We are entering territory where the idea of decertifying some universities and some political parties is becoming worthy of consideration. How many injection deaths and injuries can now be anticipated because of the zombie antics of those in the process of destroying the University of Western Ontario and other asylums like it? Clearly there needs to be serious attention given to revving up the criminal law as well as civil law in addressing the lunacies of the COVID-19 power grab.
• UK’s Office for National Statistics, published a dataset on deaths by vaccination status in England between Jan. 1, 2021 and May 31, 2022, revealing that one in every 482 people vaccinated against COVID-19 in England died within a month of receiving a dose of a COVID-19 injection.
• Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) data released by CDC showed 1,385,401 reports of adverse events from all age groups following COVID-19 vaccines, including 30,347 deaths and. 252,294 serious injuries between Dec. 14, 2020 and Aug. 12, 2022. These numbers continue to rise each week and still represent only a small fraction of total injury and harm occurring.
• A study published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine found that individuals fully vaccinated and boosted against COVID-19 actually recover markedly more slowly from the illness and remain five times more contagious 10 days after infection.
Thanks for another necessary and impeccably Swiftian dispatch, Douglas. We are firmly in the realm of Anything Goes and Nothing Matters; what I like to call the "or else" era.
The funny thing is, many of us act surprised. Come to think of it, far too many don't even notice. Yet, the formative circumstances have been creeping us on us for quite some time now, as you rightly allude to in your comment herein. The chickens have come to roost, so to speak.
We should have been more vigilant. We should have been more humble. We might have at least forestalled the vomiting forth of the likes of Albert Bourla, Bancel and Harari et al had our culture been more attentive and responsibly grounded in moral fundamentals.
Instead, we allowed ourselves to be cajoled and seduced by an epic "free lunch" story which has led us straight in to this damnation.
In an essay entitled "Two Minds", which I highly recommend, Wendell Berry got to the core of our post-modern ailments:
"It is often proposed, nowadays, that if we would only get rid of religion and other leftovers from
our primitive past and become enlightened by scientific rationalism, we could invent the new
values and ethics that are needed to preserve the natural world. This proposal is perfectly
reasonable, and perfectly doubtful. It supposes that we can empirically know and rationally
understand everything involved, which is exactly the supposition that has underwritten our
transgressions against the natural world in the first place."
[...]
Obviously we need to use our intelligence. But how much intelligence have we got? And what
sort of intelligence is it that we have? And how, at its best, does human intelligence work?
In order to try to answer these questions I am going to suppose for a while that there are two
different kinds of human mind: the Rational Mind and another which, for want of a better term, I
will call the Sympathetic Mind. I will say now, and try to keep myself reminded, that these terms
are going to appear to be allegorical, too neat and too separate – though I need to say also that
their separation was not invented by me.
The Rational Mind, without being anywhere perfectly embodied, is the mind we all are supposed
to be trying to have. It is the mind that the most powerful and influential people think they have.
Our schools exist mainly to educate and propagate and authorize the Rational Mind. The Rational Mind is objective, analytical, and empirical; it makes itself up only by considering facts;
it pursues truth by experimentation; it is uncorrupted by preconception, received authority,
religious belief, or feeling. Its ideal products are the proven fact, the accurate prediction, and the
“informed decision.” It is, you might say, the official mind of science, industry, and government.
The Sympathetic Mind differs from the Rational Mind, not by being unreasonable, but by
refusing to limit knowledge or reality to the scope of reason or factuality or experimentation, and
by making reason the servant of things it considers precedent and higher.
The Rational Mind is motivated by the fear of being misled, of being wrong. Its purpose is to
exclude everything that cannot empirically or experimentally be proven to be a fact.
The Sympathetic Mind is motivated by fear of error of a very different kind: the error of
carelessness, of being unloving. Its purpose is to be considerate of whatever is present, to leave
nothing out.
The Rational Mind is exclusive; the Sympathetic Mind, however failingly, wishes to be
inclusive.
These two types certainly don’t exhaust the taxonomy of minds. They are merely the two that the
intellectual fashions of our age have most deliberately separated and thrown into opposition."
Dear Douglas, I feel a bit of despair in this post. Isn't it time to create new institutions of education? Can we initiate a new form of knowledge based on truth and rationality? Let us defund those devil institutions and create a world of real knowledge. Universities, Parlements and actual institutions are rotten. Why don't we organize a real revolution with new forms of knowledge that would bring down the actual tyranny? I would like to propose great ideas about knowledge. But nobody is ready, in the West, to ear them...
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We are entering territory where the idea of decertifying some universities and some political parties is becoming worthy of consideration. How many injection deaths and injuries can now be anticipated because of the zombie antics of those in the process of destroying the University of Western Ontario and other asylums like it? Clearly there needs to be serious attention given to revving up the criminal law as well as civil law in addressing the lunacies of the COVID-19 power grab.
Useful idiots of the 'love your neighbour' variety: https://statement.biologos.org/
See further:
Anarchy from Above, part III: https://douglasfarrow.substack.com/p/anarchy-from-above-part-iii
A New Catholicism / Test of Fidelity: https://douglasfarrow.substack.com/p/a-new-catholicism
And behind all that, Let the Dead Bury their Dead: https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2020/05/18/let-the-dead-bury-their-dead/
So the (first) legal challenge has failed: https://www.westernstandard.news/news/judge-dismisses-students-challenge-of-western-universitys-vaccine-mandate/article_e6539788-3cf2-11ed-8c95-7b46f105641c.html. What, if not appeal, is left? Defiance, which tests Western's resolve. Or withdrawal from a corrupt institution. Or a $1 donation to that same institution, that one may be numbered among its donors and so excepted from its regulation? In the long run, the most effective is probably to vote with one's feet. Punish corrupt institutions, support those with integrity.
Here's another bit of good news: donors and prospective donors, no less, are exempt: https://thepostmillennial.com/donors-and-prospective-donors-exempt-from-western-university-vaccine-policy/. I suppose that includes Pharma folk, for example, but it might in principle include you too. I can only assure you that it doesn't include me.
From Children's Health Defense (see here for links to the sources of evidence: https://childrenshealthdefense.salsalabs.org/chd-deplatformed)
• UK’s Office for National Statistics, published a dataset on deaths by vaccination status in England between Jan. 1, 2021 and May 31, 2022, revealing that one in every 482 people vaccinated against COVID-19 in England died within a month of receiving a dose of a COVID-19 injection.
• Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) data released by CDC showed 1,385,401 reports of adverse events from all age groups following COVID-19 vaccines, including 30,347 deaths and. 252,294 serious injuries between Dec. 14, 2020 and Aug. 12, 2022. These numbers continue to rise each week and still represent only a small fraction of total injury and harm occurring.
• A study published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine found that individuals fully vaccinated and boosted against COVID-19 actually recover markedly more slowly from the illness and remain five times more contagious 10 days after infection.
DBF: This finding is not apparent in the summary provided by the authors, but a close look at Figure 1 seems to confirm it: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2202092. See also this: https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/vaccinated-higher-risk-dying-covid-vaccine-canadian-province-manitoba/. And what does all that do the logic of Western's policy, even leaving aside the first two bullet points? The only logic at work is the logic of fear.
I wrote about Western a few months ago when it became apparent they would continue to employ the Scientism of the New Religion and Medical Lysenkoism.
https://mortalcoil.substack.com/p/ethical-bankruptcy-and-western-university
Douglas, have you seen or heard Vera Sharav's testimony at Nuremburg 75?
If not, I leave this for you and your readers.
Holocaust Survivor, Vera Sharav Speech at Nuremberg 75
https://sp.rmbl.ws/s8/2/N/o/C/s/NoCsf.caa.mp4?u=3&b=0
We would do well to take her seriously.
Thanks for another necessary and impeccably Swiftian dispatch, Douglas. We are firmly in the realm of Anything Goes and Nothing Matters; what I like to call the "or else" era.
The funny thing is, many of us act surprised. Come to think of it, far too many don't even notice. Yet, the formative circumstances have been creeping us on us for quite some time now, as you rightly allude to in your comment herein. The chickens have come to roost, so to speak.
We should have been more vigilant. We should have been more humble. We might have at least forestalled the vomiting forth of the likes of Albert Bourla, Bancel and Harari et al had our culture been more attentive and responsibly grounded in moral fundamentals.
Instead, we allowed ourselves to be cajoled and seduced by an epic "free lunch" story which has led us straight in to this damnation.
In an essay entitled "Two Minds", which I highly recommend, Wendell Berry got to the core of our post-modern ailments:
"It is often proposed, nowadays, that if we would only get rid of religion and other leftovers from
our primitive past and become enlightened by scientific rationalism, we could invent the new
values and ethics that are needed to preserve the natural world. This proposal is perfectly
reasonable, and perfectly doubtful. It supposes that we can empirically know and rationally
understand everything involved, which is exactly the supposition that has underwritten our
transgressions against the natural world in the first place."
[...]
Obviously we need to use our intelligence. But how much intelligence have we got? And what
sort of intelligence is it that we have? And how, at its best, does human intelligence work?
In order to try to answer these questions I am going to suppose for a while that there are two
different kinds of human mind: the Rational Mind and another which, for want of a better term, I
will call the Sympathetic Mind. I will say now, and try to keep myself reminded, that these terms
are going to appear to be allegorical, too neat and too separate – though I need to say also that
their separation was not invented by me.
The Rational Mind, without being anywhere perfectly embodied, is the mind we all are supposed
to be trying to have. It is the mind that the most powerful and influential people think they have.
Our schools exist mainly to educate and propagate and authorize the Rational Mind. The Rational Mind is objective, analytical, and empirical; it makes itself up only by considering facts;
it pursues truth by experimentation; it is uncorrupted by preconception, received authority,
religious belief, or feeling. Its ideal products are the proven fact, the accurate prediction, and the
“informed decision.” It is, you might say, the official mind of science, industry, and government.
The Sympathetic Mind differs from the Rational Mind, not by being unreasonable, but by
refusing to limit knowledge or reality to the scope of reason or factuality or experimentation, and
by making reason the servant of things it considers precedent and higher.
The Rational Mind is motivated by the fear of being misled, of being wrong. Its purpose is to
exclude everything that cannot empirically or experimentally be proven to be a fact.
The Sympathetic Mind is motivated by fear of error of a very different kind: the error of
carelessness, of being unloving. Its purpose is to be considerate of whatever is present, to leave
nothing out.
The Rational Mind is exclusive; the Sympathetic Mind, however failingly, wishes to be
inclusive.
These two types certainly don’t exhaust the taxonomy of minds. They are merely the two that the
intellectual fashions of our age have most deliberately separated and thrown into opposition."
https://www.clarionreview.org/2015/02/two-minds/
And for the teetotalers, may I suggest three helpings of probiotic yogurt?!
Dear Douglas, I feel a bit of despair in this post. Isn't it time to create new institutions of education? Can we initiate a new form of knowledge based on truth and rationality? Let us defund those devil institutions and create a world of real knowledge. Universities, Parlements and actual institutions are rotten. Why don't we organize a real revolution with new forms of knowledge that would bring down the actual tyranny? I would like to propose great ideas about knowledge. But nobody is ready, in the West, to ear them...
Buy my t-shirt: I followed the science and got myocarditis AND Covid.
For any students out there, I help run a Canadian student group “Students Against Mandates”. We are looking to take legal action against the past ‘vaccine’ mandates committed by U Manitoba. You can support here https://studentsagainstmandates.square.site/product/donate/4?cs=true&cst=popular
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