. By persistent repetition of messages that contradict the victim and/or reality, the abuser creates stress and confusion in the victim who becomes more uncertain of themselves and more acquiescent to their abuser. Perspecticide is a brainwashing technique. It is also a component of propaganda campaigns used in authoritarian societies. (Source: Dance with the Devil)
Word salad: Typically, word salad refers to utterly nonsensical chatter from someone who is mentally ill. Other times, the term is applied to illogical rhetoric or circular reasoning that is intended to confuse and manipulate another person; i.e., a type of gaslighting. Narcissistic word salad is a mix of rage, blame, and gaslighting that intimidates the target into submission. (Source: Dance with the Devil)
Narcissistic supply is the term used to describe the compliance that feeds the psychological need of these personalities to be in total control of others. Compliance not only bolsters the narcissist’s false-self image, but also their false world-view.
Speaking of freely available important information, did you see this yet, Maggie? https://c19early.org/ -- among other things, retrospectively shows ranked efficacies and risks of non-vaccine early treatments.
Thanks for sharing the parallels of today in former times in the centralization of truth by only an approved orthodoxy. We are living in the day where totalitarian thought of scientism has been mainstreamed. More and more aspects of today's organizations and viewpoints have adopted a single perspective viewpoint and differing opinions are not welcome. This occured at the same time that the fruit of 'democracy' ripens as the only approved form of government. Maggie, Eric John Phelps a writer/resercher has written the idea that the Jesuit order upon the death of Luther began in enact vengence to Luther and against the protestant reformation, to circulate diabolical distortions of Luther's theology and his writings concerning his viewpoints on the Jews.