Anyone who has tried to build functional algorithms would be hugely suspicious of climate models, due to how complex these systems are, and how bad we are at modeling complex phenomena.

Everyone here should without a doubt read this article in full by my friend Goldmund.

It's a boots on the ground description of how NYC denizens view the mandates.

How they're overwhelmingly supportive of the narrative.

How college kids are just shrugging and accepting swiping their vax pass QR codes to get inside buildings without a second's thought - no rebellion, no doubting the new normal, just shrugging and getting on with their day completely accepting it.

The terrified middle aged people who robotically repeat lines from the news.

No spark of soul, no doubt, no original thought in their head, no question they're "doing the right thing" and wanting more restrictions.

The workers who are "just doing their jobs".

The millions of people who applaud 5 year olds being required to get the injection to sit inside a pizza shop.

Cowards and conformists.

And not just a few - nearly all.

Read the article in full, especially the actual dialog.

I can personally attest this is startlingly, eerily accurate in describing the attitude of NYC these days.

Here it is:
https://twitter.com/ShamanOfThe/status/1475542896015249408?t=v11UepzSFwPKuesPisF5xw&s=19

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The books and podcasts are only the very best, hand selected.

And we got a big instagram influencer marketing campaign underway.

The NYPD have begun ARRESTING THE VACCINE FREE.

The NYPD are now just vaccine enforcers for Big Pharma.

Escape from New York is no longer a movie.

This tyranny needs to stop!

Elect me to Congress, and I will build the FREEDOM COALITION to introduce legislation to ban mandates.

You can donate to my campaign here:
https://helpwatkinswin.com/donate

I have been uninvited from a friend's wedding for being unvaccinated.

To be expected.

Their loss, I'm super fun at weddings 😎🎊🕺

I honestly was surprised how many people I spoke to online decided to not get vaccinated during the pandemic.

I did not care what anyone did, and assumed I'd stand alone.

But it turns out we have a bit more in common than I thought?

I didn't select for this necessarily; I selected for courage.

And again I have nothing against those who did take the needle.

You do you, been saying that from the start.

Literally don't care.

But our common anti-authoritarian mentality I guess manifested in similar emergent decisions.

Every day I feel more and more proud and vindicated for my decision.

Maybe one day there will be a vaccine I'll take - I don't want to be a biased nut who can't change his mind with new data.

But that day isn't today.

I will always be anti-mandates, however.

#MyBodyMyChoice

Yet I have nothing for disdain for the nasty #prochoice abortion people who preached bodily autonomy when it was convenient for them yet didn't take up the cause when it came to the vaccine.

They disgust me.

This was an opportunity to rise above politics and focus on values.

Regardless, here I am.

I don't preach about it, but my friends and family had to make tougher choices than I did regarding whether they'd be around me.

I never had a tough choice.

It was always obvious which path I'd choose.

I don't have an end to this post because this is an unfolding situation.

All I know is that I'm touched by how much support I got online, proud of the wisdom of my choice, surprised by how many supposedly anti-fascists are fascist, and unrelenting in my values of freedom.

I will speak about Roman / Lyndon when the time is right. I'm waiting to see how the mainstream media addresses this first. I need to understand everyone's frames first, see the manipulations before I share things. We'll see.

A Viral Chronology:

I remember in mid January 2020, a few of my most interesting mutual Twitter followers shared some early info about a virus that "could be the real deal" before it was widely known.

Let us marvel at the fact that we learned about things at the same time as the heads of state. We saw the framing early.

Back then, "prophet Twitter" with its extreme panic (intelligence tends towards paranoia) screeched about how this could be a plague wiping humans out.

They were wrong about its severity but correct about its far reaching impact and called its widespread reach.

Lesson in there?

They were panicked and telling everyone to mask up now!

And those who didn't take it seriously were laughing at them.

Over time, they switched and they were early with taking OFF the masks.

I was part of the group that immediately saw how governments would use this for power.

Let's be honest - for all we knew, this could have been as bad as the black plague which wiped out a third of the population.

People dying in the streets, emergency rooms ACTUALLY overflowing (not making TikTok videos). Sadness.

People died, but would they have died regardless?

To me, it doesn't matter.

I still have disagreements with my family because in 2020 I said they'd push a vaccine and I wouldn't take it.

I said this without seeing the data - admittedly not a smart thing.

I just saw how this would be used to remove rights.

I wouldn't partake.

Here we are, 2022 around the corner.

Nobody wants to get really sick.

Nobody wants to be the statistic that ends up having a bad reaction to either the virus or a vaccine.

An ongoing, unfolding situation.

But let's learn from what "prophet Twitter" was right and wrong about.

There was a time in mid-Feb 2020 when we were all briefly united against humanity's natural enemy: microscopic pathogens.

I was happy.

I remember a moment in late Feb 2020 when the first articles popped up on how the virus would affect "people of color" more.

Nasty politics.

Those people have to make EVERYTHING about race.

That. Is. Racist.

I want them to hang.

But that's my biased human brain talking.

In truth, a corruption of politics, a fracturing, was inevitable.

After that they made everything about race. Felt like heroes. Unworthy cretins.

We all locked down in Spring 2020.

The toilet paper shortage reminded me of the book Prometheus Rising, starting with our most base instincts: pooping.

In NYC, I remember the first groups that broke quarantine did it because of George Floyd and all the protests in June 2020.

It's no surprise that after we dealt with primal needs (toilet paper) we went into social needs (racism, etc.) And the most grassroots people had the most courage to break quarantine. No hating on that. They weren't scared of crowds. Courageous fighting for what they believed in.

There was also a brief moment when social media didn't know if this would affect the electrical grid.

Forget food supply chains, the hive mind wanted to know if the Internet's electricity was at risk.

The survival instinct of the hive mind.

Anyway, here we are.

The narrative is fracturing and the propaganda is being called out.

Fuck all the nasty people who made this about politics.

Fuck all the propagandists who pretended to know it all.

Fuck everyone who told me to get vaxxed last summer.

I move on and lead.

So many fractured, distinct personalities swirling around in one head.

You're a different person around different people, different sides of you come out at a dive bar, at a fancy dinner, at work, at home relaxing, at the gym, while learning, as you create, listening to music, and a thousand other situations.

Can you really say you have one personality?

Is there an integrated whole behind, or in front of, the masks we put on for the world?

Perhaps even the genuine version of yourself is a mere mask.

If you strip it all away, the philosophers say there's mere void, a no-self, a delusional illusion of an ego.

Psychedelics apparently strip it all away, but is that even the deepest experience? Can grief touch on it?

Is there a consolidation of them all, waiting to feel integrated and whole, a holistic mold upon which all external layers transform?

These are important questions as you ask yourself which version of you is reading this very message.

Glimpses of clarity drive your subconscious decisions, forever chasing the calmly focused joyous feelings you have but merely touched upon in rare moments.

I won't be proven wrong in this societal situation.

It's not gonna happen; my views from the start will have been vindicated when the dust settles.

And not by accident.

I wasn't clever or smart, I was wise.

The predator within me can smell another black hole trying to absorb.

I'm gonna watch gleefully as everyone else struggles to justify their choices.

I'm gonna sit here and absorb as people who actively fought me on this are brought to their knees.

I'll proudly share my choices and views on all this shit, and watch who decided not to listen to me.

This applies to both online and in person.

"Don't say 'I told you so!' It's unbecoming!"

Don't care. I'm gonna say I told you so, and make sure everyone listens to me from now on.

Going forward I'm gonna make people regret ignoring my take on things.

"That's egotistical!" Ok.

Yeah, you knew science better than me?

You thought I got a PhD in Biomedical Engineering in only 3 years by accident? Faster than any other human ever?

Please continue to lecture me on science from your high horse.

Fuck off.

Happy New Years everyone!

Thanks for listening to my ramblings, rants, ridiculousness, rationalities, and reasonings.

I've enjoyed having this telegram outlet for my writings since August; hope it's benefited you in some way to read them.

I'm excited for 2022. It will be a year of smooth sailing and lightness in my step. I'm working harder at being more consistent with my habits, and will continue to write more.

I want my whispers to extend far into the cosmos, and I want everyone to feel empowered to reach their peaks.

Let's dominate.

It's our world now.

Happy New Years, let the past disintegrate behind you as you enter this new year.

Cheers!

🎊🕺🥂

I recommend naming your years.

"2021 was The Year Of _.

2022 is The Year Of ___."

It's a quick and easy life hack to act as a guiding compass for your own self growth trajectory that year.

"He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear.

But so long as he uttered it, in some obscure way, the continuity was not broken.

It was not by making yourself heard, but by staying sane, that you carried on the human heritage.

He was already dead, he reflected.

It seemed to him that it was only now that he had begun to formulate his thoughts, that he had taken the decisive step.

The consequences of every act are included in the act itself.

"He wrote, 'Thought crime does not entail death - thought crime IS death .'

Now that he had recognized himself as a dead man, it became important to stay alive as long as possible."

~1984 by George Orwell

Summary of the book Rules for Radicals, the left wing playbook. Very eye opening if you aren't familiar with the book.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uI_B-565fI

"A ruling class would remain in power permanently.

Ultimately, the determining factor is the mental attitude of the ruling class itself.

The masses never revolt of their own accord.

And they never revolt merely because they're oppressed.

Indeed, so long as they're not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed.

As for the problem of overproduction, which has been latent in our society since the development of machine technique, it is solved by the device of continuous warfare.

The recurrent economic crises of past times were totally unnecessary, and are not now permitted to happen.

But other and equally large dislocations can and do happen, without political results, because there is no way in which discontent can become articulate.

All past oligarchies fell from power either because they ossified or grew soft.

Either they became stupid and arrogant, failed to adjust to changing circumstances and were overthrown, or they became liberal and cowardly, made consessions when they should have used force, and once again were overthrown.

They fell, that is to say, either through consciousness or unconsciousness.

If one is to rule, and continue ruling, one must be able to dislocate the sense of reality.

For the secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one's own infallibility with the power to learn from past mistakes.

It need hardly be said that the subtlest practitioners of doublethink are those who invented it and know it's a vast system of mental cheating.

In our society, those who have the best knowledge of what is happening are also those who are furthest from seeing the world as it is.

In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion.

The more intelligent, the less sane.

One clear illustration of this is that war hysteria increases in intensity as one rises in the social scale.

Those whose attitude toward the war is more nearly rational are the subject peoples of the disputed territories.

For these people, the war is simply a continuous calamity which sweeps to and fro over their bodies like a tidal wave.

Which side is winning is a matter of complete indifference to them.

They're aware that a change of overlordship means simply that they will be doing the same work as before for new masters who will treat them in the same manner as the old ones.

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

The Party intellectual knows in which direction his memories must be altered.

He therefore knows he is playing tricks with reality.

But by the exercise of doublethink, he also satisfies himself that reality is not violated.

The process has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision.

But it also has to be unconscious, or it would bring with it a feeling of falsity and guilt.

Even in using the word 'doublethink' it is necessary to exercise doublethink. For by using the word, one admits that one is tampering with reality.

By a fresh act of doublethink one erases this knowledge. And so on indefinitely, with the lie always one leap ahead of the truth."

~1984 by George Orwell

By focusing your conscious attention on how your body feels internally ("interoception") throughout the day, you dissolve negative feelings and notice patterns in behavior which make you make different choices to prevent negative physical feelings.

In essence, healing within.

Seems like I got a lot of self-proclaimed "pureblood" followers.

I legit was surprised how many people also didn't take the vax who follow me.

I didn't select for it.

But we all found each other I guess.

I'm not anti-vax for all, I'm anti-mandates.

...

I didn't take any vaccine tho.

#MyBodyMyChoice

I'll gladly usurp the phrase / hashtag from the cowardly abortion #prochoice cretin who apparently only believed in bodily autonomy when it was convenient for them.

You could have transcended politics and showed us what true conviction means. Disgusting cowards.

And again, I truly don't care what anyone does.

I have zero ill will for anyone who got vaccinated.

Most of my family and friends IRL did, I'm the black sheep.

You do you. I'm all for it. It's probably safe, maybe effective.

But if they support mandates, they're dead to me.

I called the government jumping on this opportunistically for power early.

I know the modern sane smart take is to shake your head at people who are making a choice to make a political stance.

It's seen as redneck dumb behavior.

Meh, I'm smarter and more educated than most. I'm no redneck - I got a PhD in Biomedical Engineering in 3 years and build medical AI systems every day.

And I see power games.

I'm suspicious.

Seeing the world through the lens of power back in 2015-2017 was something cringey.

I couldn't speak about society with that lens.

So I was quiet.

And here we are.

We now need people who see the power games going on.

Not so cringe now, eh?