Editorial: How Blind Obedience Turned You Into Their Pawn
- Editor Darren Birks
- Mar 7
- 2 min read
Editorial by Darren Birks
If you have to be persuaded, reminded, pressured, lied to, incentivised, coerced, bullied, shamed, guilt-tripped, threatened, or punished to gain your compliance, you can be absolutely certain that what is being pushed is not in your best interest. And yet, that is exactly what happened.
You were told that ‘they’ were ‘following the science,’ but if you had followed the science yourself, you would have seen that it simply wasn’t there. But if you had followed the money, that’s where you would have found the science. Instead, you trusted the government and billion-dollar corporations to have your best interests at heart. And that’s exactly what they were counting on.
The urge to save humanity is almost always a front for the urge to rule it. That is the government’s standard tactic—manufacturing fear, creating a series of crises designed to keep the population in a constant state of panic. You fell for the oldest trick in the book.
No one was found dead at home from Covid-19. Every single person who died did so in a hospital. That alone should have made you question what was really going on. But you didn’t. Instead, you ridiculed those who did ask questions, calling them conspiracy theorists because the truth was too uncomfortable to face.
The truth was always right in front of you, but you refused to see it—even when it was staring you in the face. You preferred to believe the comforting lie over the painful truth. Most people don’t want truth anyway; they just want constant reassurance that what they have been led to believe is true.
And so, in 2020, blind compliance was mistaken for heroism. People who slavishly followed orders framed themselves as the good guys. But their obedience was no different from saying, "Hey, I know where Anne Frank is—she’s up in the attic." Those people were just following the law of the land at the time too. Complying with evil is not heroic. Yet cowards twisted their own immoral, self-serving behavior into a badge of honour.
You always sided with the resistance in fiction. In The Hunger Games, you cheered for Katniss. In Star Wars, you stood with the Rebellion. In The Matrix, you admired Neo. In V for Vendetta, you supported V. But when the real-world version of these stories played out in front of you, you didn’t fight back. You complied. You obeyed. You silenced those who resisted.
Does that make you a hypocrite? Or just blind to the reality you were living in?
There was no pandemic, deal with it.
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