"Watch the Water" — Is COVID/Remdesivir/Spike Protein/COVID Vaccine actually Snake Venom? (Continued Part 1)
As for narrative presentation, I could not think of a more quintessentially schizophrenic story than:
"People are trying to kill me because I have been sent on a mission by God via a message presented to me through a fortune cookie calling me to spread the truth that an unseen monolithic and pure evil authority is putting reptile essence in the water supply to poison me and the world."
In addition, he exhibits almost every single common delusion and disordered thinking pattern associated with schizophrenia:
Delusions of Significance
Occurs multiple times, most notably when Ardis claims the name of a COVID researcher that was shot appeared in a fortune cookie, and that this was a message from God that he needed to expose the truth about snake venom.
Delusions of Persecution
As well as being poisoned being a common delusion in this category, Ardis claims that because of what he knows he is on a Big Pharma hit list (if anything they'd be thanking him for the wide spread and success of his lies)
Delusions of World Catastrophe
"The water supply of the world has been poisoned with serpent venom and everyone has been injected with serpent mRNA as part of a satanic ritual to defile God's creation and kill everyone." Although we are living through a world historic event and people are being pressured to get vaccinated with novel unsafe vaccines, this is simply delusional.
Overinclusive Thinking
(Conceptual Loosening, Overcategorization, Loose Associations)
Ardis repeatedly overcategorizes during the video, claiming that similarities in the sequence of the spike protein to peptides in snake venom mean the spike protein is snake venom, and that Remdesivir is a crystalline white substance and so is synthesized snake venom (many organic compounds are white crystalline substances), therefor Remdesivir is snake venom.
Jumping to Conclusions
Occurs repeatedly throughout the movie, and when asked a clarifying question, talks about something tangentially related and trails off into evoking God and talking about other doctors that have inspired his journey.
Additionally,
"The results showed that schizophrenics show ... a greater degree of conceptual loosening and a tendency towards overcategorization. The most striking abnormality emerged during observation of the actual sorting strategy itself. Schizophrenics tackled the task in a way which suggests that they lack the ability to form a Gestalt of the task."
—The Nature of Overinclusive Thinking in Schizophrenia | Psychopathology (1987)
Gestalt (noun):
Something that is made of many parts and yet is somehow more than or different from the combination of its parts.
Meaning, as Ardis demonstrates throughout the movie and in the follow up interview when questioned, that schizophrenics often have difficulty forming a cohesive and coherent big picture of situation.
Finally, our shared history with snakes which predated on hominids and primates means that threat detection pattern recognition of snakes and serpent-like figures is deeply embedded in our psychology. This is likely why there is a cross-cultural presence of serpents, reptiles, worms etc. as malevolent figures in mythology.
Paranoia is fear and anxiety that spills over into irrationality, a hypersensitivity to detecting threats, and one of the threats that has made the largest impact on our psychology is snakes as our predators, which is likely why extreme schizophrenic delusions often involve lizard people or people that take a reptilian form, and a fairly common in schizophrenics is the development of a fixation on the irrational belief that they're infected with undetected parasites, known as delusions of Parasitosis.
Ardis repeatedly invokes the biblical connotation of snakes and serpents during the movie and I believe this to be at least partly related to the kind of extreme paranoid and disordered thinking that many schizophrenic delusions seem to devolve into.
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