"If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my children may have peace." - Thomas Paine

You know that little voice in your head that keeps you from saying the things you shouldn't say?  Yeah, well, I don't have that!  

By Rich Kozlovich

Over the years I've written about every issue that impacts humanity, and as a result Paradigms and Demographics is hit from all over the world.   Currently I've had over 128,000 hits for this month, and if that trend continues there would be over 180,000 hits for October.  But I'm always dubious of how these stats are created, so who knows.  

I've said in the past that I didn't place too much stock in this because there's no way I can track what subjects they're interested in.  Once a reader logs into P&D that creates a hit.  But once logged in they can then pick and choose what they're reading without creating any further hits.  How much impact I've had on people's views is subjective, but there have been times when I do think I made a difference. 

A number of years ago Bulgarian readers started hitting P&D a lot, and for a few weeks. As I said, I can't always tell what my readers are interested in, but I had been posting a large number of links to articles dealing with fracking, mostly from Steve Milloy’s Junkscience.com, and - lo and behold - the number of hits on those posts and a large readership from Bulgaria ran concurrently. About two weeks later there was a strong movement to overturn the Bulgarian government’s anti-fracking policy. Did P&D have anything to do with that? I have no way of knowing, but one can only hope. 

The previous winter had been extremely cold in Eastern Europe and a number of people froze to death due to a lack of energy. Sufficient natural gas, readily available, would have prevented those deaths. More lives lost due to environmentalist's scaremongering and posturing about CO2 levels and global warming, and that's the tip of the iceberg. 

For years I rarely had any hits from mainland China, but about that same time Chinese readership started showing up, and then disappeared almost entirely, and remains so now. 

Ukraine readers also started showing interest about that time, and since I post so many articles about tyranny, socialism and its ills, I wondered what impact that had with Ukrainians.  Given what's going on it now it appears none of that mattered.

Initially Paradigms and Demographics was an anti-green blog, and it was my intent to keep it ‘green only’! However, as time went by I found it was impossible to separate ‘green’ from ‘left’. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union environmentalism has been the spear point for the imposition of a tyrannous worldwide system of socialistic governance, and it was impossible to ignore.

Many countries that provided regular readers to P&D were all struggling under socialist governments, or have in recent years thrown off the socialist yoke, or are struggling to gain more freedom, but most of the countries governed by tyrants rarely hit P&D.  

When this started I expected to get a lot of attention from English speaking nations, and initially I did, and exchanged e-mails with readers in Canada, Britain and even Germany.  Now, the number of hits I get from Canada, England, New Zealand, and Australia run from few, to never.  I'm convinced P&D is in some way being restricted in these nations, especially when I see them throwing people in prison for refusing to get the covid shots as in Australia, or in England for protesting their immigration policies.

Grandfather Who Was Jailed Over Anti-Immigration Protest Found Dead. A grandfather imprisoned for two years and eight months for taking part in an anti-immigration protest in Rotherham, England, has been found dead in His Majesty's Prison (HMP) Moorland. 

Peter Lynch, 61, carried a placard asserting politicians, police, journalists, and others had been corrupted by the World Economic Forum (WEF), BlackRock, Vanguard, and others at a protest outside a hotel hosting illegal immigrants following the deadly stabbing of three young girls in the town of Southport, allegedly by a migration-background teenager.....

• In the British Commonwealth, the Stasi urge is growing 

But I do get a large number of hits from India, which English is probably a second language there. 

I’ve been told no one reads, or cares what I have to say, and if they do it has no or little impact on people’s thinking.  Perhaps so, and it would be hubris to say otherwise since I have no hard evidence to the contrary, but as I watch the world and see who shows interest in my musings I can’t help but think someone is paying a bit of attention because it appears a substantial number keep coming back.

Perhaps a great number of people really are paying attention, and perhaps not.  But here's the issue, heterodoxy isn't for the faint of heart.  It has been my experience in life that very often people think thoughts they’re afraid to say, or unwilling to say in order to avoid conflict and confrontation. 

But those thoughts need to be said by someone, and I think it is important for those people to see it being said. I think most people are convinced what they believe is right, especially when it comes to all these destructive social issues, but they just can't seem to develop the intellectual argument to articulate and defend their positions against the unending drumbeat of leftist propaganda from those in power and in the media. 

Every issue facing humanity has a historical foundation and an historical context. And everything we are told should bear some resemblance to what we see going on in reality. If the issue under discussion fails in either of these criteria, it’s wrong. All that is left to do is develop the intellectual argument to explain why it’s wrong. I provide that intellectual argument, and I've been told by prominent writers I do it well, and I hope that's true. 

But either way, people can now choose to use those arguments, ignore those arguments or even challenge them. But now they have a choice, and honest hearted people need those choices. They're the ones I seek!

This is a battle to overturn propaganda, lies, misrepresentations, and hypocrisy.  Win or lose, this is the battle of our time. It's the battle that must be fought! 

 “I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo."So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

The left, including the green movement, wins the battle of emotions, they always have. We win the battle of facts, we always have. To win the war we must win the battle of emotions and the battle of facts, and being loved isn’t going to be a part of that.  

"If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my children may have peace.". Thomas Paine

We no longer know or understand history.  We substitute real history with leftist propaganda and call it history.  No one reads books any longer, especially history books.  We are an entire population that's been beguiled by the main stream media too lazy to find out the truth, yet because of the internet we have access to more information from more sources than any population in history.  Through a "philosophy of indifference" we've foolishly allowed these enemy citizens of America "to have their way [and] to grow strong and vicious"! 

The patterns of life repeat over and over again.  People will always be people.  Corruption is the offspring of power, and if that power goes unchecked, then the true child of power emerges:  Tyranny!

"If There Must be Trouble, Let it be in My Day, That My Child May Have Peace"

The Title to This Article is a Quote by Thomas Paine. 

By Rich Kozlovich

 

We are a people who has more information available, from more sources, that is easily and readily available, than any other people in the history of the world.  And we know less.  I used to be shocked at people's historical ignorance, foolishly believing just because I knew things,  everyone else must know these things.   Now I'm just dismayed.

Oh, I know, most people don't read much these days.   Most no longer read books, and even fewer read history books.  It's certainly not taught in public schools, and absolutely not in institutions of "higher education" these days, which need to be defunded.  Worse yet, many schools and institutions are  teaching the corruption of history based on fallacious writings from a book that contaminated an entire generation of America's youth, A People's History of the United States, which my friend attacks with factual gusto showing his work is corrupted with leftist ideology. 

You may wish to read her books, Debunking Howard Zinn: Exposing the Fake History That Turned a Generation against America, and, Debunking the 1619 Project: Exposing the Plan to Divide America

So, let's talk about Thomas Paine.  Who was Thomas Paine?  Why was he important in American history?  Why is he important now?  

Truthfully, I'm not even sure if anyone under 70 is taught enough accurate history in school to know who Thomas Paine even was, let alone his importance to American history.  So much that was written and expressed by the Founding Fathers of America about the tyranny imposed on the American colonies is now applicable to the tyranny the American government is imposing on the American people.  So let's get started.

Thomas Paine "authored Common Sense (1776) and The American Crisis (1776–1783), two of the most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, and helped inspire the patriots in 1776 to declare independence from Great Britain.  His ideas reflected Enlightenment-era ideals of transnational human rights."

We've heard the term at some time in our lives, "these are the times that try men's souls", but do you know where that came from?  That was from The Crisis, a part of the American Crisis collection of articles, all of which can be found here, and listed at the end of this article, written by Thomas Paine during the American Revolutionary War. 

In 1776 Paine wrote Common Sense, an extremely popular and successful pamphlet arguing for Independence from England.  At the time Paine wrote “Common Sense,” most colonists considered themselves to be aggrieved Britons.  Paine fundamentally changed the tenor of colonists’ argument with the crown when he wrote the following:  “Europe, and not England, is the parent country of America.  This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe.  Hither they have fled, not from the tender embraces of the mother, but from the cruelty of the monster; and it is so far true of England, that the same tyranny which drove the first emigrants from home, pursues their descendants still.”

These essays were so profound Washington required their reading for his troops at Valley Forge because the American Revolution was in a state of crisis, economically and militarily, and the colonists overall were not yet Americans.  They considered themselves to be British subjects living in the American colonies of Great Britain.  That needed to be overcome.  

Here are some quotes from his work which I think are fundamental in understanding the tyranny being imposed on the nation right now, whether it's CRT, vaccination mandates, mask mandates, global warming, energy production or each and every other crisis of the moment being promoted by the left. 

Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives everything its value ............'Tis surprising to see how rapidly a panic will sometimes run through a country...........If we believe the power of hell to be limited, we must likewise believe that their agents are under some providential control........ I call not upon a few, but upon all: not on this state or that state, but on every state: up and help us; lay your shoulders to the wheel; better have too much force than too little, when so great an object is at stake. 

By perseverance and fortitude we have the prospect of a glorious issue; by cowardice and submission, the sad choice of a variety of evils - a ravaged country - a depopulated city - habitations without safety, and slavery without hope -.............. Look on this picture and weep over it! 

The Boyd Principle (To Be or To Do: Which Way Will You Go?) states at some point in our lives we come to a fork in the road and must make a decision. If you take one path you will be popular and you will be rewarded. If you take the other path you will be criticized, ridiculed and scorned. However, you won’t have to turn your back on your friends or your principles. 

If you are more concerned with accomplishing that which is right and best - the satisfaction for having stood against the conventional wisdom on right principles will be your reward - and you may actually accomplish something worthwhile.  However, that means taking a stand against conventional wisdom and popular belief, and let's face it, heterodoxy isn't for the faint of heart.  

For those who haven't already looked up what heterodoxy means:   

It's not conforming with accepted or orthodox standards or belief.  

It means standing up and telling the world, you're all wrong, and I'm going to tell you why!  That isn't for the faint of heart.  What does it take to be a heterodox and stand against the conventional wisdom, or should I say "consensus" wisdom?

All it takes is being right.   Knowing the subject well, being able to prove you're right.  Not being afraid to be right.  Unafraid to prove you're right.  Finally, and most importantly, the fearless willingness to be un-liked, all the while being attacked for your stand.  The willingness to man the wall, defending what you know to be true and right just as long as it takes, telling the world, "no one will harm you on my watch".

Once you've reached that point - everything else becomes much easier. As Andrew Breitbart once said: 

"Walk toward the fire. Don’t worry about what they call you. All those things are said against you because they want to stop you in your tracks. But if you keep going, you’re sending a message to people who are rooting for you, who are agreeing with you. The message is that they can do it, too."

Editor's Note:  This article, The Terminating of America, by Scot Faulkner was sent to me for publication by another correspondent and friend giving historical background on what the left is doing and how it came into being, the and the are nothing more than an extension of New Deal, which was a redux of the fascist system imposed on the nation during WWI by America's first fascist President,

The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression, and Coolidge. She has also written, Great Society: A New History, which is still unread on my self.  Also well worth the time is Diana West's American Betrayal, along with Stalin's Secret Agents: The Subversion of Roosevelt's Government  by M. Stanton Evans and Herbert Romerstein.

• The American Crisis: December 23, 1776
  
• The American Crisis: Philadelphia, Jan. 13, 1777
  
• The American Crisis: Philadelphia, April 19, 1777
  
• The American Crisis: Philadelphia, Sept. 12, 1777
  
• The American Crisis: Lancaster, March 21, 1778
  
• The American Crisis: Philadelphia, Oct. 20, 1778.
  
• The American Crisis: Philadelphia, Nov. 21, 1778
  
• The American Crisis: Philadelphia, March, 1780
  
• The American Crisis: Philadelphia, Oct. 4, 1780
  
• The American Crisis: Philadelphia, March 5, 1782
  
• The American Crisis: Philadelphia May 31, 1782
  
• The American Crisis: Philadelphia, Oct. 29, 1782
  
• The American Crisis: Philadelphia, April 19, 1783

 

Heterodoxy Is Not For The Faint of Heart

By Rich Kozlovich

It was reported on February 4th that Bill Gates released mosquitoes in the conference room of a “well heeled crowd” of attendees at a technical conference in Calfiornia; proclaiming that “Malaria is spread by mosquitoes; I brought some. Here, I’ll let them roam around – there is no reason only poor people should be infected.’

Needless to say the crowd wasn’t happy, even after he assured them that these mosquitoes weren’t carrying malaria parasites, but I thought the whole irony of this stunt was rich in symbolism. The “rich” and I include everyone living in the first world, including you and me because we benefit from the realities of first world economics generally don’t worry about mosquito borne diseases because we can afford to spray for them and we do. First it was DDT, and now we have a host of products that are used (none of which the greenies support by the way, so whether it is DDT or anything else it just doesn’t matter to these misanthropes). Yet so many in the first world stand against the use of products, including DDT, that will save millions of lives. However, what if it was different?

Secondly we have expensive medications. David Gardner makes this point, “Although pills exist that can help prevent malaria, there is currently no vaccine. Preventative medication is used mainly by travelers and is not available to the vast majority of people living in the Third World.” Although he goes on to note that, “Resistance to antibiotics by the malaria parasite is also becoming a problem, with some preventative medications no longer effective in certain parts of the world.” However, what if it was different?

So why did Bill Gates “perform” this stunt. To advertise the disaster that malaria is to the rest of the world…to shock the “rich” out of their sense of complacency and help them to understand what it is like when it really is different and it is very different in the third world.

Gates quit Microsoft to work on his charitable programs. One of them is malaria, and he wanted to “hammer home the importance of malaria prevention.” He and his wife donated almost 170 million dollars last year to a program that is working to develop a vaccine for this nightmare disease.

In Africa there isn’t a family that hasn’t suffered from the tragedy of malaria and its overall effects; death, retardation, reoccurring afflictions, not to mention the economic impact of having so many sick people in a society all the time. No society can overcome poverty when so much money is devoted to caring for the sick. No economy can overcome poverty when so many are unable to work. No economy can overcome poverty when so many healthy people have to devote so much time to care for their loved ones. No economy can overcome poverty when the healthy will themselves be struck down by this disease and they all know it is just a matter of time before it is their turn. According to Gardner, “Up to 2.7 million people a year still die of malaria each year, 75 per cent of them African children”.

Gates has been criticized for not recognizing that DDT is still the number one product in malaria prevention, however I am not going to beat on him over this. He at least recognizes that the problem exists and how severe it is. He at least is putting his money where his mouth is. He at least is advertising how serious a problem this is and I have tremendous respect for him over this. Still…this is a case of not seeing the whole problem. Malaria isn’t the only disease transmitted by mosquitoes. Let’s review! I have logged onto two web sites; one from the CDC and one from the state of Minnesota. Why Minnesota? Because it is so far north…it isn’t a subtropical or tropical area. Let us review Minnesota's problems first.

West Nile Virus (WNV)
West Nile virus is a disease transmitted to people, horses, and birds. It is the most commonly reported mosquito-transmitted disease in Minnesota. Most people infected with West Nile virus show no symptoms or flu-like symptoms, but some (primarily elderly) have more severe illness.

LaCrosse Encephalitis (LAC)
LaCrosse encephalitis, which is transmitted by the Tree Hole mosquito, is responsible for 3 to 13 cases of severe illness (primarily in children) each year in Minnesota.

Western Equine Encephalitis (WEE)
During 1941, there was a large regional outbreak of Western equine encephalitis. There may have been as many as 791 cases in Minnesota that year with 90 deaths. In more recent years, Minnesota has had infrequent and smaller outbreaks of WEE (15 human cases in 1975, single cases in 1983 and 1999).

Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) Eastern equine encephalitis is a rare illness in humans, and only a few cases are reported in the United States each year. EEE is quite severe and typically fatal among infected horses.

St. Louis Encephalitis (SLE)
CDC; Cases of St. Louis encephalitis are usually the result of unpredictable and intermittent localized epidemics. Attention: Non-MDH link

Along with those listed above the CDC listed a few more.

Arboviral Encephalitides
Causes aseptic meningitis or encephalitis. Many cases have only fever with headache, but can progress to focal paralysis, intractable seizures, coma and death. Varies with occurrence and intensity of epidemic transmission; usually 150-3,000 cases/year.

Japanese encephalitis
Mild infections occur without apparent symptoms other than fever with headache. More severe infection is marked by quick onset, headache, high fever, neck stiffness, stupor, disorientation, coma, tremors, occasional convulsions (especially in infants) and spastic (but rarely flaccid) paralysis.

Dengue Fever
Also known a break bone fever because of the pain the symptoms of dengue include, fever, severe headache, pain behind the eye , joint and muscle pain, rash. Usually dengue fever causes a mild illness, but it can be severe and even cause dengue hemorrhagic (bleeding) fever (DHF), which can be fatal if not treated. People who have had dengue fever before are more at risk of getting DHF.

No vaccine is available to prevent dengue, and there is no specific medicine to cure dengue. Those who become ill with dengue fever can be given medicine to reduce fever, such as acetaminophen, and may need oral rehydration or intravenous fluids and, in severe cases, treatment to support their blood pressure.

Rift Valley Fever
RVF virus can cause several different disease syndromes. People with RVF typically have either no symptoms or a mild illness associated with fever and liver abnormalities. However, in some patients the illness can progress to hemorrhagic fever (which can lead to shock or hemorrhage), encephalitis (inflammation of the brain, which can lead to headaches, coma, or seizures), or ocular disease (diseases affecting the eye). Patients who become ill usually experience fever, generalized weakness, back pain, dizziness, and extreme weight loss at the onset of the illness. Typically, patients recover within two days to one week after onset of illness. The most common complication associated with RVF is inflammation of the retina (a structure connecting the nerves of the eye to the brain). As a result, approximately 1% - 10% of affected patients may have some permanent vision loss. Approximately 1% of humans that become infected with RVF die of the disease. Case-fatality proportions are significantly higher for infected animals. The most severe impact is observed in pregnant livestock infected with RVF, which results in abortion of virtually 100% of fetuses.

It is easy to see that the picture is much larger than malaria. The best prevention against malaria and all the other afflictions that mosquitoes can transmit is to avoid getting bitten by a mosquito. Although that isn’t entirely possible, it can be seriously reduced by the appropriate application of pesticides. Pesticides that work and are affordable in the third world! I applaud Bill Gates: I just hope that he can begin to really see the whole picture and begin to realize that those who oppose pesticides can never be appeased because they are irrational and misanthropic.

The Boyd Principle states that at some point in our lives we come to a fork in the road and must make a decision. If you take one path you will be popular and you will be rewarded. If you take the other path you will be criticized, ridiculed and scorned. However, you won’t have to turn your back on your friends or your principles. If you are more concerned with accomplishing that which is right and best the satisfaction for having stood against the conventional wisdom on right principles will be your reward, and you may actually accomplish something worthwhile.