AlienView said:
"Almost all people are hypnotics. The proper authority saw to it that the proper belief should be induced, and the people believed properly."- Charles Fort
And all Human progress relies on not trusting the status quo thinking of the
society that used to burn people for heresy for expressing alternative narratives
for the so called science of the time. Society and what is corrupt in society relies
on what you call 'trust' - But I do trust every mobster, racketeer, corrupt and
myopic politicians to do whatever is necessary to distort the facts for his advantage
and the advantage of whatever conspiracy is to his or their advantage.
When Charles Fort said 'almost all people are hypnotics' he was using the phrase
to imply that people can be influenced, their judgement distorted by factors
beyond their perception - he was not necessarily referring to hypnosis per se.
And when you say "Hypnosis has its limits." Yes clinical hypnosis may have its
limits - But Human stupidity and gullibility does not. OR:
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein
To sum up my concern in all the status quo thinking that this current pandemic
has generated, and the attempt to label anyone, including me, a quack for only
pointing out alternative views on the situation, is more dangerous than the
craziest conspiracy nuts talking today.
To allow Western style democratic governments to be completely destroyed
by the status quo paranoia that tries to tell us all alternatives are dangerous
- That is the real danger, as that danger in many ways can be more dangerous
than the disease.
Again let the Master speak:
“Collective hallucination is another of the dismissal-labels by which conventionalists shirk thinking. Here is another illustration of the lack of standards, in phenomenal existence, by which to judge anything. One man's story, if not to the liking of conventionalists, is not accepted, because it is not supported; and then testimony by more than one is not accepted, if undesirable, because that is collective hallucination. In this kind of jurisprudence, there is no hope for any kind of testimony against the beliefs in which conventional scientists agree. Among their amusing disregards is that of overlooking that, quite as truly may their own agreements be collective delusions.”
― Charles Fort, The Fortean Collection: The Book of The Damned, New Lands, LO!, Wild Talents, The Outcast Manufacturers