There was a period of time after I became collapse aware where I used to go and drink and get high in the woods whilst awaiting the end of civilization. It's a big part of why I got into foraging and can now identify so many species and grow so many of them.
Anyway, during that period if I had encountered a flimsy plastic sign from a bank telling me to stay out of the woods that sign would not have been there any longer. There's a good chance it would have given me something new to drunkenly forage for resulting in the extinction of those signs from the entire area.
> The emergency alerts, press conferences, and fear-driven messaging surrounding the ban reached millions. The court decision invalidating it arrived quietly, many months later, through scattered headlines and a lengthy if somewhat convoluted, judicial ruling.
Similar to how the U.S. government announces huge job growth for the month, before quietly revising downward the numbers later.
I actually have some sympathy for the government stance in this case. They have the "experts" giving them advice from all sides but actually most of the experts are zealots and shills. Who do you trust? How do you expect them to cut back the corporate activity when these corporations are their major campaign contributors? They are also a huge part of the economy that will devastate the community if shut down and eliminate funding for everything else.
The scientific community academics have been captured by ideology. They operate on grants and publications which if you don't adhere to that ideology, you don't get grants, you don't get published, you don't get tenure, and you don't have a job. Even if you are not a "true believer" you have to service the narrative to survive.
The corporate community academics are expected to have results that support their business activity. Again, if you don't get the results that they want, you will be out of a job so you better design the studies carefully to keep the bosses and shareholders happy.
The media also has a problem. Their reporting is done by people that have no clue about what is being put out in the publications. They just choose to report on what is most click worthy and keeps their editors happy when they support their world view.
Both the corporate and the academic studies are carried out precisely designed to push a narrative rather than actual unbiased scientific study. They are structured to support a narrative. Studies that don't support their intended crusade are buried. Most of the information will probably take decades to sort out.
We are all just stuck in limbo. For instance, I have no idea about the safety of glyphosate. I honestly don't trust any of the research because it is not performed to inform but to sway people.
The title of this article is so succinct and unequivocal that further comment is moot... When more people come to that realization, then perhaps we will find a solution to governmental overreach and the systematic totalitarianism that is plaguing our lives.
There was a period of time after I became collapse aware where I used to go and drink and get high in the woods whilst awaiting the end of civilization. It's a big part of why I got into foraging and can now identify so many species and grow so many of them.
Anyway, during that period if I had encountered a flimsy plastic sign from a bank telling me to stay out of the woods that sign would not have been there any longer. There's a good chance it would have given me something new to drunkenly forage for resulting in the extinction of those signs from the entire area.
Love it! Witness the birth of "rage foraging"... you heard it here first, folks!
> The emergency alerts, press conferences, and fear-driven messaging surrounding the ban reached millions. The court decision invalidating it arrived quietly, many months later, through scattered headlines and a lengthy if somewhat convoluted, judicial ruling.
Similar to how the U.S. government announces huge job growth for the month, before quietly revising downward the numbers later.
Yes, exactly
I actually have some sympathy for the government stance in this case. They have the "experts" giving them advice from all sides but actually most of the experts are zealots and shills. Who do you trust? How do you expect them to cut back the corporate activity when these corporations are their major campaign contributors? They are also a huge part of the economy that will devastate the community if shut down and eliminate funding for everything else.
The scientific community academics have been captured by ideology. They operate on grants and publications which if you don't adhere to that ideology, you don't get grants, you don't get published, you don't get tenure, and you don't have a job. Even if you are not a "true believer" you have to service the narrative to survive.
The corporate community academics are expected to have results that support their business activity. Again, if you don't get the results that they want, you will be out of a job so you better design the studies carefully to keep the bosses and shareholders happy.
The media also has a problem. Their reporting is done by people that have no clue about what is being put out in the publications. They just choose to report on what is most click worthy and keeps their editors happy when they support their world view.
Both the corporate and the academic studies are carried out precisely designed to push a narrative rather than actual unbiased scientific study. They are structured to support a narrative. Studies that don't support their intended crusade are buried. Most of the information will probably take decades to sort out.
We are all just stuck in limbo. For instance, I have no idea about the safety of glyphosate. I honestly don't trust any of the research because it is not performed to inform but to sway people.
The title of this article is so succinct and unequivocal that further comment is moot... When more people come to that realization, then perhaps we will find a solution to governmental overreach and the systematic totalitarianism that is plaguing our lives.