A Lesson For Lazy Thinkers
...so you don't end up mimicking chaos agents.
It’s 2023.
You have the internet.
You’ve seen coordinated propaganda campaigns. It doesn’t matter if you agreed with the messaging or not. It’s still propaganda.
You’ve seen coordinated censorship among Big Tech platforms. It’s not for the greater good. It’s not for your safety. They are not the arbiters of truth. They could care less about your safety or the truth. They’re political tools that make a 💩 ton of moolah. Don’t get it twisted.
At this point, if you think grand conspiracies don’t exist, you are a lazy thinker. You’re either painfully naïve to the concept or you’re taking the intellectually convenient route. Maybe it helps you sleep better at night. Maybe it makes you feel smarter. Sorry, not sorry.
I stumbled across a guy who has a lot to say but ultimately says very little. He’s the operator of your typical mid-sized Twitter account with 54K+ followers. Self-identified as a philosopher-scientist, he stays just mainstream enough to avoid censorship and just (pseudo-) edgy enough to hock books. One can only assume the algorithm favors him.
Elijah Schaffer posted a clip of one of the Twin Towers imploding and turning into dust. He noted that it appears the building is undergoing a controlled demolition. I don’t know if he truly believes that or is just posting this for engagement (1.9M views ain’t bad) but it’s a fair observation for someone to make. Personally, I don’t buy the mainstream narrative or the popular counternarrative. And no, I’m not being contrarian just to be controversial.
Mark Changizi decided to quote tweet Elijah with:
Bwahahaha!!
Scorn is all these conspiracy theorists deserve.
Scorn? He uses this word in the same sentence as the famous CIA smear “conspiracy theorists.” What would make a philosopher-scientist tweet such a thing? What’s this guy about?
His website:
Free expression? Well, that sounds great. “Societal Holy Grail?” Well, that sounds dramatic. But okay! I wonder if this website has, like, “pillars” or something?
pillars
free
Freedom goes far beyond government restrictions. How can we move toward a society that encourages free speech?
expression
Key to freedom of speech is emotional expression, not speech per se. How can we augment free speech in this light?
group
Free expression is the workhorse for freedom more generally by virtue of how it acts within our social groups.
Cool. But why should someone who is freely expressing themselves to their social group be met with scorn? Hmm. What does this website not endorse?
ills
censorship
Much of today's censorship emanates from private companies (big tech) and threats of cancellation from peers. What pressures drive these threats to free expression, and how can they be quelled?
mass delusions
The madness of crowds underlies the greatest failures of civilization: revolutions, dictatorships, totalitarianism, genocides, and the rich varieties of democide. How can we best immunize ourselves against hysterias and their consequences?
false narratives
People believe what they do on the basis of the narrative that emerges from their social network. This is the best way for societies to converge toward truth, but the networks can and do sometimes produce false narratives, and they can be practically impossible to roll back.
So, Mark believes in freedom of speech and expression unless he decides to cancel you because he believes you’re delusional and pushing false narratives. Methinks we have a hypocrite on our hands. Let’s see what other things he has to say on the ol’ bird app…
Let me see if I have this correct. If Mark or, say, mainstream media labels something as a “conspiracy theory,” then it’s automatically a fallacy?
Bloop. Sorry, Mark. Your freedom of whatever thing isn’t working out. This guy is either a paid chaos agent or is mimicking one to grift for those dollars.
Back to the 9/11 thread…
BOOM.
For some must-see 9/11 videos, check out this post:
Seacrest out.
he also posts videos of himself doing cross-fit, which is all i need to know.