Passes through the systems of Hell
“The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.”
― Dante Alighieri
We live in a world of good words in desperate need of good works.
Good words are promises that often make us feel good, filling our heads with vivid magical fantasies of what could be, or perhaps what should be. Drunk on fantasy, undelivered promises can deal crippling blows of disappointment and rage, if one has sunken deep enough into the surreal. At one time, I too was naive enough to believe in a world that had no need for fluffy fancy words, fantasizing that good works alone would suffice based solely on their self-evident demonstrability.
After all, ideas that don’t work should be tossed, right?
However to my misfortune, I began to recognize those thoughts are not shared amongst the majority, revealing a much needed sobriety from personal delusion.
My use of the word “good” isn’t arbitrary either. Consider the exchange of “goods” and services, which comes from Aristotle’s philosophy of money, where an economy is composed of good deeds exchanged through a medium we call money. Growing food is good, processing food is good and serving food is good. These are all good deeds that have shared value, while some may value it more than others depending on circumstance, but forms the basis of the real economy.
One good deed can be exchanged in kind for another good deed.
But the snake in man is clever, realizing an exchange of good works could be corrupted through an exchange of good words, which may or may not represent a real good or service. An even more clever snake realized the exchange itself could be replaced by really good words, a promise to pay, substituting commodity based exchange for credit; another word for belief.
Our modern civilization has built itself on good words and soothing promises, a tower of babel and bullshit, which now wavers ominously in the wind. Uttering the wrong word may topple the hideous monstrosity into a calamitous pile of ruin. To prevent such disaster, good words along with good works must be policed to protect the stack of stories, which dared touch the heavens in defiance of divine command. Evil like this only exists when good men do nothing, because without consistent and persistent effort evil spreads like a famished disease that hungrily devours the weak. And this era is plump with frail minds ready to bow down to the slithering sceptres of deceptive serpents.
Diseases of the mind terrify me more than the diseases of the body.
On a frigid rock located far into Cocytus, Canada is home to the frozen teared traitors whose fragile, strained and contorted bodies lay cemented deep within ice. Residents of this neighbourhood in hell are not unfamiliar with the treacherous diseases of the mind. The peaceful visage of Canada hides behind a checkered history of blood and violence, specifically the late 19th century rebellion, caused by treaties, land disputes and poor harvests. A rebellion of disaffected people who succumbed to their crises.
The North-West Resistance (or North-West Rebellion) was a violent, five-month insurgency against the Canadian government, fought mainly by Métis and their First Nations allies in what is now Saskatchewan and Alberta. It was caused by rising fear and insecurity among the Métis and First Nations peoples as well as the white settlers of the rapidly changing West. A series of battles and other outbreaks of violence in 1885 left hundreds of people dead, but the resisters were eventually defeated by federal troops.
— North-West Resistance (Feb., 2006)
The swift and crushing boot of government left a permanent scar on the face of modern day Saskatchewan and Alberta, still visible some 139 years later. To squash rebellion, the free movement of indigenous people was restricted through a permit and pass system, which never officially made it into law.
Any First Nations person who wanted to leave their community, for any reason, had to have a pass approved by the reserve's Indian agent that they would carry with them, stipulating the leave's purpose and duration.
— The pass system: another dark secret in Canadian history (Nov., 2015)
It was believed a pass system would prevent another rebellion and support government assimilation policies, to nudge behaviour for the greater good. Those living on reserves had to file papers stating: when they could leave, where they could go and when they had to return. But acquiring a permit was not trivial, and violators were arrested by the North-West Mounted Police and returned to their reserves.
Naturally, the restrictive system limited the types of goods that could be produced and sold at the market, which also required a permit to sell. The Peasant Farm Policy (1889-1897) further limited agricultural practices of First Nations, such as the use of mechanized farm equipment, which impacted their abilities to compete. Some families and communities were divided between reserves, which became fractured through travel limitations; irreparable damage that spanned across generations.
The pass system lasted for over 60 years.1
Until recently, few Canadians were aware the pass system existed; those who did were likely unaware of the fact that it was never a law.
This may be attributed to the fact that recent research has shown the federal government made efforts to destroy any evidence of a pass system in Canada.
— Pass System in Canada (Jul., 2018)
One may be led to believe that a government pass system, restricting the freedom of movement based on arbitrary status and political policy, is an absolutely terrible — if not demonic idea. But strong words such as these have to be backed up by good works, implying that no pass system should ever come to fruition again. Such system, enforced by police and mandated through unlawful government policy, denigrates the intergenerational suffering inflicted on Canadian indigenous peoples.
Those who would permit the return of any similar pass system would be rightly labelled a traitor, deserving a frozen sentence in Cocytus, unable to weep for the crimes they condoned and committed against humanity.
The power of good words is nothing to scoff at.
Recall the unbridled power of simple phrases like “safe and effective,” “for the greater good” and “protect our loved ones.” Remember the tyranny imposed on the “selfish” who’d dare “overwhelm hospitals” because of their “anti-science” ignorance and misdirection, whose dangerous words had to be immediately vanquished and dismissed. Those who fumbled and mistakenly used bad words were eagerly pounced on by the expertly enlightened, ridiculing the idiot too foolish to understand the incontrovertible, demonstrably true, apodictic reality revealed to us by the divinely credentialed.
The modern era celebrates objectivity, to a fault, and turns a blind eye to the unseen powers of subjective influence. Many proponents of purely objective methods, born from natural philosophy, understand little of its origins and applicability. You can’t prove definitions, thus worshippers of the materially objective are easily swayed when definitions are corrupted, only to be controlled like dials on a panel. Nothing in our technological society would function without the labour of disciplined objectivity, but few recognize its subtle technicalities and instead rely on credentialed good words.
To be objective, to use facts, to follow the science, what fancy good words!
And like a demon, unchained through a cast of words, a pass system returned.
Provincial officials say Ontario will move to a digital proof-of-vaccination system a month from now. People who've been vaccinated will be able to download a QR code to their phone, which can be read by a free smartphone app to be made available ahead of the Oct. 22 start date.
— Ontario's vaccine passport: What you need to know (Sept., 2021)
Advocates against the 1885 pass system, the totalitarian policy enforced by police that squashed dissent, restricted movement, decimated living standards and caused generational damage, had mysteriously fallen under a powerful spell of silence, because injectables are a choice and “choices have consequences.” Well assimilation was a choice and “choices have consequences.” Funny how words work. Too bad mental gymnastics isn’t an Olympic sport.
After spending five years immersed in the topic, Alex Williams hopes a film like The Pass System adds to Canada's understanding of our own history.
“It helped me understand my society better and it made me understand the divisions in society and the healing that needs to happen.”
— The pass system: another dark secret in Canadian history (Nov., 2015)
In its revived form, the new pass system was implemented domestically to target dissenters with travel restrictions, interfacing with nation states through borders.
The Canadian COVID-19 proof of vaccination is a secure and reliable way to show proof of your COVID-19 vaccination history when you travel outside of Canada. It's meant to simplify and help with border processing abroad.
This proof:
was developed by provinces and territories with support from the Government of Canada
is a recognized, trusted document that has been shared with our international partners
— About Canadian COVID-19 proof of vaccination (Jan., 2024)
Economic sanctions were applied by hijacking wording from occupational health and safety codes, intended to protect workers from negligent employers, but the slippery serpent’s words serenaded the stupidly soft minds heavily saturated by fear, and the proponents of virtue, righteousness and justice stood silently by as the pass system’s second coming rose from its forbidden ancient crypt.
Protect the protected from the unprotected!
"People talk about 'We have the right to [protect] the body. No one can inject something into our body without our approval,'" he said. "That's of course true, but that doesn't mean you can keep your job."
Levitt said in a workplace scenario, public safety trumps that personal right. He argues that the employer has a duty to maintain a safe workplace, and they must address things that threaten that environment.
— Firing health-care workers who refuse to vaccinate raises ethical concerns: experts (Oct., 2021)
The word “safety” is taken on credit, believed as if it were fact. Duty, threaten, trumps, carefully crafted words cast over the minds of men, who alone hold the power to release demons from their bondage and chains. And when these seductive good words have taken control, words which are given priority over good works and good deeds, then the legions are free to harvest every soul afflicted by diseases of the mind.
And what a bountiful harvest it was.
Just like how the 1885 pass system encouraged indigenous assimilation, the COVID vaccine passport system “nudged people” to get vaccinated through behaviour modification, as stated by Andrew Furey, Premier NL (2021) in NCI’s video clip.
It was never about safety, health or protection.
Beware the silver tongued demons who wear human faces.
Society has been hypnotized by suggestive black magic, and the trance cannot be broken through facts, evidence or logic. However storytelling, harnessing the true power of good words, may reach those who have not yet succumbed to the diseases of the mind, but those good words also need the backing of good works. Our way of life, the deeds that bind together our productive society, are being dissolved by an ever increasing money supply, rampant government overreach and decadent ideologies.
While the second pass system fortunately did not last for 60 years, it’s far from dead and remains in suspension, waiting for opportune crises and the stroke of a pen.
Words are powerful tools that must be mastered, now more than ever, for they have become weapons, piercing the minds of the weak and usurping them with disease.
The totalitarian pass system experienced in 2021 and 2022 was a beta test. Its lessons learned will be integrated into new revisions along with digital enhancements, for those without the mark, a bestial dehumanizing number, may not be able to buy or sell. Evil is real and physically operates through corporeal corporate forms, which easily influences the many vacant and fearful minds. There will be an attempt to control our movement, our transactions and our ability to produce good deeds.
Those who worship material objectivity will soon discover that without its supporting good works, corrupting words will blend fact and fiction into an indistinguishable slop, because hubris and the absolute knowledge of good and evil killed the gods, the supreme ideas, which governed the harmony of this world.
Mystery and the magic of words must return if we’re ever to humbly find our way back to a world of truth, justice and divine beauty, else the treacheries of Cocytus will freeze the human spirit in an impenetrable layer of ice for eternity.
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
Nestor, R. (2018). Pass system in Canada. The Canadian Encyclopedia. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/pass-system-in-canada
Has there ever been a "good" government? I am inclined to think not.
All the hottest places in Hades have been bought out by gates.