Article (book review) by Marian Halcombe.
Excerpt:
Jacob Siegel’s central claim is not subtle and does not need to be. After 2016, America’s governing class concluded that democratic outcomes could no longer be trusted. Rather than persuade the electorate, it set out to manage it. Rather than defeat its opponents, it reclassified them as security threats. What followed was not a breakdown of institutions, but their smooth and enthusiastic repurposing.
Article by Gary D. Barnett.
He starts it off with a quote from Edward Bernays‘ 1928 book ‘Propaganda‘, in which he writes:
“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.“
(Bernays, by the way, was a nephew of Sigmund Freud.)
Then, in his own article, Barnett writes:
For most, it is a struggle to just get up and face the day, or at least that is the case for a majority of the population. Because of that, most choose to hide from reality in order to satisfy a dream-state, instead of facing the truth. It is as if the entirety of this population is in a mind-control experiment, and are being hypnotized to accept their own slavery as the best option. AI, if allowed to take over society, can accomplish that designed outcome, just as is sought by the oligarchs.
He ends his article with these words:
This reality is not accidental, it has been purposely created in order to capture the psyche of the majority. Something is greatly amiss here, as so many of this population have effectively given up on actual life in favor of a State-structured life based on fraudulent perception as a way of escaping what is real. This is terribly disturbing, as the last thing needed at this time is a country full of obedient zombies. This makes me wonder if the “Invasion of the Body Snatchers,” was simply a prescient preview of things to come.
“Is there any point in public debate in a society where hardly anyone has been taught how to think, while millions have been taught what to think?”
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Article by Chris Morrison, from The Daily Sceptic.
Article by Paul Homewood.
Jimmy Dore video here.
In a word, no.
Article by Kit Knightly.
Excerpts:
I’m sure it seems the height of egotism to quote myself perpetually, but I’m going to do it anyway:
“The Science” is a self-sustaining industry of academics who need jobs and owe favours.
An ongoing quid pro quo relationship between the researchers – who want honors and knighthoods and tenure and book deals and research grants and to be the popular talking head explaining complex ideas to the multitudes on television – and the corporations, governments and “charitable foundations” who have all of those things in their gift.
This system doesn’t produce research intended to be read, it creates headlines for celebrities to tweet, links for “journalists” to embed, sources for other researchers to cite.
An illusion of solid substantiation that comes apart the moment you actually read the words, examine the methodology or analyse the data.
Self-reporting surveys, manipulated data, “modelling studies” that spit-out pre-ordained results. Affiliated-authors paid by the state or corporate interests to provide “evidence” that supports highly profitable or politically convenient assumptions.
…Interlacing layers of nothing designed to create the impression of something.
This pro-mask “study” is why you should NEVER “Trust the Science”
So, is the claim true? It doesn’t matter. That is entirely beside the point. The paper has already done its job by generating headlines like this, [. . .]
This study is just a single tile in mosaic of bullshit. It helps create an image and sell a story.
In this case, the hope is that enough dodgy studies in conflict with observable reality will override people’s awareness that their energy bills are getting bigger and their bank balances smaller.
Good luck with that.
BBC interview (7 minutes) from 1979 on Youtube.
Article by Sebastian Wang.
Excerpts:
It is a strange age when ugliness is redefined as inclusion. When Canterbury Cathedral — seat of St Augustine, cradle of English Christianity, a place where kings once trembled before God — is reduced to a billboard for discontent and self-pity, one begins to understand how deep the spiritual rot now runs.
The true scandal is not the graffiti itself but the fact that the clergy are proud of it.
It is not a church but a performance venue with a cross on the roof.
When the Church chooses ugliness, she teaches a lie about herself and about God.
Article by Christopher Chantill.
Quotes:
It looks like our liberal friends wanted to use the firing of Jimmy Kimmel as a narrative to neuter the Charlie Kirk assassination. That was then. But now, after the speech by Charlie’s widow, Erika Kirk, who cares?
[. . .]
Twenty years ago, Lukacs wrote that the Modern Age at its height was the Age of the Bourgeois, for its minds and creators were mostly of bourgeois origins and status that replaced the nobles of the Middle Ages.
I say that the new age will be an age of the ordinary. The future will belong to energetic youngsters like the TPUSAers we saw and heard at the Charlie Kirk memorial. And his widow, Erika Kirk.
It’s okay, NYTimesies. We forgive you.