My friend over at the Dacian wrote a piece recently that I believe is worthy of consideration. Namely - about how ragebait and clickbait were a slow and chronic Daily Dose of Poison [https://thedacian.com/2021/07/02/your-daily-dose-of-poison/]. > The sick part is that we love it. We are addicted to the hate served by the Technodemons. Did you see what the vice president did? Tweet, Retweet, Like, Comment. Snow White is now a Zulu Princess! Tweet, Anger, Like, Comment. Grilling is patriarch…
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Most of us in the states grew up believing free speech was a good thing. Given a moment of thought, one can see why. It's hard to know precisely what the truth is. The point, supposedly, is to keep people from being jailed for saying things that offend the powers that be, yet are true, or close enough to the truth that the public should be able to hear it. Nevertheless, while we may not theoretically gag someone in advance, we certainly will, or would, in the past, punish someone for libel and…
Maybe it's a sign of the times, but I find myself not disagreeing with Don Lemon, insofar as his take on the shooting of a teenage black girl by a cop, where he was roundly slammed by the self-styled epitomes of compassion and justice at the View. It's a day that ends in "Y", so yes, there's another case where cop has no right choices to make. I, for one, can grok why even a milquetoast like Tim Pool is saying he couldn't give a squirrel's left nut…
Unless you live under a rock, you've likely heard something like the following: > "Invalid plates are no reason to die." > "Passing a bad 20 is no reason to die" > "jogging in a neighborhood is no reason to die." Those statements, taken at face value, are, of course, absolutely true in any just system of proportionality. The problem is that those statements are utterly dishonestly used to defend behavior that ended up getting people killed. A friend uses the expression "above reproach, beneath…
A while back I read van Creveld's Equality, the Impossible Quest [https://www.amazon.com/Equality-Impossible-Martin-van-Creveld-ebook/dp/B00UVLE20W] . It was, looking back, something of an inflection point. More recently though, Charlton flat out called equality as a goal intrinsically evil [https://charltonteaching.blogspot.com/2021/04/why-goal-of-equality-is-intrinsically.html] . > Equality is only possible with complete oneness which means either the chaos of unformed matter or the Night of…