Motus Mentis

13 Comments

1. Dave says

   Democrats should be more concerned because they live in cities.

   Posted March 27, 2020 at 7:22 pm | Permalink
2. Jimmy says

   Bingo Dave, urban vs rural

   Posted March 27, 2020 at 9:02 pm | Permalink
3. Whitewall says

   Getting piled up in cities may not be the most ideal way to live a long life.

   Posted March 27, 2020 at 10:19 pm | Permalink
4. JK says

   I simply cannot believe Arkansas’ concern can possibly be there!

   Oh hold on a minute.

   I’ve lately taken to, as a dyslexia sufferer, reading ass over teakettle.

   Nevermind.

   Posted March 28, 2020 at 12:38 am | Permalink
5. Phil Carson says

   Where most of the useful dupes tend to locate, for 25 Alex.

   I contend that is not an accident of the fates either.

   Posted March 28, 2020 at 9:38 am | Permalink
6. Phil Carson says

   Mr. Malcolm, Motus Mentis? As in a picture really is worth a thousand words, and does that graphic tell a message. Have this refrain in my head this modern world is so orientated towards the virtual/visual. To the point where the written word is overshadowed by power of agitprop, and alt-agitprop, memes, across the social realm of media.

   Those Bolsheviks and their trains where pretty sharp social engineers.
   I mean, whats it been, around 1 century, and the ripening realization of those marxist’s instruments of thought policing and the power of the lie & propaganda is still breaking new ground?
   Or is this more inherently due more to the technical aspects of technology?
   That great Bolshevik industrialized revolution style of agitprop created and printed on those trains is some pretty awesome iconic art. It’s so emotional in its extreme. The underpinning of the ideological farce notwithstanding.

   They really must have hated the Kulak’s, they conveyed so much feeling, or is that “feelz” into the graphics of hate and bigotry. Pogrom with a certain Russian industrial cultural style. The feelz part not unlike the contempt I personally sense for myself as an Appalachian Amerikan Kulak, in the great company of a basket of Deplorable’s after all.

   Yet it strikes me even further there being two sides to every story in all things like this in the arena of free thought verses bad think, where the truth becomes even more evident because intensifying contrasts, and “easier” across the spectrum of peoples minds to chew on and digest.

   Are we evolving into a society of visualizers verses written word intellectuals of our colonial era forebears? Though those guys where some pretty fine Handcrafters and Makers. From the Shakers to the incredible gunsmiths and cabinet makers. ( these folks have committed to a decades long photographic archive of present day “Contemporary Makers” who are a renaissance in their own right. The work and artistry is sublime): http://contemporarymakers.blogspot.com/

   Maybe that was that times visual bent? And what of the great pamphlet campaigns leading up to secession and the Declaration of Independence, and the later minds and hearts campaign of the federalists and antifederalists?
   Does that count?
   Strikes me it does.

   It’s like this incredible conundrum, this war of hearts and minds, as it seems the campaign by the yellow media to revise or weaponize all forms of news has attained the point and is now into a state of diminishing returns.
   Or is that having to do with a crisis of legitimacy?
   It’s getting complicated in a hurry lately it seems.

   This graphic is such a telling example of whats running thru my head. Before the war by the legacy media opened the last decade of assaults on dissemination of whats going on in our world, their dissimilation would have never precipitated such a graphic piece of data.
   It is almost like there is this entity of free and open minds pushing back, almost like it’s legion, or maybe it is A Legion of open source insurgency waging 4th generation war, unorganized, grass roots baby, against the 5th column which permeates this modern world.

   To me that last is a really great thing.

   What do you think? Or is that graphic itself your message here that speaks for itself?

   Posted March 28, 2020 at 10:33 am | Permalink
7. Bill says

   Visual proof that Democrats:
   1. Believe everything they hear on the news.
   2. Don’t let logic or facts get in the way of a good hysteria.

   Posted March 28, 2020 at 12:06 pm | Permalink
8. JK says

   Precisely Bill.

   “30,000 ventilators needed now!”

   So pray tell Governor just where do you plan on operating those ventilators – your own state’s sources place the total number of your ICU and CCU beds at around 1500 total? Perhaps 2200 statewide.

   https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/lists/62-acute-care-hospitals-in-new-york-city.html

   Sure it sounds good to your media but c’mon now Governor don’t you reckon you yourself could plausibly get indicted for conspiracy to hoard vital medical supplies?

   Not that I think Bill, the good Governor gives a shit like your 2. puts it.

   Posted March 28, 2020 at 2:37 pm | Permalink
9. JK says

   https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2020/03/conservative-skepticism-pandemic-david-deavel.html

   Posted March 29, 2020 at 8:54 am | Permalink
10. Dave says

    While the graph is very interesting, it doesn’t explain why most of the leading lights of the dissident right have caved into the hysteria. Greg Cochran has lost his mind over this, and Sailer is a close second.
    Even a more middle ground conservative writer like Rod Dreher has completely lost his marbles.
    These are not isolated examples.
    This manufactured crisis has revealed the true face of the dissident right, and it turns out some of the DR’s best writers are a bunch of bedwetting hysterics.

    Posted March 29, 2020 at 1:23 pm | Permalink
11. Malcolm says

    Well, Dave, just to play the Devil’s advocate: perhaps we might conclude, on the other hand, that if even these sober voices on the Right are taking this so seriously, there might really be something genuine to worry about.

    Posted March 29, 2020 at 1:35 pm | Permalink
12. Dave says

    Dr. Fauci, the man who told a congressional panel that Covid was 10x worse than the flu on March 11th, published an article in the New England Journal of Medicine on March 26th stating that, based on the latest information, Covid is likely to be no worse than a bad flu season, with a morbidity rate significantly lower than SARS or MERS.That is a major walk back, considering the draconian measures rolled out based on his earlier projections.
    Ask yourself why that pronouncement wasn’t the top headline of all the major media outlets in the country.
    Most reasonable people could see that this was being wildly overblown from the get go, and yet many conservative writers willingly surrendered to the hysteria.
    Health authorities in the UK have also completely backed off of their original panic projections.
    This does not mean that the elderly and immune compromised aren’t at risk. They are, but no more so than they would be during a bad flu/pneumonia season.
    It seems as though this crisis has provided perfect cover for the initiation of a major economic reset, another unprecedented bailout, and a beta test for a radical expansion of emergency powers.
    Too bad formerly reasonable guys like Sailer can’t see the forest for the trees, and I say that as someone who has read Sailer on a daily basis for 10 years.

    Posted March 29, 2020 at 4:21 pm | Permalink
13. Malcolm says

    Dave,

    “Ask yourself why that pronouncement wasn’t the top headline of all the major media outlets in the country.”

    Nobody on the Right needs to ask himself that question — the answer is trivially obvious — but that has nothing to do with the question of how much isolation is warranted. The data have been skimpy, and often contradictory.

    Steve Sailer, John Derbyshire, et al. are hardly “formerly reasonable” men. If you have been reading and respecting them for years as highly intelligent men who share your general worldview, and they now disagree with your assessment, I’m surprised that rather than leaping to denounce them as fools, you don’t ask yourself why all this obvious truth seems not to have persuaded them as readily as yourself.

    I’m not saying you are wrong about all this being a crazy overreaction — I’m inclined toward that view myself, and of course it is perfectly suited to the agenda of the Left — but when people who I think are wise and well-informed see things differently from me, it usually makes me wonder about me just a little, not just them.

    Posted March 29, 2020 at 6:16 pm | Permalink