“I get why many might resist a rational approach to all this. As I came this February to believe in the likelihood of an Era of Vax-Death, I underwent the experience of feeling like a Jeremiah or a Cassandra, i.e., a person who knows before others that Doom is on the way.” - I feel this way as well, especially since EVERYONE I KNOW has been vaxed. If the worst case scenario happens, my whole family could be wiped out, as well as sooooo many friends 😢
Fantastic article. I haven't seen anything like this... Trying to figure out where we're at and where we're headed, has felt like limbo. Having the framework of your predictive thinking helps a lot. Thank you!!
"Retrieving antiquity at the peak of modernity," what a great concept! As an author I've tried to do this somewhat in my essays, most recently in Words from the Dead: Relevant Readings in the Covid Age, in which I include a chapter titled, "Reading Socrates in an Anti-Socratic World." Although my education is too poor in a formal sense to consider myself a scholar in matters of classical antiquity, I clearly see that many of the intellectual, ethical and democratic principles laid down in that ancient era are indeed timeless. My goal with Words from the Dead is to use the works of past writers to illuminate anew the basic tenets of critical thinking, something sorely lacking even from our universities these days. Unfortunately, an extensive reading of history also suggests to me that in the aftermath of great social or environmental disasters, a retardation effect often sets in as peoples' brains are reset to the more basic impulses of the amygdala. The Black Death of the late 14th century arguably set Europe back at least a century; the great age of science would not begin until late in the 16th century, as Lewis Mumford enumerates in his classic Technics and Civilization. Thus, as you say here, it's open to conjecture just how badly retarded our culture will be in the aftermath of the great Covid disaster, which has clear indications of reckless gain-of-function bio-engineering. The great historian Arnold Toynbee said that most civilizations do not fall from external forces but from internal ones, their collapse "in the nature of a suicide."
It'll be #4. I don't think we'll get to #5 that quick.
Great article.
Good piece on the murderous negligence/silence from the FDA and CDC right now: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/03/fda_cdc_guilty_of_clinical_malpractice_and_scientific_fraud_by_inaction_and_omission_on_mrna_vaccine_safety_warnings.html
If we aren’t at 5, we are quickly approaching it.
“I get why many might resist a rational approach to all this. As I came this February to believe in the likelihood of an Era of Vax-Death, I underwent the experience of feeling like a Jeremiah or a Cassandra, i.e., a person who knows before others that Doom is on the way.” - I feel this way as well, especially since EVERYONE I KNOW has been vaxed. If the worst case scenario happens, my whole family could be wiped out, as well as sooooo many friends 😢
Fantastic article. I haven't seen anything like this... Trying to figure out where we're at and where we're headed, has felt like limbo. Having the framework of your predictive thinking helps a lot. Thank you!!
"Retrieving antiquity at the peak of modernity," what a great concept! As an author I've tried to do this somewhat in my essays, most recently in Words from the Dead: Relevant Readings in the Covid Age, in which I include a chapter titled, "Reading Socrates in an Anti-Socratic World." Although my education is too poor in a formal sense to consider myself a scholar in matters of classical antiquity, I clearly see that many of the intellectual, ethical and democratic principles laid down in that ancient era are indeed timeless. My goal with Words from the Dead is to use the works of past writers to illuminate anew the basic tenets of critical thinking, something sorely lacking even from our universities these days. Unfortunately, an extensive reading of history also suggests to me that in the aftermath of great social or environmental disasters, a retardation effect often sets in as peoples' brains are reset to the more basic impulses of the amygdala. The Black Death of the late 14th century arguably set Europe back at least a century; the great age of science would not begin until late in the 16th century, as Lewis Mumford enumerates in his classic Technics and Civilization. Thus, as you say here, it's open to conjecture just how badly retarded our culture will be in the aftermath of the great Covid disaster, which has clear indications of reckless gain-of-function bio-engineering. The great historian Arnold Toynbee said that most civilizations do not fall from external forces but from internal ones, their collapse "in the nature of a suicide."
Isaiah's and John the Beloved's prophesies, among others, point to #5. But we certainly need to remain calm and trust in the Lord.