#269: FTD*: Niall Ferguson - “Treason of the Intellectuals”

*Friday's Truth-teller Docket: Where Mayday showcases thinkers exposing treason.

“The Treason of the Intellectuals,” with Niall Ferguson | Uncommon Knowledge
(Hoover Institution | Jan 11 , 2024 | Time 48:48 min.) at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpMQSVp7NTg&t=14s (archived at https://archive.org)

#268: Mayday Monday – “Return of the Gods”

A book that exposes why our societies and cultures are degrading in front of our eyes.

“I F THE [ancient] gods were to return, if they were to reenter Western civilization, how would they do it? And what gods would they be?

“They would not come as they had in ancient times. A modern world requires a different approach. And a world that had been touched by the gospel and had known the Word of God was far different from the pre-Christian and pagan world that had not. So the gods would alter their appearances and hide their identities.

“It would begin in the shadows, on the fringes of American society and Western culture. It was there that the gods gained their first footholds. And from there they began their steady and progressive penetration of mainstream culture. But their ultimate object was not infiltration but domination.”

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Cahn, Jonathan. The Return of the Gods (p. 28). Charisma House. Kindle Edition.

#267: FTD*: James Lindsay -”Beating a Struggle Session”

*Friday's Truth-teller Docket: Where Mayday showcases thinkers teaching strategies.

Beating a Struggle Session
(New Discourses - James Lindsay | Jul 7, 2023 | Time 29:11 min.) at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4RE3RPI120 (archived at https://archive.org)

#266: Mayday Monday: “The Greatest Wrong to Our Children”?

(An unheeded observation from 32 years ago.)

“[Richard Eckersley, a prominent social scientist wrote] ‘Robbed of a broader meaning to our lives, ... we appear to have entered an era of mass obsession, usually with ourselves: our appearance, our health and fitness, our work, our sex lives, our children’s performance, our personal development.’

“ Avowedly non-religious, Eckersley offered conclusions more at home in a sermon than a government essay: ‘It may be, then, the greatest wrong we are doing to our children is not the broken families or the scarcity of jobs (damaging though these are), but the creation of a culture that gives them nothing greater than themselves to believe in — no god, no king, no country” (Richard Eckersley, Apocalypse? No! [Commission for the Future, 1992], 14 – 15).

“The Ten Commandments taught all this more than three thousand years ago. Abandoning the Creator will lead to a passion to accumulate smaller, created meanings in the hope that they can make up for the loss of the “broader meaning,” to use Eckersley’s euphemism. Breaking the first commandment leads organically to breaking the tenth. Coveting is both a social and a spiritual problem.”*

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*Dickson, John. A Doubter's Guide to the Ten Commandments: How, for Better or Worse, Our Ideas about the Good Life Come from Moses and Jesus (pp. 161-162). Zondervan Academic. Kindle Edition. (Bold emphasis added.)

#265: FTD*: Thomas Sowell – Myths v. Facts

*Friday's Truth-teller Docket: Where Mayday showcases thinkers thinking 360.

Thomas Sowell Debunks Myths on Slavery with Facts
(Thomas SowellTV | Nov 6, 2023 | Time: 9:27 min.) at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4g5dY7mVyQ (archived at https://archive.org)

#264: Mayday Monday - The Dispositional Cement that Binds Men

A textbook that should be taught in every grade of High School as a wake-up call to the mechanics of tyranny and the foibles of mankind.

“Tyrannies are perpetuated by diffident men who do not possess the courage to act out their [moral] beliefs. Time and again in the experiment people disvalued what they were doing but could not muster the inner resources to translate their values into action (p. 10).*

“These inhumane policies may have originated in the mind of a single person, but they could only have been carried out on a massive scale if a very large number of people obeyed orders.
“Obedience is the psychological mechanism that links individual action to political purpose. It is the dispositional cement that binds men to systems of authority (p. 1).*

“Subjects have learned from childhood that it is a fundamental breach of moral conduct to hurt another person against his will. Yet, almost half the subjects abandon this tenet in following the instructions of an authority who has no special powers to enforce his commands. To disobey would bring no material loss or punishment. It is clear from the remarks and behavior of many participants that in punishing the victim they were often acting against their own values. Subjects often expressed disapproval of shocking a man in the face of his objections, and others denounced it as stupid and senseless. Yet many followed the experimental commands” (p. 41).*

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* Milgram, Stanley. Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View (Perennial Classics) HarperCollins. Kindle Edition (Bold emphasis added.)

#263: FTD*: Michael Schellenberger – Journalist / Whistleblower

Friday's Truth-teller Docket: Where Mayday helps spread the word about unethical human experimentation and abuse in TG medicine:

THE WPATH[*] FILES with Michael Shellenberger | The Winston Marshall Show #009
(Winston Marshall | March 7, 2024 | Time 1:57:17 min.) at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nulK60b1lnA (archived at https://archive.org)

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*"World Professional Association For Transgender Health"

#262: Mayday Monday – “Engaging the Powers”

“What we see instead is a mounting impatience with the laborious processes of civilized life and a restless eagerness to embrace violent solutions. Better to mete out instant, summary justice than risk the red tape and delays and bumbling of the courts.26 The yearning for a messianic redeemer who will set things right is thus, in its essence, a totalitarian fantasy.”*

“In the service of one's country, the spy is permitted to murder, seduce, lie, steal, commit illegal entry, tap phones without a court order, and otherwise do anything necessary to protect the values of Christian civilization (the James Bond movies, "Mission: Impossible," etc.).”** ____________________________________
*Walter Wink. Engaging the Powers: Discernment and Resistance in a World of Domination (Kindle Locations 337-338). Kindle Edition.
**Ibid (Kindle Locations 344-346).

#261: FTD*: Warren Smith

*Friday's Truth-teller Docket: Where Mayday showcases thinkers teaching outside the narrative.

When a STUDENT asks about JK ROWLING this happens
(Warren Smith – Secret Scholar Society | Jan 26, 2024 | Time 4:49 min. ) at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIPPpsJY39c

See also:
Teacher gives ‘masterclass’ in critical thinking after student calls JK Rowling 'bigoted'
(Sky News Australia | Feb 6, 2023 | 7:19 min.) at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yvy9Vmk9PGI