The emotionally deranged, moral one-dimensionality of liberalism strikes again. They see everything along the care-harm axis, and therefore little concerns about, oh, liberty, say, or you know, truth, translate into their heads as "bad person doesn't care if others get hurt". They lack even the ability to register questions framed along other moral axes. It's not a language they speak.
Me, I'm at the place where I'm quite happy saying, no, your safety is not more important to me than my freedom.
There's one of those 'In This House We Believe' signs in my neighborhood.
At the other end of the block people are sleeping in their cars. For some mysterious reason the cars don't have 'In This Car We Believe' bumper stickers.
As Ayn Rand pointed out 70 years ago, we are where we are because of the collapse of the foundations of the philosophies & ideas that created unimaginable wealth & prosperity and the modern world. 100 years ago, the United States had immigrants streaming in from all over the world who simply wanted opportunity. No free money or housing or health care or education or EBT cards ... those who did not contribute to societal wealth starved. Harsh? Not really. Fast forward 100 years. We have a fat lazy, entitled, morally bankrupt, depraved culture that declares sick, perverted lying parasites to be the most virtuous among us. We worship at the altar of dog-crap. As the brain-dead virtue signal each other while devolving into tribalism (racism is the crudest form of collectivism), one begins to understand why the garbage piles up on the streets of New York, why 1000s of flights are cancelled every weekend and illiterate animals shoot each other nightly in the streets of every major city in our country. It sure wasn't a lack of money that caused this. Our parasite class has feasted on and looted the greatest concentration of wealth the world has ever seen. And they have wasted it or given it away while taking bribes to do so. What we see now will accelerate in both scale & severity before our system breaks down completely. After all, who is going to work to pay off the 150 trillion the idiot politicians have promised? All that matters now is what we do afterwards ... which ideas and beliefs will take hold? The ones that created the wealth, health, prosperity and good will among men? Or will we double down on death & destruction? This is real good vs. evil stuff and one for the ages.
I hate those damn yard signs with a passion. I always feel insulted. Do they really think their neighbors are hateful racists? Why do they need to declare their exceptional “non-racistness” then?
“ The claim “I don’t think these mRNA injections are as safe as they’ve been made out to be” is a character attack that threatens to take people out at the core like dynamite under a bridge: Are you saying I’m not a good person?”
thank you for crystallizing the disconnect. no wonder some folks seem unreachable.
They want you to know the vax does not work. They want you to know you are doing it against your own best judgment. This creates shame, degrades moral character and makes us more susceptible to control from our weak self perspectives. They have adopted and co-opt the lord of deception’s primary game plan. “I am a shameful person. I have bad judgement. I need leadership because I am not able to be strong and make a good decision.” They connive to make us a nation of left leaning sycophants.
So who was the local government emo-bot who did the message forwarding? See there's our biggest problem - the Left has no problem doxxing. The Right seems to think there is good manners to be had by not finger pointing. Please, finger point.
"Hate Has No Home in (insert high income municipality here)"
The signs say that the loons, pussies, dopamine junkies and snakes are all interpreting reality at such a catastrophically low resolution that the lions look like lambs to them, and the poisoned fruits like ambrosia. They will all be swallowed by the same sanguine mouth at the end of the game (or of this round of the game, if we are operating on the assumption of.Strauss-Howe cycles).
There is a great deal of tragedy to this result, even ignoring the collateral damage. Much can be learned from pussies and loons, for examples (and even from snakes, though they must be crushed underfoot at the end of class). The problem is that they are all gathered under the same manufactured signs and flags, all outfitted as regulars. I often think a key project would be to identify who *can be* saved. What is the shibboleth that can change a sign from "Black lives Matter" to "Make Your Life Matter" (or, better yet, "Eat At Joe's")?
Incredibly, despite writing the literal book on Bad Pharma, Ben Goldacre hasn't detected any such shenanigans as it pertains to Covid shots. Last I checked (x-mas 2021) his twitter handle -- I shit you not -- was "Ben Get Vaccinated Goldacre".
I was reading Bad Pharma at the time and was curious what he thought about the topic of our times. Which turned out to be indistinguishable from what Fauci or Walensky or a parrot trained to loop "Safe and Effective" might spew.
That's all. The list of people who've ditched all critical faculties is a long one. Maybe he'll find his compass again some day.
The lies are so profound and grave that they've deceived themselves into believing they 'saved' lives using fraudulent and sophomoric studies that don't even manage to fool someone with decent critical thinking skills.
Chris, you are absolutely right. “Being a good person” is all most people care about. Fortunately, it’s very easy to be a good person these days — wear your mask, take your jab, bring your reusable bag to the grocery store, vote Democrat, drive an electric car, post happy things on Tik Tok and Instagram, and watch Netflix at night. Only bad people experience emotions like frustration and anger. Only bad people want to take control of their lives. They obviously need therapy.
Dead white philosophers used to think that *struggle* formed character. They were too racist to understand that *compliance* is the real path to virtue.
Having been primed by the quick succession of hoaxes foisted on the nation in about a decade ("hands up don't shoot", "russia russia russia", "very fine people", "me too", "impeachment", and "insurrection"), by the spring of 2021, the woke left's knee jerk reaction to the jab hoax was a foregone conclusion.
The emotionally deranged, moral one-dimensionality of liberalism strikes again. They see everything along the care-harm axis, and therefore little concerns about, oh, liberty, say, or you know, truth, translate into their heads as "bad person doesn't care if others get hurt". They lack even the ability to register questions framed along other moral axes. It's not a language they speak.
Me, I'm at the place where I'm quite happy saying, no, your safety is not more important to me than my freedom.
There's one of those 'In This House We Believe' signs in my neighborhood.
At the other end of the block people are sleeping in their cars. For some mysterious reason the cars don't have 'In This Car We Believe' bumper stickers.
As Ayn Rand pointed out 70 years ago, we are where we are because of the collapse of the foundations of the philosophies & ideas that created unimaginable wealth & prosperity and the modern world. 100 years ago, the United States had immigrants streaming in from all over the world who simply wanted opportunity. No free money or housing or health care or education or EBT cards ... those who did not contribute to societal wealth starved. Harsh? Not really. Fast forward 100 years. We have a fat lazy, entitled, morally bankrupt, depraved culture that declares sick, perverted lying parasites to be the most virtuous among us. We worship at the altar of dog-crap. As the brain-dead virtue signal each other while devolving into tribalism (racism is the crudest form of collectivism), one begins to understand why the garbage piles up on the streets of New York, why 1000s of flights are cancelled every weekend and illiterate animals shoot each other nightly in the streets of every major city in our country. It sure wasn't a lack of money that caused this. Our parasite class has feasted on and looted the greatest concentration of wealth the world has ever seen. And they have wasted it or given it away while taking bribes to do so. What we see now will accelerate in both scale & severity before our system breaks down completely. After all, who is going to work to pay off the 150 trillion the idiot politicians have promised? All that matters now is what we do afterwards ... which ideas and beliefs will take hold? The ones that created the wealth, health, prosperity and good will among men? Or will we double down on death & destruction? This is real good vs. evil stuff and one for the ages.
I hate those damn yard signs with a passion. I always feel insulted. Do they really think their neighbors are hateful racists? Why do they need to declare their exceptional “non-racistness” then?
“ The claim “I don’t think these mRNA injections are as safe as they’ve been made out to be” is a character attack that threatens to take people out at the core like dynamite under a bridge: Are you saying I’m not a good person?”
thank you for crystallizing the disconnect. no wonder some folks seem unreachable.
They want you to know the vax does not work. They want you to know you are doing it against your own best judgment. This creates shame, degrades moral character and makes us more susceptible to control from our weak self perspectives. They have adopted and co-opt the lord of deception’s primary game plan. “I am a shameful person. I have bad judgement. I need leadership because I am not able to be strong and make a good decision.” They connive to make us a nation of left leaning sycophants.
You (and el gato) been truly saving my sanity lately. Perfectly describes the interactions I've had. Thank you for this elucidation.
So who was the local government emo-bot who did the message forwarding? See there's our biggest problem - the Left has no problem doxxing. The Right seems to think there is good manners to be had by not finger pointing. Please, finger point.
These lawn signs have a tendency to appear in the windows of all the Yoga studios I can't patronize in my Oakland, CA neighborhood.
Yes, they're still requiring "papers" to Namaste.
This is brilliant. Hits the nail on the head. Feel free to expand. It reminds me very much of the stereotypical argument between men and women:
“Sweetie wife, I don’t think we have the money to honeymoon in Fiji.”
“You’re so horrible, you don’t even love me.”
"Black Lives Matter"
"We Believe in Science"
"LGBTQ+ Allies"
"Bans Off Our Bodies"
"Hate Has No Home in (insert high income municipality here)"
The signs say that the loons, pussies, dopamine junkies and snakes are all interpreting reality at such a catastrophically low resolution that the lions look like lambs to them, and the poisoned fruits like ambrosia. They will all be swallowed by the same sanguine mouth at the end of the game (or of this round of the game, if we are operating on the assumption of.Strauss-Howe cycles).
There is a great deal of tragedy to this result, even ignoring the collateral damage. Much can be learned from pussies and loons, for examples (and even from snakes, though they must be crushed underfoot at the end of class). The problem is that they are all gathered under the same manufactured signs and flags, all outfitted as regulars. I often think a key project would be to identify who *can be* saved. What is the shibboleth that can change a sign from "Black lives Matter" to "Make Your Life Matter" (or, better yet, "Eat At Joe's")?
Incredibly, despite writing the literal book on Bad Pharma, Ben Goldacre hasn't detected any such shenanigans as it pertains to Covid shots. Last I checked (x-mas 2021) his twitter handle -- I shit you not -- was "Ben Get Vaccinated Goldacre".
I was reading Bad Pharma at the time and was curious what he thought about the topic of our times. Which turned out to be indistinguishable from what Fauci or Walensky or a parrot trained to loop "Safe and Effective" might spew.
That's all. The list of people who've ditched all critical faculties is a long one. Maybe he'll find his compass again some day.
I detect a sense of God-complex false heroism from public and academic health officials.
To whit, Canada's version of Fauci, Theresa Tam chimed in with this charming piece of crap:
https://twitter.com/CPHO_Canada/status/1555294722301771777
The lies are so profound and grave that they've deceived themselves into believing they 'saved' lives using fraudulent and sophomoric studies that don't even manage to fool someone with decent critical thinking skills.
Chris, you are absolutely right. “Being a good person” is all most people care about. Fortunately, it’s very easy to be a good person these days — wear your mask, take your jab, bring your reusable bag to the grocery store, vote Democrat, drive an electric car, post happy things on Tik Tok and Instagram, and watch Netflix at night. Only bad people experience emotions like frustration and anger. Only bad people want to take control of their lives. They obviously need therapy.
Dead white philosophers used to think that *struggle* formed character. They were too racist to understand that *compliance* is the real path to virtue.
Having been primed by the quick succession of hoaxes foisted on the nation in about a decade ("hands up don't shoot", "russia russia russia", "very fine people", "me too", "impeachment", and "insurrection"), by the spring of 2021, the woke left's knee jerk reaction to the jab hoax was a foregone conclusion.
Bookmarking this for later. Made it 1/3 through and it’s killing my vacation vibe. Can feel my blood pressure rising