61 sats \ 4 replies \ @DarthCoin 20 Aug 2023 \ on: Are there topics you avoid discussing to maintain political correctness? bitcoin
I don't give a shit about any "views".
Is their problem not mine if they do not like what I say.
Self-censorship is the most dangerous thing.
This. Because it's not about "views", it's about ones ability to set aside the ego in the quest for truth.
Over the last couple years, I've tried to catch up with various friends/colleagues estranged from long ago. Things start out where we left off, happy to see each other etc...
But through the course of conversation, our disparate realities become too much for them to bear.
I accept that most geopolitical events and narrative are staged acts produced by intelligence agency assets, planned long in advance as psychological operations. That conspiracy is a fact of life made inevitable by incentives, and that we as commoners have little insight into what is actually true. That we do best when hold loosely our assumptions and opinions on such matters.
I recently met to discuss business with an old colleague from ~15 years ago, and in describing my journey in the catch up they became unpredictably triggered by my nomenclature. I simply said "fake pandemic" as part of a personal story, and he instantly had a visceral response.
This was not a woke snowflake 20 year old in Academia. This is a grown man I've known for decades, older than I and sharing a similar background.
I asked why he was so zealous about things he couldn't know for fact. In his response he declared he doesn't believe in conspiracy at all, and that I'm crazy for believing that world altering events don't happen organically and transparently.
There is plenty of room to enjoy the company of people with differing views, but it's not about that and it hasn't been for awhile. People today live on entirely different dimensions that cannot co-occupy space time. The hostility is a primal reaction to restore singularity.
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You are hitting on a hot topic here for me. That Johns Hopkins was doing a Covid simulation in partnership with the Bill and Malinda Gates Foundation in October or 2019...
Just a coincidence...
The biggest tell is that every treatment was blocked. Respected doctors from around the world were punished and blocked if they offered any treatment advice. And then Joe Rogan happened.
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Personally, I believe that the inability to calculate isn't limited to just praxeology, but to any attempt at central planning by a government. Sometimes their efforts succeed, but often they don't; the elites can't control everything.
As for discovering the truth, I think Occam's razor is a good way to get closer to it.
We shouldn't shy away from engaging in honest debates
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You are honorable, and I've always admired you for that.
I believe it's necessary to overcome the fear of discussing what one honestly believes is right.
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