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The fear, as I analyze it in retrospect, was of being overwhelmed, of disintegrating under a pressure of reality greater than a mind, accustomed to living most of the time in a cosy world of symbols, could possibly bear.                                                                 ― Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception How bad was it really though? The critics are right that the pandemic comparatively hasn’t killed as many people as other causes. But the real point should be that we don’t take other causes like degenerative diseases or accidents or substance abuse deaths as serious social problems. They’ve been normalized as matters of personal frailty & moral dissipation, not as having any social cause at all. Politically, society hasn't even existed since the 1980s when Reagan busted the unions & Thatcher just outright said so. Like people who secretly think, "Shame on those people who eat sugar." Dude, seriously? Mitochondria are the powerhouse of t

Like Midas, the Rationalist is always in the unfortunate position of not being able to touch anything, without transforming it into an abstraction; he can never get a square meal of experience.                                                                                        --Michael Oakeshott Authoritarians talk about protocols, but the only valid ‘protocol’ would be something like ‘perceive, think, act.’                                                                                                    --Ray Peat Today I read that Anthony Fauci is getting enough death threats that he now has a security detail assigned to him from the Health & Human Services Inspector General’s Office. The fact that there is a deputized law enforcement unit inside HHS is the real news and not that Fauci is getting threatened for presenting epidemiological models to the public. I mean, scientists have been getting death threats from politicians since Socrates peaced out on the orders o