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MPH = Masters in Public Hysteria. EGM is free and would give people a much better understanding of healthcare than a $50,000 MPH degree. Bad cat tribe is coalescing, but as the saying goes it can be hard to herd cats ;)

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Indeed.

But...vision without effort is daydreaming, effort without vision is drudgery; but vision, coupled with effort, will obtain the prize.

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I'm a huge fan of this cat; he has brought skill, light & razor wit when I sorely needed it again & again, in the bottom of this Kali Yuga we currently find ourselves in.

But this, this is the best post that Bad Cat has spat out yet!

Onward and upward, my tribe and may the Intelligent Universe give eagle's wings, talons & eyes,

to find & shred every lie, every deception, every delusion that has infiltrated our minds, our hearts & our World.

Pharma must reform, medicine as well, the Government can shrink by 2/3rds, institutions should die, that fail to serve, Universities as well, and War, Debt & Disease can all lose their grip on Humanity.

Our environment could heal, our lives can lengthen, our children could thrive, if all the lies just up and died;

may Gato and his rapier mind be enshrined as one of those who led this tribe!!

; )))

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Totally agree!

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Definitely among his more heroic hairballs he's hacked up heretofore.

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the last boomer will be the one to turn the lights off on the old guard. If these boomers ever decide to die off, not sure if they will because they seem like some sort of lizard people, the new age can begin. I have much more faith in gen z going forward, especially the males. They are rejecting the woke millennial mind virus, and don't even no what a boomer is. Most have never watched a network tv show or newscast. The girls of gen z just need to be broken free from the gender cult which is polluting there brains, but I think that's already beginning as the misery of teenagers being drugged and butchered by there woke parents continues to come to the forefront.

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Easy there, Jim. Many of us boomers are your wide awake brothers and sisters. We are trying as hard as you are to expose and take down the matrix.

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Yes! This👆🏼!!

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You’re right, there are exceptions to every rule. But just look at the results of decades of boomers running things. It’s been an unmitigated disaster, end of story.

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It would be a fascinating exercise if we could find out what all the inept, corrupt boomers were doing in the 1960s. I'm a boomer myself (horribly embarrassed and shamed by my ruling peers), but I escaped it somehow. I remember as a young teen watching JFK and RFK get assassinated, I remember the violence and riots, and I remember thinking what craziness and stupidity it all was and I wanted no part of it. One of those criminals is Bill Ayers, who greatly influenced Obama. What was Schumer doing, Pelosi, all the others we'd like to throw out? And why won't these fossils just go away and just enjoy the fruits of their decades of criminality stealing from us all?

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yeah, boom this up yer bum ya beeyotch. stop blaming old people it just makes you look like a cunt

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Lmao! Telling it like it is

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Spoken like a true boomer. Nothing but insults, can’t defend his generation of looters and grifters that run our government. Lmao…your words mean nothing to me old man.

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backatcha, loser

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"Onward and upward, my tribe and may the Intelligent Universe give eagle's wings, talons & eyes, to find & shred every lie, every deception, every delusion that has infiltrated our minds, our hearts & our World."

Damn, you're not so bad yourself!

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We are really only limited by our imaginations and what we are actually interested in obtaining. Failure tends to be self-induced. If you never surrender and never give up, chances are you will succeed. I speak from experience. I mastered the Art of Quitting, and quit doing it. Great fun! The adventure will end when I do. I am only half joking when I say there are only two kinds of people: those who agree with me, and those who are wrong!

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Agree. Well met, Mickey!

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Go away spammer

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food helps. I got a female and 2 males and they get along fine. And a dog. They do not cozy up to her like I have seen from others, but dog defends the cats against intruders and they know it.

But yes, cats are harder than dogs LOL.

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That's such an interesting observation! I had a giant-sized German shorthaired pointer when I got married. About 5 years later we adopted a cat that my wife's friend could no longer keep. Introducing that cat to Hickory Hill's tag-A-Long was an event that always brings a big grin to my face when I think of it. That feline stood nose to nose with the big guy, then hauled off and belted him in the snout. She then turned around and with her tail in the air proceeded to inspect her new domain. She always seemed put off by his comparative clumsiness and often treated him with contempt. When it became necessary to have the dog euthanized she walked around the house for 3 days, lost and yowling in what I presume was grief. So you just never know.... (We still miss them both, but it's amazing how clean our house is!)

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Sound like time for a new kitty.

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That's $50,000 a year, soon to be $50,000 per semester.

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What is EGM?

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El Gato Malo.

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Thank you. Gee, I feel dumb :(

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Nah, no need for that. It took me a minute too.

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One thing I love about Rogan is that he doesn’t care what your credentials are. I used to listen to Tim Ferriss a lot, but he goes all wobbly-kneed at a list of Ivy degrees, and after hearing him do a fawning interview with the smug and self-important woman who destroyed Ross Ulbricht, I thought, “we need to subvert credentialism.”

Many people do not have fancy credentials *because* they are too curious and honest to tolerate the bullshit of acquiring them, or because the bestowing and gating institutions will revoke them if you don’t toe the line.

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Agree, but the downside to freethinkers is that by their very nature they are hard to assemble on common ground.

That is the advantage those in the guilds and the credentialcrats have over us.

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That is indeed true. But freethinkers do oftentimes come together-- for example, I am heartened to see a lot of organizations sprouting up such as Stand Up Michigan, Stand Up Maine, Delaware Medical Freedom Alliance, Health Rights Massachusetts, Texans for Vaccine Choice, Virginia Medical Freedom Alliance...and many more... it's a long list. They are so not easy to find online, especially on Big Tech SM, but people do find them.

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Reminds me of homeschooler coalitions. It’s hard to get homeschoolers to agree, but once their homeschool freedoms are threatened, watch out! They’ve been pretty successful.

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See that's my concern; we've been reactive.

We need to be more proactive imo.

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You are exactly right. Being proactive is easy to maintain directly after a crisis has been overcome. It seems to fall apart when the next generation or 2 take the reins. When I run into most new hsers they are oblivious to the battles that came before. I shudder when I see them with their hands out for government goodies like vouchers. But that’s always been the case, it’s how we got here. Creating oversight always leads to corruption. How can it not? It’s human nature to let someone else take responsibility for oversight while the rest enjoy the fruits of freedom. And it’s a heady drink to be in control of what constitutes freedom, especially when the previous warriors start dying off. I’ve always thought smaller groups working together is better, but somehow the urge to morph into a mega-group seems to win out. That’s where the vision/mission gets lost.

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Have you come across the "Society of Problem Solvers" - they are on SubStack. I'd like to see more action from them, but here's one of their posts -

“We Are Not Out Numbered. We Are Out Organized" -

THE SOCIETY OF PROBLEM SOLVERS July 11, 2024

https://joshketry.substack.com/p/we-are-not-out-numbered-we-are-out?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=525211&post_id=146368998&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=b7jkn&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

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Nailed it

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I agree, Ryan.

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I very much agree with you, Ryan. In 2020 it shocked me to realize how alone I was in my objections to those idiotic lockdowns (and all that followed).

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Yes I agree. Years ago when I read Robert M. Pirsig I think he got it right. We need both "static" and "dynamic" quality, meaning we need both institutions and innovation. When everything is tradition, it all gets corrupted and ossified, but when everything is hyper novelty, it's destabilizing and few individuals can handle living in that world. What we really need is pliable institutions with rock solid integrity like the bedrock of Manhattan, rooted in first principles while able to evolve over time. It's hard to know what to do with the current situation. The universities are close to irrelevant (not quite, depending on the field), but without a good form of systematization of research and knowledge, humanity as a whole will suffer. Just like in journalism, you have the 6,000 or whatever employees at the NYT doing god knows what, and then independent journalists like Matt Taibbi doing great work but with vastly fewer resources, thus making him quite limited. Humans absolutely need to form viable institutions and alliances to do things at scale, division of labor is what made civilization possible in the first place, and yet, there is this parasitic class of people driven by a nihilistic desire to destroy those institutions. This is a hard problem. I'm a psychotherapist (I now shudder to use this word, given the depravity of my field), and it seems to me like the worst rot comes when universities and governments collude. Licensure is supposed to be about consumer protection, but the fact is that it bureaucratized and bastardized what was formerly a quite effective apprenticeship/guild format, the psychoanalytic tradition, where you got your stamp of approval from one independent organization, a lot more like what might be called third party certification today. Then, the certifications themselves can compete in a marketplace. Right now, the government, or ivy league schools, have a monopoly on the credentials, especially in licensed fields that require the pyramid scheme of graduate school, and that monopoly of power might be more of a problem than the universal historical tendency towards human corruption itself. We wouldn't have to argue over who has the reigns of the credentialed institutions if there was a free market of credentialing. I'm just speculating as I type, these are new ideas I'm playing with in the last ten seconds.

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Damn. Very well said. Thx for that post

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Organizing us is like herding Gatos.

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It's now 's/he who has the most titles wins'. Like Kamala & Walz - all form, no substance.

Thanks for posting the link.

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Joseph Campbell never sought a PhD because he said by and large those people were “stuffed shirts.” Empty suits.

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When no one fails, additional degrees are matters of not much more than filling a chair for the requisite time period. I'm not impressed by people filling chairs.

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“I don’t need a degree to wipe my ass with yours”

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Tim Ferriss is a Coke-Head selling lies. Look for is constant sniffling.

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That last part is so true. Remember the student who exposed the gaming of the college application system that Princeton students were not "almost uniquely interested in and excellent at learning". He showed through his own example and descriptions of others that they were almost uniquely interested in being grasping, obsequious drones.

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"...and those who built the world want the world back because pretending these credential factory wizards of weaksauce are going to learn from their mistakes or grow some morality is simply not an option anymore."

I'm sure there are myriad examples, but one in particular that has me up in arms (though not yet literally) is that the f'n CDC is STILL recommending the (untested, useless, dangerous) Chinese virus jab for...SIX-MONTH-OLD BABIES.

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Yeah that one is pure evil...just as the sexualization of children.

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Absolutely. That's the sickest of all red pills when they try and normalize pedophiles as 'minor attracted persons'.

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Don't be surprised if it becomes legal in California.

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I'd like a functioning washing machine.... and a car that isn't constantly dinging b/c it's way smarter than me. I think they trained the engineering out of the engineers 🤭.

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The primary tenet of engineering is "Complexity is not your friend. Simpler is better".

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Or, as Dr. Ian Malcolm would say - "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should!"

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...and this is how I know "conspiracies" are true.

The toys are out there, there are no laws prohibiting use. If they have the toys, they will be eager to try them out.

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I love that! 🎯

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Thank you yes. When it takes four hours for them to "diagnose" and fix a problem with the automatic window controller we have a problem. I prolonged getting it fixed until I had another issue for precisely this reason. Smart, my ass.

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The only thing "smart" about smart products are the people in the Marketing Department who came up with these costly "solutions".

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🙌

Like making things so complicated that the end user can't fix ANYTHING on the product.

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There is a movement in Europe called "Right of Repair."

It puts onus on manufacturers, producers & distributors to create products that can be repaired. The obvious one is replaceable batteries on cellphones, but there are many many such items.

How smart does your toaster need to be, really?

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had a professor who told us she had purchased a diesel Mercedes and everytime she took the car in she insisted on watching what the mechanic did, she still had the car twenty years later and took good care of it. I took my car in for an oil change recently and was told, “you need a new battery.” “How come?” “The machine says so.” “How much?” “$800.” For a battery?, no thanks I’ll change it myself.” “You can’t we have to calibrate it.”

Darn details.

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"Smart" just means it monitors you and phones home to the company. Obsession over analytics has enshittified everything technological.

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Ever wonder how easy it is to change a windshield on a "smart" vehicle. It took the guy SEVEN hours. Because after he installed the new one he couldn't get it calibrated!!! Then my front camera "collision" alerts wouldn't stop going off 😡.

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Yeah, as a technological civilization, we're so F'd.

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Especially b/c the "experts" can't seem to be able to figure out most of the issues 😝

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One of the reasons I prefer AK’s & Glocks. Just saying….😉

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Adaptive cruise control? No freaking way. I lived with that for four years until I realized I could turn it off, because I wasn't about to sit down and read the 600 page owner manual, so I just assumed that was the new way of cruise control. And yeah, I'm an aggressive defensive driver, however paradoxical that sounds, so my car is forever beeping at me and I've learned to tune it out.

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Oh gosh no! I almost had a nervous breakdown when I rented a car with these "features". I mostly tune out the noise but when it won't pop the trunk b/c I'm not fully in park or beeps at me when there's a bush 500ft away I lose it. I am a similar driver. We drove in the days without airbags and we are still alive! Imagine that?

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The first time I rented a car with "safety features" I ended up driving a winding mountain road in New Mexico. Every time I cut a curve that damn steering wheel would vibrate violently - drove me crazy! I finally had to stop and read the owners manual and figure out how to turn it off because I couldn't stand it any more. Also I'm looking for a PERMANENT way to turn off the stupid "idle stop" in my wife's new car.

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On vacation, June 2019, just a normal interstate in northern California, in a rental.

Took a curve faster than the car approved of (though still completely safe, as I've done the same kind of thing countless times before in 40+ years of driving), and the f'n "safety" feature hard-braked and shimmied the steering wheel, almost CAUSING an accident.

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Too clever by half.

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Depending on the make/model, third parties have created dongles that insert into a certain part of the under-dash wiring to spoof that signaling that triggers it. I know that recent Chevrolet Silverados have one available to disable it.

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Omg! I had the same exact thing happen to me in Toas, NM!!! 😹

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That's where I was. Driving between Santa Fe and Taos. Decided to take the scenic route.

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I can top that - "When Your Car Becomes the Ultimate Witness: Data, Surveillance, and Your Rights"

https://reclaimthenet.org/when-your-car-becomes-the-ultimate-witness-data-surveillance-and-your-rights

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Absolutely, or else the government regulated it out of them. My Mom’s fridge that had been in continuous use for over 50 years recently died. The one we replaced it with has a one year warranty. I presume because of limitations on the refrigerant coolants which can be used due to potential effects on “global warming.”

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Do you know any real engineers? Not all, but most, are the dumbest smart people on the planet.

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Not a fair statement. Distracted, sure. Scatterbrained. But not dumb. To the original point the problem is summed up in the statement I've seen on more than one manager's wall. "At some point in the design process you have to just shoot the engineer and ship it anyway."

Oh, yeah, engineering as an academic and professional field is full of woke but in the end you do have to prove yourself with functioning products. Yet as Elon proved with Twitter it's probably 25% of the people pulling the other 75% deadweight most of the time.

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I see. A drain 3 feet above the floor is "scatterbrained" or "distracted." I hope someday your business has a drainage pit that won't drain, and has to have an external sump pump, because some engineer was "distracted." It's real handy.

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This brings up what I believe is the biggest obstacle in the way of re-instituting sanity. Over the past few years, a series of governmental regulations, executive orders, and policies have been instituted (essentially behind everyone’s back) which have created and entrenched “systemic woke” throughout our institutions.

Systemic woke has metastasized throughout “the whole of government“, as well as throughout the media and the education system.

I’m ALL FOR gato’s revolutionary restructuring, but let’s not kid ourselves about the Herculean task ahead. Their long march through the institutions took its sweet time to get us this thoroughly f*cked, and unf*cking ourselves will likely take longer than anyone expects. (The lawsuits alone…)

I do think patience is starting to wear thin among the masses, but there’s a Grand Canyon between identifying the problem and achieving the necessary victory.

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I'm wondering who is still listening to the CDC? Kinda like if a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it does it still make a sound?

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The doctors and nurses enforce what the CDC and AMA and accreditation agencies tell them to do. The patients are aware the CDC is wrong but they still some doctors to help them with medical problems. As long as the doctors toe the CDC line, there is no error correction.

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The odd thing is that they have such a strong tendency to double down on past mistakes. Just do the same thing harder and harder until it works, this might be their subconscious motto. And their entire framework of thinking is to never admit they were wrong. Thus, they never learn.

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One of the most distressing things for our prominent elites is the way they are now routinely embarrassed by unknown nobodies. There are hundreds of thousands of people maybe millions who are better and smarter than you are, and they are watching your every move.

It’s a severe blow to a self image largely drawn from a piece of paper with Brown or Yale written on it, but little else to back it.

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I have always advocated that research journal publications be made free to all citizens online through the Library of Congress. If this was done, there would be so many retracted papers and discredited credentialed authors that most of the Academic Research Industry (yes, it's now just a money machine) would collapse.

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As someone who accessed jstor through a job a couple of decades ago, I gotta say that freeing up access to these papers (some of which are nearly 2 centuries old, authors long deceased and still behind a paywall) would be a great thing for many who would do their own research.

They would probably find out the same thing I did. Very often the paper, even the very old ones, are written in the same obtuse academic verbal salad that circles the point and says nothing. The only reason these materials are behind a paywall is because if everyone could see them they would realized how vacuous and null the majority of academic research is and the rot goes back centuries.

RIP Aaron Schwartz.

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Technobabble is the language moat used to keep out the non-credentialed.

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And those who use it believe it sets them above all of those non-credentialed schlubs - i.e, us.

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I would add exclusivity to that. I accessed one paper because it was being cited as evidence all over the place in some 'conspiracy' forums at the time, but no one seemed to have read it or know anything besides the abstract description of the paper. I got ahold of it and it was quite depressing. It turned out that there was no 'there' there, so to speak and didn't prove anything one way or the other about the subject at hand (the origins of a particular secret society I think, the convo is long forgotten). But that probably hasn't stopped people from continuing to cite it unseen. If relying on unseen papers published by trusted credentialed muppets happens in those contexts, it probably happens in others such as *ahem* Public Health, etc.

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Having spent time on the academic paper treadmill, it's safe to say even the most science-y of science papers are written in a way that you can say almost nothing for 30 pages, reprove an accepted theory or maybe just move the needle imperceptibly. You can't rock the boat as a grad student for sure and most people in any given field can't themselves show up a rockstar without career repercussion. Unless you're their grad student or fellow, to which they'll just put their name on the paper anyway. Outside academia, in the real, practicing world, you have more leeway. You can write a paper on a topic where you proved something could be done. Think like SpaceX picking boosters out of the air, something the establishment for decades just said was impossible. Well, it is until it isn't.

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Amen to that. Even if it turns out your results are inconclusive, you still need to publish enough to keep the funding agencies happy. So, there are more and more publications saying less and less. As a general rule, the further back in time I would go while searching the research journals, the more informative and concise the papers become. After a decade in Academia, I realized that I was too much of a free-thinking maverick to stay, and that modern academia was too stifling for me. In addition, I just couldn't stomach the requirements of career advancement.

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Professionals do it for money. Amateurs do it for love. This may be why.

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That's why they want the power to edit the Internet.

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That's why they stay in their little enclaves and don't venture out into the real world with the rest of us.

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I agree, however most of these folks are broken, damaged narcissists who live inside worlds that don’t allow embarrassment or perhaps more appropriately don’t acknowledge embarrassment.

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That has been becoming even more true since those “elite” colleges have so drastically lowered their admission standards in the last few decades and seem to fill their ranks based on quotas rather than merit. It used to be that people who received diplomas from the top colleges could claim at least above average intelligence, even if they were sorely lacking in common sense. Alas, that appears to no longer be the case as these prestigious institutions of “higher” education have bowed to the DEI virus that is wreaking havoc in all sectors of society.

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It is clear to see that we will have to help ourselves. I live in a place narrowly hit by the hurricane. You can see how people help each other, not waiting for anyone, and then get helped quickly, whereas people who have not even started yet, have to wait for weeks. This is what needs to be done. Build small communities again, that help themselves, and outrun the govt. Literally. Put them aside, let them starve.

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Get to know your neighbours. You never know when you might need each other.

I take a walk around the neighbourhood every day, and make it a point to speak to and get acquainted with every neighbour I meet. First step. Next step is engaging them, doing barter or sharing services (we call a tradie out for 2 houses = one call out fee, for example). The more you interact, the more likely you will be able to call on each other in a time of need.

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Put me in coach.

We will win because frankly we're smarter and work harder. However, we're not "efficient", and thus we will have to work harder than necessary.

So I like your buddies idea, but do you think that battle is waged online and locally?....or is he talking strictly in academia?

Right now we're capable rebels...but disparate and disjointed, lacking both leadership and measurable outcomes. I also think we need to define the battlefield (so to speak) in order to pick "topographic" advantage so that we literally have grounds to develop strategy. It will have to be asymmetrical for the short term. But if these asymmetrical "pockets" don't have a common goal then these concentric circles of resistance, etc.etc, do not seem like theyll be able to overlap with each other creating the "tsunami" we want.

The reason I ask is if it's purely organic it seems as though it could take a generation or two.

I feel like there's a lot of energy and hope....but hope is simply a substitution for strategy when a biz plan or war plan does not allow for change in tactics when the facts on the ground change. And their will be changes.

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it's well past academia and into the streets. in the course of my various endeavors, i speak to a lot of folks in a lot of businesses, often those who run them and there is this sort of new dance everyone is doing that reminds me of 90's modems establishing a handshake. hey, are you a real person? oh, me too! this real? how about this real?

there is a vast redpill network establishing itself and it's already running things. when it stands up and says "enough," it's going to shack some people.

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Yeah I agree def on biz owners. That's basically who I deal with every day; other biz owners.

Definitely a change in the zeitgeist in the last 3 years. There's a "force" there...but, alas it is not quite a force multiplier....at this point.

But something is definitely afoot. However, it's sorta an amorphous energy that needs to be harnessed around common goals/themes.

We shall see.

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We must relearn to trust and act on our instincts. Always looking and seeking for more information and understanding. We know more than we think we know.

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you give me hope- I am still afraid of "the machine" and how powerful they have become and how brainwashed they have made many.

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I'm less afraid of the machine, than I am the hoardes of stupid followers. I think it was an excellent article by CJ Hopkins (sorry can't find it right now) about the danger of these stupid hoardes.

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so many...scary older ladies who want to "belong" to a group of virtuous idiots and young clueless people who failed history and government classes...

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Compassion: scared old ladies taking comfort in the herd. Young hopeless who never learned that there is a herd, and that they're not steering.

it's fine. We see the herd going off the cliff. It's up to us to peel off and hope that we get a quorum to follow.

Sad, but True.

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Fear is not a good choice. Think again.

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Replace with “concerned “ then- no fear here.

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I like that you used the term “real person.” Because that is much more accurate than most people know.

It's not that people are literally fake. But there are those who look around and notice things, and those who just run on auto pilot. They are more or less lulled into a dream state, and don't react to things [being done to them] appropriately.

Business owners are closer to the problem than workers, in that they see how the government is trying to keep them from prospering. Arbitrary regulations from the Blob government are never there to do “good” things. They're there to pick winners and losers, and command the economy.

It's much more obvious to producers. Consumers, not so much. They just see a price increase.

People are tired being held back by a bureaucracy that is entirely parasitic.

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This all seems great, if a bit Pollyanna given the constraints of human civilization. You echo my thoughts on timeline as well: a couple of generations if all goes well….which it won’t. We are a couple of working stiffs, isolated amongst tribes of normies so there is not a lot of consensus building being done at our level of middle class, Everyman. We have skills and knowledge and never once considered the Covid regime or nearly any of their regime rollouts remotely sane. We chip away at friends and family, but the big thinkers ain’t knockin’ on our door. So we make a life that is good but hardly revolutionary…and we prepare to be mobile and flexible to react to the insanity. And I come here to remind myself that there are others like us. Thanks and cheers.

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Likewise. And i agree....for now.

But just as this nonsense started slowly...and then all at once...so too could be its demise.

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Gradually ....then suddenly... yup

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I hope so…but I have also watched as the new dissidents become the new talking heads with different hairdos and demographics. Mostly, I want to be decentralized and free of the “opinion-makers” and “thinkers” who have ever been unimpressive and who would never take the opinion of one such as myself very seriously. I suppose I am very dark red-pilled (not black:).

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I desperately hope this is correct. But there are so many who will NEVER question a bloody thing. Like my mom and sister. More have woken lately for sure. Even a far lefty I know can’t wait to move out of Raleigh because of this “woke crap”. But she also jabbed herself and her children and doesn’t regret it- still believes the experts. Although that is crumbling. She is desperately trying to blame the death and injury on Covid, but I think she knows better deep down. But for those who fell for it all, they can never admit to the bamboozle. Look at Germany. They HATE Trump. Even after Obiden blew up their pipeline and literally froze some of them to death. They would literally rather die as “good people” than live in reality. Then again, it won’t take a majority for this shift to occur. Let’s hope.

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The problem is there still largely exists a "collective stupidity" of the masses (Bonhoeffer) where independent thought and critical thinking no longer exist, if they ever did; those same masses are found world-wide and are the cowardly followers who find " you will own nothing and be happy" a preferable alternative to the work and effort required to be sovereign human beings.

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History still plays a large part in the collective conciousness of the Germans. They will always be suspicious of a strong leader type.

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"they have no idea that they have no idea" A very important concept I learned in the military was the different levels of "knowing". First, and the one most overlooked is "you don't know what you don't know." I think most people live here. Then "you know what you don't know." You're ignorant, but at least you know you're ignorant. Far less people live here. But it's a required step in the pursuit of "you know what you know, and you know what you're trying to know". Because in the end, no one ever actually achieves "you know".

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It's baffling to see DEI advocates and Social Justice Warriors think that all they need to do is drop an underprivileged minority into a job slot and the system will continue to hum along. This might be true in the bureaucracy or the parts of Academia that they inhabit, but not in the real world of critical systems. They will all agree that if you sidelined LeBron James and replaced him with a 5'10" drag queen from off the street, the Lakers would lose every game, but yet they think that the skills involved with flying an airplane, running a nuclear plant, or doing neurosurgery are things anyone can learn to do. A common attitude I find with the highly credentialed is their attitude towards other people's skills - "How hard could it be?". They don't know what they don't know.

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Here's a scenario to drop on a DEI advocate: You need brain surgery. Surgeon 1 is a total jerk, he's white, and you hate him. But he's one of the top surgeons in his field. Surgeon 2 is a DEI hire who got through med school by being passed along despite bad grades and poor performance, and he hasn't done many surgeries and furthermore, a couple of his patients ended up vegetables due to his ineptitude. Question: Which surgeon do you want poking around inside your brain?

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Ha! They will give you the politically correct answer, unless they are actually going into the operating room.

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Fourth stage: you know but you've forgotten you know, so you don't know that you know. You just act.

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Fifth stage: realizing that it's ok that you can no longer remember new, complicated concepts because the most important ideas are simple and timeless.

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Spot on

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I thought that was called Dementia.

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More like Muscle Memory. In my youth I got lost on the North Side of Chicago, but eventually worked out the street grid. Years later I was traversing the same areas and I just... knew where to go, without knowing I knew.

There are a LOT of things you don't think about that you know how to do; imagine trying to teach a child how to talk. Parents do it without PhD credentials in linguistics. Do they know that they know how to teach children to talk, or do they just DO it?

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Classic Dunning-Kruger, which applies to most, if not all in the halls of power.

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I love and share your optimism. An awakening of historic proportions is upon us, living, breathing and growing here on Substack. Thanks and keep up the good fight, TMacro06.

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I earned two degrees from a top university, let's call it Big-Deal-U, something I was proud of. Right there on my LinkedIn, & etc. Alumni giving, alumni gatherings, yeah, all that. Still am proud of having worked hard for those degrees, many fond memories, and, looking back over the years, I can say that I did learn many things that I doubt I would have by any other avenue. But for me, now in 2024, after Big-Deal-U imposed jab mandates, it boils down to this: To hell with Big-Deal-U. To me now, the people running that joint are a blot on the butt of the gnat in the garbage dump of the universe.

Sorry, but anyone graduating from Big-Deal-U after the covid jab mandates, I'm going to assume that you don't know how to ask basic questions and how to think for yourself. Specifically, I'm going to assume that you probably took 3 or more of the bioweapon injections, and that even if you didn't, if you finagled an exemption, you thought it fine to subject yourself to a faculty and administration that would go along with and/or impose such foolishness and tyranny. Why? I don't think there's an answer to that that is ever going to satisfy me. Sorry, kids. You could have transferred, you could have done something else. Sleep with dogs, wake up with fleas.

Anyone who reads outside the mainstream media now knows about the injuries and deaths, and the complete and total pointlessness of the jabs. It was fraud, fraud, and more fraud. And Big-Deal-U was in on it.

In this lifetime I will never give Big-Deal-U one more penny. I will set foot on Big-Deal-U's lovely quadrangles, maybe, after the president of the university makes a public, profound, and thorough apology to the entire university community. The president of Big-Deal-U who oversaw the mandates , he shouldn't ever be able to make an apology on that nice, crisp presidential letterhead; no, he should be held accountable before the law. And in my opinion, that means he should be behind bars, and he can apologize on some scrap of paper, or through his lawyer, from there.

Do I have strong feelings about this? LOL. We sure do live in interesting times. Gracias, gato.

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My husband still watches msm. Today I overheard bbc news report involving Elon Musk. Part of it was about his milllikn dollar giveaways and part about space X. They never mentioned his townhall mtg in Pittsburgh two nights ago, where must mentioned more than once the importance of free speech and the right to bear arms. The next news report, seconds later, was about someone called giovanni from strictly come dancing. The bbc gave strictly the same time it gave musk. No actually more time. Has the world gone insane? Looks like it. tells you where people’s heads are when strictly makes the mid day news. Their heads arestrictly up their as….😂😂😂😂😂😂🤡🌏🤡🌏

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Excellent. Make the old obsolete by offering better alternatives. The people will gravitate willingly.

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I have had enough of this: “induced fear to compel once more the trading of rights for the illusion of safety.”

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Amen

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The craziest outcomes of post-60s ‘social justice’ – the ones that people scratch their heads about in dismay - mostly originated in the groves of academe. Things like white self-loathing-by-proxy, the fetishisation of sexual dysphoria and pseudo-therapeutic psychobabble began as fictions and fixations hatched in its humanities and social science petri-dishes. A madness of intelligentsias in other words. I have argued that our great folly was failing to foresee the long-term consequences of allowing our universities to become colonised by an intelligentsia intent on ‘cleverly’ unpicking the threads that held Western civilisation together. https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/the-madness-of-intelligentsias...... The academy’s pied-piper hold on the ambitious young minds of the future ‘opinion-forming’ elite – including crucially the teaching profession - has proceeded unchecked, such that its seductive virtue-signalling mentality has now taken hold in most graduate-entry professional walks of life. And an Academia-Media Complex - a feedback loop between an overwhelmingly left-wing academy and a largely left-wing MSM – has softened up enough of what used to be called ‘the workers’ to keep the Progressive show on the road. https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/invasion-of-the-virtue-signallers

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We're facing the 'throwing out the baby with the bathwater' problem and are in need of people who can tell the difference.

This is 'The Final Judgement' in the truest sense of the word: every institution, every policy, every policy maker, every rule, every decision ever made by the regime will have to defend its existence in public, out in the open or perish.

I liken our current position to this description of what happens inside a caterpillar as it is transforming into a butterfly (it gets messy):

"As you know, holometabolous metamorphosis is one of the most ghastly things in nature. The larva is driven by chemical imperatives to entomb itself alive in its own final skin.

Then the absence of a protective juvenile hormone permits the activation of the imaginal discs embedded in its infant flesh. These spew forth a torrent of enzymes which tear apart most of its cells in a sort of quasi-digestive self-immolation, leaving it as basically a shiny bulging sac of goo in which the discs float, spinning new parts and organs round themselves out of the dissolved ex-caterpillar.

When they’ve finished, the imago will explode out of its old skin like a John Carpenter special effect. Its wings at this point are still soft and soggy, with the consistency of used kitchen paper, so it’ll have to hang upside down, dry off and pump hemolymph into its wing-veins before it can take off and make innocent humans coo over its beautiful colours." - Alexis Kennedy

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Beautiful description about the magic of life which we still don't fully understand...and not likely ever will understand!

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Yes, more enzymatic melting to be done before we find the butterfly.

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Ha! I was planning to be in a shitty mood today but you made me laugh aloud. Bastard! Deaf DJ named Dung & Krueger lol.

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