1. James O’Keefe releases video where he goes in disguise (wearing glasses) to meet a seemingly gay head of White House Cyber Security who reveals the palace gossip about Biden and Harris. And, it’s a 2 camera shoot!
As much as I like O’Keefe’s work, I couldn’t resist this dig at his disguise…
2. A few words about Yuval Noah Harari
First this:
Then this:
Although the first clip appears at least, to take a fully practical and empirical view of existence, he seems to, (and I say seems to because this is edited out of a larger talk so…) ignore the real world consequences of what he calls a story. What we might call a narrative. In the second video, he focuses on the real world negative consequences of said fictions and narratives. He wants to change the world’s stories to get the results he wants.
First, I have to say watching his clips is like reading The Atlantic. A left wing policy rag for predictive programming, targeting people of higher IQ but less than excellent methodology. He makes a lot of statements that are hard to disprove out of the gate, and ignores all aspects of these things that may be positive. To really do a deconstruction on this idea would take a book. But maybe let’s dig in to a few of the issues here.
The first problem is that if there is no God, and that we understand that God is what gave us (in the Judeo-Christian tradition) both free will, and individual rights, then as Hariri says, why can’t man then just take away those rights. What he is doing is establishing the foundations of Marxist thought. No God, means no rights, means no individual, means man can create the matrix within which you will be forced to live, and your right to object does not exist, and will be punished severely. People smarter than you, (loyal to the party and party dogma) will decide what you are and what you do, and that is the logical extension of not having a God.
That is how it works.
Secondly, he gives examples of things generally considered bad as a consequence of collective myths without context. The Nazis where Gnostics. It was a Hegelian Marxist cult in fact. So they created their own story just as Yuval wants to do. In their story, individual life had no value. Only the collective mattered. ‘Society’. That a kind of altruism must be the law, except only to the people the Nazis liked. Just like Harari wants. For the most part, the people who fought against the Nazis, especially those from far away like North America at the time, believed in God. That belief was to varying degrees, the source of the will to go fight the Nazis.
It doesn’t matter if God is real for this point. Only that the consequences of believing in God are real. And they are. Muslims who blow themselves up for Islam don’t do it strictly out of hatred, although that is a central doctrine of Islamic scripture, they do it because, and again to varying degrees, they believe they will go to the best brothel in the galaxy with an unlimited credit card and exclusive access to all the things they are to avoid in life. So Harari is correct that our stories, myths would be a much better word, have a huge impact on what we do and how we develop.
Western Civilization has at its core a number of things unique in history. Technical development is one. And for the exact same reason that this can occur, a belief that objective reality can be understood and used, both culturally, as in courts, and other institutions of state, and in science. This is 100% based in the notion that there is a God as Christians and Jews understand it, and that god has given us individual rights and existence. Further, the Christian God in particular, does not want your belief, love or devotion if it is coerced. It must be given freely to have meaning. Yes, there may be preachers who would make it seem otherwise, with threats of hellfire and so on, but never cutting your head off if you profess disbelief. So we are a product of our myths for sure. As he says. But what he proposes, is hell on earth. Metaphorically as well as in as much reality as it takes before it doesn’t make any difference.
Once you deny the justification for your rights, then you can deny the rights. Harari appears to be doing both at once. There will be no fighting the Nazis.
At the core of both communism and Naziism, lies the belief in the creation of The New Man. Which of course means the total destruction of the existing man. There is no way to interpret Yuval’s missives as not destroying man as he is, and creating the new man. A better man. One without the stories they created and are motivated by, but by his stories and will be forced to operate from. Yuval manages to pitch his New-Man in a way worthy of the Atlantic, The reasonable man would say yeah! There is no objective evidence of God that I can see, so there isn’t one! Let’s chart our own course! Which means of course, the communists charting it for you.
What isn’t said, is that for a large fraction of the population, our myths are archetypal. Meaning core truths about both humanity and the natural world are contained in them. These archetypal myths, like the Hero’s Journey as one example but a blazingly important one, are as much about the person named in the myth as the nature of the events being cyclical and consistent throughout time. Many Biblical stories appear to be exactly this. The Tower of Babel could cynically be said to be an architectural problem of trying to build a tower over three stories tall out of animal faeces, or, what happens when you try and unify everyone under a single culture or set of ideas. The internet seems to be a pretty good example of The Tower of Babel. We can all judge for ourselves how that is working out for us.
Most animals try to make enough sense out of our existence to be able to cope with it. This will result in myths. Some are wonderful and lead to happier, healthier, more free and loving people, as well as people who will fight to the death to preserve these rights and lifestyle, and some are quite the opposite. To impose the will of a few self anointed on the whole of humanity. Yuval Noah Harari is one of those. Cloaked in reason, but dripping in occult. Speaking of liberation, but creating systems of absolute and total control, never before even imagined on Earth. One might also think of the logo for the British communist think tank, the Fabian Society. The exact opposite of Matthew 10:6
3. Please read the details in this short Tweet. While most of you know this, it goes to the problem that you cannot change the policy of a liar with the truth. But perhaps you can change the status of liar if everyone else knows the truth.
Once again, Tom Harris:
It’s interesting how a website dedicated to finding out how the internet is being censored and otherwise manipulated to disadvantage the vast majority of its users, ultimately crosses over into the areas of interest to this site. Isn’t it?
The expression is, “you can’t make that up” – to signal the level of the absurdity of a situation.
Meanwhile, groups calling themselves “fact checkers” and those bankrolling them keep making things up. And becoming used to it aside, their work still feels as if – “you can’t make that up.”
When names like the Omidyar Network, George Soros’ Open Society Foundations, and Meta start cropping up in the same sentence, you start believing anything could come out of an “alliance” of the sort.
Here we have yet another supposedly “fact-checking” effort that turned into a smear campaign against people engaged in lawful protest regarding economic, social, and political issues.
In this instance, in Germany. There the economy, and with it the government, has been in serious trouble ever since Germany, for political reasons, cut itself off from affordable gas. Those with the most to lose, such as farmers, have been hit the hardest.
5. This one is really worth the deep dive. Especially for Canadians cause the story is about a Canadian, how he screwed over Canadians, assisted Trudeau in his power grabs, and written by a Canadian. But the same story is played out across the West. In the UK, it was about Neil Ferguson. In Canada, some guy named Fisman.
Full video:
Thank you all for checking out this site.
This promises to be an interesting thread. But the fact is, the people who broke the most basic constitutional rights of Jeremy McKenzie, and frankly a lot of other people in Canada, nearly all of us, need to be arrested and face criminal charges, and be punished in proportion to the crime. If Jeremy wins, he will get money he richly deserves, but the state invents the money. The people he is suing can just make up the money out of nothing and the only consequence is the amortization of the diminishment of the value of all our money over time. Something we won’t notice unless its too too excessive.
So even if he wins, which is good for him, it means nothing till these people are punished in a way that deters future tyrants.
At the end of all this, Jeremy should at least sue the various institutions of state.
This promises to be an interesting thread. But the fact is, the people who broke the most basic constitutional rights of Jeremy McKenzie, and frankly a lot of other people in Canada, nearly all of us, need to be arrested and face criminal charges, and be punished in proportion to the crime. If Jeremy wins, he will get money he richly deserves, but the state invents the money. The people he is suing can just make up the money out of nothing and the only consequence is the amortization of the diminishment of the value of all our money over time. Something we won’t notice unless its too too excessive.
So even if he wins, which is good for him, it means nothing till these people are punished in a way that deters future tyrants.
One example:
