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John Waters on Michael Nehls' book The Indoctrinated Brain.

"Dr Nehls’ chief focus is on the systematic erasure of ‘autobiographical memory’ — by which he means the continuous narrative of the human being by which we derive our senses of the meaning, continuity and direction of our existence. In this regard, he explains, the perpetrators seek to abolish meaningful apprehension of future events and weaken resistance to tyranny in a manner calculated to render us amenable to indoctrination, manipulation and the rewriting of our private thoughts. Drawing on medical and scientific evidence, and invoking continually the works of Orwell and Huxley — by way, I intuit, of providing a backdrop of comparison for something that is otherwise unprecedented — he describes a war of daily indoctrination being waged against the human race, ‘not only against our freedom of thought and speech, and our most basic beliefs . . . but also against the ability to think and our individuality.’"

https://johnwaters.substack.com/p/engineering-stupidity?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=108185&post_id=146160214&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=16n6rb&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

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On a side note…..There is an ultra-marathon that has been going on in the Death Valley for quite a while, it is called “Bad Water Ultramarathon”. A decade ago I really wanted to do it because the entire event in those brutal conditions was very intriguing to me.

Tales and books have been written on this and the folks who partecipate. Apparently temperatures are so hot that the running shoes undergo a mini meltdown, so runners (really only a handful) run on the white line of the road because it is slightly cooler on that piece of asphalt. And then at night temperatures drop into cold spells…..I mean it is some serious shit.

Now the event is so unique that a medical team of researchers study the athlete performance in those conditions. But what is most fascinating about this endurance, grueling running/walking race is that there is a set of strict rules to be followed not to be disqualified, one of them (this made me laugh when I read it) is no IV allowed. Means you are not allowed to give or get an IV during the run.

I just wanted to share this with all of you folks and compare it to the article about the helicopter not being able to fly in temperature of 120F. Well if {crazy insane }athletes run in those temperatures……everyone knows how hot is on Death Valley.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badwater_Ultramarathon

you can read here on wiki about those temperatures…..

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