Naomi Wolf experienced the nightmare of the pandemic. In a state of shock, she felt betrayed by all those she had previously respected. But Wolf didn’t give up, and like a true warrior, she showed both strength and determination when she stood up and faced the beast.

This is what Wolf describes in his book Facing the Beast: Courage, Faith, and Resistance in a New Dark Age.

The book is a mixture of a powder keg, spiced with despair and spiritual visions.

She begins by explaining why she chose the Bible as her moral support. She scoffs at the modern idea that intellectuals should stay away from the spiritual. Because history shows us that it was natural to associate knowledge with the spiritual.

So it’s not crazy or eccentric, if you know history, for intellectuals to talk publicly about God, and even about God’s opponent, and to worry about the fate of the human soul. Soul and mind are not opposed to each other, and the body is not opposed to either. And this acceptance of our tripartite, integrated nature is part of our Western heritage.

As a Jew, it’s the Old Testament that captivates her the most, naturally. She finds the New Testament a little too simple, and the conclusions come too quickly.

That’s why Wolf chooses to go to war, not physically, but spiritually. In the tyrannical years the West experienced from 2020, this was at least as risky, and Wolf describes how humiliating it was to be banned by all her friends, family, restaurants, universities, cafés etc. because she wasn’t vaccinated.

Wolf recognises the battle between good and evil, and understood what was at stake.

It’s time to start talking about spiritual battle again. Because I think that’s what we’re in, and the forces of darkness are so great that we need help. What is the goal of this spiritual battle? It doesn’t seem to be anything other than the soul of man.

She ate her lunch outside in the freezing cold. Thanksgiving and Christmas were cancelled two years in a row. She lost assignments and was vilified as a conspiracy theorist, even when she cited reports from Pfizer itself that were supposed to be secret for 75 years. These reports were also known to Dr Fauci and his mafia.

As Wolf writes: Fauci & co knew that the mRNA vaccine led to myocarditis in young boys, and bleeding in young girls. The number of unwanted dead foetuses grew by between 13 and 20 per cent, without abortion supporters among the Democrats caring about such details. I guess it was “climate friendly”.

The book is characterised by a deep contempt for all those who followed the script, the anointed, blessed and obedient, who allowed their children to be vaccinated by an untested vaccine that did not protect against infection.

The contempt for universities is just as great. People who should know better, like the leadership at her old stomping ground Yale, forced young, healthy students to take multiple boosters, as recently as autumn 2022.

Yale and other universities received more funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) than they received from all students. Follow the money.

It was an evil characterised by banalities, as Hannah Arendt described it.

Evil comes from a failure to think.
It defies thought for as soon as thought
tries to engage itself with evil
and examine the premises and principles
from which it originates,
it is frustrated because it finds nothing there.
That is the banality of evil.

A little trip out of isolation led to encounters with desperate people

Her contempt for the corrupt, tyrannical and supranational organisations is clear. She describes them as parasites, and that’s a good description of people who live by devouring freedom and democracy, the little that’s left.

Paradoxically, metanational organisations like the EU and the UN, agreements like the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and global corporate and investment communities, founded after the carnage of the Second World War, have helped to create a class of global elite politicians, non-profit leaders and bureaucrats who are able to craft cruel and oppressive policies precisely because they are no longer part of the communities whose lives are affected by what they have done.

We are led by elites who don’t live in the same world as us plebeians. That’s why evil is invisible to them, they don’t understand their own evil, since they are not personally affected.

Evil can come in the form of a well-dressed man or woman, far removed from any traditional loyalty or propriety, sending you the sherry.

Wolf goes so far as to say that she, and a large part of the population, was affected by post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). It was like being sexually assaulted and not being able to protect yourself (Wolf knows what she’s talking about, she experienced sexual abuse as a child).

She compares it to what veterans experience: Powerless, you watch the world fall apart, and you have no influence on what happens. It is precisely this powerlessness that persists and is something you never really forget.

That’s why special forces soldiers rarely suffer from PTSD: Specialised soldiers are more in control of the battlefield, unlike a regular infantryman.</p

In the book, as mentioned, Wolf makes a frontal attack on how women were treated. But the worst part is how children were treated. Forced to wear face masks at a very young age, they lost the opportunity to develop in the normal way. Young children were separated from reality, they lost the ability to learn language, they were denied a good hug from their grandfather.

After a fairly short time, more than 80 per cent of Norwegian children under the age of 15 had received the vaccine with their parents’ blessing. I’ll never forget that figure for the rest of my life. For me, it was something that almost crushed all hope of a good future in Norway.

In Europe, obedient citizens handed over all power to bureaucrats and corrupt politicians. Democracy was given a shot in the arm in countries like Canada, Austria, New Zealand and Australia.

Wolf compares what Western countries experienced during the pandemic with what happened in the 1930s, when Hitler took power in Germany. He too was largely supported by the intellectuals.

Eventually, Wolf and her husband escape the nightmare that is New York City, but even in a small town on the Hudson River, she experiences the same kind of tyranny. It’s not until she arrives in Florida that she can breathe again.

She describes it as travelling from hell to heaven. And one suspects that Wolf is unlikely to vote for Democratic candidate Harris in the November election. The text suggests that she has realised how evil has infected the party she has supported for so many years.

To stand against evil, you need courage. That doesn’t mean you lack fear. On the contrary: To be brave is to overcome fear, and to do the right thing even if it scares you.

Wolf understands that evil must be fought on two fronts. You have to face the monster from the outside. But you can’t forget the evil inside you, it must also be fought. It is within our own souls that the greatest and most important war is fought.

This means analysing yourself honestly, which Wolf does in her book Doppelganger – A Journey into the Mirror World. In it, she comes to terms with her young persona, the so-called liberal feminist who flirted with the intellectual elites without paying much attention to working-class Americans.

Because she concludes differently from the obedient, anointed and blessed intellectuals, she is quickly declared a far-right conspiracy theorist. But Wolf won’t be broken, which must create a certain admiration.

Sure, she’s come to the wrong conclusions on occasion (who hasn’t?), but she’s got the most important things right. She now believes that those responsible should be convicted of serious offences and given long prison sentences. Those in power failed completely, even though they knew. Mistakes can be forgiven, pure evil is unforgivable. But those responsible pretend nothing, nothing to see here, carry on.

The book is recommended for those who are concerned about the disaster that hit us in 2020. In the words of Naomi Wolf:</p

There is no forgiveness, not until people take responsibility for the evil they themselves caused.

I’ll end with a sentence from the book that I find particularly important:

We do not fight for freedom to gain recognition. We don’t fight for the truth because we want a byline.
We do both because we can’t help it. We do both because our founding fathers fought to the death so that we
ourselves to be free one day.

As I’ve written before: Freedom is not a free lunch. Freedom is demanding. Freedom must be fought for every single day!

It’s easier to choose slavery, as the majority demonstrated in horrifying fashion during the pandemic.