{"id":4730,"date":"2021-05-04T19:35:12","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T01:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=4730"},"modified":"2021-05-04T19:35:12","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T01:35:12","slug":"dune-and-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=4730","title":{"rendered":"Dune and Covid"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam:<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8220;I hold at your neck the gom jabbar,&#8221; she said. &#8220;The gom jabbar, the high-handed enemy. It&#8217;s a needle with a drop of poison on its tip. Ah-ah! Don&#8217;t pull away or you&#8217;ll feel that poison. [\u2026] This one kills only animals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paul Atreides:<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8220;Are you suggesting the Duke&#8217;s son is an animal?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reverend Mother:<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8220;Let us say I suggest you may be human. Your awareness may be powerful enough to control your instincts. Your instinct would be to remove your hand from the box. If you do so, you die. You will feel&#8230; an itching&#8230; there! Now, the itching becomes burning. Heat upon heat upon heat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paul:<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8220;It burns!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reverend Mother:<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8220;Silence! SILENCE!!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\"><span style=\"font-family:-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">In Dune, the science-fiction masterpiece by Frank Herbert, there was a test you had to take to &#8216;prove&#8217; you were a human. This test involved something that instilled fear in you and a &#8216;gom jabbar&#8217;. The gom jabbar was a poisoned needle held at your throat during the test. You had to be perfectly still. No flinching.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\">To pass the test, thus proving you were human, you conquered your fear, did not flinch, and did not receive the gom jabbar.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\">If you failed the test, flinched, thus proving you were not human, you received the poisoned needle &#8211; the gom jabbar &#8211; and died.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\">Fear of Covid is our test. A fear that is being artificially promulgated by government, &#8216;celebrities&#8217;, corporations, and other shadowy &#8216;elites&#8217; for nefarious purposes.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\">Will you succumb to it? Will you unthinkingly &#8216;flinch&#8217; and receive the alleged &#8216;vaccine&#8217; \u2013 the &#8216;gom jabbar&#8217; \u2013 the experimental genetic treatment with unknown but likely detrimental side effects\u2026 including death?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\">Or will you conquer the false fear of Covid, thus proving you are an intelligent human being, one who doesn&#8217;t flinch due to fear, and reject the alleged &#8216;vaccine&#8217;?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam: &#8220;I hold at your neck the gom jabbar,&#8221; she said. &#8220;The gom jabbar, the high-handed enemy. It&#8217;s a needle with a drop of poison on its tip. Ah-ah! Don&#8217;t pull away or you&#8217;ll feel that poison. [\u2026] This one kills only animals.&#8221; Paul Atreides: &#8220;Are you suggesting the Duke&#8217;s son &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=4730\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dune and Covid<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,64,2,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idiots-celebrities","category-idiots-elites","category-opinion","category-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}