Elizabeth Nickson is more radical than I would have believed possible not long ago. Two quotes from this essay:
It is why there are American flags at the marches, and why so many wear a MAGA hat. MAGA is world-wide now, it will take over the entire world, including China, including Russia.
The next twenty years are going to be transformative. With moral seriousness, work will transform. To the Puritans every person had a calling. A blacksmith glorified God through excellent blacksmithing. A mother through raising children. A minister through teaching. A merchant through honest dealing. This sanctification of ordinary labor was revolutionary.
The sanctification of daily life gives every individual a shining purpose.
Puritan virtue and rigor created punctuality, bookkeeping, long-term planning, delayed gratification, reliability, obsession with improvement. The sociologist Max Weber called this the “Protestant ethic,”
The deeper truth is that they believed God watched everything.
For indeed, He does.
That level of internalized accountability creates and recreates civilization very quickly.
This, the Puritan founding was the founding of America, the most critical moral imprint on the world since Christ.
It’s coming back.
May we all live to see it happen.
We just discovered that SCANNING YOUR ID is now required for a freaking Change of Address form at the Post Office.
I don't think it'll matter if 702 is renewed; we're surveilled constantly either way, and AI is only making that surveillance denser and easier for the US government, FOREIGN governments, criminal hackers, Big Corporate Everything, and tech-oriented middle schoolers to find out anything they want to know about us.
Well, we could also take the word of lots of other people, including non-scientists and religious folk, from the recent and less-recent past. Just as dogs get cancer these days, animals (and people) got cancer long before modern toxins.
A wonderful post, ArmyLady.
The underpinnings of tyranny really MUST be called out in detail, widely and repeatedly.
Too many people (FAR too many) have been PsyOp'd into supporting their own enslavement -- that's the direct intent of Marxism, Socialism, Islam, today's insane Leftism, and other flavors of tyranny. You've put together a powerful meme and essay that I hope will see wider distribution (I'm sending it around, at least . . .)
What if SpaceX is about to come out with a technology that's going to change our (energy?) paradigm?
That's exactly what I think many are hoping for or even expecting.
It might be true.
It might not be.
For the IPO to make sense, it MUST be true. And yet (as far as I can tell) the IPO doesn't even SUGGEST that it IS true.
So we'll just have to wait and see.
I'm not going to invest on that possibility, but that's just me.
The two places I use:
https://www.alldaychemist.com/ -- India
https://shopbplife.myshopify.com/ -- US; featured by Dr. Makis once (or more, maybe). FenBen mostly, but they're ramping up IVM production also. Also a good source for DMSO.
Yes. It's worth subscribing to his Substack if you're interested in his content.
He also puts out information on X and Instagram:
Email: [email protected]
When I flagged this as an example of it messing up temporal problems, it said it meant a woman getting pregnant can't happen before she was born
This is exactly the kind of thing the Left hemisphere of the human brain does, and there are other important characteristics of machine intelligence that are similar to the Left hemisphere's:
The left hemisphere is not in touch with the world. It is demonstrably self-deceiving, and confabulates - makes up a story, when it cannot understand something, and tells it with conviction. Michael Gazzaniga first demonstrated this in split-brain patients. Subsequent research shows that, unlike the right hemisphere, which tends toward self-doubt, it takes a distinctly flattering view of its own capabilities. ~ The Divided Brain and the Search for Meaning, p. 31
It [the left hemisphere] is not reasonable. It is angry when challenged, dismisses evidence it doesn't like or can't understand, and is unreasonably sure of its own rightness. It is not good at understanding the world. Its attention is narrow, its vision myopic, and it can't see how the parts fit together. It is good for only one thing - manipulating the world. Its world is a representation, a virtual world, only. It neglects the incarnate nature of human beings, reducing them to the equivalent of brains in a vat. It reduces the living to the mechanical. It prioritises the procedure, without a grasp of its meaning or purpose. And it requires certainty where none can be found. ~ ibid, pp. 31- 32
The left hemisphere tells us that the quest for meaning is meaningless, because it is not equipped to deal in meaning or understanding, but manipulating and processing. ~ ibid, p. 33
If the detached, highly focussed attention of the left hemisphere is brought to bear on living things, and not later resolved into the whole picture by right-hemisphere attention, which yields depth and context, it is destructive. ~ The Master and His Emissary, p. 182
The author of those quotes is Iain McGilchrist. Two of his books:
The Master and his Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World (553 pages of small print)
The Divided Brain and the Search for Meaning (38 pages)
Revolution: The Birth of the Greatest Nation in the History of the World
Fact check: True.
The United States of America IS unique, and its founding is likely the most important secular event in human history.