The natural sciences have a significant destabilising effect on culture and society. This was noted by social thinker and futurologist Alvin Toffler decades ago regarding the disruptive consequences of the constant and rapid stream of novel discoveries and inventions.
Science, Society, and Stability Continue Reading
The two approaches are not mutually exclusive—a competitive market can support local sourcing for those where food is grown, feed cities, and disseminate wealth. Destruction of big agriculture is starvation for many.
Farms of all Sizes Feed the World Continue Reading
One’s moral capital is indistinguishable from personal integrity, and the public’s current lack of trust in the military reflects the departure from traditional codes of ethics and the integration of sham role models into the military hierarchy.
The Man Who Brought Socrates to the Military Continue Reading
It seems clear that the globalists and bankers (from hereon to be referred to as non-elites) will soon be imposing their “pandemic preparedness” schemes on the public again. What would convince us that we need to be locked up again?
Intentions of the Non-Elites: Round Two Continue Reading
Project 2025, a conservative road map to remake the administrative state, has been taking hits for several weeks. Given the hype, we thought we’d better take a look at Project 2025’s digital civil liberties and free speech aspects.
Project 2025: A Plan to Fix Free Speech? Continue Reading
Like people, paradigms get tired, mostly because humans lose touch with the problems that originally elicited in them the drive to create new things. But humans aren’t always good at recognizing when they have begun going through the motions.
Linear Time and the Art of Staying Human Continue Reading
Please don’t think that, to be good, you need to be quiet and agreeable and complacent. And please don’t think that any of this will be easy. But it will be preferable to the personal destruction and social division created by festering, unacknowledged anger.
Our Last Innocent Moment: Angry, Forever? Continue Reading
Unfortunately, the WHO’s performance in helping the world manage Covid-19 proved, to be kind, very patchy. This makes it all the more surprising that there should be a concerted effort underway to expand its authority and boost its resources.
The WHO Is No Longer Fit for Purpose Continue Reading
As the economy was crashed, the people clamored for something even better than the multiplication of loaves and fish; they wanted the printing of massive amounts of free money by the government. Nearly every politician pretended to be a messiah.
Throne and Altar: Delusional Messianic Expectations Continue Reading
In agriculture, public health, and medicine, we should stop envisioning magic technological bullets that empower governments more than they benefit their purported target populations. We should consider not only the ostensible short-term benefits of interventions but also the broader costs.
Same Pig, Different Lipstick: Covid and the Green Revolution Continue Reading
Surveillance capitalism is a business model based on the unilateral claim of human private experiences as free raw material for translation into behavioral data. The prediction and influencing of behavior, rather than goods and services, is the primary product.
Surveillance Capitalism: You Are the Commodity Continue Reading
There is a raging discussion about whether the leaked final redactions of the minutes of the Robert Koch Institute’s Covid-19 crisis group are forgeries. At least one ostensibly unredacted and highly publicised passage in the documents suggests that they are.
Forgery at the Robert Koch Institute? Continue Reading
