The Pandemic One of the Tools for Destroying the Free World.

There is now a great kerfuffle on the internet about Bret Weinstein's wariness toward the vaccines and endorsement of Ivermectin as a preventative of COVID.

This podcast is a good recent overview of the arguments in favor of Ivermectin as a preventative as wel as treatment for COVID 19 and its variants: Bret Weinstein with medical Drs. Pierre Kory and Paul Marik of FLCCC (Front Line COVI19 Critical Care)

https://odysee.com/@FrontlineCovid19CriticalCareAlliance:c/Weekly_Update_SupressionofGoodScience:3?src=open

Here is the earlier Joe Rogan podcast, with Bret and Dr. Pierre Kory on Ivermectin. YouTube removed it so it went over to Spotify where you have to register to watch. this may be the main video that sparked the kerfuffle:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/

Here's the beginnng of the kerfuffle: Sam Harris on the vaccines and related issues, talking with Dr. Eric Topol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

This discussion was to me sickening and frightening, so disheartening it's hard to describe the hopelessness it engendered. I have to accept that Hrris is sincere, he sounds sincere, but that just makes the fact that he is doing nothing but regurgitating the current propaganda and completely misreprenting the point of view of his opponents abysmally discouraging. I might make some comments, not sure yet since Bret has his own response to him:

Bret and Heather responded to Harris' podcast in their Dark Horse Podcast #89L That discussion starts about 11:36:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EURFK3PAMg&t=4613s

Bret's main response was that Harris' arguments were strawmanning what he and Heather had said, which is true but my point would be that he's strawmanning all those who reject the vaccines and favor Ivermectin as well as a number of other treatments.

I'm just going to give a brief sketch of some of my own responses:

There are some who think COVID is overblown, and actually the evidence on which they base that is really quite good despite the way Harris and Topol mischaracterize it, but I doubt that's the majority of those who don't want to be vaccinated. I'm in at least two vulnerable groups and I don't want the vaccine. I feel I'm amply protected by the supplements I've been able to acquire, and I also strongly suspect I had the virus anyway, a very mild case which would probably be explained by the fact that I was taking those supplements at the time. Not only do I think I'm amply protecte but I believe that I'm contributing to the extinction of the virus, far from being the cause of anybody else's infection as Harris and Topol accuse the unvaccinated of being. This is part of what's frightening about their view because if we are held responsible for others' sickness wse become targets of government tyranny.

The real threat to public health is the suppression of the antivirals such as Ivermectin and HCQ which have a huge record of keeping people out of the hosptial as well as preventing the illness altogether. Of course they misrepresent the evidence for this in the usual ways. I've posted many discussions that bring out that evidence. They also attack the VAERS site where reports of deaths and injuries from the vaccines are recorded. the usual utterly ridiculous criticisms All the fault of "anti-vaxers" too which is a cateogry that hardly applies to the people who reject the MRNA vaccines BASED ON THE SPEICIFC EVIDENCE and not on any prior belief.

The Delta variant is hyped by them just as it is on the fake news as thiw really scary :virulent" development that the unvaccinated are now accused of sujecting the vaccinated to. Although they use the correct description, that the variant is more easily trasmitted so that we're getting a great number of cases, the fact that i does not cause as serious illness as the COVID 19 is not mentioned so its higher transmissiability is allowed to imply that people get sicker as the death rate is higher. All the reportes refer to percentages of cases, hospitalizations and deaths in very nigh numbers, which obscured the fact that you can have "double" the cases or deaths and be only referring to half a dozen actual cases. When some people have called hospitals reported on the news to be overrun with DEelta patients they have been told that that's not true, they have plenty of empty beds. We know we are being lied to but this kind of lie is particularly scary because it's making a targ3et of unvaccinated people. Just as CRT is making a target of white people. the powers that be that are behind this are truly ,br>
diabolical and it's sad and frightening to think that they are getting away with it. It's also hard to understand how so many could have been so effectively deluded by lies.

The aversion to the vaccines is not based on irrational sources, it's based on known facts properly understood by medical people with impeccable credentials . The rate of deaths and injuries as a reslt of the vaccines is far beyond that of any other drug that was not immediately pulled from public use. Yes the vast majority of people receiving them are apparently doing fine but given the deaths and some very serious injuries (which by the way look like they may be mitigated by somje of the same treatments recommended for preventing the virus in the first place), and the reasonable concern that nobody knows if they may have future serious effects, there is nothing at all irrational about the educated refusal to take the vaccine.

That'says a few, not all, of the objections that could be made to Harris and Topol. I just want to add that Bret says he's ben unable to explain the suppression of information about these things except as the commitment to the profits to be made from vaccines as well as new treatments while the old ones like HCQ and Ivermectin don't mak4e anybody any money. This is probably part of it but the suppression of information that makes the difference between life and death is nevertheless a diabolical way of protecting profits.

He wonders at the iron-fisted effectiveness of the suppressive measures, and to that I have to say it suggests something beyond even the profitmaking strategies of multibillionaires. It suggests the globalist agenda of the Great Reset, which is using COVID as well as CRT and inflation and open oborders that overwhelm the economy and bring in diseases, plus other destrutive political actions to destroy their opposition, which America in particular has represented as the most succssful free society. No more are we that apparently. They've pretty much accomplished their aim. this is no longer America Klaus Schwab of the WEF whose agenda is the Great Reset, recently said that we're never going back to normal. Wish he were wrong but suspect he's right, because they obviously have the power to enforce it. Not that we shold give up without a fight.

Europeans Who Experienced Communism Wary of Leftist Activity in the US

This interview was done before the election last Fall so they are probably even more alarmed now. John O'Sullivan, President of the Danube Society in Budapest, interviews Marion Smith, at that time President of Victims of Communism Foundation Memorial Society, now founding President of the Common Sense Society.

I heard Marion Smith on the Lars Larsen* talk show recently, in which he talked very knowledgeably about the protests in Cuba, which he sees as the Cuban people taking advantage of a current weakness in the government to fight for freedom from Communism. They are also taking a great risk and are being subjected to horrendous mistreatment by the govenrnment. We've been getting propaganda teling us that it's about wanting vaccinations!!!! As Larson pointed out, "Libertad" does not mean "vaccination" in Spanish.

So I looked up Marion Smith and found this interview by the Danube Society. The interviewer framed the conversation with the observation that there has been a recent upsurge in the popularity of Marxism and Communism in America, which is alarming considering the genocidal history of all Communist regimes.



Smith is also involved with the National Civic Art Society which is about the effect of styles of architecture on the cultural mindset. Interesting, I think. that the motto of the Common Sense Society is Liberty, Prosperity and Beauty. The word "beauty" in that list was startling but I was happy to see it. I gather it relates particularly to architecture, but when I first read it I was reminded of my own recent preoccupation with art and how I despise modernism for its ugliness as Anti-Art, and want art to be beautiful above all else. For the sake of the human soul, the stability of society and culture, etc. etc. etc.

so many ways the culture has been undermined over the last century, politically, morally, culturally, and the degeneration of art is one that is usually overlooked. .

But I digress. The interview is about Communism.

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* Not sure now if it was Lars Larson. Might have been Jim Bohannon. Even Sebastian Gorka. I lose track.

Just a Little Opinion Piece

All political leaders and medical institutions, authorities and personnel who have authorized or contributed to the ban on, or refused to prescribe or administer the life-saving antivirals Hydroxychloroquine and Ivewmectin to COVID patients, and other helpful drugs as well, should be sued by the family members of all those who have died of COVID.

All political leaders, university professors and activists and rioters and school boards that promote the racist doctriness of Marxism and Critical Race Theory should be sued by all their victims, and tried for treason against the United States.

Most of the Democratic Party and Biden's administration should be tried for treason for most of their evil anti=Constitutional policies that will destroy the country if they get away with them.

Or the rest of us should write a new Declaration of Independence and secede from the Union.

Larry Elder for California Governor!

It was alarming to tune into Larry Elder's radio show and find somebody else had taken over the time slot. But then I found this interview of him by Tucker Carlson. Looks like he quit to run for Governor of California. Wow, he'd be a great governor for that benighted state if only he can get through the usual leftist obstructions. Here's the interview:

How Art Became Anti-Art

somehow I lost this post. Update: Turns out I have a hard copy of it, which I make of some of my posts, and if I can see well enough to retype it later I'll do that.

Jon Voight, Another Victim of Demonic Manipulation. Tucker Carlson too.

Tucker Carlson interviewed Jon Voight who described an interesting experience he had when he heard a voice in his ear that changed his life. The headline calls this his "faith." It's no such thing. He's fallen for a demonic manipulation. The effect on him was similar to the effrect on those who have had near-death experiences, experiences of "heaven" and so on. this is all demonic manipulation but you have to be a Bible believer to recognize it. Looks like the demonic world wants to make humanity comfortable with the supernatural for some reason, besides, of course, leading whomever they can as far away from the gospel as possible.
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Of course the intrusion of these invisible beings convinces their victims of the other world, which they then take as proof of God assuming the experience came from God. A message from heaven. It changed his life, he is now motivated to be a better person. Like all those with the heaven experiences. They havve no idea that their souls are in dire danger though they are now lulled into complacency, sure that they will have a happy afterlife.

Tucker Carson doesn't seem to know any better either. No idea of the gospel of salvation, that we are all sinners destined for Hell unless we put our faith in the death of Christ for our salvation from our sins. The demons won't preach the gospel of course.

Interseiting that they seem to be constructing some kind of illusion as we approach the end times. These people they are manipulating would probably not find the gospel anyway but they seem to want to create some kind of false religoin around these experiences they are giving people. Probabgly to contribute to the end times global religion

There Are Different Sorts of Pleasure to be had from Art, but There's Really Only One That Interests Me.

To escape from the anxieties of the times I've been on an art kick. My eyes are pretty bad but I can make out the general form of a painting and can read material that's presented in certain ways, so I've been able for the most part to collect information on the subject. I've collected enough by now for a small book but I'm not going to write a small book and I don't even want to write a long post. I'd just like to sketch out the framework of my thoughts about art from what i've been reading and looking at and thinking about.

It's pretty simple once I get it boiled down. What I want from art is the aesthetic emotion Clive Bell wrote about as the essence of art. I want to be blown away by the kind of beauty that can be found in some art. Bell makes a distinction between natural beuaty, such as a beautiful face or a beautiful flower or butterfly wintgs, and the beauty that is a particular property of art. He had arrived at the conclusion that there is one quality in what he considered to be art worthy of the name, amounting in his view to the very definition or essence of art, and that he identified as Significant Form.

Bell's book "Art," which was published in 1913, and a book by philosopher Susanne K. Langer, "Feeling and Form" published in the 50s, together educated my eyes to the aesthetic experience of art. It was an experience I had had, and I believe it's what I always sought in art, but there are so many different ways of experiencing art that this one most important way is easily lost. Those two books cleared away all the irrelevant stuff that is so distracting and allowed me to see what mattered most to me, the experience of the special kind of beauty that art can give

There are many directions to go in this conversation but I want to stick to the bare bones if I can. I don't want to take a position on Bell's claim that significant form IS art and that's what art is, even if I am sympathetic to that view. Art can be whatever you want to it to be, I just want to say that the aesthetic experience is the whole point for me and nothing else enters into it. I may like different kinds of pictures for different reasons, but the ones I am inclined to call art are the ones that bring me that pecular pleasure called aesthetic. I don't know if Bell is ritght that Significant Form is the essencew of art and the only means to the aesthetic experience but I'm willing to entertain the idea. But it woujld take more research than I'm going to do in order to arrive at my own conclusion about that. Nevertheless, as he presents the idea in his book it so focused the experience of art for me that I shed a lifetime of irrelvant baggage and could finally identify in art what I'd always been looking for and hadn't found until then, until his book and Langer's.

Over the last few days I've been updating my knowledge of the art world, watching videos of lectures by today's reigning art critics, as well as interviews with them, did a google search for names of today's most prominent artists and skimmed through pages and pages of thumbnails of their paintings. Here and there I see something that sort of almost provokes an aesthetic emotion, but for the most part it is an amazing wasteland as far as aesthetic experience goes. It is as if they've turned Bell's concept upside down. What we are getting is all the very content he called inessential to art and none of the art itself according to his definition. In his frame of refrence on the other hand a work of art could contain much that is inessential to the aesthetic experience and yet also contain the significant form that provokes that experience. Today's art hits my eye as absolutely devoid of any shred of aesthetic interest whatever. And yet Bell is supposed to have been a major influence toward modern art.

If there is a true aesthetic experience to be had in this modern wasteland someone who has experienced it would have to walk me through it so i could see it for myself. All I can say is that I don't. I find i repugnant. Almost all of it with few exceptions Whatever people enjoy about this kind of art, it isn't beauty.

It may well be that if I understood better what Bell means by Significant Form that much of it wouldn't move me at all. I grant his superior sensitivity to such experiences and assume I'm the deficient one, but all I can do is like what I like. And it is an experience of the ecstatic sort that I've stumbled onto from time to time that makes me think he has the key to it since he speaks of his own ecstasies over art. He attributes them to Significant Form. He may be right.