A New Page & The State of the Podcast
Hello subbies!
Just a note to say hello and let you know that I’ve finally built a page with video highlights from the show. It’s a mind numbing process. It means uploading clips then waiting for Substack to process them. I have quite a few now so it’s going to be a process. Bizarrely enough, it doesn’t appear that Substack included page navigation into its app! So, if you're like most folks who always use their phone, you can find it here. For whatever reason, it’s far easier to find on a laptop! WTF, Substack? Horrific shades of 2009’s Blogger!
My podcast has, again, been in hibernation for a few months. I’ve apologized for and/or tried to explain it away over the years so won’t bother again. Apparently, this manic/inactive cycle is just how I roll. Until I figure out (and fix) why, I’ll just apologize again and emphasize, again, that it’s not for lack of material or ideas! Here’s a few I’m kicking around for the show.
Let’s call this part cheap whorish promotion.
In addition to the agitation propaganda material I’ve threatened to return to, Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger have unearthed more evidence that the US gubmint tried sidestepping the 1st Amendment by interfering, and even colluding, with social media companies to silence wrongthought on their platforms, all in the name of “fighting disinformation” and fake news. It’s the establishment of an acronym-filled Ministry of Truth and features some familiar names. Tristan Harris, Renee DiResta, Jonathan Haidt, and other folks I looked to in the past with hopeful, apparently desperate eyes when the Social Media Disease was front and center. These folks have apparently decided the answer is the naked censorship of unofficial truth which, conveniently, puts them alongside our ever-so-trustworthy government, in position of Truth Arbiter. Hey! What could go wrong? I’m shocked, again, by the lack of news coverage on this, but probably shouldn’t be. This stuff is at the top of my to-do list.
My last episode was at the end of August, a month before October 7th unearthed then unleashed domestic Hamas cells burrowed into Congress and college campuses. Rest assured—there’s content! The similarities between Hamas, and by association Palestinians, to our own Indians are striking. It’ll be uncomfortable for many of you, especially if you believe Israel is committing “genocide” while Hamas are just rapey-but-righteous freedom fighters. You should brace yourselves.
In related news, would a white Harvard president have been fired by now? We all know Wokentology demands that “diversity” trumps merit, but it’s starting to look even more like John McWhorter was right. Apparently even Harvard doesn’t believe their performative and obligatory Diversity hires are even capable of upholding their basic standards and must be protected from fundamental accountability. Go figure!
California is bringing media “education” to its schools. That’ll be a hoot and derptastic holler. Whatever it is, it’s bound to be either a cringe-worthy joke, an intensified woke Sunday School class, or both. Why? Because a genuine and authentic media/propaganda education program would also work to decimate both the advertising and political systems, not to mention Wokentology itself. We can’t have that! Does anyone actually believe Greasy Gavin is going that route?
Authentic intellectual autonomy is, by its very nature, self-isolation. Also, John Callender and his warning about the relationship between independence-of-thought and personal loyalty.
This Unity Via Division shit is a campaign leading to Unity Via Forced Compliance. I’ve talked about Utopia’s Facade before; how totalitarianism and its gulags are always inevitable because they’re REQUIRED to maintain the illusion of righteous unanimity to discourage saboteurs, or anyone with common sense who knows better, from spreading cancerous facts about life in Socialist La La Land. What is cancel culture and wrongthink censorship if not forced compliance?
Liberty’s First Crisis: an excellent book on the 1790’s and the Alien/Sedition Acts reminding us we’ve been here before. Technology, and what it’s exposed in human nature, is still the story here.
End of Whorish Manipulation
Finally, I’m tinkering with the idea of *technically* monetizing my Substack as a preemptive strike against imaginary future hecklers.
What’s that Boy Scout saying? “Always be paranoid?”
As of now, I can only manage comments by turning all of them on or off. There’s a way to limit comments to “paying” subscribers, thereby weeding out undesirable trolls, but only when I set myself up to actually receive payment! Right now my stuff doesn’t get enough attention for it to matter. If it ever comes to that, I prefer to be prepared. And fret not. Access to all of my material will remain free of charge. It’s that important!
Right?
RIGHT?!?!
Whatever…
Merry Christmas and thanks for the support!