. . .
J “My body, my choice. Your body, my choice. His body, my choice. Her body, my choice. Their body, my choice. I am the government; my choice.”
K “My body, my choice. Your body, your choice. His body, his choice. Her body, her choice. Their body, their choice. I am my, you are your, he is his, she is her and they are their. I should be the government allowing citizens to be citizens.”
. . .
K “My libertarian progressive friends are incapacitated by fear and retreated from reasonable libertarianism to frightened authoritarianism and totalitarianism.”
J “My libertarian progressive friends recognize that at times the common weal and the public good require collective interests to trump individual concerns.”
. . .
K “If the rallying cry for bodily sovereignty relates only to some parts or systems or situations, we are in a world of hurt.”
. . .
[See “The Secret of Propaganda: Teaching Obedience” in “The Seneca Effect” dated January 23, 2022 by Ugo Bardi.]
Bumper stickers of the week:
“Don’t cling to a mistake just because you spent a lot of time making it.” Unknown
“The cost of sanity in this society is a certain level of alienation.” Terrence McKenna.
“This proposal from the three fringe epidemiologists [Dr. Martin Kulldorf of Harvard, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford and Dr. Sunetra Gupta of Oxford] who met with the Secretary seems to be getting a lot of attention – and even a co-signature from Nobel Prize winner Mike Leavitt [a biophysicist and professor of structural biology at Stanford University and recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in chemistry] at Stanford. There needs to be a quick and devastating published takedown of its premises. I don’t see anything like that online yet – is it underway?” Francis Collins, retired hit man at the NIH (emphasis added).
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