Forwarded from Normal (Michael Kowalik)
A list of non-protest type activities that could be effective in raising public awareness about the the moral cost of vaccine mandates:
A) a marathon in memory of the victims of vaccine mandates;
B) a bicycle race across Australia in memory of the human right to free medical consent;
C) a chess tournament for the cure against medical tyranny;
D) a children’s drawing/painting competition in the honour of those who did not acquiesce to the removal of the right to free medical consent from their children and future generations.
A) a marathon in memory of the victims of vaccine mandates;
B) a bicycle race across Australia in memory of the human right to free medical consent;
C) a chess tournament for the cure against medical tyranny;
D) a children’s drawing/painting competition in the honour of those who did not acquiesce to the removal of the right to free medical consent from their children and future generations.
The surest path for Aboriginal people (and everyone else) to improve the conditions of their existence is modern education (logic, literature and world history) and maximum engagement with the intellectual currents of humanity, globally, but tribalism and tribal lore stands in the way, perpetuating an identity based on resentment and self-exclusion. Tribal identity is a cage for the mind, preventing Aboriginal children from fully embracing their human identity, as conscious rational beings capable of creating unbounded meaning with all other humans, by means of what we all have in common.
The awareness of contradiction forces us to make a choice between one of the mutually inconsistent propositions, otherwise our capacity for consistently realising intentions would be diminished. Conscious agency is commensurate with the capacity to detect contradictions in our thought process.
The core difference between materialism/paganism and idealism/monotheism is that the former is committed to the view that rational consciousness has physical/biological roots, whereas the latter maintains that both consciousness and the physical/biological reality are an expression of the same fundamental metaphysical principle. Only one of these views can be true. The problem for materialists/pagans is to explain the primacy of ‘nature’ over the 'idea' of nature (which is all we ever think about when we talk about 'nature'). The problem for idealists/monotheists is to consistently define the metaphysical principle of existence and explain how it 'causes' physical existence and consciousness.
The proposition that Digital Cash can be used to block citizens from buying ‘less desirable’ items is a euphemism for Digital Cash being used to block ‘less desirable’ citizens from buying items.
The pursuit of decolonisation is at best meaningless, at worst self-defeating, a tribal vanity project. We are all human, and to be ‘colonised’ by other humans does not change the fact that both the ‘colonised’ and the ‘coloniser’ are still human, rational beings who possess the capacity to deliberate and generate common meaning. Colonisation brings us together, transgresses the tribal boundaries, challenges our inconsistent cultural conditionings, and relativises insular traditions, compelling both the colonisers and the colonised to deliberate, to come to terms, and thus to affirm our common humanity as the sole source of meaning.
Feelings are not intentional actions but involuntary experiences that 'happen to us'. They are not 'ours' in the sense that intentions are ours, they do not originate from the agency of the Self but from something Other. The call to "express your feelings" is therefore a misnomer, an invitation to take ownership of these involuntary states as if they were intentional actions, which amounts to saying that we should partially abandon our agency, act more involuntarily, and thus be more determined by something Other than our conscious agency, that is, to submit to external influences.
Oral traditions do not constitute knowledge, of which there are only two kinds: 1) a priori, 2) truths of the record. Oral traditions lack the objective record against which the subjective testimonies could be objectively verified, and are therefore prone to subjective distortion and collective confabulation (telling stories). A truth that cannot be objectively verified is unknowable. https://michaelkowalik.substack.com/p/the-structure-of-knowledge
Gender reassignment surgery is genital mutilation. It is wrong to normalise, endorse, let alone facilitate it, even if someone were to demand it.
Most people seem unaware of the logical distinction between a general principle and how the principle makes one feel. The moment a conversation shifts from the former to the latter, the subject has changed; it is no longer a discussion about the meaning held in common but about 'me'. There is nothing wrong with talking about you, it can be therapeutic for the speaker, but it is generally less interesting and less relevant to others than a discussion about what we have in common. This partly explains why people who want to talk about their feelings are expected to pay $200 per hour to do so in a professional setting, whereas people who are able to consistently talk about general principles in a professional setting are typically paid.
Video-talks are not just a waste of time but mental pollution. The better ones can be condensed to a single paragraph of original, useful information, but most cannot be summarised at all because they contain no useful information; just banter, gossip, histrionics and speculation. It is easier to monetise the absence of meaningful content in a video-talk than in text, and this probably explains why video talks are so popular. It is mostly just low effort, C-grade standup comedy that is not even funny, purporting to serve some moral cause. There are perhaps a handful of speakers in the world (for example, J. Peterson, S. Zizek) who have the capacity to use this medium non-parasitically, constructively, only because they have extraordinarily high verbal intelligence and virtually inexhaustible capacity for original thought that can be instantly accessed.
As I predicted, fake Nazis (using Nazi and white supremacist symbolism without commitment to the core principles of Nazi ideology) are used to attack proponents of actual Nazi ideology in a new guise (Aboriginal nativist supremacists) to create symbolic disassociation from the past and effectively re-brand Nazism for the general public. Clever marketing for discredited ideas. Nazi ideology always was an indigenous rights movement, and idolised indigeneity (racial ‘originality’) as a matter of principle, irrespective of race. https://t.iss.one/NormalParty/2928
The doctrine of subjectively determined gender identity, exemplified by the slogan "trans-women are women", discriminates against and invalidates the identity of those whose gender and gender expression are based on the innate sense of difference from the opposite sex. In essence, proponents of 'gender theory' are implicitly invalidating the gender identity of most people by insisting that males can be women and females can be men. https://michaelkowalik.substack.com/p/gender-identity-on-trial
There is a huge methodological problem with vaccine trials that affects even those that are saline controlled: failure to control for other vaccines received during the study period. Since many vaccines share the same ingredients, excipients and contaminants, receiving any other vaccine during the study period is a massive confounder, breaking the control. In short, no vaccine study ever was properly controlled. Also, no study compared longevity of vaccinated vs vaccine-free people.
https://substack.com/@amysukwan made a brilliant observation: “These movements [BLM etc] begin with a legitimate issue, i.e. overpolicing, the criminalization of everything, escalation of conflicts and the coverup of trigger happy officers causing unecessary deaths of people of all races. This is then subverted in a divide and conquer way: in the cases of both George Floyd and Michael Brown the reasons for the interaction and the death were shrouded in shades of grey. They could easily have chosen cases to highlight which much more clearly showed wrongful death, but that would get everybody on the same side.” We can apply the same logic to all major events since 2001, all were presented in shades of grey, having traces of conspiracy/coverup as well as evidence of a real crime, fake X but real Y, conflating elements of illusion and reality, motivating opposite camps to endlessly argue about the details, what was real, what was fake, what was intentional and what was accidental.
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I propose a new Acknowledgement of Original Owners ceremony, otherwise know as 'Welcome to Reality', that should be conducted before every public event, performance or community meeting:
We acknowledge the Original Owners of the Earth on which we are standing, the Human kind of which we are all representatives. We all share the same ancient ancestors. We are all related. Reason unites us.
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We acknowledge the Original Owners of the Earth on which we are standing, the Human kind of which we are all representatives. We all share the same ancient ancestors. We are all related. Reason unites us.
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