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

Some flashbacks from 1.5 years of NORMAL

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

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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Covid vaccine mandates were mostly withdrawn (they still apply to healthcare workers and medical students in Australia) but they were not yet defeated in principle. In fact, very few (if any) of the anti-covid-vaccine-mandate politicians voiced their oppositions to vaccine mandates in general, but only disputed whether the benefits of these particular vaccines are sufficient to justify the mandated killing of an unlucky minority in the interest of the majority. The majority of people would still force vaccinate anyone, human rights be damned, if the circumstances were more dire and they believed that vaccines work. The ‘freedom movement’ activists, ‘rebel’ doctors and ‘maverick’ politicians threw their hands in the air, lamented the (never precisely articulated) “injustice”, vowed to fight ‘on your behalf’, yelled into the bullhorn, appealed to God at every opportunity, but avoided any serious arguments to settle the question of vaccine mandates as a matter of principle. This omission will come back to bite, perhaps sooner than most people think. https://michaelkowalik.substack.com/p/why-vaccine-mandates-are-unethical

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The empty vessels of the ‘freedom movement’ make the most noise.

A modern dictator’s guide to counterinsurgency

The most secure way of neutralising the commoners’ resistance to progressive state policies is to create a reality-TV series called “the freedom movement” (or something positive sounding and empowering like that). A cast of charismatic organisers/rebels/mavericks from different walks of life are the main protagonists. They gain prominence in the pilot episode, each performing a simple act of resistance captured on video. Speaking the language of the people they deliver a daily dose of “the Revolution” right to your sofa, each with a high energy vlog of platitudes to motivate you to stay on it and “just trust me, we are making a huge difference”. From time to time the organisers will stage a festive meetup in a public place to give you the sense of full, realistic immersion in the series (this is a crucial element of reality-TV and what the audience loves the most). These meetups should be realistically called “protests” and contain surprise, hyper-real performances by affiliated artists. Some suggestions for the embedded performances: a thrilling visit from the “riot squad” in full gear, an occasional violent “arrest” of one of the protagonists, a discovery and capture of a “real” firearm on one of the “protesters”, an accidental run-in with ANTIFA, and the all time favourite: “the burning of the Parliament House”.

It was once understood, correctly, that “the [real] revolution will not be televised”. The task of the dictator is therefore to ensure that “the Revolution” is televised, vlogged, delivered right to your door, the information channels saturated with everything “revolutionary”, the drama and bloodshed of “true resistance” fed directly to your screen. The polarity of Good and Evil must be absolute, and the audience made to oscillate between hopeless terror and “nothing can stop us now”, driven to daily catharsis. Live-out the real revolution in reality-TV. “Oh! What a Difference.” ✊

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This is top of the list of my fave Australian groups - actually, world-wide.

This is where I go to get grounded and for some cool, sane information.

Knowing the difference between 'right' and 'wrong' isn't always as easy as it seems. This channel owner knows much more than most, and explains it in a way that will get you really thinking - whether you're in agreement or not.

The channel owner is Michael Kowalik. Michael is a philosopher https://philpeople.org/profiles/michael-kowalik ethicist, based in Victoria Australia.

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A human male is a ‘he/his’; a human female is a ‘she/her’. It is a grammatical (and logical) error to use a female pronoun for a male. For example, ‘The male in the white suit kept scratching her nose’ does not make sense if used in reference to that male’s nose. The sentence implies that the male is scratching someone else’s nose, who happens to be a female. The pronouns used by proponents of transgender ideology are linguistic nonsense, a category mistake. The objection that a male can be a ‘she’ just in case of a ‘transgender male’ does not work either because it involves circular reasoning (‘begging the question’ fallacy); the premise ‘transgender male’ presupposes rather than supports the conclusion that a male can be a ‘she’. For more fallacies of transgender ideology see here: https://michaelkowalik.substack.com/p/gender-identity-on-trial