MEDICAL and social history are replete with examples of misguided practice. In the 1780s, the Royal Humane Society installed resuscitation kits for drowned or near-dead persons, including bellows for smoke enemas, at various points along the River Thames. The stimulatory effects of a tobacco enema were considered as important as artificial respiration. While use of tobacco smoke enemas was widespread in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, it eventually faded with time.
What in our present will future generations look back upon with alarm, outrage and perhaps even a smile?
For certain, all such issues will have been mass narrative. The clues and indicators will be found in groupthink, crowd-thought and the murmuration of mass formation. The narratives that sweep individuals into the hypnotic mindlock of totalitarianism.
This process was famously described just after World War II by Shirley Jackson in her short story The Lottery, which presents the sinister totalitarian underside of a pastoral American village.
If you went to high school in the United States in the period of McCarthyism (1950 – 1954), you probably read The Lottery. A small community observe their traditional annual ‘lottery‘, intended to ensure a utopian harvest for all. Each year, the individual selected by the community as lottery winner is stoned to death by the rest of the village. Family members, even children, join with the ritual slaughter, for the greater good of the communal harvest.
Individuality is readily lost, surrendered to the totalitarianism of peer group, nation state or the globalist elite.
False mass medical narratives that ran throughout much of the twentieth century would include enforced bed rest after myocardial infarction, now recognised as profoundly detrimental to cardiac function, and the cartoon food pyramid behind decades of carbohydrate promotion and associated metabolic disorder. Countless individual lives have been lost because of such medical dogma. Accountability and apology are hard to find.
The coronary ‘stent‘ (Percutaneous Coronary Intervention, PCI) is a far more recent medical sport. This aims to expand a diseased artery in the heart with a tube or coronary stent. People with a severely narrowed coronary vessel may believe that to open this up with a stent will reduce angina, improve exercise capacity, decrease heart attack risk and even their chance of death. However, placebo-controlled studies have shown this is not the case in individuals with stable coronary artery disease.
The COURAGE trial showed no difference in rates of heart attack or death between patients who had PCI and those who did not. A meta-analysis has shown a similar result. The ORBITA trial studied people who were on medication for angina. They received either PCI or a sham procedure. There was no difference in exercise time or angina symptoms between the groups. The ISCHEMIA trial showed PCI did not decrease all-cause mortality in patients with coronary artery disease.
Bioweapon laboratories are active all over the globe at present, and occasionally they leak. The Covid-19 virus, akin to influenza, should have rapidly given way to relief. Instead, it gave way to one of the largest uncontrolled technocratic medical experiments in history, with ‘warp speed’ military-style mass rollout of novel, gene-based technology.
Two profoundly deceptive narratives, ‘safe and effective’ and ‘millions of lives saved’ were employed as propaganda. Independent analyst Edward Dowd has estimated up to between 8million and 15million gene-based vaccine-related deaths around the globe. Denis G. Rancourt, former Professor of Physics, University of Ottawa, has reached similar numbers with different methodologies. The matter casts doubt over any gene-based vaccine risk-benefit gain for most people.
Laughter will eventually break out over the dear lockdowns. Those wonderful days free from traffic and a sky without vapor trail. We will smile about the blue paper facemasks in the gutters and the militant individuals on horseback, lined up to enforce the latest regulation. We may even laugh about our children, once their spoken and written language skills have bounced back from the full insult of hidden facial expression, suspension of school and the robotic cyber chapter of their most formative years.
All such disasters have been totalitarian in nature – the hypnotic enchantment of groupthink and crowd-thought.
Another chuckle in one hundred years may prove to be the centralist World Health Organisation pandemic treaty. The current mindset is that Big Pharma is not yet big enough; that closer collaboration is required between key industry players and globalist orchestration.
Consensus management for any pandemic raises accountability as a key concern. The operations of a global elite are beyond reach of the ballot. Risks of censorship and suppression of polite dissent are real. Healthy scepticism is often ridiculed. Centralist trademarks have included cancellation and the use of propaganda to present absolutes. Trust in globalist authorities is a very limited scope of mindset, akin to entrapment inside a matrix.
In The Witchcraft of Salem Village, Shirley Jackson addressed a childhood audience on the famous witch trials of 1692 that unfolded in (now) Danvers, Massachusetts, when three girls were ‘diagnosed’ with bewitchment by a doctor and the elite in the community.
If Jackson were with us today, she may well have turned her pen toward more modern forms of groupthink, mindlock and crowd-thought; the hypnotic horror of totalitarianism that is an ever present under current within society.
Much of the future could be consensus-driven – centralist politics, global technology and artificial intelligence. Mass narratives may be set to increase. Some intellectual fun for each of us would be to reflect on the present from an imagined distant future. Generations from now, what will be best understood as the tobacco smoke enema of our present day.
Let us rather hope that ‘you do you, and I’ll do me’ will prevail as the conclusion. Live and let live is a wonderful reminder of human individuality, creativity and freedom. It could be our greatest defence against the embarrassments of the future that have not yet formed part of our past.
Peter Rhodes MA MD PhD FRCA FICM University of Cambridge, UK and Consultant Specialist in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Australia.
Adam Harmon MBBS FANZCA University of Queensland, Australia, and Consultant Specialist in Anaesthesia in Brisbane, Australia.
Photograph of tobacco smoke enema kit here.
