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1984 triggers me into absolute rage that we are living in it!

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It triggers me that it's been used as an Instruction Guide...

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Nice tits!

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Hahaha, yes it's probably the same "nude pictures" spammer... that's basically the only way to make $100/hr "without skills" ;)

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It's way beyond lying, it's outright hostility towards Reality. The typical person lies for a specific reason to achieve some personal gain or to avoid loss. Hostility towards Reality is something different. I think 1984 deals with this directly. It's pathological, institutional hubris of the worst kind. It sees Reality as a rival. Reality is an enemy of the collective based merely on the fact that it can't be controlled. It operates independently, not swayed by the power of the State or our desires. This creates an anxiety that cannot be relieved, giving way to madness both in the elites and the masses. No matter how hard we try, we can't control Reality, but we can attempt to do the next best thing. We can control the public narrative and find ways to punish those with lingering loyalty to Reality, individualists or perhaps religious zealots. They say the best lies weave in enough truth to make it believable. Not so with institutionalized control of Reality. The best lie is so absurd that it demands and demonstrates total loyalty to the collective, and is a direct assault on a public nemesis, Reality itself. This is how they identify the enemies of the State. Make a decree so ridiculous that is triggers the anxiety of those devoted to Reality. Keep doing it until they break, then bring the heat. These people are the final vestiges of a bygone era, still loyal to the exiled king. This is the way you gain ideological purity and bring an end to anxiety and hatred of those who trigger our anxiety. This is how lasting peace can be attained.

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Lies are also anti physics. A black hole if you like.

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Exactly.

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Wow! What a phenomenal summary!

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Did you see Dr Malone’s most recent substack on “Human Augmentation”? He cited a Report that was prepared by two Major Generals, one British, one German and dated May 2021, in the midst of a Plan-, ahem, a “pandemic”. Intriguing. It proposes essentially the idea that human augmentation has already begun and has already been used for human good. I enjoyed (sarc) the ethical and legal sections which, while veiled in phrases that evoked societal “goodness”, essentially implies it was a foregone conclusion that the discussion of future benefits to mankind from such augmentation needed to be begun and that they should have an end that included “yes, let’s forge ahead”. The ideas in both ethical and legal sections had phraseology that also implies our ethics and ideas of morality are changing and laws were mutable.

Liking 1984 any more sir?

Lest someone misunderstand me my comments are directed at the report itself, not Dr Malone’s article (which is good but I recommend reading the report itself). “Chilling” as Malone says.

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Yes, I read that article also.. I agree with one of the commenters on that post which points out the enormous over-sell of this kind of technology. I don't think they have any idea how complex and difficult that problem is. Of course, it's a lot easier to completely destroy the human race and life on earth in general, while trying and failing to implement something like this, and that's certainly the most likely outcome.

One new conspiracy theory that occurred to me today - what if the coming spate of vaccine injuries has another silver lining (for the TH psychos): in my experience 95+% of the tech priesthood and their children have taken the injections. If it turns out they (or some significant fraction of them) are going to have permanent on-going health problems, that are not fixable, all of those idiots are going to be making things like brain upload and TH a special project of theirs.

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I swear my high school English teachers went through the "banned books" list and said "we need to make the students read all of these books."

Keep banning books, I'll keep reading them!

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I had a teacher who did exactly that! He handed out books that were or had been banned in various countries or at different points in time. I remember him asking: "When you read these, try to understand why they were censored or banned." Formally banned and censored or "just" beyond the pale of what you're supposed to think about.

I've done the same when teaching. "If someone wants to keep you from reading or watching or hearing something, challenge them!" And I have been handed the sh*t end of the stick many times for that - mainly from other teachers.

"Why do you let them read /that/ book? They don't need to know about that kind of stuff!" And do note, I'm talking about students aged 16+ to adults.

(I think it's time I re-read 'Fahrenheit 451' again.)

“Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.” 1984, Orwell.

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Oh they never told us that's what they were doing. But, looking at the banned books over the years and comparing them to my reading list, pretty sure that's what they did. But back then, the only way you learned about banned books was to go to the library during banned books week and physically look at the lists, the internet didn't exist as it does now. And YES to F451... DOOOO IIIIIIIIT

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Gotta love the rare teacher like that. My 10th grade biology teacher said "I'm not allowed to teach you about human reproduction. The reproductive cycle of the lowland gorilla, Gorilla g. gorilla, is almost identical to humans. Therefore I'm going to teach you about gorillas." One of my favorite teachers.

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Sorry, my brain kind of broke at "not allowed to teach human reproduction"...

That explains SO MUCH about society today. SO VERY MUCH.

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Well, this was in 1970/71. Only a year before, they started allowing girls to wear pants to school. Only a year before, we girls had to kneel in homeroom every morning to have our skirts measured. More than 3 inches from the ground, you had to go home and change. There's some context for ya.

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That happened to me in 1966! My skirt was only an inch above my knees at most, but I was sent home after being nabbed by the principal in the hall and made to kneel on the ground. I'd forgotten all about this until now!

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I know people are a bit different now. But I know when I was college age, if there was a "warning" on something it just made me more curious about it. Let's hope young people haven't changed that much and Orwell sells millions more posthumously.

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I'm certain that tendency is not at all alive in this current generation.

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Rogan's popularity, especially when he interviews verboten, censored guests like Malone and McCullough, is proof that forgotten fruit is more doggedly sought out.

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I don't know. I went to a defeat the mandates march yesterday. I heard a lot of young people mocking the official narrative. So maybe just on life support?

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Acceptable, Citizen, provided it is a Remdesivir drip and a ventilator. 😈

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Lol

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Kinda sorta like the ... the ... Streisand Effect?!

(Which I only learned of last week...thanks to el gato malo, of course.)

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"PARENTAL WARNING? Sweet!"

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The people running our universities and hospitals - the administrator class - are the root of the problem in America right now. Highly educated but lacking understanding of the real world, they think they have all the answers. But they are siphoned off; they live in fantasy land. Yet they are well connected to political power and are successful at stating the false narratives. I am not sure how to stop this. Maybe it can't be stopped. It reminds me somewhat of the Roman Empire with out of touch Senators until the empire collapsed. Maybe the only solution to the problem sadly is American collapse.

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true.... i went in to the service a well educated new second lieutenant.

i was very lucky i had two non commissioned officer who took the time to teach me i was not so smart and to look and listen.

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Kudos and respect to you!

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When observing doctor, lawyer, teacher friends, I note in many of them a tribal mentality. They too often see themselves initiated into a secret cult of specific learning that others do not have. Even if they are aware of the deficiencies of their profession (and may have even been critical of their profession and shoddy practices *BC) now they may have become über-defensive. The problem of being in a tribe is fear of shunning. They are worried about losing the good opinion of their “colleagues.” Time and again I see that many of these normally rational, logical folks have sold their souls for covid collegiality. It is sad to view.

*BC = Before Covid ☺️

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Exactly right. I worked for years for a top association for medical school administrators. They suffer from a dangerous level of group think. Tons of committee and board meetings where the first outspoken person in the group gets their way every time. Once the narrative is set NO ONE wants to go against it, these people's rejection from their peers is their #1 fear, sadly. So bad things go forward whether they make sense or not. These are the most cowardly cultists imaginable.

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They love the feeling of being in an exclusive group and feeling superior to the "little people". The high pay and perks help to buy their loyalty, too!

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Sadly, a disproportionate number of those types may be culled in coming years due to side effects of the jabs they were so eager to ingest and impose upon others in their cliques. Bug or feature? I'll let others debate. If we get a full-on dystopian regime, I suppose it won't really matter.

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Sadly...?

I'm not so sure that is going to be sad when these people who refuse to think properly depart our planet. When one has been gifted with a wonderful prefrontal cortex and so many other amazing parts of the brain...but refuse to use them properly...then I personally think they're wasting them. Sure, it's their CHOICE to waste them, but done on such a large scale means if these people continue to breed, that huge section of the population will be DEvolving pretty darn quickly.

I'd rather live with any other animal than humans like that, thanks!!

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Ironically, the apparent culling of the herd will eliminate the most obedient people and leave behind the most independent types.

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But how does one truly survive well? By following orders and not thinking - or by coming up with new ideas?

Yes, it seems counterproductive to take out all the Guardian-type personalities, because they are the ones good for ploughing the fields, doing the (menial) jobs without thinking; just going through the motions. Not everyone needs to be an inventor or someone who thinks outside the box, true. But what if the type of society that values large portions of guardian-type personalities is not actually a good form of society after all? Just because it's what we've come to know doesn't make it right, useful, or sensible. Honestly, I'm all for a total shake-up. I can't say that capitalism and keeping most people downtrodden works wonders.

More to the point, people who use their brains properly usually aren't the ones asking for people who don't comply to be murdered in their sleep!! We're a bit more rational than that!! So hanging out with more 'awake' type people sounds good to me.

Those guardian-types are just holding society back. I don't need them to die or anything, but I also won't cry if they go. BUT I won't be pushing them over the cliff, either. The reality is that they'll be walking over the cliff themselves!

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IMHO

Capitalism seems to be the only economic system consistent with political systems honoring individual rights and liberty

Perhaps there are others of which I am unaware?

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I meant that those who want to cull the herd are culling those who are most useful to them--the obedient, compliant people who just follow orders and go along to get along.

Those who want to cull the herd will shrink the population, but those who are left will not be obedient, compliant types who just follow orders.

Of course, those who want to cull the herd are despicable.

Those who survive will, for the most part, be independent and think for themselves.

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I agree, & I'm confused lol.

Think I posted to the wrong place of the thread so I'll explain

Here's the Statement that prompted my post

" Honestly, I'm all for a total shake-up. I can't say that capitalism and keeping most people downtrodden works wonders"

But that wasn't you! Think it was Robyn lol

Ooops 🤣

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Goodness, lots of thoughtful food here. Hard to know where to start. Thanks for the interesting observations. Apologies in advance for scattered thoughts :^)

Two points: The first is in reference to Order-following Guardians v Outside-of-box Inventors, where I am strangely reminded of something Prof. Jordan Peterson wrote several years ago (and I am paraphrasing, with apologies for any misrepresentation). As I recall, he was calling us to look around, look further, and sense beyond. He was speaking of Canada, but his words were representative of North America. It was of the everyday miracles that are in everything that surrounds us. Somehow, he suggests, it all comes together, and it works. It actually works, and it is amazing that it does so. He labels it a miracle: In the main, society flows well daily; we leave our homes to travel to work in cars, on buses, by bike, by train; we are surrounded by orderly structure; we are not killing each other willy nilly (well, sadly except for those high tension urban pockets), we maintain a modicum of civility, and normally have generous access to our daily needs (and our many, many "wants").

The wise Canadian columnist, Rex Murphy, added to this when he said that we in Canada (and, by extension, N America) suffer from a deplorable lack of gratitude. We have SO much that we have created and structured with our God-given gifts, as well as what has been given to us, and, yet, we are largely unaware of the largesse. More to the point, we are largely unaware of our magnificent, seamless, fruitful interconnectedness. We take it for granted.

If we examine each day carefully, open our eyes, and truly look around us, we will see the fruits of the miracle of the surprising, orderly society in which we are immersed. As a small example, take just one product we find at Costco: cashews. How did these gems get there on the shelf in front of us? Hundreds of containers of fresh, uncontaminated cashews. Who grew them? Tended them? Picked them? Sorted them? Cooked and salted them with uniquely created equipment? Who manufactured the plastic containers that encase them? The labels? Then into manufactured boxes, into manufactured trucks, traveling on paved roads with stoplights and guiding signs, into close to 700 North American structures called Costco? And that is just one product: cashews. It works! It frickin’ works! Why do we not see this? Product, meaningful labour, employment, salaries, infrastructure, habitation, transportation ...

Was it Winston Churchill who said the democratic capitalism is the worst form of government - except for all the rest? With all its flaws, it has worked to create structure, order, stability, basic needs, comforts, and luxuries. Despite its many ghastly shortcomings, its citizens and the world have benefitted from this orderly structure. Because the whole world—for many sad reasons—has not attained an adequate level of order and structure, does not take away from the miracle of democratic capitalistic achievements where it has occurred. And this should not be disparaged. Or eyed with malicious envy. Or labeled a product of supremacy. It is people being people, using their gifts, running with their ideas, and the result is gainful employment, and useful products and necessities to improve lives at home and abroad.

The structure accommodates all: Guardians AND Inventors. We are fearfully and wonderfully interconnected. But we cannot seem to fully appreciate this, maybe until: "Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what ya got 'til it's gone. They paved Paradise and put up a parking lot."

The second point is (mercifully) shorter: “Following orders” + "not thinking" v Coming up with new ideas?? It could be that I read too much into it, but was there a hint offered here that there is no hard and fast Truth? That Truth is always mutable? That the only good is tied into progress, endlessly coming up with new ideas? But, what of an immutable Truth (and this is not to speak of God – a topic for another day)? This ties in with Point #1: The Truth that goes beyond the functional man we view. The Truth that is an innate goodness (natural law) within man (Guardian or Inventor); a Truth that creates that interconnectedness which quietly offers benefits to giver and receiver. This occurs in the structured milieu that encourages creativity, ingenuity, and an ethic of work providing, not only those cashews, but the massive industry and interconnected labour involving untold many in getting this product to the shelves and into Grandma Phoebe’s vintage carnival nut bowl on the coffee table. (Indulge me another aside: the logger who took down the tree, that was trucked away, ground to pulp, formed to paper, then inked to become the cashew container label). And, once again, that box of cashews is just one commodity amongst billions. Perhaps we need to lift our heads and observe our continent with a renewed freshness – and gratitude. And maybe start with the miracle that is the monitor in front of us displaying these ideas.

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Why thankyou for your ideas, Donna Ruth :-)

I absolutely don't deny that the whole machine has everyone doing their part and it does seem to work - or should I say it WORKED. I am now starting to see massive cracks in the system - and not necessarily because people aren't growing the cashews, picking them, sorting them, roasting them, salting them or labelling them. The problem in Australia is that we're currently struggling with the SHIPPING. Government policies (everyone self-isolating unnecessarily because of ridiculously high false positives from PCRs, closure of borders etc) are wrecking the system and making things UNavailable to the masses. As the covid crap continues, more people will actually be properly sick (or dead) and unable to perform their role in the Machine. This then leads to the total breakdown of the Machine.

Perhaps what I meant by my comment above is I might appreciate the Machine more if more people appreciated the machine. You know, sometimes I don't want to go to work, but I also know that when I go to work, I help my patients get on with their lives, so that they can continue with their lives, and keep the machine working (however it is they contribute to it). So if I also want it all to continue, I need to go to work to make this happen. I'm part of the Machine! But currently, I'm seeing it falling apart, and it has made me question things - like is our society on the right path? Is this Machine the right way to go about things? Or does it lead to so much ingratitude that it requires a total rebuild from time to time?

Even if people weren't suffering from this covid brainwashing hype, there are just too many people on this planet, and we are consuming too many resources. There are too many bees in the hive, if you will.

Moreover, if we go back to basics of how the Machine started, is it right to expand out the Clan to a Commune and then to a whole Society and then the whole World? If people are lacking in gratitude (and I think you are right - they are!), then wouldn't it be better to go back to the little Clan or Commune and get people to grow their own food and do EVERYTHING themselves so that they can appreciate the whole Machine - by doing it themselves? But that is merely the beginning of the Machine again. Is there a better way? Maybe nomadic living, like some African or Aboriginal tribes do? Then we own nothing and we're OK with it (is that the Great Reset, ha ha?!)- but we're part of the the whole, still, part of Nature.

Sometimes I think we are such creatures of comfort! Why constantly be nomadic, when we can settle down and grow our own food and travel for leisure instead of need? I guess we're probably stuck on a Nomadic existence - or a slave to the Machine - on this planet. There doesn't seem to be much other option, does there...? HOW we go about it though, makes a difference. For example, cooking because people need to be fed is one thing. But cooking with love and for joy is different to just cooking as a need.

And perhaps that's what I also mean by the guardian-type personalities. Are these the people who just do what they're told, and because it has to be done, but perhaps find no joy or inventiveness in the task at hand? The task probably still needs to be done, but HOW it is done can make a world of difference.

Like you, I would like more care & love - gratitude - in the world.

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Oh, they have way, way more to lose than "the good opinion".

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THAT and "BC". thank you

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Why wouldn't they live in fantasy land, though? The instuitions that they serve take care of their every need in exchange for complete, absolute loyalty and obedience to the priorities of the institution. That's the deal. It's a sweet, sweet life inside of those those bubbles. I've seen it. Cut the EZ funding and see what happens.

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This monster is already eating it’s own babies. As we sit and watch it collapse, we need to consider what to build on the other side, how to welcome people previously in the cult back to society and how to heal the immense damage done to kids. It’s up to all of us to put life on a positive trajectory.

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Yes, what should society look like post pharmotyranny? One absolute is the need for local local local. If we reconstruct a large central government again, no matter how well intended or staffed by saints, it will be corrupted and arrogate tyrannical power to enslave us again. The only sure curb against that is to keep as much power as possible at the most local level (and conversely limit power as much as possible beyond the local level). States should be as autonomous as possible. A federal government should be so helpless and inconsequential that no sociopath or psychopath would have anything to do w it. This means, however, that people will need to find solutions and help locally. No more sugar daddy Uncle Sam. It means charities and private philanthropy will be needed. It also means no more US military in foreign wars. Maybe the New Constitution will have a proviso that military forces can only be used defensively (a la Japan). Maybe there is no US military per se but only state national guard units or militias that can only be used w the permission of a states legislature. No more Supreme Court either. Each state decides how the Constitution applies. If you don't like it, move the hell away. This will sort people out naturally and block attempts at national control.

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Eliminate all government borrowing and power to declare what is money. The best parts of what you envision would soon follow, as would a great tax revolt when scoundrels attempt to increase taxation sufficient to cover the high operating expenses of their culture.

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I could have sworn there was something in the Constitution about that already ;)

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Yes, as soon as the Supreme Court was allowed to make law binding on all persons in all states, the Constitution became a rubber chicken. Just something to justify power grabs and evade legislatures.

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Con law, in practice, is like a great game of pettifogging and rules of thumb which are applied according to taste, preference, and the interests of the moment. Lysander Spooner was correct, I think, that no two people have ever agreed upon its meaning.

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No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.

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Seems pretty straight forward to me, but we have a whole generation of people trying to ignore "shall not be infringed."

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Hmmm. It reads that "No state shall...make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts". So I shouldn't have to pay my "State", Illinois, in abstract units of account called the US dollar. Probably a Con law artist would say that the restriction on Tender doesn't apply to the imperial government. With that breech made, the "States" can be dragged along in tow, following the example of the imperial gov.

I think the habit of lawyerly word twisting begins early in one's law education, whether at law school or through the old fashioned method of reading the law. Established interests, including lawyers with careers to cultivate, have no interest in ruining their interlocking rackets. So naïve young law students rarely receive a proper education about Con law in general or the US Constitution in particular. Still less are they encouraged to think for theirselves. If they were, suspicious clauses like the preamable and the clause of Art. VII would provoke huge quarrels which become public given the political significance of these clauses.

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As a fantasy, only voters would be allowed to donate to political campaigns. No corporate or institutional bribery and capture of candidates. Real time posting of names and addresses of donors. I agree with most of Ginned's ambitions, but collapse of an imperium is a very dangerous time. Other ambitious states would eat the empire.

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Expand on that thought, rjt. What imperium precisely are we protecting? Is there a country or place overseas that we must defend? Why? This pax americana crap we've been sold for the last 80 years has to go.

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I used imperium to signal that this was not a formal empire. Another useful term would be hegemony, but with origins as far back as the Monroe Doctrine, the War of 1812 and subsequent Fenian movement, the Spanish-American War, the containment of Communism after WWII.

Economically, the Bretton Woods arrangement, the repudiation of the $35/oz gold standard, and the Petrodollar arrangement are manifestations of empire, specifically an empire in decline with debasement of currency to support an overextended military. The New Deal and subsequent advance of the welfare state is the equivalent of bread and circuses.

I saw one description of our feckless PM as "the minor leader of a vassal state."

I read "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" some years ago, which gave a good description of the techniques of economic subjugation. The Chinese are doing the same thing now in Africa, and buying up resources worldwide. I have recently read "The Silk Roads" (2015) by Peter Frankopan which gives a good review of imperial history from Mesopotamia to the present from an Asiacentric point of view. The observations in the later chapters on the US involvement is instructive.

This week I am reading "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" (2019) by Shoshana Zuboff, which brings us up to date on the ascendancy of Google, Microsoft, Facebook, etc. These are American companies , and like the multinational pharmaceutical companies, have effectively captured the government. With American industry "off-shored" , we are not really protecting the state's interests as much as the corporate interests. Did you notice that Bill Gates has captured the WHO, CDC, and NIH through controlling donations?

The final piece is the WEF, which is proceeding with its "New World Order", using the Covid "pandemic" as an excuse to impose universal digital tracking, CBDC's soon coming, and a worldwide "Social Credit System" to match the Chinese.

The danger with the fall of an empire is not to the rulers, it is to the disposable proletariat.

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Thanks for the clarification. Glad i asked! Agree, the imperium needs to go. It really is an inverted fascism where the multinational corporations call the tune and the politicians dance their asses off or else.

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Close- it is fascism, the governments and corporations are intimately intertwined- the regulators and secretaries change places in the government and corporate boardrooms routinely. The politicians are mostly puppets as you say, dependent on corporate funding for reelection. The "government" is mostly the bureaucracy, somewhat the politicians.

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University offers master class in irony.

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"University offers master class in irony."

Too bad it's unintentional.

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The left always eats its own

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everything always eats its own.

the tytler cycle is just ouroboros for civilizations.

https://imagesinbloom.com/2017/07/06/ok-history-buffs-i-need-your-help/

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But revolutions do not devour their children, pace that common phrase; they devour their parents.

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Are you familiar with the book, "The Fourth Turning"?

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“Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.”

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Problem solved as that proclamation should most definitely keep people from reading the book. 😂😂😂

Reminds me of a Warner Brothers cartoon I once saw where one of the characters kept saying whatever you do don’t look in the basement.

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OMG they put a warning on Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time. The main warning apparently was for the death of an animal (sorry, Gato) but also for "ableism". This book is told from the point of view of an autistic kid and how he perseveres into independence, DESPITE the "ableism" that constantly hampers him. I highly recommend it, it's a wonderful book.

We are living in 1984 indeed.

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If you don't have a local used-book store, find one online and give it lots of custom. You're gonna need a lot of uncorrected lfiction. And science...

Remember the olden days (of fairly recent memory)? When physicians were stumped by a patient presentation they found themselves baffled by, they'd (OK, the smart ones) search the classic medical literature for clues. That's heresy now.

And--funny thing. Remember when Dr. Spock fell out of favor and became the object of fairly gentle but real mockery? I happen to have a very very aged paperback copy of "Baby and Child Care" inherited from my mother, and by God it was the most rational, compassionate, common-sense book of its genre I've ever read. Tells you a lot, that such a work fell so far out of fashion...

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I believe mothers stick their sons in trunks these days if they sniffle.

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I'm old enough to remember when "I'd die for my children" didn't earn you five Pinocchios...

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There is Thrift Books (https://www.thriftbooks.com/) which just sells used books if you don't have any local used book stores.

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The epitome of irony, a trigger warning on 1984. Good stuff. And not at all hard to believe given our current situation.

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🤦🏻‍♀️What, next trigger warning on the Holy Bible?! Backwards world.

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A bit more than a trigger warning it seems: "[Finnish] Christian MP says prosecution for tweeting Bible verse on homosexuality is a ‘privilege’."

https://www.christianpost.com/news/christian-mp-says-prosecution-over-biblical-beliefs-a-privilege.html

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It triggers me because I grew up in Eastern Europe where it was not only censored but would land in jail and people shared copies made on typewriters. Never again, I hoped.

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Makes sense since Orwell wrote 1984 loosely based on the oppressive, censorious communist prison state of the Soviet union, I'm certain party apparatchiks didn't appreciate anyone who enjoyed it lol 😎

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Trigger warnings are as effective as vaccines, but it's true that those who experienced 2020 and 2021 might be triggered by 1984.

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Oh, so "trigger warning" is what all the cool kids call "spoiler alert" now.

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trigger warnings and banning of songs etc always backfired and will again

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Bring on the Dr Seuss! :)

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This is fine

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The University of Northampton needs to get in the public eye SOMEHOW. After all, they have an atrocious ranking (108/132) for Universities in the UK. It would've been better, of course, if they'd actually done something good instead of something stupid. But then again, so many children do love reverse psychology, ha ha. And let's face it, the world is full of about 90% children if we're judging it by how they act...

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Did you know that a Manx cat is the descendant of a cat that in chasing its own tail, finally caught it?

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Totally true statement:

"the book contains 'explicit material' and that some student may find the work to be 'offensive and unsettling.' "

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The circle of life. When I look at the wilderness landscape just outside my window I see a world where everything is eating and being eaten. For something to live something else must die.

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You cannot make this stuff UP anymore it's just too absurd!

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I read it summer of 2020 - it is uncanny how close it is to reality. Fauci and the federal govt play O’Brien perfectly.

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Hey Gato, looks like Daniel Horowitz over at The Blaze has been eating your catnip.

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The End is Always Near by Dan Carlin is a very interesting read about the fragility of civilizations.

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"I woke up this morning and got myself a beer,

I woke up this morning and got myself a beer*,

The future's uncertain and the end is always near."

-- Doors, "Roadhouse Blues"

*Towards the end, Jim Morisson was more likely to be downing a bottle of whiskey.

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His marvelous rant about germs has been timely as well.

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What was the rant?

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Google: George Carlin germs youtube and you will find it in case this link does not work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X29lF43mUlo

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That was great! Prophetic. And very true.

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It really does make you wonder though, doesn't it?

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It does. Wasn't he prophetic about other things? Often artists of all kinds know what's coming before the rest of us do...

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"University puts TRIGGER WARNING on Orwell's 1984"

I doubt this is true. What exactly is the "trigger warning"? What university is doing this? What exactly is the "trigger warning"? Is it because Winston Smith was boning an old hooker?

I've read the book multiple times. I read it first when I was 12, perhaps reading about a prostitute at 12 MAY not have been appropriate for my age then. Most of the book was above my head at the time, and I read it as a science fiction novel. It's been a good book to return to.

People need to be skeptical about everything, the problem is that if they aren't, they stop stirring the pot so much.

Can't verify this for myself, I have no context, no justification is given, no university named. It is reasonable to assume this "story" is just that - a fucking story.

Prove that what is being reported here is correct. If you cannot do that, it's reasonable to assume you have been deceived at best, or lying at worst.

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I hope they’re ready to put the same warning on everything including Nancy Drew and See Spot Run.

There’s something “offensive” to and for (because let’s not kid ourselves, this is a delight for the stupid) Everyone!

I watched Martin Scorsese’s interviews of [blocked] writer, Fran Lebowitz on Netflix. It’s utterly delightful. He asked her if we should read Henry James since he was such a bastard and possibly guilty of terrible things? “Of course” she said, “we’re all guilty of things we don’t don’t want others to know about, but where would you stop if you start excluding those who offend us?”

That says all we need to say. But her opinion would certainly be deemed dangerous to hear today.

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You can rid your country of dastardly Democrats and rotten Republicans and replace them with good people and it means squat! Until the education system is demolished, little cookie-cutter versions of Amelia Duh Blasio Sanchez, aka MINUSF OC, will forever pollute and destroy your way of life!

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Exactly. Same for the past, where religions have enabled the same group think in societies.

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I see the article at Breitbart. It is the University of Northampton, and the article includes a tweet by the university for "diversity studentships."

Anybody else notice an eerie similarity between Northampton's "diversity studentships" logo and Pfizer's?

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which University? I have a few guesses....

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Can anyone explain the significance of what looks like four cat's paws inside the circle of the snake?

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That one is a dragon. Hence the feet.

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Absolute cracks me up. Imagine in the societies we are now living in that students need a warning that 1984 might contain 'upsetting' matter! A spokesman for the University of Northampton spoke to the Mail on Sunday and said: "While it is not university policy, we may warn students of content in relation to violence, sexual violence, domestic abuse and suicide.

In these circumstances, we explain to applicants as part of the recruitment process that their course will include some challenging texts." https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1554489/George-Orwell-1984-offensive-warning-university-northampton-woke

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I suspect our modern techno fascist state will look more like Brave New World or the Matrix than 1984. As Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum would have it: “you will own nothing and be happy” as we are fed bugs in our pods while plugged into Metaverse soma.

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It's profound and true and scary and... I can't stop looking at the mirrored puss pic!

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"represents the eternal cyclic and the endless" corona variants

https://nakedemperor.substack.com/

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Classic. But this looks like a troll, i.e. not legit. If true, line in the post is misleading: A trigger warning is NOT censorship. It's silly and dumb, but presumably you can still check out the book and read it. What university?

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10430597/University-slaps-trigger-warning-George-Orwells-Nineteen-Eighty-Four.html

Headlines are often not written by the article author. Often headlines are exaggerated into clickbait. I agree that a trigger warning is not the same as censorship. To any reasonable person, it would just seem silly.

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the greek.... bueller?

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Tytler Cycle.

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Is that from the Voynich manuscript?

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