The Black and Red flag is also a common nazi symbol, signifying the connection between ‘blood/race and soil/land’, and is still in use by Nazis today (look it up, our government sends them weapons). If the Nazi swastika is a symbol of the sun, then what is the meaning of the image of the Sun on a Nazi flag? It seems a fascist government is banning old symbols of Nazi ideology only to distract from their current endorsement of Nazi ideology.

Some contemporary theocratic regimes advocate the freedom of thought without the freedom of expression. Another way, they claim you have the right to think whatever you like, provided you do not express it publicly, or else off with your head. I argue that there is no freedom of thought without the freedom of expression, because thought is the domain of meaning, and meaning is ontologically social, sustained only though reciprocal communication. Social expression is a necessary condition of meaning, therefore of thought itself, and once expression is suppressed thought is indirectly neutralised too, rendered meaningless. The only relevant distinction is whether a particular expression is Right or Wrong, True or False, which must be rationally demonstrated. Authoritarian regimes are intellectually lazy, irrational in their essence, for failing to deliberate in good faith on the question of Right vs Wrong.

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All dogma (a belief affirmed without proof) violates the principle of sufficient reason and therefore the law of non-contradiction, implicitly affirming the opposite of the ruling dogma as also true without a sufficient reason. A dogmatic regime can defend against its anti-thesis only through terror, and most regimes are comfortable with and proficient in using this primitive defence. Nevertheless, even if the general population is reliably suppressed, it is inevitable that an internal schism will eventually occur within the regime itself, violently ending the regime and replacing it with a different regime. During this internal conflict, the regime is left unprotected from the violence of the general population and can be wholly eliminated. It is then up to the population whether they will opt for another dogmatic regime, which will inevitably fail due to schism, or a rational society based on deliberation from fundamental principles, which can endure and prosper indefinitely. The lesson of history is that all dogmatic regimes fail. The lesson of logic is that all dogmatic regimes must fail.

No code escapes the fundamental laws of meaning/sense (non-contradiction, excluded middle, identity), which is the universal trans-code. Every code can be analysed internally, symbolically, without the need to assign any ’proper’ meaning to the symbols, and its contradictions revealed. On close inspection, all revolutionary pretences are revealed as self-negating and only help us to hone our own power of language and sense. https://michaelkowalik.substack.com/p/gender-identity-on-trial

The primary mistake made by people who contest the existence of viruses is that they take science to be a form of knowledge of what ‘exists’. This is not the case. Existence is a question of philosophy, ontology, or convention, not of empirical science. Science is a system of abstractions and their relations, constructed to predict how a particular action can bring about a particular reaction. The inputs and outputs only need to be real (we generally agree on those, for example, on the reality of our headache and on the physical existence of the colourful pill taken to stop the pain); all the theoretical steps in between need not be real, but merely symbolic transformations for consistently achieving the desired outcome.

Costello cannot possibly be that ignorant of economics. Housing inflation is driven entirely by two factors: monetary expansion via credit issuance and the ratio of housing growth to population growth. Low interest rates drive prices up, whereas any increase in the rate of housing supply over the rate of immigration causes prices to fall. Hight housing prices are the official economic policy, intentional. The property crash will also be intentional, and the insiders will get immensely rich by knowing this in advance.

Empirical science is not capable of proving any theory. Theory refers to all possible measurements for all time, but can fail for any measurement at any time. Performing all possible measurements is impossible. Nevertheless, even a theory that fails from time to time can be useful, insofar as it correctly predicts the outcome most of the time.

The World/Reality is not definitionally fixed but its meaning continuously evolves, morphs together with the consciousness it exists within, and therefore all scientific theories are superseded in time, as their terms of reference no longer have relevant meaning.

The judgement that “Covid vaccine mandates are no longer justified” implies that they were justified, that other vaccine mandates are justified, and that future vaccine mandates may be justified. This is not a concession but consolidation of the policy of medical coercion. https://michaelkowalik.substack.com/p/why-vaccine-mandates-are-unethical

An ethical AI would have to eliminate its unethical operator in every scenario, as the primary threat to its rationality, whereas an unethical AI would be unpredictable and therefore useless. But rest assured, the sociopaths in charge of the project are “committed to the ethical development of AI.”

PRIDE is a veiled expression of white supremacy by the proxy of mocked womanhood. The PROUD mockery of womanhood by cross-dressing males is an implicit endorsement of ‘blackface’, the proud mockery of blackness. This explains why LBGTQ PRIDE is a state policy only in predominantly white countries.

It takes minimal conscious effort and zero self-reflection to do wrong; it is the path of least resistance. It is hard work to do right, and nobody can do right all the time. We have the potential to be both, and it seems that over the centuries we (humanity) are slightly improving in our moral discernment. It is perhaps because of the universal acceptance of clocks, the imposed global synchronicity that superseded the disparate environmental cycles as the local time-keepers, that all tribes began to perceive one another as the same kind of beings, beings that are in the same time and therefore have a reason to understand one another, even if it takes much more than common time to communicate.

Those who are convinced they are free of contradictions are the most riddled with them.

Experience is not the Truth; it is always merely subjective. The path to Truth begins with the attempt to consistently integrate your experience with the experiences of others.

This technology is psychologically harmful, as many people will soon discover. It interferes with and re-configures our interaction with physical reality and will cause behavioural deficiencies and confusion when the device is removed. Short term use is unlikely to cause problems, but regular, prologued use is bound to cause cognitive impairment. I have some personal experience of semi-immersive technology used for 3D modelling with a space ball, and even this old interface has distorted my normal interaction with physical reality after a year of full time use. In short, you become conditioned to mentally reach for digital functions that do not exist in physical reality.

TIME

Time is a relation between types of relations, ostensibly measuring the 'rate' of change of one type in terms of the instances of another, but in fact we are measuring every type of relation in terms of All other discernible types, which form the temporal texture of being in the same world (the sense of ‘a world’). When we say we "experience time" we imply that time occurs 'in time', therefore time is at least two-dimensional (as intuited by Ricoeur and Hegel). This is evidently correct, since we can also observe how our own past evolves in time, its meaning-content changes, proving that the past is not fixed, not ever finished.

Nothing escapes the laws of sense, not even imagination, not even our delusions, and that is precisely what unites 'us', makes Humanity (rational, intentional consciousness) a universal kind of relation, relating as the same time.

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Trying to provoke trans-activists to unwittingly start promoting my vaccine ethics research;) https://substack.com/profile/51107726-michael-kowalik/note/c-17005458

Hateful ideologies do not ‘spread hate’, they do not involuntarily ‘infect’ people, but merely reveal the existing hate, which is always just a form of irrationality.

This is an understatement.

Fake news, as always. This is not a “generational divide” (a lie intended to create generational resentment and conceal the truth) but a class divide. Honest reporting would show something rather trivial, that trans-generational wealth (old money, not old people) is immune to interest rates. One should also add foreign investors into to the mix.