The Importance of Inexpert Opinion
Todd Hayen
OffG is very happy to welcome Todd Hayen back from his extended break.
I was out with a friend for lunch the other day (yeah, I still have a few of those left). This friend leans more to the liberal side of things.
He certainly doesn’t care for Trump, is a vax advocate, etc. A very nice guy, I have to say—a superb artist, an excellent father, and just a good all-around person. I won’t go off on a tangent here, but sheep types are typically not bad people.
They are just like us, only asleep. Anyway, I digress.
Needless to say, our conversation focused on music and other safe subjects and didn’t venture into the dark zone of world politics, public health, and the like. But he did say one thing that got me thinking. It’s something you hear often, and usually when you hear it, the person saying it is rather livid. They just can’t believe it, and they present it as if it is one of the main reasons the world is going to shit.
“Why does everyone think they are an expert and run off at the mouth all of the time? Why can’t they just shut up and listen to the people who know what they’re talking about?”
Quite frankly, I hear this from shrew and sheep alike (though more from sheep, actually — at least they seem more angry about it than shrews do).
One of my pet peeves over the years is seeing headlines like “Scientists Discover!” or “Experts Agree!” or some other equally breathless proclamation that suggests only “scientists” can discover something and only “experts” can have anything important to agree on.
What about all the very important discoveries that trained scientists did not discover? The wheel? Fire-making techniques? Countless effective folk remedies? Even modern examples like the microwave oven and Post-it notes?
Screw the scientists and screw the experts. What about Grandma? Or Joe the auto mechanic? Or Bob next door — the guy working ten hours a day out in his garden, nurturing his roses? Doesn’t he know something worth hearing?
Sad to say, this sustained effort to train us to believe that only certain sanctioned people are allowed to speak to us is clearly part of the agenda. And whenever it comes up in conversation, it makes my blood boil.
Now, there is a flip side to this as well. I am not a fan of putting all of my eggs in the basket of someone who is not informed or has not done their homework. I don’t necessarily believe that Joe the mechanic knows how to treat my chronic back pain—but he might.
That is the key element to what I am saying. Average, everyday people may know something useful.
In our complicated world, though, this “common sense” knowledge does become less and less likely to be beneficial when applied to highly technical matters. I doubt many people intuitively know how to fix a cell phone if it goes on the fritz, but that doesn’t mean they can’t express an opinion about it.
I can’t tell you the number of times a suggestion my wife makes about remedying some weird computer issue has actually fixed the problem. Maybe it’s voodoo and has little causal reason behind it, but it will often work.
Still, there is a continuing problem: many people don’t bother to learn even basic things about a situation they are confronted with. This is where our shrew mantra “do your research” comes in. I don’t think we expect sheep-types to learn all of the intricacies necessary to come up with valid and useful opinions based on truth and facts, but we do expect them to know the basic things so their instincts are based more on what is actually happening rather than some fabrication (or outright lies) the agenda has fed them in order to form an opinion that aligns with its intentions.
The irony here is that the sheep-types don’t keep their uninformed, inexpert mouths shut either. They babble on with the story that the agenda has presented to them. The agenda gives the label of “expert” to the select few in their ranks. They pay for the scientists to do their work and the experts to do their bidding; they themselves are the moneymakers and the power brokers of the culture. The public sees all of this as the authority, the expertise, the purveyors of reliable information. So, they spout off about it: “experts agree,” “scientists discover.”
Two things are happening here. First, these sheep masses want everyone else to shut up. If everyone they want silenced is not presenting opinions based on what they have been told is the only source of truth (the experts), then they want them quiet.
Second, these sheep masses believe they already know everything they need to know. They simply refer to the experts, scientists, and politicians. None of their own thought, instinct, common sense, or experience is factored into their conclusions. They think that when they “express their opinion,” they are expressing what they believe. But they are not — they are simply spitting back what authority (their experts, thus their truth) has said.
I don’t think us shrew-folks do this. In fact, we don’t trust the mainstream to a fault. For the most part, nothing the mainstream says is trusted, including the scientists and the experts. Unfortunately for us, this is not always the smartest way to go.
Believe it or not, some of these people (scientists and experts) actually have something good and useful to say. Believe it or not again, even some politicians are not under the power of Satan (I would say this is typically found at the local level of government).
For the most part, though, we formulate our own opinions about things; we don’t automatically defer to someone with a fancy label. Hopefully, we listen to them as well when formulating our opinion — hopefully we listen to everyone.
The point here is that no one should be silenced. It is up to the listener to determine whether what the speaker is saying is useful.
If the speaker is downright lying and knows they are lying, then that is a problem. But again, we have to individually be the final arbiter of what is truth and what isn’t. Obviously, this is where free speech comes in. We don’t get to determine what is said and who has the right to say it, but we carry the responsibility ourselves of assessing what is said.
We all have the right to express our opinions. Expert and non-expert alike. You never know when a gem will turn up. It could be found in the most unlikely of places.
You can watch Todd’s recent interview with Jerm Warfare HERE.
Todd Hayen PhD is a registered psychotherapist practicing in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He holds a PhD in depth psychotherapy and an MA in Consciousness Studies. He specializes in Jungian, archetypal, psychology. Todd also writes for his own substack, which you can read here
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It has to be said that the psychological professions completely disgraced themselves during and ever since the plandemic. The greatest act of mass hysteria in world history happened right under their noses, and they practically all missed it.
I guess the psychological professions had helped so much to get us into the collective state of helplessness, that made the in situ genocide possible. Thank you Sigmund
They are a pseudo-science, the same as Economics is a pseudo-science. They call the latter the dismal science and what it does in effect is preach up the capitalist banking and market system. It is a toxic profession and economists are just a professional justification for manipulative interest rates and corporate/bank profits. They are all taught the same “efficient market hypotheses” in university.
The efficient-market hypothesis (EMH)[a] is a hypothesis in financial economics that states that asset prices reflect all available information.
So all you have to do is manipulate prices and no one will know what’s going on in the market. And that is the market as it stands today, with stupid valuations for rubbish like Tesla. The simple fact that every bubble and every market crash somehow eludes their predictive abilities says it all. On the way up they sing the praises of these disasters in waiting and when they blow up the same economists vanish from the public eye to be replaced by octogenarians mouthing crap like “Well… You could see it coming… The markets were too over-leveraged and regulation should have Blah Blah Blah.
If you want to retire poor, put your money in the hands of investment advisors and pension funds.
Trump has an IQ of 73, which borderline impaired – who knew, answer everyone knew.
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Also people don’t trust politicians they say they need funding for there campaign and can be bought. But they trust scientist somehow forgetting that scientists also need funding for there research. As they say he who pays the piper calls the tune
My younger brother Peter said this to me about trusting experts. My response would these be the same experts that said smoking was good for you
It’s fun in a dark way watching everyone dance around the obvious.
Like the medieval intellectuals debating how many angels can dance on the tip of a pin, you debate what people are thinking.
Here’s the truth which is just as hard to swallow by “conspiracy theorists” as it is by the brainwashed:
We are not all equal. Genetics is destiny. Most people are born without free will (they are meat robots), no matter how intelligent they are otherwise. Even those few born with the genes for free will might never develop it and behave all their lives like automatons.
The “elites” (at least some of them) really are superior for the simple fact that they have free will combined with psychopathy which allows them to treat you like willing slaves.
This is not new: see the Royal Cemetery of Ur for examples of meat robots willingly going to the grave alive for their masters.
The programming language used by the psychopaths includes a LOT of tools (religion, patriotism, fear of death, “community” etc).
If I was a psychopath I would suggest that we can “take over” using the right programming. But I don’t treat people like machines (even if they are) so I will say that whatever happens, the “elites” will survive, bumbling and exploiting and searching for immortality (their biggest dream).
Glad you’re back, Todd!
My beef with today’s experts working in large corporations or government agencies is that they dare not speak their mind nor explore the science where the science may lead. Everything has been politicised; they must all dance to the tune of the Great Reset. So who among them can we still trust?
I find that interrogating these people straightforwardly always shows you their insecurity and their (lack of) intellectual discipline. In my experience, most people either shut down or get rather offended if you ask them questions like “Do you think a person should demonstrate general skepticism about the authority of sources before presuming to have a well-informed opinion on something?” or “In what sense is the thing you just said actually your opinion?” Questions that I myself would gladly answer with insight into my own cognitive process.
But instead of treating these like honest, intellectually relevant questions, they start hyperventilating and accusing you of being “mean” or “insensitive” or a “Putin lover” or some such thing.
It sure feels like an uphill battle.
How the British media/spin doctors lie about anonymous quotes.
How ‘Anonymous Quotes’ Are Used by Political Journalists and Spin Doctors to Deceive the Public
I haven’t owned a TV in 45 years. If you own a TV you’ll watch it and it will undo all the logical rational thought learnt elsewhere. Having the knowledge that you have been dumbed down all your life doesn’t make one smart. It just makes them a dumb person with a pitchfork in their hands, and government love such people, they can direct them anywhere they want pitchforks used.
Perhaps due to his experiences as a therapist, I’ve always appreciated Todd’s unique views on matters of human behaviour as they relate to current affairs.
The boss of Standard Charter has had to apologise after, being caught out, referring to human workers as lower value capital. This is what they think about us – not that we are people with families and friends and emotions, but that we are lower capital – a thing to be used and exploited.
Well, you could look at it this way: When you place people’s lives at the absolute mercy of an economic system whose functioning as a whole is fundamentally dependent on all resources, human or otherwise, being exploited for the optimally efficient generation of market turnover in the interest of differential gain, should you actually expect the winners of this economic game, having spent their entire lives in dogged pursuit of its object, to reflect anything other than the system’s definitive logic?
I agree – but his Freudian Slip of the tongue (or maybe not) – tell us a lot about what he and his ilk really think of us.
It became apparent when the Personnel Dept became the Human Resources Dept.
True – you can teel a lot from the wording and the HR words – say quite a bit about what they think of humans.
There should be two L’s in ilk
Ditch Big Bang and you get the infinite and eternity back, limitlessness is intellectually ungraspable, which is why we should never hand over our sovereignty to pointy heads. It’s the western delusion that we are going to create a paradise by arriving at an unassailable set of facts, and the evangelism that results, that is causing so much conflict,
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My pending post has this
all this remarkable technology
It should read
all this remarkable internet technology
One thing that has reinforced a sense of misanthropy in me is that all this remarkable technology which should have ushered in a golden age of free enquiry and correspondence almost seems to have had the opposite effect.
It’s never been easier to do your own research and suss out how the system works with its phony deliberate dead ends and plastic protest avenues etc. Instead, everyone I know seems to rely more on TV than ever before. The very thought of doing your own research is taken to be a sign of idiocy! If someone was selling you a used car, would you blandly take their sales-pitch for grated without checking? And yet, to push the analogy, checking up is something that would provoke jeers amongst our sensible TV watchers.
Similarly, we had any number of celebrated letter exchanges in the past when writing was arduous and long. Now that emails make it easy to write as big a letter as you want, that costs you nothing to send and which gets there instantaneously, everyone seems to have lost the power to put their thought down in writing!
“they’re all in it together” rebuttal canar!
Jerm Warfare who was exposed by Hrvoje Moric!
In his incredible article posted on this site.
This has now got worse than politics.
I am very happy you could talk to your friend Todd
The problem is that when these types get together it will create a form of mass psychosis
“Listen to the experts” is just another antivirus tech implanted by oligarchs into meat robots (see also the new EU initiative trying to “vaccinate” aka brainwash the children against wrongthink).
Like most of these buzzwords, there is no connection to reality, for example I have an acquaintance that is a genocidal zionist and believes that jews are superior but if I point out that I am a jew so you know, maybe he can listen to what i think, suddenly his brain explodes in contact with reality…
Sam 2 had the balls to speak up to me, this Eastern Block girl has no balls to engage,
She is dirty.
In My experience especially during “Covid” the formally uneducated (especially older People)were much more skeptical of the “Official” Narrative generally than Friends of Mine with degrees including a Friends Wife who is head of the Media Studies Dept at a large University in NSW..
It amazes Me that People place such great faith in credentials , Is he a Virologist ? those educated Friends would ask , upon Me showing them something By a Doctor or Scientist they had never heard of… its not Her Field though is it ??
Its more than Brainwashing its induction into a Cult .. Indoctrination into a narrow pseudo scientific World View.. Many of those Educated People buy every single psy op pushed by the Establishment Media and Political Boffins!
Welcome back Todd
Every single university educated person I knew either fully bought into the convid narrative back in 2020-2021 and now when I try and explain about Agenda 2030 and the digital panopticonic gulag the pyschopaths want to bring in… these same university educated people stand there smirking and looking at me like I’m nuts. Some have said out loud “you should stay away from those dodgy conspiracy sites”!! They fully trust mainstream media, especially more liberal media like The Guardian.
Did you think the brainwashinhg finished at secondary school ?
That was the thing missed by intellectuals, Epstein associate, Chomsky supposedly the harshest most effective critic of the empire, was deeply embedded in it.
Yep so true Gezza … i and i”m sure most of us share that same experience .. they read and totally swallow the phony establishment fact checkers .. people arent as curious as they once were either or so it appears !
Well said Todd. After what happened here in Australia during convid, and my rather dismal attempts to try and wake people up, including my magazine customers, I came to the realisation that you can’t wake anyone up if they don’t want to be woken up. And during the lockdowns in Melbourne and then banned from working for about 7 months for refusing to get jabbed, I probably did more research than your average university student! And as some may remember, I was venting my spleen a lot on OffG. I realised there was never any pandemic and that the Sars Cov 2 virus has never been isolated from a sick person anywhere. I came to believe it was all a pysops, after many hours of research. I’m still using social media (Instagram and Threads) and in the present time, notice quite a number of people who are in the Pro Palestine anti genocide camp believe there was a deadly pandemic, governments were justified in what they did (to save grandma) and those protesting against the draconian mandates and restrictions were basically right wing nuts and the police brutality in 2020-2021 was, as a couple of those people told me: “that was different… it was about protecting people”. I suppose we can’t all agree on everything but Palantir is now operating in Australia as they have been Gaza, and massive data centres are now being built here as they are everywhere, especially in rural areas of the United States. Why is that? Because it’s all linked. Different threads of the same spiders web.
I recall the most modest of theatrical condemnation in the so-called Western press levied against Israel for failing to “vaccinate” the prison population of Gaza.
Of course they didn’t refer to the occupied Palestinians as ‘prisoners’; this is my term.
I recall thinking at the time, ‘why would any Palestinian trust anything injected into their bodies by any Israeli authority’.
It was shortly before the covid crime against humanity, during the Great March of Return, that I discovered the “Aftonbladet controversy” (as it is coyly regarded by Wikipedia), wherin actors within the IDF were colluding with Israeli doctors to harvest the organs of Palestinian captives, who purportedly died while in detention.
In Gaza, the filthy, starving and sick children being brought for the jab were not killed by snipers, unlike those crowding desperately for food and water.
These days, most of us can get up to date on almost anything, provided we do not have mental blocks. That includes many types of technology. The elderly are a definite threat to propaganda, exploitation and totalitarianism. Especially because of authoritative memory.
The dogs bark, but the caravan passes on. -Aurelius Antoninus 161BCE
The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not already formed any opinion of them; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man who believes he already knows what is laid before him. -Leo Tolstoy
The stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. To understand the world as it is, not as we wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom. -Prof Bertrand Russell 1935
In the 1700s, Western philosophers began stating that people are rational. Despite resistance from governments and religious authorities, nearly everyone in upper-class society soon accepted this. Economics and much of cognitive science uses the independent individual as the unit of analysis. This leads to their difficulty in explaining phenomena such as financial bubbles, political movements, panics, technology trends and scientific progress. Recent research shows that behavior is determined as much by social context as by rationality or individual desire. -Prof Alex Pentland 2014
Cheers Mgeo, appreciate your response and the quotes you included in it.
I cant be cocksure anymore on 2+2=4 and the sky is blue?
The most sick company in Big Tech Palantir is invited in everywhere. They are in Scandinavia at the moment. All government officials shine all over their faces.
As a 76 year old Palestinian supporter, I was sceptical of the convid scam right from the beginning. I do know highly educated people who by now are probably on their 20th jab
Placebo effect is actually real. It works.
Hey Todd, welcome back there,
Didn’t agree with you (and still don’t)
but we have the right to express, except me, here.
We have to help those less fortunate,
This is the best time to be alive
https://unbekoming.substack.com/p/what-is-ebola
Backs up Maxwell’s info of a few days ago.
Very interesting!
Welcome back, Todd! You were missed.
If this is true is a big change in policy.
” The Trump administration reportedly says ALL green card applicants must now leave the country indefinitely while their cases are processed; even if they are legally in the U.S. or married to American citizens.”
It may affect immigration, but not for the better. It doesn’t apply to illegal immigrants — obviously! — and I don’t think it applies to H1-Bs either.
I can only hope she is true to her word.
“Claudia Sheinbaum, President of Mexico, in a firm tone:
“We will continue sending oil to Cuba. We will not cave, and we will not be a tool for implementing the U.S. embargo. Enough of the blackmail.””
Meanwhile, the CIA is running her drug cartels. 😂
That may well be the case – but she appears to be one of the few leaders who is willing to help Cubans to keep the lights on.
She is not a bad woman! https://yandex.ru/video/preview/1408406035402717936
Sheep are the stupidest animals on Dog’s Earth.
Ask any shepherd.
Or border collie, for that matter.
I feel for the sheep. Because everybody smear them, talk bad to them and kick them in their arse.
I feel pity for these animals because they also contribute to our civilisation with wool and good meat, and sing a song in their own language, and I dont like people’s genocide and brutality against them.
Why? Because I am a goddy goddy person, and you are not!
But they sure are nice, aren’t they!
Especially young and with mint sauce
How would you feel if you were constantly driven from here to there and corralled, then sheared and mulesed? You’d be fearful and with no avenue for escape, looking, but not actually being, dumb.
Thank you for coming back.I can’t disagree with anything written above, which makes for a poor dialogue. In early justice the importance of entropy eg jury variation, was understood to give the least wrong outcome.
We have now been in the misinformation age for 100+ years in the UK.
Good to see Todd back
The ego operating system
What you accept as true is your decision, but only truth will show you you are free.
Substitutions for truth are by definition -untrue.
The wish to become free from a sense of self-lack will seek to define or perceive in terms of getting – or escaping from, as a self-substitution.
The ego operating system seeks and finds as directed.
While framing the results as something that is done to you against your will.
The power of decision is not of controlling a world, or ‘manifesting reality’, but the will as acceptance of received reality – as a whole – or as a partiality. The latter is by definition self-limiting. But reality remains unchanged in truth while a part of the mind engages in self-limitation.
The freedom to ‘create experience’ of limitation, division, conflict, pain and loss, is the freedom to not know what you are – and thus to know not what you do. The ego operating system will never show you, that you are free. That is not the function that it was invoked to serve or uphold. But it will have endless offers toward ‘becoming free’ by accepting its terms and conditions – that effectively run as permitted conditional freedoms.
You do not need permission to be that you are, but while what you are operates under its internalised and normalised ‘rules’, you will not know what you are as the basis to release It from service.
In my view the ego operating system runs far deeper than the modern idea of a (false) matrix – (womb or mother), But Insofar as we can see it runs as an ‘intel-inside’ or internalised and normalised conditioning of ‘thinking’, perception and response, the responsibility for what we accept and use or share as ‘thinking’ is where our claim to freedom is true – and not misguided.
Giving responsibility to thoughts that run as means to escape conflicted decision, is the decision to push the conflicted past onto our future as a temporary escape or ego operating system..
Sufficient unto the day be the evils thereof.
You are given what you can acknowledge address and release -albeit one step of willingness at a time. But you can readily ignore this by setting what is not your readiness, capacity or even responsibility to address or engage with—such as to maintain a self-inflated presentation over an underlying helplessness.
While there are all kinds of personae fronting out major themes of the ego operating system, it runs on a pay to play basis.
Of course we don’t think we ‘asked for this’ or gave consent to be so unfairly treated, but that’s part of my sketch here.
If you wish from an intensity of emotionally charged context, you will not know the results have been given as you asked or perhaps insisted or demanded.
The wish operates a genie-controlled operating system by hacking or hijacking the mind as a projector of an inner conflict to externally framed ‘solutions’ —that protect the problem from the solution. So as to persist in your wish – or the wish that you accepted and made your own.
What you give, matters. Not that your intention creates material or objective reality, but that it forms the shaping and valuing of what you are currently or actively accepting as your perception of reality.
The decision not to give hatred, is not in order to qualify as ‘good’ or socially acceptable/respectable, but as your recognition of giving and receiving in truth.
To give light, recognise light and know the light as ‘verily good’ is a beholding and embracing of a whole that is holy, glorious, wondrous and naturally miraculous.
The Holy Spirit’s ‘operating system’ is of a true discernment regardless of the ego-packaging. But the point is to release or pass by the packaging – not to fixate on ills and errors as a source of food for thought towards ‘solutions’ that stamp the past on the face of a present into a living death ‘forever’.
“I was out with a friend…
A very nice guy, I have to say…”
At first I thought at Cured, that this is a some very nice Saturday story about the rediscovery, second chance, and the power of forgiveness, almost Christian, you know. Later i realized that it is different.
Good article, I’m of the opinion that some sheep don’t want to know some of the stuff that’s going on – they want to remain in their comfy position within the Matrix – other when you speak on matters look at you as though you have two-heads such is their attitude that its all preposterous.
Other may be open to some small points – or politely agree to keep the peace – a kind of social etiquette – nod and agree type of thing then quickly move n to another subject – that’s friends for you eh.
Also I agree that not all scientists are on the PTB’s payroll – and that your average person can have skills that we don’t know about – I’d go as far as to say some folk have very good knowledge of what’s going on but don’t bother to pass it on – thinking what’s the point, people will just look at me and think I’m mad – and most sheep would.
Its a big problem – how to waken folk up without looking like a complete nutter – because form many – what you could tell them is just far too unrealistic for them, not just to believe it – but for them to even process it, and that’s our big problem how to get the numbers on our side without looking like we are lunatics.
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/crowd-burns-ebola-treatment-center-congo-amid-dispute-over-body
The ‘experts’ say the man died of Ebola. His mother says it was typhoid.
Typhoid is endemic in the region. She will know what it looks like.
Happy too, to see Todd back as one of the few I always agree with. Also here with regard to ordinary people.
In my opinion ordinary people is the only place where you can measure around to find true factuals.
How is your experience with statins? Do you know whether this lawyer do a proper work? And so on. Not that they may have the right answer but you can hear from their answer if they know something important to the subject.
One example: The reason I found out about George Soros regime change operation/colour revolutions concept, was a little Christian sect on Taiwan: https://youtu.be/zU_rxTZPQF8 Occupy Central USA’s 12 steps to bring China into WW3
Confirming Todd’s these that ordinary people may have a lot to give.
But the back coin of it is, that this is also why Palantir and Intelligence Agencies are so horny about 24/7 surveillance of ordinary people.
not ‘confirming Todd’s these’, but confirming Todd’s thesis, regrets.
I’m also happy to see you back Todd. As Mr Bobby Dylan once sang:
That’s all there is in the end. Keep ranting. And don’t let the bastards grind you down!
The number of snake bites in India troubled the “elites” so they offered 10 rupees for each snake skin submitted. For a while the number of snake bites went down.. then they started to go up again until they were worse than ever.
Because, the wiley Indians were breeding snakes to get the 10 rupees which was way better pay than other industries. Secondary effect.
The more you pay for a problem to be resolved, the worse the problem get.
Welcome back Todd, it was a real pleasure to see your name pop up there.
Key point for me is that they want everyone else to shut up. I think it worries them.
I’ve realised that the silver bullet, that incisive response from me doesn’t work when I try to convince someone of my truth – they’re too indoctrinated. But we must keep chipping away, it resonates still.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/may/21/how-often-should-you-go-to-the-toilet-how-can-you-get-the-better-of-wind-experts-tips-for-a-healthier-gut
Sheep need ‘experts’ for everything. Not only which toilet they should go to, but also how often they should go there.
We need and cant live without rules. Otherwise people would shit on their kitchen floor, in their bed, and EVERYWHERE, if we didnt had rules.
Today after the cro-magnon man ancient history period we have rules on how to make toilets, how to hand wash,to shower, and rules for toilet paper. How much you must use, when to do it, and how to do it, etc.
Its called civilisation, and I see nothing wrong in that. Having rules for people’s toilet paper, its use and its related behaviour.
Erik,
Do you not shit on the kitchen floor ( I am assuming you don’t ) because of an externally imposed rule, or because you yourself no not want to?
“The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the state.” – Tacitus
it was sarcastic, 😅 .
As an individual who enjoys more than a healthy amount of coffee every day, in moments of excratory desperation, my sphincter cares nothing for your rules… nor my sense of decorum for that matter.
Off course not. I think it is part of the control system. Surrounded by rules and laws and fines for breaking them.
I know… just having fun with one of OG’s more prolific and insightful of commentators!
In less oppressive times, it’d be great fun to participate in an Off-Guardian columnist & commentator soiree over pints for the blokes and drinks for the ladies. Were such a gathering to take place right now, we might all get busted as subversives, malcontents, and rapscallions.
It should be to arrange.
“What about all the very important discoveries that trained scientists did not discover? The wheel? Fire-making techniques? Countless effective folk remedies? Even modern examples like the microwave oven and Post-it notes?”
I’m delighted to see you make that vitally important point. Could we please add to those examples the people who founded every single science and art? Unqualified amateurs like…
…Socrates, Plato, Eratosthenes, Euclid, Archimedes, Leonardo da Vinci, Roger Bacon, Francis Bacon (there is SO MUCH to be said in favour of bacon!), Tycho Brahe, Kepler, Galileo, Newton, Leibniz… the various Darwins, Freud, Mendel, Faraday, Turing…
… and the myriad others whose names didn’t happen to occur to my ageing brain right now. A few of those I cite had university degrees or the equivalent, but not in the subjects that are associated with their names today. For instance, to take a relatively up-to-date case, Alan Turing had no degree in computer science because he invented the computer as we know it.
Ask a sheep if he knows what the third leafing cause of death is, after circulatory diseases and cancer.
It is of course the mistakes of medical ‘experts’.
I once was in one of the poorest states in Brasil.
Got a 2cm2 wound on my leg which became infected with green-yellow inflammation. Seeking a doctor for recommendation of local treatment (penicillin) I entered into a First Aid Department at the local hospital with a local companion.
The doctor was located at the end of a 25 m long corridor, with rooms at both sides.
In the corridor was patients in 2-3 level beds, some were lying on the floor on a mattress, and all rooms were filled up with people hanging on the walls, in the ceilings, the floor overloaded with sick patient, and they were crying,yelling with pain, howling, some were screaming, talking reclamations, praying to God, and more..
When I reached the end of the corridor, one single doctor sat there with 2 nurses. 1 nurse were writing and the other were walking around giving medicine to all these people.
The Doctor said, “Good afternoon, what can I do for you Sir”.
I apologized for the inconvenience, walked back the corridor and left the place in as fast tempo I could. I never got so healthy so rapidly in my life.
Non greedy, rational, emotially stable people can be good non-experts through their own intuitions.
So not the woke, carreer scientists, MSM journalists, SM idols with millions of followers and ofcourse sitting politicians.
‘Deleted’ – again ! Obviously some opinions are more equal than others ?
Probably because it was an expert opinion.
Life experience is undoubtedly the greatest teacher.
That’s why ancient cultures have much more respect/reverence for their elders.
Opinions can be interesting, divisive and/or downright stupid, but in the end they are only opinions, they are not THE Truth.
When we are feeling pain, hungry, thirsty or are in Love, that is the Truth.
Right here, right Now. No time or space involved. Truth is immediate, in the moment.
Experts come and go. Expert opinion changes.
Truth is immutable.
Thank you Johnny.
🙂
I am also very glad to be able to read these thoughtful, insightful and entertaining columns again! MY own EXPERT opinion is that everyone should pay attention to the point of view these articles are expressing!!!!
Lovely to see you back Todd! I don’t comment much but I always used to enjoy your Saturday morning columns and was sad to see you “retire”.
You can’t even find experts these days. And there are so many things that you need an expert on these days, whether you want one or not.
For instance, I need an expert on copyright, and have been knocking my head against a brick wall trying to find one to no avail.
This is what I hear all the time from old friends. One made a comment to the effect that it was frightening to have all this “disreputable”, “amateur”, “irresponsible” talk freely circulating on the net. And I recall that when I said David Bellamy totally rejected David Attenborough’s climate fearmongering, my friend instantly equated Bellamy with Trump.
But the headlines themselves are plummeting or rather, are becoming more obviously asinine with that “experts say” rhetoric. I cannot understand how anyone can see that and not see through it.
And there is a valid point made by Mark Crispin Miller:
https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/bruce-springsteen-born-to-run-his-mouth
I would extend this demographic to that contingent who may be classed as “baby boomers”. This includes my own generation who have grown up in the affluent times when they got lost in that haze of the old Leftist proles against the fox hunting Tory Right. It continues to amaze me how dismayingly stupid we turned out to be.
Furthermore, I am so disgusted with a huge number of this Left who warble on in that indecipherable academic gobbledegook which doesn’t commit anyone to anything. Frankly I now have far more respect for the “regular punters” who don’t clothe their speculations in flowery crap but just come out and say it.
I have found that it’s the self-regarding “intellectuals” who are the dumbest.
Totally agree. A taxi driver’s rant can be a breath of fresh air – direct, unflowery and challenging – what about this and that? How come….? Doses of common sense which go missing among certain sections of the educated middle classes.
The increasing popularity of the One Nation Party in aUStralia is testament to that.
The leader of the Party, Pauline Hanson, is an ex fish and chip shop owner who doesn’t do spin and rhetoric,and has tapped into the suspicions and cynicism of working class Aussies.
The $uiturd$ are soiling themselves.
It was a taxi driver who introduced me to the idea that in Islam the moral person is enjoined, first and foremost, to think.
I’m not a Muslim, btw, despite my fake name.
Good comment and good link. nearly all of our “iconic” outlaw-types (most of them in Hollywood), the “intellectuals” in Academia and the most noisily “progressive” solons in D.C. all bowed their heads, which thereby turned out to be nearly empty.
Mick Jagger as a wagging poodle with corona mask. Who would have thought that?