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First Principles: How Strangely Will the Tools of A Tyrant Pervert the Plain Meaning of Words
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Parasitic Pathogens
Parasitic Pathogens
by Michael Doyle
Parasitic pathogens
Effect our society
Whether it's the lunacy
Of the politically correct
Or the social construction
That derives from mass anxiety
Of tribalistic social identity
Diversity, identity, and equity
Each seeks allegiance to its ideology
Bad ideas escape the laboratory
We should never surrender to this epistemology
It's prophetic satire that is coming true
When universal truths have been called out in lies
And yet, still truth is still true
These are only the noises of post-modernism
Yet, these possess the consuming instinct for de minimis
All the truths, the Woke openly despise
It is a steady march away from reason
That tabula rasa turns out to be partial deception
Who knew this would be called misconception
Nomologically we network the cumulative evidence
Citing only that which has the most reliance
No matter how we shape the modernist blender
The boys and girls across the ages do render
The similar adherence to truth that brings condemnation
And depending on the biased feelings as valid explanation
Is accepted when truth should be sought unencumbered
Society should have no room to stifle free speech
Individual dignity requires keeping reason within reach
The blue-haired Taliban have become grotesque
They are best at mocking and standing for the risque
We should instead be ideologically fierce and brave
Because it is for our liberty that we now fight to save
And fight we must from the cradle to the intellectual grave
(c) March 3, 2022 Michael Doyle
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Thought For the Day: Concentrate All Your Thoughts Upon the Work At Hand. The Sun’s Rays Do Not Burn Until Brought To A Focus.
“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.” – Alexander Graham Bell, inventor (3 Mar 1847-1922)
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First Principles: Falsehood of the Tongue Leads To That of the Heart, and In Time Depraves All Its Good Disposition
“(F)alsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good disposition.” – Thomas Jefferson (1785)
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Bad Data Rejected
Bad Data Rejected
by Michael Doyle
Bad data
May be big data
But false is always untrue
And should be rejected
When you call a stranger
Who knows the danger
Of talking to a snooty pollster
Out to collect data
That confirms opinions, not facts
You're going to get skew
The results will be untrue
Whatever the bias injected
To get their politicians elected
Bad data
Is no data
And should be rejected
When there is far in telling truth
And to debate the other side
We have become no longer pluralistic
It's not even close to being realistic
Bad data is bad data
And it should be and must be
...Rejected
(c) March 2, 2022 Michael Doyle
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First Principles: If Virtue and Knowledge Are Diffused Among the People, They Will Never Be Enslaved. This Will Be Their Great Security
“If Virtue & Knowledge are diffused among the People, they will never be enslav’d. This will be their great Security.” – Samuel Adams (1779)
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Thought For the Day: Unless Someone Like You Cares A Whole Awful Lot, Nothing Is Going To Get Better. It’s Not
“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” – Dr. Seuss, author and illustrator (2 Mar 1904-1991)
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Active Intellect
Active Intellect
by Michael Doyle
Woke is an attack on accountability
It has nothing to do with predictability
But instead, an attack on the human soul
The methodology of this is wicked control
Life is meant to be a partnership
And not a thing of one-sided worship
The things to fix are those intentional
Not knowing is a matter of the correctional
Human beings are not to do only what is said
But given free rein over heart and over head
Gaining experiences are what is to be had
To encourage this is how to teach good from bad
There is no better way than to search one's mind
To do less is how to leave one's soul behind
Objectivity is the start of the best discussion
To stifle this has its implosive repercussions
From the moment born, we are speaking
And soon enough, we are actively thinking
The forms of de anime come into play
And active intellect starts to be on display
To be human is to need to think and understand
And to count greater things than fingers on our hands
It would be tyrannical to fail to invite to know
Because it is the stretch of learning that brings us to grow
It takes courage to think freely
With roots set in the power of liberty
Each person is as good as their character and morality
To do without either is often our fatality
There are no final answers to be given
To enforce one is to not ever be forgiven
A human soul is meant for something more
It is to seek past the accidental factors and soar
(c) March 1, 2022 Michael Doyle
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Thought For the Day: The Force Which Makes For War Does Not Derive Its Strength From the Interested Motives of Evil Men; It Derives Its Strength From the Disinterested Motives of Good Men
“The force which makes for war does not derive its strength from the interested motives of evil men; it derives its strength from the disinterested motives of good men.” -Norman Angell, lecturer, author, MP, and Nobel laureate (1872-1967)
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First Principles: The Cause of America Is In A Great Measure the Cause of All Mankind
“The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind.” – Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)
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