The only vaccine Sam Harris should be pushing would be one for Trump Derangement Syndrome, the condition that destroyed his brain. He could do commercials like the ones Yul Brynner did in the 80s for anti-smoking campaigns after he got lung cancer. Sam's would say, "Okay, this is Sam Harris, and I'm braindead now, because I didn't get vaccinated against Trump Derangement Syndrome. Don't be like me . . ."
YES!! I rotate exercises/games with my teenage daughter - real and not real, and “where does it lead?” This is brilliant advice. Look down the road. Truth will out. Gotta say, I think it’s ok to be the parent who takes on the school. Or local government. It’s ok to be labeled transphobic. It’ll pass.
(I was thinking about that NHL player who refused to wear a pride flag jersey because he doesn’t support the current thing, and he was facing punishment - or at least widespread booing. And no one seems to notice that if, say, a hockey team decided to do Catholic night and require everyone to wear a cross, there’d be a meltdown. “Performative symbols” are what they always have been - a signal to the tribe that you are a loyal neophyte of The Current Thing. Gotta say, it’s ok to be that guy who says no.)
Sam Harris is an ass. Part of the IDW and all that crap. Weinstein was part of that self important clique, too. Then Bret woke up. Sam is still an ass. That’s my ‘Dick and Jane’ version of things.
I recall when my family was being accused of shortsighted foolishness for deciding to exercise our right to medical freedom. "What about your job?! What about your retirement?! OMG!" And now, we are positioned quite nicely. We know who our ideological enemies are, who our friends and supporters are (among them are people who have varying ideas about the shot) and, yes, still earning a comfortable living. Bonus round: the obstacle, having shown itself so clearly, has illuminated paths toward a world I'd be happy for my children to inherit. All we have to do now is take the path.
Up-lifting. Thank you for writing what those of us who don't support the current thing need to hear. It can be lonely out here. Well, I exaggerate somewhat. After all, I'm a deplorable in flyover country. A know-nothing. Dull and prosaic and conventional and ....dare I say it...happy.
So very very true, but it is still happening despite everything we know. In Ontario, this January Dr. Chris Shoemaker had his license suspended by the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons for his stance of overall pandemic management and the harms being caused by the vaccines. There are no complaints made against him by patients or third parties, it is a complaint put together by the College itself. The you have the College of Pychologists of Ontario threatening to revoke Jordan Peterson's license, for things that he has said and predicted that have been right on the money. From forecasting the dangers enshrining gender expression into law would bring i.e. transing children and enabling extreme transgender ideology to flourish, the terrible damage climate change policies would wreak on the poorist of the poor and yes the fact that all the pandemic response useless, authoritarian and downright dangerous.
We are having a Ulysses moment. Sailing through the mirrored funhouse of woke corporatism, those of us who see the truth and value our national cultural inheritance are lashed to the mast of reality and the rich tradition of Western Civilization, against the siren call of greedy, power hungry demented pedophiles, Marxists, and amoral opportunists who seek our destruction.
In an even more existentially threatening note, the idiots nominally in charge are creating enormous geopolitical risks and destroying the dollar. This will destroy the middle class and retirees, assuming we don’t end up in a nuclear confrontation in top of that. When did we become a mimetic society? When did doing the right thing give way to looking like you’re doing the right thing?
Very well-written piece. This is why I think of the blue anons as reactionary - whatever the hicks believe (no matter how grounded in reality), they must believe the opposite (no matter how absurd).
Also, Weinstein is smart, and I owe him big time for the ammo he provided to keep me from vaxxing my kids, but I don't know if this was ever really about brains. You could have an IQ of 85 and realize that taking an experimental drug for a condition you don't have is a bad idea.
The difference might be working from where you are vs working backward from a conclusion you wish to reach. For some reason, intelligent people seem to be good at the latter - often to their detriment.
Stand fast and play long, yes. But I wonder about the censorship regime and I do worry about the illiberal tendencies among the generation coming of age. Nina Jankowicz isn't going away and there are plenty more just like her graduating from college and entering the workforce. Will the truth always out? I hope so. I really do. But I don't know.
“Oh, you can't help that,” said the Cat: “we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.” “How do you know I'm mad?” said Alice. “You must be,” said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here.”
I know this discussion is serious, but I couldn't help thinking of the Cheshire Cat in Alice in Wonderland.
It's sad when this seems like a silver lining to me: "Mimetic societies end in mass suicide."
And, yes, all things pass, but when you're in the middle of them, it's hell.
Socrates was given a choice - banishment from Athens, or drink the hemlock. He decided to bow out after demonstrating to his students the noble death of a true philosopher. Banishment these days means eviction from social media, from the “Cathedral,” from jobs and opportunities. Today Socrates could start an awesome podcast and get more hits and likes than Joe Rogan - no need to drink hemlock. Fear of death, medical care, vaccines and all the rest of it went “live” in March 2020, and those who resisted it, even if they were simply asking questions, are living proof that Socrates’ faith in human curiosity and love of truth was not entirely misplaced.
The only vaccine Sam Harris should be pushing would be one for Trump Derangement Syndrome, the condition that destroyed his brain. He could do commercials like the ones Yul Brynner did in the 80s for anti-smoking campaigns after he got lung cancer. Sam's would say, "Okay, this is Sam Harris, and I'm braindead now, because I didn't get vaccinated against Trump Derangement Syndrome. Don't be like me . . ."
YES!! I rotate exercises/games with my teenage daughter - real and not real, and “where does it lead?” This is brilliant advice. Look down the road. Truth will out. Gotta say, I think it’s ok to be the parent who takes on the school. Or local government. It’s ok to be labeled transphobic. It’ll pass.
(I was thinking about that NHL player who refused to wear a pride flag jersey because he doesn’t support the current thing, and he was facing punishment - or at least widespread booing. And no one seems to notice that if, say, a hockey team decided to do Catholic night and require everyone to wear a cross, there’d be a meltdown. “Performative symbols” are what they always have been - a signal to the tribe that you are a loyal neophyte of The Current Thing. Gotta say, it’s ok to be that guy who says no.)
Sam Harris is an ass. Part of the IDW and all that crap. Weinstein was part of that self important clique, too. Then Bret woke up. Sam is still an ass. That’s my ‘Dick and Jane’ version of things.
I recall when my family was being accused of shortsighted foolishness for deciding to exercise our right to medical freedom. "What about your job?! What about your retirement?! OMG!" And now, we are positioned quite nicely. We know who our ideological enemies are, who our friends and supporters are (among them are people who have varying ideas about the shot) and, yes, still earning a comfortable living. Bonus round: the obstacle, having shown itself so clearly, has illuminated paths toward a world I'd be happy for my children to inherit. All we have to do now is take the path.
Up-lifting. Thank you for writing what those of us who don't support the current thing need to hear. It can be lonely out here. Well, I exaggerate somewhat. After all, I'm a deplorable in flyover country. A know-nothing. Dull and prosaic and conventional and ....dare I say it...happy.
So very very true, but it is still happening despite everything we know. In Ontario, this January Dr. Chris Shoemaker had his license suspended by the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons for his stance of overall pandemic management and the harms being caused by the vaccines. There are no complaints made against him by patients or third parties, it is a complaint put together by the College itself. The you have the College of Pychologists of Ontario threatening to revoke Jordan Peterson's license, for things that he has said and predicted that have been right on the money. From forecasting the dangers enshrining gender expression into law would bring i.e. transing children and enabling extreme transgender ideology to flourish, the terrible damage climate change policies would wreak on the poorist of the poor and yes the fact that all the pandemic response useless, authoritarian and downright dangerous.
We are having a Ulysses moment. Sailing through the mirrored funhouse of woke corporatism, those of us who see the truth and value our national cultural inheritance are lashed to the mast of reality and the rich tradition of Western Civilization, against the siren call of greedy, power hungry demented pedophiles, Marxists, and amoral opportunists who seek our destruction.
In an even more existentially threatening note, the idiots nominally in charge are creating enormous geopolitical risks and destroying the dollar. This will destroy the middle class and retirees, assuming we don’t end up in a nuclear confrontation in top of that. When did we become a mimetic society? When did doing the right thing give way to looking like you’re doing the right thing?
Oh man, this is beautiful. Thanks Chris
When you're one step ahead of the crowd you're a genius. When you're two steps ahead, you're a crackpot.
Shlomo Riskin
We've been two steps ahead the last few years, correctly predicting everything months before it happens.
"How could anybody have known?!?!?"
The official data has ALWAYS contradicted the official narrative. And it was just sitting there, waiting for people to look at it.
Very well-written piece. This is why I think of the blue anons as reactionary - whatever the hicks believe (no matter how grounded in reality), they must believe the opposite (no matter how absurd).
Also, Weinstein is smart, and I owe him big time for the ammo he provided to keep me from vaxxing my kids, but I don't know if this was ever really about brains. You could have an IQ of 85 and realize that taking an experimental drug for a condition you don't have is a bad idea.
The difference might be working from where you are vs working backward from a conclusion you wish to reach. For some reason, intelligent people seem to be good at the latter - often to their detriment.
Wear the ribbon.
Seinfeld
https://twitter.com/joshlekach/status/1615817484946268161?s=46&t=gJL4fYdg66cMbAEgAyxQ7Q
In this article: Chris Bray tells us how it ends.
Stand fast and play long, yes. But I wonder about the censorship regime and I do worry about the illiberal tendencies among the generation coming of age. Nina Jankowicz isn't going away and there are plenty more just like her graduating from college and entering the workforce. Will the truth always out? I hope so. I really do. But I don't know.
“Oh, you can't help that,” said the Cat: “we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.” “How do you know I'm mad?” said Alice. “You must be,” said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here.”
I know this discussion is serious, but I couldn't help thinking of the Cheshire Cat in Alice in Wonderland.
It's sad when this seems like a silver lining to me: "Mimetic societies end in mass suicide."
And, yes, all things pass, but when you're in the middle of them, it's hell.
Weinstein just believes in striving for the truth and going wherever it takes him. Harris doesn’t.
Socrates was given a choice - banishment from Athens, or drink the hemlock. He decided to bow out after demonstrating to his students the noble death of a true philosopher. Banishment these days means eviction from social media, from the “Cathedral,” from jobs and opportunities. Today Socrates could start an awesome podcast and get more hits and likes than Joe Rogan - no need to drink hemlock. Fear of death, medical care, vaccines and all the rest of it went “live” in March 2020, and those who resisted it, even if they were simply asking questions, are living proof that Socrates’ faith in human curiosity and love of truth was not entirely misplaced.