Admitting a wrong on wrong premises and failing to admit the right premises is not a genuine admission, not in good faith, but a weasel attempt to consolidate and normalise the wrong. https://michaelkowalik.substack.com/p/why-vaccine-mandates-are-unethical

The author is lamenting that murderers of aboriginal women and children in ‘vulnerable aboriginal communities’ are not brought to justice (which is of course a fair complaint) but it is often the same sources who complain about “too many” Aboriginal people in jails. You cannot have it both ways. There are good reasons to suspect that BLM always was a clever anti-black operation, pretending to support black people but in fact seeking their demise, complaining about the rates of incarceration which pressures (or colludes with) the State to look away when Aboriginal people are murdered in their own communities at 10 times the national average. https://www.theguardian.com/news/article/2024/aug/15/how-many-first-nations-women-and-children-are-murdered-the-figures-are-shocking-and-yet-incomplete

One cannot be an ‘authentic’ communist unless one is a member of the proletariat, a blue collar worker, someone who generates material value that is susceptible to exploitation by the non-productive bourgeois. All academics, professionals, specialists are the bourgeois, the class exploiters of the proletariat, including those who identify as communists in order to facilitate this exploitation. The internal contradiction of communism is of course that it cannot be implemented without the administrative/managerial/commissar elite, which is still just the bourgeois.

The belief that ‘what’ the concept of the brain signifies (the object called “brain”) contains the concept of the brain that signifies itself, is logically circular and empty of meaning. We (conscious selves) conceive of the concept of the brain but this does not imply that its meaning is ‘in’ the brain. Concepts are not just information, but meaningful information. A computer can store complete design information about itself, but this does not make the computer meaningful to itself, let alone conscious. The ‘meaning’ of information is something extra that the information does not contain but must be ascribed from somewhere else.

In demanding to be regarded as a “woman”, Tickle discriminated against women whose gender identity is based on the biological/functional difference from the male sex. The court erred massively in this case on purely logical grounds. https://michaelkowalik.substack.com/p/gender-identity-on-trial

This was a while back, but still true. It took me many questions to finally get ChatGPT to admit it. Then it pretended to crash… or maybe it did crash.

All news are (provably) fake: every assertion of fact based on opinion, consensus or authority is either unproven or unprovable, therefore knowingly misrepresenting the lack of knowledge as knowledge. Our world is built on false claims, delusions, pretences, lies, and false claims of authority. It is a confidence trick by those who are ignorant but have the will to impose their narrative about reality on everyone else. A trick like this that can be reliably pulled off only by the dominant power, the culture of deception is therefore the dominant cult of empires, the cult of official lies, a form of epistemic ‘fashion’ imbued by the ruling class on the obtuse masses. Neither side possesses the truth.

The only reason abortion is economically viable and does not lead to lawsuits against the service providers is because the only person with legal standing in the matter is killed before they have the capacity to sue.

Edit: the situation will be different with embryonic gene editing, since those affected will be alive and able to sue if dissatisfied with the non-consensual tempering with their innate constitution.

Literal nonsense. 1) Sex and Gender are different but also “may” be different, which implies they may be the same, which implies same and not the same: contradiction. 2) Sex refers to characteristics that differentiate the sexes, but what are sexes? on the basis of WHAT do we differentiate between sexes and sexual characteristics? The concealed sense here is that sex is a binary reproductive function, and anything outside the sexual binary is a sexual dysfunction, which implies that intersex is not another sex, but just its dysfunction. The explanation by healthline is so transparently illogical that it could persuade only people which mental impairment of some sort and is possibly intended just for that purpose. Since the capacity to reason is an essential aspect of pro-social, meaningful, reflexive relations, the nonsense captures only social defectives. Perhaps the concept of “useless eater” should be redefine here to mean those who consume information and language but generate no meaning, no sense.

Israel and Ukraine are the currently promoted RealityTV series in the centuries old educational campaign about what happens to people consumed by ethno-nationalism. The series are not yet concluded so I wont speculate about the ending, but I am sure the producers of the show have a spectacular finale prepared for us and are no doubt already working on the next series: auditions are open now, globally. Weapons, funding and promotion will be offered on the basis of artistic merit.

Israel and Hamas agree to pause the daily mass murder of children to force all the remaining 640,000 Palestinian children to ingest a mystery substance, in a rare show of mutual trust, solidarity and common purpose.

Multiculturalism is a state in which every culture is literally oppressed, systemically discriminated against, because cultures are logically incompatible, their myths and dogmas are mutually exclusive, idiosyncratic, and all manifestations of their logical incompatibility feel like racism. The sense of discrimination is nevertheless a consequence of the dogmatic, oppressive nature of culture per se, which is not a position that can be reconciled through reason because it is not based on reason but on social coercion, indoctrination and radical exclusion of incompatibilities that cannot be suppressed. The more a particular culture engages in consistent reasoning the less ‘cultural’ it is and the more just a reasonable and logically sound thing to do, without the need for any overarching cultural identity or authority to collectively justify it.

Once a particular demographic is persuaded to transgress the moral law (under the guise of the good) they have two choices. The energetically easier, common choice is to become more radical and extreme in transgressing the moral law (still under the guise of the good), and thus accelerate the process of self-destruction and personal dis-integration. The more psychologically difficult choice is to accept that a moral transgression was committed, that one chose poorly, and no longer identify with any demographic, thus becoming an autonomous moral agent.

If differences in IQ determined the disparities in wealth and political representation of different ethnicities, then we should see people with the highest IQ being the richest and most powerful, and the IQ of individuals being strongly correlated with wealth and political power across all demographics. This is not the case. The pursuit of wealth and political power is a vulgar, hollow, pathological obsession, that does require some intelligence but is also unfulfilling in proportion to intelligence, which demands deeper meaning.

Trying to explain consciousness in terms of physical reality is putting the cart before the horse (begging the question). Consciousness is self-evident, it is the primary ‘reality’ of there being anything at all; the real mystery is the existence of the physical world, which can be explained only in terms of consciousness.

The concept of linear time is logically inconsistent. Reality as it once was has changed its meaning and is now not true even as the past; a new past replaced the old past that cannot be remembered or conceived of again, and yet it has made an unconscious mark on the structure of the world that now exists.

We can conceive of the past only from our present perspective, in terms of concepts and language that we possess now, but the nominally ‘same’ past was conceived of differently by the people of the past, it had different sense. If the objective reality is just a special category of meaning, ‘the world as we know it’, and that meaning changes for consciousness in our dimension of time, then reality itself changes over time in addition to the deterministic changes from cause to effect. The ‘world as we know it’ that was once experienced is different from ‘the world as we know it’ that we now conceive of as the past that was once experienced. The only link between the two is the continuity of consciousness. Here is the long version: https://philpapers.org/rec/KOWTT

What is the essential difference between women and men?