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Humanity is one because Truth is one. Reason unites us. Deliberate in good faith even with madmen and tyrants… and the Good will follow.
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The methods of incentivising collusion are subtle, impossible to detect by most. If there is one, core defect in human reasoning that facilitates collusion with evil, it may be the lack of discernment between a ‘necessary evil’ and the common good. An average person delegates their moral authority to experts, and this alone is a moral wrong that leads to collusion.
Why in NORMAL creating counter-propaganda Sound Bytes?

The NORMAL series of sound bytes (stickers, posters) are distilling the logical essence of various arguments and hypocrisies associated with the vaccine and mask mandates. They are used for the same reason as in advertising and street protests. Assuming that the unsolicited attention span of an average person is less than a few seconds, this is as much truth as the obedient, brainwashed population is able to absorb. For some, this will trigger some reflection, a progressive moral realisation, and those who feel that the mandates are morally wrong will be able to articulate powerful reasons to defend themselves from social coercion. This is the aim of the exercise. Also, politicians love to argue against complex arguments, because it allows for evasion and misdirection. They can’t hide from an obvious, distilled truth. Each Normal sound byte captures just one point, one moral reason. This is a powerful form of mass communication and persuasion. SYMBOLS APPEAL TO THE COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS. A deeper explanation of moral reasons is available here: https://news.1rj.ru/str/NormalParty/1064
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”

― C. S. Lewis

The quote is intuitively compelling, but misses one crucial fact: moral conscience can be objectively right or wrong, and this has objective consequences for the host. When it is right, no harm is done; when it is wrong, it will destroy the host. CS Lewis implies that tyranny is objectively wrong, but asserts that this can still be ok by the subjective moral conscience of the tyrant, without giving rise to any self-destructive consequences. Objectivity implies objective consequences. Lewis’s omission leads to unwarranted pessimism.
There is only one way to refute an argument; by engaging with it and demonstrating that it is either logically incomplete or leads to contradiction and is therefore non-sense. Stating your opinion is not an argument; it is changing the subject to just talking about yourself. That’s ok, you can talk about yourself, but this is a different conversation and I need you to understand this difference so that feelings about yourself are not misinterpreted as facts about me.
So no, I am not afraid of “the vaccine”, I just don’t trust psychopaths.
This should be a mandatory disclosure notice on every vaccine dose.
When minors are intentionally exposed to information about sexual preferences or practices without explicit consent of the parents, the school is engaging is sexual harassment of children. This is qualitatively no different to an intimidating male manager insisting on discussing sex with female subordinates.
Artemisinin, a widely available extract from Sweet Wormwood plant species (Artemisia annua, contains approx 0.5% by dry weight) and a WHO recommended anti-malaria medication, is also a promising antiviral with an exceptionally broad range of action. The first clinical trial (small) found it to be effective against Covid. Review of research: https://www.mdpi.com/1648-9144/57/3/217/htm
The ‘current thing’ therapy for the totalitarian personality disorder. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/23/style/cannibalism-tv-shows-movies-books.html
Climate Denier: noun, a person who denies the existence of naturally occurring climatic changes and believes instead that changes in weather-patterns are caused by human activity.
Socialism is mandatory, an enforced state doctrine; charity is by definition (necessarily) voluntary. Before charity is even possible we must have private property rights, something we own that we can give, and socialism does not respect private property rights. Socialism precludes charity.
Misinformation and the State

If the government were genuinely concerned about misinformation they would be here, on uncensored Telegram, rationally arguing against false beliefs and responding to objections. Their refusal to engage in public deliberation based on evidence and consistent reasoning is of itself the evidence that they are not interested in correcting misinformation but only using it as an excuse for political vilification and censorship. They are therefore in breach of Discourse Ethics (see the extensive work of Juergen Habermas and Karl Otto Apel on this point) and a sign of bad faith. Moreover, a government that pursues censorship as an end instead of public deliberation may have a strategic motive to covertly propagate disinformation and promote extremism. Our shared moral duty is not just to label a particular viewpoint as ‘extremist’ or ‘wrong’ but explain why it is objectively wrong. If I can engage in broad social discourse on a voluntary basis, as my unpaid social contribution, then there is no excuse for any politicians, the government and statutory agencies, who are well paid to engage with the community, not to do it on a full time basis. Dogmatism about values and norms is wrong, a commitment to violence as the ultimate arbiter of values and fact. https://culturalanalysisnet.wordpress.com/2017/12/24/on-what-is-right/
By coercing others to wear masks to protect you implies that your mask does not protect you, so you agree that the effectiveness of masks is very low if any. At the same time, the requirement to wear a mask exposes people to psychological and bacterial harm, apart from the fact that it violates the the principle of free medical consent and is utterly dehumanising.
Any action that has a medical purpose is a medical intervention, and is therefore subject to the principle of free medical consent. This includes the medical advice to wear a face mask. Even if you agree with wearing a mask, by complying with a mandate you are acquiescing to the removal of the right to free medical consent from everyone else, and this is unethical.
Tribalism is the foundation of Nazism, which emerges when tribal norms are challenged by other cultures. The tribal mindset is primitive insofar as it is not aware (or refuses to accept) that there is a higher level of social connection and affinity than familial relations, race, tradition or culture. At that higher level, which is the meta-structure of meaning itself, reducible to the laws of sense, the universal conditions on the basis of which meaning can be generated by reflexive, social relations independent of culture or genetics, there is humanity as such, and humanism (understood in the exclusively Kantian sense) as the antithesis of tribalism. Modern history can be reduced to the conflict between these two forces, one dying a natural death but still unleashing its inherent commitment to violence as the ultimate arbiter of values and facts, and the other learning how to mitigate this primordial irrationalism without negating its own commitment to humanity by becoming violent itself.
Without the acceptance of individual moral responsibility on absolute, universal terms, transcending the primitive ethos of obedience to the group, Man is still only a beast on a cultural leash and not yet an autonomous moral being.
Forwarded from Normal (Michael Kowalik)
On Eco-Fascism

The idea that native species have a higher (moral?) status and deserve special protection by the state, whereas non-native species do not, is arguably a modern, normalised feature of Nazi ideology. It goes hand in hand with the idea that “nature” should be returned to some mythologically defined “original state” of “health”. This ideology is one of the mandatory, cross-curriculum priorities in Australian schools. The associated value commitments also underpin the special rights and the superior moral status of the indigenous tribes, those who are connected to the land/environment by “blood” or “heritage”; Germanic “blood” became the basis for nativist prioritarianism and tribal supremacism, and led to some of the greatest crimes against humanity. The tribalist/nativist aspect of this ideology is also prioritised in the Australian curriculum, albeit it has been transposed from Germanic tribes onto native tribes of the Australian continent. Nazism had a makeover, it was rebranded as a symbiosis of Extinction Rebelion, Climate Emergency and the political endorsement of First Nations prioritarianism. In short, Nazism was not defeated at the end of WWII, but progressively normalised. Here is a fascinating analysis of the Nazi roots of contemporary environmentalism: https://infrakshun.wordpress.com/2015/02/06/dark-green-ii-eco-fascism/