Plato’s Cave Resurrected

Having lived through more than four years of systematic subjection to gaslighting as well as misinformation by the mainstream media, governments and non-elected, private global companies, those among us who sojourn in the land of the awake and awakened, would …

We Failed the Freedom Test

The remedy is worse than the disease.

Francis Bacon

The government never cedes power willingly.

Neither should we.

If the Covid-19 debacle taught us one thing it is that, as Justice Neil Gorsuch acknowledged, “Rule by indefinite emergency edict risks …

Perverse Incentives

I. Introduction

We live in a world awash in perverse incentives.

A perverse incentive is when the rules, structures, or practices of any system reward bad behavior or sociopathic outcomes.

I had to come up with my own definition because …

Four Years Later

Has the dust settled? 

Far from it. It is everywhere. We are choking on it. The storm cloud comes in many forms: inflation, learning losses, ill-health, high crime, non-functioning government services, broken supply chains, shoddy work, displaced workers, substance abuse, …

The Fall of Critical Thinking

The Covid panic and repression did not happen in a vacuum. A pattern of persecuting people rather than engaging those with dissenting opinions had already been well-established in the educational world and the mainstream mass media, making the oppressive treatment …