A Total Eclipse of the Mind

Prior to 2020 and Justin Trudope’s fascist assault on the humans of this great nation, the only things Canada was ever known for were the atrocities committed during the Native Residential School system, the late, great, pussy-eating, crack-smoking Mayor of Toronto and our perpetual utility as a cheap and easy punchline for late nite Corporate Comedians on US network television where the mere mention of the word “Canada” is enough to ensure a gaggle of snortling and chortling from the captive studio audience, even amongst any Canadians who happen to be present as well. This is a country that during the video store days used to place the English language Canadian films in the Foreign Film section.

But the CoronaPanic finally put us on the map and Canada’s response to the situation cemented its legacy as one of the most tyrannical and cognitively deficient, corporate hijacked, so-called western democracies on Planet Earth. But what do you expect from a government where all 338 members of Parliament stood up en masse to applaud an actual Nazi in the House of Commons?

Finally, the world now understands something I've implicitly understood for decades: Canada is Clown World taken to Marcel Marceau levels of abstract art.

But here in the vast expanses of the province of Onterrible, not only did they place the unvaccinated under house arrest and turned children into public enemies, kept under lock and key and permitted to enter public spaces only if they were obediently muzzled at all times, the government even shut down the hiking trails.

That’s right. They even shut down the hiking trails!

And despite that every single one of the hysterical, over-reaching, anti-science measures inflicted on us by our failed public health authorities have since been exposed for the futile and self-destructive policies that they were, there’s been no official apologies, no accountabilities, no truth or reconciliation. It seems the dizzy denizens of Onterrible are happy to pretend the whole thing never happened, like it was all just a bad dream.

Well, I’m sorry Gibbles. But that will not suffice. Unless there’s to be a genuine reckoning, and a profound self-examination of what went so hideously wrong during the CoronaPanic, we’re effectively giving a blank cheque to this useless, archaic, medieval government to hit the lockdown button anytime they’re faced with a problem they don’t possess the collective intelligence to deal with (which pretty much includes just about any problem you can imagine).

Case in Point:

Earlier this year, we experienced a once in a lifetime miracle of nature in the Niagara Region, a total eclipse of the sun. Because Niagara was smack bang in the middle of the path of totality, the province was expecting a heavy influx of visitors, which given that Niagara is already home to one of the natural world’s most popular attractions is certainly nothing new for the region. Nevertheless, the Ontario government responded with the only response they know how to respond with: PANIC.

Incredulously, they declared a state of emergency, shut down the schools, kept the kids at home, forbid them from going anywhere near the windows and even more astonishingly, did what I didn’t believe they would ever consider doing again, they even shut down the hiking trails.

That’s correct. They even shut down the hiking trails.

But you know what’s most disturbing about all of this?

I was the only one who seemed to notice the ominous parallels. And I was the only one who seemed to complain about any of it.

CoronaPanic if anything was a social engineering project, that within just a handful of years, the government managed to condition the people of Onterrible to accept a level of authoritarian overreach that was previously unimaginable. Now they don’t even notice it.

It’s impressive stuff when you stop to contemplate the significance of the whole thing. Then again, stopping to contemplate the significance of the whole thing would involve a measure of actual thinking, something that is profoundly discouraged, if not borderline illegal, up here in the Great White North.

This excerpt was taken from Cinephobia Radio #035
THE VELVET BUZZSAW CHAPTER FOUR

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