This is a disheartening piece to me, because the concept of freedom is deeply motivating and profoundly meaningful to me, but as I commented on another substack, “freedom” simply is not valued by many people. When I use that word, the responses range from good-natured patience with me to outright anger. My own sister got really quite inflamed with me about the issue of freedom — I would say it also made her disdainful that I would think “freedom” is important to the whole discussion of mandates and lockdowns etc. I can summarize her response as “Grow up, Cindy, you’re such a selfish person!” Freedom = Selfish. To many other people, they are so beaten down that the words “You can’t fight City Hall” have more meaning than “We are endowed by our Creator with unalienable rights.” Other people are so far gone that the mere mention of the Declaration of Independence makes their brains go DING: “racist white guys.” To people who are patient with my belief in the importance of freedom, the standard reply is, “It’s about saving lives.” Said like they’re talking to a child. If they can go to the mall and choose a shirt to buy, or turn on the TV and choose a show to watch, then that is good enough for them. Some of them think I’m paranoid to think freedom is even in peril. It’s exhausting. We can’t give up, but it’s exhausting.
it is NOT instantiated to produce ever more convoluted aggregation fallacies about the “common good” and to force them upon the populace “for its own betterment.”
BRAVO!!! This needs repeating infinitely.
I took a course in ethics years ago. I remember what my teacher said. The worst problems come not when it is a question of right vs wrong, but when right vs. right. The worst was the individual vs. the collective/community.
I thought this country was built on the supremacy of the individual right. Because we´ve seen what happens when we come down on the side of the community: Socialism, Nazism, Communism, and Pol Pot. Not to mention the CCP.
Our government needs reminding that they must ALWAYS come down on the rights of the individual.
And if the grizzly bear has spent the last two years grooming you by convincing you of the dangers of everything that is NOT mating with a grizzly, and presenting data on the safety of human-grizzly mating, and how everyone else is doing it-- and that in fact if you suffer afterwards, it means you have done it really really RIGHT, and perhaps you should even post a postcoital photo of yourself on social media, which everybody else cheers...that's not consent, either, no matter how much you insist to me that you wanted it. It's why I'm furious at some of my fellow citizens for their willing compliance, but I also see them as victims, and they're not the true focus of my angry energy.
Gato, your recent pieces have something of an anarchistic streak. More than OK by me.
Of course, many people who hear the word 'anarchy' immediately have visions of violence, mayhem and rampant wrongdoing.
Actually, and ideally, anarchy puts the responsibility for the well being of society on the individual. Its central themes are autonomy, equality, teamwork, and freedom from organized authority, from diktat.
These are lofty sentiments indeed. Wish more people were attuned to them.
From “On Civil Disobedience,” by Mohandas Gandhi July 27, 1916
"But through the other method of combating injustice, we alone suffer the consequences of our mistakes, and the other side is wholly spared. This other method is truth-force (satyagraha). One who resorts to it does not have to break another’s head; he may merely have his own head broken. He has to be prepared to die himself suffering all
the pain. In opposing the atrocious laws of the Government of South Africa, it was this method that we adopted. We made it clear to the said Government that we would never bow to its outrageous laws. No clapping is possible without two hands to do it, and no quarrel without two persons to make it. Similarly, no State is possible without two entities (the rulers and the ruled). You are our sovereign, our Government, only so long as we consider ourselves your subjects. When we are not subjects, you are not the sovereign either. So long as it is your endeavor to control us with justice and love, we will let you do so. But if you wish to strike at us from behind, we cannot permit it. Whatever you do in other matters, you will have to ask our opinion about the laws that concern us. If you make laws to keep us suppressed in a wrongful manner and without taking us into confidence, these laws will merely adorn the statute-books. We will never obey them. Award us for it what punishment you like, we will put up with it. Send us to prison and we will live there as in a paradise. Ask us to mount the
scaffold and we will do so laughing. Shower what sufferings you like upon us, we will calmly endure all and not hurt a hair of your body. We will gladly die and will not so much as touch you. But so long as there is yet life in these our bones, we will never comply with your arbitrary laws."
"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting."--Sun Tzu. It is painful to watch so many of our citizens so willing to be subdued. Thank you, Cattitude! Now, let's get out there and be UNGOVERNABLE!!
I keep asking this to people and it gets the dear in the headlights reaction. They have no response other than to pretend the injections are not experimental. My question to them is:
How can I give informed consent when information is being withheld? I can’t and as such I refuse to do so. What information is being withheld? I'm so glad you asked!!
1) Their patents have "company proprietary secret sauce ingredients" and the government let them get away with that! This is NOT Kentucy Fried Chicken. This is an IRREVERSIBLE experimental gene therapy injection.
2) The raw data from the “Phase 2 Human Experimental Trials” which completed in October 2020, has not been made publicly available. Pfizer & Moderna have said that they will release it “sometime in 2022”. Talk to me AFTER that.
3) Where are the animal studies that Pfizer and Moderna did in parallel with the phase 2 human experimental trials? Did they not do them? Did they not release them?
4) The data for the approval of the Cominaty version took 108 days to "review" (aka rubber stamp) but the FDA wants 55 years to release? WTF?
There is NO NEGOTIATION on this point. You do NOT claim "science" and get to withhold information that they admit exists. NO, NEIN, NYET, NEVER.
Without the raw data we cannot verify their claims for safety & efficacy.
Think about the precedent you are setting. You are letting large corporations with:
1) A blatant financial conflict of interest.
2) A recent history of maiming and killing thousands of the “customers” annually.
3) Decide what information about their “products” we get to see.
And I have to take it? ROTFLMAO. No. That is stark raving mad.
Go ahead and give your "uninformed consent" all you want but I refuse to and you coerce me at your own peril.
This looks like the seeds of a new and liberating Declaration of Independence to me, complete with kitty flag! I can’t think of a better animal to represent being ungovernable in the most wonderful possible way. Kitty power to the people! 🐈
Sheeple or People ? If you have a family, like so many with 2 young kids... it's a tough call to be so independent. I'm single. It's an easier choice for me. When it's say 'No' and lose your job, it's a tough call. I have a friend who's brother was a Doctor. But refusing the jabs, he was fired. He now does off the books construction work. Can many families afford to make this sacrifice ? When you're so deeply woven Into the social fabric... turning on a dime to something else is very, very difficult. I sympathize with families with young kids.
What I've thought all along is that if they kill liberal democracy, they are effectively killing the goose which lays the golden eggs. I have actually come to believe, however, that they are playing a longer game: they really do want 6 out of seven of us dead. It's the only hypothesis which makes sense, in the context of mandates for kid jabs, for example.
I never signed no stinking social contract. When I buy houses and cars, I sign innumerable documents. Heck, you have to sign every time you get a new app, probably including substack. Taxes are the price we pay for the uncivilized parts of society.
Honestly I spend a lot of time in my life circumventing -legally- daily government oppressions. Once you start you can’t stop. I’m an evangelist in this way. There are many zombies out in the general public. Shock them by telling them they don’t have to obey. It’s very gratifying, even the small things.
And I am vocal when government hacks don’t do their job. The post office hates me because I will announce it very loudly when there is ineptitude and when employees treat me poorly. AT THE VERY LEAST make them uncomfortable. Make them squirm. Ignore their dictates. Get rid of the Democrats in your life. I promise you will be better for it. And I NEED that cat flag.
This is a disheartening piece to me, because the concept of freedom is deeply motivating and profoundly meaningful to me, but as I commented on another substack, “freedom” simply is not valued by many people. When I use that word, the responses range from good-natured patience with me to outright anger. My own sister got really quite inflamed with me about the issue of freedom — I would say it also made her disdainful that I would think “freedom” is important to the whole discussion of mandates and lockdowns etc. I can summarize her response as “Grow up, Cindy, you’re such a selfish person!” Freedom = Selfish. To many other people, they are so beaten down that the words “You can’t fight City Hall” have more meaning than “We are endowed by our Creator with unalienable rights.” Other people are so far gone that the mere mention of the Declaration of Independence makes their brains go DING: “racist white guys.” To people who are patient with my belief in the importance of freedom, the standard reply is, “It’s about saving lives.” Said like they’re talking to a child. If they can go to the mall and choose a shirt to buy, or turn on the TV and choose a show to watch, then that is good enough for them. Some of them think I’m paranoid to think freedom is even in peril. It’s exhausting. We can’t give up, but it’s exhausting.
The cat man has become my daily meditiation. I just wish everyone in the world could get scratched by the cat!
it exists to provide us with self-determination.
it is NOT instantiated to produce ever more convoluted aggregation fallacies about the “common good” and to force them upon the populace “for its own betterment.”
BRAVO!!! This needs repeating infinitely.
I took a course in ethics years ago. I remember what my teacher said. The worst problems come not when it is a question of right vs wrong, but when right vs. right. The worst was the individual vs. the collective/community.
I thought this country was built on the supremacy of the individual right. Because we´ve seen what happens when we come down on the side of the community: Socialism, Nazism, Communism, and Pol Pot. Not to mention the CCP.
Our government needs reminding that they must ALWAYS come down on the rights of the individual.
And if the grizzly bear has spent the last two years grooming you by convincing you of the dangers of everything that is NOT mating with a grizzly, and presenting data on the safety of human-grizzly mating, and how everyone else is doing it-- and that in fact if you suffer afterwards, it means you have done it really really RIGHT, and perhaps you should even post a postcoital photo of yourself on social media, which everybody else cheers...that's not consent, either, no matter how much you insist to me that you wanted it. It's why I'm furious at some of my fellow citizens for their willing compliance, but I also see them as victims, and they're not the true focus of my angry energy.
Gato, your recent pieces have something of an anarchistic streak. More than OK by me.
Of course, many people who hear the word 'anarchy' immediately have visions of violence, mayhem and rampant wrongdoing.
Actually, and ideally, anarchy puts the responsibility for the well being of society on the individual. Its central themes are autonomy, equality, teamwork, and freedom from organized authority, from diktat.
These are lofty sentiments indeed. Wish more people were attuned to them.
From “On Civil Disobedience,” by Mohandas Gandhi July 27, 1916
"But through the other method of combating injustice, we alone suffer the consequences of our mistakes, and the other side is wholly spared. This other method is truth-force (satyagraha). One who resorts to it does not have to break another’s head; he may merely have his own head broken. He has to be prepared to die himself suffering all
the pain. In opposing the atrocious laws of the Government of South Africa, it was this method that we adopted. We made it clear to the said Government that we would never bow to its outrageous laws. No clapping is possible without two hands to do it, and no quarrel without two persons to make it. Similarly, no State is possible without two entities (the rulers and the ruled). You are our sovereign, our Government, only so long as we consider ourselves your subjects. When we are not subjects, you are not the sovereign either. So long as it is your endeavor to control us with justice and love, we will let you do so. But if you wish to strike at us from behind, we cannot permit it. Whatever you do in other matters, you will have to ask our opinion about the laws that concern us. If you make laws to keep us suppressed in a wrongful manner and without taking us into confidence, these laws will merely adorn the statute-books. We will never obey them. Award us for it what punishment you like, we will put up with it. Send us to prison and we will live there as in a paradise. Ask us to mount the
scaffold and we will do so laughing. Shower what sufferings you like upon us, we will calmly endure all and not hurt a hair of your body. We will gladly die and will not so much as touch you. But so long as there is yet life in these our bones, we will never comply with your arbitrary laws."
'No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent' Abraham Lincoln
"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting."--Sun Tzu. It is painful to watch so many of our citizens so willing to be subdued. Thank you, Cattitude! Now, let's get out there and be UNGOVERNABLE!!
'the patriot must protect his country from his government....' Thomas Paine
and now the social justice rioters, climate calamitous terrorists and branch covidians.......
I keep asking this to people and it gets the dear in the headlights reaction. They have no response other than to pretend the injections are not experimental. My question to them is:
How can I give informed consent when information is being withheld? I can’t and as such I refuse to do so. What information is being withheld? I'm so glad you asked!!
1) Their patents have "company proprietary secret sauce ingredients" and the government let them get away with that! This is NOT Kentucy Fried Chicken. This is an IRREVERSIBLE experimental gene therapy injection.
2) The raw data from the “Phase 2 Human Experimental Trials” which completed in October 2020, has not been made publicly available. Pfizer & Moderna have said that they will release it “sometime in 2022”. Talk to me AFTER that.
3) Where are the animal studies that Pfizer and Moderna did in parallel with the phase 2 human experimental trials? Did they not do them? Did they not release them?
4) The data for the approval of the Cominaty version took 108 days to "review" (aka rubber stamp) but the FDA wants 55 years to release? WTF?
There is NO NEGOTIATION on this point. You do NOT claim "science" and get to withhold information that they admit exists. NO, NEIN, NYET, NEVER.
Without the raw data we cannot verify their claims for safety & efficacy.
Think about the precedent you are setting. You are letting large corporations with:
1) A blatant financial conflict of interest.
2) A recent history of maiming and killing thousands of the “customers” annually.
3) Decide what information about their “products” we get to see.
And I have to take it? ROTFLMAO. No. That is stark raving mad.
Go ahead and give your "uninformed consent" all you want but I refuse to and you coerce me at your own peril.
This looks like the seeds of a new and liberating Declaration of Independence to me, complete with kitty flag! I can’t think of a better animal to represent being ungovernable in the most wonderful possible way. Kitty power to the people! 🐈
Sheeple or People ? If you have a family, like so many with 2 young kids... it's a tough call to be so independent. I'm single. It's an easier choice for me. When it's say 'No' and lose your job, it's a tough call. I have a friend who's brother was a Doctor. But refusing the jabs, he was fired. He now does off the books construction work. Can many families afford to make this sacrifice ? When you're so deeply woven Into the social fabric... turning on a dime to something else is very, very difficult. I sympathize with families with young kids.
el gato thomas paine. meoooowwwww!
What I've thought all along is that if they kill liberal democracy, they are effectively killing the goose which lays the golden eggs. I have actually come to believe, however, that they are playing a longer game: they really do want 6 out of seven of us dead. It's the only hypothesis which makes sense, in the context of mandates for kid jabs, for example.
I never signed no stinking social contract. When I buy houses and cars, I sign innumerable documents. Heck, you have to sign every time you get a new app, probably including substack. Taxes are the price we pay for the uncivilized parts of society.
Honestly I spend a lot of time in my life circumventing -legally- daily government oppressions. Once you start you can’t stop. I’m an evangelist in this way. There are many zombies out in the general public. Shock them by telling them they don’t have to obey. It’s very gratifying, even the small things.
And I am vocal when government hacks don’t do their job. The post office hates me because I will announce it very loudly when there is ineptitude and when employees treat me poorly. AT THE VERY LEAST make them uncomfortable. Make them squirm. Ignore their dictates. Get rid of the Democrats in your life. I promise you will be better for it. And I NEED that cat flag.