Media Shocker: Journalist Reveals Facts: "Well, it had to happen sooner or later that someone would challenge the dominant narrative."
Berenson has donMedia Shocker: Journalist Reveals Facts: "Well, it had to happen sooner or later that someone would challenge the dominant narrative."
Berenson has done a brilliant job of collating government data on COVID-19 deaths and illustrated that they don't actually match up with the apocalyptic narrative broadcast by the established media over the first half of 2020.
Will it turn out that our modern civilization panicked out of all proportion to the actual threat. That remains to be seen.
At the start of this year, I was thinking we were looking at a Spanish Flu redux event with 50 to 80 million dying world wide over a 12 to 18 month period. My view has steadily changed over time as the Infection Fatality Ratio continued to drop, and the impact on younger population cohorts didn't eventuate.
I look forward to the next installment.
I'm marking this as essential reading for any thinking adult. 5 'Actual Investigative Journalism,' stars....more
"Copernicus removed Earth from the center of the universe, set the heavenly bodies in rotation around the Sun, and introduced Earth's daily rotation on its axis."
And, that certainly set the cat amongst the pigeons. I still think that many in our modern civilization hanker for a world in which humanity, and each one of us is - at the center of the universe. (The lust for significance is strong within our modern culture.)
This paradigm shift was only equaled by Darwin and Einstein.
This book has had a profound impact on my own thinking about how any culture evolves (or stagnates) over time. This book is indispensable if you want to understand human culture and society....more
This is an excellent go to resource on the use of psychotropic compounds by pre-industrial societies.
A fascinating topic in it's own right, detailed iThis is an excellent go to resource on the use of psychotropic compounds by pre-industrial societies.
A fascinating topic in it's own right, detailed in full, and marvelously illustrated.
Some of the images in this book remind me strongly of experiences I've had just sitting around doing nothing. Pretty amazing stuff and worth a read by anyone with a curious mind....more
"One thing that comes out in myths is that at the bottom of the abyss comes the voice of salvation. The black moment is the moment when the re
"One thing that comes out in myths is that at the bottom of the abyss comes the voice of salvation. The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light."
The Power of Myth is a beautifully illustrated collection of interviews of Joseph Campbell by Bill Moyers.
This is a very accessible and enjoyable book that presents a concise summary of the core ideas distilled from a lifetime of scholarly effort in the worldwide study of myth by Joseph Campbell.
Strongly recommend this book to anyone with a curious mind....more
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