TheEncogitationer

Jake,

If any exobiological life is found anywhere outside of it’s point of origin, the Woke will condemn it as a Settler/Colonizer despoiler of the environment.

And if any exobiological life is found that predates the original discovered life, the Woke will accuse that original exobiological life of genocide, speciescide, genuscide,…[Read more]

PopeBesnie,

Hmmm. That does not sound unreasonable. Maybe even via vending machines at the post office. (And RealID.)

A private, competitive post office, of course, but yeah you have the right idea.

Now see there? The free market doesn’t have to be a Dickensian nightmare.

Jake,

There’s lots of bad business to go around. Sydney Sweeny’s ad for American Eagle Jeans got turned by Woke critics into support for Eugenics and Nazism. Yet how many Wokesters who made that accusation condemn more mundane Antisemitism?

Sydney Sweeney’s “Great Jeans” and America’s Antisemitism
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Omar…[Read more]

Jake,

Jew hatred/antisemitism ain’t going nowheres. Longer legs than Betty Grable.

I just want it to be honest. The pretense of the lefties? I want to see honest debates in which the mythology is debunked and the proponents are embarrassed, humiliated and discredited.

Well, there’s where the proposed video would come in Jam Handy.

Just p…[Read more]

Jake,

I think I’ve found just the ticket for countering Antisemites…a video like this, with an obvious variation on the McGuffin theme:

PopeBeanie,

I heard news that Trump is now saying good things about vaccines. But is it just talk, or will he replace RFK?

Of course Trump is saying good things about Vaccines. Operation Warp Speed was his baby and he wants his Nobel Prize for it, (albeit he also threw in lots of crazy talk of drinking bleach, hydroxychloroquine (which is for…[Read more]

Fellow Unbelievers,

This is not what I had in mind for The Singularity and I’m sure others would agree:

Can Xi and Putin Cheat Death Before the Rest of the World?
https://unherd.com/newsroom/can-xi-and-putin-cheat-death-before-the-rest-of-the-world/

Simon,

Travel and trade come into the story. But in the first place, if family, clan and tribe ties are dissolved to a great extent, then people become individuals. And religion provided the trust necessary for individuals to trade, outside of a collective family group.

Perhaps initially this was the case in human history. But I can attest…[Read more]

Strega,

I am no Prohibitionist and make fun of them frequently, but having to drink alcohol as a necessity is not appealing, and minor children doing it is not a good thing either. And remember alcohol is brewed with water, so there shouldn’t be anything in water that could kill yeast culture.

Ancient peoples associating alcohol use with health…[Read more]

Reg,

I misspelled and couldn’t edit in time.

Diogenes wouldn’t care whether his lantern put him out of the Net Zero Club.

Jake,

All very well put! Attributing the progress we take for granted to religion and in particular Christianity and Islam is often a Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc Fallacy. Proximity in time is only one element of causation. David Hume listed a bunch of other elements of causation, but I’ll have to look that up.

You’re right also about the…[Read more]

Reg,

Was Diogenes Woke?

Where does one get that?

Diogenes wouldn’t want the “Free Palestine” crowd pitching tents next to his Grecian Urn home and possibly using it as a public toilet in his absence.

And Diogenes would care whether his lantern put him out of the Net Zero club.

And Diogenes sure wouldn’t want anyone of any identity getting in…[Read more]

Simon,

I’ve got a book that says just that, and they make a good point. The Western Church, in the medieval period (500 – 1500 AD), dismantled the tribe/clan system of family favouritism, and this led to people becoming more individualist and also promoted the idea of free will (so that people could be judged, presumably). So, Christianity was…

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Robert,

Yeah, I know, it’s just a false allegory, like most of bible but it gets a point across. Plus, I think any frogs swimming in our little pond will get eaten by a largemouth bass almost immediately. There are a few very large (~10 lbs) channel catfish in there as well. I stocked the pond eight years ago.

Frogs are definitely smarter than m…

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Reg and Simon,

Scientific objectivity is a myth but not every idea deserves equal time.

Just because science is practiced in the context of a particular society, culture, or time period doesn’t mean science is bound to that context and not objective.

Something is objective when it’s there when you sleep and there when you wake or when you turn…[Read more]

Robert,

Just frogs in a pot as the water begins to boil.

Contrary to that old urban legend, frogs only stay in water as young tadpoles. Grown frogs don’t stay in water, no matter what the temperature.

This actually makes them smarter than humans in that respect. Frogs don’t engage in The Sunk Cost Fallacy.

Reg,

JD Vance’s Catholicism is displayed by admitting he is happy to commit war crimes.

You know, if someone really wanted to “Make America Healthy Again,” not to mention “End Forever Wars,” and have “Gold Standard Science,” they could start by using Genetic Engineering to make drugs that kill pain without killing people and which don’t e…[Read more]

Jake,

All true. When I went to college, they didn’t have separate classes devoted to Woke power relations, but the same ideology was scattered in many specialized classes that usually ended with “-Studies.”

One history professor had materials promoting such Anti-Israel figures as Congressman Paul Findley and Rev. Jesse Jackson. A poly-sci…[Read more]

Jake,

Important to note in discussing Wokeism: Bona Fide oppression is not a good thing to be aquiesed.

But what Wokeism gets wrong is making Oppressor and Oppressed into inborn attributes which are products of immutable categories such as “race,” “ethnicity,” nationality, sex, sexual orientation, or even ones imborn Class. In truth,…[Read more]

Strega,

Picked up from BlueSky…

RFK Jr. spits out a mouthful of asbestos and takes a swig from his sewage bottle.

“I can already see children getting healthier,” he gurgles, a bone from a roadkill bat lodged in his larynx. “The spike in measles deaths is a sign their mitochondrial vitality is spiking.”

His left ear drops off.

On a more seri…[Read more]