The emerging view in psychiatric ethics is that involuntary medical treatment is unethical under any circumstances. A psychotic patient may be justifiably detained and isolated, but not forcibly injected. Even under the outdated model, the only plausible justification to forcibly medicate psychiatric patients was to re-establish their rational faculties, not to be used for the convenience or safety of other people if the patient’s faculties are consistent with what is considered normal in the general population. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0004867418810179

A curious quote from C.G. Jung

Remember? This is so retro..

Jacques Ellul

Do you know the facts? Have you decoded the narrative? Perhaps you were meant to decode it, earn the ‘hidden knowledge’ by your own effort, your own sacrifice; how else could you be expected to believe it.

Henry Kissinger, ‘The Meaning of History’ (1950)

Bank runs are no longer a threat to the banking system

The view that a general bank run would be a problem for the banks, and that banks would fail if it happened ‘because there is not enough cash in existence to cover all deposits’, is misguided. A bank run would be used to instantly go fully digital (this is probably the plan). Banks will simply refuse withdrawals and close branches/atms (bank holiday), all legal, forcing everyone to use electronic transfers/payments only. Banks nowadays are not limited like they were during the Great Depression, they don’t need cash to remain solvent. They would fulfil their contractual obligations by allowing depositors to access their accounts to make electronic transfers/payments. The only way to bankrupt a bank nowadays is for it to fail to pay its debts to other banks or bond-holders.

Where do Doctors come from?

In order to qualify for the guaranteed entry pathway into medicine, for example at the University of Melbourne, a secondary student must achieve ATAR score of 99.90% or above. This means that only 1 student out of 1000 qualifies. The hurdle is 10 times lower for those who are willing to pay “full fees”, with the ATAR requirement dropping to 99%, which is 1 student per 100. Top scoring students come almost exclusively from the most expensive private schools. For example, the top supplier of prospective doctors and lawyers in 2021 was Fintona: https://www.fintona.vic.edu.au/enrolment/fees/

The strong correlation between wealth and graduating as a doctor or a lawyer is of course no surprise; medicine and law are a means of wealth continuity, political dominance and status preservation by the ruling caste: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jan/22/medical-school-students-wealthy-backgrounds There is one notable exception to the rule in Australia: if you are Aboriginal you will be welcomed into medicine with an average grade score of 5 out of 7 (https://study.unimelb.edu.au/find/courses/graduate/doctor-of-medicine/entry-requirements/). Applicants for the MD Indigenous pathway are NOT required to be subject to ranking; nor apply via the Graduate Entry Medical School Admissions System (GEMSAS); nor sit the Graduate Australian Medical School Admission Test (GAMSAT).

It would be a mistake to assume that a high ATAR score from a prestigious school indicates that a student is more intelligent than a substantially lower ATAR score from a state high school or some lesser college. Expensive schools are geared to make you perform well on these specific tests, they employ teachers/coaches who are the most knowledgeable of how ATAR tests are designed and marked; they are essentially selling high ATARs, provided you obey their instructions. They are also coaching their students how to be ‘leaders’ (elite), imbuing them with false confidence and a sense of superiority. You may have noticed that doctors and lawyers are not particularly smart or knowledgable, but make up for their mediocrity by projecting authority and confidence. Sure, there are exceptions, but the next time you visit a doctor you may wish to reflect on whether you are in the presence of an expcetion or an undeserving impostor.

It looks like your superannuation will be spent, whether you like it or not, on cheep and most likely garbage quality concentration-camp-style housing that will last 7 years before having to be rebuilt. It does not sound like a good investment to me. Perhaps instead of your super payout you will get one of these used, decrepit units when the super fund is liquidated:) https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/big-super-signs-up-to-1-million-homes-pledge-20221026-p5bszu

Truth:

Proposition (P) that is logically consistent (makes sense) and coheres with all true propositions (P’) for any rational agent in any language. Truth is systemically provable: if P is true, then there is P’ such that P is necessarily true.

I propose that the above definition of truth is logically complete.

More on Truth: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/truth/

Follow up email to Senator Antic (31.10.2022)

Dear Senator Antic,

Will you be attending the senate estimates session related to health policy, scheduled for 8-10 November? I hope you will be willing to raise the questions I suggested previously (copied below) with the health minister.

FYI I am linking a copy of a letter I recently sent to the Australian Human Rights Commissioner, which summarise they key ethical arguments against the mandates: https://michaelkowalik.substack.com/p/email-to-australian-human-rights

Regards,

Michael Kowalik

Previous status update: https://news.1rj.ru/str/NormalParty/1759

Calling someone “trans woman” is evasive. An accurate denoscriptor would be ‘male woman’, but then the oxymoron would be too obvious to argue about, like ‘female rooster’ or ‘male hen’.

There can be no forgiveness without repentance and atonement; to forgive without satisfying these conditions would amount to normalising evil. Conversely, anyone who pleads moral incompetence is implicitly declaring themselves a lesser human, with lesser rights, on account of not being fully responsible for their own actions. This too is a moral choice.

‘Suffering’ is a secondary value-judgement associated with the primary judgement of purposeless, meaningless pain. It has an intrinsic element of self-pity and is therefore not equivalent to ‘pain’, let alone to animal (non-human) pain. Making the value-judgement of ‘suffering’ about animal pain is a category mistake and naive anthropomorphism.