Arendt’s elaboration on ‘deterrence’ (1990, p. 15-17) is equally relevant today, insofar as its focus on the (nuclear) arms race during the Cold War similarly applies to the conflict in Ukraine, but with important differences and specifications.
Legacy.com is a website where you can search “the world’s largest obituary database,” with nearly 50,000,000 entries accumulated since 1998. Given the claim that Legacy.com offers a “permanent” space for commemoration, the recent discoveries raise some interesting questions.
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We have to wait now before enough people realize that Science – the central ideology of our civilization – is in ruins. Christianity was saved by the separation of Church and State. To save Science, an equally daring step will be needed.
We’re not just losing skills and privacy; we’re losing the ability to recognize independence. The question isn’t whether convenience is worth the cost of liberty—it’s whether we’ll recognize what we’ve lost before we forget we ever had it.
We live in a world where every human need—money, food, health, education, and even information—is controlled and manipulated by artificial systems. This matrix of artifice began with central bankers creating fiat currency: declaring something’s value and creating dependency.
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.
We call on the US government to end the unjust prosecution of Roger Ver, a pioneer in cryptocurrency and advocate for economic freedom. This is about protecting innovation, defending liberty, and ensuring that following legal advice doesn’t become a crime.
If it is no longer safe to mention the word “dictator” regarding presidential candidates, the First Amendment will be worth less than the most noxious campaign promise. But at least Facebook will always have plenty of cute kitty photos.
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.”
Archive.org has stopped taking images of content on all platforms. For the first time in 30 years, we have gone a long swath of time since this service has chronicled the life of the Internet in real time.
Modeling can assist in raising questions to be answered by research. Technological advances have contributed to the reduction in infectious diseases, including pandemic mortality. But misuse of technology through inappropriate use of models could undo many of these important gains.
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School is more restrictive than ever, and many of the schools’ facades resemble Juvenile Detention Centers. Playtime has been watered down and any dangerous games removed. At home, it is nearly impossible to find any children playing outside without supervision.
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