26A036 Conformism by Jim Davies, 9/8/2026

In England, if you adhere to a donomination other than the Anglican Church (cf Episcopal, here) you're known as a "non-conformist." You don't conform, to the official standard. All of those who emigrated to Holland and thence to the Plymouth, MA, were non-conformists and for them, life had become a bit too uncomfortable, so they wanted to start over in the New World. I'm glad they did.

Not to conform to the average or approved or "normal" is not necessarily a virtue, but it does always prove you can think for yourself and take a stand accordingly.

It was notable and important during the four dreadful years of the Covid Swindle, when those who could sense some or most of what was really going on refused to obey the relentless urging of Officialdom and would not wear masks, or stay home, or keep six feet apart from others, or accept a jab of a purported vaccine, also known as a "clot shot."

I wore an appoved mask only when needing access to where a "no mask, no entry" rule was enforced, but protested it by imprinting on it the words shown. They got attention. The Cochrane Report later amply justified the last of them, by proving that the masks did nothing whatever to impede the possible spread of any respiratory-illness bug.

Otherwise, though, it was depressing to notice, week after week, on my visits to the supermarket for groceries, I was the only person in the store not wearing a mask. Even in New Hampshire, the "Live Free or Die" State, Americans are profoundly conformist. What Nanny tells them to do, they do. Why?

A good part of the answer came in the recent ZGBlog Beware! School! - whose graphic lists some key lessons taught to kiddies during their 12-year indoctrination sentence; one was:

Acceptance of a jab from a "vaccine" gun was the centerpiece of the Fauci Fraud, for the supply of those useless juices was how his pals in the pharma trade made their fortunes, generous crumbs of which were, as planned, recycled to him and his fellow-bureaucrats and his friends in Congress. True vaccines immunize the recipient from the target disease, so that he cannot catch it; that never happened, for Covid. Therefore, they were and are not vaccines. Some acted as medications, helping patients recover, but sometimes they killed the patient, and all that was predicted, for example in a ZGBlog such as Shot in the Arm, from as early as 2020.

Conformity to this rule was hard indeed to resist when one's job depended on obedience, but here at least it became a lot less than 100%. As at mid-2023, only the deeply Democrat NE, NW and Minnesota showed conformity over 25% "up to date" - so by then, a good deal of healthy skepticism was at last kicking in. And just last month, the Polish government was declining to pay 1.3 billion Euros for an unwanted supply of Pfizer "vaccines."

Willing submission to its commands is a prime objective of all governments, and the Covid fiasco was just one test of how far populations will obey and conform. Another spectacular one has been happening in Ukraine, which NATO has been using in a proxy war against Russia. As soon as it began millions moved out, as refugees across Europe, primarily draft-age men and their families; but those who stayed are now so unwilling to be sent to the meat grinder that "recruiters" are grabbing men off the streets and bundling them into mini-buses. The outrage has become known as "busification" because there, it seems that conformity has reached a limit. Good for them.

This quick overview suggests that the war for the minds of the ruled is still raging; the Covid battle was a victory for the rulers but in other areas the ruled are refusing to conform. On balance, I'd say we are still losing ground. They haven't won yet, but the need to resist is very urgent. Spreading news of the available tools on the right of this page is one way to help.