Owl & Ibis - A Confluence Of Minds

Kudos and many thanks to Richard Moore for his presentation, "Politics and Knowledge in the Nihilistic Days of 1920 and 2020!" A link to the PDF of Richard's Saturday, March 27, 2021 slideshow can be downloaded  here . Here is Richard's presentation hypothesis: Since before and after the written word, Sapiens have repeatedly found themselves in Threatening Times and have reached back to their Elders for guidance. The options chosen by the Elders have been Finite for each of their pending Disasters and may be a helpful guide for each Future Generation. Following his introductory slideshow, Richard aired a portion of the video of UC Berkeley political theory professor Wendy Brown's lecture, Politics and Knowledge in Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber - "Knowledge." This lecture may be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXm_0DxoS_k&t=3858s Key within Brown's lecture was her view of the role of education and the use of kn...

Somebody is lying as to what is really in President Biden’s COVID stimulus plan legislation, the New York Times: “A Look at What’s in Biden’s $1.9 Trillion Stimulus Plan” New York Times , January 14, 2021. Want to get beyond the media gatekeepers? Read the 591-page bill yourself,  here . The list of the bill’s contents alone runs for nine, small print, single-space pages. Here is a sample of the text from page 10 and 11. The rest of the bill is just as crystal clear to the average US voter as this excerpt. (5) to make payments for necessary expenses related to losses of crops (including losses due to high winds or derechos) pursuant to title I of the Additional Supplemental Appropriations for Disaster Relief Act, 2019 (Public Law 116–20), as amended by section 116 of the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2020 (Public Law 116–59) and as further Amended by subsection (c) of section 791 of the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 (Public Law 116–94) for crop losses in crop year ...

  Kudos to Pam Dewey on her outstanding presentation, “Batshit Crazy – Is There a Solution to Mass Delusion?” at the February 27, 2021 meeting of Owl & Ibis – A Confluence of Minds. Here is Pam’s description of her video containing an Internet link to the video. There are several Mass Delusions currently affecting large segments of the US population: Large numbers of followers of the QAnon "complex" of multiple conspiracy theories are convinced that vast numbers of celebrities like Tom Hanks and politicians such as Hillary Clinton are part of a secret cabal that rapes babies and children, sacrifices their bodies to Satan, and drinks their blood.    A large segment of Evangelical Christians are convinced that God Himself placed Donald Trump in the presidency in 2016, as almost a Messianic figure who would not only "Make America Great Again," but would "Make America Christian Again."  A large proportion of those people along with others are als...