Our greatest foe will forever and always be our human irrationality, and the powerful psycho-societal illnesses they engender. On the first, I warned you in March of 2020 that the wave about to devastate us wasn’t epidemiological, but psycho-societal.
The “correct” lessons? Sounds ominous. We already learned from the NATZS and Communist China and a Russia. Mass media/govt fear propaganda, authoritarian policies, snitch lines, censorship, surveillance and tracking of the people, shunning of the “other” and branding us as “unclean”. Banning therapeutics. Parents were forced to choose between an experimental vaccine and feeding their kids. Political prisoners were taken for protesting. Obvious parallels. The USA Constitution was ignored as were Charter Rights in the Constitutions of the rest of the West. The censorship of science and debate was unparalleled in the West. People will not trust sCiEnCe or the medical community again. Restore Science. Restore debate. Restore freedom of expression. That is the only way to avoid authoritarianism. Yet the Western countries have all passed more censorship laws, save the USA. I hope you are sincere. If so, good luck in your endeavours. From Canada. Honk! Honk!
"Our greatest foe will forever and always be our human irrationality, and the powerful psycho-societal illnesses they engender"
Well, "forever and always" is a long time. When the Chinese or the Terminators annihilate us all, those psycho-societal illnesses will seem quaint by comparison.
But sure, human irrationality is definitely a big problem. And as far as I can tell, it is insurmountable.
The “correct” lessons? Sounds ominous. We already learned from the NATZS and Communist China and a Russia. Mass media/govt fear propaganda, authoritarian policies, snitch lines, censorship, surveillance and tracking of the people, shunning of the “other” and branding us as “unclean”. Banning therapeutics. Parents were forced to choose between an experimental vaccine and feeding their kids. Political prisoners were taken for protesting. Obvious parallels. The USA Constitution was ignored as were Charter Rights in the Constitutions of the rest of the West. The censorship of science and debate was unparalleled in the West. People will not trust sCiEnCe or the medical community again. Restore Science. Restore debate. Restore freedom of expression. That is the only way to avoid authoritarianism. Yet the Western countries have all passed more censorship laws, save the USA. I hope you are sincere. If so, good luck in your endeavours. From Canada. Honk! Honk!
"Our greatest foe will forever and always be our human irrationality, and the powerful psycho-societal illnesses they engender"
Well, "forever and always" is a long time. When the Chinese or the Terminators annihilate us all, those psycho-societal illnesses will seem quaint by comparison.
But sure, human irrationality is definitely a big problem. And as far as I can tell, it is insurmountable.