What happened to the sentiment that "I may disagree with you but I will defend to the death your right to say it?" It's been swallowed up by the Cult of the Uber Woke and Always Aggrieved.
“When I am Weaker Than You, I ask you for Freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am Stronger than you, I take away your Freedom Because that is according to my principles.”
That's... borderline racist of him towards the finns, if we're using the modern definitions of racism.
What they are over there in the formerly Eastern half of the Realm is a high trust-society and cultural. Trustworthiness as a trait is kind of essential, if a people in often harsh conditions (especially historically, before modern technology) is to develop beyond basic subsistence farming and hunter-gatherer lifestyles. The finns managed that and developed high trust(worthiness) as a desirable trait along the way.
Betraying trust used to be among the ultimate social crimes in any Scandinavian/Nordic nation (and in many others too).
Sadly, all of us up here developed trust so far that it started to become an article of faith, almost. To demonstrate lack of trust/confidence in state and governement was and still is for many tantamount to what is apostasy in Abrahamic religions. To even consider that officials may lie, be corrupt or simply incompetent or gullible or ignorant is a very hard pill to swallow for many, and to demand public verification and testing of claims makes you about as popular among the clergy-cum-civil servants as a pig in Mekka.
Hence the numbers referred. Too much trust, too little verification.
🗨 The paradox here is that the bigger the lie, the harder it is for the mind to bridge the gulf between perceived reality and the lie that authority figures are painting as truth.
🗨 We are hard-wired to fear deception because we have evolved to interpret it as an existential threat. That’s why deception can elicit the same emotional response as the miscalculation of a serious physical threat.[...] To avoid the death-like experience of being deceived, a mental defence is erected to deny that the lie is happening.
Probably, the greater the trust in a society, the greater the lie that can be told - I think it checks out as a hypothesis since people from the old East Bloc seem to always leadwith the assumption that the state lies, whatever the topic, and are happily surpirsed when it doesn't.
very good point! Yes I've come to conclude denial / not wanting to hear what's being said is because internally people violently don't want the stated evidence to be true. Knowing one has been so deeply fooled sets off an emotionally violent internal war. This gets projected onto the bearer of the evidence.
Here I just cannot not share a wall-of-text type comment that came as kinda revelation for me some half a year back, and made my New Year so much more joyful 🤸
In neutron-star condensed form ↓↓
🗨 [The majority of folks] do hear your data and proofs. But in order to accept those as truth they must also accept that their docs are liars and their governments are monsters, which means their parents and teachers were wrong, and that science can't be trusted anymore, including those proofs and truths, and that this has been going on for a long time.
The elephantine takeaway ↓↓
🗨 So, be kind. Be very grateful that you can see more truth than most.[...] And if you can handle that, be grateful for that as well. And patient and non-judgemental for those who can't. You, and others like you, are an anomaly in the overall human condition.
love CJ. Very interesting comment you linked to! I fluctuate on compassion for this struggle. The cruelty of the resultant attacks has been off the charts of allowable. But I work on it. Cults are difficult to break free of. I get it.
All true; CJ is an epitomé of modern-day warrior 🙂 But the text in point is by @ForestDi56 😉
Anywhoo, all good & swell if not for a tricky catch. I'll let Charles Eisenstein speak:
🗨 people become a lot more receptive to information about UFOs, for example, when other aspects of their reality picture have started to disintegrate. Maybe they were full believers in everything orthodox, and then, [...] everything that they thought about medicine and progress and science now lies in shambles. And then naturally, you think well, okay, what else have I taken for granted as reality itself that is just a story. What else? Where else have I been lied to and gaslit and deceived. So people then begin questioning everything, *including things that probably are true*.
Thank you for that link. How very interesting and thought provoking. What scares me most is the only thing lacking - a cult leader like Hitler or Stalin. In a way we can be grateful the best they could come up with is Bi-bi-Biden.
Which is maybe why Trump freaks them out. He’s got the following but they’re all saying the wrong things.
Speculation re: the lack of an actual public and real Leader.
I think the managers of the machine to use that metaphor realised somewhen in the 1990s or so, that having a Leader - even if it is one they created and annointed - creates two great risks:
The Leader may get it into her mind to actually lead, and might not lead the way the managers and their owners intended, creating problems with the running of the machine.
The Leader instantly becomes as clear visible and overt target for any criticisms, failures and so on and the western nations do not have in place the DPRK-style infrastructure, culture and background necessary for total control to ensure the Leader is always right.
So what to do? Get leaders who are in effect followers personality-wise, and who are easily bought and corrupt, or ideally simply venal dum-dums, no more unique or with special skills than a bagboy at the grocery-store.
Call it the churn-and-burn style of democratic leadership, maybe?
But seriously, is it any wonder that 34 percent of Americans have a "great deal" or "fair amount" of confidence in media, according to Gallup? And isn't it remarkable that the percentage is THAT HIGH? Not really. The number is skewed by party ID. Seventy percent of "the party of science," 14 percent of Republicans, and 27 percent of independents trust media.
"Are we so out of touch? No, it's the audience that is wrong."
'They' are waking up though, and when they do, I shudder at the reaction that we have in store for us.
I went to lunch with my aunt yesterday, whom I care for deeply, and who wouldn't visit with anyone for 2 years who wasn't fully boosted out of a genuine fear for her life. I never took it personally - I squarely put the blame on her doctors.
After 50+ years it has finally dawned on her that the medical establishment may not have her best interest in mind. Although she has yet to make the same connection with the msm, she is on a collision course with that realization.
There audience is completely in touch with everything they write. They are simply preaching to the choir, the 34% that still have confidence in ther reporting. The other 66% have tuned them out along time ago. The business model has been set, preach to the choir, or go out of business. It's a niche audience. If MSNBC or the LA Times decided tomorrow to do straight news, they would piss off all there loyal customers, with no customers to replace them with. The people that jumped ship are never going back, how can they be trusted??? So you get droning from every left wing fish wrap, website, and cable news outlet, all saying the same thing to the sme people.
I say we laugh, but in their faces, long and loud, then read that Finland crap into a bullhorn to let more people in on the joke. Oh, but not in Finland, cuz apparently 0% will get the joke.
To protect lies, we are now asked to end debate itself. But there is a problem.
If debate is so counterproductive, then political candidates should never debate. Legislative assemblies should never debate. Lawyers should not debate each other before judges, and the Supreme Court should not allow oral arguments. The entire western tradition of legal, scientific and philosophical advocacy must be abandoned. Everyone should simply present their conclusions in writing so that the correct one can be selected and published, and the rest buried forever. Democracy was a mistake; tyranny was the solution all along.
That is what we are all being asked to swallow, and some of these idiots will swallow anything, but I think this is finally too much for most people.
Remember democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures. The family as godhead. To the Ancients, monotheism meant monoculture. One people, one rule, one god.
The Romans adopted a monotheistic sect as state religion as the Empire was rising from the ashes of the Republic. The Big Guy Rules.
A spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell. More the light shining through and driving the film, than the images and narratives played out on it.
Ideals are not absolutes. Truth, beauty, platonic forms are ideals. Any village totem is an ideal. Gods are ideals. The clinical term for people who assume ideals as absolute, is obsessive/compulsive. When the entire civilization is founded on the principle, every ideology has to assert universality, or be dismissed. Every person is taught they are a gift of god, not one of nature's trials and likely errors.
Shouldn’t they welcome a debate to prove how right they are and show how much of a “quack” RFK is? A real journalist would welcome that. Maybe even write about it
It’s not that. It’s that he’s running for president. And he’s a Kennedy. So right off the bat there’s a huge percentage of people that are going to listen to him because of his Pedigree. I think they’re scared that if enough people listen, his message will reach critical mass.
I am no Democrat, but I was curious enough to listen to him. And I have to say that I agree with him on many issues. And others I couldn’t disagree more, but it certainly is refreshing to listen to a democrat say these things. It must drive them nuts!
Jun 23, 2023·edited Jun 23, 2023Liked by Chris Bray
This is exactly why I no longer subscribe to such newspapers. They are just so totally freaking clueless. The only people who take them seriously have probably all been jabbed 2 - 6 times now. We'll see how that works out for them. Meanwhile, I find more relevant news on RFK's CHD.tv, the occasional Joe Rogan interview, and from a number of independent writers and journalists-- such as Chris Bray. Add to that the magnificent work of the NCI.
Jun 23, 2023·edited Jun 23, 2023Liked by Chris Bray
I did a deep dive on one of Kennedy's claims on Glyphosate. I found his characterizations about it are typical, political storytelling. He gives a simplistic (and slandering) yarn about how it was created. Wasn't hard to find a well-sourced paper describing the details of development and testing, complete with quotes attributed to the Mansanto scientists who worked on it. Kennedy's characterizations are designed to further a narrative that fits his worldview.
That doesn't mean I think he's a quack, or that he's wrong about everything. But it does tell me he isn't particularly careful with the truth, and that lack of care likely runs across multiple topics. He's a member of a political dynasty and an activist. Those aren't exactly the moorings of intellectual integrity.
That's why debate is important. Somebody knowledgeable, prepared with researched facts, can potentially refute Kennedy's claims. I'd like to see that.
Hotez isn't a formidable opponent, and he is rightly afraid he will get his ass kicked. And on the issues Kennedy is vocal on, orthodoxy rules opposing views, so finding someone more neutral and committed to truth is a tough ask.
Your comment about RFK Jr. is quite concerning. The last few years I developed the sense that he was honest and that honesty compelled him to speak out about things like vaccine harms, and ultimately run for president. Not so?
Aviva, my impression is he believes what he believes. That he often bucks the trend of his political party to shine light on topics they'd rather not discuss, is a mark of better-than-average character. Certainly in the political arena.
It's incredibly difficult to hold oneself accountable to the truth in every aspect of life. Each of us shapes our perceptions based on our beliefs. He wouldn't be human if he didn't do the same. My point was to highlight politicians are (or should be) accountable for the claims they make. I knew a bit more about that particular controversy, and his framing sounded wrong when I heard it. A few minutes of research on my part yielded a more authoratative source on the specifics, and indicated Kennedy was heavily embellishing, in a way both activists and politicians often do.
I love that he challenges the orthodoxy. But I still see a politician plying his craft: Every time I hear him speak, in nearly any context, he manages to work his father and uncle into the mix, as burnishment for his own credibility. Okay, I get it: You're a member of a political dynasty. Stop telling me about them as a way to build yourself.
A lot of politics is storytelling. He's good at it. But you should challenge him (and yourself) by examining his claims. He won't be correct all the time. Knowing where he's fudging might make you a better judge of who he is and on what topics you may need to be skeptical of him.
These people don’t truly love or understand science. That it’s a process of discovering truth. That concept is foreign to them. They think it’s a golden calf strengthened with conformity of thought. And that’s because they don’t love truth. They love money, attention, and illusions of “safety”.
They're communists when it comes to thinking: every thought and belief is to be held in common (but only those thoughts and opinions approved by The Party). No private thoughts. There is one publicly approved thought, and a million good comrades' brains share that thought, which is unblemished by any questions of any kind. They're not just communists; they're *conformmunists*.
Except the prefix "eu" signifies something beneficial. There is nothing good about these woke NPCs! They're more "dissocial." If ants were "eusocial" like the conformmunists, the worker ants would cooperate in dismantling the ant mound, and the soldiers would invite ants from competing colonies in to invade and prey upon the workers.
'Idea bulimic'...4 min on and I can't wipe this stupid grin off my face.
This phenomena of publicly deveraging aggregated intelligence - which would be embarassing only a few years ago - may be some kind of social immune reaction where the 'body' pushes all the infected cells to the surface to get slaughed off.
You can't get anymore un serious than today's ms journalists. They, like the politicians they represent, act exactly like petulant children in the playground, bullying everyone, then crying foul to anyone dumb enough to listen.
Jun 23, 2023·edited Jun 23, 2023Liked by Chris Bray
💬 The job is uniformity of thought and expression.
That's why msm journos are on fast track to be obliterated by LLM tech, the vast hordes of ChatGPT lookalikes 🙂
🗨 There is lots of utility in such a tool. In fact, the greatest utility probably lies in its application as “MOT,” or “Midwit Obsolescence Technology.” Woke journalists and the countless “content creators” who have for years been talking a lot but saying nothing, are now like dinosaurs watching the comet incinerate everything around them. It’s a beautiful thing. Life wins again.
Vinay Prasad declined to use the robot's answer. His piece (either on his own Substack or on Sensible Medicine--I forget which) was reasonable and not written by someone on Big Pharma's payroll. There is one other honest person with a brain out there. Also, I'm encouraged by the lady protesting so much. The truth has moved past the "we can just ignore it" stage of PTB control.
And then the New York Times realized that they hadn't done their ritual chanting:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/23/opinion/rfk-jr-joe-rogan.html
I vote for the wilderness, Chris.
You can see that it will be very easy to train AI to do all of the writing for the "news."
We're already there. There is no real intelligence at any of the cabal's propaganda outlets. They're all just bots.
But they could be actual bots
The only reason to keep those mischief makers around is to have human retainers, supporters.
That’s the only reason, and for most people that’s not enough
AI already trained
Got to ChatGPT and see
probably why they're calling for the bombing of the data centers
What happened to the sentiment that "I may disagree with you but I will defend to the death your right to say it?" It's been swallowed up by the Cult of the Uber Woke and Always Aggrieved.
“When I am Weaker Than You, I ask you for Freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am Stronger than you, I take away your Freedom Because that is according to my principles.”
That certainly was the MO of the ACLU. Notice they're not so much for free speech anymore-- especially not for conservatives.
I choose to laugh at these people AND flee to the wilderness regularly. Win-win!
That's... borderline racist of him towards the finns, if we're using the modern definitions of racism.
What they are over there in the formerly Eastern half of the Realm is a high trust-society and cultural. Trustworthiness as a trait is kind of essential, if a people in often harsh conditions (especially historically, before modern technology) is to develop beyond basic subsistence farming and hunter-gatherer lifestyles. The finns managed that and developed high trust(worthiness) as a desirable trait along the way.
Betraying trust used to be among the ultimate social crimes in any Scandinavian/Nordic nation (and in many others too).
Sadly, all of us up here developed trust so far that it started to become an article of faith, almost. To demonstrate lack of trust/confidence in state and governement was and still is for many tantamount to what is apostasy in Abrahamic religions. To even consider that officials may lie, be corrupt or simply incompetent or gullible or ignorant is a very hard pill to swallow for many, and to demand public verification and testing of claims makes you about as popular among the clergy-cum-civil servants as a pig in Mekka.
Hence the numbers referred. Too much trust, too little verification.
🗨 The paradox here is that the bigger the lie, the harder it is for the mind to bridge the gulf between perceived reality and the lie that authority figures are painting as truth.
🗨 We are hard-wired to fear deception because we have evolved to interpret it as an existential threat. That’s why deception can elicit the same emotional response as the miscalculation of a serious physical threat.[...] To avoid the death-like experience of being deceived, a mental defence is erected to deny that the lie is happening.
leftlockdownsceptics.com/alleged-cia-involvement-in-jfk-assassination-goes-mainstream-so-now-what
Probably, the greater the trust in a society, the greater the lie that can be told - I think it checks out as a hypothesis since people from the old East Bloc seem to always leadwith the assumption that the state lies, whatever the topic, and are happily surpirsed when it doesn't.
Increasingly a comfortable myth wrt East Bloc peeps; a rare mind of more recent gen is resistant to pervasive woke filth virus 😢
Was thinking of those who grew up behind the Iron Curtain - blame it on my age for considering them as the normal or norm.
very good point! Yes I've come to conclude denial / not wanting to hear what's being said is because internally people violently don't want the stated evidence to be true. Knowing one has been so deeply fooled sets off an emotionally violent internal war. This gets projected onto the bearer of the evidence.
Here I just cannot not share a wall-of-text type comment that came as kinda revelation for me some half a year back, and made my New Year so much more joyful 🤸
In neutron-star condensed form ↓↓
🗨 [The majority of folks] do hear your data and proofs. But in order to accept those as truth they must also accept that their docs are liars and their governments are monsters, which means their parents and teachers were wrong, and that science can't be trusted anymore, including those proofs and truths, and that this has been going on for a long time.
The elephantine takeaway ↓↓
🗨 So, be kind. Be very grateful that you can see more truth than most.[...] And if you can handle that, be grateful for that as well. And patient and non-judgemental for those who can't. You, and others like you, are an anomaly in the overall human condition.
cjhopkins.substack.com/p/news-from-cj-hopkins-and-consent-2fd/comment/11451522
love CJ. Very interesting comment you linked to! I fluctuate on compassion for this struggle. The cruelty of the resultant attacks has been off the charts of allowable. But I work on it. Cults are difficult to break free of. I get it.
All true; CJ is an epitomé of modern-day warrior 🙂 But the text in point is by @ForestDi56 😉
Anywhoo, all good & swell if not for a tricky catch. I'll let Charles Eisenstein speak:
🗨 people become a lot more receptive to information about UFOs, for example, when other aspects of their reality picture have started to disintegrate. Maybe they were full believers in everything orthodox, and then, [...] everything that they thought about medicine and progress and science now lies in shambles. And then naturally, you think well, okay, what else have I taken for granted as reality itself that is just a story. What else? Where else have I been lied to and gaslit and deceived. So people then begin questioning everything, *including things that probably are true*.
that's a GOOD thing imo. It's all been narrative. For a very long time. We should question it all.
Thank you for that link. How very interesting and thought provoking. What scares me most is the only thing lacking - a cult leader like Hitler or Stalin. In a way we can be grateful the best they could come up with is Bi-bi-Biden.
Which is maybe why Trump freaks them out. He’s got the following but they’re all saying the wrong things.
Hilarious in its own way.
🗨 Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make Woke. (*
Atlas Shrugged 😉
--
(* updated for our crazy times 😇
I prefer the original.
Being woke seems to be part of the destruction.
Fifty years ago, when we were kids, we were lucky. Now the kids are woke and they are being destroyed. Puberty is a fascist plot. Pods in the Matrix.
Speculation re: the lack of an actual public and real Leader.
I think the managers of the machine to use that metaphor realised somewhen in the 1990s or so, that having a Leader - even if it is one they created and annointed - creates two great risks:
The Leader may get it into her mind to actually lead, and might not lead the way the managers and their owners intended, creating problems with the running of the machine.
The Leader instantly becomes as clear visible and overt target for any criticisms, failures and so on and the western nations do not have in place the DPRK-style infrastructure, culture and background necessary for total control to ensure the Leader is always right.
So what to do? Get leaders who are in effect followers personality-wise, and who are easily bought and corrupt, or ideally simply venal dum-dums, no more unique or with special skills than a bagboy at the grocery-store.
Call it the churn-and-burn style of democratic leadership, maybe?
Also there is a cultural and racial commonality that is easy to find in isolated places.
RAAAAAGGGGEEEEE, Bray!
But seriously, is it any wonder that 34 percent of Americans have a "great deal" or "fair amount" of confidence in media, according to Gallup? And isn't it remarkable that the percentage is THAT HIGH? Not really. The number is skewed by party ID. Seventy percent of "the party of science," 14 percent of Republicans, and 27 percent of independents trust media.
"Are we so out of touch? No, it's the audience that is wrong."
'They' are waking up though, and when they do, I shudder at the reaction that we have in store for us.
I went to lunch with my aunt yesterday, whom I care for deeply, and who wouldn't visit with anyone for 2 years who wasn't fully boosted out of a genuine fear for her life. I never took it personally - I squarely put the blame on her doctors.
After 50+ years it has finally dawned on her that the medical establishment may not have her best interest in mind. Although she has yet to make the same connection with the msm, she is on a collision course with that realization.
There audience is completely in touch with everything they write. They are simply preaching to the choir, the 34% that still have confidence in ther reporting. The other 66% have tuned them out along time ago. The business model has been set, preach to the choir, or go out of business. It's a niche audience. If MSNBC or the LA Times decided tomorrow to do straight news, they would piss off all there loyal customers, with no customers to replace them with. The people that jumped ship are never going back, how can they be trusted??? So you get droning from every left wing fish wrap, website, and cable news outlet, all saying the same thing to the sme people.
Exactly!
This!
The winning substack of the day!
I say we laugh, but in their faces, long and loud, then read that Finland crap into a bullhorn to let more people in on the joke. Oh, but not in Finland, cuz apparently 0% will get the joke.
To protect lies, we are now asked to end debate itself. But there is a problem.
If debate is so counterproductive, then political candidates should never debate. Legislative assemblies should never debate. Lawyers should not debate each other before judges, and the Supreme Court should not allow oral arguments. The entire western tradition of legal, scientific and philosophical advocacy must be abandoned. Everyone should simply present their conclusions in writing so that the correct one can be selected and published, and the rest buried forever. Democracy was a mistake; tyranny was the solution all along.
That is what we are all being asked to swallow, and some of these idiots will swallow anything, but I think this is finally too much for most people.
Remember democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures. The family as godhead. To the Ancients, monotheism meant monoculture. One people, one rule, one god.
The Romans adopted a monotheistic sect as state religion as the Empire was rising from the ashes of the Republic. The Big Guy Rules.
A spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell. More the light shining through and driving the film, than the images and narratives played out on it.
Ideals are not absolutes. Truth, beauty, platonic forms are ideals. Any village totem is an ideal. Gods are ideals. The clinical term for people who assume ideals as absolute, is obsessive/compulsive. When the entire civilization is founded on the principle, every ideology has to assert universality, or be dismissed. Every person is taught they are a gift of god, not one of nature's trials and likely errors.
Some is seed, the rest is fertilizer.
Shouldn’t they welcome a debate to prove how right they are and show how much of a “quack” RFK is? A real journalist would welcome that. Maybe even write about it
It’s not that. It’s that he’s running for president. And he’s a Kennedy. So right off the bat there’s a huge percentage of people that are going to listen to him because of his Pedigree. I think they’re scared that if enough people listen, his message will reach critical mass.
I am no Democrat, but I was curious enough to listen to him. And I have to say that I agree with him on many issues. And others I couldn’t disagree more, but it certainly is refreshing to listen to a democrat say these things. It must drive them nuts!
This is exactly why I no longer subscribe to such newspapers. They are just so totally freaking clueless. The only people who take them seriously have probably all been jabbed 2 - 6 times now. We'll see how that works out for them. Meanwhile, I find more relevant news on RFK's CHD.tv, the occasional Joe Rogan interview, and from a number of independent writers and journalists-- such as Chris Bray. Add to that the magnificent work of the NCI.
PS For the parrot cage, paper towels are fine.
And some of this!
https://billricejr.substack.com/p/q-and-a-with-transcriber-b
Well done!
Thanks, Chris Bray, much appreciated.
Yes, but we need a lot more paper for our rabbit litter box......🤓
I did a deep dive on one of Kennedy's claims on Glyphosate. I found his characterizations about it are typical, political storytelling. He gives a simplistic (and slandering) yarn about how it was created. Wasn't hard to find a well-sourced paper describing the details of development and testing, complete with quotes attributed to the Mansanto scientists who worked on it. Kennedy's characterizations are designed to further a narrative that fits his worldview.
That doesn't mean I think he's a quack, or that he's wrong about everything. But it does tell me he isn't particularly careful with the truth, and that lack of care likely runs across multiple topics. He's a member of a political dynasty and an activist. Those aren't exactly the moorings of intellectual integrity.
That's why debate is important. Somebody knowledgeable, prepared with researched facts, can potentially refute Kennedy's claims. I'd like to see that.
Hotez isn't a formidable opponent, and he is rightly afraid he will get his ass kicked. And on the issues Kennedy is vocal on, orthodoxy rules opposing views, so finding someone more neutral and committed to truth is a tough ask.
You make a good point. The essence of the need for freedom of speech is to allow for competing points of view to be aired!
Your comment about RFK Jr. is quite concerning. The last few years I developed the sense that he was honest and that honesty compelled him to speak out about things like vaccine harms, and ultimately run for president. Not so?
Aviva, my impression is he believes what he believes. That he often bucks the trend of his political party to shine light on topics they'd rather not discuss, is a mark of better-than-average character. Certainly in the political arena.
It's incredibly difficult to hold oneself accountable to the truth in every aspect of life. Each of us shapes our perceptions based on our beliefs. He wouldn't be human if he didn't do the same. My point was to highlight politicians are (or should be) accountable for the claims they make. I knew a bit more about that particular controversy, and his framing sounded wrong when I heard it. A few minutes of research on my part yielded a more authoratative source on the specifics, and indicated Kennedy was heavily embellishing, in a way both activists and politicians often do.
I love that he challenges the orthodoxy. But I still see a politician plying his craft: Every time I hear him speak, in nearly any context, he manages to work his father and uncle into the mix, as burnishment for his own credibility. Okay, I get it: You're a member of a political dynasty. Stop telling me about them as a way to build yourself.
A lot of politics is storytelling. He's good at it. But you should challenge him (and yourself) by examining his claims. He won't be correct all the time. Knowing where he's fudging might make you a better judge of who he is and on what topics you may need to be skeptical of him.
Thank you for elaborating. Good food for thought. I will have to start listening to RFK Jr. with sharper ears.
These people don’t truly love or understand science. That it’s a process of discovering truth. That concept is foreign to them. They think it’s a golden calf strengthened with conformity of thought. And that’s because they don’t love truth. They love money, attention, and illusions of “safety”.
They're communists when it comes to thinking: every thought and belief is to be held in common (but only those thoughts and opinions approved by The Party). No private thoughts. There is one publicly approved thought, and a million good comrades' brains share that thought, which is unblemished by any questions of any kind. They're not just communists; they're *conformmunists*.
They may well be the first step to humans starting to become a real eusocial species.
For "fun", check Woke opinions against the definition of eusocial and its etymological meaning.
Except the prefix "eu" signifies something beneficial. There is nothing good about these woke NPCs! They're more "dissocial." If ants were "eusocial" like the conformmunists, the worker ants would cooperate in dismantling the ant mound, and the soldiers would invite ants from competing colonies in to invade and prey upon the workers.
I think it's supposed to be read as "good at being social-communal" rather than "good society" which is the literal meaning.
Living in the EUSSR, I guess I should have written EUsocial species... ;)
'Idea bulimic'...4 min on and I can't wipe this stupid grin off my face.
This phenomena of publicly deveraging aggregated intelligence - which would be embarassing only a few years ago - may be some kind of social immune reaction where the 'body' pushes all the infected cells to the surface to get slaughed off.
You can't get anymore un serious than today's ms journalists. They, like the politicians they represent, act exactly like petulant children in the playground, bullying everyone, then crying foul to anyone dumb enough to listen.
💬 The job is uniformity of thought and expression.
That's why msm journos are on fast track to be obliterated by LLM tech, the vast hordes of ChatGPT lookalikes 🙂
🗨 There is lots of utility in such a tool. In fact, the greatest utility probably lies in its application as “MOT,” or “Midwit Obsolescence Technology.” Woke journalists and the countless “content creators” who have for years been talking a lot but saying nothing, are now like dinosaurs watching the comet incinerate everything around them. It’s a beautiful thing. Life wins again.
H/t Aleksandar Svetski for coining MOT, and for beautiful description of beautiful near future. authenticintelligence.substack.com
Vinay Prasad declined to use the robot's answer. His piece (either on his own Substack or on Sensible Medicine--I forget which) was reasonable and not written by someone on Big Pharma's payroll. There is one other honest person with a brain out there. Also, I'm encouraged by the lady protesting so much. The truth has moved past the "we can just ignore it" stage of PTB control.