My interests remain to the 1957 world I was born into. Adult world. Adult books. Adult conversations. Juvenilia replaced the adult world. Forever young.
From what you have said, you were born to older ( than typical) parents.
I thought that that was my condition, but you exceed that.
I thought that is why people have found me to be old-fashioned.
Slow breeders in my family, my mother's parents were old when she was born and I was old when my son was born. There was a special word for it written on his plunket "Well Child" book. No, not geriatric but something like that. LOL.
Adults do not adult. They remain teens playing adult. Responsibility for their City is demanding more time best used recreationally. In turn our elected leaders also refuse.
A reading index of daily papers probably is 11th grade for Wall Street Journal and 9th grade New York Times. Our local paper is likely 8th grade. About 15 years ago NATO changed the English language manuals for NATO from College Freshman English to high school level, Freshman.
Reading for leisure need not be a mass activity. Arguably though ditching the Bible reading at home in favor of the Caribbean cop show, Trouble in Paradise did not help the West.
Dawson critiques the strict materialism of the sociology, anthropology and history of his day which, he argues, tended to regard religion as ‘essentially a negative force’.
Dawson’s central concern was to articulate the centrality and dynamism of religion for all cultures, but particularly for European culture. He was a member of a group of writers that staffed Catholic publishers Sheed and Ward. During the 1930s he edited and contributed to their publication series entitled Essays in Order. During this time he continued with his own writing, notably The Making of Europe (1932), in which he argued the currently accepted but previously unique thesis that the so-called dark ages were in fact the most creative period in the culture of the Western world. His other publications during this period include Christianity and the New Age (1931), Medieval Religion and Other Essays (1934), as well as more personal social and political reflections, such as Religion and the Modern State (1936) and Beyond Politics (1939).
That this continues among very educated and quite prosperous people working in "Medicine" alarms me the greatest. And this despite my intense absence of co-operation and cheerful willingness to harass and mock all medical employees.
Maybe if we'd hastily taken the clotshot our outlook would be different. There's no reverse gear for them, and plenty of support to stop them making a "U" turn.
I dunno. I am really too polite to enquire about regrets. If I bring injections up with injected at best no one believes even with Covid. Now I watch and wait.
Why won't it go away? Is totalitarianism searching for their friends who invited them? Totalitarianism has no other home but the Western world probably but is too shy to say it has no other place to go except the present. Are we obligated therefore to show Hospitality? In my little world looking looking looking backwards to my mother's 1918 September birth I feel my age is hers and my father born in same time frame also. Irony that their first 40 years is the epoch that fascinates me the most. That which came after in the 60's to today has limited fascination. This said I do not deny my mileu has tremendous influence on my mullings and yet, oddly due to being very familiar -- even Covid stupidity is familiar since all fraud-I prefer adults,
Industrialism built this world. Conglomerates own industry. To make life work we work. Our work betrays us. Once portions of the West also valued freedom. Now the West leads the charge to trash it.
I know this will return to SF Symbolism. No mask does any good. Was COVID authoritarianism a practice run for something far worse?
By Andrea Widburg
We’ve learned over the last 20 months that, if a government can cause people to panic, people will readily forgo all their freedoms in return for a promise that the government will keep them safe. One man has decided that the COVID panic is a successful trial run for future tyranny based upon the allegedly existential threat of climate change.
John Hinderaker, at Power Line, came across an article from Cambridge University Press entitled “Political Legitimacy, Authoritarianism, and Climate Change.” The author, one Ross Mittiga III, is a Ph.D. in Poly Sci who ran unsuccessfully as the 2017 Democrat party candidate for a seat in the Virginia House of Delegates. According to a quotation on BallotPedia, his campaign focused on climate change:
As someone who has dedicated his career to studying the politics and ethics of climate change, no issue is more important to me—or central to this campaign—than the need for robust environmental protection and climate action.
Mittiga is a true believer and he believes in the “whatever it takes” approach to stopping the climate from doing what it does naturally. In the article’s summary, we get Mittiga mournfully concluding that “contemporary political theory literature” would answer “no” to the question “Is authoritarian power ever legitimate?” That, however, does not stop the panicked and intrepid Mittiga,
I argue, however, that there exists another, overlooked aspect of legitimacy concerning a government’s ability to ensure safety and security. While, under normal conditions, maintaining democracy and rights is typically compatible with guaranteeing safety, in emergency situations, conflicts between these two aspects of legitimacy can and often do arise.
And how did Mittiga come to this conclusion that, if a government promises its citizens safety in an emergency, it can do away indefinitely with civil rights and individual liberty? Why, COVID—what else?
A salient example of this is the COVID-19 pandemic, during which severe limitations on free movement and association have become legitimate techniques of government.
Mittiga is unmoved by the fact that it’s becoming increasingly clear that those “severe limitations on free movement and association” did nothing to slow COVID’s spread. He would dismiss claims that, by making the population less healthy, COVID authoritarianism probably increased the number of unnecessary deaths, whether from COVID itself, or from untreated diseases (cancer, heart disease, etc.), suicides, and overdoses. What matters is power.
Mittiga’s contention that “[c]limate change poses an even graver threat to public safety,” means there’s really one way to deal with it: “legitimacy may require a similarly authoritarian approach.” It’s irrelevant to the true believer that climate change is natural and that anthropogenic climate change is illusory.
This is a man who panics when he sees, “Hottest temperature ever” in some place or another without understanding that we have temperature records that go back only 150 years or so. We have no idea what the “hottest temperature ever” is. He’s also unclear on the fact that, as Christopher Monckton explained, the math behind “global warming” is completely wrong.
Still, Mittiga isn’t the only deluded fanatic when it comes to climate change. All Democrats believe in the fiery Armageddon of coming climate change and will do anything to stop it. If that means selling their children into permanent government bondage, they’ll do it. What’s to be hoped, though, is that the disaster that is the Biden administration will cause people to question their allegiance to the Democrat party and to start getting red-pilled hard and fast.
Put another way, at this point, our only hope that leftists will not be able to induce panic leading to climate authoritarianism is to think of Lincoln’s famous saying: “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.”
So far, with that “two weeks to flatten the curve” lie, leftists fooled all the people some of the time. In the 20 months after that, they fooled some of the people all the time. That would be the leftists who are turning into human pincushions as they beg for boosters and have whipped out their masks again to protect against a cold.
It remains to be seen whether they can go to the panic well again or if, like the boy who cried wolf, leftists will discover that they’ve finally reached the point at which too few people are willing to be fooled.
For some time, I’ve been looking for a good post in which to use this video about mass psychosis. Given the plan to use climate change to create complete and permanent tyranny in America, this post seems to be as good as any for that purpose:
Well, we have farmers in Holland and NZ ( probably others that I don't know about), being forced off their land - to save the planet. Is that totalitarian tyranny or what!
Just skiting, but the "two weeks to flatten the curve" didn't fool me.
We didn't even have any Covid cases so that made it super easy to know it was a con. That it was lockstep with other *Western* countries made me realise that it was a really big con.
My comment a little time ago seems silly now in that I was talking about the desire for safety, and now that I read this Widburg comment it will seem like I was copying.
I'm not saying that anything that I say is original, more that my little brain dredged it up afresh for me.
Like I internalised it from somewhere so now I am not just parroting it but have made it my own.
This can take a while - between my reading something and making it my own.
Universally the over-determination is self evident. Food control is a cornerstone of every human tyranny. We are in our multiple locations fully Globalist. Once only nationalist-200 years ago. Food imports to say UK in 1820 vs. now.
Share your impatience. It is always about the people who have taken advantage of this engineered crisis to impose fascism. Even if there was or is a virus bogeymen that is hardly the issue. The prison planet.
"In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." I like this quote too Allan.
Means that I will need to up my learning, and I will do better than those resting on their old laurels.
My interests remain to the 1957 world I was born into. Adult world. Adult books. Adult conversations. Juvenilia replaced the adult world. Forever young.
From what you have said, you were born to older ( than typical) parents.
I thought that that was my condition, but you exceed that.
I thought that is why people have found me to be old-fashioned.
Slow breeders in my family, my mother's parents were old when she was born and I was old when my son was born. There was a special word for it written on his plunket "Well Child" book. No, not geriatric but something like that. LOL.
My parents met 5 years before they planned me. In 1957 my mother 39 and father 42. Only child.
Here's a none of my business comment.
Maybe having older parents makes one likely to have an older spouse.
( Mine is older also.)
Like as if the world has moved too fast.
O it has. First text message sent 30 years ago today.
Maybe true in broad sense "Elective Affinities."
Still a bit obscure for me.
If I am your plodding Watson to your agile Holmes.
It's the line 'Juvenilia replaced the adult world." that confounds me.
Adults do not adult. They remain teens playing adult. Responsibility for their City is demanding more time best used recreationally. In turn our elected leaders also refuse.
A reading index of daily papers probably is 11th grade for Wall Street Journal and 9th grade New York Times. Our local paper is likely 8th grade. About 15 years ago NATO changed the English language manuals for NATO from College Freshman English to high school level, Freshman.
Do people still need to read.
Plenty of videos.
Reading for leisure need not be a mass activity. Arguably though ditching the Bible reading at home in favor of the Caribbean cop show, Trouble in Paradise did not help the West.
LOL
https://www.giffordlectures.org/lecturers/christopher-henry-dawson
Dawson critiques the strict materialism of the sociology, anthropology and history of his day which, he argues, tended to regard religion as ‘essentially a negative force’.
Dawson’s central concern was to articulate the centrality and dynamism of religion for all cultures, but particularly for European culture. He was a member of a group of writers that staffed Catholic publishers Sheed and Ward. During the 1930s he edited and contributed to their publication series entitled Essays in Order. During this time he continued with his own writing, notably The Making of Europe (1932), in which he argued the currently accepted but previously unique thesis that the so-called dark ages were in fact the most creative period in the culture of the Western world. His other publications during this period include Christianity and the New Age (1931), Medieval Religion and Other Essays (1934), as well as more personal social and political reflections, such as Religion and the Modern State (1936) and Beyond Politics (1939).
He was a reader too. A lingshore worker. A writer. A philosopher. And a San Francisco resident.
That this continues among very educated and quite prosperous people working in "Medicine" alarms me the greatest. And this despite my intense absence of co-operation and cheerful willingness to harass and mock all medical employees.
Maybe if we'd hastily taken the clotshot our outlook would be different. There's no reverse gear for them, and plenty of support to stop them making a "U" turn.
I dunno. I am really too polite to enquire about regrets. If I bring injections up with injected at best no one believes even with Covid. Now I watch and wait.
Why won't it go away? Is totalitarianism searching for their friends who invited them? Totalitarianism has no other home but the Western world probably but is too shy to say it has no other place to go except the present. Are we obligated therefore to show Hospitality? In my little world looking looking looking backwards to my mother's 1918 September birth I feel my age is hers and my father born in same time frame also. Irony that their first 40 years is the epoch that fascinates me the most. That which came after in the 60's to today has limited fascination. This said I do not deny my mileu has tremendous influence on my mullings and yet, oddly due to being very familiar -- even Covid stupidity is familiar since all fraud-I prefer adults,
Do you think totalitarianism suits the West because of the technology infrastructure or the sheep mindset or something else.
People do want the government to keep them safe and maybe that's not an expectation in poorer countries. That keeping safe = surveillance state.
Industrialism built this world. Conglomerates own industry. To make life work we work. Our work betrays us. Once portions of the West also valued freedom. Now the West leads the charge to trash it.
That's really pertinent. I hope that thought sinks in to my brain. About the conglomerates owning industry.
Now anal swab is talking about fourth industrial revolution.
You have obviously been paying attention.
Maybe life in Fiji is the way to go.
Be a Gauguin. LOL ( You will probably tell me that Gauguin was a pedo. LOL again.)
I like Gauguin quite a bit. SF is my exile. When I moved here I had sky high hopes. Still do but no longer for the killer apartment and cheap rent.
I know that Gauguin was probably Tahiti, but I have been to Fiji.
I have been to SF a couple of times. Smaller than I had imagined.
Was just a tourist, looking for the flower children thirty years too late, and getting smog bound.
Not sure what last few lines means.
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/los-angeles-county-mask-mandate-return-covid-cases/story?id=94342911
I know this will return to SF Symbolism. No mask does any good. Was COVID authoritarianism a practice run for something far worse?
By Andrea Widburg
We’ve learned over the last 20 months that, if a government can cause people to panic, people will readily forgo all their freedoms in return for a promise that the government will keep them safe. One man has decided that the COVID panic is a successful trial run for future tyranny based upon the allegedly existential threat of climate change.
John Hinderaker, at Power Line, came across an article from Cambridge University Press entitled “Political Legitimacy, Authoritarianism, and Climate Change.” The author, one Ross Mittiga III, is a Ph.D. in Poly Sci who ran unsuccessfully as the 2017 Democrat party candidate for a seat in the Virginia House of Delegates. According to a quotation on BallotPedia, his campaign focused on climate change:
As someone who has dedicated his career to studying the politics and ethics of climate change, no issue is more important to me—or central to this campaign—than the need for robust environmental protection and climate action.
Mittiga is a true believer and he believes in the “whatever it takes” approach to stopping the climate from doing what it does naturally. In the article’s summary, we get Mittiga mournfully concluding that “contemporary political theory literature” would answer “no” to the question “Is authoritarian power ever legitimate?” That, however, does not stop the panicked and intrepid Mittiga,
I argue, however, that there exists another, overlooked aspect of legitimacy concerning a government’s ability to ensure safety and security. While, under normal conditions, maintaining democracy and rights is typically compatible with guaranteeing safety, in emergency situations, conflicts between these two aspects of legitimacy can and often do arise.
And how did Mittiga come to this conclusion that, if a government promises its citizens safety in an emergency, it can do away indefinitely with civil rights and individual liberty? Why, COVID—what else?
A salient example of this is the COVID-19 pandemic, during which severe limitations on free movement and association have become legitimate techniques of government.
Mittiga is unmoved by the fact that it’s becoming increasingly clear that those “severe limitations on free movement and association” did nothing to slow COVID’s spread. He would dismiss claims that, by making the population less healthy, COVID authoritarianism probably increased the number of unnecessary deaths, whether from COVID itself, or from untreated diseases (cancer, heart disease, etc.), suicides, and overdoses. What matters is power.
Mittiga’s contention that “[c]limate change poses an even graver threat to public safety,” means there’s really one way to deal with it: “legitimacy may require a similarly authoritarian approach.” It’s irrelevant to the true believer that climate change is natural and that anthropogenic climate change is illusory.
This is a man who panics when he sees, “Hottest temperature ever” in some place or another without understanding that we have temperature records that go back only 150 years or so. We have no idea what the “hottest temperature ever” is. He’s also unclear on the fact that, as Christopher Monckton explained, the math behind “global warming” is completely wrong.
Still, Mittiga isn’t the only deluded fanatic when it comes to climate change. All Democrats believe in the fiery Armageddon of coming climate change and will do anything to stop it. If that means selling their children into permanent government bondage, they’ll do it. What’s to be hoped, though, is that the disaster that is the Biden administration will cause people to question their allegiance to the Democrat party and to start getting red-pilled hard and fast.
Put another way, at this point, our only hope that leftists will not be able to induce panic leading to climate authoritarianism is to think of Lincoln’s famous saying: “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.”
So far, with that “two weeks to flatten the curve” lie, leftists fooled all the people some of the time. In the 20 months after that, they fooled some of the people all the time. That would be the leftists who are turning into human pincushions as they beg for boosters and have whipped out their masks again to protect against a cold.
It remains to be seen whether they can go to the panic well again or if, like the boy who cried wolf, leftists will discover that they’ve finally reached the point at which too few people are willing to be fooled.
For some time, I’ve been looking for a good post in which to use this video about mass psychosis. Given the plan to use climate change to create complete and permanent tyranny in America, this post seems to be as good as any for that purpose:
Well, we have farmers in Holland and NZ ( probably others that I don't know about), being forced off their land - to save the planet. Is that totalitarian tyranny or what!
Just skiting, but the "two weeks to flatten the curve" didn't fool me.
We didn't even have any Covid cases so that made it super easy to know it was a con. That it was lockstep with other *Western* countries made me realise that it was a really big con.
My comment a little time ago seems silly now in that I was talking about the desire for safety, and now that I read this Widburg comment it will seem like I was copying.
I'm not saying that anything that I say is original, more that my little brain dredged it up afresh for me.
Like I internalised it from somewhere so now I am not just parroting it but have made it my own.
This can take a while - between my reading something and making it my own.
Universally the over-determination is self evident. Food control is a cornerstone of every human tyranny. We are in our multiple locations fully Globalist. Once only nationalist-200 years ago. Food imports to say UK in 1820 vs. now.
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What does your last sentence mean.
Sorry to ask but I am trying to follow your reasoning.
Share your impatience. It is always about the people who have taken advantage of this engineered crisis to impose fascism. Even if there was or is a virus bogeymen that is hardly the issue. The prison planet.
"I write, speak my mind, invite conversation, toy with applied philosophy to uncover human relationships and read Literature to uncover philosophy."
Are you sure that you are not Eric Hoffer, he sounds like in describing himself he is describing you. :)
"In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." I like this quote too Allan.
Means that I will need to up my learning, and I will do better than those resting on their old laurels.