Unless their advice regarding the withdrawal of the vaccines is heeded, we could face the dystopian prospect of a world which – like the fictional one in Gattaca – is riven into two irreconcilable groups, the ‘vaccine valids’ and the ‘vaccine in-valids.’
Phrases like the Latino, black, or Asian-American vote are increasingly meaningless. This can only be good for the long-term health of American democracy, contrary to the hysterical warnings of its imminent collapse should Trump win.
Many of the early appointments represent the coming together of MAGA, MAHA, and DOGE, the fulfillment of decades of cultivation of disparate groups of dissidents who had not previously realized their common interests and common enemies.
This man whom I thought a giant in the world of Critical Thinkers is shown to be a political Tribalist. It is the triumph of Postmodernism where nothing of real substance matters, only ideology and tribal allegiance.
We should encourage decentralized diversity in thought and society, choose to respect the unpredictability of the future, have the wisdom to act cautiously and incrementally when appropriate and, at times, not act at all but rather to practice watchful waiting.
If the world of opportunity and its wholesale suppression of death overstimulated with its production line of false purposes, then the current wholesale promotion of death enervates, eroding our very sense of purpose.
Our challenge isn’t merely to reject flawed expertise but to cultivate genuine wisdom. The future depends on those who can navigate beyond the limits of institutional thinking, blending discernment, humility, and courage.
If we extrapolate Forrest Gump’s adage that stupid is as stupid does, from stupidity to fascist is as fascist does, we can see parallels to fascism in actions that were taken by the governor of the State of Washington.
We should thank Jeff Bezos for highlighting the crisis of trust in the media. But his dismissive attitude toward “alternative sources” of news and information is part of the reason why many people are losing respect for the legacy media.
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Eric Metaxas explains that the Spiral of Silence is “the idea that as the price to speak rises, fewer speak out, which further causes the price to rise, so that fewer yet will speak out, until a whole culture is silenced.”
Despite the flaws with the concept of zombies, one shouldn’t throw the undead baby out with the bathwater. Zombie films and shows can have a lot to say. At its best, The Walking Dead was a thought-provoking meditation on how societies organize and evolve.
One of the features of populism that Karlson posits is framing political groups as Us versus Them. It is ironic because Karlson does that too—Us classical liberals are necessarily at loggerheads with Them populists.
