The Post-Partisan Emporium

Once again, we have been targeted by the gang of Pharma Droogs who have no respect for freedom.  Several articles have been removed thanks to the actions of these petty despots.  This is one of those articles... The Vaccine Moment, part one On the days of revelation Paul Kingsnorth Perhaps it’s because I’m English, or perhaps it’s my age, or perhaps it’s just blind prejudice, but when I wake to the news that the Austrian government has interned an entire third of its national population as a ‘danger to public health’, a chill runs down my spine.  Austria , I think to myself.  Ah . I look at the news photos of armed, masked, black-clad police stopping people in the streets to ask for their digital papers, and I read stories of others arrested for leaving their own house more than the permitted once a day, and I hear Austrian politicians intoning that those who refuse to accede to the injection are to be shunned and scapegoated until they ...

Music for the Solstice

Where Do You Stand? James Howard Kunstler The public health bureaucrat who styles himself as “the Science” is at it again. In his quest to eliminate the  control group  for his experiment in hazardous mRNA injections, Dr. Anthony Fauci reiterated his warning that the nation faces “a crisis of the unvaccinated.” Omicron is upon us, he told a US Chamber of Commerce meet-up this week, and the hospitals will soon be overwhelmed by the unvaxxed. Oh really? In fact, the gravest threat to America’s public health is… Dr. Tony Fauci and his debauchery of medical science. This will surely come as a surprise to readers of  The New York Times , who see in the two-year (so far) Covid-19 event a splendid opportunity to hasten the destruction of the US economy and our culture in order to consolidate their own power to coerce and control the population. Clear the offices! Shut down the social spaces! Make ordinary business as difficult as possible! Cancel Christmas! That’ll git’er done! ...

"the kids are not alright" yeah, no kidding. so maybe stop tormenting and alienating them and let them have their lives back el gato malo the social pressures and strictures brought to bear around covid have been surreal. they have fallen hardest upon the children. we uprooted their lives, masked and muzzled them all day, prevented basic non-verbal communication, impeded learning, closed their schools, ended their activities, broke up their social networks, and ground their lives to halt. this alone would have been more than many could bear. but on top of that, we piled guilt, recrimination, and stigma atop it. we made the kids out to be careless killers of grandma and rendered becoming ill with a respiratory virus a grievous moral failing. we have done staggering emotional damage to them and it’s really starting to show. Dr Jessica Hasson, PhD @DrHasson2 Almost 20% of Maryland’s youth contemplated suicide last year. The kids are not ok. https://t.co/mShnHM5z4o Before It...

Parasocial Dunbar Hacking The Information Wars Part VIII Mathew Crawford " We can't have moral obligations to every single person in this world. We have moral obligations to those who we come up against, who enter into our moral space, so to speak. That means neighbors, people we deal with, and so on ." -Alexander McCall Smith Dunbar's number  is a theoretical limit, often quoted as 150, of the number of meaningful relationships humans can manage in our large-ish primate brains (or neocortices). The idea originated with Professor  Robin Dunbar  and is consistent both with observed prehistoric tribal sizes and a progression of primate group sizes among primates. We might find pygmy marmosets, with among the smallest of primate brains, hanging out in troops of just 4 to 15. Adorable little troops. Maxim Bilovitskiy, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons About a decade ago I stepped away from my office for a meditative...