The Common Central Metaphor

Red Pill || Woke
Woke || Red Pill

The central metaphor for the inculcation of esoteric gnosis is that of arousal from slumber. Mystery religions are perennial. Critical Race Theory, Progressivism, Far Leftism; and Neo-Reaction, Q Anon, Far Rightism.

Update February 2, 2021: Edward Feser comments similarly: http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-gnostic-heresys-political-successors.html

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Thanks Who! (World Health Organization)

We’ll remember how much to believe you in the future:

https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1217043229427761152
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Two favourite video games of the past 10 years

Universal Paperclips; You might be the villain.

This War of Mine; You are at least not a glorious hero.

These are particularly great video games for thoughtful people who don’t actually like video games.

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We won, we flattened the curve

The 2020 Pandemic much less deadly than two other forgotten chinese pandemics of 1957 and 1968.

1968 was 3 times more deadly. 1957 was 5 times more deadly. No one noticed.

We flattened the curve back in mid April…

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Gin and Tonic

Still good for Malaria.

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Herds

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.26.20162420v1.full.pdf

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News from Sweden

Sweden, Sweden, Sweden.

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Woe to the Experts

Edward Feser’s comments

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Normalcy?

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm#dashboard

https://www.ryankemper.io/post/2020-04-29-the_case_for_ending_lockdown/#section-4-pareto-mitigation-an-evidence-based-approach

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/06/11/unnecessary_lockdowns_created_social_turmoil_global_suffering_143419.html

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/08/we-often-accuse-the-right-of-distorting-science-but-the-left-changed-the-coronavirus-narrative-overnight

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-53061281

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-denmark-reopening-idUSKBN2341N7

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/covid-19-t-cells/

https://www.npr.org/2020/05/25/861923548/stockholm-wont-reach-herd-immunity-in-may-sweden-s-chief-epidemiologist-says?ft=nprml&f=1001

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/05/07/851725443/mystery-inflammatory-syndrome-in-kids-and-teens-likely-linked-to-covid-19

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Grandfatherly Pandemic Reflections

The Scab and the Wound Beneath

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