The corporate media attacks and ridicules anti-vaccine-mandate arguments only when they sense weakness, for example, too many speculative claims and exaggerations, logical errors. They never refer to my arguments against vaccine mandates, even though they were published in the BMJ Journal of Medical Ethics. They don't want any attention (even negative attention) directed to rigorous and irrefutable arguments that defeat their agenda. They like cannon fodder kind of opposition. In fact easy targets who oppose the official policies, presenting arguments with plenty of holes for the media to exploit, are essential for the corporate media to create the impression that there is no legitimate opposition. Weak, irrational opposition is necessary for the status quo; it is even better if the opposition entity does not realise they are being harmful to their cause.

Canceling Covid fines (issued under emergency powers) by means of a “technicality” is just a way of saving face for the government. They know it was all unlawful, and this is how they are getting away with terrorism after the fact. The kind of defence lawyers who “win” on a technicality but ignore the elephant in the room are probably not really working for you (even when you pay them).

Freedom and the Security State

The individual freedom to realise intentions is an intrinsic property of rational consciousness (of being Human). It is the source of all good things but also of all the troubles, so when an average individual demands more freedom, the rulers (those who enforce the rule-set by which social order is maintained) may ask: if we would allow you more freedom, how would you use it? Would you act destructively or constructively, rationally or irrationally? But governments cannot negotiate and evaluate motivations with every person individually, so they come up with methods of generalising this evaluation of responsibility on global scale. If they think that human freedom is used increasingly unwisely, destructively, or is simply wasted (at some non-trivial cost to others) they may come up with a narrative that purports to apply universally in order to justify general restrictions on freedom, for example Anthropogenic Climate Change, which reduces the problem of the harmful use of freedom to a single parameter: energy use. If a social trend of increasing irrationalism (nihilism, radicalism, hedonism) were detected, accelerationist strategies may be used to exemplify the destructive aspect of irrationality and thus manufacture consent for more restrictions and licensing of freedoms. This makes sense from the perspective of a global security strategist. You can explain everything from Covid and Ukraine to Dan Andrews and ‘drag queen story-time’ through this lens (although not everything that fits necessarily belongs). There is no escape from the security sphere of the world, there is no possibility of maintaining order or a rule-set independent from the prevailing rule-set, because by doing so you would be not only escaping the problem rather than fixing it (globally) but creating a threat to the global system of interdependencies - a prospective source of instability. For this reason any alternative community will be conquered, indigenous separatism will be used strategically and then annihilated, blood&soil nationalism of many colours will be used strategically to annihilate one another. The solution to the problem of freedom is not a revolution, nor to become more isolated, more disconnected from the dominant rule-set, but to become more rational within the global rule-set and feed that rationality back into the global system of relations. The highest level of security and trust in a deeply interdependent social system is accomplished by reason (Logos: the ultimate and universal rule-set) underpinning freedom, not by freedom for its own sake (which is intrinsically nihilistic).

Not long ago people like her were canonised. What a courageous, honourable person!

I propose that all products sold in a country should be, by law, manufactured only in that country if they can be manufactured in that country, unless the manufacturing country has equivalent or stronger labour rights and environmental protection laws and practices. Any ‘offshoring’ of production bypasses the national environmental and labour laws (this is how costs are “saved”), and as such facilitates human exploitation in other countries.

The most vocal opponents of free speech on social media are those who desire to have monopoly on disinformation.

Utilitarians maintain that ‘the good’ is a quantifiable and cumulative property of the community, hence ‘the greater good’ is that which increases the aggregate worth for the community, irrespective of the possibility that some individuals may be worse off or even dead (like the total wealth of a nation increasing despite an associated increase in suicides). Their chief motto is: “the greatest amount of good for the greatest number of people.” A little dirty secret of Utilitarianism is that it is implicitly committed to judging races in terms of their aggregate or average utility, therefore a hierarchy of races determined according to their worth, therefore some races “ought” to be sacrificed or exploited for the benefit of others.

The key contradiction of utilitarianism is its commitment to the highest “good” as a property distinct from the value of conscious agency, while at the same time (inexplicably) subordinating this good to the preferences of arbitrarily selected conscious agents. In short, nonsense.

Who do the Greens really work for? They are either the lowest of the low or the fakest of the fake.

It is incredibly difficult to leave the tribe, transcend tribalism and consciously join humanity. The one who dares will be utterly alone, having to traverse the no-mans-land between cultural oppression of his native tribe and the prejudices and pretences of other tribes. It takes not only courage but determination and thick skin that few possess to become a human bridge and a mirror. The vultures of culture are still trying to put him in the tribal box, but this one (like Lionel Rose) is a champion of humanity.

Nations and traditional cultures insist (on pain of punitive violence) that whatever they hold to be “their values” ought to be respected, and that acting according to “their values” is prima facie morally right and rational. This is not true; “their values” may in themselves be morally wrong and irrational, and even if the core values happen to be right, their practical interpretation may still be wrong. In essence, it is a fallacy (‘begging the question’: violation of the law of identity for the premise and the conclusion) to claim that something is right because you believe it to be right.

“In the end, it doesn’t matter whether they’re trying to cudgel nickels from the discontented, or accepting some sort of pay day from a dark corner of Pharma. All leaders are suspect. Leadership is suspect. Groupthink is suspect. Why are we debating whether we should listen to this or that so-and-so? Isn’t that what got us into this mess? We’ve arrived at the central paradox of not-a-movement. We can’t be a movement (or even a “we”) because cognitive liberty is not a collective right. It is an individual one. If we conform our thoughts, even to the point of thinking, “well, that scientist has some conflicts in his background, but he’s on our side now, let’s just focus on the positive” we’ve fallen for it.” https://icthruit.substack.com/p/all-opposition-is-controlled

It is as if the authorities want us to know that Covid vaccines and the associated mandates caused unprecedented harm but also want to create the impression that they are hiding or denying those harms. It is as if they want people to know that elections are stolen, that anthropogenic climate change is a lie, that child abuse is ubiquitous among the powerful and rich, that state education is designed to corrupt the youth, that all the new laws are made in bad faith, that political corruption is everywhere, and that there is no hope for democracy to fix any of these problems. Almost as if the state wanted to publicly incriminate and discredit itself, as comprehensively as possible. How strange.

It is one thing to know that someone knows more than you, and another thing to know that they are honestly telling you what they know, and another thing again to know that they are right.

I submitted a ‘rapid response’ to a new paper in the BMJ Journal of Medical Ethics (thank you Beach for bringing this paper to my attention): https://michaelkowalik.substack.com/p/the-proportionality-principle-is

The hospital and the court refused to give the child the unvaccinated blood from available donors, putting the life of the child at risk by creating an avoidable delay and denying the right to free medical consent. Even if the choice of the parents had no medical advantage for the child, it certainly had no medical downside and therefore it was unreasonable and immoral to deny their medical preference.

Hypothesis: Covid was not a bio-weapon but an engineered, self-propagating cure for cancer, and the vaccine was engineered to prevent the cure from working on the majority of people and thus avert a population-wide increase of life-expectancy.

My ancestors, the original owners of the Earth.

The health authorities and politicians who supported lockdowns and vaccine mandates will be hunted down and prosecuted with the same intergenerational zeal as Nazi collaborators.

Conversation on the topic of tyrannical legislation being introduced in W.A.: https://t.iss.one/Aussie_News/30563