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Covid rocked this world. For so many
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people on earth, life was just going
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along as usual. And then suddenly there
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was this crisis. Suddenly life changed.
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Suddenly there were lockdowns and mask
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mandates and travel was restricted and
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blocked and businesses and employees and
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employers struggle to change policy and
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many businesses collapsed and social
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distancing was imposed and people were
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separated and isolated and there were
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interpersonal conflicts all over the
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place. There were vaccine mandates.
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People were put through experiences
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where they felt they had no choice when
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it came to their own bodies. People were
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dying. There was censorship going on.
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People were flooded, and I mean flooded,
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with conflicting information. And this
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list just goes on and on and on. The
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human world slipped into extreme
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distress. People were consumed by
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uncertainty, confusion, fear, and
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loneliness as they lost a sense of
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control over their life experience.
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Boy, I'm glad we're over all of that,
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right? I mean, it's been 5 years after
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all. Life's pretty much gotten back to
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normal, hasn't
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it? Well, the answer is no. In fact,
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this is one of the biggest gaslights
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that is happening in human society the
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world over. Society and human experience
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with it is not back to normal after co.
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So, allow me to ungast you.
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We're going to do this point by point.
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One, there is no afterco. Unless a
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person is warned about the possibility
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of something bad happening, they become
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aware of that possibility by
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experiencing it firsthand. For example,
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unless you're warned about sharks being
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in the water. You become aware of the
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possibility of shark attack by seeing
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one or experiencing one yourself. From
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that day forward, you know that it's
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possible. And so, you're living with a
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negative potential. This makes swimming
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a very different experience and a worse
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one. For almost everyone, what happened
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in COVID times was not something that
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they could have ever imagined to be
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possible. It never crossed their minds.
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But now that everyone has experienced
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it, everyone knows it can happen. And so
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the fear of it or anything like it
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happening again is something that people
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are living with. Now you can consider
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this the foundation of a collective
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societal case of PTSD. This makes living
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in the world a very different
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experience. And yes, a worse one. Two,
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there was something happening underneath
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this COVID crisis. That something was a
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massive power grab. COVID was used as a
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tool and politicized as fear so often is
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in a power game that has been going on,
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but that most people didn't actually
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perceive until co. You can think of this
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power game like a massive, unfortunately
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very real game of risk. The world has
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fallen under the control of select
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individuals and the corporations they
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control who are obsessed with power and
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who do not actually have the best
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interests of others such as the people
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of the world in their mind or in their
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hearts. This has created a kind of
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modern power struggle that we only
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believed to be in the past. And they are
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playing a very strategic and very
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dangerous game with each other and with
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citizen life. It is as confusing a game
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that they're playing as the power games
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that go on in any royal court. These
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games include both covert and overt
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tactics. And part of this game is that
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you are being told that everything is
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back to normal and everything is moving
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forwards towards more freedom, towards
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new innovation, towards technology
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that's going to totally revolutionize
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the world, etc. that the horrors of the
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past, things like whole groups of people
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being targeted for hate and things like
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dictatorships and things like wars are
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something that all of us have learned
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from. And so they're a thing of the
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past. But I'm sorry to break it to you.
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We didn't actually learn much from them.
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The reality is that we are headed
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towards repeating history and towards
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recreating the nightmares that we
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thought could only happen in the past.
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Most people can feel this reality. They
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can feel this power game that's being
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played over their heads. Um they can
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feel that things are not okay at all.
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It's a bit like perceiving a covert war.
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They're feeling this danger everywhere.
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They have simply succumbed to normaly
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bias which is a real thing in today's
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world. And it doesn't matter whether
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COVID is not the current thing being
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used in this game anymore. This power
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struggle is not only still going on. In
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fact, it is heating up. We are in a time
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where uncertainty as to what this world
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is going to look like politically in the
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future is at an absolute all-time high.
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So the world doesn't feel good again.
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Three, it doesn't matter whether you
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were a supporter of government control
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during the crisis or whether you were
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not. Either way, it is undeniable that
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during the COVID crisis, much of the
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world got its very first taste of what
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government control can look and feel
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like. What people found out very fast is
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that the government along with any other
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authorities can simply decide something
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which you're at the mercy of regardless
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of whether you think it's in your best
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interests or not. So many people felt
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what it feels like for an authority such
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as a government to play a zero someum
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game against them. This made people feel
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like control and freedom and having a
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say is in fact an illusion. Even the
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people who think their government should
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have been stricter so as to keep people
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safe felt negatively at the mercy of
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their government. And so what's happened
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is a big divide between the people and
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authority figures, especially a divide
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between the people and their
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governments. This divide cannot be
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overstated. During COVID times, the
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collective lost trust for authorities
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and lost trust in the government. The
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tension and distress of living under a
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government that you don't trust and feel
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can be against your best
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interests instead of for your best
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interests. causes serious distress for a
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person to live with. Four, COVID caused
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people to slip into perceived
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powerlessness, a state where people feel
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they don't have any control over their
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life experience, most especially bad
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things happening to them. And this has
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caused both fear and a kind of apathy in
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many people. Many people feel like there
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isn't really a point to putting a lot of
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effort into trying to attain what they
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want or to build things up in their life
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if it can all just go away in a moment
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without a fight. This perceived
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powerlessness has happened for many
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reasons. One of these reasons is that
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people were blindsided by the whole
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thing. Another reason is that many
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people felt like they had absolutely no
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control over a microscopic organism
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harming or killing them. Another reason
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is that many of the control measures
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that the governments took and forced
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businesses and individuals to take as
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well as these many painful consequences
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that came from that. It's a very painful
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state of being to live like you have no
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control over the life you are living.
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Five, people lost their trust. So many
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people in the world now have no trust
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for anything. I've already explained how
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CO caused a loss of trust for the
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government. But that isn't the only
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thing that they lost trust in. CO caused
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people to lose their trust in the media,
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in doctors, in businesses, in schools,
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in friends, in family, in neighbors, in
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their own bodies, and in the universe,
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andor what people call God. Right? The
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COVID crisis was a crisis of feeling
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like you could not rely on anything to
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act in your best interests. that trust
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never came back. The result is that
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humanity right now is in a very deep
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state of distrust. Six, because of all
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of these points I've mentioned
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previously, co caused humanity to slip
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into more extreme protector
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personalities. We all have these aspects
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of ourselves. You could call them sides
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to your personality or parts of your
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personality that are in charge of
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keeping us safe. We adapt to specific
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unsafeties in our life by developing
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these aspects of ourselves. But our
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protective personalities are out for one
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thing, our own safety and our own best
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interests. Because of this and because
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of the way they tend to show up in the
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world, they create more unsafety for
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other people. This brings about a kind
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of spiral whereby one person's
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protective personality causes the
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protector personality of another person
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to come up and flare up when a big
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unsafety happens like the COVID crisis.
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And this process is amplified big time
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and pretty soon we are living in a
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deeply inflamed world where everyone is
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trying to protect themselves from
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everything and everyone else. Since co
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people are really and I mean really
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stuck in their protector personas and
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the world has become a much harsher,
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colder, more painful and more
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narcissistic place to be because of it.
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Seven, co caused people to slip deep
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into uncertainty. Uncertainty is a
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really painful thing for the human
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psyche. Not just the psyche, the whole
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human system. The crisis itself came
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with so much uncertainty. Not knowing
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what was right or wrong to do. Not
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knowing if you had the correct
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information. Not knowing how long
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lockdowns are going to last. Not knowing
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if people would be okay or not or live
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or die. Not knowing how things would
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turn out. Not knowing if you would see
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people that you were separated from ever
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again. Not knowing if you had job
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security. Not knowing if there would
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ever be an end to the crisis. Not
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knowing if life would ever return to
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normal or would never return to normal
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again. The COVID crisis made tomorrow
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totally uncertain. This has made it so
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that people feel no control over the
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future and as if they cannot plan for
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the future. And now that humanity has
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had an experience like this, what it's
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taught humanity is that they can always
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be blindsided by something bad. This
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makes the future feel very uncertain for
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everyone who's living today. and in a
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really bad way. People are deep in the
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angst of this uncertainty. Very few
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people feel certain that the future will
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be good. Living with this kind of
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uncertainty and even for many people
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quite frankly doom about the future is
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tormenting. People in today's world are
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coping with this
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psychological/eotional pain in lots of
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detrimental ways as well. Eight major
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effects to the economy. Now, this is
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something that's not often talked about.
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People don't realize just how much of a
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bomb COVID was to the economy. It's been
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largely devastating to global economics.
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There has been recession, unemployment,
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and inflation. Some people's financial
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lives, especially if they worked in an
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industry that was directly affected by
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COVID measures, were completely
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destroyed. Economic recovery, much less
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economic growth, is in fact proving very
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difficult to attain. Nine. CO really
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warped people's sense of time. During
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the crisis itself, people experienced it
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like people often experience a trauma.
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as one big blur. This was compounded by
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the fact that many of the things that
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cause a person to be able to track and
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relate to time, things like routines or
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changes or clocking into and out of a
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job or celebrating holidays were
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suddenly just gone. This was compounded
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by how surreal everything felt to people
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as life as they knew it suddenly
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changed. A surrealness that quite
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frankly is not totally gone. Co
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disoriented people. It messed with every
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different way that a human being relates
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to time. And warping of time means
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trouble with memory as well. And people
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are still experiencing this. 10. Co did
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not bring people closer. It ruptured
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human connection and relationships.
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Human beings are a relationally
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dependent species. Humans have
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dependency needs. If you want to learn
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more about this, you can watch my video
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that's titled dependency needs. The
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thing that no one will accept that they
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have. The COVID crisis absolutely wre
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havoc to people because of this. From
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all the interpersonal conflict it caused
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to loss of relationships altogether to
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social separation to quarantine to
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social distancing to fearing proximity
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with one another. It made people deeply
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lonely. It made people feel detached and
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disconnected. It made people fear each
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other. It decreased social support. It
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affected the way that people enter into
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relationships with each other. It has
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negatively affected the way that
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children have developed socially. It has
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normalized people to interacting via
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technology rather than in person. Co was
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socially traumatizing. There's no way
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around that. It made relationships worse
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and it made people worse at
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relationships and people now have to
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integrate and heal from all of that
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trauma. We need to find a way to
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essentially come back together. And
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because of all of this trauma, people
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are in a far worse state of mental
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health. Right now, it's still the case.
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You see increased rates of anxiety,
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depression, stress, PTSD, suicidality,
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and other forms of emotional distress in
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the world today. Co also worsened
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equality by decreasing the many divides
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that existed in terms of gender, in
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terms of labor market, health care
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access, economics, and race.
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This also decreases people's sense of
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being mentally and emotionally okay in
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the world. 11. In this same vein, co
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contributed to a big push back on
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globalization. In essence, it created a
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conscious and very unconscious swing
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towards nationalism. It has caused
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countries, both governments and citizens
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to go in the direction of erecting
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barriers and separations between
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themselves and others. Things like
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multilateralism, exchange of trade
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goods, travel, exchange of ideas between
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people, and immigration are under a
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progressive crackdown. And this is
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changing the human experience on Earth
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in many really negative ways. As with
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anything, in a world of contrast where
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positives come from negatives and
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negatives come from positives, there are
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positives that have generated from the
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COVID crisis. This could be its own
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separate discussion. And some
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individuals experienced positive changes
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in their life as well during CO. But if
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you're feeling like things went south in
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2020 and haven't gotten back to normal,
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stop wondering if you're crazy. You
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aren't crazy. You're just living in
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today's major
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gaslight. Have a good week.
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