Truth can be painful. And human beings are less driven by the pursuit of pleasure than by the avoidance of pain. Many Americans have yet to discover the truth of what happened to them and their country over the last three years, and I suspect I know why: They can’t handle the truth

For others, though, reality came swift and hard. They choose the easy route. They complied, followed orders, judiciously raised their fists in indignation whenever a curious mind challenged the logic of the “experts.” They wove a cocoon around themselves and their families and went into intellectual hibernation. Just as they refused to expose themselves to the natural environment, complying time and again with the injection of toxins with the promise of protection from a now-extinct Chinese respiratory virus, they guaranteed the weakening of their natural immune system and its inability to respond to ubiquitous pathogens. These Americans refused to face mental and emotional reality. They created a fantasy world where covering their faces with dirty cloth would keep them safe and never leaving their houses would prolong their lives. They chose to abuse their children by chaining them to a Zoom screen in the bedroom. They destroyed their friendships. They abandoned their parents. For three years, they rejected reality entirely, so much so that their minds lost the ability to engage with it.

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