These titles can help us in the fight against the genocide of truth:
* Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker
* Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters by Steven Pinker
* The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters by Tom Nichols
* Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense by Gad Saad
* The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Greg Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt
* The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt
* The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't by Julia Galef
* Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World by Carl T. Bergstrom & Jevin D. West
* May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics, and Studies Exploit Our Biases—And What We Can Do About It by Alex Edmans
* Truth: What It Is, How to Find It, and Why It Still Matters by Michael Shermer
* Conspiracy: Why the Rational Believe the Irrational by Michael Shermer
* The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake by Dr. Steven Novella
* The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth by Jonathan Rauch
* The War on Science: Thirty-Nine Renowned Scientists and Scholars Speak Out About Current Threats to Free Speech, Open Inquiry, and the Scientific Process by Lawrence M. Krauss
* Science Under Siege: How to Fight the Five Most Powerful Forces That Threaten Our World by Michael E. Mann & Peter J. Hotez
* The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science: A Scientist's Warning by Peter J. Hotez
* After the Fall: The Rise of Authoritarianism in the World We've Made by Ben Rhodes
This one is in the process of serialisation here on Guerre and Shalom for paid subs. Pax Arabica here and on Amazon. Pure Jewish Anger, however, is getting audios here on G&S as they are pieces meant to be read out loud.
Regarding “What we might unite around is the fact of debate itself: the belief that only through discourse, grounded in a common understanding of terms and predicated on truth as the imperative, can we begin to understand one another.”—— I’m imagining that those who are “grounded in a common understanding . . . to understand one another” can understand one another; and that those who have been “grounded” outside of this country in an understanding that is not common to US citizenry, do not understand us and are the basis for our confusion.
An outstanding introduction to your new and invaluable book The Genocide of Truth, Daniel! This is the book we all need in the western world right now! We’ve lost complete touch with the truth and verifiable facts in our modern society! We’ve GOT to bring that back! People need to start digging for the truth about current events beyond what the partisan western media says and stop just wanting their biases reaffirmed. They need to start reading more C-Span and Ground News and less New York Times and Washington Post. They need to start listening to actual experts like Steven Pinker, Jonathan Haidt, Paul Bloom, John Spencer, Andrew Fox, Benny Morris, Andrew Roberts, and Arthur Herman. Not charlatans and shock jocks like Alex Jones, Paul Joseph Watson, David Icke, Candace Owens, Ana Kasparian, Cenk Uygur, Dave Smith, Andrew Tate, Piers Morgan, and Jimmy Dore. They need to appreciate REAL music, art, cinema, and TV shows! Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Brahms, Wagner, Verdi, Jolson, Sinatra, Elvis, and The Beatles. That is music! Michelangelo, Raphael, da Vinci, Renoir, Matisse, Gauguin, Manet, Picasso, Van Gogh, and Monet. That is art! Casablanca, The Seventh Seal, Seven Samurai, Gone With the Wind, Citizen Kane, The Leopard, Rafifi, The Battle of Algiers, Wild Strawberries, Space Odyssey: 2001, In the Heat of the Night, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, the original Star Wars trilogy, Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jurassic Park, the Harry Potter series, Blade Runner, Dracula, Frankenstein, The Wolf Man, The Mummy, Forbidden Planet, and High Noon. That is cinema! Leave It to Beaver, Father Knows Best, The Andy Griffith Show, Dad’s Army, Ozzie and Harriet, The Dick Van Dyke Show, M*A*S*H, Matlock, Star Trek, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Happy Days, The Dukes of Hazzard, Hogan’s Heroes, and Murder She Wrote. That is TV!
Genocide is when a government or a country tries to completely or partially, destroy a group of people. Israel did no such thing in Gaza. Large causalities alone do NOT constitute genocide! This is why Dresden and the fire bombing of Tokyo are never talked about as war crimes. At the famous Battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War, 23,094 Union soldiers lost their lives as well as 28,000 Confederate soldiers. These are startling numbers of men killed in battle, but they do not constitute the North or the South committing genocide against one another. There is zero evidence Israel ever had any plan to destroy the Gazan people and they conducted themselves in a historically humane way. They want above and beyond to protect Palestinian lives. We also need to remind folks that truth about anything is usually complicated. The Gaza War is no different in that regard. Israel waged a historically humane war in Gaza AND the people of Gaza legitimately suffered in the war. I feel like doing another complexity exercise would be very beneficial so let me provide some examples of nuance. I support the European Union but I think the Euro was a mistake and should be done away with. I believe in freedom of speech, but I also believe it must have limits. I think flag burning is disgusting, disrespectful and unpatriotic. But I also firmly believe it is protected speech under the first amendment. I’m all for equal rights for Transgender people but I also don’t believe they should be competing in women’s sports. I would ideally like to see the occupation of the West Bank end one day. But I don’t think it should happen until Fatah is gone and Israel’s national security can be assured.
Let’s say I lived in Germany during the interwar years. I would be upset about Germany being solely blamed for World War I and the harsh terms of the Treaty of Versailles, oppose the French occupation of parts of Western Germany, would do what I could to help the poor and the downtrodden and World War I veterans during the economic crisis of the 1920s and 1930s, support Germany rearming in defiance of the treaty, praise the United States for their friendly relations with us and applaud them for the Young and Dawes Plan to make paying World War I reparations easier, and would be a proud and patriotic German. However, I would also be happy to see the Hollenzohren monarchy go and Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicate the throne, support the Weimar Republic 100%, oppose Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, denounced the actions of the thuggish Brownshirts, assist the authorities in Munich in repressing the Beer Hall Putsch and call for harsh sentences against everyone who participated in it, would proudly cast my vote for President Paul von Hindenburg in the 1932 Election, would’ve opposed Hitler and the Nazis being brought into the German government, I’d publicly denounce the Night of the Long Knives and Kristallnacht, I would oppose the Nuremberg Laws and the persecution of the Jews, would refuse to boycott Jewish businesses, would publicly condemn and denounce the T-4 Program, would have lobbied to protect Jewish World War I veterans, and would join the anti-Nazi resistance.
Next example, let us say I lived in the state of Israel in latter half of the 20th Century. I would be a proud Israeli who would’ve volunteered to serve in the IDF, proudly support my Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, would’ve protected Jewish communities against Palestinian infiltrators, lobby for the United States and other countries to send Israel aid, support absorbing as many Jewish immigrants as possible, would plead Israel’s case during the 1967 Six Day War and the 1973 Yom Kippur War, call out the UN’s blatant bias against Israel, denounce UN General Resolution 3379 declaring Zionism a form of racism, celebrate and thank God when Israel reunited Jerusalem and all the holy sites were open to Jews again, and support the settler movement in the West Bank. But at the same time, I would fight for equal rights and equal opportunities for Mizrahi Jews and Israeli Arabs, I would work to bring secular and religious Jews together, oppose the poor treatment of Holocaust survivors, fight for Ethiopian Jews to be considered a legitimate part of the Jewish community, advocate for full acceptance of the Black Hebrew Israelites, advocate for extending Israeli citizenship to Palestinians in the West Bank or East Jerusalem and Syrians in the Golan Heights, call for the Meir government and those in charge of the intelligence community to step down after the Yom Kippur War, and urge Israel to make peace with the Arab countries and the Palestinians. Lastly, let’s say I lived in Texas before, during and after the Texas Revolution. I would have supported Texas independence from Mexico 100%, denounce the tyranny of Santa Anna, fight in the Texian Army, would’ve been outraged by the massacres at The Alamo and Goliad, cheered the Texian victory at San Juanito, and greatly admired Sam Houston, Stephen F. Austin, Jim Bowie, William Travis, and Davy Crockett. However, I would also call for the abolition of slavery in Texas, support equal rights for free blacks and Tejanos, call for making peace with the Native Americans and extending Texian citizenship to them, tout the bravery of Tejanos who fought for the Texian cause, and would insist they be included in any historical narratives on the Texas War of Independence.
These titles can help us in the fight against the genocide of truth:
* Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker
* Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters by Steven Pinker
* The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters by Tom Nichols
* Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense by Gad Saad
* The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Greg Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt
* The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt
* The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't by Julia Galef
* Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World by Carl T. Bergstrom & Jevin D. West
* May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics, and Studies Exploit Our Biases—And What We Can Do About It by Alex Edmans
* Truth: What It Is, How to Find It, and Why It Still Matters by Michael Shermer
* Conspiracy: Why the Rational Believe the Irrational by Michael Shermer
* The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake by Dr. Steven Novella
* The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth by Jonathan Rauch
* The War on Science: Thirty-Nine Renowned Scientists and Scholars Speak Out About Current Threats to Free Speech, Open Inquiry, and the Scientific Process by Lawrence M. Krauss
* Science Under Siege: How to Fight the Five Most Powerful Forces That Threaten Our World by Michael E. Mann & Peter J. Hotez
* The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science: A Scientist's Warning by Peter J. Hotez
* After the Fall: The Rise of Authoritarianism in the World We've Made by Ben Rhodes
Is there a audio version for either Pax Arabica or this one?
This one is in the process of serialisation here on Guerre and Shalom for paid subs. Pax Arabica here and on Amazon. Pure Jewish Anger, however, is getting audios here on G&S as they are pieces meant to be read out loud.
Can look into audios however. Will research it!
Regarding “What we might unite around is the fact of debate itself: the belief that only through discourse, grounded in a common understanding of terms and predicated on truth as the imperative, can we begin to understand one another.”—— I’m imagining that those who are “grounded in a common understanding . . . to understand one another” can understand one another; and that those who have been “grounded” outside of this country in an understanding that is not common to US citizenry, do not understand us and are the basis for our confusion.
An outstanding introduction to your new and invaluable book The Genocide of Truth, Daniel! This is the book we all need in the western world right now! We’ve lost complete touch with the truth and verifiable facts in our modern society! We’ve GOT to bring that back! People need to start digging for the truth about current events beyond what the partisan western media says and stop just wanting their biases reaffirmed. They need to start reading more C-Span and Ground News and less New York Times and Washington Post. They need to start listening to actual experts like Steven Pinker, Jonathan Haidt, Paul Bloom, John Spencer, Andrew Fox, Benny Morris, Andrew Roberts, and Arthur Herman. Not charlatans and shock jocks like Alex Jones, Paul Joseph Watson, David Icke, Candace Owens, Ana Kasparian, Cenk Uygur, Dave Smith, Andrew Tate, Piers Morgan, and Jimmy Dore. They need to appreciate REAL music, art, cinema, and TV shows! Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Brahms, Wagner, Verdi, Jolson, Sinatra, Elvis, and The Beatles. That is music! Michelangelo, Raphael, da Vinci, Renoir, Matisse, Gauguin, Manet, Picasso, Van Gogh, and Monet. That is art! Casablanca, The Seventh Seal, Seven Samurai, Gone With the Wind, Citizen Kane, The Leopard, Rafifi, The Battle of Algiers, Wild Strawberries, Space Odyssey: 2001, In the Heat of the Night, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, the original Star Wars trilogy, Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jurassic Park, the Harry Potter series, Blade Runner, Dracula, Frankenstein, The Wolf Man, The Mummy, Forbidden Planet, and High Noon. That is cinema! Leave It to Beaver, Father Knows Best, The Andy Griffith Show, Dad’s Army, Ozzie and Harriet, The Dick Van Dyke Show, M*A*S*H, Matlock, Star Trek, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Happy Days, The Dukes of Hazzard, Hogan’s Heroes, and Murder She Wrote. That is TV!
Genocide is when a government or a country tries to completely or partially, destroy a group of people. Israel did no such thing in Gaza. Large causalities alone do NOT constitute genocide! This is why Dresden and the fire bombing of Tokyo are never talked about as war crimes. At the famous Battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War, 23,094 Union soldiers lost their lives as well as 28,000 Confederate soldiers. These are startling numbers of men killed in battle, but they do not constitute the North or the South committing genocide against one another. There is zero evidence Israel ever had any plan to destroy the Gazan people and they conducted themselves in a historically humane way. They want above and beyond to protect Palestinian lives. We also need to remind folks that truth about anything is usually complicated. The Gaza War is no different in that regard. Israel waged a historically humane war in Gaza AND the people of Gaza legitimately suffered in the war. I feel like doing another complexity exercise would be very beneficial so let me provide some examples of nuance. I support the European Union but I think the Euro was a mistake and should be done away with. I believe in freedom of speech, but I also believe it must have limits. I think flag burning is disgusting, disrespectful and unpatriotic. But I also firmly believe it is protected speech under the first amendment. I’m all for equal rights for Transgender people but I also don’t believe they should be competing in women’s sports. I would ideally like to see the occupation of the West Bank end one day. But I don’t think it should happen until Fatah is gone and Israel’s national security can be assured.
Let’s say I lived in Germany during the interwar years. I would be upset about Germany being solely blamed for World War I and the harsh terms of the Treaty of Versailles, oppose the French occupation of parts of Western Germany, would do what I could to help the poor and the downtrodden and World War I veterans during the economic crisis of the 1920s and 1930s, support Germany rearming in defiance of the treaty, praise the United States for their friendly relations with us and applaud them for the Young and Dawes Plan to make paying World War I reparations easier, and would be a proud and patriotic German. However, I would also be happy to see the Hollenzohren monarchy go and Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicate the throne, support the Weimar Republic 100%, oppose Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, denounced the actions of the thuggish Brownshirts, assist the authorities in Munich in repressing the Beer Hall Putsch and call for harsh sentences against everyone who participated in it, would proudly cast my vote for President Paul von Hindenburg in the 1932 Election, would’ve opposed Hitler and the Nazis being brought into the German government, I’d publicly denounce the Night of the Long Knives and Kristallnacht, I would oppose the Nuremberg Laws and the persecution of the Jews, would refuse to boycott Jewish businesses, would publicly condemn and denounce the T-4 Program, would have lobbied to protect Jewish World War I veterans, and would join the anti-Nazi resistance.
Next example, let us say I lived in the state of Israel in latter half of the 20th Century. I would be a proud Israeli who would’ve volunteered to serve in the IDF, proudly support my Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, would’ve protected Jewish communities against Palestinian infiltrators, lobby for the United States and other countries to send Israel aid, support absorbing as many Jewish immigrants as possible, would plead Israel’s case during the 1967 Six Day War and the 1973 Yom Kippur War, call out the UN’s blatant bias against Israel, denounce UN General Resolution 3379 declaring Zionism a form of racism, celebrate and thank God when Israel reunited Jerusalem and all the holy sites were open to Jews again, and support the settler movement in the West Bank. But at the same time, I would fight for equal rights and equal opportunities for Mizrahi Jews and Israeli Arabs, I would work to bring secular and religious Jews together, oppose the poor treatment of Holocaust survivors, fight for Ethiopian Jews to be considered a legitimate part of the Jewish community, advocate for full acceptance of the Black Hebrew Israelites, advocate for extending Israeli citizenship to Palestinians in the West Bank or East Jerusalem and Syrians in the Golan Heights, call for the Meir government and those in charge of the intelligence community to step down after the Yom Kippur War, and urge Israel to make peace with the Arab countries and the Palestinians. Lastly, let’s say I lived in Texas before, during and after the Texas Revolution. I would have supported Texas independence from Mexico 100%, denounce the tyranny of Santa Anna, fight in the Texian Army, would’ve been outraged by the massacres at The Alamo and Goliad, cheered the Texian victory at San Juanito, and greatly admired Sam Houston, Stephen F. Austin, Jim Bowie, William Travis, and Davy Crockett. However, I would also call for the abolition of slavery in Texas, support equal rights for free blacks and Tejanos, call for making peace with the Native Americans and extending Texian citizenship to them, tout the bravery of Tejanos who fought for the Texian cause, and would insist they be included in any historical narratives on the Texas War of Independence.