Reaches the same conclusion

Ramesh Thakur writing for Brownstone reaches the same conclusion that I reached a couple years ago. Thakur is comparing the British Post Office mess, which was finally compensated way too late, with the “virus” holocaust, which hasn’t even decisively stopped let alone compensated. The two monstrosities are infinitely different in scale. The PO mess ruined the lives of a few hundred branch postmasters. The holocaust ruined ALL HUMAN LIVES ON EARTH. Still, the causes and mechanisms are the same.

Causes and mechanisms:

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The first obvious parallel is the blind faith in computers and technology that was untested in the real world. The two equivalents in the case of Covid are the elevation of mathematical models to science and the use of unreliable PCR tests, especially with elevated cycle threshold counts.

Another parallel is in the awarding of state honors and medals to the perpetrators of mass cruelty. The then-CEO of the Post Office Paula Vennells got a CBE for her services to the PO, while the number of health officials and scientists receiving honours have been sickeningly high.

A third is in the refusal of ministers and parliamentarians to listen to the ordinary people desperate to get their honour and lives back.

A final common theme is that justice will not be seen to be done and the sense of justice will not be appeased unless many of the top people responsible are put behind bars. There will be no emotional closure for the victims and their families and no effective deterrent to future wrongdoing by jumped-up and condescending members of the ruling class without full and transparent criminal justice accountability.

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Necessary cure:

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What we need to close this particular circle is both a proper inquiry and a human-interest personalised TV dramatisation of the Covid-related injustices inflicted by the unholy collusion between the different components of Big State, Big Pharma, Big Tech, and the mainstream media.

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Earlier I noted that Brits have always done a better job of dramatizing how psychopaths work. It’s not surprising that a Brit is proposing the use of drama. Can’t happen here and won’t happen here.

Before that, I ran a major series on the desperate need to return science to its previous role as ENTERTAINMENT, not GENOCIDE. Probably summarized and linked best in this item.

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Looking into the Clavecin Oculaire led to a broader view of French science just before the terrorist revolution turned “science” into the horrible unstoppable god of torture and war.

The clavecin was a PLAYFUL USE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE. The musicians and scientists who tried it out were HAVING FUN. Several other scientists and writers tried to imagine or build similar devices. The one I animated was by Johann Kruger. Another variation, more toylike, was built by Gilles Guyot around 1773.

Seems to be an optical equivalent of a music box. It could have been paralleled with an actual music box.

There are many volumes of ‘recreations’ by Guyot in Googlebooks. Each includes a dozen specific games or devices, using electricity or water or fire or light or language (as in cryptography). Guyot’s workshop was building and selling most of the devices, and each book has a price list at the end. He also gave full instructions for building the devices, if the reader was so equipped.

Some of the electrical recreations:

Note especially the Sportsman. This device was built later by James Ferguson in England, and by Pike in NYC.

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Ferguson:

I’m going to slide into this sideways, starting from the junction point of entertainment and science exemplified by the Magic Lantern. Reminder: The magic lantern was an animated video system. Its slide-projector descendants were rigid.

James Ferguson was a highly unusual character in the aristocratic world of British science. His family was poor but smart. He was born in 1710 and immediately showed talent in mechanics, improving and inventing devices for the family farm. He was apprenticed out to a variety of farmers, millers, and aristocrats. Some mistreated him, others recognized his talents in math and astronomy and gave him room to develop. At age 30 he finally found his niche, the unique occupation that mixed math and mechanics and astronomy.

Orreries. Planet simulators. We’ll return to those in the next part. First some entertainment.

Ferguson joined the fashion for electrical entertainment, building and demonstrating gadgets that used electrostatic fields to form complex animation.

Polistra likes this one:

A static-powered mill.

The negative emitter of the static generator is brought near a delicate mill made of paper. The ‘electrical spray’ repels the paper vanes, causing the mill to rotate. As each vane rotates, it loses the charge it had acquired from the spray, returning to neutral. A neat parallel to the potential energy of gravity in an overshot water mill.

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The Electrical Sportsman is a more complex gimmick, perhaps not made by Ferguson.

The emitter from the static generator is connected to the center pole of the Leyden jar under the birds. As charge builds up, the birds tied to the pole repel each other, and float out and up on their wires. When the voltage is high enough to discharge to the gun, a spark shows at the end of the gun, and the bullet is repelled toward the birds. The center pole discharges, letting the birds fall back down as if shot.

ENTERTAINMENT IS THE OPPOSITE OF SECRETS.

ENTERTAINMENT IS THE OPPOSITE OF GENOCIDE.

LAUGHTER IS THE OPPOSITE OF DEATH.

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AFTER the terror was over, French science and tech returned to the pre-terror entertainment mode with a vengeance. Science and invention became intensely practical, empathetic, and playful.

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