how, exactly, does one go about revoking a scientific finding?
#governed
What I do say is that no man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent. I say this is the leading principle, the sheet-anchor of American republicanism. […] According to our ancient faith, the just powers of governments are derived from the consent of the governed. Now the relation of master and slave is pro tanto a total violation of this principle. The master not only governs the slave without his consent, but he governs him by a set of rules altogether different from those which he prescribes for himself. Allow all the governed an equal voice in the government, and that, and that only, is self-government.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Speech (1854-10-16), “In Reply to Senator Douglas,” Peoria, Illinois
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/2542…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #lincoln #abrahamlincoln #abrahamlincolnquotes #consent #consentofthegoverned #DeclarationofIndependence #democracy #governed #government #inequality #master #selfdetermination #selfgovernment #slave #slavery
We are called upon to choose between Mr. X and Ms. Y. This time, we decide to #vote for #Party Y, and... nothing changes. Why?
Because we are not #governed by individuals or #parties, but by the #system. This article explains how it all works and how it cann be changed.
https://www.continentia-verlag.org/post/how-systems-govern-us-and-how-systems-thinking-can-change-it
#Axios #Explains: #ChristianNationalism (#Fascism) is on the march
#Christian nationalism seeks to establish a #country #governed by a #fundamentalist #interpretation of the #Bible.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #Hategroups #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #AntiSemitism #Homophobia #Misogyny #Racism #Transphobia #WhiteSupremacy #Xenophobia #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews
https://www.axios.com/2024/06/24/christian-nationalism-america-trump-republicans
#Quebec is #governed by a #whitenationalist #movement. The only difference between the #PartiQuebecois and the #GOP is the #PQ are #fracophone #WhiteNationalists.
When their plans to #secede from #Canada FAILED, AGAIN, their leader, #JacquesParizeau blamed it in "#Money and the #EthnicVote."
Since then the PQ has been pushing an agenda of #ethnocentralism. Their #Bill21 targets #ReligiousMinorities.
"#AI is “promising” nothing. It is #people who are promising – or not promising. AI is a piece of software. It is made by people, deployed by people and #governed by people... in terms of urgency, I’m more concerned about ameliorating the risks that are here and now [than by the risks of the techbro SkyNet singularity]."
— Fei-Fei Li, creator of #ImageNet, whose memoir "The Worlds I See" is out now.
I can see that we are nearing #latestage #capitalism, I can’t yet tell if we are knee deep or neck deep, but I feel the wet water.
To add and compound this, I’d like to posit we are also in late stage #individualism. We have essentially established a norm where we are no longer willing to be #governed.
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