A woman I know in her 60's with a PhD in Psychology, but educated and raised in Seattle and Chicago, has never heard of Sowell or Friedman. Gobsmacked.
And particularly that the arrogance is the tell. We learned once in a business writing class that in order to persuade, you must make forceful declarative statements. As opposed to equivocal or “not sure” type of communications. I’m sure lawyers learn this too. Even if you don’t REALLY have the evidence to back it up. It conveys to the receiver that you have expertise and authority. So professionals who otherwise may not be in their personal interactions, are trained to be arrogant in their professional conduct. It is good cover for their ignorance.
I spent a considerable number of years in academia among "social scientists" and while there are some extraordinary individuals in that realm most don't enjoy remarkable intellects. They also tend to be dreadfully cloistered and all too often mindless ideologues.
My background also. Agreed. And the majority also seem to suffer from empathy deficits as well as a remarkable lack of insight into themselves. But they are more than self-assured that they know best how children should be raised and educated. Thus the prevalence of remarkably bad ideas like Sesame Street, “hands-off and let the children lead”, and perpetual functional adolescence.
A society populated by mobs of idiot manchildren raised by parents who totally outsource their cognitive development, and led by parasitic co-dependents hell-bent on making sure they never mature and leave the government nest, is a society that soon perishes.
Not surprised. I have friends from one spectrum to the other, and I've noticed that the greater the liberal OR conservative mindset, the more heavily the information reaching the brain is filtered. The more that one depends psychologically upon outsourcing 'who they are' to some belief system, whether that system be worship of secular authorities of the state, worship of religious icons, or simply cults of personality, the more heavily they filter the information coming into their minds to match the framework that supports their ego. Changing that framework is the psychic equivalent of making a physical death threat. Unfortunately, most people who have outsourced their 'being' to some ideology or another would actually rather physically die than risk the suffering and terror that comes with the growth inherent in opening their minds. And that is precisely why parents must begin teaching children at a very young age to accept and deal productively with responsibility, mistakes, imperfections and unfairness. Because if they don't, the child's mind will seek guidance from wherever guidance might be found, and the mind will try to support itself by latching on to the most salient authority framework available in its early environment. That's where the both church and state find the easies and most fertile soil to intervene with their respective propagandas. Later attempts to remove that framework so the mind can grow and become independent, will meet with all the resistance of (and often even more than) direct physical attack.
I think being American may be part of the equation. We are a very spoiled people/nation. When we travel to countries not as progressed as we are we tend to look down on them, complain about not having creature comforts, etc., all the while not able to see that they are happier, more well adjusted, hence the term "the ugly American", the "Karens". And I believe this arrogance has made our invasion that much easier. We've been so distracted by technology that we haven't seen our country falling apart around us. We think we know better. Look around, it's a mess and only the 'overlords' can afford to live comfortably and in luxury while pot simmers below. It's easier for many to stay in their comfort zone, asleep.
I am convinced that around 90% or more of all human beings’ decisions are made deeply in the mind where emotions and habits (ego?) rule behavior. And this does not mostly depend on upbringing, IQ or ideology. As this Plandemic and 1930’s Germany amply show. It’s is hard wired in us to do this. And it is why brainwashing is so effective on a mass scale. The vast majority of what is contemplated in the prefrontal cortex is justification for decisions we already wanted to make based on those habits and emotions. Objectivity in thought and decision is rare in the human animal. I very well recognize within myself and try to stop it, but fail daily. And as a Christian, it terrifies me, as many, if not most Christians behavior falls right in line with my contention. Many “good Germans” in WW2 were self-professed Christians and not able to extract themselves from this trap. It is just a human trait we have to fight minute by minute. Pretty soon panopticon surveillance, AI, and digital currency will prevail and we won’t get to make so many decisions on our own because we will be slaves. Most people probably won’t even recognize it as such. They will own nothing and be happy. My own sister seems to think this is the way to go. And she’s no Christian.
Duality is the Lie originally told to ManKind. It is the weapon of the Father of Lies- always has been. Context is the issue when you "open your Mind" as it is a binary recursive tool for You the Spiritual person to use and not the other way round. The part of the biological brain that controls this Quantum field is under attack for this reason- to make us less than we are Created to be in the image of the All in All. It is correct that the forces of devilry at play attack the open mind and therefore it is incumbent to consider there is a further operating manual for the Created Man to use in order to access the divine he is created by. Free will is the access point to be restored in full Light of what we are in relationship to the Creator of Life is it not? We are either creating with God as designed and mandated to do - or not. This is the choice of Life or Death as a Context for life itself. So far, it seems we have made some poor choices through the dimming of species by those that are here to steal, cheat and kill our life force and our very souls which only belong to the creator unless we choose to reliquish them by the dimming of truth.
Well said! "I am now giving you the choice between life and death, between God's blessing and God's curse, and I call heaven and earth to witness the choice you make. Choose life." (Deuteronomy 30:19)
And those who say that the truth isn’t on one side or the other, are in effect saying, it must be a mixture. The Tree of good and evil was just such a tree. A mixture.
The Truth is as far from the Lie as it can get, never in the ‘middle’. It is as far as Sabbath is from Sunday, as a friend pointed out to me not so long ago. The Truth. As far apart as Saabath is from the 1st day, and yet.........so close.
Have you ever been to Seattle or Chicago? Talked to people there? This is, sadly, completely understandable. They already have all the answers -- no additional input needed.
Have lived in Seattle area for years and have read and followed Thomas Sowell for many many years as well as many friends and our children. Generalizations get no one anywhere!
Have eight practicing Catholics in the PNW and 26 grandchildren!
Of course that is true. I lived in Poulsbo for quite a while. But they said "Seattle", not "Seattle area". There is a difference. Plenty of wonderful people in Washington State. Seattle the city is, in my experience at least, dominated by a monolith of out-of-contact, far-Left ideologues.
And hooray for your 26 grandchildren! Have more! Perhaps the only way out of this mess.
I used to have a friend who was a PhD Psychologist and attended several get togethers w her associates. It was difficult to see they weren't the patients. My friend's own personal life was fraught w neuroses. Sorry but I am not able to hold these ppl in high esteem.
Dr. Sowell is one of the rare intellectually honest academic economists who can elucidate fundamental economic concepts in a manner accessible to anyone.
Daniel Amerman, CFA, is another. Brilliant, original thinker, ex-Wall Streeter and financial author who wrote the first textbook on derivatives. He now teaches the rest of us how to to make sense of what’s happening on the macro level so we can make genuinely informed investing decisions. Www.DanielAmerman.com
Thomas Sowell and Milton Friedman, two of the most intelligent thinkers of my lifetime. Personal heroes, both of them. I highly recommend his book, A Conflict of Visions, in which he elaborates on the constrained versus the unconstrained. Never more true than in our culture now. Prophetic. Everything this man has written should be required reading, and the same goes for Milton Friedman.
I read a short while ago, in relation to the possibility of waking people up, this chilling prediction:
“Most people would rather die with the herd than to leave the herd”.
After three years, a hundred full interviews and thousands of mini articles and posts, that’s my strong impression.
It’s literally not possible to “wake people up”. You might inform a person who’s just woken up themselves. I think it’s the latter I’ve been reaching. None of the former. I’m not sensing any momentum whatsoever.
Thank you Dr Yeadon. I feel honoured to be able to correspond with you on this Substack.
Your sacrifices and ongoing efforts are greatly appreciated by countless people like me.
You were one of the people instrumental in causing me to examine my beliefs, ask questions and thankfully wake up to a different reality, confronting as that is.Everything you have done has totally been worth it. Don't stop.
Speaking from the perspective of a 20+ year journey as an Autism Dad, my feeling is we were 1% of the population. That is, skeptical on the vaccines or more importantly, the CDC Childhood Vaccine Schedule. My guess is we are now 8-12%, and that is a total gut feel.
If you have time, I would love you to read my family history with the Polio vaccine, and my suggestions for a path forward:
Mike, asking God to continue blessing your path. Dr. McCullough’s recent Substack states that autism spectrum disorder has gone from 1:10000 to 1:36 since 1970, approximately an 800% increase. Your gut is correct.
Humanity wasn't meant to make it Dr. Yeadon. I'm so sorry you are discovering this now. Narrow is the door, sir. Good work is it's own reward, and your work has planted good seeds in fertile ground. Unfortunately, rocky ground doesn't bear fruit.
Edit: I saw your response at the street protest as to what should happen to the perpetrators. You know the one. Yes, I agree. How to make that happen? We are all behind you.
You have reached millions of people since you began speaking out! However, not everyone is able to demonstrate the impact you have had on their knowledge, their beliefs and the changes they may have made. I know this for a fact. Meanwhile, there are many of us who have much gratitude to you, and highly respect you, your courage, compassion and insight. I sincerely hope that some divine light of hope lets you feel this, because you so deserve it! . . . Never give up, Dr. Mike Yeadon--We who are not the herd but are the People of the World honor the Truth, and I believe I am not alone in honoring you!
Well, I hear you, Dr. Yeadon. But, if we can't change someone at that moment, then we must let go of trying to change them (at least the way we've been trying to do that) and concentrate on making things better and stronger with people who do understand. God gave people Free Will. While it may not seems so, sometimes, this is the gift of allowing each person to make his or her decisions about what to believe, think, and act. He hopes we make good decisions. If we only ask, he gives us immediate forgiveness to us for all the bad choices we've mad, and all of us have certainly made many.
Here is a simple little prayer that hundreds of millions say that helps us to let go of trying to change someone else when that is what is needed. I have to pray it more times than I like to admit, because I truly think I can help change some people for the good. Here it is.
The Serenity Prayer
God, grant me the severity to accept the things I cannot change,
The courage to change the things I can,
And the wisdom to know the difference.
Another good one is:
"Let go and let God."
(i.e., let God handle it.)
Country and Pop singer, Carrie Underwood, sings a song, Jesus Take the Wheel? about someone who is facing insurmountable odds. Part of the refrain is:
"Jesus take the Wheel."
Lastly, the Our Father prayer can give a peace that surpasses understanding.
Resource constraints are of course readily evident to any reasonably well developed adult but recently the child like gullibility of a large portion of our society has proven most worrisome since it is facilitating society wide frauds (COVID, election, J6 false flag, climate change, etc). Self serving megalomaniacs seeking ever more control will continue to defraud if they can profit politically, which is enormously destructive to our society.
I was just talking about this the other day to a co-worker in the context of reparations. How it is that there are some people looking to be handed something because they feel they deserve it, and then there are others who are not frozen due to bitterness, and just go out there and make something of themselves regardless of their circumstance.
I'm pretty sure the African American Doctor I was thinking of, fit into the latter group. He represents only 5% of American Doctors! How did he beat the odds? He probably wasn't spending his time throwing bricks through store front windows in his spare time trying to destroy a system that doesn't guarantee equal outcomes, but one that rewards hard work and self improvement, and I suspect he studied his ass off. 🤗
Excellent! You gave the definition of Immediate Gratification at the macro level. Annoying but expected in a child. Inexcusable and dangerous in adults. Thomas Sowell is a genius; equal opportunity vs. equal outcome. The latter is getting far too much traction these days. Scary. I have debated this with highly intelligent people. No more. Too frustrating.
You are confusing intelligence with thinking, common sense and wisdom. The fact that you can perform well on a test of cognitive speed tells nothing about whether you can actually think. The divide is wide and getting wider.
Alas, we are surrounded, like a kindergarten teacher, by a mob of the Unconstrained. North America, becoming a land of lawlessness ( with honorable mention to B Clinton who oversaw bank deregulation). Followers vs leaders. The great mob of Victimhood, using and being used to political and financial ends.
Trudeau the puppet weffer a miniminion among them.
Which only goes to show that we receive a distorted picture of reality via the media.
Bear that in mind when considering any of these radical changes coming down the pike. They are NOT supported by the majority. The problem is not capitulation of the masses. Quite the opposite. The problem is that the means of communication have been hijacked by people with an agenda who use that control to mobilize the noisy minority in their service.
This stands to reason because most people don't have an agenda beyond living their lives peacefully, gainfully, and with minimum interference from government or other agents. The problem of course is that people who mind their own business don't generally form movements bent on imposing their will on others. That has always been the purview of the noisy minority who as the current article describes, act on childish impulses, and are thus easily controlled by those who have an agenda to push, and who will use their support via the amplifying effect of a captive media, to force their agenda on the majority, which is US.
To solve a problem, you first have to identify the cause. The hidden ground in all human affairs is the medium of communication. Who controls it and what are its effects? Start there.
In keeping with what I just said, I'm not going to impose my idea of a solution on the reader, I'll just throw out my understanding of the problem and let others discuss it, as glancing at the clock, I see I now have to get ready for work:) That's another point worth discussing BTW. Who has time to combat these forces when the productive have to work, while the unproductive have all the time in the world to think their big thoughts while being led around by the agents who feed those thoughts to their undeveloped minds?
Participation medals, elementary school "graduation" ceremonies and social promotion advances in grades have made sure today's young and middle-age adults think and act like children. And who demand laws and rules be imposed on adults by government in the same manner as parents and teachers impose on children.
Excellent discussion by commenters. Wish you were better represented in the general population. Mark Twain said "A Man who doesn't read important books is no better off than a man who can't". Milton Friedman's Free to Choose is one of them. I'm glad I continued to read such books long after school was over. We don't have to go to school to be educated; from Latin meaning 'to lead out of', implying ignorance, the absence of knowledge-far more serious than its common connotation-bad manners; not just farting in public.
Marvelous account of the current social malaise... In addressing the 'Perpetual Hippy Wanna-Belongs' now running the world since the addition of a new primary phase of Child Development called 'Teenage Years' only appearing since WW2. SIMPLY LOVE THOMAS SOWELL AND ALL people of merit, morals and ethics love Thomas Sowell as well.
Heard a phenomenal Priest Exorcist, Fr. Chad Ripperger, speak last evening on a YouTube presentation. He spoke of women approaching him to complain of their sons; invariably 10 year old boys being POSSESSED/DEMONIZED/OUT OF CONTROL.
He stated the first question he asks is, "When was the last time you spanked him?"
Always, the mothers claim, "I don't believe in that." as they sigh and become breathless in disbelief that anybody; let alone a Priest Exorcist, would ask something like that.
He giggled and in his snarky, satirical style he claimed, "A healthy spanking; NOT ABUSE OR BEATING, to be the key to resolving this state of insanity due to immaturity creating spoiled, soft and feeling-oriented children in adult bodies comprising an 'out of control' society instead of adults based in critical thinking, logic and reason."
He turned serious as he informed, "Satan and the demons LOVE IT WHEN WE ARE EMOTION DIRECTED LIKE CHILDREN as THAT IS THE WAY SATAN AND THE DEMONS GAIN CONTROL OVER US STUPID HUMANS. At least with critical thinking, logic and reason...Humans have a chance to choose the correct path as humans are as dogs with intellect in comparison to all the angels including Satan, Lucifer and the demons. We need all the critical thinking, logic and reason we can get to choose to do the right thing,"
THOMAS SOWELL IS A GIANT IN THOUGHT AND PHILOSOPHY, REASON, ETHICS. ABSOLUTELY ON TARGET. LOVE THOMAS SOWELL.
It is getting worse. An incapacity for effort and tolerance of frustration leads to mental illness, even ''compartmentalized'' psychosis (the unconstrained are delusional by definition).
I think we define wisdom differently. Are there no children that posses wisdom? Many times a child is wiser than those of age. Wisdom is an ability to perceive the truth rather than to see only an appearance.
Do the masses choose not to learn wisdom if it is teachable? Do our leaders also choose not to learn this wisdom? We are surrounded by intelligent educated people and yet here we are at a painful ending/beginning. Does one choose to be a blind fool? Or is wisdom a rare and innate quality?
I don’t know how to can say that wisdoms is inherent. What evidence is there for it. There are a few Proverbs that suggest otherwise. Ask God and he says in His word, he will give it abundantly.
Thank you. Such a simple but profound distinction. Now to figure out my adult response to recognized constraints as well as a response to children having temper tantrums or finally discovering that there is no Santa Claus.
...reliance on unconstrained debt to maintain our standard of living (instead of increasing productivity) is a primary cause of our epidemic of childishness...indeed childishness, and sad
Many people, too many, don’t know who Thomas Sowell is. As brilliant a man as there is.
A woman I know in her 60's with a PhD in Psychology, but educated and raised in Seattle and Chicago, has never heard of Sowell or Friedman. Gobsmacked.
Willful blindness is a hallmark character trait of our current “expert” overclass.
Or arrogant ignorance.
And particularly that the arrogance is the tell. We learned once in a business writing class that in order to persuade, you must make forceful declarative statements. As opposed to equivocal or “not sure” type of communications. I’m sure lawyers learn this too. Even if you don’t REALLY have the evidence to back it up. It conveys to the receiver that you have expertise and authority. So professionals who otherwise may not be in their personal interactions, are trained to be arrogant in their professional conduct. It is good cover for their ignorance.
I spent a considerable number of years in academia among "social scientists" and while there are some extraordinary individuals in that realm most don't enjoy remarkable intellects. They also tend to be dreadfully cloistered and all too often mindless ideologues.
My background also. Agreed. And the majority also seem to suffer from empathy deficits as well as a remarkable lack of insight into themselves. But they are more than self-assured that they know best how children should be raised and educated. Thus the prevalence of remarkably bad ideas like Sesame Street, “hands-off and let the children lead”, and perpetual functional adolescence.
A society populated by mobs of idiot manchildren raised by parents who totally outsource their cognitive development, and led by parasitic co-dependents hell-bent on making sure they never mature and leave the government nest, is a society that soon perishes.
I don’t feel right “liking” this point, but would do so a million times if possible. A succinct summation of where we stand today. Bravo.
Not surprised. I have friends from one spectrum to the other, and I've noticed that the greater the liberal OR conservative mindset, the more heavily the information reaching the brain is filtered. The more that one depends psychologically upon outsourcing 'who they are' to some belief system, whether that system be worship of secular authorities of the state, worship of religious icons, or simply cults of personality, the more heavily they filter the information coming into their minds to match the framework that supports their ego. Changing that framework is the psychic equivalent of making a physical death threat. Unfortunately, most people who have outsourced their 'being' to some ideology or another would actually rather physically die than risk the suffering and terror that comes with the growth inherent in opening their minds. And that is precisely why parents must begin teaching children at a very young age to accept and deal productively with responsibility, mistakes, imperfections and unfairness. Because if they don't, the child's mind will seek guidance from wherever guidance might be found, and the mind will try to support itself by latching on to the most salient authority framework available in its early environment. That's where the both church and state find the easies and most fertile soil to intervene with their respective propagandas. Later attempts to remove that framework so the mind can grow and become independent, will meet with all the resistance of (and often even more than) direct physical attack.
I think being American may be part of the equation. We are a very spoiled people/nation. When we travel to countries not as progressed as we are we tend to look down on them, complain about not having creature comforts, etc., all the while not able to see that they are happier, more well adjusted, hence the term "the ugly American", the "Karens". And I believe this arrogance has made our invasion that much easier. We've been so distracted by technology that we haven't seen our country falling apart around us. We think we know better. Look around, it's a mess and only the 'overlords' can afford to live comfortably and in luxury while pot simmers below. It's easier for many to stay in their comfort zone, asleep.
I am convinced that around 90% or more of all human beings’ decisions are made deeply in the mind where emotions and habits (ego?) rule behavior. And this does not mostly depend on upbringing, IQ or ideology. As this Plandemic and 1930’s Germany amply show. It’s is hard wired in us to do this. And it is why brainwashing is so effective on a mass scale. The vast majority of what is contemplated in the prefrontal cortex is justification for decisions we already wanted to make based on those habits and emotions. Objectivity in thought and decision is rare in the human animal. I very well recognize within myself and try to stop it, but fail daily. And as a Christian, it terrifies me, as many, if not most Christians behavior falls right in line with my contention. Many “good Germans” in WW2 were self-professed Christians and not able to extract themselves from this trap. It is just a human trait we have to fight minute by minute. Pretty soon panopticon surveillance, AI, and digital currency will prevail and we won’t get to make so many decisions on our own because we will be slaves. Most people probably won’t even recognize it as such. They will own nothing and be happy. My own sister seems to think this is the way to go. And she’s no Christian.
Duality is the Lie originally told to ManKind. It is the weapon of the Father of Lies- always has been. Context is the issue when you "open your Mind" as it is a binary recursive tool for You the Spiritual person to use and not the other way round. The part of the biological brain that controls this Quantum field is under attack for this reason- to make us less than we are Created to be in the image of the All in All. It is correct that the forces of devilry at play attack the open mind and therefore it is incumbent to consider there is a further operating manual for the Created Man to use in order to access the divine he is created by. Free will is the access point to be restored in full Light of what we are in relationship to the Creator of Life is it not? We are either creating with God as designed and mandated to do - or not. This is the choice of Life or Death as a Context for life itself. So far, it seems we have made some poor choices through the dimming of species by those that are here to steal, cheat and kill our life force and our very souls which only belong to the creator unless we choose to reliquish them by the dimming of truth.
Well said! "I am now giving you the choice between life and death, between God's blessing and God's curse, and I call heaven and earth to witness the choice you make. Choose life." (Deuteronomy 30:19)
And those who say that the truth isn’t on one side or the other, are in effect saying, it must be a mixture. The Tree of good and evil was just such a tree. A mixture.
The Truth is as far from the Lie as it can get, never in the ‘middle’. It is as far as Sabbath is from Sunday, as a friend pointed out to me not so long ago. The Truth. As far apart as Saabath is from the 1st day, and yet.........so close.
Have you ever been to Seattle or Chicago? Talked to people there? This is, sadly, completely understandable. They already have all the answers -- no additional input needed.
Have lived in Seattle area for years and have read and followed Thomas Sowell for many many years as well as many friends and our children. Generalizations get no one anywhere!
Have eight practicing Catholics in the PNW and 26 grandchildren!
Of course that is true. I lived in Poulsbo for quite a while. But they said "Seattle", not "Seattle area". There is a difference. Plenty of wonderful people in Washington State. Seattle the city is, in my experience at least, dominated by a monolith of out-of-contact, far-Left ideologues.
And hooray for your 26 grandchildren! Have more! Perhaps the only way out of this mess.
Lived briefly in both cities. It's exactly as you say.
I used to have a friend who was a PhD Psychologist and attended several get togethers w her associates. It was difficult to see they weren't the patients. My friend's own personal life was fraught w neuroses. Sorry but I am not able to hold these ppl in high esteem.
Always of the mind that there is a very thin distinction between therapist and patient.
Of course she hasn't .
Incredible, right?
It figures! They are all genetically defective.
Dr. Sowell is one of the rare intellectually honest academic economists who can elucidate fundamental economic concepts in a manner accessible to anyone.
Daniel Amerman, CFA, is another. Brilliant, original thinker, ex-Wall Streeter and financial author who wrote the first textbook on derivatives. He now teaches the rest of us how to to make sense of what’s happening on the macro level so we can make genuinely informed investing decisions. Www.DanielAmerman.com
I'm Australian and I have his books.
Thomas Sowell and Milton Friedman, two of the most intelligent thinkers of my lifetime. Personal heroes, both of them. I highly recommend his book, A Conflict of Visions, in which he elaborates on the constrained versus the unconstrained. Never more true than in our culture now. Prophetic. Everything this man has written should be required reading, and the same goes for Milton Friedman.
Alas, those required readings would by necessity invoke the idea of Lessons of History.
I read a short while ago, in relation to the possibility of waking people up, this chilling prediction:
“Most people would rather die with the herd than to leave the herd”.
After three years, a hundred full interviews and thousands of mini articles and posts, that’s my strong impression.
It’s literally not possible to “wake people up”. You might inform a person who’s just woken up themselves. I think it’s the latter I’ve been reaching. None of the former. I’m not sensing any momentum whatsoever.
I feel desolate, writing that.
Dear Dr Yeadon, your sense of desolation is palpable.
Please take comfort from the many who left the herd when they realized the extent of the lies we were being told.
We may not be able to reach the rest of the herd with our words, but I live in hope that our actions in not complying will show them the way.
I love reading the comments on this and other substacks, as it gives me hope and makes me feel less alone. Negativity is a downward spiral......
If anything I did prompted some people to take action that may result in additional free humans surviving, it’ll have all been worth it.
Thank you Dr Yeadon. I feel honoured to be able to correspond with you on this Substack.
Your sacrifices and ongoing efforts are greatly appreciated by countless people like me.
You were one of the people instrumental in causing me to examine my beliefs, ask questions and thankfully wake up to a different reality, confronting as that is.Everything you have done has totally been worth it. Don't stop.
Anna,
I’m pleased that I’ve helped many not get jabbed. Hopefully many have given thought to how the hell we got here?
All I can say is there’s absolutely no evidence that what I shared has been used other than to help people avoid to injections.
It’s long passes time where it would be reasonable to be able to detect growing grassroots resistance. I can’t detect it where I am (east Kent, UK).
You have.
Speaking from the perspective of a 20+ year journey as an Autism Dad, my feeling is we were 1% of the population. That is, skeptical on the vaccines or more importantly, the CDC Childhood Vaccine Schedule. My guess is we are now 8-12%, and that is a total gut feel.
If you have time, I would love you to read my family history with the Polio vaccine, and my suggestions for a path forward:
https://outsidein51.substack.com/p/pro-vaccine-safety-in-2023-where
"Pro-Vaccine Safety in 2023 - Where Have all the Critical Thinkers Gone?
…and stop calling me an “anti-vaxxer"
Mike, asking God to continue blessing your path. Dr. McCullough’s recent Substack states that autism spectrum disorder has gone from 1:10000 to 1:36 since 1970, approximately an 800% increase. Your gut is correct.
Of all the words
In tongue and pen
Are the words written here:
"Yuri Bezmenov was right again."
Humanity wasn't meant to make it Dr. Yeadon. I'm so sorry you are discovering this now. Narrow is the door, sir. Good work is it's own reward, and your work has planted good seeds in fertile ground. Unfortunately, rocky ground doesn't bear fruit.
Edit: I saw your response at the street protest as to what should happen to the perpetrators. You know the one. Yes, I agree. How to make that happen? We are all behind you.
You have reached millions of people since you began speaking out! However, not everyone is able to demonstrate the impact you have had on their knowledge, their beliefs and the changes they may have made. I know this for a fact. Meanwhile, there are many of us who have much gratitude to you, and highly respect you, your courage, compassion and insight. I sincerely hope that some divine light of hope lets you feel this, because you so deserve it! . . . Never give up, Dr. Mike Yeadon--We who are not the herd but are the People of the World honor the Truth, and I believe I am not alone in honoring you!
Well, I hear you, Dr. Yeadon. But, if we can't change someone at that moment, then we must let go of trying to change them (at least the way we've been trying to do that) and concentrate on making things better and stronger with people who do understand. God gave people Free Will. While it may not seems so, sometimes, this is the gift of allowing each person to make his or her decisions about what to believe, think, and act. He hopes we make good decisions. If we only ask, he gives us immediate forgiveness to us for all the bad choices we've mad, and all of us have certainly made many.
Here is a simple little prayer that hundreds of millions say that helps us to let go of trying to change someone else when that is what is needed. I have to pray it more times than I like to admit, because I truly think I can help change some people for the good. Here it is.
The Serenity Prayer
God, grant me the severity to accept the things I cannot change,
The courage to change the things I can,
And the wisdom to know the difference.
Another good one is:
"Let go and let God."
(i.e., let God handle it.)
Country and Pop singer, Carrie Underwood, sings a song, Jesus Take the Wheel? about someone who is facing insurmountable odds. Part of the refrain is:
"Jesus take the Wheel."
Lastly, the Our Father prayer can give a peace that surpasses understanding.
"Our Father
Our Father who art in Heaven
Happened be they name.
They kingdom come
*Thy will be done
On earth, as it is in Heaven.
Give us this day Our daily bread
And forgive us Our trespasses
As we forgive others
Who trespass against us
And lead us not into temptation
But deliver us from evil
For thou is the Kingdom, the Power,
and the Glory
Forever and ever
Amen."
alas too true. anmd this even goes for the likes of my friends. like me they are mostly university graduates.
and all but one other and myself flatly refuse to consider the evidence.
in fact one of them disgusted me by telling me that you, sir, were a disgruntled employee of Pfizer and spoke falsity because of it
this was one of the sloppiest pieces of ad hominem i have ever encountered and from a mind capable of knowing better
I’ve heard that one before.
Here’s the counter:
1. I left on very good terms was one of TT last to leave the closing R&D base.
2. Within a year of leaving, I’d formed a business relationship with Pfizer, who even put money into my biotech.
3. In 2017, Novartis, acquired my biotech & everyone made plenty of money.
4. Later that year, a former Pfizer board member wrote my story up in Forbes magazine.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnlamattina/2017/03/15/turning-pfizer-discards-into-novartis-gold-the-story-of-ziarco/?sh=54e4cf637572
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnlamattina/2017/03/15/turning-pfizer-discards-into-novartis-gold-the-story-of-ziarco/?sh=54e4cf637572
I wasn’t always the black sheep!
Resource constraints are of course readily evident to any reasonably well developed adult but recently the child like gullibility of a large portion of our society has proven most worrisome since it is facilitating society wide frauds (COVID, election, J6 false flag, climate change, etc). Self serving megalomaniacs seeking ever more control will continue to defraud if they can profit politically, which is enormously destructive to our society.
I was just talking about this the other day to a co-worker in the context of reparations. How it is that there are some people looking to be handed something because they feel they deserve it, and then there are others who are not frozen due to bitterness, and just go out there and make something of themselves regardless of their circumstance.
I'm pretty sure the African American Doctor I was thinking of, fit into the latter group. He represents only 5% of American Doctors! How did he beat the odds? He probably wasn't spending his time throwing bricks through store front windows in his spare time trying to destroy a system that doesn't guarantee equal outcomes, but one that rewards hard work and self improvement, and I suspect he studied his ass off. 🤗
Excellent! You gave the definition of Immediate Gratification at the macro level. Annoying but expected in a child. Inexcusable and dangerous in adults. Thomas Sowell is a genius; equal opportunity vs. equal outcome. The latter is getting far too much traction these days. Scary. I have debated this with highly intelligent people. No more. Too frustrating.
You are confusing intelligence with thinking, common sense and wisdom. The fact that you can perform well on a test of cognitive speed tells nothing about whether you can actually think. The divide is wide and getting wider.
Upon reflection, you are correct, Dr.
John, this is a fantastic post! The logic is irrefutable to anyone who interacts with the public in any form.
Alas, we are surrounded, like a kindergarten teacher, by a mob of the Unconstrained. North America, becoming a land of lawlessness ( with honorable mention to B Clinton who oversaw bank deregulation). Followers vs leaders. The great mob of Victimhood, using and being used to political and financial ends.
Trudeau the puppet weffer a miniminion among them.
Body Blow To Activists: Whopping 82% Of Berlin’s Voters Refused To Support 2030 Climate Neutrality
https://notrickszone.com/2023/03/28/body-blow-to-activists-whopping-82-of-berlins-voters-refused-to-support-2030-climate-neutrality/
Which only goes to show that we receive a distorted picture of reality via the media.
Bear that in mind when considering any of these radical changes coming down the pike. They are NOT supported by the majority. The problem is not capitulation of the masses. Quite the opposite. The problem is that the means of communication have been hijacked by people with an agenda who use that control to mobilize the noisy minority in their service.
This stands to reason because most people don't have an agenda beyond living their lives peacefully, gainfully, and with minimum interference from government or other agents. The problem of course is that people who mind their own business don't generally form movements bent on imposing their will on others. That has always been the purview of the noisy minority who as the current article describes, act on childish impulses, and are thus easily controlled by those who have an agenda to push, and who will use their support via the amplifying effect of a captive media, to force their agenda on the majority, which is US.
To solve a problem, you first have to identify the cause. The hidden ground in all human affairs is the medium of communication. Who controls it and what are its effects? Start there.
In keeping with what I just said, I'm not going to impose my idea of a solution on the reader, I'll just throw out my understanding of the problem and let others discuss it, as glancing at the clock, I see I now have to get ready for work:) That's another point worth discussing BTW. Who has time to combat these forces when the productive have to work, while the unproductive have all the time in the world to think their big thoughts while being led around by the agents who feed those thoughts to their undeveloped minds?
And as Arnold would say, I'll be back! (in about 14 hours)
Participation medals, elementary school "graduation" ceremonies and social promotion advances in grades have made sure today's young and middle-age adults think and act like children. And who demand laws and rules be imposed on adults by government in the same manner as parents and teachers impose on children.
Excellent discussion by commenters. Wish you were better represented in the general population. Mark Twain said "A Man who doesn't read important books is no better off than a man who can't". Milton Friedman's Free to Choose is one of them. I'm glad I continued to read such books long after school was over. We don't have to go to school to be educated; from Latin meaning 'to lead out of', implying ignorance, the absence of knowledge-far more serious than its common connotation-bad manners; not just farting in public.
Sheesh, do I not deserve any privacy in public? 🤣
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Marvelous account of the current social malaise... In addressing the 'Perpetual Hippy Wanna-Belongs' now running the world since the addition of a new primary phase of Child Development called 'Teenage Years' only appearing since WW2. SIMPLY LOVE THOMAS SOWELL AND ALL people of merit, morals and ethics love Thomas Sowell as well.
Heard a phenomenal Priest Exorcist, Fr. Chad Ripperger, speak last evening on a YouTube presentation. He spoke of women approaching him to complain of their sons; invariably 10 year old boys being POSSESSED/DEMONIZED/OUT OF CONTROL.
He stated the first question he asks is, "When was the last time you spanked him?"
Always, the mothers claim, "I don't believe in that." as they sigh and become breathless in disbelief that anybody; let alone a Priest Exorcist, would ask something like that.
He giggled and in his snarky, satirical style he claimed, "A healthy spanking; NOT ABUSE OR BEATING, to be the key to resolving this state of insanity due to immaturity creating spoiled, soft and feeling-oriented children in adult bodies comprising an 'out of control' society instead of adults based in critical thinking, logic and reason."
He turned serious as he informed, "Satan and the demons LOVE IT WHEN WE ARE EMOTION DIRECTED LIKE CHILDREN as THAT IS THE WAY SATAN AND THE DEMONS GAIN CONTROL OVER US STUPID HUMANS. At least with critical thinking, logic and reason...Humans have a chance to choose the correct path as humans are as dogs with intellect in comparison to all the angels including Satan, Lucifer and the demons. We need all the critical thinking, logic and reason we can get to choose to do the right thing,"
THOMAS SOWELL IS A GIANT IN THOUGHT AND PHILOSOPHY, REASON, ETHICS. ABSOLUTELY ON TARGET. LOVE THOMAS SOWELL.
Agree, fully! I have saying this my whole life.
It is getting worse. An incapacity for effort and tolerance of frustration leads to mental illness, even ''compartmentalized'' psychosis (the unconstrained are delusional by definition).
A retired clinical psychologist.
Wisdom doesn’t come easy or cheap.
It's inherent. You can't learn to be wise, any more than you can learn to be a fool.
Of course you can learn to be wise! Life's experiences are where we acquire our wisdom, oftentimes quite hard-earned.
The wisest people I know were not born that way; they acquired that wisdom slowly through the years, through their experiences and relationships.
I think we define wisdom differently. Are there no children that posses wisdom? Many times a child is wiser than those of age. Wisdom is an ability to perceive the truth rather than to see only an appearance.
Do the masses choose not to learn wisdom if it is teachable? Do our leaders also choose not to learn this wisdom? We are surrounded by intelligent educated people and yet here we are at a painful ending/beginning. Does one choose to be a blind fool? Or is wisdom a rare and innate quality?
Absolutely we are all given the same choice. It's the choices one makes which are influenced by many factors.
I don’t know how to can say that wisdoms is inherent. What evidence is there for it. There are a few Proverbs that suggest otherwise. Ask God and he says in His word, he will give it abundantly.
Thank you. Such a simple but profound distinction. Now to figure out my adult response to recognized constraints as well as a response to children having temper tantrums or finally discovering that there is no Santa Claus.
...reliance on unconstrained debt to maintain our standard of living (instead of increasing productivity) is a primary cause of our epidemic of childishness...indeed childishness, and sad