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Supporting the Current Thing: COVID Mania adherents embrace the Ukraine narrative New poll finds that the more mRNA injections you take, the more likely you are to unquestionably endorse the government's Ukraine narrative. Jordan Schachtel I wanted to turn your attention to a fascinating poll that came out the other day. The Toronto Star hired a polling agency to survey Canadians about their views about the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. What made this poll unique is that it separated the sides to three separate groups: the triple vaccinated, the double vaxxed, and the unvaccinated. Now, it’s one thing to have taken two COVID injections, but those who committed to the repeated booster regime were either compelled to do so (frequently under duress) or became true believers to the COVID narrative. As the polling shows, this group, by and large, submits to authority figures and embraces the current narrative, regardless of the actual merits of the solutions. The other group — and remembe...

Be or Not To Be, Influenced? Notes on our influential nomad artists dying for attention. Good Citizen She died young, but doing what she loved: extracting others’ attention through digital performances. There is no mystery greater than this: Being in reality we seek to gain reality. We think there is something hiding our reality and it must be destroyed before the reality is gained. A day will dawn when you will laugh at your past efforts, that which will be on the day you laugh is also here and now.  - Ramana Maharshi All around us the world is changing quickly. Historically, fast changes like we’re witnessing have resulted in profound shifts in art and culture, new questions about how we live and why, and even existential contemplations about wrong timelines and a nostalgia for the not so distant past. Yet nobody likes to revisit the past and sulk in regret, and people yearn for the positive and optimistic pieces of information that may help guide their choices for the future. Am...