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by John Leake
December 07,
2022
from
PeterMcCulloughMD Website
Mephistopheles Flying Over Wittenberg,
by
Eugene Delacroix
Why our
ceaseless attempts
to explain what
is going on in the world
always seem to
fall short...
Over dinner tonight in Washington D.C., I fell into a discussion
with a little group of dissident doctors about what is going on in
the world, and we returned to the same questions we've been trying
to answer for the last three years.
For example,
why are safe old
drugs like
hydroxychloroquine and
ivermectin suppressed with
religious fanaticism...?
Among the true stories we
discussed was that of a chemistry professor who one day drew the
hydroxychloroquine molecule on the chalkboard.
A student reported
his "dangerous" action to school administrators, who sharply
rebuked him for it.
Another man beseeched
hospital doctors and administrators to give ivermectin to his
dying mother.
His request was
denied, but it prompted hospital security to search him every
day he visited to make sure he didn't try to smuggle ivermectin
to his mom.
Ivermectin - a
WHO
essential medication, once deemed a "wonder drug" for curing River
Blindness, whose discoverers were awarded the Nobel Prize in
Medicine - literally became anathema...
A pharmacist recently called a doctor three times in a row to make
sure the doctor was prescribing HCQ for rheumatoid arthritis,
and not for
COVID-19.
It's likely the
pharmacist was hoping one of his calls would go to voicemail so that
he would have a pretense for delaying the prescription.
Why such
extraordinary diligence and vigilance...?
Doesn't the pharmacist have
anything better to do...?
Following the
fanatical suppression of safe old FDA-approved drugs,
the novel, experimental
mRNA COVID-19 vaccines were forced on
humanity with even more fanatical zeal, becoming objects of quasi
religious reverence.
Anyone who has even
questioned their safety and efficacy has been relentlessly
persecuted.
How to explain this confusing state of affairs?
For almost three years we
have investigated a range of individual human and institutional
actors who seem to be playing a prominent role.
We often talk about
the huge pharmaceutical companies and their friends in international
foundations such as the
Gates and
Rockefeller.
They in turn seem to be
part of a greater hierarchy consisting of,
These institutions, in turn, are dependent
on the vast apparatus of debt financing that is the lifeblood of all
state leviathans.
At the same time, we have discussed the irrational and nonsensical
behavior we have observed on a mass scale among both state and
private actors.
While fear has played an obvious role, it alone
cannot explain the bizarre and malevolent drama we have seen.
Within the medical freedom movement, a controversy erupted a few
months ago between Dr. Peter Breggin and the psychologist
Matthias Desmet.
I greatly admire Dr.
Breggin and his work. I consider his book
COVID-19 and the Global
Predators - We Are the Prey a magisterial work of scholarship and
investigative reporting.
However, I also found Desmet's book,
The Psychology of
Totalitarianism, to contain many compelling observations and
persuasive arguments, which remind me of similar observations made
by the Swiss psychoanalyst, Carl Jung.
I doubt this controversy will ever be resolved because human
behavior cannot be measured and described in scientific terms.
Why people, individually
and in groups, behave as they do is usually a combination of
emotions and desires shaped by material circumstances, customs, and
habits.
Sometimes it's obvious
when masses of people are being influenced and
manipulated by
propaganda, but we are also capable of being irrational,
self-defeating, and destructive for no ascertainable reason.
Tonight in Washington - at the end of an evening of long discussion
- we returned to our respective hotel rooms, still unsure of just
what is going on and why...
Why is Senator
Ron
Johnson virtually alone in pursuing his inquiry...?
Why is Dr.
Peter
McCullough - a mild-mannered medical scholar who mostly reads
and cites peer-reviewed literature - the subject of an
orchestrated and relentless campaign to strip him of every
single position, credential, and certification he has attained
in his long career...?
Pondering such questions
in recent years has often reminded me of the character
Mephistopheles in Goethe's famous play,
Faust, who
introduces himself as follows:
Ich bin der Geist der
stets verneint!
Und das mit Recht;
denn alles was entsteht
Ist werth daß es zu
Grunde geht;
Drum besser wär's daß
nichts entstünde.
So ist denn alles was
ihr Sünde,
Zerstörung, kurz das
Böse nennt,
Mein eigentliches
Element.
In English:
I am the spirit that
constantly negates!
And rightly so; for
everything that comes into being,
Deserves to perish;
It would be better if
nothing came into being.
Everything that you
call sin,
Destruction, and
evil,
Is my true element.
The ever-seeking and
inquiring Faust does not recoil from Mephistopheles, but engages him
in conversation, clearly wanting to learn more about him, his
nature, and his motives.
It's notable that Goethe
was himself a natural scientist who was particularly interested in
optics and the color spectrum.
Both he and his
protagonist seemed to accept that there is no rational explanation
for what motivates Mephistopheles, the spirit that always negates,
whose true element is sin, destruction, and evil.
Mephistopheles seems to embody the strange fact that humans may
participate in
corrupt and destructive enterprises that don't really
make sense.
No particular motive such
as the desire for money or power can quite explain it.
After all,
what is the
gratification of acquiring money and exercising power for old
men who already have tons of both and few years left to live...?
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