Empty Gestures: Performative Activism Enabled Mass Persecution
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Reality engineering
Joshua Stylman
Feb 25, 2025
Reality engineering requires three components:
Institutional power to create the narrative,
Social pressure to enforce it,
Deliberate persecution of anyone who challenges either.
The COVID era provided the perfect case study in how this machinery operates - and revealed how performative activism serves as its most potent enforcement mechanism.
Every major element of the official COVID narrative has been proven false, yet those who questioned any part of it faced unprecedented ostracism and persecution.
The manufactured panic ignored fundamental reality: COVID posed minimal risk to healthy people under 70, but was significantly more dangerous to the elderly and immunocompromised. Rather than focusing resources on protecting vulnerable populations, we destroyed economies, stole childhoods, and enforced measures that made no epidemiological sense.
Engineered economic coup
This wasn’t just about control - it was an engineered economic coup, the largest financial consolidation of power in modern history. While small businesses were forcibly closed, Amazon's profits soared. As working-class neighborhoods struggled, Wall Street celebrated record gains. The laptop class posted about 'we're all in this together' from their home offices while essential workers were forced into what was portrayed as dangerous conditions to deliver their groceries. The same corporations trumpeting their commitment to "equity" through DEI initiatives were destroying economic mobility for the very communities they claimed to champion.
The Profitable Performance of Power
The economic devastation fell hardest on those least able to bear it. While professionals attended Zoom meetings in their pajamas, service workers faced an impossible choice: show up to what was marketed as a deadly environment or lose their livelihoods.
During the lockdown, ostensibly put in place to “protect the vulnerable”, vulnerable small businesses lost $4.6 trillion in value, with minority-owned enterprises accounting for 41% of closures despite representing only 20% of total businesses. This wasn’t just hypocrisy - it was a calculated consolidation of power under the guise of public health.
Hypocrisy
These same corporations posting solidarity symbols were forcing their lowest-paid workers to choose between experimental injections or feeding their families. Their DEI committees issued statements about "inclusion" while they excluded anyone who questioned the narrative. They celebrated "diversity" in carefully curated public messaging while their mandates disproportionately impacted minority communities - the very people their DEI initiatives were ostensibly designed to protect.
While professionals virtue signaled from home offices, essential workers faced impossible choices. Those who built careers championing marginalized communities suddenly celebrated stripping basic rights from their neighbors. It was deeply enlightening to observe those who said they were passionate about fighting discrimination, celebrating people losing their jobs for making personal medical choices. Their empathy extended exactly as far as their pharmaceutical stock portfolios and/or unwavering faith in government authority - marching against discrimination until it became inconvenient for their tribal interests, rallying against medical coercion until they could enforce it themselves.
The manufacture of hatred
The demonization of the non-compliant was systematic and crossed into territory that would be considered hate speech if directed at any other group. Major media outlets competed to express the most vitriolic condemnation of the unvaccinated. This wasn't just media rhetoric - it directly programmed public perception and normalized extreme views.
Accountability
For almost five years, anyone pointing out the data and facts now being casually revealed by public health officials faced social and professional exile. The entire justification for mandates, passports, and mass firings was based on claims that public officials and the compliant public never bothered to verify or actively suppressed before coercing millions into compliance. If the vaccines indeed protected the vaccinated, why did anyone else's medical choices matter?
The Architecture of Control
Social media transformed this engineered reality into an automated system. Platform "adjustments" reduced engagement on vaccine-questioning posts by 95%. Shadow-banning isolated critics while amplifying approved narratives, creating an artificial consensus. AI content moderation ensured only pharmaceutical-friendly perspectives reached wide audiences. The financial entanglement between media and pharma completed the cycle of influence. The selective amplification of narratives isn’t an accident - it’s an integral part of reality engineering.
This circular system extended to news coverage itself. Would the public have maintained faith in the "official narrative" if they understood the "impartial" journalists delivering it had their salaries substantially funded by pharmaceutical advertising? Pfizer spent $2.4 billion on TV advertising in 2021. Every "breaking news" segment about the pandemic was effectively "brought to you by Pfizer" - the same company profiting from the promoted solutions. This wasn't mere bias; it was a fundamental conflict of interest that transformed news programs into pharmaceutical marketing channels with a veneer of journalistic credibility.
The manufacturing of the truth
The path to justice requires dismantling both the machinery of reality engineering and its social enforcement mechanisms. We must acknowledge not just the reality of vaccine injuries - now validated by premier research institutions - but the broader system that made their persecution possible. This means creating spaces where suppressed experiences can be shared without fear, challenging the systemic gaslighting of victims, and demanding accountability from both the architects of this deception and those who enforced it through performative compliance. Continued at https://stylman.substack.com/p/empty-gestures
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