Plotinus is boring, but to give him due credit, his apophatic theology influenced all three Abrahamic religions and probably made life a good deal less dreary for untold numbers of intelligent people who had the misfortune to live in the mid-to-late first millennium.
"Based and blue-pilled" gets it right. I find it strange that you of all people would take the covid hysteria to be basically true. The Cathedral's coverage has been transparently dishonest (or, at least, incorrect, but it's hard to believe that the entire media/public health sphere don't understand basic statistics).
For example, the constant scaremongering of "cases" - which is an entirely useless metric on its own, as it is proportional to the number of tests. Or how about the fact that a "covid death" is anyone who dies within 28 days of a positive test - which the uk government explicitly states on their website is to make you more afraid than you otherwise would be. https://publichealthmatters.blog.gov.uk/2020/08/12/behind-the-headlines-counting-covid-19-deaths/
I'm not really sure what the motive for this is, but my best guess is something like what you describe for Michael Mann in your Climate Gate. They aren't lying because they have some secret dark motive, but because the deadly threat of covid is *true*, and so reporting in a way to support that is not dishonest but *righteous*.
Believing in the covid menace is the high-status, fashionable position, and so is supporting these endless lockdowns, the masks, or whatever it is the Cathedral calls for next. Isn't it interesting how "anyone who doesn't take the vaccine is an anti-vaxxer" and "you'll still need to lockdown and wear a mask after the vaccine" are simultaneously fashionable positions? One could even call it a test of faith, with the masks taking the place of a crucifix...
Simply put, the cathedral seems to be up to its old tricks. I'm curious why this doesn't seem to have factored into your analysis, even of screen. Or perhaps I'm wrong about that, and you simply didn't want to retread old ground.
Among other fake incidents this year, the lack of concern from the establishment regarding protests during the pandemic really worried me. The lengths people will go to conform to the right opinion never ceases to amaze me.
"China’s hard lockdown took R far below 1 and killed the virus in two months."
I really can't understand how someone so well read in history could treat any information coming out of China (i.e. from the CCP) as anything but exactly what it is (propaganda) - unless I am misreading and this is somehow tongue-in-cheek. The CCP has absolutely no reason whatsoever to allow any information to surface that would make the CCP look bad. And why would they? They control everything. It's almost like if you could cheat at cards, no one else who's playing can do anything about it, and you get to go home with your winnings every night. Of course you're going to cheat. Any data from China should be automatically discarded as the junk it is.
In the last episodes of "Common Sense" Dan Carlin echoed a lot of similar sentiments. His second to last episode is called "A Recipe for Caesar". I would love to see a conversation between you two and would gladly chip in to make it happen.
BTW Borzoi from the therightstuff.biz is not a nazi, he literally said "I'm not the nazi you're looking for", although he's familiar with the argumentation.
Based and blue-pilled
Plotinus is boring, but to give him due credit, his apophatic theology influenced all three Abrahamic religions and probably made life a good deal less dreary for untold numbers of intelligent people who had the misfortune to live in the mid-to-late first millennium.
"Based and blue-pilled" gets it right. I find it strange that you of all people would take the covid hysteria to be basically true. The Cathedral's coverage has been transparently dishonest (or, at least, incorrect, but it's hard to believe that the entire media/public health sphere don't understand basic statistics).
For example, the constant scaremongering of "cases" - which is an entirely useless metric on its own, as it is proportional to the number of tests. Or how about the fact that a "covid death" is anyone who dies within 28 days of a positive test - which the uk government explicitly states on their website is to make you more afraid than you otherwise would be. https://publichealthmatters.blog.gov.uk/2020/08/12/behind-the-headlines-counting-covid-19-deaths/
I'm not really sure what the motive for this is, but my best guess is something like what you describe for Michael Mann in your Climate Gate. They aren't lying because they have some secret dark motive, but because the deadly threat of covid is *true*, and so reporting in a way to support that is not dishonest but *righteous*.
Believing in the covid menace is the high-status, fashionable position, and so is supporting these endless lockdowns, the masks, or whatever it is the Cathedral calls for next. Isn't it interesting how "anyone who doesn't take the vaccine is an anti-vaxxer" and "you'll still need to lockdown and wear a mask after the vaccine" are simultaneously fashionable positions? One could even call it a test of faith, with the masks taking the place of a crucifix...
Simply put, the cathedral seems to be up to its old tricks. I'm curious why this doesn't seem to have factored into your analysis, even of screen. Or perhaps I'm wrong about that, and you simply didn't want to retread old ground.
Among other fake incidents this year, the lack of concern from the establishment regarding protests during the pandemic really worried me. The lengths people will go to conform to the right opinion never ceases to amaze me.
Counterpoint: the number of dead from covid may have been massively exaggerated (https://wmbriggs.com/post/33680/).
lockdown but not for protests. clownworld in display
"China’s hard lockdown took R far below 1 and killed the virus in two months."
I really can't understand how someone so well read in history could treat any information coming out of China (i.e. from the CCP) as anything but exactly what it is (propaganda) - unless I am misreading and this is somehow tongue-in-cheek. The CCP has absolutely no reason whatsoever to allow any information to surface that would make the CCP look bad. And why would they? They control everything. It's almost like if you could cheat at cards, no one else who's playing can do anything about it, and you get to go home with your winnings every night. Of course you're going to cheat. Any data from China should be automatically discarded as the junk it is.
Honestly, I'm just mad that I'm forced to play along with this bullshit to have a normal life. Why did I have to be born into the era of WWE politics?
No thing fake ages well.
New game
Rock = Monarchy
Paper = Democracy
Scissors = Oligarchy
You can only play if you’re already playing, or if you’ve played before.
You don’t understand Plotinus
If only we could code our way out of this...
In the last episodes of "Common Sense" Dan Carlin echoed a lot of similar sentiments. His second to last episode is called "A Recipe for Caesar". I would love to see a conversation between you two and would gladly chip in to make it happen.
BTW Borzoi from the therightstuff.biz is not a nazi, he literally said "I'm not the nazi you're looking for", although he's familiar with the argumentation.
Ask your 8-year-old how many people would take the vaccine if they thought production quality sucked? Even now only half want it.
Just saw on Michael Malice's reading list a book about the 1960s Camp culture - perhaps, "camp" is the word? Or, postmodernism, in general?
For all things Covid-related, Jean-François Gariépy is the go-to guy.