This is true (even a broken clock is sometimes right). Refusing to wear a mask is an issue of preserving the socially reflexive human relations. The face is the essence of personhood vis-a-vis one another, and personhood vis-a-vis one another is the essence of humanity. Face masks dehumanise. https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3840787
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It is not your job to convince anyone else that they are wrong; it is their own challenge to overcome falsity. The world is made only of the truth, not of falsity, and everything that stands for falsity will perish.
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Only when everything is permitted we will find out who we really are, to what levels of depravity we are willing to stoop, or rise above. The inhuman things we do dehumanise us, turning us into animals, and ultimately to stone.
Australians have not yet been humiliated enough to overcome their authoritarian dependency programming. The lessons of history have not been learned by the hopeful, rat-trained majority. I expect today’s election to be a step towards further humiliation, to more suffering. I have noticed this on the faces of people the day after each past election, it is a look of shame, and silent evasion of one another’s gaze, a tacit agreement not to talk about what they did yesterday. Today is a repetition of this 4-yearly ritual, which involves a metaphysical self-rape of the population. All forms of transcendence involve great suffering and more suffering is surely coming. Am I too pessimistic, cynical or a realist?
Why would a farm dog agree to participate in a ‘democratic’ system with the sheep?
If Morrison wins, this will be an endorsement of the recent abuses, lies, criminality. If Albanese wins, this will be an endorsement of a digital gulag-style, collectivised “prosperity”. The situation is Lose-Lose, because this is the binary mindset (actually, unary, they only disagree on the things that don’t really matter) of the Australian majority. So to all the people out there i care about, keep your sprits up, because for the next 4 years you will witness carnage, but this is apparently a necessary lesson. We must suffer through it for the sake of others who have not yet learned to let go of falsity.
I am looking forward to the next 4 years of government lies, economic devastation, abuse, humiliation and death. It will be so much easier to endure, knowing that most people are ok with it. The bonus is that I did not give up my sovereignty for collective representation, did not empower the authority of the state, so I will continue to be an independent observer of this ‘animal farm democracy’.
Let me clarify one point. The government does not represent you, they never have, they never could, they never will. Collective representation of conflicting views violates the law of non-contradiction and is therefore absurd, literal non-sense. They only tricked you to consent to be obediently ruled by them. And for this reason they don’t teach the laws of logic in schools.
“Tonight, the Australian people have voted for change.” (Anthony Albanese) I can’t believe he is already making threats. 😂
In the spirit of universal reconciliation, I expect Anthony Albanese to write our shared human ancestors into the Commonwealth Constitution as the Original Owners of the Earth. Our moral sovereignty was never ceded (apart from those who voted yesterday).
Yuval Noah Harari, the WEF ‘philosopher’ of the Great Reset, tells us that a new class of useless, powerless people will emerge due to technological progress. This would be trivially true (useless and powerless people always existed) unless his ‘prediction’ carried an implicit moral judgement: that ‘useless people’ have a lower moral status (intrinsically subhuman) than ‘useful people’ (human). We must therefore understand Harari’s message not as a statement of fact but as a moral manifesto, or more precisely, a statement of utilitarian anti-morality, which is not at all original: it is historically associated with fascism as the pseudo-morality that motivated its crimes against humanity. In the following article I explain why this utilitarian view is pseudo-moral and self-defeating. https://culturalanalysisnet.wordpress.com/2020/05/31/what-is-the-value-of-useless-people/
Cultural Analysis & Philosophy
What is the Value of ‘Useless People’?
George Barnard Shaw has famously suggested (possibly in jest) that every person ought to be brought before an impartial tribunal to justify their own existence. In his time, this view was not parti…
Utilitarians are useless eaters. Feminists are just clumps of cells. Another way, by devaluing the humanity of others we also, inescapably, devalue ourselves. #Détournement
Anyone who describes the evidence of organised crime as a ‘conspiracy theory’ should be regarded as a suspect.
No human being can lie so persistently and comprehensively as the “global leaders” at Davos, without already having disintegrated their humanity. They look human, they move like human, but there is nobody inside. These entities lack an integrated Self.
Over the years I heard cool people saying: Be in the Now, the Time is Now, stay in the present etc. as if this phenomenological commitment entailed some kind of spiritual transcendence. There was a time when I was partial to this view, which seemed so obviously correct. Today I can say that the NOW, the Present, is precisely the point in time that does not exist. It is empty of information, and therefore of meaning, because meaning requires information and information requires duration and context, both of which extend in time, beyond the Now. The meaning of every “moment” draws on our deepest past, and could not exist without it. The Now (as an ideal) is a lie, at best a mistake, but the totality of human relations is also elusive. We exist somewhere between the now and the eternity, but whereas we existentially depend on the eternity, the now is merely a conceptual abstraction allowing us to contextualise attention and focus, experience reality in digestible pieces that can be integrated into a meaningful whole only over time. The mystics of the Present misunderstood themselves; they took the present experience of the totality of being as the present itself (a category mistake). https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3735180
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Two-Dimensional Time
Philosophical views about the logical structure of time are typically divided between proponents of A and B theories, based on McTaggart's A and B series. Drawi
I hereby declare the 26 of May as the international day against flu-phobia, germophobia and corona-bigotry; the day of the year we all take a stand against discrimination against the fever, sneeze and cough diverse community. End all flu-like-discrimination now! No more hate, no more exclusion, no more apartheid.