Covid-19 and the Wojcicki Effect: A case study in the reality-shaping influence of Big Tech and those who manage it

Calvin Mulligan, September 1, 2026(c) draft All Rights Reserved

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. – Arthur Schopenhauer

A prison does not need walls, but it does need guards. And the best guards on earth have no idea that they are guarding anything. — Chase Hughes

Part One: A debilitating and dangerous kind of blindness

For a large segment of my career, I worked as a strategic planner with a specialization in foresight. That meant I was largely preoccupied with the challenge of equipping people and organizations to better see the developments headed their way and anticipate their likely implications. While foresight remains an abiding interest in retirement, the fact that the masses largely succumbed to the Great Deception (The Cov*d vaxx) campaign, has prompted a shift in my priorities. I’ve concluded that since roughly 70-80 percent of the population was deceived by the manufactured health crisis, the more pressing challenge is human ability to perceive tangible, present-day realities.

Seeing is, of course, more than a matter of functioning nerve connections and eyeballs. Seeing ultimately occurs in the mind. We often signal our understanding of something under discussion by saying “I see.” As Canadian writer, Robertson Davies, succinctly put it, The eye can only see what the mind is prepared to comprehend. If the mind isn’t prepared, we may describe the implied disability as one of psychological and intellectual blindness. Thus, if an individual has no conception of “X”, it doesn’t matter how big or how threatening X may be, the individual will be unable to recognize and respond to it appropriately. The so-called Covid pandemic of 2020 is illustrative.

The majority of people were unable to conceive of a devious plan involving the collaboration of governments, international health agencies, the medical profession, pharmaceutical companies, MSM and the military industrial complex in staging a pandemic. Most people saw something beneficent. So, they embraced it and hurried to get injected with dangerous and ineffectual “vaxxines”. On th other hand, 20-30% of the population entertained the possibility of globalist malevolence and rejected the idea. This decision spared the refuseniks much of the pain and suffering linked to vaxx-related illnesses, injuries and deaths that befell credulous family members, friends and acquaintances. Unfortunately, this was, for millions worldwide, a life or death decision. And discerning minds demonstrated seeing is believing. In other words, believing is (a prerequisite to) seeing.

Believing before seeing 

Individual and collective blindness — this intellectual-psychological variety with political undertones has been an inherent feature of human nature and society for ages. Arthur Schopenhauer suggests it’s universal, observing: Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. And whether self-imposed or not, it has profound and far-reaching consequences. It’s sobering to ponder how this affliction has impaired society’s quest for knowledge, understanding and truth throughout history. And with that what marvellous inventions, knowledge and opportunities have remained hidden in our blind spots.

Our reality is edited

We can’t be naive about it; every day that passes in this age of disclosure reveals more about the vast regions of our reality that’s been deliberately hidden or edited by the Powers-that-Be. It’s a well-worn habit of the we-know-what’s-best-for-you Establishment with vested-interests to protect. So it the global elites felt they needed to rewrite and bury a major chapter in human history in order to manage our future, we now know they will do it.

There may be no better example that the editing of the history of Tartaria. It’s remarkable isn’t it, that there isn’t even a formal marking of this superb civilization. It leads me to believer it was intentionally buried and we weren’t supposed to remember. There was likely a crude calculation behind their decision. If our knowing the truth about the enlightened lives of Tartarians wouldn’t serve the interests of the PTM, or at least pay them sufficient rewards to offset their expected losses, then civilizational foreclosure would be necessary. Well, the advanced Tartarians, it seems the masses knew how to generate free energy, proving the foundation for a very different kind of society. Does anyone think that free energy for the masses would be perceived as a benefit by the governing PTB?

We’re all Truman

The counterforce to cognitive captivity is the free-thinking individual, the unleashed independent mind, the rogue impulse is to escape the prison of sanctioned thought. Truman, the captive star of a long-running reality show and resident of Seahaven Island is the embodiment of this reality-seeking, freedom-seeking, truth-craving impulse. (See “The Truman Show”, 1998, Staring Jim Carrey, 1998). And the people around him, including his programmed wife and best friend, were the co-conspirators feigning affection and gas-lighting Truman. They were being fed a script by the producer of the show. I underestimated the lengths to which he would to go to keep Truman captive. He used a childhood trauma. When Truman was a child, the producer orchestrated a simulated storm and drowned the boy’s father. Many years late, when Truman was attempting to sail from the island to freedom, the despotic producer created a squall to reignite his childhood fear of water. We may not know it, but we are all Truman being constantly manipulated within a false reality.

There have been many Truman’s throughout history to which we owe a great debt. Many lived obscure lives choosing freedom over the comforts of membership in the club. Some were lonely pioneers and some courageous whistleblowers who were murdered for revealing closely-guarded secrets. Author and translator, Mario Boglini notes, in “Gods of the Bible” that “pivotal discoveries in archaeology, for example, came not from pros but from outsiders to the profession”. He adds that the list of examples (of this phenomenon) in all fields is endless. One wonders where our world would be without the contributions of the divergent thinkers and intellectual rebels. And yet, as of this moment, so much of our reality remains shrouded or blank (Antarctica anyone?)

Big Tech as Truth Gatekeepers

Times have changed. The influence of Big Tech on human thought and behaviour given its global reach, and information management capabilities shouldn’t be underestimated. Consider the extent to which algorithmic control, content moderation, censorship and their fact-checking partnerships have enabled Big Tech to become gatekeepers of knowledge and shapers and ultimately arbiters of truth. That said, Big Tech has also gained proportionate ability to reveal once hidden or obscure libraries of information and make it searchable. Thus it can be an amazing force for revealing and spreading truth — a powerful liberating force if so inclined. There’s an ethical question here. The Uncle Ben character in the Spiderman series said: “With much power comes great responsibility.” Suffice to say, the question of whether Big Tech and its managers first understand what “good is” and secondly choose to use their super-human information powers for good or for evil is a matter of central importance to our society.

You and I don’t have our hands on the steering wheel. And the very thought should make every committed truth-seeker and would be diviner of objective reality twitch. Thus, skepticism must be the default position. Mine is reinforced every time an A.I. inquiry yields nothing more than sample of the consensus stance when I’m already aware that status quo position is collapsing and the world is moving on. My bias is obvious: AI should be partnering with search and social media to help us break out of the confines of the Establishment’s storehouse of approved information, not holding us captive.

The scale of the challenge became clearer when I researched performance of YouTube and its CEO, Susan Wojciciki, during the Covid saga. It’s an intriguing case study in Big Tech gate keeping and thought and thus reality-shaping.