The person most associated with civil disobedience is Mahatma Gandhi. In effect, he instrumentalised, operationalised, and weaponised Thoreau’s concept of civil disobedience (1849), turning it into an effective technique for peaceful mass mobilisation against a powerful opponent to win independence.
Indeed, these concepts, at least as they are typically employed by “progressives,” could be described, without exaggeration, as a species of slavespeak. By this, I simply mean that they are used disingenuously, to rationalise political oppression and slavery.
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Anyone whose life has been touched by emotional, mental, and addiction struggles, particularly of the type that psychiatry has labels and medications for, and maybe of the type that proves ‘treatment resistant,’ will find comfort and insight in this book.
We’re not just living in fear—we’re teaching our children that fear is the price of participation in society. And a society built on fear isn’t a society at all. It’s a comfortable prison, one where the guards are ourselves.
The FDA has approved hundreds of drugs without proof they work—and in some cases, despite evidence they cause harm. That’s the finding of a blistering two-year investigation by medical journalists Jeanne Lenzer and Shannon Brownlee, published by The Lever.
FDA Exposed: Hundreds of Drugs Approved without Proof They Work Continue Reading
Both scientists and the public are frustrated with the scientific enterprise. Change is needed, and this Perspective presents a blueprint for NIH reforms with the dual goal of ensuring scientific integrity and innovation.
If Man’s “conquest” of Nature is a one-way ticket to tyranny and finally annihilation, then perhaps what we need is more deference to the Civil, the Human, the Spiritual, and the Supernatural.
Reality has been shattered into billions of pieces, each one perfectly tailored to fit someone’s worldview. The same event triggers different movies in our heads. The same evidence proves opposite truths. We’re not just disagreeing—we’re living in different universes.
Sticking with tradition, health authorities, experts, and media are playing the ‘cases, cases, cases’ angle, as the latest variant “sweeps the nation” with what I calculate to be Australia’s twelfth Covid wave since the pandemic scare series kicked off.
New Covid Wave Scare Campaign: A Massive Flop Continue Reading
Bad modeling, bad data, and bad science had once again conspired against freedom and peace, the ideals that Trump had come to office to protect. Thus did he flip and go the other way fast: no more attacks on life.
While not nearly complete, the efforts and successes of the Kennedy-Trump alliance are real and significant. The recent confusion, mixed messages, and bloviations of Bernie and Bill are evidence that we are moving in the right direction.
If Washington does nothing except leave current tax, spending, and structural deficit policies in place, the publicly-held debt will grow by $102 trillion over the next three decades, reaching 154% of what would be $85 trillion of GDP by 2054.
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