covid Who Are The Behavioural Insights "Nudge Unit" And 77th Brigade? Does a government have any kind of authority to use psychological theory or military resources against its own citizens? Is it lawful to privatise a "social purpose" company of civil servants which can evade accountability to the public or its elected representatives? Since when did Western governments decide Soviet-style experimentation
politics The One Thing Missing From The "Great Reset": Democratic Consent. Nobody voted for it. Nobody even had the chance to cast a ballot or have a say. Its "designers" have never been elected and hardly anyone knows their names. Our "leaders" seem to think democracy is a bit of a drag to their plans for humanity's supposed greater good and
screenwriting The Hollywood Writer's Wokescore™ - A Geiger Counter For Filtering Out Irradiated Garbage We all know it when we see it. Audiences are experts in sensing – and ignoring - the intentions of writers and filmmakers when they attempt to surreptitiously program their perception of reality. Stalin became fascinated with it and made the industrial capture of the art form a top political priority.
academia The Need For New Laws Dealing with Frivolous And/Or Malignant Scholarship Outlawing Critical Race Theory and other "divisive concepts" in the education system is a welcome step, but it doesn't address the much bigger problem underneath. "Divisive" doesn't necessarily mean "bad", intellectually-speaking: Galileo and Darwin were divisive; debates divide at the end to discover the result. For sixty years, academics have
china Fourth Generation Culture Warfare and the Trojan Tiger Despite obvious comparisons to Orwell's literary observations of Stalin's regime, it's impossible not to notice how the Chilling Effect from the recent social media mania in liberal Western democracies is so reminiscent of the Chinese Communist Party's social suppression techniques. The US Attorney General's extraordinary denouncement of American companies "collaborating"
