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Where the emu represents my superego and the kids represent fragmentation of my id from repeated quip pro quo sabotage
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SCENE 1 (MONTAGE): Rod Hull and Emu, as imagined in everyday life. Emu is very much a living and wholly organic part of Rod Hull: he takes part in Rod’s every activity. We see the two of them…
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I always liked Sontag's essay on Silence it's my favorite by her
Silence is different from stupidity but it is an attempt to preclude stupidity by not speaking
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I always liked the comic book metaphor of the power stealer. Some people have one power they own. Other people's power is absorbing the first order powers of others. Some can only hold one stolen pattern at a time, others can accumulate. Some, when they take a power, deprive the original owner; others are more like learning, a replica that leaves the original intact
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A major blow to scientism?
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Since scientists began playing around with dangerous pathogens in laboratories, the world has experienced four or five pandemics, depending on how you count. One of them, the 1977 Russian flu, was almost certainly sparked by a research mishap. Some Western scientists quickly suspected the odd virus had resided in a lab freezer for a couple of decades, but they kept mostly quiet for fear of ruffling feathers.
Yet in 2020, when people started speculating that a laboratory accident might have been the spark that started the Covid-19 pandemic, they were treated like kooks and cranks. Many public health officials and prominent scientists dismissed the idea as a conspiracy theory, insisting that the virus had emerged from animals in a seafood market in Wuhan, China. And when a nonprofit called EcoHealth Alliance lost a grant because it was planning to conduct risky research into bat viruses with the Wuhan Institute of Virology — research that, if conducted with lax safety standards, could have resulted in a dangerous pathogen leaking out into the world — no fewer than 77 Nobel laureates and 31 scientific societies lined up to defend the organization.
So the Wuhan research was totally safe, and the pandemic was definitely caused by natural transmission — it certainly seemed like consensus.
We have since learned, however, that to promote the appearance of consensus, some officials and scientists hid or understated crucial facts, misled at least one reporter, orchestrated campaigns of supposedly independent voices and even compared notes about how to hide their communications in order to keep the public from hearing the whole story. And as for that Wuhan laboratory’s research, the details that have since emerged show that safety precautions might have been terrifyingly lax.
Opinion | We Were Badly Misled About Covid
Five years after the start of Covid, we still don’t know the truth.