They Have the Money, We Have the Numbers
For better or worse, authoritarianism has happened many times in history — it’s kind of the human default. The original state.
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Save Furniture, Save the Past
A recent unnerving development is the disappearance of web pages. If history can be erased, it can be denied. Which puts us into a ‘save the furniture’ mindset – how can we preserve important kernels of truth for our children?
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Considerations on Civil Disobedience
In the United States this need to face the possibility that one will have to act decisively, has not been as urgent since ‘the Revolution of ’75.’ The enemy today is not outside the gates; it is inside the gates.
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How the US Government Turned on the People
The catastrophic mismanagement of Hurricane Helene relief is showing the American people that Washington’s dysfunctional but, worse, it doesn’t even seem to be trying to serve the people. Instead, we serve it. Like livestock. So how did we get here?
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Cut the Truth Out of Our Heads
The person who wanted to use violence to cut the brain out of the truthspeaker was merely protecting herself against a terrible truth she could not handle. It’s the liar more than anyone who has reason to fear free speech.
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Science, The Humanities, and Postmodernist Poison
The exploration of whether or not the gulf between Science and The Humanities can be bridged will have to be put on hold. Sadly, both of those quests have been poisoned the Postmodernism into which we have rapidly descended.
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Echoes of Tyranny: The Forgotten Lessons from History
We lived through one of the most staggering human rights violations in recent history. At the heart of this crisis lies the crossing of two fundamental Rubicons: the erosion of the First Amendment and the violation of the Nuremberg Code.
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Evil in a Box
That the contrast between good and evil might be clear-cut in a given moment of history, I do not dispute. The problem comes when we put that particular and necessarily time-bound case of evil “in a box.” Why?
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Schopenhauer: Humanity’s Fall to Irrationality
One cannot ignore the possibility that certain actions could occur which may, indeed, trigger the use of nuclear weapons by Russia, and then, in retaliation, by NATO countries, or vice versa. One can only hope that cool heads will prevail.
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The Man Who Shouts Fire in a Crowded Theater
Walz resembles the man who shouts fire in a crowded theater. Claiming a great danger, he incites people to fall in with a political program. But, having heard the shouting—“Save democracy!”—we have some time to discuss and reflect.
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Hypnosis, Stockholm Syndrome, and Hegemony
That’s the human story — the struggle between fitting in versus standing up for what’s right. Our challenge during the Age of the Iatrogenocide is to see and name the operations of hegemony and dismantle them in service of humanity.
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The Carbon Alarmists Are Silent about This
If carbon dioxide production by evil humans is the culprit, we should be hearing about new data showing 1) reduced CO2 during lockdown and 2) a flattening or direction change of “climate change” temperature curves.
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