Collateral Global is a group of scientists who have been assessing the costs of Covid. Yet Collateral Global can’t calculate the emotional cost of broken families and bankruptcies from all sorts of addictions run riot by enforced inactivity.
The Rise of Gambling Addiction: Another Cost of Covid Read Journal Article
I hope you will join me in celebrating the nobility of physical labor. To pass through this time of testing and their abusive psychological manipulation methods, my humble recommendation is to recommit to faith in something greater than yourself.
To Celebrate Simple Gifts Read Journal Article
Bram Stoker’s classic Dracula (1892) was written as a Victorian-style moralizing tale of sin and its consequences. The novel would become a bestseller largely due to its lascivious imagery and terrifying plotline that fed into every anxiety over morality, science, and public health, much less kick off a century and a quarter of vampire films.
Nosferatu in the Wake of the Covid Experience Read Journal Article
What record labels achieved manually in hip-hop—identifying, redirecting, and commodifying authentic expression—would become the template for digital control. Just as executives learned to transform street culture into profitable products, algorithms would soon automate this process at global scale.
Capturing the Counterculture Read Journal Article
The mechanisms of cultural control we see today were built over more than a century. To understand how we arrived at this point, we must trace the historical foundations of these systems and the architecture of control that shaped them.
The Architecture of Control Read Journal Article
Preference falsification is different from self-censorship because people outright lie about what they really think. When the lie persists long enough, people begin to believe it, proclaiming fealty to one idea while holding another one in their heart of hearts.
Preference Falsification and Cascade Read Journal Article
There’s a peculiar comfort in believing that things simply happen by accident. That the powerful don’t conspire, that institutions don’t coordinate. I’ve come to call these people “accidentalists” – those who find refuge in randomness, who dismiss patterns as paranoia.
An Accidentalist’s Guide to Denying the Obvious Read Journal Article
Understanding these mechanisms isn’t cause for despair – it’s a source of empowerment. Just as the Prussian system required belief to function, today’s control systems rely on our unconscious participation. By becoming conscious of these mechanisms, we break their power.
How the Information Factory Evolved Read Journal Article
The Fors Marsh campaign deployed fear-based messaging to influence public behavior to comply with CDC and other USG recommendations. The intentional promotion of fear of death from an infectious disease disproportionate to actual risk of death is psychological bioterrorism.
Did Government-Sponsored Disinformation Worsen Covid-19? Read Journal Article
Adoptive parents know, and everyone around them knows, that they are not “exactly the same” as biological parents. It’s not fair, but life has never promised fairness, so they deal with it. See where I’m going with this?
The Trans Community Can Learn from Adoptive Parents Read Journal Article
The Covid-19 virus attack had a single good side. It is that if the K-12 schools had not abandoned in-person teaching and shifted to online computer and Zoom classes, parents would never have discovered that their children were being brainwashed.
Covid Exposed the Fall of Education Like Nothing Else Read Journal Article
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.
Schopenhauer: Humanity’s Fall to Irrationality Read Journal Article
