Comply or Else.

Our Compliance Culture is now endemic. (And it's literally killing us).

One reason so many citizens decide to go ahead and obey their superiors.

Yesterday, I cross-posted an article by physician Dr. Clayton J. Baker, who pointed out that many medical schools still require Covid vaccines and/or boosters. The author identified the real reason that probably explains this mandate:

“There is likely an underlying and utterly non-medical reason these mandates persist. A covert screening process, often used in large corporations’ Human Resources departments, appears to be taking place—this is an effort to weed out any and all individuals who do not passively comply with all regulations, however invasive or unnecessary they may be.”

This article made me realize how similar compliance or obedience tests are being administered in institutions throughout society.

In the vaccine example, the goal is not to protect the health of  medical students, who, after all, face zero risk of dying from Covid (but do face a greater risk of death if they are vaccinated). 

The vaccine mandate for medical students is an effort to ensure any doctor capable of independent thinking will not be allowed to practice medicine. It’s an effort to ensure the bureaucrats will control healthcare in the future and that this control will not be challenged by any contrarians or mavericks.

A medical student who understands he doesn’t need the Covid vaccine  is the type doctor many of us would prefer making life-and-death decisions about our own medical care. 

I know I’d prefer to put my life in the hands of a medical professional who has the integrity and courage to do what’s best for his or her patients, regardless of what the American Medical Association’s or CDC’s “guidance” or protocols say.

I’ve corresponded with brave doctors who make the same point - that doctors today are not being allowed to use their own judgment or critical-thinking abilities to make treatment decisions for their patients.

This means a genuine market for healthcare no longer exists. What we now have is a “trapped market.” If a market for health care still exists, this market includes only physicians and nurses who agree to comply and follow the guidance established from on high.

As Dr. Baker notes, this is a frightening development for patients, one that makes it more likely doctors willing to use their own judgement are much rarer in a profession that should save lives, but, now, increasingly, causes unnecessary deaths (by following deadly protocols issued from above).

In a world where only the CDC or AMA-approved protocols can be followed, doctors are dis-incentivized to try creative and innovative treatments; nor will they be as likely to compare notes with other independent-minded physicians. 

The end result is a clone, group-thinking health-care system where almost everyone follows the protocols of the health bureaucrats, which makes it far more likely any nefarious agendas these organizations have devised come to fruition.

Many doctors have already been sanctioned or threatened with sanctions because they went against the authorized treatment protocols with Covid. Some, like Dr. Meryl Nass, have had their licenses to practice medicine revoked by state boards.

Until I read this article, I hadn’t thought enough about how common this litmus test of compliance was in probably every key organization in the world.

The same dynamic applies in the field of education …

I know it’s also common in education, a profession replete with zealous and committed superintendents, principals and consultants seeking to implement radical reforms designed to kill all elements of a classical or traditional education.  

For reform crusaders,  it’s imperative that those who might not agree with these “reforms” - who are not as likely to automatically comply - be run-off. Conversely, those who do comply are typically rewarded.

From conversations with my school teacher wife,  I sense that many of the best, most creative and popular teachers in the country are being slowly, or rapidly, run off by similar and ascendant education reformers.

The best teachers are counting the days until they can qualify for retirement. This does not benefit students, who are now stuck with the teachers who are willing to comply with (my opinion) Wacko Education Ideas.

But the easiest way for woke superintendents to avoid the headache of contrarian teachers is to screen the would-be naysayers and independent thinkers before they’re ever hired.

I even see the same thing in the Sports World …

The world of sports provides another example that supports my view that today’s employers, perhaps above all else, are seeking employees who will comply and obey.

As long-time readers perhaps know, one of my pet peeves is that football games are too often decided by dubious penalties. It seems to me that referees who throw more flags, which determine the outcomes of far too many games, are rewarded by league officials.

I’ve even wondered if the Powers that Be might be trying to cultivate a world where one has to meekly submit to authority figures, that some kind of  subliminal conditioning exercise might be playing out here.

One way commissioners ensure a Compliance Culture is through the creation of by-laws that allow the League to fine any coach or player who criticizes an atrocious call.

For example, an NFL or NBA coach (or player) can vent about a terrible call in the post-game press conference, but if they do this, they’ll be fined $10,000 to $50,000 by the league officials.

Furthermore, coaches are unlikely to (publicly) complain about these fines because they know one condition of their lucrative employment contracts was they must refrain from criticizing their bosses and authority figures like referees.

In other words, if one wants to make the big bucks as a coach or pro athlete, he first agrees that he can’t criticize the bosses or the refs - which, as I think more about this topic, is the template in numerous organizations.

Steep fines for publicly criticizing a referee who cost his team a game is just another way the First Amendment is legally discarded.

It’s not hard to identify more examples …

In times of Covid, we saw other examples where sports Commissioners exerted their control when these leaders imposed five-figure fines on coaches or athletes who didn’t wear their Covid masks the right way. 

This was yet another example where officials with too much power were able to enforce our Compliance Culture (not to mention, another example of legalized theft).

Now that I think about it, I’ve never heard one coach exclaim, “These requirements are stupid, unconstitutional and I refuse to comply.”

If a coach did say something like this, he would have gotten …. another fine.  (A couple of coaches did refuse to get their mandatory vaccines … and those coachers were fired.)

Basically, if you agree to comply or obey, your superiors will let you have a high-paying job. If you don’t comply or obey, watch out, brother.

Be it future doctors, teachers or coaches, the goal of the Powers that Be is to fill their ranks with employees who are not going to buck the system or their bosses. Mavericks or free-thinkers need not apply.

What would you do?

In thinking about this subject, I thought about what I’d do if my life’s goal was to become a doctor … If I buckled down, excelled in school, did well on my M-Cats, was accepted into medical school and was now just a few years from moving into the top 1-percent of wage earners.

But to realize my life’s ambition, I’m told I have to get a vaccine I know is neither safe nor effective. 

As I view it, only a patently ignorant future doctor would get such a dangerous and unnecessary shot. Alas, this person also knows he can’t become a doctor if he doesn’t get the shots.

When faced with such a dilemma, what do you do?

My guess is 99 (if not 100 percent) of medical students will get these shots. 

The irony - and tragedy - is the 1 percent who might tell the Medical School czars what to do with their medical school appointment would have ended up being the best doctors.

In other words, the world’s authoritarians know they’ve created a trapped market. They know almost everyone they’ll get to order around in the future will obey and comply.

Until today, I hadn’t thought much about how diabolical these leaders have been been in creating various litmus tests designed to ensure compliance with their future dictates, mandates and protocols.

The easiest solution isn’t that easy …

Many freedom-defending citizens on alternative media websites have identified one easy solution for our Upside Down World - namely, far more citizens should simply refuse to comply with dictates that violate our human rights.

This is probably the easiest solution …. But it’s also one few people are likely to embrace. Indeed, the massively-expanding Censorship Industrial Complex is yet another program created to ensure the serfs always comply with the dictates of their betters.

Today, pick any important organization in the world and you’re going to see one where 95 to 99.9 percent of employees are afraid to challenge the programs of their superiors. That is, our Compliance Culture is now endemic. 

Changing this ingrained culture won’t be easy, but it is absolutely necessary.