Monday, June 01, 2020
From an extremely different era 7
This isn't nearly as important as the 1935 antiwar editorial by the Secretary of Education. Still, it shows the attitudes of a SANE country, for comparison with the utter INSANITY of recent decades.
From Wireless Age, 1923, in an article on the (somewhat) varied uses of radio. At that time only a few big stations were trying to fill an 8-hour day; most were still experimental and brief, and most were providing classical music for the city folks or market info for the country folks.
The article noted a few exceptions to the rule:
Hudson Maxim thinks man may be banished by insects, and has broadcast his alarm by radio.
Looked him up. Maxim was a self-promoting science writer who wrote and "consulted" on a variety of subjects. His writing appears to be solid science, not crackpot. He was a strident globalist who helped to push us into WW1, where his brother's patented machine gun was highly profitable. Compare with the stock demons and Bezos who are pushing the current panic for obvious gain. Merchants of Death. Merchants of Genocide. Merchants of Superholocaust. Nevertheless, Maxim's ALARMISM was out of fashion in 1923. WE ACTUALLY LEARNED A LESSON FROM WW1.
Another good example is this 1935 episode of Strange as it Seems. In 1806 the NY State legislature paid a charlatan for his fake rabies cure, which was literally a witch's brew. Eye of newt and leg of spider, etc. The 1935 narrator treats this with appropriate contempt.
Before 1975 our attitude toward bizarre witchcraft and medical quackery was dismissive. We culturally quarantined destructive nonsense, especially when it wasted resources and emotions that could otherwise have been used for productive solutions.
Since the "global warming" coup of 1975, bizarre quackery and witchcraft are MANDATORY ON LITERAL PAIN OF DEATH. We quarantine all attempts to cite or use plain old REALITY. Only lies are permitted, only panic is possible.
Hudson Maxim thinks man may be banished by insects, and has broadcast his alarm by radio.
Looked him up. Maxim was a self-promoting science writer who wrote and "consulted" on a variety of subjects. His writing appears to be solid science, not crackpot. He was a strident globalist who helped to push us into WW1, where his brother's patented machine gun was highly profitable. Compare with the stock demons and Bezos who are pushing the current panic for obvious gain. Merchants of Death. Merchants of Genocide. Merchants of Superholocaust. Nevertheless, Maxim's ALARMISM was out of fashion in 1923. WE ACTUALLY LEARNED A LESSON FROM WW1.
Another good example is this 1935 episode of Strange as it Seems. In 1806 the NY State legislature paid a charlatan for his fake rabies cure, which was literally a witch's brew. Eye of newt and leg of spider, etc. The 1935 narrator treats this with appropriate contempt.
Before 1975 our attitude toward bizarre witchcraft and medical quackery was dismissive. We culturally quarantined destructive nonsense, especially when it wasted resources and emotions that could otherwise have been used for productive solutions.
Since the "global warming" coup of 1975, bizarre quackery and witchcraft are MANDATORY ON LITERAL PAIN OF DEATH. We quarantine all attempts to cite or use plain old REALITY. Only lies are permitted, only panic is possible.
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