The Provaxxer Blind Spot

The Strange Irony of a Viral Comic

A particular comic has been circulating widely across the internet. If you run a reverse image search on it, you’ll find it shared across countless platforms and by people of vastly different persuasions. But when I first encountered this image, curiosity pushed me to look deeper. I wanted to find its true origin—its original creator and the context behind it.

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Eventually, I managed to trace it back to the artist himself. And what I discovered added a whole new layer of irony to the comic. The author of this piece is someone who is immunocompromised and, by his own account, disabled—likely as a result of the very medical interventions we all know about. Here is a man who has written, in essence, a manifesto about how society treated those who questioned the dominant narrative. Yet, paradoxically, he never questioned that narrative himself. In fact, he directs blame outward, accusing skeptics of threatening the lives of others.

This contradiction fascinates me. How is it that a comic so perfectly encapsulating the experience of questioning the mainstream story, of resisting imposed conformity, was created not by a critic of the system, but by someone still loyal to it? How is it that something so deeply resonant with those who oppose medical authoritarianism was drawn by a staunch pro-vaxxer?

To understand this, I believe we need to look beyond individual psychology and consider the collective unconscious—that vast reservoir of shared memory and symbolic truth that links all human beings. Even as we individuate, carving out our personal perspectives and journeys, we remain connected to this deeper pool. It contains the full scope of human history—our triumphs and failures, our wisdom and folly, our repeated cycles of tyranny and liberation. It even contains answers to the questions we assume to be beyond reach.

And so, it becomes clear: this comic is more than just a drawing. It is a product of that unconscious reservoir. In a sense, the artist accidentally tapped into something universal. He expressed, in three panels, the entirety of what it means to challenge the mainstream narrative—the alienation, the misunderstanding, the inversion of truth. This is art with a capital “A.”

The irony, however, is that the creator himself cannot see what he has created. He resents that others—especially those he disagrees with—use his work to highlight cognitive dissonance or even the Dunning-Kruger effect that defines so much of our current era. Yet he remains blind to his own dissonance, his own unquestioned faith in the very system that compromised him.

And that is precisely why the comic has such power. It speaks not only to his perspective but to the paradox of our time: that truth, however obscured, has a way of surfacing through us—even when we ourselves do not fully see it.

I’m also not the only one laughing at the irony here, see this reddit post. TBM in this context most likely stands for “True Believing Mormon.”