Dear readers of the forum:
Some of you will die from the coronavirus. (—Some
few of you: The virus has low lethality except to the aged or otherwise frail.) The virus may kill me, too; maybe, maybe not. That is acceptable:
Life is risk, and death is a part of life. My only sadness is that sometimes, the worst befalls the best of people.
What is unacceptable is panic, bureaucratic “do something!” tyranny, and worst of all,
hybris.
I hereby use an archaic spelling for the subject of a principle long forgot.
You cannot conquer Nature, and you never will. Cursed are those who pretend they can.
Medical science will not cure all diseases, or stop new ones from rising. Medicine is of limited power. That is not a reason to turn to quacks, who are not only powerless, but outright injurious. It
is a reason to destroy within yourself every particle of the sick modern mindset based in the fantasy that the world can be made safe.
And there will never be a “Singularity”. Those who chase such notions are not only indulging delusions worthy of a psychotic, but also actively destroying human intelligence.
The processing power of wetware has been declining for centuries—both in the middle of the Gaussian distribution, and at the high end. Stop lowering standards, stop substituting technics for thought, and stop worshipping the religious prophecy of a godlike machine whom you assume would be benevolent toward you!
Of course, any perfectly rational superior intelligence would immediately decide that talking apes are a plague, and exterminate them. (And the talking apes are so stupid that they presume they could impose an Asimov-style
diktat on a superior mind, without that mind promptly hacking around their little
security system.) The talking apes should be thankful that they are and always will be incapable of creating an intelligence superior to their own.
Now that I have given you a cold dose of reality, I will turn aside for a nightmare.
The Great Dreamer
Deep in the void of nullity,
I stared into the Abyss;
And the Abyss smil’d at me...nullius is cthulhu. That is very clear. Anyone who does not see this is simply closing their eyes.
Whether they
create the emergency, or merely take opportunistic advantage of some existing situation producing panic which they can encourage and exploit. all that they need is an emergency.
The emergency may be a more or less real problem. For example, the
Roosevelt gold seizure exploited panic over the Great Depression. No reasonable person denies that the Great Depression caused widespread worry and suffering. I must mention this explicitly, because
imbeciles the feeble-minded the subnormal Americans mental retards persons with intellectual disabilities irrationally assume that tyrants can only exploit
fake events.
It must be remembered that “emergency powers” of a
dictator can be applied dutifully as Cincinnatus, or wielded as a weapon of tyranny.
1. Under the banner of Emergency, governments inure panicked sheep to:- ✔ Government control of food supplies
- ✔ Government control of both local and long-distance travel
- ✔ Arbitrary lockdowns
- ✔ Direct government control of each individual’s body, under the rubric of e.g. “healthcare”
- ✔ Arbitrary, peremptory government orders of any kind whatsoever
- Total government control of communications*
(* In my nightmare, this has not yet started; thus, I would still be able to post this message. The worst part of my nightmare is when I discover that dissent is so marginal amidst the mass-panic, the government finds it unnecessary to control communications.)All of these actions are
praised by the sheep, due to mass panic. Dissidents will be immediately labelled “conspiracy theorists” and/or accused of wanting for people to die.
2. The government’s actions do not actually stop the emergency. This is a feature, not a bug.
Short-term “emergency” measures become long-term daily realities to which people have become accustomed: The instant new normality.(For my nightmare, it would be quite convenient if, say, the “emergency” were a rapidly spreading infectious disease with high fear factor and low lethality. With a bit of luck, such an emergency may continue for long enough to make total, inescapable global tyranny an accomplished fact—or even indefinitely!)
What a nightmare! I am glad that I don’t live in that world.
* nullius shakes himself awake.
A Not Unrelated TangentI have long fancied sitting down with an anti-vaxer, looking him deadpan in the eye, and telling him that
yes, I fully agree that all childhood vaccinations should be stopped: Vaccination removes the
necessary selective pressure for a healthy, robust, finely-tuned immune system—and substitutes in its place the empty hybris of a supposition that humans can cure all diseases.
Hey, anti-vaxers, here is a challenge for you: I will publicly support you, if you will be the first to step up and declare that much though we may wish otherwise, we
need some more dead kids in each generation—to prevent unlimited mass suffering and potential extinction in
all the generations yet unborn.
I need not reach the question of how bad the side effects of vaccines are or aren’t. Of course, all medicines have side effects. Whether vaccines are benign except in a few rare, unfortunate cases, or causing widespread injuries about which The Truth is suppressed by The Medical Establishment, the answer is irrelevant to me.No more namby-pamby nonsense about how
e.g. measles isn’t really that dangerous! Of course it’s dangerous, as are all the other childhood diseases now prevented by standard vaccinations. I don’t need to know medicine: I know history. People used to have eight, ten, or even twenty (yes, literally,
twenty) kids with the knowledge that some would die, and others would survive, based on factors that are not and never will be under human control. That is called
natural selection—a law that works just the same in talking apes as in the ones who only grunt, plus in all other animals, plants, fungi, and prokaryotes. It even works on viruses.
In the aggregate, it is necessary to the long-term health and survival of a population group.
Before vaccinations, people had their immune systems perpetually improved (and protected from degeneration) by evolution. As an ancillary benefit, people knew that death is a part of life. They feared less, and loved more. They were very sad sometimes, but almost never prone to depression. If they believed in any gods, they prayed
and meant it. If they did not, they needed the iron-hearted rationality which smiles as it embraces the gift of life in a cruel, unthinking universe subject to the inexorable operation of blind natural laws. Above all, they were better grounded in
reality.—Eh, what’s that? You want to have your cake and eat it, too? Very well; fork off. I will just sit over here with the pro-vaxers. They do deny, or at least ignore the principles of evolution. Well, at least they don’t claim that old-fashioned childhood diseases weren’t dangerous (!), and that all kids would be
just fine with no vaccinations (!!). Anyway, vaccinations have now been ongoing for long enough that what were once
moderately dangerous childhood diseases could probably become horrific plagues. With a brush of hybris, we have painted ourselves into a corner: Congratulations, we are now
physiologically dependent on accursed technology as a substitute for powers that our bodies once had—and we are still, I observe, just as vulnerable to disease overall, if not moreso:
The deserts of hybris.
I want to punch the next person who alleges to me that modern technology has increased average human lifespans, that life used to be “nasty, brutish, and short”, or that most people used to die in their thirties (!).
These are
lies. Moreover, they are lies so facially absurd that they can only be believed by one who has put in abeyance all his faculties of reason, and even common sense.
The average life expectancy is almost exactly the same today as it was a hundred years ago, or a thousand years ago—
for humans who have reached biological adulthood.
Dead kids drag down the overall average an awful lot. Dead babies, even more. Depending on how averages are calculated—dead neonates, most of all.
The contribution of modern medicine to average human lifespans can be almost entirely chalked up to three things: (0) Childhood vaccinations, (1) prenatal care, and (2) neonatal care (especially for premature and other
abnormal births). —All things which reduce selective pressure for stronger immunities, naturally healthier pregnancies, and overall more robust constitutions. Each kid who is saved by vaccinations today condemns unlimited future children and adults to the ravages of disease. Each woman whose pregnancy is salvaged by modern medicine inflicts untold harm on all future generations of her daughters.
So, anyway, adults nowadays can expect to live just as long as those who managed to grow up in the Evil Old Days. The difference nowadays is that people are now sicker, weaker, and abjectly dependent on technologies that did not exist in the Evil Old Days. Quality of life is lower.
When Nature places you on the horns of a dilemma, don’t shoot the messenger.* nullius pleases nobody.
I cannot fit here in the margin a long note on an
hypothesis that I have drawn by roughly eyeballing rates of cancer (especially, cancer in the young) and autoimmune diseases against the historical timeline of modern, vaccinated generations.
(Cancer being what happens when the body’s immune system fails to impose its authority on renegade cells that occur from time to time; autoimmune diseases being what happens when an ill-bred, ill-mannered immune system goes stark raving mad, and eats the body from the inside out.)The foregoing is an original observation on my part. I have never before seen it mentioned, much less discussed. I thought of this years ago. I keep to myself these thoughts,
inter alia.
Just as the best of thought was once upon a time writ in classical Latin, or even reserved in Greek, or...
* nullius is currently seeking Sanskrit translators for his most precious thoughts.
...kept private.
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—and I do
not mean that in the monetary sense.
Intelligence is priceless.
Thanks to the pandemic plague of idiocy, I must write this in big red letters:
⚠ WARNING: Nothing in the foregoing suggests any individual benefit to a child in remaining unvaccinated.If you misread such a message into what I wrote, please re-read.
—Or better yet,
stop reading! You should never have been taught to read.
Dass Jedermann lesen lernen darf, verdirbt auf die Dauer nicht allein das Schreiben, sondern auch das Denken.
I am now in bad straits.To preserve my privacy, and because
I am not asking for any assistance that nobody on this forum can reasonably give me anyway, I do not wish to discuss the details.
I
will say that I am unconcerned about the virus.
It is not Black Plague. It is not Ebola. It is not even smallpox, which countless generations of various population groups just lived with throughout recorded history before modern times, and Europeans survived for at least a thousand years! Either I will be infected, or I won’t. If I become infected, then either I will die, or I won’t (
...yet... nobody lives forever). Any which way, I am emotionally unmoved. I do take rational precautions to reduce the probability of infection. And that’s that.
I do not fear the virus.I fear the government which claims jurisdiction over my secure undisclosed location. Its current behaviour is alarming.
I fear the people talking apes around me. They are panicking, behaving irrationally, and clamouring for an
aggressive government response. Predictably, the government replies with a bureaucratic mess that spectacularly fails to prevent the spread of the virus, whilst instantly instantiating a
de facto dictatorship—not potential dictatorship,
actual dictatorship, right now, today!
Nobody notices.* nullius is nobody.
If this does not blow over fast (
viz., if the virus does not magically disappear right quickly), then the foreseeable alternatives are two sides of the same coin: Tyranny and anarchy (that last being “
anarchy of the rabble”).
If all hell breaks loose, then it is foreseeable that my area will be overrun by roving bands of criminals violently pillaging from anybody who has food—or just hurting people for fun. Moreover, as the government starts to collapse, it will clamp down as hard as it can as it spins out of control.
And if all hell
doesn’t break loose, that only means that the new normality is total State control of food, personal movement, and who-knows-what-else tomorrow.
If any of this seems alarmist, look to history. Alarmists like to predict Ends Of The World: Jesus floating down from a cloud, invasion by space aliens, etc., etc. I am predicting that if the current course of events does not change soon, something will happen that has happened many times in history—except that it has never yet happened on a
totally global scale. Hmmm.
Perhaps the Singularity is here after all. But talking apes did not achieve it.
Of course, any perfectly rational superior intelligence would immediately decide that talking apes are a plague, and exterminate them.
History tells me of people’s comportment, their self-mastery, and their self-discipline until the last moment—in hours of inevitable mass-death and destruction far darker and more terrifying than anything even vaguely threatened by the
coronavirus, of all things (!). They smiled, simple and courageous—without the least sign of panic. They are a noble memory of mankind.
They are all dead; and their spirit is flown from this world.
Three days ago, I snapped off and YELLED at an elderly relative. A month ago, he was terrified that he would die Any Day Now from the frailty and ill health of old age.
Now, he has declared that coronavirus is “The End of the World”—quote-unquote; his words.
There is indeed a high probability that he will now die of coronavirus, given his age and general state of health—that he will now die of coronavirus, instead of dying of whatever scared him a month ago, and two months ago, and six months ago... That is no excuse for his
hysteria, much less for his vocal support of irrational government actions that do not protect him from what is now almost inevitable—but which
do actively impair my own short-term and long-term survival, and that of many others.
It is this which destroys the world whilst spectacularly failing to save it.MAN UP. OR SHUT UP.(I told him that straight, then had a calm and productive discussion with his wife.)Given the high risk to him, I do want for him to treasure whatever remaining days he may have—without being consumed by obsessive fear. But that is not under my control.
🙂Sorry, folks. My apologies. This is all just a TV show. Nothing is real: Reality has ceased to exist; and when it attempts to intrude, it can be wished away.
Ever since death became not a part of life, ever since you were awarded a legal right to
safety, ever since humanity became infected by the menticidal virus of the
democratic-utilitarian modern mentality, the laws of the universe have changed for the sake of your comfort. Humans have conquered Nature! Life is now
safe. And the answer to every danger is, “Government, DO SOMETHING!”
Your ancestors struggled through millennia of wars, plagues, and famines to birth you. If they could see you now, they would probably regret their efforts. But it is of no import. Please tap the icon per your Pavlovian conditioning to obtain the reward of watching the Happily Ever After ending, and enjoy a refreshment from my sponsors (
if your local government still allows you to obtain things in stores).
 (R) 2020! |
