I have kept coming back to the readings of Nassim Nicholas Taleb a great deal over the past few months as 2020 has created so many events that he has previously discussed. This article looks at many of the political methods used today to influence our opinions. It's a superb read.

A fancy article on the modern art of population control, propaganda and mass hypnosis. Nice!

A great example of pedophrasty has been the use of Greta Thornberg in regard to climate change

"Definition: Argument involving children to prop up a rationalization and make the opponent look like an asshole, as people are defenseless and suspend all skepticism in front of suffering children…"

Excellent ; about time someone called this one out.! Pedophrasty and the other virtue signalling variants have become a potent arsenal in straw-man arguments and similar discourses.

Inventing charged terms for injection into academic, political and, eventually, common discourse steals a technique of the Cultural Marxists. As such, this essay strikes me as a parody of those subversives, and an implied warning that the sword swin ...

Fantastic read. Particularly interested in the Bigoteering scam: it looks like an evolution far beyond simple name calling (as in “you’re just like ‘favourite unsavoury character from history’) because it triggers an urgent digression for self-defenc ...