SUBSTACK.COM -- In the United States, we are inundated with tales of COVID-19 doom and gloom.The mainstream narrative is rife with hopelessness. However, there's one country they don't want to talk about -- Sweden. And for good reason. Sweden debunks the hysteria. In Sweden, there's no masks, no lockdown, no vaccine, and most importantly, no problem. In August, Sweden has registered just one coronavirus death! Similarly in the hospitals: COVID-19 is hardly registering as a blip on the radar. Sweden reported only 4 new COVID-19 patients in their ICUs in August. It doesn't take a math whiz to realize the epidemic appears to have been wrapped up in Sweden for months. Life has largely returned to normal in Sweden, and without the economy-destroying ...

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AMERICANMIND.ORG -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Hazar Imam, 2006: "How can we inspire people to reach beyond rampant materialism, self-indulgent individualism, and *unprincipled relativism?*"] ARTICLE: The left have been the main proponents of scientism and moral relativism for much of the recent past. Scientific knowledge treated as gospel and non-scientific knowledge is considered oxymoronic so knowledge that can't be verified with science can't have a truth value and questions like morality or the meaning of life are just personal preferences with no objective answers. This view immediately gives rise to moral relativism and nihilism. But most people do have at least an intuitive sense of morality, something beyond current societal norms. Our conscience hurts when we do something that we sense to be immoral -- even when we try to rationalize its morality. For a group that doesn't believe "good" and "evil" can be defined objectively ...

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[H/T MOHIB EBRAHIM] -- OZANVAROL.COM -- There's a scene im Good Will Hunting where Will and his friends walk into a bar. Chuckie starts chatting up a girl, pretending to be a Harvard student, when a Harvard grad student, Clark, tries to make him look dumb. In one of the best moments of smackdown in film history, Will chimes in. "You're a first year grad student who's just finished reading some Marxian historian, Pete Garrison probably. That's until next year when you're gonna be here regurgitating ... Were you gonna plagiarize the whole thing or do you have any thoughts of your own?" We regurgitate what others say because it's much harder to form original thoughts so we don't bother. If you want to be less like Clark and more like Will, here are three things you can do ...

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