Indolence

If I had to pick one, just one thing that bothers me more and more with each passing day, it would be Indolence.

As I transform the physical shape of my body, my mind is also, perhaps more slowly, following suit. Yet I am not so far removed from Day One of my quest towards health, to have forgotten how Indolent I was. And boyo, was I lazy as much as I was fat. It is not the extra kg that I detest. It is the indolent, mental laziness attitude that issued from or favored my degeneration, my letting go of myself.

So, yeah, indolence in myself and also in others, is what troubles me perhaps the most. This keeps me up at night on so many levels. It is true what they say. The biggest enemy you will ever see on any given day is the one looking at you from the mirror in the morning.

I believe that indolence is what drags humanity back. It’s the trump card that makes people follow stupid rules that make no sense, just because everybody else does it.

Mental Indolence is the single biggest enemy of the human race. It saps the vitality out of the individual until there is nothing left inside them. It burrows into the deepest recesses of the mind, lays its eggs of sloth, and waits for the propitious moment when it will rear its ugly spitting head at one’s soul.

Indolence is what caused our rational society to submit to the absurd COVID-19 mandates even when proof existed that countries without restrictions fared as good as those with, in terms of casualties.

People in most countries plain accepted what authorities told them to do: wear a mask, social distance, stay at home, telework, stop travelling, take the vaccine, etc etc etc. In Sweden, however, most of these mandatory freedom-bashing measures were voluntary. You heard it right: in Sweden it was up to anyone whether they wanted to go along with the theatre.

Sweden was open to business as usual during the 2019 COVID Pandemic. As a result, less Swedes died than in half the world, proportional to the general population. That means the whole circus was possible ONLY because most people are indolent sheep.

This goes to show that all the COVID-19 restrictions were for naught.

So, this is why, folks, we cannot have good things. Because we would rather go with the flow, than against it. Because when faced with a hard choice that yields excellent results later but is painful in the short term, and one that rewards us immediately, but destroys our children’s future, we still choose the latter.

Les hommes sont faibles, ou lâches ; ils aiment le plaisir et le bonheur immédiat.

People are weak or cowards; they seek instant pleasure and happiness.

Albert Camus – L’homme révolté (1951)

Indolence starts with us. It is what makes us complacent, tolerant of everything, and willing to obey authority in spite of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Consider this: if we tolerate every kind of behavior or thought, what are we really all about?!

That is indolence. Always saying yes to all impulses. Always giving in to power, absent any supporting evidence.

The opposite of indolence is fortitude, resilience, abnegation, devotion, self-care and honor.

And before you believe I am preaching from a pedestal, let me disabuse you of such notions. I was at first taken aback by the COVID-19 hysteria. In the first few weeks, I went from opposing the government overreach that was creating a baseless panic, to fearfully worrying about the consequences of my being wrong.

So, as my wife points out, at first, I did adopt a mask that made me look like a German WW1 infantryman. BTW, to add insult to injury I sported this mask in public the entirety of the spring season 2020.

Then, still undecided between full blown panic or restrained reserve about the official motives and narrative the media was bombarding us 24/7, I came out against the vaccine. You see, back then I still had my wits about me. This was Summer-Fall 2020.

And by winter-spring 2021, I was definitely of the mindset that the whole COVID was a PSYOP masterminded by a group of people who wanted to unravel our society. However, it all went out of the window, when something happened to one of my colleagues from work.

One of my coworkers fell ill and ended up on a respirator in ICU. Not knowing he already had asthma, which put him at an increased risk for COVID, I made an executive decision and pivoted 180 degrees. I told my family that I decided to get the vaccine. I made this decision on the spur of the moment, hedging my bets, not caring anymore about the lack of valid testing. I chose to disregard the fact that the pharmaceutical companies producing the COVID-19 vaccine had been absolved from any and all legal consequences for their COVID lineup.

And so, with my family following suit, I carried over a family into the unknown. I now regret this decision not because of any apparent secondary effects. I regret it because I endangered their lives by my foolish example. Had I been more determined and less prone to being influenced by emotion, my decision would have been to stay away from any untested, unproven, unvetted substances, over which there is no modicum of control, and that have passed no trials, and that come with zero consequences for their makers.

Not only that but these blasted vaccines that took a few months to become reality, they failed to guarantee the health of the people exposed to them.

So yeah, I was mentally indolent, and I regret it. Do not be like I was. Be stronger, stay the course, and do not let yourselves influenced by anyone. Always verify the validity of everything you hear. Including this blog.