{"id":198799,"date":"2021-11-08T12:01:03","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T12:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=198799"},"modified":"2025-01-10T15:08:24","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T15:08:24","slug":"vaccinated-or-not-we-are-all-controlled-and-manipulated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2021\/11\/vaccinated-or-not-we-are-all-controlled-and-manipulated\/","title":{"rendered":"Vaccinated or Not, We Are ALL Controlled and Manipulated"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00a9 AFP \/ JOHN CAIRNS<\/p><\/div>\n

2 Nov 2021 – <\/em>Those who accept Covid vaccines and those who reject them think of each other as lambs willingly going to the slaughter. Perhaps both are right. But those who buy fake jab certificates are paying the butcher.<\/p>\n

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Greek media reported<\/a> last month that a scam allegedly involving thousands of anti-vaxxers and hundreds of doctors was revealed. Those who didn\u2019t want to get jabbed against Covid-19, but yet apparently wanted to avoid restrictions upon the unvaccinated, paid doctors a fee of about 400 euro to inoculate them with \u2018water\u2019.<\/p>\n

However, the doctors involved in the scheme would then reportedly outsmart them by replacing the \u2018fake\u2019 liquid with the real thing, and thus would actually inject them with the vaccine, unbeknownst to the anti-vaxxer. The doctors \u2013 corrupt and ethical at the same time \u2013 would still keep the bribe. And now for the final hilarious twist: the \u2018secretly\u2019 vaxxed anti-vaxxers would naturally get \u2013 and describe to others \u2013 the vaccine\u2019s side-effects, without, however, being able to explain how or why they would occur.<\/p>\n

Although I condemn the doctors participating in this scam, I cannot judge them too harshly. After all, when issuing documents confirming vaccination to anti-vaxxers, they didn\u2019t cheat: they really were vaccinated. In the end, the only people cheated were the ones who wanted to cheat and enjoy the benefits of vaccination without getting jabbed. So such people were cheated by means of truth itself: what they didn\u2019t know is that they really were what they pretended to be: vaccinated.<\/p>\n

Is, then, the problem that the doctors not only lied to their patients, but also pocketed the bribes? Even here, one can say that, if the doctors were not to take the bribes, their patients would suspect that they would not be really not-vaccinated. The true ethical concern resides in the fact that the patients were vaccinated against their explicit will \u2013 which, in this situation, I consider a rather minor misdemeanor, since the patients\u2019 intentions were to cheat and get Covid vaccination passes, which is why they were threats not just to themselves but also to others.<\/p>\n

Many of those who oppose vaccination argue that a vaccine mandate is not only an attack on our personal freedom of choice, but also a violent intrusion into my body comparable to a rape: when I get vaccinated, I am raped by the public, not only by a medical authority\u2026 As if our body is ever really just ours.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Also:<\/em><\/span> Slavoj \u017di\u017eek–Debating whether the Holocaust or colonialism was worse is obscene\u2026 both were unspeakable monstrosities<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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Recently, there was a case in Slovenia of a very old lady slowly dying in a hospital, unable to feed herself, kept alive by six or seven simultaneous infusions. When asked if she wanted to get vaccinated, she ferociously rejected it, saying that she didn\u2019t know what was in the vaccine and didn\u2019t want to have any foreign substances put into her body.<\/p>\n

But isn\u2019t this the situation we are all in: vaccinated or not, we are already controlled and manipulated in ways we are unaware of?<\/p>\n

What\u2019s really interesting about the Greece anecdote \u2013 whether it\u2019s true or not \u2013 is that it functions as an exemplum in Pierre Bayard\u2019s sense, rendering in a pure form rarely encountered in social reality the way we are controlled and manipulated. While we think we cheat the public authorities, our cheating is already included into the cycle of the self-reproduction of public authority. So we are in a way acting even worse than a lamb to the slaughter: we act like a lamb which is eagerly paying for its own slaughter.<\/p>\n

As Lacan put it, les non-dupes errent<\/em>: those who are not duped err most, like the members of the American white lower-class who were not duped by the liberal establishment but ended up voting for Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

One should also note how the logic of \u201clambs to the slaughter\u201d applies to both sides of the ongoing struggle. For Covid-sceptics, the lambs were the people who waited in line to get vaccinated, or, when the vaccines were difficult to get, even bribed the doctors to get vaccinated. For others, the lambs were the Covid-deniers who posed a threat to their own lives and the lives of other people by refusing to comply with the pandemic restrictions.<\/p>\n

One often hears that the anti-vaccination protests are not just a display of anti-scientific irrationality: they condense a series of other dissatisfactions, such as the feeling of vanishing control over our own lives, with the power of medical authorities and other corporations, etc., so we should enter in a dialogue with them, not just dismiss them with contempt.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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More:<\/em><\/span> Slavoj Zizek–The Taliban is the proof that our modernity is an unfinished project<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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The problem I see here is exactly the same as with anti-Semitism, which expresses a protest against financial exploitation and the like. Similarly, in the case of violence against women, men who abuse women often do so in order to vent their frustration at being humiliated in their social life. What, in all these cases, undermines such a \u201cbenevolent\u201d and \u201cunderstanding\u201d view is the surplus enjoyment generated by the behavior in question: brutalizing women obviously brings a perverted enjoyment. The same goes for anti-Semitic pogroms, and the anti-vaccination conspiracy theories also generate a perverse enjoyment of their own. So we should supplement Lacan\u2019s formula of psychoanalytic ethics \u2013 that \u201cthe only thing of which one can be guilty is of having given ground relative to one\u2019s desire\u201d \u2013 with: you are always guilty\/responsible for your enjoyment, even when that enjoyment is externally imposed on you.<\/p>\n

Therein resides the material power of ideology: it not only trains us to tolerate power, or even to actively participate in our own submission, but it also cheats on us by the very act of warning us against being cheated. It does not count on our trust in the public order and its values, but on our very distrust \u2013 its underlying message is: \u201cDon\u2019t trust those in power, you are manipulated, and here is the way you can avoid being duped!<\/em>\u201d Sometimes, naivety is our best weapon against deception.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Slavoj \u017di\u017eek<\/em>, a Slovenian cultural philosopher<\/em> and psychoanalyst, is senior researcher at the Institute for Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana, Global Distinguished Professor of German at New York University, and international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humaniti<\/em>es of the University of London.<\/em> He has also been a visiting professor at more than 10 universities around the world. \u017di\u017eek is the author of many books, including<\/em> Living in the End Times, First As Tragedy Then As Farce, The Fragile Absolute and <\/em>Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism? He lives in London.<\/em><\/p>\n

Go to Original – rt.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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