Free-associations, acting on impulse, acting from emotion or listening to your feelings (“following you heart”), is largely deterministic and therefore liable to hacking. You can free yourself from this liability only if you delay your judgement, never act without reflection (where possible) and evaluate your reasons for action.
A person delivering a profound message is the medium of the message. The medium is always the primary message, which obstructs and displaces the mediated message. Remove the person and strip bare the context and the message speaks for itself, unmediated. For this reason TEXT is the most direct path to the rational mind of the audience.
Your primary function, our primary function as Humans, is not to generate gods and services, but to become a faithful mirror for everything else, not imitate but Reflect the meaning and context, in which falsity has no existence and therefore no reflection.
The following article is very interesting from both moral and psychological perspectives. It establishes an absolute moral dichotomy, portraying anti-vaxxers (used as a slur) as despicable abusers while elevating the vaccine proponent to the status of a martyr. This beautifully sets up the stage for the psychological conflict that follows, between the overt value judgement and the secondary facts: the ‘hero’ was in the media before because two of his child patients fainted following Covid vaccination, and were believed by some to have died (subconsciously imprinting ‘danger of vaccines’) and then the ‘hero’ died suddenly (subconsciously imprinting ‘danger of vaccines’). The result is a moral choice between blindly following the the authority in dehumanising ‘anti-vaxxers’ vs ‘vaccines are dangerous’. The controlled comments are there to emphasise the same choice with likes/dislikes. Then they count the clicks and have a reasonably scientific measure of the general capacity for moral discernment, without letting it be explicitly known what that measure is. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11578455/Wilson-Chin-Gold-Coast-doctor-received-death-threats-anti-vaxxers-dies-suddenly.html
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Family doctor who was subject to death threats from anti-vaxxers during the pandemic dies suddenly right before Christmas
A popular family doctor who was subjected to vile abuse and threats by anti-vaxxers for giving Covid jabs to children has died suddenly in Queensland.
“Conspiracy theory” is when little people think under uncertainty. “Smart money” is when the ultra-rich act out what little people think.
Social media is the biggest factory of knowledge in the history of mankind, where users generate “knowledge of the record” for the media companies. Every click or emoticon counts. This is not Your knowledge but Their knowledge; they own the record. The strongest strategic position for the overwhelming majority of people is to exercise your right to silence, become a watcher, and restrict yourself to asking for evidence, making no claims of knowledge. In a modern security state you are born and live out your life as a suspect, subject to continuous “security screening”, and everything you say can be used against you. Unless you are more proficient at discourse than the security apparatus then everything you say will be used against you. Nobody benefits from your kitchen-sink analysis of “what it is all about” or “who is who” or “who controls the world” except those who own the record. Every fool has beliefs, every fool can tell a story, and repeating stories because they resonate with your feeling and limited imagination, or having ‘opinions’ based on same, says a lot about you but nothing about the objective reality. Become a silent watcher, become a question mark for every story. This is your power. This, in most cases is the only thing that makes you special, is the scope of your autonomy. Meanwhile, in the privacy of your thoughts study, doubt yourself, make your decisions quietly. This is how people in the Soviet Union defeated the security state, with the wall of silence.
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The security state, and the mindset of a security officer, is inherently paranoid. It sees extremism in everything except total impotence, prostration and submission, but because paranoia is a pathological state that can never be appeased, its ultimate aim is (unwittingly) total annihiliation of autonomous agency, which amounts to annihilation of consciousness. The greatest insecurity of the security apparatus, the most anxiety provoking stimulus, is SILENCE. It signals to the paranoid security mindset the end of the rope, the end of the record, impotence, a defeat.
This is hilarious: https://s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/stanfordlanguage.pdf
The corporate media and fact checkers are spouting disinformation as a matter of daily routine, while lamenting about misinformation of the public if they reject the official disinformation. Every day medical speculation is passed off as proven facts. Just as an example, yesterday a 24 year old girl was reported to have died suddenly of heart attack which the news network asserts, without evidence, was caused by Covid. This is disinformation (the assertion of “fact” without conclusive evidence is false). No mention of vaccination status or the possibility that vaccine or something else had caused the heart attack. Factual reporting would declare that the cause of death is unknown but the two suspected causes may be Covid or Covid vaccination. https://michaelkowalik.substack.com/p/is-it-rational-to-trust-the-experts
The common belief in “demons” or the Devil would be so convenient for any powerful people who wanted to do something really bad on the global scale. “We didn’t do it, the Devil did.” There is something in it for the atheists too. For example, as Musk said, “[with artificial intelligence] we are summoning the demon”, so artificial intelligence can also be blamed for doing some terrible things, as if acting all by itself, and ‘nobody could stop it, it all got out of hand, it turned on us too, we didn’t do nothing’. The devil, artificial intelligence (as a conscious agency in its own right), aliens… these are all just convenient beliefs that were imprinted in the common mindset through entertainment and corporate symbolism for several decades; the ultimate scapegoats for the actions of Man. https://michaelkowalik.substack.com/p/why-alien-life-forms-are-impossible
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To do Good is to act in any way that is not ‘contrary to the structure of being’, which is Evil. Good and Evil are a binary moral property of intentional action. Things and states are neither good nor evil in the moral sense; when we call a thing ‘good’, we mean that it is valuable in the utilitarian sense, which is a matter of degree, not that it is the binary opposite of Evil. The idea of Greater Good conflates the utilitarian sense of Good with the moral sense, in order to falsely justify Evil as a necessary condition of the Good. Do not be deceived. #sticker
Males who are cross-dressing or pretending to be women are mocking women, degrade womanhood, and also implicitly endorse similar forms of racial mockery, for example, ‘blackface’. We have the moral obligation to defend women (and other races) from being mocked and degraded. Moreover, when a male is not only pretending but also demands (or someone else demands on his behalf) to be recognised as a woman, he is not only mocking women but discriminating against and denying their gender identity determined by being females. This also applies in reverse, to females claiming to be men. You have the right to defend your gender identity but also a moral obligation to protect children from being radicalised with the bigoted transgender ideology. https://michaelkowalik.substack.com/p/gender-identity-on-trial
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Despite the initially positive responses of the two senators to my inquiries, including senator Antic’s indication that he may be able to pursue the proposed line of questing at the Estimates, my follow-up emails to the senators (just before the relevant Senate Estimates session) were neither answered nor actioned. It is regrettable that the senators decided not to use the most clear-cut argument against the vaccine mandates. I suspect that the senators do not oppose vaccine mandates in principle and their only objection is that the relevant vaccines are not beneficial enough to the majority to ‘justify’ killing some innocent people. If they would change their mind, I will be happy to work with them.
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Follow up email to Senator Antic (31.10.2022)
Dear Senator Antic,
Will you be attending the senate estimates session related to health policy, scheduled for 8-10 November? I hope you will be willing to raise the questions I suggested previously (copied…
Dear Senator Antic,
Will you be attending the senate estimates session related to health policy, scheduled for 8-10 November? I hope you will be willing to raise the questions I suggested previously (copied…