The Writing

Oct 22, 2022

Be Reasonable: with Your Moderator, Chris Paul

During part of 1941 and 1942, when the Luftwaffe was busy in Russia, the German radio regaled its home audiences with stories of devastating air raids on London. Now, we are aware that those raids did not happen. But what use would our knowledge be if the Germans conquered Britain? For the purposes of a future historian, did those raids happen, or didn’t they? The answer is: If Hitler survives, they happened, and if he falls, they didn’t happen. So with innumerable other events of the past ten or twenty years. Is the Protocols of the Elders of Zion a genuine document? Did Trotsky plot with the Nazis? How many German aeroplanes were shot down in the Battle of Britain? Does Europe welcome the New Order? In no case do you get one answer which is universally accepted because it is true: in each case you get a number of totally incompatible answers, one of which is ﬁnally adopted as the result of a physical struggle. History is written by the winners…

2 years ago · 42 likes · 26 comments · Chris Paul

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My Aunt Asked What Informs My Viewpoint, So I Told Her

(with some slight edits and spelling/grammar corrections) Let me just first say a few things about how I think of information right now. To start, any remotely objective view of the landscape right now has to account for the fact that all of the world’s institutions are aligned in almost every significant way and on almost every significant issue. There i…

3 years ago · 19 likes · 2 comments · Chris Paul

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Why Joe Rogan Joining Gettr Could Be a Narrative Tipping Point

In the (barely) 24 hours since Joe Rogan joined the upstart, MAGA-run Twitter rival, Gettr with this post: Joe Rogan has accumulated around 600,000 followers. (His follower number shows 8.4 million, but includes the handles of his 7.8 million Twitter followers…

3 years ago · 9 likes · 2 comments · Chris Paul

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The Banal Evil of the Tech Gods

This infographic explaining the many uses of a Digital Identity is from Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum (printed in an excellent resource, which is worth your time, called The WEF and the Pandemic). You might notice that ‘traffic’ appears under Smart Cities. Apparently the advent of a full digital identity will…

3 years ago · 5 likes · 1 comment · Chris Paul

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An Open Letter to Those I Care About Who Refuse to Engage

To those I care about: That you think I’m crazy is not primarily an insult to me. It makes me feel sad for you. If you feel insulted in what’s to follow, ask yourself how I must feel, having spent days, weeks, months, or longer trying to convince you to reconnect to your humanity…

3 years ago · 26 likes · 4 comments · Chris Paul

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Mike Lindell vs. The Party of False Decorum

There is an evil in this country. Your first instinct might be to think this is inflammatory, or meant only to provoke. It is not. It’s a statement that would, if the question was polled, be agreed upon by most Americans. The people I will be discussing here would say, …

3 years ago · 12 likes · Chris Paul

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An email on election fraud to someone I respect...

This email was written to address, at length, an email I received from someone close to me who made the argument that there does not seem to be any evidence of election fraud, that Lindell and the AZ auditors should not be believed, and that the entire thing was widely debunked. These are the articles that were attached to the email, which I respond to …

3 years ago · 3 likes · Chris Paul

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Questions for Mr. Fauci

For the video version of this, go to Rumble: https://rumble.com/vg3ynt-questions-for-mr.-fauci-and-your-friends-wont-know-the-answers-either-but-t.html What sort of medicine do you practice? When was the last time you saw a patient? Tell me about the last time you guided a patient through a difficult and life-risking medical decision…

4 years ago · 2 likes · 1 comment · Chris Paul

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Controlled Demolition, Part Two

Continued, covering events from June 24th on… In Norway, all gyms were opened because a study had found they were not, in fact, vectors for transmission. Norway’s health officials are on record saying they should not have locked down. They are correct. We didn’t get to hear much more about that, unfortunately. There still have been no media outlets and n…

4 years ago · 2 likes · Chris Paul

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Controlled Demolition, Part One

In early April, I made a simple observation – that the media viewed everything through the lens of whether it helped or hurt the re-election chances of Donald Trump, and I predicted that their doing so would lead their coverage of crucial events far off course in a way that would destroy them. They would self-destruct…

4 years ago · 1 like · Chris Paul

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Apocalypse, Now

Despite loud and preposterous assertions otherwise, America is not a cruel country. It is not doomed, it is not unjust, it is not unfair. Not one of these generalities describes what still remains the greatest civilization in the history of the world. Despite the undeniable obviousness of these truths, viewed from any perspective other than the utterly …

4 years ago · 1 like · Chris Paul

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Bursting the Bubble

The air inside the bubble has grown toxic, or maybe I just spent too much time inside. Nearly eighteen years ago, I passed on a full scholarship to a good law school, packed a ’97 Nissan Altima with everything I owned, and began my solo journey from rural New York to Los Angeles, logging 16-hour days behind the wheel. Within days of arriving in my new h…

4 years ago · 1 like · Chris Paul

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Revisionist History

“My fellow Americans, it is with great concern, yet great resolve that I come before you tonight to tell you we are faced with a new pandemic disease in our world. Much is known about this disease, but much is not. While our best scientists believe that at least nine hundred ninety-five people out of a thousand will recover from the illness, it can be h…

4 years ago · 1 like · Chris Paul

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On Theorism

Hillary Clinton lost because she was a woman. She lost because of sexism and internalized misogyny. She lost because of Russia and because of low-information voters. She lost because of racism, not hers of course. Hillary Clinton lost because of the DNC. She lost because of Bernie Sanders. She lost because of Barack Obama, because of following the twote…

4 years ago · 1 like · Chris Paul

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We Were Never Promised Safety

I grew up in a mid 1800s farmhouse in a town of 500 people in the northeast. When we weren’t in school, our days were spent outside. Not because we were tiny outdoorsmen, but because my mother didn’t want to hear us scream at each other indoors. Within our property lines, we had one quarter of a pond, some small rolling hills, scattered with…

4 years ago · 1 like · Chris Paul

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A Call For Chivalrous Men

(Originally published on Medium - March 16th, 2020) No one who’s ever been exposed to my political / cultural point of view would think of me as a feminist, at least by today’s internet definition. No, I genuinely believe that men and women are, in fact, equal. They are good and bad in the same measure, each person exhibiting the good and bad in themselv…

4 years ago · 2 likes · Chris Paul

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Love in the Time of Coronavirus

(Originally published on Medium - March 15th, 2020) Social distancing is easy this week in Los Angeles. It was already raining, after all. It’s been pouring or drizzling or misting for a week with another week in store. Maybe by the time we’re able to step out our front doors, the weather will be appropriate and what one would expect for the first weeks …

4 years ago · 1 like · Chris Paul