The primary value for consciousness, the intrinsic aim of consciousness that makes us human and our life worth living, is to generate meaning, a deeper and more integrated universe of meaning than the one we were born into. Creation of meaning is conditional on intentional action, reflexive comprehension and communication with other rational beings, and is commensurate with the capacity for adherence to the fundamental laws that govern the distinction between sense and nonsense.
It is a formally provable fact that every rational agent (Human) values being a rational agent. “In intending to φ we affirm that it is preferable (or more valuable) to φ than not to φ, where φ stands for 'exercise the capacity <to act in a particular way>'. Since φ amounts to 'now being an agent', the commitment to value φ is a value-commitment to 'now being an agent'.” (Kowalik 2020) A crucial part of this value-commitment is the meaning of <acting in a particular way>'; meaning that is more integrated (fits in a system that contains fewer inconsistencies), is more expansive and detailed, allows greater capacity <to act in particular ways> and to reliably realise our intentions. All other ‘true’ values are logically derived from this intrinsic value-commitment.
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Ontological-Transcendental Defence of Metanormative Realism
If there is something (P) that every possible agent is committed to value, and certain actions or attitudes either enhance or diminish P, then normative claims
Aboriginal Identity is already a huge ‘moral’ ennoscriptment. Kids who are pathologised at school with the doctrine that they are racially guilty, that being non-aboriginal they can never truly belong, that their children and their descendants will always be just second-class citizens, because they were not here first, they are not the “original race”, are bound to seek to escape this racial stigma, even make themselves believe that they are Aboriginal. If the Australian government were honest, they would greet all incoming migrants with a giant Red and Black billboard: “Welcome to Australia. We are a Nativist-supremacist country, so you will never really belong.”
Do not be bullied or intimidated by transgender identity activists or employers who adopt their ideology. Their bigoted demands (to recognise trans males as women and trans females as men) are easily defeated by logic. Logic aways wins because it is the structure of being. https://michaelkowalik.substack.com/p/gender-identity-on-trial
Michael Kowalik’s Newsletter
Gender Identity on Trial
Reverse discrimination and contradictions in law
My ‘Rapid Response’ to an article in the British Medical Journal was finally accepted and published, 5 months after the date of submission. https://gh.bmj.com/content/7/5/e008684.responses#fundamental-values-cannot-be-defeated-by-the-argument-from-proportionality
The brain is an idea that consciousness generated to explain itself, to make sense of itself. The brain exists in the mind, as an image of itself.
Homosexuality is an abnormality of the sexual function. This does not make gay people immoral, just like having a birth defect does not make anyone immoral. Conversely, stating the fact that homosexuality (in fact, everything LGBTIQ) is functionally abnormal is not any more hateful than stating the fact that a patient was born with a minor abnormality (doctors don’t hate you when they say you are born with a defect). Normalisation of sexual abnormality is disinformation. Wrong sexual messaging can also be harmful to children. https://culturalanalysisnet.wordpress.com/2018/02/16/homosexuality-is-abnormal-but-not-morally-wrong/
The concept of gender has no grounding apart from sex, it becomes meaningless. That is precisely why transgender activists refuse to define “woman”; to them it could be anything, therefore it is nothing.
No wonder there are no high quality, saline placebo controlled studies comparing longevity of vaccinated vs vaccine-free humans. They already know that honest research of this kind would destroy the vaccine industry. “In this natural experiment vaccinated children had 5-fold higher mortality than not-yet-DTP-vaccinated children.” https://www.thelancet.com/journals/ebiom/article/PIIS2352-3964(17)30046-4/fulltext#%20
eBioMedicine
The Introduction of Diphtheria-Tetanus-Pertussis and Oral Polio Vaccine Among Young Infants in an Urban African Community: A Natural…
We examined the introduction of diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (DTP) and oral polio
vaccine (OPV) in an urban community in Guinea-Bissau in the early 1980s.
vaccine (OPV) in an urban community in Guinea-Bissau in the early 1980s.
If blackface is racist then drag queens and cross-dressers are misogynist, engaging in caricaturish mockery of womanhood.
Chernobyl was in effect a real-world experiment, revealing the scale of a nuclear fallout in a populated area (comparable to 400* atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima) and the rate of subsequent habitat recovery. A dirty bomb or a tactical nuke would have a fraction of the environmental impact, so I expect that one will be used in Ukraine; not because it will win the conflict or anything like that, but because it would be a monumental but low cost news event, capable of putting the fear of god into the entire world population. The corporate media would kill for a story like that, literally.
* “Compared with other nuclear events: The Chernobyl explosion put 400 times more radioactive material into the Earth's atmosphere than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima; atomic weapons tests conducted in the 1950s and 1960s all together are estimated to have put some 100 to 1,000 times more radioactive material into the atmosphere than the Chernobyl accident.” https://inis.iaea.org/collection/NCLCollectionStore/_Public/28/058/28058918.pdf
* “Compared with other nuclear events: The Chernobyl explosion put 400 times more radioactive material into the Earth's atmosphere than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima; atomic weapons tests conducted in the 1950s and 1960s all together are estimated to have put some 100 to 1,000 times more radioactive material into the atmosphere than the Chernobyl accident.” https://inis.iaea.org/collection/NCLCollectionStore/_Public/28/058/28058918.pdf
Emergency powers (under whatever name or guise) cannot be delegated by any act of Parliament if the Parliament itself does not possess those powers. Specifically, the Parliament does not have the power to impose any legally binding rules on the public otherwise than by a majority vote of the Parliament. https://michaelkowalik.substack.com/p/emergency-powers-and-the-who-pandemic
Michael Kowalik’s Newsletter
Emergency Powers and the WHO Pandemic Treaty
Logical refutation of the legality of governance by decree
If wearing a face-mask is just like wearing a seat-belt while driving, then sitting on the toilet is just like sitting while driving, then you should wear a seatbelt while sitting on the toilet and a face-mask while driving… “because science”.
The point here is that everything is in some way ‘like’ everything else, and differences make ALL the difference.
The point here is that everything is in some way ‘like’ everything else, and differences make ALL the difference.
Forwarded from Normal (Michael Kowalik)
I propose the following new legislation: The Countering of Official Disinformation, Misinformation and Propaganda Bill. The proposed law aims to criminalise and impose jail terms of up to 20 years, and the forfeiture of private assets in excess of 1 million AUD, and the loss of any taxpayer funded parliamentary pensions, on any politician making claims that are contrary to scientific evidence or otherwise misleading that have or are likely to have caused widespread economic disadvantage, harm to health, or cause deaths of Australian citizens. Similar offences for media companies apply to the directors of the company and carry additional pecuniary penalties and compensations proportional to the harm caused. The law is to apply retrospectively. I propose that the first prosecution should focus on Health Ministers and Chief Health Officers who misrepresented Covid Deaths, coded according to the WHO guidelines that did not differentiate between deaths OF covid and deaths with Covid being only a contributing factor, or included coincidental covid infections at the time of death; or the health officials who have cited fraudulent research and ignored the evidence of safety to prohibit the use of Ivermectin for Covid; or the officials who misrepresented a handful (3) observational studies as the ‘best science’ on face masks while ignoring (15) high quality randomised controlled studies showing that face masks have no statistically significant effect on the spread of respiratory viruses in the general population, and failed to consider the evidence from developmental psychology on the harmful effect of face masks worn by adults on children, for criminal misinformation that cost lives, caused widespread trauma and suffering, and unprecedented economic harm to the Australian economy. If the following Bill has support, then my Bill should pass without any objections. https://minister.infrastructure.gov.au/fletcher/media-release/new-disinformation-laws
Here is a simple formula for improving the conditions of your existence: don’t behave like an animal. Ask yourself what would an animal do in your situation and do something else. If you act like an animal you can expect to be treated like an animal. Much of what is called ‘victimhood’ could be avoided this way.
The effect of our actions is primarily on ourselves; our actions affect our being more than they affect the world, and this in turn changes our relationship with the world.
The biggest weakness of the post-Christian, post-Jewish, post-Protestant ‘first world’ is that everyone pretends to care, that everyone feels compelled to pretend to care. This propensity for moral pretence, for fake compassion as a common means of self-validation, is the primary weakness exploited by the global revolutionaries. The cringeworthy and absurd causes of “ending violence against women and children”, “gender equality”, “climate justice”, “saving the planet” would have no effect in Africa, Russia or China. Consequently, different strategies of subjugation are used Africa, Russia and China.
The sole purpose and sense of ‘human rights’ is to protect the inherently weak individual from the power of the group, from being sacrificed for the benefit of the majority under the guise of ‘greater good’. The powerful, the majority, do not need protection from the weak.