The WTF Notebooks
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Original interview transcripts
WTF & WTF II: distillations of interview content
WTF Summaries & WTF Summaries II: information organized into subject categories
Post-WTF: continued learning, varied sources
What was my study process?
In November of 2021, I watched a ‘talking heads’-type video production consisting of interviews with doctors, scientists, researchers, legal experts, a few others, on the subject of the COVID pandemic. These were points of view/understandings entirely missing from ‘legacy media’ narrative.
I acquired written transcripts of all of these interviews. That is what’s in the above red notebook labeled “WTF Interviews (Transcripts)”. I made copies to have a set I could use for cut & paste.
The top picture to right shows a sample of that cut and paste process, which makes up the WTF and WTF II notebooks. I read through each interview transcript, cutting out parts that were information I wanted to take in more fully and taping onto the posterboard I had cut up and hole-punched for notebook ‘pages’. Or, often, I copied out the text by hand (that’s a way I can sometimes take in information more deeply).
After I did that for the 27 interviews, I went back in those same notebooks and re-read all I had cut and pasted/copied out by hand, creating more distilled condensation of the info. Those are the smaller-size pages on right side of notebook in top picture.
Then in those same notebooks, I went back and re-read all of my smaller page condensations, highlighting key words and phrases.
WTF Summaries: Next, I started back at the beginning of those small-size pages with the latest most distilled/condensed information. Using a stack of manila file folders I had cut in half and hole-punched, I wrote the highlighted word or phrase as I came to it as a label (pictured at right). Onto each labeled page I wrote out the text pertaining to that subject.
This took a long time. Months and months. As an example: the first interview, which was part I of III with Peter McCullough, yielded around 17 subject labels (DATA, SCIENTIFIC DEBATE, TRUTH, INFO/MISINFO, LEADERSHIP, TESTING, NIH PROTOCOLS, EARLY TREATMENT to name a few).
So it went, going through all content thereby creating the WTF Summaries notebooks.
WTF Summaries – List of all SUBJECT LABELS, Who’s Who in interviews, plus other documents I created in an attempt to further distill information
POST-WTF
Then what happened? Well, the study took me through 2021 into 2022, through a move from southern to mid-nowhere rural Maine, and finished up some time in 2023. It filled a good portion of a year and a half of my life. I learned a lot. It wasn’t what I’d call a fun time.
One of the interviewees from my WTF studies, the medical journalist, has a weekly news show I watch since discovering it in 2022. He covers most-all the the issues I care about. He lists all sources for information he puts out there; at any time I can check out things directly and decide what I think. And to fill out any gaps, I’m lucky to have many interactions and discussions with the various people in my new sphere, most of whom share an appreciation of un-bias in news, to the extent that may be possible.
I’ve learned this has happened to many people: something particular gets you to-researching, but soon you see much bigger matters are afoot. Many topics beyond Covid have now entered into my awareness for deeper understanding and detanglement. Polio, measles, AIDS; UN, WHO, WEF; ‘critical theory’ and the history of Marxist thought; the history and foundation of ‘climate change’ and dissenting voices.
If I say nothing else here about any thoughts or conclusions I’ve come to over these past several years, I will say this. In my opinion, mainstream ‘legacy’ media outlets no longer contribute toward the educating of an informed electorate, citizenry, average Joe. Some are worse than others. Among the many problematic entities making it difficult to think straight and not despise friends and family with differing views (not to mention people we’ve never even met), mainstream media ranks at the top. Right under that is any social media content which keeps you silo’d – and riled up, which is the very design of most social media platforms.
What now?
I did attempt, in earlier times, to articulate to a few close people in my southern Maine circles what was going on for me, my puzzlements, how I was seeing things, all that made no sense to me or that I just could not agree with. It either didn’t go well, was politely or silently received but essentially ignored, or was responded to in a way which showed no real communication was happening, no understanding, my thinking was too divergent.
Then the email came along and so devastatingly threw me for a loop that it took four or five months just to arrive at the right word for what was wrong with it. The word is coercion.
Then the extended study, the eye-opening ever-deepening discoveries. Yep, I’ve been red-pilled. It was in this era I wrote my kind-of protest song, Go Ahead. I was upset.
In later times I made several attempts to write up an account of what happened to me. Where did I go? Why don’t I hang out in southern Maine and connect with long-time friends? Why don’t I send out music notices anymore? I never could manage without it turning into pages and pages of history and details, facts and figures, feelings and plaintive recountings of injustices, the repeated theme Doesn’t anyone care about truth? I gave that up.
It may look from the outside as if I have turned my back on almost all old friends, said To H*ll With Ya, changed my number, found a new tribe. All I can answer is I have been making deep, constant and earnest effort to ‘process’ the Covid era and all it contains. I use the present tense because it never came to any closing, in my point of view.
Much data is out there and can be consulted. Many books exist to illumine various of these subject areas. There are many, many voices that could be consulted to broaden understandings, add to debate, brainstorm solutions for the benefit of us all. For a long time I collected links to some of those voices.
We live in an era where all claims and statements are in the record; people could be held accountable for lies, intentional mis-information, criminal malfeasance in some cases. Little of that is happening – though some is, and I celebrate it when and wherever I come across it.
I don’t connect with my old beloved crowd because for years I have been in a kind of stunned state, like a deer in headlights, not quite able to fathom what I experienced myself and what I saw/see going on around me. This enormous project to gather threads from my past six years and post them here publicly is my best effort.
What do I hope to accomplish by this effort? Good question. It’s just something I’ve had to do.
