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Posts where personal opinion is largely determining the article's vision. This category will not be present in articles with some opinion paragraphs but still away from giving another shape to the main subject.

Gen Z: the ‘No Nic’ generation

The JAMA Network shows that between 1999 and 2017, Nicotine usage amongst high-school-aged youths decreased rapidly, as our knowledge of the long-term impacts of smoking grew, and fewer and fewer young people decided to take it up. And then, suddenly, between 2017 and 2019, nicotine use was on the rise

Rule by Criminals: When Dissidents Become Enemies of the State

“In these days of worldwide confusion, there is a dire need for men and women who will courageously do battle for truth<.” Martin Luther King Jr When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals. In the current governmental climate, obeying one’s

Did the Covid Psyop Fail?

As you all know, I have not been one to believe that the tides are turning.

The CIA Does “Soulful Work”

Back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, a spate of books and articles extolling the word “soul” became the rage in the United States. Soul became the chic word.

Unlocking the Black Box

“…there is no sound for we all live underground… now every mother can choose the color of her child, that’s not nature’s way, there’s nothing left to do but pray…” Jamiroquai “Virtual Insanity” The first month of human embryo development is often referred to as a “black

Degenerate Art in New Normal Germany

One of the first things totalitarians do when they set about transforming a democratic society into whatever type of strictly-regulated, utterly soul-deadening totalitarian dystopia they are trying to transform it into is radically overhaul and remake its culture. You can’t impose your new official ideology on a formerly democratic

Lockdown’s Fourth Birthday

Today marks four years to the day since the UK went into “lockdown” for the first time. What an exciting time that was, right? With the pan-banging and the curve-flattening and the Spirit of the Blitz living on. Good times. UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s team decided to honour

Oppositional Defiance

Remember the bad kids in high school? The ones who didn’t make it onto the honour roll or the dean’s list? In my day they were the long-haired kids (the boys) who wore James Dean-style denim jackets and smoked in the bathrooms. I doubt if those kids in

Out of the Box

With the end of winter comes a death rattle deep from the throat of the cold.

The State of Our Nation No One’s Talking About: Tyranny Is Rising as Freedom Falls

“Never has our future been more unpredictable, never have we depended so much on political forces that cannot be trusted to follow the rules of common sense and self-interest—forces that look like sheer insanity, if judged by the standards of other centuries.” Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism Day

How generative AI will ruin science and academic research

Background: the epistemology of modern mass media I often come back to Neil Postman’s 1985 classic Amusing Ourselves to Death. It’s a penetrating analysis on the cognitive effects of media technology. His focus is mainly on how the format and mode of communication influences the character of content

Sick, and Sick of It All

Sometimes it takes our bodies to return us to our souls. And our little pains to remind us of the indescribable pain of the savage killing and dismemberment of innocent children and adults in Gaza and many other places by U.S. weapons produced in clean factories by people just

Societal Self-Regulation

Any group of human beings who are supposedly in a free society and who have a leader (or a council of people who lead), assigned by that group to make decisions for the common interests of the group, must rely on their own “self-regulation,” above and beyond the leaders’ government,

Some People Like This, and Always Will

When all this Covid crap started up my primary concern was why most people did not see what we saw.