Fred Ermlich
3 min readJun 18, 2020

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Look at all my fancy formatting on this one. Or not. I’m developing an attitude. I’m frustrated. But I’m still trying. For now. But no formatting this time.

Why am I the only person not wearing a face-mask? When I go for a walk, or to the store, I rarely see a single other person without a mask. What force has caused essentially the entire populace to voluntarily deface themselves? I actually know the answer, but stay with me. These masks of paper or cloth don’t protect you, and only protect others from globs of spit large enough to get “filtered.” Where did we get such rampant ignorance?

Like I said. I know the answer. It’s never been a secret, but now everything has advanced so close to our very end. They don’t even care if you now finally figure it out. They’ve won, we’ve lost.

The easiest answer to give is also pretty damn accurate. The people and entities that have made you too stupid to live are the ones who rely on oil and coal pumped or dug from the ground and turned into energy, plastics and power. We, the people, don’t even know whether it’s solar or oil or even nuclear power that enters our homes or businesses. We’d prefer solar “for the environment,” if we could get it.

But the power elite want us to not have solar. It’s not that they care about it, it’s that they want to keep us down — keep the people depressed. It’s a completely abusive relationship, just like “in real life.” It’s a matter of brainwashing, gaslighting, whatever you want to call it. The process started a couple hundred years ago. It did. Same families, many same companies/entities/countries (Russia). Ask Charlotte Iserbyt.

Is there any hope for humanity, for the planet, for 20 years from now? In the year 1995, I remember that other scientists and I (at PSU@PDX) were definitely warning people and publishing warnings that we were at the tipping point. That human population needed to level out or be reduced (birth control, good luck). The oil companies and the whole dark network of fat cats (and Russians) went into high-gear with disinformation, and my colleagues and I went nowhere. So no, no hope now.

From reading the inspirations of Deepak Chopra, I can see a faint, possibly possible path to survival. I don’t really think it’ll work, but I’m trying. I’d feel better if people stopped wearing the stupid face-masks. No harm done if they do as I suggest: statistically nobody will die from normal breathing. This is true. Covid-19 is not a deadly virus. It’s a wimp. This is true, and nobody tells you, the jerks. Proof? I found it at worldometers.info.

Now the one thing Chopra sort of skirts is the confrontation part. I mean, step one is to wake people up and help them find a vision of the future. I’ve been trying, and hold little hope. Then, considering that there are about 8 billion people we could draft into our “army,” we could name goals, targets, for massive disruptions. Like blowing up petroleum cracking towers, stuff like that. Killing and getting killed.

Sounds violent, eh? Hard to picture people who now sleep with stupid smartphones sharing their pillows turning into heroic warriors for humanity. I could maybe see those extinction rebellion crowds doing some good. I’m sure game, but so far my army is only me. It’s an amazingly piss-poor start.

I honestly think the bad guys have won. I hope they enjoy living in their luxury bunkers for the next 200 years. Won’t be any more lowly people out there for them to lord over. Just plastic bottles everywhere.

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Fred Ermlich

Living in rural Panamá — non-extractive, non-capitalistic. Expat USA. Scientist, writer, researcher, teacher. STEM mentor +languages. Gargoylplex@protonmail.com