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Would You Have Resisted the Imposition of Time Zones?

Jeffrey A. Tucker / January 8, 2024 / History, Philosophy, Society / 9 minute read

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Every trend can be taken too far, but perhaps we should become more aware of how all this detachment from the world around us begins and be more skeptical. For my part, I would be happy knowing and following the actual local time again. Maybe we need sundials again. Our times are so rough, brutalized by a techno-fascist junta that forever wants to jab us and force us all into the metaverse, I’m finding the idea just a bit tempting.

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The Great Taking Exposes the Financial End Game

Bert Olivier / January 7, 2024 / Economics, History, Philosophy / 14 minute read

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One of the very best exposés of the covert, very well-hidden, bellicose attempts to rob all of humanity – barring the miniscule number of psychotic individuals comprising the inimical opposition – of their material possessions and their ‘immaterial’ freedom, was published fairly recently. It is accurately titled The Great Taking (2023), and was written by David Webb, one of the most courageous and finance-savvy authors I have ever come across.

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Hope in the Heart of Winter

Haley Kynefin / January 6, 2024 / Philosophy, Society / 20 minute read

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Hiraeth may, indeed, embody a romantic, and at times overly mythical, sense of melancholy. But it is also a longing for some sort of vision conjured from the memory or from the imagination. In short, it is a longing for something for some sort of treasured ideal—and that ideal just might help us begin to imagine, and then to construct, the kind of world we do want to inhabit.

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A Nation of Non-Compliers

Jeffrey A. Tucker / January 6, 2024 / Philosophy, Society / 7 minute read

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We long ago gave up the hope that all of this is random and coincidental, any more than it so happened that nearly every government in the world decided to plaster social distancing signs everywhere at the same time. Something is going on, something malevolent. The battle of the future really is between them and us but who or what “them” is remains opaque and too many of “us” are still confused about what the alternative is to what is happening all around us.

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The Dark Side of the Force Isn’t Actually Paved in Black

Bill Rice / January 4, 2024 / History, Philosophy, Society / 7 minute read

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The analogy that Star Wars fans do not get is that the Evil Empire could be equated to the real rulers of the earth today. “The Resistance” might equate to the 10 percent of world citizens who are fighting back in the face of overwhelming odds. Why don’t more people understand who the Evil Empire really is…and who are really the Good Guys fighting back?

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A Field Guide to Dubious Fact-Checking

Thomas Buckley / January 3, 2024 / Media, Philosophy / 6 minute read

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To simplify deception detection, here are a few very common and very slippery techniques the fact-checkers use to twist the truth into a lie – and vice-versa – to always look out for.

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We Often Imitate What We Say We Oppose

Thomas Harrington / January 2, 2024 / Philosophy, Society / 7 minute read

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“How to struggle for justice without becoming what we claim to despise in our opponents?” That is the question. How well or poorly we as activists and idea-makers respond to this challenge in the short term will, I believe, go a long way toward predicting our long-term chances of building the more cohesive and human-centered culture we all desire for ourselves and our children.

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The Hero’s Voice is Within Your Reach

Mike Fairclough / January 2, 2024 / Philosophy, Society / 5 minute read

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Having incurred some rather brutal personal losses, including my career, I am unable to pretend that speaking out is easy. This is why people self-censor. It is definitely safer to stay silent in the short-term. But what are the long-term consequences of our silence? Could, for example, the horrors of Nazi Germany and the persecution of the Jews be repeated if people are silent en-mass about anti-Semitism? Of course, you know the chilling answer to that question.

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Hope Matters in Our War

Bert Olivier / January 1, 2024 / Philosophy, Society / 12 minute read

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Just as we find ourselves in ‘dark years’ at present, we cannot afford to believe for a moment that the technocratic cabal has succeeded in determining, once and for all, what our future will be – that of slaves in their AI-controlled, neo-fascist, feudal dystopia. We are free human beings, and by doing the ‘work of hope’ by seizing on opportunities that are latent in the world, to challenge them with courage, we shall prevail.

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To Starve our Feudal Overlords of Attention

Thomas Harrington / December 31, 2023 / Philosophy, Society / 7 minute read

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As Covid showed us, an unusually high number of those trotted out to us by our “noble” class as possessing inordinate wisdom are little more than self-interested charlatans. But they retain much of their prominence because many people, having been told again and again that their own observational and reasoning skills are terminally inadequate, hand over those tasks to those presented to them as inordinately wise.

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The Courage to Admit Mistakes in Public

Mattias Desmet / December 27, 2023 / Government, Philosophy, Psychology / 8 minute read

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On the one hand we see the emergence of masses, a globalist mass united by a propagandized, ideological opinion, but also counter-masses united by other fanatical narratives. On the other hand, we see the emergence of a group based on resonant speech—a group that connects people with the most divergent opinions, that prioritizes open-mindedness and sincerity. Once the group becomes energetically stronger than the mass, the era of totalitarianism is over.

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We Sacrificed Their Childhood at the Altar of Our Choices

David McGrogan / December 27, 2023 / Philosophy, Public Health, Society / 19 minute read

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The contributors to the special issue of The International Human Rights Journal would have us believe that the circle could in some way have been squared and that we could have ‘saved lives’ by closing schools while at the same time making sure children did not suffer. This forces them to make out that the issue is awfully complicated. But I’m afraid to say it really is in the end very simple: children should never have had to go through the experience of lockdown.

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