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To become a 21st century media executive in Los Angeles or New York, you will rise higher and faster if you can signal the following modern virtues.
· A herd-mentality, with dependency on politically-correct comradeship
· A fear of being incorrect
· A confidence in the superiority of Hollywood’s political culture
· A cold intolerance to differing viewpoints
· A loathing of a consistent high moral standard
· A bitterness toward a traditional environment that has allegedly wronged them
· An aggrieved mentality
· An imaginary sympathy with all other victims of white, male, Euro-centric culture
· An emancipator mentality, with the aggressive urge to force therapy on the psychologically inferior
· A fervent faith in the science of behavioral psychology
· A quick willingness to endorse totalitarian means to change culture
· A pessimistic distrust of European Christendom
· A bold attraction to every liberating idea, especially sexual license
· A bold dedication to shred the envelope of on-screen decency
· A strong desire to alienate others from all things traditional
· A sophisticated affinity for leftist politics and a hatred of conservative ideas
· A cunning realization that the sting of vindictive criticism must be light enough that viewers accept it.
In 1847 Christian immigrants from Holland founded the town of Pella in Iowa. The name is connected to Christian refugees who fled Jerusalem to Pella, a Greek Hellenistic city.
Just down the road is Ottumwa. Earlier this week a City Council meeting began the proceedings with an invocation to Satan:
“Dear Dark Father,
"Let us stand now, unbowed and unfettered by arcane doctrines born of fearful minds in darkened times. Let us embrace the Luciferian impulse to eat from the tree of knowledge and dissipate our blissful and comforting delusions of old."
It ended with the cry, "Hail Satan."
As plague hysteria begins spreading across headlines around the world, there is one detail almost nobody is talking about: governments and military biodefense programs have already poured major resources into developing dozens of plague vaccines.
More than 21 plague-vaccine candidates are under development, spanning mRNA, self-amplifying RNA, recombinant protein, viral-vector, live-attenuated and other technologies.
--- Nicholas Hulscher
