I'm more referring to the general public. Antivax sentiment will increase because of the shenanigans pulled. That will likely spill over into distrust of other areas of science. There have just been a lot of incidents lately that kills trust in anything and everything. The election crap. Covid crap. CRT crap. Peaceful protest crap. The general public isn't terribly rational in the first place, but continued trust would be extremely irrational, even if they get it wrong.
I generally don't buy into conspiratorial arguments, because common goals and common groupthink explain things better, but the push to have covid recovered people take the vaccine screams of conspiratorial corruption and greed. There's never been evidence that induced immunity works better than natural immunity against any virus, that I'm aware of. It strikes me as a way to get pharma paid for dosing people who don't need it, and it's a big fucking market.
Empire of lies
Can't take credit for that one. George Orwell quote popularized by Ron Paul. "Truth is treason in an empire of lies."
Abuse of technology and science aren't limited to the pandemic, though.
While I think most vaccines are fine, the corporate/government alliance has burned through any logical trust it was once given by this point. Whether it's tech giants, or pharma giants, academia, or media. It's shown to be an empire of lies.
Could be interesting, if they took the effort to accurately portray it (as least as much as possible). I joke about Mansa Musas Mediterranean "Make It Rain" Bling Tour, but Mali society and system of adjudication are genuinely interesting, since it's one of the few historical African societies that written info survives from. I can't see it being made, though. Pretty sure Mali was collapsed by the time white man showed up, and if you can't make it about evil white, what's even the point?
Probably why I comment, along with my contrarianism.
Was raised to be colorblind, and mostly was. Never judged people individually, but never liked African art, whether it was big titty fat ass traditional sculpture, gaudy color schemes, or inner city music. Still don't judge people individually, and still don't like African art. I'm just not colorblind anymore.
It mostly changed when I got older, and the whole Zimmerman thing happened. It wasn't so much the incident, as the way blacks rallied around an individual because of his blackness, rather than the circumstances around the incident. This got me looking into UCRs a bit, and I was rather shocked at just how massive the black/white disparity was. Then we got to Mike Brown, and blacks rallied the same way, even though the evidence was even more damning towards this particular Nuffin. Racial solidarity was apparently a powerful force, and beyond such trivialities as fact.
By this point, I started to realize just how indoctrinated I had been. The differences are real, and stark. I thought for a long time fatherlessness and culture were the base issue, but studies on genetic disparities in IQ and impulse control between racial backgrounds (even twin studies with unrelated environmental factors) were showing a different picture.
In some ways, I commend what they tried to indoctrinate me with, because it was effective. The lies and omissions were the only hope for a multiracial society. But a system that relies solely on lies and omission is an immoral one.
Wells are white privilege.
https://waterwellsforafrica.org/
https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/17907/1/OR11067.pdf
Also Asian. But they don't count, I guess. Or they're white. Or something.
Yes, but the problem is that liberty is only suitable for a moral people, and we've long since fallen into immorality. It does give some tools for a people to preserve their morality (which have been severely curtailed), but it does nothing inherently to establish it.
It seems only centuries of theocracy can do that.
Not at all. In a truly free society, we have the liberty in the social arena to stigmatize and ostracize the worst aspects of society, and discourage their proliferation. We've largely lost that liberty, in the name of government mandated "equality".
That being said, I am a firm believer that people should live how the please as long as they are not hurting anyone and if an adult wants to "change their gender" more power to them. I'll support your right to live how you want, and I hope they can respect my right to worship how I choose.
This is the attitude that causes the fall into immorality. By accepting sin (which is just behavior that is socially destructive), self-control is lost, and people without self control are unworthy and incapable of the responsibilities of liberty.
Which is why moral destruction is a great way to gain control over people.
Pretty much. When I looked at it last, I think multiplication and division weren't recommended until grade 3 or 4. Mostly drawing pictures of boxes to add and subtract until then.
We were expected to know our times table by the end of 1st.
A part of Common Core was to have the smart and gifted kids help the struggling ones, putting the impetus of teaching on the group (a bit of marxist collectivism, there). Retarding the smart kids was their new way of trying to close the achievement gap.
I know what you're saying, but my point is, they don't come here for public corporations or the welfare state. They come here because the nations they built never developed very far, and they're poor.
Efforts to stop them are a bit out of line with libertarian ideology, at least as it used to stand.
As soon as it looks like Americans might not pay for illegals to work, they leave. If you stop paying illegals to come here, then they won't come either
Americans individually will pay bottom dollar for labor. So you have to flex a little authoritarianism to make something like this happen. "Guy's Remodelling", picking up 4 random Mexicans on the corner each morning, isn't a public corporation. It's just a supply and demand thing.
There's not supposed to be a deal.
You unintentionally hit on the overarching problem with libertarianism. Incidentally, it's the problem with all ideologies that ignore basic human nature.
It is a deal, as much as an unattended $20 is.
I don't have a weltanschauung as you imagine it.
Good. Me neither. But I've compared crime rates of random meth infested WV and KY former coal towns, and can't seem to find any place in the black belt with similar population and unemployment that comes close with black populations over 35%. I'm looking for the unicorn, too, believe it or not. Not that it's representative, but I'd love some contrary evidence.
When I speak of genetic inclination, it's only relevant towards impulsive acts. I fully believe whites and asians are more predisposed to premeditated crime, though it's not something I've looked too deeply into. But premeditation speaks to reason, so it makes sense. It's also doesn't seem to be the primary problem with violence.
No, you're being intentionally obtuse.
Here's probably the most relevant bit.
In a 1920 report, the Colored Public Health Nurse of Tulsa wrote that one outdoor toilet was shared by eight houses—and one of those houses had eleven rooms. Only six blocks of Greenwood’s streets were paved and on the ditch-lined, dirt roads of the remaining twenty-nine blocks, cows, chickens, dogs, and other animals roamed freely.117 Another report written that same year by the American Association of Social Workers stated that while the report painted “a rather dismal picture, the colored community has very outstanding assets—its people.”
Seems to capture the reality of Greenwood pretty well.
"clearly Greenwood was a hive of scum and villany"
Your words. Not mine.
It was a prosperous middle-class neighborhood.
Your words. Not mine.
The truth is in the middle. Stop being so hyperbolic.
I prefer to look at is giving them momentum, so when the pendulum reverses, it reverses hard.