Well done, great article. Thank you. Whenever someone uses the term ‘conspiracy’ I immediately turn off. It usually indicates the user has not looked into opposing information and doesn’t fully understand the subject at hand. Attacking another for their views in such a personal and cavalier manner is a way to skirt around this ignorance. They are actually embarrassing themselves but either don’t know or don’t care. Keep up the good work!
You're spot on. The use of thought-terminating cliches like "conspiracy" and "conspiracy theorist" is a strong indicator that a person has not investigated a topic and hence does not understand it. The discourse of politicians, media figures and even academics is littered with thought-terminating cliches like "conspiracy theory", "antivaxxer", "climate denier", "far-right", "white supremacist" and so on. And as Orwell saw so clearly, if you control and limit speech, you control and limit thought. Thus you see the infiltration of thought-terminating cliches into the speech of regular people and with it, the compression of the range of topics that they'll allow themselves to think seriously about.
"Dr. Berns’s career, “reflects the classical view that democracy depends on the character of the citizens, so their opinions and beliefs, their personal habits and degree of self-discipline — in a word, their virtues — will matter to the prospects of democratic government.”
Dr. Berns argued against unbounded individual rights and for restrictions on pornography, which he believed eroded self-restraint.
“Those who are without shame,” he remarked, “will be unruly and unrulable; having lost the ability to restrain themselves by obeying the rules they collectively give themselves, they will have to be ruled by others.”"
FF - Would almost make one think western culture has been intentionally been debased for ulterior motives.
I'm also inspired to share this pre-WWII piece as it relates to today's "Science." A fascinating read...that will make you think of a lot of parallels to our world today.
Science in the Totalitarian State
Foreign Affairs, January, 1941 (the magazine of the Council on Foreign Relations)
"Democracy depends on the character of the citizens, so their opinions and beliefs, their personal habits and degree of self-discipline — in a word, their virtues — will matter to the prospects of democratic government." Whew. Take a few deep breaths and contemplate that, folks, in the light of our current predicament. It reminds me of the words John Adams wrote to the Massachusetts Militia: "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." (https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/99-02-02-3102). I'm with you on the intentional debasement of Western culture BTW; plenty of books have been written on the role that the likes of the Tavistock Institute and the CIA played in fomenting the 1960s sex, drugs and rock'n'roll culture, modern 'art', pornography and the normalisation of bizarre sexual kinks via the Kinsey Report, just for starters.
That's a fascinating piece from Foreign Affairs. Here's what I think is the most depressing sentence in the entire article: "In considering the relation of science to the dictators we must bear in mind that the human mind is intrinsically no better than it was 10,000 years ago. It simply has acquired new interests under social tension."
So much from that Foriegn Affairs piece, I'm glad you took time to take it in. Is a dry read, but so full of what we see around us today. These slogans from our time fit right in with the author's portrayal of science under Stalin, Hitler and Mussolini that follows:
"In this house we believe science is real"
"Follow the science."
"Trust the experts"
"Don't do your own research"
"The climate debate is over, case closed"
"The totalitarian conception of the relation of science to the state is remarkably elastic. When political expediency so determines, the whole concept is modified."
...
"Yet if the dictators are to be overthrown, if democracy is to be preserved, the part that science and technology played in the rise of democracy cannot be ignored. Research produces not only change within science itself but social change. The democratic method is to adapt social change to technological change. The dictators are trying to do the contrary."
...
"new social forms must be devised if we are to forestall the economic crises that are brought about by what is called the "impact of science" on society. Communism and Fascism are social inventions, intended among other things to solve the economic problems created by technological change under the influence of capitalism."
...
"The totalitarians say that a capitalistic democratic government cannot control the experts, the inventors, the creators of this evolving mechanical culture. They therefore have decided to take control of thinking, above all scientific thinking, out of which flow the manufacturing processes and the machines which change life."
...
"An essential to this progress has been that the scientist has not demanded that his theory be considered "true." He does not profess to know what the truth is. A theory must work. It is an expedient. When it ceases to work it is thrown overboard or modified. This method of merciless self-examination cannot be followed in a society where the result of each investigation is predetermined for extraneous reasons. Democracy flounders before it arrives at satisfactory solutions of its social problems. But it is better to flounder and progress than to follow the philosophy of a dictator and to remain socially and scientifically static."
FF - Freedom is always discounted, viewed as trivial to those in power, discarded as inefficient and unnecessary, even more cruel to let the masses destroy themselves without proper stewardship by their betters.
A short news snippet from the archive vault speaks to that:
‘Damned Efficient Slavery’ vs. ‘Inefficient Freedom’
I admit that I fell for the Bush administration that "played on our fears" as it launched wars of aggression in the Middle East while they stole our constitutional rights and freedoms passing the Patriot Act...that targets Patriots today. Fear that medical tyranny has played on to steal even more of our constitutional rights and freedoms. Had my "Team" called out the Bush administration at the time we'd never be in this predicament:
And I now admit that Obama was right when he forewarned us about the Citizens United SCOTUS decision in his 2010 State of the Union address. Many on my "Team" believed corporations were the good guys, conservative, united to oppose Marxist authoritarian D's Big Labor. Never imagining corporations were actually useful for both Fascist authoritarian R's and Marxist authoritarian D's. Big mistake. Obama's 2010 SOTU speech gave a preview of the 2020 (and since) election process in our nation:
Foes told truths. Friends told lies. Moral of the story is Rene Descartes' Age of Enlightenment advice: Question everything.
Even friends. Especially friends. Always.
We must think. Do the hard work of thinking for ourselves, never "trusting experts," nor trusting our "team" or reflexively distrusting "theirs." Being free is hard mental work for many. Which is why slavery and submission to authority has characterized most of human history. Freedom is always just one generation from disappearing from the human experience. And ever-so hard to reclaim once it is lost.
How much we value it as a society is the eternal question. Many in power don't think we value it enough to keep it. Many of us do our best to prove them wrong. By thinking. And questioning everything.
I've changed my thinking about so many politicians and the policies they implemented. In every case, my former view arose from limited understanding of the issue. I've reached the conclusion that there's a limited number of things that I can know with absolute certainty, and the remainder have to be held lightly rather than clung to tightly, so that I can consider new information as I become aware of it. And that does require hard mental work, as you wrote, which is why the majority of people shy away from it. How do we solve this problem? Obviously, we need to rethink the apparatus of state control that is laughably dubbed the 'education system', for starters. That, of course, requires major cultural change as parents and teachers who were (mis)educated under the old system, need to learn how to learn so they can facilitate children's learning. I may be oversimplifying this, but I can't help but think that children whose natural curiosity about the world is facilitated with freedom-oriented methods of instruction (or perhaps more to the point, self-directed learning) cannot help but grow up to be adults who instinctively resist the yoke of tyrants.
Go back to your memories of grade school, sitting in the classroom. Remember the kid in the class that always asked questions? Rest of the class trying to make the time pass faster, no questions to slow up the day. That one or two kids who always raised their hands usually provoked the ire of their classmates. Especially if it was just before the bell rang for the next class. That friend we wanted to meet in the hallway between classes might be late for. "Quit asking questions." Or the know-it-all who would actually correct the teacher if there was a wrong answer on the board. "Jerk, nobody cares." Not a search for knowledge. "Just shut up and we'll all get through this more quickly and then get back to doing what we really want to do, play, meet friends."
Reflecting on my student life, most of the time I was like the kid who just wanted the day to go faster, no questions. But sometimes I was the kid who asked questions, or if I spotted what I thought was the wrong answer by the teacher on the board I wanted to know why it was so, what I may have missed. And earned the ire of my classmates. Been on both sides.
It's just so easy to keep going back to what we watched happen around us in 2020 to see the same dynamic played out in the world around us as what played out in the classroom. "Just shut up, do what you're told and we'll all get through this more quickly and then be able to get back to doing what we really want to do, play, meet friends."
Grade school is a perfect predictor for how freedom instincts are being engineered out the population. Hard learning isn't the goal. Easy obedience is. The premeditated, well-considered education system design isn't for children to grow up to be adults who resist the yoke of tyrants. Freedom is too inefficient.
Thank you so much for this Robyn. I'm continually in awe of the amount of effort and rigorous analysis/referencing you put into everything you do and this is spot on. I knew you before the Covid19 scam and you're one of the few people I know (from that time), who came through that extraordinary debacle with their critical reasoning skills intact (hubby did too, evidence of my innate good taste all those years ago). Those lobbing insults would greatly benefit from your wise and informed words, though I doubt they're open to them right now. From the very first day of the Covid19 scam, I watched on with increasing horror and utter disbelief. I didn't buy any of it for a second. I was then amazed to see everyone around me, even those I'd know for years, falling into line without question. What was I? Some creature from another Planet? After that, I did another double take when the very first rebels were from the RIGHT! Adam Creighton and Peter Hitchens come to mind, both sharp, informed and articulate. Where was my tribe, the Left? Seemed like they'd had a collective lobotomy. However, parts of the Right (which had earned a new degree of respect from me), now insist on telling me Trump (or Christ), is our saviour, the Earth is only 6,000 years old (and/or flat) and what's happening in Palestine isn't a genocidal crime against humanity. I also don't buy some of the more extreme theories, mainly because I think the parasite class are bumbling humans like the rest of us, divided by jealousies/rivalries, who would struggle to organise the proverbial p*ss up up in a brewery (a terminal failure of any bureaucracy). Though I'm sure they aspire to total control of every corner of our lives, it ain't ever happening because the Universe (and the beautiful chaos it contains), is not amenable to their hubris.
Thank you so much for your kind words. I know that both you and your darling hubby paid the price for sticking to your gums, and your respective professions are the poorer for having lost you.
Just like you, I was taken aback by the complicity of the 'left' with the entire convid scam. Where was the pro-free-speech, anti-censorship, anti-authoritarian Left of my youth? They were wearing face-nappies, shunning the unjabbed and cheering on like depraved spectators at a bear-baiting match as the police violently attacked peaceful protesters!!! WTF????
I too remember reading Adam Creighton's and Peter Hitchens' columns and feeling both vindicated and bemused. 'Right wingers' were talking sense, while lefties, vegans and permaculturists were all obeying government edicts and lining up for experimental shots from serially criminal corporations. 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
But then the Ukraine operation began, and a chunk of the 'medical freedom movement' bought into the Putin-is-literally Hitler BS. And then came October 7, and another chunk peeled off and began labelling concern for civilian casualties as antisemitism. And then the US election soap opera, in which if you don't buy into the Trump is Orange Jesus narrative, you're no longer welcome in the MFM inner circle.
So I've decided I just don't fit into any 'tribe', unless it's the Tribe of Misfits 🤣. I'd invite you to join me, except that I guess it doesn't really lend itself to joining!
This is a superb article, linking to some interesting books as well. I agreed with every single word. It was beautifully written and argued. Will be saving this one
Thank you for your kind words. I'm so grateful for the Internet Archive, which is our digital Library of Alexandria. There's such a wealth of knowledge that is at our fingertips... yet most people's online time is spent mostly on porn, cat videos, and the ramblings of celebritards 🤣.
Dear Mr. Musk: I wouldn't care if you built the Starship Enterprise by yourself — it wouldn't change the slop in your support, your program, and your words. Not to mention how this sh*thole is evolving in reverse — as the behavior on here is an embarrassment to the entire history of human achievement. Left & Right!
I’ve always hated Twitter and every long-form version of it (Reddit, Substack, and anything and everything claiming to be something it’s not). When I’m done doing what I gotta do — I’m never goin’ back. Until then, I’m sending out a certain set of messages looking for intelligent life (fiercely independent thinkers who want to solve problems — not endlessly talk about them).
Think of my signals as a poor man’s SETI: I’ve got an idea — and it’s got teeth. There’s a way we can harness folly from the past for the benefit of the future. a.k.a. learning!
"You've Proven You're a Human"—Now You Are Free to Act Like an Animal:
Dear Mr. Musk: I wouldn't care if you built the Starship Enterprise by yourself — it wouldn't change the slop in your support, your program, and your words. Not to mention how this sh*thole is evolving in reverse — as the behavior on here is an embarrassment to the entire history of human achievement. Left & Right
Well done, great article. Thank you. Whenever someone uses the term ‘conspiracy’ I immediately turn off. It usually indicates the user has not looked into opposing information and doesn’t fully understand the subject at hand. Attacking another for their views in such a personal and cavalier manner is a way to skirt around this ignorance. They are actually embarrassing themselves but either don’t know or don’t care. Keep up the good work!
You're spot on. The use of thought-terminating cliches like "conspiracy" and "conspiracy theorist" is a strong indicator that a person has not investigated a topic and hence does not understand it. The discourse of politicians, media figures and even academics is littered with thought-terminating cliches like "conspiracy theory", "antivaxxer", "climate denier", "far-right", "white supremacist" and so on. And as Orwell saw so clearly, if you control and limit speech, you control and limit thought. Thus you see the infiltration of thought-terminating cliches into the speech of regular people and with it, the compression of the range of topics that they'll allow themselves to think seriously about.
Much appreciate the kind words from a writer I respect and look forward to your Stacks!
Just to follow up on who Walter Berns was, here's his obituary with an interesting excerpt:
Walter Berns, political scientist and philosopher, dies at 95
Washington Post, January 14, 2015
https://archive.ph/5lgZM#selection-395.0-1371.206
"Dr. Berns’s career, “reflects the classical view that democracy depends on the character of the citizens, so their opinions and beliefs, their personal habits and degree of self-discipline — in a word, their virtues — will matter to the prospects of democratic government.”
Dr. Berns argued against unbounded individual rights and for restrictions on pornography, which he believed eroded self-restraint.
“Those who are without shame,” he remarked, “will be unruly and unrulable; having lost the ability to restrain themselves by obeying the rules they collectively give themselves, they will have to be ruled by others.”"
FF - Would almost make one think western culture has been intentionally been debased for ulterior motives.
I'm also inspired to share this pre-WWII piece as it relates to today's "Science." A fascinating read...that will make you think of a lot of parallels to our world today.
Science in the Totalitarian State
Foreign Affairs, January, 1941 (the magazine of the Council on Foreign Relations)
https://web.archive.org/web/20181125112623/https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/1941-01-01/science-totalitarian-state
"Democracy depends on the character of the citizens, so their opinions and beliefs, their personal habits and degree of self-discipline — in a word, their virtues — will matter to the prospects of democratic government." Whew. Take a few deep breaths and contemplate that, folks, in the light of our current predicament. It reminds me of the words John Adams wrote to the Massachusetts Militia: "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." (https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/99-02-02-3102). I'm with you on the intentional debasement of Western culture BTW; plenty of books have been written on the role that the likes of the Tavistock Institute and the CIA played in fomenting the 1960s sex, drugs and rock'n'roll culture, modern 'art', pornography and the normalisation of bizarre sexual kinks via the Kinsey Report, just for starters.
That's a fascinating piece from Foreign Affairs. Here's what I think is the most depressing sentence in the entire article: "In considering the relation of science to the dictators we must bear in mind that the human mind is intrinsically no better than it was 10,000 years ago. It simply has acquired new interests under social tension."
Same. Mind. Was taught to believe this was normal, customary and necessary, for the common good. Same. Exact. Mind. No better today:
Brutal Aztec Human Sacrifices Were Believed to Serve the Aztec People for This Unbelievable Reason
History Collection, January 28, 2018
https://cdn.historycollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/aztec-human-sacrifice-codex-photo-researchers-1.jpg
https://historycollection.com/brutal-aztec-human-sacrifices-believed-serve-aztec-people-unbelievable-reason/2/
So much from that Foriegn Affairs piece, I'm glad you took time to take it in. Is a dry read, but so full of what we see around us today. These slogans from our time fit right in with the author's portrayal of science under Stalin, Hitler and Mussolini that follows:
"In this house we believe science is real"
"Follow the science."
"Trust the experts"
"Don't do your own research"
"The climate debate is over, case closed"
"The totalitarian conception of the relation of science to the state is remarkably elastic. When political expediency so determines, the whole concept is modified."
...
"Yet if the dictators are to be overthrown, if democracy is to be preserved, the part that science and technology played in the rise of democracy cannot be ignored. Research produces not only change within science itself but social change. The democratic method is to adapt social change to technological change. The dictators are trying to do the contrary."
...
"new social forms must be devised if we are to forestall the economic crises that are brought about by what is called the "impact of science" on society. Communism and Fascism are social inventions, intended among other things to solve the economic problems created by technological change under the influence of capitalism."
...
"The totalitarians say that a capitalistic democratic government cannot control the experts, the inventors, the creators of this evolving mechanical culture. They therefore have decided to take control of thinking, above all scientific thinking, out of which flow the manufacturing processes and the machines which change life."
...
"An essential to this progress has been that the scientist has not demanded that his theory be considered "true." He does not profess to know what the truth is. A theory must work. It is an expedient. When it ceases to work it is thrown overboard or modified. This method of merciless self-examination cannot be followed in a society where the result of each investigation is predetermined for extraneous reasons. Democracy flounders before it arrives at satisfactory solutions of its social problems. But it is better to flounder and progress than to follow the philosophy of a dictator and to remain socially and scientifically static."
FF - Freedom is always discounted, viewed as trivial to those in power, discarded as inefficient and unnecessary, even more cruel to let the masses destroy themselves without proper stewardship by their betters.
A short news snippet from the archive vault speaks to that:
‘Damned Efficient Slavery’ vs. ‘Inefficient Freedom’
The Daily Colonist
Victoria Island's Leading Newspaper Since 1858
January 4th, 1958
https://archive.org/details/dailycolonist0158uvic_1/mode/2up?view=theater
“Vice-President Nixon called the Russian system slavery. All right, slavery it is. But damned efficient slavery."
“We cherish our freedom. All right, freedom it is, but sadly inefficient freedom.”
Their "scientific" government cannot countenance freedom. Sadly, it's too "inefficient."
Team thinking. Aka, "homerism."
I admit that I fell for the Bush administration that "played on our fears" as it launched wars of aggression in the Middle East while they stole our constitutional rights and freedoms passing the Patriot Act...that targets Patriots today. Fear that medical tyranny has played on to steal even more of our constitutional rights and freedoms. Had my "Team" called out the Bush administration at the time we'd never be in this predicament:
They played on our fears! - Al Gore 2004
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxGC8JaijI0
And I now admit that Obama was right when he forewarned us about the Citizens United SCOTUS decision in his 2010 State of the Union address. Many on my "Team" believed corporations were the good guys, conservative, united to oppose Marxist authoritarian D's Big Labor. Never imagining corporations were actually useful for both Fascist authoritarian R's and Marxist authoritarian D's. Big mistake. Obama's 2010 SOTU speech gave a preview of the 2020 (and since) election process in our nation:
https://youtu.be/8v-rJb8G15I
Foes told truths. Friends told lies. Moral of the story is Rene Descartes' Age of Enlightenment advice: Question everything.
Even friends. Especially friends. Always.
We must think. Do the hard work of thinking for ourselves, never "trusting experts," nor trusting our "team" or reflexively distrusting "theirs." Being free is hard mental work for many. Which is why slavery and submission to authority has characterized most of human history. Freedom is always just one generation from disappearing from the human experience. And ever-so hard to reclaim once it is lost.
How much we value it as a society is the eternal question. Many in power don't think we value it enough to keep it. Many of us do our best to prove them wrong. By thinking. And questioning everything.
I've changed my thinking about so many politicians and the policies they implemented. In every case, my former view arose from limited understanding of the issue. I've reached the conclusion that there's a limited number of things that I can know with absolute certainty, and the remainder have to be held lightly rather than clung to tightly, so that I can consider new information as I become aware of it. And that does require hard mental work, as you wrote, which is why the majority of people shy away from it. How do we solve this problem? Obviously, we need to rethink the apparatus of state control that is laughably dubbed the 'education system', for starters. That, of course, requires major cultural change as parents and teachers who were (mis)educated under the old system, need to learn how to learn so they can facilitate children's learning. I may be oversimplifying this, but I can't help but think that children whose natural curiosity about the world is facilitated with freedom-oriented methods of instruction (or perhaps more to the point, self-directed learning) cannot help but grow up to be adults who instinctively resist the yoke of tyrants.
No oversimplification. That's spot-on.
Go back to your memories of grade school, sitting in the classroom. Remember the kid in the class that always asked questions? Rest of the class trying to make the time pass faster, no questions to slow up the day. That one or two kids who always raised their hands usually provoked the ire of their classmates. Especially if it was just before the bell rang for the next class. That friend we wanted to meet in the hallway between classes might be late for. "Quit asking questions." Or the know-it-all who would actually correct the teacher if there was a wrong answer on the board. "Jerk, nobody cares." Not a search for knowledge. "Just shut up and we'll all get through this more quickly and then get back to doing what we really want to do, play, meet friends."
Reflecting on my student life, most of the time I was like the kid who just wanted the day to go faster, no questions. But sometimes I was the kid who asked questions, or if I spotted what I thought was the wrong answer by the teacher on the board I wanted to know why it was so, what I may have missed. And earned the ire of my classmates. Been on both sides.
It's just so easy to keep going back to what we watched happen around us in 2020 to see the same dynamic played out in the world around us as what played out in the classroom. "Just shut up, do what you're told and we'll all get through this more quickly and then be able to get back to doing what we really want to do, play, meet friends."
Grade school is a perfect predictor for how freedom instincts are being engineered out the population. Hard learning isn't the goal. Easy obedience is. The premeditated, well-considered education system design isn't for children to grow up to be adults who resist the yoke of tyrants. Freedom is too inefficient.
Thank you so much for this Robyn. I'm continually in awe of the amount of effort and rigorous analysis/referencing you put into everything you do and this is spot on. I knew you before the Covid19 scam and you're one of the few people I know (from that time), who came through that extraordinary debacle with their critical reasoning skills intact (hubby did too, evidence of my innate good taste all those years ago). Those lobbing insults would greatly benefit from your wise and informed words, though I doubt they're open to them right now. From the very first day of the Covid19 scam, I watched on with increasing horror and utter disbelief. I didn't buy any of it for a second. I was then amazed to see everyone around me, even those I'd know for years, falling into line without question. What was I? Some creature from another Planet? After that, I did another double take when the very first rebels were from the RIGHT! Adam Creighton and Peter Hitchens come to mind, both sharp, informed and articulate. Where was my tribe, the Left? Seemed like they'd had a collective lobotomy. However, parts of the Right (which had earned a new degree of respect from me), now insist on telling me Trump (or Christ), is our saviour, the Earth is only 6,000 years old (and/or flat) and what's happening in Palestine isn't a genocidal crime against humanity. I also don't buy some of the more extreme theories, mainly because I think the parasite class are bumbling humans like the rest of us, divided by jealousies/rivalries, who would struggle to organise the proverbial p*ss up up in a brewery (a terminal failure of any bureaucracy). Though I'm sure they aspire to total control of every corner of our lives, it ain't ever happening because the Universe (and the beautiful chaos it contains), is not amenable to their hubris.
Thank you so much for your kind words. I know that both you and your darling hubby paid the price for sticking to your gums, and your respective professions are the poorer for having lost you.
Just like you, I was taken aback by the complicity of the 'left' with the entire convid scam. Where was the pro-free-speech, anti-censorship, anti-authoritarian Left of my youth? They were wearing face-nappies, shunning the unjabbed and cheering on like depraved spectators at a bear-baiting match as the police violently attacked peaceful protesters!!! WTF????
I too remember reading Adam Creighton's and Peter Hitchens' columns and feeling both vindicated and bemused. 'Right wingers' were talking sense, while lefties, vegans and permaculturists were all obeying government edicts and lining up for experimental shots from serially criminal corporations. 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
But then the Ukraine operation began, and a chunk of the 'medical freedom movement' bought into the Putin-is-literally Hitler BS. And then came October 7, and another chunk peeled off and began labelling concern for civilian casualties as antisemitism. And then the US election soap opera, in which if you don't buy into the Trump is Orange Jesus narrative, you're no longer welcome in the MFM inner circle.
So I've decided I just don't fit into any 'tribe', unless it's the Tribe of Misfits 🤣. I'd invite you to join me, except that I guess it doesn't really lend itself to joining!
This is a superb article, linking to some interesting books as well. I agreed with every single word. It was beautifully written and argued. Will be saving this one
Thank you for your kind words. I'm so grateful for the Internet Archive, which is our digital Library of Alexandria. There's such a wealth of knowledge that is at our fingertips... yet most people's online time is spent mostly on porn, cat videos, and the ramblings of celebritards 🤣.
Dear Mr. Musk: I wouldn't care if you built the Starship Enterprise by yourself — it wouldn't change the slop in your support, your program, and your words. Not to mention how this sh*thole is evolving in reverse — as the behavior on here is an embarrassment to the entire history of human achievement. Left & Right!
I’ve always hated Twitter and every long-form version of it (Reddit, Substack, and anything and everything claiming to be something it’s not). When I’m done doing what I gotta do — I’m never goin’ back. Until then, I’m sending out a certain set of messages looking for intelligent life (fiercely independent thinkers who want to solve problems — not endlessly talk about them).
Think of my signals as a poor man’s SETI: I’ve got an idea — and it’s got teeth. There’s a way we can harness folly from the past for the benefit of the future. a.k.a. learning!
"You've Proven You're a Human"—Now You Are Free to Act Like an Animal:
https://centurionoftheseed.substack.com/p/youve-proven-youre-a-humannow-you
Dear Mr. Musk: I wouldn't care if you built the Starship Enterprise by yourself — it wouldn't change the slop in your support, your program, and your words. Not to mention how this sh*thole is evolving in reverse — as the behavior on here is an embarrassment to the entire history of human achievement. Left & Right
https://centurionoftheseed.substack.com/p/youve-proven-youre-a-humannow-you