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Option #1
Watch my doc in its entirety:
Option #2-A
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Option #2-C
Read Sowell’s article that will take you all of 2 minutes: Since he flagrantly ignored the evidence — opting to peddle partisan hackery that poisons political discourse to this day.
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Whichever option you choose
Please address my arguments on the merits or don’t bother saying anything at all:
If you abide my requests, we can have a conversation. Speaking of which: This Sowell supporter below had no trouble understanding my site (and even politely replied with the makings of what real conversation looks like). To be sure, he could have investigated it further and asked some questions on that front, but to get the ball rolling — this will do:
And is worlds away from what I’m used to.
- He acknowledges the marque evidence driving the story
- While he already knew the truth about the tubes — he’s keeping the door open on Sowell (as to whether he “fell for it or lied about it”)
- It’s the most clear-cut case of lying by omission imaginable, but right now — all the matters is that he’s allowing the conversation to breathe (which means we can build on it)
- He did something for me and now it’s my turn to respond in kind. Barking back with “No, No, No, he lied” — is not how it’s done
- Genuine conversation is a journey — and along the way in this pursuit of truth & understanding, are glorious discoveries in the willingness to be wrong
- Where you just must find that in acknowledging that you’re wrong (in part or in whole) — just might create a hairline crack in the convictions of your interlocutor (enough to shed some light on the truth you have to tell)
- And through that exchange — perhaps they’ll come around to realizing they’re wrong (in part or in whole)
And all that sounds a lot like this:
Contrast this crap below with the reasonable reply above. Do you see any politeness and consideration here? And there is no measure for how laughable it is that he’s telling me to “take yourself above what you’re told to find the truth on the subject” (when he doesn’t even know what the subject matter is).
And yet, someone who’s blindly defending Sowell (with no idea of the issue or what Sowell said about it): Wants to educate me on critical thinking.
On a matter of mathematical certainty in centrifuge physics (an industry where fractions of a millimeter matter): I’m the only person who told this story in full (from all the angles that matter most). If Sowell’s acolytes simply abided by the principles they preach, they’d know in no time that their “National Treasure” is not the man they believe him to be.
Because [Sowell] doesn’t show favoritism on any subject matter.
That is demonstrably false and no rational person would argue otherwise. It took me all of 10 minutes to size up Sowell. On WMD, it 2. And guaranteed, there’s more where that from. There always is.
by the way
What road have you taken where you must remain glued to the utterly ridiculous notion that we have to stay boxed in by what started a conversation: Instead of considering the possibility that someone just came along with a larger conversation.
That would open up a world of possibility on the ones you’re having.
I almost forget to mention one of the most important elements in his reply: Disappointment! Now that is a beautiful thing — and it’s in Thomas Sowell’s best interests (and that of his followers and all of America and the world as well): For him to feel that disappointment — and then some!
Disappointment doesn’t register with this crowd.
In over 3 years of telling this story on Thomas Sowell, that’s the first time I’ve seen a supporter express any disappointment at all. And what does it say about these people that the guy above had no trouble understanding what I was saying, but somehow countless others can’t?
Are you telling me . . .
That the Sowell supporter above and a handful of others — just happened to have a Rosetta Stone to reason through what you can’t? Would a reasonable person blow right by critical evidence at the beginning — so you can cite website style as your reason to outright reject it by the end? I hate comic books — but because I’m not keen on that kind of layout to tell a story, is that a valid excuse to say I can’t comprehend it?
There was a time when people understood how to understand — and didn’t blame the source because the material doesn’t magically unfold for standard scrolling with ease. It was a time when you stopped to think about things before breezing on by clips at the crux of the story — then bitching because you don’t understand what you didn’t stop to think about.
There was time when people saying, “Show Me the Evidence” — would look at it when you did. It was a time when newfangled ways of “argument” wasn’t all the rage — where you furiously fire off some fashionable form of “You’re wrong!” and dish it all day long: Insisting on “affirmation independent of all findings” (borrowing from Peck who borrowed from Buber).
I don’t roll that way.
You’re wrong — and here’s why
That’s the discipline — to have a work ethic in the way you think. Without “here’s why,” you’re just whistlin’ Dixie.
As for his question: I have nothing to say about that or anything else outside what I’m out to do. Just as I’m making a choice not to get directly involved on your areas of interest, you have the same choice in the face of mine:
As I have an idea that could turn the tide (which would serve your interests whether I agree with them or not): All conversations on here fit under the umbrella of mine. If you’re not interested in such discovery, let’s not waste each other’s time. Thx 🙏
If you blew right by those options without any intention of considering the evidence I provided: Thanks for stopping by, but it’s time for you leave. No more crying about my website and how you can’t understand what you refuse to consider.
Go back to playtime and block me when you got there. Good day!
As a distinguished scholar once said: “The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie.”
— Thomas Sowell
The man’s a magician:
As I’m practically spit on by people promoting principles I followed to find he didn’t. Simply by virtue of writing those words, he couldn’t possibly do the same in service of his own ideals? And lo and behold — sleight of hand is how they pulled it off.
When you have absolutely no idea what’s going on here, on what basis are you so doubt-free?
I don’t understand. I don’t know understand. It’s all so incoherent and confusing!
That’s because you wallow in a world of paint by numbers — where people telling you what you wanna hear every goddamn day: Package it all nice & neat into nursery-rhyme narratives (turning your mind into mush). It’s impossible for you to fathom the mountain of childish & spectacularly stupid shit I’ve seen on this topic for 20 years:
By people who couldn’t craft a sound argument on the subject to save their lives.
In the echo chambers that cater to your cravings: Regurgitating garbage gets people to Like you — celebrating “victory” by clicking “bravo” to bad manners and bunk. A world where the rush is everything:
- The rush to respond
- The rush you get from responding
- The rush to roll out the next issue of concern
- Repeat and never reflect
And just where do I go when you’re all part of the same shitshow of America:
V for Victory — How Fitting . . .
A world where you can win an argument without even knowing what the issue is about. What you do in denying the undeniable daily would be unthinkable for me to do ever.
It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.
— Attributed to Mark Twain
“Wut?”
In my youth, I could not have imagined a world in which even people with PhDs would act like imbeciles in the face of information they don’t instantly understand. That an entire country could take satisfaction in insulting your own intelligence on a daily basis just astounds me.
Adulthood is about spending the time to think before talking . . . Adulthood is about controlling our emotions, learning to take a deep breath and modulating our moments of anger or frustration.
Seems you have all the time in the world for that:
But none for this
It’s not my writing, my graphics, or my documentary: The flaw is within you and it always has been. You have no original ideas and have no questions for those who do. I have to spoon-feed you like a child while you spit it out and cry about being hungry. You have no imagination and are utterly devoid of any virtue that would allow for actual conversation to take place.
Not that lickety-split, self-satisfied crap you flood the internet with daily.
“Wut?” — reflects a society tuning in to people who perpetuate problems under the pretense of seeking to solve them. Some are sincere (or at least started out that way). But they all lose their way in the adulation and rewards from feeding the frenzy. I coined Star Wars Syndrome to capture the plague of allowing nostalgia to create the illusion that a movie is far better than it actually is. In and of itself, wildly exaggerating the quality of movies is harmless.
But when it becomes habit in how you see everything: Either gushing with over-the-top praise or seething with over-the-top scorn:
That’s a plague!
You think I just come up this stuff out of thin air?
Echo chambers across social media worship channel hosts as “National Treasures” — treating them like they’re some of the greatest minds to ever live. At the helm of these cesspools of certitude — are people who peddle repeatedly rehashed insight their followers praise like they split the atom. To be sure, some of it is insightful. But these “geniuses” are so full of wisdom that they’re oblivious to how they’re feeding the very problems they’re ostensibly trying to solve.
Isaac Newton and Einstein were brilliant — partisan hacks and high-minded influencers fueling your fix, are not.
Imagine America as an engine and you come along with a cross-section of it to explain why it’s not working. Since your audience shares your concerns, you’d think they’d be interested in understanding the internals of the problem. But they spend all their time talking about parts made by people they don’t like — never considering the defects in their own parts.
And even though you’ve got a rock-solid idea for how to fix the engine (or at least make it run on reason): They’d rather spend the rest of their lives complaining about problems than take responsibility for their part in creating them. The image above is for my 15-part series on factions acting as force fields of fallacy for the Left & Right: Shielding you from the whole truth while you’re pursuing part of it believing you’re after all of it.
All that matters in getting what you want, and Anything Goes to get it:
You act like animals feasting on anything to feed your insatiable appetite for instant gratification (and glorifying those who give it to you). On an issue of world-altering consequence that shaped everything you today (costing countless lives, unspeakable destruction, trillions of dollars & counting, and poisons political discourse to this day and probably generations to come)
Bitching about my website and acting like a child throwing a tantrum is the best ya got?
There is no measure for how asinine these acolytes are in defending the indefensible — automatons devoid of rational thought & manners. Your behavior has not an atom of integrity, courtesy, curiosity, courage, decency, effort:
Or any virtue of any kind
On evidence involving artillery rockets and material properties of centrifuge rotors — the apostles of Sowell smugly cite his books on economics, race, and whatnot: Anything to glorify him as they abandon any notion of accountability:
Butchering his bedrock beliefs as they dance in delight behind their force field of fallacy.
These people do nothing but question my motives, mock my site, and assault my character — then proudly post quotes of Sowell looking stately as he condemns the very thing they’re doing.
- Repeat slogans: “Everybody believed Iraq had WMD”
- Question people’s motives: Bush hater, Bush basher, Bush Derangement Syndrome, Plamegate & plenty more. Adding to the arsenal of childish crap to continue the tradition: Snowflake, Libtard, Libturd, Cupcake, TDS, Demon-crat, Democrat Party
- Bold assertions: Russians said so, British said so, Bill Clinton said so, Leaders of both parties said so . . .
No coherent argument, Repeat slogans, Vent their emotions, Question people’s motives, Bold assertions . . .
America’s in perennial pursuit of ideologies — warfare waged with galactic levels of baggage & bullshit bolstered by . . .
opinions lightly adopted but firmly held . . . forged from a combination of ignorance, dishonesty, and fashion
— Theodore Dalrymple, Life at the Bottom
Explaining America’s decline over decades of delight in the Gutter Games of Government — is apples & oranges as it gets when compared to the transactional nature of news and social-media norms. Understanding how seemingly unrelated events impact one another takes time and effort to digest. But you’re busy . .
You’re always busy
As it turns out though — that is an opportunity (to take a problem and turn it into a solution). I’ve got an idea — and it’s got teeth. There’s a way we can harness folly from the past for the benefit of the future.
A.K.A. Learning
And we can do it by exposing one man for who he really is — and in so doing, expose all the rest (Left & Right). Thomas Sowell is a magician who makes magical thinking for a living:
A snake oil salesman who carved out a career craftily complaining about snake oil salesmen. It’s painfully obvious what this guy’s up to. He’s engineering an illusion — and you bought it. You assume I’m out “DESTROY” him — and right on cue, you play the hate-card.
Never mind that assuming bad motives is in gross breach the standards Sowell espouses.
I couldn’t agree more
But there’s another reason why so many people misunderstand so many issues.
Professional know-it-alls like you pull stunts like this while peddling lines like that as cover: To whitewash your record of patently obvious hypocrisy and lies. What would you call someone who shoots their mouth off without addressing the evidence — but banks on their fabricated reputation to create the impression that they did?
On the biggest and most costly lie in modern history (that shaped everything you see today): Sowell is simply a conduit through which to tell that story (and how his role within it could be harnessed for good).
Compelling him to admit where he’s wrong will work wonders for where he’s right.
In a sea of sameness, how can I connect with anyone who blows by right a line like that without even giving it a second thought? America lost its way long ago (and you’re right about how some of that happened). But all that pales in comparison to the aftermath of 9/11. Every major problem in America was exponentially exacerbated because of that fiasco for the ages — which Sowell helped sell and got off scot-free.
They all did
As they always do (Democrats & Republicans alike):
I’m not just taking Thomas Sowell to task because he’s got it comin’ — I need this guy for what I have in mind to right this ship. The ultimate irony is that blind loyalty limits him — while my criticism could elevate him to heights that hero-worship ensures he’ll never go.
So, you’re saying that your plan will elevate Sowell to worldwide recognition — by holding him accountable? That if he comes clean — he could be the catalyst to turn the tide?
That’s exactly what I’m saying
It won’t matter that he blew it on WMD or why — all that matters is having the guts to say: “I was wrong and I’m trying to make it right.” In a culture consumed with feeling right, wouldn’t it be refreshing to talk about the immeasurable value in the willingness to be wrong?
Don’t just tell people how to behave: Lead by example — especially when it comes at a cost! Compelling him to admit where he’s wrong will work wonders for where he’s right. There are far worse culprits on all-things Iraq, but I’ve been down that road for decades. Discovering Sowell and the underworld of absurdity that shields him — makes him ideal to put these lies in their place once and for all: And change the dynamic of debate to boot.
Elevating him is not my aim, but I can live with it to stem the systematic self-delusion that’s taken this nation totally off the rails: Left & Right! I fail to understand how you think we can solve anything in a country that can’t even get the self-evident straight:
How do we make people realize they’ve been lied to? You have to knock down one small pillar that’s easier to reach.
The people who Tweeted those lines I combined from a conversation I came across — had no idea that they perfectly captured the principle of my Clear the Clutter plan. It’s time to start solving problems instead of endlessly talking about them and getting nowhere. To do that — first we gotta clear the clutter that’s crippled this country. And to do that, you don’t go after everything, you go after one thing that ties to everything — and you do it by holding one man to his own standards.
The only way to see that is to understand the space he occupies and the influential figures within it. Even in the face of overwhelming and irrefutable evidence, some of them would forever deny reality on their National Treasure — but not all of ’em.
And all I need is one!
To the uneducated, abstract ideas are unfamiliar; so is the detachment that is necessary to discover a truth out of one’s own knowledge and mental effort. The uneducated person views life in an intensely personal way — he knows only what he sees, hears or touches and what he is told by friends.
As the unknown sage puts it, “Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.”
But more than ever, even the most educated minds act in an uneducated manner in service of their interests — and do catastrophic damage by doing so. Even the best of the bunch are part of the problem they’re trying to solve.
The rules have changed, as in — there are none. By failing to recognize that, you cannot adapt to deal with it. Conventional means have no chance of breaching the envelope of intransigence around armies of unreachables in the trench warfare of our times. But integrate those same tools into an unconventional framework for honest debate — and now you’ve got something.
A student wrote of her psychology professor and co-author of the book below:
Tim Wilson taught me the importance of breaking problems down into more manageable pieces.
Lo and behold, at the bedrock of my idea is exactly that. And I don’t need mass appeal to make this happen, I just need to get to one man. Their field is forever fighting the forces of human nature while my solution banks on it.
It’s a domino effect by design — and whad’ya know:
But as much as I respect professionals in that field, they seem forever fixated on studying human behavior instead of actually doing anything about it. And they’re so preoccupied with trying to educate others about bias that they’re blinded by their own. And by the way: “Bias” gets all the press when prejudice is paramount to the problem.
The distinction matters, but not in a nation where things that once meant something, now mean nothing.
If it were just bias, convincing you with overwhelming and irrefutable evidence might still be difficult — but you’d be willing to be convinced. Prejudice doesn’t roll that way. In fact, it doesn’t roll anywhere — as you don’t budge one bit and take pride in it to boot. As a friend comically put it:
It’s not “Pride and Bias”
Not just to analyze irrational behavior and write about it — but to actually do something about it for a change.
Long before brain imaging to understand emotion, we already had all the tools we needed for a hopeful humanity. We didn’t take advantage of the gifts were were given, and what a shocker — we don’t make good use of those fancy new insights either.
Taking on the entire country by myself is worlds away from what everyone else is doing. In reference to its opening image on Without Passion or Prejudice, I wrote: “Half the country is with me on this — and I just lost the other half. Had I started with the image below — it would be the opposite half.”
When you make up your mind on lickety-split perception alone: In what parallel universe does that qualify as critical thinking?
I don’t know how people find the path of least resistance so satisfying — as I love the demands of difficulty and discernment. To not step up my game in the midst of opportunity or challenge:
Would be tantamount to treason upon my very existence . . .
This piece originated out of my realization that it was a mistake to stop reading replies to my mass efforts to send out my idea on Twitter. 99% of the time, I’m treated with contempt for telling a story rooted in irrefutable fact of mathematical certainty (the manipulation of which shaped everything you see today).
In the rare case where courtesy arrives in response, I owe them the same in return (whether they want to get involved on my idea or not). And that’s what inspired this piece below (which is the same as the one you’re on now or where it’s the intro to another):
Since courtesy is at the core of what I’m out to do, I better hold up my end of the bargain (and will gladly so do). Now I’m a mission to comb through all the replies since last summer (bypassing the barrage of rapid-fire ridicule along the way).
All I’m doing is what I should have done in the first place: Responding in kind to those who are.
Following Facts Where They Lead
“Said so and so”? . . . that’s one helluva trip you took there, Mr. Sowell.
Stirring Defense!
Now what?
Is that incoherent too?
There’s a reason why someone came up with “one picture is worth a thousand words.” But if you think you can convey the above in words better than my illustrations, give it a go. Of course, you’d have to understand the material first, so there’s that. And even if you could find the best words in the world (that would have no chance of matching my imagery):
How would you feel when they swatted your words away for being “too long”?
What’s your excuse going to be this time?
- Text
- Graphics
- Back to text
- Repeat pattern
Instead of considering the patently obvious patterns of hypocrisy and lies (by people you put on a pedestal as bastions of virtue): Of paramount concern to you is — my patterns in presenting their hypocrisy and lies. Nevertheless, even some of harshest criticism over the years has been invaluable to me. Not one bit of it even attempted to address my arguments (but plenty of complaining about my website, length of pieces, sequence of material and such).
I’ve continued to make improvements (so thanks for that) — but let’s get real:
If only you’d laid it all out exactly as I like it — then I’d abide by the principles I preach
Is that how it works?
That’s about the size of it. I guess I figured that if you didn’t understand something — you’d try this on for size, but I’m old-fashioned that way:
America’s into what’s fashionable
It’s impossible for you to fathom how pathetic this hero-worship horseshit is to me. Just sharp as a razor, this crowd: That thinks they’re part of some revolution in reason by ceaselessly Tweeting the tenets of Thomas Sowell. Never mind they instantly abandon them the second he’s under scrutiny. I’ve never seen so much ass-kissing in all my life.
Your behavior is an embarrassment to the entire history of human achievement.
In the follow-the-facts fantasyland you live in — you sling his slogans like “Show Me the Evidence” then delight in looking away away once I do. Then I show the wildly irrational behavior I face in how you deny the undeniable — and you issue your “where’s your facts?” refrain of an automaton. I show you my rock-solid record of objectivity scrutiny and you find fair-mindedness is “confusing” and “incoherent.”
That figures for people who take endless pride in promoting principles they don’t practice — reinforced by fawning over liars and hypocrites in their image.
Forgive me for failing to fit your formula:
- Nice and linear
- Easy to swallow
- Short and simple
- Effortless to spread
Bonding in Bumper Sticker Branding
You can’t imagine how laughable it is to me that the only question that crosses your mind is childish & clichéd crap like “AI-generated?”: Congratulating yourselves for infantile insults while insulting your own intelligence with pride.
Acting like imbeciles incapable of comprehending anything.
If you don’t like my illustrations, go read the bone-dry reports for yourselves: And I’ve got plenty more material to add to your reading list. But that takes work — and why bother when you can just ridicule those who did it for you.
One picture is worth a thousand words:
When you don’t want the pictures and you don’t want the words — what would you have me do?
And once I did it
We both know your next move . . .
I put it all on a silver platter for you 10 years ago:
When I Saw the Writing on the Wall
I took on the automatons of the time (Left & Right). No one listened, and lo and behold — automatons exponentially multiplied. Those times were tame compared to today. In the last few years — I’ve seen savagery beyond anything that inspired the doc. The toxicity of venom has been taken to a whole other level with pride.
As it turns out though — that is an opportunity (to take a problem and turn it into a solution).
But the same people who proudly made it impossible to tell that story 10 years ago — are in the way now more than ever (and they’ve got friends). But with what I do, even their enemies are in my way. If you’d all just stop talking and start listening — you’d find that you’re in your own way.
The rotor speed required to separate uranium isotopes doesn’t care who’s president, and when it comes to ascertaining the truth, neither do I. In order to maintain such speeds, the material properties of centrifuges are as critical as it gets. You don’t need to interview a world-renowned nuclear scientist to figure that out — but I like to be thorough. To claim that Iraq WMD wasn’t a lie should be like saying we didn’t land on the moon.
As I wrote and produced the most exhaustive documentary ever done on WMD, I would know.
3 minutes and 33 seconds into the Prologue — the parallel in the Profile Principle is revealed (an exemplary example of applying the same rules to both sides). But rather than taking the time to digest what someone’s saying, you’re already confused (as if I invented the idea of setting up a story with a parallel that will be driven home by the end).
3 minutes and 33 seconds:
Ahhh . . .now I see where he’s going with this
Imagine!
There are powerful forces that make damn sure you don’t!
And it shows!
My surgical specificity in this clip puts this lie in its place in 5 minutes alone (so it’s disingenuous in the extreme to suggest that failing to meet your style-guide standards is the impenetrable obstacle in the way of your unquenchable thirst for truth.
If you’re gonna blow right by this from the beginning — why bother proceeding at all? But we both know the answer to the question — and it damn ain’t because you’re digging to discover. If you wanted to do that — here’s your chance:
Trillion Dollar Tube
For all my efforts, I may not make a damn bit of difference in the world — but at least I’ll leave something behind that shows a serious-minded person who did the work to reflect his words with unassailable integrity.
This — is the mark of your making:
If you’re not gonna watch my doc or clips I created to cater to America’s attention span of a child, go back to playtime and block me when you get there. But as there is no end to your small-minded and smug ways, your kind takes pride in blocking and not blocking: It’s all just a game in the glory of how you see yourselves.
And get congratulated for it by people keeping you company at the bottom of the barrel.
If I came across someone so clearly in command of this material — I wouldn’t give a f#@k about format. They could write it down on napkins and I’d roll with it. I don’t need somebody to babysit me with the just the right formula for me to carefully consider something. I’m happy to put some time and effort into working it out on my own and ask questions when needed.
You have other ideas
Anyone wanting to know the truth would not behave in ways that ensure they never will. If you abandon your critical thinking skills the moment you even perceive a threat to your interests — doesn’t that bring those skills into question? How can you expect anyone to admit when they’re wrong if you won’t?
And every time you allow emotion to run roughshod over reason — you further calcify habits at the other end of the spectrum from these:
Rather than assert that all opinions are equal, students in seminar learn to judge opinions on the basis of the reasons given for those opinions.
Nobody ever had to explain that to me. I’m sure you all feel the same:
And yet here we are
Shallow thinkers do not think beyond the immediate and the observable. They usually take information at face value and only look at immediate consequences. They are not capable of looking at all sides of an issue or think deeply about the issue before making decisions or drawing conclusions . . .
They also believe that their opinion is based on deep thinking because they genuinely believe that their opinion is based on truth and facts. Whereas, deep thinkers look at the whole sequence of events and the consequences.
When we dig deeper, we understand better. We can compare different outcomes, examine, tear apart, and make cognizant judgments that are derived from different mental models.
Left and Right, I’ve yet to find a single person who digs beyond the depth of their immediate domain of interest. In our entirely transactional times, America endlessly rehashes topics of today — never once considering the totality of events that created them (or even having a notion of the need to).
With the issues I address — you might as well be saying the Civil War wasn’t germane to the assassination of Lincoln.
Dealing on the Moment
Is What America Does “Best”
The Yellow Brick Road: Path of America’s Predictably Counterproductive Pursuits. On that road that razes reason for fun — you seize on the first thing to comes to mind and race to respond.
[D]eep thinkers look at the whole sequence of events and the consequences.
Just what I am do with a nation of people who see themselves as “deep thinkers” but do nothing of the kind? Just what I am to do with a mindset that sees an image of 9/11 and magically makes a leap to something about the buildings coming down?
Pay no mind to the aftermath that this imagery is obviously out to address.
But there’s no such thing as the obvious anymore. It’s whatever you wish to see: No matter how dumb, dishonest, delusional, dangerous, and destructive. As long you are satisfied today and get fed something to feed your fix tomorrow, that’s all that matters the pursuit of getting what you want, and Anything Goes to get it.
The people you worship found the formula to your liking long ago. They dumb it all down into Happy Meal morsels to munch on: Soothing you into submission while they put a wrench to your brain to remove it from the equation. You operate in pixels of problem while I’m painting the whole picture. And because it doesn’t conform to your formula, you gotta find a way to absolve yourself. Heaven forbid you listen and learn for a change. But rather than raise the bar, you lower it — just like your kin who came before you:
Hermetically sealed minds who take pride in swatting away the truth with glee.
There was a time when intrigue would have been found in the face of the imagery below. Incredibly, in a sea of sameness — the new norm is you know “wut.” If I came across this and hadn’t done my homework, on the title alone — my first thought would be:
I must be missing something pretty big!
you have other ideas:
Button your lip and don’t let the shield slip
Take a fresh grip on your bulletproof mask
And if they try to break down your disguise with their questions
You can hide hide hide behind Paranoid Eyes
I point you to a 7-part, 2 hours and 40 minutes doc — that distills a story that demanded a massive amount of effort, thought, research, and writing: And you tap a Tweet with a talking point or two — thinking you can inform me. Almost every post points to an identifiable disconnect — enough to know that something’s not right with people you put on a pedestal. But you’re not looking to learn, you’re looking to respond.
And entire industries are engineering that need.
We get rewarded by hearts, likes, thumbs-up — and we conflate that with value, and we conflate it with truth.
“I think we have created tools that are ripping apart the social fabric of how society works,” . . . Palihapitiya’s criticisms were aimed not only at Facebook, but the wider online ecosystem.
I offered you overwhelming and irrefutable evidence that exhaustively exposes the biggest and most costly lie in modern history — taking both parties to task for it (on that issue and then some): You refused to even glance at the doc while deriding my efforts with pleasure.
So with this site I tried another approach: Interweaving clips in conjunction with the behavior of those who slavishly defend the indefensible. The doc is structured to the hilt in 7 segments averaging 24 minutes apiece — so it’s much easier to digest.
But circular certitude is quite the convenient cop-out:
Allowing you to blow off the doc, dish your derision on issues you’re wildly unqualified on — then complain how you can’t follow the format of a site that wouldn’t be needed if you simply watched the doc in the first place.
I beat the hell out of both sides:
So if you can’t take a hit — you might as well bail right now. I’m looking for fiercely independent thinkers for an idea that could turn the tide, and if you can’t handle some heat — you don’t qualify (so I don’t need ya). If you’re not interested in hearing me out and having meaningful conversation — we have nothing to talk about and I wish you well. I’d just ask that you block me and politely move along. But if you’re game for good old-fashioned conversation — please contact me through the site, Anchor.Press.gg@gmail.com, or DM (Direct Message) on Twitter:
Once again
Inside of 30 seconds, I provided everything you need for the foundation of the story (and if you understand all that, the larger story I’m out to tell would fall right into place with ease). But your kind made it impossible to have a rational conversation on this 20 years ago. And when I put it all on a silver platter 10 years, you were even worse.
Even 10 years later — you were still believing in some of the dumbest shit imaginable. And lo and behold, here you are still slinging the same idiocy as your kin who came before you. And now it’s much worse — as I’ve added new elements to the story (for the purpose of problem solving — which none of you people understand).
But incessantly bitching and congratulating yourselves for it: You’ve got that part down real well!
So you’ll blow right by clips just as you blew right by the doc — then peddle your pearls of wisdom about my “incoherent” writing that only looks like this because I gotta deal with people who never carefully consider anything but love to complain about everything.
To take a story this complex and convoluted and boil its essence down to a few minutes was no small feat:
Imagine what I did with 160
“There is no skimming over the surface of a subject with [Hamilton]. He must sink to the bottom to see what foundation it rests on.”
— Major William Pierce (Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton)
Wouldn’t it be absurd to share that quote if my clip contained nothing but trite talking points? Some circles are not burdened by squaring their walk with their talk. They seem to think that advertising virtue equates to embodying it.
Case in point
People who talk glibly about “intelligence failure” act as if intelligence agencies that are doing their job right would know everything.
— Thomas Sowell
D.O.E’s standard is to spin a tube at 20% above 90,000 RPM before failure — so 48,000 short is a pretty loose definition of “rough indication.” And since the entire point of testing should be to replicate the conditions of centrifuges, one would think that the full-blown testing would be performed before the N.I.E. was completed.
Between Sowell’s words and mine
Which ones strike you as glib?
Garbage website. Next.
Stirring defense!
What amazes me is how proud these people are in slinging clichéd crap to slap their stamp on the world (destroying it while seeing themselves as saviors). “Next” is fitting for the times. Never in my life have I behaved so childishly (even when I was a child). I’ve never treated anyone the way I’ve been invariably treated for 20 years on this topic.
And these are on the mild end of the savagery I’ve seen:
You couldn’t carry Sowell’s jockstrap!
Seriously? Get a life. It doesn’t matter what you say, he’s better than you basically in everything.
You deserved to be treated that way! You’re a moron and pathetic character assassin
Holy shit…. a video of a circle jerks with a nut in the center talking about RPMS. Yet somehow Sowell is a liar.
Behold my “shrine of hatred”
To Your Beloved Sowell
This chart is misleading in several respects . . . Beams centrifuge never actually worked . . . We can infer . . .
Sounds pretty sloppy to me. Perhaps we should have a conversation to clear up what all this means on issues that have eroded reason beyond recognition?
Thanks to all that
Right along with this:
I wonder if anyone wonders why I blur out the names of those who issue rapid-fire ridicule with pride. This is about accepted behavior across the country — not targeting these people. My aim isn’t to make you look bad — it’s for you to stop looking bad. Ridicule just rolls right off me anymore. I’m not dealing with individuals — I’m dealing with a collective machine that’s been programmed to put me down.
My job is to jam up the gears — and get these gears going again:
I like the cut of your jib, sir
And then there are those memorable moments when someone surprises you with the simplicity and elegance of a line like that.
In a sea of insults, one kind comment is like wind in your sails.
Wouldn’t it be something if sharing ideas & information were like sharing music? When I came across this recording of one of my all-time favorite songs, I couldn’t believe I’d missed out on this masterpiece for most of my life. I loved the one I knew, but now I’ll never listen to it again — as their heavenly harmonies are on a whole other level on this track.
Imagine the beauty and possibilities America is missing out on by boxing yourselves into what you know . . .
And what you think you know.
Part II TO COME
And Thank You for Reading!
One Voice Became Two 