Nullius in Verba
Censorship is the Tool of Intellectual Cowards
It’s time to start calling them out for what they are: Intellectual cowards.
Anyone who says “Trust the Science” (or cheerleads for censorship in any way) is being an intellectual coward, subverting scrutiny (and likely their own beliefs) in order to fit in with the cultural peer pressures of today.
So let’s call them as we see them. There is no authority to truth. Just discovery of new truths in an endless onion-layered universe.
“Nullius in verba” is how the brave intellectuals respond.
”Nullius in Verba” is Latin shorthand from what the full quote from Horace - ‘Nullius addictus judicare in verba magestri’ - which translates into the gold-standard of objectivity: "Not compelled to swear to any master's words."
If your point of view is so good, then be the man in the arena with it. Present your idea openly and with vulnerability. Permit scrutiny. Allow for criticism. Denounce censorship. And display it with utter transparency - including who funded your research and all conflicts of interest.
Call out the intellectual cowards who try to silence discourse with censorship. And praise the intellectually brave who stand out on the limbs with their ideas, even when the crowds and masses of people are herding the other way.
In a war over information, it is the intellectually brave who are the heroes.
As always the entire purpose of this is to connect with other solutions-minded people like yourself! For 4 billion years on this planet there were only single-celled organisms. Then one day they somehow learned to work together and make complex multi-celled creatures like you and me. Right now we are like those single-celled organisms. Our next evolution is finding how to work together, better.
In order to build the world we want to see we will need technology to help us. Please join the upcoming discussions in this group on the blockchain based social media platform called MINDS. There is no algorithm or censorship on this platform. Just the free exchange of ideas. The group was recently started but if we can get a few like-minded people working together, maybe we can be the catalyst that leads to a post scarcity world. HERE IS THE GROUP ON MINDS.
If you enjoyed this topic we explore it in several other articles we wrote here, here, and here.
Thanks for problem solving with us, you beautiful, rational creature.
About the author:
Josh R. Ketry - Director of Strategy and Systems - is an advocate for freedom, human growth, and human potential. A Brazilian Jiu Jitsu blackbelt and Academy owner. Growth Mindset student (for life). Entrepreneur. Writer. Philosophy fan. Long-time carnivore diet practitioner for autoimmune issues. Birder. Muskie fisherman. Photographer. No topic off limits. Thank you for reading!
Physical and intellectual cowardice are rampant in modern society. Outstanding message very worthy of sharing widely. Thank you for having the bravery to speak your mind and share objective truth. The one and only truth is objective truth, not what is being passed off as truth based on shifting definitions to serve a moral, political or financial goal.