Corporate News Narrative: Not Enough Evidence to Even Investigate Joe Biden for Corruption

The Left-Leaning Corporate news on (the Associated Press in this example) serves the DNC well. In this example, the AP claims there no evidence justifying an investigation of Joe Biden for corruption. In his Tweet, Greg Price offers a succinct summary of the evidence we already know. The AP cannot bear to acknowledge any of this, however.  The rule for the progressive-leaning media is this: The answer is Joe Biden. Everything else is reverse engineering.

Continue ReadingCorporate News Narrative: Not Enough Evidence to Even Investigate Joe Biden for Corruption

RFK, Jr. Threatened with Assassination: Biden Refuses to Offer Secret Service Protection. Corporate “News” Silent

As Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. states: "I am the first presidential candidate in history to whom the White House has denied a request for protection."

As a whole, the comment thread to this Tweet by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. expresses my personal outrage. What causes me to be angry? The fact that someone tried to assassinate RFK, Jr.? No, most of my outrage is provoked by powerful unnamed people who have decided that RFK, Jr. does not deserve Secret Service Protection. IMO, Joe Biden is not calling the shots. He is merely the skeletal outline of someone who serves as the mascot for the people who pull the levers of power, those who have decided that RFK, Jr. is a political threat to re-electing Joe Biden and thus expendable. The fact that RFK,Jr's uncle and father were both assassinated, makes this lack of Secret Service protection surreal. The other cause for my anger is that a serious candidate for U.S. President has been threatened with murder, yet the corporate "news" media is completely silent. As of Sept 16, 2023 12:30 pm CT, none of the following "news" outlets have reported anything about this incident: NYT, WaPo, NPR, CNN or MSNBC. This is clearly a coordinated effort.

As with much of the flow of information these days, Joe Biden is the answer and everything else is reverse engineering.

Continue ReadingRFK, Jr. Threatened with Assassination: Biden Refuses to Offer Secret Service Protection. Corporate “News” Silent

LA Times Clings to the Progressive Narrative re FIRE

LA Times today: "FIRE, a group that claims to advocate for free speech on college campuses — except when the speakers don’t share its political views." It would have taken literally two minutes for the LA Times to review FIRE's slate of litigation to see that this claim is untrue.

For further, see the Newsdesk of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE).

Continue ReadingLA Times Clings to the Progressive Narrative re FIRE

About Intellectual Humility

Tribal affiliation is the biggest threat to intellectual humility. It is insidious--we join tribes emotionally and organically--there is not official signup form, so we don't even know that we joined. Once we join, the confirmation bias takes over, making us hubristic and even willing to fight for things we didn't choose to believe.

The solution is to disengage, to step out of one's tribe. That is extremely difficult once we get used to the comfy confines, the smiles and encouragement of our comrades, the non-stop warmth of that feeling that of belonging, the feeling that one is always at home. Once we are comfy, we turn off any thoughts that maybe we don't belong. We are completely credulous regarding tribal dogma. Stockholm Syndrome takes over. We become our own prisoners, setting up electrified fences to cordon off any improper or impure thoughts. The only hope for most people is that external tragedy resulting from the dogma comes crashing in, resulting in depression, nihilism and scales falling from our eyes. This might offer us a more-or-less blank slate on which to rebuild, a chance to build one's own belief system based on intellectual humility: curiosity, skepticism and evidence. More likely, it merely sends one on a shopping trip to join the next most attractive tribe.

Continue ReadingAbout Intellectual Humility