#wef — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #wef, aggregated by home.social.
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"bewaffnete Konflike dagegen werden erst auf Platz 12 genannt."
Die #Wirtschaft weiß ganz genau, in welch kritischer Situation sich die Menschheit befindet.
"Während diese Hitzewelle in D gerade anrollt, diskutiert die CDU in ihrer Berliner Parteizentrale, ob man den Klimaschutz abschwächen sollte."
Globaler Risikobericht 2026
➡️ Extremwetterereignisse
➡️ Verlust von Biodiversität & Kollaps von Ökosystemen
➡️ kritische Veränderung der Erdsystemehttps://ndr-progressive.ard-mcdn.de/progressive/2026/0723/TV-20260723-2241-4600.1080.mp4
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NEW: Trump says Britain is the "prime suspect" for Europe migration crisis. The evidence says otherwise.
And Trump? He spoke at Davos twice. His family attends WEF. His Iran war is creating hundreds of thousands of new refugees as we speak.
The "prime suspect" isn Britain.
https://thomaster.substack.com/p/trump-says-britain-is-the-prime-suspect
#Trump #Migration #Europe #UK #Investigation #WEF #Davos #IranWar #PeopleSmuggling #UN #GlobalCompact #ForeignPolicy #Hypocrisy #ThomAster #Journalism #FactCheck #Geopolitics #Asylum #BorderCrisis
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NEW: Trump says Britain is the "prime suspect" for Europe migration crisis. The evidence says otherwise.
And Trump? He spoke at Davos twice. His family attends WEF. His Iran war is creating hundreds of thousands of new refugees as we speak.
The "prime suspect" isn Britain.
https://thomaster.substack.com/p/trump-says-britain-is-the-prime-suspect
#Trump #Migration #Europe #UK #Investigation #WEF #Davos #IranWar #PeopleSmuggling #UN #GlobalCompact #ForeignPolicy #Hypocrisy #ThomAster #Journalism #FactCheck #Geopolitics #Asylum #BorderCrisis
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This is not one isolated policy, one organisation or one government.
It is a global convergence of UN frameworks, WEF partnerships, AI infrastructure, digital identity, finance, surveillance, NGOs, corporations and national legislation—all moving in the same direction.
Follow the links. Follow the funding. Follow the implementation.
The architecture is already being built around us.
#Agenda2030 #ArtificialIntelligence #DigitalID #WEF #UnitedNations #Surveillance #CBDC #GlobalGovernance
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This is not one isolated policy, one organisation or one government.
It is a global convergence of UN frameworks, WEF partnerships, AI infrastructure, digital identity, finance, surveillance, NGOs, corporations and national legislation—all moving in the same direction.
Follow the links. Follow the funding. Follow the implementation.
The architecture is already being built around us.
#Agenda2030 #ArtificialIntelligence #DigitalID #WEF #UnitedNations #Surveillance #CBDC #GlobalGovernance
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How Mediterranean Diet Could Cut Dementia Risk by a Quarter
Scientists say a diet rich in seafood and plant-based foods can help guard against dementia, regardless of your genetic risk. They u…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #MediterraneanDiet #Davos #Globalization #globalizationfour #globalization4 #globalization4.0 #KlausSchwab #Mediterranean #WEF #whatdoesglobalizationmean? #WorldeconomicForum
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How Mediterranean Diet Could Cut Dementia Risk by a Quarter
Scientists say a diet rich in seafood and plant-based foods can help guard against dementia, regardless of your genetic risk. They u…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #MediterraneanDiet #Davos #Globalization #globalizationfour #globalization4 #globalization4.0 #KlausSchwab #Mediterranean #WEF #whatdoesglobalizationmean? #WorldeconomicForum
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2729264/how-mediterranean-diet-could-cut-dementia-risk-by-a-quarter/ -
How Mediterranean Diet Could Cut Dementia Risk by a Quarter https://www.diningandcooking.com/2729264/how-mediterranean-diet-could-cut-dementia-risk-by-a-quarter/ #Davos #Globalization #GlobalizationFour #globalization4 #Globalization40 #KlausSchwab #Mediterranean #MediterraneanDiet #WEF #WhatDoesGlobalizationMean? #WorldEconomicForum
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How Mediterranean Diet Could Cut Dementia Risk by a Quarter https://www.diningandcooking.com/2729264/how-mediterranean-diet-could-cut-dementia-risk-by-a-quarter/ #Davos #Globalization #GlobalizationFour #globalization4 #Globalization40 #KlausSchwab #Mediterranean #MediterraneanDiet #WEF #WhatDoesGlobalizationMean? #WorldEconomicForum
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France’s tastes are changing from fine food to fast food
Forget the long lunch break. Abandon all thoughts of stopping off at a little boulangerie and your local traiteur to pick…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Frenchdiet #Davos #francais #france #French #frenchdiet #Globalization #globalizationfour #globalization4 #globalization4.0 #KlausSchwab #WEF #whatdoesglobalizationmean? #WorldeconomicForum
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2728957/frances-tastes-are-changing-from-fine-food-to-fast-food-2/ -
France’s tastes are changing from fine food to fast food
Forget the long lunch break. Abandon all thoughts of stopping off at a little boulangerie and your local traiteur to pick…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Frenchdiet #Davos #francais #france #French #frenchdiet #Globalization #globalizationfour #globalization4 #globalization4.0 #KlausSchwab #WEF #whatdoesglobalizationmean? #WorldeconomicForum
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2728957/frances-tastes-are-changing-from-fine-food-to-fast-food-2/ -
France’s tastes are changing from fine food to fast food https://www.diningandcooking.com/2728957/frances-tastes-are-changing-from-fine-food-to-fast-food-2/ #Davos #francais #france #French #FrenchDiet #Globalization #GlobalizationFour #globalization4 #Globalization40 #KlausSchwab #WEF #WhatDoesGlobalizationMean? #WorldEconomicForum
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France’s tastes are changing from fine food to fast food https://www.diningandcooking.com/2728957/frances-tastes-are-changing-from-fine-food-to-fast-food-2/ #Davos #francais #france #French #FrenchDiet #Globalization #GlobalizationFour #globalization4 #Globalization40 #KlausSchwab #WEF #WhatDoesGlobalizationMean? #WorldEconomicForum
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Vindication #2? India’s biometric and digital-control infrastructure is no longer dismissible as fringe speculation. Gates is now openly celebrating the Indian model—without calling it “capture.”
This update preserves the original date-stamped article, shows what was predicted accurately, what is now verified, and what remains hypothesis.
https://thomaster.substack.com/p/indias-bio-nano-web-of-control
#BillGates #India #DigitalID #Surveillance #Technocracy #Aadhaar #DigitalPublicInfrastructure #CBDC #UN #WEF #GlobalGovernance
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Vindication #2? India’s biometric and digital-control infrastructure is no longer dismissible as fringe speculation. Gates is now openly celebrating the Indian model—without calling it “capture.”
This update preserves the original date-stamped article, shows what was predicted accurately, what is now verified, and what remains hypothesis.
https://thomaster.substack.com/p/indias-bio-nano-web-of-control
#BillGates #India #DigitalID #Surveillance #Technocracy #Aadhaar #DigitalPublicInfrastructure #CBDC #UN #WEF #GlobalGovernance
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Articles are still available on my SubStack.
It appears I'm being suppresed on Mastodon now.
https://substack.com/@thomaster
#Silenced #Suppression #Lies #Deceit #Government #EU #UN #WEF #BULLSHIT
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5 countries withdrew from this UN agreement. Your constitution is at risk.
16 nations across 8 policy areas.
This investigation reveals how "non-binding" agreements are bypassing democracy worldwide.https://thomaster.substack.com/p/the-great-illusion-how-non-binding
#WEF #GlobalCompact #UN #CBDC #Surveillance #ESG #WHO #DigitalID #Democracy #Sovereignity
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5 countries withdrew from this UN agreement. Your constitution is at risk.
16 nations across 8 policy areas.
This investigation reveals how "non-binding" agreements are bypassing democracy worldwide.https://thomaster.substack.com/p/the-great-illusion-how-non-binding
#WEF #GlobalCompact #UN #CBDC #Surveillance #ESG #WHO #DigitalID #Democracy #Sovereignity
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The UK's immigration crisis isn't just about Channel crossings — it's a multi-billion criminal enterprise with confirmed links to Russian state money laundering.
Active UK companies still registered on Companies House. Migrants forced into cannabis farms to pay off debt. What the mainstream isn't covering.
My latest investigation:
https://thomaster.substack.com/p/the-uks-immigration-crisis-what-theyre#Immigration #UN #WEF #Russia #UKCrime #Politics #UKPolitics #NCA #EnglishChannel
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The UK's immigration crisis isn't just about Channel crossings — it's a multi-billion criminal enterprise with confirmed links to Russian state money laundering.
Active UK companies still registered on Companies House. Migrants forced into cannabis farms to pay off debt. What the mainstream isn't covering.
My latest investigation:
https://thomaster.substack.com/p/the-uks-immigration-crisis-what-theyre#Immigration #UN #WEF #Russia #UKCrime #Politics #UKPolitics #NCA #EnglishChannel
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Why the next billion jobs will be created by entrepreneurs, not algorithms
https://www.weforum.org/stories/2026/06/next-billion-jobs-entrepreneurs-not-algorithms/Seminars on WORK-related topics where professionals share their expertise.
digitalsocietypress.com
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Why the next billion jobs will be created by entrepreneurs, not algorithms
https://www.weforum.org/stories/2026/06/next-billion-jobs-entrepreneurs-not-algorithms/Seminars on WORK-related topics where professionals share their expertise.
digitalsocietypress.com
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The Betrayal of Ireland
They called it vibeshift. They called it modernisation.
What they didn't call it was betrayal.
Here's how the globalists hijacked the republican dream 👇
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The Betrayal of Ireland
They called it vibeshift. They called it modernisation.
What they didn't call it was betrayal.
Here's how the globalists hijacked the republican dream 👇
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Not all #millionaires oppose higher #taxes.
'Nearly 400 millionaires and #billionaires call for higher taxes on super-rich
(This article is more than 5 months old)'Mark #Ruffalo, Brian #Eno and Abigail #Disney sign letter timed for #WEF in Davos saying wealthy are buying #political influence'
'Nearly 400 millionaires and billionaires from 24 countries are calling on global leaders to increase taxes on the super-rich, amid growing concern that the wealthiest in society are buying political influence.
'An open letter, released to coincide with the World Economic Forum in Davos, calls on global leaders attending this week’s conference to close the widening gap between the super-rich and everyone else.
'The letter, signed by luminaries including the #actor and film-maker Mark Ruffalo, the #musician Brian Eno and the film producer and #philanthropist Abigail Disney, says extreme #wealth is polluting politics, driving social exclusion and fuelling the #climate emergency.
'“A handful of global #oligarchs with extreme wealth have bought up our #democracies; taken over our #governments; gagged the freedom of our #media; placed a stranglehold on #technology and innovation; deepened #poverty and social exclusion; and accelerated the breakdown of our planet,” it reads. “What we treasure, rich and poor alike, is being eaten away by those intent on growing the gulf between their vast power and everyone else.
'“We all know this. When even millionaires, like us, recognise that extreme wealth has cost everyone else everything else, there can be no doubt that society is dangerously teetering off the edge of a precipice.”'
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Not all #millionaires oppose higher #taxes.
'Nearly 400 millionaires and #billionaires call for higher taxes on super-rich
(This article is more than 5 months old)'Mark #Ruffalo, Brian #Eno and Abigail #Disney sign letter timed for #WEF in Davos saying wealthy are buying #political influence'
'Nearly 400 millionaires and billionaires from 24 countries are calling on global leaders to increase taxes on the super-rich, amid growing concern that the wealthiest in society are buying political influence.
'An open letter, released to coincide with the World Economic Forum in Davos, calls on global leaders attending this week’s conference to close the widening gap between the super-rich and everyone else.
'The letter, signed by luminaries including the #actor and film-maker Mark Ruffalo, the #musician Brian Eno and the film producer and #philanthropist Abigail Disney, says extreme #wealth is polluting politics, driving social exclusion and fuelling the #climate emergency.
'“A handful of global #oligarchs with extreme wealth have bought up our #democracies; taken over our #governments; gagged the freedom of our #media; placed a stranglehold on #technology and innovation; deepened #poverty and social exclusion; and accelerated the breakdown of our planet,” it reads. “What we treasure, rich and poor alike, is being eaten away by those intent on growing the gulf between their vast power and everyone else.
'“We all know this. When even millionaires, like us, recognise that extreme wealth has cost everyone else everything else, there can be no doubt that society is dangerously teetering off the edge of a precipice.”'
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Iran war: What’s next for the Middle East?
With peace talks ongoing, the Iran war was top of mind at the Annual Meeting of the New…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #breakingnews #davos #Globalization #globalizationfour #globalization4 #globalization4.0 #Iran #KlausSchwab #WEF #whatdoesglobalizationmean? #world-economic-forum
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@Gerd_Brodowski Pretty sure that Switzerland is covering the security costs, as it does for the #WEF. Not sure about the lodging though.
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How the UN, foundations, and think tanks shaped policy in 164 countries — without your vote. From Net Zero to Migration.
From the Great Reset to 'transforming global governance.' Documented evidence inside. Share before it disappears.
https://thomaster.substack.com/p/the-global-governance-network-how
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How the UN, foundations, and think tanks shaped policy in 164 countries — without your vote. From Net Zero to Migration.
From the Great Reset to 'transforming global governance.' Documented evidence inside. Share before it disappears.
https://thomaster.substack.com/p/the-global-governance-network-how
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Dank der anarchistischen Hacktivistin Maia Arson Crimew und des "Wired"-Magazins wurden Leaks bekannt, die Einblicke in das sogenannte "Dialog"Netzwerk von Superreichen und den ihnen zuarbeitenden Politiker*innen, Journalist*innen, Wissenschaftler*innen und Militärs bieten.
Gegründet wurde " Dialog" vom rechtsradikalen, dem Transhumanismus nahestehenden Tech-Milliardär Peter #Thiel im Jahr 2006.Thiel war Mitbegründer des heute von Alex Karp geführten Konzerns #Palantir, der inzwischen zentraler Teil der autoritären, rassistischen Innenpolitik und Kriegsführung der USA ist und Überwachungsprodukte auch an andere Länder verkauft (wie die in Deutschland primär von #Grünen und #CDU eingeführte Polizeisoftware).
Als exklusives und nicht öffentliche Veranstaltung ist das "Dialog" -Netzwerk wohl vergleichbar mit ähnlichen Veranstaltungen wie dem #WEF und dem Bilderberg-Treffen. Die Leaks der Teilnahmeliste zeigen, dass beim diesjährigen "Dialog"-Treffen unter anderem Tech-Billionär Elon #Musk, NATO-Befehlshaber Grynkewich, EU-Kommissarin Kaja Kallas, Vertreter*innen von Tech-Konzernen wie Google, #OpenAI und #Microsoft sowie von rechten Think Tanks wie dem "Cato Institute" und Journalist*innen wie Ezra Klein von der NYT teilnehmen sollen.
https://www.wired.com/story/leak-exposes-members-of-peter-thiels-secretive-dialog-society/
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Dank der anarchistischen Hacktivistin Maia Arson Crimew und des "Wired"-Magazins wurden Leaks bekannt, die Einblicke in das sogenannte "Dialog"Netzwerk von Superreichen und den ihnen zuarbeitenden Politiker*innen, Journalist*innen, Wissenschaftler*innen und Militärs bieten.
Gegründet wurde " Dialog" vom rechtsradikalen, dem Transhumanismus nahestehenden Tech-Milliardär Peter #Thiel im Jahr 2006.Thiel war Mitbegründer des heute von Alex Karp geführten Konzerns #Palantir, der inzwischen zentraler Teil der autoritären, rassistischen Innenpolitik und Kriegsführung der USA ist und Überwachungsprodukte auch an andere Länder verkauft (wie die in Deutschland primär von #Grünen und #CDU eingeführte Polizeisoftware).
Als exklusives und nicht öffentliche Veranstaltung ist das "Dialog" -Netzwerk wohl vergleichbar mit ähnlichen Veranstaltungen wie dem #WEF und dem Bilderberg-Treffen. Die Leaks der Teilnahmeliste zeigen, dass beim diesjährigen "Dialog"-Treffen unter anderem Tech-Billionär Elon #Musk, NATO-Befehlshaber Grynkewich, EU-Kommissarin Kaja Kallas, Vertreter*innen von Tech-Konzernen wie Google, #OpenAI und #Microsoft sowie von rechten Think Tanks wie dem "Cato Institute" und Journalist*innen wie Ezra Klein von der NYT teilnehmen sollen.
https://www.wired.com/story/leak-exposes-members-of-peter-thiels-secretive-dialog-society/
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Project SATAN in the UK launched a balloon releasing SO2 into the stratosphere in 2022.
Now ARIA has billions funding outdoor experiments. Bill Gates funds 12% of global SRM research. The WEF is setting ethics frameworks before any law exists.
But it would take 16,000 years for CO2 to reach harmful levels at current rates. No law governs this. Full investigation:
https://thomaster.substack.com/p/the-geoengineering-agenda-who-really#Geoengineering #Solar #Radiation #WEF #BillGates #ParisAgreement #Climate #ARIA
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Project SATAN in the UK launched a balloon releasing SO2 into the stratosphere in 2022.
Now ARIA has billions funding outdoor experiments. Bill Gates funds 12% of global SRM research. The WEF is setting ethics frameworks before any law exists.
But it would take 16,000 years for CO2 to reach harmful levels at current rates. No law governs this. Full investigation:
https://thomaster.substack.com/p/the-geoengineering-agenda-who-really#Geoengineering #Solar #Radiation #WEF #BillGates #ParisAgreement #Climate #ARIA
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𝗪𝗲𝗳 𝗵𝗲𝗲𝗳𝘁 𝗻𝗼𝗼𝗶𝘁 '𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗯𝗮𝗻𝗱' 𝗴𝗲𝗵𝗮𝗱 𝗺𝗲𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗮 𝗡𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗶𝗻 𝗕𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴
Dj Wef ontkent dat ze een affaire zou hebben gehad met haar collega-radiomaker Nordin Blessing. Op Instagram schrijft ze dat ze "nooit een andere band dan een vriendschap" met hem heeft gehad.
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𝗪𝗲𝗳 𝗵𝗲𝗲𝗳𝘁 𝗻𝗼𝗼𝗶𝘁 '𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗯𝗮𝗻𝗱' 𝗴𝗲𝗵𝗮𝗱 𝗺𝗲𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗮 𝗡𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗶𝗻 𝗕𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴
Dj Wef ontkent dat ze een affaire zou hebben gehad met haar collega-radiomaker Nordin Blessing. Op Instagram schrijft ze dat ze "nooit een andere band dan een vriendschap" met hem heeft gehad.
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The Great Nature Heist
A viral video of a World Economic Forum executive explaining that nature should be "brought onto the balance sheet" has sparked outrage. But what's actually happening behind the scenes is far more consequential than a talking point.https://thomaster.substack.com/p/the-great-nature-heist-how-wall-street
#WEF #NaturalCapital #Economics #BioDiversity #BlackRock #NatureConservancy #KlausSchwab #Greenwashing #News
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Building workforce resilience amid geopolitical change – 3 chief people officers discuss
https://www.weforum.org/stories/2026/05/workforce-resilience-geopolitical-change-chief-people-officers/Seminars on WORK-related topics where professionals share their expertise, answer questions, and give tips.
digitalsocietypress.com
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Left to Our Own Devices?
“You will own nothing and you will be happy.”
This published World Economic Forum slogan, derived from a reposted blog essay by a Danish politician titled “Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better,” embodies a vision of doing away with the ownership private property and autonomy in favor of a shared and planned economy overseen by the “providence” of WEF elites.
The proposed systems or platforms would provide technological access to needed resources, thereby providing gratification – so says the Dane. What is not said: in order to produce a hyper-egalitarian world, such comprehensive oversight of humans would require the beating down, leveling, debasing, and tyrannizing of the humans into thinking and accepting what is doled out in terms of what is valued per the elites.
“Have we discovered some new reason why, this time, power should not corrupt as it has done before?” – C.S. Lewis, from the third essay in The Abolition of Man.
The overlords of the modern bureaucratic state (presumptuously) use rational control to solve all problems with (smug) amoral certainty. Rational control?
R.J. Snell writing for Acton Institute regarding Harvey C. Mansfield’s recent book The Rise and Fall of Rational Control: The History of Modern Political Philosophy:
According to Mansfield, modernity is intrinsically linked to Machiavelli. . .
Rational control depended on ending irrational control, meaning custom, which includes social mores, institutions, and “God or the gods.” Rational control requires our liberation from the divine; humanity itself serves as a principle of order, asserting “human rights as against divine rights.” Moral custom can survive the taming of the gods, however, so morality must also be placed on a rational basis. For Machiavelli, princes must learn “how to be not good.” Ancient philosophers constructed utopian principles, but moderns take guidance from the “effectual truth” of action. The ruthless doing of “the necessary” establishes and preserves the city.
Who is Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 -1527)? See below.
The WEF’s Brave New World kind of slogan, with its enchantment of fulfillment via a Soma-like numbing- homogenizing process that divests the individual of all worldly (and otherworldly) concerns, I read as “rational control” ending “irrational control.” The ownership of inherited values and identity from the older cosmic order that included the transcendent Overworld is to be exchanged for the management of affairs by the realpolitik of “princes.” Their new modes and orders will displace what came before, replace the “ought” with the “is,” and effect the ruthless doing of “the necessary” via devices with avatars, apps and AI.
(Our world has many glory seeking manipulative “princes.” They rule in the WEF and the UN. They rule in city, state, and federal government and they are the tech bros pushing AI and data centers down our throats.)
“You will own nothing and you will be happy”represents the presumed gratifying effects of rational control giving materialism and science unquestioned authority over our lives to produce “effectual truth” outcomes. Subjects of the slogan are to sell their souls to the “princes” of this world to make way for “man’s freedom … to answer his own needs with his own arms.”
Those enchanted by a managed existence absent of meaning and free will, such as the Danish politician, are apparently OK with a world that is increasingly disconnected from “the past, people, place, and prayer” and increasingly connected to “science, self, sex, and screens” (Paul Kingsnorth, Against the Machine).
Chuck Chalberg, writing for the Imaginative Conservative:
Kingsnorth might not have needed to define each of his S’s, but he does: Science gives us a “non-mythic” story of our origins; “the highest good is to serve the self”; sex is an “affirmation of individual identity”; and the screen is “both our main source of distraction from reality and the interface by which we are directed into the coming post-human reality of the machine.”
I view such world as cold and indifferent, in a calculating, utilitarian, mechanistic, ad-addled, app-addled, drug-addled, increasingly violent, and wretched way.
Those enchanted by a dystopian existence are apparently OK with living in a pathological environment, one that has “almost no qualities of a sane, wise, productive, creative environment that we would wish for ourselves” (Iain McGilchrist).
“You will own nothing and you will be happy” is scientific reductionism’s disenchantment of the world.
Henri Bortoft writes at The Nature Institute about the 18th to 19th century German polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s way of perceiving:
Goethe [sought a method that, in his words] “did not treat of nature as divided and in pieces, but presented her as working and alive, striving out of the whole into the parts.” The first thing we notice here is the reversal of perception: not from the part to the whole, but from the whole into the parts. Goethe was someone who could see the wholeness in nature directly, and, furthermore, had specific practices that could lead to the ability to do so.
C. S. Lewis, in English Literature in the Sixteenth Century (1954), wrote that no longer is the universe thought of as an orchestra “tingling with anthropomorphic life, dancing, ceremonial, a festival.” Now it is thought of in terms of a machine. In terms of language, Lewis’ understood that
“Pre-modern metaphors were animated; the cosmos seemed saturated with presence, soul, and being. In contrast, modern man prefers inorganic metaphors borrowed from the steady, unwavering movement of machines.” (Jason Baxter, “Evil Enchantment” versus Platonic Vision: Dante, Lewis, and the Weight of Glory) (The After Dinner Scholar podcast).
Many have witnessed and written about the ongoing deconstruction of our inherited perception of the cosmos.
Below, two poets, a professor of Medieval and Renaissance Literature, a modern playwright and a psychiatrist/neuroscientist account the withdrawing from the ages-old animating symphonic signal (objective values of truth, beauty, and goodness) toward modern machine noise (amoral realpolitik’s ruthless doing of “the necessary”):
“Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar”
In 1867, Matthew Arnold wrote a poem about the decline of religious belief in mid-nineteenth-century Britain. Dover Beach speaks of a sea change during the Victorian era: the rising tide of scientific discovery and the withdrawing “sea of faith.” He saw Christian faith increasingly challenged by the influences of materialism and scientific discoveries.
Dover Beach portrays the effect with words describing loss and alienation from what had been so encompassing:
The Sea of Faith
Was once, too, at the full, and round earth’s shore
Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.
But now I only hear
Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,
Retreating, to the breath
Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear
And naked shingles of the world.“A heap of broken images”
T. S. Eliot’s 1922 poem The Waste Land, written in the wake of WWI, describes the barrenness and alienation of modern life. With a collage of cultural allusions, Eliot portrays modern society as shallow, the rich spiritual and cultural landscape of the past reduced to rubble. Society, he writes, is dealing with “A heap of broken images.”
What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow
Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man,
You cannot say, or guess, for you know only
A heap of broken images, where the sun beats,
And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief,
And the dry stone no sound of water.“a bad spell, an evil enchantment”
Jason M. Baxter, in his essay “Evil Enchantment” versus Platonic Vision: Dante, Lewis, and the Weight of Glory,” writes of professor C.S. Lewis’ take on the negation of goodness referencing a compilation of Lewis’ sermons tiled Transposition (1944) and his book The Abolition of Man (1943):
“The oxford don consistently used the metaphor of a bad spell, arguing that modernity had cast an “evil enchantment of worldliness” that makes the weight of goodness fell less substantial. In fact, Lewis argued that there was a kind of historical chasm or gaping cultural canyon that separated modernity from anything that came before: what he called the “Great Divide.” . . . This is, in part, because our image of the cosmos and our understanding of its operations are radically different from that of the pre-modern world. Our metaphors have changed: “The fundamental concept of modern science is, or was until very recently, that of natural ‘laws.’. . . In medieval science the fundamental concept was that of certain sympathies, antipathies, and strivings inherent in matter itself.” Modern man speaks about how a falling rock obeys a law of nature; medieval man spoke of the rock as desiring or longing to return to its natural place, like a pigeon returning to its nest by a homing instinct. Pre-modern metaphors were animated; the cosmos seemed saturated with presence, soul, and being. In contrast, modern man prefers inorganic metaphors borrowed from the steady, unwavering movement of machines. (My emphasis.)
. . .
“When the animate picture of the cosmos and the organic metaphors used to describe it passed away, two other changes followed. The first is that we began to imagine the sources of deep meaning were located within, not without. As Charles Taylor has put it, we “conceive of ourselves as having inner depths. We might even say that the depths which were previously located in the cosmos, the enchanted world, are now more readily placed within.” Lewis wrote about this displacement of meaning in his impassioned critique of modern education, The Abolition of Man.”
(You can read Baxter’s complete essay w/footnotes in my post “Self-Central Casting.” The article is brought to you for free and open access by Digital Commons @ George Fox University)
The Abolition of Man was published in 1943. Three lectures by C.S. Lewis form the book: Men Without Chests, The Way, and The Abolition of Man.
In identifying the pathologies of the age, Lewis warned about the consequences of doing away with ideas of objective value and natural law. Moral relativism, he claimed, would-result in the Abolition of Man and Men Without Chests. He defended the existence of a moral consensus among mankind that transcends cultures, polities, and historical epochs.
Lewis sought to reenchant the world with his fiction: The Space trilogy, Till We have Faces, The Chronicles of Narnia and other works.
In a 1946 essay “Talking about Bicycles” Lewis wrote about how understanding changes in terms of “four ages about nearly everything.” He gave them names: the unenchanted age, the enchanted age, the disenchanted age, and the reenchanted age.
We are in a disenchanted age.
Where do values come from?
British playwright and screenwriter Tom Stoppard (1937-2025) was known for plays that are both comedic and philosophical.
This is true of one of his most famous plays, the 1966 absurdist tragicomedy Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Two minor characters from Shakespeare’s Hamlet become main figures in a play ‘outside’ the narrative of Shakespeare’s Hamlet (which has a play within a play).
From the play’s synopsis at Stage Agent:
Part Shakespearean tragedy, part Laurel and Hardy comedy routine, part Waiting for Godot absurdity, Tom Stoppard’s masterful debut play calls fate, free will, art, reality, communication, and the very constructs of theatre into question, all the while leading two most honorable, adventurous, brilliant, and inept characters on their path to their unfortunate, unavoidable, infamous fate.
His 1972 play Jumpers “intertwines high-minded discussion with broad comic absurdity.” Stoppard “explores and satirizes the field of academic philosophy by likening it to a less-than-skillful competitive gymnastics display.” It is set in a university “where philosophy has become a battleground rather than a search for truth.” It is a bewildering world of pragmatists and relativists where logic has confounded belief in moral absolutes. Ther play raise the questions of “What do we know?” and “Where do values come from?”
Stoppard’s 2015 play The Hard Problem again deals the ultimate source of objective goodness and value.
Lauren Halvorsen, at Studio Theater:
In constructing Hilary, Stoppard explains, “I wanted to write a character who is good—not goody-goody—and believes that goodness has an objective reality which is not captured by, explained by, or defined by evolutionary science, by evolutionary psychology, by evolutionary biology, by neo-Darwinism.” Hilary’s faith is ridiculed by her colleagues—but they can’t fully refute her stances. Stoppard investigates the interplay of faith and fact, irrationality with would-be rational behavior. How would neuroscientists definitively prove that every instinct is chemical, explicable, and geared for survival? And what happens to our beliefs when science can’t hold all the answers? Can some ideas only be understood through an unquantifiable intuition?
…
In a world driven by empirical data, Hilary is a controversial figure—she argues passionately in favor of free will, defends altruism as more than self-interest, and believes in God, much to the consternation of her materialist fellow scientist and occasional lover Spike. And it gradually emerges that Hilary’s stances are informed, in part, by personal reasons: at age 15, she had a baby and made an adoption plan, and now prays for her daughter as she wonders what became of her.
We are living in a pathological environment
Iain McGilchrist – psychiatrist, philosopher and neuroscientist:
“There is no question. We are living in a pathological environment. It has almost no qualities of a sane, wise, productive, creative environment that we would wish for ourselves. It has very few of those qualities that characteristically lead to those qualities. It maximizes conflict. It incubates extreme points of view. It robs us of embodied and embedded wisdom that comes from the culture and proximity to the natural world.
All these things that used to be taken for granted are now robbed of us and it’s no surprise that responses are massive existential anxiety, depression, suicidal thinking, a sense of hopelessness, complete loss of meaning. . . it is a complete tragedy because it doesn’t have to be like that. We need to break out of the prison we have made for ourselves.”
The above excerpt from the May 2026 video & podcast – Civilization’s Imbalance and Restoring the Humanities: The Divided Brain
https://youtu.be/AZj01XPMIyA?si=19oSgjEsgktAACGY
https://www.unsiloedpodcast.com/episodes/iain-mcgilchrist
Iain McGilchrist discusses how the brain works; how left and right hemispheres attend to things – thereby making a difference on how we respond to the world.
Ultimate Meaning with objective standards for goodness and value is being explained away by neuroscience reductionist claims that meaning comes down to brain chemistry and atoms. If there is meaning, it is described in terms of an inexorable evolutionary process at work to pass on our genes in the best way possible. (See Is God the answer to our Meaning Crisis? Video below.)
Are we to view life through scientific reductionism’s microscope?
Are we to be viewed life through scientific reductionism’s microscope?
Should we be logical positivists and base all knowledge on perceptual experience and consider metaphysical and subjective arguments not based on observable data as meaningless?
Should we live accepting that there is nothing but matter and disregard intuition or revelation for “the science?”
Is life to be understood using only the science text book of humans (which scientism perverts for “effectual truth” outcomes) and not the gestalt of human consciousness as found in poetry (that provides meaning)?
Admittedly, there is a lot to ponder here.
As I have written before, I am an autodidact. I have no degree. I read and study that which interests and concerns me. Then, I put it down in words. The above is not some term paper to be graded. The above is what I have come to understand: what I was looking for since my earliest days.
It wasn’t until I reached my 70s that I understood the loss of connection to true mythos and the orchestra “tingling with anthropomorphic life, dancing, ceremonial, a festival.”
~~~
Who is Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 -1527)?
Here’s a brief Yale lecture (video, podcast & transcript) about the Florentine, the founder of the modern state, and his book, “The Prince”: Lecture 10 – New Modes and Orders: Machiavelli, The Prince (chaps. 1-12)
“Machiavelli announces his break, indeed his repudiation of all those who have come before, all those who have come before. He both replaces and yet reconfigures according to his own lights, elements from both the Christian empire and the Roman republic, to create a new form of political organization distinctly his own.” (This description of Machiavelli could be describing today’s Progressive politicians and many church organizations!)
(This being Memorial Day weekend, I doubt that the “princes” of this world will honor the fallen. They’ll be busy barbecuing and planning their next doing of “the necessary.”
~~~
The modern state increasingly treats culture not as an independent civilizational inheritance deserving protection but as raw material to be supervised, corrected, and ideologically aligned. The old pastoral ideal of the fulfilled and self-reliant individual citizen gradually gives way to the therapeutic subject: managed, supervised, controlled, yet perpetually assured of her freedom in “our democracy.”
A civilization survives only when there remain spheres of life politics cannot wholly absorb. Once politics becomes everything, civilization itself begins to disappear.
The Politicization Of Everything | ZeroHedge
Authored by David Solway via The Epoch Times,
Don’t become a Green grocer.
~~~
Elizabeth Oldfield & James Marriott: Is God the answer to our Meaning Crisis? | Uncommon Ground
Elizabeth Oldfield, host of the Sacred Podcast, and James Marriott, literary critic and Times columnist, join Justin on Uncommon Ground to discuss whether we can find meaning in life without God.
Elizabeth tells of her own search for meaning in Christian faith, while James explains why, as an atheist nihilist, he still loves art and literature. They discuss the search for purpose, and signs of a new interest in faith among young people.Elizabeth Oldfield & James Marriott: Is God the answer to our Meaning Crisis? | Uncommon Ground
For Elizabeth Oldfield: https://www.elizabetholdfield.com/
For James Marriott: https://www.thetimes.com/comment/columnists/article/full-fat-faith-the-young-christian-converts-filling-our-churches-x69pd289k?~~~
#CSLewis #Christianity #consciousness #culture #IainMcGilchrist #literature #Machiavelli #Modernity #philosophy #poetry #ThePrince #WEF #worldview -
Left to Our Own Devices?
“You will own nothing and you will be happy.”
This published World Economic Forum slogan, derived from a reposted blog essay by a Danish politician titled “Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better,” embodies a vision of doing away with the ownership private property and autonomy in favor of a shared and planned economy overseen by the “providence” of WEF elites.
The proposed systems or platforms would provide technological access to needed resources, thereby providing gratification – so says the Dane. What is not said: in order to produce a hyper-egalitarian world, such comprehensive oversight of humans would require the beating down, leveling, debasing, and tyrannizing of the humans into thinking and accepting what is doled out in terms of what is valued per the elites.
“Have we discovered some new reason why, this time, power should not corrupt as it has done before?” – C.S. Lewis, from the third essay in The Abolition of Man.
The overlords of the modern bureaucratic state (presumptuously) use rational control to solve all problems with (smug) amoral certainty. Rational control?
R.J. Snell writing for Acton Institute regarding Harvey C. Mansfield’s recent book The Rise and Fall of Rational Control: The History of Modern Political Philosophy:
According to Mansfield, modernity is intrinsically linked to Machiavelli. . .
Rational control depended on ending irrational control, meaning custom, which includes social mores, institutions, and “God or the gods.” Rational control requires our liberation from the divine; humanity itself serves as a principle of order, asserting “human rights as against divine rights.” Moral custom can survive the taming of the gods, however, so morality must also be placed on a rational basis. For Machiavelli, princes must learn “how to be not good.” Ancient philosophers constructed utopian principles, but moderns take guidance from the “effectual truth” of action. The ruthless doing of “the necessary” establishes and preserves the city.
Who is Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 -1527)? See below.
The WEF’s Brave New World kind of slogan, with its enchantment of fulfillment via a Soma-like numbing- homogenizing process that divests the individual of all worldly (and otherworldly) concerns, I read as “rational control” ending “irrational control.” The ownership of inherited values and identity from the older cosmic order that included the transcendent Overworld is to be exchanged for the management of affairs by the realpolitik of “princes.” Their new modes and orders will displace what came before, replace the “ought” with the “is,” and effect the ruthless doing of “the necessary” via devices with avatars, apps and AI.
(Our world has many glory seeking manipulative “princes.” They rule in the WEF and the UN. They rule in city, state, and federal government and they are the tech bros pushing AI and data centers down our throats.)
“You will own nothing and you will be happy”represents the presumed gratifying effects of rational control giving materialism and science unquestioned authority over our lives to produce “effectual truth” outcomes. Subjects of the slogan are to sell their souls to the “princes” of this world to make way for “man’s freedom … to answer his own needs with his own arms.”
Those enchanted by a managed existence absent of meaning and free will, such as the Danish politician, are apparently OK with a world that is increasingly disconnected from “the past, people, place, and prayer” and increasingly connected to “science, self, sex, and screens” (Paul Kingsnorth, Against the Machine).
Chuck Chalberg, writing for the Imaginative Conservative:
Kingsnorth might not have needed to define each of his S’s, but he does: Science gives us a “non-mythic” story of our origins; “the highest good is to serve the self”; sex is an “affirmation of individual identity”; and the screen is “both our main source of distraction from reality and the interface by which we are directed into the coming post-human reality of the machine.”
I view such world as cold and indifferent, in a calculating, utilitarian, mechanistic, ad-addled, app-addled, drug-addled, increasingly violent, and wretched way.
Those enchanted by a dystopian existence are apparently OK with living in a pathological environment, one that has “almost no qualities of a sane, wise, productive, creative environment that we would wish for ourselves” (Iain McGilchrist).
“You will own nothing and you will be happy” is scientific reductionism’s disenchantment of the world.
Henri Bortoft writes at The Nature Institute about the 18th to 19th century German polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s way of perceiving:
Goethe [sought a method that, in his words] “did not treat of nature as divided and in pieces, but presented her as working and alive, striving out of the whole into the parts.” The first thing we notice here is the reversal of perception: not from the part to the whole, but from the whole into the parts. Goethe was someone who could see the wholeness in nature directly, and, furthermore, had specific practices that could lead to the ability to do so.
C. S. Lewis, in English Literature in the Sixteenth Century (1954), wrote that no longer is the universe thought of as an orchestra “tingling with anthropomorphic life, dancing, ceremonial, a festival.” Now it is thought of in terms of a machine. In terms of language, Lewis’ understood that
“Pre-modern metaphors were animated; the cosmos seemed saturated with presence, soul, and being. In contrast, modern man prefers inorganic metaphors borrowed from the steady, unwavering movement of machines.” (Jason Baxter, “Evil Enchantment” versus Platonic Vision: Dante, Lewis, and the Weight of Glory) (The After Dinner Scholar podcast).
Many have witnessed and written about the ongoing deconstruction of our inherited perception of the cosmos.
Below, two poets, a professor of Medieval and Renaissance Literature, a modern playwright and a psychiatrist/neuroscientist account the withdrawing from the ages-old animating symphonic signal (objective values of truth, beauty, and goodness) toward modern machine noise (amoral realpolitik’s ruthless doing of “the necessary”):
“Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar”
In 1867, Matthew Arnold wrote a poem about the decline of religious belief in mid-nineteenth-century Britain. Dover Beach speaks of a sea change during the Victorian era: the rising tide of scientific discovery and the withdrawing “sea of faith.” He saw Christian faith increasingly challenged by the influences of materialism and scientific discoveries.
Dover Beach portrays the effect with words describing loss and alienation from what had been so encompassing:
The Sea of Faith
Was once, too, at the full, and round earth’s shore
Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.
But now I only hear
Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,
Retreating, to the breath
Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear
And naked shingles of the world.“A heap of broken images”
T. S. Eliot’s 1922 poem The Waste Land, written in the wake of WWI, describes the barrenness and alienation of modern life. With a collage of cultural allusions, Eliot portrays modern society as shallow, the rich spiritual and cultural landscape of the past reduced to rubble. Society, he writes, is dealing with “A heap of broken images.”
What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow
Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man,
You cannot say, or guess, for you know only
A heap of broken images, where the sun beats,
And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief,
And the dry stone no sound of water.“a bad spell, an evil enchantment”
Jason M. Baxter, in his essay “Evil Enchantment” versus Platonic Vision: Dante, Lewis, and the Weight of Glory,” writes of professor C.S. Lewis’ take on the negation of goodness referencing a compilation of Lewis’ sermons tiled Transposition (1944) and his book The Abolition of Man (1943):
“The oxford don consistently used the metaphor of a bad spell, arguing that modernity had cast an “evil enchantment of worldliness” that makes the weight of goodness fell less substantial. In fact, Lewis argued that there was a kind of historical chasm or gaping cultural canyon that separated modernity from anything that came before: what he called the “Great Divide.” . . . This is, in part, because our image of the cosmos and our understanding of its operations are radically different from that of the pre-modern world. Our metaphors have changed: “The fundamental concept of modern science is, or was until very recently, that of natural ‘laws.’. . . In medieval science the fundamental concept was that of certain sympathies, antipathies, and strivings inherent in matter itself.” Modern man speaks about how a falling rock obeys a law of nature; medieval man spoke of the rock as desiring or longing to return to its natural place, like a pigeon returning to its nest by a homing instinct. Pre-modern metaphors were animated; the cosmos seemed saturated with presence, soul, and being. In contrast, modern man prefers inorganic metaphors borrowed from the steady, unwavering movement of machines. (My emphasis.)
. . .
“When the animate picture of the cosmos and the organic metaphors used to describe it passed away, two other changes followed. The first is that we began to imagine the sources of deep meaning were located within, not without. As Charles Taylor has put it, we “conceive of ourselves as having inner depths. We might even say that the depths which were previously located in the cosmos, the enchanted world, are now more readily placed within.” Lewis wrote about this displacement of meaning in his impassioned critique of modern education, The Abolition of Man.”
(You can read Baxter’s complete essay w/footnotes in my post “Self-Central Casting.” The article is brought to you for free and open access by Digital Commons @ George Fox University)
The Abolition of Man was published in 1943. Three lectures by C.S. Lewis form the book: Men Without Chests, The Way, and The Abolition of Man.
In identifying the pathologies of the age, Lewis warned about the consequences of doing away with ideas of objective value and natural law. Moral relativism, he claimed, would-result in the Abolition of Man and Men Without Chests. He defended the existence of a moral consensus among mankind that transcends cultures, polities, and historical epochs.
Lewis sought to reenchant the world with his fiction: The Space trilogy, Till We have Faces, The Chronicles of Narnia and other works.
In a 1946 essay “Talking about Bicycles” Lewis wrote about how understanding changes in terms of “four ages about nearly everything.” He gave them names: the unenchanted age, the enchanted age, the disenchanted age, and the reenchanted age.
We are in a disenchanted age.
Where do values come from?
British playwright and screenwriter Tom Stoppard (1937-2025) was known for plays that are both comedic and philosophical.
This is true of one of his most famous plays, the 1966 absurdist tragicomedy Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Two minor characters from Shakespeare’s Hamlet become main figures in a play ‘outside’ the narrative of Shakespeare’s Hamlet (which has a play within a play).
From the play’s synopsis at Stage Agent:
Part Shakespearean tragedy, part Laurel and Hardy comedy routine, part Waiting for Godot absurdity, Tom Stoppard’s masterful debut play calls fate, free will, art, reality, communication, and the very constructs of theatre into question, all the while leading two most honorable, adventurous, brilliant, and inept characters on their path to their unfortunate, unavoidable, infamous fate.
His 1972 play Jumpers “intertwines high-minded discussion with broad comic absurdity.” Stoppard “explores and satirizes the field of academic philosophy by likening it to a less-than-skillful competitive gymnastics display.” It is set in a university “where philosophy has become a battleground rather than a search for truth.” It is a bewildering world of pragmatists and relativists where logic has confounded belief in moral absolutes. Ther play raise the questions of “What do we know?” and “Where do values come from?”
Stoppard’s 2015 play The Hard Problem again deals the ultimate source of objective goodness and value.
Lauren Halvorsen, at Studio Theater:
In constructing Hilary, Stoppard explains, “I wanted to write a character who is good—not goody-goody—and believes that goodness has an objective reality which is not captured by, explained by, or defined by evolutionary science, by evolutionary psychology, by evolutionary biology, by neo-Darwinism.” Hilary’s faith is ridiculed by her colleagues—but they can’t fully refute her stances. Stoppard investigates the interplay of faith and fact, irrationality with would-be rational behavior. How would neuroscientists definitively prove that every instinct is chemical, explicable, and geared for survival? And what happens to our beliefs when science can’t hold all the answers? Can some ideas only be understood through an unquantifiable intuition?
…
In a world driven by empirical data, Hilary is a controversial figure—she argues passionately in favor of free will, defends altruism as more than self-interest, and believes in God, much to the consternation of her materialist fellow scientist and occasional lover Spike. And it gradually emerges that Hilary’s stances are informed, in part, by personal reasons: at age 15, she had a baby and made an adoption plan, and now prays for her daughter as she wonders what became of her.
We are living in a pathological environment
Iain McGilchrist – psychiatrist, philosopher and neuroscientist:
“There is no question. We are living in a pathological environment. It has almost no qualities of a sane, wise, productive, creative environment that we would wish for ourselves. It has very few of those qualities that characteristically lead to those qualities. It maximizes conflict. It incubates extreme points of view. It robs us of embodied and embedded wisdom that comes from the culture and proximity to the natural world.
All these things that used to be taken for granted are now robbed of us and it’s no surprise that responses are massive existential anxiety, depression, suicidal thinking, a sense of hopelessness, complete loss of meaning. . . it is a complete tragedy because it doesn’t have to be like that. We need to break out of the prison we have made for ourselves.”
The above excerpt from the May 2026 video & podcast – Civilization’s Imbalance and Restoring the Humanities: The Divided Brain
https://youtu.be/AZj01XPMIyA?si=19oSgjEsgktAACGY
https://www.unsiloedpodcast.com/episodes/iain-mcgilchrist
Iain McGilchrist discusses how the brain works; how left and right hemispheres attend to things – thereby making a difference on how we respond to the world.
Ultimate Meaning with objective standards for goodness and value is being explained away by neuroscience reductionist claims that meaning comes down to brain chemistry and atoms. If there is meaning, it is described in terms of an inexorable evolutionary process at work to pass on our genes in the best way possible. (See Is God the answer to our Meaning Crisis? Video below.)
Are we to view life through scientific reductionism’s microscope?
Are we to be viewed life through scientific reductionism’s microscope?
Should we be logical positivists and base all knowledge on perceptual experience and consider metaphysical and subjective arguments not based on observable data as meaningless?
Should we live accepting that there is nothing but matter and disregard intuition or revelation for “the science?”
Is life to be understood using only the science text book of humans (which scientism perverts for “effectual truth” outcomes) and not the gestalt of human consciousness as found in poetry (that provides meaning)?
Admittedly, there is a lot to ponder here.
As I have written before, I am an autodidact. I have no degree. I read and study that which interests and concerns me. Then, I put it down in words. The above is not some term paper to be graded. The above is what I have come to understand: what I was looking for since my earliest days.
It wasn’t until I reached my 70s that I understood the loss of connection to true mythos and the orchestra “tingling with anthropomorphic life, dancing, ceremonial, a festival.”
~~~
Who is Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 -1527)?
Here’s a brief Yale lecture (video, podcast & transcript) about the Florentine, the founder of the modern state, and his book, “The Prince”: Lecture 10 – New Modes and Orders: Machiavelli, The Prince (chaps. 1-12)
“Machiavelli announces his break, indeed his repudiation of all those who have come before, all those who have come before. He both replaces and yet reconfigures according to his own lights, elements from both the Christian empire and the Roman republic, to create a new form of political organization distinctly his own.” (This description of Machiavelli could be describing today’s Progressive politicians and many church organizations!)
(This being Memorial Day weekend, I doubt that the “princes” of this world will honor the fallen. They’ll be busy barbecuing and planning their next doing of “the necessary.”
~~~
The modern state increasingly treats culture not as an independent civilizational inheritance deserving protection but as raw material to be supervised, corrected, and ideologically aligned. The old pastoral ideal of the fulfilled and self-reliant individual citizen gradually gives way to the therapeutic subject: managed, supervised, controlled, yet perpetually assured of her freedom in “our democracy.”
A civilization survives only when there remain spheres of life politics cannot wholly absorb. Once politics becomes everything, civilization itself begins to disappear.
The Politicization Of Everything | ZeroHedge
Authored by David Solway via The Epoch Times,
Don’t become a Green grocer.
~~~
Elizabeth Oldfield & James Marriott: Is God the answer to our Meaning Crisis? | Uncommon Ground
Elizabeth Oldfield, host of the Sacred Podcast, and James Marriott, literary critic and Times columnist, join Justin on Uncommon Ground to discuss whether we can find meaning in life without God.
Elizabeth tells of her own search for meaning in Christian faith, while James explains why, as an atheist nihilist, he still loves art and literature. They discuss the search for purpose, and signs of a new interest in faith among young people.Elizabeth Oldfield & James Marriott: Is God the answer to our Meaning Crisis? | Uncommon Ground
For Elizabeth Oldfield: https://www.elizabetholdfield.com/
For James Marriott: https://www.thetimes.com/comment/columnists/article/full-fat-faith-the-young-christian-converts-filling-our-churches-x69pd289k?~~~
#CSLewis #Christianity #consciousness #culture #IainMcGilchrist #literature #Machiavelli #Modernity #philosophy #poetry #ThePrince #WEF #worldview -
Africa at Davos 2026: Young population provides a bright outlook
https://www.weforum.org/stories/2026/01/africa-future-young-population/
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Greatest moron of this solar system named #KlausSchwab sharted another stinking nonsense from his filthy pie-hole; "If you have nothing to hide, you shouldn’t be afraid."
That is a dicktatorship rhetoric. In suppressive regimes, the very desire for privacy is treated as a confession of guilt. Remember Mussolini; "Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State." In such ideology, there is no legitimate "private" life.
FUCK Schwab & FUCK #WEF
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#WEF Declares War on #Breathing: ‘You Will #Pay for the #Air You #Breathe’
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Middle-power ties with the U.S. are about shaping the global architecture, not endorsing the occupant of the Oval Office. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/04/16/world/case-american-engagement/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #donaldtrump #henrykissinger #richardnixon #china #sovietunion #ukraine #wef #nato #eu #russia #rcep #southchinasea #eastchinasea #taiwanstrait #odni #brics #sco #bri #aiib #canada #crinks #iran #northkorea #maga #wipo
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Middle-power ties with the U.S. are about shaping the global architecture, not endorsing the occupant of the Oval Office. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/04/16/world/case-american-engagement/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #donaldtrump #henrykissinger #richardnixon #china #sovietunion #ukraine #wef #nato #eu #russia #rcep #southchinasea #eastchinasea #taiwanstrait #odni #brics #sco #bri #aiib #canada #crinks #iran #northkorea #maga #wipo
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https://www.alojapan.com/1471220/no-snow-record-for-mount-fuji-and-other-key-climate-stories/ No-snow record for Mount Fuji and other key climate stories #davos #globalization #GlobalizationFour #globalization4 #Globalization40 #KlausSchwab #MountFuji #MountFujiNews #MountFuji #news #WEF #WhatDoesGlobalizationMean? #WorldEconomicForum #富士山 This weekly round-up contains the key nature and climate news from the past week.Top nature and climate news: Mount Fuji missing snow for longer than before; What happened at the COP16 biodiversity
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France’s tastes are changing from fine food to fast food
Forget the long lunch break. Abandon all thoughts of stopping off at a little boulangerie and your local traiteur to pick u…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Frenchdiet #Davos #francais #france #French #frenchdiet #Globalization #globalizationfour #globalization4 #globalization4.0 #KlausSchwab #WEF #whatdoesglobalizationmean? #WorldeconomicForum
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France’s tastes are changing from fine food to fast food
Forget the long lunch break. Abandon all thoughts of stopping off at a little boulangerie and your local traiteur to pick u…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Frenchdiet #Davos #francais #france #French #frenchdiet #Globalization #globalizationfour #globalization4 #globalization4.0 #KlausSchwab #WEF #whatdoesglobalizationmean? #WorldeconomicForum
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2580395/frances-tastes-are-changing-from-fine-food-to-fast-food/ -
#共產主義 #集體主義 #SDG #WEF #UN
又來共產主義例子啦
例子關鍵字：
循環經濟=circular economy所謂的新世界秩序（New World Order，NWO）的目標恰恰是：一種以「福祉」（wellbeing）為重點的新循環經濟（circular economy，留意一下），由「已覺醒」的stakeholders（利益相關者）管理（what can be），（unburdened by）不受股東信託責任、利潤和個人成就的負擔（what has been）
https://matters.town/a/2scfop7m7nsu?collection=Q29sbGVjdGlvbjoxOTg0
https://matters.town/a/1vxzqdjvi1y1?collection=Q29sbGVjdGlvbjoyNjE0
https://matters.town/a/z194umc086sk?collection=Q29sbGVjdGlvbjoyNjE0 -
#共產主義 #集體主義 #SDG #WEF #UN
又來共產主義例子啦
例子關鍵字：
循環經濟=circular economy所謂的新世界秩序（New World Order，NWO）的目標恰恰是：一種以「福祉」（wellbeing）為重點的新循環經濟（circular economy，留意一下），由「已覺醒」的stakeholders（利益相關者）管理（what can be），（unburdened by）不受股東信託責任、利潤和個人成就的負擔（what has been）
https://matters.town/a/2scfop7m7nsu?collection=Q29sbGVjdGlvbjoxOTg0
https://matters.town/a/1vxzqdjvi1y1?collection=Q29sbGVjdGlvbjoyNjE0
https://matters.town/a/z194umc086sk?collection=Q29sbGVjdGlvbjoyNjE0 -
I think it's time ρρl figu𝓇ed out α wαy to 𝓇uin eve𝓇y sinᧁle solitα𝓇y diαbolicαl ρlαn they've mαde fo𝓇 ou𝓇 lives and the lives of our ϝαmilies🤔
#agenda #taxtherich #economy #WEF #labor #theft
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World Economic Forum CEO Resigns Amid Scrutiny of Jeffrey Epstein Connections
World Economic Forum CEO Børge Brende resigned Feb 26 after an investigation into his past links with Jeffrey Epstein. Alois Zwinggi is interim CEO.
#WEF #BorgeBrende #JeffreyEpstein #LeadershipChange #Davos
https://newsletter.tf/wef-ceo-brende-resigns-feb-26-epstein-links/
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Ich fühle mich damit auf einer Linie mit Mark #Carney, der auf dem #WEF Václav Havels Essay „Die Macht der Machtlosen" mit der Gemüsehändler-Parabel zitiert hat:
Wir beteiligen uns längst kollektiv an einem Ritual, das wir alle insgeheim für falsch halten.
Wir gestalten unser Leben in der Lüge über Demokratie und ein Rechtssystem, das aufgehört hat, zu existieren:
Die Macht unseres Systems beruht nicht auf der Wahrheit, sondern auf der Bereitschaft aller, so zu handeln, als ob es wahr wäre.
