I've got Wraith: The Oblivion splats from that era. Demon Core book, too.
As opposed to core nWoD, the vampire & antagonist books and nothing else.
Easily 4 or 5 times more of the older books.
Similarly, I have loads of 1st & 2nd edition Exalted, but only the 3rd ed corebook.
They've gone down hill on the road from black dog to onyx path...
There's back and forth over biolabs vs. weapon programs in propaganda over the last several months. Older US fact sheets had 46 biological labs in Ukraine. I've seen the numbers of 36 and 38 thrown around-- probably a subset of those labs from the above that are still active.
My money's on dual-purpose tech. The sort that's: 1) plausibly deniable, 2) maximally useful militarily, and 3) legal-- under the most generous interpretation of the relevant laws.
In terms of vaccination for someone like me who's not vaxxed and also had Covid, this is basically a silver bullet to the argument 'it can't hurt,' since it's proof it doesn't help, either.
The null hypothesis claims another scalp.
Thanks for posting.
In my opinion the "keep the state from interfering" analysis misses the part where people do in fact screw up or act maliciously. One of the reasons we have a State is to punish people when they do so.
The laws insulating vaccine manufacturers from lawsuits are basically the opposite, though, since they're preventing judicial consequences from reaching manufacturers of faulty goods.
I don't have an answer here really, but the state is actively protecting the producers of the Covid 'Vaccine.' So the base impulse to rip the state out of the equation by the roots is understandable, given present circumstances.
Paleocon is probably the best term for me, but I'm far more 'Dissident Right' and small-L libertarian as well, as a result of being American.
I'm fond of the term "Neo-Traditionalist." Mainly because I'm trying to find a version of Traditionalism that won't straight up fail the way the Tradcons have. There has to be a hybridization of good ideas to combat the rot pervasive in the present system, some combination of useful societal traits that can resist the decay-- but I have yet to find it.
This is a great insight.
Every innovation since the Steam Engine has been devaluing labor and craftsmanship, replacing the artisan with the factory worker has been a disaster.
The outsourcing of energy production (and the effort and pollution entailed) lets polite society exist and denigrate the rural plebs who actually have to fight nature for the fuel which keeps the lights on.
The 'Green Revolution' is predicated on renewables making the blue collar unnecessary, which is why it is so monstrous and doomed to fail-- the whole left, from trans through green, all the way to revolutionary Marxism is an attempt to divorce Mother Nature. Minting 'a new man' from a 'tabula rasa' that doesn't exist.
Good fucking luck, Utopians. I hope you catch reality in the teeth. Hard & soon.
Yep. The Enlightenment has failed.
The Romanticists were right-- man is an emotional creature at heart, and we need to act accordingly in the political sphere. We need heroism and earnest spirituality (both within and without!) to combat the monsters that men can become.
This is why they tried to pivot to Warhammer+ and a subscription model, which failed.
I expect their next move will be transmedia appealing to the mythical 'broader audience' in an attempt to bolster their IPs so they can sell out to a media conglomerate.
I hope the execs responsible die in a fire.