71 Replies to “November 22, 2023: Reader Tips”

  2. Aldous Huxley’s (“Brave New World”) brother was heavily involved with technocracy and eugenics. This short video explains how “Brave New World” is the model for the dystopic future unfolding before us, rather than Orwell’s “1984”
    https://t.me/DrMikeYeadon/1878

    1. I disagree.
      Orwell predicted doublethink, newspeak, surveillance society, and a very coercive state.
      Huxley predicted everybody would be on drugs.
      Newsflash: Most people are not wired to mood-influencing drugs. Before water purification, small beer was drunk instead of water by many, long before Huxley.
      All these people referring to Orwell or Huxley should read Machiavelli’s “The Prince”, a cautionary tale that every seems to have forgotten.

      1. I think both authors had great insight.
        A lot of people are on drugs.
        Many smoke pot like fiends or take psilocybin or drink alcohol to excess. Many have a combo of the three.
        Then there are all the people on some type of medication because reality doesn’t jibe with how they want the world to be – typically some type of anti-depressant and the numbers are startling. Then there is Ritalin or whatever the flavor is for kids.
        If you tell someone to “take a pill” these days they probably already are.

        1. There are two classes of people, those of the Uniparty, and those not.
          Brave New World is a description of life for Uniparty members, the priests and scribes of the modern Pharaohs.
          1984 is a description of life for the rest, the unwashed, the serfs and prols.

      2. Seems to me we are on our way to a society best exemplified by the FILM: THX1138

        You will own nothing.
        You will be punished for Drug Evasion
        You will be punished for Procreative acts – any zygote resulting thereof will be terminated. Only the State is allowed to “create” humans.

        Eerie Movie…with some well known actors.
        A film by Lucas

        Worth a watch.

    1. And actually admit they were wrong? Much like waiting for a politician to apologize, good luck.

  7. “The Last Man on Earth” is based on a novel written by John William Corrington and Joyce Corrington in 1954 and titled “I am Legend”. It was recast in 1971 as “The Omega Man” starring Charlton Heston. Two years later Heston would team up with the producer’s Walter Seltzer in “Soylent Green”.

    In 2007 Will Smith starred in “I am Legend” yet another adaptation of the original novel. I think the Carlton Heston version is the best of the three, but all are good.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Omega_Man

    Thanks Robert, for your ongoing efforts, which are greatly appreciated.

    2. “Premier David Eby and local Indian chiefs attended the game along with the ex-royals.”

      Huh. Never noticed Eby or the chiefs shown on camera (the royals, three times or so)….but then I haven’t watched the beginning of a hockey game since Trudeau arrogantly and arbitrarily changed the words to our national anthem *against the wishes* of three out of four Canadians, who had clearly told him (and Stephen Harper before him) to leave it alone. Also never seen any of the LGBT stuff or native land acknowledgements that the NHL seems so enthusiastic about these days, so that’s a bonus.

    1. Yo, Don: What’s this “we”, paleface? I didn’t vote for any of this shit. Bet you did, though.

  16. Another reply to me: I used this feature to state the “I Love Hamas” stickers at UBC is a sign of tangible support for Hamas:
    https://www.canada.ca/en/security-intelligence-service/corporate/reporting-national-security-information.html

    Naturally I soften my accusation to only saying that “I Love Hamas” stickers are floating around the UBC campus. Also, if one uses this complaint mechanism, one should read the “checklist” at the bottom of the page. If one neglects to say a personal CSIS interview is not needed, CSIS will contact you to set up an interview. This happened to me years ago.

    (This should be a reply to my two blurbs above).

  17. Trans-woman Meghan Cortez-Fields (no relation to Herman Cortez the explorer) broke a number of the school’s women’s swim records in a multi-school event a few days ago:
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12775641/Transgender-swimmer-New-Jersey-Cortez-Fields-breaks-womens-record.html

    He (she? It?) swam for the men’s team tor three years before. University officials were surprised that Cortez-Fields has been doing so well in the pool this year.

  18. Bonus: I’m pretty certain both Freeland and Harris are loaded up on some kind of psychotropic drugs.

  35. 3 Ways To Transform Your Workplace To Be More Equitable
    https://www.forbes.com/sites/janicegassam/2023/10/25/3-ways-to-transform-your-workplace-to-be-more-equitable/?sh=785fcaf2197a

    White-centering can be thought of as a system that prioritizes white dominant culture to the detriment of non-white groups and cultures. White-centering has been given many names including the white gaze and whiteness as the default. Because white-centering is often left unexamined and unchecked, equity and justice have continued to evade organizations…

  37. I’m sure it’s nothing…….

    “The German government said on Tuesday it would immediately halt all new spending as it grappled with how to plug a gap of tens of billions of euros following a court ruling that has triggered a budget crisis in Europe’s largest economy… The Constitutional Court, Germany’s highest, ruled last week that Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government had acted improperly by taking money borrowed in 2020 to combat the coronavirus pandemic and shifting it to a new fund to finance environmental projects and green technology. The sum amounts to 60 billion euros, or $64.6 billion.
    The ruling has not only undermined those environmental projects and investments, but has thrown the country’s overall spending plans into disarray.”

    https://t.co/i8IuPEgcvG
    (NY Times, may be paywalled)

  48. Michigan men face life in prison for Benton Harbor Dunham’s Sports robbery
    https://wwmt.com/news/local/dunhams-sports-theft-benton-harbor-michigan-suspects-charged-robbery-firearms-theft-possession-crime-investigation-us-attorney-mark-totten-police-berrien-county-west-state

    GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Over 100 guns were on full display Tuesday as two Benton Harbor men were charged for an alleged robbery at Dunham’s Sports.

    Darnell Bishop and Dontrell Nance were charged with robbery, brandishing a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, theft of firearms from a federal firearms licensee, and knowingly possessing stolen firearms, according to U.S. Attorney Mark Totten…

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