Cover the timelines of the Israeli state genociding Palestinians living in the Gaza strip, linking to irrefutable video evidence statements from Yoav Gallant - calling Palestinians “human animals” and ordering a complete siege on the Gaza strip, halting entry of food, fuel, and supplies to its 2.3 million people.
I am right with you on about 9.5 of the 10. I also made people really mad by saying that institutionalized group hate is a tool of the destructocrats and decent people need to call it out, not just remain silent. We have to de-normalize spewing group hate (because it is a prelude to the next step and the next and the next until we have normalized and rationalized yet another genocide.
Try adding that one in, Nicholas. You'll lose even more friends and subscribers!
I'd say you're hitting 9 out of 10 spot on, —with some quibbling on the 9! Oligarchs do what oligarchs do best: make themselves richer & the US has been an oligarchy since 1913.
Irrespective of your opinions, the idea that a friend would blank you because they disagree with you about any of the myriad issues surrounding us, is the standout point. Why can people not disagree without being offended?
I think the answer is that we have all been siloed into multiple warring tribes, each of which has its own shibboleths which must be rigidly adhered to.
There are many reasons for this return to tribalism, but one is that so many people now see their locus of self-validation as external; their self-esteem depends to a large part on what other people think of them, how well they conform to their tribal norms.
Professor Kaczynski wrote about this in his manifesto under the concept of "over-socialization", and it is a pity that his work is not more mainstream, though understandable, since he later became known as the Unabomber.
At any rate, the tribalism is unlikely to cease given that we have ubiquitous social media, the ultimate amplifier of required social norms and external validation.
Good for you Nicholas, keep on being the unpopular, Do No Harm, Voluntaryist with moral integrity (etymology, wholeness).
I consider the majority of intellectuals/ideologues are suffering from "Moral Schizophrenia", the mental/moral disorder that allows them to be contradictorily against some evil collectives while being for some others.
This would include those such as RFK Jr, the Breggins, Trump and Jordan Peterson who aid and abet the Crimes Against Humanity by the Israeli government upon the Palestinians while being on the right side of history and supporting freedom in other areas.
And those such as Jeff J Brown, Matthew Ehret and Cynthia Chung who aid and abet the Crimes Against Humanity done by Chinese government (Mao to Xi) upon the Uyghurs and its own people (Democide) while rightly being against the U.S./U.K. governments and the Zionists.
Then there is the (in)famous, mis-titled Anarchist, Walter Block, who favored the Covid1984 lockdowns, backed Trump for president, supports the Gaza Genocide, and argues for parents using physical striking to punish their children.
How is it such well-known public intellectuals can be so morally divided, hence my "Moral Schizophrenia" (etymology, split mind) term?
My hypothesis: they are expressing their dissociative childhood abuse/neglect--see Lloyd deMause’s “Revictimization” and his last book “The Origins of War in Child Abuse”
I contend those who are fortunate enough to have had a secure attachment with their mother/caregiver will be more likely to be morally whole and do no harm nor support any coercive collective—they will be incipient Voluntaryists.
Hence, my advocacy for non-coercive, collaborative, Autonomous parenting as the only way forward to a peaceful, everything voluntary, world.
We are only as free as we take the responsibility to be.
I am right with you on about 9.5 of the 10. I also made people really mad by saying that institutionalized group hate is a tool of the destructocrats and decent people need to call it out, not just remain silent. We have to de-normalize spewing group hate (because it is a prelude to the next step and the next and the next until we have normalized and rationalized yet another genocide.
Try adding that one in, Nicholas. You'll lose even more friends and subscribers!
I'd say you're hitting 9 out of 10 spot on, —with some quibbling on the 9! Oligarchs do what oligarchs do best: make themselves richer & the US has been an oligarchy since 1913.
You're doing great! I'm with you.
Irrespective of your opinions, the idea that a friend would blank you because they disagree with you about any of the myriad issues surrounding us, is the standout point. Why can people not disagree without being offended?
I think the answer is that we have all been siloed into multiple warring tribes, each of which has its own shibboleths which must be rigidly adhered to.
There are many reasons for this return to tribalism, but one is that so many people now see their locus of self-validation as external; their self-esteem depends to a large part on what other people think of them, how well they conform to their tribal norms.
Professor Kaczynski wrote about this in his manifesto under the concept of "over-socialization", and it is a pity that his work is not more mainstream, though understandable, since he later became known as the Unabomber.
At any rate, the tribalism is unlikely to cease given that we have ubiquitous social media, the ultimate amplifier of required social norms and external validation.
The world is upside down!
You speak evidenced truth and offend the fragile. Others lie and are adored. Perhaps the world has always been that way.
Well done, you!
Keep strong and take care, Nicholas, and thank you.
Im with you on at least 7/10 😮 I’ve lost my friends and subscribers too. What a world
Write poems and rap songs about Covid like a mad man?
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11. Write poems and rap songs about Covid like a mad man.
Good for you Nicholas, keep on being the unpopular, Do No Harm, Voluntaryist with moral integrity (etymology, wholeness).
I consider the majority of intellectuals/ideologues are suffering from "Moral Schizophrenia", the mental/moral disorder that allows them to be contradictorily against some evil collectives while being for some others.
This would include those such as RFK Jr, the Breggins, Trump and Jordan Peterson who aid and abet the Crimes Against Humanity by the Israeli government upon the Palestinians while being on the right side of history and supporting freedom in other areas.
And those such as Jeff J Brown, Matthew Ehret and Cynthia Chung who aid and abet the Crimes Against Humanity done by Chinese government (Mao to Xi) upon the Uyghurs and its own people (Democide) while rightly being against the U.S./U.K. governments and the Zionists.
Then there is the (in)famous, mis-titled Anarchist, Walter Block, who favored the Covid1984 lockdowns, backed Trump for president, supports the Gaza Genocide, and argues for parents using physical striking to punish their children.
How is it such well-known public intellectuals can be so morally divided, hence my "Moral Schizophrenia" (etymology, split mind) term?
My hypothesis: they are expressing their dissociative childhood abuse/neglect--see Lloyd deMause’s “Revictimization” and his last book “The Origins of War in Child Abuse”
https://psychohistory.com/books/the-origins-of-war-in-child-abuse/
I contend those who are fortunate enough to have had a secure attachment with their mother/caregiver will be more likely to be morally whole and do no harm nor support any coercive collective—they will be incipient Voluntaryists.
Hence, my advocacy for non-coercive, collaborative, Autonomous parenting as the only way forward to a peaceful, everything voluntary, world.
We are only as free as we take the responsibility to be.