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Regarding music: the early Bach cantatas 4, 12, 21, 106, 131, 150 have been carrying me through the pandemic.

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"Who, one may therefore ask, are we today trying to placate?"

We're trying to placate the twin gods called Science and Progress. Both are angry, jealous gods. So, children are to be sacrificed.

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The whole point of sacrifice, be it human or animal, is to minimize the bloodshed required to pacify the community. Therefore, it is natural to select a group as scapegoat that can only shrink in size, such as the unvaccinated (until all guilt is projected onto the last unvaccinated person). A growing number of vaccine side effects has no pacifying function, is therefore disturbing and being ignored.

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