tag > Culture
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The YouTube Revolution in Knowledge Transfer - by Samo Burja (2019)
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“When I was in my teens, I thought that the world would get better. But today's teenagers probably think that the world would get worse. We must put the brakes on such a deteriorating mindset.”
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"She Blinded Me With Science" is a fitting motto for our times (and a fun tune by Thomas Dolby)
Prediction: After all is set and done with the current global "ordo ad chao" terror campaign, science - the leading institutions of post-"enlightenment" humanity - will widely be perceived as a morally bankrupt, failed enterprise. Calls for the separation of state and science and something akin to Nuremberg trials 2.0 will get much louder - accelerating the implosion of the established scientific system. Just to be clear, I am not referring to the idealized fantasy version of science that people tirelessly praise (the scientific method, skeptical inquiry, etc.), but science as it is practiced in actuality today (Global domination by a few western colonial elite universities and corporations. An epic reproducibility crisis. A cult of gate-keepers and closed-sourced "sacred knowledge". Massive corruption and privatization on all levels. Money buys any scientific "truth", "credibility" and personnel. Militarization of most scientific domains. Dreadful moral/ethical track-record. Out of touch with the needs of people. Et cetera.)
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“I guess every man loves Occam’s razor until it’s time to shave his balls.” - Tyson Yunkaporta
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"Defend Billionaires. We're just like you." This is a real advertising as seen in the USA 2021
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Hoʻoponopono - a Hawaiian practice of reconciliation and forgiveness.
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Intellectual Masturbation - an accurate description of the wast majority of works by "intellectuals"
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Return of the city-state (aeon)
Nation-states came late to history, and there’s plenty of evidence to suggest they won’t make it to the end of the century
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A good representation of the state of western societies: Wile E. Coyote about to fall down
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Manufacturing (New Normal) “Reality” - by CJ Hopkins
The ultimate goal of every totalitarian system is to establish complete control over society and every individual within it in order to achieve ideological uniformity and eliminate any and all deviation from it. [...] We are right in the middle of this process currently, which is why everything feels so batshit crazy. The global capitalist ruling classes are implementing a new official ideology, in other words, a new “reality.” [...] The pressure to conform to the new “reality” is already intense and it’s going to get worse as vaccination passes, public mask-wearing, periodic lockdowns, etc., become normalized. [...] We’re not going to wake the New Normals up with facts. If we could, we would have done so already. This is not a civilized debate about facts. This is a fight. Act accordingly.
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Poll about the (rotten) state of freedom of speech in Germany.
Question: Do you feel that today in Germany one can voice political opinions freely, or is it better to be careful? Blue: One can voice opinions freely. Red: It is better to be careful.
