Always thought the best way to bring trust back is at the local level. I encourage my family to reach out in their daily interactions and get to know and appreciate the people they engage with - the mailman, the guy at the meat counter, the girl at the front desk of the gym, the sales associate at the retail store, the doctor/nurse/tech/cashier from the hospital or medical center. I think this is more important than ever as we move out of Covid. Human beings are made to be in relationships and it is relationships that create the gravity of trust.
This is why I value Substack. Writers on this platform are very clearly reaching out to their audience in a personal way. Even when I don’t agree with an author or a commentor, I respect the intimacy and critical thinking they extend in sharing their thoughts. Most are all people I would welcome to my home for a meal.
I’ve heard talk of creating some sort of Internal Affairs Bureau for the each of the bureaucracies. Clearly the Inspectors General are not working.
I think we also have to get our heads out of our butts and take on the education system. IMHO I think we are suffering from a generation that was educated on moral relativism and zero critical thinking.
I just saw a recent Del Bigtree Highwire presentation, I am only part of the way through it but it actually stunned me. It is called “Who Killed Ivermectin.” The second section interviews someone who talks specifically about speech development retardation of masked babies and I found it disgusting in two ways: people whose job it is to study child development have seen that these babies were not hitting their markers like knowing a certain number of words by certain age, and they SAT ON THE INFORMATION AND JUST LET IT GO ON. Not only this, they actually moved the statistical goal posts, much like what was done with PCR test frauds and covid case-labeling frauds , to ACTIVELY HELP HIDE this information by various mislabeling category-juggling tricks. It is one thing to dupe the adults but to consciously injure the babies and hide THAT makes me feel that the need for immediate summary justice is here.
Honestly I never really thought about these things because i never imagined I'd be citing the fucking Nuremberg code in defense of my own bodily autonomy.
Who knew all of "Western" liberalism could be negated by simply using the word "emergency"? Who knew leaders of so called liberal, free, democracies would so willingly put that all to one side so readily? Just the smallest amount of fear brought the whole charade down, but what really sickens me is the moralizing continues unabated, this time directed at Russia and Russians. Did they learn nothing from Koramatsu?
Those same fucks, with their slogans like "Hate won't Win", ask them about Putin or Trump or any straight, white male and they'll show you all the hate you'd ever need to see.
This meditation on trust, power, animal behavior, and pattern recognition is beautiful and brilliant and bloody thought-provoking, as I would expect from you.
I honestly struggle with WTF to do with these pathological agencies like the NIH, CDC, FDA, etc. In my mind, they’ve done infinitely more harm than good and I would gladly demolish them all, but I concede your pragmatic points and realize we do need some sort of regulation of food products, pharmaceuticals, and the like.
And you’re right, we need checks and balances with *teeth*—sharp, incorruptible incisors that are actually put to use. We need to close every loophole; ban all permutations of regulatory capture; prohibit conflicts of interest; and incentivize positive health outcomes like reduced illness, diseases, and death instead of the reverse.
The swamp would *actually* need to be drained and then replenished with fresh, circulating water populated by people of knowledge, wisdom, and integrity who have proven their mettle in the COVID tribulations. That said, I wouldn’t wish bureaucracy on the good guys, so it is a difficult conundrum all around.
Robert Malone posted this video of JP Sears' not-so-funny take on the Schwab and the Great Reset. These people are bat shit crazy. In another time, Harari's statements would lead to him being locked up in a mental institution.
I agree with you that trust is essential to life and to civilization, but these people can never be trusted or contained through oversight. They must be eliminated from society.
I know someone who is a go-getter type who decided to join the “legal marijuana growing Goldrush” a few years ago. He went ahead and did it on some attractive property that he somewhat trashed the looks of in the process. Lately, due to plunging prices and high overhead his operation failed financially. Meanwhile one of his outraged neighbors wrote in huge letters on her property along their mutual property line: YOU SOLD YOUR SOUL.
I was reading about beauty and building in Christopher Alexander’s masterpiece The Nature of Order. He was decrying the modern anti-human aspects of real estate development that are built in to the system in the USA and yield the aesthetic horrors of our built world presently. He points out that in some peoples there are underlying ethics and cultural norms that stop certain horrors from being allowed to take form without needing to make a lot of rigid rules about every last detail. How people hold other people in check not through corruptible rules and gatekeepers but simple deep human feeling that can be appealed to. A kind of hard-to-define but simple and fundamental sanity. In the absence of it we have a dog-eat-dog free-for-all that “looks like hell.” And a lot of us start thinking about things like “summery justice.” Justice is so sweet when it finally appears in the summertime. Everybody welcomes it except maybe the carpetbagger sitting on the rail with the coat of hot tar and feathers. But it is clear to everyone that sometimes that is just what it takes to re-establish trust.
I agree with your statement of the basic problem of corruption, and I agree with your solution for it. Here's one way that might be workable and corruption-proof:
If I remember correctly, it was the Iroquois who gave governing power to those who least wanted it, kind of like modern jury selection. A new civic responsibility might be that each citizen serve a short-term stint on one of multiple citizens' oversight boards. Such boards would, as you say, have a main responsibility of prohibiting corruption. These should also be tasked with watchdog oversight of each of the 3-letter agencies, maybe especially over those gangs of thugs and mercenaries.
Always thought the best way to bring trust back is at the local level. I encourage my family to reach out in their daily interactions and get to know and appreciate the people they engage with - the mailman, the guy at the meat counter, the girl at the front desk of the gym, the sales associate at the retail store, the doctor/nurse/tech/cashier from the hospital or medical center. I think this is more important than ever as we move out of Covid. Human beings are made to be in relationships and it is relationships that create the gravity of trust.
This is why I value Substack. Writers on this platform are very clearly reaching out to their audience in a personal way. Even when I don’t agree with an author or a commentor, I respect the intimacy and critical thinking they extend in sharing their thoughts. Most are all people I would welcome to my home for a meal.
I’ve heard talk of creating some sort of Internal Affairs Bureau for the each of the bureaucracies. Clearly the Inspectors General are not working.
I think we also have to get our heads out of our butts and take on the education system. IMHO I think we are suffering from a generation that was educated on moral relativism and zero critical thinking.
there needs to be an IQ test for civilian oversight and maybe a psych evaluation in critical roles
and maybe giving frequent doses of their safe and effective product for the guilty
I just saw a recent Del Bigtree Highwire presentation, I am only part of the way through it but it actually stunned me. It is called “Who Killed Ivermectin.” The second section interviews someone who talks specifically about speech development retardation of masked babies and I found it disgusting in two ways: people whose job it is to study child development have seen that these babies were not hitting their markers like knowing a certain number of words by certain age, and they SAT ON THE INFORMATION AND JUST LET IT GO ON. Not only this, they actually moved the statistical goal posts, much like what was done with PCR test frauds and covid case-labeling frauds , to ACTIVELY HELP HIDE this information by various mislabeling category-juggling tricks. It is one thing to dupe the adults but to consciously injure the babies and hide THAT makes me feel that the need for immediate summary justice is here.
Honestly I never really thought about these things because i never imagined I'd be citing the fucking Nuremberg code in defense of my own bodily autonomy.
Who knew all of "Western" liberalism could be negated by simply using the word "emergency"? Who knew leaders of so called liberal, free, democracies would so willingly put that all to one side so readily? Just the smallest amount of fear brought the whole charade down, but what really sickens me is the moralizing continues unabated, this time directed at Russia and Russians. Did they learn nothing from Koramatsu?
Those same fucks, with their slogans like "Hate won't Win", ask them about Putin or Trump or any straight, white male and they'll show you all the hate you'd ever need to see.
You should be able to hear the applause right across the Atlantic.
I want to add or comment or something but I think you nailed it so hard to the church gate you broke hammer, nail, gate and steeple all in one go.
This meditation on trust, power, animal behavior, and pattern recognition is beautiful and brilliant and bloody thought-provoking, as I would expect from you.
I honestly struggle with WTF to do with these pathological agencies like the NIH, CDC, FDA, etc. In my mind, they’ve done infinitely more harm than good and I would gladly demolish them all, but I concede your pragmatic points and realize we do need some sort of regulation of food products, pharmaceuticals, and the like.
And you’re right, we need checks and balances with *teeth*—sharp, incorruptible incisors that are actually put to use. We need to close every loophole; ban all permutations of regulatory capture; prohibit conflicts of interest; and incentivize positive health outcomes like reduced illness, diseases, and death instead of the reverse.
The swamp would *actually* need to be drained and then replenished with fresh, circulating water populated by people of knowledge, wisdom, and integrity who have proven their mettle in the COVID tribulations. That said, I wouldn’t wish bureaucracy on the good guys, so it is a difficult conundrum all around.
Robert Malone posted this video of JP Sears' not-so-funny take on the Schwab and the Great Reset. These people are bat shit crazy. In another time, Harari's statements would lead to him being locked up in a mental institution.
I agree with you that trust is essential to life and to civilization, but these people can never be trusted or contained through oversight. They must be eliminated from society.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G3nWyoQ5CQ
I know someone who is a go-getter type who decided to join the “legal marijuana growing Goldrush” a few years ago. He went ahead and did it on some attractive property that he somewhat trashed the looks of in the process. Lately, due to plunging prices and high overhead his operation failed financially. Meanwhile one of his outraged neighbors wrote in huge letters on her property along their mutual property line: YOU SOLD YOUR SOUL.
I was reading about beauty and building in Christopher Alexander’s masterpiece The Nature of Order. He was decrying the modern anti-human aspects of real estate development that are built in to the system in the USA and yield the aesthetic horrors of our built world presently. He points out that in some peoples there are underlying ethics and cultural norms that stop certain horrors from being allowed to take form without needing to make a lot of rigid rules about every last detail. How people hold other people in check not through corruptible rules and gatekeepers but simple deep human feeling that can be appealed to. A kind of hard-to-define but simple and fundamental sanity. In the absence of it we have a dog-eat-dog free-for-all that “looks like hell.” And a lot of us start thinking about things like “summery justice.” Justice is so sweet when it finally appears in the summertime. Everybody welcomes it except maybe the carpetbagger sitting on the rail with the coat of hot tar and feathers. But it is clear to everyone that sometimes that is just what it takes to re-establish trust.
I agree with your statement of the basic problem of corruption, and I agree with your solution for it. Here's one way that might be workable and corruption-proof:
If I remember correctly, it was the Iroquois who gave governing power to those who least wanted it, kind of like modern jury selection. A new civic responsibility might be that each citizen serve a short-term stint on one of multiple citizens' oversight boards. Such boards would, as you say, have a main responsibility of prohibiting corruption. These should also be tasked with watchdog oversight of each of the 3-letter agencies, maybe especially over those gangs of thugs and mercenaries.