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What does this have to do with the conversation?

I get the sentiment, truly, as I’m writing essay/research papers quite frequently these days, but this is also a bit hogwashian, imo. Review boards, peer reviews, “ethics” boards, etc., are all flawed themselves, especially peer review! And to say that reading (articles and books, I assume), YouTube, or even 4chan (which I know little about…[Read more]

The last two items in the course syllabus: the Italian Renaissance; the Popol Vuh.

Of course, the curriculum is limited in scope. There’s no doubt that the information is a bit watered down. For example, when I read through the Genesis curriculum, the footnotes are something out of the Scofield Reference Bible, and there are always ideological jabs punched here and there, but nonetheless, it’s still been incredibly sur…[Read more]

I get your points but let me push back just a tad. When you say that virology and medicine is largely a corrupt field, more after profits than health, more malevolent than scientific, I get it. My issue with this statement revolves around the word “largely” and casting a large, abstract blanket over the whole of western medicine. Let’s take…[Read more]

How can one argue that viruses are not “real” while at the same time bring up “Koch’s postulates”? Now, that may not be what you’re exactly arguing here, but it has the familiar tone that is recently so frequent here on Giza regarding this hypothesis. If viruses aren’t real then what was Koch attempting to isolate? I think the problem isn’t…[Read more]

“It is true that animals are not Men, but it is equally true that Men are animals.”

What’s strange, or more so, highly disturbing, is how the unvaxxed (and unmasked) are just as willing to segregate themselves from the vaxxed as the vaxxed are from the unvaxxed. I have an aunt in Florida who has locked herself in the house because of the latest “shedding” hypothesis. The shedding argument is interesting, and in gener…[Read more]

A great, yet tearful, book!

Wow. I guess we’ll have to start calling you, Dr. (cultural) Appropriation.

If Math and Gravity (or sheet music) are now “racist” then we should probably rethink the drive over that new bridge, or leasing that apartment in the new high rise downtown. Maybe so…

This guy just oozes fraud— no surprise there! His opening sentence, “I have been in political meetings over the weekend.” My BS sniffer went wild! First off, who would really be meeting you, an ex-con, such that had any real clout, such clout that is big enough to cause cracks in ole’ Schwab’s plans? Please. Second, politics on the weekend?…[Read more]

Concerning his past, it’s quite hard to take anything serious from this guy. And I know, I know, even a broken clock is… whatever. Fraud oh Fraud, where for art thou (next) Fraud?

Hegel’s dialect was certainly not formulated for Left wing politics, and certainly not for social manipulation. It was a simple tool of analysis. It was the young Hegelians who misconstrued Hegel, so much so, that it became anything but Hegel’s philosophy. Hegel’s premise was almost always predicated on Spirit, Thought, and the recog…[Read more]

I’m reminded of the Japanese ritual of Seppuku. Though, your question is contextually a bit different. Many argue from the Christian tradition that suicide is the “blaspheming of the Spirit”. I’ve heard good arguments for this; I once asked Dr. Farrell the same question, he stated that it is generally understood that suicide is “blasph…[Read more]

“Cynical Theories” is a good crash course into the history of Criticism. I truly appreciate both Lindsay and Pluckrose. Sometimes I think James inadvertently discredits himself with his own cynicisms on the topic as he doesn’t get challenged all that often.

Anyhow, I’m reminded of an academic student I know who is an atheist studyin…[Read more]

I’m suddenly reminded of old dogs and wrong trees.

The problem is that many of us critique these cynics all without reading a single page of their prolific works. If you do read them, which is often quite difficult, you may, such as myself, find yourself unable to refute much of their criticisms (e.g., Horkheimer and Adorno’s critiques on American pop culture) which are often spot on. The p…[Read more]