The Post-Partisan Emporium

Facemasks Are Not an 'Inconvenience', Facemasks Are Not Trivial: A List of Some of the Underappreciated and Hard-to-Articulate Reasons Forced Masking is so Distressing Being difficult to articulate does not make the harms and suffering inflicted by facemasks any less real, but does make them more distressing Ashmedai “Experience has shown that communities faced with epidemics or other adverse events respond best and with the least anxiety when the normal social functioning of the community is least disrupted” - DA Henderson, Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza, 2006 One of the most trenchant arguments made by proponents of forced masking is some variation of “it’s just an inconvenience”, so/and/or “why do you have to make such a big deal about it”. (To be clear, this is not a legitimate scientific or factual argument for the adoption of any policy, but that is not what this article is about.) I am largely going to avoid the issues unique to masking ...

The Reality They Invent to Feed the Power They Crave BY  THOMAS HARRINGTON     The early 20 th  century Catalan philosopher and nationalist activist, Eugeni d’Ors was renowned for his aphorisms. The most oft-repeated of these concerned the thinker’s need to raise “the anecdote to a category.” Ors was a humanist, and this being the case, his intellectual  modus operandi  was essentially accretional and synthesis-based in nature.  When we write as humanists, we select from the inventory of verbal metaphors we have acquired in the course of our lives to tell a story that we believe will enlighten and will capture the attention of our readers. In providing them with this carefully arranged series of “charged” anecdotes we trust that we are, in some way, facilitating their own ability to forge a broader and more categorical understanding of the concept or phenomenon under discussion.  Stripped of the self-indulgent dramatism he always brought to his li...

Thanks to sabateur / sabelmouse for recommending this article... Beating The System Posted by  flyer It is said that: “you can’t beat the system” but I think – bearing in mind that I was trained in systems analysis – that it is entirely possible to beat a system if you can just understand the system that needs to be beaten. Let’s have a look at which systems we may wish to beat and why. This will come as no surprise to many of you. Today our freedoms are rapidly being taken away by systems that have been put in place supposedly to fight a virus but it is becoming increasingly apparent that these will become permanent. We know that masks can’t stop a virus, yet the government forces us to wear them, probably just to demoralise us and as a means of control. The PCR tests used to test for the Covid virus was never meant for this purpose but it has been used to cause mass panic and create outbreaks at will by our politicians and bureaucrats. It has been proven that the covid vaccines d...