She's steadfast on masks and her belief that individual freedom and liberty are inferior to a stated collective obligation, real evidence be damned, called "your interesting version of reality." Sigh. The programming is strong in so many. You know it took local Germans being forced to see the horrors of the concentration camps and have to bury the bodies found there to break the programming and denial of the Nazi regime. Even as they lived right next door and saw the cattle cars pull up full, leave empty, saw the smoke, and smelled the death. We all pray that's not the level of horror ahead before our programmed friends to break the spell over them.
"Early Mission Work and Creation of the Glagolitic Script
When Michael III looked for who to send, he found that Constantine and Methodius were an ideal fit. They both knew a Slavic dialect spoken near Thessalonica and had proven themselves to be competent leaders and thinkers. They arrived in 863 and began to assist local congregations in making a liturgy in the Slavic language spoken in Moravia. While working on the liturgy, they realized that the Latin and Greek alphabets were not ideal for Slavic languages, so they created a new alphabet which would later evolve into the Cyrillic alphabet.
The alphabet that the missionary brothers created, the Glagolitic script, is not identical to the Cyrillic script, but the early Cyrillic alphabet was derived from it. The alphabet was based on a cursive form of the Greek alphabet that was in use in the Byzantine Empire at the time. The specific rules for their new alphabet were influenced by those of a local Slavic dialect spoken in northern Greece."
I've been a socialist-libertarian (à la young Noam Chomsky, he's grown authoritarian with age) with a strong green-communist leaning. I too initially knew that the Left was traditionally the side fighting for civil rights against medical authoritarianism. The Left also used to be the side fighting for "Small is Beautiful, against the WEF, against Globalisation, against NAFTA and G20 G7 and all trade agreements that undermined workers' rights.
This has also been studied with mandatory bicycle helmet laws. Back in the days before this debate was shut down, studies had shown that people wearing a helmet during a fall conked their head more often than cyclists who didn't. Given that cycling masks DO NOT prevent concussion or "save lives" the fact that people conk their head more was due to our spatial perception KNOWS where the limits of our head is and our arm can block the fall for instinctually, or the neck muscles can strain harder to prevent the collision, to a degree.
This spatial perception limitation is also noticeable in people who don't regularly wear glasses/sun glasses, in that they hit their glasses on cupboard doors or other sticky-outy things.
Our body (aided by our eyes, but also just plain life experience/knowledge) KNOWS where our body ends. When we add stuff to our body limits, those extra things are not efficiently perceived by the body.
She's steadfast on masks and her belief that individual freedom and liberty are inferior to a stated collective obligation, real evidence be damned, called "your interesting version of reality." Sigh. The programming is strong in so many. You know it took local Germans being forced to see the horrors of the concentration camps and have to bury the bodies found there to break the programming and denial of the Nazi regime. Even as they lived right next door and saw the cattle cars pull up full, leave empty, saw the smoke, and smelled the death. We all pray that's not the level of horror ahead before our programmed friends to break the spell over them.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/german-civilians-forced-see-real-11908228
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/dachau-liberated
Also, it's arguable that Cyrillic is a designed language:
Cyril and Methodius - Spiritual Fathers of Slavic Civilization
Ancient Origins, November 3, 2013
https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-famous-people/cyril-and-methodius-spiritual-fathers-slavic-civilization-0010943
"Early Mission Work and Creation of the Glagolitic Script
When Michael III looked for who to send, he found that Constantine and Methodius were an ideal fit. They both knew a Slavic dialect spoken near Thessalonica and had proven themselves to be competent leaders and thinkers. They arrived in 863 and began to assist local congregations in making a liturgy in the Slavic language spoken in Moravia. While working on the liturgy, they realized that the Latin and Greek alphabets were not ideal for Slavic languages, so they created a new alphabet which would later evolve into the Cyrillic alphabet.
The alphabet that the missionary brothers created, the Glagolitic script, is not identical to the Cyrillic script, but the early Cyrillic alphabet was derived from it. The alphabet was based on a cursive form of the Greek alphabet that was in use in the Byzantine Empire at the time. The specific rules for their new alphabet were influenced by those of a local Slavic dialect spoken in northern Greece."
I will subscribe to your substack in a day or so. Your insights are great.
I enjoy new discoveries in how the brain works and am relentlessly asking why why why.
I've been a socialist-libertarian (à la young Noam Chomsky, he's grown authoritarian with age) with a strong green-communist leaning. I too initially knew that the Left was traditionally the side fighting for civil rights against medical authoritarianism. The Left also used to be the side fighting for "Small is Beautiful, against the WEF, against Globalisation, against NAFTA and G20 G7 and all trade agreements that undermined workers' rights.
Communism has sure fukin changed!!!!!!!!!!
https://www.marxist.ca/category/covid-19
Did you know she was going to go down the mask/lockdown nonsense?
Re: masks and visual/spatial perception.
This has also been studied with mandatory bicycle helmet laws. Back in the days before this debate was shut down, studies had shown that people wearing a helmet during a fall conked their head more often than cyclists who didn't. Given that cycling masks DO NOT prevent concussion or "save lives" the fact that people conk their head more was due to our spatial perception KNOWS where the limits of our head is and our arm can block the fall for instinctually, or the neck muscles can strain harder to prevent the collision, to a degree.
This spatial perception limitation is also noticeable in people who don't regularly wear glasses/sun glasses, in that they hit their glasses on cupboard doors or other sticky-outy things.
Our body (aided by our eyes, but also just plain life experience/knowledge) KNOWS where our body ends. When we add stuff to our body limits, those extra things are not efficiently perceived by the body.
EVERYTHING is possible, unless it prevents or significantly reduces reproduction capacity. So much wonderful diversity.