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    The Bodies of Others by Naomi Wolf

    The subtitle is The New Authoritarians. Here is a bit from her Introduction:

    This book is about how we came to this harrowing civilizational
    crossroads — engaged in a war against vast impersonal forces with limitless
    power over our lives for the freedoms we have taken for granted; how those
    forces seized upon two years of COVID-19 panic in sinister new ways; and
    how, yet, against overwhelming odds, we still might win.

    Others have looked at this war from a biomedical perspective, or from a
    strictly political one. My focus is on how this ongoing war against us is far
    more basic, aimed at nothing less than dissolving the meaning of humanity
    itself and undoing of the rich cultural legacy we in the West have long
    treasured and passed on to succeeding generations.

    In those two years, the COVID-19 pandemic, which began unfolding
    with the unprecedented global “lockdown” in March 2020, has fundamentally
    remade human relations, capitalism, and culture in the West. No matter that
    in the past we had lived through far graver medical crises without even passing
    thought to stopping all congregation, suspending the production of all culture,
    or compelling all healthy people to cover their faces and close their businesses
    and keep apart — this time, our elites used the “crisis” to shut down Western
    norms of liberty, the human-centered world, and civilization itself.

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    Naomi Wolf has been legitimately insane for several years now. My favorite bit of hers was the time she claimed that Apple had invented time travel when she misunderstood that Time Machine was just the name Apple uses for its back-up software.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RichardMZhlubb View Post
    Naomi Wolf has been legitimately insane for several years now. My favorite bit of hers was the time she claimed that Apple had invented time travel when she misunderstood that Time Machine was just the name Apple uses for its back-up software.
    So that how they hacked Joy Ried's blog!





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    The Administrative State must be our next, and most important target.
    Call your state legislators and insist they approve the Article V convention of States to propose amendments.


    I pledge allegiance to the Constitution as written and understood by this nation's founders, and to the Republic it created, an indivisible union of sovereign States, with liberty and justice for all.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MisterVeritis View Post
    The Administrative State must be our next, and most important target.
    I guess next week SCOTUS will rule in WV v. EPA.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    I guess next week SCOTUS will rule in WV v. EPA.
    I hope it goes the right way but it is critical that we remove lawmaking powers from the Executive branch.
    Call your state legislators and insist they approve the Article V convention of States to propose amendments.


    I pledge allegiance to the Constitution as written and understood by this nation's founders, and to the Republic it created, an indivisible union of sovereign States, with liberty and justice for all.

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