"What better way to erode the distinction between care and killing, indeed to erase it altogether, than to insist that the one is not permitted without the other?"
Maine, USA, there's a fight in the legislature about extending abortion right up to the moment of birth. Why not, say, one month later? Such legislation opens the door to all sorts of mayhem.
Here in Quebec there are, I'm told, only five palliative care homes left, of 35, that don't offer MAID. Loi 11 demands that they begin to do so. My own view is that they should refuse (as with abortion, so with euthanasia). No human law can over-ride natural and divine law, where the conscience is concerned. Refuse, and let the chips fall where they may. Then, if the authorities force closure, get busy creating an alternative. "Do good, and evil will not overtake you... When you did not hesitate to rise and leave your dinner in order to go and lay out the dead, your good deed was not hidden from me, but I was with you." (Tobit 12)
-Would the teacher extend the rights she so passionately speaks of to those who choose medical autonomy? Specifically, do the unvaccinated have rights in her view? After all, the right to decline a medical procedure is the law, right? Well, at least we thought we had a legal system that would protect our rights. We don't.
-Quebec is a hyper-secularized state with an authoritarian impulse and no inner-core principles. Legault personifies this assertion to me. The abhorrent law is just an outflow and reflection of our moral standards. Which aren't very high it appears.
-All it took to take down decades of building ethical standards and codes was a hyped-up medical threat. It was one of the first casualties in this medical catastrophe. One example of ethics gone awry is the loathsome Arthur Caplan.
'In London, Ontario, where 10 percent of the population identifies as Muslim, the Council of Imams advised, “When it comes to activities related to ‘Pride Month’…parents play an integral role in the education of their children and are critical to empowering them to remain steadfast on their faith and beliefs.”' Agreed, and not only regarding Pride Month. But, as I argued in Nation of Bastards (2007), the effect of legislating same-sex marriage is to isolate citizens from mediating institutions, particularly the natural family and religious institutions, leaving them naked and alone before the state, and those activists in office who make use of the state (https://roddreher.substack.com/p/a-white-house-apocalypse).
NB: If marriage is not procreative, it is not educative either, and events such as those of Pride Month (in point of fact, this happens year round) will be forced on children against parental wishes. An alliance of parents, taking actions such as the withdrawal of children from these events and, if necessary, from public education, is requisite here.
I didn’t know Del Noce but his analysis is indeed apt. Scientism reduces the human essence to mere mechanism - neither biology nor divinity playing any defining role - which requires technocracy and totalitarianism as the inevitable political form. All resistance to this must be eradicated as an organic deviation from the rise of the machine. Singularity AI will therefore be degendered denatured and demoral. And will be best shaped to rule us all as James Lovelock (ian Flemings “Q” mad scientist & ex MI5 asset) proposed in his last book.
His treatment of totalitarianism is thorough. "The past must be erased, and thus even repentance... Revolutionary violence cannot be discussed in terms of morality or immorality. The ethical dimension and revolutionary thought are absolutely incompatible." (p. 21).
You will find it interesting, Michael, that with secularization it is especially the secularization of theology itself that concerns him. Or, as Jesus might say, "if the salt has lost its savour..."
Thank you, Dr. Farrow, for the excellent article and the book recommendation. I've ordered two copies: one for my husband and myself, and one for a priest we know.
I am going to get hold of his work. I am currently working at a think tank in Budapest on CBDCs and proposals to link them to 'carbon footprinting' which will be totalitarianism on speed and global since all central banks are working on CBDCs including BoE ECB US Fed, Canada, China, Russia, Indonesia etc. They will be linked to digital ID.
I filled out the Bank of Canada's survey on the topic, just to see what kind of questions were asked. That little exercise, about which I will try to find time to write, confirmed my suspicions. In Canada, we will be told that we want it, just like we are told that we want censorship. Cash will be offered alongside the digital dollar, but only transitionally. The latter will be incentivized, and when enough people have accepted it, the former will be withdrawn. The imposition of digital money and digital credentials for travel and commerce is the end of liberty as we've known it. That is perfectly obvious. What is not obvious, or not yet, is whether a majority of people still value liberty enough to fight for it. Otherwise put: whether they realize that the death of God is also the death of ethics, and the death of ethics the death of liberty.
In the UK and here in Hungary people are mostly oblivious to the soft cage they’re constructing. There are weird Perspex e gates on all supermarkets here that are ready for another pandemic and digital ID lockdown so preventing people buying food who haven’t taken toxic drugs but when i tried to photograph them i was scolded by a security guard and most appear unconcerned. In the uk most were celebrating coronation of an Uber technocrat who announced the Great Reset on behalf of Klaus Schwab and who makes more money from ‘green energy’ than any other human being since all the wind farms in teh North Sea pay hundreds of millions to the crown estate in licenses. He also owns SERCO which got one of the largest UK government contracts in history for ‘test track and trace’ which it thankfully failed to deliver on but serco kept the money. The Windsors have the golden share in this company that has hoovered up around one quarter of all privatised government service contracts in the UK.
Another book worth reading, and less demanding to read: Mark Riebling's Church of Spies. Given what happened in Germany a century ago, and that what is now approaching is fascism on a global scale. we must expect trouble on all these fronts. Civil disobedience will be necessary and for it we must prepare.
"What better way to erode the distinction between care and killing, indeed to erase it altogether, than to insist that the one is not permitted without the other?"
Maine, USA, there's a fight in the legislature about extending abortion right up to the moment of birth. Why not, say, one month later? Such legislation opens the door to all sorts of mayhem.
Here in Quebec there are, I'm told, only five palliative care homes left, of 35, that don't offer MAID. Loi 11 demands that they begin to do so. My own view is that they should refuse (as with abortion, so with euthanasia). No human law can over-ride natural and divine law, where the conscience is concerned. Refuse, and let the chips fall where they may. Then, if the authorities force closure, get busy creating an alternative. "Do good, and evil will not overtake you... When you did not hesitate to rise and leave your dinner in order to go and lay out the dead, your good deed was not hidden from me, but I was with you." (Tobit 12)
-Would the teacher extend the rights she so passionately speaks of to those who choose medical autonomy? Specifically, do the unvaccinated have rights in her view? After all, the right to decline a medical procedure is the law, right? Well, at least we thought we had a legal system that would protect our rights. We don't.
-Quebec is a hyper-secularized state with an authoritarian impulse and no inner-core principles. Legault personifies this assertion to me. The abhorrent law is just an outflow and reflection of our moral standards. Which aren't very high it appears.
-All it took to take down decades of building ethical standards and codes was a hyped-up medical threat. It was one of the first casualties in this medical catastrophe. One example of ethics gone awry is the loathsome Arthur Caplan.
Thank you Douglas. About the Edmonton story, I wrote a little column on this same substack platform. Cheers. https://gordonnickel.substack.com/p/its-not-a-joke-mansour
'In London, Ontario, where 10 percent of the population identifies as Muslim, the Council of Imams advised, “When it comes to activities related to ‘Pride Month’…parents play an integral role in the education of their children and are critical to empowering them to remain steadfast on their faith and beliefs.”' Agreed, and not only regarding Pride Month. But, as I argued in Nation of Bastards (2007), the effect of legislating same-sex marriage is to isolate citizens from mediating institutions, particularly the natural family and religious institutions, leaving them naked and alone before the state, and those activists in office who make use of the state (https://roddreher.substack.com/p/a-white-house-apocalypse).
NB: If marriage is not procreative, it is not educative either, and events such as those of Pride Month (in point of fact, this happens year round) will be forced on children against parental wishes. An alliance of parents, taking actions such as the withdrawal of children from these events and, if necessary, from public education, is requisite here.
I didn’t know Del Noce but his analysis is indeed apt. Scientism reduces the human essence to mere mechanism - neither biology nor divinity playing any defining role - which requires technocracy and totalitarianism as the inevitable political form. All resistance to this must be eradicated as an organic deviation from the rise of the machine. Singularity AI will therefore be degendered denatured and demoral. And will be best shaped to rule us all as James Lovelock (ian Flemings “Q” mad scientist & ex MI5 asset) proposed in his last book.
His treatment of totalitarianism is thorough. "The past must be erased, and thus even repentance... Revolutionary violence cannot be discussed in terms of morality or immorality. The ethical dimension and revolutionary thought are absolutely incompatible." (p. 21).
You will find it interesting, Michael, that with secularization it is especially the secularization of theology itself that concerns him. Or, as Jesus might say, "if the salt has lost its savour..."
Thank you, Dr. Farrow, for the excellent article and the book recommendation. I've ordered two copies: one for my husband and myself, and one for a priest we know.
I am going to get hold of his work. I am currently working at a think tank in Budapest on CBDCs and proposals to link them to 'carbon footprinting' which will be totalitarianism on speed and global since all central banks are working on CBDCs including BoE ECB US Fed, Canada, China, Russia, Indonesia etc. They will be linked to digital ID.
I filled out the Bank of Canada's survey on the topic, just to see what kind of questions were asked. That little exercise, about which I will try to find time to write, confirmed my suspicions. In Canada, we will be told that we want it, just like we are told that we want censorship. Cash will be offered alongside the digital dollar, but only transitionally. The latter will be incentivized, and when enough people have accepted it, the former will be withdrawn. The imposition of digital money and digital credentials for travel and commerce is the end of liberty as we've known it. That is perfectly obvious. What is not obvious, or not yet, is whether a majority of people still value liberty enough to fight for it. Otherwise put: whether they realize that the death of God is also the death of ethics, and the death of ethics the death of liberty.
In the UK and here in Hungary people are mostly oblivious to the soft cage they’re constructing. There are weird Perspex e gates on all supermarkets here that are ready for another pandemic and digital ID lockdown so preventing people buying food who haven’t taken toxic drugs but when i tried to photograph them i was scolded by a security guard and most appear unconcerned. In the uk most were celebrating coronation of an Uber technocrat who announced the Great Reset on behalf of Klaus Schwab and who makes more money from ‘green energy’ than any other human being since all the wind farms in teh North Sea pay hundreds of millions to the crown estate in licenses. He also owns SERCO which got one of the largest UK government contracts in history for ‘test track and trace’ which it thankfully failed to deliver on but serco kept the money. The Windsors have the golden share in this company that has hoovered up around one quarter of all privatised government service contracts in the UK.
There is a new group being stigmatized I have found: those of us who use cash.
Another book worth reading, and less demanding to read: Mark Riebling's Church of Spies. Given what happened in Germany a century ago, and that what is now approaching is fascism on a global scale. we must expect trouble on all these fronts. Civil disobedience will be necessary and for it we must prepare.