The zombie apocalypse survival homestead

Reading books from even as recently as the early and middle 20th century, it is clear that many believed-in (or at least hoped-for) a universal and permanent ‘system’ of symbols – which was inferred to be rooted in an innate collective unconscious – that would reliably evoke human responses of particular types: certain symbols ‘releasing’…

Loss of the (supposed) Collective Unconscious – an effect of modernity and the declining power of symbolism — Bruce Charlton’s Notions

by Richard_Ngo5 min read23rd May

Published on May 23, 2023 6:14 PM GMT There’s a sense in which I’m postulating a trillion dollar bill lying on the ground. If the skills I’ve talked about so far in this sequence would lead to so much more flourishing, why haven’t they become far more common? 1,253 more words

Coercion is an adaptation to scarcity; trust is an adaptation to abundance — LessWrong

The coronadoom panic came to its ignominious official end last week. A panic created, embraced, exacerbated, and perpetuated by elites, rulers and Experts. Especially Experts. 1,212 more words

What Magic Tells Us About Propaganda & The End Of The Coronadoom Panic — William M. Briggs

The Western World is being told it needs to be destroyed and that if you resist your own destruction, you will be destroyed. It appears that this threat is working quite well as they are being led to the gallows in an orderly fashion, fearful of being killed should they get out of line. Utter […]

Never Let Them Forget Their Lies — ஜ ۩ Whiskey Tango Texas ۩ ஜ

Kurt Schlichter explains why conservatives are intellectually and emotionally unequipped to deal with the realities of the world: Conservatives, being conservative, like to think they live in an ordered world with norms and rules and that if they rely upon the norms and rules, they will be protected. 262 more words

The World They Knew is Gone — Vox Popoli

History is important and yet we always leave it to politicians and musicians to regale us about relevant but mostly unimportant events. The reason is mostly that important stuff is intentionally hidden from view; this appears to be a human condition. 1,620 more words

Three Decades Since the Fall of the Berlin Wall — Amerika

Imagine making your thinking cold. Not just chilly, but ice-cold, based in pure logic and the relationships between things instead of imputing magical action to objects. 1,167 more words

Waging Psychic Warfare Against Diversity — Amerika

As discussed here many, many times, the big problem with generating electricity from wind and solar sources is that they are intermittent. Sometimes they work, and sometimes they don’t. And sometimes they don’t work for days on end. The times when both wind and sun fail at the same time for multiple days tend to…

Finally, A Solution To The Problem Of Intermittent Power Generation — The “Virtual Power Plant” — Manhattan Contrarian

A not-so-old adage says cows eat grass; therefore, steak is plant-based meat. I was reminded of that last week when someone was talking to me about some vegan encounter of the third kind—the COIVD-era equivalent of a food Karen. 664 more words

Vegans Are Made of Meat and They Are Bad for The Planet — Granite Grok