The initial prediction for Africa was that there may be up to 3.3 million deaths. Africa had two main issues that prevented full blown tyranny like in Europe – lack of enough resources/infrastructure to enforce tyranny and the poverty level.
‘Something’s wrong.’ So said Donald Trump, about the rising prevalence of autism in children. Conservative estimates are that there has been a 1,000-fold increase in diagnoses of autism in children since the turn of the millennium.
For all the messiness, our times present opportunity to reassert a foundational principle of the Enlightenment; namely that the people themselves should have some fluid and influential role in shaping the workings of the regime under which they live.
It’s the broad thrust of Vance’s two-pronged argument that I found attractive. ‘Free speech, I fear, is in retreat,’ said Vance. He called EU commissioners ‘Commissars’ and warned that ‘in Britain and across Europe, free speech is in retreat.’
Like Napoleon’s troops, the legions of cognitive warriors from the myriad government-financed, non-governmental organizations are sure they have arrived at the end of history when it comes to understanding what it means to live a free and dignified life.
The state can only expand into the vacuum left by weakened men and disconnected women. Those who recognize this pattern face a simple choice: remain comfortable spectators in our own decline, or reclaim the authentic virtues that make us human.
The Dossier contains information regarding the military/intelligence coordination of the Covid biodefense response in the US, UK, Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, Germany, and Italy. For some countries, we have documentation of military/intelligence involvement, but not all the details.
Despite our trappings of technology, we have proven incapable of addressing even the most basic of society’s essential functions – protecting children. We are all part of the failure, and we have allowed it to become very deep.
Child Sacrifice and Our Desire to Ignore It Read Journal Article
Caught in the “measure-grab-and-control” tyranny of the algorithmic mind, they cannot imagine how those they see as lesser than them, might, if left to their own devices, be capable of generating greater efficiencies than their vaunted oh-so-rational systems.
The Demoralizing Downward Spiral of Algorithmic Culture Read Journal Article
This is the Brownstone community: informed, intelligent, eloquent, passionate, far-seeing, and deeply engaged. We are all learning together what it means to make a difference in our own lives and others. This is the way to rebuild the world.
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
If the deep blue voters of California recognize the folly of their choices and the destruction-driven bent of their elected leaders, if they demand answers and repudiate their woke ways, perhaps there is hope.
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