The Cassandra Metaphor is a term given to situations where legitimate
warnings are either dismissed for being too fantastic or disbelieved because they
challenge the commonly held narrative. The metaphor originated in Greek
mythology and referred to Cassandra who was the daughter of Priam the King of
Troy. The Greek God Apollo was overcome by her beauty and so gave Cassandra the
gift of prophecy, however when Cassandra rejected Apollo’s romantic overtures,
he cursed her prophecies so that no one would believe her warnings. This left Cassandra
fatalistically knowing that disaster and ruin were impending, yet unable to do anything
to stop them.
“The metaphor has been applied in a variety of contexts
such as psychology, environmentalism, politics, science, cinema, the corporate
world, and in philosophy, and has been in circulation since at least 1949 when
French philosopher Gaston Bachelard coined the term 'Cassandra Complex' to
refer to a belief that things could be known in advance.[1]
Psychology
The Cassandra metaphor is applied by some psychologists to
individuals who experience physical and emotional suffering as a result of
distressing personal perceptions, and who are disbelieved when they attempt to
share the cause of their suffering with others.
Disability and Neurodivergence
Many people on the Autism spectrum, and people with
disabilities, have suffered abuse and died at the hands of caregivers and
institutions as a result of not being believed when they attempt to communicate
their experiences of abuse. Professionals contribute to this when they dismiss
signs of trauma and distress as symptoms of the person's diagnosed condition.
This reflects the larger problem of professionals neglecting to get to know
neurodivergent and Disabled persons as individuals with important perspectives
and insights, instead viewing them through experience-distant diagnostic
criteria.
Paradoxically, the Cassandra Syndrome has been conceived to
apply to neurotypical partners who try to communicate to professionals that the
problem resides in their Autistic partners when conflict arises between them.
In this narrative, mental health professionals exacerbate the parties' troubles
by blaming the distressed neuro-typical partner for being an alarmist, for
having inappropriate anxiety which feeds into problems and for having
unrealistic parenting expectations of the other parent. This is no more helpful
than attributing problems solely to Autistic partners.
Melanie Klein
In 1963, psychologist Melanie Klein provided an
interpretation of Cassandra as representing the human moral conscience whose
main task is to issue warnings. Cassandra as moral conscience, "predicts
ill to come and warns that punishment will follow and grief arise."
Cassandra's need to point out moral infringements and subsequent social
consequences is driven by what Klein calls "the destructive influences of
the cruel super-ego," which is represented in the Greek myth by the god
Apollo, Cassandra's overlord and persecutor. Klein's use of the metaphor
centers on the moral nature of certain predictions, which tends to evoke in
others "a refusal to believe what at the same time they know to be true,
and expresses the universal tendency toward denial, [with] denial being a
potent defence against persecutory anxiety and guilt.” – end of quote
I know how Cassandra must have felt. Moreover, it is quite
likely I exist somewhere on the autistic spectrum with the probable candidate
being Asperger’s Syndrome, on top of which I suffer from OCD. But as they often
say, just because you’re crazy doesn’t mean you haven’t seen something that
others often may have ignored. So, I have the sad comfort of knowing that in
the unlikely event someone would care to check my warnings, they are all
recorded on this channel. You will find that they have proven to be
frighteningly accurate.
In a recent interview between Dr. Jordan B. Peterson and Dr.
Matt Ridley they went into an in-depth look at the origins of COVID19 and as I
have been stating since early 2020 there are far too many smoking guns to
believe that what the authorities were telling us was truthful. You may watch
this interview here at: https://youtu.be/FEh5JyZC218
Anyone who followed closely the story of Pfizer BioNTech,
its association with the Wuhan Institute of Virology located at Ground Zero of
the outbreak, the fact that the creation of mRNA technology and the emergence
of Covid19 coincide, that Canada as well as the US and Great Britain sent
deadly live pathogens to that location, that Chinese scientists loyal to the
CCP were detained by the RCMP for doing so who had worked at our level 4 bio-pathogen
lab in Winnipeg and that high level diplomats whom I knew of were aware that
something was coming no later than September of 2019 all indicate that this
wasn't a pandemic, rather it was a PLANDEMIC!
The following story was published by CBC on July 14, 2019,
entitled “Chinese researcher escorted from infectious disease lab amid RCMP
investigation”
“A researcher with ties to China was recently escorted out
of the National Microbiology Lab (NML) in Winnipeg amid an RCMP investigation
into what's being described as a possible "policy breach."
Dr. Xiangguo Qiu, her husband Keding Cheng and an unknown
number of her students from China were removed from Canada's only level-4 lab
on July 5, CBC News has learned.
A Level 4 virology facility is a lab equipped to work with
the most serious and deadly human and animal diseases. That makes the Arlington
Street lab one of only a handful in North America capable of handling pathogens
requiring the highest level of containment, such as Ebola.
Security access for the couple and the Chinese students was
revoked, according to sources who work at the lab and do not want to be identified
because they fear consequences for speaking out.
Sources say this comes several months after IT specialists
for the NML entered Qiu's office after-hours and replaced her computer. Her
regular trips to China also started being denied.
At meetings on July 8, NML staff were told the researchers
are on leave for an unknown period of time. They were told not to communicate
with them.
Qiu is a prominent virologist who helped develop ZMapp, a
treatment for the deadly Ebola virus which killed more than 11,000 people in
West Africa between 2014-2016.
She worked with Gary Kobinger, who is now a professor in
the Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases and director of the
Research Centre on Infectious Diseases at Laval University in Quebec.
Affiliated with Chinese university
Qiu is a medical doctor from Tianjin, China, who came to
Canada for graduate studies in 1996. She is still affiliated with the
university there and has brought in many students over the years to help with
her work.
Currently head of the Vaccine Development and Antiviral
Therapies section in the Special Pathogens Program at the lab, Qiu's primary
field is immunology. Her research focuses on vaccine development, post-exposure
therapeutics and rapid diagnostics of viruses like Ebola.
She is also an adjunct professor in the Department of
Medical Microbiology at the University of Manitoba.
Cheng also works at the lab as a biologist. He has
published research papers on HIV infections, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
(SARS), E. coli infections and Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome.” – end quote
And let us look at the following;
“Weaponizing Medicine: China’s Latest Theft a Potential
Biological Weapon” by Christopher Burgess / Aug 15, 2019 https://news.clearancejobs.com/2019/08/15/weaponizing-medicine-chinas-latest-theft-a-potential-biological-weapon/
“On the heels of finding that the U.S. Army Medical
Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) had its level 3 and 4
biological research labs sanctioned by the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, we learn that many of those same viruses that USAMRIID was
researching are on their way to China, courtesy of a Canadian laboratory.
In early July 2019, Xiangguo Qui, a Chinese scientist at
the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg, was dismissed and her ties
with the University of Manitoba cut. What makes this somewhat unusual is that
Qui is recognized globally as one of the leading researchers on infectious
diseases. Furthermore, Qui is credited with being instrumental in creating a new
drug for treating the Ebola virus. Despite her accomplishments, the CBC reports
that Qui, her husband Keding Cheng, and her students were “forcibly dispatched
from the facility on July 5.
In response to pathogen samples being sent to China, the
National Microbiology Laboratory spokesperson commented:
“To advance scientific work worldwide, the National
Microbiology Laboratory routinely shares samples of pathogens and toxins with
partner laboratories in Canada and in other countries. These transfers follow
strict protocols.”
FROM CANADA TO CHINA, WITH LOVE: HENIPAVIRUS AND EBOLA
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police are investigating the
sharing of Ebola, as well as a second pathogen, a henipavirus, which in real
life kills 100% of those infected. While the lab claims this is normal and is
part of the global research into deadly pathogens, the potential transfer of
knowledge to China may be advancing their biological weapons program.
In a research paper published by the National Institutes of
Health, National Library of Medicine, the authors note, “Continued outbreaks of
Henipaviruses in South Asia and Australia cause severe and lethal disease in
both humans and animals. Together, with evidence of human to human transmission
for Nipah virus and the lack of preventative or therapeutic measures, its
threat to cause a widespread outbreak and its potential for weaponization has
increased. ”
Providing the henipavirus to China would seem to feed the
weaponization narrative. One could also argue that given the proximity of the
henipavirus outbreaks in South Asia, research into treatment is a high priority
for China.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY THEFT OF THE VIRUS?
The Ebola treatment drug, ZMapp, in which Qui had a
collaborative hand, has already been cloned (pun intended) by a Chinese
company, even though the the experimental drug was under patent. The Chinese
firm, Mabworks, admitted they had duplicated the drug without authorization,
and then continued working with researchers in Canada.
Digging into Qui’s dismissal, coupled with the obtuse and
contradictory statements coming out of named and unnamed sources to the
Canadian press, the worst case scenario is that Qui, her husband and research
students made possible an unauthorized transfer of technology and deadly
pathogens to China. They facilitated the theft of research and pathogen strains
by China. The other end of the spectrum has Qui being investigated for
administrative lapses which exposed intellectual property to a foreign entity
in an unauthorized manner, though without malice or interest in advancing
China’s biological weapons program, nor putting coin into her own pocket.
Bottom line?
China now has samples of the heniparvirus and research from
the Canadian National Lab, which may be useful in advancing China’s biological
weapons program, occurring at a time the USAMRIID’s defensive biological
research lab is shut down.” – end quote
They did much worse than weaponize medicine, yes, they took
it even further than developing a bioweapon, they politicised medicine to use
it as a tool to further the dialectical materialism of a full-blown Communist
Revolution. COVID 19 became the primary motivator for the largest transference
of wealth in human history from the common person to the elite who seek to
control everything!
I've never trusted the State, ever. Only a fool would, or
perhaps someone who uses the State’s apparatus to their own manipulative ends.
But I'll do one better, people who do so are responsible for creating
totalitarian regimes. It's that simple. Each and every time totalitarianism has
emerged the leaders of the revolution simply told a sufficient number of their
citizens what the citizens wished to hear to foment that revolution. So, what
people who have placed their faith in Big Government have done here in Canada
is unconscionable!
Christians often fall prey to the simplistic belief that
Bible prophecies refer to one specific historic event in history that will never
be repeated. They who do so forget that the Bible, like Greek Mythology, is full
of metaphorical truths about human nature, mass psychology, and the psychic events
which ensue from that mass formation. Everything that will happen has also
happened in a similar fashion in the past, albeit on a much smaller scale. The
story of the Tower of Babel refers to what invariably happens when a
sufficiently large number of people place their faith in the State apparatus which
is then destined to collapse under its own weight in confusion. We have
replaced Father God with Mother Government. And she is an unholy idolatrous
mother who has one goal, to feed off her offspring like a succubus. And mankind’s
worship of her always has been, is, and always will be, idolatry!
ReplyDeleteThe Tower of Babel story definitely involved our Omniscient and Omnipotent God looking at humankind getting a little to big for their britches. A Tower to Heaven wouldn't be so difficult if we put our best and brightest to work on it. Father God made them all speak different languages to remind them who is the only all powerful genius namely the Triune God. It is my firm belief that we will have another Tower of Babel power play from God. Watch and learn, my fellow scholars!
I am an American and have been through being stalked for my outspoken nature about politics. As a former Epidemiologist with a division of the CDC I understand how viruses work. Nobody would listen to me. They would rather listen to Fraudulent Fauci!
Power and greed consumed the deep state and look what happened! Postmodern American has dumbed down our young people who have never heard of due diligence. That frustrates me. We changed how we educated our public school teachers in the 1960s. The student was not at the center of revisions. Teacher Education pushed the place for our teachers to be educated themselves needed to be in a University Science so that their part of the world was at an even level with scientific disciplines. I am a Research Psychologist and I finished empirical research on what we did to our future generations. That is a subject for future discussion. Let's go back to COVID-19 and the asinine way that people like Fauci mismanaged it.
Facts:
If you have had an upper respiratory cold you have COVID exposure already.
There was another COVID outbreak in the early 2000s. There was none of the hoopla and mismanagement. It ran its course and that was it.
I made a huge stink about how the medical world was killing people with ventilators because they failed to do clotting studies before using a ventilator. Viruses clot blood and way too many people died after being put on a ventilator. The medical world inflicted the patients with pulmonary emboli, killing them. I bugged colleagues in Italy to do autopsies when nobody here would give me the time of day. They published their research from those autopsies.
A simple morning hot water with a slice of lemon can keep the virus from going into the lungs since the virus does not like lemon. The virus then goes to the gut which is far better at "killing" the virus. The virus is not alive until it attaches to a host.
I offer these examples to give you an idea that I know what I am talking about, but nobody would listen. That infuriated me. Then again, my simple method combined with a generic immunity building supplement wouldn't make them as much money.
I could go on for much longer, but I will save you more ranting. I join you in your thinking and thank you for your wisdom.
Janet Johnson Van Epps