Welcome to the podcast. My name is Douglas Wilson. This is episode 376, and I'm glad you decided to join us.

The thing I wanted to start off with this time is something that I've noticed and has been somewhat dismaying over the last couple of years, And I want to offer a suggestion as to why it's

happening. You can call this if you want to label it, anxiety storms and scapegoating.

Anxiety storms and scapegoating. Now, what happens when a large number of people start to congregate when,

you know, a town or a city forms or a population expands quickly either in a town or, let's say,

in a church, the congregation grows rapidly. One of the things that's going to happen is you

have to remember to treat individuals like they were water droplets. And when you get a certain

number of water droplets together in the sky, you have a cloud. And when you get a big cloud, you have a thunderhead.

And what happens, and this just routinely happens, when you have a large group of people

congregating in the sky together, you have a thunderhead. An electrical charge develops. Now, when an

electrical charge develops, that electricity has to go

somewhere. Something is going to happen. There's going to be a lightning bolt. There's going to be a

thunder clap. That is going to happen. The lightning bolt is going to hit something. Okay? The lightning bolt is going to hit something.

Now, this is sort of a standard phenomenon that attends human societies.

There are mass movements, panics, hysterias, that's sort of the most recent one. The most recent huge

anxiety storm was the pandemic, the COVID pandemic, where all of a sudden there was this huge,

you know, we'll call it anxiety lightning. You've got anxiety storms, anxiety lightning, anxiety thunder.

And you've got this enormous electrical charge that's built up in society.

And that charge has to go somewhere. So when someone challenged the prevailing orthodoxy, let's say by some moral outrage, for a moral outrage, let's say they proposed that we use ivermectin instead of getting the jab.

This person was not treated as though they were simply

mistaken. They were treated as a pariah. They were treated as someone who was being wicked.

The full force of society's censures came down on them. Let's see if we can wreck their lives. Okay.

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