#think
When the #NewYorkTimes lost its way
America’s media should do more to equip readers to #think for themselves
source: https://www.economist.com/1843/2023/12/14/when-the-new-york-times-lost-its-way
Whether or not American democracy endures, a central question historians are sure to ask about this era is why America came to elect Donald Trump, promoting him from a symptom of the country’s institutional, political and social degradation to its agent-in-chief
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It is hard to imagine a path back to saner American politics that does not traverse a common ground of shared fact
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A #journalism that starts out assuming it knows the answers can be far less valuable to the reader than a journalism that starts out with a humbling #awareness that it knows nothing
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Even columnists with impeccable leftist bona fides recoiled from tackling subjects when their point of view might depart from progressive orthodoxy
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Illiberal journalists are not out to achieve social justice as the knock-on effect of pursuing truth; they want to pursue it head-on. The term “objectivity” to them is code for ignoring the poor and weak and cosying up to power
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#press #freedom #America #USA #politics #election #opinion #future #reality #clickbait #internet #scandal #online #media #criticism #society
https://www.bitchute.com/video/eI5GLYiX0THK/
Are you tired of the #chaos? The #uncertainty? It seems like the #world has been turned upside down. But what if I told you that this so-called " #new #normal" is not about our #safety, but about something much more #sinister? Let me #unveil the #true #purpose of the new normal.... If you don't already #know.
#WEF ARE BEYOND EVIL AS THEY GRAB ALL THE LOOT
The #Hidden #Agenda - #Think about it
Before you ask whether we live in a #simulation, you should first check whether you can be sure of your own #existence?
"I Think, Therefore I Am" - can it really be that simple?
Why can I think? Because I have been taught a #language and this language determines my #thinking and my #personality. Changing your language can change your personality. According to this, one is programmed by society by learning the language. However, by using language, I use learned thought patterns and am no longer really free in my thinking. But without language I couldn't think these thoughts at all.
So am I just a prisoner within the walls of my own thoughts or are they those of #society? Have I built my prison myself or do I have to break out of society's prison? Can I even break out within the simulation?
I suspect that everyone creates their own simulation that could be called truth. We are conditioned to take over the truth from society in order to become a useful member of it.
We can now try to become the hero or queen of our own story (simulation). I suppose that's all we can achieve in life.
But since I'm not even sure if I'm really real, I'm afraid I have to deny your existence. It is much more likely that you are just part of my simulation.
#question #life #philosophy #think #problem #education #matrix #mindfuck #story #truth
https://sp.rmbl.ws/s8/2/I/-/f/I/I-fIj.caa.mp4?u=3&b=0 If you only ever watch 1 thing on this topic, you would struggle to do better than this.
"You know why they didn't work? It turns out coronavirus is a very malleable model, and as a matter of fact, every publication on vaccines for coronavirus, from 1990 to 2018, every single publication concluded, it escapes the vaccine impulse, because it modifies too quickly for vaccines to be effective. And since 1990, to 2018, that is the published science, ladies and gentlemen."
#coronavirus #patents #drdavidkeith
#ecr #covid19 #science #mandates #terror #domesticterrorism #premeditated #publishedplans
#lockdowns #masks #vaccines
#casefatalityrate #infectionfatatlityrate #conflation #switch #scam #forprofitmedicine #genocide #anthrocide #depopulation #operationlockstep #wealthtransfer #wealthextractionmaximisation #establishedbestpractices #pathology #followthescience #europeanparliament #whosafraidofthecommoncold #bioterrorism #bioracketeering #duress #wilfulignorance #patients #healthcare #history #cleavagesite #mRNA #PCR and even in #germtheory #thisiswrong #cytokinestorm #spikeprotein #bioweapon #autopsy #leavenostoneunturned #humancull #facethehorror
"it escapes the vaccine impulse, because it modifies too quickly for vaccines to be effective"
And this was known. Even through the #fluvaccinescandal in the 00s. It is not viable to vaccinate this part of our virome. As was, known, masks don't help, and do harm, decades earlier, through many studies. As was known the benefits of vitamin D3 and sunlight, and socialising, and exercise, and fresh air, and no stress... All the things hampered or even outright insisted against. In contravention of all #establishedbestpractices.
Shows the #danger of #terror to get us to lose our ability to #think, just react and #obey a #strongman to save us. #weareinalotoftrouble. #massformationpsychosis. #racket.
to those complaining about homosexuals involved in campaigning for the human rights of palestinians,
are you saying because palestinian rules, like many largely muslim states, criminalise homosexual activity, that homosexuals should not campaign for the human rights of palestinians?
when you rhetorically ask if those homosexuals thought about it, did you think about it?
or did you get tricked by that simple psyop, into calling for the continued imprisonment unto genocide of palestinians?
got the moral high ground? or do you feel the ground crumble beneath your feet?
just because someone wrongs you does not mean you should wrong them.
#twowrongs
#think #thinkmore #carryoncaring #carryoncompassion #checkyourhyperbole #checkyourvalues #israel #palestine #homosexuality #lgbq #humanrights
an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
lunar ramblings
queries, concepts - post-post-modern quiz
I believe that all the lonely people should get together and end loneliness
in our lifetime
I believe in making Peace The issue
I believe we are all part of a plan of our
own forming
I believe people want to get along up
to the point when they want to fight and
expend pent up rage
I believe people project on our opponents what
we perceive as our horrific sins
I believe there is ultimately
nothing to win
and you?
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It's just a phase, this material trance. We awake into a world ready made and monkey-see our way into a social construct we call "me". We do this both individually and all together. We go through the metamorphoses of growth and experience, trying to piece it together into useful sense. In that effort, we try out different roles, different styles, different socio-political theories and practices. It is a systemic spiral we travel, incrementally changing until we reach a critical mass, a crisis of belief and boundary redefining. The world we think we know, have created in our own minds, shifts. Before we get to that crisis, we explore and overextend, we wallow to ridiculous degree to fully engorge, to fully play out the possibilities and consequences of the reigning paradigm. We have learned, have seen, that tools, technology can give us the illusion of grabbing more than our hands can hold, of smiting our enemies and increasing our security. We have learned, have seen, that grabbing and hoarding the material luxuries and symbols of power can give small, scared, weak people an illusion of power and command, and the kind of security that implies. However, we are learning, some are seeing, that the material trappings are not the feelings themselves, are not truly worthwhile as goals or means. It is a phase we learn through, then, if we have been paying appropriate attention, move from to try out other theories, other practices, as those possibilities become more obvious. Of course, there is always the chance that what hasn't truly made us stronger will kill us.
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why not, while we are having this conversation, create a future through promotion in which, like utopian dreams of fiction and reverie, a world in which our basic needs, even material whimsies, are taken care of by the fruits of our imagination (technology) while we (all our material needs attended) live in creativity, expansive relationship, giving and receiving the nurturance of each other now that we are not bound by "making money" to make us slaves to the shit work of those in charge to survive?
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If you start with the assumption that government is the problem, you are negating the possibility of using government sensibly as an organizing entity. If you start with the assumption that government is the solution you tend to look at all problems as demanding laws to manage. If you start with the assumption that government is a tool for use by the people, you can start to look at where it is useful and how, and where other tools might be more efficacious.
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It can be argued that more equitable distribution of access to resources is both more democratic as the majority of people can vote with their dollars for the kinds of goods and services we want, and better for economic growth and the optimal functioning of market economy.
Nobody is getting free stuff. This idea is a shared illusion. Everyone is getting paid. Those who produce and sell the products, those who work and pay taxes, those who are paid to contribute economically as consumers while keeping their dysfunctions out of the workplace, are all being paid. No one is losing. It's a win/win/win.
Many of the people reviled with concerned that they get "free stuff" are working very hard; and not getting sufficient compensation to pay for basic needs. Others are seriously disabled, requiring major accommodations to be effective employees. Most employers prefer not to make such accommodations (quite understandably), so these people can not be employed. Government or private concerns could develop special training and projects to employ those who could work, but rarely do.
Others, though not traditionally disabled have such chaotic lives (for any of many possible reasons) that they are unemployable.
Others will be employed and able to make their own contributions to the general revenue; but for right now that has not happened.
Yet, these people are all actively contributing to the overall economy while their lives are sorting out. Fewer people are actively sick and destitute on the streets, and thus not bringing down property values, causing problems for local businesses, presenting disincentives for people of means to shop or enjoy public space, or presenting even greater problems for health care and crime industries.
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There appears to be a spell long cast upon the people to integrate into our basic understanding of the world this idea of market based economy as a given. Economics, money, even mathematics, are human constructs, ideas, not reality. When economic systems, ideas we have joined in promoting, do not well serve human enterprise and needs, the people ought not feel it is we who must adjust to serve the economy. Rather, it is those ideas that need adjustment to better fit our purpose.
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people have a natural desire to perform useful functions, to grow skills through experience, to feel productive and meaningful within their community, to belong Freud found that our most important values are work and love. Money is a medium of exchange, the way we in modern societies distribute resources. There is no real reason why money need be tied to work.
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learning, mentally and physically growing, is what children do naturally
to twist that natural curiosity and expansion into forced inactivity and silence except on command of authority is a great deal of what has made us so much less than we could be, so much worse than we would be
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People get the ego all wrong. I do understand -- it is what we are taught.
Ego is meant to be the organizing principle in our consciousness. It is a hard-working, important tool if we are to be social beings in a material world. When ego is well used, it allows us to make sense of the flood of sensations, organize time/space/tools/intent into worthwhile projects, create appropriate interfaces for smooth social commerce, and generally function as strong, self-motivated, sane actors. Because we are misinformed, we often grow misformed egos that are not well used or healthy. This can create deep resentments, anti-social inclinations, general confusion about one's place in the world. Rather than denigrating ego, we would do well to befriend our various strands and become more whole, more able, more socially useful and personally joyful.
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Having regard for oneself, respect for that first person singular subjective locus, why would that be considered negative? It sounds like a philosophy which subsumes the self into the benefit of the whole, or of some particular selves who have power over the whole. If the self were like a cell within a systemic whole, though, such self-regard would not be a negative, it would be unimaginable -- unless the cell had consciousness, yet no idea of the greater system, in which case self-regard would be completely appropriate for a creature on its own. Bragging, puffing up, presenting oneself as more important are not attributes of self-regard. They are attributes of insecurity, a need for constant validation, a role played to gain attention or misdirect. The person who is secure within their own skin is generally genial, with no need to take the spotlight, unless that is their role in a particular performance. So why is the ego, the self, the first person singular, the focused consciousness maligned?
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the root of oppressive behavior is a complex of pain and fear which expresses as anger against an assigned scapegoat which escalates to violence and institutionalizes as oppression
#discuss?
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Violence feels good. It is a cathartic release of rage. When done as a group activity, it helps to solidify the group. Especially in religious cultures that have severe restrictions on sex, tribal violence can be a useful binding agent, and a useful warning to those who might dissent.
What do you #think?
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One would think (if one were me, I guess, though obviously others) that honesty would be not only a cornerstone, but a rationale for relationship of any meaning. We have the option to find ourselves, learn more than we can alone, in relationship. Not only the reflection, but the changing, the interaction of bonding, the realizing of self that only becomes in interaction or communication.
Yet so much of our time together is about masking, hiding, mistrust and denial of understanding. Is this because our significant role models lied to us, misunderstood their relationship to us, treated us as "children" as if that were a separate species? Is part of it schoolyard divisiveness, taunts and hostilities, groupings and betrayals? Is part of it feeling unacceptable?
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Probably the best policy effort for all of our futures would be compassionate emotional education from pre-K all the way through schooling. People need to be taught to dialog, and too much "education" is about keeping still and being led by experts/authorities. People seem to be raised in tightly closed environments where family traumas get to repeat like Greek tragedies without ever being aired to heal. We learn to lick our wounds in the dark and band together out of fear-fed angers against anyone out there. Too many lives are wasted, piled on the heap, left to rot without feeling wanted or alive. All the lonely people who cry silently without seeing all the lonely people crying silently who could become happy kin. We really need to learn to do it better.
Have studies been done on peer therapy, like the AA model of sponsors -- people brought together with others with whom they can talk anytime 24/7 about what is bothering them, training in active listening, teams so no one person carries too much burden on their time and to bring in wider voices and ways of caring and understanding -- kind of like a caring and attentive family?
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something more than the absence of war, but including that as well Peace is an attitude of calm deliberation and acceptance of all that is on its own terms with the will to move in a more generally healthy and respectful direction; not lack of disagreement, but lack of disrespect (except for disrespect for the disrespectful)
What do #you think?
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so sick (in my gut, in my head, in my heart, in my arms) of all the divisiveness. Men can't understand women. Whites can't understand blacks. Rich can't understand poor. Left can't understand right ...
That's why we have language, art, long-term complicated relationships, community projects and festivals and -- tell me your #story
L̲F̲O̲ | F̲r̲e̲q̲u̲e̲n̲c̲i̲e̲s̲
L̲F̲O̲ | F̲r̲e̲q̲u̲e̲n̲c̲i̲e̲s̲
https://youtu.be/XBIgYn_Oc-w
http://redirect.invidious.io/XBIgYn_Oc-w
#LFO #Frequencies #Simon #From #Sidney #Nurture #Freeze #Tan #Ta #Ra #You #Have #To #Understand #El #Ef #Oh! #Love #Is #The #Message #Mentok #1 #Think #a #Moment #Groovy #distortion #Track #14 #RandomShit #Musical #Interlude #long #version ;)
#Music on #Blue-Magnetic-Storm
#RicOcasek 3/23/1949 #Birth US vocalist, rhythm guitarist and songwriter (The Cars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9rU5gHcsAw
#You Might #Think
Mental health and cannabis - good chat - curious about cannabis
Cannabis, Mental Health, Consciousness Research, Neurodivergence with Miyabe Shields PhD
very glad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNH0whizEtw got re-uploaded with the sound corrected.
#cannabis #mentalhealth #neurodiversity #people
#research #moreresearch #needmoreresearch #dontneedmoreresearch
#wellbeing #health #suicideideation #anxiety #depression
#science #dsm #pharmaceuticals #sideeffects #psychiatry
#goodchat #goodrants #goodstimming #carboxylgroup n_n
#life #society #capitalism #categories #masking #copingmechanisms
#tribe #connection #neurodivergentcommunity #honesty
#conversation #depth #shallow #superficial #pleasantries #realtalk
#abstract #curiosity #iloveit #fringe #taboo #outofthebox
#emotionalconnection #creativity #music #study #unquantifiable
#bullying #preinternetbullying #anonymity #pseudonymity
#stress #emotions #dissociation #feel #presence #feeling
#think #psyche #intuitive #stereotype #counterintuitive
#evolveouropinion #selfinventory #selfreflect #introspect
#mindfully #mindfullness #dynamic #childhoodmemories
#formativeyears #behavior #identity #subconscious #brain
#unconscious #association #prejudice #ptsd #forget
#beinthemoment #thepowerofnow #teaching #education
#learnedadaption #learnedbehaviour #compensating
#perception #honest #healing #familiarise #unknown #fear
#importantconversations #logicalconsistency #integrity
#insightful #ireallylovecannabis #cannabissavedmylife
#alovingandgivingplant #alivingplant #cultivation #learn
#beautifulplant #prettyplant #coevolved #neverforgetthefirsttime
#funplanttogrow #healingplant #sogiving #sograteful
#sharing #personaljourney #beingmoreopen #share
#religious #kinship #theherb #community #closeness
#aspiescientists #hermit #comingout #activetherapy
#consciousness #consciousnessresearch
#curiousaboutcannabis
#MiyabeShieldsPhD
[2023-04- 5 16:49:30] <@Digit> i see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNH0whizEtw has been re-uploaded. ... hopefully without the sound completely de-syncing between both halves of the conversation, like the prior upload's painful comedic fail.
[2023-04- 5 16:49:31] ^ ► YouTube :: Cannabis, Mental Health, Consciousness Research, Neurodivergence with Miyabe Shields PhD | BTS 87 :: Duration: 01:40:15 :: Views: 23 :: Uploader: Curious About Cannabis :: Uploaded: 2023-04-04 :: 5 likes
looking forward to part two too. :)
God is Pro-Life
https://i.imgur.com/nAq6cYy.mp4
27 sec video w/sound
did not #think that through #prolife
https://www.bitchute.com/video/HC81ZHVKCZOq/
Tesco Clubcard WHAT THE #PUBLIC #REALLY #THINK! / #Hugo Talks2
#Update: 142 names, occupations & nations, responsible for creation & deployment of the engineered #Covid #virus &/or creation &/or deployment of #mRNA #injections, &/or #illegal #lockdowns, #mandates & other violations of #law relating to Covid.
Including #government officials, #corporate executives & others. All of these individuals are complicit in the mass #murder of millions of people #worldwide & must be brought to #justice.
Please reply with additional #names if you can #think of any not included.
#corporations #pfizer #biontech #vaccineinjuries #vaccinedeaths #eu #massmedia #socialmedia #usa #uk #un #nuremberg2 #canada #australia #newzealand #massmurder #ngo #criminals #criminalconspiracy #who #crime #astrazeneca #janssen #johnsonandjohnson #massmurder
[2022-08- 5 13:48:10] * sublim20 alerts the woke police on phryk
[2022-08- 5 13:55:08] * Digit remembers when being awake was shorthand for having become aware of the grand corporate political nepotistic revolving-door rigged-game crookedness, before those crooks orwellianised it, spun it, not only to redirect attention away from themselves to protect themselves, but to get those who would turn on them, to turn on each other instead, and so now wonders what to call being aware of this... "awake woke awakening"?
#meanwhileinirc
#awake #orwellian #woke #awakening
#advertisingormarketing #playtopeopleandseparatethem #ego #identity #divideandconquer
#aware #falsedichotomy #falseawakening #notevenawakening #moretobeawareof #questionmore
#alliknowisiknownothing #falsedawn #polydawn #learning #unlearning #alwaysmore #think #OBEY
#satire #platoscave #matryoshkamatrix #igetit #orwell #contortion #conflation #conversion #route1 #route2 #naivecertainty
#itsjustnaturalevolutionoflanguage #paynoattentiontothemanbehindthecurtain #conspiracytheorist #witch #heretic
#theemperorwearsnoclothes #thisisnotwhatawakelookslike #inaseaofmisinformationeverybodysashill
#wokepolice #thoughtpolice #thisisnotwhatfreedomlookslike #thisisnotwhatsocialjusticelookslike #youhavetolookwithbettereyesthanthat #theeyesoffear #theeyesoflove #bringalamp
ps, is woke a sort of past tense of awake, so it's asleep again? ;]
canny you dont get riled into obliviously weaponising your loving compassion, against your good intentions. :)
