Charlie Kirk and Socrates
In short, it appears that, as several commentators have observed – and as we know from history – in death, Charlie Kirk is proving to be much stronger than in life. This has always been the case with martyrs.
In short, it appears that, as several commentators have observed – and as we know from history – in death, Charlie Kirk is proving to be much stronger than in life. This has always been the case with martyrs.
You’ll know it’s over in earnest when, just as in Covid, people start changing jerseys and claiming to have played for the other side all along. It’s already starting. And just like Covid, it will be slowly, slowly, then all at once.
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A population filled with defensive, hyper-sensitive, and fear-corseted young is the tyrant class’s fondest dream. One made up of young people possessed of a sense of their essential worthiness is that same group’s biggest nightmare.
Until consumerism, the elderly were seen as a precious resource, providing us all with wisdom. So what eventually happens to a culture that has worked overtime to keep the key human realities of death and diminishment locked in the closet?
A bodyoid’s value for science and medicine lies precisely in what it would be, which is not a zombie, not a dead person, not a mannequin that mimics the human form. It would be a profoundly disabled human being.
We the people must demand that the illumination of The Truth be ignited, and Postmodernism be banished, if not completely, then at least from science. Science must be objective and follow The Truth and not Subjective Opinions of Truth.
The big mistake of so-called rational thinking is consistently underestimating the power of people’s need to believe in something transcendent of what they, at one point or another in their life, come to realize is their own cosmic insignificance.
We are more disconnected than ever before and we have lost our ability to communicate with each other. And yet our destruction is well masked in the pretence of progress and unity.
Americans refuse to be demoralized. We want to have good lives, and we believe that this is the country to do it in. That’s the spirit of pioneering. It is not lost. It has just ebbed and flowed.
I didn’t want to feed my soul into a machine. That was my instinct when AI tools started appearing everywhere – not concern about jobs, but something deeper. These tools promise to make us smarter while making us more dependent.
Could there be a better way of subverting that traditional link between music and healing than by replacing it with a simulacrum of the same and to habituate people to elite-supplied assaults on their physical integrity in the name of health?
So much of what is considered science today is really just art. It’s a subjective interpretation of the meaning of data. Data does not speak for itself. It does not tell you cause and effect. It provides no predictive map.
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