How the lockdowns drove us all crazy | Nellie Bowles | The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie

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@terrific804 5 ай бұрын

I think being lied to continuously drives most people crazy

@theStacyJames 6 ай бұрын

In 2020 I scramed to a small Mexico town with no lockdowns, mask mandates, and the quackcine was nowhere to be found. My mental health (and physical health) are pristine at the moment, thank you very much.

@infowarriorone 6 ай бұрын

Anti-vaxxers aren't mentally well.

@sellingacoerwa8318 6 ай бұрын

as we know any reasonable assumptions made from data sampling should have a sample size of 1

@theStacyJames 6 ай бұрын

@@sellingacoerwa8318 you want your own sample size? Haha! Come on down

@jaycarver4886 6 ай бұрын

Good for you! Bet you had a lovely time there.

@sellingacoerwa8318 6 ай бұрын

*eye roll

@matthewrawlings1284 6 ай бұрын

It's the shift in narrative that is shown in 1984. To paraphrase, 'We've always been at war with east eurasia, stop saying otherwise.'

@goofinhiemer1153 5 ай бұрын

Purple is the new yellow.

@thunderstreet78 6 ай бұрын

Her book is fantastic. Really worth reading to get the full picture of just how insane things have gotten. And the worst part is that NYT and other mainstream press refused to cover it. Really eye-opening!

@NFTeve 6 ай бұрын

Trump was right Fake News is 100% real. Thats what I learned in 2020

@debravictoria7452 6 ай бұрын

@@NFTeveBetter late than never.

@sellingacoerwa8318 5 ай бұрын

the first 60 seconds doesn't pass before he mentions the NYT review (reaction) of the book... literally

5 ай бұрын

BS....she's just now capitalizing on what most folks been pointing to for a decade now. Stop giving this clown air and print time.

@albaniaball897 3 ай бұрын

Not only did they not mention it, they intentionally pushed it. They were all working in concert with democrats in order to unseat trump. Time Magazine wrote about the "Shadow campaign that saved the election." About a "secret cabal."

@NFTeve 6 ай бұрын

People are not the same. Many people have not come back out :(

@1984isnotamanual 6 ай бұрын

When i go out for walks since the pandemic people act so crazy, cross the street so they dont have to walk past someone. Craziness

@ghostramp8578 2 ай бұрын

I’m sorry to hear tgat. I personally had a great time then (due to my burnout and a need for isolation, though I never spent more time outside than then in a long time).

@ghostramp8578 2 ай бұрын

I’m always sorry to hear that. I personally had a great time then (due to my burnout and a need for isolation, though I never spent more time outside than then in a long time).

@DavidxWebb 5 ай бұрын

Living in Montana, my day to day routine was absolutely unchanged.

@missano3856 2 ай бұрын

Mine in Billings was significantly altered, I shudder to think what it was like in blue places.

@bend9332 6 ай бұрын

Protect this woman at all costs!!!

5 ай бұрын

Why?

@xyzct 2 ай бұрын

Why TF would you say that? She is a sociopath; she thinks all of this horror -- that she was a part of and profited from -- "hilarious".

@NFTeve 6 ай бұрын

I was violently assaulted and injured 2 times in DC for no reason and the police did not make a crime report. The police laughed at me the first time.

@scsmith4604 6 ай бұрын

Had you defended yourself they would have cared....and charged you.

@carolyna.869 5 ай бұрын

I saw a black cop in DC wearing a BLM mask. That's the level of intelligence we are dealing with I that town. He openly advocated for having his job defunded.

@vicnighthorse 6 ай бұрын

I live in rural WY and there was no lock down here, as far as I could tell, although many if not all schools closed for some time. I posit that a person is extremely foolish to live in NYC (looking at you Nick) or even worse DC these days.

@Tonkarai 6 ай бұрын

I never changed. I still don't listen to the state and still don't give a shit about what others think of me. Only bootlickers were affected the hardest besides hard working folks.

@ghostramp8578 2 ай бұрын

I think the whole pandemic with the lockdowns turned out to be a major fragility test of humanity. (Unless it was the test from the very beginning.)

@sweeperbart 6 ай бұрын

I hope that Nellie grows more famous and speaks more than her wife Bari. Nellie is so light and endearing!

@booboo4963 6 ай бұрын

I’m interested in the subject matter and I’m sure the book is great. However, as an interview subject, I found her sort of useless. She has trouble forming cogent thoughts that are linked together in answers to his questions. She also has trouble following through on her answers. So many times she starts a sentence and then breaks off into a semi-related idea about something else. Then she’ll slip in a bad joke. Then she tries to get back on topic and has completely forgotten the point she was trying to make. Just because someone can write a good book doesn’t mean they’re going to be good at giving interviews.

5 ай бұрын

I don't think there could be a more braindead, naive take than this. Smfh

@Caper1144 6 ай бұрын

Man, everyone went nuts over ventilators. Just the worst thing the US didn’t have 1000s of Ventilators on hand. I remember being so mad and everyone being so mad. Right now, I could give af about ventilators.

@stevenw5013 6 ай бұрын

Iirc it turned out that ventilators were actually harmful in many cases. It was more effective just to put patients in a "prone position."

@SunTingWong 5 ай бұрын

Ventilators have a 15% survival rate under ideal conditions.

@equinoxb8711 6 ай бұрын

Thanks for making sense of what she's saying. For an author, she sure has a hard time explaining things clearly. 😂

@kimdavid4406 6 ай бұрын

She seems like a sweet person but she is wandering around in the clouds. I watched all this shite going on while she was participating and loving it! And now she has a book going, Oh my gosh! Look at what was really happening! Wasn't that crazy and so funny??!! 🙄

@WhizzingFish12 6 ай бұрын

Yes, I do not lionize her at all. She was an enthusiastic practitioner of cancel culture until they came for her, so her "awakening" didn't arise out of principle. Plus she's shilling a book.

@willmercury 6 ай бұрын

Better late than never?

@booboo4963 6 ай бұрын

@ghostramp8578 2 ай бұрын

@@booboo4963Define “good book”. I look forward to reading it but I somehow doubt it will blow my mind.

@macdisciple 6 ай бұрын

As an introvert I flourished during lockdown.

@jamesbizs 6 ай бұрын

Sure you did

@jimpollard113 6 ай бұрын

@@jamesbizs It is true. For introverts, Covid was the same old lifestyle; stay to yourself, get things done, and the world you live in exists inside your head. Extroverts have no idea how easy covid was for introverts. Go ahead and doubt, but it is a fact.

@jaycarver4886 6 ай бұрын

@@jamesbizsIntroverts don't rely on the external world to be happy or survive. Find one to cling to when TSHTF.

@rickyvvvvv 6 ай бұрын

I agree. I hate to say it, but I was quite happy.

@LibertarianRF 5 ай бұрын

Introvert or sociopath?

@Highwayman589 6 ай бұрын

The need to tip toe around the influence of female psychological chaos hamstrings this conversation to a grave degree. Not that I blame them for doing it. If they address it directly, women would use relational aggression (false accusations, ostracism, etc.) to try to destroy them. This chaos is driving society to a pretty hopeless place.

@Hollis_has_questions 6 ай бұрын

The Covid lockdown felt like a warm hug to me. I had a great time doing what I've always done. I'm an Aspie (Asperger's), definitely not an introvert. But I hate being the center of attention, which happens all too often. I don't go to parties for that reason. Phone conversations and KZbin video comments (like this) are my preferred Pro nouns. I am always working on sharing the stage, being careful to talk with, not to or at, others. Y'all may consider yourselves "back to normal," but the only thing that has changed for me is ... nothing. Until 7 October 2023. Now I finally have a Jewish identity! Hatred and all-too-real threats of pogroms and genocide can do that. It's not so much that I'm an atheist - ever since my first few hours of life as a blastocyst - but I realize that now is the time to accept the glove thrown at my feet by Hamas terrorists, their supporters, and their defenders. I can confront their irrational ideology, their admiration of martyrdom, their denial of reality, and their flagrant fabrications and defamatory accusations. I have become an online soldier using objective reality and fact-based argumentation to expose the fallacies inherent in my enemies' faith-based assumptions. And what is Jew Hatred if not a faith-based assumption?

@piscinaiv7937 4 ай бұрын

Informative and fun, thanks!

@NFTeve 6 ай бұрын

Thats amazing info, you really great journalist! I am not fragile, I know my mind, so I never got into that BS. Interesting to hear about it

@briankeely1265 5 ай бұрын

The idea that chaos is the norm and "this" is the exeption is very american exceptionalist I think people get along all over the world for a long time

@upStomp 6 ай бұрын

As a reader of Reason for 20+ years, it always saddens me that they haven't faired better during the social media age (view numbers of this stellar interview being an example). Though I take solice in knowing that they'll survive its looming collapse.

@angelozachos8777 6 ай бұрын

No they won’t survive Nick and REASON are perpetual “fence-sitters” on most topics , and routinely move with the ‘Overton Window’. Their time is up

@quin2203 6 ай бұрын

I'll have to get back to this. I got to about 20:00. It's an interesting interview. She effectively breaks down the woke psyche and explains their thought process. Within that context she explains why the last several years have been so crazy.

@NFTeve 6 ай бұрын

yes, it was great and then an apologetics for a sytem that has been in place for decades, just obvious now that we have other ways of getting info. (Google is BS tho)

@booboo4963 6 ай бұрын

@SDsc0rch 6 ай бұрын

some of us have never gotten over covid : /

@carlfromtheoc1788 6 ай бұрын

It only drove the mentally weak and mentally soft adults crazy. Those addicted and needy for likes on Twitter, Instagram, etc. suffered. Those of us with real jobs, hobbies and lives had no issue.

@ghostramp8578 2 ай бұрын

Makes a lot of sense

@mikec3756 6 ай бұрын

The fact that she went from pro- to anti- in only a few short years makes me suspicious. She wasn't a hanger-on -- she was right there in the thick of it. It reminds me of the Canadian writer Jan Wong, who was a rabid Maoist in China during the 1970s (despite being from Canada), actually turned people in for "thought crimes", and then completely flipped in the 1990s and began writing books about what an idiot she'd been and criticizing everything about Chinese society. It's entertaining listening to Bowles, but I can't help thinking: you're obviously a super-smart person. Why would you fall for this crap? She wasn't just going along to get along -- she was attending all of these idiotic sessions that she presumably had to pay thousands of dollars for. I'm glad she got out of that mindset, but it's still really strange. Maybe it's some kind of status thing, where participating in this kind of stuff reinforces the feeling that you're part of the elite (i.e., it pretends to be about helping vulnerable minorities, but it's really about reminding you that you're the one with the power and agency).

@WhizzingFish12 6 ай бұрын

Agree. She was an enthusiastic practitioner of cancel culture until it came for her. She didn't "awaken" out of principle.

@willmercury 6 ай бұрын

Actually, highly intelligent and educated people can be more credulous simply because they are better at rationalizing reasons for their beliefs. Intelligence is not a perfect prophylactic against error. Also, educated elites tend to defer to experts, including themselves, often using this, as do we all, to confirm pre-existing positions on issues. Myside bias. I have no position on this woman as yet because I've never really read or listened to her. What I find strange in these comments though is the suspicion and intolerance for her changing her mind. Surely when and how we arrive matters less than the fact of actually getting somewhere. Denying progress, punishing apostates, and deriding thought crime with no possibility of redemption is what the Woke do. And for the record, that's something of which I never have been and never will be a part, whomever's wielding the moral cudgel.

@booboo4963 6 ай бұрын

@ninagohlsson6053 4 ай бұрын

@@willmercuryPerfectly put!

@ghostramp8578 2 ай бұрын

@@willmercuryI don’t doubt she genuinely changed her mind but we can’t be sure if that really happened and how. There’s an audience for both sides, pro- and anti-woke. And as we can see, the anti-woke is booming. Also, she’s dating BW, which I believe makes everything a bit strange.

@vivianoosthuizen8990 5 ай бұрын

Humanity all of a sudden realised how much power we have given away if not all. The scary part is how infantile adults are in current day

@haldanesghost 5 ай бұрын

I liked preMeltdown Bon Appetit and never knew the root of the breakdown. Tbh as a PRican I find costume thing fucking hilarious.

@davids4610 6 ай бұрын

Nick got a new jacket - suede fringe!!!!

@DianaHylandTX 6 ай бұрын

Love Nellie! I recently read some great reviews on Good Reads. Can’t wait to real her book.

@brendawilliams2554 3 ай бұрын

Read the Undoctrinated Brain by Dr. Michael Nehls. It explains the change in our brains and the insanity that has followed. It also explains what to do to return to normal.

@RealLifeProduct 5 ай бұрын

The postmodern craziness started long before covid

@JP34. 6 ай бұрын

Love P.J. O'Rourke

@xaspirate8060 6 ай бұрын

I don't know of any other author who made me laugh so consistently over the years/decades. Can't believe I still have not read all of his books (but most). Underappreciated =YES!

@chrisocony 6 ай бұрын

The arc of the universe does not give a shit about justice. But humans do.

@missano3856 2 ай бұрын

And most of the bending of that arc has been due to the use of fossil fuels if you look at it squarely.

@chrisocony 2 ай бұрын

@@missano3856 Umm, no. Fossil fuel use is strong in North Korea, Iran, Russia, etc. No relation whatsoever.

@missano3856 2 ай бұрын

@@chrisocony But much of human progress is simply having more energy available for use.

@NFTeve 6 ай бұрын

Nails it!

@kh9242 6 ай бұрын

She lost me with the stimulus, for god sake it was $300 not $300,000. Me, I replaced the alternator in my 14 year old car, guess that makes me rich

@booboo4963 6 ай бұрын

Exactly. It seems extremely nonsensical to associate reasonable stimulus checks that were given out with people going completely insane about race and gender. She sort of betrays her liberalism with statements like that. I consider myself 100% not woke. However, it feels like a lot of these critics of woke attitudes also harbor anti left fiscal policy. They seem like republicans.

5 ай бұрын

Its the Nellie Bowles of the world that have driven sane folks nuts. She a liar, opportunist, and a few other things I wont mention.

@EganDoris 4 ай бұрын

What has she lied about?

4 ай бұрын

@@EganDoris start w/her 'interview' w/Jordan Peterson from few years back. Total hit piece.

@ghostramp8578 2 ай бұрын

Oh yeah. Allegedly a hit piece

@scottmcvicker4971 5 ай бұрын

Deflection. It was the fear, that was originated and promoted by the government, that did the damage. Don't focus on the implementation. That is too far downstream.

@DuffyLew91 6 ай бұрын

As a libertarian, redefining marriage is not the role off the state .

@debravictoria7452 6 ай бұрын

Many things are not their role, yet people accept it and some scream for more overreach.

@TheKrazyk2010 6 ай бұрын

Lockdowns turned me into an even more insecure asshole

@NFTeve 6 ай бұрын

fight back and get your core self back

@margaretcadogan5199 5 ай бұрын

She doesnt seem to grasp the heavy handed orchestration behind the shift to ideology and violence, "all that money" and unanimous elite sloganeering should have been a clue that it was malevolent and top down from the beginning.

@sonnytopboy4975 3 ай бұрын

It wasn't murder, stop lying. Drug OD, while getting arrested.

@chriseastopher 6 ай бұрын

This woman is not very insightful. And, that’s fine, I’m probably not either. But, no one is asking for my opinion about grand narratives and why the course of history is what it is. Her lack of nuance and focus on whacky shit as if that is the face of these movements she’s discussing reveals that she doesn’t really know what she’s talking about. People who know what they’re talking about are able to give valid insight into the beliefs of people they disagree with. And, I guess what I’m saying is, just like people don’t give a shit about my ignorant opinion, no one should take this idiot’s opinion seriously either. For instance, “All these labels are dumb!” Clearly a very thoughtful person would say this in response to where do you stand politically. I reject being labeled, but regardless I can recognize the utility of these labels and can say “I’m of the left.”

@RobertMcInerny 6 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@booboo4963 6 ай бұрын

@gailfg2211 5 ай бұрын

Intellectuals doing the wah-wah, making excuses for Leftist intellectuals, while critiquing them, it seems. Really done!

@robyncohen8542 6 ай бұрын

A very large problem is that most journalists are mathematically and statistically illiterate.

@tylerwhitney3443 6 ай бұрын

Bari Weiss is a lucky woman

@booboo4963 6 ай бұрын

@mor4652 13 күн бұрын

This sounds like a less abrasive version of the "Am I Racist?" Movie

@brendawilliams2554 3 ай бұрын

Indoctrinated Brain. Sorry for the previous spelling mistake.

@DuffyLew91 6 ай бұрын

Two women cannot make a baby. Who is the father?

@xyzct 2 ай бұрын

She's a sociopath.

@gailfg2211 5 ай бұрын

Erasing women, but keep laughing!

@vwarbase277 6 ай бұрын

First

@jamesbizs 6 ай бұрын

Thanks for telling us all you’re a loser.

@laughingliberaldad 6 ай бұрын

Nick seems displeased with Nellie lol

@booboo4963 6 ай бұрын

@stud6414 5 ай бұрын

Why are not calling this what is really is: female Hysteria

@jmf5246 5 ай бұрын

Isn’t she married to bari weiss and a strong zionist? Lets have some straight Catholics on Nick.

@TraditionalAnglican 3 ай бұрын

I see Nick doing some wishful thinking! 😂

@RobertMcInerny 6 ай бұрын

... don't bother wasting your time on this episode...

@frankjamesbonarrigo7162 6 ай бұрын

Well now I have to watch

@booboo4963 6 ай бұрын

@alieciacampbell8291 2 ай бұрын

Marxist

@infowarriorone 6 ай бұрын

The lock downs didn't bother me, because I understood the reasons.

@jamesbizs 6 ай бұрын

Lol what.,, please tell me you’re not trying to claim they didn’t bother you, because you “knew” they were necessary .

@xaspirate8060 6 ай бұрын

@@jamesbizs At some point you had to ask "Is this really necessary?" .... like a year later for instance>>>

@paulbadics3500 6 ай бұрын

"Necessary" why & for whom?

@angelozachos8777 6 ай бұрын

The choice to make all drugs (including cannabis) illegal didn’t bother me , because I understood the reasons. 👍🏼

@debravictoria7452 6 ай бұрын

@@angelozachos8777sarcasm? (I hope)

@mercanti100 6 ай бұрын

#Get a Haircut Please