What should I believe? This has been the burning question throughout the past few years as we have trekked through the COVID-19 pandemic. In the video by the Indian scholar, Vandana Shiva, divide and conquer is the idea of a strategy of creating divisions or divisions within a group or society in order to weaken or control them. Although Shiva correlated this with big companies and the 1%, we also may see this with the government throughout the pandemic.
Let’s go on a hypothetical and believe everything Dr. Lee Merritt stated about COVID-19 and its numerous lies. Wouldn’t these lies all be a perfect way to achieve this idea of divide and conquer? It makes people split up into two groups: believers and non-believers. Hence, it creates more and more unnecessary division in the United States of America. With this division, the government is able to control each and every one of our lives unconsciously while we are dazed and confused about the division between each other.
While I believe many people are ignorant, I still believe that my government would do the right thing “by the people and for the people.”