(Originally posted in December of 2023.)
It has now been two years since the height of the Covid compulsions, and even though some people are clinging to their rhetoric, almost no one is lining up for each new injection. After all, everyone got the disease regardless. The Covid vaccine (“You won’t get or spread Covid”) was, in modern parlance, an epic fail.
And so I’d like to examine what happened to us, then find a way back to living with each other in decency and in peace. Continue reading “The Covid Calculus”
Anyone teaching young men to seek responsibility and meaning has a place near my heart, especially when he or she delivers their message in a humane way. And Professor Peterson has certainly done that, at great personal cost. Nonetheless, I’m hearing from young people, asking me to address another part of his teaching that is impacting negatively upon them. And after getting substantially the same report from multiple directions, I feel compelled to write about it. Ah well…
As I noted last time, a small roll of pages recently showed up at my door. They appeared to have been ripped from a history book entitled 2000–2150 AD: The Emergence of Modernity. I am completing my transcription of them today, verbatim. Make of it what you will. 
The ruling cliques of the West have run off the rails, and we all know it. Who among us would volunteer for the outrages spewed at us over the past several years? 
A few hundred years ago it was a standard medical practice to bleed sick people: to make cuts in various parts of their bodies and to drain blood from them. Most people submitted to this useless and frequently harmful treatment without question.
You’re in a bad situation; you’re depressed, frightened, and need a solution. I’ll do my best to give you one. But first, please believe me that I know what it’s like to be in desperate circumstances.
The other day a friend contacted me, looking for an article that explained why centralization is bad. At first I was sure there had to be many, but I came up dry. Hence today’s post. 
You work long, hard days, but you never have enough to be secure. Your husband or wife probably works too, and yet you still never get ahead. Now think about this: Your great-grandparents worked hard, and they did get ahead. You work just as hard, but you don’t make the same progress.
For clarity, let’s define “evil” as “the willful abuse of other humans.”