The old analogy of shouting “fire” “in a crowded theatre” no longer works. If you would do it nowadays, nobody would react, nobody would believe it, and nobody would care for your opinion. People now believe only those in power, which makes disinformation a one way street.

A new joke from the wild. What’s the difference between Covid-vaccinated person and a pharmaceutical company? The company has immunity.

‘There can be no private language’ is logically analogous to the impossibility of self-otherness, subjective-objectivity or monadic consciousness. The substance of thought, its meaning, is that which we have in common and can objectify for one another, which in turn makes subjectivity also meaningful as the possibility of signifying something other than ourselves, and thereby contextualising ourselves as a subject. The ‘world as we know it’ is already a language, an object-language that grounds all spoken languages.

Faces are the universal first language

The primary message in mass media and mass entertainment, especially current affair ‘talk-shows’, is the mannerism and facial expressions of the messenger, whereby the audience’s attitude with respect to specific information is unconsciously imprinted, thus evading any rational scrutiny. Faces and facial expressions are the universal first language, which in the context of mass media works like hypnosis.

When representatives of some ethnic group demand “self-determination” or “autonomy” for their ethnicity, they are in effect demanding to be able to discriminate against and oppress their own minorities. They call it tradition and culture.

Tradition is how the unconscious majority defends itself against critical introspection and rational thought.

I suggest that “self-determination” (of a nation, ethnicity, group) stands in opposition to “Self” (of a person) and also in opposition to humanity (as rational consciousness). It is a distinction based on the anxiety of the mostly unconscious majority and a means of defence against the revelatory trauma of rational thought, which would reveal any habitual, compulsive, insecure, anxiety-based group-identity as false (vis-a-vis the reflexive, personal Self).

Consensus is evidence of the beliefs of the majority. It is not evidence of what those beliefs are about.

I regard anxiety as an inconsistency of self-conception with respect to other beings of the same kind in the world as ‘we’ know it, which amounts to a non-integrated (fragmented) Self. I allow for the possibility that perfect integration is impossible unless everyone else is fully integrated, hence anxiety can only be diminished but never practically eliminated. We thus cannot become more integrated (and less anxious) without helping others to become more integrated. Only the unconscious is not anxious, but that which is unconscious is not us, and it does not matter.

The concept of political self-determination is logically inconsistent and immoral

Self-determination on the basis of the will of the majority is incompatible with self-determination of the minority (therefore inherently self-negating), and both are contrary to the moral law (which is not conditional on anyone’s political preferences).

Elon Musk wants to build a hyper fast passenger transport in a vacuum tunnel under the Atlantic ocean.
newsweek.com/elon-musk-…
Building an economically viable tunnel across the Atlantic is one thing. Making it straight enough so that passengers wont be exposed to mind-shattering lateral accelerations is another. Making it air tight enough for high-vacuum is another. Then having a solution for a situation when there is a power outage or any other technical fault that would leave passengers stranded in vacuum, under the ocean, is quite a challenge. It would be probably safer if Elon (or whomever he represents) just gave me the funds to do it right. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3799002

Joe Rogan is as cosy with the ruling power as conspiracy theories are part of the status quo.

Religions are neither clear nor consistent in explaining their foundational idea that “Man was created in the image of God”. What belongs to that image, and what does not belong to it? If humans are equally valuable because the image of God is the human Soul, and all humans have Soul, then the idea of Last Judgement of the Soul does not make sense, since all souls are identical to the image. On the other hand, if the degree of likeness to the image of God can vary, can be altered by our choices, which would be consistent with the idea of Judgment, then humans are not equal, not equally valuable, in which case it is imperative on religion to explain what properties belong to the image and what is excluded, and how different degrees of the image are expressed, or else they admit they do not know what they are preaching about. Whatever is asserted as a property of the image of God is implicitly asserted of God himself, which automatically disqualifies any inconsistencies between the two instances (of the same thing).

The irony of Black Aboriginal people being replaced by White Aboriginal supremacists waving the ‘blood and soil’ flag.

A great comment I came across, which I paraphrase: the use of force is a failure of government, contrary to its proper function (which is to generate socially acceptable, meaningful solutions to conflict).

Q: “What is your reason for refusing to be vaccinated?”
A: "What is your reason for refusing to donate your kidney?"
Q: "It is not mandated."
A: "What is your reason for refusal if it were mandated?"
Q: -

Q: "What is your reason for refusing to be vaccinated?"
A: "What is your reason for refusing to be stomped on your face by an authorised officer?"

BREAKING NEWS: The chief medical officer, after careful consideration of submissions from expert bodies, the human rights commission, legal counsel, religious groups, community leaders and other stakeholders, has determined that vaccination is not a medical procedure but a form of taxation (or seatbelts), and also that medical consent is no longer required for designated medical procedures of public interest;)

“Self-defence” is a justified response to a precautionary assault.

BREAKING NEWS: The crisis of excess lives is only going to get worse, according to experts. While the population size remains steady in the developed countries, the prospective population demand weighted for technological competence is rapidly decreasing, causing dangerous divergence between supply and demand, or what is technically defined as the surplus of toxic lives. The crisis is a direct risk to systemic stability and to democracy;)