I know how these mechanisms work and not just by reading about it in books like The Captive Mind. I also lived it. And not just in China and the Soviet Union. All of us have been living shades of it here in the United States for nearly five years now. But only a few of us have been aware of what has really been going on both here in America and in much of the rest of the free world. Aware that the so-called pandemic had nothing to do with protecting our health and well-being. On the contrary, it had been an orchestrated assault to destroy us and the free world no less than a Marxist takeover as so many got swept up in the propaganda—a kind of New Faith 2.0—that led to the lockdowns, the closures, the social distancing, the censorship, and, ultimately, the mandated mass injections of a bioweapon malevolently promoted for that “glory of mankind” but which thus far has killed millions and injured and crippled many more. Because of what I’d seen in China and the Soviet Union, I recognized the degradation and humiliation of the individual human spirit in exchange for that high and mighty, forced and fabricated, collectivist “glory of mankind” in the government’s commands of “do it for others” and “stop the spread” happening here. I saw the manipulative horrors depicted in The Captive Mind imposed here with my own eyes.