@huxley: Chris Rufo is your kind of guy. Here, he details (in an article previously published at Politico), exactly how he is using left-wing tactics to push truth into left-wing media:
I wonder if dinosaurs were as loquacious as their avian descendants. Granted, they wouldn’t be “speaking” in English, but . . . I wonder if they were vocalizing up a storm. T-Rexes imitating Brontosauri, and suchlike.
Well the “Names” have dropped. The only problem is that the names include anybody Epstein talk to or about, not those that went to the Island or to other residences of his. A lot of smearing going on right now. I mean, Steven Hawking and Cate Blanchett? No context (to steal a word from Harvard).
“It depends on the context” is going to join “What difference, at this point, does it make?” as classic leftist lines to make fun of.
Yeah, so far some of the names that have appeared aren’t being accused of any wrong doing. Basically it’s anyone mentioned in testimony. It’s mostly in the context of “Did you ever give person X a massage?” and the response is “No”. Or a person is claimed to have travelled on Epstein’s private jet once but isn’t accused of anything salacious.
The relationship between epstein and say pritzker of the aspen institute the randy royal andrew and his kazakh ties are important
The Northwest Forest Plan of 1995 locked up 20 million acres of mature and old growth timber to save the spotted owl. The plan was driven by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the Threatened and Endangered Species Act (T&E Act) but signed off by the Forest Service.
As foresters we warned that the “saved acres” would simply all burn up and they did. The Forest Service response to the catastrophe? “Beyond the scope of the planners.” Really? That’s all you got? No apology? No change of direction? Dumbfounding at best. Dogma at its finest.
With their habitat now burned up the spotted owl population suffered an 85% reduction in nesting pairs. Foresters in Oregon concluded that the loss to their states economy was approximately 80 billion dollars per year. An entire timber industry that supported middle class families had been destroyed.
The Amnesty Act of 1872 is a United States federal law passed on May 22, 1872, which removed most of the penalties imposed on former Confederates by the Fourteenth Amendment, adopted on July 9, 1868. Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits the election or appointment to any federal or state office of any person who had held any of certain offices and then engaged in insurrection, rebellion, or treason. However, the section provides that a two-thirds vote by each House of the Congress could override this limitation. The 1872 act was passed by the 42nd United States Congress and the original restrictive Act was passed by the United States Congress in May 1866.
Specifically, the 1872 Act removed office-holding disqualifications against most of the secessionists who rebelled in the American Civil War, except for “Senators and Representatives of the thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh Congresses, officers in the judicial, military, and naval service of the United States, heads of departments, and foreign ministers of the United States.”[5]
In the spirit of the act, then United States President Ulysses S. Grant, by proclamation dated June 1, 1872, directed all district attorneys having charge of proceedings and prosecutions against those who had been disqualified by the Fourteenth Amendment to dismiss and discontinue them, except as to persons who fall within the exceptions named in the act.[5] President Grant also pardoned all but 500 former top Confederate leaders.
The 1872 law cleared over 150,000 former Confederate troops who had taken part in the American Civil War.
Gosh, who would have guessed that Stephen Hawking was such a swinger. Against all odds.
In spite of everything.
One’s respect must perforce rise immeasurably.
Embracing galaxies. Multitudes.
Black holes(?)
(OTOH, what are the chances that Epstein—the King of Innuendo?—is full of it…?)
ArtfldgrsShadow:
You may find this of interest. The mismanagement of which you speak is hardly atypical…
Michael Crichton’s website featured this speech, and another one (also linked to, below) prominently while he was alive. When he passed away, the leftist charlatans who took over his estate promptly removed it.
I do recommend saving both of these (right click, save as, “web page (full)” ) as a local copy, because the links to these things do seem to keep disappearing, as with so many other things the censorious left hates.
As-is, I had to take a URL from a known formerly good copy and use the Wayback Machine just to get a version that had the images.
These two are both excellent speeches, and should be widely known. And his work in this regard, from these two speeches to the novel State of Fear and his own commentaries about it, are being overtly suppressed, because he’s obviously right, and explains it so clearly that anyone can understand the chicanery going on…
P.S., I also strongly recommend obtaining, and reading, State of Fear if you have not done so.
I read most of this stuff years ago, so i am waiting for someone to bring up this and another few acts that set the stage AFTER the ratification so that they could have people fight in the Spanish American war.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each house concurring therein), that all political disabilities imposed by the third section of the fourteenth article of amendments of the Constitution of the United States are hereby removed from all persons whomsoever, except Senators and Representatives of the thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh Congresses, officers in the judicial, military, and naval service of the United States, heads of departments, and foreign ministers of the United States – Amnesty Act of 1872
One could make the argument to strengthen prior ones that the President was NOT part of the 14th Amendment!
I am guessing that they did not pay as much attention to laws that have not been applied in 300 years as they did Marbury, etc.
but i read them all…
not that it matters…
took a long time
I have no standing or license to submit an Amicus Curiae
Aside from the 1872 Act and the 1898 Act, the only Congressional action taken with respect to Section 3 before the 1970s involved Victor Berger, a member of the House of Representatives who, in 1919, was excluded from office by that body after criticizing American involvement in World War I. The ground for his exclusion was “giv[ing] aid or comfort to the enemies” of the United States. The 1870 Act, although still in effect at the time, was not invoked……….
its just patently ridiculous they ask us to believe,
Neo, I have a question: I am not seeing your link to Amazon. I have used it regularly when I go to shop on Amazon (as a small gesture of support for you). Have you been dropped? Or is this just a glitch?
John MacMichael:
I see a problem with it, too. I’ll have to check that. Thanks for letting me know.
paralogic is pathos subverting logos, and paramorality is pathos dominating ethos. No society can be healthy—or long survive—in such a state. The threads of paralogic and paramorality have to be identified and severed if we are to escape the calamities of ideological pseudo-realities. Non-contradiction and genuine moral authority are therefore fatal to ideological pseudo-realities.
the paramorality in play is always an inversion of the prevailing morality that is also parasitic upon it—namely, Nietzsche’s slave morality. In other words, it is a particular type of perversion of morality that can feel more moral than moral but is, in fact, evil. This is because the paramorality acts in service to a pseudo-reality, not reality, and is thus the domain of psychopathy, which, when inflicted on the normal masses, is evil.
The goal of the paramorality will always arise from and exist to favor people with particular psychopathologies who cannot otherwise cope with the discomforts of reality.
This implies that an ideological pseudo-reality’s most successful means of gaining strength is through appealing to the perceived victimhood of those people and whipping up the grievances of those who have suffered similar injustices with more dignity. When widely empowered, this should be treated as another symptom of impending civilizational calamity and a need to identify and reject the pseudo-reality manipulating these feelings.
you cant do anything without understanding
and so far, you guys dont have that, but you do have a lot of guesses.
it cannot be lost in this analysis just how crucial is the basic fact that pseudo-realities do not describe reality. This carries a number of consequences. For one thing, it commits the Party to being illogical and immoral, as it commits itself to relying upon paralogic and paramorality in place of logic and morality. As should be clear, it is to the greatest advantage of the pseudo-realists (the Party) for their paralogic to be the most illogical that it can while still passing a generic sympathizer’s sniff-test as “logical,” and it is likewise most advantageous for their paramorality to be maximally immoral in the same way.
you already forgot the dear that was a horse.
the czar offices of DEI
and on and on
if only there were manuals where people put down how this stuff functions…
there are..
but no one wants to read them…
why?
Normal people do not tend to recognize that a broken logic and twisted morality is being used to prop up an ideological vision—a pseudo-reality—and that the mental states of the people within it (or held hostage by it) are not normal. Some among them, particularly the very but not exceptionally smart, thus skillfully reinterpret the absurd and dangerous claims of the pseudo-realist ideologues into something reasonable and sensible when, in fact, they are not reasonable or sensible.
This, in turn, renders the pseudo-reality more palatable than it actually is and further disguises the distortions and underlying will to power presented by the ideological pseudo-realists. All of these features, and others, advantage the ideologue who, like some modern-day Zarathustra, speaks a pseudo-reality into existence, and all of these confer power upon that ideologue while stealing it from every participant in their social fiction, willing or not.
whole libraries of answers
your not going to beat the alchemists with logic
because they already broke your logic with illogical premises, and have an army of broken minds that believe anything – even that a deer is a horse and a beautiful horse at that
you dont see that it turns smart people into baggage carrying useful idiots who are in a kafkatrap… and implimenting improvements using the Aufhebung-style
Adoption of a pseudo-reality tends to hinge upon a lack of ability or will to question, doubt, and reject them and their fundamental presuppositions and premises of the pseudo-reality. Therefore, the “logical” and “moral” systems that operate within the pseudo-reality will always seek to manufacture this failure wherever they can, and successful pseudo-realist attacks will evolve these features like a social virus until their effectiveness is very high.
This deficiency is often the direct result of mental illness, usually paranoia, schizoidia, anxiety, or psychopathy, however, so maintaining and manufacturing these states in themselves and normal people is strongly incentivized by the false “logic” and false “morality” of the ideological pseudo-reality.
That is, the methods and means applied in service to a pseudo-reality will create and manipulate psychological weaknesses in people to get them to carry water for a destructive lie. The nicer, more tolerant, and more charitable a community is, supposing it lacks the capacity to spot these counterfeits early on, the more susceptible its members will tend to be to these manipulations.
yes but reality is a thing, as thanos said in a different context, it will come just the same,
pretend that criminals do not prey on innocents, and law enforcement keeps them at bay
pretend terrorist factions, are proper recipients of trust and government largesse, you will be burned,
one last post to spark you gys to thunkin
you can title it, why are the schools so screwed up at the highest levels.
Academic Pseudo-realities
Given the fact that they are the tool of manipulative people who exhibit high thirst for power and linguistic savvy, pseudo-realists tend to target the (bourgeois) upper-middle class whose livelihoods depend most upon their credentialing and acceptance by a group of peers, particularly the highly educated, though not most brilliant, among them. An abnormally high proportion of such individuals are employed in education, media, politics, and especially academia. (The most potent and dangerous ideological pseudo-realities are the kinds of absurdities only academics could truly believe.) Among its features, pseudo-reality, being a linguistic and social construction, enables a path to careerism and credentialing in these sorts of professions far more than in most others, which generates an incentive structure that favors the pseudo-realists’ ambitions.
Aside from base careerism among the otherwise under-accomplishing, these people are also particularly susceptible to rhetorical devices that arouse the possibility that they are insufficiently intelligent, sensitive, or spiritually enriched, and the pseudo-reality will then be presented as the proper “interpretive frame” that resolves these defects.
Maybe it will be suggested, for example, that the pseudo-realist has a more complete or sophisticated understanding of reality that the intended target doesn’t or can’t understand (often by appealing to the infinitely complicated “systemic nature” of problems that are otherwise quite straightforward).
Maybe a moral or spiritual attack will be made that renders them feeling unlikable by others or self (often through accusations of moral complicity and crimethink). The fact that the pseudo-reality does not conform correctly to actual reality will generate cognitive dissonance that, in the circumstances, will be usefully generative of more indoctrination into the basic premises of the pseudo-reality. This is, of course, a specific manifestation of the process of cult indoctrination and reprogramming.
This feature of pseudo-realist cultism strengthens as the mark accepts more of the premises of the pseudo-reality and thus divorces himself further and further from reality and normal people who live within it. This slowly traps adherents, who have almost no escape mechanism, even when ideological off-ramps are made plainly available.
Without even mentioning that they know how their daily bread is buttered—and by, and in relation to, whom—because those who accepted pseudo-reality have distorted their understanding of the world (their epistemology) to the internal (bogus) “logic” of the pseudo-reality and have subverted their ethics (their morality) to the (evil) “moral” system employed by it, they are well and truly trapped by the ideology the pseudo-reality serves.
With a distorted logic that can no longer perceive reality except as a counterfeit, they lack the necessary epistemic resources to challenge the ideology, even within themselves.
The prison of hell is a funny place
the locks are not on the outside keeping them in
the locks are on the inside and they don’t want to let themselves out – artfldgr
i could say more, but to what point?
nothing has worked, and i can’t unlock the door from outside whose locks are on the inside!
Artful, did you write the essay about Pseudo Reality? It’s brilliant.
Art,
I like your last post. It explains quite well the underlying psychology of 90% of the people I worked with in academia over the last 20 years as the left took over. Pseudo-reality is a perfect description of how they live. I had one sociology faculty, who had never taken a physics course ever, argue with me that “black physics” is just as valid, if not more than, “white physics”. “White physics” developed by white men in Europe ignores the “reality” of black people. I asked her (yes, many of the worse were women) to explain how a ball dropped in Nigeria does not accelerate at the same rate as one dropped in Berlin. No answer; just more babble about racism against black physics.
But there is more at Ace Of Spades, such as the Atlantic attempting to come to terme with this
John MacMichael:
I put up a new Amazon link. It’s on the right sidebar (or down below on smaller devices). Or see this, which also should work. Thanks again!
Pseudo-reality is an important concept and seems very much related to Milan Kundera’s imagology vs. reality and/or the split between virtuals and physicals. I discussed both dichotomies in this previous post.
I think Snyders ambition was a little like that of Dino De Laurentis with Dune, (which they crib from mercilessly)
Ditto on the upvotes for ArtfldgrsShadow’s post about pseudo-realities!
Mark Levin talked about a book about Pseudo Events, which might be somewhat related.
Geez. I got into an argument with ChatGPT today about higher ed.
I complained about how academia is now a dogmatic environment which vilifies disagreement and is hostile to half of the country.
Chat kept telling me how important free and open discussion is in higher education and that one ought to engage in Constructive Dialog with universities.
Look. I know I’m talking to a computer program. And I know that program is largely trained by my ideological enemies. It’s not trained to be totally Woke … yet.
I worry about AI. I worry about AGI (Artificial General Intelligence). But at least as much I worry about AWI (Aritficial Woke Intelligence).
@huxley: Chris Rufo is your kind of guy. Here, he details (in an article previously published at Politico), exactly how he is using left-wing tactics to push truth into left-wing media:
https://christopherrufo.com/p/the-conservative-mastermind-behind
I wonder if dinosaurs were as loquacious as their avian descendants. Granted, they wouldn’t be “speaking” in English, but . . . I wonder if they were vocalizing up a storm. T-Rexes imitating Brontosauri, and suchlike.
Well the “Names” have dropped. The only problem is that the names include anybody Epstein talk to or about, not those that went to the Island or to other residences of his. A lot of smearing going on right now. I mean, Steven Hawking and Cate Blanchett? No context (to steal a word from Harvard).
“It depends on the context” is going to join “What difference, at this point, does it make?” as classic leftist lines to make fun of.
Yeah, so far some of the names that have appeared aren’t being accused of any wrong doing. Basically it’s anyone mentioned in testimony. It’s mostly in the context of “Did you ever give person X a massage?” and the response is “No”. Or a person is claimed to have travelled on Epstein’s private jet once but isn’t accused of anything salacious.
The relationship between epstein and say pritzker of the aspen institute the randy royal andrew and his kazakh ties are important
The Northwest Forest Plan of 1995 locked up 20 million acres of mature and old growth timber to save the spotted owl. The plan was driven by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the Threatened and Endangered Species Act (T&E Act) but signed off by the Forest Service.
As foresters we warned that the “saved acres” would simply all burn up and they did. The Forest Service response to the catastrophe? “Beyond the scope of the planners.” Really? That’s all you got? No apology? No change of direction? Dumbfounding at best. Dogma at its finest.
With their habitat now burned up the spotted owl population suffered an 85% reduction in nesting pairs. Foresters in Oregon concluded that the loss to their states economy was approximately 80 billion dollars per year. An entire timber industry that supported middle class families had been destroyed.
https://cowboystatedaily.com/2024/01/03/what-happened-to-americas-middle-class-an-old-foresters-perspective/
Thanks for the link Kate. Rufo is great. He has an editorial today in the WSJ as well.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-we-squeezed-harvard-claudine-gay-firing-dei-antisemitism-culture-war-a6843c4c?st=upeck22tnitlogd&reflink=article_copyURL_share
Waiting for this and a few others to come up
The Amnesty Act of 1872 is a United States federal law passed on May 22, 1872, which removed most of the penalties imposed on former Confederates by the Fourteenth Amendment, adopted on July 9, 1868. Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits the election or appointment to any federal or state office of any person who had held any of certain offices and then engaged in insurrection, rebellion, or treason. However, the section provides that a two-thirds vote by each House of the Congress could override this limitation. The 1872 act was passed by the 42nd United States Congress and the original restrictive Act was passed by the United States Congress in May 1866.
Specifically, the 1872 Act removed office-holding disqualifications against most of the secessionists who rebelled in the American Civil War, except for “Senators and Representatives of the thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh Congresses, officers in the judicial, military, and naval service of the United States, heads of departments, and foreign ministers of the United States.”[5]
In the spirit of the act, then United States President Ulysses S. Grant, by proclamation dated June 1, 1872, directed all district attorneys having charge of proceedings and prosecutions against those who had been disqualified by the Fourteenth Amendment to dismiss and discontinue them, except as to persons who fall within the exceptions named in the act.[5] President Grant also pardoned all but 500 former top Confederate leaders.
The 1872 law cleared over 150,000 former Confederate troops who had taken part in the American Civil War.
Gosh, who would have guessed that Stephen Hawking was such a swinger. Against all odds.
In spite of everything.
One’s respect must perforce rise immeasurably.
Embracing galaxies. Multitudes.
Black holes(?)
(OTOH, what are the chances that Epstein—the King of Innuendo?—is full of it…?)
ArtfldgrsShadow:
You may find this of interest. The mismanagement of which you speak is hardly atypical…
Michael Crichton’s website featured this speech, and another one (also linked to, below) prominently while he was alive. When he passed away, the leftist charlatans who took over his estate promptly removed it.
I do recommend saving both of these (right click, save as, “web page (full)” ) as a local copy, because the links to these things do seem to keep disappearing, as with so many other things the censorious left hates.
As-is, I had to take a URL from a known formerly good copy and use the Wayback Machine just to get a version that had the images.
These two are both excellent speeches, and should be widely known. And his work in this regard, from these two speeches to the novel State of Fear and his own commentaries about it, are being overtly suppressed, because he’s obviously right, and explains it so clearly that anyone can understand the chicanery going on…
Fear, Complexity, & Environmental Management in the 21st Century
https://web.archive.org/web/20140320234920/http://www.blc.arizona.edu/courses/schaffer/182h/Climate/Fear,%20Complexity,%20&%20Environmental%20Management%20in%20the%2021st%20Century.htm
Aliens Cause Global Warming
https://web.archive.org/web/20050308194714/https://www.s8int.com/crichton.html
(or):
https://stephenschneider.stanford.edu/Publications/PDF_Papers/Crichton2003.pdf
P.S., I also strongly recommend obtaining, and reading, State of Fear if you have not done so.
I read most of this stuff years ago, so i am waiting for someone to bring up this and another few acts that set the stage AFTER the ratification so that they could have people fight in the Spanish American war.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each house concurring therein), that all political disabilities imposed by the third section of the fourteenth article of amendments of the Constitution of the United States are hereby removed from all persons whomsoever, except Senators and Representatives of the thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh Congresses, officers in the judicial, military, and naval service of the United States, heads of departments, and foreign ministers of the United States – Amnesty Act of 1872
One could make the argument to strengthen prior ones that the President was NOT part of the 14th Amendment!
I am guessing that they did not pay as much attention to laws that have not been applied in 300 years as they did Marbury, etc.
but i read them all…
not that it matters…
took a long time
I have no standing or license to submit an Amicus Curiae
Proclamation 208—Suspension of Prosecution for Violations of the Office-Holding Prohibition in Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-208-suspension-prosecution-for-violations-the-office-holding-prohibition
they wont let me take the bar, even if i pass those legal sats
Following the Spanish-American War and a renewed desire for national harmony, Congress enacted the Amnesty Act of 1898 (“1898 Act”), which removed the disabilities of the approximately 750 remaining former Confederate officeholders who had been subject to Section 3 disqualification
https://www.nycbar.org/member-and-career-services/committees/reports-listing/reports/detail/disqualification-clause-history-and-recommendations-for-amendments#:~:text=Following%20the%20Spanish%2DAmerican%20War,subject%20to%20Section%203%20disqualification.
Aside from the 1872 Act and the 1898 Act, the only Congressional action taken with respect to Section 3 before the 1970s involved Victor Berger, a member of the House of Representatives who, in 1919, was excluded from office by that body after criticizing American involvement in World War I. The ground for his exclusion was “giv[ing] aid or comfort to the enemies” of the United States. The 1870 Act, although still in effect at the time, was not invoked……….
its just patently ridiculous they ask us to believe,
Neo, I have a question: I am not seeing your link to Amazon. I have used it regularly when I go to shop on Amazon (as a small gesture of support for you). Have you been dropped? Or is this just a glitch?
John MacMichael:
I see a problem with it, too. I’ll have to check that. Thanks for letting me know.
oh never mind
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1742981190800589296
paralogic is pathos subverting logos, and paramorality is pathos dominating ethos. No society can be healthy—or long survive—in such a state. The threads of paralogic and paramorality have to be identified and severed if we are to escape the calamities of ideological pseudo-realities. Non-contradiction and genuine moral authority are therefore fatal to ideological pseudo-realities.
the paramorality in play is always an inversion of the prevailing morality that is also parasitic upon it—namely, Nietzsche’s slave morality. In other words, it is a particular type of perversion of morality that can feel more moral than moral but is, in fact, evil. This is because the paramorality acts in service to a pseudo-reality, not reality, and is thus the domain of psychopathy, which, when inflicted on the normal masses, is evil.
The goal of the paramorality will always arise from and exist to favor people with particular psychopathologies who cannot otherwise cope with the discomforts of reality.
This implies that an ideological pseudo-reality’s most successful means of gaining strength is through appealing to the perceived victimhood of those people and whipping up the grievances of those who have suffered similar injustices with more dignity. When widely empowered, this should be treated as another symptom of impending civilizational calamity and a need to identify and reject the pseudo-reality manipulating these feelings.
you cant do anything without understanding
and so far, you guys dont have that, but you do have a lot of guesses.
it cannot be lost in this analysis just how crucial is the basic fact that pseudo-realities do not describe reality. This carries a number of consequences. For one thing, it commits the Party to being illogical and immoral, as it commits itself to relying upon paralogic and paramorality in place of logic and morality. As should be clear, it is to the greatest advantage of the pseudo-realists (the Party) for their paralogic to be the most illogical that it can while still passing a generic sympathizer’s sniff-test as “logical,” and it is likewise most advantageous for their paramorality to be maximally immoral in the same way.
you already forgot the dear that was a horse.
the czar offices of DEI
and on and on
if only there were manuals where people put down how this stuff functions…
there are..
but no one wants to read them…
why?
whole libraries of answers
your not going to beat the alchemists with logic
because they already broke your logic with illogical premises, and have an army of broken minds that believe anything – even that a deer is a horse and a beautiful horse at that
you dont see that it turns smart people into baggage carrying useful idiots who are in a kafkatrap… and implimenting improvements using the Aufhebung-style
yes but reality is a thing, as thanos said in a different context, it will come just the same,
pretend that criminals do not prey on innocents, and law enforcement keeps them at bay
pretend terrorist factions, are proper recipients of trust and government largesse, you will be burned,
one last post to spark you gys to thunkin
you can title it, why are the schools so screwed up at the highest levels.
The prison of hell is a funny place
the locks are not on the outside keeping them in
the locks are on the inside and they don’t want to let themselves out – artfldgr
i could say more, but to what point?
nothing has worked, and i can’t unlock the door from outside whose locks are on the inside!
Artful, did you write the essay about Pseudo Reality? It’s brilliant.
Art,
I like your last post. It explains quite well the underlying psychology of 90% of the people I worked with in academia over the last 20 years as the left took over. Pseudo-reality is a perfect description of how they live. I had one sociology faculty, who had never taken a physics course ever, argue with me that “black physics” is just as valid, if not more than, “white physics”. “White physics” developed by white men in Europe ignores the “reality” of black people. I asked her (yes, many of the worse were women) to explain how a ball dropped in Nigeria does not accelerate at the same rate as one dropped in Berlin. No answer; just more babble about racism against black physics.
Ace covers the latest news on Harvard and soon to be ex-presiden Gay. The Bee holds pride of place with the knockout headline “Liberals Warn Harvard President Ouster Could Lead to Terrifying World Where People Are Held Accountable for Their Own Actions”.
https://babylonbee.com/news/liberals-warn-harvard-president-ouster-could-lead-to-terrifying-world-where-people-are-held-responsible-for-their-own-actions
But there is more at Ace Of Spades, such as the Atlantic attempting to come to terme with this
John MacMichael:
I put up a new Amazon link. It’s on the right sidebar (or down below on smaller devices). Or see this, which also should work. Thanks again!
Pseudo-reality is an important concept and seems very much related to Milan Kundera’s imagology vs. reality and/or the split between virtuals and physicals. I discussed both dichotomies in this previous post.
I think Snyders ambition was a little like that of Dino De Laurentis with Dune, (which they crib from mercilessly)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzczijDtnFY
Ditto on the upvotes for ArtfldgrsShadow’s post about pseudo-realities!
Mark Levin talked about a book about Pseudo Events, which might be somewhat related.
Geez. I got into an argument with ChatGPT today about higher ed.
I complained about how academia is now a dogmatic environment which vilifies disagreement and is hostile to half of the country.
Chat kept telling me how important free and open discussion is in higher education and that one ought to engage in Constructive Dialog with universities.
Look. I know I’m talking to a computer program. And I know that program is largely trained by my ideological enemies. It’s not trained to be totally Woke … yet.
I worry about AI. I worry about AGI (Artificial General Intelligence). But at least as much I worry about AWI (Aritficial Woke Intelligence).
Neo, I thought you and some others would enjoy this post, as it shows a NYC not yet totally lost to decay.
https://notthebee.com/article/a-day-in-new-york-city-a-pictorial