The Covidian Cult

One of the hallmarks of totalitarianism is mass conformity to a psychotic official narrative. Not a regular official narrative, like the “Cold War” or the “War on Terror” narratives. A totally delusional official narrative that has little or no connection to reality and that is contradicted by a preponderance of facts.

Nazism and Stalinism are the classic examples, but the phenomenon is better observed in cults and other sub-cultural societal groups. Numerous examples will spring to mind: the Manson family, Jim Jones’ People’s Temple, the Church of Scientology, Heavens Gate, etc., each with its own psychotic official narrative: Helter Skelter, Christian Communism, Xenu and the Galactic Confederacy, and so on.

Looking in from the dominant culture (or back through time in the case of the Nazis), the delusional nature of these official narratives is glaringly obvious to most rational people. What many people fail to understand is that to those who fall prey to them (whether individual cult members or entire totalitarian societies) such narratives do not register as psychotic. On the contrary, they feel entirely normal. Everything in their social “reality” reifies and reaffirms the narrative, and anything that challenges or contradicts it is perceived as an existential threat.

These narratives are invariably paranoid, portraying the cult as threatened or persecuted by an evil enemy or antagonistic force which only unquestioning conformity to the cult’s ideology can save its members from. It makes little difference whether this antagonist is mainstream culture, body thetans, counter-revolutionaries, Jews, or a virus. The point is not the identity of the enemy. The point is the atmosphere of paranoia and hysteria the official narrative generates, which keeps the cult members (or the society) compliant.

In addition to being paranoid, these narratives are often internally inconsistent, illogical, and … well, just completely ridiculous. This does not weaken them, as one might suspect. Actually, it increases their power, as it forces their adherents to attempt to reconcile their inconsistency and irrationality, and in many cases utter absurdity, in order to remain in good standing with the cult. Such reconciliation is of course impossible, and causes the cult members’ minds to short circuit and abandon any semblance of critical thinking, which is precisely what the cult leader wants.

Moreover, cult leaders will often radically change these narratives for no apparent reason, forcing their cult members to abruptly forswear (and often even denounce as “heresy”) the beliefs they had previously been forced to profess, and behave as if they had never believed them, which causes their minds to further short circuit, until they eventually give up even trying to think rationally, and just mindlessly parrot whatever nonsensical gibberish the cult leader fills their heads with.

Also, the cult leader’s nonsensical gibberish is not as nonsensical as it may seem at first. Most of us, upon encountering such gibberish, assume that the cult leader is trying to communicate, and that something is very wrong with his brain. The cult leader isn’t trying to communicate. He is trying to disorient and control the listener’s mind. Listen to Charlie Manson “rapping.” Not just to what he says, but how he says it. Note how he sprinkles bits of truth into his stream of free-associated nonsense, and his repetitive use of thought-terminating clichés, described by Robert J. Lifton as follows:

“The language of the totalist environment is characterized by the thought-terminating cliché. The most far-reaching and complex of human problems are compressed into brief, highly selective, definitive-sounding phrases, easily memorized and easily expressed. They become the start and finish of any ideological analysis.” — Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: : A Study of “Brainwashing” in China, 1961

If all this sounds familiar, good. Because the same techniques that most cult leaders use to control the minds of the members of their cults are used by totalitarian systems to control the minds of entire societies: Milieu Control, Loaded Language, Sacred Science, Demand for Purity, and other standard mind-control techniques. It can happen to pretty much any society, just as anyone can fall prey to a cult, given the right set of circumstances.

It is happening to most of our societies right now. An official narrative is being implemented. A totalitarian official narrative. A totally psychotic official narrative, no less delusional than that of the Nazis, or the Manson family, or any other cult.

Most people cannot see that it is happening, for the simple reason that it is happening to them. They are literally unable to recognize it. The human mind is extremely resilient and inventive when it is pushed past its limits. Ask anyone who has struggled with psychosis or has taken too much LSD. We do not recognize when we are going insane. When reality falls apart completely, the mind will create a delusional narrative, which appears just as “real” as our normal reality, because even a delusion is better than the stark raving terror of utter chaos.

This is what totalitarians and cult leaders count on, and exploit to implant their narratives in our minds, and why actual initiation rituals (as opposed to purely symbolic rituals) begin by attacking the subject’s mind with terror, pain, physical exhaustion, psychedelic drugs, or some other means of obliterating the subject’s perception of reality. Once that is achieved, and the subject’s mind starts desperately trying to construct a new narrative to make sense out of the cognitive chaos and psychological trauma it is undergoing, it is relatively easy to “guide” that process and implant whatever narrative you want, assuming you have done your homework.

And this is why so many people — people who are able to easily recognize totalitarianism in cults and foreign countries — cannot perceive the totalitarianism that is taking shape now, right in front of their faces (or, rather, right inside their minds). Nor can they perceive the delusional nature of the official “Covid-19” narrative, no more than those in Nazi Germany were able to perceive how completely delusional their official “master race” narrative was. Such people are neither ignorant nor stupid. They have been successfully initiated into a cult, which is essentially what totalitarianism is, albeit on a societal scale.

Their initiation into the Covidian Cult began in January, when the medical authorities and corporate media turned on The Fear with projections of hundreds of millions of deaths and fake photos of people dropping dead in the streets. The psychological conditioning has continued for months. The global masses have been subjected to a constant stream of propaganda, manufactured hysteria, wild speculation, conflicting directives, exaggerations, lies, and tawdry theatrical effects. Lockdowns. Emergency field hospitals and morgues. The singing-dancing NHS staff. Death trucks. Overflowing ICUs. Dead Covid babies. Manipulated statistics. Goon squads. Masks. And all the rest of it.

Eight months later, here we are. The Head of the Health Emergencies Program at the WHO has basically confirmed an IFR of 0.14%, approximately the same as the seasonal flu. And here are the latest survival rate estimates from the Center for Disease Control:

  • Age 0-19 … 99.997%
  • Age 20-49 … 99.98%
  • Age 50-69 … 99.5%
  • Age 70+ … 94.6%

The “science” argument is officially over. An increasing number of doctors and medical experts are breaking ranks and explaining how the current mass hysteria over “cases” (which now includes perfectly healthy people) is essentially meaningless propaganda, for example, in this segment on ARD, one of the big mainstream German TV channels.

And then there is the existence of Sweden, and other countries which are not playing ball with the official Covid-19 narrative, which makes a mockery of the ongoing hysteria.

I’m not going to go on debunking the narrative. The point is, the facts are all available. Not from “conspiracy theorist” websites. From mainstream outlets and medical experts. From the Center for Fucking Disease Control.

Which does not matter in the least, not to the members of the Covidian Cult. Facts do not matter to totalitarians and cult members. What matters is loyalty to the cult or the party.

Which means we have a serious problem, those of us to whom facts still matter, and who have been trying to use them to convince the Covidian cultists that they are wrong about the virus … for going on eight months at this point.

While it is crucial to continue reporting the facts and sharing them with as many people as possible — which is becoming increasingly difficult due to the censorship of alternative and social media — it is important to accept what we are up against. What we are up against is not a misunderstanding or a rational argument over scientific facts. It is a fanatical ideological movement. A global totalitarian movement … the first of its kind in human history.

It isn’t national totalitarianism, because we’re living in a global capitalist empire, which isn’t ruled by nation-states, but rather, by supranational entities and the global capitalist system itself. And thus, the cult/culture paradigm has been inverted. Instead of the cult existing as an island within the dominant culture, the cult has become the dominant culture, and those of us who have not joined the cult have become the isolated islands within it.

I wish I could be more optimistic, and maybe offer some sort of plan of action, but the only historical parallel I can think of is how Christianity “converted” the pagan world … which doesn’t really bode so well for us. While you’re sitting at home during the “second wave” lockdowns, you might want to brush up on that history.

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CJ Hopkins
October 13, 2020
Photo (original): Reuters/Athit Perawongmetha

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342 thoughts on “The Covidian Cult”

  2. It’s a pandemic, right? That means millions have been exposed who have not all died, therefore they had or now have natural immunity, so why would these need a vaccine?

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  3. I waited for this article for a while. It was about time to be clearly written and spread. Thanks so much. You nailed it.
    🙏🙏🙏❤❤❤

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  4. What has surprised me more than anything in this last 9 months, is that within my circle of friends, there are highly professional people, including 3 medical doctors, one a surgeon and 2 general practitioners, who have completely swallowed the narrative. The article brilliantly addresses as to why this would happen, but my dilemma of course, is that I could not forward it to their e-mails, as I know that ridicule would be the reply. How very sad. Conversely I have had conversations with blue collar folks, randomly over the same 9 months, and have been surprised at the wisdom and insight within this group. Thank you so much for such a beautifully constructed article CJ Hopkins. Whatever darkness there is in the world, there will always be beacons of light shining forth, such as yourself.

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    1. All of us who have basic common sense, logic, critical thinking skills, and basic intelligence to research and NOT blindly follow the ridiculousness of an obviously controlled mainstream are also beacons of light. This evil should have been noticed from day one, and it should definitely be clear now.
      …. Unfortunately, there are millions of people who lack basic critical thinking skills and logic to interpret the nonsense, and have been brainwashed beyond imagination by the strategic, relentless, 24 hours a day covid19 lie by the controlled mainstream media. That was the key ingredient of this evil, inhumane reset agenda— to scare the weak-minded, gullible masses into a child-like submission and compliance.

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    2. Yes! Even highly educated SCIENTISTS! It is so hard working with people you just can’t convince are being brainwashed.

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      1. Not only is it evil for people like Bill Gates, Klaus Schwab, and the other billionaires of the group to do this scam-demic on the world, but it is also a test of basic logic, common sense, and intelligence. Most people in the world have failed the test miserably by STILL believing in “the rogue new China virus”. And, yes, even highly educated people have proven to have little to no common sense, critical thinking skills, and basic intelligence.

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    3. @Larry I have seen the same trend and have an idea as to a reason how this could occur. The medical community has taken this virus very seriously from the start, and rightly so, especially when facts were still unknown. However, long before the facts were made clear about the virus, the medical community has been charmed via flattery with “Heroes Work Here” signs and similar-themed youtube videos. This is, of course, in addition to the constant mis-information. These gushing campaigns have played their part in stroking egos among the medical community. Medical staff have even been placed on a pandemic “front line” pedestal. Even though the facts about this virus are now clear, the truth nullifies their recently-discovered heroism. Our local medical leaders have been subliminally flattered into a prideful state of non-thought, becoming the local chapter leaders of the covidian cult. Blue collar folks have not had this flattery tactic used against them and have, perhaps a greater chance of seeing and accepting the truth and thus, releasing them from the mental/psychological bondage of the covidian cult.

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    4. larry, that’s a fascinating observation. the whole time the scamdemic was breaking i kept thinking, “yeah, trying telling some farmer who gets up every day, births calves, slaughters pigs, milks goats, spreads chicken manure on his gardens, harvests vegetables, and kisses holds his burping baby grandchildren every night about the dangers of a virus!”

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      1. Indeed: the Professional-Managerial Class have swallowed the Covid™ story hook,line, and sinker.
        Almost like they’re in on it; and my guess is that they are. Looking evermore like a war on the hoi polloi by the top 10-percenters, to me.

        “It’s difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it..”

        -Upton Sinclair, I think.

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        1. Adding: Not to mention the truly despicable Vichy/mole “left” doing the same.. disappointing, but not so surprising.

          What a time.

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        2. Now that is something to consider. All the ‘higher’ ups at my workplace swallowed this deep but a few of us bottom dwellers have our eyes wide open.

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          1. The sneering professional classes think they’re the greatest thing in the world. They’re actually the exact opposite. They have a deep instinct for conventionality as the only route to material success. They will go along with everything

            They are the ultimate minions

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  7. “the only historical parallel I can think of is how Christianity “converted” the pagan world … which doesn’t really bode so well for us.”

    It’s a shame Christianity has been infiltrated and subverted by those who call themselves Christians but have nothing to do with the actual teachings of Christ (2 Cor 11:13-15, Matt 7:15-23, Matt 7:21-23).

    “Then Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit to Galilee and news of Him went out through all the surrounding region. And He taught in their synagogues, being glorified by all. So He came to Nazareth where He had been brought up, and as His custom was, He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day and stood up to read. And He was handed the book of the prophet Isaiah. And when He opened the book, He found the place where it was written:

    ‘The Spirit of the LORD is upon Me,
    Because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor;
    He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,
    To proclaim liberty to the captives And recovery of sight to the blind,
    To set at liberty those who are oppressed;
    To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD.’

    Then He closed the book and gave it back to the attendant and sat down. And the eyes of all who were in the synagogue were fixed on Him. And He began to say to them, ‘Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.’ “ Jesus (Luke 4:14-21)

    “Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”
    Jesus (Matthew 11:28-30)

    “And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.”
    (Rev 21:4)

    “The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.” (Romans 16:20)

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  9. Your writing is excellent. Well timed, perfect use of trigger words and idioms, but completely insane. There’s nothing to even argue with here because your perception is, quite frankly, inside out and it would make no difference. Good luck.

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  11. I honestly thought I invented the term Covidians the other day. My bad, can we share it? I’m writing about similar things on my blog and have recently written about the cult of covid 19

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  18. There is another “phenomena” occurring right now that is EXACTLY the same, but has been running for 40 years now… Climate Change.

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    1. Indeed! Another doomsday cult to add to the list! Works on exactly the same principles – deniers not welcome!

      Funny how these cults are also tied to massive money making schemes – vaccines, renewables, evs etc.

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  36. Hi, why are you dodging to deliver a clear listing of prove and facts to assist your claims?
    You deliver nothing whatsoever.

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  37. In reference to the “covidian cult”: we are surrounded by a bunch of communists and the face mask is their flag. The US dollar
    has been debased with the printing of $, our economy has been ruined with “shut-downs” &
    quarantines…people are being paid not to work…it’s all about redistribution of wealth, destroying the US constitution,
    taking away our 2nd Ammendment Rights, and destroying Individual Rights for the collective…Another person
    commented about climate change…that too is what the Devil is hiding behind. Beware the New World Order, “the global reset”, One World Government, climate hoax, Agenda 21, & vaccines . The only thing that matters is liberty & freedom…
    Good thought provoking article…
    Thanks.

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  38. @Covid is the “big lie” sez:….You are exactly right. These billionaire devils are behind this lie, and they strategically took control of all worldwide mainstream media to shove this virus lie and reset agenda on the weak-minded, brain-dead world…………. You, me, and the other few sane people who know what is really going on are completely surrounded by the insane, mask-wearing, cvd19 cult idiots now. And we are completely censored from telling the truth on any major platform.

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    1. And the useful idiots that are wearing the masks are intoxicated with power and become tyrants if you are not wearing a mask or social distancing…The school system is
      Brainwashing the children and the teachers are not going back
      To work unless everyone gets vaccinated….government wants to restrict travel unless you get your “covid passport”…. Now it seems people are wearing masks
      As a fashion statement…To me, the whole thing started when Hong Kong protesters were wearing face masks and breaking facial recognition cameras…China then declared “face masks are illegal” to stop the protesters…Hong Kong said, “that’s unconstitutional”…China said, “fine, pandemic, quarantine” to stop the protesters…Then the haters here in the United States, not wanting to waste a good crisis, were able to pull of the pandemic “people are dying” hospital ICU will be full, we don’t have enough ventilator BS, and there are so many of them here, that we decided to be safe and “flatten the curve” and they were able to
      Push the invisible enemy scenario and we are in the mess we are in now…Not in my wildest imagination did I think they could pull this off…

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      1. Neither did I. But I also never thought the world had such a low level of basic intelligence, logic, and common sense. How can anyone with a tiny bit of intelligence believe any of this covid19 nonsense? Especially after a full year of blatant lies, fake reports, scripted false tv images, and zero evidence proving any of the statistics/data. ….And these satanic billionaires are counting their cvd19 scam tests/vaccine money, while rolling on the floor laughing at the world wearing dehumanizing masks and believing this hogwash.

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  41. My wife’s GP is also the head of the emergency department at one of the leading university hospitals in the U.S., and has dealt closely with many corona virus cases. During a recent appointment, she asked him his honest opinion of mask-wearing as a prophylactic measure against the virus. He answered that his official, public position as a spokesperson for the hospital was required to be pro-mask, but his real, scientific answer was that masks are useless. He also told her that the way testing is being conducted in most labs results in an enormous number of false positives.

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  42. Not a single doctor in the entire world can tell anyone exactly what cvd19 is or how it affects the body in any way differently and deadly with 100% factual visual photos and videos. Yet, unbelievably, everybody STILL believes there is a novel virus going around the entire planet infecting and killing millions of unknown, nameless people.
    The mind control/brainwashing is real!

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