In an effort to not create an opus magnum comment I'll write a few. The general theme made me think of this old Scott Adams quote.
"If you see voters as rational, you'll be a terrible politician. People are not wired to be rational. Our brains simply evolved to keep us alive. Brains did not evolve to give us truth. Brains merely give us movies in our minds that keeps us sane and motivated. But none of it is rational or true, except maybe sometimes by coincidence."
“Oh how fond they are of the book of Esther, which is so beautifully attuned to their bloodthirsty, vengeful, murderous yearning and hope.” — Martin Luther
Chris, I agree entirely and have highlighted some of this in my own work. I used to believe in notions like there is no such thing as objectivity, but came to realise that this is nihilistic and lazy thinking. It leads to a lack of belief in anything and is meaningless. If you don't believe in anything then you will tolerate anything. Objective reality and scientific fact go hand in hand. In my field of work which was/is writing fiction and non-fiction there is a dominant trend to use 'sensitivity readers.' This is utter hogwash. I was once asked to advise a straight writer who was developing a gay character if I would assess it for it's correctness. I told them that I would do no such thing. I advised them to develop a fully rounded character, warts 'n' all, a real person, not a cipher for political correctness, as you should do with all your main characters. Suffice to say that in the current Woke climate, this did not go down well. There is no such thing as a 'lived gay experience', because shock/horror, we are all individuals, and different and have differing opinions and histories etc. This nonsense leads to straight people being afraid to write gay characters lest they fall foul of the Woke police.
Clearly, there is objective truth. The difficulty you will have in your quest is that people so often can't distinguish the difference in truth and opinion. I often see opinions about data referred to as scientific facts.
Hi. While I agree with your main assertion, I am left wondering how you view science's inclusion of the double slit experiment or the thought experiment Schrödinger's Cat? Or for more recent news, the discovery of the most distant galaxies rendering much of cosmology's assertions for the last 50 years plus, obsolete? How do we account for these anomalies?
I lost my two closest friends because I chose to cut ties from people who demanded that I accept their unnerving cynicism (the Johns Hopkins PhD holding one) and naive faith in all things non-Western. The naive one tried to disallow me from asking a man for directions in an agricultural area where we searched for a spring water pool that locals, and maybe some tourists use to treat their skin to minerals. The other one became angry with me for throwing out the avocado seed in my effort to help her make 🥑 guacamole. She so felt sorrow for children fleeing Central and South America that she expressed her sociopolitical views via making a show of an allegedly indigenous American guacamole preserving method. This belief is easily disproven with two separate containers of guacamole: one with the avocado seed and one without. This woman said she had conflict with others at the medical school where she pushed her Medicine and Society curriculum onto students whose workload was not sufficiently self sacrificing, in her view. If you're can't anticipate every obstacle to healthcare and every thing could possibly go wrong on the abet, you're basically an evil capitalist.
"Transparent, obvious and unsubtle lies, ranging from support for his monstrous vanity to denying the pandemic that killed over a million Americans and left many times more with damage and disability. Yet the press took three years to apply the words “lie” and “liar” to this man.
We expect falsehood from the red tribe; their positions are deeply unpopular and so need to be concealed behind the debate-stifling emotionalism of resentment and persecution mania."
Except this isn't true either, the vaccines proved ineffective to stop either transmission or catching Covid, the masks also were literally theater if not N95 or better and properly fitted, and the lockdowns did more damage to society than the virus itself. Further these values are not the national social consensus outside media hypnotized laptop class urban enclaves. That's not to say Trump is truthful or good, but this specific set of accusations and assumptions you have stated here don't hold much water.
Further one does not have to be part of the red tribe to understand this, I suggest reading JC Hopkins here, he oppose woke and bio-medical tyranny and does so from within an anti-capitalist framework.
And don't think I started out with some axe to grind. I am an old Earth First! activist and have never voted for a Republican. From that it doesn't follow the advocates of bio-medical tyranny were correct or that their views reflect anything other than those of the self serving authoritarian state capitalist elite.
dividing 73 million by 2000 and multiplying by a hundred gives .0027 percent child death rate from Covid. For that we seriously and permanently damaged the education of tens of millions of children which will have a permanent effect on their lives.
Further there was a drastic increase of child suicides during Covid so it's entirely possible no net lives were saved at all,
especially if you factor in the increase of myocrditis among young male children brought on by the vaccine.
So I 100 percent stand by my assertion that the lockdowns at least for children were worse than useless.
As for adults there is evidence the lockdowns reduced the death rate less than 10 percent among adults according to researchers at Stanford:
"The working paper consist of a review 34 studies and a meta-analysis that included 24 of them. In addition to concluding that lockdowns produced limited results on COVID-19-related deaths, Herby, Jonung and Hanke’s found that shelter-in-place orders reduced mortality from COVID-19 by 2.9%. However, in their conclusion they noted that closing nonessential businesses “seems to have had some effect,” reducing COVID-19 mortality by 10.6%, and that reduction was probably related to closing bars."
Considering the hundreds of thousands of small businesses shuttered during the lockdowns leading to even more consolidation of corporations monopolizing the economy, and considering the use of arguably Unconstitutional authoritarian means utilized during the lockdowns, I would argue it wasn't worth it for adults either.
The ball is in your court data and rationality guy.
Kids can be carriers. They bring COVID home to grandma and grandma dies. How is it possible you omitted that?
Seventy-three billion kids in America? Count your zeroes. I doubt those kids are going to be cognitively crippled by a few months at home, and I am a guy who advocates ending summer vacations because they forget so much.
If we followed your stellar advice it would have been more like five or eight million dead instead of the two million we got (no, I don't buy the one million figure, not with the huge surge in "pneumonia" deaths).
PROTOCOLS OF THE MEETINGS OF THE LEARNED ELDERS OF ZION . . . Protocol X – Preparing for Power . . . (((SARS-CoV2)))
❝. . . utterly exhaust humanity with dissention, hatred, struggle, envy and even by the use of torture, by starvation, by the inoculation of diseases. by want, so that the “Goyim” see no other issue than to take refuge in our complete sovereignty in money and in all else.❞
PROTOCOLS OF THE MEETINGS OF THE LEARNED ELDERS OF ZION . . . Protocol X – Preparing for Power . . . (((SARS-CoV2)))
❝. . . utterly exhaust humanity with dissention, hatred, struggle, envy and even by the use of torture, by starvation, by the inoculation of diseases. by want, so that the “Goyim” see no other issue than to take refuge in our complete sovereignty in money and in all else.❞
The Frankfurt School adapted Marx’s theories on revolution to include Freud’s theory of the subconscious. The Cultural Marxists’ main focus was to reshape the subconscious of Western men and women and thus create new type of person: one who would react passively to provocations of all kinds.
Cultural Marxists encourage abortion, birth control, divorce, homosexuality, “carrier women,” drugs, miscegenation, the destruction of the traditional family, and unrestricted immigration of racial foreigners into white countries. This is a reflection of what the Cultural Marxists preach: white reproduction is evil, and that which prevents white reproduction is good.
A thought on lies; it is common that people will tell a "white lie" when truth is cruel. It conditions us to accept lies as sometimes justifiable. In the political realm the lies have less noble purpose, but they get justified in the name of furthering a "noble" cause where nobility is the belief in their cause.
Don Rumsfeld was right when he said, "Europe has shifted on its axis," it was the wrong side that won World War II, and it is becoming clearer every day. What has NATO done to defend Europe? Absolutely nothing . . . My enemies are not in Moscow, Damascus, Tehran, Riyadh or some ethereal Teutonic boogeyman, my enemies are in Washington, Brussels and Tel Aviv.
Don Rumsfeld was right when he said, "Europe has shifted on its axis," it was the wrong side that won World War II, and it is becoming clearer every day. What has NATO done to defend Europe? Absolutely nothing . . . My enemies are not in Moscow, Damascus, Tehran, Riyadh or some ethereal Teutonic boogeyman, my enemies are in Washington, Brussels and Tel Aviv.
Appeal to authority refers to illegitimate authorities, which the courts are not. Argumentum ad verecundiam does not apply here; the courts’ authority is legitimate.
The banksters need a war desperately right now. They’ve tried so hard in Syria, and it just hasn’t worked. Then they got crazy Trump actually saying we should stay out of the Middle East and focus on our own problems, and people were listening . . .
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“The worst single mistake ever made in the history of our country: going into the Middle East, by President Bush.” — Donald Trump
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What’s a self-respecting globalist financier to do?
So, they sent their puppets like McCain, Romney, Clinton, and Biden out to talk up the fight against “evil” and threaten Russia, hoping to fool those dumb white ‘Murkins one more time into sending their sons off to die for God and Country and Goldman Sachs.
Trump wouldn’t give the deep state the shadow wars they wanted in Syria and Ukraine, so they rigged two US elections . . . and the first thing they did afterwards was send troops to Syria.
The recently ousted Speaker of the US House of Representatives Kevin McCarthy, who took at least a dozen votes to get elected speaker, traveled to Israel immediately upon his election, declaring to the Israeli Knesset that the USA is steadfastly committed to supporting Ukraine in their war against Russia.
It has become so painfully obvious, especially where you have someone like Nikki Haley wagging her finger and shouting down Vivek Ramaswamy in a presidential debate on live national television when the questions of this Ukrainian war against Russia and any mention of Israel are concerned, that the United States government has become a wholly owned subsidiary of the American Israeli Political Action Committee.
LOL, the hit rate on the truth of Alex Jones and the mainstream corporate media isn't all that different these days. Hint the water really does turn the frogs gay when it is full of phytoestogen mimickers.
In an effort to not create an opus magnum comment I'll write a few. The general theme made me think of this old Scott Adams quote.
"If you see voters as rational, you'll be a terrible politician. People are not wired to be rational. Our brains simply evolved to keep us alive. Brains did not evolve to give us truth. Brains merely give us movies in our minds that keeps us sane and motivated. But none of it is rational or true, except maybe sometimes by coincidence."
Remember what Adlai Stevenson said.
Logic, rationality, these are retrofits, and not everybody shows up for the appointment.
But this forum is intended for people who did.
“Oh how fond they are of the book of Esther, which is so beautifully attuned to their bloodthirsty, vengeful, murderous yearning and hope.” — Martin Luther
Zelensky, Biden, Satanism, War, Greed, Theft, Propaganda, Domestic Spying, International Intrigue, Treason, Sedition, FTX, Ukraine, Israel . . . https://cwspangle.substack.com/p/zelensky-biden-satanism-war-greed
Chris, I agree entirely and have highlighted some of this in my own work. I used to believe in notions like there is no such thing as objectivity, but came to realise that this is nihilistic and lazy thinking. It leads to a lack of belief in anything and is meaningless. If you don't believe in anything then you will tolerate anything. Objective reality and scientific fact go hand in hand. In my field of work which was/is writing fiction and non-fiction there is a dominant trend to use 'sensitivity readers.' This is utter hogwash. I was once asked to advise a straight writer who was developing a gay character if I would assess it for it's correctness. I told them that I would do no such thing. I advised them to develop a fully rounded character, warts 'n' all, a real person, not a cipher for political correctness, as you should do with all your main characters. Suffice to say that in the current Woke climate, this did not go down well. There is no such thing as a 'lived gay experience', because shock/horror, we are all individuals, and different and have differing opinions and histories etc. This nonsense leads to straight people being afraid to write gay characters lest they fall foul of the Woke police.
"𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘣𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘣𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦."
Clearly, there is objective truth. The difficulty you will have in your quest is that people so often can't distinguish the difference in truth and opinion. I often see opinions about data referred to as scientific facts.
I hope that your substack gains traction.
Hi. While I agree with your main assertion, I am left wondering how you view science's inclusion of the double slit experiment or the thought experiment Schrödinger's Cat? Or for more recent news, the discovery of the most distant galaxies rendering much of cosmology's assertions for the last 50 years plus, obsolete? How do we account for these anomalies?
I lost my two closest friends because I chose to cut ties from people who demanded that I accept their unnerving cynicism (the Johns Hopkins PhD holding one) and naive faith in all things non-Western. The naive one tried to disallow me from asking a man for directions in an agricultural area where we searched for a spring water pool that locals, and maybe some tourists use to treat their skin to minerals. The other one became angry with me for throwing out the avocado seed in my effort to help her make 🥑 guacamole. She so felt sorrow for children fleeing Central and South America that she expressed her sociopolitical views via making a show of an allegedly indigenous American guacamole preserving method. This belief is easily disproven with two separate containers of guacamole: one with the avocado seed and one without. This woman said she had conflict with others at the medical school where she pushed her Medicine and Society curriculum onto students whose workload was not sufficiently self sacrificing, in her view. If you're can't anticipate every obstacle to healthcare and every thing could possibly go wrong on the abet, you're basically an evil capitalist.
"Transparent, obvious and unsubtle lies, ranging from support for his monstrous vanity to denying the pandemic that killed over a million Americans and left many times more with damage and disability. Yet the press took three years to apply the words “lie” and “liar” to this man.
We expect falsehood from the red tribe; their positions are deeply unpopular and so need to be concealed behind the debate-stifling emotionalism of resentment and persecution mania."
Except this isn't true either, the vaccines proved ineffective to stop either transmission or catching Covid, the masks also were literally theater if not N95 or better and properly fitted, and the lockdowns did more damage to society than the virus itself. Further these values are not the national social consensus outside media hypnotized laptop class urban enclaves. That's not to say Trump is truthful or good, but this specific set of accusations and assumptions you have stated here don't hold much water.
Further one does not have to be part of the red tribe to understand this, I suggest reading JC Hopkins here, he oppose woke and bio-medical tyranny and does so from within an anti-capitalist framework.
And don't think I started out with some axe to grind. I am an old Earth First! activist and have never voted for a Republican. From that it doesn't follow the advocates of bio-medical tyranny were correct or that their views reflect anything other than those of the self serving authoritarian state capitalist elite.
"the lockdowns did more damage to society than the virus itself."
That is such complete bullshit. The lockdowns kept me out of the gym so long I may never regain my former strength, but I am still alive.
After the vaccines were released, 99% of COVID deaths were among the unvaccinated.
Oh, and ivermectin doesn't do anything.
Meh the child fatality rate from Covid is literally less than 2000 children total according to the official CDC website:
https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Provisional-COVID-19-Deaths-Focus-on-Ages-0-18-Yea/nr4s-juj3
The total number of children in the U.S. is 73,000,000,000
https://www.ojjdp.gov/ojstatbb/population/qa01104.asp
dividing 73 million by 2000 and multiplying by a hundred gives .0027 percent child death rate from Covid. For that we seriously and permanently damaged the education of tens of millions of children which will have a permanent effect on their lives.
Further there was a drastic increase of child suicides during Covid so it's entirely possible no net lives were saved at all,
https://www.nationwidechildrens.org/newsroom/news-releases/2023/02/bridge_ruch_youthsuicide_pandemic
especially if you factor in the increase of myocrditis among young male children brought on by the vaccine.
So I 100 percent stand by my assertion that the lockdowns at least for children were worse than useless.
As for adults there is evidence the lockdowns reduced the death rate less than 10 percent among adults according to researchers at Stanford:
"The working paper consist of a review 34 studies and a meta-analysis that included 24 of them. In addition to concluding that lockdowns produced limited results on COVID-19-related deaths, Herby, Jonung and Hanke’s found that shelter-in-place orders reduced mortality from COVID-19 by 2.9%. However, in their conclusion they noted that closing nonessential businesses “seems to have had some effect,” reducing COVID-19 mortality by 10.6%, and that reduction was probably related to closing bars."
https://www.medicaleconomics.com/view/john-hopkins-working-paper-says-covid-19-lockdowns-not-worth-it-sparks-fierce-debate
Considering the hundreds of thousands of small businesses shuttered during the lockdowns leading to even more consolidation of corporations monopolizing the economy, and considering the use of arguably Unconstitutional authoritarian means utilized during the lockdowns, I would argue it wasn't worth it for adults either.
The ball is in your court data and rationality guy.
Kids can be carriers. They bring COVID home to grandma and grandma dies. How is it possible you omitted that?
Seventy-three billion kids in America? Count your zeroes. I doubt those kids are going to be cognitively crippled by a few months at home, and I am a guy who advocates ending summer vacations because they forget so much.
If we followed your stellar advice it would have been more like five or eight million dead instead of the two million we got (no, I don't buy the one million figure, not with the huge surge in "pneumonia" deaths).
PROTOCOLS OF THE MEETINGS OF THE LEARNED ELDERS OF ZION . . . Protocol X – Preparing for Power . . . (((SARS-CoV2)))
❝. . . utterly exhaust humanity with dissention, hatred, struggle, envy and even by the use of torture, by starvation, by the inoculation of diseases. by want, so that the “Goyim” see no other issue than to take refuge in our complete sovereignty in money and in all else.❞
https://cwspangle.substack.com/p/protocol-x-preparing-for-power-sars
PROTOCOLS OF THE MEETINGS OF THE LEARNED ELDERS OF ZION . . . Protocol X – Preparing for Power . . . (((SARS-CoV2)))
❝. . . utterly exhaust humanity with dissention, hatred, struggle, envy and even by the use of torture, by starvation, by the inoculation of diseases. by want, so that the “Goyim” see no other issue than to take refuge in our complete sovereignty in money and in all else.❞
https://cwspangle.substack.com/p/protocol-x-preparing-for-power-sars
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“Woke,” “wokeism,” “wokeness,” etc., are deceptive nomenclatures for concealing the truth about the Jews and the Frankfurt School . . .
https://cwspangle.substack.com/p/how-the-grift-right-gimps-for-the
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The Frankfurt School adapted Marx’s theories on revolution to include Freud’s theory of the subconscious. The Cultural Marxists’ main focus was to reshape the subconscious of Western men and women and thus create new type of person: one who would react passively to provocations of all kinds.
Cultural Marxists encourage abortion, birth control, divorce, homosexuality, “carrier women,” drugs, miscegenation, the destruction of the traditional family, and unrestricted immigration of racial foreigners into white countries. This is a reflection of what the Cultural Marxists preach: white reproduction is evil, and that which prevents white reproduction is good.
https://nordicresistancemovement.org/what-is-cultural-marxism/
A thought on lies; it is common that people will tell a "white lie" when truth is cruel. It conditions us to accept lies as sometimes justifiable. In the political realm the lies have less noble purpose, but they get justified in the name of furthering a "noble" cause where nobility is the belief in their cause.
But that isn't at all what I'm talking about. That's sparing the vulnerable.
You have a friend in the hospital getting chemo. She looks absolutely ghastly; she's 25 and she looks 90. "I look terrible, don't I?" she asks.
Do you tell her the truth? "Oh yeah if I didn't see you moving I'd think you were dead."
Of course not. You say something soothing and kind and, incidentally, totally false.
But that's not a matter of objective fact. That's a person already in enough pain, no need to add to it.
My point was that people are conditioned to accept non-truths while drawing the line as to where they think that is justifiable as a variable.
Don Rumsfeld was right when he said, "Europe has shifted on its axis," it was the wrong side that won World War II, and it is becoming clearer every day. What has NATO done to defend Europe? Absolutely nothing . . . My enemies are not in Moscow, Damascus, Tehran, Riyadh or some ethereal Teutonic boogeyman, my enemies are in Washington, Brussels and Tel Aviv.
Heil Hitler.
https://cwspangle.substack.com/p/pardonne-mon-francais-va-te-faire
Don Rumsfeld was right when he said, "Europe has shifted on its axis," it was the wrong side that won World War II, and it is becoming clearer every day. What has NATO done to defend Europe? Absolutely nothing . . . My enemies are not in Moscow, Damascus, Tehran, Riyadh or some ethereal Teutonic boogeyman, my enemies are in Washington, Brussels and Tel Aviv.
Heil Hitler.
https://cwspangle.substack.com/p/pardonne-mon-francais-va-te-faire
Appeal to authority refers to illegitimate authorities, which the courts are not. Argumentum ad verecundiam does not apply here; the courts’ authority is legitimate.
The election was not stolen. Trump lost. Deal.
The banksters need a war desperately right now. They’ve tried so hard in Syria, and it just hasn’t worked. Then they got crazy Trump actually saying we should stay out of the Middle East and focus on our own problems, and people were listening . . .
-
“The worst single mistake ever made in the history of our country: going into the Middle East, by President Bush.” — Donald Trump
-
What’s a self-respecting globalist financier to do?
So, they sent their puppets like McCain, Romney, Clinton, and Biden out to talk up the fight against “evil” and threaten Russia, hoping to fool those dumb white ‘Murkins one more time into sending their sons off to die for God and Country and Goldman Sachs.
Trump wouldn’t give the deep state the shadow wars they wanted in Syria and Ukraine, so they rigged two US elections . . . and the first thing they did afterwards was send troops to Syria.
The recently ousted Speaker of the US House of Representatives Kevin McCarthy, who took at least a dozen votes to get elected speaker, traveled to Israel immediately upon his election, declaring to the Israeli Knesset that the USA is steadfastly committed to supporting Ukraine in their war against Russia.
It has become so painfully obvious, especially where you have someone like Nikki Haley wagging her finger and shouting down Vivek Ramaswamy in a presidential debate on live national television when the questions of this Ukrainian war against Russia and any mention of Israel are concerned, that the United States government has become a wholly owned subsidiary of the American Israeli Political Action Committee.
https://cwspangle.substack.com/p/oh-how-fond-they-are-of-the-book
You watch Alex Jones.
You are below the salt.
LOL, the hit rate on the truth of Alex Jones and the mainstream corporate media isn't all that different these days. Hint the water really does turn the frogs gay when it is full of phytoestogen mimickers.