If the government tells you to kill for the greater good, and you do it, it is no excuse that you should be able to trust them. If the government tells you to give up the right to free medical consent of your children and future generations, and you do it because you trusted them, then you are not a conscious moral being but an obedient dog, without integrity, and you deserve to be treated accordingly.
Nobody deceived us about taking away the right to free medical consent; everyone knew that a medical mandate removes the freedom of consent, and most acquiesced to this deal. The deal is done, it was cheap, and it will cost 1000 times more to earn back their moral status.
Nobody deceived us about taking away the right to free medical consent; everyone knew that a medical mandate removes the freedom of consent, and most acquiesced to this deal. The deal is done, it was cheap, and it will cost 1000 times more to earn back their moral status.
Forwarded from Normal (Michael Kowalik)
The following interview from 1958 may hold the key to decoding the current political events in the world. Do you understand? https://youtu.be/3lb7J3_8nas?t=1148
“We [the USA] should always be closer to China and Russia then they are to each other.”
Are they closer to Russia than to Ukraine?
“We are trying to achieve the conversion of the [global] society to a different view, which is of course desirable, but if this is the main exercise of your diplomacy you lose contact with other realities and you have no great criteria by which to apply it…”
Ideological conversion by indirect means.
Henry Kissinger (BBC July 2022) https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct43bl
Are they closer to Russia than to Ukraine?
“We are trying to achieve the conversion of the [global] society to a different view, which is of course desirable, but if this is the main exercise of your diplomacy you lose contact with other realities and you have no great criteria by which to apply it…”
Ideological conversion by indirect means.
Henry Kissinger (BBC July 2022) https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct43bl
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The Documentary - Kissinger - BBC Sounds
Henry Kissinger reflects on his life and experiences.
When a cunning ruler wants to exterminate a particular minority, he will not just send a death squad after them; this would be unpopular, shocking, visibly incriminating. A cunning ruler will shower the target minority with gifts and privilleges extracted at the expense of the majority, he will justify their transgressions and punish the majority for complaining, he will convince the minority that they are special, oppressed by the majority, and ennoscriptd to assume ideological leadership, assert their power under the State’s protection. As the public resentment and the sense of injustice intensify, as the secret hatred brews in the hearts of the unjustly treated majority, the ruler will suddenly remove his protection, punish a scapegoat ‘responsible’ for the unjust policy, and soon his problem will fix itself while the ruler looks away.
Forwarded from Normal (Michael Kowalik)
I think the above post, in the form of a sticker, or a million stickers affixed in public places, but only where it would be legal to do so, could serve as a simple but effective vaccine-ethics information campaign (a moral “red pill”) for the general public. How could a project like this be realised on a large scale? Is it a good idea?
Forwarded from Normal (Michael Kowalik)
Another way to print waterproof, high-quality stickers, if you already have a laser printer. Buy ‘Printable Vinyl Sticker Paper | A4 – 50 Premium Matte White Vinyl Self Adhesive Sheets – Waterproof Label Stickers – Inkjet & Laser Printer’. Print a batch on a single sheet, then cut with scissors.
Reinvigorating the sticker project could be an effective way to reach people who otherwise remain isolated inside their propaganda dominated echo chambers on the social media. Sticker-bombing mainstream social media discussions on the mind-control platforms (Faceboot, Twitter, Reddit) could also be fun, if you don’t mind the risk of getting suspended.
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Sticker Project. Search the channel for “sticker” for ‘how to use’ ideas.
Forwarded from Normal Chat
Somewhere between a complete surrender to the forces of history, which negates our capacity to guide its course, and the desire to save everyone from the consequence of their bad moral choices, which negates their moral agency, there lies the path of responsible action.
Forwarded from Normal Chat
A worthwhile distinction to draw in relation to the problem of induction is between deterministic physical systems (‘apples always fall to the ground when dropped, because gravity’) vs non-deterministic conscious agency (the farmer was always kind to us sheep, gave us unlimited free food and medical care, so he would never kill us). The concept of trust relates to the latter, but it does not make sense to say that we ‘trust gravity’. Moreover, trust is irrelevant for moral consciousness, because we are responsible only for our actions, not for the betrayals by others. A good example here may be when person X trusts person Y to do what they promise. If the promise is broken then X is not morally liable, but if X relies on the trust in Y to give a guarantee to Z, then X already betrays Z because trust is not a guarantee. The mere possibility of betrayal by Y precludes X from legitimately expecting others to trust Y (trust is not a transitive property), let alone enforce anything on others on the basis of one’s trust. This is doubly problematic if X has the duty of care to Z.
One vote one person is not Democracy; the freedom from undue political influence by organised interest groups, from social coercion and mass deception, where respectful public deliberation is the primary means of reaching agreement, and voting is there only to certify the state of agreement and not used as a substitute for it, is democracy. Disagreement, bad faith, coercion, or deception cannot be meaningfully re-presented. The system we live in is not democracy.
Individuals form groups, in good faith, to serve the interest of the individual; it would be absurd to form a group to serve the group, akin to idolatry ‘for its own sake’. Therefore, all forms of collectivism are false, and beneath their absurdity hides bad faith of the few.