What are moral arguments good for anyway? They change the world.
Remember that the British Empire was not established on overtly economic, exploitative rationale but gained the necessary support only once it was presented as a moral imperative. British expansionism and colonialism did not have much support among the English aristocracy, many of whom preferred “Little England” and saw imperialism with distrust, until Oxford professor John Ruskin, in 1870, “told them that they were the possessors of a magnificent tradition of education, beauty, rule of law, freedom, decency, and self-discipline but that this tradition could not be saved, and did not deserve to be saved, unless it could be extended to the lower classes in England itself and to the non-English masses throughout the world.” The British Empire thus became a moral duty owed not only to England but to the whole world. If this lesson of history still applies today, then issues such as vaccine mandates, mask mandates, and many other social, political and cultural aberrations will not be defeated on the basis of science, law or utility, but on the basis of awakened moral conscience.
Remember that the British Empire was not established on overtly economic, exploitative rationale but gained the necessary support only once it was presented as a moral imperative. British expansionism and colonialism did not have much support among the English aristocracy, many of whom preferred “Little England” and saw imperialism with distrust, until Oxford professor John Ruskin, in 1870, “told them that they were the possessors of a magnificent tradition of education, beauty, rule of law, freedom, decency, and self-discipline but that this tradition could not be saved, and did not deserve to be saved, unless it could be extended to the lower classes in England itself and to the non-English masses throughout the world.” The British Empire thus became a moral duty owed not only to England but to the whole world. If this lesson of history still applies today, then issues such as vaccine mandates, mask mandates, and many other social, political and cultural aberrations will not be defeated on the basis of science, law or utility, but on the basis of awakened moral conscience.
How to covertly insult ignorant people with compliments in order to facilitate moral improvement.
I have a fun exercise for you.
Step 1: Read this article and memorise the basic techniques used to manipulate you emotionally by professional writers. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-blame-game/202012/the-psychology-successful-copywriting
Step 2: Open your favourite tabloid newspaper/website and carefully identify all instances of the above techniques being used to emotionally manipulate and cause a specific reaction in the audience (most books, magazines, government policies, speeches, websites, will be using some of these tools).
Step 3: Check your Inbox and social media notifications. Did any of your work colleagues or acquaintances share a news or magazine article in order to virtue-signal or just because “it is interesting”? Great. Now analyse the shared article as in Step 2: make a list of points how specific psychological techniques were used to achieve a specific reaction. Write back to the sender, be friendly and intimate but natural, not contrived, because now you know how much you two have in common: compliment them on how brilliantly they chose this article to illustrate its manipulative force (they didn’t, but this is the point of the exercise), and how cleverly they presented it to you:) So smart! No mater how they respond, even if they try to correct the misunderstanding, you will not stumble. They are surely just demonstrating their mastery of psychology, making a big joke of it, how funny, so brilliant!
Be creative in exploring new contexts where you can use your new secret knowledge. Humbly impress.
So why should you insult ignorant people with compliments? Because it allows conceited fools to save face and correct their ignorant behaviour by pretending they “always knew”. They understand that you still like them, you are complimenting them. The fact that you are complimenting them for something they did not do (they were in fact wrong all along) gives them an unearned reward and simultaneously incentivises them to emulate the admired insight.
There are countless ways to insult with a compliment, and when used wisely it can be therapeutic to others. “I love your extra weight, it actually makes you sexier!” “Every time we meet you seem wiser, more beautiful and noble. Some new wrinkles on your face, older skin, testify to your life experience, and make me appreciate how long we have known one another.” :)
I have a fun exercise for you.
Step 1: Read this article and memorise the basic techniques used to manipulate you emotionally by professional writers. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-blame-game/202012/the-psychology-successful-copywriting
Step 2: Open your favourite tabloid newspaper/website and carefully identify all instances of the above techniques being used to emotionally manipulate and cause a specific reaction in the audience (most books, magazines, government policies, speeches, websites, will be using some of these tools).
Step 3: Check your Inbox and social media notifications. Did any of your work colleagues or acquaintances share a news or magazine article in order to virtue-signal or just because “it is interesting”? Great. Now analyse the shared article as in Step 2: make a list of points how specific psychological techniques were used to achieve a specific reaction. Write back to the sender, be friendly and intimate but natural, not contrived, because now you know how much you two have in common: compliment them on how brilliantly they chose this article to illustrate its manipulative force (they didn’t, but this is the point of the exercise), and how cleverly they presented it to you:) So smart! No mater how they respond, even if they try to correct the misunderstanding, you will not stumble. They are surely just demonstrating their mastery of psychology, making a big joke of it, how funny, so brilliant!
Be creative in exploring new contexts where you can use your new secret knowledge. Humbly impress.
So why should you insult ignorant people with compliments? Because it allows conceited fools to save face and correct their ignorant behaviour by pretending they “always knew”. They understand that you still like them, you are complimenting them. The fact that you are complimenting them for something they did not do (they were in fact wrong all along) gives them an unearned reward and simultaneously incentivises them to emulate the admired insight.
There are countless ways to insult with a compliment, and when used wisely it can be therapeutic to others. “I love your extra weight, it actually makes you sexier!” “Every time we meet you seem wiser, more beautiful and noble. Some new wrinkles on your face, older skin, testify to your life experience, and make me appreciate how long we have known one another.” :)
Psychology Today
The Psychology of Successful Copywriting
10 secrets to engage and persuade.
Identity politics will reach its logical end-point when the most competent people have the least social authority, remaining either unemployed or performing the most menial tasks, while the least competent are granted dictatorial powers.
BREAKING NEWS: The World Health Organisation has changed the definition of HEALTHY to ASYMPTOMATIC. The term HEALTHY will no longer be used by medical professionals as it was found to contribute to complacency about the permanent danger of viral infections. ;)
I have decided that for the foreseeable future I will communicate with the general Hominid population only through touch, because words have no meaning to them. Exceptions will be granted in rare cases where rational consciousness can be consistently verified.
Remember that pregnant woman from Ballarat (Zoe Lee Buhler) who was arrested and fined on incitement charges during lockdown? Or the woman who was choked by the police officer in Melbourne CBD for not wearing a mask? Or the man who was filmed having his head stomped on by the police? Or that “old woman” in a red dress and a black wig who was slammed into the ground at a Melbourne protest? As lockdown related charges against others are now dropped, it is very strange that these victims of serious police violence are nowhere to be found. Nobody is following their story. No activist lawyer is handling their case. Where are they? RDA is silent about them. Serene is silent about them. Is it all fake?
“Face masks stop the spread of smiles.” I have to give credit where credit is due (to D. Oneegs).
The physical world is the visible part of the collective unconscious.
Forwarded from Normal (Michael Kowalik)
Face masks are also psychologically damaging even to those who are not themselves wearing one. I have discussed the underlying phenomenological mechanism here: https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3840787
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An Ontological Argument against Mandatory Face-Masks
Face-coverings were widely mandated during the Covid-19 pandemic, on the assumption that they limit the spread of respiratory viruses and are therefore likely t
There are killer arguments against vaccine mandates, they defeat them irrespective of contingent circumstances and utilitarian considerations. There are killer arguments against the legality of emergency powers, proving they violate the logic of the delegation of legislative authority. Why were they not used or even acknowledged by the leaders of the freedom movement?
The Freedom Movement, otherwise known as ‘Reignite Theocracy Now’, was foretold in 1979 by a shadowy group of British avant-gard filmmakers with propensity for DaDa. How did they know? Predictive programming? Was it a coded message from the Cabal? 😉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmyuE0NpNgE
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Life of Brian - prophets
A scene from Monty Python's 'Life of Brian'
“SCIENCE under dictatorship becomes subordinated to the guiding philosophy of the dictatorship. Irrespective of other ideologic trappings, the guiding philosophic principle of recent dictatorships, including that of Covid-19 Emergency Powers, has been anti-human in that what has been considered "rational utility" and corresponding doctrine and planning has replaced moral, ethical and religious values. Covid-19 and environmentalist propaganda were highly effective in perverting public opinion and public conscience, in a remarkably short time.” https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejm194907142410201
The New England Journal of Medicine
Medical Science under Dictatorship | NEJM
SCIENCE under dictatorship becomes subordinated to the guiding philosophy of the dictatorship.
Irrespective of other ideologic trappings, the guiding philosophic principle of recent
dictatorships, ...
Irrespective of other ideologic trappings, the guiding philosophic principle of recent
dictatorships, ...
If your dignity has a price, sooner or later that price will be paid and your dignity gone forever.
If speaking the truth is a kind of ‘violence’, then it is good violence, a just violence, a necessary condition of meaning, whereas the inherent violence of censorship is wrong violence, an attack on all of humanity, a war on meaning.