There's a moon tonight that reminds me of Melancholia, von Triers masterpiece. Though instead of blue turquoise green and white, here above Ōtepoti Dunedin hills is a fat orange thug, gloating about it's victory over death. As I prepare to vaccinate my children I'm reminded that my whole life I've been told we are doing to die by some fucked up scenario after the other. There's this thing where I can tell when someone is actually rubbing soul hands in glee over the opportunity to feel the wrath finally punish all the wicked for their bad deeds, hands in a kind of existential nihilist nirvana, a satisfaction that they the royal we is finally getting what it deserves.
It's a kind of relief in punishment that the sado masochists love, that we are to blame for this, addiction to self created drama, because boredom is an even worse death. Consent is the big deal. How does a slave render his consent? Just hypothetical, just joking, I obviously don't know what I'm talking about, stop reading. Phizer is such a corrupt company, Billions in legal damages, actual nasi origins and yet I'm playing along with it cause nasi's must all be dead by now and a test and treatment is not even on the table as an option. I don't understand that, and no pamphlet saying 'trust me' is going to sway that argument.
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'I agree with them about X but disagree with them about Y'. Instead, all you can do is divide the world up into two lists: people who you consider acceptable and everyone else. Troubling complexity is wished away, replaced by the childish comfort of oversimplification.
J.K. Rowling and the death of nuance | The Spectator
J.K. Rowling and the death of nuance | The Spectator
Can we even talk about trans issues anymore?
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Wells Tao
hello covid
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Suraya Sidhu Singh
Isn't The Spectator among the most right-wing of publications?
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Wells Tao
whoa yeah, right I forgot, though I am in this phase of trying to fuzz the idea of trustworthy sourses being souly attributable to their brand name, no sarcasm, I was interested in the idea that the writer makes but I think this falls into cancel culture territory that frightens me.
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Suraya Sidhu Singh
Wells Tao I don't even know where to start 
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Wells Tao
I appreciate that reply, you are generous
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Wells Tao
it's a curious phenomenon, the way so many subjects intertwine in such a way that make it impossible to even start one, given the avalanche that it leads too.
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Wells Tao
at least I am finding that. To speak is to assume a position of error. To wonder allowed is akin to launching a PR attack. To try and exist awkwardly with ones prejudices, in a process of being educated of course but also that the course is still developing too, so there's a whole issue of timing that everyone is so sure they know, what the timing, what the place is that you should be on, already. As you are not, you see, you do not have a position, as you are, to defend.
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I wrote you into my poem. I'm sorry if that offends.
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Suraya Sidhu Singh
Wells Tao Does not offend. Your decision sounds stressful. Hope everything goes well 
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Thanks Suraya Sidhu Singh. It is so I am trying to rise to the occasion.
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...cont. I mean I accept Judith Butlers rebuttle that transwoman are woman, that gender needs to move over and that it's exclusivity has been a mistake that is no longer tolerable. And I see how some born female people see how this change is like 'men' again moving them down the order of things or such. That competing in physical competitions together feels unfair as Transwoman have a clear advantage. So I'm stuck wanting some middle steps to form, points where both can find some satisfaction self determination. That is not at the expense of one or the other.
And then I think about the covid response and how I use to hear about research being done to find practical and effective cheap treatment and how that fucking stopped and the narrative literally buckled as the marketeers came to down with their wonder cure and everything fell silent. Seriously silent. I can't even speak about it. I'm a conspiracy nut. So there's not a leg to stand on there, at all. No meeting point of mutual respect, distance created so both can coexist. It's just you are with us or against us. George Bush made that famous. Who's calling the shots here.
Lies printed with the truth and both are thrown out, protects Control from truth. We don't have information access, we have a controlled picture. Extreme polarization breaks Democracy in favor for the 1%
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