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Jordan Peterson told a room full of university students the one thing their $200,000 degree was engineered to bury.
Peterson: “If you can think, and speak, and write, you are absolutely deadly. Nothing can get in your way.”
He did not say educated. Did not say credentialed. Did not say employed. Deadly.
The ability to force your own reality into language is not a skill they forgot to teach you. It is the one skill the system cannot afford for you to have.
Peterson: “No one ever tells students why they should write something.”
Because the honest answer would collapse every transaction the institution runs.
You were not taught to write. You were trained to replicate. Follow the rubric. Hit the word count. Reproduce the approved answer back to the grader. Pay six figures for the privilege.
You do not think in ideas. You think in sentences. The precision of your language is the precision of your reality.
Everything outside your vocabulary is not something you disagree with. It is something you cannot see.
Every power structure in recorded history understood one equation. A population that cannot name what is being done to them will never fight what is being done to them.
The modern version does not ban the weapon. It reclassifies it. Calls it coursework. Grades it. Strips it of everything dangerous and hands it back empty.
Peterson: “It’s the most powerful weapon you can possibly provide someone with.”
A person who can force one true sentence into existence without permission has already exited the system.
That is the one graduate no institution was ever designed to produce.
He said this as a tenured professor at the University of Toronto. Twenty years inside the machine. Students called his lectures life-changing. The institution pushed him out.
The one professor who told you what the weapon actually does was removed for the crime of using it.
That tells you everything. Not about him.
About the machine you spent two decades inside and walked out unable to name.
En el siglo XIV un rey francés necesitaba plata para financiar una guerra contra Inglaterra.
La solución fue poner un impuesto temporal sobre la sal.
Esa palabra, temporal, es la mentira mas repetida en la historia de la tributación.
Lo que Felipe VI creó en 1341 como medida de emergencia se convirtió en impuesto permanente antes de 1360.
Y no solo eso, se transformó en uno de los dispositivos fiscales mas perversos que haya inventado un Estado europeo.
La gabela no era un impuesto normal sobre la venta de sal.
Era un monopolio estatal de compra obligatoria.
En las provincias de la grande gabelle, el corazón fiscal de Francia, todo habitante mayor de ocho años estaba obligado por ley a comprar una cantidad mínima de sal al año, al precio que la corona fijara, en los depósitos que la corona controlara.
No importaba si la necesitabas o no tenías quw comprarla igual.
El Estado te vendía un producto a precio inflado y te amenazaba con cárcel si no lo comprabas.
En las zonas redimidas y en provincias exentas como Bretaña, esta cuota forzosa no existía, lo cual hacía la desigualdad entre regiones todavía mas obscena.
Eso ya sería suficientemente grotesco si el impuesto fuera uniforme.
Pero no lo era.
Francia estaba dividida en seis zonas fiscales con tasas radicalmente distintas.
En Bretaña, un minot de sal costaba entre 2 y 3 libras.
Cruzabas la frontera provincial hacia Anjou y el mismo minot costaba 591 sous.
En las provincias de la grande gabelle alrededor de París, el impuesto podía multiplicar el precio de la sal por diez.
Mientras tanto la nobleza, el clero y los funcionarios reales gozaban del franc-salé, una cuota anual de sal libre de impuesto calculada para el consumo de sus hogares.
Si necesitaban mas de esa ración, pagaban el impuesto completo por el excedente.
En la práctica seguía siendo un privilegio enorme, un campesino pagaba impuesto desde el primer gramo mientras que un noble cubría todo su consumo doméstico sin tributar.
Durante siglos la recaudación de la gabela se repartió entre contratos dispersos con recaudadores locales, cada uno negociando condiciones distintas con la corona.
En 1681, Colbert centralizó todo ese sistema bajo un único sindicato privado de financistas, la Ferme Générale.
Ahí el mecanismo de recaudación se volvió todavía peor que el impuesto mismo.
Cuarenta inversores pagaban al rey una suma fija por adelantado, y todo lo que recaudaran por encima de esa cifra se lo quedaban como ganancia.
Esto es lo que pasa cuando un monopolio estatal se combina con incentivos privados de extracción, no se genera eficiencia, se genera depredación sistémica.
La Ferme Générale controlaba entre el 40% y el 50% de los ingresos fiscales totales de la corona.
Tenía mas de 20.000 guardias paramilitares armados para hacer cumplir el monopolio de la sal y el tabaco.
Tenía poder casi ilimitado de allanamiento, requisa y arresto.
La diferencia de precios entre zonas convirtió el contrabando de sal en la actividad clandestina mas rentable de Francia.
Los contrabandistas se llamaban faux-sauniers.
Compraban sal barata en Bretaña y la vendían en las provincias de impuesto alto a un precio menor que el oficial.
La respuesta del Estado fue predecible, criminalizar a los que vendían sal mas barata.
Si te agarraban sin armas, galeras.
Si te agarraban armado, pena de muerte.
Te marcaban a fuego en los hombros con las letras GAL para identificarte si reincidías.
En 1783, un tercio de los seis mil prisioneros en los presidios franceses eran contrabandistas de sal.
Para fines del siglo XVIII, mas de tres mil hombres, mujeres y niños eran condenados a prisión o muerte cada año por delitos contra la gabela.
Tres mil personas al año castigadas por vender o comprar sal a un precio distinto al que fijaba el Estado.
Cuando se convocaron los Estados Generales en 1789, la gabela apareció en los cahiers de doléances de practicamente todas las provincias.
Era el impuesto mas odiado de Francia.
Porque condensaba todo lo que estaba podrido en el Antiguo Régimen, monopolio estatal sobre un bien esencial, compra forzosa, zonas de tributación arbitrarias, exención total para las clases privilegiadas, recaudación privatizada con incentivos perversos, y represión violenta contra quien intentara comerciar libremente.
La Asamblea Nacional abolió la gabela en marzo de 1790 y amnistió a todos los acusados de contrabando de sal.
El epílogo es perfecto.
En 1794, 28 fermiers généraux fueron llevados ante el Tribunal Revolucionario, condenados en juicio sumario y guillotinados el mismo día.
Entre ellos estaba Antoine Lavoisier, el padre de la química moderna, que había financiado sus investigaciones científicas con las ganancias de la recaudación fiscal.
Napoleón, por supuesto, reinstauró el impuesto sobre la sal en 1806 para financiar sus guerras.
La palabra gabelle no desapareció de los documentos oficiales franceses hasta 1945.
Cuatro siglos y medio de un impuesto temporal.
El patrón se repite en cada siglo y en cada continente.
El Estado crea un monopolio sobre un bien esencial, fija el precio por encima del mercado, exime a sus aliados políticos de pagarlo, criminaliza a quien intente competir, y cuando la resistencia popular se vuelve inmanejable culpa a los contrabandistas en vez de al monopolio.
Hoy no se llama gabela.
Se llama curso forzoso, se llama emisión monetaria, se llama encaje legal.
El bien esencial a día de hoy ya no es la sal, es el dinero.
Historian Johan Norberg explains that one of the major factors in taking down the Roman Empire that’s rarely discussed, is the rise in entitlement spending
So many people started receiving welfare and it kept getting expanded, it quickly skyrocket inflation and destroyed their currency
“What caused the fall of ancient Rome? There were many reasons; disease, famine, barbarian invaders but historian Johan Norberg covers one rarely talked about. You say entitlement spending played a big role”
“The emperors wanted to become popular by handing out free stuff to people. Originally, this started small. You just handed the very poor means of subsistence, make sure that they would but that group was enlarged because it was popular — So the group that lived on the public's expense grew larger all the time
And emperors complained about this constantly while they were expanding it.
Everyone from Caesar and onwards said, "Oh, we've gotta reform this system because it means that we have fewer people working and more people consuming." But no one succeeded. Instead, it was expanded all the time became more and more costly. So the Romans could conquer the world, but they couldn't do entitlement reform”
“It just reminds me of what I see in the West”
“It's a very worrying sign in each of these civilizations. Once you have an ever-expanding system of entitlements that you can't afford, then you have to deal with it in different ways. Well, some of them just try to conquer other people’s and take their stuff. But once you run out of that, you have to resort to inflation. Rome started to debase the currency
— The Emperor Diocletian, he blamed greedy businessmen for inflation, something that we hear today as well. So he imposed price controls on more than 1,000 goods and even imposed the death penalty on any merchant that increased the price above a certain level. But obviously it all failed because he kept debasing the currency. So inflation kept going, prices kept rising, It only happened in the shadow economy and undermined the Roman Empire completely”
I looked into this and found roughly 20% of the entire population ended up on welfare, it got so out of control they devalued their currency by 98%
This is exactly what’s happening in America
America is Rome and we’re falling the same way they did
Australia's Bureau of Meteorology has been audited station by station. The report reveals that the agency has systematically erased cooling trends from the historical record, replacing them with synthetic warming.
At Rutherglen, Victoria for example, raw data from 1913 to 2006 showed a cooling trend. But the Bureau's adjusted chart flips this into warming. No physical justification, just statistical sleight of hand.
Comparisons at Deniliquin also reveals the tactic - how past highs have been lowered to fit the narrative. Minimums from 1910 onward here are reduced by as much as 1.8C. These edits weren't based on new evidence. They were applied decades later by opaque homogenization models.
The report's author calls it the rewriting of Australia's temperature history. But it's not just happening in Australia. Climate agencies in the UK and US have also cooled the past so as to exaggerate or even fabricate modern warming trends.
This manipulated data is then paraded as truth by politicians and the media with the original measurements buried.
More police officers arrested for "misusing Flock camera data" - this time in Albany, Georgia.
The only reason it seems like more cops are getting caught illegally abusing their access to these cameras/AI systems is because the public is finally starting to look into these systems.
On a related note that should surprise no one - this department isn't even remotely compliant with "Brady List" requirements to report corrupt officers.
Imagine how many dirty cops and politicians are ACTUALLY illegally using this data. I'd bet the numbers would be shocking to most folks if the media actually looked.
If you live in a state where you can request access to these systems/databases and have some free time, I'd certainly recommend doing so.
This unconstitutional criminal cartel needs to be exposed and ultimately put out of business.
FOIA request this data and expose them accordingly...
#police #crime #PoliceState #4thAmendment #14thAmendment #CivilRights #ALPR #cops #stalking #women #georgia #albany #flock #SurveillanceState
Hospitals, Prisons, Schools, and Restaurants largely heat up the same food distributed by one corporation:
Sysco generates over 81 billion in annual sales supplying food to over 700,000 restaurants, hospitals, schools, and prisons across America, making it the single largest food distributor in the country
In 2015 the FTC blocked Sysco’s attempt to acquire US Foods, but in 2026 they acquired Restaurant Depot, eliminating the last major warehouse alternative small restaurants used specifically to avoid depending on Sysco
When one corporation controls this much of the food supply chain, the incentive is always toward volume, shelf stability, and margin, never toward nutrition and local sourcing
Every collectivist experiment moves through the same stages. Property is pooled and dissent is silenced. The elite exempt themselves from the equality they impose on everyone else. People are treated as state property. Terror becomes the governing method, and starvation the predictable outcome.
The sequence repeated in the French Revolution, in Bolshevik Russia, in Maoist China, in Cambodia, in Venezuela. It repeated in Münster almost three centuries before Karl Marx was born.
@FiredUpCoug lol, yep. Flop sweats.
@Azariel91 Funny how confidently she says that.
This is nonsense.
Over the last century, there has been no increase in heatwaves in the United States, as confirmed in a new paper just published in the Journal of Theoretical and Applied Climatology. Christy (2026) states very clearly,
🗨️ “𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘵-𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘥𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘺 𝘛𝘔𝘢𝘹 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘳 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘵 𝘰𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘮𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘦 1899, 𝘥𝘶𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘥𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 1925–1954.”
🔗 https://t.co/DSJXxVVKZa
@martianwyrdlord This is a real problem. Add insurance companies to the list. CEO or COO or the department heads are all starting to look the same
C'est passé. 331 contre 304.
Cet après-midi le Parlement européen a voté l'urgence sur Chat Control le scan de vos messages privés. Pas le vote final : jeudi. La manœuvre est plus intéressante que le résultat.
Le Parlement avait déjà refusé ce texte. La dérogation a expiré en avril. Alors le Conseil l'a ressuscité en seconde lecture la procédure où il faut réunir une majorité absolue de 361 voix pour le bloquer, où les abstentions comptent comme des oui, calée pile sur la dernière séance avant l'été quand la moitié de l'hémicycle est déjà en vacances. Le service juridique du Conseil lui-même dit que ça viole l'article 7 de la Charte. Ils le savent. Ils le font quand même.
Mais voici ce que personne ne veut voir.
Le problème n'est pas que ces gens soient malveillants. Ils ne le sont probablement pas. La technocratie de Bruxelles n'utilisera sans doute jamais cet outil pour vous écraser elle est trop molle, trop procédurière, trop occupée à se justifier.
Le problème est qu'on ne construit jamais une infrastructure pour le pouvoir qu'on a. On la construit pour le pouvoir qui vient.
Et ce qu'ils assemblent, brique par brique, dérogation « volontaire » par dérogation « volontaire », c'est l'arsenal parfait. Le jour où une vraie crise économique portera au pouvoir des gens qui, eux, n'auront aucun scrupule, ils n'auront rien à inventer. Tout sera déjà là. Le scan généralisé, normalisé, légal, opérationnel. Une arme chargée posée sur la table, qu'il suffira de ramasser.
Hayek l'avait compris : la route de la servitude est pavée par des administrateurs pleins de bonnes intentions. On ne cède pas sa liberté d'un coup. On la cède ligne par ligne, « pour protéger les enfants », « pour lutter contre le terrorisme », toujours pour une raison que personne n'ose contester.
L'histoire ne retiendra pas ces gens comme les protecteurs de quoi que ce soit. Elle les retiendra comme les architectes de la cage. Ceux qui ont bâti l'appareil, et l'ont tendu, souriants, à ceux qui savaient s'en servir.
Jeudi, 361 voix. C'est le dernier verrou.
If you don't already know what critical theory is, I recommend you do some independent research and figure it out.
Because, right now, literally every manmade problem in the USA is a function of critical theory.
Defeating critical theory is the most important task for American survival.
@mattvanswol Good luck with that
Excellent points
California activists want preschools to affirm Black English as its own separate language in early literacy.
Let me take this seriously, because it deserves better than a dunk.
The humane part is real. No child should ever feel their home, their family, or their voice is something to be ashamed of. Hold onto that. I mean it.
But here is what the plan misses.
There is no single correct American English. There never has been. We are a nation of glorious linguistic chaos.
Boston decided the letter R was a suggestion. Pahk the cah.
New York looked at the plural of "you" and invented "youse," like a felony.
Pittsburgh says "yinz."
Minnesota says "ope" and "you betcha." Philly says "wooder."
The South says "y'all," which is honestly the correct answer.
Every one of those kids grows up speaking two things. The way they talk at home, and the way the world does business. The kitchen and the boardroom.
That is true for the kid in Southie, the kid in Brooklyn, the kid in the Delta, and every child this policy is trying to help.
The job was never to erase how grandma talks. The job is to also hand every single child the standard version, cold, fluent, automatic, so that no door on this earth ever closes on them because of how they sounded in an interview.
That is not "talking white." That is talking in the language of the contract, the courtroom, the loan officer, and the hiring manager. Every kid deserves to own it.
Teaching a four-year-old that the standard is optional does not lift them up. It quietly locks doors they have not even walked up to yet. And the children who can least afford that are the ones who will pay for it.
So affirm the child, always. Love the home voice. Every region has one.
Then give every last kid the master key to every room they will ever want to enter.
Codeswitching is not shame. It is a superpower. Make sure they all have it, not just the ones whose parents already do.
I will keep my own small peace while I am here. It is strength. There is a G in it. It is not "strenth." I will die on that hill, and I will bring snacks.
And anyone who wants to lecture Americans about proper English can take it up with the pedantic wankers across the ocean who invented the language, then fainted when we gave it fifty accents and a drawl.
We took your English and made it sing in every zip code.
You are welcome. Now let us make sure every child can sing in both keys.
🦋
It’s certifiably insane that the majority of the public doesn’t even bat an eye at this.
A foreign born Indian is CEO of America’s 4th largest tech company. Hires another foreign born Indian as CEO of America’s largest gaming company. The CEOs jointly fire Americans, replacing Americans with Indian employees.
Thousands of Americans losing high paying jobs, being kicked down the socioeconomic ladder. With Indians hired as replacements, the money and resources from those jobs that would’ve gone to our citizens will be siphoned by foreigners, mostly to be sent back to India as a remittance. It will leave and never come back to America.
This is definitionally a form of warfare against the American public.
Merci à Christophe Clavé pour cet éclairage sur l’appauvrissement de la langue et la ruine de la pensée 🙌
"La disparition progressive des temps (subjonctif, passé simple, imparfait, formes composées du futur, participe passé…) donne lieu à une pensée au présent, limitée à l’instant, incapable de projections dans le temps.
La généralisation du tutoiement, la disparition des majuscules et de la ponctuation sont autant de coups mortels portés à la subtilité de l’expression.
Supprimer le mot «mademoiselle» est non seulement renoncer à l’esthétique d’un mot, mais également promouvoir l’idée qu’entre une petite fille et une femme il n’y a rien.
Moins de mots et moins de verbes conjugués c’est moins de capacités à exprimer les émotions et moins de possibilité d’élaborer une pensée.
Des études ont montré qu’une partie de la violence dans la sphère publique et privée provient directement de l’incapacité à mettre des mots sur les émotions.
Sans mot pour construire un raisonnement, la pensée complexe chère à Edgar Morin est entravée, rendue impossible.
Plus le langage est pauvre, moins la pensée existe.
L’histoire est riche d’exemples et les écrits sont nombreux de Georges Orwell dans « 1984 » à Ray Bradbury dans « Fahrenheit 451 » qui ont relaté comment les dictatures de toutes obédiences entravaient la pensée en réduisant et tordant le nombre et le sens des mots.
Il n’y a pas de pensée critique sans pensée. Et il n’y a pas de pensée sans mots.
Comment construire une pensée hypothético-déductive sans maîtrise du conditionnel ? Comment envisager l’avenir sans conjugaison au futur ? Comment appréhender une temporalité, une succession d’éléments dans le temps, qu’ils soient passés ou à venir, ainsi que leur durée relative, sans une langue qui fait la différence entre ce qui aurait pu être, ce qui a été, ce qui est, ce qui pourrait advenir, et ce qui sera après que ce qui pourrait advenir soit advenu ? Si un cri de ralliement devait se faire entendre aujourd’hui, ce serait celui, adressé aux parents et aux enseignants : faites parler, lire et écrire vos enfants, vos élèves, vos étudiants.
Enseignez et pratiquez la langue dans ses formes les plus variées, même si elle semble compliquée, surtout si elle est compliquée. Parce que dans cet effort se trouve la liberté. Ceux qui expliquent à longueur de temps qu’il faut simplifier l’orthographe, purger la langue de ses «défauts», abolir les genres, les temps, les nuances, tout ce qui crée de la complexité sont les fossoyeurs de l’esprit humain. Il n’est pas de liberté sans exigences. Il n’est pas de beauté sans la pensée de la beauté."
Christophe Clavé
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