All of your recommendations are great reads. Continue what you're doing. Fellow voices, even in the same shared darkness of the unknown, is comforting and helpful.
I wrote about character today, but I studiously avoided the word suffering. I did not mean to minimize suffering in the building of character, but of course it can. But then no one who is suffering wants to hear about building character.
I will be delving into the topic of evil with some fiction for Halloween. I just read Meryl Nass' recent post about her losing her medical license and being forced to have a psyche exam for "misinformation", and for prescribing ivermectin and hydroxychloriquine, and I was thinking about the blood on the hands of those who went on that which hunt, and the problem for all of us if such people continue working in medicine.
You're definitely right about building character; overcoming adversity is surely a necessary ingredient for that -- which is, of course, contrary to the woke culture that encourages people to identify with their problems, instead of overcome them.
Thanks for sharing that reference to Meryl Nass' work; I'll check that out, as well as your own writing on this theme. There has definitely been some real evil revealed in the institutional failures and corruption throughout the plannedemic. That evil is nothing new, but they took more pains to hide it before. I still don't quite know what to make of the political class's brazenness concerning their criminal corruption. That seems genuinely new, at least in living memory in America.
I assume we are living through the very late stages of an imperial regime when the elite have become so certain of their infallibility and eternal rule they come to believe whatever they do is justified. But that would also imply they are about to fall, and if history tends to rhyme then not very many people are going to miss them.
Hey Daniel, I wonder if you have read my thoughts about the issue here - they are kind of philosophy-y: https://luctalks.substack.com/p/the-problem-of-evil-solved
Thanks, I will check it out!
All of your recommendations are great reads. Continue what you're doing. Fellow voices, even in the same shared darkness of the unknown, is comforting and helpful.
Thanks for the encouraging words!
I wrote about character today, but I studiously avoided the word suffering. I did not mean to minimize suffering in the building of character, but of course it can. But then no one who is suffering wants to hear about building character.
I will be delving into the topic of evil with some fiction for Halloween. I just read Meryl Nass' recent post about her losing her medical license and being forced to have a psyche exam for "misinformation", and for prescribing ivermectin and hydroxychloriquine, and I was thinking about the blood on the hands of those who went on that which hunt, and the problem for all of us if such people continue working in medicine.
You're definitely right about building character; overcoming adversity is surely a necessary ingredient for that -- which is, of course, contrary to the woke culture that encourages people to identify with their problems, instead of overcome them.
Thanks for sharing that reference to Meryl Nass' work; I'll check that out, as well as your own writing on this theme. There has definitely been some real evil revealed in the institutional failures and corruption throughout the plannedemic. That evil is nothing new, but they took more pains to hide it before. I still don't quite know what to make of the political class's brazenness concerning their criminal corruption. That seems genuinely new, at least in living memory in America.
I assume we are living through the very late stages of an imperial regime when the elite have become so certain of their infallibility and eternal rule they come to believe whatever they do is justified. But that would also imply they are about to fall, and if history tends to rhyme then not very many people are going to miss them.