Over the past two years I noticed that if any members of the academy spoke out, then they tended to be the retired older folk - the ones with nothing to lose any more. All the mid-career academics kept their mouths resolutely shut. Perhaps years of job insecurity, short term contracts, lack of tenured positions and so on, in the humanities at least, had already turned academics into frightened sheep long before to ‘rona came along.
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One silver lining to the Covid cloud is that the whole experience has turned over the rock, exposing the slimy underbelly of dogma enforcement to more of the public. Those of us interested in nutritional research, as one example, have noted this for years.
Thank you for these two articles in particular. I look forward to more.
The summation of academics' failure to question the narrative re The World's Deadliest Virus™ is one of the most thorough and succinct that I've encountered.
Academia's craven support for--or silence regarding--the marketing of Th'Pandemic™ at first baffled me, then came to infuriate me. It has been particularly heartbreaking to hear my favorite radio station, MIT's WMBR, constantly air the US government's easily falsifiable misinformation PSAs, and even craft their own patently false ones to promote the experimental injections. Maybe I was naive, but I never imagined that institution could be so compromised, let alone complicit in such a despicable and damaging fraud.
Excellent essay. I think this part really bears repeating:
"[Students are] certainly not taught how to think, but not even so much taught what to think as simply what to feel."
The role of mandatory DIE and social justice training and seminars for new students is underappreciated I think. Firstly it defines the culture of the institution to incoming students, defining what is acceptable to do or think and what is punishable. Secondly, it defines what behaviors of faculty students should report for punishment by the administration. In other words, it trains students to be agents of administration in rooting out wrongthink in the professoriate, allowing administrators to discipline those who don't toe the line in the name of protecting and serving the student population.
The great universities--West or East--were founded by great thinkers of specific dogmatic foundational beliefs, and they sure weren't hospitable to anyone they could thereby brand heretics. They too were diligent in suppressing thought they considered dangerous to the young. That's just human nature.
What's happening now is a new religion attacking the older ones. Admirers of the great myths of the North surely recognize how hard Christian intellectuals worked to slander as "pagan" anything that deviated from authorized Christian doctrine (which is a fuzzy term of course, considering the number of Christian sects).
The mistake was in thinking any school of thought could be characterized as religious or secular. Anyone believing strongly in anything creates a god and a bible to bolster it.
Academia certainly failed on the corona front, but how much of it was due to DIE, and how much was due to ordinary human hypochondria and cowardice? Or maybe it was precisely DIE that allowed the cowardly hypochondriacs to run the show (as the latest victim group, I suppose)?
Over the past two years I noticed that if any members of the academy spoke out, then they tended to be the retired older folk - the ones with nothing to lose any more. All the mid-career academics kept their mouths resolutely shut. Perhaps years of job insecurity, short term contracts, lack of tenured positions and so on, in the humanities at least, had already turned academics into frightened sheep long before to ‘rona came along.
The Plandemic was a script and academics were supporting actors
One silver lining to the Covid cloud is that the whole experience has turned over the rock, exposing the slimy underbelly of dogma enforcement to more of the public. Those of us interested in nutritional research, as one example, have noted this for years.
Thank you for these two articles in particular. I look forward to more.
Bizarro world
Superb, thank you.
The summation of academics' failure to question the narrative re The World's Deadliest Virus™ is one of the most thorough and succinct that I've encountered.
Academia's craven support for--or silence regarding--the marketing of Th'Pandemic™ at first baffled me, then came to infuriate me. It has been particularly heartbreaking to hear my favorite radio station, MIT's WMBR, constantly air the US government's easily falsifiable misinformation PSAs, and even craft their own patently false ones to promote the experimental injections. Maybe I was naive, but I never imagined that institution could be so compromised, let alone complicit in such a despicable and damaging fraud.
Excellent essay. I think this part really bears repeating:
"[Students are] certainly not taught how to think, but not even so much taught what to think as simply what to feel."
The role of mandatory DIE and social justice training and seminars for new students is underappreciated I think. Firstly it defines the culture of the institution to incoming students, defining what is acceptable to do or think and what is punishable. Secondly, it defines what behaviors of faculty students should report for punishment by the administration. In other words, it trains students to be agents of administration in rooting out wrongthink in the professoriate, allowing administrators to discipline those who don't toe the line in the name of protecting and serving the student population.
Civil defense still exists.
It just went private sector.
https://tacda.org/
https://poetslife.blogspot.com/
https://poetslife.substack.com/p/famers-markets-solution-to-american
I'd say this piece is a little dishonest.
The great universities--West or East--were founded by great thinkers of specific dogmatic foundational beliefs, and they sure weren't hospitable to anyone they could thereby brand heretics. They too were diligent in suppressing thought they considered dangerous to the young. That's just human nature.
What's happening now is a new religion attacking the older ones. Admirers of the great myths of the North surely recognize how hard Christian intellectuals worked to slander as "pagan" anything that deviated from authorized Christian doctrine (which is a fuzzy term of course, considering the number of Christian sects).
The mistake was in thinking any school of thought could be characterized as religious or secular. Anyone believing strongly in anything creates a god and a bible to bolster it.
Academia certainly failed on the corona front, but how much of it was due to DIE, and how much was due to ordinary human hypochondria and cowardice? Or maybe it was precisely DIE that allowed the cowardly hypochondriacs to run the show (as the latest victim group, I suppose)?