Whatever project you’ve decided to embark on, I’m sure you’ll get plenty of support to match what epic storm may come your way. When you lead with integrity and consistency, as you do, people want to follow that. It’s become such a rare quality, we need more of it.
As with all of those who are rightfully critical of the social justice warriors' overreach and speak out, what you usually get from these illiberal maniacs is not a critique that boils down to claiming you speak untruths, but that what you say is hurtful, offensive or 'wiping out a person's existence'. An ideological, politically incorrect statement, in other words. Please keep speaking up, Peter.
At 74 years old I reached that crossroads decision 30 years ago. I have never regretted my decision. I have 50 or more videos of your talks and interviews. I can tell by what you have said, but mostly what you have not said that that there are pieces of the worldview puzzle that you are missing. After a 30+ year in-depth study of how Religious history has impacted political, economic and social history I can tell you things that no one else can. When approaching an important, perhaps life altering, decision it is well to have all the information possible. I am available at your convenience and willing to share all that I have.
Dr. Boghossian, voices uninfected by the pandemic of polemic falsehoods are the thin line of courageous opposition against the manipulations of pathogenic ideas. Some of your tribe are infected, yet there are more who, privately fearful, privately not woke proponents, have become the accommodating frog in the pot.
It is your courage to speak out that will encourage the fearful to come into the harsh light of reason and truth.
Yourself, Bret Weinstein, Heather Heying, Coleman Hughes, Bari Weiss, Candace Owens, Joe Rogan, Megyn Kelly, Glen Loury, John McWhorter, Victor Davis Hanson, and Ben Shapiro are among the renegade tribe of reason. Urgently your voices are needed to turn the rising tide of wokeist power, the pandemic totalitarian mutant of the broadly embraced 19-teens through '40s.
Thought you might be interested in my reply to Tricia...
Tricia, I understand what you write about having left your political tribe. In my own experience I lately have come to see the matter somewhat differently.
It is not I who left.
Every so often I read president Kennedy's inaugural. It is a statement of domestic and geopolitical moral commitment and aspiration that has become anathema to Democrat Party strategists, leadership and following. The mutation became phenotypic with president Obama.
It is not I who left. And, yes, there are many who no longer count me as a friend. And yet, new friends I have found myself among. What these new friends have in common is an innate skepticism, an enquiring mind. They read widely in the non-recreational. Heterodoxy does not provoke reactions of the sympathetic nervous system – among the most casually observable are fidgeting, jugular vein distention, hopping-mad.
I count myself something of a 1215 heterodox, something of the embryonic liberal of the Magna Carta.
Note to Dr. Boghossian et al: Pivotally, it was the barons who challenged the tyranny of King John.
What you describe is potentially the #1 thing that is holding so many back. The fidelity to their tribe, even when their tribe is clearly promoting a narrative that is false and even dangerous. "The end justifies the means," and "for the greater good," are two excuses commonly given for these narratives, but common sense and intellectual honesty and consistency would reveal the danger to any willing to see it. You are correct in the solution. And I think more and more are willing to come out and speak the truth as voices like yours step out as examples.
I'm looking forward to seeing what you have coming up.
Personally, I try to remember this all the time, but often times I definitely feel like I have no tribe so I'll just have people from "both sides" coming at me
Its better than the alternative. I left my political tribe >20 years ago. It’s been full of pain, heartbreak, self-doubt, uncertainty. Yet, I could not have taken a different path. I take pride in my principles and can be my authentic self. Fortunately, my income wasn’t contingent upon my political stances. But most of my support network was. It is still better than the alternative.
Tricia, I understand what you write about having left your political tribe. In my own experience I lately have come to see the matter somewhat differently.
It is not I who left.
Every so often I read president Kennedy's inaugural. It is a statement of domestic and geopolitical moral commitment and aspiration that has become anathema to Democrat Party strategists, leadership and following. The mutation became phenotypic with president Obama.
It is not I who left. And, yes, there are many who no longer count me as a friend. And yet, new friends I have found myself among. What these new friends have in common is an innate skepticism, an enquiring mind. They read widely in the non-recreational. Heterodoxy does not provoke reactions of the sympathetic nervous system – among the most casually observable are fidgeting, jugular vein distention, hopping-mad.
I count myself something of a 1215 heterodox, something of the embryonic liberal of the Magna Carta.
Note to Dr. Boghossian et al: Pivotally , it was the barons who challenged the tyranny of King John.
Whatever project you’ve decided to embark on, I’m sure you’ll get plenty of support to match what epic storm may come your way. When you lead with integrity and consistency, as you do, people want to follow that. It’s become such a rare quality, we need more of it.
thank you
It is refreshing to hear you speak my mind. It saddens me that many are so hallowed out by anti-intellectual ideas.
I would love to hear more about the “call out” culture from you, Peter.
As with all of those who are rightfully critical of the social justice warriors' overreach and speak out, what you usually get from these illiberal maniacs is not a critique that boils down to claiming you speak untruths, but that what you say is hurtful, offensive or 'wiping out a person's existence'. An ideological, politically incorrect statement, in other words. Please keep speaking up, Peter.
At 74 years old I reached that crossroads decision 30 years ago. I have never regretted my decision. I have 50 or more videos of your talks and interviews. I can tell by what you have said, but mostly what you have not said that that there are pieces of the worldview puzzle that you are missing. After a 30+ year in-depth study of how Religious history has impacted political, economic and social history I can tell you things that no one else can. When approaching an important, perhaps life altering, decision it is well to have all the information possible. I am available at your convenience and willing to share all that I have.
When I see the audience clapping at a woke event, it looks so much like the audience clapping at a Kim Jong-un appearance.
Dr. Boghossian, voices uninfected by the pandemic of polemic falsehoods are the thin line of courageous opposition against the manipulations of pathogenic ideas. Some of your tribe are infected, yet there are more who, privately fearful, privately not woke proponents, have become the accommodating frog in the pot.
It is your courage to speak out that will encourage the fearful to come into the harsh light of reason and truth.
Yourself, Bret Weinstein, Heather Heying, Coleman Hughes, Bari Weiss, Candace Owens, Joe Rogan, Megyn Kelly, Glen Loury, John McWhorter, Victor Davis Hanson, and Ben Shapiro are among the renegade tribe of reason. Urgently your voices are needed to turn the rising tide of wokeist power, the pandemic totalitarian mutant of the broadly embraced 19-teens through '40s.
More power to you, Dr. Boghossian.
thank you
Thought you might be interested in my reply to Tricia...
Tricia, I understand what you write about having left your political tribe. In my own experience I lately have come to see the matter somewhat differently.
It is not I who left.
Every so often I read president Kennedy's inaugural. It is a statement of domestic and geopolitical moral commitment and aspiration that has become anathema to Democrat Party strategists, leadership and following. The mutation became phenotypic with president Obama.
It is not I who left. And, yes, there are many who no longer count me as a friend. And yet, new friends I have found myself among. What these new friends have in common is an innate skepticism, an enquiring mind. They read widely in the non-recreational. Heterodoxy does not provoke reactions of the sympathetic nervous system – among the most casually observable are fidgeting, jugular vein distention, hopping-mad.
I count myself something of a 1215 heterodox, something of the embryonic liberal of the Magna Carta.
Note to Dr. Boghossian et al: Pivotally, it was the barons who challenged the tyranny of King John.
What you describe is potentially the #1 thing that is holding so many back. The fidelity to their tribe, even when their tribe is clearly promoting a narrative that is false and even dangerous. "The end justifies the means," and "for the greater good," are two excuses commonly given for these narratives, but common sense and intellectual honesty and consistency would reveal the danger to any willing to see it. You are correct in the solution. And I think more and more are willing to come out and speak the truth as voices like yours step out as examples.
I'm looking forward to seeing what you have coming up.
Personally, I try to remember this all the time, but often times I definitely feel like I have no tribe so I'll just have people from "both sides" coming at me
yeah, it's particularly hard when I'm already fighting a tidal wave
I hope you continue to share your journey with us.
Its better than the alternative. I left my political tribe >20 years ago. It’s been full of pain, heartbreak, self-doubt, uncertainty. Yet, I could not have taken a different path. I take pride in my principles and can be my authentic self. Fortunately, my income wasn’t contingent upon my political stances. But most of my support network was. It is still better than the alternative.
Integrity
Tricia, I understand what you write about having left your political tribe. In my own experience I lately have come to see the matter somewhat differently.
It is not I who left.
Every so often I read president Kennedy's inaugural. It is a statement of domestic and geopolitical moral commitment and aspiration that has become anathema to Democrat Party strategists, leadership and following. The mutation became phenotypic with president Obama.
It is not I who left. And, yes, there are many who no longer count me as a friend. And yet, new friends I have found myself among. What these new friends have in common is an innate skepticism, an enquiring mind. They read widely in the non-recreational. Heterodoxy does not provoke reactions of the sympathetic nervous system – among the most casually observable are fidgeting, jugular vein distention, hopping-mad.
I count myself something of a 1215 heterodox, something of the embryonic liberal of the Magna Carta.
Note to Dr. Boghossian et al: Pivotally , it was the barons who challenged the tyranny of King John.
Go for it.