There is a kind of emergent SCHIZOPHRENIA in the WESTERN CULTURE social dynamic generally, as pointed out by David Bohm, which is now showing up in Canadian politics and in the rise of the PEOPLE’S PARTY led by Maxime Bernier.

The salient issue appears to be the GOVERNMENT IMPOSING OF VACCINATIONS for COVID 19; a GOVERNMENT EDICT which Bernier’s Peoples Party opposes as does a sizeable slice of the Canadian population who have reacted against in vitriol-filled demonstrations that are unlike most political protest in Canada in recent times.

Since it is a hot issue and since all of the other political parties in Canada have policies which are steam-rolling over the minority who are angry at being labelled ANTI-VAXXERS by Justin Trudeau and seemingly the bulk of the Canadian political establishment.  This has been opening the door to a major division within the population, not only on this single issue of removing freedoms of those who fail to comply with government vaccination directives but by effectively MARKING them as misfits by going along with the issuing of Vaccine Passports that will is discriminatory to them not by an armband that identifies them as ‘lesser beings with lesser entitlements’ but by their lack of a ‘passport” which now reclassifies natural freedoms of movement as a privilege only available to those who agree to be vaccinated.

This kind of closing down of accepted freedoms of movement, and re-opening them only to those who will agree to ‘take their medicine’, is not being taken kindly to, not only by those who are not prepared to take the vaccine, but by many of those who have or will take the vaccine but who resent the loss of personal freedom that the government led vaccination campaign imposes.

The social moral of acting in support of the good of the social collective has generally found support from the sense it gives the ‘contributor’ of having made a voluntary decision to do unto others as you would have them do unto you, which is very different from being served an ultimatum of ‘doing this for others or else have those others remove your personal freedoms’.

People are well accustomed to ‘distancing’ during time of illness or plague to prevent the spread but an immunization program is more like issuing people a radiation-proof space-suit in the wake of a radioactive material spill to keep things moving in spite of the deterioration in the environment.  Maybe we should be doing more to restore a clean pathogen-free environment.

There is always ambiguity between IMBALANCE where REBALANCING occurs naturally and POLARIZING OPPOSITION involving WINNER-LOSER CONFLICT.

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