Mocking YouTube. An Apocaloptimist. Neighborhood dinner party
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I hope I get smarter as I get older. I posted my book review of Narcomania on rumble because in it I offer some impolitic views of Covid and the pharmaceutical industry in general. YouTube might not have allowed it.
Thinking about it, I decided to edit it, removing the parts that would offend YouTube. I did it in such a heavy-handed way that the censorship is obvious. I have two objectives. The first is to capture the eyeballs who are likely to see it on YouTube. But the second is to highlight the absurdity of YouTube's censorship and point people to Rumble. Here is the bowdlerized Narkomania review. I hope it contains nothing that will encourage YouTube to reject it.
I gave the same treatment to two videos that YouTube had previously rejected, The Evolution Of What Women Want and a Toastmasters speech from two years ago entitled Doctors. I discovered that I had not uploaded the Doctors speech to Rumble – An oversight. Here's a link to the original Doctors speech, the video that YouTube took down, and the bowdlerized edition that I will publish as soon as I see that the sanitized Narcomania has stayed up for a while.
Here is the same for the more serious video The Evolution of What Women Want. The original, which was taken down by YouTube, and the sanitized version which avoids mention of Covid.
Toby Rogers has crafted a map of 10 different theories trying to make sense of what has happened over the past three years. Each theory has adherents of whom we have heard. He associates Naomi Wolf, RFK Junior and Steve Kirsch with one or more theory apiece. Yesterday I wrote about the civil war between the adherents of two competing theories, the evil pharma theory and the madness of crowds theory.
One of the theories is that it is the Department of Defense gone rogue. That has some appeal to me. Just about everything they are doing appears to me to be intended to discourage the core of the US military, white Southerners.
You might ask where I fit into this map. I believe that there is an apocalypse coming and that the world will experience a cleansing such as it has not seen since perhaps the end of the Bronze Age or the black death. My thinking is more closely aligned with Ed Dutton, who does not figure in anybody's list. The closest fit might be the madness of crowds people, but evolution goes that one step further. We evolved to be what we are, and some small number of us will leave descendants who will evolve out of it. Amy Sukwan produced this graphic that probably sums up my stance as well as anything. I am an apocalypoptimist
Last night we had the neighbors over for dinner. Five houses on our street are owned by an extended family. One attendee was a divorcée, and there are two couples, one with a four-year-old son. We enjoyed conversation, playing and dancing (kids' dances, the stuff Oksana teaches, but the ladies still remembered) until about 9:45.
We had been at the four-year-old's parents’ house for dinner just before the war started. We were able to return the hospitality and reconfirm the relationship. It feels good.
That's the news from Lake WeBeGone, where the kids as always are looking forward to a couple of days of delicious leftovers.
I follow a YouTube channel sometimes. The guy has been suspended twice by Big Brother at YouTube, so he went on posting about kittens, but added a link to Rumble so those who wanted to see his videos could watch them uncensored. Russell Brand has gone to Rumble as well to go further. I am impressed by Dr. John Campbell who manages to say what he wants most of the time and only has gotten one video banned. The anger he shows now towards the authorities is palpable but they can't censor that, at least at the moment.
I'd love to do a series on Germany, but I couldn't show my face because then I couldn't walk around anonymously in Berlin and I can tell you that the Germans would not like what I have to say about their dysfunctional society. I'll start with this: Every policy of Angela Merkel was wrong, every single thing. Not just wrong but stupid. She damaged Germany beyond repair.
I think we're in trouble, but we've always been in trouble as a race. We all look back at the past and see that humanity always survived, but historically we've missed some big problems. When the Song Dynasty in China fell, it was replaced by the Mongols. When the Ming replaced the Yuan Dynasty of Kubla Khan, the Chinese population was half of what it had been 100 years earlier. For those of you who don't do math, that's a lot of people who died in a period of huge turbulence. We know about the Black Death because there were some records kept in the Middle Ages, and that reminds us of disasters. But for the American Indians, before the White Man came, 95% of their population was wiped out by disease. That's an apocalypse.
I still don't know what happened with Covid. That is, I know that the government, media, and politicians all lied about the so-called disease, but I have no idea what motivated them to make a pandemic out of a mild flu. I also don't know why they forced the vaccinations on everybody. Was it collective madness? or what there a plan? I still agree with Bret Weinstein who said that if they were making mistakes along the way, they should have at least got something right, but in fact every decision was the opposite of right. It means that they did it intentionally. But why?
Last week, I went to Strasbourg, France to visit some friends, people linked to the European Court of Human Rights and the Council of Europe. It's a lovely place and it was so nice to get out of Germany for a few days.
Let's begin with some of Angela Merkel's mistakes.
Using the US Army as its de facto defense force.
Repressing German wages to keep exports more affordable outside Germany.
Focus on exports as opposed to creating internal demand, the two largest external markets being China and the US.
Allowing the army and Navy to deteriorate, especially for a country which borders nine other countries.
Funding the EU and continuing to support the Euro.
Allowing mass migration of undocumented immigrants.
Suppressing the truth about the actions of those migrants within Germany
Not fully funding NATO
Going green which ends of raising prices of energy in Germany so that electricity costs more than twice as much as any other European nation.
Building Nord Stream one which undermined the sovereignty of Ukraine and contributed to the ongoing war.
Going forward with the Nord Stream pipeline in spite of its neighbors opposition.