john digregorio

[john digregorio @digregjf]

Mass-men instinctively recognize political movements that can lead to the totalitarianism they so desire. Covid, Climate Change and now Hantavirus are examples which mass-men will fiercely support no matter how preposterous. Of course most people in power will encourage this.

[john digregorio @digregjf]

@johnmilbank3 Just like bureaucracies. Humans have been dealing with AI since the dawn of civilization in the form of bureaucracies.

[john digregorio @digregjf]

@johnmilbank3 @Jordan1951958 "...private property is only justified insofar as it contributes to the common good..."
Of course, public control of things is also only justified as it contributes to the common good. And just because the public controls something, doesn't mean it's really for the common good.

[john digregorio @digregjf]

@johnmilbank3 100% agree but if someone is a materialist and/or doesn't have creatio ex nihilo as a foundational postulate, I think it can be difficult to convince that someone. Ironically modern physics (the scientific basis of AI) doesn't allow materialism.

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@delbigtree Yup https://t.co/2QsLizGCQN

[john digregorio @digregjf]

The people who run these authoritarian, power-grabbing PsyOps really should be more careful about documenting where/when they actually kill people and/or falsify death counts. I mean, c'mon, you couldn't create a death spike in South Italy?!

[john digregorio @digregjf]

@RockChartrand Correct and that's precisely what this segment of society desires. They want to be relieved of the burden of individual freedom/responsibility and need to make sure no one is any different than they are. This segment (mass man) is well-described by Michael Oakeshott.

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@johnmilbank3 @BretVDB in "a fully Christian society...there will be no manufacture of silly luxuries".
Just looking for clarification. In 1857 would toilet paper have been a sign of an anti-Christian society? How about now?

[john digregorio @digregjf]

@johnmilbank3 Which part of my statement is in error? That would help clarify your criticism.

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@johnmilbank3 Differences in power and position are precisely aspects of the neutral information conveyed in Market exchanges. How can any intelligent man think otherwise? Differences in position and Power are simply aspects of reality always have been always will be.

[john digregorio @digregjf]

@johnmilbank3 @john_a_cooke Oh for goodness sake! Welcome to Milbank's Island!

[john digregorio @digregjf]

@johnmilbank3 @john_a_cooke Abstract? Your whole reply is abstract. Backyard car manufacturing? What nonsense! So let's keep it concrete. How exactly should BMW, a capitalistic entity, change (presumably in a less capitalistic direction) in order to make better and more diverse cars?

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@johnmilbank3 @john_a_cooke So Saab, Volvo and BMW are not capitalistic entities? Or they are but somehow, miraculously, actually produce good cars?

[john digregorio @digregjf]

@johnmilbank3 @john_a_cooke Damn capitalism and the cool cars it enables!!!

[john digregorio @digregjf]

@AislingOLoughl1 "Mass-men", who actually make up a very significant portion of humanity, don't need hypnotizing. They actually desire this nonsense.https://t.co/GOpdXrWbkp

[john digregorio @digregjf]

Mass-men instinctively recognize political movements that can lead to the totalitarianism they so desire. Covid, Climate Change and now Hantavirus are examples which mass-men will fiercely support no matter how preposterous. Of course most people in power will encourage this.

[john digregorio @digregjf]

@ClareCraigPath Exactly. Fear, not any extraordinarily lethal pathogen, led to extraordinary deaths especially among minorities in the United States. It was not a pathogen it was the disruption of normal protocols and societal behavior that led to these deaths.https://t.co/4icL2dZFTz

[john digregorio @digregjf]

If you think the all-cause death rates in the 25-34 age group in the western part of the US for various ethnic groups is explained by an extraordinarily deadly virus rather than extraordinarily deadly societal distortions and disruptions, you're not thinking.

[john digregorio @digregjf]

@bell00david It's about control. CO2 is directly related to energy production and if you control energy production you control nearly everything. https://t.co/GOpdXrWbkp

[john digregorio @digregjf]

Mass-men instinctively recognize political movements that can lead to the totalitarianism they so desire. Covid, Climate Change and now Hantavirus are examples which mass-men will fiercely support no matter how preposterous. Of course most people in power will encourage this.

[john digregorio @digregjf]

@_CLancellotti @Left_Hegelian And it might be quite difficult to come to a strong and lasting agreement on values between people who believe all is created and that we are in a fallen state and those who do not believe these things.

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@dobssi @USMortality @WHO What's absurd is to think the "silly stuff" was just coincidental when in fact it was by far the most lethal aspect of the covid psyop.https://t.co/zncHIzWMDV

[john digregorio @digregjf]

Sweden did better than most by avoiding the worst disruptions/distortions encouraged by the covid psyop but, the very old (85+) and the foreign-born (especially in Stockholm) were still killed by societal disruptions and distortions (especially in healthcare/nursing homes).

[john digregorio @digregjf]

@MarkChangizi Before the "mass man" audience can flock to the theatre, the movie (Covid or Climate Change or Hanta) must be made. So it's a sick, symbiotic relationship between the power-hungry movie makers and the "mass men" as Oakeshott described.