Cancel Culture

My views, which are becoming exponentially more racist, will get me cancelled.  I must remain true to my principles.  I guess my hope was, if future society moves to the far left, that my writings would be a window into the mind of a conservative from the past.  Now, they likely won't even be that, as I too face cancellation.  I've already been chased from Facebook.  Thousands of hours of content contributed, painful, I saw it as my art, my opus, my self expression.  Free speech seems dead.  Relativism and censorship reigns supreme.  There is an unwillingness to listen to one another, to be tolerant, to embrace diversity of thought.

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Will Smith

I did it because of the outbreak at work.  But, for all I know, I have already had it and was asymptomatic.  I'm such an idiot.  I put something in my body that I don't understand, something that we have no idea about or about its longterm side effects. 

I remember the "conspiracy theorists" warning everybody that it was DNA altering, the same "conspiracy theorists" that warned that COVID-19 was synthetic.  And, I remember the scientific community scoffing and saying tongue in cheek that it does not alter DNA and that it doesn't even enter the nucleus of the cell, relying on the ignorance of the paranoid to use equivocation.  Maybe the conspiracy theorists just asked the wrong question or made the wrong statement.  For people that believe that the end justifies the means, and the hiding of the synthetic nature of the virus, mask order flip flops, lockdowns, rushed vaccines, having bureaucrats and tech giants silence question askers, and questionable data collection on COVID-19 complications being the cause of death being circumstantial evidence for that conclusion, lying to us about what the vaccine does doesn't seem beyond their capabilities right now, especially for those in the scientific community for whom the vaccine is absolutely necessary to fight COVID-19.  Critical thinking is not allowed.

A messenger to what, what is the message?  RNA is a cellular building block.  It is an instruction to the body.  We are tricking our bodies into doing something.  Producing protein strands?  What are the long term risks associated with this message to our bodies?  We don't know.  We took a rushed vaccine because we were told we needed to, to fight a virus they created.  mRNA, but what is the m?  What is the message?  

Those who worked on the Manhattan Project thought that there was a small chance of destroying the Earth with the first detonation.  I fear Brian Cox was right with his answer to The Fermi Paradox. 

There is so little government oversight on so many projects, the particle colliders, the bioweapons labs, the design of artificial intelligence, and exrta dimensional quantum state computing, that it's amazing that we're still here at all, and the bureaucrats and our elected officials don't have the capacity to fully understand the things for which there is limited oversight. 

I feel like we are about to become the mutants from I Am Legend, after taking the vaccine. 

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I'm a Lizard Hary

How do I feel?  Disappointed in myself.  I'm a sellout.  I did something I didn't entirely agree with.  ...and I did it because everybody else was doing it.  No, I'm disgusted.  I did the math.  I took a vaccine created to combat a created virus.

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Wokeness, Postmodernism, & Neo-Marxism

It's entering the workplace, just as harassment training and sensitivity training once did.  The difference?  The former were to protect people from being subjected to uncomfortable ideas in the workplace.  The training that will be coming will be forcing ideas on people, ironically.  How is this type of proselytizing not harassment in and of itself, when we tell people they must say certain things?  We are supposed to have work places free of proselytizing.  We've gone from not having people subjected to the opinions and thoughts of others that they don't agree with, to subjecting people to sociopolitical views they don't agree with and forcing them to say that they are the correct views.  I hope more workplaces follow the lead of Basecamp and make their workplaces politics free zones.

Honesty

Sharing with your wife the phrase honesty is not the best policy quickly proves the truth of the statement.

Sad Day of Reflection

William Shatter recently turned 90 years old.  He commented in reflection that we should take it easy, because in the end nothing matters.  Today was my first visit with Dad, post third wave.  It's been months since the last stay at home order was issued by the province.  Dad is now, and has been for some time, living in a retirement residence.  It wasn't a bad visit and trip out to Seaforth, other than I killed two animals. 

A squirrel ran out in front of me, which I couldn't avoid.  Then, a bird on the road didn't fly away.  I felt both squish under the tire.  I'm getting to liberal maybe, but it was sad.  Perish the thought.

Reflecting on the visit, I pondered many things.  Dad and I don't have much to discuss.  We can't talk politics or religion, and he has nothing to do.  Current events are out anyways, as his memory is so bad.  So, he reverts to talking about the past.  When he slanders family members, I change the subject.

We got coffee from Tim Horton's and headed to the old air base in Clinton.  It's sort of nostalgic for him, as he served on several. 

Continuing to reflect, I always marveled at the things my grandfather witnessed in his life.  He was born into a world in which beasts of burden were the main means of transportation.  He saw (lived through) the death of Queen Victoria, of Victorian Age fame, Canada's first monarch.  He saw the invention of the automobile.  He saw first flight happen.  He saw the invention of the radio.  Then, he saw the invention of the television.  He lived through two world wars, and missed serving in both due to age, too young & too old.  Although, he was in the Militia during or shortly before of after the second.  He saw man land on the Moon!  He lived to see the invention of networked computers and the internet, although he may not have understood.  There can't have been too many people who experienced all that.  From horse and cart to space flight and instant communication, it must have been something for a former telegraph operator.

As I continued to reflect, I thought about my own dad.  Maybe he has witnessed equally great transformation in his lifetime, although not necessarily technological.  A self proclaimed technophobe who doesn't stray beyond a digital alarm clock but prefers an analogue one, he was--at one time--a computer programmer.  In the 70s, I believe, he used paper punch cards to program.  However, the social changes he has witnessed are enormous.  Born into a world fighting totalitarianism, we now are no longer free to associate, assemble, travel, work, purchase what we desire, etc...  Even free speech is being challenged and maybe soon freedom of thought also.  A coldwarrior, he stood to defend us from socialism.  Now, it is openly embraced as we--as a society--blame all evils on free market capitalism.  When my dad was a boy, there were Orange lodges in every town.  Shops closed on Sundays.  People went to Church.  Homosexuality was a criminal offense, for which you could be hanged, I believe.  Now, we are in Pride Month.  Civil rights were being fought for and there was rampant racism in the deep South.  Now, White people are privileged orchestrates of oppression with retribution being demanded for past offenses, and things like Toxic Masculinity, Subconscious Bias, Benevolent Sexism, Micro Aggression, Male Privilege, and Colour Blind Racism exist.  People didn't believe in evolution when he was a boy.  Now, we've just released the first batch of genetically modified mosquitoes into the wild.

It's been roughly 25 years since my grandfather was in the retirement home, where he passed away alone.  Now, Dad is all alone and lonely.  At least my estranged brother visits him once a week.  He has that.  And, who know what another 25 years will bring.