This Christmas in the New Normal
Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world.
1. MASKS 2: The maskening
They’re baaaaccckkk, the absurdly named “tripledemic” has brought out the experts to warn us of three circulating diseases – Covid, flu and RSV.
Or, as this situation would have been known throughout all of human history prior to 2020 “flu season”.
Naturally, all those who persisted with masks because it made them feel special are currently over the moon, soon to be joined by those…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2022/12/26/this-christmas-in-the-new-normal-2/
Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world.
1. MASKS 2: The maskening
They’re baaaaccckkk, the absurdly named “tripledemic” has brought out the experts to warn us of three circulating diseases – Covid, flu and RSV.
Or, as this situation would have been known throughout all of human history prior to 2020 “flu season”.
Naturally, all those who persisted with masks because it made them feel special are currently over the moon, soon to be joined by those…...
Read full article ...
https://off-guardian.org/2022/12/26/this-christmas-in-the-new-normal-2/
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Tucker Carlson and the JFK Allegations
Edward Curtin
On December 15, the night that the Biden administration released some of the remaining JFK files while withholding others with another half-assed excuse, Tucker Carlson, the most-watched cable news television host, delivered a monologue about the JFK assassination.
It garnered a great deal of attention.
Although I don’t watch Carlson’s television show, I received messages from many friends and colleagues, people I highly respect, about his monologue’s great significance, so I watched that episode. And then I watched it many more times.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., a man whom I hold in the highest esteem, tweeted that it…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2022/12/27/tucker-carlson-and-the-jfk-allegations/
Edward Curtin
On December 15, the night that the Biden administration released some of the remaining JFK files while withholding others with another half-assed excuse, Tucker Carlson, the most-watched cable news television host, delivered a monologue about the JFK assassination.
It garnered a great deal of attention.
Although I don’t watch Carlson’s television show, I received messages from many friends and colleagues, people I highly respect, about his monologue’s great significance, so I watched that episode. And then I watched it many more times.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., a man whom I hold in the highest esteem, tweeted that it…...
Read full article ...
https://off-guardian.org/2022/12/27/tucker-carlson-and-the-jfk-allegations/
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Forwarded from Edward Slavsquat
Russia's Ministry of Health extends "temporary" COVID "healthcare" measures until 2024 — which include "reprofiling medical facilities to provide care to patients with coronavirus" and "a vaccination hotline." 💉😎👌 [source: TASS]
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Fun at Home
Todd Hayen
So working at home is a dream come true, eh? I’ll bet. What fun! A permanent snow day for all! Stay in your PJs all day, go at your own pace, play a few vid games here and there, take a nap once in a while, raid the fridge, have a beer. (Unless you are monitored constantly by Big Brother, which I believe in most “work at home” situations you are).
I doubt if it is as fun as all that. Wife or husband is around 24/7, kids are definitely nonstop, Big Brother, as mentioned, is breathing down…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2022/12/28/fun-at-home/
Todd Hayen
So working at home is a dream come true, eh? I’ll bet. What fun! A permanent snow day for all! Stay in your PJs all day, go at your own pace, play a few vid games here and there, take a nap once in a while, raid the fridge, have a beer. (Unless you are monitored constantly by Big Brother, which I believe in most “work at home” situations you are).
I doubt if it is as fun as all that. Wife or husband is around 24/7, kids are definitely nonstop, Big Brother, as mentioned, is breathing down…...
Read full article ...
https://off-guardian.org/2022/12/28/fun-at-home/
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Of Economic Crises and Pandemics: Facebook as Fact, Government as Truth, Big Pharma as God
Colin Todhunter
Californians queue up for a food bank, socially distanced and masked of course.
If events since March 2020 have shown us anything, it is that fear is a powerful weapon for securing hegemony. Any government can manipulate fear about certain things while conveniently ignoring real dangers that a population faces.
Author and researcher Robert J Burrowes says:
…if we were seriously concerned about our world, the gravest and longest-standing health crisis on the planet is the one that starves to death 100,000 people each day. No panic about that, of course.”
No panic because the controlling interests of…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2022/12/29/of-economic-crises-and-pandemics-facebook-as-fact-government-as-truth-big-pharma-as-god/
Colin Todhunter
Californians queue up for a food bank, socially distanced and masked of course.
If events since March 2020 have shown us anything, it is that fear is a powerful weapon for securing hegemony. Any government can manipulate fear about certain things while conveniently ignoring real dangers that a population faces.
Author and researcher Robert J Burrowes says:
…if we were seriously concerned about our world, the gravest and longest-standing health crisis on the planet is the one that starves to death 100,000 people each day. No panic about that, of course.”
No panic because the controlling interests of…...
Read full article ...
https://off-guardian.org/2022/12/29/of-economic-crises-and-pandemics-facebook-as-fact-government-as-truth-big-pharma-as-god/
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Forwarded from Jesse Zurawell
[ https://rumble.com/v17aflt-ernst-wolff-about-crisis-profit-staged-ukraine-and-covid-crises-part-2-www..html ]
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Ernst Wolff about crisis profit: Staged Ukraine and Covid Crises - Part 2 | www.kla.tv/22629
In the following interview, German author and financial expert Ernst Wolff gives his assessment of the background to the Ukraine war and the Covid 19 crisis. He cogently presents the common denominato
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Covid “Vaccines”: Why is the MHRA Lying About Adverse Effects?
Simon Elmer
In its weekly summary of the Yellow Card reports it receives of the adverse drug reactions (ADRs) suffered by the British public following injection with the COVID-19 ‘vaccines’ it has authorised, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) continues to insist that the ‘overwhelming majority’ are:
Injection-site reactions (sore arm for example) and generalised symptoms such as a “flu-like” illness, headache, chills, fatigue (tiredness), nausea (feeling sick), fever, dizziness, weakness, aching muscles, and rapid heartbeat.’
In doing so, the MHRA — and, by extension, the UK Prime Minister, the Department for Health and Social Care, the UK…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2022/12/30/covid-vaccines-why-is-the-mhra-lying-about-adverse-effects/
Simon Elmer
In its weekly summary of the Yellow Card reports it receives of the adverse drug reactions (ADRs) suffered by the British public following injection with the COVID-19 ‘vaccines’ it has authorised, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) continues to insist that the ‘overwhelming majority’ are:
Injection-site reactions (sore arm for example) and generalised symptoms such as a “flu-like” illness, headache, chills, fatigue (tiredness), nausea (feeling sick), fever, dizziness, weakness, aching muscles, and rapid heartbeat.’
In doing so, the MHRA — and, by extension, the UK Prime Minister, the Department for Health and Social Care, the UK…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2022/12/30/covid-vaccines-why-is-the-mhra-lying-about-adverse-effects/
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Tiptoe through the missile-toe
Sylvia Shawcross
And so most of us are surviving the festive season which for some is more like the festering season. I am writing this as an apology from a Canadian to this world for our shenanigans over the holiday season.
The thing about Canadians is we tend to be painfully appallingly apologetic. We are always saying we’re sorry for everything under the sun. If you doubt this, take the time to watch the Public Inquiry into the trucker convoy. It was the best drinking game ever: Take a gulp for every apology and you were pretty much under the…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2022/12/30/tiptoe-through-the-missile-toe/
Sylvia Shawcross
And so most of us are surviving the festive season which for some is more like the festering season. I am writing this as an apology from a Canadian to this world for our shenanigans over the holiday season.
The thing about Canadians is we tend to be painfully appallingly apologetic. We are always saying we’re sorry for everything under the sun. If you doubt this, take the time to watch the Public Inquiry into the trucker convoy. It was the best drinking game ever: Take a gulp for every apology and you were pretty much under the…...
Read full article ...
https://off-guardian.org/2022/12/30/tiptoe-through-the-missile-toe/
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The Day the Music Died
Todd Hayen
Photo by Nicholas Nguyen on Unsplash
“You’ll own nothing, and be happy.” Ha ha. I wonder if Schwab regrets saying that. Actually the phrase originated in 2016 from Danish MP Ida Auken’s essay “Welcome to 2030: I Own Nothing, Have No Privacy, and Life has Never Been Better” written for the World Economic Forum.
Not sure why the WEF would embrace such a seemingly derogatory message. But they did (although it is no longer found on their website).
The phrase caught on and Schwab has been inextricably linked to the expression. Sounds like something just about any of…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2022/12/31/the-day-the-music-died/
Todd Hayen
Photo by Nicholas Nguyen on Unsplash
“You’ll own nothing, and be happy.” Ha ha. I wonder if Schwab regrets saying that. Actually the phrase originated in 2016 from Danish MP Ida Auken’s essay “Welcome to 2030: I Own Nothing, Have No Privacy, and Life has Never Been Better” written for the World Economic Forum.
Not sure why the WEF would embrace such a seemingly derogatory message. But they did (although it is no longer found on their website).
The phrase caught on and Schwab has been inextricably linked to the expression. Sounds like something just about any of…...
Read full article ...
https://off-guardian.org/2022/12/31/the-day-the-music-died/
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WATCH: 2022 Year in Review – #SolutionsWatch
Another year of #SolutionsWatch has come and gone and so it’s time for James to take a moment to take stock of this year’s episodes.
What resonated? What didn’t? What can be applied moving forward? What new developments have taken place?
Don’t miss this comprehensive year-in-review edition of Solutions Watch.
Sources, shownotes and links – as well as audio versions and download options – can be found here. Previous episodes of #SolutionsWatch can be found here and here.
Follow us on Telegram for regular updates & commentary...
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https://off-guardian.org/2022/12/31/watch-2022-year-in-review-solutionswatch/
Another year of #SolutionsWatch has come and gone and so it’s time for James to take a moment to take stock of this year’s episodes.
What resonated? What didn’t? What can be applied moving forward? What new developments have taken place?
Don’t miss this comprehensive year-in-review edition of Solutions Watch.
Sources, shownotes and links – as well as audio versions and download options – can be found here. Previous episodes of #SolutionsWatch can be found here and here.
Follow us on Telegram for regular updates & commentary...
Read full article ...
https://off-guardian.org/2022/12/31/watch-2022-year-in-review-solutionswatch/
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This YEAR in the New Normal – 2023 Edition
Our first This Week of 2022 was dedicated not to reviewing the past but considering the future, and this year will begin just the same.
What will the major narratives of 2023 be? What minor stories will be brought into the limelight while previously major plot lines are shunted backstage?
Much of 2022 was spent explaining heart attacks that hadn’t happened yet, as we guessed they would. But you didn’t need to be a pre-cog to see that coming.
Likewise, last year we predicted the massive increase in the discussion of central bank digital currencies…however we didn’t see the “war”…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/01/01/this-year-in-the-new-normal-2023-edition/
Our first This Week of 2022 was dedicated not to reviewing the past but considering the future, and this year will begin just the same.
What will the major narratives of 2023 be? What minor stories will be brought into the limelight while previously major plot lines are shunted backstage?
Much of 2022 was spent explaining heart attacks that hadn’t happened yet, as we guessed they would. But you didn’t need to be a pre-cog to see that coming.
Likewise, last year we predicted the massive increase in the discussion of central bank digital currencies…however we didn’t see the “war”…...
Read full article ...
https://off-guardian.org/2023/01/01/this-year-in-the-new-normal-2023-edition/
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COVID-19: A Global Financial Operation
Michael Bryant
The COVID phenomenon cannot be understood without understanding the un-televised 2019-2020 unprecedented financial collapse threatening the entire global financial system.
The Covid-19 Pandemic story makes little sense when viewed through the lens of health, safety and science. Viewed through the lens of money, power, control, and wealth transfer, however, then all of it makes perfect sense.
The lockdowns, mandatory muzzles, anti-social distancing and the plethora of additional measures did nothing to protect or improve public health- they were never designed to do so.
The numerous mandates birthed by the onset of the Covid-19 scenario were all designed to…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/01/02/covid-19-a-global-financial-operation/
Michael Bryant
The COVID phenomenon cannot be understood without understanding the un-televised 2019-2020 unprecedented financial collapse threatening the entire global financial system.
The Covid-19 Pandemic story makes little sense when viewed through the lens of health, safety and science. Viewed through the lens of money, power, control, and wealth transfer, however, then all of it makes perfect sense.
The lockdowns, mandatory muzzles, anti-social distancing and the plethora of additional measures did nothing to protect or improve public health- they were never designed to do so.
The numerous mandates birthed by the onset of the Covid-19 scenario were all designed to…...
Read full article ...
https://off-guardian.org/2023/01/02/covid-19-a-global-financial-operation/
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India’s GM Mustard: An Increasingly Bitter Taste
Colin Todhunter
In a fair world, Aruna Rodrigues would be heralded as an incredible individual for her ongoing struggle to protect the socio-economic and environmental integrity of India. So says respected environmentalist, author and campaigner Leo Saldanha.
He adds:
Since 2005, she has tirelessly pursued a public interest litigation before the Supreme Court of India, in which she has made a case why India should not yield to pressures from mega agri-transnational corporations and certain sections of the Indian agricultural sector who are keen on promoting genetically modified organisms in farming.”
India’s apex regulatory body, the Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee,…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/01/03/indias-gm-mustard-an-increasingly-bitter-taste/
Colin Todhunter
In a fair world, Aruna Rodrigues would be heralded as an incredible individual for her ongoing struggle to protect the socio-economic and environmental integrity of India. So says respected environmentalist, author and campaigner Leo Saldanha.
He adds:
Since 2005, she has tirelessly pursued a public interest litigation before the Supreme Court of India, in which she has made a case why India should not yield to pressures from mega agri-transnational corporations and certain sections of the Indian agricultural sector who are keen on promoting genetically modified organisms in farming.”
India’s apex regulatory body, the Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee,…...
Read full article ...
https://off-guardian.org/2023/01/03/indias-gm-mustard-an-increasingly-bitter-taste/
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Tolkien Anniversary: A Tribute to the Father of Fantasy
JR Leach
Today – 3rd of January 2023 – marks Professor JRR Tolkien’s one-hundred and thirty-first birthday.
This is strangely significant as ‘131’ is the same age that Bilbo Baggins was when he was gifted passage aboard one of the last ships to Valinor, when he, Frodo and Gandalf sailed west to the Undying Lands.
I wanted to celebrate the Professor’s birthday by sharing one of his very few interviews hosted by Denys Gueroult from 1964.
I adore listening to this conversation. To hear Tolkien himself talking so matter-of-factly about his languages and histories, describing his process of creating names…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/01/03/tolkien-anniversary-a-tribute-to-the-father-of-fantasy/
JR Leach
Today – 3rd of January 2023 – marks Professor JRR Tolkien’s one-hundred and thirty-first birthday.
This is strangely significant as ‘131’ is the same age that Bilbo Baggins was when he was gifted passage aboard one of the last ships to Valinor, when he, Frodo and Gandalf sailed west to the Undying Lands.
I wanted to celebrate the Professor’s birthday by sharing one of his very few interviews hosted by Denys Gueroult from 1964.
I adore listening to this conversation. To hear Tolkien himself talking so matter-of-factly about his languages and histories, describing his process of creating names…...
Read full article ...
https://off-guardian.org/2023/01/03/tolkien-anniversary-a-tribute-to-the-father-of-fantasy/
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Yet another Covid “variant”: Omicron XBB & the self-driving narrative
Kit Knightly
There’s yet another Covid variant in the headlines – it’s Omicron XBB 1.5 if you want to know. It honestly doesn’t really matter at this point – but it does provide an interesting lesson in the nature of propaganda narrative construction and how, past a certain point, they take on a life of their own.
These days, self-driving cars are in the news a lot. Give it a few years, and driving your own car will be seen as “selfish”, “dangerous” and “old-fashioned”.
But Covid has become a self-driving narrative.
It is a self-perpetuating machine, not out of…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/01/04/yet-another-covid-variant-omicron-xbb-the-self-driving-narrative/
Kit Knightly
There’s yet another Covid variant in the headlines – it’s Omicron XBB 1.5 if you want to know. It honestly doesn’t really matter at this point – but it does provide an interesting lesson in the nature of propaganda narrative construction and how, past a certain point, they take on a life of their own.
These days, self-driving cars are in the news a lot. Give it a few years, and driving your own car will be seen as “selfish”, “dangerous” and “old-fashioned”.
But Covid has become a self-driving narrative.
It is a self-perpetuating machine, not out of…...
Read full article ...
https://off-guardian.org/2023/01/04/yet-another-covid-variant-omicron-xbb-the-self-driving-narrative/
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How Global Strikes Play Right into the Great Reset’s hands
Kit Knightly
For the past few months strikes have wrought havoc with the UK’s national infrastructure, and will likely continue to do so well into 2023.
The run-up to Christmas saw postal strikes for the UK’s Royal Mail service.
Throughout the second half of 2022, transport strikes were routine. There’s one happening today that has effectively shut down all train journeys.
There’s a possibility of a teachers’ strike later this month, that would see kids sent home from school. Nurses went on strike in December, and will likely do so again this month
It’s not just the UK either. Strikes…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/01/05/how-global-strikes-play-right-into-the-great-resets-hands/
Kit Knightly
For the past few months strikes have wrought havoc with the UK’s national infrastructure, and will likely continue to do so well into 2023.
The run-up to Christmas saw postal strikes for the UK’s Royal Mail service.
Throughout the second half of 2022, transport strikes were routine. There’s one happening today that has effectively shut down all train journeys.
There’s a possibility of a teachers’ strike later this month, that would see kids sent home from school. Nurses went on strike in December, and will likely do so again this month
It’s not just the UK either. Strikes…...
Read full article ...
https://off-guardian.org/2023/01/05/how-global-strikes-play-right-into-the-great-resets-hands/
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Forwarded from Jesse Zurawell
Teammates on the same globalist pitch.
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"I saw with my own eyes how Chinese-American agricultural cooperation benefited both countries and contributed to both the global food supply and the fight against climate change … I visited Chinese-owned factories in Ohio and California, as American workers explained that Chinese investments helped to put food on their tables. At the ports of Boston and Long Beach, I saw huge stacks of containers shipped from and to China, a testament to the high degree of economic interdependence between our two countries — and a reminder that decoupling serves no one’s interest."
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[ https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/zxxx_662805/202301/t20230105_11001104.html ]
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"I saw with my own eyes how Chinese-American agricultural cooperation benefited both countries and contributed to both the global food supply and the fight against climate change … I visited Chinese-owned factories in Ohio and California, as American workers explained that Chinese investments helped to put food on their tables. At the ports of Boston and Long Beach, I saw huge stacks of containers shipped from and to China, a testament to the high degree of economic interdependence between our two countries — and a reminder that decoupling serves no one’s interest."
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[ https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/zxxx_662805/202301/t20230105_11001104.html ]
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Where Have the Voices for Liberty Gone?
Michael Lesher
In early 2020, when American liberals wailed in unison that the First Amendment’s guarantee of the right of free assembly was a prescription for national suicide – and not one significant American civil rights organization protested – I should have known where we were headed.
Still, almost three years later, I am dumbfounded by how rapidly a nation that once boasted of its attachment to “liberty” has succumbed to the priorities of totalitarianism. Thought policing on social media, once a dystopian fantasy, is now taken for granted.
So is the massive electronic surveillance system that was hawked to…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/01/06/where-have-the-voices-for-liberty-gone/
Michael Lesher
In early 2020, when American liberals wailed in unison that the First Amendment’s guarantee of the right of free assembly was a prescription for national suicide – and not one significant American civil rights organization protested – I should have known where we were headed.
Still, almost three years later, I am dumbfounded by how rapidly a nation that once boasted of its attachment to “liberty” has succumbed to the priorities of totalitarianism. Thought policing on social media, once a dystopian fantasy, is now taken for granted.
So is the massive electronic surveillance system that was hawked to…...
Read full article ...
https://off-guardian.org/2023/01/06/where-have-the-voices-for-liberty-gone/
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Gullible Again
Sylvia Shawcross
Photo by Yuzki Wang on Unsplash
Sometimes when it is grey and damp and the air is heavy with the taste of a dreary day you can go down to the other side of town where buildings are small and old and cluttered and the cement seems to meld into the houses that crouch along the sidewalks. And there, sandwiched between the dank hotel now closed and the desolate pub loud with the raucous cry of humans is a wide stretch of empty pavement.
It is not something really to go to see but sometimes I just go…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/01/06/gullible-again/
Sylvia Shawcross
Photo by Yuzki Wang on Unsplash
Sometimes when it is grey and damp and the air is heavy with the taste of a dreary day you can go down to the other side of town where buildings are small and old and cluttered and the cement seems to meld into the houses that crouch along the sidewalks. And there, sandwiched between the dank hotel now closed and the desolate pub loud with the raucous cry of humans is a wide stretch of empty pavement.
It is not something really to go to see but sometimes I just go…...
Read full article ...
https://off-guardian.org/2023/01/06/gullible-again/
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A Meaningless Life
Todd Hayen
In Dr. Mattias Desmet’s insightful book The Psychology of Totalitarianism he posits that one of the primary problems of today’s culture is that many people believe they are living meaningless lives. He also cites rampant materialism as the reason. A quote from his book:
Man may not realize it, but his humanity does not really matter, it is nothing essential. His whole existence, his longing and his lust, his romantic lamentations and his most superficial needs, his joy and his sorrow, his doubt and his choices, his anger and unreasonableness, his pleasure and his suffering, his deepest aversion…...
Read full article ...
https://off-guardian.org/2023/01/07/a-meaningless-life/
Todd Hayen
In Dr. Mattias Desmet’s insightful book The Psychology of Totalitarianism he posits that one of the primary problems of today’s culture is that many people believe they are living meaningless lives. He also cites rampant materialism as the reason. A quote from his book:
Man may not realize it, but his humanity does not really matter, it is nothing essential. His whole existence, his longing and his lust, his romantic lamentations and his most superficial needs, his joy and his sorrow, his doubt and his choices, his anger and unreasonableness, his pleasure and his suffering, his deepest aversion…...
Read full article ...
https://off-guardian.org/2023/01/07/a-meaningless-life/
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